Chapter 2992: Standing at the Cliff's Edge!
But if only Jiang Fan's sword was that easy to block!
Even weakened by Wanxiang, it wasn't something a Star Devourer could block!
The Star Devourer who charged forward was like paper or clay, completely unable to block it. However, Yuan Yi managed to buy time, allowing everyone to join forces and tear open space!
This allowed Jiang Fan's sword to slash into the dimensional gap, not landing.
But Yuan Yi would never return...
His figure had completely disappeared under the starry sky, ruthlessly crushed by the blooming world.
Since the start of the war, there had actually been few cases of Star Devourer deaths, only a handful.
But this time, there would be no more miracles.
Yuan Yi was gone, dying under Jiang Fan's sword to protect his race.
The Dark Cosmos Entity race was filled with grief. Noah and the Ye sisters looked at Jiang Fan with unyielding hatred.
This was a blood feud that would not end until death.
But Jiang Fan merely watched calmly, as if crushing an insect, not worth his attention.
In Jiang Fan's eyes, these lives were no different from roadside grass and trees.
Jiang Fan's gaze fell on Wanxiang.
"Just hide in the dimensional gap and watch. Your cowardice will bring destruction to the ten thousand races of the starry sky."
"This is only the beginning!"
Wanxiang gritted his teeth: "You..."
But before he could finish, Jiang Fan had already disappeared from everyone's sight.
Yang Jian's face was as gloomy as water.
Retreating was no good; it would just suit Jiang Fan's wishes. Without anyone to stop the Finality Plan, they wouldn't last until Jiangnan returned.
But not retreating meant facing Jiang Fan's blade, each swing taking countless lives.
Caught in a dilemma! Jiang Fan was driving the Carbon Alliance and Matter Alliance into a corner.
Once, as a pride of humanity, he was so formidable and reliable; now, he was that difficult to deal with.
Jiang Fan... was someone no one wanted to be enemies with.
But at this moment, he was indeed standing against everyone.
"Use every method! Stall!"
Other than stalling, there was no other way. They couldn't retreat, and they definitely couldn't give up Wanxiang. They could only hope that Xiao Chuihuo could create a miracle.
No one could have imagined that in just half a year's time,
the situation had already become so perilous.
And at this moment, Jiang Fan had already appeared above the home star domain of the Celestial Star Race.
He swung his sword and slashed!
Wanxiang and the others arrived shortly after.
Through the spatial rift, they saw Jiang Fan swinging his sword, and below was the cradle and home of the Celestial Star Race.
"I'll fight you to the death!"
Wanxiang charged outward recklessly, but Black God grabbed his arm with a serious expression.
"You can't go out! If you go out, I won't be able to protect you..."
Wanxiang's eyes were filled with powerlessness. He knew he absolutely could not act impulsively.
But...
"Ahhh!"
In the end, he did not step out of the dimensional gap. Instead, he erupted with all his power, even burning his life essence and world origin.
He condensed a star river canopy, trying to block Jiang Fan's sword.
But reality was cruel; he still couldn't block it.
The star river canopy was torn apart. Jiang Fan's sword slashed fiercely into the Celestial Star Race's star domain, annihilating countless stars.
This sword did not dissipate as usual. The world exploded, and countless starlight bloomed like meteors, as brilliant as fireworks.
Those were not meteors, but star scars.
All these star scars fell upon the warriors of the Celestial Star Race. Swathes of stars were imprinted with star scars, branded with a mark of shame.
Seeing this, Xing Lan, Ming Quan, and Mai Liushi could no longer hold back.
No one could remain indifferent upon seeing this.
Once a clansman was marked with a star scar, they were essentially crippled. Unless Jiang Fan died, there was no solution.
While large swathes of starlight had yet to fall, Xing Lan, Ming Quan, and Mai Liushi charged upward recklessly.
They tried to destroy the star scars that hadn't yet bloomed, saving what they could.
However, Youming firmly held onto Mai Liushi.
"No! You can't go! Calm down. You are Star Devourers, with greater strategic value. Others can be sacrificed, but you cannot be lost. Once..."
Mai Liushi roared like a madman: "Let go! Let go of me! Those are my clansmen! Not everything in this world can be measured by value!"
"There will always be times when you have to throw caution to the wind! This is one of them!"
"Release me!"
A gravitational pulse blasted heavily onto Youming, and Mai Liushi finally broke free, charging toward the starlight.
The three did prevent large swathes of starlight from falling and protected their clansmen, but they also became the primary targets of the starlight.
If a pseudo-cosmos fought with all their might, they might be able to resist the star scar imprinting.
But Star Devourers could not.
Yang Jian gritted his teeth: "Celestial Star Race! Retreat further!"
Under these circumstances, there was no choice but to retreat.
Jiang Fan said calmly: "Pointless struggle. Even retreating in such a messy manner?"
"If you want to retreat, then retreat completely. That would save me the trouble."
"Otherwise... you will never know where my next sword will strike."
No matter what choice the Carbon Alliance and Matter Alliance made—whether Wanxiang came out or retreated into the dimensional gap—
it would be Jiang Fan's victory.
Yang Jian was pushed to a dead end.
And Jiang Fan did not break his word. The stellar deity shadow swelled once more.
He slashed out sword after sword, each a full-power strike that emptied his mana pool and then instantly refilled it.
Some of these sword lights slashed into the void, some struck the Celestial Star Race.
