I can receive unlimited protection; my parents handed me over to the state.

A deathly silence.

Inside the bridge of the Pangu Temple, you could hear a pin drop.

On Earth, all the cities watching the live broadcast fell into an eerie silence.

Everyone gaped, eyes wide, as if petrified, staring motionlessly at the empty universe on the screen.

What just happened?

What about those monsters?

What about that terrifying red nebula?

How... did it just disappear?

Just like that... gone in a flash?

A good ten seconds or so passed.

Holy crap!!!

A deafening shout erupted from Xiang Batian's mouth, shattering the silence.

He stared at the screen, then at the slowly retracting cannons on the Pangu Temple, completely dumbfounded.

"This...this is the treasure the boss was talking about...the 'Research Department'?"

"Is this some kind of planet-destroying cannon?! One shot, one S-class? And it's 3,600 of them firing simultaneously?!"

Gu Tianye also looked dazed, and he murmured, "I feel... like we're... no longer of any use..."

They trained hard and finally increased their strength, ready to show their skills.

As a result, before they could even make a move, the enemy... was gone.

They were instantly wiped out by a volley of fire from their own "fortress".

This feeling is like you've sharpened your knife, ready to slay a dragon, only to find that the dragon has already been killed by a passing strongman with a slipper when you arrive at its lair.

A strong sense of shock and... a slight sense of frustration welled up in the hearts of all the "League of Gods" elders.

"That's it? It's too weak!" Lu Yuan stared at the empty star map, looking utterly disappointed. "Old Qian, couldn't you have turned the power down a bit? At least leave a few survivors so my team could practice!"

"You've turned everything to ashes, how am I supposed to recycle the materials? You're committing a crime! Do you understand?!" Lu Yuan accused him with a pained expression.

Qian Sen: "..."

I fucking...

Qian Sen felt he was more wronged than Dou E.

Didn't you just say with a look of disgust that they weren't even enough to fill a tooth gap, and told me to go straight for a saturation attack?

Why are you blaming me now for cleaning it too thoroughly?

Being your subordinate must be so difficult!

However, just when everyone thought the battle was over.

"Alarm! Alarm!"

"A super-giant high-dimensional energy reaction has been detected!"

"The enemy's main force...has arrived on the battlefield!"

The piercing alarm sounded again.

On the star map, the cleared area of ​​space distorted violently, like boiling water.

Immediately afterwards, a shadow, countless times larger than all the previous Void Hunters combined, slowly... squeezed out from the distorted space!

What kind of monster was it?

Indescribable.

Its main body resembles an irregular planet with a diameter of over 10,000 kilometers, haphazardly pieced together from countless twisted flesh, pale bones, and shimmering crystals.

On the surface of this "planet," tens of thousands of tentacles, as thick as mountains, extend out. At the end of each tentacle is a gigantic mouth covered with sharp teeth, emitting a silent roar.

In the center of its chaotic body, an enormous single eye, seemingly formed from pure malice and madness, slowly opened.

The moment that eye opened, an extremely terrifying mental storm swept across millions of kilometers and instantly engulfed the entire Pangu Temple!

"Buzz—"

Inside the bridge, apart from a few people like Lu Yuan and Qian Sen who were protected by the power of chaos, all the researchers and officers instantly bled from all seven orifices, clutching their heads and collapsing to the ground in agony.

In their minds, it was as if billions of voices were screaming, cursing, and roaring at the same time, and their reason was being torn apart madly.

On the deck, the "God's Legion" reserve members who had just passed the first round of trials and were still relatively weak collapsed in droves, foaming at the mouth, on the verge of mental collapse.

Even seasoned warriors like Gu Tianye and Xiang Batian felt dizzy, as if their souls were being pulled away by that gaze.

"snort!"

Mu Bingli snorted coldly, and with a wave of her hand, an ancient zither appeared out of thin air.

With a light touch of her jade-like fingers, a clear and cool note, as pure as moonlight, instantly spread out, neutralizing most of the frenzied mental storm.

