"Modu, you have to wait for me!"
Inside the spaceship's main control room, Elijah looked anxious, his fists clenching involuntarily. Origin Force surged around him, turning into violent gusts.
"Modu, your big brother won't let you die. If you really are dead, I swear, no matter who the killer is, I'll kill him to avenge you!"
"Everyone connected to him-his relatives, friends, and even every member of his race-will be buried with you!"
Elijah's expression twisted savagely as he panted like a wild beast.
At that moment, he recalled the years he had spent growing up with Modu.
"Big brother, look! I've comprehended a domain."
"Big brother, I'll surpass you soon."
"Big brother, do you think we can gain a foothold in the universe?"
The two brothers had risen from a native planet, growing step by step into Domain Lord powerhouses.
They were brothers connected by blood, and they had faced life and death together for hundreds of thousands of years.
Elijah would never allow anyone to harm so much as a hair on his younger brother's head.
The D9-class Spaceship entered the Dark Universe, flew for an hour, then returned to the Primal Universe.
"Contact Modu."
Elijah gave the spaceship's intelligence an order.
The video call request went out, but there was still no response.
"Damn it!"
Elijah slammed a fist into the spaceship's cabin wall, his eyes bloodshot and his fury uncontainable.
The unease in his heart grew heavier and heavier.
The D9-class Spaceship sped through space, arriving outside Blue Radiance Star.
Elijah saw spaceship after spaceship fleeing Blue Radiance Star, along with an enormous mushroom cloud piercing its atmosphere.
The spaceship's intelligence scanned Blue Radiance Star and found no Domain Lords.
With things having reached this point, the outcome was easy to imagine.
"Who was it? Who killed my brother?!"
"Bastard! Don't let me find you! I'll tear you into ten thousand pieces, destroy your family, and slaughter every last one of your blood relatives!"
Elijah roared madly, tears streaming from his eyes.
"Master, we've detected a D9-class Spaceship with a Domain Lord Level 6 warrior inside."
Aboard the Dragon Abyss, Feiluan displayed a three-dimensional projection.
The image showed the interior of a spaceship, where a lizardman was roaring madly. It was none other than Elijah.
The Dragon Abyss's detectors were more advanced than those aboard Elijah's spaceship, so nothing inside his ship escaped Chu Yuan's eyes.
"Proceed as planned. Send him on his way!"
Chu Yuan gave the order coldly, his face expressionless.
"Understood!"
Feiluan answered cheerfully. The Dragon Abyss's dome opened, and its D5-class railgun deployed once again, gathering energy.
Star Pupil No. 1 also flew back out into space, shouldering the laser gun and aiming at Elijah.
"Charging complete. Fire the railgun!"
Blue light bloomed from the menacing muzzle, and the surrounding space faintly warped.
Boom!
A thick energy beam roared out, piercing the asteroid belt ahead and shooting toward Elijah.
At the same time, the laser gun activated as well. This time, it fired not one beam, but three.
The D9-class laser gun took five seconds to charge, after which it could fire three consecutive attacks.
Elijah was a Domain Lord Level 6 warrior, and he was aboard a D9-class Spaceship with stronger defenses.
To guard against any mishaps, Chu Yuan ordered Star Pupil No. 1 to fire three shots in succession.
One large beam and three small ones-four blue laser beams streaked across the starry sky, striking Elijah's D9-class Spaceship with pinpoint accuracy.
Boom!
The railgun's beam hit first, striking the spaceship's energy shield. It failed to penetrate, but greatly weakened the shield's defenses.
Seconds later, the first laser beam arrived, easily piercing the energy shield and striking the D9-class Spaceship's hull.
The tough D9-class alloy hull melted under the laser, leaving a massive breach.
The second laser beam passed through the breach and shot into the D9-class Spaceship, piercing layer after layer of cabin walls until it reached the main control room.
The third laser beam passed through unimpeded, striking Elijah with pinpoint accuracy.
"No!!!"
Elijah's eyes widened in shock and fury, their depths filled with terror.
He had never imagined that after killing Modu, the murderer would remain here instead of leaving and launch a sneak attack on him.
"Who is it? Who exactly is the enemy?"
Boom!
Elijah had no chance to escape. The laser beam roared past, engulfing his head and upper body and completely destroying his Life Core!
Rumble!
The D9-class Spaceship broke apart in space, exploding into a gigantic fireball.
Outside the Dragon Abyss, Star Pupil No. 1 immediately replaced the power unit after firing three consecutive beams and began charging again.
The D5-class railgun also began charging again, preparing for a second barrage.
Feiluan operated the detectors, continuously scanning the center of the fireball for Elijah's life signs.
Chu Yuan's expression remained tense as he asked, "How is it? Is he dead?"
Although the D9-class laser gun was powerful, there was no guarantee that something unexpected would not happen.
After scanning the fireball, Feiluan smiled and gave a thumbs-up. "No life signs detected. Elijah is dead!"
"Good!"
Chu Yuan clapped his hands hard.
"Congratulations, Master!"
The five Universe Level bodyguards behind him cheered as well.
Star Pupil No. 1 returned to the main control room. Looking at the laser gun in his hands, Chu Yuan remarked that the 7.2 Hunyuan Units had not been wasted.
Using a D9-class laser gun for a sneak attack really did make killing Domain Lords as easy as slaughtering pigs and dogs.
With Elijah and Modu both dead, the Radiance Empire had no Domain Lord powerhouse to oversee it and was destined for destruction.
The Dragon Abyss flew over, and Xingtong Two charged into the flames, retrieving the storage ring Elijah had left behind after his death.
After binding the ring to himself and inspecting its contents, Chu Yuan curled his lip disdainfully. "What a pauper."
Although Elijah had been the emperor of a low-tier Universe Country, he was not much wealthier than an ordinary Domain Lord.
Putting away the storage ring, Chu Yuan ordered the bodyguards behind him, "Black Blade One, Black Blade Two, Star Pupil No. 1, Xingtong Two, the four of you go to the Radiance Empire's Imperial Capital Star and proceed as planned."
"Yes, Master!"
The four answered respectfully, flew out of the Dragon Abyss, and departed aboard a C5-class spaceship.
With Chu Yuan and the two remaining bodyguards aboard, the Dragon Abyss turned around, accelerated into the Dark Universe, and vanished.
The Black Sand Galaxy lay on the outskirts of the Radiance Empire.
Of the several galaxies ruled by the Radiance Empire, this one had the fewest inhabited planets, with fewer than fifty thousand in total.
In an empty region of the Black Sand Galaxy, the Dragon Abyss landed on a planet roughly sixty thousand kilometers in diameter.
The entire planet was crimson, its surface covered in rolling mountain ranges and crisscrossing ravines, with no life present.
"Let's call it Red Earth Star for now."
Looking at the planet's harsh environment, Chu Yuan casually gave it a name.
After he had waited six days on Red Earth Star, a C5-class spaceship pierced the atmosphere and landed before Chu Yuan.
The hatch opened, and the four Universe Level 8 bodyguards-Black Blade One, Black Blade Two, Star Pupil No. 1, and Xingtong Two-stepped out.
Behind them followed more than two thousand Star Level individuals.
Their strength varied considerably. The weakest were only Stellar Level One, while the strongest were Star Level 9.
Without exception, all of them were descendants of Elijah and Modu's bloodlines-in other words, members of the Radiance Empire's imperial family.