[Anubi's Demise]

Anubi saw the weapon gradually pressing down on him. He threw all his strength into resisting, but the other party's power seemed endless. He couldn't break free; it clung to him like a stubborn plaster.

"Your only choices are to defeat me or lose and be killed by me."

Ye Yun's weapon kept pressing down, its force slowly increasing.

"Whoosh!"

Then,

he swung the weapon in his hand with all his might. The tremendous force sent Anubi flying, crashing toward the ground below.

"Ah!"

Anubi's scream rang out.

With a thud, he slammed into the cold ground.

A muffled sound echoed.

The spot where he landed was dented into a crater.

As he sent Anubi flying, Ye Yun pressed his advantage and plunged after him. A faint red glow surged along the black longsword in his hand.

"Whoosh!"

Suddenly,

a golden afterimage shot upward, straight into the sky.

Seeing this,

he accelerated and brought the black longsword in his hand down on the golden crescent.

"Ah!"

Another piercing scream rang out.

Anubi, who had taken crescent-moon form to escape, was instantly slammed back into the ground by Ye Yun.

A horrifying gash appeared across Anubi's body.

Anubi had been knocked back into the crater and returned to his humanoid form. He lay in the cold, sunken pit, electricity crackling over his body.

"Thud."

A heavy object landed with a crisp sound.

Ye Yun planted his feet above the sunken crater and looked down at Anubi, the Evil Moon Warrior. Electricity crackled over his body, and a vicious wound gaped across him. Beneath his armor, Ye Yun's handsome face showed little emotion.

He had no fondness for a guy like Anubi.

"It's time to end this."

Ye Yun coldly dismissed the black longsword in his hand, then descended beside Anubi. His iron-hard hand mercilessly tore open Anubi's chest and forcibly ripped out the energy sphere inside.

As the sphere left Anubi's chest, the warrior's desperate struggle came to an end. His scarlet Electronic Eye flickered repeatedly, then went dark.

"What rich energy."

He glanced down at Anubi, the Evil Moon Warrior, whose chest had a gaping hole and whose scarlet Electronic Eye had gone dark. Then he looked at the energy sphere in his hand, which was as large as his own head.

The energy sphere was everything to a Cosmic Star God.

A Cosmic Star God needed an energy sphere to live.

The sphere not only gave a Cosmic Star God life, but also stored their memories.

In other words,

as long as the energy sphere survived, Anubi wasn't truly dead—even if his sphere was placed inside another Cosmic Star God's body.

Of course,

some Cosmic Star Gods' bodies rejected other energy spheres.

He put Anubi's energy sphere away, picked up Anubi's corpse, and tossed it into the vast ravine below.

Weakness was a sin.

That was an essential truth to understand when venturing through the universe.

His figure slowly disappeared into thin air. When he reappeared, he was back in the Lingdong's cockpit. With a thought, the armor vanished from his body and entered his Dark Dimension.

"Xiao Yun, that's enough."

Ye Yun spoke with excitement.

He had taken Anubi down without suffering a single injury.

Anubi might have been one of the weakest Cosmic Star Gods, but he'd still defeated him, hadn't he?

"Understood. I've finished editing the information and implanted it into Intelligent Assistant Zhuoya. Zhuoya will awaken in one minute." Hearing her master's words, top-tier Artificial Intelligence Xiao Yun immediately exited the Lingdong's data center and erased all traces of her presence.

That was the mark of top-tier Artificial Intelligence.

"All right. I'll let you know if anything comes up."

Ye Yun nodded in satisfaction. Having an Artificial Intelligence around was great.

Artificial Intelligence wasn't popular in the Divine River Universe because it could leak information, and Super Soldiers' processing speeds had apparently long surpassed the Tianhe Computer's by countless times.

So in the Divine River Universe, Artificial Intelligence was little more than a white elephant.

The cutting-edge computers in the Divine River Universe could even calculate simulations of the universe itself. How impressive was that?

In Super Seminary or Link Click, they'd said Du Qiangwei's processing power alone was already many times—or perhaps many units—greater than that of the Divine River Computer. Whatever the exact figure, that level of computing was beyond what Artificial Intelligence could handle.

"Phew, we finally won."

At that moment, Intelligent Assistant Zhuoya finished booting up.

Just then,

Ye Yun realized something was wrong.

Zhuoya hadn't fired a single shot. How could she possibly have defeated Anubi?

By talking him to death?

He cautiously asked, "Zhuoya, check our resource consumption!"

"Mr. Ye Yun, our resources have been replenished. Our energy levels are back to full," Intelligent Assistant Zhuoya replied.

"Oh!"

Hearing this, Ye Yun couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Artificial Intelligence really did think things through.

It had even thought of everything he hadn't. Not bad, not bad.

"Transfer ten percent of our energy to the Radar System and keep scanning the area. If anything happens, sound the alarm immediately."