"All things return to one, protected by the elements!"

Lin Ziling also reacted. The staff in her hand shone brightly, and a huge shield composed of countless elemental runes enveloped the entire Pangu Temple, further weakening the aftershocks of the mental impact.

"That's interesting."

Lu Yuan sat in the command chair, looking at the enormous monster on the star map. Instead of fear, his face showed a hint of interest.

"A mental attack? Or a map-wide attack covering the entire battlefield? This guy must be the 'governor' or 'commander' of this wave of Void Hunters, right?"

He reached out and gently grasped at the void.

He drew an invisible wisp of spiritual energy, filled with madness and malice, from the air and condensed it into a small, struggling black ball in his palm.

"Hmm... the energy composition is very complex, full of negative emotions, but at its core is a very pure 'distorted' rule." Lu Yuan savored it carefully like a gourmet. "It should be good as a 'mental pollution grenade' or as an appetizer for Ye Cang's [Asura]."

As he spoke, he casually tossed the small black ball to Ye Cang, who was standing to the side.

Ye Cang expressionlessly reached out and caught the small ball. The demonic blade [Asura] in his hand emitted an excited hum, and the blood-red patterns on its blade seemed to come alive, instantly devouring the black ball completely.

"The taste... is alright," Ye Cang commented succinctly.

Seeing this scene, Gu Tianye, Xiang Batian, and the others finally recovered from the mental shock they had just experienced.

"Damn it! This big guy's weird!" Xiang Batian shook his still-heavy head and cursed, "I almost fell for its trick!"

"Boss, give the order! Watch me chop that big eyeball of its with one axe!" Gu Tianye roared, carrying his battle axe, his fighting spirit soaring.

He'd been holding back his temper after being overshadowed by Pangu's railgun. Now that a decent behemoth had finally arrived, he couldn't wait to get in and wreak havoc.

"What's the rush?" Lu Yuan glanced at him. "The main character always makes their appearance at the very end."

He pointed to the star map, where around the enormous "Eyeball Monster," tens of thousands of small and medium-sized Void Hunters were once again emerging from the distorted space.

"See that? The 'appetizer' before the main course has been served again."

"This time, there are more items, and the variety is more diverse. Perfect, it'll be a good opportunity for you to practice."

Lu Yuan stood up, stepped down from the command platform, and came to the front of the "God's Legion".

His gaze swept across the face of each team member.

"Obey my orders!"

"Gu Tianye, Xiang Batian! You two, take the front! Hold off all the biggest and strongest ones! Don't let them disrupt our formation!"

"Yes!" the two replied in unison, rubbing their hands together excitedly.

"Yan Ji, Mu Bingli! You two, take charge of the left and right flanks! One of you use fire, the other ice, give me a 'Fire and Ice Dual Attack'! Divide the battlefield! Don't let them get together!"

"Understood!" Yan Ji and Mu Bingli exchanged a glance, one's eyes blazing with flames, the other's eyes freezing with frost.

"Ye Cang, Liu Wuhen! You're assassins, responsible for decapitations! Keep an eye on those who might shoot sneak attacks or pull stunts! Especially those who can use mental attacks, chop them up immediately!"

"Yes!" In the corner, Ye Cang and Liu Wuhen's figures quietly blended into the shadows.

"Lin Ziling, you're in charge of battlefield analysis and command support! Mark all the enemy's weaknesses! Anyone who attacks the wrong spot and wastes energy will be punished by copying 'Fundamentals of Materials Science' ten thousand times when we get back!"

"Received, Teacher Lu!" Lin Ziling adjusted her glasses, her eyes sparkling with intelligence.

"As for the others..." Lu Yuan looked at the slightly weaker but still highly motivated official team members and reserve elites, "Your task is... to clear out the weaker ones!"

"But!" Lu Yuan's voice suddenly rose.

"Listen to me, you fucking idiots!"

