For more than three thousand years, the regret had been buried deep in his heart, driving him to obsessively research potions to enhance his power, dreaming of the day he could finally seek vengeance. Poison had always believed… back then, if Seventh Brother hadn’t chosen to hold off the enemy, he could have easily escaped with his life. But Seventh Brother had saved him, blocking the immortal scaled creature ‘Tolu’ and ultimately sacrificing his life.
“I did it, Seventh Brother, I did it. I killed that ghoul,” Poison shouted in his heart. More than three thousand years had passed. On the surface, he laughed and raged like any other man, but deep within, that regret had taken root.
At last, the vengeance was complete.
“There’s still another one,” Poison suddenly lifted his head, glaring at the immortal scaled creature ‘Fuweis’ battling against Taiwo in the distance.
“Perish!” Poison commanded his verdant minions, and in an instant, seventy-two emerald vines lashed forth with deadly precision toward their prey.
He wasn’t the only one.
Luo Feng had already controlled the Divine Soul Golden Sword and was flying directly toward the final enemy—the strongest among the Qiu Shi Clan.
…
“Perish!”
“You cannot escape!”
“Die!”
Phantom Master Wei, the Enchantress, and the Mindbender Kuangwu, alongside other divine beings, unleashed their assaults—some striking at the very essence of souls, others weaving intricate illusions, while a few hurled telekinetic armaments from afar. Though they harbored no illusions of wounding the immortal scaled beast outright, even the slightest delay they could impose would tip the scales in favor of their sovereign, Taiwo.
“Tolu is dead,” Fuweis thought, watching his companion fall. Glancing at Luo Feng and Poison in the distance, alarm surged in his heart. “Those two human Monarchs are both very powerful. If they join forces with this human immortal god… I’ll be in serious trouble. I might even perish here.”
“There’s no time to think about it.”
The immortal scaled creature Fuweis had originally planned to escape unscathed, but now Taiwo was desperately clinging to him… while Luo Feng and Poison were closing in from afar.
“Yaaaaa~~~” Fuweis let out a ferocious roar. The black chain burning with flames on his body instantly vanished, and his twin claws transformed into twin fists, slamming furiously into Taiwo’s fist.
“Boom!!!”
Fuweis’ fists erupted into dazzling crimson light. It was well known that the body of an immortal god was an ‘Immortal God Body,’ formed entirely from infinite immortal god-force. Once one became immortal, their body could easily transform into infinite immortal god-force, and that force could reform into a body—provided the soul imprint remained intact.
In an instant, Fuweis sacrificed his entire fists, consuming nearly ten percent of the energy he had accumulated over countless years. Although ten percent might seem small, every part of an immortal body contained a soul imprint. In the explosion, he was sacrificing part of his soul imprint. He wasn’t an ‘undying body’—one that could regenerate the entire body from a single cell fragment. He wasn’t immortal in that sense. Therefore, daring to self-destruct ten percent of his claws was already his limit.
“Boom~~~”
The powerful explosion surged toward Taiwo, sending him flying backward.
The surrounding starry sky exploded, tearing a massive rift into the cosmic expanse. Countless fragments of space formed a torrent, and the powerful shockwave radiated outward in all directions. Even the countless items left behind by the Monarchs’ scaled creatures, whose internal worlds had collapsed, were shattered by the blast.
“Boom!” Fuweis, protected by his immortal battle armor, endured the explosion’s backlash. Using the counterforce, he rapidly fled!
Whoosh!
In an instant, he had shot dozens of kilometers away.
As he fled, the countless items around him were sent flying by the shockwave. No one noticed that among the chaos, a seemingly ordinary black spatial ring had quietly appeared.
“Damn it, he escaped,” Poison gritted his teeth.
“He sure ran fast,” Luo Feng watched the fleeing enemy, already hundreds of kilometers away, moving at near-light speed.
When an immortal god was determined to escape, especially from a distance,
Unless one could teleport, even a King-ranked immortal god couldn’t pursue.
“We must leave quickly. The commotion was too loud. If we stay too long, many alien warrior teams will come,” Taiwo immediately ordered. “Quickly collect the spoils of war.”
The elite Monarch squad swiftly gathered the loot and boarded their Class-C9 spaceship, departing rapidly.
…
In the asteroid belt, among the stars.
The Class-C9 spaceship was quietly returning, heading toward the hideout Luo Feng and the others had established.
“Just a little more, just a little more, and we could have killed the other immortal ghoul too,” Poison had returned to his normal appearance, his eyes ablaze with frenzied excitement.
“Well, we did pretty well. Forcing him to self-destruct ten percent of his immortal divine body was already a huge cost,” Taiwo smiled. “It might take him hundreds of thousands, even millions of years to recover the lost soul imprints.”
“What’s going on?” Rock asked in confusion. “Isn’t this race fine even if their bodies are blown apart? Why was the cost of self-destructing ten percent of their immortal divine body so high?”
“When blown apart, it’s just the body shattering, at most turning into immortal divine force,” Taiwo explained. “That immortal divine force contains energy and soul imprints—it’s the most basic component of an immortal god. These immortal divine forces can gather again to reform an immortal divine body.”
