165: Chapter 165: A Physical Black Hole Pulls the Spaceship! The System Drops Ancient Poisonous Mushrooms!

Deep within the Ancient Star Sea Battlefield,

Inside the graveyard of an ancient divine kingdom.

"Hum————!!!"

The interstellar sports car, crafted entirely from Taiyi Glazed Gold, let out an overburdened engine roar.

Lei Xiao scrambled into the cockpit, frantically smashing his fist against the highest-level escape button on the console.

"Activate maximum power! Spatial Warp!! Get me the hell out of this ghostly place!!!"

"Beep! Spatial coordinates locked... Warp engine charged to 100%... Preparing to..."

In front of the sports car, the void began to twist violently, and a spatial wormhole radiating azure light was rapidly taking shape.

In just half a breath's time, this priceless sports car could instantly teleport Lei Xiao a million miles away.

"Thinking of leaving?"

Standing on the ruins, Lin Que watched the sports car about to dive into the wormhole, his deep heterochromatic eyes showing not a hint of impatience.

He lazily raised both arms.

Left arm 'Shaohai Point', right arm 'quchi point'.

Two miniature starfall acupoints, recently lit up by the **Great Desolation Star-Fall Body**, erupted with deep dark-golden starlight from beneath Lin Que's skin!

Fifty-two million catties of extreme physical mass!

Lin Que didn't release any binding Formations; he simply aimed both arms at the sports car and made a sudden inward clutching motion with his fingers!

"Great Desolation Star-Fall Body — Dual-Point Collapse! Get back here!!!"

Rumble————!!!!!

In an instant, an utterly unreasonable 'stellar collapse-level physical gravity' gushed out from between Lin Que's palms!

This gravity even distorted the surrounding light, forming two visible black gravitational bands in mid-air that savagely coiled around the interstellar sports car about to enter the wormhole!

"Creeeeak... Crack crack crack!!!"

An incredibly horrifying scene unfolded!

The sports car, equipped with the Star Sea's top-tier warp engine, was actually forced to a dead stop in mid-air!

The front half of the car had already entered the wormhole, but the rear half was held fast by Lin Que's terrifying physical black hole.

Two massive tearing forces clashed frantically; the hardened chassis made of Taiyi Glazed Gold let out shrill metallic twisting sounds as terrifying cracks burst across its surface!

"Warning! Warning! Encountering ultra-high-mass black hole gravitational field! Spatial warp failed! Engine approaching overload explosion!!!"

Inside the cockpit, piercing red lights flashed frantically.

Looking into the holographic rearview mirror, Lei Xiao saw the white-robed youth holding his war chariot in mid-air like a toy with just his bare hands, and he was so terrified his Soul nearly emerged from his body!

"What kind of monster is this?! He didn't even use mana!! He's holding back a spatial warp with pure strength?!!"

Seeing the sports car about to be torn apart by Lin Que's raw power,

"Aaaaaah! I can't die here!!"

Lei Xiao went completely mad. He bit the tip of his tongue and spat a mouthful of life-essence blood onto a black Formation Plate on the console.

"Cancel warp! Switch to conventional curvature max speed! Charge into that Forbidden Ground ahead!! Move!!!"

"Boom—!"

The rear of the sports car erupted with violent blood-colored exhaust flames, forcibly severing the connection to the spatial wormhole. Using the thrust from the explosion, it pathetically broke free from a sliver of Lin Que's gravitational pull and turned into a streak of light, fleeing frantically toward a dark-red continent deeper within the graveyard.

"Fleeing quite fast, aren't you?"

Lin Que slowly lowered his arms, dissipating the gravitational black hole at his fingertips.

He watched the direction the car fled, a playful smile exclusive to a hunter curling at the corner of his mouth.

"However, this graveyard is filled with the Law of Resentment from ancient powerhouses after their death. Running blindly like that—are you tired of living?"

Lin Que wasn't in a hurry to give chase; he leisurely stepped forward.

Shrinking the earth into inches.

Every step he took spanned thousands of miles.

The fifty-two million catties of the **Nirvana Hegemon Body** brutally crushed the surrounding broken Laws of the divine kingdom like smashing glass.

...

A short while later.

Following the psionic trail left by the sports car, Lin Que arrived before an eerie primordial jungle.