"Fight all you want, but don't break anything!"

"Let me emphasize this again! These are extremely precious, renewable, and strategic-grade forging materials!"

"Breaking my legs is fine, but don't destroy my energy core!"

"Cut off the tentacles, fine, but don't shred my central nervous system!"

"If anyone dares to turn a complete 'epic-grade material' into a pile of 'rare-grade fragments,' I'll strap them to the cannon barrel and launch them, letting them experience firsthand what it means to be 'dust to dust, ashes to ashes'!"

The pre-battle pep talk was so bizarre that everyone was stunned.

Other commanders would order their soldiers to fight bravely against the enemy, at any cost.

How come when it comes to them, it becomes "Be careful when fighting, don't damage the spoils"?

However, this "Lu-style" command did not seem absurd to them; on the contrary, it swept away all the tension and fear in everyone's hearts.

Yeah, what's there to be afraid of?

In the eyes of their great commander-in-chief, this was hardly a world-destroying army.

This is clearly a... large-scale, open-air, seafood buffet!

"Did you all understand?!" Lu Yuan roared.

"Understood!" everyone shouted in unison, their voices filled with excitement.

"Okay!" Lu Yuan nodded in satisfaction. "Then..."

"Dinner's ready!"

"Awooo—!"

Gu Tianye was the first to roar excitedly. His massive body instantly transformed into a ferocious behemoth, hundreds of meters tall and incorporating the characteristics of countless ferocious beasts. Like a meteorite, he was the first to break through the energy shield of [Pangu] and meet the surging tide of monsters!

"You brute!" Xiang Batian cursed disdainfully, but his movements were anything but slow. He activated his deep Titan bloodline, his body swelling to the same height, and the [Heaven-Opening] battle axe in his hand was wrapped with heavy earth power, following closely behind!

"kill!"

"The Legion of Gods," strike!

The battle erupted instantly!

The entire outer edge of the solar system was transformed into a magnificent yet bloody battlefield.

Yan Ji transformed into a gigantic fire phoenix with a wingspan of a thousand meters, showering down fiery rain that turned vast swathes of the sky into a burning sea of ​​fire. Countless Void Hunters howled and struggled amidst the flames, yet they could not extinguish the Phoenix True Fire clinging to their souls.

Meanwhile, Mu Bingli sat upright in the void, the ancient zither playing mournful, plaintive music. Wherever the music enveloped the area, time and space seemed to freeze; grotesque monsters were instantly solidified into lifelike ice sculptures, then, with a crisp cracking sound, turned into cosmic dust.

Lin Ziling hovered at the highest point of the battlefield, her eyes now transformed into a waterfall of countless data streams.

"At the left flank, three o'clock position, the 'Void Ripper' has its weak point at the junction of its third and seventh limbs, the energy cycle node!"

"Xiang Batian, beware! The 'Heavy Crusher' in front of you has an energy-counteracting coating on its shell; conventional attacks are ineffective! Attack its abdominal breathing opening!"

"Gu Tianye! Don't fucking bite it! That 'Corrosive Jet Beast's' bodily fluids are highly acidic! Do you want to get a stomachache?! Use your [Thousand Transformations Soul Axe] to switch to 'Petrification' form and subdue it first!"

Precise instructions were issued from her and transmitted to the minds of every team member.

Under her command, the entire "League of Gods" was like a sophisticated war machine, efficiently and deadly reaping the lives of its enemies.

Lu Yuan, meanwhile, leisurely sat back in his command chair, crossed his legs, sipped his juice, and watched the bloody battlefield on the screen. Every now and then, he would offer a few comments like a food critic.

"Hey, look at that idiot Gu Tianye, he's using brute force again! I told him the thorns of that 'Crystal Spike Beast' are good stuff, they can be used to make enchanted needles, but he insisted on breaking them off! What a spendthrift!"

