The third day of the apocalypse, at ten in the morning.
Lingjiang City, connected to Yunjiang, is only about a hundred kilometers across the river.
The old turtle braved the wind and waves to arrive above Lingjiang, gazing at the ruined city in the distance.
It removed its shell and continued to divine.
The appearance of the Star-Sucking Tree concerns the survival of this planet. Once the Star Blue Continent becomes a dead star, no living being can remain untouched.
This time, the divination was easy, and the old turtle did not vomit blood.
The result it wanted from the divination was to enter Lingjiang City at the fastest speed to find the one who could restrain the Star-Sucking Tree.
In Lingjiang City, mutated monsters could be seen wandering everywhere.
The old turtle had a clear target and sped swiftly in one direction.
Although it was an old turtle, it was a Calamity Level existence.
Along the way, in the ocean and major rivers, no mutated monsters dared to attack it.
About half an hour later.
The old turtle appeared outside a district where no monsters were in sight.
Boom! Bang! Splat——
It turned out that inside the district, a powerful Super Martial Artist was clearing out the monsters.
The Super Martial Artist, clad in silver Star Armor, judging by the petite, uneven but not tall figure, should be a loli girl.
She wielded a Star Giant Sword in her hand, and though her frame was small, her strength was astonishingly vast. In her sweeping path, no mutated creature could withstand her, all bursting into blood mist.
Even more astonishing was that she had already become a Six-Star Super Martial Artist.
Achieving Six-Star Super Martial in just three days was incredibly remarkable.
The old turtle watched her silently from outside until she finished eliminating the monsters inside, then flew in.
"Who is it?"
A sharp rebuke came out of the loli’s mouth.
She spun around abruptly, her eyes under the helm of the armor as bright as the starry sky, closely fixating on the rapidly approaching... old turtle.
"Die!!"
Her entire family had perished to the mutated monsters, and now seeing a mutated creature daring to charge at her, she rushed up without a second thought.
"Young girl, hold on, I mean you no harm."
Although it was a turtle, its body was exceptionally agile, gracefully dodging the girl’s gleaming and hacking Star Sword Light, hurriedly saying, "This planet is about to perish, only you can prevent it."
"Bullshit!"
The girl in Star Armor was fierce; not having cut down the old turtle with one sword, the Star Broadsword in her hand erupted into even more terrifying starlight, sweeping ferociously, a semi-circular, dense Sword Qi sweeping with a boom.
"What terrifying power..."
The old turtle was terrified. Faced with such a wide-ranging attack, it had no place to dodge and directly retracted its body into its shell.
The terrifying sword aura swept over, sending its entire shell flying, crashing through a small building with a thunderous roar.
"Oh dear! Stop, a Star-Sucking Main Tree has sprouted in Cloud City, if it’s not dealt with, this planet will be exhausted in a few years, and no matter how strong you are, you’ll die!"
The loli girl’s strength made the old turtle feel a threat of death, urgently shouting from within the shell.
Hmm?
The terrifying sword from the loli girl was about to chop down when she heard its words and forcefully stopped, asking, "You mean that towering giant tree in Cloud City is the Star-Sucking Main Tree?"
An hour ago, she had also watched that live broadcast.
The old turtle poked its head out and hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, I’m good at divination, it seems only you can destroy that Star-Sucking Main Tree."
"Me?"
The loli girl pointed at herself in hesitation, "Why me? Shouldn’t it be the Black Dragon Emperor?"
She had witnessed Gu Qijue’s prowess with her own eyes.
"Black Dragon Emperor?"
The old turtle was stunned and said, "You know him?"
The loli girl snorted, "Right now, everyone in humanity knows, it’s just that you monsters don’t know yet. He was so strong he could carve a bloody path out of the endless monsters born from the Star-Sucking Main Tree."
"But in my divination, the Black Dragon Emperor you mentioned is an anomaly, also the culprit of this planet’s destruction... My plan also involves killing him..."
The old turtle was puzzled and said, "What does that Black Dragon Emperor look like? Can you show me?"
The loli girl glanced at it suspiciously, then dispersed the Super Martial Armor, pulled out her phone from her pocket, and played the recording of that live broadcast for the old turtle.
The Star Tree was too eerie, she had no choice but to trust what the old turtle said.
"It’s him..."
The old turtle watched the video showing the invincible Gu Qijue, feeling a chill up its spine, "Though I don’t know why, I know from divination that the appearance of the Star-Sucking Main Tree is inseparable from him. Only by killing him, and with your strength, can you destroy that Star-Sucking Main Tree. Otherwise, it’s impossible to destroy because... they are... one."
"How can that be!"
The loli girl shook her head, "If they are one, why do the monsters on those trees attack him, shouldn’t they protect him?"
"Maybe the true consciousness of this Star-Sucking Main Tree has not yet awakened."
The old turtle said, "Trust me, it’s never wrong!"
The loli girl thought for a moment and said, "I’ll believe you for now. Come back to the Empire’s sanctuary with me and report this to our human leaders!"
"Indeed, we should discuss this with your human leaders, this matter is too significant."
The old turtle followed closely behind her as she left.
It absolutely trusted its divination result, for it had consumed several thousand years of its lifespan to divine this outcome.
...
Meanwhile, in Cloud City.
Today in Cloud City, all over the city, one small Star-Sucking Tree after another sprouted, and an unending stream of Star-Sucking Monsters emerged.
Of the millions of originally mutated creatures in Cloud City, about seventy to eighty percent were drained and turned into dried corpses by the main tree.
As a result, most of what roamed in Cloud City now were Star-Sucking Monsters.
Wherever they went, even mutated creatures were not spared, torn apart and devoured when encountered.
The Cloud City Shelter spanned five hundred thousand square meters, with walls towering two to three hundred meters tall, sprawling like a giant beast.
Outside the walls, the Star-Sucking Monsters crowded, each trying to climb up.
But once they touched the electric plates exceeding a hundred thousand volts, these Tier Three and Four Star-Sucking Monsters perished one by one, falling to the ground.
As the bodies piled up, the soldiers of the Imperial Army defending the high walls would use incendiary bombs to ignite those corpses.
In the Shelter, the Combat Command Hall.
Gu Qijue, freshly cleaned and dressed in a sharp black suit, sat at the head of the long table.
Around the conference table.
The six ministers of the Shelter: the Satellite Department, the Armament Department, the Bombing Department, the Gathering Department, the Information Department, the Enforcement Department, and Deputy War General Ye Zhan Country sat opposite each other.
Of course, Gu Qijue’s confidants, Zhao Hu, Wu Jiao, Ji Shang, and White Fox were also present.