Chapter 626: Scheme

The Demon God Clan was using the planet as a playground.

At that moment, Li Pin saw several missiles coming and exploding over the Demon God Clan, and a light as strong as the sun lit up the entire city above.

This was a nuclear bomb.

With this civilization's level of development—equivalent to the end of the twentieth century on Earth—this was already considered the ultimate weapon of civilization.

However, a nuclear bomb meant little to the Demon God Clan, whose members were born Demon Gods with power equivalent to the Legendary Realm right after their infancy stage.

That wasn't all. The three Demon God clansmen even appeared to be very happy with the light coming from the nuclear bomb, like children excited to see fireworks.

Immediately afterward, they destroyed the city with more and more vigor.

It seemed they believed that by destroying more of these small buildings, they would be able to see even more beautiful fireworks.

Seeing this scene, Li Pin crossed out from the flight vessel and pointed out, sending three streams of light shooting toward the three Demon God clansmen.

Almost as soon as he appeared and struck, a powerful force of the inner spirit swept over Li Pin. It was accompanied by the spiritual resonance that was the first to pass over.

"Stop!" the spiritual resonance ordered.

Unfortunately, the shout arrived too late. No, even if it weren't late, Li Pin wouldn't pull back his attack.

As the three streams of light ran through the heads of these three Demon God Clansmen, their positivity, excitement, and joy came to an abrupt end.

Swoosh.

In the next moment, a figure dozens of meters tall utilized the means of Astral World Traversal and appeared in an instant outside of the ship that Li Pin was in.

When he saw that the flying vessel adopted the systematic style of the Divine Treasury Hall, the newcomer's face turned taut. Still, relying on the confidence that came with being a member of the Demon God Clan, he snapped, "Who are you people? Why are you attacking members of our Demon God Clan?"

Li Pin glanced at him for a moment, his brows raised. Then, His gaze drifted toward the planet below, and he said, "Isn't it obvious? I'm a human. I saw the Demon God Clan killing other humans, so I retaliated by killing them. Is there a problem?"

"The Human Race?" This Demon God had a hint of anger in his eyes. "How are they members of the Human Race? They are just a bunch of natives! Natives are like ants surviving in the cosmic forest, with nests and nests of them everywhere. How are they qualified to be called members of the Human Race? You, for the sake of such lowly ants, actually killed members of my clan?"

Li Pin replied calmly, "Ants? In my opinion, these creatures from the Demon God Clan that don't even have intelligence are just bugs that are slightly larger than ants."

"Who said they don't have intelligence!?"

"If they had intelligence, they wouldn't be killing indiscriminately like this."

"They... they..." The Demon God paused for a moment, then continued angrily, "They're just children!"

Li Pin looked toward the city below. "Children, huh...."

His eyes looked past the city into the further distance. In other cities, a similar phenomenon had already occurred. At least hundreds of cities had been reduced to rubble. As for whether there were any civilizations farther away that had fallen to the same fate as this planet, he did not know.

For civilizations that had not yet birthed a Legend or set foot into the cosmic realm, crossing paths with the Demon God clansmen spelled certain doom.

"I don't see it," Li Pin commented.

The Demon God snapped, "You dare to strike at the children of our Demon God Clan! You must give my clan an explanation for today's matter, or else, even if you are a Divine Being, we will never let this matter rest!"

𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

"An explanation?" Li Pin looked at the Demon God. "You want an explanation? Simple! Call those of you who can fight, beat me, and I will give you an explanation!"

"You!"

The Demon God's eyes burned with rage. He took out a bell and shook it.

A special ripple escaped from the bell. This ripple didn't only propagate in the Material World, but even affected the Astral World. Aided by the Astral World's subtlety, it spread through the vast starry sky, traveling faster than light by an unknown magnitude.

Seeing this, Xuan Jian frowned. He said to Li Pin, "If I'm not wrong, these Demon Gods are likely to have been made use of by certain people. It's just that they themselves are unaware of this. After all, this race has always been known for their simple-mindedness and pure thinking."

"I don't think so," Li Pin calmly replied. "It's true that condensing inner spirit requires pure thinking, but that doesn't mean simple-mindedness. In any case, it doesn't matter. Whether they're being exploited or have willingly accepted benefits to graze beyond the Candle Light Star Ring, the result is the same. When you do something wrong, you have to pay the price of your transgressions."

Astral God Xuan Jian parted his lips as if to speak, but ultimately held his tongue. He made no attempt to persuade Li Pin.

This was a competition for Astral God Yin Luo's successor. No matter how many participants there were, there would only be one victor in this competition. Everyone else would become the victor's sustenance, helping them reach the pinnacle.

And that pinnacle might not necessarily be an Astral God. After all, this was the inheritance of a Cosmic Radiance. At the very least, it could push a cultivator into the realm of Solar Radiances. There was even so much as a glimmer of hope of glimpsing the mysteries of the Cosmic Radiance.

This kind of chance was worth fighting desperately for in the eyes of countless great clans and families.

If it wasn't for the Homo Sapien Alliance applying pressure from above, the contenders for Astral God Yin Luo's inheritance would be more than just such a small number of great families and clans. It would be normal for the number of contenders to multiply by a hundred.

It was no exaggeration to say that the value of this inheritance was no less than a Cosmic Radiance Divine Weapon.

If it wasn't for the fact that it was often necessary to pay all the new generations of a galaxy for hundreds of stellar years as a price, which was slightly inhumane, the Homo Sapien Alliance would even go on a rampage to implement this inheritance system.

Buzz!

