CHAPTER 40: CHAPTER 40: MONSTERS IN THE BERMUDA DEEP SEA

Cloud City, the Star-Sucking Main Tree towering into the clouds, its branches extending for miles.

Now, it has stopped producing monsters.

Over two million Tier Seven and Eight Star-Sucking Monsters guard the entire Star-Sucking Main Tree, impenetrable.

Even the trunk is crawling with Star-Sucking Monsters; not a single bug can fly in.

Those corpses of Deformed Creatures drained dry have all been devoured by these over two million Star-Sucking Monsters.

At the top of the tree.

An enormous black cocoon, throbbing like a heart, seems to be nurturing a very terrifying monster within.

The entire earth of Cloud City is almost completely made up of the roots of this Star-Sucking Main Tree.

By absorbing the blood of tens of millions of Deformed Creatures as fuel, hundreds of thousands of black roots have pierced into the core of the planet, constantly drawing the star energy of the planet.

As dusk approaches.

Whizz!!

In the distant sky, Gu Qijue steps on thunder as he arrives.

Facing dusk, standing outside the range covered by this Star-Sucking Main Tree, his gaze falls on the top of the tree, that enormous black cocoon.

Roar! Howl—

As Gu Qijue appears here, whether on the tree or on the ground, the Star-Sucking Monsters all glare at him fiercely, roaring.

Gu Qijue, with white hair and blood-red eyes, in a black suit, raises his hand expressionlessly.

Roar!!

Suddenly, a Tier Seven Star-Sucking Monster on the tree is imprisoned by him from afar just like that.

Then, a black Dragon Soul rolls out from behind him with a roar, expanding against the wind, opens its huge mouth, directly swallowing the Star-Sucking Monster, then returns to Gu Qijue’s body.

Meanwhile, a warm current sweeps inside his body, as if consuming a Star Fruit.

Gu Qijue has now advanced to Tier Seven, having consumed ten thousand Star Fruits...

Even he finds it absurd.

Those Deceitful Mutant Creatures definitely don’t need that many.

Gu Qijue suspects it’s for personal reasons.

After advancing to Tier Seven, Gu Qijue acquired a Divine Power from his inherited memories—the Black Dragon Soul!!

Moreover, his strength has also leapt several levels.

Against Tier Eight monsters or Super Martial Artists, he also has the power to fight and even kill.

Gu Qijue doesn’t linger here long, breaking through the clouds and appearing above Mu Qingxue’s sanctuary.

With his sight, Ye Zhan Country and others have already dispatched ten Super Martial Artist teams, beginning to transform this sanctuary into fertile land and other places.

The Cloud City’s Super Martial Artist team, every ten people make a team, led by a captain who is an Emperor-level Super Martial Artist.

Outside the wall, Tier Three and Four Star-Sucking Monsters also roam, prowling.

Gu Qijue also sees Ji Shang talking to a beautiful girl of a similar age with a seemingly very sad expression trying to comfort her.

"Chu Yue, it’s not our boss’s cruelty to blame, it’s your father’s and sister’s waywardness. I can only save you and your aunt from the boss..."

Ji Shang sighs helplessly, seeing her sad look.

"Ji Shang..."

Chu Yue suddenly looks at him very seriously.

"What’s wrong?" Ji Shang hesitates as she looks at him like that.

"Can you... help me kill... him?" Chu Yue bites her jade lips, looking at him with tearful eyes.

"What did you say?"

Hearing this, Ji Shang’s eyes narrow slightly.

Chu Yue bites her silver teeth and says, "If you can kill him for me, I... I’ll let you do whatever you want with me... You’re so close to him; you can definitely do it..."

Don’t call her silly.

Her father and sister both indirectly died at Gu Qijue’s hands.

Even though it was their fault initially.

But for kin, does it matter who’s right or wrong?

With close relatives slain, who can have no hatred at all?

"Alas! What a pity, why did you have to have such thoughts?"

Ji Shang sighs, a hint of killing intent in his eyes, saying:

"Chu Yue, I know you only had compassion for me in the past, not liking me a bit, but I still took the risk of being punished by the boss to save you and your aunt."

"But sadly, you can’t put down this hatred. Though you lack the ability to seek revenge, you dare express your wrath to me, so I can’t let you go."

After Ji Shang says this, he suddenly raises his hand to grasp Chu Yue’s neck and shakes his head: "I’m sorry!!"

Crack—

In Chu Yue’s eyes full of despair and resentment, Ji Shang decisively crushes her neck.

Super Martial Artists, even without Super Martial Armor, have physical strength ordinary people cannot match.

After killing Chu Yue, Ji Shang asks someone to handle her corpse, then heads straight for Chu Yue’s mother’s place.

Gu Qijue watches Ji Shang’s decisiveness and nods in satisfaction, for if he hadn’t killed her, Gu Qijue would have.

The reason Gu Qijue came here was to see if Ji Shang was just a sycophant.

Now it seems he is not.

"It’s time to head to Lingjiang City, should Mu Yuxin be killed or not, is Xiaoyao no longer with me since the first time I approached the Deformed Tree and melded into it, causing the Deformed Tree to become this Star Tree a few years earlier..."

Gu Qijue mutters lowly to himself, leaving into the distance.

What Xiaoyao says is not to be completely trusted, yet not to be entirely distrusted.

Gu Qijue has already guessed some things.

Xiaoyao is definitely no longer with him now.

The biggest possibility is that he’s inside that Star Tree.

Killing a Mu Yuxin is easy, but Gu Qijue will certainly leave himself a way out.

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Bermuda Sea Region.

Here, it has transformed into a black sea region.

The angry waves surge, hitting high into the heavens.

A massive turtle is rumbling as it dives into the Bermuda Deep Sea.

Soon, no light can be seen; the great turtle in the darkness, eagerly diving at its target.

It’s unknown how long it has dived, or how deep it has gone.

The great turtle stops on a sea canyon that seems to span the Star Blue Continent.

"Three esteemed elders, the Star Blue Continent is in peril... I beg of you to take action."

The great turtle transforms into a half-human half-turtle form, kneeling towards the abyssal canyon below, truthfully narrating the events.

Long, long after, a rumbling voice below responds: "Little turtle, it’s all well if this matter is true. If we act and you’ve divined wrong, that tree has nothing to do with the Black Dragon Emperor, you will die!"

The terrifying voice is boundless, shaking waves for days, causing an uproar throughout the Great Triangle Sea Region.

"I swear on my life..." the old turtle earnestly says.

The grand voice murmurs: "So be it, we’ll trust you this once. In half a month, we shall ascend to the land!"

"Half a month?" The old turtle hesitates slightly.

"We are at a critical breakthrough moment, needing at least half a month, maybe even a month. This is not a place for you to linger!"

Rumble—

As the grand sound echoes, a gigantic water spout envelops the old turtle, directly sending it out of there.

In an instant, the old turtle is sent back to the sea surface.

"Damn, for the sake of this planet, I really worry myself sick."

Upon surfacing, the old turtle curses before leaving.

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