This Is My Planet - Chapter 22

The four black-robed individuals who had been silently operating the array finally glanced at Yan Wuyue, surprised that this seemingly hot-tempered woman had such subtle thoughts.

The black-robed woman was perplexed. “General Yan, why would you say that?”

Yan Wuyue slowly responded, “If you were divine descendants, you wouldn’t allow the Zhou family to dissect mutated animals so casually. If you were the more extreme descendants, the ones undergoing the negative energy infusion in the blood sea wouldn’t be animals but rather, humans.”

The woman was taken aback. “Aren’t you stereotyping?”

Yan Wuyue smiled. “Perhaps divine descendants aren’t that extreme, and each individual has their own nature. But they certainly wouldn’t be so indifferent to this kind of research. This is called empathy, or experiencing what others feel. As a non-descendant, you naturally might not understand.”

The woman fell silent.

Yan Wuyue chuckled. “Alright, Miss, you’re saying all this not to seek a peaceful resolution beforehand but to ensure that after my death, the military attributes the blame to the divine descendants.”

The woman’s expression shifted slightly, the atmosphere turning tense in an instant.

“Indeed, it’s better to see each other than just hear about each other.” The woman’s black robe swirled as she slowly said, “It’s truly quite troublesome to kill a prominent military figure. My methods were clumsy, making the General laugh.”

As she spoke, a black mist surged into the sky, merging with the four-person array, and an unmatched terrifying aura surged toward Yan Wuyue, filling the sky above the blood sea with an eerie cry.

Yan Wuyue had been standing outside the array without touching it. The reason she engaged in conversation was to probe the other’s details and also to observe the array.

As the battle began, she laughed, “Impressive array!”

With these words, she dashed directly into the overwhelming aura without dodging or avoiding it.

At this moment, Xia Guixuan seemed to be dancing with Yin Xiaorou on the surface, but his consciousness had been observing for a while now.

Finally, you’ve started.

Swoosh!

Yan Wuyue broke through the surging aura and appeared behind one of the black-robed figures. Flames gathered into a palm and imprinted directly on the figure’s back.

Suddenly, a flying sword appeared behind the black-robed figure.

A flying sword… they weren’t divine descendants but humans, yet they used formations and flying swords… Xia Guixuan suddenly recalled the “Cultivators Association” that Yin Xiaorou had mentioned. Could it be them?

As this thought flashed through his mind, Yan Wuyue’s fierce flames clashed with the flying sword, and surprisingly… it dissolved.

Dissolved…

The high temperature of this palm strike, estimated by Xia Guixuan using human metrics, should easily exceed ten thousand degrees.

Suddenly he thought, what kind of man would dare to get involved with this woman, only to end up burning all his hair off…

Swoosh!

The black-robed woman also summoned a flying sword, aiming directly at Yan Wuyue. At the same time, three blood dragons surged toward her from the other three black-robed figures.

Yan Wuyue didn’t dodge or avoid. She delivered a fiery strike at the black-robed figure in front of her.

The flying sword and blood dragons hit her. In the moment of energy clash, her initially ordinary fiery red leather attire suddenly took on a steel-like hue, undergoing a transformation into battle armor in an instant.

Xia Guixuan’s eyes lit up.

Yan Wuyue’s strength was initially akin to that of the early stages of Qian Yuan Realm. However, with this change in battle armor, she became much stronger, with protective power reaching the later stages of Qian Yuan.

This was still normal…but the battle armor contained powerful energy enhancement that was feeding back into her, actually augmenting her strength! This thing was intriguing, was this the influence of human technology? It was quite similar in significance to cultivator robes.

And it looked quite cool too, accentuating Yan Wuyue’s already amazing figure, making her appear even more heroic and elegant.

The flying sword and blood dragons, which should have been able to harm her, struck her but left no trace on her body. The flying sword rebounded with a “clang,” returning to the black-robed woman’s hand, while the black-robed figure Yan Wuyue was pursuing had no choice but to retreat several yards.

In a matter of moments, the array was disrupted.

The black-robed woman’s eyes flickered with a different shade. “Indeed, you are the leader of the Special Operations Division. We are not your match.”

Though she claimed they weren’t a match, she didn’t stop; instead, she formed a strange seal with her hand.

