The Golden Horned Beast held its head high, the two horns on its back gleaming gold. A flicker of satisfaction passed through its cold eyes.
According to the memories in its bloodline, this attack would be more than enough to kill that ant.
But the next moment,
Li Qingxu appeared abruptly above its head, his upper body bare.
A bloody gash crossed his chest. A thin line of bright red blood was just about to seep out when it vanished.
"Smack!"
Suddenly, a massive black hand swept through the air, blotting out the sky as it slammed into the Golden Horned Beast's head.
"Boom!"
It was like a bolt of thunder exploding. Golden and black energies surged wildly in every direction like a raging tide.
The Golden Horned Beast plunged into the ocean like a meteor.
Li Qingxu's figure vanished in an instant, chasing after it.
In the top-floor conference room of the War God Palace, their figures had disappeared from the image on the big screen.
But the life-detection equipment showed two exceptionally powerful life signs colliding again and again.
Their signals gradually fluctuated in strength, making it impossible to tell which was which.
Several dozen minutes later,
a streak of golden light pierced the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
Li Qingxu appeared above the water, his hair hanging loose around his shoulders and his upper body bare.
His chest was covered in dense wounds, but not a drop of blood flowed from them.
I've warmed things up for you. Now let's see if you'll show up.
Li Qingxu thought to himself. With a shift of his consciousness, his Communication Watch appeared.
He placed a call.
In the top-floor conference room of the War God Palace, Luo Feng's Communication Watch suddenly rang.
"It's Councilor Li!"
Luo Feng's exclamation drew everyone's attention.
He tapped to answer.
"Luo Feng."
Li Qingxu's voice came through the Communication Watch.
"Councilor Li, it's me."
Luo Feng answered at once.
The people around him were puzzled as to why Councilor Li had contacted Luo Feng alone, but they silently listened in.
"Luo Feng, do you want that Devourer Beast dead?"
"Of course!" Luo Feng replied without hesitation.
"Good. What if the price is your own life?"
Li Qingxu's calm voice rang out, and everyone present cried out in alarm.
"What's going on? Why would the Devourer Beast's death have anything to do with Luo Feng?"
Luo Feng was stunned by the question.
"Councilor Li? What do you mean? Why would I die?"
He quickly recovered, his expression changing dramatically as he asked.
"That's right, Councilor Li. Given Luo Feng's strength, I'm afraid he can't deal with that Devourer Beast."
The people around Luo Feng hurriedly spoke up as well.
But Li Qingxu's next words made everyone's expressions change.
"You should know that it's a Starry Sky Behemoth, with bloodline inheritances of its own. I've severed its limbs several times, but each time they've grown back within a few breaths. If I keep fighting it, I'm worried it may awaken more innate secret techniques. If it awakens an escape technique and comes back when it reaches adulthood, Earth will be doomed."
"Only a Soul Attack can kill it for good. So I need someone with sufficiently powerful Spiritual Force to help me destroy it completely."
"And among our human warriors, only Luo Feng meets the minimum requirements. But he has a ninety-nine percent chance of dying."
When he finished speaking, the entire conference room fell silent.
Everyone stared at Luo Feng, eyes wide. Councilor Li's words had shaken them to the core.
The Devourer Beast had already pushed them to the brink, even before reaching adulthood. If an adult Devourer Beast came, humanity on Earth would be finished.
But if Luo Feng went to help, he would truly die.
No one dared ask anything. They simply watched Luo Feng in silence.
"Councilor Li, is this really the only way? Does it have to be Luo Feng? Can't I do it?"
Hong called out, unable to hold back.
He couldn't bear to see such a young warrior go to his death, especially when he himself was still alive.
"Hong, I understand how you feel, but this is the only way. Otherwise, I wouldn't have asked Luo Feng. If I could, I'd already have traded my life for the Devourer Beast's."
Li Qingxu's voice carried deep helplessness—the helplessness of wanting to die alongside the Devourer Beast, but being unable to do so.
"But..."
"I'll go."
Before Hong could finish, Luo Feng interrupted him.
