※Hradek tilted his head up, the ten battlecruisers shrouded in a protective light screen, and sneered coldly, "See? They've abandoned you. You've been a truly failed commander." Yang Ying twisted his body, squeezing out from a pile of rubble.

Hearing Hradek’s words, he thought to himself, So he still doesn't know my secret about soul transference and immortality. Good thing I kept that under wraps. It’s normal he doesn't know.

The other five avatars burst forth from the cliff face, covered in various degrees of injury. Fortunately, their bodies possessed hyper-regeneration; even a broken bone, once set straight, would regrow in seconds. Yang Ying’s six figures’ bone wings were severely damaged from being too ostentatious, but even the most damaged regenerated completely within ten seconds.

The Blade Emperor was, after all, the pinnacle product of the union between the Zerg and the Human race. The Zerg stood supreme in the world due to their terrifying physical capabilities: razor-sharp limbs, alloy-like carapaces, bullet-fast darts, fighter-jet speeds, acid capable of dissolving metal, and tireless stamina—not to mention this hyper-regeneration. In terms of sheer regenerative speed, the Blade Emperor ranked second among the entire Zerg race!

Hradek saw Yang Ying and his five others recover at such speed and felt a surge of irritation. A cold glint flashed in his eyes as he snorted, "You six are certainly durable." "It's not that I'm durable; it’s that your striking power isn't enough," Yang Ying said. Although several attacks had failed and he was bruised, he had managed to gauge the strength of the giant ape Hradek.

"If I haven't guessed wrong, you have only just entered Level Four. You lack both long-term accumulation and systematic training. Level Four power is profound and vast, countless times more complex than Level Three.

How could someone who just ascended master it completely? What you’re using now is probably just the surface of Level Four!" "Interesting," Hradek said coldly. "Your perception is incredibly sharp.

I heard you only started training two years ago. To achieve this much in two years—if it weren't right before my eyes, I would never believe it. If this continues, given enough time, it won't be impossible for you to reach Level Four.

By then, even ten of me wouldn't be a match for you." "You flatter me," Yang Ying replied. "Even ten of me now probably can't match your cur—" Hradek cut in, "It's a pity. You have such a bright future.

If you hadn't initiated the orbital bombardment, if your hands weren't stained with the blood of my race, I might have spared you. This war, stretching half a century, was forced upon us by the Kustarians. They granted my race life, yes, but it was a life granted with malice—not a boon, but the genesis of our tragic fate.

Even if my race owed them, after over a hundred million kinsmen have bled and sacrificed in this war, whatever we owed should have been repaid by now." As he spoke, he seemed to lose weight, his toes lifting off the ground, his massive body floating upward continuously. Yang Ying looked up. He saw Hradek’s gaze cast downwards, an expression of deep sorrow permeating his eyes.

In those eyes, Yang Ying seemed to witness scenes of fierce combat: ape-men charging the human lines in endless waves, the ground littered with corpses, warships shattering in the vacuum of space, metal fragments and bodies floating coldly in the cosmos, finally freezing into an image of boundless nuclear fire and raging flames engulfing a burning planet—utter destruction! "Today, let me end it all," Hradek's voice resonated across heaven and earth. "Your deaths will bring peace to the solar system.

After I kill you six Hengfeng Masters and avenge the million kinsmen who died at your hands last, I will lead the remaining race far away. I, Hradek Longunir, in the name of the Commander of the Ancient Legion, declare that the Ancient Legion is formally disbanded from this moment!" Yang Ying’s heart clenched. Seeing Hradek’s solemn bearing, he knew the giant ape was preparing a super move.

He shifted his footing, intending to flee into the distance, to avoid the initial blast. This move had clearly been brewing in Hradek for a long time; Yang Ying had no intention of meeting it head-on where he stood. However, Hradek crossed his arms before his chest, and his entire giant ape form suddenly erupted with light, like a miniature sun, illuminating hundreds of kilometers around them.

Before Yang Ying could take more than a few steps, the light struck him, and he suddenly felt his entire body become heavy, as if crushed by tens of tons of pressure. A nearby cliff began to collapse from its peak. The crumbling stone fragments fell to the ground like cannonballs, gouging out deep pits.

Large stones shattered into small ones, but the smaller stones, instead of rolling, were clamped tightly to the ground, utterly motionless. Immediately afterward, more mountain peaks and ravines could not withstand the pressure and began to cave in. The entire world seemed to hit fast-forward: the stones landing, shattering, rolling, and stopping—all completed in a mere instant.

What immense gravity! Yang Ying inwardly gasped, struggling against the pressure to move a few steps. But weighed down by tens of tons, even using Shudi (Shortening the Ground), he couldn't run fast; he moved barely faster than a normal person jogging on a street.

However, the avatar ten kilometers away experienced the complete opposite. The already slight gravity on Pluto had vanished entirely. Some stones of various sizes even floated away due to being in a zero-gravity state.

At that moment, Hradek pointed a finger at Yang Ying. Yang Ying felt an enormous suction force, and he was instantly pulled backward in flight. In the blink of an eye, he was pulled directly to Hradek’s feet.

Yang Ying staggered twice but managed to stand firm. Yet, his feet immediately sank, plunging him a dozen centimeters into the ground. The gravity here was several times stronger, crushing him.

