178: The pain of billions of cycles!

The activation prompt from the Multiple Benefits System was not a pleasant gospel, but a death-calling curse, screaming wildly in the depths of his Soul!

Especially the beneficial gains of Multiple Benefits included the desperate memories before death... When all of Chen Jun's more than 2 trillion female descendants and chen clan bloodline wives were captured... The chen clan bloodline males were forced to stop their suicidal charge... The last prompt sounded... “Ding! Detected host's descendants' deaths...”

“Multiple Benefits function triggered!”

“Inheritance complete!”

“Current Aptitude”: 160 million times Innate Martial Body → 1.6 times Innate Radiant Body!

“Current Cultivation”: Galaxy Level elementary!

Galaxy Level elementary?!

The power Chen Jun had yearned for, enough to dominate a Star Domain, had arrived at this moment, in such an extremely cruel manner.

However, Chen Jun felt not the slightest joy.

Only coldness.

An icy coldness that permeated his bones and froze his Soul.

Because every bit, every trace of this power, was steeped in the blood of his descendants!

It carried their ultimate pain and despair before death!!!

Only inheriting 160 million times the Innate Martial Body did not mean that the male descendants of the chen clan bloodline lacked courage.

Rather, the disparity was too great!

Just as they ignited their will to fight to the death, their internal energy had not yet been fully mobilized, and the mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters they wanted to protect had already been forcibly confined, Sealed, and dragged into that massive “Prison Star” by the invisible Law power!

Many chen clan bloodline males didn't even have time to rush to their loved ones before they could only watch them being abducted, while they themselves were pressed firmly to the ground by the omnipresent pressure, unable to even splatter an enemy with their blood!

Chen Jun felt that the intensity of his beneficial fluctuations was still not enough!

Far from enough!

The time has not yet come, he must endure!

The deaths of the vast majority of Innate Martial Body, Acquired Star Body, and a very small portion of Innate Star Body, Acquired Moon Body descendants, and the memories inherited through Multiple Benefits, were brutally injected into Chen Jun's Soul!

The pain brought by these memories was extremely cruel!

Chen Jun slumped in his lounge chair, the Galaxy Level elementary power within him surging like an undercurrent beneath a frozen river. His fingernails had long dug into the alloy armrest, bleeding profusely, yet he felt no pain!

How could physical pain compare to his Soul being slowly sliced apart?!

He looked at the heartbreakingly massive “Prison Star” in the Void Realm, formed by his dearest ones.

He looked at Qinglan!

His daughter, as cold as the Moon and with power reaching the heavens!

At this moment, to buy a sliver of hope for her clansmen, she had given up all resistance.

Those chains of light, personally imposed by Venerable Hui Guang and inscribed with suppression runes, coiled tightly around her slender limbs and neck like humiliating brands!

She closed her eyes, her long eyelashes casting shadows on her pale face, as if unwilling to look at this cruel world any longer.

Through the mysterious perception of Multiple Benefits, Chen Jun could “hear” the silent scream from the depths of her Soul, more desolate than the collapse of a Star River!

She could yield for her clansmen; why couldn't he, as a father, endure for the ultimate revenge... and bide his time?!

Endure!

He must endure!

If he acted impulsively now, all would be lost!

He clenched his teeth, his mouth full of sweet-smelling blood foam, and forced the Galaxy Level power that was almost bursting out of him, along with the burning rage, back into the deepest reaches of his Soul!

His gaze, like an ancient cold abyss, etched the appearances and auras of those ten beasts—Brilliant Light, Thunder Punishment, Shadow, and Ice Soul—into his very bones! Into his Soul!

Just when he thought this was the Peak of his suffering—

These beasts actually went back on their word!

His daughter Qinglan was about to self-destruct?!

No!

His daughter must not be harmed!!!

I now have the enhancement of 1.6 times Innate Radiant Body, my basic enhancement is higher than my daughter's... I also have the beneficial fluctuation perception enhancement from Multiple Benefits, and the superposition of countless combat experiences and techniques. My combat power is definitely stronger than my daughter's!

There isn't no chance of resistance!

The instant this thought arose in him!

“Buzz—!”

An indescribable will, seemingly from the Origin of the Universe, transcended endless space-time and descended upon this place!

