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

Song Chen turned around and unleashed the ninth strike of the Star-Splitting Slash at the tentacle-wielding expert.

The tentacle-wielding expert had already fled out of the cavity under the cover of the spore poison cloud, but the Ninth Blade's blade aura was much faster than him.

The blade pierced through the spore cloud, cleaved his four tentacles, and split his body in two from head to toe. The dozens of miniature psionic cores scattered throughout his body were all shattered by the shockwave of the ninth blade.

Then, the eighth strike slashed back at the burly powerhouse, shattering his last miniature psionic core.

Before the spiked powerhouse disintegrated, Song Chen found his still-dissipating core consciousness and nailed it to the surface of the star core with a single blow.

[A peak seventh-tier Blood Corrosion expert has been killed, gaining 92004780 kill points]

[A peak seventh-tier Blood Corrosion expert has been killed, gaining 91855442 kill points]

The collapse of the star core reached its critical point the instant the spiked warrior was killed.

The silvery-white iron-nickel core exploded from the inside, and the light engulfed the entire underground cavity.

At the very last second before the blast wave hit his body, Song Chen activated the Void Leap of the Silver Armor. He didn't activate all its effects, only a small portion, but it was enough.

Five million kilometers away, in a vast interstellar space, a rift was torn open in space, and a dark gray figure rolled out of the rift.

Song Chen steadied herself and looked back.

KG-11 exploded in the distant starry sky behind him.

The explosion of this planet was insignificant on a cosmic scale, but it was enough to shock him.

The planet, with a diameter of 8,800 kilometers, first developed countless silvery-white light patterns on its surface, and then the entire planet exploded like an egg heated to its limit from the inside.

Crustal fragments, lava, fungal carpet debris, and atmospheric gases were all ejected.

The explosion emitted a continuously expanding silver-white halo, at the center of which was a cooling iron-nickel core remnant, gleaming a pale white light under the starlight.

The shockwave then caught up with the halo, accelerating the planetary debris to thousands of kilometers per second.

The debris cloud, interspersed with charred fragments of fungal carpet and the remains of blood-corroded creatures, forms a spectacular ring nebula.

Song Chen floated in the void, watching the expanding nebula.

KG-11 is gone, but the survivors of the Moonshadow Clan should have evacuated.

Sora and Nova immediately organized an evacuation after he issued the warning; a few minutes were enough for them to transport civilians from the city onto transport platforms and evacuate them to low Earth orbit.

Once on track, the shockwave from the explosion cannot keep up with the transport platform's jump speed.

At that moment, Sora's anxious call came through the communication channel. Song Chen reported that he was safe and gave his coordinates.

Soon the communication channel rang again, and half of the Moonshadow Clan civilians had evacuated.

Sora's voice was hoarse from the shock of surviving a disaster. He said they owed him a life and that Huiyang and Shuangyue would repay the favor whenever they needed it.

Song Chen simply said no need, and then opened the system panel.

The kill count reached a staggering 320 billion.

His killings this time weren't many, but fortunately the Blood Erosion Clan was elite enough, far surpassing any previous force, with at least sixth-tier troops.

Afterwards, Song Chen stood at the edge of the debris cloud of KG-11 for a while, watching the remnants of the dwarf planet slowly spread in the void.

The aftershocks of the planet's explosion were still spreading outwards, and the shockwaves, carrying tiny fragments, struck the Silver Armor, producing a faint, tinkling sound.

It was a very shocking scene.

He turned to return to the Shadowbee warship, but after taking only a few steps, a small Moonshadow Clan shuttle broke away from the refugee fleet in near-Earth orbit and flew toward him.

The shuttle's outer shell was covered with dark red stains left by the corrosion of the fungal carpet. A piece of the engine cover on the port side had been knocked off by something, revealing the psionic pipelines inside that were still sparking with electricity.

The pilot stopped the shuttle a dozen meters in front of him, the hatch opened, and a Moon Shadow Clan member floated out.

The Moonshadow Clan resembles humans in appearance, but is more slender. Their skin is pale silver-gray with a very thin layer of crystalline luster, which looks like it's coated with silver powder under starlight.

The newcomer's crystalline luster had dimmed considerably, and fine cracks had appeared in the crystalline layer at the corners of his eyes and mouth—signs of extreme fatigue and aging in the Moonshadow Clan.

He wore a silver-white robe, a traditional garment of the Moonshadow Civilization, and solemnly declared, "The powerful ally who has come from afar to offer support, I am Yue Heng, the Star Lord of KG-11."

"This planet is my star."

Song Chen looked at him. Yue Heng's eyes were filled with silvery-gray liquid. The blood of the Moon Shadow Clan is silvery-gray, as are their tears.

He didn't cry; the two pools of silvery-gray liquid swirled in his eyes but never fell.

"I couldn't save your planet," Song Chen replied.

"I know, but at least you avenged us."

As he spoke, Yue Heng took out a silver-white metal box from inside his robe and handed it over with both hands.

"Although this planet is gone, it has harmed our lives, preventing us from leaving alive."

"Here are five thousand cosmic crystals. It's not much; it's the only remaining one in KG-11's vault. Please accept it."

Song Chen looked down at the silver-white metal box.

Five thousand cosmic crystals, which is equivalent to five thousand contribution points according to the Alliance's exchange standard, is not a large amount on the scale of a level three civilization, but for a planet that has just been blown to pieces, this is probably the only thing left in its vault.

He thought for a moment, then reached out and took the box.

"I'll accept it."

Yueheng nodded, raised her hand to wipe away the silver-gray tears on her face, and turned to float back to the shuttle.

Before the hatch closed, he turned back to look at Song Chen and said, "May your star never fall."

The shuttle turned around and flew back to the refugee convoy.

Song Chen put the silver-white metal box into his storage space and was about to board the Shadow Bee when he heard calls from Sora and Nova on the communication channel at the same time.

Sora's voice came first: "Song Chen, we have received the latest battle report. Large-scale battles are still breaking out on the four main stars of the Moonshadow Civilization."

"Although the main force of the Blood Erosion Civilization was repelled by the Alliance's joint fleet, there are still at least thirty Blood Erosion biological space stations in the orbit of the main star that have not been cleared, and there are also a large number of bacterial carpet contaminated areas on the ground that need to be cleaned up."

"The solar prominence group received orders from its home planet and is heading at full speed to support Moonshadow II. How's the situation on your end?"

Nova's voice followed: "The Cold Tide Special Forces also received the same order. The Moon Shadow Civilization is a Level 3 civilization, and there are at least three to four True Star Realm experts fighting on the main battlefield of this battle."

"The Moonshadow Civilization itself has a mid-stage ninth-tier Star Lord, and the Blood Erosion Civilization has sent at least two ninth-tier Devouring Lords. If you want to go, we can coordinate our actions."

Ninth Rank, True Star Realm, Devouring Lord.

Song Chen mentally reviewed these three words: the core battlefield of this battle was the confrontation between the nine ranks.

The three peak seventh-tier warriors he killed on KG-11 were already top-tier combatants of a first-level civilization, but in front of a ninth-tier True Star Realm cultivator, peak seventh-tier warriors were nothing more than a group of slightly larger ants.

With over 20 million health points, coupled with the fourth level of the Star-Splitting Slash and the Silver Radiance Armor, defeating a seventh-tier opponent is no problem.

But let's forget about the ninth tier.