Powerful Arrival

He still didn't know the exact timeline, but based on what he understood, there were still over five thousand years until the next Genius War.

And the fact that the Fire Phoenix Organization still existed meant this was definitely before the original story's timeline.

After all, if it were after the original timeline, over four thousand years would have passed since the last Genius War, and the Fire Phoenix Organization couldn't possibly still be around.

He wondered if Pan Xi had already obtained that batch of Locke Divine Water.

He should have gotten it by now...

Forget it, it didn't matter. Whether Pan Xi had the Locke Divine Water or not, he would still make a move against him. He couldn't just sit around waiting for thousands of years.

Without hesitation, Qian Yu took out his spaceship. The black-silver B9-class vessel slowly rose into the air, its speed increasing rapidly. In the blink of an eye, it broke through the atmosphere and vanished into the vast sea of stars.

Inside the lord's manor, Luo Kan stood by the window, lost in thought.

A streak of light shot into the sky. Was that... that senior's spaceship?!

"He left?"

Luo Kan stared blankly as the silver light disappeared beyond the horizon, unable to speak for a long time.

He had originally planned to visit again tomorrow, to see if he could beg the senior for a few pointers.

Even just a casual word of guidance would be a tremendous stroke of luck for him.

But now, the senior had left without even saying goodbye.

"That's fair..."

Luo Kan shook his head with a bitter smile and muttered to himself.

"What am I, anyway? A star-level little lord. In his eyes, I'm probably no better than an ant. For him to be willing to stay here for ten years is already an immense grace. How could I dare ask for more?"

He stared at the now-empty night sky for a long time, then let out a soft sigh.

"Forget it... this isn't something someone like me can reach."

Some people and some things—just getting to see them from afar is already fate.

You can't force it.

In the starry void.

Qian Yu's spaceship had already entered the dark universe's passage. Outside the porthole, everything was a hazy, murky chaos.

He sat in the cockpit, his fingers gliding lightly over the star map, quickly locking onto a point of light.

The Cui Lang Starfield, Seventh Kachi Galaxy.

There was an industrial planet there, designated KX-7. On the surface, it was an ore smelting base, but in reality, it was an important stronghold of the Fire Phoenix Organization—more precisely, a transit station for imprisoning and taming slaves.

Qian Yu remembered that place vividly.

Hundreds of years ago, after he was captured by the Fire Phoenix Organization, the first place he was sent was KX-7.

That planet had no cities, no residents—only endless mining pits and row upon row of concentration camps holding slaves.

Every day, countless captured beings from various races were sent there, implanted with slave chips, and then distributed like goods to mining planets, arenas, and shopping malls.

He had stayed there for three months.

"KX-7... Dark universe travel, estimated time: twenty-three days."

Qian Yu glanced at the route map, closed his eyes, and leaned back in his seat.

Twenty-three days.

In twenty-three days, he would make every member of the Fire Phoenix Organization on that planet taste what it felt like to be hunted.

Twenty-three days passed in the blink of an eye within the dark universe.

When the spaceship emerged from the dark universe and reappeared in the original universe, a grayish planet appeared outside the porthole.

KX-7.

Exactly as he remembered it—a gray-brown atmosphere, mining pits everywhere, and those dense, ant-nest-like clusters of concentration camp buildings.

Qian Yu stood at the porthole, quietly watching the planet grow closer.

Over three hundred years had passed, and he had finally returned.

"Scan the planet's defense system."

The ship's AI immediately responded: "Scanning... scan complete. The planet is equipped with a B-class defense system, including twelve orbital cannon platforms, three energy shield generators, and twenty-four anti-air radar stations. Estimated defense strength: capable of resisting attacks below the cosmic level."

The corner of Qian Yu's mouth lifted slightly. Only capable of resisting below the cosmic level? Too weak.

Boom!!!

The spaceship, like a black bolt of lightning, plunged straight into KX-7's orbit.

At that same instant, the orbital warning radar let out a piercing shriek.

"Alert! Alert! An unidentified flying object has entered airspace! Extremely fast!!"

The orbital cannon platforms swiveled urgently, twelve massive gun barrels locking onto the rapidly descending black shadow.

"Open fire!"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Twelve energy beams shot out simultaneously, weaving into a net of death meant to tear the audacious intruder ship to shreds.

Then!

"Freeze."

The space spanning hundreds of kilometers around the ship instantly solidified.

Those twelve energy beams hung frozen in midair, motionless.

The tips of the beams still blazed with dazzling light, but their tails had lost all subsequent supply, neatly congealed against the starry backdrop like a bizarre painting.

The next second.

Qian Yu's figure appeared outside the ship.

He raised his right hand and gently clenched his five fingers.

Boom!!!

The frozen space collapsed in an instant. All twelve orbital cannon platforms exploded simultaneously, scattering into countless fragments that flew in all directions.

Immediately after, he turned his gaze toward the three energy shield generators on the planet's surface.

With a thought, his form vanished.

When he reappeared, he was already hovering above the first energy shield generator.

It was a colossal structure a hundred meters tall, forged entirely from alloy, with a layer of energy shield flowing across its surface.

Around the building, hundreds of guards scrambled in panic, trying to activate the defense systems.

Qian Yu didn't spare them a glance. He simply lifted his foot and stomped down hard!

Boom!!!

The entire building collapsed instantly. Alloy fragments sprayed everywhere. The energy shield flickered twice before going out completely.

Qian Yu's form flickered again.

The second. The third.

In just a few seconds, KX-7's defense systems were completely crippled.

Only then did the debris from those twelve orbital cannon platforms begin to fall into the atmosphere, trailing dozens of long streaks of fire across the sky.

On the planet, countless people looked up, watching the meteor shower filling the heavens.

In the labor camps, the slaves shackled with energy chains raised their heads in bewilderment, not understanding what was happening.

But the members of the Fire Phoenix Organization all turned pale as death.

"The defense systems... completely down?!"

"Enemy attack! A powerful enemy!"

"Hurry! Notify headquarters!"

In the chaos, an overwhelming pressure descended from the sky.

That pressure—so strong, so heavy, so utterly irresistible—instantly enveloped the entire planet.

Boom!!

It was as if the sky itself had collapsed.

Countless people's legs gave way, and they fell prostrate to the ground, unable to move even a single finger.

Those guards at the Star-tier first and second levels strained with all their might to stand upright, but the pressure made their bones creak and groan until they, too, crashed face-first to the earth.

Only the single Cosmic-tier existence on the planet could barely remain standing, but even he trembled from head to toe, cold sweat pouring down.

He lifted his head with difficulty, staring at the sky.

In the sky, a figure descended slowly.

Black hair, black clothes, a flame mark quietly burning at the center of his brow.

That figure was not tall—one could even call it slight.

But against the backdrop of that overwhelming pressure, under the gaze of those calm, almost indifferent eyes, he seemed like a god descending to the mortal world.

"Cos... Cosmic-tier?!"

"No, that's not right... this pressure... this aura... this is definitely not an ordinary Cosmic-tier!!"

He had seen a Cosmic-tier ninth-level powerhouse before and had felt that person's pressure. But compared to the one before him now, it was like a candle flame against the blazing sun!

"Could it be... a Domain Lord?!"