Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'
Chapter 705 - 316. Although you have always been in the bloodline of breastfeeding, it has really tried hard.

Chapter 705: 316. Although you have always been in the bloodline of breastfeeding, it has really tried hard.

"Surrender?"

Li Aozi did not stop his movements, hooking his fingers back as gravity instantly distorted spacetime.

Spacetime froze.

Unlike the common spacetime-related abilities, Li Aozi’s spacetime capabilities were entirely governed by his intrinsic gravity.

Within a nearly 300-meter radius, spacetime instantly fell into stasis, the movement of all molecules ceased, the surface temperature of objects reached absolute zero, and the air became solid-like, ceasing to flow, choked in the throat.

Magic power, qi energy, electromagnetic effects, anything that required the flow of time to yield results, was put to rest in this stilled area.

Only Li Aozi, as the dominator of gravity, his form naturally shielded by gravity, could move freely in this slice of space.

This was something ordinary spacetime abilities could not achieve.

Typical spacetime abilities, at best, only interfere with the ’time units experienced by humans,’ altering perception rather than actually halting motion, changing the ’minutes/seconds’ unit.

But Li Aozi did not need to do that.

Unlike force fields and telekinesis, which tend to warp reality, the advanced effect of gravity leans more toward interfering with the macroscopic laws of the world, commonly understood as: an object of immense mass bends the surrounding spacetime, affecting not only the motion of nearby objects but also the rate at which time passes.

The epitome of this ability is a black hole.

Of course, Li Aozi did not need to create a massive celestial body directly; he could simply twist spacetime directly with the nature of arcane energy.

This is arcane energy, when you know nothing, use whatever arcane energy gives you, but when you understand the essence of arcane energy and the principles of phenomena, it signifies your complete mastery over the development of arcane energy.

Then the universe is not far from destruction.

The more ignorant you are, the less you comprehend how terrifying your own power can be.

Just like now, Li Aozi freezing spacetime, he slowly walked up to the ’Ice Demon’ Dugen Gorath, casually taking the staff sword and magic guidebook from his hands—the most valuable things on his person.

Hoping for a fallen mercenary to drop gold coins is like expecting the duck neck in the canteen not to be a rat.

Item acquired, Li Aozi turned to leave, snapping his fingers to release the freeze.

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Dugen blinked, his body trembled, his blood temperature rapidly returning to normal, the stilled blood resuming its flow, nearly bursting his veins. Fortunately, he was versed in ice magic, and after shivering for a bit, he realized his hands were empty.

"You..."

He looked at Li Aozi, who only left him with an unprotected back.

"Get lost."

Li Aozi casually said, killing him would waste time, and the experience was not more than from other Zeta Rank.

Better to leave him as an elite monster for the players—Little Piggies—to train against in the future.

Dugen knelt on one knee, watching as the other walked away, back turned to him, striding boldly.

It was such a golden opportunity, but he had no intention of ambushing him at all.

It wasn’t until Li Aozi had disappeared from view that he shook his head, glanced around at the blood river, and sighed:

"Is this what youth is all about... The younger generations are all such monsters."

He became even more certain that the girl Nariya had deceived him.

A being like Li Aozi, even in a Narrative-Level Civilization, belonged to the seeds of excellence, meant either to Ascend to Godhood on the Ascension Platform and preside over the narrative or to join the Underwater Abyss Team to excavate their deep potentials.

"Layer Abyss may be welcoming a new legendary figure."

What Dugen thought had nothing to do with Li Aozi.

He leisurely strolled through the massive structures of the Grave Star Cluster, with the blood river expanding in all directions, ceaselessly eroding life and bringing him a wealth of experience.

Strictly speaking, Final Crimson was not currently his most fearsome ability; the core of this ability was built on "Bloodline", and for those higher creatures that relied on lineage, being tainted by the Bloodline was like being injected with deadly poison.

