Escape, Now the Sky is High and Birds Can Fly Freely!

A dozen figures charged at Qian Yu simultaneously.

Qian Yu was extremely fast—centuries of slaughter had honed his combat instincts to a terrifying degree, not to mention the suppression of his cultivation realm. In the blink of an eye, he moved like a teleport, and the next moment, all those guards were instantly routed.

Pathetic. All of them were ants.

Setas's pupils contracted sharply. He turned and fled.

But the next instant, Qian Yu's form materialized directly before him.

"Wh—"

Before Setas could finish his word.

Boom!!

A savage force slammed into his abdomen.

"Pfft...!"

Setas spewed a mouthful of blood, his body curling up like a shrimp.

Yet before he could be sent flying backward, Qian Yu's hand shot out, grabbing him by the neck and yanking him back.

"No... no..."

Setas clawed desperately at Qian Yu's fingers, his eyes filled with terror.

"Spare... spare me..."

Qian Yu said nothing. He merely stared at him coldly.

A sweep of his divine sense.

The next moment, an exquisite spatial ring flew off Setas's finger and landed in Qian Yu's hand.

"You still have a spatial ring?"

Qian Yu glanced at him, then casually slipped the ring onto his own finger.

His divine sense probed inside. A brief search revealed a sleek, silver-white starship lying quietly in the depths of the ring's space.

The corner of Qian Yu's mouth curled up.

"Transfer ownership of the ship to me."

He looked into Setas's eyes, enunciating each word.

"I'll give you three seconds."

"Refuse, and you die."

"One."

"Transfer! Transfer! Transfer!"

Setas screamed in frenzy.

"Transfer ownership! Now! Now!"

His auxiliary AI materialized instantly, a beam of light sweeping over Qian Yu and the spatial ring.

"Ownership transfer complete."

Qian Yu smiled.

He looked down at Setas's face, twisted with fear.

A flicker of hope flashed in Setas's eyes. "You... you promised you wouldn't kill—"

Crack.

Qian Yu snapped his neck without hesitation.

Setas's eyes bulged wide, disbelief and venom frozen forever on his face. His body went limp and sagged.

Qian Yu released his grip, letting the corpse slide to the ground. A flame bloomed in his hand.

Boom!

Crimson fire instantly engulfed Setas's body. In a few breaths, it burned him to ashes, leaving only a small pile of black dust scattered on the floor.

Qian Yu turned and walked toward the great hall's entrance.

Outside the hall, flames still raged. Amid the collapsed ruins of the slave camp, thick smoke billowed, and the air was thick with the stench of scorched flesh and blood.

The entire Red Cloud Star was now in utter chaos.

Qian Yu strode slowly out of the palace. The sky was crimson, and the light of the star fell upon him, reflecting in his eyes—cold, terrifying. He raised his hand.

A faint glimmer from the spatial ring.

The next moment—boom!!

A sleek, silver-white starship suddenly materialized in the open ground.

Roughly three hundred meters long, its hull gleaming with cold metallic luster, the cabin door opened automatically. Qian Yu did not look back, stepping inside in one stride. The cabin door closed. In the cockpit.

The auxiliary AI lit up with a soft glow.

"Master, the spaceship has been bound."

"Currently located on the surface of Red Cloud Star. Shall we take off?"

Qian Yu sat down, his divine sense sweeping over the ship's internal structure.

A standard C6-Class Spaceship.

Capable of entering dark space.

Enough.

"Take off."

Boom!!

The ground suddenly caved in, the ship rocketing vertically upward! A fierce blast wave overturned the surrounding rubble and debris, the shockwave spreading outward.

The surveillance satellites orbiting the planet immediately locked onto the target.

But no one could stop it. Seconds later, the ship pierced the atmosphere, Red Cloud Star rapidly shrinking in view.

Qian Yu leaned back in his seat and closed his eyes.

Several hundred years—this damned life of slavery was finally over!

"Target: far away from the Cui Lang Starfield."

"Maximum acceleration."

"Prepare for dark space entry."

"Yes."

The ship's engines roared, accelerating, accelerating further, breaking the light-speed threshold.

Hum. Space twisted, and the ship abruptly vanished from normal space, entering dark space.

Less than half an hour after the ship disappeared.

Beyond Red Cloud Star's orbit.

Space trembled slightly.

A dark red ship warped in.

On its hull, a clear emblem of a burning feather was visible.

It was a ship of the Fire Phoenix Organization. Inside.

A middle-aged man in black battle armor stood with his hands behind his back. He was a Cosmic-level third-stage powerhouse of the Fire Phoenix Organization.

His gaze was cold and sharp.

"Are you sure the signal source was on this star?"

"Yes, my lord. Setas's life signal emitted abnormal fluctuations before it vanished."

"Land."

The ship descended slowly toward Red Cloud Star.

Moments later.

They stepped into the ruins, where traces of Qian Yu's earlier battle still lingered.

The Cosmic-level powerhouse crouched down, his fingers brushing over the scorched ground.

"A slave escaped, broke free of control."

He looked up.

"Pull up the surveillance footage."

Soon, a holographic projection expanded, and the footage began to replay.

Qian Yu breaking through, erupting, self-destructing his head, regenerating, killing, slaughtering.

Charging into the palace, snapping necks, burning bodies.

Taking the ship, leaving.

The image froze on that single raised middle finger.

The air went silent.

The several Star-level guards beside him swallowed hard.

"His head was shattered and he still regenerated... A Domain Lord?"

The Cosmic-level man narrowed his eyes.

"Impossible."

"If he were a Domain Lord, Setas wouldn't even be qualified to own him. If he were a Domain Lord now, he must have been Cosmic Rank Nine before, but the data shows this slave was only Stellar Rank Nine."

"And... a Domain Lord wouldn't need to flee."

He slowly rose to his feet.

"He just broke through to Cosmic Rank, and having his head destroyed didn't kill him... Could it be some kind of special lifeform talent?"

A moment of silence.

He spoke in a low voice.

"The slave chip failed, and he reconstructed his body through self-destruction. This strongly suggests he possesses an ability similar to an externalized core."

His expression darkened.

"Troublesome."

The Fire Phoenix Organization had controlled the outer reaches of the Cui Lang Starfield for years.

Never had there been a case of a slave escaping after a breakthrough.

This was the first.

And the target wasn't an ordinary slave.

He was the arena's ace, breaking through from Stellar Rank Nine to Cosmic Rank, and possessed a bizarre regenerative ability.

"Mobilize personnel to search for this slave."

"Report to higher-ups."

"The level..."

He paused.

"C-level anomalous incident."

The person beside him paled slightly.

C-level.

It meant the matter had entered the organization's internal investigation process. If mishandled, the management of the outer starfield would be held accountable.

"Yes, sir."

Two months later.

Beyond the Cui Lang Starfield, the adjacent Clear Mist Starfield.

Blue Mist Star.

This was a highly developed life planet, three times the diameter of Red Cloud Star, with hundreds of space stations and satellite defense arrays densely packed in its outer orbit.

In space.

A silver-white streak of light emerged from the dark universe.

Hum... Space rippled.

Qian Yu's spaceship reappeared in the original universe.

Ahead was a massive planet woven with azure and emerald.

"Arrived at the core star of the Clear Mist Starfield—Blue Mist Star."

"Request docking guidance?"

Qian Yu opened his eyes.

"Request."

Moments later, the official AI confirmed the identity and ship grade.

"Registration complete."

"C6-class private vessel permitted to dock."

"Please deactivate autonomous propulsion and connect to the star core traction system."