Gods Vanish on a Cloudy Day
Chapter 40 Extinction Severing Star Blade!
[Aaaaaah!]
An ear-piercing explosion rang out, and in Su Zhou's boisterous laughter, the Star Eater roared in furious rage once more.
However, though it looked disheveled, its battle was actually quite fruitful.
Su Zhou's fighting method was always to injure himself by one hundred to wound the opponent by one thousand. This was naturally advantageous against opponents of the same level, because a ten-fold exchange rate would kill anyone.
But it just so happened that Croa't's capital and energy reserves were more than a hundred times that of Su Zhou's.
If he really wanted to exhaust it, the youth wouldn't be able to kill it even if he turned himself into an antimatter bomb and sent himself into its belly.
However, while that was the logic, it was still infuriating. Others damaging themselves was their business, while blowing up the enemy was his own—instantly, the Star Eater's remaining five Aether Dragon heads no longer reached out to engage Su Zhou in close combat. Instead, they turned their direction, firmly locking onto the giant dragon that was maneuvering at high speed in outer space.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Accompanied by simple charging and breaths, seemingly endless streams of orange-red light, carrying surging spirit energy waves, roared towards Su Zhou.
These Aether Dragon breath cannons completely destroyed everything in their path, whether it was the wreckage of Huo Xiyue, or the nebula structures formed by stellar winds, all were completely annihilated.
"This power is too exaggerated—are we getting serious now?"
Seeing this, Su Zhou also became cautious, not colliding head-on with the opponent.
Several miniature planetary engines appeared behind him again, and then he began to maneuver at high speed, dodging the overwhelmingly powerful torrents of energy.
In an instant, the area around Ross 128 was like an eraser. Under the Star Eater's breath blasts, everything was directly erased. Even if the bombardment only grazed them, the fragments of the moon's wreckage would immediately melt and evaporate, and then the gas would be blown away, turning into nothing.
Croa't spewed dragon breath at the star, shattering the star's photosphere, revealing the intense light of the inner radiative zone; he fired into the empty void of space, and thunder immediately arose from the void, with countless energy radiations spreading along the way, and electromagnetic clouds exploding and flashing.
It was now like a giant walking out of destruction, with incredible power erupting from the Star Eater's body, and the star behind him providing a constant stream of power to support his continuous bombardment of dragon breath.
The Earth warships and many Aether Dragons that had run far away stared dumbfounded at this battle.
Whether it was the Star Eater Croa't, worthy of the name of Celestial Venerable in the past, who was displaying incredible destructive power, or Su Zhou, who was dodging attacks in time and seeking opportunities to counterattack, they all felt it was unbelievable.
"Aooo!"
Especially the few Aether Dragons, they even swayed their bodies excitedly, like dancing cobras—the reason why these juvenile cosmic behemoths followed Su Zhou was to learn the other's fighting methods and various skills.
And now, not only Su Zhou, but even the Star Eater was 'teaching' them how to perform these breath attacks that they would be able to do in the future!
However, such bombardment and dodging could not continue after a period of time.
It wasn't because the Star Eater didn't have energy—it had plenty of energy reserves. Not to mention lasting for three days and three nights, given time, it could line up and dismantle all eight planets of the solar system with dragon breath cannons without even panting.
As long as it was backed by the sun, the Star Eater could not lack energy. Even if it only existed, it could absorb endless stellar negentropy and spiritual energy like the Zhoutian Star Formation.
No, perhaps, the Zhoutian Star Formation was a Taoist method researched by the ancient immortals and gods after slaying a Star Eater!
However, just as the ancient immortals and gods were certainly able to kill Star Eaters.
After enduring the opponent's long period of frenzied bombardment, Su Zhou had finally found a way to counterattack.
"Good fellow, this guy's firepower really exceeds my imagination!"
Boom! An orange-red ionized spirit energy cannon brushed against the side of Su Zhou's cosmic dragon form amidst flashing lightning. The incredible impact even created a nuclear fusion phenomenon at the very front of its jet stream, which was a high heat close to the black hole fire layer.
But in the face of this terrifying breath, which was enough to seriously injure him, but only brushed past him, the youth stood still. His expression was calm, and he watched the Star Eater in the distance, who was accumulating the next bombardment.
