428: Gain more points, Zhou Tianxing!

Chapter 420: Gaining Points Again, Zhou Tian Star Eyes!

A piercing alarm suddenly shattered the tranquility of the base!

Almost simultaneously with the alarm, the military communicator on the base commander’s chest erupted with a heart-pounding, urgent red light.

His expression tightened. He immediately looked at Gao Zheng, and after receiving a silent nod of approval from the Commander, he quickly connected the communication and decisively enabled speakerphone.

“Command Center! This is the Suijing Street patrol team!” The soldier’s voice on the other end of the communicator was so urgent it was almost distorted. “Area 24, Suijing Street, high-intensity deep red contamination detected! Energy Rank determined to be Bright Moon Realm!

The target is active within the manor. Request immediate support! Repeat, request immediate support!”

The commander’s pupils suddenly contracted the moment he heard the address “Suijing Street 24,” and the color drained from his face.

This location was not only just over ten kilometers from the City Lord’s Mansion but also only sixty-odd kilometers from the military base. What was even more critical was this location.

“Are you sure it’s Suijing Street 24?” The commander’s voice carried an almost imperceptible tremor.

“Confirmed! The target is inside the Sibote Family’s manor!”

The entire Command Center fell into a deathly silence.

Everyone clearly remembered that within the hundred-kilometer defensive perimeter of the military base, this area was designated as the highest protection Rank.

Most of Tebike City’s seven council members’ residences were located here, and countless noble scions and high-ranking Empire officials’ families resided in this area known as “Platinum Garden.”

And Suijing Street 24 was precisely the ancestral manor of the immensely powerful Baron Sibote.

A Bright Moon Realm deep red monster had appeared in the residence of this influential figure, ranked among the top three in Tebike City!

The commander subconsciously looked at Gao Zheng, his voice a little dry: “Commander, Baron Sibote’s manor… if this monster continues to rampage, I’m afraid…”

He didn’t finish, but everyone present understood the consequences—once the aristocratic class suffered large-scale casualties, the entire power structure of Tebike City would undergo violent upheaval.

Gao Zheng’s brows were tightly furrowed.

The mission personally bestowed by Your Majesty was paramount. Logically, he should not alter the planned course of action for any unforeseen circumstances.

However, if the distress signal was ignored, putting aside the identity of the other party, the number of casualties would rapidly increase.

Just as he was weighing his options, Lu Xuan spoke up proactively: “Commander, you all proceed as planned. I will deal with that Bright Moon Realm monster and rendezvous with you in half an hour.”

A fleeting glint in Lu Xuan’s eyes went unnoticed—he was just worrying about not finding a suitable deep red monster to verify his “System points” conjecture.

This Bright Moon Realm prey, delivered right to his doorstep, was like a pillow appearing when he was sleepy.

This proactive offer to help surprised Gao Zheng and all the team members.

They knew their Vice Commander too well: Lu Xuan had always been aloof and austere, acting solely based on the mission, never creating extra trouble, and disliking unnecessary involvement with the aristocratic class.

This Genius, from a humble background, had always had little affection for those noble scions born into prominence; had it not been for an Empire order, he would never have acted for them voluntarily.

This exception today was truly rare.

After a brief moment of thought, Gao Zheng nodded in agreement: “Go and return quickly!”

He knew that with Lu Xuan’s absolute strength at Blazing Sun Realm Perfection, dealing with a Bright Moon Realm deep red monster was as simple as crushing an ant and wouldn’t take much time.

The main force would proceed as planned to clear the monster horde outside the city, and Lu Xuan would quickly catch up after he was done.

Lu Xuan said no more. Before the others could react, he reached out and lifted the frantic base commander in front of him.

The next moment, starlight surged around Lu Xuan, and he transformed into a streak of light, soaring into the sky.

A violent sonic boom exploded in the air; his speed far surpassed that of the accompanying helicopter squadron.

This kind of almost reckless Void Realm traversal, while achieving extreme speed, consumed an enormous amount of starlight energy within his body.

Unless the situation was extremely urgent, even Blazing Sun Realm powerhouses would usually choose more efficient means of transportation.

The base commander, held in Lu Xuan’s hand, was a powerhouse at the Major Achievement of the Circulating Heaven Realm, yet at this moment, he had no room to resist.

He only felt his vision blur, the wind roaring in his ears, and the ground scenery rapidly distorting and receding in his view.

The base commander barely managed to suppress the surging starlight energy within him, struggling to identify directions, acting as a temporary “navigator.”

Below, Gao Zheng and the other team members watched Lu Xuan “abduct” the base’s highest officer without a word, their mouths twitching slightly.

They could clearly feel the gazes of thousands of base soldiers in front of them, firmly fixed on their backs.

“Vice Commander Lu Xuan really… isn’t he being a bit reckless?” a male team member muttered softly.