It wasn’t that the "Bloodline" was hurting them, in fact, the "Bloodline" was just kindly assimilating and transforming their lineage into something equally supreme.

As for what happened after the blood transformed and the immune system’s rejection response? The organs hadn’t been transformed, could they be directly devoured and dissolved by the domineering blood...

Well, that was no concern of the "Bloodline".

Li Aozi took his time as he walked, not in a hurry to settle scores with Nariya, and in fact, he hoped the situation would escalate.

As the victim, public opinion naturally sided with him, not to mention his roles as a Layer Abyss hero, the warrior who repelled "Society", and the President of a sovereign state, who had been kidnapped by a Narrative-Level Civilization and then turned the tables by killing the kidnappers, even casually eliminating a human cancer hub like the Grave Star Cluster.

What was this concept?

For the news media, such a handed-over explosive news story was akin to a feast provided by the heavens!

Li Aozi was in no rush and even deliberately escalated the battle, activating "Calamity", and cursing the planet indiscriminately, causing more people to ’unluckily’ encounter him by chance.

Moreover, when the scum criminals of the Grave Star Cluster saw Li Aozi, their first instinct wasn’t to run; under "Calamity’s" influence, their recognition was clouded, believing Li Aozi was vulnerable and an easy target.

Then they ended up justifiably defended against by Li Aozi, tearfully crushed into mush by Gravity Compression.

Previous experiences were useless, as people kept coming in droves for various reasons, delivering themselves to Li Aozi.

Eventually, Li Aozi simply used Gravity to gather an iron tower, sitting leisurely atop its throne at the summit, waiting for challengers to come to him.

"Is that the guy who messed up our structure? Damn, so arrogant? Watch me slaughter him!"

"It’s just him alone, we have the numbers on our side!"

"A mere Zeta Rank, showing off on our turf, let’s take him down!"

Gravity Compression, bowing in unison, Gravity Gathering, imprisoned in a cage, Gravity Ejection, sent into cosmos, in one fell swoop.

Even science fiction novels wouldn’t dare write it like this.

"It’s a pity that the Grave Star Cluster is filled with nothing but chickens and dogs, such waste can’t test the limits of my strength."

Li Aozi sat on his throne, with a heap of corpses lying at his feet; he brazenly sat atop a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, single-handedly propping up his chin, waiting for the ignorant to continue challenging him.

However, even with "Calamity" constantly at work, not everyone was a fool.

After challenge after challenge, turning into mounds of bones, even the criminals and ruffians of the Grave Star Cluster gradually sobered up. Those who were unlucky enough to encounter Li Aozi because of "Calamity" would, without a second word, run for their lives at the speed of light.

Li Aozi had no interest in pursuing to kill either, after all, just reaping the crops before him was already keeping him busy enough. There was no need to pick the sesame seeds and lose the watermelon.

The accumulation of nurturing his energy for a full five years had left Li Aozi with no concept of his current strength, but judging from the current situation, the Zeta Rank had become meaningless to him.

As long as they didn’t surpass the Zeta Rank, all who came were doomed.

The ultimate control of "Gravity" and overwhelming output, together with the spacetime freeze in coordination with the instant movements of the "Echoer", granted him extremely high mobility.

As long as his mana was sufficient, "Calamity" could continuously fulfill its role in pursuing and killing.

The perfected Blood Demon Style endowed Li Aozi with the ultimate survivability, his toughness being severely above the standard. Five years ago, any attack that couldn’t instantly kill him would be healed through bloodsucking in a short while.

Now, even abilities that theoretically could kill him instantly were being diverted by the Dominant Level "Death Link" that he had developed.

Even if someone were on par with him, abilities like "Canyue’s" dimensionality reduction, dimension hopping, layer shifting, and dimensional barriers were enough to drive any opponent mad.

Even if they didn’t fear dimensional strikes, well then, it would be time for "Dark Light" to take action.

In short...

Anyone with higher output than Li Aozi definitely didn’t have his mobility.

