[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-wasteland-s-only-king":3,"chapter-wasteland-s-only-king-wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-267":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Wasteland's Only King",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1594949,2061,"Chapter 267 - 43: The Terrifying Oppression of the Star-devouring Touch! One-sided... Beating! Seventeen-Colored Lotus! (Part 2)","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-267",267,"\u003Cp>[Killing this Mutant Beast will grant you and your city extremely generous Civilization Source Point rewards!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nangong Linglong was speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kill the Star-devouring Touch?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This f*cking...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With her Tier Nine Level, let alone the Star-devouring Touch itself, she couldn’t even fight back against just one of its Splittings!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So what kind of being is that Boss above?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A Tier Sixteen Star System-Level Mutant Beast, and he’s not even fazed?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"On the contrary...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He still looks totally calm and collected?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nangong Linglong’s gaze fell on the figure shrouded in thunder and lightning at the very top of the Celestial Vault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Up until now, she still didn’t know that Boss’s name or background.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone like that definitely isn’t some brainless musclehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he dares to walk up alone, then he must be pretty damn confident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tier Fifteen? Or Tier Sixteen?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nangong Linglong guessed this Boss’s Tier in her heart, and at the same time became even more convinced—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This guy is definitely not like her, just a new player who’s promoted from the planet Wasteland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’s got to be an old player in this Star Realm, hell, maybe a Boss from the High-tier Civilization Forces who snuck into Newbie Village!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rumble—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A series of booms shattered Nangong Linglong’s scattered thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They’re fighting!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gao Sheng and the others exclaimed, dragging her back to reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nangong Linglong blinked, her previously dazed eyes instantly sharpening their focus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She craned her neck to look up, and then saw...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bam—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang bang—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Up in the Celestial Vault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That Boss had actually started a... fistfight with the Star-devouring Touch?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait, no...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not really a fistfight, more like a one-sided... beatdown?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Or maybe even a group beating?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin’s figure had already split into seventeen bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seventeen whole Yu Jins, each one’s Value aura had broken through 100 million!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the Star-devouring Touch?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a Tier Sixteen at its limit, only one step away from Tier Seventeen, this Star System-Level Mutant Beast’s Value was only about 99 million!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No... freakin’... way!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Star-devouring Touch’s ginormous head let out a low groan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But very soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The groan turned into a wail of pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Any one of the Yu Jins with a max Value of 250 million could have instantly one-shotted this Star Realm Dominator in a hundred different ways.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin thought, it wasn’t every day you found such a perfect punching bag, not putting him to use would really be a waste.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, that’s how the current scene came to be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bam—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang bang—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One body after another, fist after fist, landing on the Star-devouring Touch’s head and tentacles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It howled and struggled in pain, black mist roiling wildly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Streams of Attribute Energy gathered around it, erupting into a raging Storm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But—it was downright useless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Overwhelming Value, pure charm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Yu Jin didn’t hold back even a little, he could literally punch that Star-devouring Touch into bits with just one hit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Argh—!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The screams echoed not only in the ears of Linglong City’s people inside Crystal Mountain below, but throughout all of Venus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All across Venus, in every corner, countless people were even more stunned and numb than when the Star-devouring Touch first arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Northern Hemisphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The City Lords and Subordinates of every Refuge City already knew it was the Lord of Dawn Fortress making a move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But damn it, all they could do was listen to the Star-devouring Touch’s agonized cries—seeing the real fight was impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That scream, anyone who heard it would break down in tears; those who felt it, their hearts hurt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn, man...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How brutal do you have to be to...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...to make a Star System-Level Mutant Beast scream worse than a stray dog?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Southern Hemisphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The City Lords and Subordinates at the Refuge Cities there still had no clue about Yu Jin or Dawn Fortress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But, by some damn luck, they could actually see the battle up above the planet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The starry sky as the backdrop, the Celestial Vault as the ring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That lightning-wreathed figure, from all directions, pounding the just-arrived Star-devouring Touch like a storm!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This, this...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s gotta be against the rules, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless people all had the exact same thought pop into their heads at this very moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time slowly ticked by.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The screams were growing weaker and weaker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin up in the Celestial Vault recalled all his Splittings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He massaged his fists, eyed the distant, puffed-up octopus, and gave an approving nod.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not bad.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Pretty good sandbag, takes a beating really well.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Star System-Level Mutant Beast really is built different.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The few sentences, meant to be half-praise, lingered between heaven and earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Star-devouring Touch went completely berserk with rage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It simply couldn’t comprehend why such a powerful human existed in this Star Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the Dominator! The Mutant Beast Dominator of P-8808 Star Realm!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s the Star-devouring Touch—the Giant Beast that can devour planets! How could it allow itself to be humiliated like this?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Human!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Die!