Slaying, Encountering Star Pirates

"Brat, you forced my hand. Die!"

The guardian roared, and his Divine Core suddenly erupted with blinding light. The ice-water laws around him ran wild, plunging the temperature within a thousand miles to Absolute Zero. Even light itself began to freeze.

Hua Qiang's pupils contracted. He could sense a destructive power gathering—this was the sign of a Dome Universe Realm expert burning his origin to self-destruct.

"Want to self-destruct? Did you ask me?"

The ripples of time beneath Hua Qiang's feet suddenly expanded. He turned into a streak of golden light and charged at the guardian several times faster than before.

At some point, a longsword had appeared in his hand, dark red throughout yet streaked with gold. A crimson aura that devoured light flowed across its blade.

It was the Dao Sword, his bonded weapon that had accompanied him in slaughtering countless powerful enemies before being reforged.

The guardian's self-destruction had reached a critical moment and could not be stopped. He could only watch helplessly as Hua Qiang's sword light drew closer and closer.

The Dao Sword tore through the void with the force to rip apart planar barriers. In the instant before the guardian's Divine Core fully erupted, it precisely slashed across his neck.

Splat!

The silver helmet fell to the ground. His head, filled with unwillingness and disbelief, tumbled through the void, while the blue blood spraying from his neck instantly froze into ice crystals.

The Divine Core that had been about to erupt lost its master's control and eventually dissolved into countless motes of light across the starry sky.

Leaning on the Dao Sword, Hua Qiang panted for a moment as he watched the guardian's corpse slowly drift away. A flash of delight crossed his eyes.

Another batch of Slaughter Points had arrived.

He turned toward