novelTele Chapter 345 Frenzied Devouring of Stars, System Notification of Infinite Evolution
Chapter 345 Frenzied Devouring of Stars, System Notification of Infinite Evolution
The far side of the moon, Tiangong base.
Lu Sheng casually tossed the two angelic remains, now reduced to skeletons, onto the metal floor with a crisp clang. He let out a burp, exhaling two plumes of smoke mixed with holy light and black mist from his mouth and nose.
"It's a bit dry, chewy but not very oily."
He gave his evaluation, then turned to look at Luo Tianfei, who had been standing silently in the corner.
Luo Tianfei's face was pale as she stared at the angel's remains on the ground, her eyes filled with complex emotions. Those were high-dimensional beings capable of destroying civilizations, yet in this man's mouth, they were truly just... a rather unsatisfying appetizer.
"Stop staring blankly." Lu Sheng walked to the bottom of the Battle Formation Heavenly Plate and flipped his hand.
Nine jet-black finger bones, exuding a chilling aura, floated in his palm. These were the remains of all the ancient emperors he had collected as he fought his way across Earth, the deep sea, and even the starry sky.
"You said you're the key." Lu Sheng looked at Luo Tianfei, his tone calm. "Now, the lock is right here. Open it and let me see what trump card is hidden in that so-called 'ancestral tomb' that can turn the tide."
Luo Tianfei took a deep breath and stepped forward. Without hesitation, she raised her left hand and used her fingertips to cut her right wrist pulse.
Crimson blood tinged with golden threads gushed out, drenching the nine finger bones.
Om-! ! !
The finger bones absorbed the blood and instantly seemed to come alive, piecing themselves together and reassembling in mid-air. An ancient, desolate, yet eerily silent wave swept across the entire Heavenly Palace base.
There was no expected inheritance of power, nor did any peerless divine weapon appear.
The complete ancient emperor's hand bone suddenly changed direction, its fingertips not pointing into the void, but pointing straight towards... the very center of the solar system.
That star that has been burning for billions of years—the sun.
"Hmm?" Lu Sheng frowned slightly, instinctively sensing that something was wrong.
But before this aversion could be translated into action, the hand bone suddenly exploded, transforming into a golden beam of light that defied description. Ignoring the physical defenses of the Heavenly Palace and the spatial distance, it directly enveloped Lu Sheng and Luo Tianfei.
[Highest-level bloodline detected...]
The "Chasing the Sun" project has been launched.
[Target coordinates: The Sun's core, Fusion Reactor No. 13.]
[Teleportation initiated.]
The cold, mechanical voice flashed through my mind.
Lu Sheng felt a blur before his eyes. Before that familiar feeling of weightlessness could even arrive, a terrifyingly high temperature, enough to instantly vaporize the physical body of a peak Spirit King, had already completely engulfed him.
……
heat.
Extreme heat.
There are no ups and downs, only an endless, roaring, golden sea of fire. Every wave is a nuclear fusion explosion powerful enough to destroy the Earth's ecosystem.
The core of the sun.
Lu Sheng hovered in the sea of fire, his black-gold dragon scales instantly turning crimson, emitting a sizzling sound. If he hadn't just devoured the ancient gods and angels, and his physical strength hadn't broken through to an unbelievable level, he would probably have already turned to ashes.
Beside him, Luo Tianfei was completely unharmed. A faint golden light shielded her, and the aura of that light was of the same origin as the surrounding sea of fire.
"Where is this?" Lu Sheng narrowed his cross-shaped pupils, his deathly gray gaze piercing through the waves of fire, locking onto what lay ahead.
There stands a colossal furnace formed from pure starlight.
Atop the furnace sat a towering figure.
He was dressed in a black imperial robe, his face blurred, except for his eyes, which shone so brightly that no one dared to look directly at him. He was not a living person, but a projection of an obsession that had lingered for ten thousand years.
The ruler of the Immortal Qin Dynasty, an ancient emperor.
"You've finally arrived."
The ancient emperor's voice echoed through the sea of fire, carrying a sense of superior scrutiny and a kind of... relief at finally having the offerings served.
"This is the ancestral mausoleum?" Lu Sheng looked around, a mocking smile playing on his lips. "You've certainly picked a good spot to build the tomb in the sun, saving you the trouble of cremation."
The ancient emperor ignored Lu Sheng's taunts. He raised his hand, pointing at Lu Sheng, then at the enormous furnace beneath his feet.
"This isn't a grave. This is a cannon barrel."
The ancient emperor's voice suddenly turned cold, "Although the Immortal Qin Dynasty is gone, I cannot swallow this humiliation. For the past ten thousand years, I have entrusted my remnant soul to the sun, using the stars as a furnace and the rules as fire to transform this planet."
"The sun is the final blow I have prepared for the 'ranchers'—the Star Annihilation Cannon."
"But this cannon is missing a warhead that is hard enough and contains the ultimate law of devouring..."
The ancient emperor's gaze was fixed on Lu Sheng, his eyes showing no affection for a junior, only the fanaticism of looking at a perfect tool.
"I created the 'Dragon God' sequence, released the virus, and screened the containers, all to nurture you."
"Your physical body, having devoured the abyss, the ancient gods, and the laws of higher dimensions, is indestructible. Your soul, filled with predatory savagery, is capable of bearing the karmic consequences of detonating the sun."
"Now, return to your positions."
The ancient emperor waved his hand.
Rumble—!!!
The golden furnace below suddenly opened, like a giant maw ready to devour its prey. Countless chains made of true solar fire burst forth from the furnace, instantly binding Lu Sheng's limbs and bones.
