High above in the distant sky, the crimson sun blazed with dazzling radiance. Its red rays folded space and time, traversing infinite distances to blanket the entire mythical world. Bathed in this red light, all living beings, including cultivators, instinctively felt agitated and restless.

Even someone of Chen Chu's level found his mood inexplicably disturbed under the sunlight. The murderous intent simmering within him surged more violently than usual. He let out a slow breath, suppressing the agitation in his chest.

By now, he had withdrawn from the Dark Star World-Ending Form, and had even become too weak to maintain his True Demon God Form. His face had gone pale as he floated in mid-air.

Fortunately, even though not a single drop of power remained in his body, flight was an instinctive ability of Innate Demon Gods, like a fish swimming in water without expending energy.

Suddenly, darkness fell over his vision. With a gust of wind, a massive black Rampage Ape's head, towering like a mountain, leaned in close, its voice rumbling like thunder. "Chen Chu, how are you holding up?"

Chen Chu caught his breath and answered, "I'm alright, sir. Just... the summoning art consumed too much power. I won't be able to take part in the upcoming battles."

The black Rampage Ape grinned with a savage smile. "You're fine, that's what matters. Leave the rest to us."

Although the Destructive Dragon Emperor had just descended and slain three demon gods in a row, the battle was far from over. The remaining five demon gods had all unleashed powerful secret arts in their retreat. Some had detonated parts of their true forms or used forbidden weapons, leaving them heavily wounded.

The human side had to seize this opportunity and press the advantage. Even if they couldn't kill another, further aggravating the demon gods' wounds or crippling their foundations would already be a victory.

Moreover, the great demon kings, demon kings, and Purgatory legions who had gathered for this apocalyptic battle couldn't be spared either. The Federation needed to slay as many of them as possible.

This war had to deliver a devastating blow to the two Purgatory empires. If possible, the battle would push into the very heartlands of the Purgatory Demon Clan, crushing both empires and buying the human alliance more time.

After exchanging a few words, the Eight-Armed Rampage Ape, more than ten thousand meters tall, casually picked a direction and stepped into the void to pursue the fleeing demon gods.

As the Primordial King disappeared from sight, Chen Chu stood suspended at an altitude of several thousand kilometers. Slowly, a pair of golden-black vertical pupils surfaced in his eyes as he surveyed the land.

Everything within a range of over one hundred thousand kilometers came into view with the fearsome vision of the Void Death Pupils. Apart from a few forbidden zones distorted by spatial anomalies, all else was laid bare before his gaze.

By now, the battlefield had plunged into utter chaos. When the Dragon Emperor arrived with its terrifying aura, followed by Deorus's thunderous retreat command, the demon kings had immediately chosen to withdraw.

However, the human alliance, holding a numerical advantage, would not let them go so easily. Heavenly kings, chief gods, and kings immediately launched pursuit. As the demon-god-level battlefield expanded, battles between lower-ranked demon kings erupted across every corner of the skies.

The Purgatory legions, stretched across a horizontal front of over thirty thousand kilometers and several thousand kilometers in depth, fell into disarray. Some immediately fled, mounted on demonized colossal beasts or aboard flying fortresses that churned with thick demonic clouds. Others used torn-open spatial passages to escape. Those that hadn't received orders entrenched themselves in bases built within forbidden zones, bracing for battle.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Over ten thousand kilometers away from the original front lines, a main Purgatory legion of more than eighty thousand soldiers, along with five vassal legions, was locked in fierce combat against human troops.

Demonic arrays connected to a lightning-filled forbidden zone roared to life. Under the command of several Ninth-Demonic-Mark demons, the arrays formed massive waterfalls of black lightning that obstructed the human forces.

Floating above the battlefield, Ji Wuji wore a grave expression. Gazing at the black lightning–veiled mountain ranges stretching for thousands of kilometers, he shouted, "All corps, take note! In five minutes, a satellite strike will be arriving! Withdraw from the current battlefield by five hundred kilometers, and seal all exits. Do not let the demons escape!"

Hum!

Far above the Blue Planet, a massive Celestial Annihilation Satellite deployed like a spider, unfurling mirrored panels that spanned one hundred kilometers. It began gathering blazing star energy, entering a charging state.

