# Chapter 2799: You Call This a Self-Defense Weapon?
Ever since returning from the Final Abyss Star Domain, Jiangnan had been holed up in the Source Flow Timeless Array!
There were still 28 days left, and with the tenfold time difference making it 280 days, that was enough time for Jiangnan to push upward another wave!
And ever since Jiangnan went to the Eternal Gale, Zhong Yingxue and the others had been cultivating in the Timeless Array without ever coming out!
Only five months had passed on the outside, but for Zhong Yingxue and the others inside the Array, their subjective experience had been a full 50 months—equivalent to over four years!
They missed Jiangnan so much it was driving them crazy, okay?
After all, they'd never been separated for this long. Although they were cultivating in the Array, they were fully aware of everything happening in the outside world!
They just didn't come out because they couldn't help much anyway. They might as well use this time to improve themselves!
Now, Zhong Yingxue, Xia Yao, Wu Liang, and the others had all cultivated to around Transcendent Level 8 or 9!
For them, they could probably break through to Star Devourer around Level 10 or 11!
But Jiangnan still wasn't quite at that final step.
When Wu Liang saw Jiangnan's Transcendent Level 17 cultivation, he was petrified on the spot!
=͟͟͞͞(꒪ᗜ꒪‧̣̥̇) "Brother Nan... did you deliberately hold back your grades just to wait for us? You really don't need to! You should just break through when you can!"
"You've stayed back so many grades, it's ridiculous! You could clearly go to middle school, so why keep staying in elementary school?"
Jiangnan covered his face. What the hell, staying back in school? I'd love to advance!
(•́ω•̀٥) "Well... I was thinking of making it a nice round number? Even staying back, I'm still faster than you guys!"
As for Mila and Lan, the two little ones, they had both smoothly reached Transcendent!
And Lan wasn't a little one anymore. She'd grown into a beautiful young woman, okay? She was even taller than Zhong Yingxue and Xia Yao, stunningly beautiful!
But she still loved wearing men's clothes...
As per their agreement, Jiangnan ultimately lost Mila's admiration. After coming back, he was still Transcendent!
But after understanding Mila's current abilities, and the skills and domains she'd awakened—
Jiangnan froze on the spot. Yeah... that makes sense...
With her being this strong, it's only right that she doesn't admire me anymore...
In the following days, Jiangnan cultivated in the Timeless Array. The energy within the Eternal Heart was far from fully absorbed!
Jiangnan was simultaneously absorbing the Array's energy and refining the Eternal Heart's internal energy, combining internal and external sources!
He barely had to worry about anything—just keep his heart beating, and he'd grow stronger!
During this period, Jiangnan also copied all the predecessor techniques and secret methods he'd inherited from the Eternal Gale into Ai Jiang's terminal database, making them available for humans to practice!
He also taught Zhong Yingxue, Wu Liang, and others some practical techniques they could use!
Presumably, even those predecessor wills would be gratified to know this, right?
The brilliance of eternity would be passed down in this way!
As time went on day by day, Jiangnan did quite a bit of lottery draws, scoring quite a few Human-Making Grasses!
He returned two to Black God, and fully turned Little Koi into a human!
He even used the Human-Making Grass to turn all the Bad Beast Squad into humans. He'd never forgotten Dragon Loach's entrustment!
He'd never mistreated the bad beasts he brought out from the Void Sea!
Because of the War Horn, his resentment points were endless. But even with all this lottery drawing, no new prizes came out!
He asked System Treasure, but got no response—not even any emoji packs...
This made Jiangnan feel a bit uncertain, but there wasn't much he could do...
Three days before the Third Ring was set to begin, Vivian's clones, which had been cultivating separately in various places, underwent a Great Unification!
She successfully broke through to Star Devourer, completing a qualitative leap in life level!
Yang Jian was overjoyed—he was practically ready to bang drums and gongs to celebrate. Finally, among the native humans, there was a Star Devourer, and one as freakish as Vivian at that!
As for Yakeli, ever since the conflict ended, he'd been taken by Li Bing to the Dawn Lab, and there had been no news since!
During this period, Jiang Fan had been wandering around the Final Abyss Star Domain, studying something or other...
And just like that, the day of the Pinnacle War finally arrived!
At the Gods' Burial Ground, everything was ready!
The various racial teams were also setting out for the competition arena!
Above the Lost Kingdom!
A majestic Cangxing Mobile War Base sat, shaped like a "✧". At its center, a Cangxing Energy Core emitted dense green energy beams, connecting heaven and earth, piercing through the entire base!
Outside the base, defensive star rings rotated!
This was a strategic-level mobile war base, capable of even withstanding intense attacks from Half-Step Star Devourer existences. Its functions were extremely diverse!
Now, humans could even mass-produce and sell them!
For this trip to the Gods' Burial Ground, they planned to ride this base there!
On Cangxing Square, most of the human upper echelon's expedition team had arrived!
A bunch of Transcendents were ready to watch the excitement!
As for the Star Devourers—
Chong Feiyu, Yakeli, and Vivian were all present. There was also Little Koi, who had become a human—a tender young boy in appearance!
He currently wore a salted fish hat that covered his ears, to block the blinding light emitted by his bald head!
He was playing Rock-Paper-Scissors with Wang Youzhi, a game where the loser gets flicked on the forehead!
Except Little Koi always went first...
As for Youming, they hadn't turned him into a human!
Although this Sequence War had nothing to do with the Netherworld race and Youming was quite free, since the Netherworld only had him as a Star Devourer, he needed to hold down the fort!
