Reborn as a lotus, she initially refuses to hand it over to the state.

[Ding! Successfully suppressed the Broken Branch.]

[Successfully destroyed the Starsea Hunter Court's Seventh Plant Hunter Fleet.]

Main Quest: Battle to Defend the Ancestral Realm Completed.

[Task Completion: Perfect.]

[Gained Evolution Points: 300 million.]

The awakening level of the Tongtian Jianmu has been increased to 1%.

[The Azure Lotus Grotto has completed its first astral transformation.]

The Myriad Lotus Realm evolves into the Myriad Spirit Tree Realm.

[The Mountain and River Town Emperor Seal absorbed the essence of the Hunting Court Star Sea, completing its third transformation.]

[Current Name: Star River Town Abyss Emperor Seal.]

[New Ability: Star Guardian.]

[New Ability: Astral Reflection.]

[The host can locate the coordinates of various celestial realms using a complete star chart.]

As the system notification appeared.

The Azure Lotus Cave Heaven trembled violently.

The earth expands in all directions.

The earthen-yellow mountains rose abruptly from the ground, and the spirit lake, which originally covered several miles, continued to spread, eventually transforming into a boundless blue marshland.

The pale crescent moon in the sky gradually solidified.

Moonlight streamed down.

A rich Yin spiritual energy covered the entire cave.

The young shoots of the Jianmu tree also began to grow wildly.

Half a foot, one meter, three meters, ten meters.

It finally stopped growing when it reached over thirty meters in height.

Although the green trunk is still tender, nine leaves of the Jianmu tree have sprouted from its branches.

Each leaf reflects a different starry sky.

After the Zhezhihao entered the cave.

The black branches that had been wrapped around the hull fell off one by one.

One by one, the remnants of the spirit plants, whose essence had been drained by the Hunter's Court, flew out from the branches.

They swirled around the Jianmu tree, and finally tens of thousands of remnant souls transformed into a colorful rain of spirits, falling into the realm of the Myriad Spirit Trees.

Tender shoots sprout from the barren, yellow earth.

Countless flowers of various colors bloom in the Linghu Lake.

Seeds of spiritual plants from different star realms also awakened under the nourishment of the spiritual rain.

The deepest part of the Zhezhihao.

The roots of the Jianmu tree penetrated the collapsed hull, lifting Mu Cang from the ruins.

The black and silver chains that ran through its limbs crumbled inch by inch.

Mu Cang dragged his broken body step by step to Jianmu.

It knelt on both knees, its forehead pressed against the sacred soil: "Mu Cang, the guardian of the Jianmu clan, pays respects to the young master."

The branches and leaves of the Jianmu tree swayed gently, and a pale green leaf fell from the crown and merged into the trunk of the tree.

The Hunter's Slave Seal within Mu Cang's body rapidly disintegrated.

Tender green leaves are growing back on the originally cracked skin.

That ancient root of the Jianmu tree, which had been silent for countless years, also formed a special connection with the young Jianmu tree.

[Ding! Mu Cang has received the blessing of Jianmu.]

[The Hunter's Slave Mark within the body has completely disappeared.]

[Current realm has recovered to the early stage of the eighth rank.]

[Mu Cang voluntarily joined the Realm of the Myriad Spirit Trees.]

Chu Zhou's root landed in front of Mu Cang: "Get up. Jianmu has just awakened. You will take care of it from now on."

Mu Cang stood up, his aged face filled with barely suppressed excitement: "Mu Cang is willing to use his remaining body to protect the young master and the master of the Azure Lotus."

……

Blue Star, a long time after the battle ended.

The world remained silent as billions of people stared at the remaining fires of ships on the moon's outer edge, seemingly still reeling from the war that had just taken place.

When the twelve Star Chaser reconnaissance ships arrived, all of humanity's weapons became ineffective.

The world was plunged into despair, fear, and voices of fleeing and surrender, which nearly drowned out every city.

Six days later, seven main warships and more than two hundred escort ships arrived.

Theros was a late-stage ninth-tier powerhouse, but in the end, Theros perished.

The Zhezhi was suppressed, and the entire Seventh Plant Hunter Group was wiped out.

Four Nine Cities.

Zhou Zhenshan stood inside the Global Federal Conference Room.

The blue star in the projection lit up again.

Mr. Ye sat at the head of the conference table.

Looking at the final battle report transmitted from the moon, he announced, "Issue a global announcement: the Seventh Fleet of the Star Sea Hunter's Court has been confirmed destroyed. We have won the battle to defend our Ancestral Realm."

The news is out.

The entire planet Earth was in an uproar. Countless people rushed out of their shelters. Some hugged, some cried, and some took out weapons and raised them high towards the moon.

