WHOOOOOOOOOOSH—SCREEEEEEEEEE!
Wreathed in a hundred-thousand-degree flare of his burning [Blood-Sun Star Core] and wrapped in the blinding white-diamond barrier of Grand Warden Tianfa’s [Rank 8 Absolute Guardian Talisman], [Half-Step Rank 8 Star-Lord Admiral Black-Skull] hurtled down toward the front porch of the [Gu Family Flying Courtyard Star-Fortress]
like a falling meteor!
In both scarred hands, the nine-foot-tall pirate warlord swung his one-thousand-foot-long [Half-Step Rank 8 Skull-Executioner Great-Axe.] A monstrous dark-matter cleaver that had beheaded three planetary guardians in the outer rim—aiming the screaming black edge straight at thirty-two-year-old Gu Changsheng’s collar!
“NOBODY CAN BREAK GRAND WARDEN TIANFA’S RANK 8 DEFENSIVE TALISMAN IN THE LOWER CORRIDOR!” Admiral Black-Skull howled in crazed desperation as the thousand-foot axe blade descended within three feet of the white picket fence. “EVEN IF YOU’RE AT RANK 7 PEAK, YOU CAN’T HURT ME BEFORE MY AXE SPLITS YOUR FARMHOUSE IN TWO! DIE!”
Across the eleven connected worlds, twenty billion watching citizens held their breath as the thousand-foot black cleaver filled the sky above the porch.
On the wooden front porch of the [Gu Family Flying Courtyard], however, thirty-two-year-old Gu Changsheng stood in his cloth house-slippers and canvas kitchen apron without shifting his feet by a single millimeter.


