Chapter 1083

Xuanwu did not refine the battle star core.

Just like the mighty crystal crown in his hand, it was merely something he temporarily controlled.

Generation after generation of the Celestial Crystal Divine Clan's royalty came to observe and train at the outpost; the Celestial Crystal Battle Star was also merely something they temporarily commanded. They temporarily guarded the battle star core, able to issue orders and activate the battle star's normal functions—that was enough.

To let a training prince truly and completely control the entire Celestial Crystal Battle Star is something the entire Celestial Crystal Divine Clan cannot tolerate.

This is different from even a supreme divine artifact.

Such a strategic-grade massive divine artifact like the Celestial Crystal Battle Star belongs to no single god-king, but to the entire Celestial Crystal Divine Clan.

Therefore, with the help of Jing Jiu, one of the designers and builders of the Celestial Crystal Battle Star and also its current sole maintainer, Wu Tie easily completely refined the entire battle star core.

A drop of blood, merged into the bloodline.

Scan the eyes, scan the fingerprints, scan the lip prints, imprint the soul fluctuations, then carefully separate a thread of innate soul origin and merge it into the battle star core.

The whole process was tedious, but actually it was fast.

At the moment the entire battle star core was refined by Wu Tie, a strange surge burst from the core and instantly spread throughout the Celestial Crystal Battle Star.

Then, this unbelievable war weapon forged by the Celestial Crystal Divine Clan came to life entirely.

Previously, the Celestial Crystal Battle Star was like a huge puppet.

Jing Jiu stood in its head issuing commands, while the Celestial Crystal Divine Clan members in the main control cabin manipulated invisible ropes, making this huge puppet move a finger here, twitch a toe there.

But at this moment, this Celestial Crystal Battle Star, this huge puppet, came alive.

Wu Tie became its soul, and Wu Tie could easily sense every corner of the Celestial Crystal Battle Star, every spatial structure, every huge and tiny functional module.

Countless formations, countless restrictions, countless divine patterns, countless talismans…

Embedded powerful devices organically fused into a whole, and energy channels like giant dragons ran through the entire body.

At the core of the Celestial Crystal Battle Star, in a huge space with a diameter of tens of thousands of li, 108 black holes were imprisoned by a massive yuan-magnetic field. The black holes directly connected to the outer hongmeng chaos, and with each finger-snap, matter equivalent to tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of massive mountain ranges was swallowed by these black holes.

Matter collapsed and annihilated in the black holes, releasing a terrifying radiation flood capable of destroying everything.

These invisible radiation floods surged from the black holes, absorbed by the crystal stone outer wall of the huge space with a diameter of tens of thousands of li; countless matter-energy conversion divine formations ran wildly, converting these radiation floods into vast, pure energy that flowed along the energy channels to every corner of the Celestial Crystal Battle Star.

Within the huge Celestial Crystal Battle Star, there were also distributed 360 massive yuan-crystal furnaces.

The black-hole conversion divine formation provided the battle star with a long-lasting, stable, massive energy supply. However, when the Celestial Crystal Battle Star needed to burst out extreme energy in a short time, these yuan-crystal furnaces could play a huge role.

Instantly burning the yuan crystal condensed from heavenly and earthly primordial energy, in a finger-snap it boosted energy output power to a terrifying level.

Wu Tie noticed a main gun resembling a principal axis, piercing through more than half of the Celestial Crystal Battle Star. This terrifying huge killer, in its overlapping spatial structure, had a total length exceeding tens of millions of li.

Countless overlapping energy superposition divine formations densely filled the gun barrel, squeezed together in a hysterical, crazy way; that crazy, all-or-nothing formation structure made Wu Tie's scalp go numb.

Vast information surged from the battle star core, causing Wu Tie's forehead veins to bulge as he struggled to absorb and store it.

This was all the information, all the data, all the methods of controlling the Celestial Crystal Battle Star…

This cannon, which almost spanned the entire Celestial Crystal Battle Star, is named the "Corruptor"!

Its original design intent was that a single shot could destroy an "Immortal", hence its name "Corruptor"!