This time, not many people knelt in worship.

They still remembered what Chu Zhou had said: if you want to live, stand up and grip the knife in your hand.

Unseen human wills rose from all corners of the globe.

They flow along the city's boundary formation, into the ancestral land veins, and then along the Jianmu root network, towards Heilong Lake.

The ten-petaled blue lotus swayed gently.

Chu Zhou could clearly sense it.

After this battle, the will of the human race in the ancestral realm underwent a certain change.

In the past, they saw themselves as those who were being protected.

They regarded the Qinglian Forbidden Zone as their only hope.

For the first time now, they truly consider themselves part of the ancestral realm.

On the shore of Heilong Lake.

Baishan-jun lay on the shore, licking the wounds on his body.

Shan Kui sat beside the Fu Yue Tai Shi stone, piling up pieces of silver-black metal that had been salvaged from the Hunter's Court warship.

Little Jinbao circled around the Azure Lotus Star Boat continuously.

It would occasionally slip into the bridge and then fly out from another hatch.

"Master, can I drive next time? I'm sure I can drive faster than those humans."

The Azure Lotus Starship trembled, immediately closing the bridge entrance.

Little Jinbao bumped headfirst into the metal hatch.

It covered its head and said, "If you don't want to open it, then don't open it. What's the big deal?"

In the underground ancient city, the strange stone with its scarlet patterns flickers between light and shadow. It gazes at the broken branch in the cave and remains silent for a long time.

"Lotus Demon, the trouble you've caused this time is bigger than all the previous ones combined."

Chu Zhou's roots entangled the edge of the strange rock: "My beloved concubine is worried about me? I am very touched."

Strange Stone cursed, "Get lost. The destruction of the Seventh Plant Hunter Fleet will be discovered by the main court of the Hunting Court sooner or later."

"Theros is only the Seventh Hunting Court Judge. None of the six judges ranked ahead of him are below the tenth rank."

"Deep within the Star Sea Hunting Court, there are true masters of the Hunting Court. The worlds they have hunted are more numerous than the number of King-level powerhouses born in the Ancestral Realm."

Chu Zhou's roots remained firmly planted: "So what? If I can bury the Seventh Fleet, I can bury the Second, and the Third."

The strange stone's crimson patterns shimmered: "You are only at the early stage of the ninth rank. If it weren't for the Jianmu tree awakening the remnant souls of the myriad spirits on the Zhezhi ship, you would have been the one to die in this battle."

Chu Zhou naturally understood that this battle seemed to have been won completely.

However, the Ancestral Realm also exposed many problems. The human race had no King Realm experts, and in the Azure Lotus Forbidden Zone, only he himself could directly confront a Ninth-Order expert.

Although Bai Shan Jun, Shan Kui, Cang Hai Long Jing Wang, and other relatives all have their own abilities.

However, he was unable to suppress a single Hunting Court Judge on his own.

If the next one to descend is not a late-stage ninth-tier cultivator.

Instead, there were two or three level-ten experts.

The ancestral realm still couldn't stop it, and Chu Zhou unfolded its ten lotus leaves.

A nautical chart of stars appeared above the lotus heart.

The core authority of the Seventh Hunting Court fell into its hands.

One by one, sealed compartments and storage coordinates appeared in Chu Zhou's consciousness.

Although the Zhezhi was severely damaged.

However, a large portion of the ship's interior remains intact.

Mu Cang's voice also came at this moment.

"Lord of the Azure Lotus, the Broken Branch is not only the mothership of the Seventh Hunting Court, but also a breeding base used by the Seventh Hunting Court to collect and modify the bloodlines of all spirits. Deep within the ship, the origins they have plundered from different worlds over thousands of years are preserved."

Chu Zhou's consciousness entered the Broken Branch: "Take me there."

……

The lower level of the broken branch.

At the end of the broken metal corridor.

A massive hatch, sealed by dozens of black and silver spirit patterns, blocked the way.

Mu Cang stretched out his palm.

The dark green roots penetrated the hatch.

However, the Hunter's Court runes on the surface of the hatch only flashed a few times and did not open.

"This is the Hunter's Court's Origin Repository, which can only be opened by the Executor and the main ship's core authority."

A silver-black vertical pupil rose from the roots of Chu Zhou.

It is the core of the Seventh Hunting Court's authority left behind after Theros' death.

The core access control is embedded in the hatch.

The dozens of sealing runes gradually faded away.

Rumble!

The heavy hatch opened.

A rich, almost solidified life force surged forth from the source reservoir.

In the center of the Origin Repository stands a black mother tree that is a thousand meters tall, but it has no leaves.

