"What did you say?!"
Jiang Yan's pupils constricted.
A chilling aura burst from his body, freezing the air around him.
Seven days.
He had spent seven full days cultivating without realizing it.
To him, it had felt like only a moment.
He immediately questioned No. 9 internally. The answer made his chest tighten.
Seven days had indeed passed.
So this is what they mean by… cultivation knows no passage of time.
"Open the hatch," Jiang Yan said coldly.
He didn't hesitate in the slightest, striding straight out of the resplendent golden hall toward the exit of the Meteor Star.
He didn't have many women.
Janet.
Jiang Fang.
Venina.
Enchanting.
If one of them was being hunted—
Who?
And by whom?!
"Hmph."
Babata snorted unhappily, but still deactivated the Meteor Star's stealth hatch.
The moment Jiang Yan stepped outside, No. 9 immediately alerted him—
dozens of missed calls.
countless unread messages.
Inside the Meteor Star, all signals were completely isolated. Not receiving anything for seven days was normal.
"No. 9," Jiang Yan ordered, his voice icy,
"Summarize everything. Prioritize the critical information."
"Yes, Master."
The intelligent light brain responded instantly.
Within moments, the situation became clear.
On the third day after Jiang Yan and Luo Feng entered the Meteor Star, several students had ventured into Kirishima again.
The island had become too quiet.
Too strange.
Someone recorded a video and uploaded it to the Warrior Forum.
And everything spiraled out of control.
In that video—
A plant spirit was visible.
From that moment on, powerhouses from every major force rushed toward Kirishima.
Then, wooden crystals were discovered beneath the island.
The result?
Kirishima completely exploded.
Even Hong and Thor personally arrived.
"Contact Hong immediately," Jiang Yan said.
As he moved at high speed toward the exit route, murderous intent flickered coldly in his eyes.
The one being hunted—
Venina.
Contacting her directly right now would be reckless. Any disturbance could expose her position.
Before leaving mainland Australia, Jiang Yan had clearly told her:
No matter what happens on Kirishima, stay inside the base city.
Venina had agreed.
Yet the chaos still dragged her in.
Worse—
Li Wei and his father were dead.
That shocked even Jiang Yan.
Li Yao was one thing—but Li Wei?
Kirishima had descended into madness, yet with Li Wei's strength as an Invincible God of War, why would he fight over a plant spirit?
Unless…
He had provoked a planetary-level existence.
As for their deaths—Jiang Yan felt no sorrow. Only mild surprise.
On the morning they left Australia, Jiang Yan had explicitly warned Li Wei not to join this life-or-death scramble.
He hadn't listened.
"Third brother, what's going on? I haven't been able to contact you these past few days."
Hong's voice sounded relieved when the call connected. He had grown anxious after being unable to reach Jiang Yan.
"Accidentally entered an ancient civilization ruin," Jiang Yan replied casually.
"Signals inside were blocked."
He was about to ask Hong to use the God of War Palace's information network to locate Venina—
When his expression suddenly changed.
Through his spiritual perception—
He heard someone shouting Venina's name.
As Earth's strongest spiritual chanter, Jiang Yan's telekinetic range spanned tens of kilometers. His senses were terrifyingly sharp.
"Venina—stop struggling! Hand over the wooden crystal!"
"Brother Hong, I'll contact you later."
Without hesitation, Jiang Yan severed the call.
Dozens of flying blades burst from his storage ring.
Under his spiritual control, they fused into a conical cutting formation, spinning at terrifying speed as they tore through the underground rock layer.
The stone was like tofu.
A passage was carved instantly.
Meanwhile — Underground Dark River, Kirishima
Venina fled desperately along the riverbed.
Her face was deathly pale.
Her combat uniform was soaked red with blood.
She was heavily injured.
"Not good…"
Her steps halted abruptly.
Ahead—
The underground river ended.
What remained was only a narrow fissure, far too small to pass through.
With her strength, she could carve a path through the rock—
But it would be slow.
And behind her—
A presence far beyond the God of War level was closing in.
"Am I… really going to die here today?"
Venina clenched her teeth, eyes burning with unwillingness.
She had already obtained a wooden crystal.
Yet at the critical moment, it was stolen.
Worse—rumors had been deliberately spread that she still possessed one.
She instantly became everyone's target.
"Damn Nehru…"
The one who attacked her and seized the crystal was Nehru of India—a planetary-level spiritual chanter.
She had been completely outmatched.
If not for that ambush—
She might already have broken through to the planetary level.
"Heh heh… Venina, why aren't you running anymore?"
A leering voice echoed through the dark river.
A shadow floated forward, suspended in midair.
Planetary level.
"Hand over the wooden crystal," the man laughed darkly.
"And don't worry—I'll enjoy a beauty like you before killing you."
Venina sneered coldly.
"Yamamotochuan. Don't think I don't know you're working with Nehru."
"You—a defeated dog of a fallen nation—dare bark at me?"
The pursuer was Yamamotochuan.
In the past, Venina had beaten him into the ground like a stray.
A Japanese warrior from a collapsed country, long since absorbed under India's shadow.
Just yesterday, he had still been a high-level God of War.
Only after using a wooden crystal did he break through to planetary level.
Venina was certain—
He had used her crystal.
Otherwise, how could trash like him ever obtain such a treasure?
"This time isn't last time," Yamamotochuan snarled, face darkening.
"You still dare talk like this?"
"Looks like you won't cry until you see your coffin."
Then—
BOOM!!
The rock wall in front of Venina exploded.
A roaring conical cutterhead burst through, spinning violently.
A cold, domineering voice echoed through the underground river:
"I'd also like to know—"
"Who gave you the courage…"
"…to touch my woman."
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a poem written by my brother on river Ganga after watching documentary by Jeremy Wade , I thought I should share with people and this is the only platform I use where if posted more than 10 people will watch
{will ask him to write this in english as well because when i tried google & gpt both butchered it}
भीषण हो रहा अन्याय,हे देवव्रत,
मैली कर दी जटाये, टूटा हर व्रत
पावनता में घोल हलाहल,
डुबकी मारे सब नारी नर,
आन पड़ा ये भारी संकट,
माता का है अंत निकट