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"Earth is your home, and you...wouldn't you want to see it destroyed?"
This was his last bargaining chip.
It was also the only link he could think of that could connect him with the other party—his "hometown".
However, Zhou Ye's next words plunged him into an icy abyss.
"home?"
Zhou Ye seemed to have heard something funny. "Who told you this is my hometown? I just happened to be passing through and thought the scenery was alright and the hot pot was delicious, so I stayed a few more days."
He pointed to the dock beneath his feet, then to the distant sea.
"This planet, this galaxy, and even what you call the known universe, are like a roadside inn to me. If I'm comfortable, I'll stay a few more days. If I'm not comfortable, or if someone is shouting at my door and disturbing my rest..."
He paused, looked at Dukao's face that had instantly lost all color, and smiled as he spoke the second half of the sentence.
"...I might choose to tear down the entire hotel and move to another place."
boom!
Dukao's mind was as if it had been detonated by an invisible bomb.
All his perseverance, all his awareness, all his tragic heroism were shattered at this moment.
He finally understood.
The other party didn't care at all.
They don't care about the Earth, the scorching sun, the so-called "judgment of heaven," or even the survival of this universe.
All his actions were based on the simplest and purest principle—his "feelings".
Dukao swayed, almost losing his balance. He felt like a clown, putting on a one-man show with all his might, while the only audience member didn't even bother to blink.
"Then...then what should we do?"
His voice trembled with despair.
"How to do?"
Zhou Ye shrugged.
"That's your problem, not mine. It's because your civilization is too weak, so weak that it can't even control its own destiny. Weakness is the original sin."
He turned away, seemingly having lost interest in continuing the conversation.
"By the way, you can also run away, just like a long time ago. First, move from the Angel Nebula to Denor, and then come to Earth from Denor. With Denor's technology, you can be sure of evacuating Earth in an hour, so what are you pretending for?"
"You really think that just because you've lived in colonies for so long, you're a native? What an idiot!"
Just as Zhou Ye was about to leave with Feng Shayan, a sudden change occurred.
The sky darkened without warning.
It wasn't the kind of darkness that comes from dark clouds obscuring the sun, but rather a darkness where...light was forcibly stripped away. The entire world seemed to have been switched to grayscale mode, and a grand, majestic, ancient, and suffocating will descended from the depths of the universe.
Above the dock, golden particles of light began to converge, vaguely forming an enormous face. That face was incomparably majestic, its eyes like burning stars, looking down upon the mortal world below.
An indescribable pressure enveloped the entire city of Juxia, no, the entire Earth.
Far away in Pluto's orbit, the Demon Wings are blaring alarms.
"Your Majesty! Extremely high levels of divine energy have been detected descending upon Earth! The energy level... is incalculable! It is engulfing the entire planet!"
Morgana abruptly stood up from her throne, staring intently at the giant golden face simulated by data on the screen, and cried out in a hoarse voice:
"Holy crap! Di Hongkun! That ancient immortal from Lieyang Star who's lived for tens of thousands of years! He actually took action himself?! This is... a divine interrogation!"
Inside Deathsong Academy, Karl put down his book, his face displaying an unprecedentedly fanatical expression.
"It's here! It's here! The oldest god of Lieyang Star has confronted that unknown rule! This... this will be the most magnificent epic in the universe!"
In near-Earth orbit, the bodies of Angel Yan and the other two were so pressed down by that divine pressure that they almost fell off the clouds.
"It's...it's the old Sun God of the Blazing Sun! His divine sense...crossed galaxies and descended! Wait, wasn't he dead? Could he have faked his death and been hiding all this time?"
Yan's voice was filled with shock.
"What is he going to do?!"
On the dock, under this oppressive force, Dukao's legs buckled, and he knelt down on one knee. He felt his gene engine and his Divine River genes groaning in submission under this pressure.
This is absolute suppression from a higher level of the genetic chain!
"Mortals, kneel down!"
A sound as grand as the friction of stars resounded between heaven and earth.
However, amidst this oppressive force that could make even the gods tremble, only two people remained unaffected.
The sand swallow merely looked up curiously at the enormous golden face in the sky and whispered to Zhou Ye:
"Sir, this special effect... looks much more expensive than that Xuan Tian thing from before."
Wow, what a huge face! How many graphics cards would it take to render this? It even has particle effects and holy light! My eyesight isn't very good though. You want me to kneel down? I'm the master's personal attendant, I kneel to heaven, to earth, to the master! Who do you think you are?
Zhou Ye didn't even raise his head.
He simply picked at his ears, as if bothered by some noise, and frowned somewhat impatiently.
That enormous golden face, with its majestic gaze, finally locked onto Zhou Ye.
"An anomaly!" The grand voice rang out again, carrying a judgmental tone. "It was you who imprisoned my blazing sun's guardian deity, Xuan Tianji?"
"Do you know your crime?!"
The divine interrogation has officially begun!
