Chapter 1 After the "shock therapy" of the void engine of the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace, the time at the distorted point of the Surun Gate began to flow at a normal speed again. In fact, the term "re-flowing" is not accurate, because within the distorted point, its time is still normal relative to itself, but it appears too slow compared to the surrounding normal universe. However, these details are not important.

The Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace cautiously approached the planet Surun, keeping all early warning radars and weapon systems online, because the God-Slaying War had only ended ten hours ago on this planet, and no one could guarantee its surroundings were safe. Nolan used the ship's radar to roughly scan the energy readings on the planet's surface, and immediately discovered hundreds of locations with high-energy reactions, but there seemed to be no locations with aggressive tendencies or dangerous indices.

"This is the gate to the Divine Kingdom, the entire planet is fortified, so it's normal to have high-energy reactions, even after being destroyed," Hao Ren said while instructing the spaceship to slowly enter the planet's atmosphere, "...uh oh, looks bad."

Thick clouds swept past the spaceship, and the surface hidden beneath the clouds was exposed to everyone's eyes. Hao Ren saw a scorched earth, a scorched earth still covered in fiery red light, almost entirely melted. The former boundaries between land and water and the vegetation on the planet's surface were indistinguishable. Rivers had been evaporated, leaving behind ugly ravines that looked like earthworm trails. The oceans only had some boiling and turbid puddles left. The earth was covered in lava, and huge craters were clearly visible even from space, which should be the result of bombardment by some kind of powerful orbital weapon.

Hao Ren even saw a shocking trench at the equator, a trench running through the entire planet, with an unsettling red light shining inside. It almost split Surun in two—no one knows what kind of weapon tore this planet to such an extent, but one thing is certain, if the culprits who caused all this had enough time or had not encountered too much resistance, they could have completely shattered the planet.

Hao Ren looked at one of the windows of the communicator. He knew that Mu Lu was watching the scene outside the spaceship, but the Guardian Giant had not said a word until now. He had to take the initiative to speak: "Mu Lu, this place..."

"This used to be a magnificent and splendid sacred place," Mu Lu said slowly, "one of the most beautiful gardens built by the Mother. Pilgrims from nearby star regions visited here every day. The planet couldn't accommodate so many people, so they would feel content to pay their respects to this planet in orbit."

"Completely destroyed," Lily sighed. Even she would have such sentimental moments. "The power of the rebellious son is so strong?"

"Stronger than you think. Surun was heavily guarded. Although it was open to pilgrims, this planet was always fortified. It originally had powerful planetary shields and orbital defense systems, and there were also 2,500 Origin Temples around the globe. The power of the temples could destroy any target in space on the surface—but it was still captured by the rebellious sons. They tore through the defenses here before destroying the planet like this. The trench you see is the power of a gravitational tidal weapon. Because the resistance of the Surun Gate was too strong, the suppression by conventional forces had become ineffective, so the rebellious sons were prepared to completely destroy all the planets here, but their plan was interrupted by the explosion of the Founding Star."

"There will be plenty of opportunities to reminisce in the future, but time is precious here now," Izhaks suddenly reminded. "Time here has already started flowing, and the information remaining on the battlefield is constantly being burned away by the geothermal fire."

Hao Ren immediately ordered the spaceship to continue to lower its altitude, while turning on all detectors to search for life signs on the planet's surface, while asking Mu Lu: "Can you still hear the voices of other guardians now?"

"Still nothing. Logically speaking, we're very close," Mu Lu's voice was a little confused, "but that distress signal is still interrupted."

Elizabeth hugged her arms and thought for a long time, suddenly a little confused: "Wait, since the time in this place was distorted before, how was the distress signal on this planet sent out? Logically speaking, it would take a very, very long time for it to travel from Surun to the outside world—and there would definitely be distortions."