At that moment, Luo Feng wore a golden robe. His mind was calm and clear, and his eyes shone with a dazzling light.
Meanwhile, in the depths of his consciousness, Babata had gone completely frantic.
He had waited fifty thousand years for a successor like this, and now his only successor was going to his death.
How could he accept that?
"Good. You have one minute to say goodbye to your family. Hong, have your fighter jet take Luo Feng here. These are the coordinates."
As soon as he finished speaking, the call ended.
"Luo Feng..."
"Councilor Luo..."
The smiles had vanished from everyone's faces in the hall. They looked at the exceptionally young councilor with complicated expressions.
This powerful councilor, who was only twenty-two, was now going to trade his life for the sake of everyone on Earth.
At the Bright Moon Residential Quarter in Jiangnan Base City, Luo Feng knelt to bid his family farewell. Then he rose resolutely into the sky and boarded the Primordial Fighter Jet.
"Whoosh."
In the blink of an eye, the fighter jet turned into a streak of Flowing Light and disappeared into the night.
Inside the Primordial Wisdom Fighter Jet,
Luo Feng's expression was calm. No matter how much Babata tried to persuade him, nothing could shake his resolve.
His mind was made up. And after learning that Xu Xin was pregnant with his two children, he had only grown more determined.
"Luo Feng, I'll help you."
"Find five Planetary Level warriors to sacrifice themselves. Use the Six-Pointed Secret Technique to burn their souls, absorb them completely, and fuse them into the Void Tower. Then use the Void Tower's life-or-death technique."
Perhaps Luo Feng's determination had moved him, or perhaps there was another reason, but in the end, Babata relented.
"No, Babata. One sacrifice is enough. There's no need to make anyone else die."
Luo Feng's voice was low, but utterly firm.
"But what if your soul consciousness isn't strong enough? Then you'll die, and the Golden Horned Beast will still be alive!"
"Since Councilor Li called only for me, he must be absolutely sure."
Luo Feng had also wondered about that, but for his family and the children who hadn't yet been born, he had no choice.
Two hours later,
the Primordial Wisdom Fighter Jet hovered above the Pacific Ocean. When the hatch opened, Luo Feng stepped out in a black battle suit.
"Ready?"
Seeing the smile on Luo Feng's face, Li Qingxu walked toward him through the air.
If Luo Feng hadn't come, Li Qingxu really would have killed the Golden Horned Beast himself.
"I was ready while I was still on the fighter jet."
Luo Feng nodded.
In his sea of consciousness stood a blood-red tower. Its interior stretched vast and boundless, like the universe, and three blood-red Miniature Planets released wisps of red mist.
"Then let's go."
As he spoke, Li Qingxu placed a hand on Luo Feng's shoulder. He took one step, and they vanished in an instant.
Beneath the seabed, in the rocky layer thirty thousand meters below the surface,
the enormous Golden Horned Beast crouched in the darkness, faint golden light coursing across its body.
Its severed limbs and wings were already regrowing. Flesh knitted together, skin stretched across the wounds, and scales emerged.
But the next instant,
a golden fist came crashing down with terrifying force, as if it could suppress the very sky, and smashed into its head.
"Boom!"
The seabed trembled violently. Its head was smashed apart in an instant.
"Luo Feng! Now!"
Li Qingxu's figure appeared. As he shouted to Luo Feng, a golden sword formed from divine consciousness shot out from the space between his brows and into the Golden Horned Beast.
It struck true, pinning the transparent crystal inside it—the one that radiated golden light.
"Crack."
At the crisp sound, a tiny fracture appeared on the crystal's surface, and the golden sword vanished.
"Golden Horned Beast, die!"
A murderous glint flashed in Luo Feng's eyes.
"Go!"
An invisible Void Tower spun like a cone. It crossed the two-hundred-meter distance and plunged into the Golden Horned Beast's body.
"The rest is up to you, Luo Feng."
Li Qingxu stood quietly to one side, watching in silence.
A few breaths later,
the Golden Horned Beast suddenly erupted with a terrifying aura, like a star unleashing its power at the moment of its destruction.
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