There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a suffocating silence.
The world-destroying lightning orb, compressed to its limit, resembled a collapsing stellar core, its body wreathed in almost pitch-black, deep purple lightning, silently penetrating the Precursor planet's atmosphere.
The viscous organic cloud layer instantly vaporized upon contact with the lightning, leaving not even a wisp of white smoke.
Immediately after, it crashed into the planet's surface, its biomass shell, several times thicker than Earth's, cutting through it like a hot knife through butter, without any resistance, plunging directly towards the planet's core.
Time seemed to freeze at this moment; Li Yu hovered in the cosmic void, his dark eyes calmly watching the alien planet below, the residual lightning on his fingertips still faintly flickering.
The next second, a silent tremor emanated from the Precursor planet's core, and then, the entire planet, like a lanced abscess, began to 裂 open from the inside out!
All geological structures, biological tissues, energy fields... were utterly pulverized! Decomposed! Annihilated! in the face of lightning power that transcended their cognitive limits.
Purple lightning networks leaped frantically like spiderwebs among the planetary debris; each bolt of lightning precisely swept over every fragment, ensuring no material capable of sustaining life survived, even micron-sized cellular fragments were reduced to nothingness in the lightning.
This terrifying lightning filled the entire star system!
The giant planet instantly collapsed, destroyed, and countless destructive rays erupted from its depths!
Boom!
The planet split open, and the light at that instant was far more dazzling than a thousand stars exploding simultaneously!
Minutes later, the entire Precursor civilization, along with their alien homeworld where they had thrived for generations, was completely wiped out by Li Yu's strike in the macroscopic view of cosmic scale.
All that remained was a wreckage of planetary destruction composed of high-temperature particle streams and spatial ripples.
Li Yu stood in the void, his white robes gently fluttering in the particle stream.
He looked indifferently at this scene of destruction, his heart unperturbed.
The existence of the Precursor civilization was merely a parasitic tumor to this universe; its complete eradication was simply in accordance with the will of the world.
"Return."
He spoke softly, his voice not propagating in the vacuum, but triggering spatial shuttle fluctuations; the next second, Li Yu's figure disappeared into the cosmic ruins.
The Kaiju on the planet instantly ceased activity; as a swarm species, with the death of their Overmind, they immediately lost all meaning of life.
Cai Tiantong slowly knelt to the ground; from the appearance of the young man to the Kaiju ceasing their actions, only half an hour had passed.
At this moment, his worldview, values, and philosophy were completely reshaped.
He began to believe that the end of science was theology!
...At the entrance to the Tartarus Abyss, Li Yu held the source crystal he had just acquired.
The crystal was transparent silver-gray, with countless tiny stars seemingly flowing within, emitting a pure and powerful force of rule correction.
Li Yu's gaze fell on the aquarius god cloth floating before him; the aquarius god cloth seemed to be cheering, excited to soon fight alongside Li Yu across all heavens.
"It's time to take you out to see the world, old friend!"
Li Yu couldn't help but feel a slight apology in his heart, as his own destined Cloth was only liberated third.
But good things come to those who wait; he no longer hesitated, pressing the acquired source crystal towards the core of the Aquarius Cloth, the blue gem representing the will of eternal ice seal!
Buzz!
An indescribably brilliant golden light instantly erupted, engulfing the entire grotto.
The silver-gray essence light intensely mingled, collided, and merged with the Aquarius Cloth's inherent golden and blue radiance!
The Cloth seemed to come alive, emitting a joyous hum.
The original light blue ice crystal 紋理 was imbued with a deep, nebula-like silver-gray background, with faint deep purple, lightning-shaped patterns representing the Chaos Lightning power flowing and leaping within its edges.
The original crystal light points seemed to have truly transformed into stars, deep and vast, with a hint of gravitas.
The four light Cloth belts on the back were entwined with a trace of purple lightning brilliance originating from the world-destroying divine lightning, appearing even more majestic, mysterious, and deadly.
The form of the Cloth was also subtly adjusting; the lines of the shoulder armor became sharper and smoother, like the wingspan of a cosmic starship, with ice and lightning runes faintly inscribed upon them.
