Luofu Star Domain.
At this moment, thousands of descending vessels were rapidly heading toward the surface of the Luofu.
"General, is it really alright to just let that suspicious person who calls himself the Carefree Wanderer leave?"
A silver-haired man wearing a purple hood asked Fei Xiao, who was standing beside him.
"It's fine, Mo Ze."
Fei Xiao was standing on the main descending vessel, flashing a confident smile.
"You saw that mass of black flame he had. And since the other party has means similar to instant transmission, we won't be able to trap him anytime soon. We might as well let him reach the battlefield first. If he's an ally, that's great. If he's not—then we'll just beat him up together!"
The woman's tone was bold and full of vigor.
— — — — — —
Deep within the Scalegorge Waterscape.
Dan Heng wiped the corner of his mouth. At this moment, everyone present had sustained injuries of varying degrees. They had exerted all their strength, but any wounds Phantylia inflicted would recover as good as new shortly after.
"Damn it, haven't the Yaoqing reinforcements arrived yet?" Jing Yuan muttered to himself.
"Heh."
Unexpectedly, Phantylia seemed to have read his mind.
"Waiting for aid from the other Sky-Faring Commissions? I advise you not to waste your energy. Even if that Victorious General from Yaoqing came, they still wouldn't be my match."
Her tone carried boundless delight and satisfaction with the current situation.
"Do you think that Yaoqing General would be stronger than the Carefree Wanderer? Hahaha!"
"Power, black flame, Path—when I inherited the Carefree Wanderer's essence, I also obtained everything that man had. However, beneath that power, there was nothing that truly belonged to me. I was merely clumsily using what he left behind. But now, everything is different! That's right, I obtained the Aeon of Abundance's Divine Corpse, and I am about to destroy the Luofu! I did it! I am now stronger than that man! I have surpassed him!"
Phantylia suddenly spouted a torrent of arrogant words, which made Welt's eyebrows twitch.
"Is it a coincidence..."
Welt wouldn't know that Phantylia was partially influenced by Kenta after absorbing the black flame. She didn't gain Kenta's specific memories, but for some unknown reason, she felt compelled to say those exact words at that moment.
Phantylia finally gathered all her strength and roared, "It was I who killed the Carefree Wanderer! Hahahaha!"
The moment this declaration was made, the scene fell silent for an instant. This was a fact that everyone present could not deny, yet one they were unwilling to accept.
Then, suddenly.
A voice that was incredibly familiar to everyone present drifted down from the sky above their heads. The sound wasn't loud, yet it clearly pierced everyone's ears.
"I heard you've been telling everyone I'm dead?"
"..."
"!!!"
After a brief silence, the Trailblazers of the Astral Express, the people of the Sky-Faring Commission, and even Phantylia, all looked up in disbelief.
They directed gazes of shock, hope, pleasant surprise, or fury toward the man who should have died.
"Kenta!!" March 7th cried out.
At this moment, Kenta was suspended in mid-air, tilting his head slightly to look down disdainfully at Phantylia below. The sword name, now longer than before, was held in his hand, its blade wreathed in roaring black fire.
It was also at this moment that the Yaoqing vessels broke through the clouds, announcing the arrival of reinforcements to the Luofu.
The light pierced the thick air and struck Kenta's body. The man was currently backlit, the dazzling bright glow making it difficult for everyone to clearly see his figure.
Only his pair of calm, heterochromatic pupils—one red, one black—were deeply etched into their minds.
"Phantylia, I have returned from hell. What? Are you surprised to see me?"
The massive sound of the vessels landing echoed in everyone's ears, accompanying Kenta's words.
Phantylia's expression paused briefly, then turned to anger, and finally morphed into a ferocious snarl.
"Carefree Wanderer, I could kill you once, and I can certainly kill you a second time!"
She roared, and immediately a ball of black flame ignited in her palm, slamming toward Kenta.
"Kenta! Get out of the way!" March 7th yelled.
To everyone's surprise, Kenta not only didn't dodge but let out a sneer.
"No, this power does not belong to you."
He lifted the sword name, executed a horizontal slash, and effortlessly scattered the black flame.
