CHAPTER 760: CHAPTER 471 EMPEROR THUNDER SNAKE

The Slaughter Star Monsters are equivalent to Seventh Rank Mutants!

With his current strength, Ji Xinghuo was confident that he could fight any Sixth Rank powerhouse without falling behind, and even defeat Catastrophe Monsters.

But Slaughter Star Monsters...

The gap between the Sixth and Seventh Ranks was bigger than the sum of the gaps from the previous six evolution stages. Even the weakest Seventh Rank, any Shepherd Star Saint, could easily crush an opponent below the Seventh Rank.

Of course, that wasn’t to say there was no chance at all.

In the history of the True Dragon Dynasty, there had been several instances where Sixth Rank Mutants defeated Shepherd Star Saints and Slaughter Star Monsters.

But those were all incredibly low-probability events that occurred when various fortuitous coincidences and many extreme conditions combined.

"I’m just a weak Fifth Rank Legendary, better not court death."

Ji Xinghuo was very rational.

The forbidden zone depicted on the map was very large, roughly a long rectangle of irregular shape, with a length of nearly thirty thousand kilometers, spanning directly in his path, and a width of about eighteen thousand kilometers.

This distance was slightly beyond his jumping limit.

He opened the Wanxiang Star Pupil interface to take a look.

[Spiritual Origin Ability: 1,328,045]

Over 1.32 million points of Spiritual Origin Ability, this was his harvest from hunting monsters in the Sea Abyss for half a Star Realm Month.

It was enough to raise Electromagnetic Oscillation to the Seventh Level, or to upgrade the many Abilities of himself and three War Pets, significantly enhancing his overall strength.

However, Ji Xinghuo did not rush to allocate them.

His gaze fell on "Star Realm Jump," which currently was at (Fourth Level 2460/306311).

If he upgraded Star Realm Jump to the Fifth Level, not only would each jump be further, but the total distance could be increased significantly. With several consecutive jumps, he could directly cross the sea area where the Slaughter Star Monster resided.

"Keep saving up."

"Star Realm Jump isn’t an immediate necessity, so its priority should be put off," Ji Xinghuo considered over and over, and decided not to upgrade.

In fact, if he wanted to, he could use up the jump distance within each 73 Star Time cycle and, along with traveling at full speed, he could advance at least fifty thousand kilometers a day, even considering having to avoid Void Rifts.

It would only take six to seven Star Realm Days to reach the location the arrow pointed to.

But Ji Xinghuo didn’t do so.

Firstly, he needed to save the jumping distance for escaping from insurmountable dangers, and secondly, he could hunt the monsters in the Sea Abyss to gain Spiritual Origin Ability.

Fourth Level Star Realm Jump was already sufficient.

"Bypass the center of the forbidden zone and enter from the edges."

"Jump when the distance is about right."

"This sea area is so vast, almost as big as the surface area of Earth; I shouldn’t encounter that Slaughter Star Monster, right?" Ji Xinghuo didn’t believe he would be that unlucky, but if he really did encounter it, he was confident he could escape.

"Doomsday, come back."

Ji Xinghuo let the Annihilation Dragon merge into his skin, Qing Hong also shrank and hid into his pocket, Deception Mask covered his aura, reducing it to the lowest.

The Deception Mask fluctuated, entering invisibility.

Ji Xinghuo flew high into the sky, away from the sea, and flew at a lower speed to minimize the noise created as he moved forward.

A few hours later.

Ji Xinghuo had entered the forbidden area, constantly scanning his surroundings with Electromagnetic Induction, and detected no anomalies. This part of the Sea Abyss was much like any other, with no significant difference in the distribution of monsters.

On the vast ocean surface, occasional islands appeared, most of them small in size.

The sky was dark, the sea surface quiet.

The light of twilight seemed to have dimmed, oppressing the surrounding atmosphere, while the void was unstable. Terrifying rifts flashed by like lightning, emitting a muffled sound, but these were common phenomena in the Sea Abyss.

Ji Xinghuo did not let his guard down and maintained a steady flight.

The schools of fish and monsters below, which he would have hunted down before, could only be let go in this place.

Because in invisibility, he couldn’t speed up.

Ji Xinghuo was not anxious, nor did he rest. From day to Star Night to night, he followed the preset route, and by midday of the next day, he was more than three thousand kilometers deep into the forbidden zone.

