Realm-Hopping Martial Master

There was no need to ask; the Insect Clan and the Mechanical Clan evidently also noticed the uniqueness and value of this "Mysterious Stone" at the first instance!

The Insect Emperor’s Guards’ cold compound eyes stared intently at the stone, emitting a low grinding sound, with the eerie light on their blade arms intensifying.

The Mechanical Entropy paused its operation on the metal ring, its black crystal head turned completely towards the stone, with the ghostly blue data stream nearly solidifying into lines.

The three parties, including Jiang Shu, Venerable Duan Yue, and Yu Sha, almost simultaneously locked onto the black stone hovering at the edge of the core of destruction.

The killing intent permeating the air was instantly sharper than the surrounding vortices that devoured everything, solidifying as if materialized!

The jet-black stone floating on the edge of the destructive vortex seemed to concentrate all the weight of the entire world that was frantically collapsing.

The space around it was warped and collapsed like a stagnant mercury mirror, devoid of light and energy dispersion, only an extreme sense of devouring, pulling everything into it, even shredding vision that dared to draw near.

The Insect Emperor’s Guards, with their dark gold menacing-patterned armor, trembled slightly, their cold compound eyes locked on the black stone.

It emitted a deep, piercing tone, not a language, but an order to summon the swarm.

Two Venerable Early Stage blade bug warriors beside it lowered their postures instantly, the ghostly light on their shells accelerating as they aimed their sharp blade arms at Jiang Shu’s group and the Mechanical Entropy, brimming with killing intent and a protective instinct for the treasure.

On the other side, Entropy’s dark blue machine body hovered just inches off the platform; its two pin-sized crimson lights on its head brightened slightly, turning dangerously towards the black stone, while ghostly blue data streamed across its body in frenzy, engaging in calculations far beyond mortal comprehension.

Behind it, the drop-shaped guardian emitted a high-frequency buzz, locking energy beams onto the dark gold metal ring.

Jiang Shu, Venerable Duan Yue, and Yu Sha had no choice but to land on a relatively flat fragment of a shattered star.

The space turbulence swept by like invisible razors, slicing dazzling sparks outside the heavy earth-yellow shield raised by Venerable Duan Yue.

Yet Jiang Shu’s heart pounded wildly, the Creation Fire Seed deep within his Spirit Platform never before so "thirsty", with the Space Heart Fragment resonating almost burning hot, a hundred times stronger than when he discovered that sapling!

This black stone was absolutely related to space, even the Original Dao of time on such a scale!

"This belongs to my Insect Clan. Anyone who stands in the way dies!"

The Insect Emperor’s Guards’ thoughts pierced through the space like icy steel needles, relentlessly stabbing into the minds of all living beings present.

Their massive body leaned slightly forward, the colossal blade arms shimmering with dark gemstone radiance slowly lifted, silently slicing through the surrounding chaotic space energy, forming a momentary stable trajectory.

Entropy turned its head towards the Insect Emperor’s Guards, the crimson lights showing no emotional fluctuation.

"The target’s energy level exceeds the predicted maximum estimate."

"All agreements suspended, ownership sequence recalculated."

Its slippery, cold voice poured like a bucket of liquid nitrogen, slightly freezing the Insect Clan’s momentum.

The three parties standoff, the air thick enough to squeeze water out of it.

The black stone remained as deathly silent as ever, but in this moment of maximum tension—

Buzz!

The core area where the black stone resided suddenly trembled, as though a deep pulse emitted from this silent space!

The surrounding, originally somewhat stable, space debris visibly accelerated its disintegration, turning into dust sucked into the space vortex.

More terrifyingly, the black stone itself began to tremble slightly!

It was as if a slumbering Demon God was about to awaken, or a prisoner starved for millennia finally shook the binding Chains.

"It’s loosening!"

"It wants to escape this world!"

Yu Sha saw this, and urgently shouted to Jiang Shu beside him.

His spatial perception wasn’t as acute as Jiang Shu’s, but he could feel that will to break free!

This thought instantly ignited the final fuse!

Bang!

The Insect Emperor’s Guards moved, swift as a space leap.

Their massive, menacing body nearly instantly crossed the seemingly dangerous gap between them and the black stone, ignoring the tearing of the collapsing space around, their colossal blade arms tearing the Space Storm, enveloped with pure, star-slicing might, going straight for the black stone!

Their power was unlike any life form, more like a pure slaughter engine! That dark gold armor dragged a spatial light trail as it moved at high speed!

At the same moment they struck.

Whoosh—!

Entropy’s machine body moved first without the Insect Clan’s savage momentum, accompanied only by a silent silver-gray space fissure instantly forming beneath its feet.

Its figure seemed to disappear from a frame and reappear directly in front of the Insect Emperor’s Guards’ blade arms.

The dark blue arm rose, a complex space constraint force field matrix glowing in its palm, not directly seizing the black stone, but precisely intercepting the Insect Clan’s inevitable strike, attempting to immobilize them.

It planned to strike after, claiming not only the stone but leveraging their force against them.

"Stop them!"

Venerable Duan Yue’s whiskers stood on end, his roar echoing like thunder.

As Entropy intercepted the Insect Emperor’s Guards, his thick calloused hands slammed down hard, and the prepared immense power of Laws burst out.

Centered on him, the chaotic space turbulence abruptly froze.

"Freeze!"

Venerable Duan Yue pushed his lifetime-honed Earth Law and protective mastery to the extreme, aiming to imprison everyone present.

The solidified space, like invisible shackles, instantly enveloped the area where Entropy and the Insect Emperor’s Guards were, attempting to create an opportunity for Jiang Shu.