264: Chapter 264 Give them a bath!

Ye Fei's hands formed an ancient and complex God-Contract Seal before her chest. An absolute pressure originating from the very source of life transformed into a golden spiritual storm, sweeping frantically across the boundless sea of insects in a fan shape!

"[God-Tier Command: Soul Alteration - Offspring Defection]!!!"

Boom—!

This golden spiritual storm ignored the vacuum's obstruction, blasting directly into the microscopic biological neural centers within those flying cockroaches.

Originally, these flying cockroaches were controlled by the Tyrant through a unified 'hive mind.' However, under the divine impact of Ye Fei's partial authority as the 'First Creator,' their hive network instantly suffered from extremely severe logical garble!

"Screeech—!!!"

The crimson glow in the compound eyes of the silver beetles closest to Ye Fei—numbering in the hundreds of millions—suddenly stalled. Then, they were forcibly dyed a dark gold, representing submission!

In the next second, this swarm of flying cockroaches, forcibly 'turned' by Ye Fei, abruptly swung their mouthparts around. Like a pack of rabid dogs, they lunged and bit savagely at their uncurbed kin behind them!

"Rip— Crack!"

The originally invincible insect tsunami instantly fell into a brutal fratricide under Ye Fei's miraculous 'spiritual defection.' Severed limbs of liquid metal splashed everywhere in the vacuum, and the swarm's offensive was violently torn open, leaving a massive gap!

"Xiao Xiao! Give them a bath!" Chen Xi shouted as he stood in the void.

"I've been waiting for this moment!"

Su Xiaoxiao transformed into purple-silver void lightning. Following the gap Ye Fei had torn open, she appeared directly above the insect army as if teleporting.

There was no trace of mercy in her cold eyes. She raised her staff high, pointing straight at the pitch-black, profound cosmic dome.

"Since you can devour conventional magic, I will use the fury of this void to completely purify you!"

"[God-Tier - Void Thunder Punishment - Star-Sea Thunderfall]!!!"

Crack— Rumble!!!!!

With Su Xiaoxiao as the center, the cosmic space for tens of thousands of kilometers around shattered inch by inch like a mirror!

This was no ordinary lightning; it was the pure [Destruction Law] channeled directly from high-dimensional void cracks!

Countless purple-black void divine thunders, each a thousand meters thick, poured down frantically like a waterfall from the nine heavens hanging over the galaxy. They carried an absolute majesty that annihilated all matter and energy, cascading toward the silver sea of insects below!

In this baptism of void thunderfall, comparable to a supernova explosion, those Star-Devouring Flying Cockroach—famed for their ability to multiply infinitely—didn't even have time to trigger their instincts to devour and reconstruct before they were completely erased at the atomic level by the ultimate Law of Destruction!

A mere five minutes passed.

Under the god-like coordination of these three members of the Nirvana Battle Team, the insect tsunami that could have swallowed an entire interstellar fleet had actually been slaughtered by over eighty percent!

The remaining stragglers let out terrified wails, retreating frantically toward the edge of the star system like a ebbing tide.

"We... we won?!"

Inside the battered flagship of the Expeditionary Force, Lei Zhentian and Li Zhenhai looked at the holographic screen where the radar's red dots were nearly cleared. Both let out long sighs of relief, their backs already soaked in cold sweat.

"These little monsters... just what kind of inconceivable realm has their current strength reached?"

However, Chen Xi, floating in the void, did not have the slightest joy of victory on his face.

His crimson-gold eyes stared fixedly at the retreating swarm. The lethal sense of crisis in his heart had not weakened with the insects' retreat; instead, it felt as if he were being watched by a true abyssal behemoth, frantically stimulating his every nerve.

"Beep... Warning... Lord Administrator..."

Inside Chen Xi's mind, the electronic voice of the AI Morning Star rang out, stuttering heavily due to extreme fear:

"The swarm's retreat... is not because of fear..."

"It is because... [Its] true body... has arrived..."

Before the voice could fade.

Chen Xi's pupils shrank violently.

He watched helplessly as the massive star millions of kilometers away—the one that had been emitting endless light and heat, illuminating the entire Sirius Sector—

Suddenly, without any warning...

Went out.

The star was extinguished.

This was not a metaphor, nor was it blocked by some dark cloud; it had truly, in a physical sense, lost all its light and heat!

In that instant, the entire Sirius Sector fell into a suffocating, absolute silence and darkness. The Earth Expeditionary Force fleet, which had just erupted in cheers of survival after defeating the swarm, was now silent across all communication channels. A million soldiers leaned against portholes, staring in utter terror at the suddenly pitch-black deep space. A sense of dread originating from the depths of their genes coiled around everyone's hearts like a venomous snake.

"Wha... what happened? Why is the sun gone?!" Li Murou clutched the harp of time reversal in her arms within the void, her teeth chattering uncontrollably. Even with her SS-grade strength, she felt a terrifying pressure sufficient to freeze her soul.

"It's not that the sun is gone..."

The corners of Chen Xi's eyes twitched from extreme tension. His crimson-gold eyes, which had pushed Miracle Deduction to the limit, pierced through that absolute darkness to see a desperate scene—one he had never encountered even when facing a Ninth-Order Demigod:

"That star... was 'swallowed' in one bite by something!"

"What?!"

Su Xiaoxiao and Ye Fei both gasped, inhaling a breath of air even colder than Absolute Zero.

Swallowed a star?! That was a super celestial body millions of times larger than Earth! What kind of monster could swallow a sun like it was a piece of candy?!

"Hum— Hum— Hum—"

Just then, within the absolute darkness that had devoured the star, two massive light orbs resembling blood-colored abysses suddenly lit up. They weren't light orbs at all, but a pair of terrifying eyes spanning hundreds of thousands of kilometers—cold, cruel, and filled with an endless desire for destruction!

As those eyes opened, an ultimate shadow so vast its silhouette could not be described in human language slowly emerged from the deep space.

It had no fixed form. Its body was a conceptual aggregate pieced together from the wreckage of countless crushed planets, rolling dark matter nebulae, and the pale bones of billions of high-dimensional beings it had devoured! Every breath it took generated energy tides capable of easily tearing tens of thousands of black holes into the surrounding void!

[Target Locked: High-Dimensional Reaper · Star Abyss Tyrant (Cosmic-Level Calamity Entity)]

[Level: Lv. ??? (Exceeded system analysis threshold; host is advised to immediately abandon all resistance and wait for death where you stand)]

[Status: Predation Period / Rage]

[Traits: Dimensional Devourment, Physical Constant Alteration, Absolute Erasure, Galactic-Level Mass Suppression]