“Such fluctuations... terrifying! Not something a planet could bear! Their Origin... must be a great secret or a great destruction!” The Golden Emperor’s mental fluctuations carried a primal curiosity and longing. “I followed the traces... and descended upon this star...”
“However... my existence is a variable!”
A cold mockery flashed in the Golden Emperor’s Dragon eyes. “The Old Gods see me as an evil demon from beyond their domain, wishing to eliminate me quickly; the Titan see me as a disruptive enemy, fearing I will disturb their battle... These two long-standing foes... actually reached a bizarre understanding the moment I descended! The whispers of the Gods and the roars of the Titan intertwined... beams of destruction... simultaneously poured down on me!”
Zhou Qi’s thoughts raced.
A planet-level lifeform, not belonging to any faction, immensely powerful, and of unknown Origin, suddenly intruding into their final battlefield, would indeed become a priority target for both sides to eliminate.
This was not about right or wrong; it was purely an instinct for survival and control.
“At that time, though I had just stepped into the lower planet-level realm, my talent was bestowed by the stars, and my power was naturally formed!” The Golden Emperor’s mental fluctuations suddenly soared, carrying an arrogant disdain for all under Heaven.
“A Titan, shaped like a mountain and bearing a volcano on his back, roared and charged... I unleashed just one ‘Solar Breath’!”
In the mental image, an energy stream, compressed to the extreme and so incandescent it seemed capable of igniting the Void Realm, burst forth from the Golden Emperor’s mouth, instantly engulfing that Titan!
There was no earth-shattering explosion, only silent annihilation!
That Titan, along with the mountain beneath his feet, was vaporized and vanished in an instant, as if thrown into the core of a star!
Even the energy that erupted within his Physical Body didn't have time to be released!
“Then, there were the Old Gods’ minions, thousands of twisted shadows pouring out of the abyss... My ‘Void Realm Scales’ shimmered... the shadows disintegrated upon contact! The power of corruption they contained failed to erode even a single one of my scales!”
In the image, countless twisted shadow creatures pounced on the Golden Emperor, but they shattered and dispersed as if hitting an invisible spatial barrier.
“Furthermore, there was a Titan as cunning as a shadow, hidden in a spatial rift, attempting a fatal blow... My ‘Plane Perception’ saw through him clearly... My Dragon tail swept through the space, striking!”
The Golden Emperor’s narration carried the exhilaration of battle.
In the image.
His golden Dragon tail, like the whip of a Heavenly God, precisely struck a certain spot in the Void Realm!
Space shattered like glass, and a Titan, covered in shadows and with a blurred figure, was blasted out of the rift with a scream, half of his Physical Body shattered!
“A hundred years! A full hundred years of bloody battle!”
The Golden Emperor’s mental fluctuations became low and oppressive.
The image shifted to a doomsday battlefield—shattered mountains and rivers, frozen oceans, burning skies...
“My enemies... the Antarctic Otherworld Titan... there were twelve of them! Eleven of them... were all in the lower realm, with a life intensity of approximately 110-120... but the most terrifying one was the ‘Netherfrost Overlord’!”
The image focused on a colossal beast, slightly smaller than the Golden Emperor’s current form, but entirely composed of ethereal blue ice crystals and exuding an absolute zero aura. His life intensity was clearly far beyond that of a normal lower-level being!
“This fiend commanded the Law of extreme cold... his ‘Eternal Silence Frost Tide’... could freeze my Solar Breath! His ‘Ice Soul Chains’... pierced through the Void Realm... directly striking my Dragon Crystal!”
In the image, the Golden Emperor was pierced through his chest and abdomen by several thick, ethereal blue chains that exuded a Soul-freezing aura. His brilliant golden Dragon blood, like molten gold, splattered and froze into ice crystals.
Then it was shattered by violent force!
His aura visibly weakened.
“The final battle... at the core of their South Pole ice sheet... my Dragon Crystal was riddled with cracks... my Origin was like a flickering candle in the wind...”
