In the Cui Lang Starfield, on a crimson planet, the scent of blood perpetually blanketed the land.
A massive dueling arena sank downward like a bowl, and the circular stands, capable of holding a hundred thousand people, were packed to capacity.
Figures dressed in lavish robes moved among the crowd.
In the VIP seats near the inner ring, noble scions lounged on soft couches in small groups.
The men wore dazzling robes of every color, their collars embroidered with star-pattern insignias representing their families. The women wore diamond necklaces from the Kappa Galaxy and held feather fans, casually covering the corners of their mouths. What lingered there was curiosity, cruelty, and the smug satisfaction of those above all others.
"Kill!"
A pale young noble suddenly stood and viciously hurled his wine cup into the arena. Amber liquor arced through the hot air.
"Hahahaha, well fought!"
"Rip him apart! Yes! Just like that!"
Screams, roars, and whistles blended into a single uproar.
In the more distant common stands, wealthy merchants and low-ranking officials dependent on the nobles were even more unrestrained. They pounded the railings before them and shouted themselves hoarse, yelling the numbers of the slaves they had bet on.
"Kill him! You piece of trash! I bet my entire fortune on you!"
"Get up there! Cut off his legs!"
At the center of the dueling arena.
Two figures were locked in a frenzied battle.
Qian Yu stood bare-chested, a battle saber in hand and a cold gleam in his eyes.
His opponent was a burly man over two and a half meters tall, wielding a heavy battle axe.
"Die!!"
The burly man's axe came crashing down again. Qian Yu twisted aside, letting the massive axe smash into the rock beneath his feet.
His battle saber shot out like a venomous snake, precisely slicing across the burly man's wrist gripping the axe.
Blood sprayed three meters.
Before the burly man could even let out a scream, Qian Yu had already closed in.
Clang!
A flash of blade light streaked past!
The burly man's enormous body crashed to the ground, his head flying into the air!
Even more frenzied cheers erupted from the stands.
Qian Yu bent down and grabbed the burly man's tangled hair with his left hand, lifting his head.
Blood dripped from the severed neck, gathering into a small pool of dark red beside his bare feet.
"Qian Yu! Qian Yu! Qian Yu!"
Someone began chanting his name, and the waves of sound grew louder and louder.
Others beat their chests and stomped their feet. The gamblers who had bet on the burly man were now wildly tearing at their hair, cursing and wailing!
Qian Yu ignored the countless reactions around him. Carrying the head, he turned and walked toward the open gate behind him.
After passing through the long corridor, he returned to his room and casually tossed the head into a corner.
Heads were already piled there like a small mountain. Some had rotted away, while others had been reduced to nothing but stark white bones.
"Qian Yu, get some rest. You have another duel in seven days."
A voice suddenly sounded in the room. Qian Yu did not answer. He walked straight to the center of the room, sat cross-legged, and began cultivating genetic energy to recover what he had expended in the battle.
Soon, soon! It's about to be born!
Qian Yu's consciousness sank deep within, into a hollow world!
It was his Inner World. At the center of it, an Azure Giant Egg a full thousand meters tall was slowly rotating.
He could feel it. Soon!
His avatar was about to finish gestating!
His thoughts could not help but drift back to the day he had first transmigrated!
When he learned that he had transmigrated into the world of Devouring Starry Sky, his first reaction had been excitement. But he immediately lost the ability to laugh.
Because... the identity he had transmigrated into was that of a slave!
A Slave Chip had been implanted in his brain!
At the time, he had felt as if the sky had collapsed. Once someone became a slave, there was basically no hope of ever turning their life around!
With a Slave Chip implanted in his brain, as long as the slave master wished it, a single word could sentence him to death!
There were only two ways to regain freedom under such circumstances. The first was to break through to Domain Lord. Once he reached Domain Lord, his soul would no longer reside in his brain, and he naturally would not need to fear the Slave Chip implanted there.
But that was almost impossible for him, because he had only been Stellar Third Order when he transmigrated.
Those slave masters would never give him resources. Breaking through to Domain Lord was simply as difficult as ascending to the heavens.
The second way was to pray that the slave master would set him free. That was even less worth thinking about.
The man who had bought him was the lord of Red Cloud Star, a tyrant through and through.
He especially enjoyed watching slaves kill each other. It would already be fortunate if he did not brutally torture them to death.
Just when Qian Yu had nearly fallen into despair, finally!
He found his cheat ability, which gave his nearly dead heart a thread of hope!
His cheat ability was a space—the very place he was in now.
Qian Yu guessed that this was his Inner World, but it differed from ordinary Inner Worlds.
There was no continent and no boundary, only an Azure Giant Egg standing quietly within it.
If he had not been able to sense the connection within the Azure Giant Egg that shared the same origin as his soul, he would have suspected it was an illusion.
Fortunately, he later confirmed that the Azure Giant Egg should be his avatar.
And this avatar should not be weak. After all, its size was right there, and it had been gestating for more than five hundred years. Only now did it seem ready to emerge!
As long as the avatar was born, he could directly destroy this body!
Then he could be reborn through the avatar, and the Slave Chip would naturally no longer be able to restrain him!
But all of this required careful planning. Even if he gestated an avatar and escaped the Slave Chip's control, he still had to consider how he would flee this planet.
After hundreds of years of fighting and slaughter, his strength had broken through to Stellar Ninth Order, but he was still only at the Stellar Level.
The planet lord was also at the Stellar Level, and Qian Yu did not take him seriously. But the key was that the man had tens of thousands of slaves under his command.
More than three thousand of them were at the Stellar Level, while the rest were all at the Planetary Level.
Even if he could escape control, he would gain no advantage against so many slaves attacking him together. He would most likely be beaten to death.
If he wanted to escape this planet safely, it would be best for him to break through to the Cosmic Level and seize a spaceship.
Just as he was thinking this, the Azure Giant Egg in that boundless space suddenly trembled!
The tremor was extremely slight, yet it made Qian Yu's entire consciousness shudder!
Within his Inner World, the Azure Giant Egg that had lain dormant for more than five hundred years began to emit faint cracking sounds!
A crack appeared across the eggshell's surface, followed by a second, then a third...
Countless fine cracks spread rapidly like a spiderweb, covering the entire thousand-meter-tall giant egg!!
It's here, it's here. It's about to be born!
Boom!!
A vast aura of life burst forth from the cracked giant egg!
Crack!!
At last, beneath Qian Yu's expectant gaze, the giant egg shattered with a thunderous explosion!
He finally saw what was inside!
It was a tree, an unimaginably profound and enormous tree!
Its entire body was azure-green, as though sculpted from the finest jade, yet it possessed a metallic texture.
Its trunk was so thick that hundreds of people would be needed to encircle it. Its surface was not smooth, but covered in profound patterns, as though they were the manifestation of the laws of the Great Dao themselves. Every pattern contained an indescribable mystery!
Their souls connected in an instant, and a vast torrent of information surged into his mind.
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