As soon as Jiang Ming began fighting, the nearest Yanjing Base City and the base city of Great Mao detected the energy fluctuations.
Base cities across the globe were extremely sensitive to energy fluctuations above King-class. The moment they detected them, they used satellites to locate the source.
At that moment, within Yanjing Base City.
Beep beep beep!
Scarlet red alerts appeared across every screen. All the staff stared blankly at the enormous mushroom cloud displayed before them.
Looking at the fluctuating energy readings on the screen and the peak they had reached, everyone felt a sense of dread.
"Investigate! Contact the War God Palace! Contact every Chinese Councillor! Head to the Zhaluoluo Nuclear Power Plant and investigate!
China's rising star will never perish so easily!"
Jia Yi's voice had lost its usual steadiness. Anyone present could hear the urgency in his words.
Yet no one found it surprising.
Jiang Ming!
This man, who had risen like a comet, had burst onto the scene at an incomparably dazzling pace.
The moment he became a martial artist, he had swept through the practical martial artist examination with the physical attributes of a War General!
He had completed the War God Training Camp in a single month!
He had become the world's youngest War God!
Now, barely a month after graduating from the War God Training Camp, he had fought the veteran King-class monster, the Demon Lizard King!
That meant his strength had already surpassed the War God level!
At such an age!
With such strength!
Everyone who had ever followed Jiang Ming was utterly stunned!
Even as they watched the mushroom cloud hanging sixty kilometers above the ground, everyone still harbored a desperate hope!
That man who shone like the sun would never die so easily!
The same scene continued to unfold in major base cities around the world.
Seeing Jiang Ming caught within that terrifying explosion, some grieved, some regretted it, some were thrilled, and some were inspired. Humanity revealed all its countless faces.
Yet without exception, they all dispatched King-class fighter jets toward the Zhaluoluo Nuclear Power Plant.
Though that terrifying explosion was powerful, it could not possibly have annihilated every trace of a King-class monster.
The Demon Lizard King might still have left behind some extremely valuable remains!
Twenty-two King-class fighter jets arrived at the Zhaluoluo Nuclear Power Plant one after another. Councillor Experts standing at Earth's peak descended from them.
Yet no one dared venture directly into the heart of the explosion.
Not because of the blast's core region, which still radiated terrifying heat.
But because of one man—a man in black.
He simply stood there, yet his invisible aura pressed the Councillors behind him so hard that none dared speak or step forward.
They all stood silently behind him like frightened quails.
At that moment, these Councillors who stood at the pinnacle of humanity on Earth looked like elementary school students facing their homeroom teacher. None even dared breathe loudly.
Not until another King-class fighter jet arrived, and a bald young man flew from it to the side of the man in black.
"Big Brother, what about Jiang Ming?"
Thor had rushed over the moment he received the news. However, he had been cultivating in the wilderness at the time, so he received it a little late.
Jiang Ming's sudden rise had not shocked merely one or two people, but Experts throughout the world.
Both Thor and Hong had been watching his growth. When Jiang Ming graduated from the Elite Training Camp, the two had even made a special trip to meet him.
Yet neither of them had expected Jiang Ming to grow so quickly.
Barely a month after graduating from the War God Training Camp, he already possessed Planetary-level strength.
He had even slain a veteran King-class monster.
If this trend continued, the monster calamity might very well end in his hands.
"I believe in him. Since he dared come here, he wasn't seeking death."
Hong said that, but he had no confidence in it at all.
The Demon Lizard King had not fought often, and no one knew it possessed the ability to self-destruct.
And the power of that self-destruction had been so immense.
The nuclear materials within the power plant had almost no chance of being detonated. The Demon Lizard King's self-destruction had relied entirely on the Nuclear Energy Beads within its own body.
It had not triggered the nuclear materials within the power plant.
Beep~
As the two spoke, the Personal Light Brain on Hong's wrist vibrated.
Hong glanced at it, and a sharp gleam flashed in his eyes.
"Is there news about Jiang Ming?"
Thor noticed the expression on Hong's face and asked.
But at that moment, a commotion began among the dozens of Councillors behind them.
Thor turned toward the direction they were discussing.
Amid the dust that filled the sky, a figure slowly emerged.
Some of the more perceptive Experts sensed a scorching aura.
"What is that? What a blazing aura!"
"Is a volcano walking toward us?"
"Impossible! My temperature detector is reading sixty thousand degrees Celsius!"
"What is going on?!"
The dust filling the sky was dissolving, burning away, and vaporizing.
What had once been a landscape covered in yellow sand suddenly turned scarlet red.
The terrifying, blazing heat forced some weaker Councillors to put on their Black God Suits just to withstand it.
As the figure beneath the scarlet radiance gradually drew nearer, the surrounding temperature continued to rise.
At first, only ordinary Councillors needed combat suits to endure it. Then veteran Councillors, Speakers, and even the two men standing at Earth's peak had to put on Black God Suits to resist that blazing aura.
Seeing this, countless people felt their worldview collapse!
"Has Jiang Ming reached the Stellar level?"
Feeling that scorching aura, Thor spoke with uncertainty.
Though he had never seen a Stellar-level being, he had watched Stellar-level footage in the ruins.
To Thor, that aura of a scorching sun was no different from the Stellar level.
"No, he probably hasn't."
Hong knew more about ancient civilization ruins, but even he lacked confidence at that moment.
He felt that even with his domain, he might not necessarily be Jiang Ming's match.
As everyone whispered and discussed it among themselves.
A youth with Sun God Marks painted across his body walked out of the scarlet glow.
In his hand, he dragged a monster skull nearly ten meters in size.
Under the Demon Lizard King's self-destruction, only its hardest skull and teeth had remained mostly intact.
"Everyone, long time no see!"
Jiang Ming grinned, revealing a mouthful of snow-white teeth.
As he spoke, the scorching aura around him spread outward.
Even with their Black God Suits blocking it, some Councillors could not bear the rising heat around them. They left the area and hid inside their fighter jets to isolate themselves from the blazing temperature.
"Jiang Ming, what level are you at now?"
Hong was rather curious about Jiang Ming's current state.
"I haven't reached the Stellar level yet, Hall Master. This Demon Lizard King's head still has some value, so take it back with you."
Jiang Ming said with a smile, then casually hurled the Demon Lizard King's skull into the distance.
The fact that this Demon Lizard King skull had survived an explosion comparable to a high-yield nuclear blast and could still withstand the heat radiating from Jiang Ming showed that it was highly valuable for research.
"Good. Since you're all right, I'll head back first."
Even Hong had difficulty enduring the blazing heat around Jiang Ming at close range.
After only a few brief exchanges, his body temperature kept rising beneath his Black God Suit.
Watching Hong take away the Demon Lizard King's skull, the other Councillor Experts also departed one after another.
The calm expression on Jiang Ming's face gradually turned solemn.
Within his body, a scarlet red Miniature Planet was covered in cracks, as though it might collapse at any moment.
I never expected I'd nearly stumble because of the Demon Lizard King.
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