An unyielding flame burned in the Golden Emperor’s Dragon eyes.
“I... detonated the core of my Solar Breath, which had not yet fully stabilized!!”
The mental image froze at that moment: the Golden Emperor’s three Dragon heads simultaneously lifted, and what burst forth from his mouths was no longer breath, but three indescribably incandescent orbs of light that seemed to devour everything!
The orbs of light instantly merged, transforming into a destructive storm that swept across Heaven and Earth!
Several attacking Titan were swept into it, letting out ear-piercing screams, their ice crystal bodies disintegrating and evaporating in the absolute high temperature!
Even the ice crystal giant claw of the “Netherfrost Overlord” was instantly melted!
“However... this was a desperate blow...” The Golden Emperor’s spirit was filled with exhaustion and resolve. “My Origin then disintegrated... my consciousness sank... only the last bit of my true Soul remained indestructible... activating my Origin... transforming the essence of the star into an ‘Eternal Ice Coffin’... sealing my remaining body and true Soul... into the depths of their ice core, ten thousand feet deep... using endless profound ice... locking in my last vitality... falling into... an ancient slumber...”
Zhou Qi listened quietly, his heart surging with turbulent waves.
Venus!
It was actually Venus!
This planet in the Solar System, whose surface was like Hell, had surprisingly given birth to an Innate Sacred Spirit like the Golden Emperor in its core!
This surprised him more than coming from another world, giving him a sense of the Universe’s wondrous and astonishing creation.
Earth was not the only one!
“Venus... that place of Hell... could actually give birth to an existence like you?” Zhou Qi’s voice held a hint of incredulous inquiry.
His gaze was like a torch.
He looked directly into the Golden Emperor’s Dragon eyes.
“Star birth... is mysterious and unpredictable...” The Golden Emperor responded, and the image of Venus’s core, a violent furnace, flashed again in the stream of mental information.
“Its core... lava surges like a sea of stars... the pressure is enough to crush stars... yet it contains the purest and most violent solar essence... I... am the crystallization of its countless years of nurturing... favored by Heaven and Earth... born with the mighty power of the stellar core...”
Zhou Qi slowly nodded, accepting this explanation.
The Universe is vast, and there is nothing new under the sun.
He was now more concerned about the division of strength and the current state of the enemy.
“Golden Emperor, you spoke of the planet-level realm, based on life intensity and divided by stellar mass. To what extent would the strength of those Titan who attacked you a hundred years ago have grown by now? And how are the sub-realms divided?”
The Golden Emperor’s massive central Dragon head tilted slightly, and a Dragon claw covered in thick golden scales slowly lifted.
As he moved, several miniature stellar models, composed of pure energy, condensed, rotated, and shone above his palm!
A dim, crater-filled small celestial body (like the Moon): “This is the lower planet-level realm, with a life intensity of 100-125.”
The Golden Emperor’s deep voice accompanied the stellar image.
“Those in this realm are like young stars; they can break free from the constraints of their parent star and traverse the Void Realm with their Physical Body. Their power can shatter mountains and break peaks, stir earth veins, move mountains and fill seas, causing continental plate-level upheavals. However, they are not yet truly capable of threatening the existence of the stellar body itself. The Titan who attacked me a hundred years ago, with the exception of the ‘Netherfrost Overlord’, were mostly in this realm, with a life intensity of approximately 110-120.”
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A vibrant planet, a blend of blue and earthy yellow (like Earth): “This is the middle planet-level realm, with a life intensity of 126-150.”
The stellar model in the palm changed. “Those in this realm are like stars in their prime; their power can shake the Foundation of a star! Their Solar Breath can boil rivers and seas, tearing apart continental plates; by influencing celestial phenomena, they can plunge the entire globe into an ice age or a Hell of fire; a full-strength blow can trigger global earthquakes and tsunamis. That ‘Netherfrost Overlord’ had a life intensity of about 145 at that time, already a leader in the middle realm, close to the limit of this realm.”
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