This Is My Planet - Chapter 104 - Chapter 104 – Silver Saddles on White Horses
Xia Guixuan’s extremely sarcastic tone made the laughter of the dark creature abruptly stop, as if it had been gagged while showing off, feeling unbearably awkward.
It never imagined that a Tai Qing-level Immortal Emperor would engage in such a petty squabble with it, a dark creature.
“What’s wrong? Feeling humiliated?” Xia Guixuan smiled, “That’s good, it means you know just how low your class is.”
“You…” The dark creature roared in fury, its blood-red eyes growing more ferocious, filling the surrounding space with murderous intent. Nearby planets disintegrated into dust from its rage.
Seeing this furious state, Xia Guixuan’s eyes flashed with disdain.
Indeed, he looked down on this so-called “Tai Qing.”
Without caring what it called itself, Xia Guixuan dubbed it a dark demon god, or dark demon for short. This dark demon was still relatively young—maybe it should be called a young demon? Naming was casual business.
This dark demon wasn’t akin to a powerful robot or a beast with only strength and no wisdom. It had intelligence, and high intelligence at that.
Nor did it lack an understanding of laws; such creatures were born of laws and represented universal dark energy, without needing to comprehend it.
But these naturally occurring entities, untempered by hardships, had an understanding of the laws or combat far inferior to those who had endured millennia of struggles like Xia Guixuan.
Even if it had exceptional talent, it wouldn’t necessarily be on par.
The issue with such beings was their extreme partiality. They lacked any positive attributes; anger, jealousy, fear, and similar emotions weren’t just felt by their opponents—they themselves were composed of these traits.
Their habitual behavior was to provoke anger or fear in their opponents to erode their consciousness, but they themselves were also prone to rage or terror.
This was an unchangeable inherent nature.
Xia Guixuan despised such beings, and even the light-aligned ones he found contemptible. This kind of partiality was not the Dao.
They could never achieve supreme enlightenment.
Even reaching Tai Qing was forced, they remained trapped within the dimensional rifts created by their own collapse, restricted by fragments from different dimensions, unable to break free from spatial limitations, only manifesting through the negative consciousness of external beings—a pure consciousness entity.
Seeing Xia Guixuan’s disdainful expression, the dark demon became even more enraged and sneered, “You still think you’re noble? Your cultivation, focused on mentality and insight, is truly laughable. You get injured and don’t even know how to recover. But my growth is limitless. It won’t be long before you are nothing more than my slave.”
Xia Guixuan smiled faintly, “We’ll see about that. You’re spouting all this nonsense because you think your presence strengthens the Zelt warriors, making them likely to win, and all you need to do is keep me here, right?”
“Of course.” The dark demon laughed, “The Azure Dragon Star humans and divine descendants have long forgotten how to resist external invasions after just a few years of peace. Assassinating marshals, Wu Xiang attacking internally, warships firing recklessly. In this chaotic state, as long as you don’t intervene, how can they resist Zelt?”
Xia Guixuan sighed. “I said you were low-level, but you wouldn’t admit it. For a so-called Tai Qing, your divine sense doesn’t even dare enter my domain. You rely on spies for information about the Azure Dragon Star, truly the most worthless god in history.”
The dark demon was stunned for a moment, and suddenly, intense bombardment sounds echoed from light-years away, signaling the start of the battle.
The Zerterians, previously sweeping through the outer defenses of the Azure Dragon Star with unstoppable momentum, suddenly found themselves trapped in a web.
Ahead, a full Galactic Fleet formation, comprising over a hundred types of spacecraft and totaling thousands of warships, descended like a torrent of stars. Leading the fleet was the Galactic Flagship, shining like a star—the ultimate foundation of human power and the strongest defense.
There was only one person capable of effectively commanding this fleet, including the Galactic Flagship.
Gongsun Jiu.
Far from being bedridden with severe injuries, he stood tall in his battle armor within the command cabin, looking at the light specks on the screen with a gloomy face.
