"The spatial rift is at the 7 o'clock position, latitude 38, with planetary coordinates 2994, 280029." Zixiang swiftly locked onto the spatial rift and piloted the Demon God Palace towards it.

Just then—

Rumble~

The void directly ahead of the Demon God Palace suddenly collapsed, transforming into a realm of illusory annihilation, flickering with electrical arcs of energy that emitted a heart-stopping aura.

From this empty space, a bolt of lightning shot out, striking the ground before the Demon God Palace. Amidst the crackling discharge, a commanding voice resonated: "Who are you, daring to trespass into this Emperor's domain without so much as a greeting? Insolent!"

Zixiang raised a delicate eyebrow. "Some people truly have no fear of death. This grandma will oblige you!"

Ye Chen couldn't help but glance at her.

"Heavenly Demon Cannon, prepare pre-heating…"

"Target lock!"

"Energy gathering commencing…"

From the forefront of the Demon God Palace, a cannon barrel nearly ten zhang in diameter rose from the fortress wall. A faint light began to emerge from the pitch-black muzzle, growing brighter and more dazzling, drawing in the mysterious energy from the surrounding void.

The lightning faded, revealing a powerfully built man inside. He had thick brows, large eyes, and bronze-toned skin covered in dense hair on his arms and chest, resembling a colossal Vajra—his muscles thick and robust. Upon seeing the massive cannon barrel rising up, he jumped in alarm, the muscles in his face twitching, and he stammered, "You, what are you doing?"

The energy within the Heavenly Demon Cannon intensified, causing the surrounding void to automatically recede, as if fearing vaporization. The burly man now felt the terrible aura emanating from the weapon and knew his opponent was deadly serious. A chill ran down his spine; he hadn't expected this person to attack without so much as a warning.

"Energy gathering complete!"

"Fire!" Zixiang commanded without hesitation.

BOOM!!!

The entire Heavenly Demon Cannon erupted, unleashing an unparalleled beam of light that tore through the void, piercing countless parallel dimensions, seeming to shoot across billions of light-years as it blasted toward the burly man.

"Damn it, I… %￥%@…" The burly man shrieked, breaking out in a cold sweat. He moved instantly, without another word, darting back along the path the rift had torn open, vanishing completely.

The dazzling Heavenly Demon Cannon disappeared, having locked onto his body, and followed suit, plunging into the void in pursuit.

Zixiang wasted no time. After firing the cannon, she immediately engaged the Demon God Palace, speeding toward the spatial rift. Before long, they arrived above a city on the Emperor Star, which had a diameter of roughly five light-years.

The diameter of this single Emperor Star was equivalent to the entire diameter of the Solar System.

The city itself spanned nearly ten million kilometers and housed countless billions of inhabitants. A single corner of the eastern district alone rivaled the entire population of Earth during its era of spiritual civilization.

The Demon God Palace, spanning tens of thousands of kilometers, hovered over the city, blotting out the sky and plunging the populace below into chaos; they had never witnessed such a massive flying apparatus.

After all, what did tens of thousands of kilometers even imply?

The Demon God Palace did not halt; it locked onto a vast spatial rift situated at the city's center and moved directly toward it. Within the City Lord's Manor of this city sat a delicate, beautiful young woman who appeared to be only fifteen or sixteen years old but was, in reality, an ultimate Divine Spirit expert who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years!

The young woman suddenly widened her almond-shaped eyes, her pretty face etched with shock. "Which Divine Emperor has arrived in my Ruhua City? Why wasn't I notified of the Divine Emperor's presence? Disaster, it's too late to offer proper reception; I wonder if they will hold it against me."

While her thoughts raced, her body did not delay. She took a step forward, arriving before the magnificent Demon God Palace. Facing the impossibly huge structure, she appeared utterly insignificant.

"Your Divine Majesty." The beautiful young woman spoke with utmost reverence, "Forgive my failure to greet you properly upon your arrival…"

"Move aside." Zixiang's cold voice boomed from the Demon God Palace's external speakers.

The beautiful woman froze for a moment, then broke out in a cold sweat. Daring not to hesitate, she swiftly moved aside, bowing deeply, not daring to raise her head to look directly at the vessel.

The Demon God Palace ignored the young woman and proceeded directly to the spatial rift in the city's center. This rift was only about a thousand kilometers wide—far too small for the colossal Demon God Palace, which couldn't even fit one corner of the city within it.

Ye Chen looked towards Zixiang. "That opening isn't large enough; it won't fit at all. Do you have a solution?"

Zixiang chuckled mischievously. "Watch this." As she spoke, a purple light flashed in her clear eyes, and immediately, the Demon God Palace, which stood majestically in the sky, began to shrink rapidly. From tens of thousands of kilometers, it quickly contracted until it was only a few kilometers wide.

It had shrunk by a factor of more than ten thousand!

Watching the miniaturized Demon God Palace through the satellite imaging system, Ye Chen couldn't help but feel stunned. "How could it shrink so much?"