"What!"
Seeing this, Phantylia was filled with terror. But before she could take any further action, she saw Kenta slowly extend his palm toward her, opening his five fingers, and then clenching his hand in the air.
In an instant, Phantylia felt something trying to rush out of her body. The sensation was incredibly intense, and she couldn't control it.
"Ugh! Something... is coming out... No, no! Stop! That's mine!"
Her pleas were useless. A large fragment of a blade, carrying dense black flame, burst out of Phantylia's chest. Immediately, vast amounts of Abundance Power overflowed from her wound.
The blade fragment flew precisely toward Kenta's outstretched palm and was firmly caught by him.
Feeling the Destruction Power that the blade had absorbed within Phantylia over the past several hundred years, as well as the dense Abundance Essence it had just brought out, he displayed a genuine smile.
He released the blade fragment from his grasp. The fragment, like a small boat moving with the current, returned to Kenta's sword name on its own. The blade finally returned to its original form.
In that instant, an intensely dense, powerful, world-destroying black flame surged up from Kenta's body.
The surrounding seawater rapidly evaporated, and the flame directly covered the entire sky of the Scalegorge Waterscape.
The powers of [Destruction] and [Nihility] filled the entire space.
Kenta flicked his left hand, and another surge of scarlet flame bloomed in his palm.
Instantly, the Path energy belonging to [Remembrance] also surged forth powerfully.
"Now I lack nothing!" he roared, terrifying light flashing in his red-and-black heterochromatic eyes.
Next, he raised the sword name with both hands.
"BOOM!!!"
A massive torrent of intertwining red and black flames shot toward the sky, heading straight for the Luofu Star Domain.
Even when observed from space, this bright streak was extremely noticeable.
— — — — — —
Fei Xiao, who was ready to disembark, raised an eyebrow at the sight.
"Hoh! He really is the Carefree Wanderer. I didn't expect to actually witness him making a move."
On a spaceship in a corner of the Luofu Star Domain.
Silver Wolf was shaking Kafka's shoulders back and forth.
"Hahaha, I told you he was fine, didn't I? And you lied to me!"
The hacker girl was laughing happily, not noticing that the woman across from her was also showing a relieved smile.
— — — — — —
Scalegorge Waterscape.
Everyone from the Astral Express, except for Dan Heng, watched the commotion Kenta was causing with looks of horror, while the others wore expressions of nostalgia.
But the person with the biggest reaction right now was undoubtedly Phantylia.
"What kind of joke is this! How can this be!"
Her expression reached the peak of terror, as if the person who had just been yelling, "It was I who killed the Carefree Wanderer," was not her.
"I'm going to die! I'm going to die! I'm going to die! I'm really going to die!"
She decisively abandoned the Aeon of Abundance's Divine Corpse, which she had plotted to obtain for so long.
Kenta shouted loudly, "Skyfire! Draw!"
Welt suddenly coughed, as if he had heard something that both greatly surprised and frightened him.
Kenta struck.
The massive and surging flame enveloped the blade, instantly incinerating the Abundance Corpse—which everyone had been unable to destroy even working together—until nothing remained.
The scene was left with only parted seawater and the sound generated by the violent energy explosion.
Phantylia immediately reverted to her Suiyang spirit form, escaping the corpse.
She frantically fled into the distance, completely forgetting her plan to destroy the Luofu.
But Kenta did not allow her to get away so easily.
He extended his palm again and grabbed into the air.
Instantly, Phantylia's spirit form was pulled back toward him, continuously shrinking in the process until Kenta sealed it in his palm using black flame.
He casually tossed it to Jing Yuan, then slowly descended from the air.
Before landing, Kenta pulled out the Abundance Power essence he had just acquired.
He ignited the scarlet flame of [Remembrance] in his right hand and melted the essence into the fire.
— — — — — —
Behind the battlefield.
A small girl with dragon horns on her head was treating the injuries of the wounded Cloud Knights.
Suddenly, she felt a moment of dizziness, but recovered shortly after.
"Hmm, am I too tired recently?" the girl named Bailu muttered to herself.