127: The consequences of Chen Jun's anger

Inside the flagship of the Blood Blade Pirate Group, the "Blood Tooth".

Balem's massive frame was sunken deep into his lounge chair, his dark red fingers rhythmically tapping against the armrest, producing a dull sound like a thunderous drum...

He gazed through the massive porthole, overlooking the planet below that was being steeped in the fires of war and suffering...

There was no pity on his face, only a cruel, sadistic pleasure, like a cat playing with a mouse?!

"Too slow! Twenty seconds already! This bunch of useless recruits! You're dragging your feet just to clean up some indigenous bugs!"

He roared impatiently, the sound waves causing the energy lights in the command center to flicker.

"Boss, why the rush?"

Carol, the strategist, pushed up his monocle. The lens reflected the explosions constantly flashing on the planet's surface, his tone carrying a hint of cold calculation.

"Let the underlings practice a bit more. Besides... don't you think it's more interesting to let fear slowly ferment, to let despair permeate every corner of this Federation like a poison, and to make them wait for the final judgment in endless panic...?"

The corner of his mouth curled into a twisted arc: "I bet the Federation's higher-ups must be like ants on a hot pan right now, watching through their remote monitoring equipment..."

"They might be frantically discussing how to respond. They might be assembling a fleet, trying to negotiate, or desperately preparing to flee..."

"No matter what they do, in the face of absolute power, it is all a futile joke!"

"We must let them see clearly the consequences of resisting the Blood Blade Pirate Group! See how their planet is crushed bit by bit, how their compatriots wail in despair! Only then, when we come to collect the 'Guarantee fee' next time, will they—like those cowards in the Lorraine Federation—obediently offer up the origin crystals with both hands, or even... offer up more!!!"

Balem heard this and let out a deafening, wild laugh: "Hahaha! Well said! Carol! I just want all the civilizations in this Star Domain to watch! This is the consequence of not following the rules! Today, I will let them know what absolute power and the fear brought by technological suppression mean!"

He waved his hand violently: "Pass the order! Use the main cannons of the battleships! Use the energy whips of the landing craft! Clean them up slowly using the most inefficient and torturous methods! I want to hear the sounds! I want to see the fireworks! I want the wails of this planet to spread throughout the entire Federation!!"

"Yes! Boss!"

The bloodthirsty responses of the pirate leaders came through the communication channel.

And so, an even crueler massacre began!

The pirate battleships no longer sought efficiency; they were like beasts playing with their prey...

Using secondary cannons to peel away the city modules of the planet bit by bit...

Chasing after fleeing civilians like a game with energy beams...

Even deliberately leaving some "safe zones"...

Watching the survivors flood in like a tide, only to be reduced to ashes with a single precise shot!!!

A scene like Hell was playing out on every inch of the agricultural star.

Despair was deliberately drawn out, magnified, and etched into the bone marrow!

Pillar of Leaders, Nostalgia Room.

"You child... Dad is fine."

Chen Jun's words had just fallen...

"Ancestor Chen! Your Highnesses!"

Mo Heng's voice rang out with unprecedented urgency as he quickly operated the portable hyper-dimensional projector he carried.

A massive, high-definition holographic light screen instantly unfolded in the room, transmitting the final footage sent back by the reconnaissance units on the front line of the AG-7 Agricultural Star in real-time—

It was precisely the atrocities of the pirate fleet, playing around and deliberately prolonging the pain!

On the screen:

Cities were dismantled and melted bit by bit like toys;

Civilian spacecraft were blasted out of the sky like targets, the desperate cries of the passengers seemingly piercing through the light screen...

Ground troops launched futile and tragic charges against shields that were absolutely impossible to penetrate, only to be wiped out unit by unit...

Shelters were turned into flesh-and-blood furnaces under bunker-buster energy bombs...

The cries of children, the roars of soldiers, the sound of collapsing buildings...

Mixed into a symphony of despair!

Even though Chen Jun considered himself hard-hearted, having long seen storms and rain, and possessing the detached mindset of a Transmigrator from Blue Star...

At this moment!

Watching this live, heart-wrenching, genocidal scene!

Watching one vibrant life after another vanish like grass under absolute violence!

Watching the familiar pastoral scenery of Cui Hua's hometown turn into scorched earth!

A surge of irrepressible anger was suddenly ignited, violently rising from the bottom of his heart!!!!!

