252: Chapter 252 What's behind it... is coming!

"Compress... for me!!!"

Rumble—!!!

With a thunderous roar from Chen Xi, the [When Humanitys Stars Shine] card erupted with an unprecedented, terrifying suction force.

This card was not just the power of Chen Xi alone; it fused the bonds and rules of everyone in the Nirvana Battle Team!

"Hum!"

Li Murou's [Time Reversal: Absolute Stillness] intervened instantly! The timeline where the Stargate Arbiter attempted to detonate its core and perish with Earth was forcibly "edited" and reversed by Li Murou's zither music, causing its self-destruct sequence to be forever stuck at 0.01 seconds before activation!

"Crackle!"

Su Xiaoxiao's [Void Thunder Punishment] transformed into countless purple-black thunder chains, tightly wrapping around every one of the Stargate Arbiter's metal tentacles, forcibly straightening and immobilizing its massive body!

"Roar!"

Ye Fei's [Myriad Spirit Divine Seal] erupted with the absolute pressure of a superior being, completely crushing the Stargate Arbiter's will to resist on a spiritual level, causing its high-dimensional mental power to fall into a state of system freeze!

Even the heavily injured Lin Shan below contributed, as his [Indestructible Blood Core]'s law of causality transformed into a dark golden shield, tightly protecting Chen Xi in the center and blocking the deadly radiation generated during the high-dimensional energy collapse!

"Do you see? This is the bond of humanity! This is the power of the stars shining that you high-dimensional vermin, who only know how to plunder, will never be able to understand!"

Chen Xi slammed his hands together!

"[Miracle: Extreme Reverse Recording]!"

"Now... turn into a card for me!!!"

"Screech—!!!"

A loud sound, as if the canvas of the entire universe had been torn apart.

Under the horrified gazes of Shen Ye, Xia Qing, and all the survivors below, that hundred-meter-tall, arrogant ninth-rank Stargate Arbiter and its massive high-dimensional energy body were, like a sheet of paper caught in a printer, emitting extremely shrill screams as they were forcibly "flattened," inch by inch, layer by layer!

Its polyhedral core was pressed into a flat geometric pattern; its giant eye, burning with annihilating black flames, was compressed into an illustration on the card face; its massive energy, capable of destroying galaxies, was forcibly poured into that palm-sized card!

"No—! I am of the High-dimensional Deity race... I am not willing to become a low-dimensional inanimate object, ahhhhhhh—!!!"

Accompanied by one last shrill wail filled with unwillingness and despair, the Stargate Arbiter's massive body completely vanished from this world!

"Ding—!!!"

A crisp, melodious system notification sound, like the voice of heaven, exploded in Chen Xi's mind.

[Cross-dimensional Miracle Creation — Great Success!]

[Successfully devoured and recorded a ninth-rank demigod-level high-dimensional energy body!]

[Ultimate Mythic Card [When Humanitys Stars Shine] has absorbed the high-dimensional core, Card Completion: 100%!]

[Unlocked unique active skill — [Dimensional Descent Summoning: Servant of the Deity]: The host can ignore all costs to summon the sealed High-dimensional Deity to fight for them. The summoned deity will be completely controlled by the host and will retain 100% of its peak combat power and dimensional strike rules from before its death!]

"Phew..."

Chen Xi tightly gripped the ultimate card, which radiated an interwoven light of deep blue and nine colors, as he plummeted from the high altitude like a meteor that had lost its power. His mental sea was completely dried up, but a wild, arrogant smile belonging to a victor curled at the corners of his mouth.

"Captain!"

"Chen Xi!"

Su Xiaoxiao, Li Murou, and Ye Fei transformed into three streaks of light, steadily catching Chen Xi in mid-air and bringing him down safely onto the scarred glacier ruins.

"We won... we actually really... instant-killed a High-dimensional Deity?!"

Xia Qing pushed up his cracked glasses, his legs went weak, and he collapsed directly into the snow. He looked at the giant star gate in the sky, which was flickering violently and teetering on the edge of collapse because it had lost the Stargate Arbiter's power support, feeling as if he were in an absurd dream.

Shen Ye also walked over quickly. His single eye looked at the card quietly resting in Chen Xi's hand, his gaze filled with indescribable awe.

Turning a High-dimensional Deity into a card to serve one's own commands? This kind of method had already exceeded the limits of human imagination. This guy Chen Xi could no longer be called a Professional; his existence now was the [Rule Itself] walking!

"Chen Xi, how are you?" Shen Ye asked with concern.

"I will not die, just a bit of severe mental exhaustion." Chen Xi barely opened his eyes under the healing green light from Li Murou. He panted heavily and carefully tucked the [When Humanitys Stars Shine] card away against his body.

"Well done, brother. We defended Earth." Shen Ye let out a long sigh of relief, looking at the collapsing star gate, "As long as this star gate shatters, the high-dimensional coordinates will be lost again, and Earth will be able to welcome true peace."

However, upon hearing this, Chen Xi's expression did not relax in the slightest.

He forced his body to stand up, his eyes fixed intently on the thousand-meter-tall giant star gate.

"Captain Shen..."

Chen Xi's voice became unprecedentedly grave, even carrying a hint of chilling hoarseness:

"You are wrong."

"Peace has not arrived."

"This gate... not only did it not collapse, the thing behind it... is coming through!"

As if to confirm Chen Xi's words.

"Rumble—!!!!!"

The star gate, which had been teetering on the edge of collapse because it lost its energy support, suddenly erupted with a scarlet blood-red light ten, a hundred times more terrifying than when the Stargate Arbiter descended!

The deep blue vortex, which had been on the verge of closing, was suddenly torn open on both sides—forcibly and brutally—by a pair of invisible, terrifying giant hands from the other side of the star gate!

A destructive pressure that truly belonged to a [Tenth-Rank True God], enough to make the entire solar system tremble, poured out without reservation through that torn star gate fissure onto Earth's atmosphere!

"Who... killed my loyal servant?"

A magnificent voice, impossible to describe in words, as if formed by the collapse of billions of stars, exploded directly in the minds of all living beings on Earth!

The voice did not resemble human language; it was more like some kind of high-dimensional data torrent being forcibly written onto the neural cortex.

As this voice rang out, the atmosphere above the Extreme North Ice Field began to peel away and carbonize in large swaths, as if it were burning paper! The sky was no longer filled with auroras and clouds, but revealed a weird, scarlet starry sky covered in countless giant mechanical tentacles and unspeakable eyeballs!

"What... what on earth is that?!"