The Hope spaceship was severely damaged, which meant Xiao Yu could no longer perfectly conceal his form, even before a Level 3 Alien Beast. So now, the moment Xiao Yu launched an attack, the silhouette of the Hope spaceship was immediately exposed. This was caused by the attack consuming too much energy and instantly unbalancing the ship’s energy load.

A spatial rift formed in front of the Hope spaceship, then in an instant appeared before the Level 3 Alien Beast. Before it could react, the spatial rift had already sunk into its body.

This was near-planetary space, within the atmosphere. Compared to the vacuum of space, the matter density here was extremely high, which reduced the power of the spatial rift attack somewhat. Even so, it was still not something a Level 3 Alien Beast could withstand. The instant the rift entered its body, the beast let out a heaven-shaking roar of fury.

A nearly visible shockwave appeared beside that enormous spaceship statue on the ground, reflected in the horrified eyes of the emperor, ministers, grand general, and guards who were staring at the sky. The shockwave spread outward like ripples in water. Accompanying its roar, a chunk of alien beast flesh several hundred meters long was sliced from its body and fell toward the ground like a meteor.

“The god, the god has not abandoned us, has not abandoned us! We have endured the god’s final trial, and at this last moment still chose loyalty, so the god has come to save us!” a minister shouted excitedly.

“God, we are your faithful believers. We are willing to dedicate everything we have to serve you. We only beg that you no longer abandon us, no longer leave us again…” At this moment, everyone near the statue threw themselves to the ground and worshiped the sky.

It was not only here. Outside the palace, throughout the imperial capital, uncountable commoners poured into the streets. They stared at the monstrous demon in the sky, at the mysterious existence whose appearance was identical to that of the creator god, and at the fierce battle between the two high above.

“God, save your suffering children! Do not let your children be devoured by the demon…”

“Demon, you should have died long ago!”

Countless figures ran and shouted. Still more knelt motionless on the ground.

Xiao Yu paid no attention to the scene on the ground. Right now he was extremely dissatisfied with the attack he had just launched. The power of that spatial rift had been far too small. He had originally planned to slice the Level 3 Alien Beast in half, but it had merely cut a chunk of meat off it.

When it saw the spaceship, the Level 3 Alien Beast instantly flew into a berserk rage. Its enormous body twisted and hurtled toward the Hope spaceship. Even within the atmosphere, its speed still reached several thousand kilometers per second. In near-planetary space, supersonic speed was already an astonishingly high velocity, but this speed of its was more than a thousand times the speed of sound.

Its enormous body compressed the air in front of it to the limit in an instant, then the air exploded outward like a bomb. A violent hurricane rose around it, powerful beyond description, enough to blow down a mountain. Just this one movement might be enough to alter the climate of the entire planet.

A Level 3 Alien Beast was an insignificant existence to Xiao Yu. But to a civilization still in its preliminary stage, it possessed power enough to destroy the world. Given sufficient time, wiping out all life on a planet was not a difficult task for a Level 3 Alien Beast.

“This cannot be dragged out any longer.” Xiao Yu thought to himself. “The life on this planet is still useful to me. Too many of them cannot be allowed to die here. Spatial rift attacks are too weak. I will just use a Spatial Bomb.”

Xiao Yu activated the Spatial Bomb attack module. A strange energy appeared at the weapon port, then shot out in an instant. That energy was like a fuse for space itself, as if setting off a bomb and detonating that segment of space.

Right after launching the Spatial Bomb, Xiao Yu maneuvered the Hope spaceship to evade. A Level 3 Alien Beast over ten kilometers long and moving at high speed possessed an immense amount of kinetic energy, and Xiao Yu had no desire to withstand such an impact. The Hope spaceship was far too fragile right now.

But at that very moment, an accident occurred once again. Perhaps because nearly two years of continuous conventional flight had overloaded it, just as Xiao Yu activated the conventional engine, he detected a sudden surge of powerful energy bursting from it, burning the entire engine out.

Just then, the Spatial Bomb took effect. Space with a high energy level was more difficult to detonate, but once detonated, it released a correspondingly greater amount of energy. Xiao Yu saw an extremely bright radiance bloom ahead of him, as though a sun had appeared out of thin air, enveloping the entire Level 3 Alien Beast.

