Swallowing the Stars: The cheat system only comes when I'm almost a god?

An overwhelming aura of ferocity erupted from the demon race's camp, and all the survivors simultaneously began to burn their divine power, preparing to self-destruct.

More than 700 kings, including two invincible kings, if they were to self-destruct at the same time, their power would be enough to completely wipe this star field from the universe. Even if the human race had an army of 5,000, they would inevitably suffer heavy losses.

"They're going to self-destruct, retreat quickly!" The Heavy Mace King, who was closest, was the first to discover the enemy's intention. He immediately dispelled the spatial blockade and teleported away with the nearby people.

Other Hongmeng kings who possessed teleportation skills also used their own methods, and in less than three breaths, the entire human army had retreated to a distance of two light-years from the battlefield.

However, just as the powerful demons were focusing all their attention on detonating their divine bodies and had no time to worry about defense.

hum.

A figure appeared without warning in the middle of the demon army camp; it was Lin Yuan.

He calmly looked at the group of demon clan powerhouses who had gone mad before him, and gently waved his right hand.

In an instant, thousands of purple grains of sand scattered like stardust, silently enveloping the entire demon army under the influence of divine power.

Soul-Scattering Sand, thousands of grains scattered at once!

"This is..." King Tongji's spiral pupils shrank suddenly. He felt a stinging pain from the depths of his soul. He wanted to warn his companions, but it was too late.

A thin purple mist clung to the divine bodies of each demon king.

"Ugh—!"

"My soul—!"

"It hurts! It hurts so much!"

A piercing scream erupted from the mouths of more than seven hundred powerful demons; the excruciating pain that directly affected their souls was a million times more painful than having their divine bodies crushed.

All the powerful demon kings instantly lost control of their bodies, their consciousness consumed by endless pain.

Under the excruciating pain of their souls being torn apart, they were unable to perform any actions that required complete mental control, and even self-destruction became a luxury.

They could only convulse and wail wildly in the starry sky, unable to even maintain the most basic defenses.

Three breaths.

Five breaths.

Ten breaths.

The screams gradually weakened until they subsided.

In the starry sky, more than seven hundred enormous demonic divine bodies floated silently, their souls completely annihilated.

……

Two light-years away, after reuniting, King Chongjian and the others gathered on a continent, vigilantly sensing the energy fluctuations in the direction of the battlefield.

"Five minutes have passed," King Yunshui said softly. "The impact of the self-destruction should have reached us by now, but we haven't felt anything."

Heartmark King frowned deeply: "Something's wrong. There's no sign of any energy eruption, and once the self-destruction starts, it can't be stopped. What's going on?"

The Sky King's four pairs of wings fluttered gently: "Should we go back and take a look?"

The four invincible kings exchanged a glance and simultaneously teleported back to the core of the battlefield.

When they saw the scene before them, even those who had faced countless life-or-death situations couldn't help but gasp in shock.

The treasure was nowhere to be found, leaving only more than seven hundred enormous demonic divine bodies silently floating in the starry sky, maintaining the posture of struggling before death.

There were no energy fluctuations from the self-destruction around them, nor any signs of a new, intense battle. It was as if their souls had been instantly ripped away by some invisible force.

"This is..." The Heavy Mace King's voice trembled slightly, "...the annihilation of the soul?"

"And it was a group effort." A glint flashed in King Yunshui's eyes. "To be able to annihilate so many Kings in an instant, including two invincible Kings..."

"Shadow Sword King Han Li..." Heart Scar King murmured, "This method reminds me of Meng Qi, the captain of the Firewood Squad in the Seventh Battlefield more than 500,000 years ago."

"Soul-Scattering Sand!" King Heavy Mace suddenly realized. "Legend has it that Meng Qi possesses a strange object called Soul-Scattering Sand, which can instantly annihilate the soul of a King-level expert. It seems that this Shadow Sword King is the disguise he used in the Ninth Battlefield."

King Yunshui gave a wry smile: "No wonder he can stir up trouble all by himself, and even the Shadow Monarch makes us follow his orders."

Back then, Meng Qi, despite being a Marquis, could instantly kill twenty alien kings. Now, as an invincible king, it wouldn't be surprising if he annihilated seven hundred kings.

