Chapter 263: Battlefield of Tianhe City! Huangquan Veils the Sky! We Call Ourselves Pan Gu!

North Star, inside a siheyuan.

Chu Yang looked at Su Xiaoli, whose body was shimmering with a faint halo, as powerful forces continuously originated within her.

He suddenly felt it necessary to build a supercomputing engine, because with the existing technology mastered by the Soul Palace, he could not analyze and monitor the awakening and evolution of the Super Gene.

This process could capture a wealth of valuable information, yet now he could only watch from the side, which was a complete waste of resources.

In the past month, Chu Yang accomplished many things; after the Nuo Star Gene Chain merged with Zhao Xin's Super Gene, it not only successfully added the First Sequence, but also refined the problematic "base" of the gene chain toward perfection.

Chu Yang named the brand‑new gene chain the Denor Gene Chain.

At the same time he infused Demon Gene into it, adding a Second Sequence to the Denor Gene Chain.

The First Sequence grants speed—the speed of the De Star Spear!

The Second Sequence bestows greed, continuously strengthening itself by devouring all kinds of energetic substances.

For the Demon Civilization, this ability was formerly used to "eat people", i. e., to feast on enemies.

But today's Demon Civilization has long changed; the era of eating people is over, and devouring substances rich in energy yields far greater returns.

Su Xiaoli's evolution differs from Qi Lin's; her fairy gene is rather unique, and merging the gene chain is a process of reshaping the foundation, which takes comparatively longer.

Just as Chu Yang was waiting, his pocket phone rang; it was Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Dukaao calling, asking him to go to the Giant Gorge.

Today was not a live‑combat drill for the Xiong Bing Regiment, so Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Dukaao's sudden summons must mean something urgent.

Chu Yang didn't think twice and went straight to the New World Group's branch in North Star, which was likewise a towering skyscraper.

When he arrived at the building's rooftop, a helicopter was already waiting.

Giant Gorge has been especially lively on its deck these past few days.

A few days ago, all members of the Xiong Bing Regiment officially boarded the Giant Gorge, and these Super Warriors attracted everyone's attention on the ship.

Especially yesterday, the unbelievably beautiful Qiangwei publicly kissed Ge Xiaolun on the deck! The incident caused quite a stir, and under that kiss Ge Xiaolun gained the ability to fly, becoming an air combat unit.

The helicopter landed, and as soon as Chu Yang stepped out, he saw all the members of the Xiong Bing Regiment and Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Dukaao standing before them.

Next to Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Dukaao stood a figure both familiar and strange.

Clad in black armor, cradling a golden staff, it was Hou Ge! Chu Yang couldn't help but glance at him twice; as he stepped forward, before Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Dukaao could speak, Sun Wukong blurted out, "You are Chu Yang?"

"I am." Chu Yang narrowed his eyes slightly, sensing the faint war aura emanating from the other.

"Without a Super Gene, yet you can train these youngsters into competent warriors in such a short time; that's impressive!" Sun Wukong's tone carried an old‑worldly gravitas, a sense of having endured countless years.

"I'm curious, where did you get the martial arts you taught them?" A flash of golden light flickered in Sun Wukong's eyes as he finally asked the crucial question.

In fact, it wasn't only he who was curious; Leina and Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Dukaao were equally intrigued.

But seeing how Chu Yang's training dramatically boosted the regiment's overall strength, they didn't want to upset him, so they never pressed the question.

"It's innate!" Chu Yang shrugged.

Even a fool knows he's spouting nonsense, yet nobody has any recourse.

Sun Wukong glared, seemingly ready to test him, but felt it wouldn't be right to bully the ordinary Chu Yang, so he turned his head away, a bit frustrated.

"Old Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Dukaao, you're calling me over so urgently—something happened, right?" Chu Yang looked at Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Dukaao; after frequent contact, the two had become quite familiar and spoke casually.

Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Dukaao thought for a moment, then said, "The first mission I gave the Xiong Bing Regiment was to encircle Sun Wukong, but that was a test from Sun Wukong for them."

"During that process, the martial arts you taught them… played a huge role, greatly boosting overall combat power and giving Sun Wukong a considerable headache."

"I want… to make you a Super Warrior!"

At that point, a hopeful expression appeared on Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Dukaao's face.

Chu Yang spent a month turning a group of freshly awakened rookies, who hadn't yet developed their genetic abilities, into fighters of respectable strength.