Ye Yun ordered.

"Understood, Mr. Ye Yun."

Intelligent Assistant Zhuoya immediately carried out his instructions.

Ye Yun was the one piloting the ship now, so he naturally had the authority to give it orders.

"Big Brother Ye, how did it go?"

Just then, Yaoyao and Xiao An entered the cockpit. Their little faces were pale with worry as they asked cautiously.

"It's all right. Zhuoya drove Anubi away." Ye Yun looked at them, a hint of excitement brightening his handsome face.

"Wonderful!"

At that,

the two children couldn't help smiling.

As long as Anubi was gone, that was all that mattered.

They'd really been afraid of him.

Inside the canyon.

At the altar.

"Tethys, what good does it do to live in the past? Your mission as Cosmic Star Gods is to protect the Star of the Galaxy and maintain peace throughout the universe. Are you really going to abandon the Star of the Galaxy now? You should know that dark forces covet it. If it falls into their hands, won't your mission as Cosmic Star Gods have failed?"

Lily looked up at Mercury God Tethys, who stood alone and cold in the middle of the altar with his back to them. She glanced at Gaia beside her and said, "Avoiding things will only make you more timid and leave you unable to face reality. You Cosmic Star Gods have your own mission, and so do we. Your mission is to protect the Star of the Galaxy and us, its bearers. Our task is to deliver it to Apollo and fulfill our mission. If you really choose to run away, there's nothing we can do. Everyone has their own fate and their own choices."

When she finished,

Lily looked toward Gaia and Dilu. "Let's go. He's made his choice, and we can't force him. We'll keep looking for a Cosmic Star God willing to protect the Star of the Galaxy, and for Apollo."

"Let's go." Gaia cast a disappointed look at Mercury God Tethys's back, then left for the cave entrance with Lily and Dilu.

Tethys had changed.

He'd lost sight of his mission and his responsibilities.

As he listened to Gaia and the others' footsteps recede, Tethys remained unmoved.

Just as Gaia, Lily, and Dilu were about to leave the cave, Tethys thought of Panra. No, he hadn't betrayed his mission; Panra had betrayed the mission that Creation God Autan had entrusted to the Cosmic Star Gods.

"Wait!"

Suddenly,

he called out to Gaia and the others. He turned to face the three of them as they were about to leave the cave, a sniper rifle appearing in his hand. Its cold muzzle glinted as it aimed at Gaia and the others.

At Tethys's voice, Lily and Dilu looked delighted.

It had worked.

Gaia turned around at once. "Tethys, does this mean you'll come with—"

But when he saw what Tethys was doing, the words caught in his throat. His yellow Electronic Eye flickered.

He couldn't believe his former comrade was pointing a gun at him.

"Tethys, you!"

Gaia's voice was filled with disbelief. He'd never imagined Tethys would do something like this.

"Bang!"

A muffled report rang through the cave.

The sniper rifle in Tethys's hand fired an electric-plasma round crackling with electricity. It streaked toward Gaia and the others.

Gaia's yellow Electronic Eye immediately began to flicker wildly.

Mercury God Tethys had really shot at him.

Gaia was just about to block the attack when he realized it had skimmed past his shoulder.

"Boom."

The plasma round struck in the distance, unleashing a deafening blast.

He turned to look.

A boulder had been blown apart, its fragments scattering everywhere.

Tethys's attack had also forced Hidden Wolf out of hiding.

What's more,

it hadn't received a signal from Anubi. It turned into a ball and tried to flee at once.

"Not so fast!"

By then, Gaia had recovered. He charged forward with the Mysterious Iron Laser Gun in hand.

So,

Tethys hadn't attacked them. He'd attacked Hidden Wolf.

"Now, let's go! I've broken my oath."

Tethys put away his sniper rifle. The aiming assist device, like Captain America's shield, retracted into his head, leaving it looking like a frying pan protecting him.

The thrusters on his back sprayed blue flames as he descended in front of Lily and Dilu.

"Yay! Tethys finally agreed to come with us!"

At the sight, Dilu jumped excitedly.

Tethys had finally agreed to leave with them. He was so excited!

Suddenly,

his consciousness was drawn into the Star of the Galaxy. His field of vision grew wider and wider until he found himself on a planet, where he saw a Cosmic Star God.

"Dilu, what's wrong?"

Lily saw Dilu suddenly freeze and hurriedly nudged his shoulder, asking.

"Lily, Tethys—the Star of the Galaxy guided me to another Cosmic Star God." Dilu hurriedly looked up at Tethys, who had agreed to come with them, and told him.

Actually, the Cosmic Star God Dilu trusted and relied on most was still Gaia.

He'd spent the most time with Gaia and had known him the longest.

Gaia had also been the first Cosmic Star God he'd seen inside the Star of the Galaxy.

"Where? Who?"