White Star — Northern Extreme Survival Base.
Blizzards howled across the frozen wasteland.
Temperatures plunged into the hundreds below zero, so cold that even space itself showed faint crystalline裂纹, as though reality were freezing.
Inside the survival base, Jiang Yan, Luo Feng, Hong, and Thor were calmly discussing their cultivation arrangements after arriving at the Virtual Universe Company headquarters.
Not far away, Red Kite sat cross-legged, eyes closed, quietly recuperating.
The Genius Battle had just concluded.
Jiang Yan—champion, peerless talent of the human race for billions of years—was now a glaring target.
Even within human territory, caution was mandatory.
Red Kite's sole purpose here was simple:
Protect Jiang Yan at all costs.
Suddenly—
Her eyes snapped open.
In the same instant, her figure flashed beside Jiang Yan.
"Something's wrong!"
Her voice exploded directly into their consciousness.
"Activate all planetary defenses immediately! White Star is entering full alert status!"
A brilliant silver flame erupted from Red Kite's body, her aura surging violently.
The oppressive might of an Extreme Immortal King spread in all directions, forming a massive defensive barrier that enveloped the entire planet.
"What's happening?!"
Jiang Yan's mind jolted.
Without hesitation, he ordered Salamander to activate all fortifications on White Star.
But before the command could fully execute—
The raging blizzard between heaven and earth abruptly stopped.
Frozen midair.
As if seized by an invisible hand.
Crack—!
Space shattered like glass.
A black-robed figure stepped directly out of the ruptured void, appearing at the heart of the base—
Ignoring Red Kite's defensive barrier entirely.
A monstrous, ferocious aura swept out.
In that instant—
Jiang Yan, Luo Feng, Hong, and Thor froze completely.
Body.
Soul.
Consciousness.
All immobilized.
Even Jiang Yan—nowhere near strong enough to resist a High Universe Venerable.
"High… High Universe Venerable of the Demon Clan?!"
Red Kite's face drained of color.
This wasn't the frontier of human territory.
Human upper echelons had long been on guard against alien supreme powers.
So how had one slipped in—silently?
Her heart sank.
A traitor…
Only that could explain it.
"It's over…"
Bitterness flooded her heart.
A High Universe Venerable had personally come to assassinate Jiang Yan.
She was utterly powerless.
The difference was absolute.
"Heh."
The black-robed figure's gaze shifted to Red Kite.
"So the human race truly values this boy."
"Even someone comparable to an Invincible King was dispatched as his shadow."
He snorted coldly.
Raising his hand casually—
A crushing pressure descended like the collapse of a universe.
Boom.
Red Kite's body shattered into nothingness.
Only a few items—storage rings, weapons—fell silently to the ground.
An Extreme Immortal King…
An ant before a High Universe Venerable.
Luo Feng, Hong, and Thor stared in horror.
Their thoughts froze.
One move.
Red Kite—slain instantly.
Despair spread like poison.
"I didn't expect extra gains."
The black-robed figure chuckled softly, eyes sweeping over the four youths.
"Especially you."
His gaze locked onto Jiang Yan.
"Jiang Yan… the human race's once-in-hundreds-of-millions-of-epochs genius."
"Today, this Venerable shall enslave your soul."
"You will become the most loyal hound of the Demon Clan."
Soul enslavement.
Jiang Yan's face turned deathly pale.
Ke Ti…
Am I about to share the same fate?
Luo Feng, Hong, and Thor felt their hearts sink.
They couldn't even move—much less intervene.
The Demon Venerable extended a withered palm.
A dark green soul chain, writhing with terrifying fluctuations, shot straight toward Jiang Yan's眉心.
This was the Demon Clan's highest-grade soul enslavement secret technique.
It's over…
Jiang Yan felt despair engulf him.
Before a High Universe Venerable—
He had no resistance.
Once enslaved, everything would be finished.
But—
Just as the soul chain was about to touch him—
Light burst from Jiang Yan's brow.
At the same moment, a simple, ancient token flew out of his storage ring on its own.
Complex runes carved upon it shimmered faintly, resembling the rotation of countless stars.
It was—
The personal disciple token given to him by the Star Prison Demon Lord.
"Huh?"
Jiang Yan froze.
At the same time—
The Demon Venerable's pupils contracted violently.
The instant his soul chain touched the light—
It collapsed.
Disintegrated.
Like a mouse encountering a cat.
A deep, instinctive fear surged through his heart.
The token erupted with vast black radiance.
A figure clad in black battle armor, surrounded by countless stars, stepped out.
Illusory—yet overwhelmingly real.
His mere presence caused the universe itself to tremble.
The Demon Venerable's soul shook violently.
"S—Star Prison… Star Prison Demon Lord?!"
The Demon Venerable trembled uncontrollably.
Terror flooded his turquoise eyes.
"Impossible!"
"You are one of the three supreme overlords of the human race!"
"How could you appear here?!"
The Star Prison Demon Lord's clone regarded him coldly.
As though looking at an insect.
"A Demon Clan High Venerable…"
"…daring to touch my personal disciple."
"You have courage."
He lifted one finger.
No grand phenomenon.
No violent explosion.
Just a single black point of light.
It drifted forward.
But in the Demon Venerable's eyes—
That black point contained the truth of heaven and earth, endless slaughter, absolute annihilation.
His venerable domain collapsed instantly.
Body and soul locked.
No escape.
The moment the black light touched him—
The Demon Venerable began to disintegrate.
Flesh.
Soul.
Law.
Origin.
All erased.
Swallowed.
Not even dust remained.
The entire process lasted less than a breath.
As if he had never existed.
Silence.
Absolute silence.
Jiang Yan stood frozen.
Only now did he truly understand—
His teacher…
The Star Prison Demon Lord…
Was one of the three highest overlords of the entire human race.
And within his disciple token—
There had always been a clone.
Quietly watching.
Protecting him.
Waiting.
This…
Was the real backhand.
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