She crashed heavily to the ground, blood gushing from her mouth, yet her gaze remained resolute.
"I... bought Luofu some time, didn't I?" That was Feixiao's final thought.
Her body gradually grew cold, but her eyes still looked into the distance, as though she saw something.
You looked at the fallen Feixiao without the slightest change in expression, merely spitting out a few cold words: "Too weak."
Just as you had expected, a Hunt Envoy simply could not contend with Destruction.
Soon, rumbling thunder echoed from the distant sky. A massive Xianzhou fleet arrived, and more Xianzhou generals descended upon Luofu with elite Cloud Knights.
But by then, your objective had long since been achieved.
You no longer lingered in battle, instead turning toward the depths of the Jianmu—the Stellaron you had smuggled in earlier was still there.
The Jianmu had already grown incomparably lush, its branches and leaves nearly blotting out the sky.
You walked to the very core of the Jianmu's roots. There, a Stellaron emitting an eerie golden glow was entwined with the Jianmu, supplying it with an endless stream of energy.
You reached out and yanked with all your strength, forcibly tearing that Stellaron away from the Jianmu.
Without the Stellaron's support, the Jianmu instantly withered. Its enormous crown rapidly decayed into rotten wood.
You studied the Stellaron in your hand for a while, a satisfied expression appearing on your face. "How beautiful."
The next second.
You suddenly plunged your other hand into your chest!
Your body trembled violently, and pain twisted your face, yet your eyes carried a sickly pleasure.
From your chest, you pulled out an almost transparent sphere with golden light glimmering along its edges—this was the Stellaron within your body!
You smiled.
After thousands of years, the time for revenge had finally come.
You held a Stellaron in each hand. The power of Destruction spilled from both palms, wrapping around the two Stellarons.
The two Stellarons began drawing in power, then unexpectedly started to resonate...
You clenched the two Stellarons in your hands.
White and golden light burst forth from within them!
The surrounding space twisted and warped violently, like crumpled paper!
Two cosmic torrents collided fiercely, unleashing a silent roar. That pure power was enough to reduce anything to nothing in an instant!
Centered on you, this destruction compressed in an instant, then spread outward like an out-of-control supernova!
Everything in its path was erased, leaving not the slightest trace behind.
The Yaoqing Xianzhou fleet had just warped to the vicinity of Luofu when the Cloud Knights watched in horror as a blinding white light rose from Luofu's direction.
Then, that white light rapidly expanded outward, devouring everything in sight.
The Luofu Xianzhou, that colossal vessel that had sailed the sea of stars for thousands of years, turned to dust in that instant and vanished from the universe.
In the place where it had once been, a black hole appeared, expanding at an astonishing speed.
The black hole's pull spread in an instant, swallowing nearby meteor streams and the Xianzhou warships attempting to approach and provide support.
The Astral Express was ruthlessly torn apart and crushed by the gravity the instant the black hole formed, then completely annihilated in the white light, along with every member aboard.
The commanders of several nearby Xianzhou ships were utterly horrified. Having never seen such a dreadful sight, they immediately gave the order to warp away.
However, the destructive shockwave triggered by the mutual annihilation of the Stellarons was even faster!
It caught up to those Xianzhou ships trying to escape.
The Xianzhou shields were as thin as paper before the shockwave and were instantly shattered.
Destruction swept across the entire hulls. The massive Xianzhou ships broke apart in the sea of stars, exploded, and became countless fragments.
Observatories several light-years away recorded an anomaly in the star region where Luofu was located at the same time.
A terrifying flash of light passed by, and then Luofu's position was replaced by an ever-expanding black hole.
The Luofu Xianzhou, along with the Yaoging and Zhuming Xianzhou ships that had come to reinforce it, were completely destroyed the instant the disaster struck.
The upper ranks of the Xianzhou Alliance received the disaster report and were incomparably shocked to learn that three Xianzhou ships had been wiped out in an instant.
At first, they did not even understand what had caused a disaster on such a scale.
Only days later, after analyzing the remaining energy, did they determine that it had been the power released by two Stellarons annihilating each other. The coordinates where the Luofu Xianzhou had been located, the surrounding planets, and everything else had been instantly destroyed, forming a gigantic black hole.
And the culprit behind all of this was undoubtedly the Lord of Ruin—Phantylia!
By her own strength alone, she had destroyed nearly half of the Xianzhou Alliance's Xianzhou ships!
Astral Express Crew wiped out again! Villain Points +1000!
Three Xianzhou ships destroyed! Villain Points +1000!
The Path of the Hunt was founded upon vengeance. The Xianzhou Alliance and the Lord of Ruin had become mortal enemies who would not rest until one side was dead.
The Xianzhou Marshal swore that the Hunt's arrow would surely be aimed at Phantylia, the true culprit who had brought destruction!
