Tang Chuan lay on the sofa, breathing steadily.
Whether it was something happening in his dream or his body sensing something, he furrowed his brow slightly and turned over.
The faint indentation marks on the carpet paused.
Only when Tang Chuan's breathing stabilized again did it press closer to him step by step.
Arriving before the sofa, the transparent entity revealed its illusory form.
A monster.
From a human perspective, this was an undeniable humanoid monster.
Its body was about two meters tall, with stone-blue blocky muscles covering it like scales.
Behind it were three pairs of rhombic fleshy wings of varying sizes. The wings weren't large and didn't seem to be for flight. They were covered with circular protrusions arranged in a certain pattern, like tungsten filament bulbs, emitting a faint bioluminescence.
It lacked human facial features, its face like a biological mask. There were two slits where the eyes would be, extending to the sides of its head, also emitting a faint, constantly shifting fluorescence.
On its forehead, there was a vertical eye, but this vertical eye was fused with its forehead, like a cinnabar pattern drawn with a red brush.
If not observed closely, one would only think it was a pattern similar to a tattoo, not an eye.
The Star Hunter, which had plunged this planet into terror, finally revealed its true face.
The person on the sofa was its final prey!
As long as it hunted this person, it would win this assessment, be officially crowned, and receive a reward of cells from the seventh sequence or higher based on its score, completing its second stage of devouring evolution and advancing to an intermediate Star Hunter.
However, it didn't seem to want to simply eliminate the prey before it.
The opponent's mocking taunts before the assessment still echoed in its ears.
It hesitated for a moment, made a decision, and chose to knock out the prey before it, return to the spaceship, and eliminate the prey before the opponent achieved the final objective, inflicting despair upon that waste!
It raised its sharp, metallic palm, but before it could strike, in an instant, the Star Hunter vanished without a trace, entering invisibility, its entire body tense.
"Chiloo~"
"Chiloo-chiloo~"
Releasing its invisibility, it turned out to be just a false alarm. The Star Hunter saw the alien pet in the corner, resembling an octopus tentacle, and breathed a sigh of relief.
It had been too careless, failing to notice there was another pet in the room.
At this moment, Tang Chuan, with a furrowed brow, mumbled as if in a dream, "Chiloo, shut up, go play somewhere else..."
Chiloo let out a wronged "plop" and drooped to the floor.
The Star Hunter shook its head, thought nothing more of it, raised its hand, and delivered a palm strike to Tang Chuan's neck!
Bang!
"Aargh!"
Tang Chuan, sleeping soundly, felt a sharp pain and instinctively clutched his neck, leaping up from the sofa!
Seeing him leap three to four meters high, the Star Hunter was stunned.
Without hesitation, the circular bulbs on its fleshy wings lit up, and it lunged at the unsteady Tang Chuan as he landed!
Tang Chuan's vision blurred, but his body reacted instinctively. He dodged to the side, evading the Star Hunter's heart-grabbing claw.
As their figures crossed, he finally got a clear look at the alien creature's appearance.
Reacting, Tang Chuan delivered a knee strike that sent the Star Hunter flying. He raised his leg high and stomped the Star Hunter under his foot!
Boom!
The ground cracked, and a surge of energy swept out.
"You ambushed me, you're finished!"
The Star Hunter, disoriented from being stomped on the ground, exclaimed in shock, "Kuka?!"
"Your grandma! Die for me!"
Bang bang bang!
With that, he raised his foot and began stomping relentlessly on the Star Hunter's face!
Crack crack...
The Star Hunter's steel-like cheeks were cracked by Tang Chuan's stomping, and the bioluminescence from its three pairs of fleshy wings flickered erratically.
It tried to resist, but Tang Chuan grabbed it and unleashed a flurry of punches, then brutally tore off its largest pair of fleshy wings, splattering pale blue, milk-like blood all over the ground.
"Kuka! Impossible, who are you?!" the Star Hunter spat blood, shocked.
"Who I am is none of your business. You hurt me badly," Tang Chuan said, clutching his neck and tilting his head.
With a wave of his hand, he controlled his Fantasy Weapon, which transformed into iron hoops that bound the struggling Star Hunter to the ground.
Tang Chuan summoned Quintessa and said, "You can't play like this. You said you wouldn't warn me if there was no danger, but they attacked me, and you still didn't warn me."
After speaking, he picked up Chiloo from the ground and flicked its head twice, saying irritably, "And you, you saw them attacking me, why didn't you warn me?"
"Chiloo..."
Chiloo felt very wronged. I warned you!
You told me to shut up!
Quintessa apologized, "I'm sorry, Master. I acted on my own. The Star Hunter, having only undergone the first stage of evolution, posed absolutely no threat to you. After obtaining the permission you granted, I wanted to help you adapt to some of the rules of the Main Universe. Please forgive me."
Tang Chuan was speechless. "It's all a trap. Next time, you must remind me, even if there's no danger!"
Seeing that her master wasn't blaming her, Quintessa nodded sweetly and said, "Understood!"
Tang Chuan tossed Chiloo aside and finally took a good look at the Star Hunter. "His design is quite cool, but why is he so lacking in knightly spirit? Attacking by surprise? Don't you value hunter's honor the most?"
The Star Hunter, who was restrained on the ground, managed to sit up and said solemnly, "You are a worthy opponent. Let me duel you again! Kuka!"
Tang Chuan tapped his head, producing a "bang bang" sound like hitting metal. "If you're not going to beg for mercy, don't expect me to let you go and fight me again. Do I look like... a fool, Kuka?"
Just like with the Heckarians, the moment the Star Hunter spoke, Tang Chuan instantly understood his language.
As for the word "Kuka," it had many meanings in the Star Hunter civilization.
It was roughly equivalent to words like "dude," "damn," and "this guy" on Azure Star. Different intonations represented different meanings, and it could be used in many contexts in their language.
The Star Hunter hadn't expected to be defeated by his last prey, and the opponent's mockery still echoed in his ears.
As if making a firm decision, he said, "Please let me go. I, I am willing to pay a great price!"
Before Tang Chuan could speak, Quintessa suddenly chimed in, "Master, something has happened on Kubana's end. Let's throw him onto a barren planet in the Origin Universe for now and decide what to do with him later."
Upon hearing this, Tang Chuan didn't hesitate. He directly connected to the Divine Transformation Device and, to the Star Hunter's shocked gaze, teleported him to a barren planet in the Origin Universe. He also flung the torn wing back into the Star Hunter's face and released the Fantasy Shackles.
On the vast, barren planet, cosmic particles shone on the Star Hunter through the unformed atmosphere.
He was plunged into deep confusion.
I've been exiled?
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