“Finished… No hope… Doomed…” Ba Bata’s words struck like a hammer on Luo Feng’s soul, leaving him dazed.
Was Earth doomed?
It sounded too broad, yet in the distant past, five thousand years ago, from the ancestors of the Huaxia lands, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the Xia, Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States periods, countless legendary figures emerged, each illuminating their era. The Qin and Han dynasties, the Three Kingdoms’ Liu, Guan, and Zhang forming their brotherhood in the peach garden, the Battle of Red Cliffs, the Jin and Northern-Southern Dynasties, the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties… until entering the 21st century, where humanity lived in a modern society. Then came the Great Nirvana Period, when humanity fled, and finally settled into base cities.
In one of these base cities, in a certain satellite city, in a high school, there was a student.
His name was Luo Feng.
His classmates and teachers, his martial arts seniors, juniors, and instructors! His parents and loved ones, everyone he had ever met from childhood, were but a tiny, insignificant drop in the vast ocean of the Huaxia nation. And the Huaxia nation was but a part of humanity on Earth.
Now… it was all over?
“No!”
Luo Feng felt his soul tremble and sting with pain!
If all of humanity on Earth perished, what meaning would his life have?
“I must kill it!” Luo Feng stared at the frozen image of the ‘Golden-Horned Beast’ on the screen in the conference hall. “It must die!!”
“Hey, Luo Feng, what are you thinking?” Ba Bata asked.
“Ba Bata, the Golden-Horned Beast must die!” Luo Feng said to Ba Bata.
“Have you gone mad? You, a third-stage Cosmic-level Mentalist, dare to provoke a Star-Level Golden-Horned Beast? You may have inherited the Yimo lineage, but the Golden-Horned Beast also has powerful backing! It has noble blood and immense strength. Wanting to kill it is simply a dream!” Ba Bata exclaimed. “We don’t have to fight it head-on. If danger comes, I can hide you inside the Yimo Star spaceship. Once sealed inside, no matter how powerful it is, it won’t be able to harm us! And given the Yimo Star’s incredible mass, it won’t be able to swallow the ship either.”
“No!” Luo Feng rejected Ba Bata’s suggestion.
“Don’t be foolish. At worst, I can bring your family into the Yimo Star spaceship too,” Ba Bata said.
“Ba Bata, do you want us to hide like cowards, survive this disaster, and then come out to see… the entire human race on Earth wiped out? All my parents’ coworkers and neighbors dead? Only our family survives? What’s the point? How could my parents live? How could I live?” Luo Feng countered.
Unimaginable!
Luo Feng couldn’t even picture it. It was terrifying, heart-wrenching.
“I just don’t understand your human thinking,” Ba Bata grumbled. “You’re clearly outmatched, yet you still want to resist!”
“A person cannot live outside of society.”
“A person cannot be separated from their nation and homeland!”
“If only one person remained alive on Earth, life would be worse than death!” Luo Feng shuddered at the thought. “Ba Bata, when a nation falls, the surviving people are called—’slaves of a fallen nation’!”
Earth was his root!
The Huaxia nation was his root!
If the roots die, the branches and leaves wither and fall!
And he was merely one of those countless leaves, perhaps a little better than the rest.
If the roots die, can the leaves survive?
“Ba Bata, tell me how to kill it,” Luo Feng demanded in his mind.
“Uh, it’s impossible,” Ba Bata replied without hesitation.
“Ba Bata, if you can build a spaceship, can’t you build powerful weapons to kill it?” Luo Feng urgently asked in his mind.
“Weapons capable of killing a Star-Level being?”
Ba Bata understood Luo Feng’s urgency and spoke seriously. “Luo Feng! In the universe, a Star-Level being is already a formidable force! A Cosmic-Level being can even battle an interstellar fleet with their bare body! That means even an interstellar fleet would find it hard to kill a Cosmic-Level being. Killing a Star-Level being also requires powerful weapons.”
“Such weapons are very complex to manufacture and would take at least a few years,” Ba Bata said. “But given the Golden-Horned Beast’s speed, it will sweep across the entire Earth within a month.”
Luo Feng understood.
With the Golden-Horned Beast leading countless sea beasts, it would quickly conquer all land on Earth.
“Besides, Luo Feng!”
“Even if you build powerful weapons, can you fire and hit the target? That’s also very difficult,” Ba Bata said. “So, if you really want to resist—there’s only one way!”
“Tell me!” Luo Feng felt a spark of hope.
“There are some ancient warship wrecks on Earth. Some of them might be equipped with powerful weapons! Although they’ve been eroded by time and are no longer usable, I might be able to modify them for use,” Ba Bata explained. “Of course, it’s a matter of luck! Weapons capable of killing a Star-Level being are already considered powerful even on interstellar warships. For example—the thin spaceship at your headquarters is just a transport ship. Its weapons are generally quite weak.”
As Luo Feng listened, hope stirred in his heart.
Right…
Search for ancient ruins and find weapons beyond Earth’s civilization!
“Ba Bata, tell me the Golden-Horned Beast’s exact strength,” Luo Feng asked in his mind. He needed to know his enemy to stand a chance.