Gao Zheng was the first to recover from the awkward situation. He took a deep breath, ignored the complex gazes behind him, and turned to the base’s deputy commander, who was equally stunned.

“Depart!”

The closer they got to the aristocratic district known as “Platinum Garden,” the clearer the mixed sounds in the air became.

The terrified screams of people, desperate wails, and the unique hum and explosion of Empire heavy weaponry.

Baron Sibote’s manor was already in sight.

This once noble and elegant, secluded building was now ablaze in many places, thick black smoke billowing upwards, already staining the sky a vast black.

And in the center of that inferno and ruins, a twisted monster, three meters tall, let out a deafening roar.

The sound even contained clearly discernible human speech, filled with endless malice and grief.

“I’ll kill you all! I gave everything for the Empire… You beasts, why did you frame my son! You embezzled the Empire’s resources, may you all die a terrible death!”

The monster’s form was utterly horrifying; it was enveloped in an ominous blood-colored mist, its right arm shriveled and short, while its left arm was abnormally elongated and ferocious.

Half of its head still retained a human outline, but the other half was covered in pustules constantly bubbling with blood.

Its legs were mutated into four reverse-jointed limbs, and a slender, pointed tail thrashed wildly behind it.

Most horrifyingly, its massive left claw was impaled with several people wearing Sun Moon Star noble robes, like candied hawthorns on a stick.

It was currently stuffing one of them into the half-human mouth, chewing loudly.

Subsequently, a smile, a mixture of extreme pain and frenzied delight, gradually appeared on the half-human face.

“Someone, quickly! Help—!”

“This monster… it killed Baron Sibote! It… it did something to many people…”

The surviving people let out shrill cries for help, their voices filled with collapse and despair.

The manor’s bodyguards, armed with heavy weapons, desperately poured firepower onto the twisted monster, dazzling beams of bullets forming a net, trying to stop its advance.

However, the monster, though seemingly bloated and deformed, moved with unnatural speed, its figure transforming into a blood-red afterimage.

In less than the blink of an eye, it had already rushed into the crowd, its claws sweeping, its long tail like a whip, tearing all the gun-wielding bodyguards to shreds.

Even more, some were directly snatched up, their heads bitten off in one gulp and swallowed whole, the scene utterly gruesome.

Even after such a fierce battle, the monster was not entirely unscathed.

Several bowl-sized, gruesome wounds covered its massive torso, marks from being forcefully blasted by powerful firepower.

But what was most despairing was that the granulation tissue at the edges of those wounds was wildly writhing and growing, visibly to the naked eye.

At this rate, given even a moment’s respite, these severe injuries could rapidly heal—this was the terrifying vitality and regenerative ability of deep red fallen ones, far beyond human imagination.

“Damn it! Why aren’t those useless soldiers here yet! I’m definitely going to complain to the City Lord’s Mansion and have them all court-martialed! All losses of the Sibote Family must be paid for with their lives!”

A young man in luxurious Sun Moon robes cowered in the chaotic crowd, his body trembling uncontrollably from fear.

Yet, his heart was still furiously cursing the belated reinforcements, fantasizing about retribution and compensation afterward.

The next second, the deep red monster seemed to sniff out the hatred in his Bloodline.

It abruptly shook off the bodyguards clinging to it, its crimson single eye locked onto the young man, and with towering malice, it charged directly at him!

Driven by the instinct for survival, the crowd scattered explosively, instantly leaving the still-cursing young man isolated in the open space.

The anger on his face instantly froze, transforming into extreme terror. Before he could react, a gaping maw, accompanied by a fishy wind, enveloped him.

The young man’s faint starlight energy, belonging to the Circulating Heaven Realm, failed to stir even a ripple in the face of this absolute power.

Before his consciousness completely plunged into darkness, the last image the young man saw was the monster’s half-human face, revealing a chilling satisfaction and delight.

“Crack—!”

Accompanied by a bone-chilling crunch, he was bitten in half at the waist.

The monster was chewing on bones, enjoying the morbid satisfaction brought by the flesh and blood.

But it hadn’t smiled for too long when its half-human face suddenly froze, revealing an extremely human-like stunned expression.

Immediately, the deep red monster’s head rotated 180 degrees in a physiologically impossible way, looking over the mess on the ground, precisely towards the sky above the manor—

A figure had appeared, standing silently in the Void Realm, at some unknown moment.

His exquisitely golden and white Sun Moon robe fluttered in the strong wind. Lu Xuan casually held the still-shaken base commander in his left hand, his right hand calmly clasped behind his back.

His profound gaze calmly overlooked the human purgatory below.

As far as his eyes could see, corpses lay everywhere, and crimson blood had stained the luxurious tiled floor a dark red.

Broken limbs and scattered human organs lay strewn about, and the air was filled with a nauseatingly heavy smell of blood.

In the half-human face, the crimson single eye first erupted with extreme horror.

