High Martial Arts: Slay enemies to become stronger, forge invincibility from billions of corpses.

Song Chen immediately realized: "So he put five million troops here as bait, betting that I would come to attack. He knew that the disciplinary department would definitely take the initiative to attack. He was waiting for the moment when I took away the elite troops."

He quickly reviewed the whole incident in his mind; Lei Mo had never intended to defeat him on the battlefield.

Negotiations are a way to stall for time, a coordinated attack is a way to stall for time, and an army of five million men is still a way to stall for time.

The sole purpose was to keep him, Lei Yuan, and the most elite seventh-tier troops of the royal city tied up in the Azure Sky Plains until the royal city was captured.

When Lei Mo was captured, he said, "You will definitely acknowledge us." This was a statement of a script he had planned long ago.

The alliance only recognizes who the Star Lord is, not how the Star Lord became the Star Lord.

As long as Lei Mo completes the inheritance ceremony before Lei Yuan returns, and the deed is done, the alliance will automatically update the records.

At that point, Song Chen's mission will no longer be to end the internal strife, but to ensure that the new star master is able to repay the loan.

Lei Mo is fully capable of repaying the loan, so what reason would Song Chen have to take action against him then?

Song Chen glanced at the panel and saw that the kill value had reached 150 billion, thanks to the extremely elite Lei Jijun.

However, there is no time to consume it yet.

"Let's go, we'll head back to the capital immediately."

Song Chen activated the Void Shuttle, preparing to instantly jump back to the royal city with everyone.

Psionic energy spreads, spatial coordinates are locked, and void traversal is initiated.

The space remains completely still.

Song Chen looked down at the ground beneath his feet. A faint purple light pattern seeped out from beneath the surface of the Azure Sky Plain, weaving into a giant network that covered the entire plain.

This is a spatial sealing array, one of the ancient arrays passed down by the Thunder Clan. It uses a large number of spiritual energy crystals to be buried underground in the target area. Once activated, it can lock the spatial structure over a very large area, making any spatial jump-type combat techniques unusable.

Before the war began, Lei Mo buried these crystal cores under every inch of the Cang Kong Plain, as evidenced by the lightning strike marks on the surface.

These crystal cores had been set up at least three days ago. He had anticipated what would happen and made all the preparations in advance.

Song Chen glanced at the direction of the royal city in the distance. The sky above Leiming Star was still filled with thunder and lightning. A bolt of lightning struck not far behind him, illuminating his wind-blown black hair.

"The space is locked; we have to fly back."

"Let's go."

After saying that, Song Chen headed straight for the royal city.

The silvery-white trails left by the friction between the Silver Armor and the charged particles in the atmosphere were particularly dazzling in the night sky.

Lei Yuan followed closely behind, and dozens of generals did their best to catch up.

From the Thunderstruck Plains to the Royal City, a distance of 50,000 kilometers, space is locked, making void travel impossible; one can only fly.

Song Chen kept the speed at 15,000 kilometers per hour to prevent the team from getting too far apart.

Halfway there, Lei Yuan's expression grew increasingly solemn. He barely spoke the rest of the way, only gripping the battle sword at his waist tightly.

Three hours later, the mountains surrounding the royal city appeared on the horizon, and Song Chen was the first to fly over the ridgeline.

Then he saw the royal city.

The entire Thunder City was ablaze, stretching from east to west and from south to north, with blue and white flames forming a vast ocean.

When the Thunder Clan's buildings burned, the flames carried arcs of electricity, and lightning constantly struck out from within the flames, blasting the surrounding buildings into fragments.

The entire city was shrouded in a thick, charged cloud of smoke, within which countless electric arcs churned.

Screams echoed from the city, screams rose from the east, were echoed in the west, and were then drowned out by new screams.

The abrupt cessation of each scream signifies the end of a life.

Lei Yuan swayed slightly as he flew over the ridgeline.

It is impossible for a peak seventh-tier expert to lose balance while flying at high speed under normal circumstances.

A general rushed up from behind and helped him up.

"Star Lord, are you alright?"

"I'm fine." Lei Yuan pushed away the hand supporting him, his eyes fixed on the direction of the royal city.

Song Chen's Eye of Truth swept across the entire city.

In the West District's teleportation hub, all four giant teleportation gates were lit up.

Armies from the three subcontinents poured out of the portals, assembled in the western district, and advanced in all directions of the city.

Then they began the massacre of the city.

The rebels' blue and white lightning flags covered the rooftops of every captured building.

In the civilian district in the east of the city, the rebels were searching house by house. The elderly and children were dragged to the side of the street and beheaded on the spot, and their bodies were piled up by the roadside.

Young women and young men were fitted with psionic restraint collars and driven to a plaza for centralized detention.

On the main thoroughfare in the city center, civilians from the main continent were tied up in psionic cages and dragged along the back of armored vehicles.

In the southern temple district, the temple of the Thunder God, the progenitor of the Thunder Clan, was set on fire. A row of elderly priests knelt in the square in front of the temple. The oldest priest was grabbed by the hair and lifted up by the rebel general, who then chopped off his hands in front of everyone.

The rebels were from the Thunder Clan, and those killed were also from the Thunder Clan.

The same silver-white hair, the same blue-white electric eyes, the same lightning plasma blood.

Their only difference was that they were born in different parts of the continent, and thousands of years of resentment turned into the massacre of their own civilians.

After seeing the devastation in the city from above, Lei Yuan felt as if all his strength had been drained away.

He pressed his hand to his chest, and after a few seconds turned to Song Chen, his voice dry and hoarse, unlike that of a peak seventh-tier expert.

"Lord Song, the Star Lord's Mansion is located directly north of the royal city. The main force of the rebel army should be besieging the Star Lord's Palace. Please join me in retaking the Star Lord's Mansion."

Song Chen shook his head: "Take your men back and reclaim the Star Lord's Mansion."

Lei Yuan was stunned for a moment.

"The city is ravaged by rebels who are massacring the inhabitants. I'll deal with them first."

When Song Chen said this, his tone was very serious, and his eyes swept over the burning civilian area, giving off a completely righteous and stern look.

Actually, what I was thinking was something else entirely.

The rebel army that massacred the city was scattered and lacked unified command; all the seventh-tier experts had been deployed to besiege the Star Lord's Mansion.

The city is now full of scattered combat units below level six. They are densely packed, easy to find, and require little effort to fight, making it the ideal scene for farming kill points.

The battle at the Star Lord's Mansion is still ongoing, which means that the rebels' main seventh-tier forces are all there, while the smaller fry in the city are left unattended.

First, clear out the small fry in the city to get the kill points, then go to the Star Lord's Mansion to deal with the tough guys.

The more the rebels kill, the more civilians will survive; it's a simple calculation.

Of course, these truths cannot be spoken aloud.

"My lord..." Lei Yuan was about to say something.

"I told you, you guys go first."

Song Chen's tone left no room for argument.

"You are the Star Lord, the Star Lord's Mansion is your responsibility, and the common people in the city are also your responsibility. You manage the Star Lord's Mansion, and I manage the city. Stop talking nonsense."

Lei Yuan was speechless. He opened his mouth, but in the end, he only managed to say four words: "Take care, my lord."

Then he waved to signal the general to fly with him towards the Star Lord's Mansion.

Song Chen started working.