"Analysis complete... I have seen through the essence of Aether Dragon Breath!"
Taking a deep breath, facing the next light-speed Aether bombardment aimed at him, Su Zhou's body began to 'turn black'.
The body of Zhuzhou, which was originally covered in white, black, silver, green and other colors, turned completely black in an instant.
[Limitless Expanse]
The Aether Dragon's breath is essentially a method of using spirit energy to directly transform into a pure 'vector' for bombardment.
This dragon breath doesn't have any weird attributes, but because it is extremely simple and pure, its destructive power is incredibly high—when sprayed by this dragon breath, the internal stress and rigidity of any material will be converted into vectors and spread in the direction of the dragon breath's jet, until it penetrates the target.
The thicker the armor, the higher the destructive power.
If this dragon breath reaches its limit, perhaps even the four fundamental forces will collapse and become part of its added power.
If an enemy's beam attack clashes with an Aether Dragon's breath, then the enemy's beam will even be changed in vector, directly reflected 180 degrees, attacking its own emitter!
In other words, whether it is left or right, the inherent attribute of the Aether Dragon is 'inevitable victory in beam struggles'!
Because he felt the danger from the beginning, Su Zhou never tried to test how strong the enemy's destructive power was... But after dodging for so long, he did come up with a countermeasure.
Since Aether Dragon Breath can forcibly change vectors, creating an irresistible 'armor-piercing' effect, even an attack that increases damage the thicker the armor...
Then he simply wouldn't use armor, wouldn't that solve the problem?
Located on the surface of the Zheng Nation's Preaching Tower, the 'Limitless Expanse', this move that the Great Celestial Venerable and Heavenly Emperor used to defend himself, is the best method to deal with the current situation!
Limitless Expanse—nothing exists, emptiness.
Limitless Expanse is a defense method that uses the power of the five elements and yin and yang to create a 'void space' on the surface of the dharma body that needs to be defended.
In this space, there is no vector, no inside or outside, no up or down, no 'direction' or 'definition' in any conventional sense, only pure spiritual power—as long as the spiritual power is not so great that it can directly burst this space, turning the void realm of 'Limitless Expanse' into a 'place of existence' with 'a lot of spiritual power', no attack can harm the existence protected by the Limitless Expanse.
Even mental attacks and soul attacks will lose their target and be interrupted when they encounter the Limitless Expanse.
In the past, when facing Nan Zhengkai's Shifting World Divine Fist, Su Zhou roughly understood the basic principle of Limitless Expanse. After he achieved Celestial Immortal status, he completely cultivated this method when he was nurturing the form of the Divine Wood Battleship!
The orange-red dragon breath cannon directly hit Su Zhou, who was standing still.
However, Su Zhou was not completely annihilated in the first moment.
The intense collision did not spark flames. On the contrary, with his black-covered body as the center, all light, heat, fluctuations, sounds, everything, and even color disappeared.
Silence emerged. Then, in the spirit world, rumbling sounds began from nothing until they resounded for thousands of miles!
That was the wailing produced by the mutual vibration of a large amount of spiritual energy—because using the Limitless Expanse to directly forcibly receive the Star Eater's full-strength Aether Dragon Breath cannon, the overly intense spiritual energy fluctuation reaction even caused the surrounding spirit world to collapse.
Centered on Su Zhou at this moment, the huge spiritual space began to shatter and scatter. Around the Huo Xiyue star field, countless hyperspace transmissions based on the spirit world, and even short-range jumps, all completely failed.
However, such great destruction did not cause any harm to the youth.
Even, through the Limitless Expanse, Su Zhou, who had obtained a large amount of pure spiritual energy from the enemy, unfolded his 'third stage transformation'!
Zhuzhou Stage 1: Human body. When encountering large-sized enemies, or suffering serious damage, it transforms into the second stage.
Zhuzhou Stage 2: Various Zhuzhou forms. Changes according to the situation of the enemy, and transforms according to the background and transformation of each Zhuzhou.
Then, there is the third stage that most Zhuzhou don't have!
True Form Combined Form!
Just like how Su Zhou used the general-purpose battle form to create the four avatars to perform the five elements combination.
Now, Su Zhou in cosmic battle form, in a loud cry, summoned his avatar that had been hidden in the dark as a trump card!
