Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
In the time it took Im to speak, the sun in her mouth had expanded to its limit, and there was no hesitation.
Opening her mouth, Im spat out the sun like she was expectorating phlegm, with a "bang."
The moment the sun left the dragon's mouth, it didn't expand but instead contracted inwards. Although the light and heat released became even more intense, the core collapsed inwards.
The consequence of this was that the space the sun passed through also collapsed inwards, leaving behind a shattered abyss.
"Don't you want to save it?"
"Let me see how you save it?"
"Hehehehe!!"
Im let out a laugh, her dark red pupils filled with an eternal coldness that now transformed into overwhelming killing intent.
She truly didn't care about this world; her arrival a thousand years ago was also by chance.
In her homeland, she had been sealed by a damned group of space pirates and exiled into the void.
When she arrived in this world, she initially approached Joy Boy with the principle of a transaction.
With her help, this world did indeed develop according to the future she envisioned. Joy Boy also had a high probability of breaking the rules of this world and releasing her.
But...
But it was all ruined by that guy Joy Boy. She never expected that Joy Boy, who was like a puppet, like an ant, would dare to resist her, not abide by the principle of the transaction, and release her.
Instead, he threw her into that damned core of the earth.
And she waited, for a full 800 years.
For worlds, for the universe, for beings like her, 800 years is but a blink of an eye.
But her homeland, the planet she cherished, couldn't wait 800 years.
She could already imagine what her planet would become without her protection.
The universe was not peaceful; it was a cruel meat grinder, where every life-bearing planet was a vast fortune in the eyes of some.
Once discovered, it would attract all predators in the sea, like carrion in the ocean, to swarm in.
If that carrion happened to have no owner, then the outcome, without even thinking, should be known.
And her planet, a thousand years ago, was exactly in this situation.
If she could have returned 800 years ago, perhaps she could have saved it, but 800 years had already passed. Even she was now powerless to change the tide.
That was why she harbored hatred for this world. She wanted to use this world to replace her former world, regain the empire's commendation, and reclaim her lost glory.
Kong Tai looked deeply at Im, said nothing, then turned, his body vanishing instantly from where he stood.
"Ion life form?"
"Do such things truly exist?"
Kong Tai's mind was filled with doubt.
He knew about ions, after all, he was a university student in his previous life.
But what was a life formed from ions, he had no idea.
Zhan Kong could cleave emptiness, but it did no damage to Im. He had expected this to some extent, but he never imagined that the guy wouldn't even defend himself, just letting him strike.
Shaking his head, Kong Tai's figure instantly appeared in front of the sun.
He looked up, his eyes fixed on the sun descending from above. Now was not the time to think about Im. No matter how powerful that being was, she couldn't be more powerful than Xing Kong, and besides, he hadn't even used his full strength yet.
Gazing at the sun, Kong Tai extended his hand.
His fair palm, beneath the sun, was as small as a sunspot on the surface of a real sun.
Yet, it was this hand that stopped the sun in its tracks.
No, it wasn't stopped in place; rather, the space between the sun and his hand was stretched. As the space stretched infinitely, the sun's descent naturally slowed down, eventually appearing to outsiders as a comet trailing a black tail.
"Hm!"
Im noticed the anomaly, her cold pupils shifting to Kong Tai. After sensing carefully for a moment, a look of shock appeared on her dragon face.
"This..."
As if struck by a realization, Im tilted her dragon head back, then shook it repeatedly.
"No, no, no..."
"Impossible, impossible, how could such an ability appear in this world?"
In fact, up to this point, the only display Kong Tai had shown the world was teleportation. As for his true abilities, even those who interacted with him the most, the Marines and the World Economic News, didn't know.
Much less the Five Elders, and Im who was above them.
Im had always assumed that Kong Tai was like the special races in this world, merely having received the recognition of space and possessing the ability to traverse and tear through it.
But now...
Ceasing her shaking, she gazed at the sun, which seemed frozen in place, and at the tiny black dot beneath it. For the first time, a solemn expression appeared on her dragon face.
"This isn't a slight spatial ability; it's control over space."
Within Im's limited knowledge, such abilities existed within the Empire.
But she had never witnessed them, as they were merely legends, abilities possessed by those who had surpassed the "Zhou Realm" and reached another domain.
Beneath the sun.
Kong Tai calmly observed the sun, temporarily sealed within his domain, his right hand closing into a fist.
The space around the sun, as if receiving a signal, began to contract inwards.
With Kong Tai's current strength, it was unrealistic to block Im's full-powered sun. However, his spatial abilities granted him innate invincibility.
Though he couldn't block it, sealing it was simple. Even if this sun could easily shatter space, if he sealed the shattered space along with the sun, wouldn't that solve the problem?
As the sun contracted inwards.
The tense atmosphere in Mary Geoise and across the world instantly eased.
After the appearance of the dragon, the world had fallen into an eerie silence.
Everyone could perceive the dragon's immense power, a power that even the world couldn't stop.
But the small white silhouette, so insignificant compared to the dragon, gave the world a glimmer of hope.
When Kong Tai's attack had no effect on the dragon, and the dragon's attack was so colossal, the world despaired.
But after despair, facing hope once more, the turn of events came so quickly.
Gazing at the tiny black dot beneath the sun, the world erupted in fervor.
Even the world-ending sun could be toyed with and manipulated like a plaything in the hands of the silver-haired youth. What was there to fear from the dragon?
"Phew~"
In Mary Geoise, Shanks and the others simultaneously wiped the sweat from their foreheads and let out a sigh of relief.
Although the sun hadn't landed, the breathtaking light and heat, and the pressure, made everyone realize that if it had, everything here, including them, would cease to exist.