CHAPTER 1017: CHAPTER 1015: THEY TURNED INTO LIGHT

"What are you doing? What do you mean, you’re not planning to let us leave?"

"Hahahaha! You actually think you can leave? Letting you go would be like releasing a tiger back into the mountain," Leon sneered. "Elite troops like yours must have been raised with a lot of effort by Universe Seven, right? I’m sure destroying you would make them feel pain for a long time."

"Oh crap, I’m so scared!"

"So frightened here!"

"Oh, he’s so fierce, I love it."

"Are you killing us just because we had a meal? What’s the grudge here?"

Faced with Leon’s intimidation, the people from Super God Academy started their favorite sarcastic banter session.

They all acted terrified, even mimicking the expressions perfectly, but Leon could tell that these people weren’t scared at all; they were even mocking them.

This bizarre scene made him doubt himself.

This group is tough, but could they really be stronger than their hundreds of Level Seven Life Forms? From the intel they got earlier, aside from the Flying Tigers Squad leader, the others’ combat power was just that of Level Seven Elementary Life Forms.

And they, with over a dozen Level Seven Peak Life Forms, and the rest at least Level Seven Intermediate Life Forms, plus hundreds of thousands of Level Six Life Forms, what made them so bold to mock them? This doesn’t add up scientifically!

"I warn you, Universe Seven is a peace-loving universe. We’ve just had a good meal and don’t want any fighting. If you want to stay alive, you’d better step aside and not force us to fight our way out."

"Peace? More like nuclear peace?" the survivors from Base City 912 murmured, having never seen any peace-loving people who slaughtered half a Base City.

"Fight your way out? Just you?" Leon sneered as the hundreds of Level Seven Life Forms neatly formed up behind him, their unique power casting a massive pressure over the whole of Base City 912.

The countless barrels in the sky also aimed directly at them. With just one command from Leon, the entire Base City 912 would be engulfed in flames.

"Hey!"

"Ignorance has never been an obstacle to survival, arrogance is."

"Since we debuted, countless people believed they could easily kill us, but here we are still alive, and them? Their graves’ grass is several meters high."

"You guys should know, what I hate most is someone pointing a gun... no, a cannon at my head."

"Liangchen loves to handle overconfident people the most."

...

"Sigh, I wanted to be low-key for a bit, but brothers, seems like we can’t hide anymore!"

Zhang Menglong pulled out a bottle full of Power Pills.

"One each!" Zhang Menglong distributed the Fighting Spirit Pills.

They had been Level Five Peak Life Forms for some time now, with stable Life Levels, and taking the elixir would hardly affect their bodies.

"What are they doing? That Flying Tigers Squad leader seems to have pulled something out?"

"Not sure, maybe it’s some sort of team ritual? We surrounded a squad from Universe 42 earlier, and they did something similar before dying."

"Maybe they don’t want to die painfully and are taking poison to commit suicide."

...

"Hmph, suicide?" Leon’s lips curled into a faint smile. "We from Universe 38 are merciful, and if so, it saves us the time and effort of intervening."

"Listen up, bury them well after they die. They are, after all, heroes!"

Even though this special operations team called the Flying Tigers Squad had caused them significant losses, heroes respected heroes on the battlefield. A small squad of just a few hundred attacked and conquered their Base City, a story that would spread across the whole outer battlefield.

"Suicide? Hahaha, why don’t you use your energy detector and take a good look, huh?"

Leon was contemplating how to rebuild the Base City when Zhang Menglong and others mocked again.

"What do you mean?"

"Captain... their life form energy levels are rising continuously, and these signs... it seems they’re about to break through!" a warrior reported.

"What did you say? Breakthrough?" Leon’s heart tightened. "Who?"

"All of them! Every one of their Life Levels is advancing!"

"This is impossible!"

In this outer battlefield, several universes overlap, providing much more abundant energy than in regular universe areas. Also, frequent battles meant warriors grow exceptionally fast here.

Normally, for a Life Form to bridge the vast gap from a Level Five Peak Life Form to a Level Six, it would need millions or even tens of millions of years of accumulation! Many Life Forms might never touch this barrier in their entire lifetime.

But here, in the outer battlefield, sometimes in just hundreds of thousands or even tens of thousands of years, if one can survive, there’s a good chance of becoming a Level Six Life Form in a short time.

But such occurrences are rare— it might take thousands or tens of thousands of years to meet a few people like this, as 99% of Level Five Life Forms might die after a few battles, or just go AWOL when their service time is up.

Simultaneously, hundreds making the leap from Level Five to Level Six Life Forms is almost an impossibility!

"Captain, their genetic activity is increasing extremely fast, thousands of times that of a normal person, and their energy expansion speed is also tens of thousands of times that of an ordinary breakthrough, how could this be?"

Leon was stunned. Life Form advancement is generally a very slow process, and even with enough energy and genetic accumulation, completing such a metamorphosis would typically take decades or even hundreds of Cosmic Years; a speed thousands of times faster than normal means they’ll break through in mere minutes!

"Could it be what they ingested earlier?" Leon immediately thought of the elixir they took just now.

But how is this possible?

Scientists and Alchemists across all universes have been researching such a potion, but so far the most advanced drugs have minimal effects. He’s never heard of anything in this world that can directly make a Level Five Life Form break through to Level Six!

If it exists, wouldn’t that mean they could mass-produce Level Six Life Forms? Then the battle strength of Universe Seven’s forces would be a hundred times stronger instantly, why even fight? Just hand over the whole outer battlefield to Universe Seven!

The scariest part is, when they were just Level Five Peak, they could already defeat a bunch of Level Six Life Forms. Once they become Level Six Life Forms, their combat power would soar dozens or even hundreds of times; even Level Seven Life Forms wouldn’t be taken seriously by them.

"No, this must be stopped immediately!" At that moment, Leon was truly panicking.

But it was already too late!

Golden beams of light descended upon them from the sky, signifying they had been accepted by the forces of this universe. They would escape the shackles of mortality, their lives becoming as vast and enduring as the cosmos.

Hundreds of golden rays merged into a single pillar, hundreds of meters in diameter, acting like a natural protective shield encircling them. Weapons fired at the pillar were absorbed instantly, accelerating their breakthrough.

"What the hell is this pillar of light? Why haven’t we seen it appear during anyone else’s breakthrough?"

"Oh god, they’ve turned into light!"