225: Chapter 225 Mythical Cards

Having absorbed the full essence of a demigod, combined with Chen Xi's extreme extraction of his own overdrawn life force...

That massive Source Stone, along with the surrounding sea of stars, actually began to collapse inward frantically at a speed visible to the naked eye!

One hundred meters... ten meters... one meter...

“Buzz——!!!”

Accompanied by a sound like a grand bell tolling at the creation of the universe.

All light was instantly pulled inward.

A supreme card, radiating nine-colored divine light, its surface flowing with endless stars and the phantom of the Tower of Heaven, and exuding an aura that transcended all rules of the world, drifted quietly into Chen Xi's blood-stained palm.

【Ding! Cross-dimensional Miracle Creation successful!】

【Congratulations on obtaining: Mythic-grade World Card — Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain!】

【Card Attributes: Contains a complete high-dimensional Awakening Space (can be cultivated as an independent world for Professionals), grants control over all Professional rule modification rights on Earth, and isolates all cosmic interstellar detection signals!】

“S... Success...”

Chen Xi tightly gripped that nine-colored divine card. Looking at its heaven-defying attribute descriptions, a weak but incredibly proud smile finally tugged at the corners of his mouth.

He had succeeded.

He hadn't let the world lose its power, nor had he let the alien monsters descend.

He had forcibly grasped the fate of the entire world and the future of humanity in his own hands!

“Captain...”

Looking at Chen Xi's swaying silhouette, Li Murou had long since dissolved into tears.

Chen Xi turned his head to look at his three safe and sound teammates, but his vision began to grow extremely blurred. The backlash from overdrawing his life force and mental energy swallowed him whole like a tsunami.

“The rest... I'll leave to you...”

Chen Xi murmured softly, then closed his eyes. His tall frame fell straight back, plunging into endless darkness.

“Chen Xi!!!”

Drip, drip.

A thick but not pungent smell of disinfectant, mixed with the faint scent of orchids from outside the window, drifted into Chen Xi's nose.

The rhythmic heart rate monitoring sound of some precision medical instrument reached his ears.

Chen Xi felt as if his eyelids weighed a thousand pounds. His head felt like a running blender had been stuffed inside, with every pulse of thought accompanied by waves of dull pain.

“Ugh...”

He struggled to let out a muffled groan. Straining with all his might, he finally managed to slowly crack his eyes open.

What met his eyes was a snow-white ceiling and a spacious hospital room that was almost excessively luxurious. Sunlight poured in through the sheer curtains of the floor-to-ceiling windows, casting dappled shadows on the floor.

“Captain Chen?! Captain Chen, you're awake!!!”

A familiar, surprised scream suddenly exploded by his ear.

Immediately after, a tear-stained face that couldn't hide its excitement leaned over directly into his line of sight. Li Murou's normally lively eyes were currently bloodshot from staying up, with deep dark circles under them. Seeing Chen Xi open his eyes, her tears fell like beads from a broken string.

“Don't cry... you're crying so hard I thought I was already in the ground...”

Chen Xi's voice was terribly dry and raspy. He wanted to raise a hand to rub his brow, only to find his right hand being held tightly by another pair of cool, soft hands.

He turned his head slightly and met Su Xiaoxiao's bloodshot, ice-blue eyes. The usually cold Valkyrie, who remained unfazed even if Mt. Tai collapsed before her, actually had red eyes now, and the hand gripping his was trembling slightly.

At the foot of the bed, Ye Fei was holding Little Si, nodding repeatedly in excitement as her tears turned into a smile.

“How... how long was I out?”

Chen Xi took a deep breath. Sensing that his mental sea, though empty, was not depleted, he felt a bit more at ease.

“You've been unconscious for a whole week!”

Li Murou said while hurriedly pressing the call button at the head of the bed and wiping her tears:

“The doctors said your mental energy overdraft exceeded the human limit by 300%, and your internal organs showed signs of failure. If my dad... that is, the military, hadn't used the last three bottles of 'SSS-grade Water of Life' in the national treasury, you might really not have woken up!”

“A whole week, huh...”

Chen Xi gave a bitter smile. It seemed that forcibly turning the Tower of Heaven into a card really was a dance with death.

“Outside... how is the situation? That tower, and the Truth Cult...” Chen Xi struggled to sit up.

“Don't move!” Su Xiaoxiao quickly held him down, placing a soft pillow behind his back. Her voice was gentle but carried a hint of excitement:

“It's all over, Captain. We won.”

As Su Xiaoxiao and Li Murou recounted the events, Chen Xi finally learned of the earth-shattering changes that had occurred in the outside world during the week he was unconscious.

That day at the top of the Tower of Heaven, when Chen Xi sealed the Source Stone into the card, the tower that had stood in the center of the Imperial Capital for a century and was regarded as a miracle actually turned into starlight and vanished into thin air before everyone's eyes!

This scene shocked the entire Federation high-level and Professionals worldwide.

Immediately after, the main force of the Southern District Military led by the Li Zhenhai launched a lightning strike on the Truth Cult's headquarters in the Imperial Capital.

Having lost their demigod leader, the Wu Tian, and with the core Elder Council wiped out inside the tower, the Truth Cult—those tumors hidden in the shadows—suffered a devastating purge by the military. The corrupt high-level officials and financial magnates who had secretly colluded with them were also uprooted.

“My dad said that if you hadn't turned the tide and ended the Wu Tian's conspiracy early, the entire Earth would probably have been overrun by the alien beast army by now.”

Li Murou looked at Chen Xi with a face full of pride:

“Captain Chen, you are now the Federation's highest-level secret! The military has locked down all details of what happened at the top of the tower, only announcing to the public that our Nirvana Battle Team assisted the military in crushing a terrorist organization's conspiracy.”

“Now, our Nirvana Battle Team is the publicly recognized number one hero team in the Federation! Your rank of Major has been exceptionally promoted to the Federation's youngest 【Major General】!”

“Major General?”

Hearing this, Chen Xi only gave a faint smile.

He didn't care much for these empty titles. What he cared about more were the spoils of war he had exchanged half his life for.

He slowly closed his eyes and sank his consciousness into his mental sea.

In the center of that vast sea of consciousness, it was no longer an empty starry sky. Instead, a supreme card radiating nine-colored divine light floated quietly!

【Mythical Card · Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain】

【Grade: Transcendent God-tier (Unique)】

【Bound to: Chen Xi】

【Current World Status: Activated. Contains 100 floors of independent high-dimensional trial space.】

【Divine Domain Privilege 1: creator. The host can freely modify the terrain, monster spawn rates, and drop rules within the Divine Domain.】

【Divine Domain Privilege 2: Law's Grace. The host can designate personnel to enter the Divine Domain for trials. Within this space, the Awakening probability for Professionals is increased by 1000%, and the experience gain rate is increased by 500%!】

【Divine Domain Privilege 3: Interstellar Hiding. Perfectly shields the coordinates of Earth's current dimension, protecting it from detection by high-dimensional predators.】