At the same time, Luo Tianfei, who had been protected by the light membrane, drifted uncontrollably toward the Ancient Emperor. The light in her eyes quickly dimmed, and the "insurance" rune lit up between her brows, forcibly stripping away her consciousness and turning her into the ignition program to start the furnace.
"Lu Sheng..." Luo Tianfei turned her head with difficulty, her eyes filled with despair, "I'm sorry... I don't know... I really don't know..."
This is a deadlock spanning tens of thousands of years.
Everyone, including the Abyss, Meng Tian, Luo Tianfei, and even that arrogant "rancher," was part of the Ancient Emperor's scheme.
He wanted to use Lu Sheng's life to ignite the sun and drag half a galaxy down with him to accompany Xian Qin in death.
"For the continuation of humanity, for revenge." The ancient emperor's voice was as grand as heavenly music, carrying an undeniable sense of justice, "Your sacrifice will be immortal."
The chains tightened, and terrifying heat flowed into Lu Sheng's body, attempting to refine his flesh and blood and forge him into a mindless "Death Star warhead."
pain.
The soul was torn apart, and the flesh was reassembled.
But amidst this extreme pain, Lu Sheng lowered his head, his shoulders trembling violently.
"hehe……"
"Hehehehe..."
The laughter turned from a low murmur to a wild roar, causing the surrounding sea of fire to surge.
Lu Sheng suddenly raised his head.
In those double cross-shaped pupils, the deathly gray flames not only did not extinguish, but instead burned even more fiercely due to the stimulation of the true fire of the sun, even taking on a strange golden edge.
"sacrifice?"
"immortal?"
Lu Sheng grinned, revealing a set of gleaming white teeth. His smile was more intense and maniacal than the core of the sun.
"I evolved and ate like crazy to live better than anyone else, not to be your cannon fodder!"
At this moment, the [Ancient Devouring Furnace] within his body no longer rotated in reverse, but instead went berserk, operating at full power and overload!
In the past, furnaces refined all things.
Now, he's going to devour this furnace, along with this solar prison!
"Trying to use me as fuel?"
Lu Sheng let out a roar that shattered the void, and the black and gold imperial runes on his body exploded, transforming into countless greedy maws.
"I'm going to..."
"You even ate the sun!!!"
boom!!!
Instead of retreating, Lu Sheng advanced, braving the intense heat that could melt the rules themselves, dragging the chains with him, and took a single step to the edge of the golden furnace.
He did not passively wait to be refined.
Instead, it opened its arms wide, embracing the furnace tightly as if holding a lover, and then—
Open your mouth.
Devour!
Click!
He actually bit off a large chunk of the furnace wall, which was formed from the essence of starlight!
"What?!" The ancient emperor's phantom, who had always been aloof and superior, revealed an expression of utter horror for the first time. "Are you insane?! This is the very essence of the sun! Your physical body simply cannot withstand it..."
"Can't handle it?"
Lu Sheng's mouth was full of golden lava as he chewed, leering indistinctly.
"That was before."
"Right now, my appetite... is excellent!"
Gudong.
Swallow it in one gulp.
Lu Sheng's chest instantly became transparent, as if a miniature sun had exploded inside him. But he didn't explode. That enormous energy was forcibly suppressed, pulverized, and absorbed by the Ancient Devouring Furnace.
[WARNING: Ingestion of ultra-high-energy stellar source...]
[Warning: The physical body is collapsing...is being rebuilt...]
Evolve! Evolve! Evolve!
The system notification sounds had become a string of gibberish.
Lu Sheng ignored it all.
One bite, two bites, three bites.
He was like a ravenous glutton, lying on the sun's artery, frantically sucking blood.
As he devoured the flames, the originally raging and chaotic sea of fire around him began to form a huge vortex, frantically pouring into his body with Lu Sheng at its center.
The ancient emperor's phantom began to tremble and become transparent. The energy of the sun's core was the foundation upon which he maintained his existence; now that the foundation had been destroyed, he too was dissipating.
"Stop! You will ruin all of this! You will destroy all hope of revenge!" the ancient emperor roared, attempting to use the rules to suppress Lu Sheng.
"revenge?"
Lu Sheng suddenly turned his head and stared intently at the ancient emperor.
"Your grudge is none of my business."
He stretched out a large hand that had completely transformed into black gold magma, ignoring the distance in space, and grabbed the illusory remnant soul of the ancient emperor.
"Since you're also part of this plan..."
"Then let's not waste it."
Lu Sheng opened his mouth wide and, under the terrified gaze of the ancient emperor's remnant soul, swallowed it whole!
Rumble—!!!
An unprecedented earthquake occurred at the core of the sun.
Lu Sheng's body exploded completely in the golden light, and then instantly reformed in the next second.
The chaos of the old gods, the holy light of angels, the poison of the abyss, the destruction of the sun.
Four distinct and extreme powers collided and merged wildly within his body, ultimately transforming into a completely new, pitch-black power—the [Eclipse] power.
Tear—!!!
A loud tearing sound.
A pair of enormous dragon wings, burning with black true fire of the sun and blotting out the sky, suddenly unfolded from behind Lu Sheng!
Dragon wings flapped.
The surrounding golden sea of fire instantly dimmed, as if all the light and heat had been forcibly plundered by these wings.
Lu Sheng floated in the center of the sun's core.
At this moment, he was no longer human, nor was he a dragon.
He is a black sun.
He slowly opened his eyes.
The original cross-shaped double pupils disappeared.
Instead, there were two slowly rotating, pitch-black miniature stars.
He glanced at Luo Tianfei, who was already terrified and limp in the void beside him, and with a wave of his hand, a soft black power enveloped her.
"Walk."
Lu Sheng's voice was no longer hoarse, but deep and magnetic, exuding a calm and domineering aura.
"I'm full."
"We should go and completely overturn that 'rancher's' table."