Planet Collision

The Visage of the Death God and the Puppet Threads represented two opposing wills, fighting for control over these Undead Creatures.

Leaving aside the Undead Creatures beyond ten meters of Bai Xiaowen, he could still make those within ten meters lose their intent to attack.

As a result, even though there were an enormous number of hostile Undead Creatures in the hall, they could not pose a melee threat to Bai Xiaowen for the time being.

As for long-range bombardment, there was no need to worry if it lacked coordination. After all, the several dozen High King Rank creatures he had turned to his side had formed the Firm Wall Formation and Death God Manifestation, both of which possessed formidable defensive power.

Bai Xiaowen maintained the Firm Wall Formation. The Death God Manifestation formed a black spherical barrier, protecting the small formation from every direction.

Then, like a small boat cleaving through the waves, the Firm Wall Formation pushed through the horde of hostile Undead Creatures and advanced toward the Black Coffin at the center of the hall.

Before long, the hostile Undead Creatures in the hall changed.

One hostile Undead Creature after another temporarily retreated, arranging themselves into seven Battle Formations.

Immediately afterward, enormous Spirit Power Manifestations took shape above those Battle Formations.

Terrifying energy fluctuations surged one after another throughout the hall.

Destructive Energy Cannons formed from highly compressed dark Spiritual Power took shape in the hands of those Spirit Power Manifestations in succession.

"Monstrous..." Bai Xiaowen cursed through gritted teeth.

Every Undead Creature here possessed High King Rank strength.

Controlling such Undead Creatures to form Battle Formations, then condensing Spirit Power Manifestations for combat—several dozen was already Bai Xiaowen's limit.

Yet his opponent had effortlessly formed seven Battle Formations, each with more than a hundred members! This Domination System capability was more than ten times Bai Xiaowen's.

The seven Energy Cannons condensed by the seven Spirit Power Giants had each been formed through the combined strike of more than a hundred High King Rank undead Warriors, carrying a terrifying aura of destruction.

Without exaggeration, even an individual Divine Descendant Creature would not dare take such an Energy Cannon head-on, much less seven of them!

Even the Death God Manifestation under Bai Xiaowen's control, despite possessing strength beyond Divine Bloodline Grade, did not dare receive them head-on.

Fortunately, this was Death God Castle, and the members of the Battle Formations were all Undead Creatures. If they had been another race unaffected by the Visage of the Death God, Bai Xiaowen would have had to consider how to flee—under the current circumstances, there was still a solution.

Bai Xiaowen's Death God's Power flowed through the Visage of the Death God, swiftly locking onto seven hostile Undead Creatures from afar.

Each target was located within a separate hostile Battle Formation.

Apply powerful influence and disrupt them!

As a Domination System Evolutionist, Bai Xiaowen understood better than anyone the weaknesses of Battle Formation "Spirit Power Manifestations" and "Spirit Power Combined Strikes."

They required an extremely high degree of coordination and unity within the Battle Formation. Every member had to work in perfect harmony.

Otherwise, a combined strike would be impossible.

Now, Bai Xiaowen chose one enemy in each hostile Battle Formation to disrupt. As long as he delayed the target's Spiritual Power output by one second, the formation's combined strike would collapse on its own.

Boom boom boom boom boom—

Explosions rang out one after another. The seven destructive energy shells exploded before they could even be fired.

The seven hostile Battle Formations even suffered considerable backlash damage, since the energy shells had exploded directly above their own formations.

The seven Spirit Power Manifestations swayed violently as well before dissipating into nothingness.

Seizing the opportunity, Bai Xiaowen continued advancing toward the Black Coffin in the center of the hall, covering another third of the distance.

The seven hostile Battle Formations swiftly dispersed. Every hostile Undead Creature came under the direct control of the Puppet Threads and launched individual Spiritual Power bombardments at the spherical barrier of the Death God Manifestation surrounding Bai Xiaowen.

Since combined strikes would not work, they switched to a mass barrage of individual attacks, relying on numbers to prevail.

It was a perfectly normal line of thought.

However, compared to the manifested combined strike of seven Battle Formations, the individual attacks of seven hundred High King Rank creatures fighting separately were far less threatening.

Ripples spread across the spherical barrier of the Death God Manifestation as it slowly devoured the Spirit Power Values of Bai Xiaowen and the several dozen high-ranking undead under his command, slowing the Firm Wall Formation's advance.

Bai Xiaowen was now like a tank slowly pushing forward through a hail of bullets.

His target was the Black Coffin in the central area!

Well, at least that was how it appeared.

The source of the Puppet Threads—the Mastermind—finally could not endure it any longer.

