Zhou Qi felt that with just a thought, he could conjure hurricanes that cut through stardust, ignite flames that incinerated meteoric iron, summon lightning that tore through darkness, and freeze surging energy.
The Origin mysteries of various elements flowed naturally within him like a clear spring, becoming an extension of his limbs and will.
Buzz—! Boom! Crackle! Hiss hiss—!
Zhou Qi’s body instantly transformed into the eye of a Universe energy storm!
Scarlet, blood-red flames coiled and ascended like a rampant Dragon;
Eerily blue, bone-chilling ice crystals materialized out of thin air, radiating cold;
Blinding silver-white lightning writhed like frenzied pythons, tearing through the darkness;
Invisible gales howled like ghosts, forming a force field that cut through all things;
And at the core of all this was the most domineering, most scorching, molten-gold stellar light, as if it could ignite the Void Realm itself!
Five torrents of energy, distinct in nature yet equally imbued with destructive power, erupted from him as their center, like celestial bodies suppressed for eons finally exploding, violently gushing, intertwining, colliding, and undergoing Fusion in the absolute silence of deep space!
At this moment, he became a sun in the darkness.
The light instantly devoured tens of thousands of kilometers of airspace, silently vaporizing several house-sized asteroids that happened to be passing nearby.
This dazzling spectacle, with energy so violent it distorted vision, like a miniature supernova explosion, persisted for a full fifteen minutes against the backdrop of eternal darkness.
Only then did the raging energy turbulence, as if its fuel had run out, gradually recede and calm.
Finally, only a figure quietly suspended in the Void Realm remained, still enveloped by a faint, heart-stopping residual energy glow, like cooling lava.
When the last trace of overflowing energy fluctuations completely subsided, Zhou Qi slowly opened his eyes.
Deep within his pupils, nebulae seemed to be forming and perishing, storms brewing in his gaze, and lightning flashing and fading in his eyes.
A new power, a Fusion of planetary-level Mental Power, the immortal Titan Dragon Body, stellar destructive breath, and elemental control authority, surged and resonated through every inch of his flesh and every thought.
It finally settled completely, transforming into an unprecedented, powerful “sense of reality” of controlling himself and controlling power.
He casually flexed and extended his five fingers.
Without deliberately mobilizing any energy, merely the most minute contraction of muscle fibers, the vacuum between his fingers emitted a low hum like a muffled drum, rippling out visible spatial ripples like water waves!
Mental Power swept over him, and he clearly “inwardly observed” that every cell of his body was like a precise stellar core engine, with an incredibly robust structure, containing terrifying explosive power sufficient to collapse a giant mountain range with a single punch;
Beneath his skin, blood flowed like molten gold, radiating a scorching aura and boundless vitality;
His bones had a density comparable to the hardest minerals deep within the Earth's Core;
With a slight movement of his will, a wisp of faint blue flame, capable of instantly melting an aircraft carrier deck, danced at his fingertip; with another thought, the flame silently dissipated, transforming into a hair-thin, yet silently cutting, pale green wind blade that easily sliced a drifting speck of cosmic dust in half.
He slightly opened his mouth, and deep within his throat, an indescribable scorching sensation, as if it could burn through spatial barriers, was condensing and compressing.
He didn't even need to try; he could clearly “perceive” that with just a thought, a destructive stream of light, capable of incinerating stars and annihilating all things, would burst forth, tearing through everything in its path!
“Is this… the new power form… a Fusion of the Titan Dragon Body, stellar Dragon Breath, and basic Elemental Control?”
Zhou Qi’s voice vibrated silently in the vacuum, yet in his own Soul perception, it was like the first thunderclap that split the heavens and earth, carrying supreme majesty and absolute control.
He calmed his mind, and the glowing panel reappeared:
Life Strength: 120
Titan Dragon Body (Six-star · Golden Emperor): A perfect Fusion of planetary-level physical defense, absolute strength, boundless vitality, and high-dimensional resistance. Unmoving like a star, moving like the heavens collapsing.
Stellar Dragon Breath (Six-star · Golden Emperor): The ultimate breath weapon that draws upon the nascent Law of stellar core destruction, incinerating stars and boiling seas, annihilating all things.
Elemental Control · Basic (Five-star · Golden Emperor): The authority to communicate with and command the Origin of fundamental Universe elements such as wind, fire, water, lightning, and ice. All elements of heaven and earth are for my use.
(Only newly added or changed items are displayed)
Looking at the list of talents on the panel, shining with a suffocating aura, especially the Life Strength of 120 points.
This indicated that his life Origin was as majestic and stable as a mountain, and his power surged endlessly like a galaxy, not far from crossing the threshold into the mid-planetary realm.
A cold, all-controlling curve slowly formed at the corner of Zhou Qi’s mouth.
He clearly felt that, combined with the terrifying talents bestowed by Golden Emperor, his current actual combat power was already sufficient to directly contend with and even suppress ordinary mid-planetary realm existences!
This was a qualitative leap!
His gaze, like two peerless Divine Weapons forged in a stellar furnace for ten thousand years, penetrated the obstruction of the cold vacuum and ignored the disturbance of the atmosphere.
It precisely and firmly locked onto the deepest part of the Antarctic continent on Blue Star, which was covered by billions of years of profound ice.
Beneath the thick ice cap, terrifying existences from the previous era were buried, and they were his next target to be crushed.
“The old antiques of the Antarctic Otherworld…”
Zhou Qi’s voice echoed in the deepest part of his consciousness, cold and biting, devoid of emotion, yet containing the destructive will of the Stellar Dragon Breath, capable of incinerating all things.
“Your days are numbered. Once the Iron-Blood World’s insect nest completes its final integration, and the secrets of those ruins in the Lunar Ruins begin to reveal themselves… that will be the time when you, along with your ice-sealed nests, are completely reduced to insignificant dust in the Universe!”
In the vast deep space of the Universe, Zhou Qi’s figure stood like an ancient monument, a powerful yet restrained aura spreading out like an invisible tide.
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Iron-Blood World · Main Base.
Central Plaza.
Morning light pierced through the blood-red clouds.
The folds of space rippled silently, like a heavy black cloth being shaken open.
Zhou Qi stepped out of the ripples, and the solid alloy ground immediately bore his weight, emitting a dull thud.
The morning wind, carrying the scent of rust and blood, roughly filled his nostrils, instantly dispelling the absolute silence of the Moon's far side.
He had returned, back to this boiling furnace forged by his will.
The scene before him was more stunning than any cold blueprint.
“Boom—!”
Amidst a deafening crash, a twelfth-order Spiked Horned Tyrant Bug, like a mobile fortress, was using its thick, pillar-like forelimbs to forcefully wedge a curved, dark purple glowing bio-alloy giant plate into the skeleton of a hundred-meter-tall tower.
A stream of golden energy, like a welding torch, erupted from the Spiked Horned Tyrant Bug’s dorsal spikes, the splashing sparks like fine golden rain, falling onto the thick carapaces of the Army Ants below, raising wisps of green smoke.