[After leaving online communication, you lower your head and say, "..."]

Because the chief is kneeling at your feet, you can't see him unless you look down.

"You are the true ruler of this planet, the only king of this abandoned mine." He wept bitterly, "I am willing to pledge my allegiance to you, I am willing to give you everything I have, I am willing to surrender all that I possess..."

"Unconditional surrender? Interesting."

"But I seem to remember you saying before that you were willing to pay any price, even if it meant burning this planet, betting half of your conglomerate on killing me?"

You stared at his aged face, speaking slowly and deliberately.

"So, it's because you weren't among them."

"It looks a lot like the Japanese version."

"They are comparable to their close relatives, the royal family."

Yun Shou is eating melon seeds.

"During the war, they shouted that they would fight to the death for 100 million people, to achieve a 'small goal' level of imperial annihilation."

"When the nuclear bomb was detonated, it was discovered that others possessed lethal weapons that could bypass the hundred million scapegoats and directly attack them. They immediately went limp and knelt down."

"Generous and fearless, generous with the generosity of others, and fearless of others."

Many "ruthless people" are like this. You see how ruthless they are, willing to kill millions of people, claiming they are willing to pay any price to do something... that's because they don't have to pay the price.

[You didn't kill the old man. Just as you said before, you wanted to experience the dynamics of that close-range explosion with him.]

Let him slowly die, experiencing the despair of sliding into the abyss; that's more painful than being killed instantly.

[Furthermore, you discover that the old man doesn't have any practical means to stop the sunlight from falling.]

The elders' authority derives from their prestige.

[They don't have real power; otherwise, what if some old geezer, nearing his death, suddenly decides to take everyone down with him... that would be terrible.]

[For the next while, no matter how much he pleaded, you remained unmoved, quietly waiting for a spaceship to fly overhead and drop down a few small objects.]

"I asked them to have one to try, but they weren't comfortable with that and threw me seven. Are they worried I won't have enough?" You looked up and clicked your tongue.

You're chatting with the dying old man beside you: "In your final moments, is there anything meaningful you want to say to them? Like scolding them for not understanding filial piety? I'm kind-hearted, I can help you pass on your message."

The Chief has clearly seen those increasingly larger black dots. He knows he is doomed and cannot escape. Within the blast radius of the upcoming explosion, even if you suddenly and kindly remove your exoskeleton and let him slip inside, then flee at top speed... he still won't escape!

He turned his resentful gaze to you: "Fool! You're too proud, too arrogant! The mistakes we made are now happening to you, but you won't have many more chances!"

"You will be buried with me!"

The moment the enormous orange fireball spread out above your heads, various forms of radiation and shockwaves erupted, completely disrupting the surrounding electromagnetic signals.

The powerful air pressure swept downwards, and before the fireball even reached them, it created a chaotic hurricane on the ground a hundred meters below. Had the chief elder not possessed a second-realm cultivation level, he would have been blown into a tumbling mess on the ground, perishing from the aftershocks before being engulfed by the flames.

"It's ready." In that instant, you stored the eleventh generation War Dragon into your spatial ring, facing alone the seven Supreme Martial Lights in the sky.

【Light! 】

[Infinite light! Endless light! Limitless light!]

It was a thousand times more blinding than the sun as seen by the naked eye. Being in the midst of this violent explosion, you felt everything around you filled with light and heat.

[When the first wave of light and heat descended upon the earth, the chief beside you let out only a short cry before being engulfed. His manipulative power, having reached the first stage of Inner Manipulation, was torn apart like a piece of paper in an instant. His fragile body was burned to charcoal in the blink of an eye under the flames, losing all vitality in less than a tenth of its former state. His soul was even incinerated by the aurora the moment it left his body!]

Even a true immortal... even the Lord of the Universe couldn't save him, because he was utterly and completely dead!

[A fraction of a second later, the second, third, and fourth waves of light and heat surged forth, and then, a fraction of a second later, the final three waves arrived.]

[Now, the full power of the seven Radiant Heavens is revealed before your eyes!]

The land within a hundred miles was scorched black; the soil and underground minerals were melted, evaporated, lifted up, and blown away!

The ground resembled an ocean, with ripples and tremors spreading across the soil. Amidst these tremors, rock and earth cracked and shattered!

Destruction!

Seven mushroom clouds coalesced, shooting into the sky hundreds of kilometers high, having already pierced the atmosphere and bloomed in space!

"No, this atmosphere is only 100 kilometers high?"

The atmosphere did not stop the giant mushroom cloud from growing, because it had already been torn to shreds and churned into scattered fine air currents by the chaotic radiation seven seconds after the explosion.

Currently, a large amount of air is leaking into space. It will take at least ten days for the atmosphere here to recover. This means that for the next month or two, the air will feel thin and difficult to breathe within a radius of several hundred kilometers.

[If one remains at the epicenter of the explosion, they will be directly exposed to the light of the lower-world sun, causing various illnesses.]

"Ah, I think the illnesses caused by nuclear radiation are more numerous."

[Directly below the explosion, the earth beneath your feet was blasted away, but you stood firmly in mid-air, your entire body protected by Yuan Power, True Qi, Spirit Power, and Control Power.]

The protective shield formed by these combined forces enveloped your entire body, yet even the impact of a city-destroying force only caused minor ripples.

"Not bad," you remarked, standing right in the center of the nuclear explosion.

[Being hundreds of meters away from the epicenter of the explosion, yet still able to shake your protective aura in the slightest—this is an extremely terrifying feat!]

"If I were at the very center of the explosion, it would take a huge amount of my manipulative power to ensure I remain unharmed—and without using manipulative power to protect myself, I would be injured and need ten minutes to recover and expel the radiation."

[You've already tried those things in the future, so there's no need to do them now; it would damage your image.]

Moments later, the power of the heavens had spread outwards. You dispelled your protective shield, and amidst the billowing smoke and dust, the hem of your clothes was slightly soiled.

[Then he put the exoskeleton back on, rolled around on the ground a few times to get some dirt on it.]