The calmness on his face disappeared, replaced by a cold, iron-blue expression!

Those eyes that usually watched the show happily were now filled with biting cold light!

He was human after all!

A Transmigrator from that Blue Star which advocated for peace and respected life!

He could ignore the petty infighting between the higher-ups, could enjoy the "final care" from the "big shots," could scheme for his own path to lying down and attaining immortality, could urge his grandson to have descendants...

But!

He could not sit by and watch such anti-human, anti-civilization atrocities happen before his eyes!

And it was happening at his granddaughter-in-Law's maternal home!!!

Happening within the territory of the Federation!!!

"Unreasonable!!!"

Chen Jun sat up straight from his lounge chair. His voice was not loud, but it carried a heaven-shattering rage!

This angry rebuke exploded in the silent room like thunder from the Nine Heavens!

Everyone was stunned!

Shi Yue, Li Qingshan, and the others had never seen Ancestor Chen show such overt anger!

Cui Hua forgot to cry, staring blankly at her furious grandfather...

Zhao Jing even held his breath...

Yun Qinglan's ethereal, clear eyes instantly locked onto the trace of cold anger on her father's face.

Father... is angry?!

Because of this group of... ants?!

This group of ants actually made Father angry?!!!

This was no longer just a "path to death"!

This was... a crime for which ten thousand deaths could not atone!!!

"Father, please calm down."

Yun Qinglan's ethereal voice sounded, still calm, but it seemed to carry an absolute zero that froze time and space.

She did not even look at the tragedy on the light screen again.

To her, those scenes were meaningless; the struggles and deaths of ants could not stir the slightest ripple in her heart...

But her father's rage might affect that trace of weak life force!

She had to prevent it...

She took a light step forward...

There were no spatial fluctuations, no energy ripples.

Her figure, as if gently erased from the picture of the current world by an eraser, disappeared directly from where she stood...

Outer airspace of the Agricultural Star.

Balem was enjoying the feast of "fireworks" below, savoring the pleasure of dominating others' lives...

Suddenly—

His massive body stiffened violently!!!

A great terror, stemming from the most instinctive part of life and impossible to comprehend, drowned his Soul instantly like a cosmic glacier!

He felt as if he had become a bug pinched by an invisible giant hand!

Even his thoughts were about to be frozen!

"What's happening?!!!"

He wanted to roar, but found that he couldn't even perform the most basic action of making a sound!!!

It wasn't just him!

All the pirates in the command center, from Carol at the Stellar Level Peak to the lowest-level operator...

Within the entire AG-7 Agricultural Star domain!

All members of the Blood Blade Pirate Group, all pirate battleships...

In the same instant!

Were frozen by an indescribable, irresistible, and incomprehensible absolute power!!!

Time seemed to stop flowing...

Space turned into indestructible amber...

The roaring energy cannons were frozen in mid-air...

The exploding fireballs were fixed into gorgeous sculptures...

The fleeing civilians were stiffened in expressions of terror...

The laughing pirates were frozen in a hideous moment...

The entire Star Domain turned into an absolutely still, absurd, and terrifying cosmic painting!

Only one figure, like an existence independent of all rules, appeared quietly in the center of this frozen painting—

Yun Qinglan!

She hovered in the starry sky, her plain white dress moving without wind, her clear gaze sweeping calmly—

Across the densely packed, diverse pirate battleships, and the more than two thousand "frozen" Stellar Level pirates.

As if looking at a pile of... eyesore dust?

She gently raised her slender, fair hand, which seemed unstained by even a speck of worldly dust.

Facing the ghost fleet in front of her, which was massive enough to destroy thousands of star systems, she casually made a gripping motion in the void...

There was no sound...

No light...

No energy explosion...

But the moment her five fingers closed—

"Crack... crack... crack..."

A subtle sound, as if the basic structure of the Universe was wailing and breaking, resonated like a death concerto in the depths of every frozen pirate's Soul!

Then, in the unbelievable "gaze" of countless survivors on the AG-7 Agricultural Star, whose thinking had been slowed down billions of times but not completely stopped—

That flagship "Blood Tooth," as massive as a mountain and symbolizing death and destruction...

Like building blocks thrown into another dimension, began to disintegrate and collapse from the level of basic particles!

It was not an explosion!

It was decomposition!

It was a return to nothingness!

The massive ship hulls dissipated silently like sand sculptures, revealing the Star Pirates inside, who maintained expressions of terror, anger, and confusion...