As Astral God Xuan Jian pondered, a figure quickly arrived.

"Who dares kill someone from the Demon God Clan!"

"There's still someone in the Yuan Yang Star Domain who dares to go against my Demon God Clan? Outrageous!"

"Ying Luang, what's the situation here? Why did you activate a high-level order for help?"

Those who were strong enough descended directly using the Astral World Traversal method. As for those who weren't strong enough, they travelled using various flying tools.

Before long, three Tier Six Legends and over ten Tier Five Legends had gathered.

"It looks like they really don't know what they're doing."

Xuan Jian glanced at Li Pin. “Your battle record had already spread through the Divine Treasury Hall circle dozens of stellar years ago. I can’t say for certain whether those in the Frostbound Star Abyss know your true strength, but everyone in the Yuan Yang Star Domain does. And yet, they didn’t send a combat-specialized Astral God avatar. Instead, the ones who showed up first were some fairly promising Tier Five or Six Legends...”

At this time, a Tier Six Legend who arrived later seemed to recognize Li Pin, and his expression turned tense. "You're Li Pin?"

"That's not important." Li Pin's gaze turned to the several Tier Six Legends in the lead. "A pawn should know better and act accordingly."

One of the Tier Six Legends spoke in a deep voice. "Li Pin, we know you are very strong. But we, the Demon God Clan, are not pushovers. If you don't give us an explanation for what happened tod—"

"You guys want an explanation?" interjected Li Pin.

He took a step forward, and gravitational waves twisted beneath his feet.

Under the effect of the gravitational waves, he drew the several Demon God Clan's Legends closer toward him as he surged forward with terrifying acceleration.

"I'll give you guys an explanation."

Relying on this two-directional acceleration, Li Pin crossed the distance between him and the Tier Six Legend in a single leap.

He pressed down lightly, and space itself seemed to fall under his control.

At this moment, all power fluctuations were blocked.

Seeing this, the expression of the Tier Six Legend who had recognized Li Pin twisted with anger, and he sternly shouted, "How dare you!"

Suddenly, a special energy fluctuation escaped from him, reaching out to the Astral Realm.

Xuan Jian sensed the energy fluctuation and quickly recognized what it was.

"The Godfall Stone!" There was astonishment in Xuan Jian's eyes. He seemed to find this scene incomprehensible. "Why!?"

Why does the Demon God Clan want to deal with Li Pin?! It doesn't make any sense!

Buzz!

In the next moment, a terrifying energy fluctuation descended.

This was the power belonging to the Astral Gods of the Astral World.

Some Astral Gods projected their long-prepared avatars over, wanting to intervene in this battlefield.

The moment these avatars were projected down, someone in the direction of the Homo Sapien Alliance had already observed it. There was no need to report the situation to them.

That was because, the one who first noticed this situation was none other than Lan Yunguang, the consul of the Homo Sapien Alliance Yin Luo Galaxy Office.

"As expected, they got into a fight," Lan Yunguang muttered, sighing. "Li Pin's character is really..."

"It is precisely because of his character that it is the most appropriate to have him test that genius from the Golden Emperor Clan."

There were several other people who were present with Lan Yunguang. One of them was the Astral God of the Yuan Yang Domain's Ji Clan, Ji Wudao.

The Yuan Yang Radiance at the very core of the Yuan Yang Star Domain was ruled by the Yuan, Shang, and Ji Clans. Each of these three clans had a Solar Radiance sitting at its helm.

"This is all because he was unwilling to join us. We've extended a few sincere invitations, but we never got any response from him. There's no helping it then. There is destined to be only one victor in the battle for Yin Luo's successor!"

Lan Yunguang said, "Speaking of which, if this matter is exposed, aren't you guys afraid of offending Li Pin? I'm not in the same system as the Divine Treasury Hall, and I can curry favor with Lord Daylight Radiance, so it's alright for me. But for you guys... you've all read the information, Li Pin's talent is amazing."

"If we keep it to ourselves, who will find out that we are the ones secretly planning all these?" replied Ji Wudao, smiling. "They will only think that this is the forces gathered by that Golden Emperor Clan's genius to remove dissidents. It's just that Li Pin had unfortunately kicked the iron plate."

At this moment, the Yuan Clan's Astral God also coldly snorted. "This matter concerns the competition for Astral God Yin Luo's successor, so we can only press on forward. We have no choice but to make use of special means.

"After all, with the Golden Emperor Clan's hegemony, unless we declared our withdrawal from the competition more than a dozen stellar years ago, we'd be on their list of people they'd hold a grudge for. If it wasn't for that person inquiring about the whereabouts of our clans' old ancestors in the Astral World, we wouldn't have taken such a risk."

"The inquiry about the whereabouts of the grand patriarchs of your respective clans is just a deterrent. If we were to really go to war, given the Golden Emperor Clan's small population, they can't afford to lose anyone," Lan Yunguang pointed out.

"Since he has taken action, he can't blame us for retaliating." Ji Wudao looked at the data on the screen. "Speaking of which, this Li Pin is really useful. As long as you grasp his characteristic flaws, he's really a good sword that doesn't compromise."

The Yuan Clan's Astral God nodded. "The Demon Gods are the lackeys serving the Golden Emperor Clan! You still have to look at who the master is before you beat up a dog. We don't have to worry that the Golden Emperor Clan won't step forward to interfere. On the other hand, Li Pin is extremely arrogant. That, in addition to his astonishing strength.... Well, we'll have a good show coming up."

When the others heard this, all of them broke into a smile at the same time.