Anyone with higher mobility than him definitely didn’t have his level of toughness.

Anyone with tougher defenses than him didn’t have his wide-range offensive capabilities.

Anyone with a more outrageous damage radius than him didn’t have the unsettling ability of "Dark Light".

What’s that, you say you can shake things up? Fine, then you definitely don’t have his level of output.

With six years of accumulation, thanks to the nurturing from Little Piggy — the players — vast amounts of experience were credited to his account, and his development of Arcane Energy rose sharply, completely making up for the "Echoer’s" disadvantage of not being able to learn Skills.

Furthermore, the colossal amount of Experience and the benefits of the Arcane Energy rental thoroughly molded Li Aozi into a perfect hexagonal warrior.

Paired with the War Maniac template, that’s a threefold amplification.

Looking at it this way... Li Aozi found that "Bloodline" was still the weakest ability on him. Not only was the Attributes gain low, but the Effect was also mediocre.

At most, it provided a little synergy for "Dark Light".

"Looks like this is all that this planet has to offer me."

After reaping more than four hundred Zeta Rank (6) enemies, Li Aozi’s interest gradually waned. After all, he was not some bloodthirsty tyrant. The incoming enemies were only Delta Rank (4) and Epsilon (5) weaklings. Higher-ranks beating up lower-ranks garnered no Experience gain.

As for settling accounts with Nariya, Li Aozi figured that if she had any brains, she would have fled by now.

In fact, he never planned to kill her in the first place. After all, behind Nariya was the company, and he dared not act rashly.

He couldn’t possibly find trouble with the narrative — joking aside, Leoz had just relayed to him the relationship between Redd Gold and the Secret Society, so he would be insane to pick a fight with the corporation.

He could collect some interest on the Grave Star Cluster and pull out the roots of Velazquez Security Company when the opportunity arose.

"That’s about enough. Time to withdraw."

Li Aozi activated his communicator and made contact with Baizhu Star.

"This is Li Aozi. How are things on your end?"

Thud!

Dialan kicked open the hatch of the ship, and the rescue squad immediately stormed into the passenger chamber, firing under the cover of smoke grenades, suppressing the pirates.

"We’ve just arrived."

Dialan picked up the headset and spoke.

The next moment, he released the Zeta Rank aura on his body, and the overbearing presence of the Dragon Blood Titan enveloped the battlefield. Many pirates shuddered, immediately sensing that something was amiss:

"That aura—"

"Damn, a Zeta Rank has appeared!"

"Run, we’re no match for him."

"What about these hostages? We’ve taken on this contract..."

"Are you an idiot? Your life is your own. You need to be alive to spend the money."

Under Dialan’s leadership, Baizhu’s strike team quickly broke through the pirate defenses. Under the intense assault of the warships, a large number of pirates wisely chose to surrender, while only a few relied on their speedy ships to break through the blockade.

After the fight ended, Dialan reported back to Li Aozi:

"Hostage rescue complete, no need to worry for now, Your Excellency the President."

Li Aozi wasn’t delighted but instead furrowed his brow:

"Hmm? Didn’t you have a Zeta Rank stationed on your end?"

"There’s no trace of a Zeta Rank here. If there were, they must have left a long time ago."

As soon as Dialan finished speaking, Li Aozi’s Implant Gear transmitted a sensation.

"Oh, this feeling is..."

"What’s wrong?"

A playful smile appeared on Li Aozi’s face as he looked up to the sky:

"I was just saying how bored I was with beating up the weak, and now a worthy opponent has been sent my way."

A blinding meteor burst through the sky, within which one could vaguely make out a figure clad in silver armor.

Nephis Cleopatra!

Li Aozi slowly stood up, eyes fixed on the falling trajectory above, clenched his fists, and his bones crackled into action:

"I hope you can put my limits to the test, dear Miss Nephis."

He still hadn’t even finished warming up.