He always had many solutions – though most of them looked unsafe. The data terminal described him as “extremely skilled at exploiting loopholes, challenging the bottom line of all security protocols, solving precise problems with simple and crude methods, and having a mind full of linear thinking,” almost completely refuting the learning outcomes Hao Ren gained after reading the employee handbook.

Hao Ren was quite depressed by the brick's comment: "Seriously, do you really think that badly of me...?"

The terminal shook itself: "Seriously, the organization usually evaluates old employees like that… especially those with more than two hundred years of experience."

Then Hao Ren was done, feeling that he had a deeper understanding of the atmosphere of the inspectors in the Space-Time Administration circle, and that he was simply a model pacesetter in this business.

He confirmed the entire handover process again with the data terminal and Nolan, and ensured that all of Nolan's systems were in optimal condition. Then he briefly explained the situation here to Vivian and rubbed Lily's head vigorously: this could put the husky girl in a brief daze, thus preventing her from raising objections. Finally, he gave Bai Huo and Tu Tanning an "everything is under control" expression, hoping to make himself look a little more impressive. Regrettably, the two demon hunters didn't quite understand what he was going to do – in fact, after Nolan entered and the data terminal began to explain a bunch of high-tech terms, the two demon hunters were already in a confused state.

Finally, he looked at the thing floating above the relic hall, something that was unclear whether it was matter or energy, and raised his hands high: "Come on, you son of a gun, if I call you, dare you answer?"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly opened the entrance to his personal space, and a huge spatial rift appeared in the air, sweeping across the entire ceiling of the sacrificial hall in the blink of an eye. The dark energy mass and the various odds and ends floating around the energy mass were instantly sucked into it.

He heard the dark longsword, which was like a fragment of the universe, emit a sharp howl. A strong whirlwind suddenly swept through the hall, and the rune arrays on the ground of the hall flickered violently, as if they had poor contact. A thunderous roar resounded in his spiritual world: almost at the same time as it was sucked into his personal space, the huge mass of energy (or maybe matter? It looked quite substantial after all) began to impact the stable structure of the personal space.

Hao Ren roared in the communication channel: "Nolan!!"

Ship girl Nolan had been waiting in full battle readiness. Before Hao Ren finished speaking, a beam of light fell from the sky and pulled him into the ship's transfer room.

In the next second, all the conventional engines of the Petrified Tortoise Rock Terrace roared into life. The spatial rift above the Spirit Realm Clock Tower suddenly expanded by a circle. Nolan, by overloading her system, directly completed the hyperspace acceleration of the ship before entering the space gate, and instantly disappeared into the darkness of Corvus.

At the Kuiper Station in the mortal world, the operators of the inspector's exclusive docking port were carrying out routine checks and maintenance, and the staff were taking this time to calibrate the axis of the gravity anchoring device. Suddenly, a silver light suddenly appeared above the anchoring device. The staff only saw a flash of white light, and the spaceship, vaguely resembling the Petrified Tortoise Rock Terrace, disappeared from their eyes in a flash.

A young technician stared blankly at the empty docking platform: "...Did the spaceship just come back for a moment?"

An older employee next to him who knew more patted the young man on the shoulder: "Don't ask, the inspector is speeding – or maybe his ship is speeding on its own."

At this time, Nolan had already rushed through millions of light-years with incredible speed under the condition of system overload, crossing the starry sky in an instant, and rushing to an old and desolate star in a remote area.

In these short few seconds, Hao Ren had already felt that an extremely violent force in his personal space was losing control, and the security protocols were sending him continuous alarms through the data link.

The moment Nolan broke out of hyperspace and the external monitor transmitted the cosmic scene, he roared, "Throw me out!!"

Nolan opened the spatial ejection without hesitation, and Hao Ren found himself standing in the cosmic starry sky in the next second. A dying orange-red star was burning fiercely in front of him, and the terrifying nuclear reaction sea of fire was surging restlessly.

He opened his personal space and released a dark, huge force, then returned to the ship before he was pulled down by the gravity of the star.

In space, the wriggling, weightless mass that was difficult to determine whether it was energy or matter broke free from the constraints of the personal space. It expanded rapidly, like a furious dark beast, unscrupulously expanding its body in the universe, and quickly fell towards the star under the action of solar gravity. On the surface of the stellar sea of fire, a huge and terrifying area was slowly collapsing and twisting.

Just like it was resonating with the dark forces in space.

"See, I told you it would go smoothly," Hao Ren breathed a sigh of relief after returning to the bridge. He patted the control console of the Petrified Tortoise Rock Terrace, "Seriously, you're getting smoother and smoother with acceleration now."

"Keep moving, run often, blast the engine a few times every day, and do a long-distance run around the galaxy every now and then. It's good for your body," Nolan's holographic projection appeared in front of the control console, and she showed off her muscles – although it was meaningless for her to do so in her current body. Then she showed a grimace, "Hiss... But overloading is really uncomfortable. I feel like my main energy tube is on fire. I should check it after I get back..."

Nolan didn't finish her words, and the scene transmitted by the external monitor attracted the attention of Hao Ren and her.

The old, dim star was rapidly becoming brighter. The sea of fire on the surface of the star was surging violently like a disturbed lake. Suddenly, all the thermonuclear flames began to gather towards one point on the surface of the star, as if a super huge mass – or a black hole – was swallowing this aging sun.

Hao Ren immediately asked Nolan to zoom in on the situation on the surface of the star, and soon he discovered the root of these anomalies: it was the dark force that he had thrown out before. The dark force was still very far away from the star, but it had already begun to pollute the star, and a huge shadow was spreading on the thermonuclear sea of fire. Almost in an instant, the sun was already tottering!

"Shields are strengthened," Nolan reacted immediately, "Emergency evasion!"

The blazing sun erupted, and brilliant light illuminated space.

A moment later, the Petrified Tortoise Rock Terrace stopped in a fairly remote place. The external monitor turned to the direction of the previous star, and only a scorching cloud of fire remained in place, a cloud of stellar debris that was spreading at an alarming rate.

An ancient star went out, and new stardust was sprinkled into the depths of the universe.

"...This is the biggest thing I've ever blown up in my life," Hao Ren was silent for a long time, reached out and wiped his forehead, and connected to the data terminal, "By the way, I just blew up something, can you help me draft a report..."

The data terminal was about to ask Hao Ren about the situation, but was stunned when he heard this: "What did you blow up?"

"A sun."

"...What?!"

"Star, universal identification level IV dark star, estimated remaining life of 40 million years, I blew it up, but there were no casualties," Hao Ren sighed, "It's the problem of that dark energy. It fell into the sun and affected it before it even came into contact with the corona, and eventually detonated it. The entire detonation process has been recorded by Nolan, and according to my observation – this was an extremely rapid contamination."

The data terminal's voice was a little nervous for the first time: "Where's the dark energy?"

"It's annihilated, the only good news," Hao Ren confirmed the readings fed back by Nolan, "It was exhausted in the process of detonating the star, and no harmful substances or energy remained at the scene. Of course, I will leave a few probes in accordance with the safety code to continuously monitor this area for a while."

The data terminal was silent for a moment: "Recorded, this unit is exchanging data with Nolan and reporting it. Come back quickly and retrieve that sword first – that thing has quieted down, but this unit thinks it is still 'alive'."

The data terminal's last sentence made Hao Ren quickly put aside the star he had just blown up. He realized that the current top priority was the god-slaying sword and the chaos of Corvus: after this, this mess should finally be over.