In the vast depths of space, countless stealth fighters emerged, blending into the universe with their dark colors and magnetically isolated coatings, appearing ghost-like until the web ensnared their prey, revealing their ferocious fangs.
The Zelt had warships and powerful lifeforms capable of space travel, but now, surrounded, they were at a loss.
Simultaneously, Zerterians invading planets and destroying defensive structures encountered four Wu Xiang divine descendants leading the cultivator army.
“Boom! Boom! Boom!”
Countless cannons roared, and magical artifacts flashed.
The entire starfield plunged into a sea of explosions.
The dark demon’s face turned livid, and in a fit of rage, it violently swung its massive tentacles, trying to smash the “island” it occupied into pieces.
It was inherently a highly emotional being.
But it found that it couldn’t break it.
The area around Xia Guixuan faintly emanated a gentle immortal aura. The entire planet was enveloped in a mysterious, crystalline force, making it incredibly resilient.
“You might not want to stand firm, but I do,” Xia Guixuan said leisurely. “How about it? Still think you can keep me here, preventing me from aiding my people?”
The dark demon finally realized that it wasn’t holding Xia Guixuan back; in fact, Xia Guixuan was holding it back.
Xia Guixuan had always been confident in the battle’s outcome. This was actually a trap set by Gongsun Jiu, with a tight net spread out, waiting for human spies to lure the Zerterians into the game.
He used only his direct fleet, which included the Galactic Fleet and the ghost patrol fighter corps. No other units were involved to avoid leaking information. Even so, with a prepared strategy against an unsuspecting enemy, supported by the flexible and powerful Wu Xiang divine forces and possibly some merchant guard fleets disguised as pirates, victory was almost certain. Observing the battle was hardly necessary; it was a sure win.
The dark demon raged, “What use is winning this battle? Do you really think this can cripple me?”
Xia Guixuan smiled, “It is said that the reproduction of Zerterians is very special and almost endless… and you only need to let the Zerterians spread and find opportunities to corrupt other cosmic life forms… Your power may indeed grow faster than my recovery… So…”
At this moment, his expression shifted, and a colossal cauldron-shaped shadow appeared above the dark demon’s head, crashing down with immense force.
“I’m here to annihilate you.”
“Boom!” The cauldron descended, its immense power locking the universe in stasis. Time and space seemed to freeze, merging into an eternal, still picture.
The Yu King Cauldron, Xia Guixuan’s true life-bound treasure, inseparable from him.
The dark demon had no doubt that if it were thoroughly suppressed, its consciousness would be obliterated, leaving its physical form weak for millennia.
“Clang!” Countless tentacles entwined the cauldron shadow, desperately holding it at bay.
Although it was a clash between a mere shadow and an entity of consciousness, the collision created a faint sign of spatial fracturing in the void.
In a microcosm, worlds are born and perish in a thought.
On planetary surfaces, everyone restrained themselves, cautious not to destroy the planet beneath them. In space, the display of power was incomparable to what could be seen on a planet. This held true for the Wu Xiang cultivators, human warships, and naturally, Xia Guixuan.
However, in this deadlock, Xia Guixuan frowned slightly.
His injuries were significantly impacting him, especially since they affected his soul. In a clash of consciousness, he was at a disadvantage. The dark demon had been right before—he couldn’t destroy it in his current state.
Unless he left the cauldron to suppress it indefinitely… which would be problematic and unsatisfactory.
“Heh… Hahaha…” The dark demon, struggling under the cauldron, laughed wildly. “Realized you can’t kill me? Xia Guixuan, accept the reality of your weakness, hahahaha!”
Amidst the laughter, a celestial horse approached, its presence like a meteor illuminating the night sky.
Xia Guixuan turned to see a pure white horse… no, its upper body was human.
A beautiful woman in silver armor, wielding a long spear.
Shang Zhaoye.