Many children, many blessings: Stealing the offspring of powerful figures to cultivate immortality.

The folded space inside the Guixu Furnace is extremely vast, with crisscrossing spiritual energy channels emitting a faint blue light.

Just as the four rushed into the core control panel, staring at the empty slot array eyes at a loss.

"Boom!"

The turbulent waters surrounding the furnace, which were not yet fully closed, suddenly emitted extremely violent spatial fluctuations without warning. The surrounding seawater seemed to be forcibly cleaved apart by some terrifying blade, emitting a deafening roar.

A massive Protoss submarine, its entire body a dark silver color and covered with barbs and killing star patterns, burst into the water with extreme arrogance, like a ferocious deep-sea shark!

The submarine's hatch suddenly opened.

The Protoss Vanguard Vice Commander wielded a heavy, two-zhang-long (approximately 6.6 meters) anti-ship sword, its blade still bearing the scorching heat of a starburst. His face was full of fierce features, and his eyes swept arrogantly over Jiang Yining and the others below.

Behind him, a hundred elite Star Guards at the peak of the Integration Stage surged out like a tide. Each Star Guard was clad in heavy Star Radiance Armor and held a fully charged Star Energy Spear. Their chilling killing intent instantly locked onto the entire area.

"Hahaha! So he was hiding here after all!"

The vice-commander raised his heavy ship-slaying sword, pointing it directly at Jiang Yining below, and burst into arrogant laughter, "The High Priest's astrological tracking is never wrong! You bunch of reckless wanted criminals, you won't escape today! Take them all down, dead or alive! Especially that woman, cut her belly open!"

Hundreds of elite Star Guards unleashed a deafening roar, their terrifying Nascent Soul stage aura coalescing into a tangible spiritual storm that arrogantly crushed towards the four.

However, Jiang Yining completely ignored the clamoring Protoss.

Her gaze, as if drawn by a magnet, pierced through the air and landed with remarkable precision on the belly of the massive submarine.

There, there is a specially made, fully transparent core power furnace.

At the very center of the reactor, suspended in the air, was an extremely rare crystal the size of a millstone, swirling with a dreamlike deep blue aura. The crystal was spinning at an incredibly frenzied speed, continuously providing the entire submarine with terrifying energy fluctuations.

It was the giant star marrow navel stone that they had been searching for in vain!

"Hmm!"

The moment the Myriad Spirits Divine Tree in Jiang Yining's dantian sensed that deep blue halo, it was like a peerless ferocious beast that had been starving for ten days and ten nights suddenly smelling the most exquisite delicacy, and it erupted with an extremely frenzied tremor!

The thick roots of the divine tree churned violently within the dantian, an overwhelming primal instinct to devour, impossible to suppress with reason, surging through the body like a tsunami. It urgently urged the mother tree to swallow the stone whole!

This sudden, overwhelming devouring instinct was far too powerful, completely exceeding the limits of Jiang Yining's physical body.

The violent surge of life force directly aggravated the old wound deep in her right shoulder, pierced by the Star-Piercing Nail. The previously suppressed meridian fire poison, taking advantage of the lull in the divine tree's outburst, launched a ferocious counterattack.

"Ugh—"

Jiang Yining's face turned deathly pale instantly, and large beads of cold sweat immediately covered her forehead. She couldn't help but let out an extremely painful groan, as if all the strength in her body had been drained in an instant. She staggered and fell directly onto the cold bronze deck.

"Ning'er!"

The moment Yu Luofeng saw Jiang Yining clutch her shoulder and collapse in pain, the string of reason in his mind snapped completely.

The pressure of a semi-saint level Asura exploded out!

Extremely pure, jet-black death energy surged out of Yu Luofeng's body, his black hair danced wildly in the wind, and his dark golden vertical pupils instantly turned into a blood-red color devoid of emotion.

"You bunch of scum, how dare you frighten her!"

Yu Luofeng let out a fierce, inhuman roar, and a ten-zhang-long white bone blade instantly materialized in his hand. Without uttering a word, he transformed into a black lightning bolt that tore through the void, violently crashing into the formation of the hundreds of Star Guards!

"Pfft! Pfft!"

The giant skeletal blade swung wildly like a meat grinder. The dozen or so Nascent Soul stage Star Guards at the very front didn't even have time to scream before they were sliced ​​in half, armor and all!

Severed limbs and severed arms, accompanied by an extremely pungent rain of blood, flew wildly through the air.