A divine artifact, transcending the original rules of the Saint Seiya World, entirely personal to Li Yu, and uniquely his, was being born!
This process lasted for a moment; when the light receded, the new Cloth quietly hovered there.
It was no longer simply the aquarius gold cloth, but a God Cloth that fused the power of Chaos Lightning with the extreme cold of ice, and was imbued with independence by the source crystal.
As Li Yu's destined Cloth, its transformation was far more intense than that of the Sagittarius Cloth and the Ophiuchus Cloth.
With a thought from Li Yu, the brand new Cloth, as if alive, disassembled and covered his entire body.
A power more vast, more agile, and more aligned with his own essence than ever before, filled his limbs and bones.
The Great Dao of Ice became deeper and more condensed, as if a single thought could freeze a galaxy.
The power of lightning became more violent and controlled; the deep purple electric snakes flickering on the Cloth contained the dual might of creation and annihilation.
"Excellent!"
Li Yu's eyes flashed with brilliance; the transformation of the Aquarius Cloth far exceeded his expectations, so it was time for the next step.
He stored the aquarius god cloth in his item space.
Li Yu once again activated the Hunter's exclusive spatial shuttle skill!
The target was Fallen Reincarnator Eight of the Pantheon!
His figure faded in the Reincarnation Space; this time's target was personally anchored for him by the Main God across countless planes.
The Main God seemed very active in Li Yu's hunt for the Pantheon's Fallen Reincarnator.
The world where Eight was located was a universe filled with chaos and glory, where heroes and gods coexisted, the DC Universe!
After the transition of light and dark and the disappearance of the sense of spatial displacement, Li Yu's feet landed on a huge, incredibly bustling and fervent plaza.
He instantly adjusted his energy fluctuations, making them perfectly conform to the rules of this universe, making himself appear no different from an ordinary person, like a drop of water merging into the ocean, silently.
After all, the opponent was Superman, the Son of Destiny of the DC Universe, known as the God of Man!
Superman's super hearing, if fully activated, could allow him to hear anyone's conversations from anywhere on the planet.
This kind of super ability, similar to divine omniscience and omnipotence, was something even the current Li Yu did not possess.
He had to find a way to instantly kill him before Superman detected any abnormality.
The sight before him entered his eyes; even though Li Yu was accustomed to grand spectacles, his brows couldn't help but furrow slightly.
The exaggerated banner floating in the middle of the street indicated that this was Metropolis, a city in the DC Universe!
However, today, Metropolis Square was no longer the modern appearance in Li Yu's mind.
It had been transformed into a gigantic open-air altar!
At the center of the altar stood a pure white marble statue, dozens of meters high.
It was an image of Superman. The statue's posture was upright, feet slightly apart, right hand clenched by his side, left hand naturally hanging down, the massive S symbol on his chest gleaming in the sunlight, as if radiating holy light.
The red cape behind the statue was carved lifelike, as if an invisible wind was blowing through its folds, fluttering fiercely.
The statue's face was like that of a classical deity, with high brow bones, gentle yet majestic eyes, looking down at the crowd below, exuding a reassuring divine radiance.
Below the statue was a dense crowd stretching as far as the eye could see.
They wore uniform white T-shirts emblazoned with Superman's S emblem, like the most devout believers, frantically waving their arms, uniformly and deafeningly shouting:
"Praise Clark Kent! Our savior! Our God!"
"The era of Superman has arrived! Let us prostrate ourselves at Superman's feet!"
The sound waves, like a tangible tide, repeatedly crashed against the glass curtain walls of the skyscrapers surrounding the square.
The air was filled with an extreme cult of personality, an absolute submission to power, a collective fanaticism that had lost independent thought.
These fanatics were completely different from the reverence and awe for gods in the Saint Seiya World.
It was more like an absolute personal authority worship carefully induced and driven by self-interest.
Li Yu's gaze swept across the entire scene; he saw the specially reinforced elevated platform for speeches.
Hovering there were several figures, surrounding the central figure, Superman, who was suspended one meter above the ground, like a god descended from heaven!