After a moment of silence, the Heavy Mace King finally spoke first: "I have no objection to him taking the treasure."

"Indeed," King Rift nodded. "Besides, even if he didn't make a move, we wouldn't have gotten it. The power of nearly a thousand King-level experts self-destructing would have severely damaged even the most precious treasures. In the end, besides successfully crippling the demon race's power in the Ninth Battlefield, we would have gained almost nothing else."

King Heartmark looked around: "We still have these enormous divine bodies and the wealth within their world rings; what we can get is already quite good."

Following the orders of the four invincible kings, more than 5,000 kings from the human faction returned to the battlefield one after another.

When they saw the scene before them, gasps of surprise rose and fell.

"My God! More than seven hundred demon kings..."

"Who did this?"

"The soul was completely annihilated, but the divine body remained intact!"

The heavy mace king's voice rang out like thunder: "Everyone, listen up! Collect the spoils of war according to your pre-battle groups, and then distribute them uniformly according to your performance recorded in the military merit system."

The kings immediately sprang into action, excitedly rushing towards the floating demonic divine bodies.

These divine bodies are priceless and generally enormous; selling just one could be worth half the fortune of an ordinary human king.

"My lord, come and see!" a powerful king with two horns on his head shouted excitedly, "There are two Fire God Source Crystals in the world ring of this divine body."

Upon hearing this, the Heavy Mace King laughed loudly: "Look, even the demon race is helping us bolster our military!"

On the other side, King Yunshui rolled up a divine body, examined it carefully, and revealed a satisfied smile: "This divine body of a peak-level King-level expert is over 65% intact, and its size is about seven kilometers. Exchanging it for 0.001 treasure points is not a problem."

Meanwhile, Rift King was collecting the divine bodies of Howling Moon King and Pupil Silence King. Although their most precious treasures had been taken by "Han Li", the divine bodies of the demon race at the invincible level of the King-level were still extremely valuable.

"These hairs..." King Rift stroked King Howling Moon's dark silver hair, "each one contains fluctuations of spatial laws, making them excellent materials for forging spatial attribute weapons."

Standing in the center of the battlefield, King Heartmark looked at the busy crowd and sighed, "This battle has set back the demon race's power in the Ninth Battlefield by at least a billion years."

"More than that!" a peak-level King-ranked warrior exclaimed excitedly, "The mere fall of top-tier combatants like Howling Moon King and Pupil-Silent King is enough to make the demon race ache for hundreds of thousands of epochs."

While everyone was busy, no one noticed the faint purple figure at the edge of the star field.

Vicona's mental fluctuations echoed softly: "Master, should we track the other powerful figures from the retreating factions? Those few invincible kings also possess powerful treasures."

"No need."

Lin Yuan, wielding his newly acquired Sky-Splitting Claw, said, "Let the Shadow Lord handle the aftermath. We've gained enough this time; it's time to explore other battlefields."

……

Inside the temple of Venerable Jiaoyun, the true form of the dragon coiled on the ice crystal throne, the chill seeping from the gaps in its scales freezing the entire hall into eternal ice.

When news arrived that all the demon kings sent to hunt down Han Li on the Ninth Battlefield had perished, an ice cone hanging from the palace ceiling suddenly exploded.

Jiao Yun's golden vertical pupils narrowed to slits, and his dragon claw crushed the communication token. "Bring me the Mirror of Divine Tracing!"

The standing immortal king quickly presented a bronze mirror, its surface covered with tadpole-shaped patterns and its edge inlaid with nine eyes carved with demonic characters.

It is a time-space treasure that Venerable Jiaoyun obtained by chance, which can trace the memory of a powerful person in the last hundred breaths before their fall.

This is one of the reasons why Lin Yuan left those divine bodies to the Hongmeng Allied Forces after he annihilated those demon kings.

The first point was to ensure they didn't make a wasted trip, but the most important thing was that he knew the other three races definitely had the means to rewind time, so even if they took away all the divine bodies and erased the traces of the battlefield, it wouldn't make a difference.

When Venerable Jiaoyun sent the aura he had extracted from King Mingcang's personal belongings into the mirror and activated it with divine power, the bronze mirror immediately spewed out a dark blue mist.

