As Star Monsters lunged at him in wave after wave, Gu Qijue remained fierce and unstoppable.
A dragon sword in his left hand, a dragon spear in his right.
He danced on the edge of a blade, blasting apart one Star Monster after another as they rushed him.
Falling from over a thousand meters in the air, even these Star Monsters, each at least Seventh Order, either broke their limbs on impact or died on the spot.
Tens of thousands of Star Monsters were now attacking Gu Qijue, raining down like a storm.
Yet every monster that came near him was viciously cleaved apart.
By now, Gu Qijue's body and the Twin Dragons on his back were covered in bloodied wounds.
He could find purchase in midair. The monsters couldn't. They were simply courting death.
In the Hidden Dragon Empire's foreign livestream rooms, tens of millions of viewers watched him stride on thunderbolts, darting left and right high above the ground, fierce and unstoppable. They were all utterly stunned.
"This Dragon Person is so fierce!"
"Oh my God, is that the Thunder God?"
"Is he human or a dragon?"
"Whoa! He can actually fight his way out?"
"What are those monsters? They look terrifying."
"Walking on air... how is he doing that?"
Wave after wave of utterly stunned comments flooded the screen. With them on, it was impossible to see the footage.
Tens of millions of viewers, both in the Hidden Dragon Empire and abroad, had never seen anyone so fierce and unstoppable.
No—the viewers in the Hidden Dragon Empire had seen videos of President Chu in action. Those scenes had been just as explosive.
"Why has this guy gotten so strong?"
At Emperor Abyss Group in Shangdu, Chu Yuan and the others had already returned. They stared at the satellite-projected footage before them, so stunned they could barely speak.
"With strength like that, he must be infinitely close to a Great Grandmaster. How did he evolve so quickly?"
The Palace Dress Beauty from Dragon Cloud Mountain could hardly believe her eyes.
They'd only been apart for a few short hours!
They had harvested all the more than one hundred thousand fruits from the Star Absorbing Tree in Shangdu.
It had gone smoothly. Nothing like what had happened in Yun City had occurred—the fruits hadn't turned into those terrifying Star Monsters.
Even through a screen, their keen eyes could tell how powerful those monsters were.
Not only were they strong, there were so many of them.
Snow Bear Empire, War God Group.
Watching the livestream from Yun City, Oroska's pupils contracted slightly. "Is that being human or a dragon?"
He was the president of the War God Group's hall in the Snow Bear Empire. He wasn't a Super Martial Artist or an Ancient Martial Artist. He had broken through the limits of the human body, and his strength rivaled that of a Great Grandmaster.
The members of the War God Group in the Snow Bear Empire were all like him. They had pushed their bodies beyond their limits and were every bit as powerful as the Ancient Martial Artists of the East, or the vampires and werewolves of the West.
"What a terrifying being. He's suffered such severe injuries, yet he's still fighting so fiercely. It's unbelievable."
The vice president's sexy lips parted slightly in shock.
She was a graceful, voluptuous, and alluring mature woman.
Gu Qijue was covered in wounds, yet his fighting strength hadn't diminished at all.
Thunder coiled around him, roaring like one raging dragon after another.
He darted left and right, invincible and fierce.
In her eyes, he was practically an Undying War God.
"Why has such a towering tree appeared in the Hidden Dragon Empire? It's completely different from the ones on our side."
Oroska was baffled. "And how can it produce such powerful monsters? What's going on?"
The vice president, Huolin Nana, shook her head. "This may not be a good thing. Those Star Fruits might be better than ours, but the Star Monsters are not easy to deal with."
Anyone with a discerning eye could tell how powerful those monsters were.
What shocked them most was that Gu Qijue could still fight his way out through the assault of so many terrifying monsters.
Splurt! Boom, boom—
Fighting through a river of blood, Gu Qijue swept his dragon spear like a black dragon bursting from its lair, knocking aside the last dozen or so Star Monsters. At last, he escaped the area covered by the Star Absorbing Tree.
Whoosh!
Gu Qijue's white hair was stained with the gray-green blood of the Star Monsters. With lightning beneath his feet, he stood outside the Star Absorbing Tree and let out a long breath.
Six-tenths of the Dragon Scales covering his body had been shattered, leaving bloody wounds in their place.
The Twin Dragons on his back were badly wounded too, but their eyes were still savage as they stared fixedly at the Star Absorbing Tree.
Tens of thousands of Star Monsters lay dead on the ground below.
Roar! Roar! Roar—
The tens of thousands of Star Monsters that had fallen from the tree glared at Gu Qijue with their green, solitary eyes and let out deafening roars.
They couldn't fly, so all they could do was howl helplessly before surging toward the base of the tree to eat the shriveled corpses.
Once every Star Monster on this Star Absorbing Tree had fallen, it began growing new monsters directly.
One Star Monster after another visibly grew into being.
At the top of the tree, a King of Monsters slowly began to grow.
Its growth was slow, but its aura was incomparably powerful.
The sight left Gu Qijue secretly alarmed.
Seeing that Ji Shang and the others had already gotten far away, Gu Qijue didn't linger. He headed for the Yun City shelter as fast as he could, striding through the air.
"How can there be so many Star Trees..."
A moment later, as Gu Qijue looked down from the sky, he finally spotted one hundred-meter-tall Star Tree after another, each growing batches of Star Monsters.
Gu Qijue soon caught up with White Fox and the others, finding them locked in battle with a group of Star Monsters.
These Star Monsters, however, were nowhere near as terrifying as the ones Gu Qijue had encountered earlier.
The several hundred Star Monsters were completely helpless against the assault of more than three thousand Super Martial Artists. In just a moment, they had been wiped out.
The Star Monsters growing from the other Star Absorbing Trees were currently around Second or Third Order. Fourth Order ones were rare, and only a few had reached Fifth Order. They were nothing like the main tree's monsters, all of which were Seventh Order and had combat strength comparable to Calamity-tier beings. It was outrageous; otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to wound Gu Qijue.
But before Gu Qijue left, he hadn't seen them pursue him. Instead, they had been crouched around the main tree as if guarding it.
Gu Qijue remembered how things had been in his previous life, eight years later.
Star Trees like these hadn't appeared until the third year, and even then, none had been as massive as the one in Yun City.
Which part of the chain of events had gone wrong?
Was it really just because he had killed Mu Qingxue?
He shook his head. He would deal with whatever came, and meet the soldiers with the generals. Gu Qijue streaked through the air and descended toward White Fox and the others.
By now, he had returned to his normal state. The wounds on his body visibly healed. That was the dragon's body, with its extraordinary healing ability.
"Boss!"
When Gu Qijue arrived, everyone rushed over to greet him, their faces alight with fervor and admiration.
Gu Qijue gave a slight nod. "This place isn't safe. Let's get back to the shelter first. We harvested quite a few Star Fruits this time. I'll distribute them once we're back."
"Yes!"
The crowd followed close behind him in a great procession.
In their eyes, Gu Qijue's figure had become truly towering and imposing.
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