[Congratulations, Host! Total Qi Blood has broken through the one hundred million mark! Total Mental Power has broken through the one hundred million mark!]

[Ding! Two million Evolution Points have been deducted!]

[Golden Body Forging program initiated... Soul Tempering program initiated...]

In an instant, the Law of Thunder and the Law of Fire manifested within Chu Sheng’s body. They transformed into two divine flames, one purple and one red, that blazed deep within his body and soul, forging his mosquito form and spirit over and over again!

Under normal Cultivation, this process might have taken years, even decades, of arduous work. But under the power of the System, it was forcibly compressed into a single moment!

[Ding! Golden Body Forging complete! Soul Tempering complete! Congratulations, Host, you have successfully advanced to the Early Stage of the Emperor Realm!]

BOOM—!

At the moment of his breakthrough, the powerful disguise Secret Technique, Formless Myriad Phenomena, could no longer suppress the terrifying power of this qualitative shift in his life-form!

A terrifying pressure, infused with the complete Laws of Thunder and Fire, as well as multiple Origins—Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Space, and Destruction—erupted from the deepest part of the treasury like an awakened Ancient Fierce Beast!

The Holy Emperor, lost in a state of extreme panic and shock, was suddenly jolted awake by this world-destroying pressure.

He snapped his head around, staring in horror toward the source of the pressure.

In a corner of the treasury, a giant mosquito over a meter long floated silently.

Its body was as black as ink, dotted with countless specks of dark gold light. These specks flowed slowly like stars in the night sky, mysterious and powerful. Its wings, as thin as a cicada’s, were covered in profound and inscrutable patterns!

This was Chu Sheng’s Primordial Sacred Mosquito form!

"This..."

The Holy Emperor’s pupils instantly shrank to dangerous pinpricks!

He stared intently at Chu Sheng as intelligence reports about Great Xia raced through his mind!

He recognized it at a glance!

This was the same terrifying Mosquito Beast that had annihilated the top-tier Qin Noble Family in the Great Xia Capital City, right in front of countless people!

Then he looked at the empty containers all around, at the strange piles of ash on the floor!

In that instant, the Holy Emperor understood everything!

’It was him!’

’It’s this damned bug!’

’It stole the entire foundation the Sakura Empire had built over hundreds of years! It destroyed the tribute meant for the Ancient God! It ruined my future, my path to soaring success and power over billions!’

’If I can’t deliver the resources, Lord Amaterasu Yuan will definitely flay me alive, leaving me in a state where I can neither live nor die!’

Everything! All his glory, wealth, and dreams of dominion had turned to dust in this single moment!

In that instant, extreme fear transformed completely into hysterical rage and madness!

"You damned beast! How dare you destroy the foundation of my Great Sakura Empire! I want you dead!"

The Holy Emperor let out an inhuman, crazed roar as the full power of his third-level Life and Death Realm Cultivation erupted without reserve!

A Half-Step Emperor Domain, vast enough to envelop half a city and filled with a destructive power that could annihilate anything, crushed down violently toward Chu Sheng!

His rage-fueled strike was simply too terrifying, too frenzied. He paid no mind to the fact that this was the heavily guarded underground national treasury!

The berserk Energy didn’t even get close to Chu Sheng before it blasted a huge hole straight through the high-level defensive Array on the treasury’s ceiling!

On the surface, the magnificent complex of buildings symbolizing the highest authority of the Sakura Country was instantly thrown into the air from below, exploding into a rain of debris!

A massive explosion, accompanied by a pillar of dust that shot into the sky like a nuclear blast, instantly alerted the entire Toshi City!

Within Toshi City, countless citizens and various factions were scared out of their wits by the earth-shattering commotion. They rushed into the streets, looking in terror toward the National Mansion.

Feeling that terrifyingly familiar aura belonging to the Holy Emperor, they were all filled with shock and suspicion.

"That’s the Holy Emperor’s aura! Is he going all out?"

"What happened? Did a powerful enemy invade the capital? Has an Emperor Realm expert from Great Xia attacked?"

Just as everyone was wildly speculating, Chu Sheng took advantage of the massive opening the Holy Emperor had blasted for him. With a flash, he shot straight up into the sky high above Toshi City.

As he flew, his body expanded rapidly in the wind!

