What trash is coming? I'll play you to death.

Sack's body seemed to house some primordial beast, and an invisible pressure spread out from him.

The instant Dabo came into contact with it, his whole body trembled. He collapsed limply inside the control room, his eyes unfocused.

"So strong, so strong. Is this King Sack's power? Even weakened, just a tremor of this aura could shake me to death.

How can someone be this powerful? If Woli and the others knew, would they regret it?"

Dabo struggled to breathe, yet the burning fire in his heart only blazed hotter.

Every time Sack inadvertently revealed his strength, it was like a shot to the heart, wrapping Dabo's trust in a thick shield.

The Heaven and Earth Furnace continuously drew in and released the powerful energy of the starry sky. His eyes were like stars, and mighty ki filled his entire body.

Sack did not covet any of it. He kept pouring it into the Giant Elephant Particles and the awakened giant elephants.

He understood that to do a job well, one must first sharpen one's tools.

Once that ultimate move was completed, his future path would be smooth.

No, that was not quite right. He did not understand that thing called rules, and he did not know whether he could control them.

If he could not, he was not sure whether he could simply stack power and brute-force his way up.

Great masses of ki entered the particles. Inside Sack's body, it sounded like beans being fried, and another ten giant elephants awakened.

The moment they awakened, the giant elephants transformed, shrinking without limit and entering his spine, suppressing the alternate space with even greater violence.

He had to subdue it and turn it to his own use.

The giant elephants changed too quickly. His flesh had not had time to strengthen yet, and as the battle raged inside him, too much dense ki piled up. His body could not bear it, and with a series of cracking bursts, it split open.

In an instant, blood poured from Sack's body like a fountain. The entire outer cabin was filled with the scent of blood. It was not fishy, but carried a faint fragrance, an indescribable smell.

"Damn it, if only it liquefied. I remember that guy's ki had already crystallized when he was in the aura-bursting stage with just a few giant elephants. Mine is this fierce already, so crystallize already! Lay an egg or something!"

Before long, warm currents rose through his limbs and bones. His body gradually grew stronger, and his wounds quickly scabbed over, faded, healed, and in the end did not leave even the slightest scar.

Sack adjusted direction. Ninety-nine percent of his ki was poured into the awakened giant elephants to help suppress the alternate space, while the remaining one percent was evenly split in two, one half poured into the particles and the other nourishing his body.

And so, Sack and Dabo temporarily stopped in this stretch of starry sky, constantly improving.

Every day, Sack would enter the inner cabin of the spaceship to rest. Once he was in good condition, he would appear in the outer cabin again and receive the baptism of various energy storms in space.

From time to time, thunderous booms rang out from within his body. When he encountered large storms, even more ki would leak out, and when the spaceship's energy conversion system detected it, it would automatically absorb it and turn it into spaceship energy.

At Sack's spine, more than thirteen thousand giant elephants surrounded the alternate space in tight circles. Above them, the Heaven and Earth Furnace was like a canopy, firmly suppressing the alternate space and preventing it from closing, allowing the giant elephants' energy to continuously strike into it, sworn to overturn heaven and earth inside.

Sack's strength was growing every moment, but tragically, he still could not use any power at all.

Dabo worked even harder, constantly tormenting his own body, causing his combat power to rise rapidly.

Two light-years away from Sack's location.

A fleet of nine spaceships slowly approached this way.

"We hit it big this time, haha."

"Heh heh, Boss, those idiots in the Galactic Patrol must be totally clueless."

"Haha, of course. How could this Passerby A's schemes be something those fools can compare to?"

"Boss is mighty."

"Boss is strong."

"Boss is a horse-wrangling man," one underling suddenly said.

"What did you say?" Passerby A glared viciously at the underling who had spoken last.

The underling looked utterly serious.

"Boss, the horse-wrangling man is mighty and strong. The horse-wrangling man lives in my heart."

The boss's expression eased. He bared his teeth, extremely satisfied.

