"Boom—"
Yan Ning, his divine power burning, was like a demon god bringing about the end of the world.
Wherever his War Blade passed, space shattered inch by inch, forming a vacuum corridor that stretched across the battlefield!
"Pfft, pfft, pfft—"
More than a thousand Zerg Warriors were reduced to dust in that single strike, and the Zerg Clan army was forcibly torn open, leaving a gap tens of thousands of kilometers wide.
Yan Ning's kill count skyrocketed, but he had no time to check it. His eyes were fixed on that alluring, amber crystal figure.
"Die!"
His War Blade slashed toward Purple Charm King with the force to destroy heaven and earth.
Before the blade even arrived, its terrifying pressure had already begun to crack the surface of the Hive Nest.
For the first time, terror appeared on Purple Charm King's exquisite face. "Are you insane?! You're actually burning your divine body!"
The four pairs of butterfly wings behind her beat furiously as she retreated at high speed.
"Roar!"
Nine King-Level Zerg, heedless of all else, lunged toward him. Self-destruction runes lit up on their purple-gold carapaces—they intended to give their lives to buy time for the Mother Emperor.
"Get out of my way!"
Yan Ning's attack only grew more powerful. The World-Burning Flame on his blade transformed into nine fire dragons, each charging toward one of the nine King-Sealed Zerg.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Six successive explosions rang out. As Yan Ning unleashed his full power, six King-Sealed Zerg were annihilated by the fire dragons.
But the remaining three still managed to block Purple Charm King, using the energy storm from their self-destruction to forcibly deflect Yan Ning's blade.
"Shhk—"
The earth-shattering strike ultimately grazed past Purple Charm King and came down. Countless Zerg were reduced to dust by the blade's energy, but Purple Charm King herself narrowly escaped.
"Damn it!"
Yan Ning cursed under his breath. These King-Sealed Zerg were such a nuisance, giving him no chance to attack the Mother Emperor directly.
"Hahaha!"
Purple Charm King let out a shrill laugh, still shaken.
"It's no use! My children will protect me, and you... how long can you keep burning your divine body?"
Yan Ning coldly surveyed the battlefield.
Although his last strike had killed six King-Sealed Zerg, new King-Level auras were already rising from within the Hive Nest.
Clearly, she had more in reserve!
Worse, the number of Ordinary Immortal Zerg Warriors remained around eight thousand.
"If I can't kill you directly..."
Yan Ning suddenly bared his teeth in a savage grin.
"Then I'll slaughter your entire Zerg Clan army!"
"Yan God Codex—Skyburner!"
He raised his War Blade above his head, and the fire-element energy throughout the starry sky surged toward him.
Purple Charm King watched Yan Ning rampage through the Zerg Clan army. A trace of cold mockery flashed in her amber crystal eyes.
Her slender fingers lightly stroked the surface of the Hive Nest, feeling the life energy surging wildly within.
"How foolish!"
Her red lips parted, her voice like a snake flicking its tongue.
"Do you think killing a few mass-produced tools can hurt me?"
The Hive Nest suddenly writhed violently, and hundreds of hidden incubation pores opened at once.
These were her carefully stored elite warriors, kept in reserve for years: three thousand Peak Marquis "Amber Crystal Blade Guards" and five hundred Low-level King "Abyss Devourers." Every one of them was a meticulously engineered killing machine.
"Go, my works of art."
Purple Charm King lazily waved a hand.
"Tear this boring brute... to pieces!"
The newly deployed Zerg elites immediately displayed terrifying strength.
"What a pain!"
Yan Ning wiped the divine blood from the corner of his mouth, a murderous gleam surging in his eyes.
He noticed that the Smart Optical Brain's count had stopped at 8732. He still needed to kill over a thousand more.
His divine body had already burned away by 18 percent. He was running out of time.
Kill the ordinary Immortal Zerg first!
A glint flashed in Yan Ning's eyes as his form abruptly split into nine afterimages.