The trees in this jungle towered into the clouds, but they were a nauseating dark red, and twisted human faces actually grew upon their trunks.

Blood-red spores, dense as snowflakes, floated in the air.

"God's Weeping Blood Forest."

Lin Que recognized this place.

Fragmented intelligence bought from the black market mentioned that this was a Forbidden Ground evolved from the decayed blood and visceral Qi of a Half-Step Dao Integration Realm powerhouse after their fall.

Those blood-colored spores were known as 'Primordial Blood Spores'. Once they touched the skin, they would instantly take root in the Sea of Consciousness, drain a Cultivator's true essence, and even produce terrifying hallucinations that paralyzed the mind.

At this moment, Lei Xiao's sports car was pathetically stuck in the middle of a giant ancient tree deep within the jungle.

The car's shield had been corroded into pits and hollows by the blood spores.

Lei Xiao hid in the cockpit, tightly clutching a top-tier Poison-Warding Jade Talisman that radiated a clear light.

When he saw Lin Que actually walk into the blood forest without hesitation, a venomous joy erupted in his eyes.

"Hahaha! Fool! You actually dare to enter the God's Weeping Blood Forest with your Physical Body!!"

Lei Xiao laughed maniacally into the communicator:

"These blood spores penetrate everything; even a Peak Void Returning Realm Cultivator would lose a layer of skin! So what if your Physical Body is strong? Once these spores burrow into your brain, this Young Lord will see how you die!!!"

Just as Lei Xiao expected.

The moment Lin Que stepped into the blood forest,

The sky full of Primordial Blood Spores acted like bloodthirsty flies smelling a peerless delicacy, pouncing frantically toward Lin Que!

Densely packed, they instantly wrapped his white clothes until he became a horrifying 'blood-red snowman'!

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle—"

The moment the spores touched Lin Que's skin, they immediately released a vicious neurotoxin and attempted to grow barbs to pierce into Lin Que's pores to suck his blood.

"Sucking my blood?"

Wrapped like a blood-man, Lin Que came to a halt.

He didn't release his protective true essence, nor was he in a hurry to break free. Those heterochromatic eyes flickered in the darkness with a look one might give an idiot.

"In this day and age, how can even plants be so lacking in discernment?"

In his mind, Lin Que gave a crisp snap of his fingers.

"System."

"I'll take the powerhouse's blood resentment Origin contained in these primordial spores as fertilizer."

"As for the side effects of 'blood-sucking parasitism' and 'nerve paralysis'..."

Lin Que's gaze accurately pierced through the jungle, locking onto Lei Xiao, who was laughing wildly inside the sports car's shield.

"The usual."

"Package and compress them for me, then precision-airdrip them into that Young Lord's high-grade cabin."

"Let him have a good time growing mushrooms in his car."

[Ding! side effect transfer system activated!]

[Detected Primordial Plant-type Debuff: Blood Spore Parasitism (Violent blood-sucking, deep mental paralysis, physical mutation).]

[Locking transfer target: Heavenly God Heavy Industry Young Lord, Lei Xiao!]

[Logic reconstruction complete! Ignoring physical shields and Magic Treasure defenses! Karma line forcibly bound!]

[Transfer, begin!!]

Hum————!!!

The very instant the prompt finished in Lin Que's mind!

An eerie scene played out within the God's Weeping Blood Forest!

The thick layer of blood-red spores covering Lin Que suddenly lost all aggressiveness.

Those originally vicious barbs instantly shattered upon contact with Lin Que's Nirvana Hegemon Body!

Immediately after, the **Blood Scripture** began to circulate!

His purple-gold blood Qi acted like a greedy millstone, directly grinding these side-effect-free primordial spores into the purest blood Qi Origin and swallowing them into his inner heaven and earth!

"Refreshing. The blood of a powerhouse indeed tastes much more mellow than that of ordinary pirates."

Lin Que cracked his neck with enjoyment.

Meanwhile, inside the sports car a thousand feet away.

"Hahaha, he can't move! He's paralyzed! Go to hell for this Young Lord... Uh-ah?!!"

Lei Xiao's wild laughter abruptly caught in his throat.

He looked down in absolute terror.

The top-tier Poison-Warding Jade Talisman in his hand, which claimed to block all toxins, suddenly shattered into powder with a 'crack' for no apparent reason!