The consequences of letting Bai Xiaowen obtain the final piece of Death God Bones were something he could not accept no matter what.

Thus, as he mobilized his forces with increasing frequency, more and more coffins in the hall burst open.

More and more sleeping Undead Creatures rose from their coffins throughout the hall.

"Finally can't take it anymore?"

Protected within the barrier of the Death God Manifestation, Bai Xiaowen curled his lips into a faint smile.

Passive Taking Hits had never been Bai Xiaowen's style. He had been trying all along to locate the source of the Puppet Threads—the Mastermind's location! The other side's desperate expansion of the Puppet Threads' range of control finally allowed Bai Xiaowen to trace them back to their source and find where the Mastermind was hiding!

This Mastermind was identical to the one Bai Xiaowen had encountered in the Ruins of the Ancient Antahe Kingdom on Profound Ice Star, whether in fighting style or mysteriousness! It was even worse.

How could Bai Xiaowen rest easy and retrieve the Death God Bones without rooting the other party out?

However, another matter puzzled Bai Xiaowen. Since the other party had been lying in ambush here so early, why had he not taken the Death God Bones directly?

He could not figure it out.

Bai Xiaowen could only set the question aside for now. In any case, through the Visage of the Death God's perception, he could confirm that the final piece of Death God Bones was inside the central Black Coffin. There was no mistake.

After confirming the Mastermind's location, Bai Xiaowen immediately controlled the Death God Manifestation to switch stances.

It shifted from its original defensive barrier stance to an attacking stance with both hands raising the Black Scythe!

The instant the barrier vanished, Bai Xiaowen unleashed his large-scale Intimidation.

The hostile Undead Creatures throughout the hall all froze stiff. The storm-like bombardment halted in an instant.

However, the allied undead around Bai Xiaowen were unaffected by the Intimidation. The Death God Manifestation continued to raise the Black Scythe high. As Spiritual Power was poured into it without regard for expenditure, the Black Scythe expanded section by section.

Riiip!

The enormous Black Scythe, as though it could tear through space itself, swept out in a horizontal slash!

As the Black Scythe passed, the hostile Undead Creatures across the hall fell silently at almost the exact same moment.

They had not been killed by Bai Xiaowen. They fell because the Puppet Threads controlling their movements had snapped simultaneously.

The Mastermind controlling them had been slain by a single strike of the Black Scythe!

"As expected, its true combat power is still so weak. It can only fight by controlling the creatures of the Land of Origin." Bai Xiaowen recalled that the other Mastermind he had encountered in the Ruins of the Ancient Antahe Kingdom on Profound Ice Star had been the same.

Walking swiftly to where the Mastermind had been hiding, Bai Xiaowen found only a tattered Leather Cloak.

He obtained two more items: Mysterious Leather and Mysterious Core. Both had unknown uses.

After putting away the two Unknown Items, Bai Xiaowen could finally approach the Black Coffin without worry.

There were scratch marks on the Black Coffin's lid, and it had been violently pried open before. This was hardly strange, since the Death God Bones inside were incomplete, indicating that someone had opened the Black Coffin and taken part of the bones.

The final piece of Death God Bones lay quietly inside the coffin—the torso bone, the only piece Bai Xiaowen lacked.

Bai Xiaowen reached out and touched the bone.

The Visage of the Death God immediately conveyed a message of longing, wanting to Devour the bone and complete itself.

Bai Xiaowen removed the Visage of the Death God Mask and placed it over the bone, watching quietly as it slowly consumed the bone.

Having completed its final "restoration," the Visage of the Death God Mask flickered with an unadorned black sheen.

A yearning rose from Bai Xiaowen's heart.

Put on this mask, obtain the Death God's complete divine spark, and become a god on the spot!

This was evolution's yearning—the urge for an essential transformation, to enter a higher level and a higher dimension.

Bai Xiaowen took a breath. He took the Visage of the Death God Mask, but did not wear it. Instead, he placed it in his Storage Ring.

With that action, the Black Coffin began to dissipate inch by inch.

Then the Death God Hall dissipated.

Finally, the entire Death God Castle vanished without a trace, like pencil marks erased by an eraser.

Suddenly, a howling hurricane descended.

This hurricane did not come from any direction of east, west, south, or north. It blew from the sky of the Star of Death Omen down toward the earth.

An immense sense of danger surged forth.

Bai Xiaowen looked up and saw a massive star hurtling toward the Star of Death Omen at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The immense wind pressure was like the Coercion unleashed by a supreme expert, ruthlessly Suppressing all Living Beings facing the Impact. Every movement required tremendous strength, and the weak could not even move at all. They could only wait in despair for the end to come.

This was the most dangerous natural Calamity in the Land of Origin: Planet Collision!