Chapter 1278: The Sun Is Going to Explode

Crack—Crack—

The ice cellar shattered, and the Jade Rabbit's corpse darted out, rushing towards Lu Yang with red eyes.

Lu Yang scratched his cheek, a bit confused. This situation for Mi Xue'er was called bloodline resonance. If she could endure it, her soul power and bloodline power would significantly increase. He distinctly felt that Mi Xue'er and the negative emotions were evenly matched just now. Given Mi Xue'er's ability to resist the anti-gene agent and her bloodline awakening, her willpower was extremely strong; she should have been able to pull through with a bit of effort. Why did she suddenly turn evil out of nowhere? He had simply protected Lan Hai and Yu Ran from the oppressive aura; he hadn't done anything else.

This Jade Rabbit was powerful in life, having reached the Tribulation Transcendence stage. However, controlled by someone like Mi Xue'er, who had no cultivation foundation, it couldn't even unleash a ten-thousandth of its power.

"You've been fighting for so long; it's my turn now," Lu Yang volunteered, stepping forward. Even with his remaining strength, it wasn't something Lan Hai and the others could handle. If this Jade Rabbit hit them, a hundred Grade-A warriors piled together would be pierced through. If this Jade Rabbit were allowed to escape, the entire Interstellar Alliance would be powerless against it.

Facing the rampaging Jade Rabbit, Lu Yang grabbed it by the ears, letting it kick and thrash its legs.

Lan Hai and Yu Ran were completely bewildered throughout. First, they saw Mi Xue'er, seemingly much stronger, rampaging. Then, Mi Xue'er collapsed inexplicably, and a very cute pet rabbit darted out from the depths of the ice cellar, easily subdued by Brother Meng. What was going on? Especially Brother Meng, who had a smug look on his face, as if he had accomplished something incredible.

Seeing that the Jade Rabbit remained unruly even after being held by the ears, still trying to bite Little Yangzi, the Undying Immortal's expression darkened. She let a wisp of consciousness drift out and warned the Jade Rabbit, "Behave yourself, don't jump around." It was just a simple verbal warning, but it triggered an earthquake in the Jade Rabbit's withered spiritual space, awakening its instincts from when it was alive. It trembled uncontrollably, and Mi Xue'er, whose consciousness had been occupied by negative emotions, was jolted awake and returned to her original body.

"Immortal, your words are so effective?" Lu Yang was startled; this was almost like speaking things into existence."Of course. Who do you think I am? Whether they're living or dead demonic beasts, which one doesn't fear me?"

Lu Yang felt that the reason the Undying Immortal made demonic beasts fear her was not something worth bragging about. Thinking this, Lu Yang bowed: "Your Majesty's might shakes the four seas and eight wildernesses. Without deploying a single soldier, you compelled myriad demons to submit merely through your culinary skills. This is truly the act of a wise ruler." As a subject, the most important thing is to learn to multitask: to think and speak simultaneously.

"What happened to me?" Mi Xue'er woke up, clutching her head in pain. She seemed to have turned into a rabbit, charged at Brother Meng, and then was startled awake? Lan Hai and Yu Ran quickly jogged over to help her up, concerned about her injuries."Xue'er, are you alright?""I'm fine... in fact, I feel extraordinarily well." Mi Xue'er had never felt this way before, as if she had broken through human limits. She could easily overturn a tank, and her body felt invulnerable. What was going on?

Suddenly, the ground shook, startling everyone. Lu Yang looked up, raising an eyebrow. Through the thick layers of earth, he saw the sun above them undergoing an anomaly. Didn't they say they were illegally mining the sun? What on earth did they mine out?

"Brother Meng, it's an earthquake, be careful! Hey, where's Brother Meng?""Your mechanical arm looks good. Where did you buy it?""It's the latest product from Universal Tech Group, pretty neat, right?""It really is. I'll buy a pair when I get paid.""Oh please, you think you can just buy it? You have to queue up and enter a lottery."

On the surface of the sun, within Sun City, which was covered in mechanical structures, two Murong Group engineers casually chatted while leaning on a railing. Though called Sun City, there were actually very few people in the city. Its operations primarily relied on artificial intelligence independently developed by the Murong Group. The AI mining equipment automatically extracted solar energy, and the constant supply of solar power was transported via space elevator to nearby planets. Engineers were only there to prevent accidents. Since the Murong Group won the bid to construct Sun City here, minor malfunctions occurred only once every thirty years on average, and major accidents had never happened.

Suddenly, alarms blared one after another, and red warning lights illuminated the engineers' pale faces. Both engineers each injected a sedative into their brains, forcing themselves to calm down. Alarms of this frequency represented the highest alert for the Sun City project, indicating that over thirty percent of indicators were off the charts. They quickly pulled up the monitoring data and found that fifty percent of the data exceeded the maximum value, and other data was rapidly approaching the critical maximum! Sixty percent... seventy percent... The current situation far exceeded the Murong Group's expectations. They exchanged glances; even with sedatives, they couldn't calm down. "The sun is going to explode?!" But how could this be? There were many instances of illegal stellar energy mining, and the accident rate was less than one percent. Moreover, no accident had ever reached the point of a sun exploding!

The same situation was occurring in various Sun Cities, throwing the entire Murong Group into chaos. Even the Murong patriarch couldn't sit still.

Everything was going wrong simultaneously!

The Starfall Guild's warning was not an exaggeration; the sun was truly about to explode! If the sun exploded, the entire galaxy would be destroyed, and no one would survive!

A countdown on the screen flashed rapidly, predicting the sun's explosion as calculated by the AI. When the numbers hit zero, the two engineers' faces turned ashen, but the predicted solar explosion did not occur. "Is it... over?" "Why didn't it explode?" "Could it be a system malfunction?"

Just as the two were reeling from their close call, Sun City shook, and the sun's surface bubbled. A reddish-gold feather erupted from the energy extraction channel. The feather was enormous, longer than a whale. A bird's cry echoed throughout the universe, shattering countless instrument panels; even high-strength nanomaterials were useless. A sky-obscuring, reddish-gold wing burst forth, with magma thousands of degrees hot flowing between its feathers. The two engineers finally saw the monster's appearance: a gigantic, three-legged bird, entirely reddish-gold, with hollow eyes. Its beak held an unfamiliar ore. So all the preceding anomalies weren't due to the sun exploding, but because this strange bird was emerging from within it?! What kind of monster was this? Had it been living inside the sun all this time?

Before they could rejoice for long, they saw extremely conspicuous cracks appearing on the sun's surface, threatening to split open at any moment. This strange bird, merely by emerging, could cause the sun to crack?!

The giant strange bird flapped its wings, and the splashing magma was enough to destroy Sun City! Just as the two men were despairing, a figure appeared, its face obscured. With a single punch, it smashed the giant strange bird back into the sun!

"Immortal, what's going on with this Golden Crow corpse? Why did it suddenly start moving?""It seems to be influenced by that Jade Rabbit?"

The Undying Immortal pursed her lips, recalling the familiar Golden Crow, and then realized. "I remember now! Aren't this Golden Crow and Jade Rabbit the pair that the Ninefold Immortal used to study the Dao of Yin and Yang, the ones he made mate?""It's because they look so similar; it makes it hard for me to tell them apart.""The Ninefold Immortal probably released them after finishing his research, and they moved here and eventually died of old age.""Then what about this pile of top-grade spirit stones in the Golden Crow's mouth? Are they burial offerings from the Golden Crow clan?""Those were probably the research fees paid by the Ninefold Immortal. They never got spent before it died, so it just took them to its grave."