Translator: CinderTL
Silent and imperceptible.
Under the Great Void Destruction Sword Intent, the Scarlet Sky Sword was utterly undetectable to all silicon-based lifeforms. Their sensory systems, detection arrays, and radar networks were completely unable to register the Scarlet Sky Sword, cloaked as it was in the Great Void Destruction Sword Intent and Mind Power.
Flames erupted from the lead Sixth-Tier Battleship, spreading with terrifying speed.
The second, the third, the tenth, the thirtieth, the hundredth...
A fiery line tore through the two thousand Titan Battleships with impossible swiftness.
In just 7.6 seconds, the entire first column of one hundred ships was completely pierced through.
Titan Race members stationed at the rear, whether Fourth-Tier or Fifth-Tier, frantically maximized their scanning power, yet remained utterly unable to pinpoint the source of the attack.
Helplessly, they watched as an indiscernible entity—whether a physical object, a form of energy, or an incomprehensible method of assault—carved a path of utter devastation through their two thousand Fourth-Tier and Fifth-Tier Titan Battleships with unstoppable force.
After obliterating the first column of a hundred warships, the source of the attack seemed to pause.
Or perhaps it hadn't hesitated at all.
In less than half a second, flames erupted at the opposite end of the fleet.
The attacker had doubled back, launching a second assault.
Or rather...
It unleashed a second wave of annihilation!
This time, it took only 7.6 seconds.
The second column of a hundred warships was pierced through!
Then came the third, fourth, fifth...
One by one, the warships exploded in mid-air, transforming into dazzling fireworks against the cosmic backdrop.
Sensing the impending doom, the remaining silicon-based lifeforms scattered in panic. But the attacker was too fast.
So fast, they had no time to react.
At best...
Their chaotic formation, no longer resembling the orderly grid of lines, forced the attacker to make slight directional adjustments, adding fractions of a second to its movements.
After 2 minutes and 57 seconds...
Li Chunjun's figure materialized.
The Scarlet Sky Sword returned to his body.
Less than three minutes had passed.
From the moment the lead Sixth-Tier Battleship was ambushed and obliterated in a dazzling explosion of flames, to the complete annihilation of the entire fleet of two thousand ships, less than three minutes had passed.
Flickering flames still occasionally erupted from the silicon-based lifeforms. Countless fragments, infused with scorching heat and blazing fire, shattered apart and scattered in all directions, propelled by the force of the explosions. They resembled clusters of molten iron blooming into fiery flowers.
Su Fang, Yu Jin, and the others watched this spectacle with a mixture of inevitability and indescribable visual shock. For Empress Elsa of the Wood Spirit Clan, who was witnessing Li Chunjun's power firsthand for the first time, the experience was utterly breathtaking.
In that moment, she seemed to have forgotten how to breathe, how to speak. Her mind went completely blank as she stared at the radiant spectacle outside the warship, the lingering glow illuminating the steel graveyard of the battlefield. For a brief time, her ability to think completely deserted her.
But Li Chunjun didn't allow them much time to dwell on the spectacle.
"Check the wreckage," he ordered. "Bring back any usable materials."
Li Chunjun issued instructions to Yu Jin, Su Fang, and the others.
Then, with a step that seemed to defy reality, he manipulated the Spatial Laws, compressing the Void before him.
In the blink of an eye, he stood before the Sixth-Tier Titan.
Witnesses struggled to discern whether Li Chunjun had closed the distance to the Titan Battleship, or whether the space around the warship had actively contracted to meet him.
Thanks to his swift execution of the silicon-based lifeform using the Great Void Destruction Sword Intent, its database remained remarkably intact.
Though not all of Li Chunjun's knowledge would be stored there, the unique structure of silicon-based lifeforms still promised a wealth of valuable information from its data archives.
Moreover, the Sixth-Tier silicon-based lifeform itself was a valuable raw material.
With skilled Primordial Spirit True Monarchs specializing in artifact forging, extracting one or two portions of Sixth-Rank Material would be a trivial task.
Of course, every advantage came with a trade-off.
The warship held great value, but...
Li Chunjun's consciousness flickered to check the status of the Human Emperor Banner.
"Killed a Level 30 creature! Experience +1331!"
"Killed a Level 29 creature! Experience +531!"
[ Life Level: 33 (19,664/300,000) ]
The experience gained from the Titan Race was pitifully low.
It paled in comparison to the experience from Heart Demons, which benefited from additional buffs, and even fell short of the experience offered by Believers who had devoted half their souls to Divine Spirits.
Surprisingly, even the Level 27 and 28 Fifth-Tier Titans, who should theoretically have granted experience, yielded none at all. This gave him a new understanding of the hierarchy of these intelligent beings.
The quality of their souls was barely superior to that of ferocious beasts.
"As one of the more powerful silicon-based races, Titans typically reach Third-Tier combat strength upon reaching adulthood, equivalent to a Core Formation Cultivator..."
Li Chunjun examined the data on the Sixth-Tier Titan.
It was undeniable that many races in the Cosmos possessed innate advantages far surpassing those of the Human Race.
"This Lesser Thousand World is a Second-Tier Administrative Region of the Titan Empire, governed by a Council of Elders composed of twelve Sixth-Tier Titans. Originally, its population exceeded sixty million, but after a spatial storm, it dwindled to forty million. Among them are approximately one thousand Fifth-Tier Titans and around one hundred thousand Fourth-Tier Titans..."