In the blink of an eye, a terrifyingly giant mosquito, over one hundred meters long, hung in the sky above Toshi City like a black cloud, blotting out the sun!

Its body was entirely black, yet it faintly revealed mysterious dark gold patterns. These patterns flowed slowly across its body as if they were alive. With every flicker, they released a terrifying aura sufficient to make any creature below the Emperor Realm tremble with fear!

The countless citizens of the Sakura Country in Toshi City stared blankly at the terrifying behemoth in the sky, their minds going completely blank.

Soon, someone recognized the mosquito’s origin and pointed at the sky, letting out a terrified scream.

"It’s that mosquito! The one from the news, the Mutated Mosquito Beast that caused a ruckus in the Great Xia Capital City!"

"Baka! Why did it come to our country?!"

Immediately after, the Holy Emperor’s furious figure shot up from the underground ruins. He hovered in mid-air, facing Chu Sheng from a distance.

The Holy Emperor’s eyes were bloodshot. His furious voice, like rolling thunder, echoed through every corner of Toshi City as he proclaimed Chu Sheng’s crimes to all his subjects:

"This fiend from Great Xia infiltrated our empire’s treasury and stole the entire foundation our Great Sakura has built over hundreds of years! It has severed the future of our empire’s Martial Dao! This crime is unforgivable! Today, it shall suffer the ultimate punishment—the extermination of its nine relations!"

As soon as he spoke, the entirety of Toshi City erupted.

The people of the Sakura Country were already resentful and filled with frustration after having their resources forcibly confiscated by the government over the past two days.

Now, they learned that the blood, sweat, and tears they had painstakingly handed over had all been squandered by this mosquito from Great Xia!

In that moment, everyone’s anger found the perfect outlet!

Countless people pointed at Chu Sheng in the sky, letting out heart-wrenching streams of curses. All sorts of vicious maledictions echoed through the clouds like a tsunami.

"Kill it! Mince that damned Great Xia bastard into paste!"

"Your Majesty, the Holy Emperor! You must grind its bones to dust! Use its blood to atone for our grievous losses!"

In the eyes of every citizen of the Sakura Country, the Holy Emperor was a supreme expert at the third level of the Life and Death Realm, an invincible existence below the Emperor Realm! He was the true guardian deity of their Sakura Empire!

No one believed that a mere Mosquito Beast could be a match for the Holy Emperor!

Facing the frenzied curses of tens of thousands below and the Holy Emperor charging at him with monstrous killing intent, not even the slightest ripple of emotion showed in Chu Sheng’s enormous compound eyes.

He wasn’t even interested in wasting a single word.

He was now a genuine Early Stage Emperor Realm expert. Both his Qi Blood and Mental Power had broken one hundred million, his Golden Body had reached Great Success, and his physical form was immortal.

His power had already undergone a qualitative leap, a world of difference compared to when he killed those Life and Death Realm members of the Qin Family back in the Capital City!

’Still, a third-level Life and Death Realm expert has one foot in the door of the Emperor Realm. Especially one fighting with such desperation. I can’t underestimate him.’

"[Silent Annihilation Battle Armor]!"

With a thought from Chu Sheng, a suit of Battle Armor made of countless black Energy particles, full of both streamlined beauty and ferocious killing intent, instantly covered his entire body!

"Tenth Gear, activate!"

VMMMM!

The dark gold patterns on the Battle Armor suddenly lit up. An aura, even more terrifying than the one the Holy Emperor had unleashed earlier, swept through the world! At that moment, all of Chu Sheng’s All Attributes skyrocketed tenfold!

With his current vast foundation as an Early Stage Emperor Realm expert, activating the strongest Tenth Gear could be sustained for a full thirty seconds!

Chu Sheng’s dark gold compound eyes, which took up half his head, locked onto the Holy Emperor, who was lunging at him like a mad dog.

[Amaterasua’s Eye], activate!

There were no fancy moves, no gorgeous special effects, not even a single ripple of Energy.

However, as the Holy Emperor charged forward, alarm bells suddenly shrieked in his mind!

A sense of crisis, originating from the deepest part of his soul—one powerful enough to kill him on the spot—made the hairs on his entire body stand on end!

He could clearly feel the giant mosquito’s gaze transform into two invisible daggers, steeped in a lethal soul poison. They were about to pierce his eyes, bypass his physical Defense, and strike directly at his Soul Origin!

"This is bad!"