And the existence of the "Immortal" realm…

According to the gods' power tiers, Wu Tie is now at the god-king level; above god-king is god-emperor, above god-emperor is ancient god, and above ancient god are slumbering old monsters… Only by breaking through all divine beings' power tiers, achieving true eternal immortality and indestructibility, can one be called an "Immortal".

The "Immortal" realm is the ultimate state that the gods can aspire to.

This "Corruptor" cannon was designed with the goal of directly slaying an "Immortal"!

In the gods' extermination war, this main cannon had once been successfully activated, targeting a half-step Immortal appearing among the human rebel army.

With just one strike, that half-step Immortal was completely reduced to ashes.

With just one strike, the "Corruptor" had also only been fired once.

After that strike, the human rebel army's morale collapsed, and from then on they suffered continual defeats; the Celestial Crystal Battle Star never again went all-out in battle.

Xuanwu curled up at the side; he had been sliced into two pieces by Wu Tie's sword near his waist, and looking at the battle star core floating before Wu Tie, he couldn't help muttering: "Traitor, you traitor… you… how could you help the human race?"

Jing Jiu tilted his head to look at Xuanwu, then gave a bewitching smile: "But, esteemed and noble highness, it was you who voluntarily offered up the battle star core… I have indeed betrayed the Celestial Crystal Divine Clan, and what about you?"

Lifting his head, Jing Jiu proudly said: "I betrayed my clan for love; although my actions were equally base… but compared to me, you, who out of greed for life and fear of death offered up the supreme treasure to save your life, are not only base, but even more vile!"

Xuanwu closed his mouth, merely looking at Jing Jiu with intense hatred.

Occasionally, Xuanwu's gaze would sweep over Wu Tie, who was receiving vast amounts of data.

But strangely, when Xuanwu's gaze swept over Wu Tie, it would instantly shift from that bone-deep hatred to cautious and careful, even somewhat servile and fawning, for fear that his gaze would provoke Wu Tie and draw his killing intent.

Likewise severely wounded by Wu Tie, Ye Zun and Chi Chan curled up behind Xuanwu's massive body, their hearts uneasy, they too cautiously watched Wu Tie.

They, too, did not want to die.

They, too, hoped to escape alive.

They hoped to return to their ancestral land with great power, using their strength to obtain the honor and authority they deserved.

As for what the outpost observation would be like, as for the fate of those clan members observing the outpost… damn it, what does it have to do with them?

They greatly admired that saying by a certain human sage: "After my death, let the flood rage."

Even if the situation at the outpost observation collapsed again, as long as they could return safely, with their current strength they would surely be able to hold the proper status in their clan.

It was nothing more than finding a few scapegoats to pin all the blame on them.

Ye Zun and Chi Chan firmly believed that as long as they could return, their elders could find sufficient evidence and witnesses to prove they had never come to observe the outpost in their lifetimes; all the guilt and responsibility here had nothing to do with them at all!

As for who the unlucky bastard taking the blame is… what does that have to do with them, not even a hair's worth?

Wu Tie drew a deep breath; the battle star core silently merged into his body, finally appearing in his mind, within the condensed mass of innate spiritual light he had cultivated.

The entire Celestial Crystal Battle Star—every spatial structure, every large component, every hall, every cabin, every divine formation, every restriction, divine sigil, and divine pattern—flickered with a faint, spirit-filled light ripple.

The entire Celestial Crystal Battle Star came alive.

Wu Tie's unique soul aura filled the entire Celestial Crystal Battle Star.

Wu Tie stripped all authority from several main control chambers within the Celestial Crystal Battle Star, using spatial restrictions to move those Celestial Crystal Divine Clan members who were frantically searching for the cause of the battle star's loss of control into other halls.

Then Wu Tie completely sealed off those main control chambers, cutting off all connection between the control console and the Celestial Crystal Battle Star.

Soon after, Wu Tie found Gongsun Yao and others striding boldly and fearlessly down a spacious passage.

The Heavenly Crystal War Star trembled slightly as a vast spatial force crushed over them; Gongsun Yao and the others jolted in shock, and before they could speak, a spatial vortex shifted them back to the teleportation hall they had come from.

On the War Star's surface, a slender crystal cone tens of thousands of miles long shot out swiftly.

Not long after, a seven-colored divine light burst forth, and Gongsun Yao and the others inside the teleportation hall were directly launched, shooting straight up into the sky above Qi Island.