The scene emerging from the mist caused the temperature in the entire hall to plummet: purple sand mist coiled around the powerful demons like living things, and those figures struggled in the agony of their souls being torn apart.

"It's Soul-Scattering Sand!" Venerable Xiaofeng, who was watching from the sidelines, suddenly exclaimed.

Venerable Jiaoyun's eyes sharpened, and he pressed, "What is Soul-Scattering Sand?"

Venerable Xiaofeng hurriedly explained, "Lord Dream Demon Ancestor once issued an order to hunt down the human genius Meng Qi. That person used the same method on the Seventh Battlefield 500,000 years ago. It is a deadly poison that can cause even a King-level expert to have their soul dissipated in an instant."

With a mighty slap, Venerable Jiaoyun shattered the three ice pillars.

He quickly retrieved the database of the extraterritorial battlefield and projected the battle records of Han Li and Meng Qi side by side—the overlap rate of spatial law fluctuations was 91.7%, the similarity of soul attack frequency was 89.3%, and even the habitual actions when taking away the spoils of war were exactly the same.

"Notify the Heavenly Wolf Palace." Jiao Yun's voice was like a poisoned ice blade. "Han Li is Meng Qi. This person is skilled at changing identities and is very likely to continue to disguise himself and venture into other extraterrestrial battlefields."

When this message reached the Demon Clan's intelligence center, Venerable You Tong, who was in charge of affairs in the extraterritorial battlefield, was also examining the spatial fluctuation map sent by the Mechanical Clan.

After the Sirius Clan's cosmic overlord finished watching the scene replicated in the bronze mirror, his third eye between his eyebrows suddenly opened.

"Check three data points." Venerable You Tong's claw swept across the virtual light screen. "First, the divine power characteristics in all of Meng Qi's known combat records;

Second, the reactions of our clan's kings before their fall when Meng Qi used the Soul-Scattering Sand on the Seventh Battlefield;

Third…” A cold glint flashed in his eyes, “We need to determine the impact of Han Li’s bizarre soul attack on our King-level experts.”

The three sets of data intertwined in the blood-red pupils, eventually coalescing into a unique ripple.

Venerable You Tong suddenly sneered, "Little insect, I've found you!"

Three days later, an analysis result from a Zerg hive was also shared with the Mechs. It included a comparison of Vicona's combat data before her enslavement with the latest intelligence, as well as information on all the King-level powerhouses who had appeared around Han Li.

"Focus on monitoring three types of targets." The Zerg Queen connected with all eyes on the outer battlefields through the Zerg's mental network. "Investigate any suddenly appearing Soul Masters, swordsmen skilled in spatial laws, and any Kings associated with Venerable Flame Moon. Report immediately upon discovery."

Meanwhile, in the virtual conference hall of the Mechanical Race's territory, the Celestial Lord Hun Tian was talking with the Venerable Wan Yin, the only one who had survived the battle with Meng Qi. The other party sent over the results of Meng Qi's divine power characteristics.

"Han Li's identity has been confirmed. He and Meng Qi are both hidden identities of Lin Yuan, a disciple of Venerable Yan Yue, and have been active in the Ninth Battlefield."

If he successfully breaks through to the level of a Cosmic Venerable, he will become a major threat to our race. It is recommended that the bounty be increased further.

The intelligence networks of the three major races interacted exceptionally quickly this time. Soon, a new joint wanted notice spread throughout the outer battlefield, and all the powerful figures except those in the human race received the message.

Yan Lie, who was resting on the edge of the Ninth Battlefield, was no exception. The benefits of Lin Yuan not letting him join the virtual universe were now evident, and he suddenly received a message notification from the public channel.

[From this moment forward, the Serpent Hunting Protocol will be implemented on all battlefields. The target is the human race Lin Yuan. Report any creatures that meet any of the following characteristics immediately:]

1. A previously unknown, yet suddenly emerging, powerful figure who has been granted the title of King;

2. A master of illusion who suddenly appears;

3. A lone wolf carrying the Zerg Queen.

Confirming the target's identity will reward a large amount of military merit; killing the target's main combat clone will reward 0.1 treasure points; and completely eliminating the target through soul infiltration will reward a top-tier treasure—the Joint Command Center of the Three Races.

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