Chapter 1 "Mmm, there's an evil spirit. Looks like I didn't kill the wrong thing."

Although he wasn't sure who this blob of silvery slime he had just killed was, the presence of an evil spirit meant that it was the right call. It must have been some insignificant wretch trying to stop him.

Moreover, aside from a tiny bit of light at its core, the evil spirit was almost entirely black.

After recovering the evil spirit, Su Zhou surveyed his surroundings, looking at those shapeless beings that were standing still, merely wandering in the distance, unable to find a target.

Strangely, even when seeing these monsters that were clearly hostile to him, Su Zhou felt extremely calm inside, without the slightest desire to eliminate them. It was as if he had entered a sage mode.

It must be because he had used the 'Soul of Wrath' earlier.

Thoughtfully nodding to himself, Su Zhou realized after the battle that when he used his soul to fight, the corresponding emotion it represented would fall into dormancy—in other words, temporarily become ineffective. He couldn't get angry even if he wanted to right now.

Although the Soul of Wrath was powerful, it could only target one person at a time. Furthermore, it was ultimately Su Zhou's own power. It didn't increase his strength out of nowhere, but rather increased his instantaneous energy output, raising Su Zhou's burst limit, but the overall energy amount remained unchanged.

This must be its inherent limitation.

At this moment, all the clothes and equipment on Su Zhou's body had been shattered in the previous battle. Although he could walk on the moon even naked, it was not very decent. Therefore, Su Zhou generated scales on his body surface, transforming them into light armor.

Then, he raised his head and looked at the spiritual power beacon not far from him, his expression quite serious: "It's time to deal with this problem."

At this moment, in the distance.

In the lunar rover, Bai Jingtao was observing the direction of the energy burst, driving towards the battle.

Gu Yaoluo was contacting Meng Jin, who had restored communications: "Can you see the situation at the battle site? What does Earth say?"

"The fight was very intense just now, but now it's calm—I don't recommend you go there."

Near lunar orbit, Meng Jin, who was in the command module, was inspecting the nuclear missile launch pad. He replied to his teammate's inquiry succinctly and bluntly: "With your strength, rashly approaching would probably be fatal."

"Even kindergarten kids can see that!"

Gu Yaoluo was a little annoyed: "What I mean is, if Captain Su is at a disadvantage, you launch a nuclear missile to cover Professor Su's retreat—if Captain Su loses, we'll turn around and go back to the lunar lander and roll back to Earth."

"You're a pessimist, just like those guys back on Earth. Why don't you think about the possibility of Captain Su winning?"

"Who says I haven't? Isn't that why we're driving closer to pick him up, assuming Professor Su will win!"

"Then you guessed right."

Meng Jin turned his head and glanced at the corpse of the Deep Space Caller in the observation window, then nodded and said, "Although it took a while, according to the information just relayed from Earth, the Deep Space Caller was a bit too strong. Even on Earth right now, it would be a top-tier force."

"It was just not as good as the captain's blade—he was just hacked to death."

Because they had just escaped death and survived the pursuit of many shapeless beings, the astronauts joked with each other to relieve the pressure, and then quickly returned to their normal serious work.

When Su Zhou, who had lost a lot of weight, reunited with Bai Canglang and Gu Yaoluo, he didn't waste any words.

"Notify Earth, a powerful guy has been dealt with. Also, what are Earth's instructions regarding that spiritual power beacon?"

"Okay."

After handing Su Zhou a spare proxy terminal, Gu Yaoluo began to send a report to Earth, while Bai Jingtao, who was turning the rover around and driving towards the spiritual power beacon, asked, "Are you alright, Captain?"

"Not good. There's no air or water on the moon, the sun has set, the temperature is dropping, and my self-healing speed is slowing down."

After putting on the terminal, a somewhat tired Su Zhou sat in the passenger seat: "I feel like I could eat a blue whale right now... no, two."

With Su Zhou joining them, the speed of the lunar rover was almost like a small spaceship. Soon, they began to approach the traces left by Su Zhou's previous battle with the Deep Space Caller.

In fact, the entire battle had not lasted more than an hour, but even so, in this not-so-long period, the traces they left behind had left incredibly obvious and eternal marks on the lunar surface.

Whether it was the destroyed impact crater, the crushed wreckage of some spaceships, or the remaining lava lake that had begun to cool down, all made the originally silent lunar surface 'lively'. Bai Jingtao and Gu Yaoluo watched these traces, and couldn't help but be secretly shocked.

How strong was the Overlord Tier? They actually knew. Whether it was Su Zhou's power to sweep through a world in the Beast God Realm, or the combat footage of the Demon Beast Realm that was circulating internally, they all proved that the Overlord Tier had the ability to destroy cities.