By accessing the Sixth-Tier Titan's database, Li Chunjun quickly gained a comprehensive understanding of the Titan Race's strength.
His knowledge extended beyond this particular Titan to encompass the entire Titan Empire—a nation of silicon-based lifeforms who called themselves the Titan Race. While undeniably more powerful than the Wood Spirit Empire, their situation was actually worse.
The Wood Spirit Clan, thanks to their ability to cultivate plant spirits, enjoyed the protection of the Immortal God Race, the overlords of this Great World.
But the Titan Race...
Their souls were of such poor quality that the Immortal God Race paid them little attention.
Even their immunity to Heart Demons proved useless, as their scanning systems struggled to precisely locate these entities. As a result, they were deemed ineffective in the Immortal God Race's war against the Heart Demons.
Deemed worthless, they were forced to dwell on the fringes, huddling together for warmth and clinging to survival in the cracks of the world.
Fortunately, the Titan Empire boasted an Eighth-Tier Titan known as the Titan Emperor. Beneath him were thirty-six First-Tier Administrative Regions, each governed by a Chief Elder who was a Seventh-Tier Titan.
This formidable power, combined with their distance from the Immortal God Race's core territories, ensured the Titan Race's continued existence.
"The Immortal God Race, descended from the Divine Race, isn't particularly skilled in crafting, so the Titans hold little value for them. But for humans, these silicon-based lifeforms can provide abundant materials for artifact crafting."
Having gained a thorough understanding of the Titans in this Lesser Thousand World, Li Chunjun abandoned his caution.
His gaze shifted to the distant location of the Council of Elders in the Titan Lesser Thousand World—a colossal tower so tall it could be seen even from space.
As if detecting the disturbance on the battlefield, squadrons of silicon-based warships materialized around the tower, rising into the void. Waves of energy rippled from the world itself, coalescing into a protective barrier designed to shield the entire Lesser Thousand World from external threats.
"You need two sets of materials from Sixth-Tier Titans, right?" Li Chunjun called out to Su Fang and Yu Jin, who were collecting materials on the battlefield behind him.
"If we could get a few more, it would give us more room for error and further shorten the repair time," Yu Jin immediately replied.
"Alright," Li Chunjun agreed, and the Spatial Mysteries within him began to vibrate. The void around him gradually twisted and distorted.
A formidable spatial force enveloped Li Chunjun, relentlessly crushing the surrounding space. It felt as though someone were forcefully pressing down on a planet's crust, attempting to shatter it completely.
Had any other Core Formation or Nascent Soul cultivators—or even First or Second Tribulation Primordial Spirit True Monarchs—approached Li Chunjun at that moment, their bodies would have been brutally reshaped by this terrifying distortion, twisted into grotesque forms. Even their Primordial Spirits would have been affected.
Even if they unleashed their most potent Mystical Powers, they wouldn't be able to break free from the spatial distortion. The twisting force would systematically dismantle their physical structures, leading to certain death.
As the distorting force reached its peak, the Void suddenly collapsed—as if the planet's crust had been pierced through. The terrifying energy contained within erupted violently.
Unlike a natural explosion, however, Li Chunjun had already drawn his sword. Its tip pointed directly toward the Lesser Chiliocosm where the Titan Race resided, far in the distance.
Under the violent force of the collapsing Void, a Void Bridge materialized beneath his feet, instantly spanning the billions of miles between them.
His entire being, twisted by the warping of space and time, transformed into a streak of Seven-Colored Rainbow Light and hurtled toward the Lesser Chiliocosm.
The speed of light, after all, was a mere 600,000 kilometers per second.
Normally, traversing billions of miles would take several hours, but the Seven-Colored Rainbow Light, warped by distortions in time and space, surpassed the speed of light.
Less than a second after its launch, it had already crossed four to five billion miles, crashing violently into the Titan Race's Lesser Chiliocosm with a deafening roar.
To Su Fang, Yu Jin, and the others watching from afar, the Seven-Colored Rainbow Light resembled a star-destroying cannon fired from another celestial body, instantly shattering the protective barrier surrounding the Titan Lesser Thousand World.
The shimmering, translucent barrier visibly crumbled before their eyes.
With it went the Titan Lesser Thousand World's extremely harsh atmosphere, saturated with vast quantities of nitrogen.
A gaping hole was torn through the atmosphere, sending concentric ripples of gas spiraling outward into the surrounding space.
Even Yu Jin, Su Fang, Liu Feng, Dong Xuan, Elsa, and the others, observing from billions of miles away, could clearly witness the cataclysmic event.
To the titans of the Capital City, it was divine retribution descending from the heavens, utterly obliterating their newly activated protective barrier.
The Elder Tower, a landmark that had stood for countless millennia in their Administrative District, the very symbol of its supreme authority, erupted in a dazzling, brilliant light during this sudden divine punishment, illuminating the atmosphere like a newly kindled sun.
Amid the intense light and scorching heat, the age-old Elder Tower crumbled with a deafening roar, its foundations finally giving way.
Before the horrified gazes of countless lower-tier titans, powerful Elder Guards, Fifth-Tier Titans, and even several Elders themselves, engulfed in raging flames, plummeted like fiery debris alongside the tower's wreckage, crashing into the earth.
Accompanying the falling flames, tower fragments, and titans was a majestic voice, so powerful it echoed throughout the Lesser Thousand World:
"Submit, or be destroyed?"
(End of the Chapter)
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