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

Song Chen landed on a rock at the bottom of the cavity that had not yet been completely covered by the fungal carpet.

He looked up at the core of the planet that was being devoured, and then saw three figures standing on top of the core.

Those were three peak seventh-tier experts from the Blood Erosion Civilization, completely humanoid, their bodies covered with a layer of dark red organic armor.

The one on the far left is the thinnest and longest, with four thin, long bony tentacles at the ends of its limbs, the tips of which are constantly dripping digestive juices.

The one in the middle is the most robust, standing over ten meters tall. Six thick, tubular organs extend from its back, their openings gleaming with a dark red energy light as they absorb the spiritual energy drawn from the star core by the fungal carpet.

The rightmost creature is somewhere in between, covered in dense spikes, with only one huge vertical eye on its head, from which thick, blood-red mist churns.

Song Chen's Eye of Truth swept over the data of the three people. All three were at the peak of the seventh rank, with a blood energy of over 90 million, several times higher than his 24 million. However, he felt no fear.

"Another one coming to die." The tentacle-like powerhouse on the left spoke, making a sound by vibrating the air directly in the cavity through the neural network of the fungal carpet.

"Moonshadow Clan reinforcements? No, your psionic energy isn't from the Moonshadow Clan. Which civilization are you from?"

Song Chen ignored him. He opened the communication channel and spoke to Sora and Nova on the surface: "There are three peak seventh-tier cultivators in the core area, with over 90 million units of Qi and Blood."

"I'm going to fight here. You guys guard the passage and don't come down no matter what noises come from below."

Sora's voice paused for a moment on the communication channel before saying, "Roger that, don't die."

Nova added more concisely, "The entrance to the passage has been sealed with ice crystals, a 300-meter-thick ice wall, and an additional thermal insulation layer on the outside. We're waiting for you to come up."

Song Chen turned off the communication and held the Tianjun Blade horizontally in front of him.

Although the Silver Radiance Armor was disguised as dark gray, its essence remained unchanged: true star-level defense, immune to attacks below the eighth rank, and impenetrable to attacks from the ninth rank.

Even if three peak seventh-tier warriors with 90 million HP each had high attack power, they couldn't possibly exceed the eighth-tier threshold. At most, hitting him would just produce a muffled thud.

Whether his attack can penetrate the opponent's defense remains to be seen.

He decided to kill the tentacle-wielding strongman on the left first, as that guy's tentacles were the most flexible and had the largest control range, and keeping him around would be a hindrance.

Void Shuttle activated.

Song Chen's figure disappeared from the spot and reappeared behind the tentacle-wielding powerhouse a fraction of a second later.

The fourth level of the Star-Splitting Slash was instantly activated within his body. The pseudo-corona on the surface of the star core suddenly lit up, and eight layers of psionic blade membrane were superimposed on the blade. He immediately launched his eighth strike.

The beard-wielding expert's reaction speed far surpassed that of any enemy encountered on Thunder Star.

The moment Song Chen appeared, his four tentacles flipped backward simultaneously, weaving a dense, impenetrable net of barbs behind him. Each tentacle was taut with barbs, the tips of which shimmered with a deadly, dark green glow.

Song Chen did not change his move. His eighth strike landed on the tentacle net, and the eight layers of superimposed spiritual energy exploded in an instant.

The net of tentacles was torn apart in the center by the blade's edge, and two of the four tentacles were severed, spurting out foul-smelling dark red blood from the broken ends.

After piercing through the barbed wire, the blade struck the back of the tentacle-wielding warrior, cleaving a diagonal crack across his organic armor.

The tentacle-wielding expert let out a sharp screech as he was blasted away by the force of the blade's impact, crashing into the fungal carpet on the cavity wall. The carpet immediately sprouted countless tentacles that wrapped around his body and began to heal his wounds.

"He tore my armor." The tentacle-wielding powerhouse struggled to his feet in the fungal carpet, his voice filled with shock and anger.

"Watch out for his blade, that's not a seventh-tier combat skill!"

The burly, powerful man in the middle turned around, and the six tubular organs on his back simultaneously aimed at Song Chen.

The light from the nozzle changed from dark red to incandescent white as six highly compressed psionic beams were simultaneously emitted.

The psionic beam also contained undigested psionic energy extracted from the star's core, with an energy density so high that the air around the beam was glowing.

Song Chen didn't dodge; he wanted to test the Silver Radiance Armor's maximum defense against attacks below the eighth rank.

Six beams of light simultaneously struck his breastplate, the explosion illuminating the entire cavity. The shockwave shattered all the surrounding blood-corroded incubation sacs, and the unformed larvae fell out of the ruptured sacs and twitched on the fungal carpet.

After the light faded, Song Chen stood still.

A palm-sized dark red mark was burned onto the surface of the dark gray armor's breastplate. This was organic residue left on the armor plate, which was being automatically peeled off by the armor's self-cleaning function.

He himself didn't lose a single hair.

The burly, powerful man's vertical eye contracted violently. His proud six beams of spiritual energy, after absorbing the energy of the star core, had reached a power level close to the threshold of the eighth rank, yet they left no mark on his opponent.

The spiked powerhouse on the right didn't make a move from beginning to end; he simply stood atop the star core and observed Song Chen with his enormous vertical eye.

His vertical eye was constantly flashing with blood-red mist, within which one could vaguely see the afterimages of countless devoured lives struggling.

"His armor should be of true star level."

Upon hearing this, the other two were simultaneously shocked.

Song Chen ignored their conversation, his gaze sweeping over the planetary core in the center of the cavity, which was being devoured by the fungal carpet, and made a second judgment.

Killing these three peak seventh-tier warriors will take time, especially since the tentacle-like powerhouse on the left is being repaired by the fungal carpet. The repair speed is extremely fast, and it won't be long before it can rejoin the battle.

If the battle cannot be ended before the core is completely eroded, even if three peak seventh-tier beings are killed, the planet will become a blood-corroded mother nest.

The erosion of the core by the creep must be blocked at the same time. The most direct way is to sever the creep's main nerve, the giant umbilical cord connecting the star core and the surface.

He flashed, his blade shifted, and he slashed at the main nerve of the fungal carpet with a Star-Splitting Slash.

The blade's edge drew a straight golden arc in the cavity. The moment it struck the main nerve, the entire nerve convulsed and contracted violently, and the dark red organic tissue was torn open with a huge gash by the impact of the blade's edge.

A large amount of dark red nerve fluid gushed out from the crack, exposing the interior wrapped by the main nerve, which was a layer of crystallized blood-corroded biological corpse shell.

Those were the remains of blood-corroded organisms devoured by the fungal carpet. The main nerve was constructed using these remains as a skeleton, wrapped in organic tissue.

The blade shattered the outer shell, and the crack rapidly widened, revealing the silvery-white core beneath the part of the star core's surface covered by the fungal carpet.

Then the fungal carpet begins to repair the main nerve.

The repair was much faster than Song Chen had expected. A large amount of organic tissue surged from the fungal carpet to the crack, re-weaving into new nerve fibers right before his eyes.

The rift he made lasted less than a few seconds before it was covered again, and the repaired main nerve was thicker and more robust than before, with an additional hard outer shell that gleamed with a metallic sheen.

The creep fungus was adapting and evolving according to his attack methods, an ability that made Song Chen frown.