On each branch hangs a translucent primordial fruit.

Some fruits contain alien beasts from the stars.

Some fruits contain strangely shaped spiritual plants.

Inside some fruits, there is only a clump of primordial blood that constantly changes shape.

Beneath the mother tree lay a large number of star marrow crystals, spirit plant seeds, and fragmented legacies of different races.

System notifications kept ringing.

[A breeding nest for the Hunter's Nest has been detected.]

[Thirty-seven damaged species were detected.]

[Twelve remains of King-level Spiritual Plants were detected.]

[6,321 samples of cosmic life origins were detected.]

[860,000 astral marrow crystals were detected.]

[One unknown Star Tree species detected.]

[The Hunting Grounds' breeding nest has been corrupted by the Law of Slavery.]

[Should we consume 100 million evolution points to purify it?]

Chu Zhou looked at the black mother tree.

"Purify".

One hundred million evolution points vanished instantly.

Above the Azure Lotus Cave.

All nine leaves of the Jianmu tree lit up at the same time.

Thousands of verdant roots pierced the broken branch, entwining the nest where all spirits of the hunting court nurtured their mother.

Inside the mother nest.

Countless black silver slave seals were forcibly extracted.

Twisted faces emerged from the surface of the mother tree, emitting piercing howls.

Under the suppression of the Jianmu aura, all the slave seals continued to shatter, and the black bark peeled off little by little.

Instead, there are vibrant, bluish-green patterns.

The base of the mother tree split open, and countless primordial liquids gushed out from the roots, forming a five-colored spiritual pool with a diameter of over a kilometer.

[Ding! Purification complete.]

[The Hunter's Court's All-Spirit Nurturing Nest has been transformed into: The All-Spirit Transformation Pool.]

The Pool of Myriad Spirits can purify and fuse different life origins.

[Those belonging to the Azure Lotus Clan can enter and complete their bloodline transformation.]

[Warning: Different origins are incompatible; forced fusion may lead to bloodline collapse.]

Chu Zhou's divine sense swept over the Broken Branch.

The real gains of this war.

She finally appeared before him.

The Hunter's Court used the corpses of countless worlds to forge the Broken Branch; now, all of these things belong to the Ancestral Realm.

……

Three days later.

The outer perimeter of Heilong Lake.

A towering, azure stone monument, hundreds of meters high, rises from the bottom of the lake.

The surface of the stone tablet.

The names of all the participants in the battle to defend the ancestral realm appeared.

At the very top is the Lord of the Azure Lotus.

Below them, in order, are Bai Shanjun, Shan Kui, Xuan Weizi, Qin Zhenyuan, Zhang Baoyi, Canghai Longjingwang, and others.

[Monument to the Triumphs of All Souls.]

All beings participating in the Ancestral Realm Defense War can exchange their battle merits for Star Essence, Origin, and Evolution Qualifications.

Bai Shanjun squatted in front of the monument to his war achievements.

Shan Kui stood beside it.

Little Jinbao flew to the top of the stone tablet and searched for his name line by line.

It soon found itself in the seventh position.

Little Jinbao immediately protested: "Why is Shan Kui ranked ahead of me?"

The mountain bandit said in a deep voice, "I smashed three ships."

Little Jinbao turned to look at Baishan Jun: "Where is it?"

"It tore apart twelve ships."

Little Jinbao then looked at Xuanweizi's name.

"Where is this old Taoist priest?"

"He cleaved open a flagship."

Little Jinbao was silent for a while.

It then flew to the monument of merit and raised its claws to press down on its own name.

"Next time, I want to be second."

Shan Kui asked, "Why not first?"

Little Jinbao glanced at the center of Black Dragon Lake: "Master will definitely steal my first place."

A root of Chuzhou extends from the lake.

They directly rolled Little Jinbao into the water.

Pfft!

Little Jinbao emerged from the lake and shook the water off his head.

"Master, you attacked us from behind!"

Chu Zhou ignored it.

A silvery-white primordial light cluster flew out from the Azure Lotus Cave.

Bai Shanjun's bloodline immediately responded.

It stood up.

The Platinum Tiger Sha surged uncontrollably from his body.

Inside the silvery-white light cluster.

A broken image of the Hunter King let out a low roar.

[The Hunter's Origin contains most of Theros's power of killing, hunting, and astral locking.]

Chu Zhou's voice fell: "Lord Baishan."

Baishanjun arrived at the lakeside.

The massive body bowed down: "Master, in this battle, you destroyed twelve escort ships and protected the Azure Lotus Starship. Your merit is number one."

"The Hunter King's origins belong to you."

