"As you command, Supreme Ruler."Vaern Thael's voice stayed steady, without a trace of hesitation.He bowed his head once more, deeply, before rising with the same measured precision as when he had knelt. No excess emotion on his face, only a cold composure that concealed something far more dangerous beneath.He turned.His footsteps echoed across the vast hall, moving away without a single glance back.Inside his mind, one thing was already certain.He didn't know how strong that creature truly was.But it didn't matter.Because this... would be the end for him.---Orders moved faster than sound. Within hours, the entire Aethon Vel military network had activated completely. Commands passed from one sector to the next without obstruction, like a system that had been waiting for this moment for a very long time.And in less than a day, thirty million Galactic Warriors had assembled.---The main field of Aethon Vel stretched like a continent without an end.Its surface was not earth b

The entire fleet stopped. A perfect formation, like a wall built from steel and light, stretching in every direction as far as the eye could see. Millions of vessels, all still at once, hanging in outer space like something that had been waiting for this moment long before they arrived.Then the door of the lead craft opened.The figure stepped out, and instantly the entire space around him felt different.Three meters tall, golden robes moving slowly with no wind to move them, ears long and tapered backward in a way that was not merely a physical feature but something that radiated authority from every line. No armor. No weapons. And it was precisely that absence that made him look more threatening than every vessel behind him.He walked through the air the same way someone walks across the floor of their own palace.His eyes swept across the thirty-two cultivators standing before him, cold and methodical, before stopping on Kael.He looked long enough to make clear that he had finis

Xiao Peng moved like a shadow that had learned to travel faster than light.After the opening strike, he didn't stop. No pause, no breath, just movement from one point to the next happening so fast that all anyone could see from the outside were flickers of silver energy appearing at different positions simultaneously.He entered the enemy formation not from the outside but from the middle.One swing left, five soldiers. One thrust forward, three. One upward slash that spread like opening wings, twelve at once. Armor that had withstood high-tech weapons from another planet had no answer for silver energy that touched its surface and cut from within the structure of its own molecules.The two Demon Sect cultivators at his left and right moved to fill the gaps Xiao Peng left behind, making sure no soldiers had a chance to surround each other's positions. The three of them moved like the three points of a single weapon, their silver energy occasionally merging into combined strikes whose

The two fists were still pressing against each other in the middle of outer space, silver energy and purple aura pushing against one another at a single point that refused to give way in either direction.Then Zetharion Valdris gritted his teeth.The purple aura already flowing fully from his body was compressed into a single point at his fist, not radiating outward but pressed inward, condensed until the pressure surpassed what a single point of contact could normally contain.It pushed Kael's fist back several centimeters, before his entire body was finally hurled away. His body cut through outer space, retreating several hundred meters before his spiritual energy kicked in and stopped him.Zetharion didn't give him a breath.His six-meter body shot forward at a speed completely disproportionate to its size, and when he arrived in front of Kael, both hands were already moving.Not one strike, but thousands.Every punch from his fists produced a wave of purple aura that spread in eve

Zetharion attacked again.His right fist came from left to right in a horizontal motion that carried purple aura along its entire path, enough to tear a warship apart if it connected.Kael ducked, letting the fist pass over his head by a few centimeters, then stepped inside, entering a distance too close for any large strike, and drove his elbow into Zetharion's left ribs.CRACK.Not the sound of an ordinary impact. That was the sound of bone.Zetharion staggered right from the force. He hadn't fully stopped when Kael was already at his side, left hand gripping Zetharion's right arm while the right hand delivered three rapid consecutive strikes to his face at three different points, each carrying silver energy that drove inward from the surface of the skin.Zetharion's head was snapped back three times in a row, dark purple blood spraying into outer space from his mouth and nose with each impact.Zetharion tried to shove Kael away by detonating aura from his skin, but Kael didn't go a