When Chen Du opened his eyes, he was greeted by the familiar darkness deep within Mount Tai.
He looked down at his hands; in his left palm rested a miniature prison, with gray-black stone walls, iron bars as thin as hair, and dense array patterns... Divine Prison.
He stored it deep within his consciousness, then stretched his shoulders and neck, hundreds of years later.
He had spent hundreds of years in the Heavenly Dragon Divine Dynasty, but on Blue Star, from entering the Divine Prison Realm to returning, it had only been about twenty days at most.
He closed his eyes and felt the surging power within his body: the Eleventh Realm Martial Law Master Realm, the first level of the Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth Domain, the second level of the Divine Prison Law, the ninth level of Wrath of Heaven, the ninth level of Wrath Devouring, and the ninth level of Soul Devouring's Wrath.
He slowly exhaled; this trip to the Divine Prison Realm had been worthwhile.
He walked out along that familiar path, and once he was out of the depths of Mount Tai, the world outside was completely different.
The sky was still the same sky, but the concentration of spiritual energy in the air was several times greater than when he left.
His Spiritual Power spread out, covering an area of tens of thousands of miles, expanding the area of Blue Star to an extremely exaggerated extent.
He roughly estimated that it was about ten thousand times larger than before, and the quality had also increased many times over.
The territory of the Xia Kingdom also expanded ten thousand times. Fortunately, the densely populated areas did not change much; the main expansion was in the famous mountains and rivers.
Mount Tai, Kunlun, Mount Song, and Mount Huang —each of them has been transformed into a colossal entity stretching for thousands of miles.
He stood on the outer edge of Mount Tai, looking at the mountain that pierced the clouds, and remained silent for a moment.
He found the nearest city and discreetly blended in.
The city is much larger than before, and the buildings are taller and denser, but most of the pedestrians on the street look hurried, with an inexplicable tension.
He found an internet cafe, turned on a computer, and started looking through the news from the past twenty days or so.
Life wasn't easy for humans on Blue Star. Although he had wiped out most of the Extraterrestrial Races and the Kema People fleet was gone, other forces in the universe had sensed the Spiritual Qi Revival on Blue Star, and new alien races were appearing from time to time.
Those top-tier evolvers, who fought their way to the Fourth Realm with a gamble of life and death, are already considered the most outstanding geniuses among humans.
However, compared to the ninth and Tenth Realms, the Fourth Realm is not even worth mentioning.
And news about him is everywhere.
Footage of his previous actions was repeatedly played; various versions of his killing of the Koma Starship, annihilation of Extraterrestrial Races, and destruction of War Behemoths circulated online.
Some call him "God," some call him "Savior," and some build temples and enshrine statues of him.
There are even rumors that any alien race would flee at the mere sight of him.
Chen Du stared at the posts in silence for a long time.
He thought about it briefly; it was an unavoidable result.
He didn't want to be a god, but he took action time and time again, always standing at the forefront, so humans naturally regarded him as their last resort.
He closed the webpage and leaned back in his chair.
But now that he's back, some things should be put into action.
Chen Du snorted coldly, got up from the internet cafe, and walked towards the outskirts of the city.
He spent a day scanning the entire Blue Star.
The Spiritual Power spread out like a tide, covering every inch of land, every ocean, and every expanded famous mountain and river.
A land area ten thousand times larger than his own was like an unfolded map in his mind's sea, with every aura, every anomaly, and every thing that shouldn't exist clearly emerging.
Just as he expected, those Extraterrestrial Races did not truly quiet down.
After the Kema People were wiped out, they were indeed peaceful for a while, but later they discovered that the Spiritual Qi Revival on Blue Star was recovering more and more rapidly and that resources were becoming more and more abundant, so they couldn't resist going back to their old ways.
However, they have learned their lesson and no longer operate as openly as before. Instead, they infiltrate in small, quiet ways.
Some disguised themselves as humans and infiltrated the city;
Some hid deep in the mountains and forests, establishing secret strongholds;
Some even burrowed deep underground, secretly cultivating using the newly formed spiritual veins that appeared after the expansion of Blue Star.
They dare not be as arrogant as before, but they are slowly encroaching on this land.
Chen Du stood atop a hill, looking down at the newly expanded, enormous forest below.
Deep in the forest, he sensed the auras of at least three Extraterrestrial Races... Seventh Tier.
Compared to human evolved beings, Seventh Tier is enough to sweep through a city.
But in his eyes, they weren't even ants.
In a single day, he traveled to every corner of the Blue Star.
In the southern seas, deep within the seabed's spiritual veins, lies a nest of extraterrestrial aquatic creatures.
Inside a newly formed iceberg on the northern ice plains, a group of alien races is quietly multiplying.
Near the Blue Star, in deep space.
A fleet hovered silently in the void, its hulls pitch black, covered with layers of dark armor. There were no portholes, no lights, like a group of giant beasts Lie Dormant in the deep sea.
The fleet consisted of thirteen starships, each several times larger than the Kema People's vanguard ship.
At the heart of this fleet, on a flagship the size of a small satellite, a dozen auras were gathering in a spacious command cabin... Ninth Tier.
Each one was at the Ninth Tier, but the aura of the one sitting at the very top was as steady as an abyss and as deep as the sea... at the Tenth Tier.
The leader was a humanoid being covered in dark gold scales, his face hidden in the shadow of his helmet, with only a pair of dark red eyes that flickered slowly in the darkness.
"Blue Star," the leader began, his voice low and hoarse, "Has expanded ten thousandfold since the Spiritual Qi Revival, its resources are outrageously abundant. The Kema People were wiped out. I speculate that the entire home planet was erased from the universe by that person Chen Du. There are indeed some strange things going on here."
"Does the leader mean that the human Chen Du is really that strong?" a Ninth Tier warrior asked in a deep voice.
"Strong?" The chieftain sneered. "Of course he's strong. But why do you think he's strong? A native, in just a few dozen days after the Spiritual Qi Revival, climbed from the First Tier to a level capable of destroying the Kema People's home planet. Do you think that's normal?"
There was a moment of silence in the command center.
The dozen or so Ninth Tier warriors exchanged glances, their eyes gleaming with something... greed.
"The leader is saying there's an incredible opportunity on Blue Star."
"Not bad." The leader slowly stood up, his dark golden scales gleaming coldly in the dim light of the cabin. "He must have found some ancient inheritance, or mastered some cultivation method far surpassing the level of Blue Star civilization."
And why should these things belong to only one native? We set out hundreds of years earlier than him, and we are many times stronger than him. If he can get them, why can't we?"
"But he's already wiped out the Kema People," a Ninth Tier warrior whispered. "If we confront them head-on, I'm afraid..."
"Who said we should confront them head-on?" The leader shook his head, his tone cold. "The humans of Blue Star are nothing but ants who can't even break through to the Fourth Tier. Our goal is not to fight them, but to control them, enslave them, and make them dig out every inch of Blue Star's resources for us, and find out the secret that Chen Du is hiding."