Even lifting his feet to walk became difficult. Hradek stated, "Psychic power is the root; techniques are the branches and leaves. If the root is deep, the foliage will naturally flourish.

You were right; my mastery of Level Four power is just the surface. But it is still Level Four power, enough for me to influence Pluto’s gravity. I cannot create or remove it from thin air, but I can regulate it, concentrating all the gravity within hundreds of kilometers right here." He pointed again, and an avatar several kilometers away also felt a massive pull.

Despite resisting with all his might, he was inexorably drawn toward Yang Ying. Then, Hradek pointed his fingers repeatedly, and the other four avatars were also sucked in, including the one ten kilometers away. Though the distance gave that distant avatar slightly longer to resist, he too was pulled right beside Yang Ying.

"Hah!" Seeing the six figures gathered, Hradek roared to the sky, raising both hands above his head. Yang Ying and his five others resisted the intense gravity. They watched as, in the zero-gravity zone thousands of meters away, countless giant rocks lifted from the ground, densely packing the sky until it was almost completely obscured.

After rising to an extreme altitude, they converged here, accelerating rapidly. Upon entering the gravity zone, the boulders traced a parabola and then hurtled towards Yang Ying! "Not good!" Yang Ying saw that there were thousands of house-sized boulders, and their speed was magnified by the immense gravity.

When they struck the ground, they were moving at nearly hundreds of meters per second! But trapped in the high-gravity zone, the downward pull beneath his feet was thousands of times greater than Earth's, and tens of thousands of times greater than Pluto’s baseline. Even with the Blade Emperor's body coupled with the Hengfeng Master's psychic power, he couldn't move himself out of the pit.

Yang Ying could only watch helplessly as the massive stones crashed down. The boulders rained down upon Yang Ying and his five companions like drumming rain on banana leaves, smashing them deep into the ground. Their figures were quickly buried under the ever-increasing mass of rocks, forming three small mountains in less than a second.

"Guaaaahhh!!" Hradek roared again, his body glowing even brighter. He was exerting his full power. This move, which seemed to merely exploit the gravitational differential between two areas—lifting rocks in zero-G and smashing them into the gravity well—appeared to consume little energy.

In reality, even Level Four power cannot defy the universal constant of energy conservation; energy cannot be created or destroyed from nothing. Accelerating such a large volume of debris to that speed ultimately demanded Hradek's psychic power. Although he borrowed considerable energy from Pluto, the toll on his physical form was exceptionally severe.

However, Hradek did not stop. He could still sense the life signs of the six figures. He relentlessly continued to hurl stones downward.

Large stones shattered into smaller ones, which were then pressed together tightly, reforming into large stones. Uncountable boulders piled up, causing the small mountains to grow taller and taller, eventually forming a pyramid-shaped mass three hundred meters high, solid as steel! Finally, Hradek released his hands, halting the Great Gravity Spell.

The gravity in the high-gravity zone and the zero-gravity zone returned to normal. The boulders still hanging in the air rained down. He could no longer feel the life signs of Yang Ying’s six figures.

This technique had lasted a long time, leaving his body’s glow dimmed. His height, once over a hundred meters, had shrunk to around fifty meters, indicating extremely severe depletion of his mental energy. He thought to himself, Defeating and killing six peak Level Threes with just the surface of Level Four power was certainly not easy.

But, the revenge is finally complete. Hradek slowly descended from the air and stood atop the mountain. At this moment, in the space outside Pluto, an invisible Ghost fighter quietly streaked by.

One of Yang Ying’s avatars sat in the cockpit. He plunged into the atmosphere, arriving over the massive mountain. His main soul entered the body within, and the golden Bi (Seal) symbol manifested on the back of his right hand.

With a flash of golden light! Outside the cockpit, Yang Ying’s six figures were summoned anew. Their original bodies beneath the mountain had been crushed to dust—they had lost that round.

However, Hradek’s move had not consumed a single bit of their psychic power; they merely switched bodies. Hradek, conversely, had expended a huge amount of psychic power. In practical terms, Yang Ying had won this exchange.

"What!" Hradek sensed the reappearance of Yang Ying’s six figures in the sky and jerked his head up, sharp light blazing from his eyes. He saw the six figures unfurl their bone wings and, in several flashes, arrive on the ground. Yang Ying’s main soul possessed a body identical to his own appearance.

He stepped forward and said, "Hradek, you are formidable. I admit I am not your match right now. But the hatred between us is deep.

I destroyed Pluto, and you seek revenge against me. In the previous battles, many of my subordinates also died under the hands of your ape-men. As their commander, I too must seek vengeance against you.

So, it has to be this way!" Yang Ying extended his right hand, which flashed with blinding golden light, forming a massive screen of illumination that spread across the heavens. Swarms—vast swarms—endless swarms of Zerg abruptly appeared within the light screen! Apologies to all readers, Diamond stayed up until five AM watching the World Cup final and is severely sleep-deprived.

I am extremely groggy right now, so I’ll call it an early night. I promise three chapters tomorrow; using a tide of bugs to fight Hradek is quite the climax, isn't it. If you wish to know what happens next...