With the seal, the blood sea from all sides began to converge. This eerie terrain, resembling both a sea of blood and a blood droplet, seemed to stabilize and take on the appearance of small blood droplets, sparkling and mysterious, under her seal’s guidance.

“Stay back!” Yan Wuyue was already in front of her, surrounding her with towering flames.

“No need for this, consider it a gift to you.” However, the black-robed woman didn’t engage, even avoiding the suspended blood droplet, swiftly retreating.

Yan Wuyue was briefly stunned, suddenly sensing an impending sense of death.

Inside the blood droplet was a faintly formed world. Inside it, there seemed to be a power as if from another realm, enveloping another terrifying energy within it. The power of the blood droplet and the horrifying energy were constantly conflicting and entangled within, and at the core of the blood droplet was actually the destruction brought by the violent clash of the two.

This single drop of blood could annihilate a nebula!

She had subconsciously rushed towards it, even attempting to reach out for it… Now, even if she retreated immediately, the passive backlash could kill her hundreds of times over.

It was akin to a fool rushing toward the core of a planetary explosion. Could she even escape?

In an instant, Yan Wuyue instinctively transformed into flames to retreat.

Boom!

The space ruptured, and smoke and blood hues obscured all vision and perception.

Amidst the haze, a slender jade hand emerged, taking away the suspended blood droplet.

“We have been purifying for years, not daring to fully absorb this drop of sacred blood because the horrific energy clash within this drop is something no one can withstand. Repeatedly using these animals as cannon fodder, who knows how long it will take.” The woman spoke leisurely, “General Yan’s willingness to take the place of sacrifice has saved us a lot of trouble… The military, upon investigation, will only believe that you died due to the energy rampage in an ancient demonic relic.”

Yan Wuyue blinked.

She hadn’t died at all. What was this person talking about? Couldn’t she sense anything?

Within the blood-colored smoke, a man embraced her with one hand and stood in front of her. With his other hand, he casually grabbed the terrifying energy that could have killed Yan Wuyue multiple times over, holding it in his hand as if he were picking up a child’s toy. The energy struggled as if unwilling, but the man exerted a slight force.

The terrifying energy immediately weakened, subdued within his grip.

Yan Wuyue was astonished, forgetting that she was being held in his embrace.

She understood why the black-robed woman couldn’t sense her survival. With this divine being’s support, making the other party perceive whatever one wanted them to was only natural.

Meanwhile, the black-robed woman, thinking that everything was settled, absorbed the purified “sacred blood,” which separated into strands and was absorbed into her body.

The four black-robed individuals beside her knelt in mid-air. “Congratulations, Holy Maiden, for assimilating the sacred blood. Henceforth, the Great Dao is within you, and the descendants of the divine bow to you. All beings are your subjects.”

The woman sighed, feeling the surging celestial aura washing her blood. Those tiny drops of blood almost instantly replaced her original blood, filling her entire body. She could feel an infinite surge of power, a perfect bloodline transformation, and an inexplicable enlightenment from the Heavenly Dao.

“Rejuvenating blood and refining marrow… Immortal and martial paths, converging at Qian Yuan.” The woman murmured softly, “This blood is too terrifying… The divine descendants surely wouldn’t have thought this was their Divine Creator’s blood… Do you think, once I’ve completely absorbed this sacred blood, the divine descendants will all call me ‘mother’?”

Yan Wuyue had no idea what she was talking about. It seemed like the man intentionally isolated both sides so they couldn’t hear or see each other.

She could vaguely see in the blood mist that the man was stroking his chin, curiously squatting in front of the floating woman.

Xia Guixuan was truly curious, allowing her to absorb his own blood without saying a word.

You’ve absorbed my blood, transformed your own bloodline, what’s this called… And you want others to call you mom, what do you want me to call you?

The woman seemed to have finished absorbing, and with satisfaction, she opened her eyes.

Upon opening her eyes, she saw a man, curious as a baby, squatting in front of her. Her eyes flashed with fierceness, and she subconsciously moved to attack.

But just as she moved, her soul and blood surged, and a sincere sense of submission and worship flooded her mind. Her initial attacking movement seamlessly turned into kneeling on the ground and bowing deeply, “Father…”