CHAPTER 42: CHAPTER 42: AS EXPECTED, HUMANITY IS HARD TO UNITE...

Dusk receded, and night fell.

On the way back to Cloud City.

Mu Yuxin, like a Star Goddess, fluttered the Star Wings behind her, struggling to keep up with Gu Qijue.

It was visible,

that with each step Gu Qijue took, he opened a considerable distance from Mu Yuxin.

Just these leisurely strides made Mu Yuxin eat his dust.

She really couldn’t withstand such high-intensity flying, gritting her teeth she said, "Could you... slow down a little?"

Gu Qijue seemed not to hear, continuing to stride in the air at this speed.

He was considering whether to kill Mu Yuxin immediately.

Because Xiaoyao had definitely separated from him.

Therefore, Xiaoyao’s words couldn’t be entirely trusted.

After all, it was Gu Qijue who devoured it, achieving today’s success.

After Xiaoyao left him, would it want revenge?

There were too many things Gu Qijue needed to ponder now.

Taking a wrong step felt like eternal damnation.

He was also unaware of the matters divined by the old turtle.

Instinct told Gu Qijue a major crisis was drawing near.

Yet he couldn’t guess from whom this crisis stemmed...

By the time he returned to the Cloud City Shelter, Mu Yuxin was exhausted.

During this time, Mu Yuxin hadn’t told Gu Qijue what the old turtle had divined.

If she spoke, she didn’t doubt that this man would immediately kill her.

Indeed, if Gu Qijue knew, she surely wouldn’t survive.

Upon returning, Gu Qijue slapped her unconscious and ruthlessly severed her right hand.

The Super Pattern was in her right palm; without it, she couldn’t summon the Super Martial Armor.

If he didn’t do this, even bound, she could still summon it at any time.

In the command hall, Gu Qijue sat in the chief seat, playing with Mu Yuxin’s right hand, which he had sealed with a Thunder Seal, gazing at the Star Super Pattern, thoughtful, unsure what was on his mind.

Bai Jingyi, who came in just in time to report on the progress of today’s Super Martial Artists, seeing him deep in thought, didn’t interrupt immediately but stood by waiting.

It was unclear how much time passed when Gu Qijue put away the severed hand and said coldly, "Report."

Upon hearing this, Bai Jingyi stepped forward to report: "In our shelter, among the 3,052 Super Martial Artists, all levels are now between Four-Star and Six-Star. There are 2,300 Four-Star Super Martial Artists, 530 Five-Star Super Martial Artists, and 220 Six-Star Super Martial Artists. All Saint Tier Super Martial Artists and Disaster Level evolutionaries are either at Peak of Six Stars or Peak of Tier Six!"

The higher the rank of a Super Martial Artist, the faster they cultivate, which is indisputable.

Gu Qijue leaned back in his chair and lit a cigarette for himself, saying, "I have a very bad premonition, go to the warehouse and allocate fifty thousand Star Fruits to the Super Martial Artists above the Emperor Tier!"

"Ah! Don’t you need them?" Seeing Gu Qijue wanted to distribute fifty thousand more to others, Bai Jingyi hesitated to say.

In her view, only Gu Qijue being strong enough could provide them with more security.

"I can devour Star Monsters, but you cannot. My intuition tells me that we may soon face a blood battle, go!" Gu Qijue waved his hand.

"Yes!"

After listening to him, Bai Jingyi did not say more and left with agreement.

From Gu Qijue, she could see his deep loneliness, but perhaps he was used to it by now.

After she left, Gu Qijue departed from the shelter.

Heading straight for the Star-Sucking Main Tree.

That night, he sat cross-legged high above the Star-Sucking Main Tree, continuously devouring one Star-Sucking Monster after another through Dragon Soul.

At the top of the tree, the massive black cocoon attracted Gu Qijue, who attempted to command Dragon Soul to devour it.

With a loud bang, a terrifying force nearly shattered his Black Dragon Soul.

Seeing it couldn’t be devoured, he honestly went back to devouring the Star-Sucking Monsters.

Any plots and dangers seemed like mere clouds in the face of absolute power.

"Cute Treasure, Xing Emperor, can’t you devour the Star-Sucking Monsters?"

That night, Bai Jingyi sought them out.

Besides, Ji Shang, Zhu Hongyu, Xu Qing, Zhang Rui, and Situ Leopard, five Saint Tier Super Martial Artists, were there.

"No, we can’t!" They shook their heads bitterly.

"What a pity. I’ll make the decision this time. Go to the warehouse and freely take a hundred thousand Star Fruits inside. You should see Gu Gu’s loneliness. He senses a blood battle could occur soon. I don’t want to see him fight alone, hoping at that time, you’ll be able to join Gu Gu in resisting strong enemies!"

From Bai Jingyi’s perspective, rather than distributing those Star Fruits broadly, cultivating genuine high-end power as a priority made more sense.

"Even if it costs us our lives, we won’t let the boss fight alone again," Ji Shang said with determined fists clenched.

"Although my time with Gu Gu hasn’t been long, I surely won’t fear death or let him fight alone, no matter the enemy," Zhu Hongyu also declared.

Cute Treasure smiled and said, "I don’t like saying heated words, but if Brother Black Dragon faces a life-and-death crisis, I certainly won’t run away!"

"Me too!" Xing Emperor affirmed, patting his chest.

"Only death awaits!"

Xu Qing, Zhang Rui, and Situ Leopard also wore determined expressions.

"I hope you’ll do as you say, take the Star Fruits and evolve!"

Truthfully, Bai Jingyi, having seen Gu Qijue’s profile, knew he was an orphan, abused by his adoptive parents since childhood, which made her feel some sympathy.

But Gu Qijue didn’t need anyone’s pity.

Reincarnated twice, his heart was stronger than anyone’s.

Such so-called loneliness held no significance for him.

Others saw him as lonely, he found joy in it.

At the same time, in the Upper Capital, at the Di Yuan Group, in the combat command hall, around the meeting table, Chu Yuan was discussing with the presidents of War God Group, White Blood Group, Celestial Wolf Group, Celestial Sun Group through video projection.

After listening to Chu Yuan’s inquiries, Oroska, president of War God Group, chuckled faintly, "It’s too chaotic on my side right now; deploying strong players to besiege Gu Qijue is really impossible. My apologies!"

With that, he directly cut off the projection.

"Sorry, the situation on my side is almost the same!" The president of White Blood Group left a similar note, then cut off the video projection.

"I don’t believe in such things, my apologies!" The president of Celestial Wolf Group from Eagle Country said blandly and ended the video projection.

"Nonsense!" The president of Celestial Sun Group from Sunset Country was even colder.

"You guys..."

Chu Yuan’s face turned dark in anger at the attitudes of these four, cursing, "Indeed, it’s hard for humanity to unite..."

Jun Yueru smiled bitterly, "What do we do?"

"What can we do, but watch whether that old turtle can invite strong creatures from the deep sea,"

Chu Yuan said with a cold face, "If I could, I would want to destroy those four."

They were entirely unaware.

After cutting the video projection, the first thing War God Group’s Oroska did

was contact Gu Qijue.