"This is bad!"
Dan Heng's expression sank, devoid of fluctuation.
If the power contained within this star were to erupt completely, it would likely be enough to turn the entire Scalegorge Waterscape, along with the surrounding Grotto-Heavens, into a dead zone.
This was probably one of the reasons General Jing Yuan did not want to fight Phantylia head-on aboard the Luofu.
In a battle between Emanators, the mere aftershocks could cause a disaster that would wipe out the ecology of an ordinary planet. Fortunately, the Xianzhou is not a normal planet, and the Grotto-Heavens are the culmination of spatial folding technology.
However, even they could not withstand the impact of such a move; the Luofu ships would be pierced through!
Can it be completely blocked?
Just as Dan Heng was thinking this, he heard a girlish voice, picturesque as the moon, possessing the unique dual-layered vocal cords of a BOSS, filled with indescribable magnetism and confidence.
"It is nothing more than a mere star."
Jingyueshang lightly raised her fair hand, her fingertips sliding through the void to grasp a wisp of moonlight flowing beside her like plucking a flower—Moonlight Condensed Edge.
The sword of moonlight was translucent as ice crystal throughout, its mirror-like blade reflecting her left eye, which was as fiery red as a maple leaf.
Memories belonging to Jingliu surged within her mind.
"The sword in one's palm, compared to heaven and earth, is no larger than a needle. How can it cut open a star?"
This was the matter that had troubled Jingliu for hundreds of years.
In the centuries since leaving the Xianzhou, Jingliu had walked upon many planets. She would often release the emotions of her Mara-struck body at the edge of the sea, pointing her sword at the firmament, frantically swinging her sword at the stars in the sky.
One sword after another, wanting to cut them down, seeking a breakthrough every single day.
But every time she sobered up, Jingliu would realize that if she wanted to cut down the stars in the sky, she still needed a long, long time.
But, she was not Jingliu, but Jingyueshang.
The beauty reflected in the Epiphyllum Sword hooked a smile at the corner of her mouth.
"Cutting a star isn't that difficult, is it~!"
The clear and bright Epiphyllum Sword was slashed upward by Jingyueshang.
"Let this round of moonlight—"
The speed at which she swung the sword was not fast; even the vision of an ordinary person could see it clearly as the blade slid across the void.
"—Illuminate the myriad rivers."
Why call out the name when making a move?
One could say that everyone shouts when playing a 'Bomb' in Dou Dizhu to increase their momentum.
But that is not entirely true.
Martial intent, or Sword Intent—the name of a move entrusts the vision of the martial artist or swordsman. If it is a sword strike without a specific name, then it is difficult for every strike to be executed wholeheartedly.
However, giving it a name is like suggesting to yourself that you must achieve what cannot be done with an ordinary sword strike.
Just like Sasaki Kojiro calling his sword strike 'Tsubame Gaeshi' (Swallow Reversal), and then one day during his solitary training, he truly cut down a swallow flying in the sky.
There was no grand prelude, no thunderous sound.
Starting from the tip, the Epiphyllum Sword shattered bit by bit into deep, icy, and mysterious cold moonlight, like a fairy flying toward the Moon Palace.
Gently, it embraced the meteorite that was powerful enough to pierce through the Grotto-Heaven and the Xianzhou Luofu.
The world became quiet!
Still, there was no explosion. The meteorite was forcibly intercepted by the cold moonlight just like that, frozen in place, unable to fall even a fraction further!
The raging flames burning upon the meteorite were extinguished, dyed with the color of the moon as if by graffiti, finally transforming into a frozen moon hanging in the sky.
Crack!
A very faint sound echoed through the entire Scalegorge Waterscape. Even the Cloud Knights fighting the Denizens of Abundance and Voidrangers at the entrance on the edge of the Ancient Sea could hear it.
"What happened?"
"Look at the sky!"
"A moon!"
"That's not a moon simulated by the Astrarium of the Artisanship Commission!"
"It's a real moon!"
Fu Xuan, who was arranging the troop formations, also gazed blankly at that bright moon: "This is...?"
Even the residents of the Luofu in the distant safe Grotto-Heavens could see this bright moon. Countless people were attracted by the clear moonlight, looking up to watch, just like admiring the moon on the Lantern Festival.
Subsequently, amidst the dumbfounded astonishment, panic, or confusion of countless people, they witnessed the most shocking scene of their lives—the moon exploded!
Yet it was not a violently dangerous explosion like a bomb, but rather a blooming, like fireworks rising to the sky and reaching their highest point.
"Wah~! Such beautiful fireworks~! Mn, these are some of the most beautiful fireworks people have ever seen!"
At the edge of the Scalegorge Waterscape, on the roof of a certain inn, a young girl wearing a red cherry blossom bath skirt sat on the edge of the eaves, swinging her food-grade jade feet and clapping happily.
"So amazing! So amazing!"
Those eyes, like cherry blossoms, were full of surprise and Elation, her expression shy like a young girl in the heat of love:
"Oh my, oh my, could this be a gift Darling sent to me? Hee hee!"
It transformed into billions upon billions of bright particles of light, draping a silver robe over the lonely and dark Luofu.
Illuminate the myriad rivers. It was 'Illuminate the myriad rivers' in the truest sense, shining upon the mountains, rivers, and streams of the entire Luofu!
Not even a piece of debris the size of a fingernail was left behind; the world-ending meteorite was completely annihilated!
"..."
"!!"
"!!!"
Within the main battlefield, including Jing Yuan, everyone except Caelus himself was shocked.
"H-Hacking, right?!"
March 7th stammered, unable to speak properly.
