Chapter 486 — The Most Miserable Demigod in History

Who could have imagined that the ocean's strongest demigod would suddenly appear at this moment, and on top of that, become a human beastmaster's bonded beast? Shi Jin, plus the Martial Emperor—Yuan Han felt that its plan to unify the Eastern Continent might once again have to be postponed.

At this point, Yuan Han even entertained the thought of heading to the Western Continent. The competition in the east was too brutal. Otherwise... become the Western Overlord? But it refused to accept it!

"Mmm, what a tantalizing scent." Lying amid the pile of meteorites, bathing in darkness, Yuan Han suddenly opened its enormous eyes. "The harvest this time is quite good." With a gurgle, it extended its perception toward the outside of the secret realm.

To heal its wounds, it had dispatched numerous subordinates to other totem nations in search of resources to restore itself.

This time, catching the scent, Yuan Han instinctively assumed that its subordinates had brought back supplements. But very quickly, Yuan Han realized it was wrong—its subordinates were nowhere nearby at all.

The tantalizing resources were not nearby either. Rather, they seemed to be high in the sky! Yuan Han's perception stretched infinitely upward.

There, a meteorite imbued with the power of sun and moon was descending from the starry sky! Yuan Han was stunned for a moment, then... sensed something was off. Its eyes flew wide open.

Upon the enormous meteorite—like a small planet—there was also a tree.

It was a heaven-reaching divine tree, over ten meters tall, and upon it swayed fruits brimming with tantalizing fragrance.

A massive cream-colored trunk, emerald leaves, moon-golden branches, sun-crimson blossoms, and fruits shaped like ginseng babies adorned this one complete divine tree. Countless ginseng-baby clones clung tearfully to the branches, terrified of being flung off, while countless sun divine trees grew upon this meteorite, making it resemble a falling sun, a lingering afterglow! Strange—too strange. Yuan Han felt it was far too strange.

Yet the tantalizing aura radiating from the meteorite and the World Ginseng made even Yuan Han, an elemental lifeform, stir despite itself. "I really want to eat it."

And it was precisely this hesitation that allowed Shi Jin and the others' greeting gift to arrive.

Ginseng Baby first used World's Grace to elevate the Time-Confluence Fruit to a Minor Divine Skill, then used it itself, briefly raising its life tier to the totem level. Then it transformed into a Life Ember, burning the potential and life force granted by Plant Domination and the Verdant Wood Divine Body, instantly gaining combat power approaching the demigod level. And at the final moment, it triggered Moonburst, unleashing a strike that would make even a demigod pale in shock.

Within the secret realm, Yuan Han had believed itself well hidden—that even a fellow demigod could not possibly find it. But gazing at the meteorite falling from the sky, flames slowly kindled in its pupils. The innate instinct to sense crisis suddenly pulled its entire body taut.

Thump... thump... thump... Its heart-core pounded wildly.

"An attack!!!" In that instant, Yuan Han finally understood—this was no gift from the heavens. Its pupils contracted. It was a trap, an assault from the enemy!! And the power—even across a legendary space—made its body sound the alarm!! [Ginseng Baby: Successfully arrived at designated spatial coordinates. Bombardment Squeak Squad is about to deploy the Squeak-Deathblow, over.] BOOM!!!!!

[Contract System: Ginseng Baby has logged off.]

A stunning light of sun and moon bloomed in midair. The shockwave of the explosion instantly shattered the spatial barrier where Yuan Han dwelled, and the terrifying radiance devoured inward toward the utterly aghast Yuan Han. Yuan Han seemed to see a piercing light whose brilliance, to its senses, outshone a million suns and moons.

At the same time, the radiance blasted outward in every direction across the Meteor Nation!!!

This was the most powerful self-detonation Ginseng Baby had ever used—a full-buff self-detonation, rooted in Bug-Bug's Sun-Moon Dragon Star to absorb nutrients, enough to rival a demigod's all-out strike.

In mere moments, a colossal fireball of light and shadow over ten thousand meters across rose into the sky. A wave of energy devoured the earth, and blinding light and savage wind ruthlessly destroyed everything within the Meteor Nation's borders. This irradiated land, conquered by Yuan Han and already devoid of life, met an even more catastrophic blow in an instant. In scarcely a few seconds of time-confluence, half the nation's territory was reduced to nothingness. Countless mountains were erased, countless lakes vaporized—everything vanished. At the Eastern Brilliance border, the Iron-Eating Beast Legion stationed there immediately felt violent tremors. Hearing the enormous roar, they dared not even look toward the distant blaze of light. "It's begun!!" General Ji Yunzhong and the others' hearts pounded—they understood that the two sides had already engaged.

In the Tingxiang region, the Snowfield region, the Seven Isles region, the Glory region, the Nether Blossom region—powerful figures across the world felt the faint atmospheric disturbance transmitted through the sky from this strike, and one and all looked up at the high heavens, toward the chaos in the east. Never a moment's peace... [Martial Emperor and all: Monsters!!!]

Watching Ginseng Baby launch the first round of attack, Chongxuan, the Divine Tree of Life, and the others who had previously sparred with Ginseng Baby in the secret realm twitched at the corners of their mouths.

So this was the suicide-bombing assault Shi Jin had spoken of for the first round? When they first heard Shi Jin say it, they had all thought Shi Jin had gone mad.

It was only when Shi Jin explained that his Ginseng Baby possessed a time-confluence resurrection skill that the Martial Emperor and the others finally witnessed the supreme art Shi Jin had spoken of—and even the Martial Emperor could not help but turn grave!!!

Truly a monster. They had completely underestimated the power of this strike before. Its might was enough to annihilate a smaller totem nation.

Even the Martial Emperor felt that, at full power, taking this blow would leave him gravely wounded. And that was with the strike's force being overly dispersed.

Ginseng Baby's Moonburst had exactly one flaw: the blast force was too dispersed. Even nearing the realm of perfection, its power still scattered.

This was also why, previously, to maximize its self-detonation's effect, it had to fly right into the enemy's mouth.

If the force could be fully concentrated into a small area, Shi Jin felt that Ginseng Baby alone could crush a demigod—no one else needed to lift a finger.

Shi Jin hoped that once Moonburst reached perfection, this would improve somewhat. He also hoped that once the Time Imprint reached perfection, it would undergo a greater transformation—perhaps resurrecting twice in a row, or... granting a Time Imprint to others.

At present, the greatest feature of the perfect-grade Time Imprint was merely that Ginseng Baby no longer needed to condense it itself; after consumption, it would automatically spend time-confluence to reform, saving Ginseng Baby considerable effort.

"ROAR!!!!!" Amid the explosion came a scream that shook the heavens.

Yuan Han was not killed outright by the blast.

This did not surprise Shi Jin and the others. After all, with a legendary space for defense, at the heart of the blinding light and searing heat, Yuan Han seemed to become a black hole—whatever force came from outside was being absorbed by it.