Then came their power armor, their flesh, their bones, their Souls...

Everything, absolutely everything, disintegrated simultaneously under that gentle, invisible grip of supreme power!

Just like pencil marks erased by an eraser! Clean and efficient! Leaving nothing behind!

This scene of destruction spread like a plague... at a speed surpassing light and thought, instantly reaching every Star Pirate warship!

"Click... click... click..." The concerto of death played silently in the quiet starry sky.

Each grotesque Star Pirate warship, along with all the Star Pirates inside, regardless of their cultivation level or rank... all experienced the exact same fate as the "Blood Tooth" in that same instant! Disintegration! Annihilation! Returning to nothingness!

In less than a hundredth of a second!!!

That main fleet of the Blood Blade Pirate Group, composed of nearly twenty billion warships and over two thousand Stellar Level Star Pirates, enough to make a Level 2.1 civilization tremble... completely vanished from this Star Domain under Yun Qinglan's casual grasp!

Not even a speck of metal debris, a ripple of energy, or a fragment of a Soul remained!!! As if they... had never existed at all?!

After finishing all this, Yun Qinglan's gaze fell upon those two thousand-plus Stellar Level ants that had just emerged from where the warships had been annihilated—still frozen in their state, yet conscious and filled with extreme terror and incomprehension.

She had deliberately left these "Mine Slaves" behind.

She reached out again and gestured gently toward those two thousand-plus Stellar Level beings. All the Stellar Level Star Pirates were forcibly compressed and imprisoned by an invisible force, transforming into over two thousand tiny, sesame-sized figures flickering with fearful light, which then obediently flew into her palm and vanished.

Then, without even glancing at the hellish landscape of the AG-7 Agricultural Star below, which remained in a state of absolute stasis, she acted as if she had just brushed a speck of dust from her sleeve... Her figure vanished again, as if erased.

...

Pillar of Leaders, Reminiscing Room.

Yun Qinglan's figure reappeared beside Chen Jun without warning, just as it had when she left. As if she had never been gone.

In the room, the massive light screen, which had been transmitting real-time footage filled with atrocities and despair, had now turned into an eerie stillness. Cannon fire was frozen, smoke was locked in place, and wails were halted. Only the data streams flashing and erroring crazily in front of Mo Heng proved that everything that had just happened was not a hallucination.

"Father," Yun Qinglan looked at Chen Jun, her ethereal voice carrying a hint of a report upon completing a task, and opened her slender, white palm.

Above her palm, over two thousand tiny figures with Stellar Level energy fluctuations were silently hovering in a kneeling position.

"The Star Pirates have been eliminated; please do not be angry, Father."

"These," she pointed at the tiny figures, her tone indifferent, "might still have some use."

The entire Reminiscing Room fell into a deathly silence...

Shi Yue, Li Qingshan, Mo Heng, Chu Yueyao... All the Federation bigwigs stared dumbfounded at the two thousand-plus kneeling Stellar Level figures in Yun Qinglan's palm! Their minds were blank!

They knew Star Arm Level was strong, and they knew Her Highness Qinglan was unfathomable... but... this was too strong, right?!!

A single step, like a god?! Less than a second, and a fleet annihilated?! Capturing two thousand-plus Stellar-level Experts was easier than catching ants?

This... this completely exceeded their understanding of "power"! This was the Incarnation of a god! This was the will of the Universe!

Chen Jun looked at the Stellar Level beings being casually held in his daughter's palm, then looked at his daughter's stunning profile, which remained clear and calm, as if she had just gone for a stroll...

The anger in his heart slowly subsided, replaced by an... indescribable, complex emotion.

There was relief at his daughter's strength... gratification at the enemy's destruction... and more importantly... as an old father, pride that his daughter had resolved the problem so cleanly and efficiently!

This cheat... wasn't it a bit too overpowered?!!

He rubbed his nose, coughed dryly, slumped back into his lounge chair, and resumed his cheerful demeanor: "Hmm... Qinglan did well, clean and efficient."

The other four Sun Body daughters, seeing that the matter had been casually resolved by their younger sister, said nothing, their eyes filled with a sense that this was only natural.

Yue Xi gently poured tea for their father, while Xuan Sha, Su Yuan, and Liu Qing each found a seat, their auras peaceful.