The silvery-white ball of light flew towards Bai Shanjun, who did not immediately swallow it: "Master, Seros is also at the late stage of the ninth rank. If you absorb its essence, you may be able to advance further."

Chu Zhou's lotus leaves swayed gently: "I do not lack this source if I want to evolve. What the Azure Lotus Forbidden Zone lacks is a King Realm expert who can stand alone."

"Go, and don't disappoint me."

Without further hesitation, Baishanjun opened its mouth and swallowed the Hunter King's essence in one gulp.

Roar!

The Platinum Tiger Demon soared into the sky.

The moment the Hunter King's essence entered his body, strands of silver and black chains emerged from Bai Shanjun's flesh and blood.

The will of Theros that remained in the origin transformed into the Dharma form of the Hunter King, standing deep within the soul of the White Mountain Lord.

"A beast from the ancestral realm dares to devour my very essence!"

The Hunter King Dharma Image raised his spear.

It pierced directly at Bai Shan Jun's soul.

Baishan Jun did not dodge.

It lunged at the spear, its claws slashing down, tearing open the chest of the Hunter King's Dharma Image.

Bai Shan Jun bit the neck of the Dharma Image, and the White Gold Tiger Demon surged in wildly.

"You were defeated by your master while you were alive, and now, even in death, you dare to act so arrogantly before me!"

Click!

The neck of the Hunter King's Dharma form was bitten off, and the silver and black chains shattered at the same time. The Hunter King's essence transformed into countless starlight, merging into Bai Shan Jun's limbs and bones.

Its body rapidly expanded, reaching 100 meters, 300 meters, and 500 meters, while the original platinum tiger stripes on its back gradually changed.

Phantom images of stars appeared between the tiger's stripes, and Lord Baishan roared again, his voice piercing through the atmosphere of Blue Star.

The sound traveled into the starry sky, causing the remaining warship fragments on the outer edge of the moon to vibrate simultaneously.

[Ding! Lord Baishan has completed his bloodline transformation.]

[Successfully advanced to the early stage of the ninth rank.]

[The White Tiger bloodline evolves into: Zhenxing White Tiger.]

[Gained Ability: Astral Hunt]

[Gained Ability: Boundary-Breaking Tiger Fiend.]

[Obtained Domain: White Tiger Suppression Domain.]

Bai Shanjun opened his eyes, and two beams of platinum light pierced the starry sky.

It took a single step, and its enormous body appeared directly in the outer space of the blue planet.

A piece of warship wreckage, over a kilometer in diameter, drifted in from a distance.

Bai Shanjun's claw struck down, and the White Gold Tiger Demon tore through space, splitting the warship wreckage in two from the center.

Bai Shanjun returned to Black Dragon Lake, his body shrank, and he knelt before Qinglian.

"Lord Baishan, thank you, Master, for bestowing upon us the royal domain."

Chu Zhou's voice echoed throughout the Azure Lotus Forbidden Zone: "From this day forward, Lord Baishan will be the Star Guardian General of the Azure Lotus Forbidden Zone, commanding the Azure Lotus Starship and the alien beasts of the starry sky."

Black Tiger King, Mountain Demon, Azure Sea Dragon Whale King, and their retinues bowed their heads simultaneously: "Greetings, Star Guardian General."

Bai Shanjun's promotion has ended.

Shan Kui also entered Qinglian Cave.

It did not choose any source of life.

Instead, he carried the mountain-bearing stone and came to a sealed hunting flagship.

Inside the main ship, an astral anchor with a diameter of over 100 meters is still in operation.

Chu Zhou used the Star River Zhenyuan Emperor Seal to suppress the main ship.

The roots of the Jianmu tree pulled the astral anchor from the energy core.

Shan Kui held up the mountain-bearing stone with both hands, and the astral anchor merged into the stone. Nine illusory ancient mountains appeared at the same time, and the phantom of the tenth mountain also began to condense behind Shan Kui.

[The fused asteroid belt and the complete astral anchor.]

[The Mountain Demon has advanced to the peak of the eighth rank.]

[Gained Ability: Star Anchoring.]

Within the Ten Peaks area, all spatial jumps, phase traversals, and void teleportations will be suppressed.

Shan Kui opened his eyes.

Ten ancient mountains fell together.

The surrounding space froze instantly.

Even the phase engine of the Azure Lotus Starship briefly lost its responsiveness.

Little Jinbao was about to crawl into the starship, but its body was frozen in mid-air, and it kept flailing its four paws.

"Mountain Demon, quickly put it away!"

Shan Kui scratched his head.

The ten ancient mountains then disappeared.

