219: Chapter 219 Sixth-Tier Hunter King, Kneel Down! Wanxing, Don't Run Away!

High in the air.

Chen Chen stomped his foot onto the Hunter King's chest armor.

Thud!

The chest armor dented inward on the spot.

"Is this all a Tier 6 Hunter King amounts to?"

He raised his blade, pressing down on its heavy flesh-and-blood blade.

"Today, I'm taking your hide to pave the non-slip tiles for my bathhouse."

Mio was already numb in the main control room.

"You're still thinking about the hot spring renovation at a time like this?"

Blood Rose leaned against the edge of the tower, her voice sounding extremely weak.

"I think this suggestion is pretty good; soaking in a hot spring while stepping on a Tier 6 hide is high-class."

Jiang Yanxue sliced through the pipelines behind the Hunter King's leg with a single slash.

"Stand steady first before you start enjoying yourself."

The red light in the Hunter King's chest cavity suddenly flared up.

Shen Wanbing's expression changed.

"Retreat!"

"It's melting its core!"

The Hunter King knelt in mid-air, its heavy flesh-and-blood blade caught by a collapsing black dot, while layers of mechanical ribs opened up on its chest.

The Tier 6 core inside began to contract inward.

The red light turned dark red.

Fine cracks were torn into the surrounding space.

Mio's electronic voice became distortedly shrill.

"Core Melting Protocol!"

"A space black hole will form within a hundred-kilometer radius!"

"It wants to drag the entire city down with it!"

The crowd in the lower deck, who were cheering just a moment ago, immediately fell into chaos again.

Yi Chang's projection covered the entire area.

"No one is allowed to move from their formation."

"Whoever rushes the gate will die by the cannon muzzles first."

A row of Crystal Rail Cannons lowered simultaneously.

Iron Wall added loudly.

"If you want to live, don't cause trouble!"

High in the air, Chen Chen looked at the dark red core in the Hunter King's chest.

He did not turn back.

Nor did he speak.

In the system channel, a tactical marker flashed.

Jiang Jiuyou had already slammed the master control button.

"void sea-suppressing anchor chain, full activation."

Twelve dark silver locking rings shot out from the bottom of the Sea Scale.

The anchor chains pierced through the energy storm, precisely locking onto the Hunter King's limbs, spine, and the reflux hubs on both sides of its chest.

Click, click, click!

The Hunter King was forcefully pulled into a spread-eagle position.

It tried to struggle free, causing its muscles and mechanical bundles to burst open one by one.

"You all—"

Yi Chang's voice cut in immediately after.

"Crystal spike is formed."

On the edge of the Meteor Crystal City's crater, a hundred-meter crystal spike rose from the ground.

It was the product of the mineral vein's remains being temporarily reshaped by the Miracle Creator, with star core crystal sand compressed at the tip.

Yi Chang raised her hand and pressed down.

The crystal spike pierced through the air and penetrated the blind spot of the Hunter King's left rib shield.

Pfft!

The melting speed in the Hunter King's chest was forcibly interrupted.

Shen Wanbing immediately followed up with data.

"Self-destruction delayed by eight seconds!"

"The core is still melting!"

"Chen Chen, you must decapitate it!"

Chen Chen stepped onto one of the anchor chains.

His body rushed toward the Hunter King's head along the dark silver locking ring.

The Hunter King opened its bloodthirsty maw, and a gray-white cannon muzzle flipped out from deep within its throat.

"Die!"

The gray-white beam was just about to fire.

The sea-stabilizing needle tapped onto its forehead defense core a step earlier.

Blue-gold light patterns exploded.

The defense core shattered.

Qin Hongye's voice came from the sniper tower.

"The neck is exposed."

Chen Chen's body spun in mid-air.

The Space-Shattering Gravity Anti-Ship Sword swept across the Hunter King's neck.

The golden light severed the gray-white outer armor, sliced into the flesh and muscle bundles, and finally cut through the mechanical spine.

One slash.

The Hunter King's massive head flew off.

Black blood sprayed from the severed end, slamming onto the wilderness and burning out large pits.

The headless body was held tightly by the twelve anchor chains, and the core in its chest flashed frantically three times.

Shen Wanbing slammed her palm onto the lockdown key.

"Energy reflux cut off!"

Jiang Jiuyou then pressed the fire control.

"Artillery array, low-frequency suppression!"

Sixty-four artillery bases fired simultaneously, pressing the Tier 6 core inside the headless chest cavity back into a stable range.

Three seconds later.

The Hunter King's body lost power and slammed into the wilderness.

Boom!

The entire ground collapsed downward by dozens of meters.

System notifications flooded the screen.

[Cross-tier kill of Tier 6 unit: Star-Splitting Hunter King.]

[Tyrant Totem experience feedback triggered.]

[Fleet members gained massive experience.]

[Host level increased to Lv.42.]

[Loot settlement in progress...]

Seven-colored streamers exploded from beside the Hunter King's corpse.

Layer after layer.

The entire wilderness was illuminated.

The lower deck was completely in an uproar this time.

"It's dead!"

"The Tier 6 is really dead!"

"The Lord decapitated the Tier 6!"

The proprietress in the tavern flipped open the ledger.

