Almost didn’t hit the mouth there! Blood Shadow Divine Movement is so fast!!
"Beichen Nine Luminaries Divine Slaughter Blood Punishment Yao Guang Division Blood Sea Sword Roar Fenji Technique!"
After two probing moves, Tie Dan had already figured out the space-age tactics for dealing with interstellar beasts. He flicked his hand and tossed out eight Blood God’s Sons to orbit around him, manifesting a ninefold Blood God’s Son Dharma Body, layered and overlapping like multiple afterimages. Then those nine Blood God’s Sons each drew nine more Blood God’s Sons in rapid succession! Sword Control strike! A volley in one wave!
"Swish swish swish!"
In an instant, eighty-one Blood Swords shot out wildly! Dense as a Blood River, they poured straight at the manta ray in a concentrated barrage! Blasting forth! The manta ray was scared half to death at the sight! But being scared was useless! It was locked on by Tie Dan’s Primordial Spirit! Algorithm fully cracked! Sword speed overwhelming! Like target practice! Where could it possibly run to! It was immediately battered on the head by that dense swarm of Blood Swords!
"Shua shua shua!"
In that moment, Meteor Sword Falling, blood rain pouring down, eighty-one Blood Swords punched so many holes in those magnetic storm waves that they were riddled like a sieve! Within the magnetic barrier, the explosions kept splitting the swords apart! A chaotic hail of swords! Tens of thousands of Blood Swords came pouring down like a storm! Blasting out a Blood Sword tempest! Blood light surged and flared! The manta ray was shredded within that rain of blood and Sword Burst! Its wings, tail and membrane were all covered in sword light! Sliced to pieces in no time! Chopped until flesh and blood flew everywhere! Beaten until its mind broke!
Useful!
Very useful!
Keep using it!
Anyway, he’d just harvested a whole bunch of Blood God’s Sons!
"Shua shua shua!"
"Shua shua shua!"
"Shua shua shua!"
So in that instant Tie Dan flicked his hand and launched three more volleys in a row, and the guy on the other side just straight up surrendered.
Yeah, surrendered—just in the blink of an eye. Even though Tie Dan had only used a total of five moves, that manta ray had at the very least been hacked in the face with thirty-three thousand swords in combo; no matter how hard its head was, it had been shaved flat. How would it dare keep tanking that; it immediately wailed at the top of its lungs, full-screen broadcast, Cosmic Domain announcement, saying: stop hitting me, stop hitting me, I surrender, I surrender.
Actually, Tie Dan wasn’t some utterly deranged maniac; it’s just that his previous opponents’ HP bars were really too low and couldn’t even take a single sword, so they never gave him a chance to show mercy. Of course, mainly he was in a hurry to catch a ship back now; Returning Void Level animals were rare to begin with, and killing them without even eating them would be such a waste...
That said, one had to admit this manta ray’s HP bar was seriously solid. After being chopped by so many swords, not only did it not die, it even had the strength to shout surrender. Truly worthy of being an interstellar beast, a Seventh Level wild animal. Tie Dan couldn’t help getting curious; using Blood Shadow Divine Movement, he flew up to the manta ray’s face for a closer look.
By now the manta ray had been hacked till it no longer looked like a manta ray, Cut up like sashimi. It could only whimper and wail, begging: Supreme, spare me, Supreme, spare me, this little one was just passing by now and then, I didn’t know the Sect Hierarch was vacationing on this ship; this little one is willing to serve at your beck and call, to await your orders...
Tie Dan said curiously, "How do you know the Sect Hierarch really likes taking you lot as flunkies to order around at will?"
The manta ray said,
"Yes, yes, there’s long been word on the streets that the God Sect Leader likes collecting small animals. As long as they’re willing to submit, the Divine Sect will take them in; they might even become a Guardian Sacred Beast somewhere.
But back in the day, we were mighty overlords of our own domains, dominating the heavens, roaming the Void in freedom—how carefree we were. How could we ever be content to languish beneath others for long! To be enslaved by people! To be someone’s Mount!
Ahem, but after seeing the Sect Hierarch’s Divine Power today, I finally realized that beyond the seas there are seas, beyond the heavens there are heavens; this little one simply didn’t know how high the sky and how vast the sea were, and thus offended the Sect Hierarch’s Divine Power..."
Tie Dan saw how smoothly this guy switched identities, going straight from a regional overlord to willingly lowering himself into a "small animal," and asked,
"Where are you ranked among the Saturn Alliance’s Seven Venerables, Ten Elders, and Forty-Two Emperors?"
The manta ray chuckled awkwardly,
"Heh heh, such a lowly name isn’t worth mentioning; that’s all in the past anyway. This little one is willing to take his master’s surname—please bestow me a name..."
Tie Dan said,
"Soul Searching Technique!"
The manta ray wailed,
"Spare me, spare me! Don’t hit me anymore! I wouldn’t dare hide anything from the Sect Hierarch! This little one’s stage name is Emperor Wen Yao, ranked thirty-second among the Forty-Two Emperors. I originally cultivated under the Mother of All Gods and came to the Final Battle by my mother’s command!"
Tie Dan was curious,
"Is your ranking list arranged by Combat Power? How many of those behind you can one ahead of you beat?"
The manta ray was speechless,
"How many do you think—we’d be lucky to beat even one, all right! We are at least beings of the Refining God and Returning Void Stage! As long as we all swarm up together, then even those ranked much higher would..."
Tie Dan said,
"Soul Searching Technique!"