"Tsk tsk, Mu Bingli's fighting is still the most beautiful, elegant, and pleasing to the eye. It's just a bit of a waste. Look, she froze that 'Frost Worm' into an ice sculpture, what a fine specimen it would have been, but she had to shatter it. Now it can only be eaten as a shaved ice."

"Hmm? That newbie is pretty good. He actually knows how to paralyze his opponent with a mental shock first, and then cut the energy pipes with a spatial blade. Hmm, he's got potential. I'll give him a credit later and reward him... by cleaning my warehouse for a month."

His relaxed and carefree demeanor made it seem as if he were watching a movie that had nothing to do with him.

Qian Sen and Su Lie, standing to the side, were completely numb.

They discovered that they simply couldn't understand Lu Yuan and his army using normal thinking.

This is hardly a war.

This is clearly a bunch of... robbers, gleefully... "buying goods"!

On the battlefield, the fighting was fierce.

After their initial impressive performance, the "League of Gods" quickly ran into trouble.

There are just too many Void Hunters.

Moreover, they come in all sorts of strange and varied kinds, and their abilities are also incredibly diverse.

"Captain! Help!"

A young member who had just joined the Legion of Gods let out a terrified cry for help.

His name is Li Mo, and he has awakened the A-level talent [Metal Control], which allows him to manipulate metal to transform and attack. Among the newcomers, he is already considered one of the best.

At this moment, he was being chased relentlessly by a strange Void Hunter, with nowhere to run or hide.

The Void Hunter resembled a giant jellyfish, its entire body transparent and radiating a kaleidoscope of colors. It had no physical form, appearing as a mere illusion composed of light and shadow.

All of Li Mo's metal attacks, whether sharp blades or high-speed projectiles, passed through its body as if passing through air, causing it no damage whatsoever.

The attack method of this "jellyfish" is also extremely strange.

It continuously emits rings of colorful light from its body.

Any matter swept by the halo, whether it is cosmic dust or meteorite fragments, will be randomly "transformed" into something else in an instant.

A stone can instantly transform into a bouquet of flowers.

The wreckage of a warship can be turned into a cotton candy in an instant.

The huge shield that Li Mo had just used for defense was swept by a halo and turned into a lively... pink bunny.

Looking at the rabbit kicking its legs aimlessly in space, Li Mo's worldview was about to collapse.

How can we fight like this?

Immune to physical attacks, or is the ability "Random Polymorph"?

This is a complete bug!

"Damn it! What the hell is this thing?!"

Li Mo dodged another wave of light that swept over him in a sorry state; he felt that his energy was almost exhausted.

Just then, the "jellyfish" seemed to lose patience. Its huge body suddenly contracted and then opened up!

A seven-colored beam of light, more dazzling than any of the previous halos, like a sword of judgment, instantly locked onto Li Mo and shot straight toward him!

Li Mo's pupils shrank sharply. He could sense that he absolutely could not dodge this attack!

He could even imagine being struck by that beam of light and turning into a pile of shit or a toilet.

"Damn it, even if I die, I'll tear a piece of flesh from your body!"

In desperation, Li-Mo also became ruthless. He abandoned all defense, gathering all the remaining energy in his body into his right fist, preparing to perish together with his opponent.

However, at this critical moment...

A lazy voice suddenly rang in his mind.

"Idiot, who told you to go head-to-head with him?"

It's Lu Yuan's voice!

Li Mo was overjoyed, like a drowning person grasping at the last straw.

"Captain! This thing is immune to physical attacks, I can't hit it!" he shouted hurriedly.

"Who said it's immune to physical attacks?" Lu Yuan's voice was full of disdain. "Do you even see things with your eyes? It's not that it doesn't have a physical form, but rather that its 'physical form' exists in another dimension! Your attack didn't even hit it, of course it was useless!"

"Another dimension?" Li Mo was stunned.

"I don't have time to explain higher-dimensional physics to you," Lu Yuan said impatiently. "Listen to my instructions. Now, abandon all attacks and use your metal to construct a... 'concave lens' in front of you."