Completion
This simple question, like a drop of ice water falling into boiling oil, created ripples of absurdity in the deathly silent hall of the lair.
Gao Peng... All the proud sons of heaven who formed the hundred-man allied army were now Divine Soul to the spot by the terrifying pressure of the Queen Mother. Not to mention moving a finger, even the operation of their thoughts became extremely sluggish, as if they were trapped in ten thousand years of mysterious ice.
They could only stare wide-eyed at the bloodshot figure, in which the figure of a seven or eight-year-old child and the hundred-meter-tall dark gold Mother Queen formed an extremely distorted and illogical picture.
"Hiss!!"
Chen Fan's almost blasphemous act finally ignited the Locust Devourer Queen's fury.
Its massive body shuddered violently, and a sharp screech, powerful enough to tear the Divine Soul of the Golden Body Realm expert to shreds on the spot, transformed into an invisible storm of destruction that swept across the entire hall!
Buzz!
The hundred-strong coalition that was at the forefront of the attack felt as if they had been struck hard on the head by an invisible giant hammer.
Divine Soul pain was excruciating, and their consciousness felt as if it were being pierced by countless steel needles. Many of the more weak-willed Prodigies bled from all seven orifices on the spot, and their eyes instantly became unfocused. If it weren't for the power of the Battle Formation that barely kept them afloat, they would probably have been annihilated on the spot.
However, a bizarre scene unfolded.
The destructive Mental Storm, when it reached within three feet of Chen Fan, vanished silently, like spring snow meeting the blazing sun or a clay ox entering the sea.
Chen Fan, standing at the very center of the storm, merely frowned slightly.
He hates noise.
Apart from that, not only was he not injured, but not even a single hair on his head was disturbed by the wind.
When the attack failed, a hint of surprise or doubt appeared for the first time in the Queen Mother's huge, scarlet compound eyes.
It seemed to finally realize that the tiny human child before it was not an ant that could be crushed at will.
It abandoned its futile psychological attacks.
The next instant, the enormous body, over a hundred meters long, suddenly contracted, transforming into a pure, dark golden Stream of Light. Its carapace rubbed against the space, producing a teeth-grinding, ear-piercing sound, carrying a pure force capable of turning a small planet into Cosmic Dust, as it crashed headlong into Chen Fan!
This strike was the pinnacle of power and speed!
It's over!
Gazing at the destructive Stream of Light that tore through their vision, only these two cold words remained in the hearts of all the Prodigies.
They couldn't imagine that any Golden Body Realm in this world could withstand such a terrifying impact head-on.
However, faced with this devastating attack, Chen Fan didn't even bother to turn around.
Under the gazes of all the Prodigies, a mixture of shock, fear, and even a hint of numbness, he simply turned his back to the stream of destructive Stream of Light, as if what was approaching from behind was not an impending catastrophe, but rather a trivial breeze.
He casually raised his right hand, hovering it in mid-air.
A gentle squeeze.
"..."
Time seemed to have been forcibly paused at that moment.
Space itself seemed to have been completely frozen by an invisible divine hand.
The unstoppable Stream of Light dark golden light came to an abrupt halt less than a meter from Chen Fan's back.
Then, in an absolute silence that sent Divine Soul down one's spine.
The Queen Mother's enormous and sturdy body, capable of withstanding a bombardment of supernatural powers, was gradually annihilated, starting from her head... inch by inch.
There was no earth-shattering explosion, no light or shadow shattering the laws of nature.
It's like a pixel being erased from a painting; its existence is being fundamentally "deleted" from this world.
From its indestructible dark gold shell to its flesh and blood brimming with terrifying energy, and finally to its proud Divine Soul...
Everything, in that silent annihilation, transformed into the most primordial Stream of Light of particles, and then returned to nothingness.
After the enormous Queen Mother completely vanished into thin air, only a fist-sized Life Core remained, shimmering with a dark golden luster, as if containing the very fabric of Life and Death and death within it, slowly rotating...
With a casual gesture, Chen Fan made the core appear directly in his palm, ignoring spatial distance.
He weighed it in his hand.
A hint of satisfaction finally appeared on his face as he muttered to himself:
"Hmm, this one's alright, it should burn for a while."
Is this considered the main course?
It seems... it's just so-so.
After he finished speaking, he finally turned around and looked at the group of Prodigies who had long since turned into stone statues.
Gao Peng, the leader of the New Martial Arts School...
Nearly a hundred brilliant talents, each shining brightly in their own world, now seemed like puppets whose souls had been ripped out.
There was no fear, no shock, not even despair on their faces.
Only blank space remains.
Chen Fan's gaze swept over their empty eyes without lingering.
He put away the precious Mother Empress Core, his figure flickered slightly, and prepared to leave this place that he found somewhat boring.
Just as he was about to disappear, a light, airy voice, as if simply stating a fact, echoed softly in the empty, deathly silent hall.
"Mission accomplished, I'm going back to gather firewood."
As the words faded, Chen Fan's figure also disappeared.
In the center of the vast lair, only deathly silence remained, along with nearly a hundred sculptures that seemed to have had their souls ripped out.
I don't know how much time passed; perhaps it was a moment, or perhaps a century.
Buzz!!
A soft beam of teleportation light shone in the center of the hall, illuminating this desolate place.
The Starship leader Lei Ao, revealed his cold, hard face.
He looked around, his brows furrowing instantly.
There was no fierce battle as I had imagined, no broken walls and ruins as I had expected, and not even the corpse of a Devouring Locusts could be seen.
Only the empty throne of the Queen Mother remained, and beneath it, a group of proud sons of heaven with vacant eyes and listless spirits, as if they had been completely ruined.
Gao Peng, the leader of the New Martial Arts School... each of them remained motionless in a dazed posture, as if their Divine Souls had left their bodies.
Lei Ao's heart skipped a beat, and an absurd premonition surged into his mind.
He immediately raised his hand and brought up the mission Light Screen.
The Light Screen lit up, and at the very top, a line of large, glaring scarlet characters was clearly visible.
[Task Status: Completed]
[Task Rating: SSS+]
Lei Ao's pupils suddenly contracted, and his gaze instinctively shifted to the contribution rankings.
He only glanced at it, but the corners of his perpetually taut lips twitched involuntarily.
Top of the list.
[Life School - Chen Fan: 9999...]
A long string of numbers exceeded the display limit of the Light Screen and could only be replaced by a series of "9"s and ellipses.
Below him, the second-ranked Gao Peng, and the total contribution points of his hundred-man allied army, combined, were less than one percent of the astronomical figure at the top.
"Drop!"
"Mission completed. All loot has been automatically distributed according to contribution points."
The system's cold, mechanical notification sound echoed in the deathly silent hall, like a final judgment.
Lei Ao looked at the group of still dejected Prodigies and sighed silently.
He knew that after this mission, it was hard to say how much of their Martial Dao spirit would remain.
He waved his hand, and a beam of teleportation enveloped the utterly defeated group of survivors, sending them back to the Starship.
Inner demons can sometimes be more terrifying than any enemy.