683: Inhuman

A quietblue light bloomed from the main cannon of the star destroyer.

By the time Stia recovered from Yang Dian's Dragon Ascent Kick and noticed the quietblue light emanating from the star destroyer's main cannon, a primal sense of danger surged within her, but it was already too late.

The Star Remains Realm was powerful, and Stia, who had temporarily boosted herself to the Star Remains Realm using secret arts, was also not weak.

But compared to light, she was still quite a bit slower.

The thought of dodging had just formed in her mind, and her wings hadn't even had time to flutter, when an intense pain already surged into Stia's heart.

"Roar~"

She instinctively opened her mouth and let out a pained cry; an incredibly scorching particle cannon energy stream had already poured into her mouth and rushed into her Physical Body, as if to make it explode.

"What a pity, your star destroyer ultimately didn't have a spatial module added to it."

Lao Bai, who had been forcibly called over by Yang Dian, couldn't help but twitch his mouth as he watched Stia, who, after being directly impacted by the Planet Destroyer Cannon for less than a second, used a spatial jump to escape the Planet Destroyer Cannon's coverage.

"What's all this talk about space?"

"It's still that the Planet Destroyer Cannon's energy level isn't high enough."

"If the energy level were sufficient, the energy particles would annihilate space itself; where would she have a chance to escape?"

After muttering to himself, Lao Bai's gaze towards the Emerald Dragon God was once again filled with endless longing:

"Is this the perfect life form?"

"Although, in essence, it can still be injured, and its strength is not comparable to yours, unable to achieve omniscience and omnipotence."

"But undeniably, from its external form alone, it truly deserves to be called perfect."

"This perfectly streamlined Physique, this posture when flying with flapping wings, this coordination of muscle movement..."

As he spoke, Lao Bai suddenly materialized his projection, reached out, and grabbed Yang Dian's arm:

"Capture it alive!"

"I want to dissect it, analyze every single one of its scales, every inch of its muscle, every drop of its blood..."

"I want to study every inch of its energy flow trajectory!"

Yang Dian glanced sideways at Lao Bai.

He had only called Lao Bai over to let him personally witness the performance of the star destroyer in combat and war.

But Lao Bai was something else.

He actually wanted to snatch his little figurine!

"No, at most I can give you a bit of its wings, tail, and thigh root, but I can't give you the entire Dragon."

Lao Bai looked at Yang Dian with some surprise.

Yang Dian's attitude was a bit off.

Even he could resist the charm of the so-called perfect life form; he didn't believe Yang Dian couldn't resist it.

Excluding that possibility, the only reason for Yang Dian's reluctance was one thing.

"You want to study the perfect life form, and even replicate the perfect life form through that giant Dragon in the sky?"

Yang Dian snapped his fingers:

"Congratulations, you got it right."

"Even if we can't replicate the perfect life form, if we can find a way to artificially create special Physiques and improve the overall Cultivation talent of our Citizens, that would be excellent as well."

After confirming Lao Bai's guess, Yang Dian continued:

"Using technology to study the structure of life forms doesn't necessarily require a living body; taking some Physical Body tissue will suffice."

"If it really doesn't work, taking a few scales today, a little Dragon blood tomorrow, cutting off a thigh the day after Acquired, and then later taking one of each of its internal organs and even its brain, it's not difficult to piece together one or even several Dragon God Physical Bodies."

"I've briefly studied Stia."

"I can only say it lives up to being a perfect life form."

"Its recovery ability is extremely strong, hundreds, even thousands of times stronger than the Lizardman God."

"As long as it's not instantly annihilated into dust, or its Soul and consciousness are erased, it can slowly recover under abundant energy supply."

Dr. Bai nodded thoughtfully:

"Then you can get me a few more Dragon God Physical Bodies, and I'll try out several different research methods."

Yang Dian was about to nod, but suddenly felt something was off.

Stia, who had been hit by the star destroyer and quickly escaped, opened her mouth in mid-air, as if brewing some world-destroying Dragon's Breath.

But he and Lao Bai had been talking for so long; even the star destroyer should have finished recharging by now, yet she still hadn't finished brewing?

Looking up at Stia, Yang Dian couldn't help but laugh.

A laugh born of exasperation.

In his fury, a thread of fate, which had unknowingly attached itself to his Soul, silently snapped.

Stia, who was opening her mouth in the sky, brewing Dragon's Breath, instantly became rigid and lifeless, and the Dragon's Breath brewing in her mouth also became hollow, merely a facade.

How was this the Emerald Dragon God?

This was clearly just an illusory projection.

It was just that under the interference of fate, or the Emerald Dragon Star's 'Heavenly Dao,' Yang Dian, for a moment, was unaware and was deceived by a mere energy projection.

"Do you think you can escape?"

Yang Dian, laughing despite his anger, spoke, and his words traveled across hundreds of millions of miles, reaching Stia's ears as she fled to the edge of the galaxy through a spatial array previously deployed on a satellite.

Stia, who was about to activate another spatial array to randomly teleport herself into deep space in the Universe, froze upon hearing the voice.

"You wouldn't think that after playing with you for so long, I wouldn't have left any means on you, would you?"

As he spoke, ripples spread through deep space.

Yang Dian, with Dr. Bai, stepped through the 'water curtain' and appeared before Stia, who was suspended above a glacial blue planet.

"Are you a bit naive?"

No sooner had Yang Dian finished speaking than Stia tried to open her mouth, but felt an overwhelming, irresistible force land on her head.

The distant shimmering starlight stretched into a straight line, and the icy ground beneath her feet suddenly rushed into view.

Looking at the inverted ice spikes on the icy ground, Stia only had time to close her eyes before feeling a series of stinging pains emanating from her scales.

"Boom~"

In the sky.

Dr. Bai, projected by nanobots a hundred miles above the unnamed planet, fell silent as he looked at the dark abyss, nearly eighty thousand meters in diameter, that the Emerald Dragon God had crashed into.

"Is this something a human can do?"

"He only used the strength of his Physical Body, without using extraordinary power, right?"

"Can a human Physical Body be that strong?"

He instinctively curled his fingers, forcibly suppressing the urge to put Yang Dian on the dissection table, and Dr. Bai let out a deep breath.

"Simply inhuman~"

No sooner had his sigh of emotion fallen than a "boom" sound, like a balloon exploding but more prolonged and muffled, seeming to overlap and filled with endless echoes, emanated from within the planet.

The entire planet shivered as if startled.

As far as the eye could see, the ice on the planet's surface shattered completely, turning into dust.

A hazy chill instantly enveloped the globe, refracting a rainbow that covered the entire planet under the dim sunlight from afar.

Looking at the sudden commotion, Dr. Bai, for some reason, instinctively felt a surge of fear.

"Gulp."

With only his brain remaining, he instinctively swallowed using his projected Physical Body.

This gulp seemed to break the planet's last trace of balance.

"Crack crack~ creak~ boom..."

Amidst an indescribable cacophony of sounds, the ground cracked, clouds rolled back, and the planet sang its swan song.

Jagged fissures, like a child's casual scribbles, appeared from nowhere and ended at no discernible point, tearing the 8,000-kilometer diameter planet into a rag doll in the blink of an eye.

Then, dazzling, scorching lights rose from within the planet, overpowering the dim sunlight above and illuminating the entire world.

The planet shattered...