The surface of the data terminal flashed blue, and then came to a conclusion: "This is indeed a problem. It is possible that something interfered when this nebula suddenly 'drilled' into the main universe, causing information from a certain moment on this planet to leak into the normal timeline."

Hao Ren's eyebrows jumped: "So?"

"So the distress message that Mu Lu received is likely not real-time. Perhaps it was sent from the autonomous universe ten thousand years ago—while on this planet it was a few hours ago, or any time, when the battle had not yet ended. But now... as you can see."

The data terminal did not continue, but silently zoomed in on the scene outside the spaceship and presented it.

A scorched earth, with only flames, smoke, craters, and death as far as the eye could see. There were no signs of life here, and it was impossible to find anything. Whoever sent the distress signal was probably already killed in this heroic battle.

Mu Lu did not say a word, just sighed a long sigh. Perhaps from the beginning he had thought about what he would see here, so he remained extraordinarily calm at this time, but this sigh was still particularly heavy.

Lily was also a little disappointed, but she did not sink into despair, but continued to stare at the screens and the images transmitted by the probes, looking everywhere. At this time, a set of images suddenly jumped into her sight. She saw the silhouette of a building that looked like the ruins of a city, and in the building complex, several fireballs had just flashed by.

"There's something over there!" Lily immediately jumped up from her chair. "I just saw a flash! It looked like the flash of gunfire!"

Hao Ren immediately zoomed in on the image that Lily pointed to: "Nolan, locate it."

Nolan quickly turned some sensitive radars in that direction: "Confirming energy reaction... There are signs of logical control, there are signs of life, judged as an ongoing battle. This ship, accelerate!"

An ongoing battle! Could there be anything more astonishing than this?

Hao Ren tried hard to suppress the excitement in his heart. He knew what the current battle on this planet meant. This incredible event, about to appear before his eyes after crossing ten thousand years, made his fingers tremble a little. He activated a special control panel on the captain's seat: "Nolan, bring the weapon systems online, enter active attack mode."

The data terminal subconsciously asked: "Partner, are you sure you want to use the big guys on our spaceship in the atmosphere?"

Hao Ren pointed to the scarred earth outside: "Do you think we still need to consider planetary protection regulations in this kind of place?"

"Uh... I guess not."

"Be vigilant, we may run into the remnants of the 'rebellious sons'," Hao Ren said while checking the status of the weapon systems. "Those guys are not easy to deal with—after all, they dared to fight the True Gods head-on."

The Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace lowered its altitude, using the low-altitude smoke and high-temperature background as cover, and rapidly approached the place where the gunfire was occurring. It didn't take long before they saw the place where the flashes were continuously emitted at the end of the horizon.

There was a magnificent building complex that had been reduced to ruins. Although it was extremely far away, one could still see from the silhouettes of those buildings that its former scale must have been quite large. Several smoke columns rose from the building complex, and occasional flashes could be seen inside the smoke columns. Hao Ren asked Mu Lu for information about this place: "Do you know where this is?"

"The front should be a temple," Mu Lu's voice came from the communicator. "That city is an auxiliary building of the temple. There should have been many aerial rivers of light transporting energy to the temple, but it looks like the energy system has been destroyed. You have to be careful of those green glowing spots on the ground. They are crystals after the collapse of the rivers of light. Once they explode, it will be a chain reaction."

Under Mu Lu's guidance, Hao Ren indeed saw many streak-like green fluorescent traces on the scorched earth. They were as wide as rivers, extending from all directions and converging towards the building complex in front. These green fluorescent substances were probably condensed energy crystals, and it was best not to provoke them.

Just then, the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace suddenly sensed several active energy reactions rising from the city ahead: "Warning, detected unknown units, warning, detected unknown units..."

The observation device transmitted the images beyond the line of sight, and Hao Ren saw three streamlined, pale white aircraft shaped like curved lobsters appearing from the building complex.

Mu Lu's voice immediately sounded: "It's those rebellious sons!"

With gnashing hatred.

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