That was the Divine Wood avatar collective that had not collapsed with Huo Xiyue, hidden in the Ross 128 meteorite belt... Zhuzhou Planetary Engine Form avatar!
"Engine Implantation... Combination!"
Shouting the slogan originally unique to the Senostian, Su Zhou's tone was filled with an irrepressible boldness and smile: "Now is the time to go all out!"
In response to Su Zhou's call, in the distant other side, the wreckage of the original lunar planetary engine, or rather, the core flesh and blood avatar, began to condense, turning into a huge Divine Wood rocket. It ignited, and then ejected a long jet stream of hundreds of thousands of meters, flying through the void at thousands of times the speed of sound.
The rocket crashed head-on into Su Zhou, but the youth didn't care at all. He even laughed and rushed towards the rocket—
Then, the rocket did not hit Su Zhou, nor did it explode. The Divine Wood rocket disintegrated on the spot, and then, with the Divine Wood module on the back of the cosmic battle dragon as the core, it turned into a set of silver-green armor, with layers of root-like spiritual crystal patterns covering the surface. This armor was smooth and solid, and instantly increased Su Zhou's size to over ten thousand meters in height, with ancient runes flashing on his forehead and shoulders, like dragon horns, and like a crown!
[What kind of super life is this, why have I never seen it before?!]
The moment he saw Su Zhou combine with the Divine Wood module, the Star Eater Croa't instantly felt a chill in his heart. He sensed that Su Zhou's psionic reaction had increased by more than several times. The other's power had directly increased more than ten times under the blessing of that strange Divine Wood implantation!
Although, even if it increased tenfold, its hard power was still far inferior to his previous Celestial Venerable foundation. This implantation could not change much of the ending where Su Zhou was chased around by his dragon breath cannon... But there were more variables.
Hard power is just something to talk about. When the time comes, you still have to look at on-the-spot adaptability.
So, he must immediately stop the subsequent variables.
Determined, without any hesitation, Croa't's jellyfish-like umbrella-shaped head immediately unfolded layers of armor plates. It was like a blooming flower, with countless petals unfolding towards Ross 128—at the same time, the space-time siphon effect was generated, and on the surface of Ross 128, a reversed fire tornado immediately appeared. It rose directly from the star and then connected to the Star Eater's body.
Afterwards, the heads of the five Aether Dragons no longer fought separately. They intertwined with each other and turned into a huge, extremely unaesthetic, but also extremely dangerous and ferocious dragon head cannon.
And this giant cannon, with the Star Eater's direct stellar power supply, began to charge rapidly!
In response, Su Zhou did not make any counterattacks or evasions.
Or rather, he had already made a counterattack, but no one knew.
At this moment, the cosmic giant dragon wrapped in the Divine Wood implantation became unusually thick and huge at its arms. In addition to the metal armor protecting the arms, there were also extremely delicate spiritual structures operating within.
In the left arm guard, the purest Yin Qi was stored.
In the right arm guard, the purest Yang Qi was stored.
The combination of the two... is the prototype of an anti-matter planetary engine capable of propelling a planet.
At this moment, facing the Star Eater going all out in the distance, the incomparably huge dragon body slowly raised its hands.
He clasped his hands in front of his chest, as if he was holding something in the void.
A large number of roots, metals, plants, and crystals were coupled and inlaid on the arm guards on both arms, and then merged into one, turning into a raised structure similar to a vector nozzle.
It was empty, deep and dark. No one could see what was at the bottom of the anti-matter engine's nozzle. It was not activated, cold and silent, like an abyss.
But that was only temporary.
Soon, with the dragon's call, a small blade, like a grain of rice compared to the dragon's majestic body of thousands of meters, appeared between the dragon's hands, above the nozzle.
--Extinction Blade.
The flint of ignition is also the key to activation.
It fell into the huge anti-matter engine, and then, it was embedded into the bottom.
Then, it was ignited.
Between flickering lights, flames burned.
With it, it lit up.
Boom--
In an instant, a huge, incomparably blazing white pillar of flame erupted from the hands of the implanted giant dragon. Then, a red-gold ray of light, from bottom to top, turned into a structure like a 'blade'.
The anti-matter engine manufactured by the Yin-Yang Wheel Secret Treasure was operating at full power, which was the great power enough to propel a planet, and it had now become a means of attack.
