By the coast, a hundred-meter Star Gate shimmered with flowing light.
Beyond the Star Gate, an army forged of steel stretched as far as the eye could see.
Above the Sky Dome, squadrons of fighter jets streaked across, weaving an iron curtain.
In the distant ocean, scores of aircraft carriers, destroyers, and frigates dotted the seascape, ready for action.
All cannons were aimed at the figure who emerged from the Star Gate.
"In the name of the Federation Command Center, I order you to stand down, or what awaits you is total war," said the voice.
"War?"

Gu Jinlai took a step forward, and his form swelled against the wind, in an instant growing from less than two meters tall to a colossal Chaos Demon God thousands of kilometers high, emitting the brilliance of a white dwarf star from his being, his own gravity causing thunder and lightning, as well as tsunamis and tides within a thousand-mile radius.
He looked down...
At the war weapons that seemed like toys.
He reached out, and a hydrogen bomb fell into his hand.

Within him, the electron-degenerate star core released Helium, Helium elements expanded, and the terrifying high temperature instantly caused Deuterium and Tritium, Hydrogen's isotopes, to fuse, the energy bursting forth, forming a blazing white brilliance on the ocean's surface that was like igniting a sun.
Before this sun's energy could be released, he clapped his hands together, and the dazzling white, mixed with heat in the billions of degrees, was compressed and sealed within his palms, not a fragment escaping.

"I think, you should choose peace." he suggested.

Seeing Gu Jinlai arrive with a heart-trembling aura, Zi Yang and the Heavenly Dragon Wood already had a bad premonition.


The sight of the Forbidden Ruined Beast that followed...


Not to mention the flesh and blood Heavenly Dragon Wood, even the Artifact Spirit Purple Sun that was nurtured by Aries Star Palace felt its spiritual fluctuations nearly freeze.


Unlike the Heavenly Dragon aimed at the Void Immortal stage, the Forbidden Ruined Beast was created by the ancient creators specifically to suppress the True Immortals present in the world!


"How can Gu Jinlai, a Heavenly Monarch... concoct such a monster..."


The thousand-kilometer span of the Heavenly Dragon Wood, when facing this Ruins Beast with a mere three hundred meter diameter, couldn't muster any courage to resist.


Proclaimed as the bane of living beings, this is not an empty statement.


Chapter 562 - Chapter 558: Controlling the Aries Star Palace