Chapter 205

"This is..."

In an endless blaze of light, the Seventh Imperial Prince looked up at the colossal palm that seemed to blot out the sky and sun, his eyes filled with dread.

Although his life tier had risen to the Eighth-Level lifeform, he had not even mastered a single Eighth-Level Divine Technique—only one Seventh-Level Divine Technique—and it was only through the combination of nine Sacred Characters and superior genes that he possessed the strength to sweep through the Yu Xingyuan's seventh layer.

Yet this sudden, terrifying giant palm—its power so horrifying that even before it descended, merely sensing it made his heart erupt in uncontrollable terror!

This crushing pressure made him feel as if he were facing a Super Stronghold of the Yu Xingyuan's ninth layer!

"Your Highness! Protect yourself!"

As a telepathic voice rang out, the black-masked guard beside the Seventh Imperial Prince shot skyward, charging straight toward the monstrous palm.

"Boom!"

In the terrifying collision, the sky-obscuring palm suddenly halted, held aloft by a monstrous beast over a hundred meters tall—a black ape with sharp horns, its arms raised to block it.

The black one-horned ape crashed down hard, the immense force slamming it onto the platform extending from the Nine-Star Civilization Fortress.

"Such immense power..." The black one-horned giant ape suddenly raised its head, looking toward the direction of that giant palm.

Even after his transformation, his strength was considered formidable among Yu Xingyuan ninth-layer beings—yet just now, in direct clash, he had been slightly outmatched?

"Not bad."

Amid a faintly mocking low laugh, the colossal palm dissolved back into dark-gold energy, like a whale drinking water, flowing into the figure hovering in midair.

And now the figure's form became clearly visible to all.

Seeing his personal guard successfully blocking the attack, the Seventh Imperial Prince finally relaxed—then looked up, and froze in utter shock.

"You are..."

He stared at the figure in midair, disbelief flooding his eyes.

Though he had never met this man before, he had long seen his dossier—especially the message sent by the embassy ship's AI, which had confirmed this man was Earth's current leader!

Lin Qing!

The embassy's entire conversation had been recorded and synced to the ship—but then the entire embassy, along with the recording devices, was instantly obliterated; the transmission had a brief delay and failed to capture what happened in that instant.

For top-tier powerhouses whose speed reaches tens of thousands of kilometers per second, such an occurrence was entirely normal.

He had assumed it was Qi Lingxiao or another Earth powerhouse who had acted.

But now it seemed clear—the one who struck was Lin Qing himself!

"How is this possible...? A planetary native who has only trained for a few years, whose life aura is merely that of a Star Being—how could he rival Uncle Yuan?"

The Seventh Imperial Prince stared, nearly catatonic, at Lin Qing in midair—his entire worldview shattered.

A Star Being, wielding power equal to the Yu Xingyuan's ninth layer?

Could this be real?

Though he had never visited a Level-Two Civilization, even there, no such terrifying genius existed!

He was a monster that overturned all understanding!

Compared to this monster, not only was his own talent insignificant—even the strongest prince of this generation in the Nine-Star Civilization's imperial family, the Third Imperial Prince, paled in comparison!

"No... absolutely cannot let him live!"

The Seventh Imperial Prince snapped back to awareness, his eyes blazing with madness—he immediately sent a telepathic command: "Uncle Yuan! Kar Lei Si! Kill him immediately! He must die! Launch all cosmic fleets and surround him! He must die here!!"

Kar Lei Si also stared, nearly frozen, at Lin Qing in midair.

He could not fathom it—Lin Qing, whom the Yuan Chen Civilization had once deemed promising but currently non-threatening, had suddenly unleashed such terrifying power?

That cataclysmic explosion had not only carved a massive crater into Mars's surface, but also erased everyone within a radius of dozens of kilometers—except the Star Clerics!

And that terrifying palm had required even his own guard to transform and unleash his full strength to block!

All of this convinced him it was the work of a Yu Xingyuan ninth-layer Super Stronghold—perhaps even an enemy of the Seventh Imperial Prince.

But he never imagined... it was that seemingly still immature Earth genius, Lin Qing?

"M... monster..."

Under the Seventh Imperial Prince's mad telepathic command, Kar Lei Si also snapped back, his eyes now brimming with endless killing intent.

Such an unimaginable monster must be eradicated now—while there is still time!

Otherwise, once he grows stronger, who knows what horrors might unfold?

"Understood!"

Kar Lei Si's gaze hardened—he immediately sent a telepathic message: "Your Highness, Uncle Yuan and I will flank him. Please deploy two Seventh-Rank Fortresses and the cosmic fleets to assist! Kill him at all costs! Even if Qi Lingxiao is present, do not let him escape!"

At this moment, neither cared to ponder how Lin Qing had infiltrated Mars under its heavy surveillance—only the killing intent born of terror remained.

Two Seventh-Rank Fortresses, two Yu Xingyuan ninth-layer powerhouses, plus a sea of cosmic fleets—this force had been assembled specifically to kill Qi Lingxiao, and already possessed the power to encircle and slay a Yu Xingyuan ninth-layer powerhouse!

"It is time."