"Mm, not bad. You have real talent for performing. From now on, whenever the team needs any entertainment or performances, you'll be fully in charge."

The underling who had spoken was overjoyed, wishing he could kneel down and kowtow in thanks.

"Boss, once we sell this batch of energy blocks, our space fleet can expand to thirty ships."

"Good. And there'll still be enough left over to support our fleet. We must—"

"Grow bigger and stronger, and create new glory!"

The underlings answered in unison, their voices shaking the spaceship.

"Good. Move out. We'll head to the star system up ahead and rest there."

"Yes."

The underlings all got to work. Six days later, the spaceships arrived at the star where Sack was located.

"Boss, there's a spaceship up ahead."

The boss, who had been wallowing in luxury and pleasure, leapt up with a bang, so anxious his face crumpled like a chrysanthemum.

"What? The Galactic Patrol is coming after us?"

"No, boss. There's only one ship, and it's not a patrol ship either."

The boss let out a breath of relief and slapped the reporting underling on the head.

"That'll teach you to jump at shadows and scare me."

After saying that, a vicious glint flashed through Passerby A's eyes.

"Though there isn't much profit in it, we're the Cosmic Star Path. Even a passing meteorite has to take a shot from us.

Come on, rob him. If there are any beauties you like..."

"Woohoo! Boss is mighty!"

"Boss is imposing!"

"Boss is a horse-wrangling man!"

"Great King, nine spaceships are heading toward us. They look like space pirates."

Sack opened his eyes, a savage gleam flashing through them.

"All kinds of trash dare come looking for trouble with me. Watch me play you all to death."

"Don't worry. I'll deal with him."

Dabo was dumbfounded. They had been here for two years. Could it be that the Great King's strength had recovered?

Could he deal with this bunch of petty thieves riding in spaceships now?

Sack said nothing.

In two years, his Heaven and Earth Furnace had absorbed a massive amount of energy, and the number of giant elephants inside his body had reached thirty thousand. Once he recovered, his strength would start at least in the millions.

Elsewhere, he might not have had a way, but in the environment of space, with the Heaven and Earth Furnace constantly adapting to all kinds of cosmic rays, playing with this gang of space pirates would be no different from playing around.

Just then, a storm swept past. The Heaven and Earth Furnace breathed in and out energy, feeding Sack a great deal of qi.

Sack was overjoyed. Even the universe was helping him.

How could this gang of space pirates possibly keep playing?

He manipulated his powerful qi, condensing a Vitality Furnace outside his body.

Sack's body erupted with rhythmic humming, the tissues and organs throughout his body activating in concert and driving the Vitality Furnace outside him.

The furnace twisted and shook, and endless cosmic storms gathered toward it.

Like iron drawn to a magnet, they gathered thicker and denser.

Sensing the ships drawing ever closer, he saw all their various weapons opening one after another, aimed at their spaceship.

On the ship's public channel, voices even appeared, shouting for them to surrender.

The corner of Sack's mouth hooked up, and an evil, charming smile appeared on his face.

It had been so long since he had made a move. He wondered what would happen after he sent out this strike that exceeded his current ability.

"Go!"

The Vitality Furnace, carrying countless storm energies, howled out of the spaceship's outer cabin.

"Boss, they're not giving face to you, this horse-wrangling man."

"Hmph." The boss's expression was dark and ruthless.

"Send small ships over. We'll cover you with long-range firepower.

I'll let him know the mighty, imposing power of a horse-wrangling man."

"Oh yeah! Boss is mighty!"

"Show them some color!"

The other side had not shut off the public channel, so Sack heard their conversation loud and clear.

A sudden reluctance to kill them rose in his heart.

They were just too cute.

How nice it would be to let them wander through the boundless starry sky.

Unfortunately, there was no extra qi in his body, so he could not control the qi-formed Vitality Furnace.

When he had plenty, he could control it a little. Now that he had too little, he could only stare helplessly.