Just the passing of this will seemed to freeze the space-time of the entire Kunlun Galaxy!

Huang Yu! The Dominator of Yaoqiong Divine Kingdom! A Star River Level existence! His will had personally arrived!

Before this will, the Galaxy Level power Chen Jun had just Acquired, enough to look down upon the Star Domain, instantly became as faint as a firefly!

That was not a difference in quantity, but an absolute chasm in life levels!

The surging Galaxy Level energy within him, the moment this will swept past, became like a frozen river, even its flow becoming difficult!

He felt like an insect pressed into amber by an invisible hand, even the speed of his thoughts was forcibly slowed!

No!

He still had to endure!

With the System's stealth effect! As long as he didn't act! Everyone would only think he was a Mortal!

Good thing he didn't act just now!

Chen Jun was filled with lingering fear... the lingering fear of not being able to repay blood with blood!!!

The lingering fear of not being able to wash away the humiliation!!!

Then, he saw a scene that made his Soul tremble even more!

Huang Yu's will, like a creator with ultimate authority, began to forcibly “define” Qinglan's “reality”!

Her straight spine was forcibly bent into a humiliating posture!

Her beautiful face was forcibly molded into a submissive expression!

Her white dress was twisted into a flimsy, revealing style, branded with the insignia of a servant!

Even more viciously, that will, like a virus, forcibly poured into her Sea of Consciousness, intending to distort her cognition and make her accept her identity as a “concubine” from the depths of her Soul!

“Ugh ah—!!!”

Chen Jun heard Qinglan's Soul emit a silent scream, so desolate it surpassed all limits!

He could feel her resilient Radiant Body Origin resisting frantically, like a candle flame that could be extinguished at any moment in a storm!

That humiliation from the Soul level, that forced “transformation,” was tens of millions of times more painful than physical torment!!!

“Huang Yu... Huang Yu!!!” Chen Jun cursed in his heart, every word imbued with bloody killing intent!

This was not the end yet!!!

As if tormenting Qinglan alone wasn't enough, to completely crush her, and to satisfy that twisted “amusement”.

Huang Yu's will began a... random erasure of the Human Federation!

The Qingming Stellar System, erased! Sixteen quadrillion citizens, annihilated!

The Purple Flame Stellar System, erased! Nine quadrillion citizens, vanished!

Flowing Sand, Lyra... one stellar System after another, silently disappeared from the star map, like pencil marks erased by an eraser.

What died were not cold numbers!

They were living Human Federation citizens who revered him as a god!!!

Through the virtual universe link, Chen Jun could hear the final ocean of prayers and calls before their annihilation!

“Ancestor Chen! Save us!”

“Ancestor Chen! Live for billions of years! Slay the Star Sea demons!”

“Ancestor Chen! Hell is empty, and all the devils are here!”

...These voices, like the sharpest files, scraped at his Soul again and again!

In their ultimate despair, they still placed their last hope in him, this deified yet actually incompetent “Ancestor Chen”!

This hope became another straw that broke his spirit!

How he wished he could, as they hoped, transform into an invincible guardian god, descend with divine punishment, and tear that demon to shreds!

But he couldn't!

He could only slump here like a useless being, helplessly listening as his people, in prayer, turned into cosmic dust!

The fiftieth stellar System annihilated... the hundredth... the two hundredth... The Multiple Benefits System's prompts did not become more frequent because of this.

His descendants were mainly concentrated on Kunlun Star; the deaths of a very few chen clan bloodline descendants scattered across those destroyed stellar Systems did not bring much Multiple Benefits System improvement.

But the accompanying memories brought even greater pain!!!

Pain! Pain! Pain! Pain! Pain!

Indescribable pain!!!!!

Rage!

Rage that could not be extinguished even if it burned the entire Universe!!!!!

These sporadic, distant Bloodline witherings, like needle pricks, reminded Chen Jun that his pain was still spreading... but!

He dared not make any sound! Dared not show any abnormality!

He could only rely on—the System's stealth function to desperately endure!!!

He! Must not show any abnormality that could lead to exposure, not even the slightest possibility!!!

When the five hundredth stellar System, the Star Domain named “Morning Star,” along with twenty quadrillion citizens, was erased... half of the Human Federation's territory had turned into nothingness!