"This kind of power..."
Jing Yuan and the Lightning Lord were both frozen in a posture ready to soar into the sky. A stormy sea surged within Jing Yuan's heart, and the thunder on the Lightning Lord's body ceased its jumping.
He could also cut that meteorite apart, but he could not achieve total obliteration without a single trace of aftershock like his Master (?) had.
Furthermore, as an Emanator, he could sense the changes in space-time just now. That power was very peculiar... distorting space-time, interfering with causality!
"How is this possible!"
Phantylia's expression changed completely.
She didn't expect the guy created from the earring fusion to be this fierce!
They were merely two slightly stronger Pathstriders. Even if they fused, why could they reach this level?!
On what basis?!
Theoretically speaking, something capable of creating an Emanator-level existence must be related to an Aeon. But Phantylia felt absolutely no Emanator-level power of the Path from the earrings or Jingyueshang.
The latter walked on the Path of The Hunt, yet was not an Emanator!
But why...?
Just as Phantylia's attention was attracted by Jingyueshang's sword strike, Stelle and Caelus had already flown to Phantylia's side, surrounded by Sister Wind.
Phantylia suddenly reacted, lowering her head to look at the two Gray-hairs below.
"Jie jie jie, Phantylia, do you choose my flaming Lance, or do you choose Caelus-cub's flaming Lance?"
Stelle held the Amber Flaming Lance, embodying the Hero of the Spear, revealing a gloomy and treacherous expression like a great villain.
"Forget it, this baby is merciful and compassionate. No need for you to choose, I'll give them all to you!"
"The spear tip is already ignited!"
As Stelle waved it, a blazing, raging fire ignited on the spear tip.
"Charge, charge, charge!"
Caelus assumed a Superman flight posture.
"Lord Benefactors, you are as foolish as ever."
Jingyueshang's power had indeed exceeded Phantylia's expectations; taking a sword strike like that head-on would definitely not feel good. But these two Gray-hairs were far inferior compared to Jingliu from before.
Even if Phantylia stood still and let the two of them output damage, they would at most scrape off a layer of 'blood skin'—the damage dealt wouldn't even be faster than her passive regeneration.
However, looking at the eerie, scorching heat in their eyes, Phantylia suddenly had a bad premonition in her heart.
Her premonition came true the very next second.
"Flaming Lance, Charge!"
Raging fire ignited her whole body. Stelle thrust the flaming Lance and initiated a charge.
"Wind Style · Empty Hole comes from the Wind!"
Behind Caelus, the clear breeze condensed into emerald Wings of Wind.
Amidst everyone's stunned expressions, the two of them soared into the sky like two lit sky-rocketing monkeys, brilliant and tragic!
However, when Dan Heng looked up following their attack trajectory and associated it with the move name Caelus shouted, the corners of his eyes couldn't help but twitch wildly.
In Dan Heng's shocked expression, the two Gray-hair sky-rocketing monkeys rushed into the gap between Phantylia's two legs.
"Hiss~!"
Jing Yuan and Welt both sucked in a breath of cold air simultaneously. For a moment, they couldn't think of any adjectives to describe the scene they were seeing.
It could only be said: As expected of the Star Rail crew!
Even at a time like this, they were still so abstract.
"Wah, I don't want to watch this!"
Seeing this scene, March 7th shivered violently. Her scallion-white jade hands instinctively grabbed her skirt hem and pressed it between her tightly closed beautiful legs, her expression pale as paper, terrified beyond measure.
There is a kind of pain called 'it hurts just looking at it'!
Phantom Pain!
"You two... bastards! What do you take a battle with a Lord Ravager for?!"
Originally, with a body size at the thousand-meter level, even if the Star Rail crew entered that location, Phantylia would hardly feel the two of them.
But the body molded to mimic a human body had a membrane. The instant it was pierced, Phantylia was defense-broken—a mental defense break is still a defense break.
She lost her cool, unable to maintain her noblewoman-like elegance any longer.
"Wait a minute, there—Guh!!!"
Phantylia's legs cramped in an instant.
"Wah! Such a big treasure chest! One, eight... fifty... We're rich, we're rich!"
Amidst the eerie silence, two Gray-hairs could still be heard laughing maniacally.
"You people!"
Phantylia covered her triangular zone. She hadn't expected the two Gray-hairs to be despicable and abstract to this degree; they were destroying the inner walls of the passage.
Inside a certain passage, it was not dim. The light of a treasure chest illuminated the world in Caelus's eyes.
He pulled a full 90 Crystals out of the treasure chest!
"As expected of a Lord Ravager."
"By the way, Phantylia is quite a particular person."
Caelus looked at the wall beside him. "Even the folds and textures have been perfectly replicated. Is this what your original body looked like?"
Caelus punched the wall, and it secreted a golden, sticky fluid, like fruit juice.
"Die for me!"
Phantylia let out a furious shout.
Caelus immediately saw the originally soft, tender sprout plant walls on both sides harden, squeezing toward him like two solid steel doors.
"You can even control this part so precisely?"
Caelus was shocked and instantly activated the Wind Clow Card with full power, speeding toward the exit.
On the other side, Stelle faced the same situation. However, her position was deeper; after entering the first crack, she had passed through a gateway and entered a palace.
When the inner walls squeezed together, without the Wind card, she couldn't run away at all.
The treasure chest from which the Crystals were taken no longer glowed. Stelle stood in the darkness, her expression solemn and awe-inspiring.
"This world, boku wa mamoru!"
The gray-haired young girl pulled a Spark Lens out of her black coat's inner pocket and held it high:
"TiGa!!!!!!"
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