Zixiang giggled. "The Demon God Palace was forged by the former master using rare Spongy Metal, Memory Metal, and Zinc Meteorite Metal from the universe. Furthermore, it contains a parallel space inside. Changing its size isn't difficult. Even if the exterior shrinks, the interior space remains just as spacious as before."

Ye Chen was truly astounded. This was indeed the pinnacle technology from the era of the Great Sage Wars. While contemporary peak civilizations, pooling all their knowledge, might be able to construct such a marvel, the requisite resources were simply too vast.

At that moment—

Whoosh!

In the void behind them, the atmosphere began to churn violently, and a crushing pressure swept downward. Even before landing on the Emperor Star, the immense oppressive force caused the small flowers and plants to bend low.

An overwhelming, frigid aura, saturated with peerless malice, swept through, causing the very void to tremble slightly. The beautiful young woman standing nearby felt her pupils contract, and her body involuntarily began to shake uncontrollably.

A sharp, golden spearhead pierced through the atmosphere, its speed instantly dropping to sub-light speed. It was a bronze long spear tens of thousands of kilometers long, stained with ancient blood and exuding an aura of weathered antiquity. Standing proudly atop this spear was a figure shrouded in black mist, one hand resting behind his back, his face completely obscured.

The beautiful young woman’s heart hammered against her ribs, feeling as if the world had inverted. What was happening? Divine Emperors, beings rarely seen in peacetime, were appearing consecutively today!

"Not good!" Zixiang’s pretty face changed drastically. "They've caught up!"

"Hurry and enter," Ye Chen said gravely.

Without a second thought, Zixiang piloted the Demon God Palace hurtling toward the thousand-kilometer spatial rift, tearing through the air as she went, causing the clouds to boil and the pressure to bear down.

"Trying to escape?" The figure atop the bronze spear, his face masked by dark fog save for a pair of chillingly cold eyes, stared at the few-kilometer-wide Demon God Palace. Suddenly, he reached out a great hand, and the surrounding heaven and earth were instantly sealed. Even the city spanning ten million kilometers and the beautiful woman in the sky were frozen solid.

Motionless, they resembled wooden carvings.

In this domain, the flow of all time and space ceased; even thought halted.

Only the Demon God Palace continued its agonizingly slow descent toward the thousand-kilometer rift, its progress severely restricted, as if bound by countless invisible ropes pulling against it, preventing movement.

"Bastard!" Zixiang gritted her silver teeth. "All systems, engage propulsion and energy systems to maximum capacity!"

Hum~

The entire Demon God Palace shuddered slightly, and its forward momentum intensified slightly. Just as it seemed on the verge of reaching the thousand-kilometer rift, the figure in the black mist suddenly bit his finger and used the crimson blood to carve a complex, indecipherable glyph in the void. Terrifying energy pulsed from the markings.

"Explode for me!"

He suddenly grasped his hand, and the entire glyph detonated. The surrounding void instantly fractured, and even the beautiful young woman nearby saw her body tear apart, disintegrating into countless minute particles; she died without ever knowing how.

Below, in the city spanning ten million kilometers, every dark entity in humanoid form disintegrated, dissolving into countless energy particles drifting in the air.

Innumerable lives vanished in the blink of an eye…

These energy particles floated everywhere like fireflies, but the figure in the black mist gathered them with a sweep of his hand, drawing the torrent of energy particles toward him like a whale drinking water.

This scene was deeply shocking. As the countless energy particles drifted, they pulled out streaks of light that filled the entire scene, heavy with tragic desolation.

These energy particles slowly contracted and coalesced, finally molding themselves into a spear radiating a dazzling glow. It was about 9.9 meters long, perfectly smooth, devoid of any secret runes, yet it exuded an overwhelming, terrifying pressure.

"Shatter!"

The figure roared, lifting the spear and hurling it forward.

Wherever the pure white spear passed, the void was scored with black fissures that rippled like water waves as it descended from the heavens and slammed into the city wall of the Demon God Palace.

Bang bang bang…

The white spear pierced directly through the energy shield, penetrating like a needle, and drilled through the hard city wall, leaving a hole the size of a fist.

The white spear continued its trajectory, piercing through various buildings and avenues before plunging downward, hammering into the interior of the Demon God Palace.

Boom!

The white spear struck a chamber deep underground dedicated to precision instruments—a chamber housing a massive red heart, a thousand zhang in diameter, beating like a human organ.

The white spear struck it accurately, piercing the heart. A burst of electrical sparks erupted from the heart. The once bright crimson organ instantly stopped beating, and its light began to dim, radiating outward from the white spear as the epicenter.

"No!" Zixiang’s beautiful face paled dramatically. "The city defense system core has been destroyed!"

A fierce light flashed in Ye Chen’s eyes as he stared fixedly at the figure enveloped in black mist on the screen. He said to Zixiang in a low voice, "Record his aura!"

Zixiang nodded heavily, gritting her teeth. "I've already logged it into the core system. If this person appears within a thousand light-years of the Demon God Palace in the future, the system will automatically detect him!"