Lacking experience in destroying such a thing.
To ensure there were no mistakes, Lu Xing prepared both the "Rock" and "Void" Authorities simultaneously.
He planned to release these two Authorities in the form of [Atomic Breath] to directly obliterate the quantum tunnel. (The [Atomic Breath] the Emperor usually uses is the product of different elemental powers fusing in a completely balanced state; [Proton Scream] is the result of the "Thunder" Authority being released at full power.)
However.
Just as the elemental light shining on his halo began to fade, and the energies—similar in color but entirely different in nature—were about to converge...
Deng!
The energy emerging from the quantum tunnel no longer continued to form a pillar of light rushing at Lu Xing, nor did it create new quantum monsters.
DENG!!
Instead, accompanied by a strange yet clear tapping sound, it surged madly towards a certain spot where the Eye of the Abyss had exploded!
In the blink of an eye.
Tiny yet vast... a figure filled with such a sense of contradiction was slowly lifted up by the endless quantum energy.
"A Herrscher?"
That's right. In Lu Xing's perception.
The figure being lifted by the quantum energy had an aura almost identical to a Herrscher's; he could even clearly detect a Herrscher Core.
The only difference.
Was the quantum energy that filled the opponent's entire body, the complete opposite of a Honkai aura.
"A Herrscher that uses quantum energy."
"This is truly... an extraordinary development."
Considering the quantum energy's earlier actions (proactively moving towards the Emperor), it was hard not to suspect whether the Quantum Sea was truly as "amiable" as it seemed.
Then again.
To "coincidentally" encounter a "Herrscher-compatible person" here, perhaps the researchers of the Mu Continent had not been without hope that such a scene might occur. The quantum energy used to fire the Abyss Cannon was likely not used for its "proper purpose."
Lu Xing had indeed never seen a Quantum Herrscher.
But, it wasn't a big problem.
A quantum tunnel on par with a Great Rift could only produce a Herrscher of this level. Even if it was backed by an endless supply of energy, the "pipe" had a fixed width, after all.
Not to mention that Lu Xing had brought with him the even more exaggerated "Gigantic Honkai Energy Rift." There was simply no...
BOOM!!!
He had spoken too soon.
The Herrscher, enveloped in quantum energy, had not yet opened its eyes when the quantum tunnel below underwent another drastic change. Accompanied by extremely exaggerated spatial fluctuations and purplish-black rifts that spread across the entire land... building upon the tunnel blasted open by the Eye of the Abyss, a pillar of quantum energy, its diameter expanded by more than ten times, shot into the sky. In the next instant, it poured into the Quantum Herrscher's body like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea!
The scale of this thing even surpassed the Gigantic Honkai Energy Rift!
"Ah! AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!"
Pain, ferocity, mania... a shrill female voice filled with a series of negative emotions echoed endlessly across the skies of the Mu Continent!
Swoosh—
BOOM!!!
A thousand rays of light scattered down from the sky.
Several streaks of light struck the [Echo] shield in front of Lu Xing, causing the invisible barrier to tremble.
"This thing!"
The Quantum Herrscher's attacks had no "target" to speak of. The quantum energy plowing through the sky and the earth seemed to exist only for destruction.
The attack had failed to break [Echo], which meant the destructive power displayed by the Quantum Herrscher was still within the upper limits of what Lu Xing could handle. But considering the exaggerated number of strikes she had launched in that one instant...
Never.
If the Emperor could make facial expressions, his would have never been as solemn as it was now. With the support of the quantum tunnel, this thing would be far more difficult to eliminate than imagined. If the battle dragged on for too long or if it escaped...
Other than Lu Xing.
No one knew what the world would become.
No... perhaps not even Lu Xing was certain what choice the "Gods" would make.
And just as the Emperor was preparing to make his choice—
VMMMM!!
A new and strange change occurred again!
But this time, the target of the change was... the Gigantic Honkai Energy Rift behind Lu Xing!
The deep purple Honkai energy, which had basically reached its maximum concentration, actually began to change again!
From purple to black, then breaking from black into gold.
The diameter of the Gigantic Honkai Energy Rift had unknowingly expanded to a degree that was completely on par with the quantum tunnel. And from within that dazzling light that connected heaven and earth, pure golden Honkai energy gushed out!
The problem was.
From the moment the Gigantic Honkai Energy Rift changed color, Lu Xing had completely lost control of it. The Honkai energy surging from the rift was not flowing towards the Emperor's body, but rather...
Towards the Quantum Herrscher!
The golden Honkai energy formed a rushing river, directly parting the quantum energy that saturated the sky and land, and crazily converged into the Quantum Herrscher's body!
"AHHH!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
As the ear-piercing sound, powerful enough to be a weapon, echoed between heaven and earth, something even more shocking happened to Lu Xing. In his mental perception, another soul had awakened within the Quantum Herrscher's body!
It was not the consciousness shift of a normal Herrscher, but a complete, brand-new soul being "created" by the Honkai energy!
Lu Xing, of course, did not know the details of Tefnut's body. What the "Honkai energy" was doing at this moment was not "creating" but "awakening" a soul.
But this did not hinder his judgment of the situation.
As her eyes turned one black and one gold, the Quantum... no, it was no longer clear how to classify this Herrscher. Her two palms slowly moved towards her chest.
"They" were not trying to cooperate. The frantic energy was telling the few witnesses present that this was a battle to the death.
Incidentally.
This battle to the death... might just have to drag the planet down with it as collateral.
Although the energies the Herrscher used were polar opposites, their external manifestation was surprisingly identical: a Mimic Black Hole.
That's right.
A massive Mimic Black Hole was rapidly forming between the Herrscher's hands.
The scale of its nascent form already surpassed the final version Lu Xing had been about to complete earlier!
Once this thing exploded...
Lu Xing was confident he could survive. Although the gravitational field of the Mimic Black Hole was terrifying, it couldn't stop him from sending himself into space.
However!
Lu Xing didn't know if the "two Gods" had cast their gazes here. A loss of this scale was naturally nothing to the Gods, but for the entire planet... teleporting under such distance and obstruction, Lu Xing was only confident in saving himself. Trying to teleport his entire legion was an impossibly difficult task. Moreover, not all Honkai Beasts could survive in space.