The number of deceased citizens reached nearly fifty quadrillion!

Chen Jun's Aptitude, accumulated from the deaths of those sporadic but vast number of chen clan bloodline descendants, finally reached a critical point—

“Current Aptitude”: 9.9... billion times Innate Martial Body → 9.9... times Innate Radiant Body!

Current Cultivation: Galaxy Level Peak!

Just one last trace!

Only the last 0.1 times Innate Radiant Body!

He would be able to Break through 10 times Innate Radiant Body! Elevating to the essence of an Acquired Venerable Body!

Relying on the conceptual superposition of Multiple Benefits, he would gain the capital to contend with this beast!!!

Power!

Unprecedented power surged within him!

It was a terrifying, mighty force capable of crushing stars and stirring the Origin of galaxies!

Normally, he would be an supreme Dominator of a Star Domain!

But now... he felt no sense of security from his strength.

Only deeper fear and... more ingrained pain!

A Galaxy Level Peak was still insignificant before Huang Yu's Star River Level will!

Even after perceiving the intensity of beneficial fluctuations through Multiple Benefits, he still dared not move!

He even needed to desperately restrain his aura, compressing the power he had just gained to the extreme, fearing to attract even the slightest attention from that will!

He was like an assassin holding a sharp blade, hidden in the shadows, watching the devil wreak havoc before his eyes, slaughtering his relatives and people, yet he had to wait for that single opportunity!

This humiliation of possessing power but having to endure and be unable to use it was even more maddening than the previous helplessness!!!

It seemed that indiscriminate destruction had lost its "fun."

Huang Yu's will once again turned to Yun Qinglan.

Chen Jun heard that viciously playful voice resonate simultaneously in his and Qinglan's minds:

"These scattered Star Domains, destroying them, after all, lacks some... associated fun."

"Since you want to protect them so much..."

"Then, pain should slowly extend from the far end of the Bloodline to the near end."

No!!!

Chen Jun's Soul was frantically warning him!

An unprecedented cold fear seized him!

He instantly understood what this demon wanted to do!

He wanted to harvest from the Family's most tender saplings!

He wanted to let the pain transmit layer by layer along the ties of Bloodline!

Ultimately crushing Qinglan, and crushing him too!

"Let's start with them." Huang Yu declared indifferently, his will locking onto the Kunlun Star, targeting those of the lowest generation and largest numbers—the "Ze" generation!

"These males... are worthless. Consider them... the first batch of expendables for 'disciplining' you, this disobedient 'plaything.'"

"No—!!!"

Chen Jun's and Yun Qinglan's Souls, at this moment, let out synchronized, desperate roars!

Chen Jun looked at every corner of Kunlun Star.

Most of those "Ze" generation boys were still toddlers just learning to walk!!!

A second before disaster struck, they were still innocently looking at the anomaly in the sky from their parents' arms, some playing with toys, some babbling... they knew nothing!

They were innocent children!!!

Huang Yu's will, like a precise death ray, crossed space and instantly enveloped one hundred billion "Ze" generation boys!

These one hundred billion vibrant lives, along with the chen clan bloodline flowing within them, instantly transformed into the most basic Universe particles, dissipating into nothingness... as if they had never existed in this world!

[Ding! Detected host's offspring dying...]

[Multiple Benefits function triggered!]

...[Ding!...]

...[Ding!...]

...The notification sound was no longer raindrops, but a terrifying tsunami sweeping everything away!

Instantly drowning Chen Jun's Soul!

One hundred billion!!!

A full one hundred billion death memories!

Like a bursting Star River, they surged wildly into his Sea of Consciousness!!!

Inside were the warmth of a child held in its mother's arms... the stumbling of learning to walk for the first time... the joy of receiving a beloved toy... the curiosity about strange phenomena in the sky... the bewilderment at the sudden darkness... and then... the despair of death... everything came to an abrupt halt!

Absolute, nihilistic, cold... annihilation!!!

"Pfft—!"

Chen Jun violently spat out a mouthful of blood!

This blood was not pale gold, but dark red, imbued with endless painful memories!