If Chu Yang became a Super Warrior, combined with his own martial arts, how powerful would he be?

For half a month, Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Dukaao had been studying the feasibility of this.

Eventually he and Leina reached a consensus, deciding to use Liyang Civilization's technology to implant a Super Gene from a deceased general of Liyang Star into Chu Yang.

Chu Yang was taken aback; he hadn't expected Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Dukaao to propose such a thing.

He indeed intended to merge a Super Gene, but not any of the known cosmic Super Genes, nor the so‑called generational divine bodies.

His goal was to extend two gene chains to their terminals! Beyond that, other genes and his body had limits too low to yield significant gains.

"Sorry, per our original agreement, I am only the chief instructor of the Xiong Bing Regiment and will not take part in the war."

Chu Yang shook his head and said, "If there's nothing else, I'll head back; the corporation still has a huge number of contracts waiting for my signature."

With that, he turned without hesitation and boarded the helicopter.

The members of the Xiong Bing Regiment were somewhat disappointed, Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Dukaao shook his head and sighed, while Qi Lin remained composed.

She knew Chu Yang was far stronger than anyone imagined! "Wait!" Leina suddenly called out to him.

Chu Yang turned, and Leina whispered, "I heard you've been studying genetics; don't you want to obtain a complete Super Gene?"

She said, raising her hand, she tossed a test tube; Chu Yang caught it, and she continued, "This is the second‑generation Super Gene of the Liyang Civilization; I'm giving it to you now."

"War is cruel; sooner or later you'll need it!"

Chu Yang fiddled with the test tube, smiled and said, "Old Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Dukaao, Leina is far more sincere than you!"

Watching the helicopter ascend and depart, Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Dukaao remained silent for a long while, then suddenly asked, "If you give him the complete Super Gene outright, and he tries to fuse it without assistance, it could go wrong!"

Leina waved her hand and said, "As long as he chooses to fuse, I can rush over the moment he does."

"Actually his potential is huge; if he merges the third‑generation Super Gene, he could become Earth's new god!"

She glanced at Sun Wukong and, with some regret, added, "But I only have the second‑generation Super Gene; Pan Zhen wouldn't agree to give the third‑generation Super Gene to an outsider."

North Star, under the shrouding night, its splendor surpasses that of day.

Chu Yang looked at Su Xiaoli, who resembled a sleeping beauty, and furrowed his brows.

A full day and night had passed, yet the evolution remained incomplete.

This indicates that Su Xiaoli's fairy gene has undergone some chemical reaction with the Denor Gene Chain.

The second‑generation supergene of the Liè Yang civilization has already been sent by him into the Soul Palace.

Research that lets extreme matter fuse on its own with the supergene has already made a breakthrough; it won't be long before results are achieved.

By then, the limiter on the gene chain inside Qi Lin's body can be broken, the compatibility of the Shenhe gene chain can be expanded, and the Liè Yang civilization's genes can be inserted into the third sequence. The phone rang—it was the secretary calling.

Pressing the answer button, Chu Yang heard a series of noisy sounds from the other end, even mixed with artillery fire.

"Chairman! Something's happened! Aliens… the aliens are here!"

The secretary's voice trembled with sobs, hurriedly panicking: "So many people have died…"

Chu Yang's gaze hardened, he hung up the phone, glanced at Su Xiaoli, then activated Flying Thunder God and returned to Tianhe City.

A flash of red light in his eyes, and in just a moment, five creatures of varying sizes appeared in the villa's courtyard.

Leading them was Hong Lei, followed by a black bear, a black panther, a tiger, and a python.

Chu Yang looked at the spaceship spanning the sky and the ever‑exploding flames in the city, and asked, "How's the human language learning going?"

"Master, we have all already learned!" Hong Lei's voice was somewhat low.

Chu Yang nodded, "Then go! Eliminate every alien in this city!"

"Remember what I instructed!"

"Yes, Master!" Hong Lei replied, then instantly transformed into a dog‑headed humanoid over three meters tall.

Behind him, the four companions who had vanished from the zoo not long ago had also undergone a complete transformation.

A bear‑headed humanoid with razor‑sharp claws and a mane of fur; a tiger‑headed humanoid with explosive muscles, over two meters tall; and a relatively slender, over‑two‑meter‑tall panther‑headed humanoid.

And the only man with a human appearance yet grotesquely ugly—upper body human, lower body a serpent's tail, exuding a chilling aura.