Soon, the Xianzhou Alliance issued its highest bounty and put out a universe-wide warrant for you.
Yet at that very moment, you were leisurely vacationing on a remote planet, planning to destroy the planet before leaving.
The moment Luofu was destroyed, your body was naturally the first thing to be swallowed.
But your Flames of Suyang would not disperse so easily.
The destructive energy from the Stellaron explosion and the black hole swallowed everything, including you at the very center.
However, your true body—that cluster of Flames of Suyang—did not completely go out. It shrank to the utmost limit, becoming a faint flame.
That weak flame was caught by the gravity at the edge of the black hole.
Then it was swept into a suddenly appearing spatial rift.
The other side of the spatial rift was actually the War Furnace, a place you knew all too well.
You entered the furnace once again.
Unlike the last time, when you had fought to survive, this time your Flames of Suyang were exceptionally compatible with the furnace's environment, as though they had returned to their mother's embrace.
The destructive energy filling the furnace not only failed to harm you, but instead became the most perfect nourishment for the Flames of Suyang, allowing them to gradually grow stronger.
Deep within the furnace, a great will descended.
It was the gaze of Nanook, the Aeon of Destruction.
Nanook saw the cosmic-scale destruction you had unleashed upon Luofu and witnessed your feat of destroying three Xianzhou ships by yourself.
He was pleased by such pure, absolute destruction and bestowed greater power upon you.
The Flames of Suyang flickered ceaselessly, becoming more solid and terrifying than ever before.
At this moment, you had surpassed your former self and become the strongest among the Lords of Ruin.
As the Flames of Suyang reassembled, you sensed a familiar, compatible presence—it was Stelle's body.
Stelle's body seemed to have fused into your Flames of Suyang, becoming the perfect vessel for you to rebuild yourself.
Then, you effortlessly reshaped Stelle's body.
You stood deep within the War Furnace, moving this familiar body.
It was still the form of a young girl, with gray hair and golden eyes.
You descended upon the universe once more in Stelle's appearance.
At the age of 6,420, in Star Calendar 8120.
Not long afterward, the Xianzhou Alliance, reduced to only half its former strength, launched a final battle against you and several other Lords of Ruin you had gathered.
The greatly weakened Xianzhou were utterly incapable of withstanding the Lords of Ruin's combined assault.
Even with the Hunt's aid, firing those devastating arrows, the Lords of Ruin only grew more frenzied when faced with approaching death!
In the end, the side of Destruction paid the price of two Lords of Ruin and dealt the Xianzhou a crushing defeat.
One Xianzhou ship after another was destroyed, and despair resounded across the sea of stars.
You stood atop the wreckage of a starship, watching the Xianzhou civilization slowly move toward its end at your hands.
What rose in your heart was incomparable satisfaction—the thrill of hatred accumulated over a thousand years finally burning itself out.
In the end, the last Xianzhou ship turned to ashes in the flames of Destruction.
The Xianzhou Alliance, that once-glorious civilization that had imprisoned you for a thousand years, completely vanished from the universe.
Xianzhou destroyed, revenge successful! Villain Points +1000!
From then on, there were no more threats in the universe.
The forces of Destruction swept across the cosmos.
Under Nanook's will, the universe marched inexorably toward The Finality.
Wearing Stelle's body, you watched all of it with cold indifference.
Star systems collapsed amid distortion. Time stagnated, and space shattered like broken glass.
All life, all civilizations, all existence returned to nothingness beneath that immense power.
In the end, even the Lords of Ruin themselves could not escape the fate of being erased.
At the final moment before the universe returned to chaos, your consciousness was mercilessly erased completely.
You fell into endless darkness.
Who knew how much time had passed.
Perhaps it had only been the blink of an eye, or perhaps hundreds of millions of years.
Your consciousness gradually awakened.
You sensed yourself lying in something soft, surrounded by a long-lost peace and warmth.
Everything around you seemed so tranquil.
You slowly opened your eyes.
What met your gaze was an unfamiliar room.
You sat up and discovered that you were lying on a soft bed.
Your body... was actually the body named Jiang Mo.
The door was gently pushed open.
A figure walked in.
It was a gray-haired, golden-eyed girl.
Her face carried the same airheaded yet pure smile from your memories.
"You're awake!" The girl pounced to the bedside and shouted in that carefree voice.
Her eyes were filled with the love and dependence uniquely reserved for you, the kind you had seen before.
You looked at Stelle before you.
She was still as airheaded and adorable as ever. Everything felt like those days aboard the Astral Express.
But this time, you could sense that the feelings in her eyes for you were so pure.
And within your own heart, an indescribable feeling seemed to surface as well.
You raised a hand and gently touched Stelle's cheek.
The sensation was so real, carrying the warmth of living flesh.
"What is this... Did that guy Aha set me up? An illusion, or... a dream?"
Stelle tilted her head in confusion.
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