Once the order was given, a colossal cannon brilliantly flared. A golden beam, one kilometer in diameter, pierced through the atmosphere and slowly descended.

That radiant beam was immediately seen by countless people across the Blue Planet. On the streets of Nanzong City, Chen Hu, Li Yiyi, and several others who were out shopping suddenly looked up. The golden pillar of light pierced sky and earth, surrounded by rippling white shockwaves as it disappeared toward the northern sky.

Li Yiyi grew tense. "That looks like one of the Annihilation Satellites. They say those only activate when the frontlines are in danger. You think something went wrong over there?"

Chen Hu replied calmly, "Don't worry, Yiyi. Everything should be fine. If the situation had really reached a point where Blue Planet itself was in danger, the mood from the authorities wouldn't be this relaxed. The high-level officials would've started evacuating long ago."

The curvaceous Shu Jia nodded beside him. "Ah Hu is right. If something really went wrong, someone would've already come to take Ah Hu and Aunty Zhang away."

"That's true." Li Yiyi smiled.

The delicate and stunning Jian Meiling let out a soft laugh. "Yiyi, don't overthink it. No matter what happens over there, it's too far removed from us. Instead of worrying about the situation in the mythical world, why not look forward to tomorrow's provincial top sixteen tournament? Let's see if Ah Hu can qualify for the national competition."

At the mention of that, Li Yiyi's face lit up with confidence. "With Ah Hu's strength, there's no doubt he'll qualify. Right, Ah Hu?"

Facing the expectant gazes of the three girls, Chen Hu responded with an honest smile. "Yeah, no problem. But my goal isn't just to qualify. I'm aiming for first place in the seven southern provinces."

A commanding aura surged from Chen Hu, filled with confidence and dominance, as if declaring he alone would reign supreme. During the time Chen Chu had been away, he had encountered a few more fortuitous opportunities. Coupled with the rewards from placing first among the second-years in the Wujiang City qualifiers, his cultivation had already broken through to the middle stage of the Fifth Heavenly Realm.

With his Innate Tyrant Body, Gigantification, and the immense physical strength he gained from cultivating the Dark Star Battle Body, Chen Hu was confident he could suppress all opponents beneath the Seventh Realm.

Just then, outer space once again flared with light. Another golden pillar, one kilometer in diameter, vanished toward the north. The energy it released silently shook the entire Blue Planet.

The advanced cultivators, especially, could clearly sense from that golden beam an overwhelming power capable of annihilating a planet. If its aim had been even slightly off, it could have pierced through the world itself.

Just as the two satellite beams faded, outer space went dark. A streak of pitch-black light silently cut across the sky, vanishing deep into North Lin.

In the mythical world, above the city guarding Passage Three, that black streak of light shot through the passage and disappeared beyond the horizon, reappearing instantly at the other end of a forbidden zone over forty thousand kilometers away.

There, a mythical king clad in silver robes stood tall. The space around him twisted, forming a swirling vortex passage dozens of kilometers wide.

As the black death beam tore through the heavens, the king took a deep breath. His spatial laws erupted all at once, weaving chains of silver law sequences that wrapped around the swirling passage.

Boom!

The black beam plunged into the passage. When it emerged again, it had crossed over fifty thousand kilometers, arriving at a battlefield where Heavenly Kings Gabriel and Zixiao were locked in combat with a great demon king.

With their combined strength, they could suppress a great demon king of the same realm without much trouble. However, slaying it while it fought with all its might remained difficult.

"What is that?!" The great demon king, trapped within a cage of white light, suddenly looked up. Its eyes filled with horror as it saw the black beam slicing down from the heavens, emanating an aura of overwhelming danger.

"Zixiao, suppress it!" Gabriel let out a long cry. Behind her appeared a phantom with three pairs of white flame wings, and her entire body radiated dazzling white brilliance. Bathed in that all-piercing light, the two-thousand-meter-tall great demon king froze for an instant.

At the same time, lightning erupted from Zixiao, transforming into a purple lightning dragon thousands of meters long. When it exploded, it unleashed a dense storm of purple bolts that engulfed the great demon king.

The instant both heavenly kings launched their suppressive assault, the narrow black beam, only a kilometer wide, pierced through everything. It drove straight down from the sky, tearing through the great demon king's body.

