Swallowing the Stars: I, the New Master of Babata

Earth, over the Indian Ocean.

The sky was cloudless, and the azure sea resembled a giant sapphire, refracting the midday sun with a dazzling, shimmering light.

A gentle sea breeze caressed the shore, the waves murmured softly, and everything seemed so calm and peaceful, until a bolt of lightning tore through the sky.

Rumble!

The lightning didn't strike down from the sky; it crashed in from the horizon, shattering the clouds and breaking open the sea.

Like a high-speed train, the lightning parted the sea into two hundred-meter-high walls of water that could not be closed for a long time.

"Dongqing!!!"

Lightning suddenly came to an abrupt halt in the center of the Indian Ocean.

Then a particularly imposing figure appeared.

The figure stood barefoot on the sea, and an invisible force pressed the seawater beneath his feet into a depression with a diameter of 100 meters.

Like a giant concave mirror, the light focused by the mirror itself reflected the crackling blue electric sparks all over his body.

The person who came was wearing a loose white training uniform.

The hem of his clothes fluttered in the storm he stirred up.

His eyes were deep blue.

It was as blue as two drawn swords.

Who is he?

He is Thor, the second strongest in the world, and the creator of the SSS-level ultimate technique, Nine-Fold Thunder Blade.

No one knows how strong Thor is at full power, but right now he's at his peak.

"Dongqing, you little brat... I thought you were just joking, but it turns out you were secretly playing dirty tricks on me, weren't you?"

Thor's voice wasn't loud, but every word was like a thunderclap, creating visible shockwaves on the sea.

The shockwave spread in all directions, creating giant waves tens of meters high, which surged and rolled towards the distant sea.

"..."

Thor's gritted teeth made Dongqing instantly understand what had happened.

He recalled his previous careless remarks, and it turned out that someone actually investigated and verified them.

"You asked?" Dong Qing frowned.

"What do you think?" Thor gritted his teeth.

"She admitted it too?"

Dong Qing couldn't help but gasp, realizing he had made a small contribution to the global greenhouse effect.

"How dare you say that..."

Thor felt like the sky was about to fall. He guarded against it day and night, but he still couldn't stop Dong Qing.

"What's wrong? Can't we sit down and talk it out? Perhaps there's a misunderstanding?"

Dongqing's voice wasn't loud, but every word clearly reached Thor's ears.

"Speak properly?"

Thor sneered and took a step forward, a step that covered a distance of a thousand meters, appearing ten meters in front of Dong Qing.

Ten meters is like face-to-face contact for two planetary-level powerhouses; they could start fighting at any moment.

"I'm asking you!"

Thor's eyes were fixed on Dongqing, and the lightning on his body grew increasingly violent, distorting the surrounding air.

"Is it really true that you and Lei Lei have an ambiguous relationship in private?"

Dong Qing fell silent at the question, unsure how to answer it. He had indeed flirted with Lei Lei before, so calling her his ex-girlfriend wouldn't be a big deal.

But later...

The two gradually drifted apart. She couldn't accept Dongqing's multiple wives and concubines, and Dongqing didn't want to be tied to one person by her.

In addition, at that time, Lei Lei was always thinking about her first love, Dong Qing finished eating, wiped his mouth, and ran away.

I heard she came to her senses later.

But Dongqing doesn't go back to what he started.

Furthermore, at that time, Lei Lei only regarded Dong Qing as a substitute for her first love.

Dong Qing was just eating and drinking for free, thinking that if there was meat to eat, he might as well eat it.

He would privately coax her into calling him "Brother Qing".

But she doesn't seem to be easily fooled.

In short...

She needed comfort, and Dongqing offered her help.

It was purely a friendship, and we parted ways afterward.

Perhaps Lei Lei finally came to her senses and realized that she had indeed made a terrible mistake in choosing a man who killed his wife for insurance money, and even regarded him as her first love.

However, Dongqing had no intention of going back to his ex, because Thor seemed to have discovered something was wrong. If this matter were to be exposed, his lower body would be locked up by a woman.

Are you referring to the past, or the present?

"It was hard to say before, but not anymore!"

I don't know how long they remained silent.

Dong Qing managed to utter only one sentence.

"before?"

Thor's eyes widened instantly.

His eyes were practically popping out of their sockets.

"You guys actually had something going on before?"

The lightning crackling around Thor instantly surged several times over, and the terrifying lightning pierced through the turbulent sea below.

Some sea monsters that didn't manage to dodge the lightning were reduced to charred remains before they could even scream.

Didn't she tell you about this?

Dongqing realized that he might have said something he shouldn't have.

He, who was already somewhat taciturn, became even more so.

"Dongqing, you fucking bastard, you deserve to die..."

Thor completely lost control. His body suddenly swelled up, his muscles bulged, his veins stood out, and the lightning around him changed from blue to a dazzling white-gold.

The sea beneath their feet could not withstand this terrifying pressure and suddenly caved in, creating a giant crater a kilometer wide. The seawater surged wildly in all directions, creating a tsunami a hundred meters high.

"Today, only one of us can live!"

Before he could finish speaking, Thor drew his sword.

The first level of the Ninefold Thunder Blade: Thunder Flash!

No one saw how he drew his sword. The strike was so fast that even light couldn't catch up. Dong Qing only saw a flash of white-gold light before his eyes—the light left behind when the blade tore through space, a light more dazzling than the sun.

This slash was swift; if it had been any other planetary-level member, the councilors and inspectors of the War God Palace, they would probably have been instantly killed by this blow, their lives revolving around it all. But Dongqing only felt a slight stinging sensation.

Thor's nine-fold thunder blade failed to cleave Dongqing's chest.

It couldn't even sever the mental energy surrounding Dongqing's body.

That's not surprising.

Not to mention that Dongqing has already reached the ninth level of the Planetary Realm, while Leishen is only at the seventh level of the Planetary Realm, they are already two minor levels higher in terms of realm.

Dongqing's mental power alone is enough to make the demon Babata unable to resist wanting to actively acknowledge him as a master of mental magic.

This is enough to prove that Dong Qing is not an ordinary mentalist. Even the mental power he unconsciously emits is enough to make most mental weapons unable to withstand it.

Even the planetary-level telekinetic weapon, the Arc Blade Disc, that the demon Babata had given to Dongqing, now needs to be used sparingly as Dongqing breaks through to the ninth level of the planetary level.

Because Dongqing realized that when he was fully exerting his mental power...

The planetary-level telekinetic weapon, the Arc Blade Disc, emitted a mournful cry.

This is an unbearable burden.

His mental power is too strong.

Even according to the demon Babata, the planetary-level psychic weapon Arc Blade Disc is already the most advanced psychic weapon among planetary-level warriors, but Dong Qing's psychic power has long transcended the concept of planetary level.

Dong Qing wasn't sure where his limits were, but the superposition of his two souls from his past and present lives seemed to have triggered some strange nexus, and his mental power had been steadily increasing over time.

He was born with spiritual powers.

As physical strength increases, so does the body.

For example, right now.

Although Dong Qing only advanced from the fifth level of the planetary stage to the ninth level, the increase in his mental power was many times more terrifying than the increase in his genetic energy.

It was almost as if the intensity was increased within the limits of his physical body's tolerance, unlike other mental cultivators who stopped increasing their strength after reaching a certain point.