“But when they self-destruct… it’s the complete explosion of even the immortal divine force, leaving no fragments, turning into the most basic particle streams,” Taiwo grinned. “That’s why the explosion is so powerful.”
“That’s also why being blown apart doesn’t cause a massive explosion,
But self-destruction does.”
Taiwo continued, “The immortal divine force contains soul imprints. If only a tiny bit is lost, it can recover. But if ten percent is lost at once, it’s like losing ten percent of the soul… although the imprint remains intact, their strength, potential, and everything else are greatly diminished… it might take a very, very long time to slowly recover.”
“Of course,
“If one cultivates to the ‘Undying Body’ stage, even if shattered to pieces, even if the immortal divine force starts to collapse and the soul imprint shatters… as long as a single fragment remains, one can instantly absorb countless shattered energies to restore the complete immortal divine body.” Taiwo said, “Once one reaches the Undying Body, it’s extremely hard to kill. Even if ninety-nine point nine nine percent of the soul is lost, as long as a single fragment remains, one can fully recover instantly.”
Rock nodded in understanding.
…
“Let’s toast.”
“For Seventh Brother, for all the brothers and sisters who died over the years, let’s toast.”
“Cheers.”
Taiwo, Poison, Luo Feng, and the others all raised their glasses. Although Luo Feng and Rock were newcomers, they could feel the excitement in the air.
“From the day we stepped into the battlefield beyond the domains, death has always been by our side. I’ve been on the battlefield for more than three thousand years, rising from a Monarch to an immortal. Many of my brothers, First Brother, Third Brother, Fourth Brother, Fifth Brother, Sixth Brother, Seventh Brother, Ninth Brother… one by one, they’ve fallen.” Taiwo looked at Poison beside him.
Poison took a deep breath.
Back then, Taiwo was Second Brother. Poison had joined the team later, always being looked after by Seventh Brother. Seventh Brother had always liked Poison, who was cute like a child, playful and mischievous.
“Old brothers die, new brothers and sisters join,” Taiwo sighed. “We all have our own goals. In our team, ‘Ersa’ retired after achieving his goal. I estimate I’ll retire in about twenty thousand years. I wish… that all of you here can retire alive.”
“Right,” the group raised their glasses.
“Live to retire.”
They all drank deeply.
In truth, the veteran members had already completed their basic military merit quotas and were free men. But none of them were content with mediocrity. Everyone had their own goals. They wanted to earn more military merit to exchange for treasures. You see—100,000 military merits could be exchanged for one Primordial Unit, and could be used to trade for treasures within the military system!
Accumulating one billion military merits would yield ten thousand Primordial Units—nearly the total wealth of an average immortal god.
Within human territory… these Monarch warriors might spend a thousand eons of their lives and still not earn ten thousand Primordial Units, unless they encountered some special fortune.
But on the battlefield beyond the domains, as long as one survives for tens of thousands of years, accumulating ten thousand Primordial Units is easy.
Of course—
That’s only if one survives for tens of thousands of years.
“Poison, you’ve avenged Seventh Brother. Try to drink less from now on,” Taiwo said softly.
“Alright,” Poison nodded.
Poison walked to Luo Feng’s side, looking up at him, his eyes gleaming with gratitude: “Fengzi, thank you.”
“Hehe,” Luo Feng grinned.
At that moment, within the world ring of the psychokineticist Kuangwu, where the ‘spoils of war’ were stored, in that world, among countless miscellaneous items, there was a seemingly ordinary black spatial ring. Within that black spatial ring, among the clutter, was a fifth-grade weapon.
…
The biological spaceship cautiously flew through the asteroid belt.
“Damn it, damn it, cursed humans, cursed!!!” In the control room, the immortal scaled creature ‘Fuweis’ roared furiously, smashing cups and other items. Bang! Bang! Explosions and curses in the Qiu Shi language echoed through the control room.
After a long while, Fuweis finally stopped. His twin claws had already regenerated completely.
His eyes burned with madness and cruelty: “Ten percent of my soul… this will greatly slow my comprehension of the spatial laws. Cursed humans… I will make you die, make you all die!”
“You probably didn’t even notice the ordinary spatial ring among the countless floating items in space, did you? Don’t know that within that spatial ring, there’s a weapon,” Fuweis’ eyes gleamed with cruelty. “That weapon is my token, containing a sliver of my soul imprint. No matter how far away, I can sense it.”
“As long as I sense the token, I can naturally pinpoint your cursed human location.”
Fuweis’ eyes were filled with hatred.
An immortal god could perform divine country teleportation, but it required some tokens. These tokens could be an ‘Immortal Crystal’ (since immortal divine force contains soul imprints), a plant life that has formed a bond with its master, or specially crafted token items, like the token Chaos City Lord left for Luo Feng.
A token contains a sliver of the soul imprint… no matter how far the distance, whether within one’s internal world or divine country, it can be sensed.
“No.
“I can’t waste time.
“It’s possible those cursed humans might discover the secret of that weapon. Although the chance is low, I can’t afford to lose… I must take revenge, I must kill them.” Fuweis gritted his teeth. “I must immediately contact other immortal god allies and comrades, and together eliminate that cursed group of humans.”
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