The hundred thousand demigod power within Ye Chen’s body roared and converged upon the shield, forming a *circular golden sphere, spinning like a nascent star. As the single word fell, this golden sphere stared down the countless impact waves and ascended slowly, before exploding outward with a mighty roar!
Like the destruction of a star!
The entire sphere collapsed inward, slowly forming a black hole, then immediately rebounding, blasting outward—this was precisely the profound truth of “Stellar Detonation” that Ye Chen had comprehended in the Xuanyuan Divine Tomb.
This profound truth could unleash his divine power with ten times its natural destructive force!
The shockwave, comprised of over a million points of demigod power, carried a violent tearing force that forcefully ripped apart the incoming demigod shockwaves, throwing the energy in the mid-air into chaos. The electromagnetic waves of several nearby warships became infected, causing signals to stutter and break.
Ye Chen, bearing the Divine Flame Shield, moved like the wind, streaking toward the nearest warship. The Rune Space opened behind him, and the more than two hundred thousand Demigod Stones plundered within began to shatter piece by piece, forming wisps of demigod mist that poured into his body, rapidly filling his meridians and pushing him to the peak of the Demigod realm.
Ye Chen reached the barrier of the starship, raised his fist, and smashed down with tremendous force. The demigod power within enveloped his knuckles, amplified by the Meteorite Profundity, causing his destructive capability to surge to the level of a hundred thousand demigod power!
Bang!
The defensive layer of the starship fractured and tore open. Ye Chen, resembling an unparalleled Asura, his face savage, fixed his gaze upon the myriad figures on the deck and dove down. With a sweep of his arm, streaks of demigod power rained down like a meteor shower, instantly reducing many experts at the Ghost God realm to ashes with a mere graze.
Ye Chen snatched with his arm, gathering surging Mid-Grade Divine Power in his palm to form a pitch-black vortex. The thousands of Ghost God realm experts on the deck watched in stark terror, screaming as they were drawn in.
Some of them were originally four or five meters tall, but as they were drawn toward him, their bodies shrank continuously, until, upon landing in Ye Chen’s palm, they were as small as ants, utterly devoured and refined.
With Ye Chen’s current strength and the immensity of his demigod power, his flesh and blood utterly transformed by the universe, he could forcibly consume these Ghost God realm experts—swallowing their flesh, soul, and very thoughts alive.
In the past, consuming a living Ghost God realm expert would have made him hesitate, making him cautious. But now, he had no such reservations. The difference between the Demigod realm and the Ghost God realm was the distinction between heaven and earth, compounded by his formidable mental cultivation; he could now erase them directly!
These thousands of Ghost God experts floated over, devoured and refined by Ye Chen with brutal speed. Shrieks echoed as many peak Ghost God experts had no time to struggle; the moment they felt enveloped by the vortex in Ye Chen’s palm, their Ghost Qi began to rapidly drain, the outflow rate terrifyingly fast—losing tens of thousands of points every second!
In just a few blinks, they were entirely consumed.
Ye Chen’s eyes were chillingly cold. The energy of these Ghost God realm warriors was now entirely useless to him; absorbing it brought no increase in his own power. He injected this stored Ghost Qi into the Origin Crystal Grass, estimating it amounted to over 30 million points of Ghost Qi!
Since breaking through to the Demigod realm, the Origin Crystal Grass had also benefited. Its body was tempered and reached the Demigod realm. Though its defense and offense remained pitifully weak, its energy storage capacity saw a massive upgrade, capable of holding up to 10 billion points of Ghost Qi or 1 million points of Demigod Power!
Ye Chen’s gaze was frosty as he watched the two or three dozen Demigod experts remaining on the deck. His demigod power surged out, condensing into a single golden finger aimed at these Demigod experts.
“Treading Heaven Chant…”
“When I desire to tread the heavens, all living beings shall be my stepping stones…”
“When I desire to slaughter the heavens, all living beings shall be my butcher’s knives…”
Ancient Sanskrit chanting sounded around Ye Chen. This golden finger, infused with cosmic energy, seemed capable of annihilating the firmament and piercing through eternity, hurtling toward the two dozen Demigod experts.
“I refuse to believe that even peak Demigod realm experts only possess 100,000 points of demigod power! With so many of us, are we afraid of you?!” A stout man stepped out from the crowd, glaring at Ye Chen with rage. With a sudden sweep of his mighty hand, the energy within him surged, condensing into a blazing gold fist that rose defiantly against the sky.
Boom!!
The golden finger and the fist collided!
The stout man wore a cold sneer, but his expression instantly shifted to one of profound shock. He gazed at his blazing gold fist with disbelief, seeing the light intensify, fine spiderweb cracks appearing across its surface. The entire fist then exploded outward with a deafening crack!
Bang!
The stout man’s entire body was thrown backward by the impact, slamming into a metal pillar of the warship, spitting blood.
“How is this possible!” the man gasped, his face a mask of disbelief. “We are all peak Demigod realm experts! How can the gap be so vast! This is absolutely not 100,000 points of demigod power, absolutely not!!”
He stared intently at Ye Chen, and suddenly a thought struck him, his expression turning to shock. “Impossible, could it be… that upon just breaking through… he has already reached the first heaven of the Demigod realm?” Before he could finish speaking, the golden finger eclipsed the sky, filling everyone’s vision as it plummeted down. Countless screams erupted, and the warship’s metal pillars collapsed with a crash.