At this point, a Star Realm Jump would be sufficient to cross the forbidden area in one go.

"Leave quickly."

Ji Xinghuo did not dawdle and immediately initiated the Star Realm Jump.

The longest jump took about twenty seconds, during which he stood still in the high sky. After twenty seconds, a wave of light swept over him, entering the jump channel.

The scenery before his eyes changed.

When he emerged from the jump in the void, he was over a strange area of sea.

The Azure Sky Ring’s attached Second Level "Sky Stepping Void" had increased the maximum distance of Star Realm Jump, and this jump reached 5,000 kilometers.

Ji Xinghuo immediately initiated another Star Realm Jump.

While waiting, the Electromagnetic Induction swiftly spread out to scan his surroundings.

Everything was normal.

Twenty seconds later, Ji Xinghuo completed another 5,000-kilometer jump, appearing in the sky above a Sea Abyss to the northeast, and continued to jump.

As long as this jump was completed, he would be out of the forbiden area sea region.

He instinctively released Electromagnetic Induction, only to suddenly change his expression as the received electromagnetic field patterns in his brain were off.

The Electromagnetic Induction seemed to have been disrupted, becoming highly unstable like the snowy static on a TV screen, filling his brain.

"What’s going on?"

Ji Xinghuo’s expression was one of astonishment, then he understood what was happening.

This was the overlapping of his own Electromagnetic Induction with someone else’s, causing a collision and interference, resulting in this phenomenon.

Moreover, the other party had far greater mastery over the electromagnetic field, and their range was much larger.

His Electromagnetic Induction was completely overridden!

This created an asymmetry of information; the other party could pinpoint his location, whereas Ji Xinghuo had no idea where the other was.

"Get out fast!"

The next second, a sharp, needle-like pain struck Ji Xinghuo’s mind, and the Wanxiang Star Pupil emitted the highest level of danger warning. Yet, he had not discovered where the enemy was coming from, or even if it was that Slaughter Star Monster.

Only 10 seconds left.

Ji Xinghuo kept calm, the release of the Star Realm Jump was only halfway done, and the electromagnetic oscillations were running at full capacity, his eyes scanning his surroundings.

At this moment, the Myriad Phenomena were automatically triggered!

The world quieted down.

Time also slowed down.

Before Ji Xinghuo’s eyes, a series of glimmers transformed, displaying future scenes; approximately three seconds later, a lightning bolt appeared from the western sky, a huge streak of lightning stretching across the sky for over ten kilometers.

Its speed was at the ultimate limit!

People often use "as fast as lightning" to describe speed, but in reality, there is a magnitude difference between such expressions and the true speed of natural lightning.

This was the speed of real lightning!

In one second, it could traverse over a hundred kilometers.

When it first appeared, it was still on the edge of Ji Xinghuo’s electromagnetic induction radius, about 200 kilometers away; in the blink of an eye, it entered halfway into the induction radius, and in less than two seconds, it was already within arm’s reach.

If this had happened normally, Ji Xinghuo wouldn’t even have time to enter Overclocking Thought before being struck by the lightning.

But within the Myriad Phenomena, he saw clearly who was coming.

"Emperor Thunder Snake!"

Ji Xinghuo’s heart shook violently, it was indeed that Slaughter Star monster.

In the blinding electric light, a gigantic serpentine shadow faintly emerged with a length surpassing nine hundred meters. Its triangular head was extremely fierce, with a pair of sharp gigantic fangs, already bearing some resemblance to a dragon, and a ring of petal-shaped fins grew on its neck.

Its serpentine body was clawless, with white scales on its belly and black scales on its back; both its back and sides had fin strips formed of bladelike purple-red sharp fins, making it appear like a massive thorny strip.

These were characteristics of the Sea Thunder Snake.

During these days in the Sea Abyss, Ji Xinghuo had encountered Sea Thunder Snakes many times, including Catastrophe-Level ones, which he dispatched easily.

Once a Sea Thunder Snake evolves to Slaughter Star Level, it becomes an Emperor Thunder Snake!

Slaughter Star monsters are divided into Extinction, Destruction, and Star Destruction levels, and this Emperor Thunder Snake was not an ordinary Slaughter Star monster, it was at least at the Destructive Level.