Following that,

On the back of his hands, his neck, and even his cheeks, foul-smelling blood-red poisonous mushrooms began to sprout frantically and illogically!!!

"What is this?! Get off!! Get away from me!!!"

Lei Xiao went insane!

He desperately tried to claw the red mushrooms off his face, but their root Systems seemed to have burrowed deep into his marrow and Sea of Consciousness.

Every mushroom he pulled out took a large chunk of flesh with it!

Even more terrifyingly, a deep neurotoxin flowed along the Karma line and poured directly into his Soul!

The mana he had cultivated for years and the Heavenly God Bloodline he was so proud of were being frantically devoured by these eerily growing mushrooms!

"No... don't... the shield clearly isn't broken... where did this poison come from..."

Lei Xiao collapsed in the driver's seat, foaming at the mouth and twitching all over.

Blood-colored spore mushrooms had even begun to sprout from his eye sockets and nostrils, turning him into a horrifying 'vegetable man'.

His pride as a high-and-mighty corporate Young Lord was laughably inferior to a dog's in the face of the System's illogical 'dimensional strike'.

"Tap. Tap. Tap."

Just as Lei Xiao's consciousness was about to sink into endless paralysis and darkness,

A set of crisp footsteps stepped onto the car's hood.

Lin Que had arrived before the sports car at some unknown point.

He casually reached out his right hand, which shimmered with a dark-golden luster.

"Bang!!!"

The Taiyi Glazed Gold shield, capable of withstanding the heavy assault of a Mid-stage Void Returning Realm expert, was crudely crushed like a fragile eggshell before Lin Que's fifty-two million catties of extreme monstrous strength!

Lin Que lifted the mushroom-covered, half-dead Lei Xiao out of the cockpit with one hand like he was picking up a chick.

"You... you... devil..."

Lei Xiao murmured despairingly with his last shred of consciousness.

"I'm a fairly reasonable person."

Lin Que looked at him coldly:

"You've done well as a guide, so I'll grant your wish for a quick death."

"Blood Scripture — Soul Search, Marrow Extraction!!!"

Lin Que's fingers slammed onto Lei Xiao's skull!

Without any nonsense, purple-gold demonic flames dove directly into Lei Xiao's Sea of Consciousness!

"Aaaaaah————!!!"

Amidst shrill screams, this Prodigy of the Central Star Sea was domineeringly treated by Lin Que as a 'living USB drive'!

All the secrets and techniques of Heavenly God Heavy Industry in his mind, and most importantly, the detailed exploration map of this Ancient Star Sea Battlefield graveyard, were brutally extracted and copied into Lin Que's own Sea of Consciousness!

In just ten short breaths' time,

"Thud."

Lei Xiao turned into a dried corpse stripped of all value, mixed with withered mushrooms, and was tossed disdainfully by Lin Que into the blood-colored mire below.

"Whew..."

Lin Que closed his eyes, digesting the massive amount of information gained from the Soul search.

Under the nourishment of this blood Qi and Divine Soul, his Mid-stage Void Returning Star Domain Realm Peak cultivation became as unshakable as a monolith.

Suddenly, Lin Que snapped his eyes open!

In those deep eyes, an unprecedented, extreme fervor erupted!

"So that's how it is..."

"Heavenly God Heavy Industry prepared for three hundred years, and it wasn't for these outer divine kingdom ruins at all."

Lin Que looked toward the innermost core of the graveyard.

In that dark region where even light could not escape, according to Lei Xiao's memory map,

There floated an ultimate fortune capable of driving the entire Ancient Star Sea Battlefield mad—the 'Ancient Star Core Heart'!

That was the ultimate fruit of that Half-Step Dao Integration Realm powerhouse's lifelong cultivation and Major Thousand Worlds Laws!

As long as he swallowed it, never mind the Late Void Returning Realm, even breaking through to that legendary 'One Hundred Million Catty Extreme Realm' would be a certainty!

"A big map, a big dinner plate."

Lin Que's large red cloak snapped as he moved, his arrogant laughter echoing through the deathly silent primordial jungle.

"I'm claiming all the dishes in this divine kingdom graveyard!"

"Let's go!"

"To the innermost depths, to flip the table!!!"