Old Scores to Settle in the Void Space

Rumble--

The two heavy iron gates of the Gothic castle slowly slid open.

A strong, pungent smell of blood mixed with an ancient, decaying odor emanated from the depths of the main hall.

Two figures emerged from the shadows and stepped onto the black soil plain.

Leading the way was the patriarch, Solus, the Inheritors, who wore a long robe with gold trim and had a full head of white hair.

Half a step behind him was the ace hunter, Morlun, dressed in an elegant tuxedo.

When Morlun's gaze swept across the plain and landed on the familiar figure in the black trench coat, his elegant steps abruptly halted.

Morlun's pale face twitched violently, and his scarlet eyes were instantly filled with uncontrollable madness and bottomless fear.

"It really was you..."

Morlun stared intently at Jiang Li, his voice as grating as fingernails scraping against glass.

"What? You see someone you know and don't even say hello?"

Jiang Li stood with his hands in his trench coat pockets, looking calmly at Morlun.

"Last time I threw you into that ' Void Space ' where Time Stream, you were completely decomposed. I never expected that you could crawl out like a cockroach."

Upon hearing the words "Void Space," Morlun's breathing instantly became rapid, and his body instinctively tensed up.

That was the most terrifying nightmare of his long life.

Jiang Li didn't even glance at him; with a casual wave of his hand, he tossed him into an absolutely dark dimensional prison. There was nothing there; even the concept of space didn't exist.

In order to escape from that garbage can that could devour even light, Morlun sacrificed tens of thousands of his bodies in the backup cloning pool and exhausted the totem foundation he had accumulated over thousands of years, barely managing to tear open a crack and crawl back into Universe-001.

"Thanks to you, I experienced the agony of being dismembered ten thousand times in that Hell."

Morlun gritted his teeth, veins bulging on the back of his hand, gripping his cane tightly.

"But this pain has also made me evolve completely! Jiang Li, you deliberately ran to the Loomworld today, this is the biggest mistake you've ever made! I will drain your Soul Stone inch by inch!"

"Step back, Morlun. Your fear has robbed you of the dignity of a hunter."

A deep rebuke interrupted Morlun's roar.

Chief Solus, leaning on his scepter, stepped forward. He glanced at his twin children, whose legs were broken and who had fainted from the pain, on the ground. There was no pity in his eyes, only indifference towards the weak.

Then, Solus's gaze settled on Jiang Li.

As an ultimate predator who has lived for countless eons, Solus's perception far surpasses that of Morlun. He can clearly sense that within the human before him lies a life energy as vast as the cosmic ocean, unlike anything he has ever seen before.

This energy is ten thousand times purer than the Captain Universe (Enigma Force) he once absorbed!

"Humanity."

Solus looked down at Jiang Li with an air of extreme greed in his murky eyes.

"Morlun fears you because he is too short-sighted. In my eyes, you are merely a perfect feast that will allow me to transcend the Multiverse completely."

"Yeah?"

Jiang Li chuckled softly.

"Then you can try taking a bite. I'm just worried your old bones might not have the teeth."

"Arrogant!"

Solus snorted coldly and slammed his scepter to the ground.

Boom!

The black earth beneath Solus's feet instantly collapsed. This elderly patriarch unleashed an absolute speed ten times more terrifying than that of the twins Daemos!

Before Gwen's Spider-Sense could even react, Solus had already appeared in front of Jiang Li as if by teleportation.

The withered yet godlike hand pierced the sound barrier and gripped Jiang Li's shoulder tightly!

Your power is mine now!

Solus laughed maniacally, a blinding crimson light erupting from his palm. He unleashed the ultimate absorption ability of the Inheritors, attempting to drain Jiang Li dry in an instant.

Gwen's heart tightened, and she was about to make a move.

"Don't move," Jiang Li said, his back to Gwen.

Faced with Solus's frenzied consumption, Jiang Li not only did not resist, but instead slowly raised his left hand.

"Since you're so hungry..."

Jiang Li pressed his thumb heavily on the watch face.

"Then I'll let you eat your fill."

Buzz--!

A blinding green light suddenly erupted.

But this time, no flesh and blood appeared in the green light.

An indescribable, terrifying heat, accompanied by a radiation field powerful enough to distort the surrounding space, instantly swept out from where Jiang Li stood!

The green light dissipated.

A humanoid alien, two meters tall and covered in heavy white-green mechanical armor, appeared before Solus.

His chest and the joints of his limbs were all transparent energy chambers. And surging inside the chambers was the purest, most intense energy of miniature stars undergoing frenzied nuclear fusion!

Galvan System, Unknown Nuclear Energy Inhabitants.

[Atomix]!

"Beep beep--Warning! High-energy nuclear fusion reaction detected!" The Alliance bracelet on Gwen's wrist, which had been repaired, instantly emitted a piercing radiation alarm.

"What?!"

Solus, who was frantically sucking Jiang Li's blood from his shoulder, froze in his maniacal laughter.

He felt that what he was inhaling was not some sweet life force at all.

Instead, it was an entire sun exploding as a Nova that was poured into its body!

"It's hot... it's so hot!"

Solus's eyes widened, and a piercing scream ripped through the plain.

His skin, as hard as a god's, began to emit a blinding white light the moment he inhaled this pure nuclear energy, and you could even clearly see boiling magma flowing in his veins!

He tried to let go, but Atomix's thick, armored arm gripped Solus's wrist instead.

Why are you running?

Atomix's voice, filled with a mechanical, synthesized tone and clear, professional pronunciation like a news anchor, rang out, yet it exuded absolute coldness.

"Don't you guys love absorbing other people's energy the most?"

The reactor in Jiang Li's chest emitted a light brighter than the sun as he stared at the old vampire struggling in agony.

"If we don't drain the nuclear reactor out of my body today, you dare to give in?"