The floor of the [Ten-Thousand-Star Galactic Arena] was paved with ten-thousand-year Astral Black Basalt, a divine stone dense enough to withstand the head-on collision of two Rank 9 star-cruisers without cracking.
Yet as twenty-two-year-old Golden Heir Gu Wuji stomped out of the shattered southern tunnel gates and halted twenty paces away from fourteen-year-old Gu Nian. The black basalt slabs beneath Gu Wuji’s boots groaned and spider-webbed with deep,smoking fissures!
Why?
Because Gu Wuji was holding back zero percent of his Rank 9 Early (Galactic Sovereign Realm) cultivation!
Having burned fifty years of his lifespan to force his [Destiny-Plundering System] into [200% Bloodline Overdrive Mode], Gu Wuji unleashed a suffocating, continent-crushing hurricane of corrupted Rank 9 gravitational pressure across the ring!
Behind Gu Wuji’s back, chained to his spine by ten thick, barbed chains of black-gold system script, Ten Colossal Spectral Beasts—each one a thousand feet tall—howled in agonizing, mind-shattering torment:
1. The Azure-Flame Nirvana Sparrow (stolen seven years ago from 12-year-old Branch Cousin Gu Ming of Planet #03);
2. The Nine-Headed Frost-Crystal Hydra (stolen twelve years ago from 14-year-old Branch Cousin Gu Xue of Planet #09);