“It?”
Ba Bata said, “Look, on its head, besides the single horn covered with golden patterns, do you see a bump beside it?”
Luo Feng looked closely at the screen.
Yes! On the Golden-Horned Beast’s head, aside from the majestic horn that seemed to pierce the sky, there was indeed a bump.
“The Golden-Horned Beast’s strength is easy to determine because it has different characteristics at different stages. In the ‘infant stage,’ it has only one horn on its forehead. In the ‘growth stage,’ a second horn begins to grow. In the ‘youth stage,’ the third horn starts to grow. In the ‘prime stage,’ the fourth horn grows. In the ‘peak stage,’ the fifth horn emerges!”
“The higher the stage, the more complex the golden patterns on the horns become, until finally the horns appear entirely golden.”
“That’s why it’s called the Golden-Horned Beast!” Ba Bata explained.
Luo Feng understood.
“The second horn is only a small bump. It must have just entered the Star-Level stage recently,” Ba Bata continued. “But its bloodline is too strong, and its growth rate is astonishing! During its growth stage, it will devour massive amounts of metal and absorb it, continuously growing stronger. So we must kill it now before it becomes even stronger.”
Luo Feng understood.
A fully grown Golden-Horned Beast could reach the level of a Realm Lord. Of course, its growth rate would be fast.
“No wonder it devours war bases, which are mostly made of metal,” Luo Feng mused.
“Don’t worry. Although it has an ‘inner world’ as a Devourer, it’s still a young one just out of its infant stage. Its daily appetite is limited,” Ba Bata said. “But Luo Feng, I must warn you again—each Star Beast is formidable. They carry ancient inherited memories in their bloodline.”
“Killing a Star Beast is hard enough.”
“Killing one of the top-ranking Star Beasts, the Golden-Horned Beast, is even harder!”
“Master once told me that in the universe, an immortal once encountered a Realm Lord-level Golden-Horned Beast and tried to kill it! Logically, an immortal killing a Realm Lord should be easy. But although the Golden-Horned Beast couldn’t defeat the immortal, it actually managed to escape!” Ba Bata sighed. “Such rare and supreme bloodlines, you might be able to defeat it, but killing it would be extremely difficult.”
Luo Feng fell silent.
“If we don’t try, how can we know?” Luo Feng said. “Ba Bata… in this war, I have no choice!”
“Either it dies!”
“Or if it wants to destroy humanity, I’ll die first!” Luo Feng said grimly.
Luo Feng never considered himself noble or great. He could watch a war base be devoured by the Golden-Horned Beast. But— if humanity on Earth perished, if the Huaxia nation vanished. Without roots, what meaning would his life have as one of its leaves? He would rather die gloriously.
“You’re so stubborn.”
Ba Bata sighed helplessly. “Unfortunately, the Yimo Star has no weapons!”
In truth, energy weapons were meaningless to immortals! For example, the Yimo Star spaceship was made entirely of Chi Hun Copper Mother. A single fragment weighed over a ton. How much did the entire ship weigh? With the Yimo Star’s incredible durability, as long as it accelerated to an astonishing speed, its razor-sharp edges could slice through asteroids like tofu in space.
A single collision could slice through a planet!
Killing a Star-Level being would be as easy as chopping vegetables.
Unfortunately…
The Yimo Star was damaged and couldn’t fly.
…
While Luo Feng was discussing with Ba Bata, others were also discussing.
“Old Wang, if it’s a Cosmic-Level 8th or 9th stage beast, we still have a chance. But if it’s a Star-Level being… the chance of victory is at most ten percent,” two old men sat together, whispering.
“Oh, Old Li, did your group reach a conclusion?” A short, gray-haired old man asked gravely.
“Yes. Before the Great Nirvana Period, even testing ‘super high-yield’ nuclear bombs had no place. But in the age of base cities, there are plenty of vast, uninhabited areas spanning thousands of square kilometers. The conditions are there,” the Li-surnamed old man nodded slightly. “The detailed plan still needs to be discussed by experts from various countries. I’m just thinking, if we fail…”
“You mean the national heritage plan?” the Wang-surnamed old man looked at him.
The Li-surnamed old man looked back.
They both had devoted countless efforts to building the base cities during the Great Nirvana Period for the Huaxia nation. Of course, they couldn’t bear to part with their country and people!
“The people are living peacefully now. Can the apocalypse really come so suddenly?” Old Wang closed his eyes, tears faintly visible, then opened them with a determined gaze. “Believe me, all countries are the same. We should start the heritage plan secretly first! If we Earth humans really can’t resist, we’ll launch it on a large scale. Let’s talk more details after leaving the virtual space!”
The Li-surnamed old man nodded, but felt a suffocating weight.
“Perhaps… perhaps the situation isn’t that bad,” he thought silently.
…
Throughout the entire conference hall.
Whether it was Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder among the warriors, the world leaders, or the weapons experts specially invited, everyone was racking their brains for solutions.
They were all part of Earth!
Not a single one was willing to give up!
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