Super God Academy: Kabuto

He Xi stepped out of the small world called "Winter Cherry Blossom," her figure solidifying in the tranquil courtyard of the Northern Star. She did not linger; her icy blue eyes gazed at a certain coordinate in the deep universe. With a light stroke of her fingertip, a stable and concealed wormhole quietly opened, swallowing her slender figure, leaving only a few wisps of lingering light and spatial ripples in the spot.

Before the wormhole ripples in the North Star Courtyard had fully subsided, He Xi's figure had already appeared in the ravaged star field outside the Merlo Heavenly Court. The embers of the battle were still burning silently in the vacuum, and metal fragments tumbled slowly, reflecting the distant, war-torn yet still sacred mother planet.

Her icy blue eyes swept across the battlefield, instantly receiving all the data streams transmitted back by her clone—the fall of Tianmen, the desperate battle of the guardian angels, Hua Ye's arrogance, Ruoning's scheming, and the miniature black hole used as the final weapon. All the information was instantly processed, analyzed, and archived within her upgraded "Superstring Body." Her expression remained calm and composed, only a cold, sharp glint flashing deep within her eyes.

When He Xi saw the clone being knocked away by Hua Ye and Ruoning, and saw Hua Ye's smug and ugly face, her raised hand paused slightly.

"Hahaha! Look who this is? Isn't this our beloved King Tianji? What, you think you can stop me with just one person and a few girls?" Hua Ye laughed wildly, and together with Ruoning, they attacked from the left and right.

Although He Xi's clone was powerful, it was ultimately no match for the combined forces of Hua Ye, who was equipped with a void engine, and the cunning Ruo Ning. She fought and retreated, and scorch marks began to appear on her pure white wings. After a violent energy clash, her figure was sent flying backward uncontrollably.

"Let's see how you deal with this this time!" Hua Ye was smug. With a wave of his hand, an unstable miniature black hole exuding an aura of destruction took shape in his palm and was hurled at the massive left wing structure of the Merlo Heavenly Court. He even "thoughtfully" set a countdown for delayed detonation.

Ruoning frowned and reminded him, "Hua Ye, be careful! Don't start halfway through..."

Before the word "berth" could even be uttered, a sudden change occurred!

At the very end of the trajectory of He Xi's clone flying backward, space rippled like water, and another identical He Xi took a step forward. Her aura was more solid, her gaze more profound and cold, and the dark energy fluctuations flowing around her caused the force field of the entire star field to stagnate.

"What's going on?!" Hua Ye's smug smile froze on his face.

Ruoning's pupils contracted slightly as she quickly analyzed, "This is the real body! That was just a clone!"

The newly appeared He Xi—the real body—raised her hand, and the flying clone transformed into a stream of light that entered her body, instantly merging all combat data and losses. Her gaze swept over the pale-faced Hua Ye and Ruo Ning, finally settling on the miniature black hole that was slowly rotating on the left wing structure, constantly devouring the surrounding matter and light.

Her original plan was to intervene directly and quell the war with overwhelming force. But seeing Hua Ye's behavior...

So she changed her strategy. The movement of retracting her damaged clone was fluid and effortless, as if she were merely brushing a speck of dust off her shoulder. Faced with Hua Ye's astonishment and Ruoning's sudden, frantic suggestion to retreat, He Xi didn't even glance at them. Her attention was first fixed on the miniature black hole that Hua Ye had left behind, which was beginning to display its destructive gravity, and then she looked at Hua Ye.

The simultaneous deployment of eight clones was not for show, but for efficiency. The tactical network, woven at faster-than-light speed, involved precise detection and analysis at each node. The energy map of Hua Ye's black hole engine, the weak points of the void loop, the flaws in his integration with his fourth-generation divine body… all became crystal clear under the full-force analysis of the "Superstring Body" in conjunction with the space-based computing cluster, like an unfolded blueprint. Those seemingly ferocious counterattacks, those small black holes attempting to devour everything, were, in He Xi's eyes, merely turbulent ripples of energy flow, easily bypassed or smoothed out.

Just as victory was within reach, and the fused lightsaber was about to deliver its final blow to Hua Ye, Karl intervened. The suddenly appearing skull snatched Hua Ye and Ruoning away in an almost brutal manner, interrupting He Xi's offensive.

"Karl... has gotten stronger again." He Xi murmured to herself, her expression unreadable. She didn't pursue him, not because she couldn't, but because, as Lin Yu had said, "the time wasn't right." Karl's rescue of Hua Ye must have been part of a scheme, and that scheme might lead to a deeper secret, about the void, about the passage that might be opened.

Her gaze returned to the miniature black hole. This was the more "interesting" challenge at this moment.

Approaching, reaching out, making contact. There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a fierce dialogue and collision between two fundamental laws of the universe at the microscopic level. The string-vibrating light patterns and the physical laws at the edge of the event horizon exchanged data billions of times per second. In He Xi's perception, the black hole was no longer a monster that devoured everything, but a complex system full of flaws that could be "understood" and even "modified".

Injecting the "absolutely flat spacetime" model, triggering logical paradoxes, amplifying Hawking radiation... a series of precise and efficient operations, displaying the elegance and composure of a top scientist solving a difficult problem. The "melting" process of the black hole may seem like a miracle to outsiders, but in her eyes, it is simply a successful experimental verification—verifying her "superstring body's" ability to interfere with the underlying laws of the universe, and verifying her latest achievements in the unified theory of spacetime, energy, and information.

The solar flare furnace was merely a convenient pretext to clean up the remaining Taotie fleet. Leaving a clone behind to oversee the reconstruction of the Merlo Heavenly Court was a necessary arrangement.

Having done all this, He Xi's figure blurred again. She didn't return to the North Star Courtyard, nor did she immediately return to Winter Cherry. She stood in the void of space, gazing towards the Styx Galaxy, where Karl's Death Song Academy was located. Then she looked towards Earth, where the storm might make its next landfall.

Finally, she looked toward a certain "point" that seemed to exist without any coordinates, yet was intimately connected to her soul—the Winter Cherry Blossom Little World.

"I've had enough fun, time to go home." A barely perceptible smile curved her lips, carrying a hint of weariness after completing an important task, and a subtle anticipation of returning to peace. The wormhole silently unfolded before her; she stepped inside, and her figure vanished.

The star field surrounding the Celestial Court of Merlo returned to silence, with only the site of the "smoothed" black hole showing slight ripples in space, as if telling the story of a scene that had just occurred, one that defied conventional physical understanding. Meanwhile, the clone left behind by He Xi had begun to methodically direct the surviving angels to clean up the mess and rebuild the defenses.

The undercurrents of the known universe did not subside with this local victory; on the contrary, Karl's intervention and Hua Ye's escape made them even more unpredictable. But at least for this moment, the angels' home was temporarily protected.

Inside the cottage by the lakeside amidst the winter cherry blossoms, the fireplace remained warm. Lin Yu seemed to sense something, looked up at a certain direction outside the window, smiled, and poured two more cups of the warm flower tea from the fireplace.

Keisha put down the data tablet in her hand and looked in the same direction as if she had a premonition, a hint of understanding flashing in her golden eyes.