novelbin Chapter 1571 - 1568: Hu Chong Falls!
Chapter 1571 - 1568: Hu Chong Falls!
Hu Chong was stunned on the spot like a weathered statue when he saw Li Chen, who was supposed to be dead, appear before him unscathed.
"I clearly saw you perish. How is this possible, how is this possible?"
Hu Chong exclaimed in disbelief, speaking incoherently.
However, when he saw those stone fragments on the ground, he understood what was going on.
Substitution!
Indeed, what Li Chen had employed was the substitution technique.
The one Hu Chong thought he strangled wasn’t Li Chen but a puppet harboring a trace of Li Chen’s essence blood.
Understanding the whole matter, Hu Chong crumpled to the ground as if his soul had been drained.
Soon, a wisp of divine soul drifted out from his decayed body like a gust of wind, attempting to flee Titan Planet.
Seeing this, Li Chen sneered coldly.
He didn’t chase but instead summoned the strangulation.
"Come out, dear daughter, time for a midnight snack!"
Strangulation loves devouring soul bodies; the stronger the divine soul, the more tempting it is for her.
Thus, upon seeing Hu Chong’s half-step Mahayana Divine Monarch soul, she immediately lit up and chased after it like a whirlwind.
When Hu Chong self-destructed his physical body earlier, his soul was also affected and heavily injured.
Therefore, before he could leave Titan Planet, strangulation caught up with him, enveloping and devouring him in a brutal manner.
Thus, aside from God Monarch Yunlong narrowly escaping, Cloud Dragon Palace’s thirty thousand disciples and the fifty thousand Dinosaur Army led by Lord Long Li were all annihilated.
Despite such a profound victory, Li Chen showed no excitement whatsoever.
At this moment, he floated above Titan Planet, hands clasped behind, staring straight towards the direction of the Oort Nebula.
If he didn’t find an opportunity to eliminate God Monarch Yunlong, sooner or later, he would become a nightmare for the entire Earth!
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Meanwhile, in the Oort Nebula region:
As he passed the orbit of Pluto earlier, God Monarch Yunlong suddenly recalled the time not long ago when he and Lord Long Li, alongside their elite Heavenly Pride, grandly marched forth, full of spirit, to conquer the Solar System, and couldn’t help feeling despondent.
He never thought it would end like this!
Even Lord Long Li, whose strength was equivalent to his, ultimately met his demise at Li Chen’s hands.
As for those tens of thousands in the Dinosaur Clan army and his thirty thousand elite disciples, by now, they likely were annihilated as well.
Thinking of this, God Monarch Yunlong glanced angrily in the direction of the Sun and Earth.
"Li Chen, wait and see. One day, this blood debt will be repaid a hundred, no, a thousand times over!"
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Lord Long Li and Chi Yan God Monarch attempted to conquer the Solar System but ended up defeated, resulting in one death and one escape, while Earth achieved an unprecedented glorious victory.
However, after this great battle, the entire ecological system of the Solar System suffered unprecedented damage.
In order to construct the Five Elements Extinguishing God Formation, Li Chen nearly drained the energy embedded within the star cores of Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, and Saturn, making them prone to collapse at any moment.
Especially Jupiter, known as Earth’s guardian for so long. If anything goes wrong there, it means Earth will face interstellar debris impact.
Even Earth’s only natural satellite, the Moon, was completely ruined in this battle.
From now on, no one would invoke the name of the Moon to say something like "I represent the Moon to destroy you."
What’s more critical is that the Sun, serving as the main battlefield, would become extremely unstable after this battle.
If it were to erupt in massive solar flares, all life on Earth could be entirely devoured.
Therefore, escaping the Solar System must be put on the agenda.
Of course, taking the entire Earth away from the Solar System and wandering in the cosmos is not an easy task.
Before this, thorough preparation must be made.
The first issue to consider is how Earth could survive after leaving the stable environment of the Solar System, especially after departing from the Sun.
Everything grows due to the Sun; this is not an empty phrase!
The next issue is how Earth could gain the accelerating thrust needed to escape the Solar System.
If these issues aren’t resolved, Earth simply cannot escape the Solar System.
Even if it could escape, it might not avoid the doom!
While Li Chen racked his brains thinking about what to do, Tuck offered a plan.
With the Maya Fleet led by Taluo utterly defeated and Hei Bulun fleeing the Solar System, Tuck, responsible for negotiations with Earth, lost the chance to escape the Solar System and was forced to remain on Earth.
Tuck suggested to Li Chen that the entire Earth could be transformed into a self-sustaining ecosystem.
As for the Sun, isn’t the Golden Crow a living Sun already?
Leaving the Solar System initially requires an acceleration to deviate from its orbital path.
This acceleration requires an enormous amount of energy.
But this issue has already been resolved.
The Moon has been destroyed; its fragments largely orbit Earth and can be collected as fuel.
Besides, other resources from the seven planets in the Solar System can be exploited extensively, and resources from the Sun can be obtained too.
After all, with Golden Crow as the porter, it’s not challenging to extract a bit from the Sun.
Get to work immediately!
After formulating the plan, Li Chen put the entire matter on the agenda.
He now possesses unprecedented prestige on Earth; his words are laws, and no one dares to question them.
With everyone’s united effort, and Tuck as the technical guide, Earth’s internal self-sustaining ecosystem can quickly be established.
Additionally, many underground cities were specially dug for population settlement.
The human population on Earth has now dwindled from the peak of seventy billion to ten billion, with nearly ninety percent dead or injured.
Among these ten billion people, Huaxia and its surrounding regions account for five billion.
The once prosperous and thriving Western World has utterly declined. Many coastal cities have been swallowed by the sea. Some severely affected areas have become paradises for resilient animals and insects, as they are completely devoid of human presence within thousands of miles.
As for energy reserves, Li Chen undertook the responsibility alone.
He travels between major planets and satellites, and along with Golden Crow, ventures into the Sun to gather resources vigorously.
Moreover, for safety, he set up a restriction formation outside Earth to block asteroid impacts and other potential risks...
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In the next Chapter, Earth will start wandering in the cosmos.
If the cosmos is akin to a vast ocean, Earth becomes a lone leaf on the ocean, commencing a directionless drift...