Yu Luofeng was like a true demon from hell, fighting against a hundred enemies single-handedly, unleashing an extremely bloody and frenzied slaughter within the enemy ranks. No defensive means could withstand a single strike from him; as long as the giant white bone blade grazed even the slightest part, a Nascent Soul stage cultivator's physical body would instantly explode into a cloud of blood mist!

But beneath this extremely frenzied and irrational slaughter, the mind of this semi-saint ghost king was incredibly meticulous.

While slashing the heads of three Star Guardians, Yu Luofeng meticulously extracted a wisp of his purest innate ghost energy from the deepest part of his dantian.

This extremely cold black mist, like a nimble, living snake, instantly pierced through the void and landed with pinpoint accuracy where Jiang Yining had fallen.

"hiss--"

The icy black mist seeped into Jiang Yining's slender, fair ankles without any resistance.

It clung to the delicate texture of her skin, climbing upwards with both domineering force and tender affection. Following the curve of her calf, past her rounded knee, it swam directly into her burning, fiery meridians.

At this moment, Jiang Yining's body was being scorched like a furnace by the raging fire poison. The moment this extremely pure Yin ghost energy entered, it was like a long-awaited rain after a drought.

Extreme cold and extreme heat clash and intertwine wildly within the meridians.

The black mist was extremely agile. Upon encountering the churning fire poison, it mercilessly enveloped and froze it with extreme cold. It traveled through Jiang Yining's internal organs, and the icy, bone-chilling yet highly soothing sensation made Jiang Yining involuntarily raise her slender neck slightly and let out an extremely suppressed gasp.

Yu Luofeng shattered another mech in mid-air, feeling his wisp of natal ghost energy swirling tenderly within her body, suppressing the fire poison that tried to harm her. His breathing became extremely heavy, and his killing actions grew even more ferocious.

"Monster! This guy is a monster!"

"Vice Commander-in-Chief, help! We can't hold them off!"

The Star Spirit Guards' agonizing screams echoed throughout the waters. In just a dozen breaths, Yu Luofeng had slaughtered half of the hundreds of elite Star Spirit Guards like chopping vegetables!

The Protoss Vice Commander stood on the submarine deck, his face contorted with grotesque convulsions.

He watched as his proud subordinates were crushed like ants under the giant white bone blade, and an extreme chill rushed from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

"Madmen...they're all a bunch of madmen!"

The deputy commander gritted his teeth and took two steps back. His gaze suddenly swept downwards.

The woman who had been lying on the ground had stood up again after the fire poison was suppressed. Her extremely eerie purple-gold eyes were fixed on the star marrow navel stone in the submarine's transparent abdomen!

The deputy commander reacted instantly.

These lunatics' goal wasn't to break out and escape at all; they wanted to seize the submarine's heart!

"Trying to steal Star Essence? Dream on! Since you all want it so badly, then you'll all be buried with it!"

A ruthless glint flashed in the deputy commander's eyes. He lunged at the control panel and slammed down the blood-red button that symbolized mutual destruction!

"Waaaaah—waaaah—!"

An extremely piercing self-destruct alarm instantly resounded throughout the entire deep water area.

Inside the submarine's core power reactor, the gigantic star marrow umbilicus stone, the size of a millstone, ceased its eerie blue operation. In its place, an extremely dazzling, destructive crimson light emanated from it!

The extremely violent energy began to expand wildly exponentially. Under the compression of this destructive energy, the surrounding space emitted a teeth-grinding "crackling" sound.

The deputy commander decisively activated the warship's highest-level self-destruct program, attempting to completely obliterate this space along with everyone present!

"Countdown! Ten breaths!" The extremely cold, mechanical female voice sounded from the control panel.

Feeling the terrifying energy storm, powerful enough to completely obliterate the void, rapidly gathering, even ordinary cultivators standing here would be terrified by the oppressive force.

But facing the starship that was about to explode, Jiang Yining showed no intention of backing down.

Her eyes turned into an extremely eerie purple-gold color, and the enormous phantom of the Myriad Spirits Divine Tree faintly appeared behind her slender back, exuding a terrifying vitality that suppressed eternity.

She abruptly raised her head, staring directly at the energy storm ahead, a storm capable of destroying everything in its path. Her voice was icy cold as she directly commanded Yu Luofeng, who was in mid-air: "Yu Luofeng! Cleave the core shield of the warship! I want to absorb this self-destructive energy!"