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Star-devouring Touch’s countless tentacles whipped about like mad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those tens of thousands of tentacles actually began to fuse together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon enough—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was left with no more and no less than eight tentacles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But every one of those tentacles was now ten times as long and as terrifying as before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Star Devour!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing Yu Jin, it didn’t dare to hold anything back anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its opening move was its most powerful trump-card Talent Ability!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Star Devour——]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Activating all energy, using its tentacles as medium, devour all the target’s energy and Life Energy]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before, it had used this same ’Star Devour’ to kill another Tier Sixteen Star System-Level Mutant Beast!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, it was going to use this move to completely devour—and destroy—Venus, along with that despicable human!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh——!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoo-whoo——!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eight tentacles pierced through the Void, shooting straight for Yu Jin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tentacle speed was fully beyond the capture of the naked eye—hell, it even shattered the limits of physics and the speed of light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In just an instant—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not even the Tier Seventeen Yu Jin had time to react—those tentacles had already wrapped him up, tight as can be!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bzzz——!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A strange pulse radiated from the tentacles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That energy was rapidly draining out every bit of Energy inside Yu Jin’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the very same time—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tips of the tentacles smashed into the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tentacles as thick as 10,000 meters punched through Venus’s crust, almost hitting the core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rumble—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Magma from the core erupted out, but the tentacles absorbed it all and converted it to pure Energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Eh?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This ultimate move’s got something to it, huh?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin found himself totally tied up, and after putting in a bit of effort, discovered he actually couldn’t break free that easily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That surprised him a bit, but only a bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boss!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back on the ground—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside Crystal Mountain, where Nangong Linglong and the others were fleeing in all directions from the tentacles slamming through the earth, they shouted out at the top of their lungs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From their point of view—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It really looked like even the Boss had been completely caught by the Star-devouring Touch’s attack!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t panic.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The very next moment—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin’s easy-going voice drifted into their ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then came a line—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The farce is over.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin whispered softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the words fell—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 250 million Energy aura inside him erupted in full!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nearly twenty types of Attribute Energy swirling madly!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A visible energy Storm swept across all of heaven and earth!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rip—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In just a split second—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tentacles that had tightly bound Yu Jin—layer after layer—shattered inch by inch!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Argh—!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Star-devouring Touch screamed again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This scream was a hundred, a thousand times more shrill than before!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"An eye for an eye, huh? Try my ultimate!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin pressed his palms together, then slowly drew them apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in the space between his hands, a beautifully exquisite and dazzling lotus bloomed, shining in nearly seventeen brilliant colors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It spun quietly, as if all of time and space around it were sinking into Stagnation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This lotus was inspired by Nangong Linglong earlier on. Yu Jin had managed to fuse all his Attribute Energy into it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d thought it would be hard as hell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But who would’ve guessed—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He succeeded in a single try!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So naturally, it was like he just thought it and—bam—there it was, this Seventeen-color Lotus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Maybe it’s related to my ’Compatibility’ and ’Fusion’ talents?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin guessed, but his hands didn’t slow in the slightest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a snap of his wrist—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swish—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Seventeen-colored Lotus tore through the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every color on that lotus represented a supremely strong Attribute Energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Yu Jin hadn’t held back a bit on any of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a sense, this was like 250 million times 17.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though you can’t just stack Value Energy up like that, this attack was already way beyond the two hundred million Value of a Tier Seventeen Evolver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let’s see how strong this is...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin had this thought in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"******!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Star-devouring Touch could only curse out loud!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This f*cker...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just from this attack, it saw the Star River being Annihilated and the universe in endless cycles!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its body trembled uncontrollably in terror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant, it erupted into burning its Life Essence, desperate to escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No chance!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Space: absolutely Imprisoned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even time was frozen cold and hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even its thoughts started icing over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bzzz——!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Seventeen-color Lotus quietly—soundlessly—landed on its head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A firework, dazzling beyond words, exploded above Venus!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The insane shockwave almost destroyed all of Venus—if Yu Jin hadn’t quickly thrown up an Energy Shield at the last second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the P-8808 Star Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every last Interstellar Fortress from High-level Civilizations began violently shaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Holy shit?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Was that a Tier Nineteen Boss just making a move?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1634,"2026-06-06T09:25:00.978Z",1,"novelbin.me","3d56cfeab01f6e0043569221003fb11fb404ed82ccce141312dfccbaea8d99c1","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-268","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-266",370,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwasteland-s-only-king-cover.jpg"]