“Dr. Lagoli,”

Mingxi raised her right hand, and her materialized spiritual power condensed into a longbow that shimmered with starlight in her palm.

The ordinary bow and arrow had been destroyed when she came into contact with the core of the nuclear meltdown reactor.

"Or would you prefer me to call you a parasite of the stellar embryo?"

Lagoli did not actually die.

Something unexpected must have happened here before she and Verina arrived.

This unexpected turn of events forced Lagoli to swallow the stellar embryo in order to protect himself.

Alternatively, the underdeveloped stellar embryo was forced to devour Lagoli.

But in either case, Lagoli's own consciousness should not have been completely annihilated; in fact, he may be the true mastermind behind the monster before him.

She could still distinguish between a highly intelligent scientist and a newly emerging planetary consciousness.

She just decisively shoved the Star Relic into her own body, disrupting his rhythm and causing him to lose the initiative. He certainly wouldn't be willing to do so.

Therefore, he will definitely make a move against her when she absorbs the Star Relic.

He absolutely will not let her absorb it peacefully!

Mingxi had already prepared herself mentally, so even though her current situation required a stable and safe environment, she remained calm and composed. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

She had no other choice.

The only option is war!

Lagoli let out an inhuman roar, his lower body's energy tentacles thrashing wildly, drawing energy from the entire spherical space into the ball of light beneath him.

"Shut up!"

"You sinner!"

"I will become the heart, brain, and will of this life-bearing planet!"

"And you, a human being destined to decay, are honored to be the first cornerstone that formed my body!"

The ball of light pulsated violently, its surface cracking open with countless fissures from which more tentacles extended, each carrying enough energy to melt a warship!

Mingxi spat.

Who wants to be your foundation!

"As expected, you can't communicate with a madman."

She drew back the bowstring.

The bowstring vibrated.

An arrow, purely condensed from spiritual energy, appeared out of thin air and disappeared the instant it left the bowstring.

The next second, it pierced through one of Lagoli's main tentacles and then detonated inside!

The dark purple energy burst open like a punctured balloon!

"impossible!"

Lagoli screamed, "Energy attacks are ineffective against me! I am a Star Core—"

The second arrow has arrived.

This time it was a three-shot burst.

Three starlight arrows, arranged in a triangular pattern, blocked all of Lagoli's escape routes.

He had to deploy more tentacles to defend, but each arrow precisely hit the nodes of energy flow, triggering a chain reaction of collapses!

Mingxi walked slowly forward while drawing her bow.

Her movements were fluid and graceful, possessing an almost artistic beauty.

Every arrow was perfectly timed, neither too many nor too few, precisely thwarting either Lagoli's offensive or defensive maneuvers.

This is not a battle.

This is a teaching bureau.

She was using a lagoli to practice archery, a skill she had only been learning for a few days.

When Mingxi decided to enter Zetalem as Tulan Yulanka Ke Yi, she had already predetermined her persona on this planet of a thousand faces.

Geng Jintianyou is a half-human, half-human hybrid, a mysterious and unpredictable semi-supernatural being who has awakened Geng Jintianyou's skills: the Geng Golden Arrow and the Jintianyou Armor.

Even though the claim that the Turan tribe and Geng Jintianyou share a bloodline is just a rumor and has never been confirmed.

But just because it has never been confirmed doesn't mean it's impossible.

Sometimes it is precisely this sense of mystery that makes something more credible when certain 'special' things happen.

The unique nature of the Crimson Corridor provided her with 'unbreakable evidence' of this special identity.

To avoid being exposed, Mingxi even spent several days intensively learning archery from Lan Yueliang.

For someone whose brain development level is over 90%, it's not difficult.

"Try the Seven Stars Alignment design my baby specially designed for me!"

Mingxi muttered to himself, then flicked his right hand, sending out seven starlight arrows in the shape of the Big Dipper, forcing Lagoli into a frantic struggle.

But Lagoli was no longer an ordinary human being. Even though he was imperfect and an artificial star core embryo, he still possessed immense power at the level of rules.

After being unilaterally suppressed by Mingxi for thirty seconds, Lagoli let out a completely frenzied roar: "Enough! Enough!"

His entire body, along with all the energy tentacles of his lower body, suddenly retracted back into the central ball of light!

The pulsation of the light cluster stopped.

Dead silence.

Then--

"Thump!"

A deafening roar, like a heartbeat!

An eye cracked open on the surface of the light cluster.

A giant eye, over ten meters in diameter, made entirely of the unknown!

The entire phantom of Zetalem seemed to be reflected in his pupils!

