Chapter 761: Saturn's Past
What's more, this wasn't the first time they had engaged in such acts.
Within several secret experimental bases of the Federation, lay hidden the spoils of their expedition to Saturn — a seventh-stage super-life form.
To deal with this monster, thirty years ago, the Federation had almost secretly dispatched all of its peak powers.
Thirteen True Immortals, over the course of ten years, set out from the Mars base, arrived at Saturn, and collectively suppressed and dismembered it.
Even to this day, the Saturnian Celestial Immortal-level life form, severed into thirteen pieces and suppressed within different noble's flagships, has not fully perished and still retains a degree of self-awareness.
However, its dismembered remains are kept under multiple layers of seals, existing as the most precious experimental subject.
The Federation was unwilling to merely pick up scraps from the Land of White's table, but they had always lacked a Celestial Immortal-level experimental subject, and striking against their own kind was exceedingly difficult.
For a two-robbery True Immortal like Ramdo, suppressing a one-robbery Hou Lin was easy, but killing or capturing him alive was virtually impossible.
True Immortals possessed extremely potent life-saving abilities. To kill someone of the same stage, one would need at least ten against one, and even then, only by setting up an inescapable net would there be any hope of success.
Back then, to ensure the native True Immortal of Saturn couldn't possess a new body and escape, the thirteen True Immortals slaughtered all life forms on Saturn and laid down layers of spell formations around the planet. It took them over half a year to finally dismember this Celestial Immortal-level life form, codenamed Saturn-01.
Through years of research on Saturn-01, they gradually gained a preliminary understanding of the Daoization power.
Saturn-01 was a creature that had not cultivated the Celestial Path nor constructed its own True Spirit Barrier to resist the influence of Daoization.
According to the research of several True Immortals proficient in retrospective techniques, Saturn-01 had ascended to a seventh-stage life form less than ten years ago, yet its accumulated power was already approaching that of some two-stage True Immortals. The catalytic agent in this process was precisely the Daoization power.
And through their joint dissection, the conclusion drawn was that Saturn-01's Daoization degree was approximately eight percent.
Daoization degree refers to the extent to which the bodies of life forms that have not cultivated the Celestial Path are corrupted by Daoization power. When the Daoization degree reaches one hundred percent, it signifies that the life form has completely lost its self-awareness and capacity for thought, transforming into a part of the universe.
It was precisely through the example of Saturn-01 that the Federation's high-ranking officials conceived a terrifying hypothesis — Bai Mo's rapid increase in strength, which far surpassed their own, might also be, to some extent, due to the Daoization power.
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“Five Celestial Immortal levels, you say...?”
“Currently, five have been discovered.”
“After we reach Centaurus, we might encounter even more enemies. This starry sky is filled with bizarre life forms that have suddenly appeared due to Spirit Qi,” Ji Er Ke Fu said calmly.
“Therefore, we must unite all forces that can be united. At the very least, the Four Demon Gods hail from the same place as us.”
The atmosphere on the scene abruptly shifted, instantly transforming from internal strife to unified external confrontation.
The Federation's external expansion primarily proceeded in two directions: one was what they termed the Main Universe, which was the spatial layer where Earth was located; the other consisted of other spatial layers, commonly known as alternate worlds.
The former was relatively certain, as exploration was convenient and dangers could be easily avoided in advance.
But the latter was different. If they suddenly explored a world teeming with super-life forms and were invaded in reverse, they would be utterly doomed.
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“Immortal-Slaying Sword, rise!”
Just as both sides were conversing pleasantly, a blinding white light suddenly erupted on the surface of the Execution Planet.
The World Tree, which had originally almost enveloped the entire planet, was forcibly torn open.
Centered around this dazzling brilliance, the branches, leaves, and roots hovering in the air for dozens of miles around instantly evaporated into smoke, not a single trace surviving.
However, this insane destructive power had little effect on the people standing on the planet's surface, because the shockwave generated by this sword strike was a perfectly standard conical shape.
The most concentrated point of power on the ground was a single sharp cone; the higher up, the greater the radius of destruction.
By the time it burst into space, the mere point on the ground had expanded into a massive halo of light, covering nearly half of the Execution Planet.
A whole section of Ying Huo's tree body was blown away.
Having suffered such heavy damage, Ying Huo's expression changed, and even the avatar it had projected vanished, returning to its main body.
“Who!!!”
In its fury, every leaf of the World Tree instantly transformed into an all-penetrating gaze. Under the scrutiny of countless eyes, it quickly discovered the source of its pain.
It was a young man clad in black, wielding a long sword.
“I'm here to save my friend.” At that moment, the young man, who had used his long sword to shatter the binding forces wrapped around the prisoners on the Execution Planet, stepped out of the shadows, one slow step at a time.
He walked very, very slowly, but each step seemed to land on Ying Huo's heartbeat, even though an Immortal's body no longer required the existence of a heart.
“A mere mortal?” Ying Huo, hovering in the sky, never imagined that the one who had wounded its main body was a mortal it could have extinguished with a single breath.
“Yes, precisely the mortals most disregarded in the eyes of you high and mighty undying beasts.” Wu Ling, emerging from the shadows, faced the World Tree, which, despite a missing section above, still appeared to blot out the sky, yet he showed no trace of fear.
“Brother Ling?” The young man's left hand, not holding the sword, was clasped by a young girl in a prisoner's uniform, who appeared somewhat timid and trembling.
Unlike the fearless Wu Ling, the girl was keenly aware of the power of the beings in the sky, or rather, the tree in the sky.
That was a True Immortal, a True Immortal separated by countless layers from ordinary people, a True Immortal whose mere thought was enough to make a mortal die ten times over.
Everyone's gaze turned towards him.
From the mercenaries who lived by licking blood from the blade's edge, to the Four Holy Beasts also in space.
In fact, the four of them actually found the title quite appealing. After all, they didn't consider themselves human at heart, so they naturally didn't see “undying beasts” as a derogatory term. On the contrary, it felt like a form of respectful address.
However, from Wu Ling's eyes, they discerned contempt, which did leave them feeling a little displeased.
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“Hard-headed.”
“Just who gave him such courage...?”
Mi La, also on the surface of the Execution Planet, quietly transmitted her thoughts.
They truly hadn't expected Wu Ling, not only to dare speak in front of them like that, but also to angrily stab the World Tree and then make such arrogant pronouncements in front of a group of True Immortals.
“It really, really hurts.”
After the dust and smoke dispersed, Ying Huo's "wound" began to slowly recover. However, it felt a power on it that it instinctively found extremely disgusting, interfering with its recovery progress.
But this world-shaking sword strike had not caused it fundamental damage. If not for the interference of that nauseating power, it would have returned to its original state in about a day or two.
PS: I'm truly sorry, I've been busy with my National Day wedding recently, and I didn't realize there would be so many trivial things to do.
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