Swallowing the Stars: Only in my later years did I come to the life-spending panel.

The silver-white fighter jet pierced through the clouds and sped towards the Jiangnan base city.

Outside the window, the sea of ​​clouds surged like a tide, and the setting sun dyed the entire sky into a magnificent and splendid tapestry of gold and red. The light shone through the porthole into the cabin, casting warm shadows on Zhou Mu's face.

"panel."

He meditated in his heart.

A pale golden light screen unfolded before my eyes, and dense data flowed by like a waterfall.

[Shouyuan Furnace]

Name: Zhou Mu

Realm: Planetary Level 2 Spiritualist, Planetary Level 1 Martial Artist

Skills: Introduction to Lightning Laws (2%), Seventh Level Perfection of Lightning Domain (Deducible), Perfection of Soul Imprint (Not Deducible)... [Expand]

Current lifespan: 932 years

[Current lifespan stolen: 15,722,000 years]

15,720,000 years.

Zhou Mu's lips curled into a satisfied smile; this trip to Tokyo Bay had yielded far more results than he had expected.

With over 100,000 beast generals, more than 2,000 lords, 29 kings, and an eight-clawed beast king, they almost wiped out all the high-level monsters in the ocean.

From this day forward, the ocean will no longer be a forbidden zone for humankind.

Those beast tides that once terrified coastal base cities, those deep-sea monsters that once devoured the lives of countless martial artists and soldiers, will all become history after today.

While low-level monsters still exist, they no longer pose a real threat.

Humanity can return to the ocean, rebuild shipping routes, and explore new living spaces.

He created all of this.

Zhou Mu took a deep breath, suppressing the emotions surging within him, and turned his gaze to the line of characters in the skill bar.

[Lightning Domain: Sevenfold Perfection (Deducible)]

His seventh-level perfected domain already allowed him to easily crush the planetary-level seventh-tier Eight-Clawed Beast King.

That oppressive force originating from the depths of the soul, that terrifying power that makes heaven and earth change color, is so intoxicating.

If we continue to extrapolate upwards, reaching the eighth or ninth level, or even gaining recognition from the fundamental laws of lightning, what kind of scene would that be?

Zhou Mu's mind raced.

"Panel, consumes lifespan, deduces lightning domain."

On the pale gold panel, the characters of the lightning domain began to blur, distort, and recombine.

A profound feeling welled up from the bottom of my heart.

Zhou Mu closed his eyes, his consciousness seemingly leaving his body and drifting towards an unknown place.

There was no sky, no earth, only endless darkness and chaos.

There is no time, no distance, only boundless emptiness.

But in the depths of that void of darkness, lightning flickered.

A faint arc of electricity flashed and disappeared in the chaos, like a shooting star in the night sky.

But then came the second and the third, countless bolts of lightning simultaneously illuminating the scene. They intertwined, collided, and merged, each collision unleashing an even more dazzling light, ultimately transforming into a vast sea of ​​lightning.

Zhou Mu had seen this sea of ​​lightning before. The first time he came here, he witnessed destruction and rebirth amidst the endless thunder. That was his first encounter with the laws of lightning.

But now, standing before this sea of ​​thunder once more, he realized he had never truly seen this sea before.

The lightning continued to surge, each bolt containing earth-shattering power.

Purple lightning exploded in the air, illuminating the endless darkness.

The roar was deafening, yet it possessed a strange rhythm, like the first heartbeat at the beginning of time.

Zhou Mu's consciousness stood before the sea of ​​lightning, as insignificant as a speck of dust.

However, the moment he stood still, Zhou Mu realized he could clearly feel the trajectory of each bolt of lightning, the rhythm of each leap...

The lightning bolts seemed to come alive, revealing their most fundamental secrets to him.

This is the essence of the lightning realm.

The lower-level fundamental law—lightning!

It's not about imitation or borrowing, but about understanding, integration, and becoming one with lightning.

Zhou Mu immersed himself in that sea of ​​lightning, feeling the breath of every bolt of thunder and listening to every booming whisper.

When he opened his eyes again, the sky outside the window was full of stars.

He didn't know how much time had passed, but there was no weariness in Zhou Mu's eyes, only a deep, calm like the sea, and lightning flowing deep in his pupils.

[Consumes and plunders 12 years of lifespan]

[Seventh Level of Perfection in the Lightning Realm → Ninth Level of Perfection in the Lightning Realm]

[Your understanding of the laws has improved]

[Introduction to the Lightning Law (2%) → Introduction to the Lightning Law (10%)]

[Remaining lifespan to be plundered: 15,602,000 years]

The realm of lightning has reached its ninth level of perfection.

Zhou Mu raised his right hand, a thought forming in his mind.

A deep purple light surged from his body, instantly enveloping the entire cabin.

The light was more solid and profound than before, as if it had come to life.

Within the light, countless fine arcs of electricity could be faintly seen moving about, like nimble snakes weaving freely through the air.

Within this realm, Zhou Mu had the illusion that he was a god, in control of everything.

How large an area can a fully-fledged, nine-fold perfect domain cover?

A rare hint of curiosity welled up in Zhou Mu's heart.

He took a deep breath and pushed the power of his domain to its limit—

A deep purple light, like a flood bursting its banks, surged forth from the Qiankun-class intelligent fighter jet hovering above the Zhou family manor!

The light spread in all directions at an incredible speed, instantly passing through the clouds, the atmosphere, and across the entire East Asian continent.

Zhou Mu's perception spread along with the domain, like God looking down upon the human world.

He "saw" it!

In the dimly lit Jiangnan Base City, Zhou Pojun was handling official business in his study at the Zhou Family Manor.

At the steel walls of the northern base city, soldiers patrolled in the cold wind, their eyes warily fixed on the wilderness.

Ancient castles of Europe, the Statue of Liberty of America...

Everything on Earth was now within his perception.

He could even "hear" the hustle and bustle of every base city and feel the breath of every living being.

Under Zhou Mu's deliberate concealment, the expansion of his domain went unnoticed by most of the powerful figures on Earth. Only a few with keen intuition frowned slightly, as if they had just sensed something but couldn't quite put their finger on it.

In Zhou Mu's perception, Earth was like a fruit stripped of its outer shell, all its secrets exposed.

There were only a few places where his perception couldn't penetrate, like empty voids that swallowed every wisp of domain power he probed into.

One of them is the gravity chamber of the ancient civilization where Hong is located in Hongning Base City.

One location, beneath the surface of Fog Island, is the Meteorite Starship where Babata and Luo Feng reside.

There are three more locations, each in a different corner of the Earth, which are the three most dangerous places:

The No. 1 ancient civilization site located deep in the Bermuda Triangle of the North Atlantic Ocean.

Site No. 12, an ancient civilization site located in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii.

This is the No. 31 ancient civilization site located deep in Shennongjia, China.

Zhou Mu withdrew his domain, and the deep purple light, like the receding tide, retreated from every corner of the world and finally returned to his body.

Just then, a holographic projection suddenly unfolded in front of Zhou Mu.