Song Chen turned, and the ninth strike of Star-Splitting Slash cleaved toward the tentacled powerhouse.
The tentacled powerhouse had already fled toward the outside of the cavern under cover of the spore poison cloud, but the blade light of the ninth strike was far faster than him.
The blade light pierced through the spore poison cloud, severed his four tentacles, and split his body in two from crown to sole. The dozens of miniature psionic cores scattered throughout his body were all shattered by the ninth strike's vibrations.
Immediately afterward, the eighth strike swept back at the burly powerhouse, shattering his last miniature psionic core.
Before the spiked powerhouse could fully disintegrate, Song Chen found his still-undispersed consciousness core and nailed it to the surface of the Star Core with a single strike.
[Seventh-Rank Peak Blood-Eclipse powerhouse killed. Obtained 92,004,780 Killing Value.] [Seventh-Rank Peak Blood-Eclipse powerhouse killed. Obtained 91,855,442 Killing Value.]
The Star Core's collapse reached its critical point the instant the spiked powerhouse was killed.
The silvery-white iron-nickel core exploded from within, and the radiance swallowed the entire underground cavern.
One-tenth of a second before the blast wave reached his body, Song Chen activated the Void Leap of the Silver Radiance Battle Armor. He did not activate its full effect, only a small portion—but it was enough.
Five million kilometers away, in an empty stretch of space, a rift was torn open, and a dark-gray figure rolled out of it.
Song Chen steadied himself and looked back.
KG-11 exploded in the distant starry sky behind him.
The explosion of this planet was insignificant on the scale of the universe, but to him, it was more than shocking enough.
The planet, eight thousand eight hundred kilometers in diameter, first split across its surface with countless silvery-white veins of