Besides, Jiang Fan had returned, so there was no longer any need to turn him human for help!
And there was Little Koi too~
As for Yakeli, he had now faded from Blood Crystal Muscle to Colorless Crystal Muscle, really turning into that acrylic board texture, for crying out loud!
But his mental state seemed pretty bad. He was squatting in a corner hugging his knees, muttering something unknown!
Odin was cackling:
(￢̫￢) "Lord Xiao~ Not so good, huh? At least I grabbed the title of humanity's first Transcendent, and even named the Transcendent level myself!"
"And now you missed the Star Devourer? Letting Vivian take the lead?"
Xiao Chuihuo's face darkened: (̿▀̿益▀̿̿ꐦ)̄ "You looking for a beating or what?"
"If I can't catch up with Star Devourer, isn't there still the Cosmos level?"
Odin was instantly petrified. What the hell, the Cosmos level? Lord Xiao's ambitions are a bit far-reaching, aren't they?
Even with his extraordinary talent, Xiao Chuihuo couldn't break through to Star Devourer before the Third Ring!
Even though he was at Transcendent Level 12, there was no sign of a breakthrough!
It was quite frustrating!
Since he couldn't be the first Star Devourer, he'd just have to aim for the Cosmos level instead!
Space rippled, and a beaming Jiangnan appeared on Cangxing Square with his team members!
When the human Transcendents looked at Jiangnan again, their hearts ached even more!
Transcendent Level 18, damn it! He actually cultivated that high!
They'd forgotten about this grade-repeater!
28 days of cultivation in the Timeless Array, with the infusion of the Eternal Heart, allowed Jiangnan to smoothly break through to Level 18 and accumulate toward the peak!
Level 17 was already freakish enough, and now another level up—sheesh~
Jiangnan looked around:
(๑•̌～•̑)ˀ̣ˀ̣ "Ahem~ Is everyone here? What about Brother Fan?"
Space rippled, and Jiang Fan landed on Cangxing Square as well!
His aura was even more ethereal than a month ago!
(˵¯͒～¯͒˵) "I'm still quite interested in being able to fight other races' Star Devourers~"
Yang Jian saw this and thought, Alright, both these divine beings are here. Nothing much to worry about now!
After all, these two living ancestors had literally dismantled the Guangke Star Domain!
Jiangnan grinned:
(͡°͜ʖ͡°)✧ "Then let's go! If I don't beat the shit out of other races' Star Devourers, I'll count it as them holding it in tight!"
Yang Jian: (｡≥3≤) Pfft~
The Cangxing Core erupted with extremely intense green light, and energy beams sprayed wildly up and down!
They instantly warped away...
---
West of the Starry Sky, outside the Gods' Burial Ground, quite a few war fortresses and armed starships were already parked!
In the starry sky, counting humans, there were 33 races with Star Devourer-level existences!
Most were already present, though there was no sign of the Angels!
And this time, the Star Devourers showing their faces for each race weren't the usual Star Devourer spokespeople handling daily affairs!
The strongest combat Star Devourers of each race had all surfaced!
Aboard the Star Dragon Ship of the Bose race, with Qian Li at the center, eight Star Devourers stood in a row, their aura shaking the heavens, stirring up storms!
This was the foundation of a Starry Sky Overlord!
Anyone who saw them would be intimidated!
But even more impossible to ignore were the Silicons. They had only sent their Mechanical Empire battleship, with no Giant God Soldiers in sight!
But anyone with common sense knew that the number of Silicon Giant God Soldiers far surpassed the Bose race's!
After all, back in the Bose-Silicon War, they had brought out 12 in one go!
As for the Dark Cosmos Entity, originally counting Noah, they had five Star Devourers. With the Ye sisters successfully breaking through, there were now seven Star Devourers present!
Noah wasn't even the strongest of their race!
The Apocalypse race wasn't far behind either. Originally three Star Devourers, plus Du Lingyu's breakthrough, they now had four holding the fort!
All the Star Devourers you'd normally see, and those you wouldn't, had all come out!
Add them up, and there were probably fifty or sixty of them!
These people combined could sweep across an entire era!
This was why the Third Ring was called the Pinnacle War!
They were the peak of the starry sky, the apex of the pyramid, existences looked up to by countless beings!
But right now, everyone was a bit puzzled. Why hadn't humans come yet?
Were they not participating or something? Why did they always show up last?
Just then, everyone saw a golden divine shadow approaching from afar!
A Cangxing on its chest was extremely dazzling!
It was Jiangnan's Will Divine Shadow, so massive it enveloped the entire war base!
This divine shadow walked through the starry sky with its hands in its pockets. Each step covered several light-years!
Around its body, ten supermassive black holes distorted space to the extreme, rotating around the golden divine shadow, shredding everything around into pieces!
All the Star Devourers stared at this scene with pale faces!
Jiangnan smiled brightly: (◦⁼̴ꇴ⁼̴◦) "Sorry to keep you all waiting. I saw some little trinkets on the way, so I picked them up, just in case I might need them later~"
At this moment, the faces of all the Star Devourers turned white!
The supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies!
You call these little trinkets?!
I ~%?…;#*’☆℃$!
How are we supposed to fight this?!
Jiangnan shrugged:
╮(•́ω•̀)╭ "Why are you all staring at me like that? We're about to have a Star Devourer boss fight, right? As a little Star Breaker like me, it's perfectly reasonable for me to bring some self-defense weapons, isn't it?"