It was on the same level as the Black Flame Dragon from the Destructive Dragon Festival!

"Electroflash Thunderbolt!"

"No wonder its speed is so fast, just like real lightning." Ji Xinghuo’s eyes burst with sharp light, not showing any signs of panic.

Electroflash Thunderbolt is an extremely rare Star Fall Ability; one’s entire body converts into star power electric charge, simulating natural lightning for propulsion, being one of the fastest displacement Abilities that doesn’t involve spatial travel, and it also possesses horrific destructive power.

The Myriad Phenomena continued to evolve.

Five seconds into the future, the Emperor Thunder Snake arrived nearby, but it didn’t strike directly with its electric form. Instead, it released a Twisted Magnetic Field.

It aimed to interrupt the Star Realm Jump and take control of him.

Ji Xinghuo guessed that it must be his Electromagnetic Dominator ability that aroused the interest of the Emperor Thunder Snake.

"A Destructive-Level Emperor Thunder Snake..." His mind raced, with of course no thoughts of confrontation, only a desire to escape safely. According to the records and his previous encounters with Sea Thunder Snakes, they did not possess spatial abilities.

As long as he could successfully complete the Star Realm Jump, he should be safe.

The images in his field of vision came to a halt.

The Wanxiang Star Pupil could only see up to about ten seconds into the future, which had been the case from the start; even after merging with the fragment last time, the duration wasn’t extended.

But this was enough.

Ji Xinghuo could keep the Myriad Phenomena active, continuously watching ten seconds into the future, and his current Star Power Cultivation was sufficient to maintain it for a long time.

He thought of a way to escape immediately.

A flash of light on his left wrist.

The Azure Sky Ring appeared on Ji Xinghuo’s hand, he stared at the western horizon, one second, two seconds, three seconds, exactly as evolved by the Wanxiang Star Pupil in the future: a gigantic lightning bolt struck across the sky.

There was only light, no sound.

Because it moved far beyond Star Realm Sound Speed, in just two seconds, it had traveled from the edge of the electromagnetic induction radius to nearby.

Boom!

A huge serpentine shadow appeared in the lightning, coiling across a vast expanse of the sky.

A terrifying aura enshrouded the area, and the entire sea region and the sky underwent ionization, countless sparks jumping in the air.

Even though Ji Xinghuo was prepared, he still felt his soul tremble.

Destructive-Level monsters were simply too terrifying!

Nearly a kilometer-long behemoth was only four or five hundred meters away from him; just one glance from it could cause one to lose consciousness and become paralyzed all over.

There were five seconds left for the Star Realm Jump.

The Emperor Thunder Snake’s eyes fixed on the tiny human before it, sensing that he was about to enter the jump, the blade-like pink fins on its back trembled, the electric current howled as it transmitted, and it suddenly released a Twisted Magnetic Field with a diameter of several thousand kilometers.

The colossal Twisted Magnetic Field not only enveloped itself but also the human before it.

A magnetic field strength a thousandfold could interfere with the void and interrupt the jump.

Hum!

An invisible magnetic field formed, but just before it fully materialized, a transparent barrier emerged around Ji Xinghuo, a hundred meters in diameter, centered on him. Several shadows of Xukun Dragons swam on the spherical barrier, separating the world into inside and outside realms.

Void Cage!

This was originally a prison to trap enemies, but at this moment it was a fortress to protect himself.

The motion state of objects in the space slowed to the lowest point, everything became motionless as if frozen in time.

Yet Ji Xinghuo himself was unaffected.

The Star Realm Jump continued.

The impact of the Emperor Thunder Snake’s Twisted Magnetic Field was isolated outside, unable to interfere with Ji Xinghuo within the barrier. It immediately realized what had happened and flew into a rage, opening its mouth to spray out ionizing flame, submerging the entire barrier.

The superheated breath passed through the barrier unimpeded, but upon entering the internal space, it slowed down by a thousandfold.

Threads of ghostly blue, electrically flowing flames were vividly visible.

But their progress was as slow as a crawl.

Ji Xinghuo hovered in the center of the Void Cage, looking very composed as he watched the Emperor Thunder Snake launch various attacks from the outside, five seconds, four seconds, three seconds... In the last second before the Void Cage expired, the Star Realm Jump was finally completed.

After a burst of light, Ji Xinghuo’s figure vanished.