522: Broken, turned into a bug

Yu Tian subtly clenched his fist as he watched Yang Dian, his right hand around Ling Ji's waist, and his left hand putting away the Star Core Origin and star core fragments.

The next moment, within a 3-meter radius centered on Yang Dian, the first 43 layers of spatial interlayers shattered completely.

"Tsk," Yang Dian marveled.

"I still underestimated you."

"To be able to shatter 43 layers of spatial interlayers."

"This strength is truly terrifying."

On the other side, Yu Tian subconsciously narrowed his eyes, watching the shattered space instantly repair itself at Yang Dian's command.

It was one thing not to harm Yang Dian.

But Yang Dian could even repair the space he had shattered with a single thought.

One must know that recovery is always more difficult than destruction.

"Who exactly are you?"

Yu Tian's expression was volatile.

"The Taicang Realm couldn't possibly nurture a Cultivator as powerful as you."

Yang Dian, who had already put away the planet's Origin energy and star core fragments, smiled and said,

"You don't need to know who I am."

"You just need to know that your wife is very moist, and there's still a good amount of the remaining Azurewave Star Origin left."

A hint of a sneer flashed in Yu Tian's eyes.

"Do you think you can provoke me this way, and stall for time until those powerful Great Star Gods descend?"

He struck out another palm at Yang Dian.

Seeing that he truly couldn't do anything to Yang Dian, Yu Tian decisively left the Star Core Space.

"Mountains may change, but rivers flow on."

"This Emperor will never rest until you are dead!"

Watching Yu Fei, who, seeing the situation was unfavorable, didn't hesitate for a moment and decisively disappeared from his sight, Yang Dian felt a renewed sense of awe.

"This person."

"A formidable enemy indeed~"

Releasing Ling Ji's waist, Yang Dian glanced again at the World Origin he had stored in his Star Core Bracelet.

Based on his past experience, after digesting these planetary Origins, he could expect to get approximately 27 million energy.

"Although it's a bit little, it's enough."

"Enough for me to upgrade the Heaven and Man Unity Skill."

In thought, Yang Dian shifted his gaze back to Ling Ji.

Ling Ji slightly adjusted the Phoenix coronet on her, and for the first time, looked directly at Yang Dian as an 'equal.'

"Does my lord intend to deal with this concubine?"

Yang Dian looked at Ling Ji, who was calm in her heart and had already prepared to bravely face death, feeling a little emotional.

"An enemy's hero is my foe."

"Personally, I admire the Empress for being able to do so much for the Great Yu Immortal Dynasty and for the Azurewave Star."

"But just to be safe."

At this point, Yang Dian's tone became a little colder.

"I must ask the Empress to die."

Ling Ji smiled broadly.

"This concubine hears my lord's words, and it seems you greatly despise Yu Tian's actions."

"This concubine wishes to ask, is the world my lord resides in a Great Harmony?"

Yang Dian shook his head.

"Great Harmony? A Saint's fantasy, nothing more."

"Even we can only guarantee basic equality for people."

"If you want something, you have to work hard to achieve it yourself."

"We can only ensure that there is effort, there is reward."

"If one gives up on oneself, we will only let them be."

"If there is effort, there is reward?" Ling Ji murmured, and a wisp of fiery golden flame ignited from her heart, instantly engulfing her in a blazing inferno.

She was the Great Yu Empress, and although her reign as Empress was not entirely clean, as she departed, she wished to retain a shred of dignity.

"If there is a next life, this concubine hopes to be born into the world my lord resides in, to see what differences exist between my lord's world and the Great Yu Immortal Dynasty."

As her words fell, the fiery golden flames suddenly surged.

In just a few breaths, Ling Ji was completely burned to nothingness.

Yang Dian was silent for a moment, looking at the spot where Ling Ji had disappeared.

Finally, he gave a knowing smile.

"How interesting."

As his voice faded, a Dimension Butterfly flew out from between Yang Dian's eyebrows, gently flapping its wings.

"Chirp, chirp~"

A sound like insects gnawing on wood echoed in the Star Core's location.

Visibly, the entire Star Core Space, which had been shattered and torn apart by Yu Tian, began to tremble.

The shattered spatial fragments, in their trembling, turned into primeval dust, and space reverted to Chaos.

Ling Ji committed suicide.

Suicide is somewhat unreliable.

In the Cultivation world, anything is possible.

What if Ling Ji had Phoenix Bloodline and could be Reborn from the ashes? What then?

Since they were already enemies, he would ensure her death was absolute.

After completely annihilating the entire space on a material level, Yang Dian then walked out of the Star Core Space and calculated with his fingers.

Yu Tian was nowhere to be found.

It was unknown if he had hidden, or if, as he said himself, he had fled to the Taicang Realm, or perhaps even gone to the Netherworld in advance.

As for Ling Ji?

There were many threads of fate connected to Ling Ji.

For example, the Crown Prince, who was under house arrest in the Eastern Palace.

For example, the palace maids in the Phoenix Cry Palace.

And also, Yu Tian's 7376th daughter, Yu Yao, who was adopted under her name.

And also... his gaze followed a thread of fate beyond the Immortal Capital, and Yang Dian suddenly smiled.

"If one can live, why die?"

"I knew it. How could someone like Ling Ji not even resist and just bravely face death?"

Indeed, like Yu Tian, Ling Ji also played the trick of feigned death.

"These old fellows who have lived for over a hundred thousand years."

"Tsk~"

Shaking his head, Yang Dian looked up at the sky.

Outside the Immortal Capital City, the Cultivators of the Taicang Realm had already ceased their attack.

For no other reason than...

Not long ago, a Lesser Star God had passed through the wormhole and descended outside the planet.

At this very moment, Dao Yi, Zhen Er, Jian Jiu, and others were gathered high in the sky with solemn expressions, watching the Lesser Star God who, after passing through the wormhole, was looking around, clearly searching for something.

And... the Taicang Star and Chongming Star, which appeared not far from Azurewave Star.

"Brother Dao," Jian Jiu said with a somewhat dry tone, looking at the spatial node that had disappeared from the dome, the Taicang Star and Chongming Star appearing nearby, flying close to Azurewave Star, and the Lesser Star God occasionally appearing and disappearing from sight.

"I understand and can accept that madman Yu Tian wants a mutual destruction, dragging in a third-party force to expand the two-realm war into a battleground of many realms."

"But... but... but..." He pointed at the Lesser Star God, who had appeared before him once again, forming a dazzling eye from dark clouds, white clouds, and colorful clouds, then using a mountain-sized hand to lift an oversized magnifying glass, placing it before the dazzling eye, and looking at him through the magnifying glass.

"But what is this thing?"

"A monster formed from a planet's living beings?"

"Where did this monster come from?"

No sooner had he spoken than he noticed the Lesser Star God seemed to have discovered something and let out an incredibly angry sound.

"Gurgle~"

"Bad bug!"

"Baby will burn you to death!"

Just as Jian Jiu thought he was hallucinating, he saw the Lesser Star God level a super magnifying glass, with a diameter exceeding a thousand miles, which he usually kept hidden somewhere, and placed it over the Immortal Capital City.

Immediately, an endless sun gathered on the magnifying glass, transforming into a scorching beam of light that seemed capable of destroying heaven and earth, falling directly onto the Immortal Capital.

Yang Dian, who had just walked out of the Dimension Channel and was directly facing the scorching beam of light: ???

"Oh no, I've become a bug that a child uses to pass the time..."