318: The star core is broken...

He reached out and grabbed the Crystal Lizardman by the neck as it attacked him the moment he entered the mine.

Yang Dian twisted its neck, shaking it up and down.

“Your Alien Planet is on its last legs. Boy, do you want to abandon the darkness and come work for me?”

The Crystal Lizardman remained silent, only to suddenly spread its legs, curl its tail back, and thrust it through the gap between its legs towards Yang Dian's lower body.

At the same time, it opened its mouth, letting out a furious “Cha~” roar at Yang Dian, and spat out a long, glazed tongue directly at Yang Dian’s eyes.

“A bit disgusting,” Yang Dian muttered, having the leisure to do so, as he turned his head to dodge the piercing tongue, simultaneously raising his left hand and right foot.

With a flick of his finger, he severed the Crystal Lizardman’s tongue before it could retract it, and his raised right foot shattered its tail.

Reaching out, four claw strikes flew from Yang Dian’s fingers, directly severing the Crystal Lizardman’s limbs, turning it into a Lizardmen stick.

Finally, after binding it in mid-air with Mental Energy, Yang Dian patted its head under the Crystal Lizardman’s seemingly emotionless vertical pupils.

“I’m doing this for your own good, but why won’t you listen?”

With that, Yang Dian extended his finger and tapped his glabella.

After receiving the information feedback from the Dimension Butterfly, he couldn't help but frown.

“Still have to go to the core weak point?”

Shaking his head, Yang Dian picked up the Crystal Lizardman again, threw it outside the cave, and then used spatial power to seal off the space, preventing other Alien Planet creatures from throwing it back into the Crystal Mine.

After several repetitions, the Crystal Lizardman, which attacked again from the Crystal Mine, had shrunk to the size of a palm.

“They say you learn from your mistakes, but why are you still so brainless?”

Yang Dian reached out and scratched the head of the Crystal Lizardman, which looked somewhat cute after shrinking, then transformed into a streak of light and flew towards the core of the Dimension Mine.

It was the same as before.

The closer he got to the core, the larger the Crystal Lizardman in his hand became.

By the time he reached the core of the Crystal Mine, the Lizardmen had returned to normal human size.

But at this moment, Yang Dian was no longer the Yang Dian he once was.

The Crystal Lizardman, which could fight him back and forth a few months ago, could now only be suppressed by his single hand.

The radiation energy that once caused his flesh to rot just by its presence now felt like a gentle breeze, unable to cause him any harm.

Even Dudu extended a tentacle, shattered a large piece of Crystal Mine, and urged Yang Dian to collect it, intending to take it back as a snack.

“Invincibility, a bit lonely~”

“I wonder how big a Crystal Lizardman that hasn’t shrunk would grow when it reaches the core of the Crystal Mine, and what kind of strength it could unleash, whether it could compare to the Lizardman God.”

Thoughts aside, Yang Dian certainly wouldn't put the Crystal Lizardman's other body parts back into the Crystal Mine to cause himself trouble.

After once again whittling the Crystal Lizardman into a Lizardmen stick, Yang Dian then tapped his glabella.

Ripples spread across the scorching white space, and a black speck appeared in the center of the ripples a moment later.

Then the black speck rapidly expanded, turning into a pitch-black, oval-shaped mirror amidst the Crystal Lizardman's frantic struggles.

He casually stepped into the mirror, familiar with the process.

The surrounding environment instantly changed from extreme scorching white to complete darkness.

Yang Dian immediately followed the faint sensation and found the star core fragment located at the heart of the darkness.

The star core fragment seemed a bit off.

Compared to its dazzling brilliance when he last saw it, it was now more than a shade dimmer.

The specks of light, threads of light, and flowing flames that used to hover around it had all disappeared.

All that remained in this dark space was the star core fragment, which, though much dimmer, still retained its magnificence.

Besides that, the world's malice towards him was still as vast as the sea, but the malice was just malice.

The malice did not materialize into tangible claws as before, clinging to Yang Dian and attempting to keep him in this space forever.

“So, were the malicious claws I saw before the materialization of malice, or was it an illusion caused by insufficient Mental Energy and Soul strength under the pressure of boundless malice?”

Yang Dian didn't know, but this didn't affect what he was going to do next.

He moved his body and flew to the edge of the star core fragment, where he found that it was indeed different.

The originally flawless star core fragment now had countless tiny cracks.

“So, the Alien Planet has truly fallen into an absolute disadvantage?”

“Why does it feel like it's about to be completely devoured?”

After muttering, Yang Dian raised his hand, clenched his fist, and struck.

“Bang!”

A dull thud echoed in circles throughout the empty space.

The star core fragment, floating quietly in the dark space, merely trembled slightly, scattering a few star core fragments.

Then, as if dead, there was no movement at all.

Yang Dian: ???

“No, where’s all my energy?”

“Did mother earth really devour it all, leaving nothing behind?”

Taking a deep breath, Yang Dian raised his hand and clenched his fist again.

This time, however, it wasn't just simple Physical Body strength.

Qi and blood gathered in his fist, turning golden under the enhancement of Battle Intent, increasing the explosive power of Qi and blood by more than tenfold.

The Five Elements' light surged on his fist, finally converging into one, adhering to the golden Qi and blood, staining it as dark as ink.

Standing in the air, his great spine arched, his fist drawn back like a bow, drawing the power of his own magnetic field to rotate ceaselessly in his fist and arm.

“Shatter, for me~”

“Shatter!”

As the angry roar fell, his right hand had already become an afterimage, landing on the star core fragment.

“Bang!”

“Crack~”

A crisp sound came, and the already heavily cracked star core fragment, after holding on for a moment, exploded with a roar, disintegrating into countless fragments that shot into the depths of the darkness.

At the core of the star core fragment, a golden light was rapidly dimming.

“Dudu!”

Dudu, connected to Yang Dian's mind, extended a tentacle, wrapped around Yang Dian, and threw him towards the golden light.

The moment he immersed himself in the light, Yang Dian felt himself enveloped by endless warmth.

The energy pool in his Soul, the place where it resided, began to expand and rise at a visible speed.

“I'm about to get rich...”