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Chapter 239 The Mind Circuit of a Strong Person

After Tiandao's figure disappeared at the end of the park road, the timeline of the side story jumped directly to one month later.

Desolate, lifeless, and oppressive.
In the scene, Tiandao's home, which had been filled with the warmth of cooking just a month ago, now looks as if it has been more than ten years, full of the marks left by time.

The walls covered with spiderweb-like cracks and the ceiling stained with numerous dark yellow patches from water stains all testify to the changes in the city in just one month.

As the camera zooms out, viewers quickly see a bizarre urban steel jungle covered in vines and moss, enveloped in dense vegetation.

Tiandao sat on the old sofa in the center of the living room, with daily necessities such as chocolate, canned goods, and batteries piled on the coffee table in front of him.

He gazed out the window at the lush vegetation that had sprung up wildly in just one month, and muttered to himself, "It's only been a month, and it's already like this?"

“Those strange energies are indeed a bit magical.”

The audience immediately understood what this strange energy was—it was 'stellar energy'.

The fact that an eight-year-old child like Tiandao, who had never been exposed to any knowledge of star energy, could sense the changes in star energy during the beast tide was undoubtedly an extraordinary feat.

This is further combined with what Tiandao said not long ago: "The taste of the wind has changed."

The anime audience instantly understood.

'An eight-year-old can sense changes in stellar energy in the air on his own? Lao Tian's talent is practically cheating!'

'Lao Tian's talent must be the absolute ceiling of the entire Star Realm, right?'

"It's hard to say. Isn't it said that Grand Master Ennet is the strongest Star Envoy of our time?"

'The Grand Master is the strongest of our time, but Lao Tian is clearly the strongest of all time!'

Amid the discussion among the dimensional viewers, Tendou, who had already rested, picked up the last piece of milk chocolate on the table, unwrapped it, and walked to the balcony.

The evening breeze lifted his silver hair, revealing the faint scar on his neck from last week's battle with the star beast, which had not yet completely faded.

A month passed, and he didn't look any different; he was still that harmless-looking eight-year-old child.

But as the camera followed his gaze across the street, a post-apocalyptic urban ruin instantly came into everyone's view.

On the dilapidated streets, the wreckage of abandoned cars twisted into bizarre shapes, shop windows shattered into fragments, and exposed wires on streetlights hissed and sparked, casting flickering shadows on the ground.

However, what is even more shocking is the skeleton scattered around the streets, like 'garbage'.

Some of these bones were stuck in the gaps in the railings, while others were half-hidden by vines.

In a silent way, they tell everyone about the calamity that this city is experiencing.

Less than 20 meters from the balcony, at the entrance of the residential area, lay the corpse of a huge creature.

It was a star beast with a head and body nearly five meters long, resembling a wild boar, with wrinkled, grayish-black skin and a poisonous mushroom on its back with an open cap as big as a round table.

At this moment, not only was its entire body charred black, but the ground around it was also covered with charred black marks, and the air was filled with a faint smell of gasoline and burnt fuel, clearly indicating that it had been burned to death by flames.

【Name: Mushroom Pig】

[Level: Level 1]

[Features: Omnivorous animal; the poisonous mushrooms on its back can release hallucinogenic spores that induce a hallucinogenic effect in any creature that inhales them]

Tiandao first glanced at the corpse of the mushroom pig he had killed, then looked down at his own arm.

Yesterday, while fighting with this mushroom pig, he was cut on the arm by the mushroom pig's tusks, leaving a deep gash that exposed the bone. But now, when he touches it, it only feels slightly itchy.

He chewed the chocolate in his mouth, feeling the sweet energy slide down his throat. A slight stinging sensation came from the scabbed wound, a signal that new tissue was growing.

“The frequency and strength of the prey are both increasing.” Tiandao stared at the mushroom pig’s corpse for a moment, then looked up at the setting sun that was about to sink below the horizon in the distance, and said meaningfully, “This means that the powerful predators have left, otherwise they would not dare to approach this place casually.”

As soon as the words were spoken, a flashback scene suddenly appeared in the anime.

Two weeks ago, late at night, the window of the room where Tiandao was located was suddenly shrouded in a huge shadow.

He sat up and, through the gap in the curtains, saw a colossal creature, over a hundred meters long, passing by outside the residential area.

Its enormous size caused the ground to tremble slightly with every step it took, and its scales gleamed with a cold, metallic luster under the moonlight.

Ordinary people are as insignificant as ants in the face of that monster.

Fortunately, the monster only glanced in the direction of the residential area and left, seemingly having no interest in hunting a group of 'ants'.

This is what prevented the Heavenly Dao from being forcibly 'offline'.

As the recollection ended, Tiandao turned his gaze toward the direction where the setting sun had disappeared.

At the same time, this is also the direction in which that giant creature left.

Gazing at the blood-red horizon, the Heavenly Dao in the image suddenly laughed.

His dark eyes sparkled with excitement, like a child who had discovered a new toy.

"Everyone says natural disasters are terrible, but when I saw them with my own eyes, I realized that so-called natural disasters are actually quite interesting."

Looking at the young-looking Tiandao in the picture, and his fearless yet excited eyes.

The dimensional audience was stunned.

'Is this how the strong think? Natural disasters are just fun toys to them? Hagiwara, you bastard!'

'With this mentality... no wonder you're so arrogant. If you can't succeed, who can?'

'At eight years old, I'm not going to be number one in the world anymore. At eight years old, why can't I be number one in the world?'

As the comments scrolled by, the sky outside the balcony gradually darkened.

Nighttime is when the survivors go out.

Similarly, Tiandao also chose to go out at this time, but his reason for going out was different from others.

Others go out to find supplies for survival, but Tiandao is looking for something special that only exists inside star beasts, something that can make him feel 'warm'.

At that time, he didn't know that it was called a star core.

But the instinct of 'hunger' within him made the Heavenly Dao instinctively search for those things and constantly hunt down the 'prey' that appeared around his neighborhood.

Scattered lights flickered in the city ruins, signals that survivors were venturing out under the cover of night to search for supplies.

At that moment, Tiandao picked up his empty backpack, turned around, and left the room.

The hunt has begun.

After leaving the residential area, Tiandao followed the faint stellar energy fluctuations in the air and arrived at a nearby supermarket in the neighborhood.

The supermarket's glass doors were shattered, and the sounds of rummaging through the collapsed shelves, along with men's cursing, could be heard.

A group of uninvited guests, having taken the first step of the Innate Dao, arrived here.

(End of this chapter)