"No!" With a bloodcurdling scream, the great demon king's massive true body stiffened. Though it had been tempered through countless laws, the black beam reduced it to drifting black ash as it dissolved from within.

After obliterating the great demon king in a single strike, the black light continued downward and plunged into the earth, leaving behind a bottomless chasm before it finally faded.

The sheer might of that strike left both Zixiao and Gabriel visibly shaken. Even though they already knew of the Deathline Satellite's power, witnessing it firsthand was still unnerving.

Gabriel sighed softly. "Every time I see the power of these ancient relics, I feel so small. The mythical world truly is vast and unfathomable."

Zixiao nodded slightly. "Indeed. Even though our strength as heavenly kings within the Federation is already formidable, we're still no match for the ancient beings. That satellite merely harnesses the power of a single ancient creature's corpse, yet it can unleash a force capable of erasing even us."

As they spoke, the two heavenly kings scanned the chaotic battlefield before flying toward the horizon, where another clash of powerful energies was taking place.

At that same moment, Chen Chu also saw the black beam strike down the great demon king. His expression grew slightly solemn. "What a terrifying aura. No wonder it's called the Deathline Satellite."

This weapon was one of the hidden foundations of the human race. Its core was a fragment of an ancient creature's skeleton, unearthed from an ancient ruin. After countless millennia, there was almost no energy left within the bone. Yet it remained unimaginably durable, etched with mysterious patterns of ancient principles.

Those patterns were bound to the Law of Death. Even just their residual traces were enough to instill dread in the Celestial King and the others.

The Federation had studied that ancient skeleton for more than a decade. Eventually, they deduced a method that used star energy as a reactor, carving energy conversion runes to activate the principle power on it.

Thus, the Deathline Satellite was created. After a single test of its might, it was designated one of the human's trump cards against great demon kings.

Although the Deathline Satellite's power was undoubtedly immense, its flaw was equally obvious: it attacked in a straight, direct trajectory, making it easier to detect and evade. As such, the human race couldn't lightly deploy it unless absolutely necessary.

As Chen Chu stood there, reflecting briefly, a sharp gleam gradually returned to his eyes. After resting for a moment, he had regained some strength. By now, Qian Tian and the others were still in pursuit of Deorus and the other demon gods, and it was impossible to tell how far they had already flown. The nearest demon god battlefield was more than sixty thousand kilometers away.

However, they didn't need his help. That area was already engulfed in golden brilliance. A radiant sun, like a divine golden eye, quaked the heavens and the earth, and the violent transcendent energy waves had swept across a region over ten thousand kilometers wide.

The beginning-stage demon god named Aidibaden had already been pinned to the ground by Tarodell. It let out a furious roar, but was bound by countless golden principle sequence chains, locking it into the earth, with ancient arrays coiling around it like rings.

Faced against Tarodell, whose strength was unfathomable, this already severely wounded demon god stood no chance of fighting back. If no other demon gods came to its rescue, it would only be a matter of time before its true form was ground away bit by bit, its divine soul dissipating and its will fading into nothing.

Chen Chu narrowed his eyes slightly. "This divine king is powerful."

Though he had once slain a beginning-stage demon god, that had required him to unleash everything he had in a desperate explosion of power. Compared to Tarodell's ease, the difference was stark.

He took one last look at the golden sun that stretched across the skies like a celestial eye. With his halberd in hand and his black hair whipping wildly in the wind, Chen Chu turned into a streak of light and soared toward the heavens. "From here on out, it will be rivers of blood."

Even though he had only recovered a fraction of his strength, slaying demon kings, great demon kings, or even entire Purgatory legions posed no difficulty at all. Once the high-level forces of a civilization lost their mutual checks and balances, and no one remained to restrain them, it became a catastrophe for all of the transcendent-level legions still left on the field.

Boom!

From the sky, a thunderbolt crashed down, leveling a small mountain range. Deep beneath the quake-blasted ground, Li Daoyi coughed blood violently.

Above, demonic qi churned across the skies. A three-headed, eight-armed demon king looked down coldly. "A mere transcendent human dares to challenge me? Courting death."

Just then, a halberd-wielding figure descended from the sky.

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