Lin Qing, hovering in midair, gazed coldly downward—his third eye suddenly split open on his forehead, revealing a vertical eye emitting a faint silver glow.

The next instant—

"Shiiiiiiiiiiii—!!"

One after another, blindingly fast beams of light shot forth from void-like spatial passages—within a single instant, over a dozen figures appeared in the Martian sky.

Each of these figures radiated terrifying auras—like suns suddenly appearing in the night, forcing everyone present to look up; those whose life tier fell below Star Being level instantly lost consciousness!

"This..."

All remaining conscious powerhouses in the vicinity were utterly stunned.

Each aura was unmistakably that of a Yu Xingyuan ninth-layer powerhouse—a rare Star-Class Cleric—and yet so many had appeared at once?

"Kill them all."

At that moment, Lin Qing's icy voice echoed across half of Mars's sky.

At his command, the terrifying figures surged simultaneously toward the extraterrestrial powerhouses present, while deadly attacks rained down upon the fortresses.

"Where in the world did so many powerhouses come from?"

Under the weight of sheer terror, the Seventh Imperial Prince frantically flew toward the entrance channel of the Nine Stars Civilization's fortress, his entire body trembling: "As long as I escape into the fortress, I will be safe!!"

Just at this moment—

A terrifying illusory psychic shockwave surged forth; even though the treasure he used to protect his soul instantly activated to resist, it still left his consciousness in chaos.

Immediately following, a figure in black robes, as if emerging from nothingness, appeared beside the Seventh Imperial Prince. One palm struck the Seventh Imperial Prince, and under the infiltration of invisible power, all instruments inside and outside his body were instantly destroyed. Then, silver threads, like weaving a cocoon, instantly wrapped and encased him.

Shortly after, that figure in black robes grabbed the Seventh Imperial Prince and vanished.

"Your Highness!!"

The Seventh Imperial Prince's guard, who had transformed into a black one-horned giant ape, seeing this, felt immense anxiety and immediately charged toward the direction where the figure had disappeared.

Although he could not sense the figure that had appeared from nothingness, he could faintly sense the aura of the captured Seventh Imperial Prince.

Just at this moment, twelve terrifying streaks of light descended simultaneously, surrounding the black one-horned giant ape. Moreover, waves of terrifying power resonated and connected with one another, transforming into a spiderweb-like battle formation that instantly engulfed it!

"This is!"

A trace of horror surfaced in the ferocious eyes of the black one-horned giant ape. It suddenly realized that these twelve experts, no less powerful than itself, had in this very moment fused their powers into near-perfect unity!

It threw its head back, howling, and wildly punched, but under the entanglement of strange powers resembling spider silk, its immense strength was completely neutralized.

Its heart instantly sank.

... "Flee!"

Upon sensing these terrifying auras, Karl Lei Si immediately flew toward the Tianxing Fortress of the Yuanchen Civilization.

Under the siege of so many experts, if he did not flee, death was almost certain!

"Haha! Karl Lei Si, where are you going?"

Suddenly, accompanied by a psychic voice transmission, a terrifying staff shadow, as if splitting the sky, crashed down upon Karl Lei Si!

Karl Lei Si's pupils contracted, and he roared in fury: "Qi Lingxiao!!"

His entire body erupted with an incredibly sharp and dazzling light, instantly blocking this staff strike. Just as he intended to repel Qi Lingxiao and continue his escape, he suddenly discovered a figure in white robes appearing from nothingness on his right side!

The instant that figure in white robes appeared, extreme, condensed, invisible sharpness slashed toward his head at an astonishing speed!

"Damn it!"

Karl Lei Si was greatly horrified, but with the assassination occurring at such close range, the timing of the strike was nearly perfect, coming at the very moment he had just blocked Qi Lingxiao's attack!

"Pfft!"

In just an instant, Karl Lei Si's head detached from his body. Immediately after, Qi Lingxiao fiercely swept his staff horizontally, and that head, which could not resist, instantly burst and shattered on the spot!

"Haha, killed with two staff strikes!" Qi Lingxiao couldn't help but laugh, then waved his hand to collect Karl Lei Si's remains.

He then looked at the figure in white robes and transmitted praise via voice: "Your assassination ability is truly terrifying. Even a Star-Level Rare Divine Servant would need to specialize in detection to discover your concealment ability, wouldn't they?"

He knew that among the twenty-three puppets Lin Qing brought from the Vacuum Great Tomb, regarding killing, these two assassins were the most terrifying.

【Author's Note: No errors, one sentence, one release, one content, one look!】

These two assassins merely called themselves Black Assassin and White Assassin, ordinary names, yet their assassination abilities were so terrifying that even he felt a chill. Without prior preparation, even a ninth-layer Yu Xingyuan expert would likely be assassinated!

At this moment, cooperating with his offensive, they easily instantly killed Karl Lei Si, a supreme expert who roamed the starry sky.

"Nothing special."

The White Assassin shook his head slightly without expression, then concealed himself and vanished again to continue assassinating experts from other extraterrestrial civilizations.

"Boom!"

Lin Qing held a long blade divine weapon in his hand. He did not activate World God; instead, the blade light in his hand instantly transformed into a sea of pure, pitch-black darkness, as if all energy had collapsed and condensed together, even swallowing the light itself.

