Eternal Silence Wheel Yu

"Yes!"

Di Shen's fingers flew across the console, sending the command through an encrypted channel to the other two warships.

The main cannons of all three Firepower Ships began charging at once. Dark red energy gathered at their muzzles, bathing the surrounding darkness in an eerie glow.

"Charge at seventy percent... eighty... ninety—"

"Fire!"

Yu Ting's voice was resolute.

Three thick red beams tore through space and slammed toward the dark mist shrouding the fleet.

Then—

They struck a "glass" barrier.

No, not glass.

A massive barrier had appeared out of nowhere, formed from countless interlocking hexagonal ice crystals.

The barrier was only a few meters thick, transparent throughout, with rainbow light flowing within it.

The orbital cannons' energy blasts erupted against its surface like dazzling fireworks, yet failed to budge it in the slightest.

Not a single crack appeared in the ice-crystal barrier. It merely rippled faintly, then absorbed, dispersed, and nullified all that destructive energy.

"What?!" Yu Ting sprang to his feet, staring at the monitor. "What is that thing?!"

Di Shen's voice trembled with disbelief. "The energy readings... can't be analyzed! That's not any known defensive technology!"

Just then, the "Rasengan," trailing lightning, suddenly appeared on the monitor—

accompanied by a thunderous roar that tore through space.

"What?!"

Yu Ting's eyes flew wide.

The next instant, Eternal Silence Wheel Yu came to a steady halt at the center of the three warships.

As all the Taotie Soldiers watched in despair—

First, the "sun" at its core burst into a gentle yet irresistible white light, illuminating everything around it as if it were eternal daylight.

And at the center of that burst of light, a point of absolute "darkness" began to appear.

A pitch-black core, condensed from a hurricane, deep as an abyss—like a miniature black hole.

Then, a terrifying force of attraction suddenly unfurled.

The gray clouds were completely swept away. Azure lightning leaped between the water droplets, mingling with them before forming a fine web of electricity that methodically wove together and guided the drifting dust.

The scattered ice crystals spun and refracted the light, making this "disintegration" look like a grand, tranquil starry funeral.

There was no thunderous explosion, no flare of secondary detonations.

Only light.

Only the silent, irresistible "return to dust."

The three enormous warships crumbled into stardust inch by inch in that light, like three sandcastles quietly washed away by the tide.

The whole process took little more than ten seconds.

When the light gradually dimmed and finally vanished completely—

nothing remained.

No wreckage, no fragments, not even a trace of residual energy.

Only the vast emptiness of space and Pluto's cold, pale outline in the distance.

It was as if the three warships and the Taotie vanguard fleet had never existed.

Above, Azhui stared wide-eyed, her breath nearly still.

She had lived through countless battles, witnessed the end of civilizations, and even taken part in the holy war.

Yet the sight before her now shook her far beyond anything she had ever known.

Azhui wasn't the only one speechless with shock. Everyone in the livestream was just as stunned.

['The One Who Exploded Morgana's Head': (gulp) Th-this... Su Bai is really that amazing?!]

['Seeking Sponsorship': Damn... what a magnificent man... I'm almost... Ahem.]

['Little Milk Sha': That really is... an unusual technique.]

['Little Milk Sha': Several mutually incompatible elements fused together, yet they didn't immediately spiral out of control and explode...]

['Thirty-Thousand-Year-Old Aunt': Even your Sacred Body would have a hard time taking that head-on, you tomboy, wouldn't it?]

['Thirty-Thousand-Year-Old Aunt': Damn... I really want to study that closely.]

['The Fox Yan Who Knows How to Flirt': Little Azhui is completely stunned...]

In truth, she was just as stunned.

Angel Yan (internally): No... where did you get that kind of power?!

Angel Yan (internally): Everyone watching, do you think I'd still make it back alive if I beat him up now...?

['Silly White Sweet': How amazing... I've never seen energy used like this before...]

['Silly White Sweet': He's really incredible...]

Su Bai, the "culprit" behind it all, seemed remarkably calm.

He turned to look at Azhui. The godlike air about him had quietly faded, and he was back to his usual innocent self.

Only, compared to before, his eyes seemed to hold a faint, barely perceptible clarity.

"Come on, Azhui. Let's go home."

"Qilin should be getting off work soon. If we're any later, my feast of snacks will be ruined."

He paused, then gave Azhui a smile that carried a touch of "generosity."

"Since you helped show me the way... I'll share some with you."

Looking into Su Bai's perfectly clear eyes, Azhui suddenly felt as though the "Eternal Silence Wheel Yu" that had just shaken the stars

had been nothing more than a hallucination.

Yet the empty stretch of space in the distance silently proved that it had all been real.

"...Okay," she heard herself whisper.

Then she reached out and took Su Bai's hand once more.

This time, she did so gently, as if afraid of disturbing something.

The journey back was unusually quiet.

Su Bai seemed to have truly grown tired. He leaned against Azhui, his eyes half-closed, occasionally giving a small yawn.

Azhui, however, couldn't settle her thoughts.

She couldn't help turning to look at the boy beside her, who seemed on the verge of falling asleep at any moment.

A thought rose unbidden in her heart:

That figure he cut for a moment just now... was that the real you, before you lost your memory and got hurt?

That question weighed not only on Azhui's mind.

It also hung heavily over everyone watching the livestream.

Merlo Heavenly Court.

The energy model before Hexi collapsed once again, dissolving into a cloud of drifting points of light.

She tried again and again to simulate, deduce, and reconstruct it, but she still couldn't reproduce what she had seen.

She couldn't even begin to perfectly fuse several mutually incompatible elements, let alone compress the most basic "sun" to such a tiny scale.

Every simulation either destabilized or sent the energy spiraling out of control. She couldn't even get past the first step.

The air rippled faintly.

Keisha appeared silently in the laboratory, her expression graver than usual.

"Are you... trying to simulate his technique?"

Hexi nodded, then shook her head. Her eyes still burned with the fervent glow unique to a researcher.

"Simulate it? Ha. You give me too much credit, tomboy." Her voice held a rare note of frustration, yet brimmed with excitement.

"Forget how far the results are from the actual data. I can't even manage the first step—'simulation.'"

She turned to Keisha, her eyes shining brightly.

"He's simply a genius!"

"Even with a damaged soul and an incomplete mind, he could still create something... nothing short of a miracle."