"Who bet on decapitation?"

In the corner, a mine slave raised his hand, trembling.

"I... I bet half a bowl of soup worth of credits."

The proprietress looked down and her face turned green.

"You bet on the 1-to-30 tier?"

The mine slave was about to cry.

"Proprietress, you didn't change my order just now."

The proprietress's fox ears twitched for a long time, and finally, she gritted her teeth and wrote it in the ledger.

"Fine, I'll pay you out."

Su Xiaoqi immediately leaned in.

"Can it be exchanged for meat?"

The proprietress was on the verge of a breakdown.

"This is the money he won! It's not your extra meal!"

Chen Chen landed back on the fortress dome.

His body was splattered with some black blood, which was blocked by the gravity field on the outer layer.

He glanced at the Hunter King's corpse and then looked toward the main control room.

Shen Wanxing had already started backing away.

She clutched her blanket, wrapped herself into a ball, and tried to burrow into the corner.

"I'm not here."

"I'm asleep."

"I really won't touch the headless corpse..."

Shen Wanbing was still calculating the status of the Hunter King's core, and upon hearing this, her fingers paused.

"Wanxing, Tier 6 loot."

Shen Wanxing wrapped the blanket even tighter.

"Sister, you weren't like this before."

Blood Rose leaned against the doorframe, her face still pale, but she smiled mischievously.

"Little kitten, this is a fresh Tier 6; it won't hold its value once it expires."

Qin Hongye carried her sniper cannon down from the tower, the bandage on her right shoulder turning redder.

"Touch it before you sleep."

Jiang Yanxue wiped her blade.

"If you keep burrowing, Su Xiaoqi is going to take action."

Su Xiaoqi had already walked over, grabbing both sides of the blanket with her hands.

She thoughtfully gave it a forceful tug.

Shen Wanxing was pulled out along with the blanket, sliding half a meter across the floor.

"Sister Wanxing, fresh Tier 6, touch it while it's hot."

Shen Wanxing poked half her face out of the blanket, about to cry.

"Su Xiaoqi, when you say that, can you not drool?"

Su Xiaoqi wiped the oil from the corner of her mouth.

"I didn't drool much."

Mio floated nearby, having completely given up struggling.

"You just finished killing a Tier 6, and your first priority is looting the corpse and considering if it's edible."

"The level of civilization is very stable."

Chen Chen pushed the door open and entered, reaching out to grab Shen Wanxing by the back of her collar.

Shen Wanxing immediately closed her eyes and played dead.

"I've fainted."

Chen Chen placed her on the external lifting platform.

"After you touch it, I'll give you three days."

Shen Wanxing opened one eye.

"Really?"

"Really."

"Hot water, aromatherapy, soft bed?"

"Yes."

"Won't wake me up in the middle of the night?"

Chen Chen paused for a moment.

Shen Wanxing immediately became alert.

"You hesitated!"

Chen Chen dragged her toward the Hunter King's corpse.

"Touch it first."

On the wilderness, the Hunter King's headless corpse was still smoking.

The severed head was stuck in a crystal sand pit not far away, its blood-red vertical pupils already half-extinguished.

Shen Wanxing stood beside the corpse, her legs trembling.

"Can I touch the loot light orb and not touch the corpse itself?"

Shen Wanbing reminded her over the communication channel.

"The Tier 6 core residue hasn't fully solidified yet; direct contact yields the highest returns."

Shen Wanxing sniffled.

"I hate your professional advice."

Su Xiaoqi crouched nearby, holding a large pot in her hands.

"Sister Wanxing, after you touch it, I'll save the most tender piece for you."

Shen Wanxing was on the verge of a breakdown.

"Who wants to eat the Hunter King!"

Chen Chen raised his hand and pressed down on the dark red core still pulsing in the Hunter King's chest cavity.

He stabbed the sea-stabilizing needle into the side, the blue-gold light patterns sealing the final energy tremors.

"Touch here."

Shen Wanxing closed her eyes and extended a finger.

Her fingertip touched the shell of the Tier 6 core.

Hum—

The golden light lit up first.

Then, seven-colored streamers exploded from beneath the corpse, shooting straight up to the bottom of the fortress.

System notifications popped up frantically.

[Lucky Critical triggered.]

[100x multiplier area activated!]

[Tier 6 Hunter King loot quality limit jumped.]

[Obtained: Tier 6 Star-Splitting Hunter King Core ×1.]

[Obtained: SSS-grade Blueprint · Star-Splitting Main Cannon Array.]

[Obtained: Mythical-grade Fragment Clue · Star Fortress Second Fragment Coordinates.]

[Obtained: Hunter King Flesh-and-Blood Armor Embryo ×1.]

[Obtained: Tier 6 Space Melting Protocol Fragment ×30.]

Shen Wanbing looked up sharply.

"Second fragment coordinates?"

Mio's projection instantly flashed in front of the screen.

"Don't click it!"

"Isolate it first!"

But the notifications hadn't finished yet.

The Hunter King's head, which had already gone dark, suddenly saw its blood-red vertical pupils light up again.

A strange, gray-white mechanical voice came from the broken skull cavity.

"Second fragment coordinates have been made public."

"Gray-White Mechanical Holy Court, received."