Violent atmospheric shockwaves spread outward in an instant, covering a radius of several hundred kilometers in a very short time. Fortunately, this was high in the sky, far from the ground. Otherwise, that burst of energy would have blasted a giant crater into the surface and caused the land to collapse. Even so, many buildings on the ground collapsed, and the turbulence of the air brought torrential rain. The clouds colliding with each other unleashed lightning. For a while, lightning flashed, thunder rumbled, winds howled, and rain poured, and with the occasional glimpse of the Level 3 Alien Beast’s hideous body, it looked to the lifeforms on the ground exactly like the end of the world had come.

The moment the Spatial Bomb exploded, Xiao Yu knew the Level 3 Alien Beast was doomed. Reality matched his expectation. Above the clouds, the weather was still clear, the sunlight still bright. In that sunlight, a huge mass of alien beast flesh hurtled toward the Hope spaceship, which had lost its propulsion and was falling faster and faster. The flesh slammed into the Hope spaceship and knocked it violently aside. The Hope spaceship tumbled and spun, tracing a slanted line as it plummeted toward the ground.

“A high speed impact might cause damage to the Hope spaceship.” This thought flashed through Xiao Yu’s mind, and he immediately tried to activate the antigravity device to slow his descent. But the antigravity drive’s feedback told Xiao Yu that it had failed as well.

“Then it is up to fate.” Xiao Yu sighed heavily. “Luck Value, does it really have such immense power? It made me lose the Solar spaceship and would not stop there, it stripped me of curvature flight, and that was not enough, it even took away my conventional flight and antigravity capabilities. Without conventional flight and antigravity, I may not even be able to leave this planet. I have no idea whether I will be able to repair the Hope spaceship in the end.”

“I do not know whether the Sweepers Civilization will carry out a search around this nearby region of space. If they discover that I am hiding here, it will be terrible. They would not even need to deploy a fleet. A single City-Class or County-Class spaceship would be enough to kill me as I am now. This place is not suitable for a long stay. After repairing myself, I must leave as soon as possible.”

“Fortunately, I killed the Level 3 Alien Beast in advance. Otherwise I would have had to use the Sphere of Death to deal with it, at the risk of slaughtering a large number of native intelligent beings. Using a weapon crafted by a Level 7 Civilization on a Level 3 Alien Beast would have been far too wasteful.” Xiao Yu thought somewhat helplessly, doing his best to adjust the Hope spaceship’s attitude in an attempt to lessen the force of its impact when it landed.

The Hope spaceship finally came down on the ground. With the help of the last bit of thrust from the conventional engine, Xiao Yu at least did not crash too embarrassingly, nor did he create a massive crater on the surface.

Once the smoke cleared, Xiao Yu used optical instruments to see his surroundings clearly. The first thing to enter his field of view was a statue that, relative to the native intelligent beings of this planet, was abnormally large. One glance told Xiao Yu that the statue was a spaceship, and its construction style was extremely similar to his own. It was clearly a creation of the Divine Ark Civilization.

“Oh? It seems this native civilization has not lost its inheritance over the long ages. My image data have ultimately been passed down within their race. These beings must be the natives of this planet. Not bad, their physical quality is excellent, at least twice that of humans in the Earth era. What are they doing? Lying with their bodies flat on the ground, is that a sign of submission? Oh, I understand. In their inheritance, I must have been mythologized into a creator god-like existence. Coupled with the battle they just witnessed between that massive beast and me, they must think a god has descended to drive away the demon on their behalf. Good, very good, this will save me a great many troubles.”

Xiao Yu immediately thought everything through.

Not far from the palace, inside a tall building, a court historian was recording everything. “Just as the demon was about to descend, His Majesty once more launched a rite of repentance. When His Majesty was about to offer his own life as a sacrifice of repentance to beg the god’s forgiveness, the god finally descended. Lightning flashed and thunder rumbled, winds howled and rain poured, and the demon’s roar echoed across the sky. In the divine battle, the god used an unknown art to create a second sun and finally tore the demon to pieces, annihilating it.”

“This time, the god did not leave. Instead, he personally descended before the sacred statue. After a legacy of ten thousand years, the god has once again descended upon the Kingdom of Oracle, bringing good news to his children…”

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