Ye Chen grasped with his palm, and two dozen corpses floated up, hovering before him. As the Rune Space opened, he waved his hand, tossing them inside, where they piled up like a small mountain.
Ye Chen turned, fixing his cruel gaze on the remaining starships. A ruthless curve played on his lips, and his body blurred as he charged toward the next starship.
“Kill!”
“Nine Palaces Secret Codex!”
“Explode!”
“Explode!”
Ye Chen moved like a demonic, brutal beast. Charging into a ship, he unleashed his strongest technique, the Nine Palaces Secret Codex. Three heads of the Nine Palace Guardians materialized and detonated across the ship.
Boom!
The entire Demigod-grade starship fractured and burst apart. Ye Chen reached out, opened the Rune Space, and commanded the old man of the Green Rune Clan to pilot the rune vessel out of the space. His voice was low, “Collect the corpses!”
The old Green Rune Man understood the instruction. Seeing the wreckage of warships everywhere, his heart trembled. He quickly manipulated the rune vessel, causing numerous tentacles to shoot out, seizing the bodies and depositing them onto the deck, piling them high.
Ye Chen turned back toward another starship below and charged again.
“Treading Heaven Chant…”
“Nine Absolutes Spear…” “Flame God Hammer!” One after another, starships exploded. Ye Chen wielded a Flame God Hammer nearly a thousand zhang in size, smashing down with overwhelming force. Firelight erupted from the hammer, heavy as a mountain, flattening the protective shields and the people on the decks of one starship after another into dust!
“Wow…” The old Green Rune Man’s eyes lit up. “So many Demigod experts… Tsk tsk, so many corpses… Wow, if I could just get one of these bodies, it would be a Demigod expert…” “Hahaha…” “Hehehe, jiejie…” Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but laugh involuntarily, the sound chilling and hair-raising.
In a few breaths, Ye Chen annihilated three starships, and over a hundred Demigod corpses were heaped on the deck of the rune vessel, looking like a small hill. Rivers of blood flowed, and the stench was thick, inspiring dread in all who saw it.
Every civilization witnessing this on Thunder Square was stunned into dumb silence, watching Ye Chen not only avoid capture by the Fengyue family but charge rampageously through a hundred starships.
“Explode!”
“Explode!”
“Explode!”
Ye Chen was like a peerless demon god, his long black hair wildly whipping in the wind. His dark eyes were cold and merciless, carrying a trace of cruelty as he stared at the swarm of starships filling the sky.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…
Beams of laser fire shot toward him. Ye Chen raised a hand and slapped out. The colossal demigod power within him surged out, condensing into a golden palm that reached out to grasp the myriad lasers, as if holding the entire world in his hand.
Boom!
Innumerable lasers exploded against the golden palm. Although he lost over a hundred thousand points of demigod power, he successfully blocked the impact waves from nearly a hundred warships.
Splash!
Vast torrents of energy interwove, becoming extremely chaotic. Powerful radiation waves extended in all directions; even Ye Chen dared not resist them easily. He flickered once, avoiding the blast, and sped toward another starship.
“Run!”
“Retreat!”
The occupants of this starship, seeing Ye Chen’s wildly flowing black hair as he charged straight at them, panicked. They furiously maneuvered the vessel to retreat rapidly backward.
A cruel curve touched Ye Chen’s lips. He tapped a finger, compressing the demigod power within him to a single point, shooting out like a golden beam. In an instant, it pierced the ship’s protective shield, causing the vessel to shake slightly and its speed to sharply decrease.
Ye Chen strode forward. Supplemented by the over two hundred thousand Demigod Stones in the Rune Space, his body remained perpetually at the peak state of one hundred thousand demigod power.
“Treading Heaven Chant…”
Ye Chen raised his hand and pointed. Demigod power surged out, transforming into a golden palm print that struck downward. The entire warship shuddered and sank inward, its electronic equipment damaged, sparking with electric arcs.
The other starships involved in the encirclement saw this highly valuable vessel rendered useless by Ye Chen once again and felt a pang of heartache. They realized that continuing the fight was fruitless; given Ye Chen’s Divine Flame set and massive supply of divine stones, they might be annihilated before they could eliminate him.
“Withdraw!”
“We can’t fight anymore! Quickly notify the Clan Head A!”
“Hurry, hurry!”
All the starships retreated rapidly, unwilling to linger, quickly turning their courses to flee the Thunder Square.
“Trying to leave?” Ye Chen’s brow twitched. His body suddenly shot forward, but he did not target the Demigod-level starships. Instead, he charged toward the imposing Pseudo-God realm warship hovering in the center of the sky!
“What!” The guards aboard this Pseudo-God level vessel were all at the Demigod realm; there was not a single Ghost God realm warrior among them. The captains were all peak Demigod cultivators. Seeing Ye Chen actively charging toward this ship, they knew his intentions were malicious, and their faces paled slightly.
“The Third Master ordered us not to manipulate this vessel carelessly.”
“This person is courting death, actually delivering himself to our doorstep!”
“Quickly activate the Pseudo-God Cannon and destroy him!”
Everyone felt outraged and issued a self-defense alert to the vessel’s intelligent system. Upon receiving permission, the entire warship mobilized. Cannons of extremely large caliber extended from beneath the hull, aiming their dark muzzles directly at Ye Chen.
“Countdown…”
“Fire!”