299: Chapter 299 Next, it's time to get down to business.

"This is only the beginning."

The corners of Chen Xi's mouth curled into a cold and ambitious arc.

He knew that Ao Kun's death and the destruction of the Star God Race expeditionary force could never be hidden from that behemoth deep within the stars. The true Astral God Emperor, an ultimate old monster who had lived for countless eons, would soon descend with even more terrifying retaliation.

More importantly, a hidden piece of information Chen Xi had just decoded through the [imperial treasury key: god-creating cube fragment] made his heart race uncontrollably.

That information pointed to an extremely secretive spatial coordinate millions of light-years away.

There lay the complete map of the [Ultimate God-Creating Vault] left behind by the Ancient Human Ascension Empire, capable of mass-producing gods!

"The Star God Race, huh?"

Chen Xi clenched his fists, and the [Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain] fortress behind him erupted with a nine-colored divine radiance that illuminated the sea of stars.

"Wash your necks and wait."

"The next stop..."

"I'm going to raid your ancestral grounds!!!"

In the space of the Sirius Sector's First Interstellar Outpost.

A brutal battle, worthy of being recorded in the annals of Milky Way warfare history, came to a close in an absurd manner that no high-level cosmic civilization could comprehend.

The invincible fleet of one hundred thousand ships, crafted entirely from stellar gold and representing the supreme military power of the Star God Race expeditionary force, no longer existed. In its place were tens of millions of Earth Players, densely packed like a plague of locusts, frantically "dismantling the house."

"Holy crap! Brothers, come quick! There's a glowing purple crystal in this flagship's main control room! I checked the system panel, and it's actually an [SS-Grade Stellar Energy Core]! I'm rich, I'm rich!!!"

"Get lost! I saw that first! Damn, these aliens' chairs are actually made of High-Dimensional Soft Jade? Strip the chair legs off and take them too, don't leave a single hair for these alien natives!"

"Healer group! Quick, get some people to give these alien captives a few heals! They're about to stop breathing! Major General Chen Xi said that live Star God Race members can be sold to the Military Research Institute for ten times the military merit! Don't let them die!"

There was no air in space to transmit sound, but in the Earth Players' exclusive mental communication channel, that hair-raising fanaticism and greed were more terrifying than a cosmic black hole. This group of players, trained by Chen Xi in the [Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain] into the "fourth calamity," carried out the "Three-Alls Policy" to the extreme—looting everything, dismantling everything, and even packing up the wreckage.

In just a few short hours, that Star God Race army, which had struck fear into countless star systems, failed to leave behind even a single grain of stellar scrap metal in the universe; they were completely stripped bare by the humans of Earth.

Meanwhile, inside the highest command cabin of the Astral Fortress that floated at the pinnacle of the universe within the [Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain].

Chen Xi sat cross-legged upon a throne forged from dark matter. Floating quietly before him was a crystal emitting a piercing golden light, its surface flowing with countless stellar laws—it was the [Lv. 145 true god divinity] forcibly stripped from Grand Marshal Ao Kun's mind!

"Ding—! Extreme high-dimensional divine energy detected!"

Under the light of the divinity, AI Morning Star's holographic projection became increasingly solid, her voice tinged with a hint of awe:

"Lord Administrator, this divinity contains a hundred thousand years of the Star God Race's insights into stellar laws, as well as a massive life origin sufficient to ignite a dead star. If integrated directly into the Divine Domain, our hundredfold time field could expand to cover the entire solar system!"

"Cover the solar system? No, it's not time yet."

Chen Xi slowly opened his crimson-gold eyes, a profound smile playing on his lips:

"Earth's current foundation is too thin; taking too big a step will only end up hurting my own balls. Although this group of 'fourth calamity' players isn't afraid of death, their physical strength is ultimately a shortcoming. I will use this Lv. 145 true god divinity to perform a thorough [Rule Baptism] for my team members!"

Chen Xi's gaze swept over Su Xiaoxiao, Li Murou, Ye Fei, and Lin Shan, who were standing below the hall.

"Lin Shan!"

"Here, Captain!" Lin Shan stepped forward like an iron tower. After enduring the dimensionality reduction strike earlier, although the dark-gold bones in his body had been repaired, the aura he faintly emitted became even more violent.

"Your [Absolute Martyr] path follows the way of karmic substitution; your physical body is your foundation." Chen Xi pointed his fingers like a sword and slashed through the air, forcibly cutting a pure golden origin fragment from that true god divinity!

"[Miracle: Sublimation]! Merge for me!"

With a wave of Chen Xi's hand, that divinity fragment turned into a golden meteor and crashed directly into Lin Shan's chest!

"Ugh, aaaaaah—!!!"

Lin Shan let out a subhuman roar toward the sky. Under the stimulation of the True God origin, the [Indestructible Blood Core] core card within him erupted with a deafening roar. Dark-gold blood surged through his body, and a layer of dense divine patterns, similar to the surface of a star, emerged on his skin!

[Ding! Teammate Lin Shan has successfully fused with the True God origin!]

[Class characteristic evolved! Obtained passive: 'Astral God Indestructible Body' (Immune to all conventional physical and elemental damage below Lv. 130)!]

"Xiao Xiao, Mu Rou, Ye Fei!"

Chen Xi did not stop. Following the same method, he divided the divinity's origin power into three equal parts and struck them into the bodies of the three women.

After Su Xiaoxiao's [Void Thunder Punishment] absorbed the divinity's stellar destruction laws, the color of the lightning turned into a pure annihilation black. Every time she waved her staff, she could tear tiny black holes in the void.

Li Murou's [harp of time reversal] gained a sense of "eternal ages." Now, she didn't even need to play; with just a glance, she could make the flow of time within a hundred-meter radius completely obey her will.

And the [Myriad Spirit Divine Seal] between Ye Fei's brows transformed into a nine-colored hue symbolizing the origin of all cosmic life. Her current Beast King pressure was enough to make any cosmic behemoth that hadn't reached the God Realm kneel instantly!

"Thank you, Captain!!!"

Feeling the terrifying power within them that felt like a leap across life dimensions, the four of them cast fanatical and reverent gazes at Chen Xi.

Chen Xi tucked the remaining half of the divinity core into his robes; it was the card-making base material he had reserved for himself.

He stood up and looked deep into the starry sky with a profound gaze.

"Now that our strength has increased, it's time to go and handle some serious business."

Chen Xi flipped his wrist, and the [imperial treasury key: god-creating cube fragment]—which he had snatched from Garu and which had just absorbed the True God blood of Ao Kun during the battle—projected a vast and boundless 3D cosmic star map in mid-air.

On the star map, a hidden route shimmering with dark red light crossed countless galaxies, finally pointing to a chaotic star sector seventy million light-years away from the Sirius Sector.

And in the center of that star sector, three ancient cosmic divine characters were marked—[Wasteland Star].