258: Chapter 258 Receiving the Spoils

"Whew..."

Chen Xi let out a long sigh, tucking the invincible card, which allowed him to act with impunity across the universe, into his embrace. He turned his head to look at his four teammates behind him, who were already so shocked their souls had left their bodies and they stood like statues, and flashed an extremely bright, almost annoying grin:

"Alright, everyone."

"The biggest boss has been packed up by me into a figurine."

"Now... it's time to collect our spoils."

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"You... you turned a True God the size of a planet... into a card?!"

If Xia Qing were here, his glasses would probably have shattered into dust long ago. And at this moment, Su Xiaoxiao, Li Murou, Ye Fei, and Lin Shan, having witnessed this scene with their own eyes, had completely lost the ability to think.

What level of battle was that just now?

Concept erasure! Dimensional collapse! Stellar annihilation!

Even the slightest leak of any one of those powers would have been enough to vaporize a planet on the level of Earth ten thousand times over in an instant! Yet their captain, Chen Xi, had used the most unreasonable, most overbearing method to turn this cosmic-level extinction crisis into a one-sided "material collection" session?!

"Cap... Captain..." Li Murou swallowed, pointing tremblingly at the card in Chen Xi's hand, her voice filled with a reverence akin to looking at a monster: "Are you... are you a human or a god now?"

"Me? Of course I'm human, just a legitimate student of Jiang University, occasionally moonlighting as an administrator for the Civilization Fire."

Chen Xi laughed it off, casually dismissing the damaged xingtian mecha, and led the four of them down onto the void ruins that had originally belonged to the Void Sovereign but were now completely empty.

"Alright, stop spacing out. Although the Void Sovereign has been sealed by me, this star region still holds the wealth of an entire galaxy that it has plundered over these tens of thousands of years!"

A barely concealed "treasure-hunting" gleam flashed in Chen Xi's eyes. As a qualified Card Maker and captain, being frugal and looting spoils was an excellent tradition carved into his bones.

He raised his hand, and the Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain, that floating fortress radiating nine-colored divine light, instantly appeared above their heads.

" [Divine Domain Authority: Deploy]!"

" [Command: Full Takeover: Resource Reclamation]!"

Rumble—!

Following Chen Xi's order, the deep blue star gate engine at the bottom of the Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain suddenly ran in reverse. A terrifying suction force, comparable to a supermassive black hole, instantly engulfed the interstellar space for millions of kilometers around!

Those millions of alien warship wrecks floating in the void, those [High-dimensional Energy Crystals] glowing with various colors stored by the Void Sovereign, and even the cores of dozens of abandoned planets that were originally having their energy extracted by Dyson spheres and were now on the verge of disintegration because they had lost their bindings...

At this moment, they all turned into a brilliant meteor shower across the sky, continuously and forcibly sucked into the space of the [Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain]!

"Beep! Massive amounts of high-dimensional energy detected!"

"Divine Domain space beginning to expand... tenfold... hundredfold... thousandfold!"

"Ding! Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain has absorbed sufficient matter and laws, successfully evolving into [Ultimate Astral Fortress (Plane-level)]!"

"New features unlocked: [Life Incubation], [Law Weaving], [Intergalactic Ultra-Long Distance Jump]!"

Listening to the series of system notification sounds in his mind, which were like celestial music, Chen Xi's heart pounded.

The original Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain, while miraculous, was at best just a super training dungeon and a large spaceship.

But now!

After absorbing the entire foundation of a deity's base camp, this Divine Domain had transformed into a [Independent Micro-World] in the true sense! Its internal space was not only vast enough to rival a solar system, but it could even define its own physical laws and incubate new life!

This meant that as long as Chen Xi was willing, he could completely move all of Earth's humanity into this absolutely safe "mobile cosmic fortress" to avoid any disaster!

"Captain, look over there!"

Just as Chen Xi was immersed in the joy of sudden wealth, Ye Fei suddenly pointed to a corner in the very depths of the ruins, her voice carrying a hint of urgency.

Everyone followed the direction of her finger and saw, hidden beneath the core area where the Void Sovereign had originally lurked, a giant metal throne radiating an ancient, weathered aura.

The material of the throne was neither metal nor stone, and it was carved with countless epic scenes of ancient human ancestors hunting stars and conquering the universe. Even after enduring the erosion of endless years, the throne still retained a kind of righteous aura that made one unable to resist bowing down in worship.

"This is..."

Chen Xi's pupils constricted slightly; he could feel that the [Civilization Fire Editor] authority, which had just awakened within him, was resonating extremely strongly with this throne!

The four of them approached quickly.

The moment Chen Xi gently touched the metal throne.

"Hum—!"

A massive stream of information instantly flooded into his mind.

It was not a piece of text, but a historical recording spanning hundreds of thousands of years.

He saw the peak fleet of the ancient human Ascended Empire, which had once been glorious to the extreme; he saw the human pioneers waging bloody battles against those unspeakable cosmic disasters in order to explore higher dimensions; he saw that on the eve of the Empire's collapse, the last few prophets sealed the fire of civilization into Earth's gene bank and left behind this defensive counter-program called the "Professional Panel"...

And this throne was the command hub of the ancient human expeditionary commander! It was also ironclad proof that this star region once belonged to human civilization!

"So... we were never some low-level civilization huddled in a corner."

Chen Xi slowly opened his eyes, his eye sockets slightly reddened, but his gaze became unprecedentedly bright and proud:

"Here, this sea of stars... was originally the territory of our ancestors!"

"Those so-called High-dimensional Deities are nothing but a bunch of thieves who took over the nest while the human empire was in decline!"

Chen Xi turned around, looking at the four comrades beside him who had been through life and death with him, seeing the same shock and realization in their eyes.

"Everyone."

Chen Xi took a deep breath, his voice resonating before this empty, ancient throne:

"The disaster a hundred years ago was a detour on humanity's path to self-redemption; the betrayal of the Star Council was the submission of cowards to fear."

"But from today on, all of this is over."

He turned his head and looked at the [Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain] that had already evolved into the Ultimate Astral Fortress. Through the projection of the Divine Domain's star gate, he could even faintly see that beautiful azure planet on the distant edge of the Milky Way.

"We have won this extinction war, but our mission has not ended."

Chen Xi strode to the throne that belonged to the ancient human commander, turned around without hesitation, and sat down in a bold, sweeping motion!