At this moment, the gaze of the entire known universe was focused on this small lake overlooking the sea.
Chapter 417 Who do you think you are!
"what?"
Zhou Ye stopped picking his ear, as if he had heard an extremely absurd joke. He turned his head and glanced at the majestic giant face made of light particles in the sky with an expression of utter disbelief.
"Know your guilt? What guilt do I know?" He laughed, a laugh devoid of any reverence, only pure, undisguised mockery.
"After beating the young ones, the old ones come. What, are you going to send an even older, immortal one later? Do you people on Lieyang Star enjoy playing this kind of Calabash Brothers saving their grandfather drama?"
He paused, then extended a finger and beckoned it towards the sky.
"Stop playing tricks and wasting everyone's time. If you want to die, come at me all at once, don't line up one by one. It's a good opportunity for me to see what you're really made of, you old man who's lived for tens of thousands of years."
Upon hearing this, the grand and majestic atmosphere of the world instantly froze.
Dukao knelt on one knee, completely dumbfounded. He had anticipated countless possibilities: Zhou Ye's fear, anger, compromise, or even disdain. But he never expected that the other party would directly challenge him to a fight.
No, that wasn't a challenge. It was a favor extended by a superior to a subordinate, allowing the latter to demonstrate just how ridiculous they were.
Angel Yan, Zhui, and Mo Yi, who were far away in near-Earth orbit, had a blank mind.
"What...what was he saying to Di Hongkun?"
Moi's voice was trembling.
"He's...provoking Di Hongkun..." Yan swallowed hard, feeling her understanding being shattered and reassembled again and again. That was Di Hongkun! The supreme god who existed since the mythical era of Lieyang Star, a living legend, a terrifying being who could unleash divine punishment across galaxies with a single thought!
This man named Zhou Ye acted as if he were arguing with someone in a market, complaining that the other person wasn't good enough and demanding that they bring their whole family.
"Holy crap!" Morgana exclaimed, slamming her hand on the command platform from her demonic wings, her eyes gleaming and her face flushed with excitement.
"Awesome! That's fucking awesome! Well said! This old bastard has been bluffing for tens of thousands of years, and today he's finally met his match! Ator, connect me to the universe-wide broadcast, I want a live broadcast! Such a spectacular scene, it would be an injustice if all the demons of the universe didn't see it!"
Inside Deathsong Academy, Karl's eyes gleamed with unprecedented fervor. He paid no heed to Zhou Ye's words; his entire focus was on the restrained yet palpable "rules" emanating from Zhou Ye.
"Rebellion... He's going to rebel... Faced with the collective will of a civilization, faced with the embodiment of an ancient divine authority, how will he reveal the truth he holds? It's so beautiful... It's so beautiful..."
In the sky, the flames in the eyes of that enormous golden face flickered violently. Clearly, Zhou Ye's words had successfully enraged this ancient deity.
"act recklessly……!"
A grand voice, filled with boundless rage, resounded throughout the entire Earth: "Since you are so eager to die, I, the god, will grant your wish!"
Before the words were even finished, on the surface of that enormous star in the distant Lieyang Star System, the unimaginably majestic phantom of a towering structure slowly emerged. That was the ultimate celestial computer of Lieyang Star—the Celestial Tower.
At the tip of the Celestial Tower, billions of tons of stellar matter began to gather, and the energy readings skyrocketed exponentially. A pillar of light, even more dazzling than the sun itself, was brewing.
"The Heavenly Judgment... has been initiated!"
Dukao's face was ashen.
"Your Majesty! The Heavenly Dao Tower on Lieyang Star is undergoing an over-energy recharge! Target locked on Earth!" Angel Yan reported urgently.
However, faced with this apocalyptic scene that could destroy the entire solar system, Zhou Ye simply shook his head impatiently.
"So slow."
He commented softly.
"Long charging time, obvious trajectory, serious energy dissipation... Tsk, where did they go with this tech tree? It's practically a work of art, gorgeous, yet useless."
Fengshayan listened from the side, her eyes twitching.
"Sir, that's the ultimate weapon that could blow up the entire solar system! Why are you talking about it like a child's water gun... and even giving it a professional review?"
Just as the attack from the Heavenly Dao Tower was about to be launched, Zhou Ye finally moved.
He didn't do anything earth-shattering; he simply raised his right hand and snapped his fingers.
"Collapse".
A crisp syllable.
"Descent, Kukulkan."
As he finished speaking, the space around him rippled outwards like the surface of water.
A figure emerged silently from the ripples.
That's a girl.
She had a cascade of long, emerald-green hair that reached her ankles. Her golden eyes, devoid of any emotion, were like two pieces of the purest amber, reflecting the stars of the entire universe. She wore strange and magnificent ancient clothing, was barefoot, and her skin was so white it was almost translucent.
Her appearance did not cause any energy fluctuations, but all the gods who observed this scene felt a suffocating sensation from the depths of their souls.