"I am the planet."

The echoing sounds of billions of living beings came from all directions.

"I am the rule."

The giant eye's pupils contracted.

The space around Mingxi froze.

This is not a metaphor, but solidification in a physical sense!

The air turned into transparent crystals, the ground into steel plates, and even her action of drawing the bow was frozen in mid-air!

Gravity control!

Moreover, it's planetary-level gravity control!

"Now," the giant eye slowly approached, "become a part of me."

Countless dark purple energy tendrils stretched out from the void, wrapping around Mingxi.

Mingxi blinked. Although her body felt like an iron plate thrown into a furnace, her consciousness remained absolutely calm, as if she couldn't feel the power constantly transforming her.

A white chess piece in her hand landed on the invisible chessboard.

Without a chess piece, absolute perception is altered and activated.

In that life-or-death moment, at the crucial moment when she merged with the Star Relic, attempting to use it to open the door to super SSS-level physical abilities.

She once again used the white pieces without a bishop.

Moreover, the white pieces, nurtured in the Wuxiang Chess Jar for a period of time, were silently placed on the chessboard the instant the rules and constraints of the Crimson Corridor disappeared.

As part of the artifact, the Wuxiang Chess Jar requires chess pieces to function.

It has no effect on itself, but it can make the number of Wuxiang chess pieces conceptually 'infinite'. When Wuxiang chess pieces are inside the chess jar, the contractor can take them out continuously as long as a certain amount of mental energy is consumed; at the same time, it also has the function of nurturing chess pieces, that is, it can improve the abilities of chess pieces.

This is why Morpheus, despite holding the Phantom Chess Jar, didn't seem to take it seriously.

Without chess pieces, the chess jars are just two decorative items.

The situation is similar on the board without a phantom, which can also enhance the power of the board without a phantom.

However, the Wuxiang Chessboard also comes with a chessboard domain, which has the functions of dimensional expansion and sandbox practice.

Dimensional Expansion: Contractors can choose to launch battles simultaneously on multiple parallel dimensions, requiring opponents to defend or attack on multiple levels at the same time.

Sand table exercise: Before actually making a move, the contractor can conduct a 'zero-cost rehearsal' on the chessboard to witness all the changes after the move; however, the rehearsal itself will consume a lot of mental energy and there is a certain possibility of backlash against the contractor.

It can be said that without the Mugen Go set, the Mugen Go set and the Mugen Go board are basically useless.

Moreover, no one can truly contract them until the complete set is collected.

Mingxi now only lacks the black pieces without any form, and he has already gained some control over them.

Mingxi softly recited, "Only by being without form and without self can one attain true freedom."

Her body began to become transparent.

It wasn't that she disappeared, but rather that her state of being was changed the instant she placed the piece!

The solidified space "slid" past her, and the entwining tentacles passed through her afterimage!

The giant eye's pupils trembled: "The rules... have been changed?! Impossible! Here, I am the rule!"

"Yeah?"

Mingxi's voice came from all directions.

"What if... I could make you forget that you are the rule?"

She raised her hand and picked up another white piece.

Once a move is made, there's no going back.

The giant eye suddenly froze.

It had forgotten that it was using gravity manipulation, and it had also forgotten that Mingxi was the enemy.

It even forgot what it was and what it was supposed to do.

0.5 seconds.

Mingxi's figure solidified again, and the bowstring was drawn taut once more.

let go.

The arrow flew out silently.

The mental energy arrow, upon striking the giant eye, did not pierce through, but instead transformed into thousands of tiny needles that densely penetrated it.

The giant eye began to twitch violently, the lava patterns on its surface flickered, and the energy flow became completely disordered!

"No! No! Stop! Stop now!"

Lagoli screamed, "I am the planet of life, I am the newborn god—"

"God is not like you."

Mingxi interrupted him, "You're nothing but a monster."

As she spoke, she unleashed another burst of seven stars in a row.

All the patterns on the surface of the giant eye solidified simultaneously.

Then, starting from the center of the pupil, cracks spread outwards.

The giant eye slowly closed, transforming into a milky-white sphere of light three meters in diameter, with illusory images of mountains, rivers, and seas flowing across its surface—the star core embryo.

Dr. Lagoli's figure "squeezed" out from the surface of the light sphere and crashed heavily to the ground.

He had regained his human form, but he was emaciated, his skin was ashen, and his eyes were filled with a deathly stillness.

“No... I am a life-bearing planet... I am...” he murmured, reaching out to touch the ball of light, but as soon as his arm was raised, it turned to ashes in mid-air.