It was as if the crushing victory that was enough to be recorded in the Federation's history, which had instantly overturned the war situation, was just an insignificant little interlude...

Chen Jun pointed at those Stellar Level figures: "These people... Mo Heng, you all handle them; don't let them go to waste."

"Yes!!! Ancestor Chen!"

Mo Heng and the others finally snapped out of their extreme shock, their voices filled with ecstatic joy that made them tremble!

Two thousand more Stellar-level Experts?!! What did this mean?! It meant two thousand top-tier, tireless, rest-free... origin crystals Mine Slaves!!!

A primary Stellar Level Mine Slave could condense one Origin crystal in a year! There were over two thousand here! Among them were existences like Balem and Carol, who were at the Stellar Level Peak! The efficiency would be even higher!!!

This meant the Federation would now have another stable, efficient, and endless production base for origin crystals!

origin crystals! These were cultivation resources that even Stellar Level bigwigs treasured!

The energy and Law fragments contained in one Origin crystal were comparable to a primary Stellar Level expert helping you Cultivate with all their might for a year!

For those restricted by their Aptitude, trapped at the Planet-level Peak, and struggling to Breakthrough, those with Acquired Star Body Aptitude, this was truly a massive Opportunity! A Heaven-Defying fortune!!!

As long as there were enough origin crystals to pile up, Planetary Level breaking through to Stellar Level would no longer be an unreachable dream!

The number of Stellar-level Experts in the Federation would see an explosive increase!

"Hahaha! Heaven bless the Federation! Heaven bless the Federation!" Shi Yue couldn't help but clap and laugh, his voice like a booming bell.

"Ancestor Chen is wise! Her Highness Qinglan's Divine Might!" Li Qingshan was so excited that his Sword Qi overflowed, nearly blowing the roof off.

Chu Yueyao quickly regained her composure, but the gleam in her eyes betrayed her inner agitation: "Immediately execute the 'Stellar Level Management and Origin Crystal Production Regulations' formulated after the collapse of the Empire last time! We must maximize the utilization of this... 'generous gift'!"

Mo Heng was like a scientist who had seen a priceless treasure, staring at those Stellar Level figures with glowing eyes: "Wonderful! Simply wonderful! Not only can they be used to condense origin crystals, but their Soul structure and physical bodies themselves are incredibly valuable research samples! This will greatly advance our technology!"

All the bigwigs seemed to see a bright future where the Federation's national power would skyrocket! The spring for those at the Planetary Level was truly coming!

And all of this! Stemmed from that slight displeasure of Ancestor Chen... and that casual cleanup by Her Highness Qinglan...

The bigwigs' gazes toward Chen Jun and Yun Qinglan were filled with endless gratitude and even deeper awe.

Chen Jun watched the bigwigs, who had instantly transformed from grave to ecstatic, starting to passionately discuss how to "recycle waste," and listened to them planning the Federation's bright future...

He couldn't help but shake his head with a smile... He picked up a great-grandson who was babbling and began to tease him...

The bloody storms outside, the rise and fall of civilizations, seemed to have nothing to do with him anymore.

He only needed to lie back... watch his descendants gather around his knees... and by the way... look forward to the future surprises of the 【Multiple Benefits】 function...

Seeing that her father had regained his calm and even seemed to be in a better mood, Yun Qinglan said nothing more.

She stood quietly to the side, her ethereal gaze occasionally sweeping over the playing great-grandchildren, while the vast majority of her mind was already wandering in the Origin sea of Law.

Meanwhile, on the Agricultural Star light-years away, the frozen spacetime quietly restored itself.

The survivors looked blankly at the suddenly clear sky... at the enemies that had vanished without a trace... at their friends and family who had recovered after being frozen, as if they had just had a long nightmare...

The ecstasy of surviving a disaster and immense confusion were intertwined on everyone's faces...

They did not know that their fate, and even the future of the entire Federation, had just been quietly rewritten in a quiet room at the distant Pillar of Leaders...

And the reason was—it started from someone's slight displeasure?!!!

Chen Zhaojing looked at his grandfather, at his several unfathomable aunts, and then at his own group of naive sons and daughters...

He rubbed his kidneys, which still felt a bit sore, and a more complex, yet relieved, smile appeared on his face.

"Since I cannot share the burden for Grandfather through strength like Little Aunt..."

"Then..."

"For Grandfather... for the Federation..."

"I... I must continue to strive!!!"