However, before witnessing it with their own eyes, the cities in their minds were just some tall buildings, some blocks, or the size of a small village—but now, just looking at the huge lava pit they had just passed by, the battle between two Overlord Tier cultivators, if it lasted a little longer, would be enough to easily destroy a city with a million people, and almost no one would survive.

Su Zhou, who had been closing his eyes to rest, received a communication from Earth after a while.

The Zheng Nation Aerospace Administration, which had already observed the strong spiritual power reaction erupting on the far side of the moon via satellite, could basically confirm that Su Zhou had defeated the Deep Space Caller. Furthermore, a video sent by Meng Jin later proved this point—on the far side of the moon, which was gradually falling into darkness, as an extremely bright crimson flash lit up, another silver spiritual power light faded away, leaving only the crimson spiritual light rising up, like a volcano erupting on the moon, illuminating hundreds of miles around.

[Thank you for your hard work, Su Zhou.]

The subtitles from Yu Sheng lit up on the screen of the proxy terminal, and a series of characters flickered: [However, the top priority now is to get rid of the spiritual power beacon and prevent it from continuing to release information outwards.]

[However, regrettably, after such a long time, there is a high probability that the beacon has successfully transmitted the information. It is too late to destroy it now.]

Seeing this, Su Zhou had already guessed what Yu Sheng was going to say next. As expected, as the subtitles flashed, a new mission was issued: [If possible, please approach the source of the transmission and try to analyze the information contained within. Knowing yourself and your enemy is the basis for formulating the next plan.]

Nodding slightly, Su Zhou skillfully clicked on the screen to reply: "Understood, will ensure the mission is completed."

Although the battle on the moon was very intense, most people on Earth had no idea that such a fierce life-and-death battle had taken place. Only a few people smelled something was wrong from the vague official statements and the lack of new news from the lunar explorers.

"What is the government doing? They insisted on going to the moon during the solar storm. Now the astronauts are out of contact, right?"

"In theory, the astronauts should have arrived on the moon by now, but the government hasn't started the live broadcast that they promised..."

"Yeah, they've been teasing us for over half a month, saying they'll reveal some brand new truth on the moon—I'm still waiting to see Chang'e or the remains of lunar people!"

Similar inquiries and questions have been flooding the related discussion threads and official website message boards of the Zheng Nation Aerospace Administration for the past few days.

The 'Lunar Live Broadcast' program, which should have already started hyping up, has been in a black screen state since the rocket launch a few days ago. None of the promised live broadcasts of the lunar module's interior or the astronauts' daily lives were shown, causing many concerned people to cry that they had been deceived and wanted to unfollow, report, and blacklist everything.

However, today, some netizens who had not yet unfollowed were shocked to find that the 'Lunar Live Broadcast', which had been blacked out for four or five days, had actually started again!

And it looked like the astronauts had arrived on the moon and were driving the lunar rover, not knowing where they were going!

"It's here, it's here, it's here!"

"Don't open it, swipe!"

"Amazing, when did the live broadcast start? If I hadn't received a notification, I would have forgotten about it."

The number of people in the live broadcast channel continued to increase, and the comment barrage was even more piled up—not to mention that Su Zhou himself had a lot of traffic, there were also many people who originally paid close attention to aerospace information. They had already known more or less from official hints that this lunar landing had another purpose and would definitely reveal a big news story.

However, no matter how lively the barrage was, the video was silent, with only slightly bumpy and constantly shaking live footage.

It could be seen that this was indeed the moon. Both the starry sky in the background and the rugged lunar surface proved this point.

However, some careful netizens discovered something wrong in the video.

"Wait, something's not quite right. Look, how does that impact crater look like it's been stepped on... and that black patch next to it, isn't that lava? It's still the kind that hasn't cooled down for long!"

"This is obviously the aftermath of a fight?! Could it be that we've already started a war with aliens on the moon without us knowing?!"

"The ravaged scenery, the silent lens, implies that the photographer's heart has been devastated after a long period of torment, unable to send out a cry for help."

"You and your damn implications!"

Just as many netizens were discussing endlessly, extremely obvious white subtitles suddenly appeared below the originally silent video.

[This is the Zheng Nation Lunar Landing Team. Now, under the leadership of Captain Su Zhou, we are walking on the beautiful far side of the moon.]

"Beautiful? You call this beautiful?"

"Can you please explain what that very obvious sword mark is? I also seemed to see a super big footprint just now. That should be someone's true form's footprint, right?"

"The euphemistic words imply that beneath the beauty of the surface text is actually an unsightly reality."

"You and your damn implications!"

Noisy barrages filled the screen. Regardless of the audience's thoughts, white subtitles that explained themselves again appeared in the video: [Due to various accidents, our lunar live broadcast was delayed for some time.]

[Therefore, we decided to make a long story short and directly show you the ancient alien spaceship ruins.]