The aura of the Heavenly Crystal War Star exploded outward; on Mu Dalu, some terrifying beings that had survived since ancient times abruptly awoke.

They dragged their broken bodies out of their resting places with difficulty, glared at the sky, and were about to launch an attack.

Wu Tie shot a golden light from his head; the dao seals formed from the three thousand great paths and eighty-four thousand side paths hovered above the Heavenly Crystal War Star, bathing the entire star in wondrous, splendid light.

Wu Tie's soul aura—human soul aura amplified and enlarged by the Heavenly Crystal War Star—turned into a colossal figure a million miles tall hovering above the War Star, and a huge wheel of meritorious golden light slowly turned behind it.

On Mu Dalu, several figures a thousand miles tall, their bodies covered in scars, stared blankly and dazedly at the sky.

After a long while, after a long while, sensing the unmoving Heavenly Crystal War Star in the void, those gigantic figures exhaled heavily in unison, and the murderous, valiant energy they had accumulated over countless years slowly seeped away.

They shook their heads, turned, walked toward their giant coffins where they had been sleeping, and quietly lay down inside.

——The human juniors have already come this far?

——The Demonic War Star has been seized by the human juniors……It is truly, too interesting.

Wu Tie finished all this, then using the language of the Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan, he issued an order to the Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan inside the War Star, commanding everyone to remain quiet and on standby.

Immediately afterward, countless internal defense prohibitions of the Heavenly Crystal War Star activated, sealing off all divine beings within the War Star.

Wu Tie sent them an ultimatum: everyone must stay in their place, no reckless moving about, or they will all be slain.

"Now, Jing Jiu? Chief designer, chief builder of the Heavenly Crystal War Star, the most talented 'Grand Creator' in the history of the Heavenly Crystal Divine Clan, demoted to slavery for colluding with humans and corrupting decay?"

"Tell your story so I can decide how to deal with you." Wu Tie smiled at the expectant Jing Jiu: "I have found some records about you in the War Star's memory bank, but the information is fragmentary; I want to hear your story."

Wu Tie shrugged and looked at the expectant Xuanwu, Chiyun, and Yizun.

"You three, noble, proud, high‑status Your Highnesses… for survival, you should be able to submit a little, right?" Wu Tie smiled, like an accomplished old butcher looking at lambs, smiling at them.

"For example, for your right to survive, hand over your origin imprint to me and then serve me for a hundred million years—how does that sound?"

"Just a hundred million years—not that long a time."

"For survival, freedom and such are all nonsense—just think, Jing Jiu, how many hundred‑million‑year stretches have you been locked up in this tiny round prison here?"

"Don't reject my kindness—for example, Youmo and Xupo have no such chance. Killing a chicken to scare the monkeys, those two pitiful little chickens are exactly those two pitiful little chickens."

"I dislike smart people, so Youmo and Xupo have absolutely no chance."

"I like you lot—big, brave, good at fighting, but not very bright."

Wu Tie drew his golden holy sword, smiling at them: "Now I'll count to three, you…"

"Serving you is my honor!" Xuanwu and the others replied in unison, smiling at Wu Tie: "We hope to receive… something befitting our status and rank…"

Wu Tie laughed loudly, then brought his sword down.

Three huge heads rolled away, their faces frozen in twisted, bewildered disbelief.

Why?

Why?

Wu Tie coldly regarded the three rolling heads: "Well, I'm just playing with you all. Making you die with unresolved resentment—that's the best punishment."

"Only dead spirits are good spirits, right?"

Wu Tie smiled at Jing Jiu: "Dead spirits are the best spirits, what do you think?"

Jing Jiu's face twitched suddenly; on the hard skin formed from his condensed crystal, such an astonished, unbelievable expression could appear, and Wu Tie thought it a tremendous miracle.

"You, you, you, you're not the person Qingning spoke of!" Jing Jiu shrieked hysterically: "You're not the one in the contract!"

Wu Tie's sword rested on Jing Jiu's neck: "Tell your story, then everything about the contract… sorry, I really am not that person… that person was just blown away by me with a 'whoosh'."

Wu Tie laughed, his expression radiant and his complexion refreshed.