Space trembled as the five beast deities vanished from their spots, heading toward various directions of Tianhe City.

Chu Yang had absolute confidence in them; after all, they are fully formed third‑generation beast bodies, far beyond the newly awakened rookies of the Xiong Bing Corps.

After a moment of contemplation, Chu Yang sprang upward, overlooking the scene from high above.

Seeing the city scarred all over and artillery rising everywhere, he couldn't help but furrow his brow.

"Buzz…"

A jubilant sword clanged, and Feng Du materialized beside Chu Yang.

Gripping the hilt, Chu Yang slashed with a sword! Yellow Underworld waters surged across the sky, as if the gates of the netherworld had opened, blotting out the sun.

All artillery was blocked by the Yellow Underworld; beneath it lay the ruined city, and above it floated a lone Taotie spaceship.

At that moment, the entire Tianhe City battlefield fell silent for an instant.

The trapped civilians didn't know what had happened, assuming it was the aliens' tactic; they panicked, the soldiers wore desperate faces yet still raised their guns to fire back.

The Taotie were even more bewildered when they discovered the yellow sea enveloping the whole Tianhe City was neither divine power nor dark energy, yet could not be analyzed.

Unknown!

For any cosmic civilization, the unknown is the most terrifying thing!

Inside the spaceship, the Taotie legion officer, responsible for the Tianhe City assault, whispered shakily, "Wang… should we continue the attack?"

A hint of fear was in his voice, but the voice of the Thoth King Shi Hu soon sounded beside his ear.

"Attack! Of course we must attack!"

"This is our first battle against Earth!"

"My divine radiance protects you; with my god Ka Er, aside from the Angelic civilization, we need not heed any other deities in the universe!"

……

Huang Village, not far from Tianhe City, is also one of the evacuation points for its residents.

At this moment, a battle also erupted above Huang Village! All thirteen helicopters carrying the Xiong Bing Corps crashed, caught off‑guard by a Taotie ambush that had been prepared.

Lei Na was hit by a god‑slaying weapon; after initial chaos, everyone barely steadied their formation and re‑established contact with Lei Na.

"Is everyone still there?" Lei Na asked over the combat channel, and the others responded one by one.

"We have to take out one of their capital ships first… wait! What is that? ！?"

Lei Na's voice suddenly turned shocked, and a gasp echoed through the combat channel.

A yellow sea spread across the sky, enveloping the whole Tianhe City, blocking all artillery; only the massive Taotie spaceship remained isolated outside.

"Good grief… Lei Na, this is your god's method, right?" Liu Chuang swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Lei Na said gravely, "No! It's not divine power! This force cannot be analyzed!"

"I've never heard of such a force existing in the universe!"

"It's the Yellow Underworld…" Sun Wukong's voice suddenly rang through the channel.

"Yellow Underworld?" Ge Xiaolun said, incredulous, "Could it be that too many deaths have angered the underworld?"

"Another Earth legend?" Lei Na frowned.

At that moment, a figure suddenly appeared before Lei Na.

"Whoa!" Lei Na was startled by the pitch‑black panther head and let out a curse.

"You are the Light of the Sun?" the panther‑headed man rasped.

Lei Na knit her brows, brandishing the holy sword wreathed in scorching heat, and asked, "Third‑generation beast body, where did you emerge from?"

The panther‑headed man gave no answer, but said on his own, "My master asked me to tell you he will defeat the Taotie army in Tianhe City; the Yellow Underworld will protect the city unharmed!"

"If the Xiong Bing Corps cannot even deal with that Taotie spaceship, the master will withdraw from this war and cease aiding you!"

"Who is your master? Which civilization's deity?" Lei Na's gaze was sharp, showing no intention of accepting the offer.

She had already refused aid from the Angelic civilization, for she knew no civilization would help Earth without motive; once they intervened, Earth would no longer belong to its people.

"My master says his blood runs with Earth‑human genes, a purer Earth‑human than you!"

The panther‑headed man said calmly, "We belong to no civilization; you may call us… Pan Gu!"

With that, the panther‑headed man vanished without a trace.

The two's conversation has already passed through the combat frequency, entering the ears of every member of the Xiong Bing Detachment, and also echoing in the command center of the Giant Gorge.

For a moment, whether it was the Super Warrior, or Reina's Sun Wukong, or Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Thus Character: Dukaao, all fell into stunned silence. (End of chapter)