Wanxiang simply could not defend or block them all.
At this moment, Jiang Fan was like a merciless sword-striking machine, slashing again and again.
The sword lights that slashed into the void appeared above the territories of the Insect Race, Apocalypse Race, Stardust Gamma, Chaos Hidden Spirit Metal, and many other races.
They descended across endless distances.
Even some minor clans were not spared, causing immense casualties.
And the Carbon Alliance and Matter Alliance had no way to resist.
Every sword eventually exploded into countless starlight, transforming into star scars that branded the beings lucky enough to survive.
Jiang Fan seemed to have become the god of death slaughtering lives.
He mercilessly reaped lives.
He shrouded the starry sky in blood, writing death with his sword light.
This entire starry sky was filled with a faint sadness.
Jiangnan had indeed ended many lives, but the people he had killed in his entire life might not even match one sword strike from Jiang Fan.
There were no adequate words to describe Jiang Fan's actions at this moment.
Perhaps "indiscriminate slaughter, treating life like grass" was the most fitting...
The Celestial Star Race was almost completely hacked apart.
Xing Lan, Ming Quan, and Mai Liushi were also imprinted with star scars.
But they still did their utmost to prevent the starlight from erupting among the Celestial Star Race.
Jiang Fan squinted: "Stay put!"
With a point of his finger, the three were instantly frozen in place, and the star scars on their bodies bloomed with dazzling starlight.
The three could not help but let out pig-slaughter-like screams, a pain so intense it almost crushed their souls.
Yet even so, Xing Lan still tried to move his body, erupting with power.
"No way! You wish!"
Jiang Fan coldly glanced at Xing Lan and clenched his hand.
The star scars erupted, and Xing Lan's star body uncontrollably collapsed under the poison of the scars.
Finally, his star body completely extinguished and disintegrated, and even his star soul was crushed.
And Xing Lan's last glance was toward his shattered homeland before he fell.
Wanxiang's will was nearly completely shattered by torment.
"No! Don't! Xing Lan, my child!"
The first blue giant to light up in the starry sky had thus disappeared.
Wanxiang could no longer hold back and charged outward.
But Ming Quan urgently said: "Ancestor! Don't! Don't come out! This is fine! You... are the future of our Celestial Star Race!"
"I beg you! Ancestor! Don't come out!"
Wanxiang knelt weakly, his eyes bloodshot as he watched this scene.
"How... how can this be!"
Jiang Fan raised an eyebrow. The effect seemed quite good, didn't it?
With a wave of his hand, all the Celestial Star Race clansmen imprinted with star scars were frozen in the void, motionless.
Their life and death were entirely in Jiang Fan's hands.
Not only the Celestial Star Race, but also those from other races who had just been marked by Jiang Fan were all the same.
Even so, Jiang Fan's other hand was still swinging his sword in slaughter.
Jiang Fan's gaze fell on Wanxiang.
"Still not coming out? Then watch these people suffer and die in despair!"
"You are right in front of them. Clearly, if you come out, they wouldn't have to die. But you can only watch them die!"
At this moment, Jiang Fan raised his hand and slowly clenched it.
Swathes of screams rang out.
Every Celestial Star Race clansman marked with star scars uncontrollably suffered star body collapse, life essence decay, and star soul being crushed bit by bit.
Ming Quan and Mai Liushi were even worse.
They couldn't resist. With star scars upon them, their lives were already in Jiang Fan's hands.
Not only the Celestial Star Race, but also those from other races who were hit were suffering.
Wanxiang knelt, his eyes full of sorrow, pounding his head again and again.
"Stop! Stop! I'm kneeling to you! I beg you! Stop tormenting them, stop hurting them!"
"What did they do wrong!"
Jiang Fan said expressionlessly: "Come out, and I'll stop."
"You have ten seconds."
"Ten! Nine! Eight..."
Ming Quan's star body could no longer hold on. He tried hard not to scream, but the pain was too great.
He couldn't hold it in.
Wanxiang gritted his teeth: "Enough! Enough! Stop now! I'll come out! I'll come out right now!"
But Ming Quan roared: "Ancestor! Don't! Don't come out! We can die! But you cannot be lost!"
"As long as you exist, the Celestial Star Race exists! Remember? If one star goes out in the starry sky, another star will surely light up."
"The star soul is indestructible! The Celestial Star Race is eternal!"
"Ancestor! I'll go first. Don't grieve for me, because there will always be a new star lighting up."
"Boom!"
With a blast, Ming Quan directly ended his own life. He didn't want to drag the ancestor down because of himself.
Wanxiang was stunned. Not only Ming Quan exploded, but also the Celestial Star Race clansmen who were marked with star scars—their eyes were filled with determination.
"Ancestor! We beg you to live on! For our sake..."
"Carry our share too!"
"The Celestial Star Race is in your hands!"
"As long as the stars remain, we remain. I have witnessed the brilliance of the starry sky. This journey was not in vain. No loss... no loss..."
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
One by one, stars exploded, ending themselves.
Like brilliant fireworks, they composed a death elegy under the starry sky.
Mai Liushi slowly closed his eyes, ready to welcome death.
Jiang Fan frowned at the scene, but merely watched Wanxiang silently.
Wanxiang slowly clenched his fist, his eyes glaring at Jiang Fan.
"Enough! You can stop now!"
"Isn't it just that you want to take everything from me?"
"I'll give it!"