The manta ray said,
"Hey hey hey! The Seven Venerables are Taoist Ancestors at the Transcendance Tribulation Stage; we naturally can’t be compared with them! Among us at the Refining God and Returning Void Level, the Ten Elders are in a class of their own; the rest of the Emperors are actually about the same in strength. It’s just that those who came through the gate earlier have had more time to grow, so they naturally grew a bit bigger, and the power they’ve recovered is naturally a bit greater..."
Oh, so in the end it’s arranged in the order of the transitions between movements...
Tie Dan also rolled his eyes,
"There’s this dark-skinned Cangming Sea Queen or something, do you know her?"
Hearing the other side even state her title and appearance, the Manta Ray hurriedly confessed,
"Know her, know her, she’s my side piece, ah no no no, she’s just someone who runs a shop at the Age Star Market! Because she got the Divine Mother’s True Inheritance, she counts as everyone’s little Junior Sister. I was just bored out of my mind, occasionally helped look after her business, and played around with her with my Primordial Spirit Emergence, that’s all!
Just now she sent me a Divine Sense transmission, saying the legion Heavenly Demons injured her Second Primordial Spirit and she was summoning a bunch of friends from the Saturn Alliance to come help. My flesh body just happened to be nearby, so I came over to take a look, it really was just a coincidence that I passed by ah ah ah ah! Spare my life ah ah ah ah!"
Tie Dan couldn’t be bothered to care whether it just happened to pass by or came specifically to rescue. He pointed with his hand, and with a swish-swish-swish sashimi-style slice, he turned the remaining eight Blood God’s Son sword transformations around him into swords, planted them into the Manta Ray’s body along the way, using its whole mass of broken blade and Broken Sword to form a Sword Array Seal. Then he pointed at the Jizhou, which had just left the speed bump, suddenly slingshotting into acceleration, shooting toward Outer Heaven like a meteor.
"Follow it! Use your Magnetic Shield to protect my ship. If you can’t protect it, I’ll eat you!"
The Manta Ray was on the verge of tears. Having fallen under someone’s control, it could only bow its head and submit.
Tie Dan also tugged on the spider thread, used Blood Shadow Divine Movement, and flew back into the cockpit.
"You, you, you..."
Hou Gu, in the cockpit with a holographic projection, naturally had perceived and observed this entire clash at Refining Void Level. Seeing Tie Dan return to himself, his knees unexpectedly went weak, and he dropped to the ground with a thump, prostrating himself,
"I actually didn’t know it was a Supreme arriving; I failed to welcome you from afar—no, I was lacking in Ritual..."
Tie Dan snorted,
"Hands on the controls! Watch the road!"
"Yes yes yes..."
If earlier he’d still despised the Saturn Alliance guys as trash who couldn’t even hold out for one pot of tea, now Hou Gu already felt the other side was insanely strong—to actually last for one pot of tea...
No! Those few exchanges just now weren’t nearly enough time for one pot of tea! It was one round of output, biubiubiu, a few volleys of focused fire and it all blew up, okay! And the most ridiculous thing was this guy’s flesh body didn’t even move, what the hell! He was using his Blood God’s Sons, what the hell!
Are you kidding! With the same thousand Blood God’s Son combat configuration, some people can only sit on the ship all furtive and stingy, operating and picking options like they’re running an election! This guy casually fired fifty shots and directly turned forty-two Lords’ bellies inside out! A Refining Void Level Lord got beaten like a dog, what the hell!
With grades this outstanding and being publicly funded to study abroad in the cosmos, how could Hou Gu not know what kind of God-level being was in front of him. With technique this exquisite, to be able to unleash that kind of output, he had to be at Ten Extremes Venerable Level...
No no no! In fact, the Divine Sect’s Ten Extremes Venerables probably couldn’t even pull this off! Those Dharma Kings or whatever, Hou Gu had seen them during public lectures at the Main Altar! Everyone only recently learned there are realms beyond Divinity Transformation, and they’re all still in the Cultivation phase, pretty much on par with the Saturn Alliance over here!
So the New Divine Sect is basically held up by the God Sect Leader alone! This kind of output—aside from the Sect Hierarch, who else could do it!
Got it, Hou Gu got it.
It’s the Sect Hierarch.
This has to be the Sect Hierarch! Definitely the Sect Hierarch’s Outer Body Incarnation!
Right! The Sect Hierarch loves to appear and disappear without a trace and collect strange pets! He must have already set his eyes on this Yazi!
Didn’t he just say that sending the flesh body to the Sect Hierarch could earn great merit!
Not revealing his true body yet must be to guard against that old Void Star bastard’s schemes, secretly helping him complete the mission!
With a whole round of intense mental fanfic, Hou Gu no longer dared to stick his sword into the Jizhou. He hurriedly focused completely, standing at the control console, operating the panel and piloting the ship properly.
The Jizhou, on the other hand, wasn’t surprised. After all, from the start it had known that Tie Dan was a man who could become a final battle weapon, a man who could become its master. It still sat quietly in the captain’s chair, looked at Tie Dan,
"You want to go home that badly? Is there someone on Earth waiting for you?"
Tie Dan gazed at the sea of stars and said calmly,
"Who knows. They’ve probably all long since died."
The Jizhou said,
"If they aren’t dead? You want to bring the Eternal Garden back to Earth and give them one more path to survival?
But this time, even we might not have a path to survival."
Tie Dan fell silent for a moment.
The Jizhou said,
"Anyway, tickets can be paid by card. Kids under one sequence get half price. Direct relatives get a twenty percent discount."
Tie Dan, "Mm."