Even with his current Galaxy Level Peak brain and Soul strength, under the impact of these one hundred billion instantly surging, utterly pure memories of "death" and "ending," it was as if he was simultaneously pierced by billions of red-hot iron needles!

Excruciating pain!!!

Pain! Pain! Pain! Pain! Pain! Pain! Pain! Pain!... Oh, the pain!

One hundred billion instances of unnatural, indescribable agony exploded deep within his Soul!!!!!

He felt as if, in that instant, he had personally experienced one hundred billion deaths!

One hundred billion Reincarnations!!!

Those one hundred billion final perceptions of the world, those one hundred billion senses of life being forcibly extinguished, converged into a destructive torrent, almost completely drowning his "self"!

He saw countless pairs of innocent eyes disappear in bewilderment... heard countless babbling words abruptly cease... felt countless final, unformed dependencies on parents... "Ahhhhhhh—!!!!!"

His Soul, on the verge of collapse, let out a silent, transcendent roar!

He curled up in the lounge chair, his body convulsing violently and uncontrollably, blood oozing from all seven orifices, looking utterly miserable and terrifying!!!

And in ultimate pain!!!

The System judged the memory Reincarnation as a tempering of the Soul, classifying it as beneficial gain!!!

At this very instant, the final System notification appeared—

[Ding!...]

[Current Aptitude]: 12 billion... times Innate Martial Body → 1.2... times Innate Venerable Body. (A very small portion of the infants possess Innate Star Body, Innate Moon Body)

[Current Cultivation]: Star River Level Primary!

He Broke through!

After enduring the beneficial gains and painful memory Reincarnation of one hundred billion direct Bloodline saplings... he Broke through the Galaxy Level barrier and stepped into the supreme Realm of Star River Level!

Power!

Power as vast and boundless as the Universe's genesis was born and surged within him!

He felt that with a single thought, he could stir the Origin Law of the Universe and control the birth and death of billions of stars!

However... Chen Jun felt no joy from the Breakthrough... he lay slumped in a pool of blood, his mind still immersed in experiencing one hundred billion Reincarnations, his eyes hollow as he stared at the dome... He had gained the power for revenge, but also bore a blood debt and pain that could never be washed away throughout eternity!!!

Just as he was still immersed in those countless memory Reincarnations, Huang Yu's voice came through—

"Next is another one hundred billion! This is all because of you!"

Chen Jun "slowly" and "extremely arduously" raised his head... [PS: Extra update!!!]

The Star Sea trembled! The Pillar of Leaders hummed for it! No, the entire Kunlun Star trembled for it! No, the entire Human Federation shuddered for it! No! The entire Universe was terrified by it!!!

Just now, a majestic Power Of Will torrent, traversing supreme dimensions, roared into the Universe where Ancestor Chen resided—

This little brother must pour out his heart today!

Originally, writing the "Multiple Benefits" Awakening plot made me tear up, I cried several times, writing while crying... but as soon as it was out, I saw the "Great God Certification" from boss [@Zhao Gongming] come crashing down!

And the kindness of three other bosses: [Anping's Donghao], [Author 61yvqv], [Lafite of Jingwang Palace]—

Instantly switched from depressing mode to healing mode!

This immense wealth and warmth directly pulled this little brother out of emo!

This extra chapter is a small token of respect, a thank you gift to the four newly promoted guardian bosses!

At the same time, I must also kneel and thank the old comrades who have walked with me all the way:

[Just Love Drinking Coconut Juice], [Guan Lu Who Loves Luzhou Drumming], [TOMA Qianyu], [Chunfeng Fei], [Invincible Black Hand], [Youth is Full Bean Ultimate], [Liu Yimin Who Loves Icy Pudding]... (Limited space, infinite friendship! Really can't write anymore, this little brother keeps it all in his heart!)

To be honest, during these days of consistently low ratings, every time I saw your comments, complaints, support out of love, and requests for more updates—

They were the strongest motivation that pulled me back from the thought of: "Should I just cut it and start a new book?"

It is precisely your support that has allowed me to maintain my passion and continue writing Chen Jun's story!

Writing about ten thousand characters every day, never taking a day off!

You are not just readers, but comrades-in-arms, and also co-strategists of this journey through the sea of stars!!!

Endless gratitude, only more updates to give!!!