It recognized that robe; it was the symbol of the Sun Moon Imperial Court, only the commanders and vice-commanders of the ten guard legions, and top powerhouses above the Blazing Sun Realm, were qualified to wear it!

Apart from the City Lord, there shouldn’t be any top powerhouses of the Blazing Sun Realm in Tebike City at all!

But after the horror, a twisted sense of relief and pleasure, a great vengeance exacted, surged through the deep red monster’s remaining heart.

That it, a mere ordinary person at the Major Achievement of the Circulating Heaven Realm, had miraculously gained the power of the Bright Moon Realm after falling into deep red, and barely retained this shred of vengeful sanity, was clearly the last grace bestowed by fate.

It was glad that before all this ended, it had slaughtered all its enemies, especially the culprit—Baron Sibote, whom it had personally torn apart and devoured.

Anyway, the deep red monster had long foreseen its own annihilation, but it hadn’t expected that such a high and mighty figure would be the one to end it.

At this moment, it had no more attachments.

“Die for me! This damned, unjust world!”

Accompanied by a roar mixed with endless resentment and liberation, the deep red monster’s four limbs suddenly exerted force, and the ground cracked in response, the expensive tiles instantly turning to dust.

Its massive, blood-stained body, carrying all its pain and unwillingness, defiantly charged towards Lu Xuan in mid-air!

Facing the mutated monster that soared into the sky with an aura of destruction, Lu Xuan’s eyes remained as calm as an ancient well.

He didn’t even release his left hand, which was holding the base commander.

Just as the gaping maw was about to devour Lu Xuan, a hint of purple light, like ripples of a nascent Universe, spread from the depths of Lu Xuan’s eyes, and he casually glanced at the Void Realm.

Zhou Tian Star Eyes!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no dazzling starlight. An invisible and intangible, yet seemingly carrying the weight of the entire Universe, terrifying will descended instantly.

Below in the manor, the still-intact magnificent domes and pillars, at the moment this will swept over them, silently turned to dust and annihilated, as if sandcastles cast into the river of time.

Under this absolute starlight power, the scene reflected in the monster’s crimson single eye had already drastically changed.

It was no longer the real world, but a boundless, cold, deep space of the Universe where stars were born and died. At the end of that primordial wilderness, were a pair of eyes that encompassed the birth and death of the Universe and saw through the Reincarnation of ages.

Purple Qi, like a galaxy, swirled and flowed, carrying a supreme will that transcended the Mortal World and lorded over all things, coldly observing it.

“Woo…!”

All the deep red monster’s roars and resentment extinguished instantly under the gaze of these eyes.

What it felt was not an overwhelming force, but a desperate insignificance at the level of existence, as if it had become a speck of dust, being coldly scrutinized by the entire Universe.

The deep red monster’s furious charge froze in mid-air. Its massive, blood-stained body began to tremble uncontrollably, then plummeted straight down from the sky.

“Boom—!”

Accompanied by a dull thud and scattered flying debris, the monster was violently slammed back to the ground, creating a huge crater.

Its bones emitted a teeth-grinding cracking sound; the granulation tissue that had just been wildly growing instantly necroticized, and its violent aura rapidly withered like a punctured balloon.

Just one strike, a casual strike, completely annihilated this ferocious Bright Moon Realm monster.

Lu Xuan slowly descended from the air, his Sun Moon robe spotless.

Host: Red Dust Immortal Lu Xuan (6th generation)

Realm: Blazing Sun Realm (Perfection)

Cultivation Technique: Zhou Tian Star Eyes (6/9) can be deduced

Points: 1000

Please confirm whether to consume 999 System points to deduce Zhou Tian Star Eyes!

Looking at the System prompt that appeared in his vision, a barely perceptible ripple crossed Lu Xuan’s eyes.

He turned to the base commander, who had just regained his footing.

“You go and rendezvous with Commander Gao Zheng and the others first. I have some minor matters to attend to.”

After a slight pause, Lu Xuan added: “Tell the Commander, if possible, to temporarily suspend operations and wait for my return.”

As soon as he finished speaking, without waiting for a response, Lu Xuan’s figure transformed into a streak of light, soaring into the sky and instantly disappearing into the horizon, leaving behind the stunned base commander.

“This…”

The commander looked at the ruined manor before him, the mess on the ground permeated with the smell of blood and scorched earth, then looked up in the direction Lu Xuan had disappeared, momentarily speechless.

The next moment, he quickly regained his composure, realizing that he no longer needed to deal with this place.

Subsequent cleanup and investigation work would be handled by specialized departments.

His most urgent task now was to fulfill the command of this despairingly powerful Vice Commander.

The base commander immediately took out his personal communicator, connected to the base channel, and spoke with urgent speed.

“Command Center, immediately dispatch a helicopter to Area 24, Suijing Street, to stand by. Repeat, Suijing Street 24, priority transit clearance activated!”