Little Jinbao plunged headfirst into the Spirit Lake.

Chu Zhou looked at Shan Kui, Bai Shan Jun was in charge of hunting and killing, and Shan Kui was in charge of suppressing space.

When the two work together, they are capable of stopping even a mid-stage ninth-tier opponent.

In Tokyo Bay, the Azure Dragon Whale King obtained a Plant Hunter Main Ship Energy Core, which was then integrated with the Tide-Suppressing Ancestral Pattern.

The entire Tokyo Bay was rocked by waves reaching tens of thousands of meters high, but the waves did not reach the coastal cities.

Instead, it transformed into a starry sea floating in the sky behind the Dragon Whale King.

Its body exceeded two thousand meters, and a layer of deep blue star patterns grew on its abdomen and back.

[The Azure Sea Dragon Whale King has advanced to the early stage of the eighth rank.]

[The ancestral pattern of Zhenchao has completed its transformation.]

[Gained Ability: Starry Tides.]

[Gained Ability: Ship-Devouring Vortex.]

[Gained Ability: Negative Space of the Starry Sea.]

The space on the back of the Dragon Whale King continued to expand, becoming large enough to house a small war base.

at the same time.

Zhenhai Relics Island.

Qingfeng devoured the Wanling Branch that had fallen from the Zhezhihao.

Green vines stretched across the sea and burrowed into a Hunter's Court escort ship being towed back to Earth.

The frigate, which had lost power, lit up again.

The withered tree totem on the surface of the ship has been replaced by a blue vine flower.

[Qingfeng has advanced to the early stage of the eighth rank.]

[Gained Ability: Myriad Vine Star Nest.]

[Gained Ability: Battleship Parasite.]

[Qingfeng can control the starship that has lost its original owner through vines.]

The first frigate controlled by Qingfeng slowly took off.

Then came the second, third, and seven captured frigates that circled Zhenhai Yidao.

The entire island was completely transformed into the second star fleet of the Ancestral Realm.

Within the Azure Lotus Forbidden Zone, the Black Tiger King also obtained the remains of an eighth-tier Shadow Star Beast. After devouring its bloodline, it entered the early stage of the eighth tier.

Tens of thousands of strange beasts roared at the same time.

Chu Zhou appointed the Black Tiger King as the Commander of All Beasts.

They were responsible for leading all the land-based beasts in the ancestral realm, and each of their followers completed their evolution.

Little Jinbao squatted by the pool of ten thousand spirits, his face full of anticipation.

"Master, isn't it my turn?"

It extends its claws into the evolution pool.

All the primordial elements in the pool reacted simultaneously.

Dragon-shaped figures, Qilin, metallic behemoths, and several phantom images of unknown cosmic life forms appeared one after another behind Xiao Jinbao.

However, the next moment, all the phantoms collided with each other.

The golden scales on Little Golden Treasure's body also began to vibrate violently.

Chu Zhou's roots quickly wrapped around it and pulled it out of the Transformation Pool.

A system prompt then appeared.

[Detected that Xiao Jinbao simultaneously possesses the essence of a true dragon, a qilin, a metallic life form, and remnants of ancestral realm fortune.]

Ordinary life forms cannot help the target complete its evolution.

Forced fusion may lead to bloodline collapse.

Little Jinbao hovered in mid-air, its mouth slowly opening wider: "They can all evolve, why can't I?"

Chu Zhou flicked its head with a root.

"Because you eat too many different kinds of food."

Little Jinbao covered his head and said, "Then I'll eat less from now on."

Just then.

The nine leaves on the crown of the Jianmu tree simultaneously turned westward.

In one of the leaves.

A phantom image of a sacred mountain shrouded in ice and snow appears, deep within the sacred mountain.

A golden heart is beating slowly.

With each jump, the scales inside Little Golden Treasure's body would light up.

[Ding! Detected an item with a high compatibility with Xiao Jinbao's bloodline.]

[Target Name: Heart of Zul'jin]

[Target location: Kunlun Jianmu Ancient Road.]

Little Jinbao instantly perked up, broke free from Chu Zhou's roots, and flew to the front of Jianmu.

"Master, when am I going to Kunlun?"

Chu Zhou scanned the leaf with his divine sense: "Wait for the human race to complete its evolution."

……

Lunar base.

More than a dozen captured Hunting Court frigates were moored around the perimeter of the circular base.

Thousands of researchers move between the ships.

Shen Xinglan stood inside a plant-hunting flagship.

A large amount of human data is floating in front of me.

The Hunter's Bloodline Cultivation Technique is cruel.

However, it far surpasses current human evolutionary technology.

As long as the marks of slavery and the pollution are removed.