This blade light, dark as a black hole, instantly swept across the Star Divine Servant of the Yuanchen Civilization ahead.

"Lin Qing!"

The Zhixing person, with a golden vertical eye on his forehead, was furious. His entire body transformed into a streak of light, attempting to evade this blade strike with his energy-based, intangible form.

However—

Where this pure dark blade light passed, everything was swallowed and dissolved. The streak of light formed by the Zhixing person was instantly and completely annihilated!

One strike, one kill!

"Primordial Annihilation; its single-target destructive power is indeed strong enough."

A smile curled Lin Qing's lips. Feeling a high-quality life essence merge into the divine weapon, he nodded in satisfaction. "It is enough for me to experience one evolution into a Ultimate Star Creature."

When he activated World God, his strength already equaled that of a ninth-layer Yu Xingyuan expert. Especially in terms of power and might, he was even stronger than an ordinary ninth-layer Yu Xingyuan expert. After all, World God's massive body had the flaw of being insufficiently agile, yet it still possessed the strength of a ninth-layer Yu Xingyuan expert because its power and might were sufficiently immense.

As for the move Primordial Annihilation, although slightly inferior to World God by half a grade, it belongs to purely destructive offensive techniques. In terms of single-target attacks, it is extremely strong. Combined with his current gene index, its destructive power also approaches that of a ninth-layer Yu Xingyuan expert.

Facing such ordinary Star Divine Servants, naturally, one strike was enough to kill.

"Continue."

Lin Qing charged toward other Star Divine Servants of the extraterrestrial civilizations, preparing to find one to heavily injure, creating an opportunity for the Black Flame Clone to kill.

Although Star Divine Servants react extremely quickly and can completely react in an instant to commit suicide, this time he had others cooperating, so there was still hope for success.

On a peak of a Mars mountain hundreds of kilometers away, a silver-haired woman observed this area remotely via psychic power. Behind her stood a guard whose entire body radiated a faint black light.

As a War Commander, the reason she could determine the course of an interstellar war was naturally not due to any strategy.

It was her mental ability that permeated everything.

She could use her mental ability to observe enemy information at any time, survey the entire battlefield situation, sense impending crises, and interfere with the enemy's mental thoughts...

It could be said that in terms of mental ability, she was truly at the level of a ninth-layer Yu Xingyuan expert!

Although her frontal combat power was very weak, as long as the 'Guard' puppet, which was best at protecting people, was present, even if attacked by multiple ninth-layer Yu Xingyuan experts, they could do nothing to her!

"Just as predicted, the enemy's strength here offers no resistance before us; it is like crushing withered wood." The silver-haired woman calmly observed the battles across the entire planet of Mars, interfering with the enemy or commanding allies at any time.

"As for the Seventh-Tier Fortress..."

She glanced at the massive Nine Stars Civilization's Turning Wheel Fortress and the Yuanchen Civilization's Tianxing Fortress in the distance. "The engineers are also proceeding very smoothly..."

This operation involved Lin Qing infiltrating Mars via the Kaduan Clone, followed by the Black and White Assassins assisting in the infiltration, bringing two Mechanical Scholar-type puppets into the two Seventh-Tier Fortresses.

The two Mechanical Scholars were already experts in this field; if it had been an eighth-rank fortress, there would have been no solution, but since it was only a seventh-rank fortress, as long as they could locate the fortress's core, they could naturally conquer it, at the very least completely paralyzing and crashing the control systems of these two seventh-rank fortresses.

As for the other fifth-rank and sixth-rank starships and fortresses, combat personnel did not need to force a breakthrough; as long as she used her mental abilities, she could restrict them from a distance.

"It's over."

Lin Qing glanced at the Black Flame Clone that had just blasted a Star Divine Servant to death; the vertical eye on his brow brightened, and he sucked it into the extra-dimensional space.

With the mental ability interference from the War Commander, even a Star Divine Servant, after being severely injured by him, had no time to commit suicide before being incinerated by the Black Flame Clone's divine technique, Seven-Colored Fire, and his soul was sacrificed to the Yu Xingyuan Will.

This wave was enough for both him and the Black Flame Clone to instantly transform into Ultimate Star Beings.

As for the battles of the others, it was completely a one-sided slaughter!

"Boom!"

A tremendous roar suddenly came from the distance.

That black single-horned giant ape, standing hundreds of meters tall, did not know what treasure it had used; in its moment of critical injury and near death, it suddenly broke through the battle formation of twelve combat-type puppets and desperately flew toward the sky.

Lin Qing took a look, and his entire body erupted with endless dark golden energy, instantly condensing into a World God thousands of meters tall, after which he slapped toward that black single-horned giant ape!

"Bang!"

The black single-horned giant ape was like a ball being slapped down, crashing heavily onto the ground; accompanied by the spreading dust, the domain cleared it away, and the surface of Mars revealed a massive crater spanning tens of kilometers.

And the black single-horned giant ape also seemed to have exhausted its strength, reverting to human form, and was grabbed in the palm of the towering World God.

(End of this chapter)