In addition, with the enemy's own Aether Dragon Breath power, the combination of the two was invincible!
"Hoo--"
Exhaling a breath, the solemn gaze of the giant dragon lit up: "Let me show you true martial arts!"
Then, the ultimate light, brilliantly increased!
At this moment, everything within hundreds of kilometers in front of Su Zhou was scattered with a bang. The Aether giant dragon breath light, which was nearly orange-red, was mixed with the blazing white divine light of the anti-matter engine, and appeared in the light pillar in Su Zhou's hands, and then made it bigger and bigger.
Until the end, it turned into a long knife of tens of thousands of meters, hundreds of thousands of meters, and it was still getting longer and longer, so long that it was unbelievable!
At this moment, in Su Zhou's hands, the spiritual energy torrent that was enough to shatter stars and destroy the moon, break boundaries and destroy things, began to condense, all condensed on that illusory blade—and the originally invisible and intangible spiritual energy now became as if it had materialized, and was held tightly in the hands of the cosmic giant dragon.
Boom! The vacuum around the blade burned under incredible high-heat motion. Striking ionized clouds extended a burning red line in the universe, and this red line extended towards the starry sky at a speed that could not be followed by the naked eye.
For a time, not only the Star Eater Croa't, who was regarded as the target by this giant blade, but even the Earth fleet behind Su Zhou, and even the Aether Dragons were stunned.
Even the Aether Dragons shrank their heads, pretended they didn't see this blade longer than if they were tied together, and wailed a few times in a low voice.
No one can describe such a blade—it is light, it is fire, it is a knife, it is a spurting flame, it is a scorching cannon fire.
But no matter what it is, no matter how it is described, the essence of this thing held in Su Zhou's hand is really simple.
--When it is cut down, there is nothing it cannot cut through.
Must launch an attack!
With a roar, the Star Eater Croa't erupted with his full blow—in the barrel formed by the entanglement and convergence of the five Aether dragon heads, the red-cyan light stream began to rotate and surge, and then, like the mass jet at the poles of a massive star, endless light, heat and impact burst out!
The red-cyan light stream rotated, with infinite angular momentum and impact, rushing towards Su Zhou's location.
But at this moment, a grand, boundless, and majestic voice resounded between the vast and distant star river.
"Extinction Nirvana, Change the World."
"Twilight Kin, bear witness--"
"This is the Extinction Star-Slaying Blade!"
At the moment when the Star Eater launched a full attack, Su Zhou also attacked.
A blade condensed with all his spiritual power, soul, and mind, was cut down from a high position with the roar of the planetary engine, and a bright and incomparable star-slaying giant blade silently cut through the vacuum.
Yes, this blade was silent, but it was more terrifying than any roar and explosion, because all things, including stellar storms, interstellar wreckage, vacuum particles, and even light, were shattered and annihilated into nothing under this blade.
The blade rolled over, creating obvious spiritual energy vortices in the vacuum. It did not need to aim at the target, because the target would be swept into the blade by the surging spiritual energy.
The divine blade was slashed out, it split the Star Eater's full blow, directly cutting off the red-cyan light pillar. For a time, one could even hear roars like thunder, and hear the bold cries of changing the world.
--The time has come.
At this moment, the blade was like a long whip, cutting down with an arc, falling at a speed that even Celestial Immortals could hardly see clearly.
The star-spanning blade touched the Star Eater's Aether, and a red-gold brilliance shone.
An incredible torrent of destruction shattered the spiritual shield, and then shattered the physical carapace.
The blade dissected the spiritual organs, cutting Croa't in two.
In an instant, outer space became silent.
The storm of the star roared and swept through space.
[How is this possible, I...]
There was such a sound.
Then it dissipated.
Silence.
Death.
Twilight眷族 (Twilight Kin), Void 教团 (Void Order), Galaxy Annihilation Apostle, former Ω-level psionic behemoth, Star Eater Croa't...
--Confirmed elimination.
The huge star-slaying blade dissipated, and along with it, was the scattered corpse spirit light dust of the stellar behemoth.
Su Zhou did what he said: if he said he would scatter the other party's ashes, he would never bury them.
At this moment, a dim evil soul, yellowish-brown, shining like a star, but unable to emit bright light, swirled in the dust of the star.
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