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

Jiang Yining's purple-gold eyes, which had previously held a hint of amusement, suddenly turned cold the moment she sensed the spatial fluctuations.

She didn't even change her posture, still leaning against the soft couch, but her extremely powerful Xuan Guang Realm divine sense was like a fine giant net, instantly locking onto the source of the fluctuations in the outer light shield.

In her field of vision, she clearly saw several Protoss spies, their bodies completely shrouded in invisibility cloaks and hidden in the shadows, crouching stealthily in the blind spots of the protective barrier. They held specially made boundary-breaking cones that emitted a ghostly blue light, attempting to silently penetrate the defensive array using the principle of spatial folding.

Gu Qinghan, Yu Luofeng, and Su Chenzhou in the courtyard also sensed the killing intent. Their killing aura surged instantly, and they turned around almost simultaneously, preparing to tear through space and crush these ignorant bastards into mincemeat.

"stop."

Jiang Yining's clear, cold voice wasn't loud, but it carried an absolute will that couldn't be disobeyed, forcefully pinning the three men, who were already brimming with murderous intent, to the spot.

She didn't even glance outside the hall, calmly extending a slender, fair hand and quickly forming several ancient and obscure hand seals in the air.

"Since a foolproof live target has been delivered to our doorstep, we might as well take this opportunity to personally test the combat power of this Divine Tree Island Protection Formation."

The moment she finished speaking, Jiang Yining slightly flipped her wrist, and the top-grade storage ring on her finger instantly burst forth with dazzling light.

"Splash—!"

The massive spoils of war captured in yesterday's battle on the deep seabed—priceless top-grade star crystals and indestructible heavy armor materials—were carelessly dumped onto the floor of the inner hall as if they were garbage.

In the blink of an eye, these unparalleled resources, enough to make the top sects of the Canglan Realm fight tooth and nail for them, were piled up into a glittering little mountain in the palace.

A surge of violent Xuan Guang Realm law power erupted from Jiang Yining's fingertips.

The purple-gold law light blades intertwined wildly in mid-air, like a terrifying furnace, forcibly melting the mountain-sized star crystal and heavy materials!

There was no extra refining process; it was purely an absolute crushing defeat in terms of realm.

Those indestructible materials instantly transformed into a scalding, energy-filled liquefied torrent. With a casual wave of her hand, Jiang Yining unleashed this priceless energy torrent, like a golden downpour, crashing onto the ground and forcefully merging into the parched veins of Abandoned Star Island.

"Buzz, boom, boom!"

As these resources were frantically piled up, the entire island began to emit terrifying roars. The already formidable defensive level of the Myriad Spirit Divine Tree, at this moment, seemed to have ascended a ladder to heaven, terrifyingly leaping to the quasi-saint level of defense!

The outer layer of purple-gold light shield instantly solidified into a solid, glass-like substance, with the array patterns flowing on its surface so complex as to be dazzling.

And at that very moment, the power of the formation surged and the laws of the entire island resonated.

The black-clad man, who had been lying peacefully on the soft couch, playing with the ghostly aura of the jade Luofeng, seemed to keenly sense the subtle malice emanating from the Star Spirit spies outside, directed at the palace.

The baby, who was only one day old and couldn't even speak, suddenly stopped what he was doing.

He lay quietly in his swaddling clothes, turned his little head, and his gaze went straight past the heavy palace gate and the distant distance, landing precisely in the direction where the spies were.

next moment.

A strange gray glint appeared in the depths of the boy's once clear, deep black eyes. That complex mark, representing the most mysterious and domineering law of life and death in the world, slowly began to rotate in his pupils.

He didn't cry or make a fuss, nor did he unleash any earth-shattering spiritual energy fluctuations. He simply raised his chubby little hand and gently waved it in that direction across the distant void.

This swing was utterly powerless.

Outside the island.

Those elite Star Spirit scouts, who possessed peak Nascent Soul cultivation and were tightly gripping the Boundary-Breaking Cone in an attempt to forcibly break the formation, were exchanging tactical hand signals just a moment ago.

next second.

The space around them, along with the steps they were about to take, was instantly frozen by a terrifying, reincarnation mark that transcended the Heavenly Dao.

They were given no time to react.

A pure and domineering law of lifespan deprivation completely ignored the advanced protective suits they were wearing, descending lightly upon their heads like the scythe of death.

There was no clash of spiritual energy, nor any mournful screams.

The moment those Nascent Soul stage scouts were enveloped by this strange law, their physical bodies seemed to be caught on an hourglass that had been sped up ten thousand times.

Their once plump skin began to wrinkle at a terrifyingly rapid pace, then shrank and lost its moisture. Their once strong bones became brittle and yellowed in less than half a breath.

In the blink of an eye.

Several living people, along with the star cores they were so proud of, were all reduced to withered and fragile white bones.

Immediately afterwards, a normal sea breeze blew across the edge of the formation.

"Whoosh—"

Those white bones, like sand sculptures weathered over millions of years, collapsed instantly, turning into a sky full of grayish-white ashes that scattered and dissipated in the cold void, not even a trace of their souls could escape.

This absolutely overwhelming talent, this terrifying method of directly stripping away lifespan regardless of the difference in cultivation level, caused the three men standing in the courtyard to catch their breath simultaneously.

Gu Qinghan's right hand, which was always steady when holding a sword, even twitched uncontrollably. Yu Luofeng's dark golden vertical pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints. Su Chenzhou gritted his teeth, the muscles at the corners of his eyes twitching slightly from extreme shock.

They witnessed this unbelievable scene, once again deeply shocked by the twins' extraordinary potential. These were no infants; they were clearly two ancient killing gods disguised as babies!

Faced with such terrifying talent, their meager attempts to win favor just now seemed utterly laughable.

To prove that he, as an elderly father, still held irreplaceable value in the eyes of this mother and child.

Without even a moment's hesitation, Gu Qinghan pulled out a purple-gold jade talisman engraved with the highest authority of the Pill Tower from his sleeve, and crushed it instantly with a forceful squeeze of his five fingers.

Yu Luofeng snorted coldly and crushed the black bone token in his hand, which represented the military power of the Ghost Realm's semi-saints.

Almost simultaneously, the two began contacting their respective backers and issued top-level orders without hesitation. They frantically mobilized the rare resources that had been sealed for thousands of years in the Pill Tower's medicine vault, as well as the top-grade Yin ore that had been nurtured for tens of thousands of years deep in the Ghost Realm.

A new round of blatant and brutal financial competition, where everyone throws their wealth at each other, has begun in this courtyard.

However, just as Gu Qinghan and Yu Luofeng were locked in a fierce battle, frantically mobilizing resources, they found themselves locked in a stalemate.

Su Chenzhou, who had been standing silently outside the palace gate like an iron tower, suddenly stiffened.

The fatal internal injury he sustained two days ago in the deep sea, when he used his physical body to forcibly block the Protoss main cannon to protect Jiang Yining, has finally erupted completely at this moment.

"Click...click..."

A piercing, chilling cracking sound emanated from deep within his chest. The Starfire Core within him, which had been supporting his immense life force, shattered at that moment, revealing countless deep, bone-revealing cracks.

Su Chenzhou's violent star power instantly dissipated.

The Starbreaker, who had spent years teetering on the edge of life and death, suddenly found himself in darkness.

His tall and robust body could no longer support him. Outside the cold, black jade palace gate, he suddenly knelt on one knee, spitting out a mouthful of black blood mixed with fragments of internal organs onto the stone steps beneath his feet.