The bone blades of the Amber Crystal Blade Guards shattered eight of them, but struck only empty air. The real Yan Ning had already appeared at the other end of the battlefield, his War Blade sweeping up a towering blaze.
"Skyburner!"
His blade light poured down like the Star River, instantly enveloping more than three hundred Ordinary Immortal Zerg.
Under the full-power assault of a Peak King, these mass-produced warriors were as flimsy as paper. Their divine bodies disintegrated layer by layer beneath the crimson blade light.
[Kill Count: 9036/10000]
Purple Charm King's brow furrowed slightly. Her fingertips tapped the armrest of her throne without her realizing it.
She couldn't understand why Demon Flame King was so intent on slaughtering ordinary warriors. They were nothing but expendable units that could be replenished at any time.
Was he trying to indirectly inflict heavy losses on her by killing these ordinary Zerg Warriors?
But that made no sense. Their losses weren't remotely proportional.
In this situation, a normal person would either risk everything to kill her, though that was almost impossible, or simply run.
Who would go around relentlessly picking off an ordinary Immortal Zerg army like this?
"Pointless struggle."
She murmured to herself as another batch of eggs began hatching deep within the Hive Nest.
Yan Ning gave her no time to think.
He darted through the battlefield like a ghost, each time appearing exactly where he could avoid the elite Zerg and target the ordinary Immortal warriors. The World-Burning Flame on his War Blade grew more and more violent, scorching twisted cracks into the space along his path.
"Nine thousand seven... nine thousand eight..."
The Smart Optical Brain's count echoed in his mind.
Yan Ning's divine body had burned away by 22 percent, yet a savage curve lifted the corners of his mouth. Just two hundred left!
The World-Burning Flame on his War Blade suddenly contracted, condensing into a thin red line, finer than a strand of hair.
"Cut!"
This strike was faster than the very concept of time and space. Wherever its light flashed, more than three hundred Immortal Zerg Warriors froze in place.
Neat cuts appeared across their carapaces, and their divine-body cores were pierced with pinpoint accuracy.
[Kill Count: 10032/10000]
"Done!"
Yan Ning grinned wildly, then abruptly turned to face Purple Charm King.
As she stared at him in shock, he slowly raised his left hand and stuck up his middle finger.
"Purple-haired bug, next time we meet, I'll kill you!"
Without giving her a chance to react, his five-thousand-meter-tall divine body suddenly collapsed into a pinpoint of light.
"Whoosh—"
He accelerated in one-hundredth of a second, broke the speed of light, and plunged straight into the Dark Universe.
Then he performed tens of thousands of consecutive, ultra-short-range spatial jumps. Each shift precisely altered his spatial coordinates, until even the Smart Optical Brain could no longer calculate his exact location.
The starry battlefield abruptly fell into an eerie silence.
Purple Charm King stood with her red lips half-parted, her butterfly wings frozen in midair.
The five hundred Abyss Devourers she had carefully engineered were already forming an encirclement, only to find their prey had suddenly vanished.
"He... he ran?"
For the first time, this Zerg Mother Queen, who had dominated the Outer Domain Battlefield for hundreds of thousands of years, wore a blank expression.
She mechanically surveyed the Zerg corpses scattered everywhere, then lowered her gaze to the secret technique she had prepared for their final showdown. She hadn't even had the chance to use it.
They had just been fighting to the death. Why had he suddenly run?
Just like that?
Where had all that madness gone?
Where had all that bravado gone?
"Boom!"
The Hive Nest suddenly shook violently, and Purple Charm King's lovely face twisted into a hideous expression.
"Bastard!!!"
A shrill mental shock wave swept across several light-years, turning every meteor along its path to dust.
"You burned your divine body just to kill ten thousand of my trash?!"
"You flipped me off and then ran?!"
"Are all humans this shameless?!!"
She had indeed suffered considerable losses in this battle. Though, in her eyes, Yan Ning had suffered even greater damage, having burned his divine body for so long.
But the more she thought about it, the angrier she got!
What the hell was wrong with this guy?!
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