His body is disintegrating at the molecular level.

It turned to ashes in less than two seconds and vanished with the wind.

A generation of mad scientists has come to an end.

Along with it, the stellar embryo also collapsed. Without the support of the nuclear melt-down core and the life-sustaining nutrients of Lagoli, it began to shrink, collapse, and perish rapidly.

It was created by force.

It has the form of a star-core embryo, but not the meaning of a star-core embryo.

Even without the dawn, Lagoli would not have succeeded.

Because the laws of the universe are reviving, they will absolutely not allow such a filthy stellar embryo to grow into a real life-bearing planet.

Suddenly, she covered her mouth with her bare hand.

"Cough...cough cough..."

Suppressed coughs escaped from between his fingers.

When she removed her hand, there was a pool of blood in her palm.

That was no longer the color of normal human blood; it was mixed with tiny, gold-dust-like specks of light, and it was slightly warm.

"puff--"

Finally, ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) she couldn't hold on any longer, knelt down on one knee, and spat out a mouthful of blood onto the ground.

"As expected... it was too much of a stretch..."

Mingxi was panting, and blood was still seeping from the corner of her mouth.

Fighting Lagoli while fusing with the Star Relics—that's inhuman.

She should have been fully focused on absorbing the energy, but instead, she expended a great deal of mental energy in a battle that appeared easy but was actually extremely taxing on her.

At this point, the flow of qi and blood in her body had reached an uncontrollable state of chaos.

The remnants of the stars contain not only energy, but also rules, which are fundamentally impossible for humans to absorb.

At this point, it had transformed into an omnipresent virus, rampaging through her meridians, blood vessels, and even every cell.

Her will is the sole commander in this war, and it must be confronted to complete this extremely dangerous absorption.

Any moment of distraction could cause the Star Remnant Energy to go out of control and erase her from the root.

Therefore, only Heaven, Earth, and she know the danger of what she just did.

Her so-called effortless composure was nothing more than a forced show of calm.

"Huff... huff huff..."

Mingxi's breathing became more and more rapid.

She could feel the power within her body approaching a dangerous critical point.

The blood that glowed with golden light was not a miracle, but a sign that the energy of the stars was eroding the body.

We must stabilize the situation as soon as possible.

Only then is there a possibility of pushing the limits.

"Boom!"

The tremors continued, and the scarlet corridor was collapsing.

Mingxi took a deep breath, suppressing all unnecessary worries.

Sit cross-legged, sink your consciousness into your body, and look inward.

Her meridians were like pipes stretched to their limit, surging with stellar energy composed of billions of light points.

Her bones have natural patterns on their surface, which are the marks left by the penetration of energy.

Her internal organs, like miniature furnaces, released light and heat in a frenzied pulsation.

What's most striking is her cells.

Every cell at this moment is like a miniature universe—the nucleus is a star, and the cytoplasm is a nebula.

Between the cells, there are tiny energy threads that connect them, forming a three-dimensional energy network that covers her entire body.

But all of this is in a very unstable state.

The energy of the Star Remnant is so vast that even if only one-tenth of it is initially fused, it is enough to burst any life form in the conventional sense.

"We must... find a balance..."

Mingxi began to actively guide the violent energy.

It's not suppression, it's not confrontation.

It's about channeling and guiding.

Like Yu the Great's flood control efforts, it's better to dredge than to block.

The spiritual energy transformed into countless fine threads, seeping into every meridian and every cell.

She carefully guided those wildly rushing star belts, making them follow some mysterious trajectory.

...

The human body has meridian diagrams, and the movement of stars has star charts.

Mingxi believes that to break the limits of human physical ability and achieve transcendence, one needs a unique life star map that connects the microscopic and macroscopic worlds.

The energy of the stars is the pigment used to paint this star map.

"This place... needs a main artery..."

"The energy in my left arm is overloaded... it's being diverted to my right leg..."

"The heart's furnace output is too strong... I'm drawing 30% into my dantian to settle..."

Mingxi was completely focused, as if she were performing an extremely precise micro-sculpting surgery inside her body.

Her mental energy was depleting at an alarming rate, her consciousness was beginning to blur, and she almost made a mistake during the guidance several times.

If a mistake is made, the energy will go out of control, leading to utter ruin.

"I can do it..."

She bit the tip of her tongue, using the pain to rouse herself from her reverie.

Fresh blood seeped from the corners of her mouth, eyes, ears, and even the pores of her skin.

She was like a piece of porcelain about to shatter, her surface covered with bleeding cracks.