Staying Alive Cautiously in the Celestial Realm and Becoming the Strongest

In the splendidly decorated banquet hall, a group of well-dressed high society individuals engaged in lively conversation.

They gathered in small groups, holding champagne or red wine, each wearing a façade of insincerity, creating a vibrant and harmonious atmosphere.

Nearby in the dance floor, couples were elegantly dancing together.

Suddenly, a tall and handsome man frowned, with a hint of unnatural pain showing in his eyes.

His dance partner noticed and quickly asked softly, "Darling, are you feeling unwell?"

The handsome man did not answer.

He stopped dancing, looking blankly at the beautiful and gentle woman in front of him, his eye twitching slightly.

Blood flowed from his nose!

His partner was terrified at the sight: "Dear..."

Before she could finish her sentence, the handsome man let out a painful howl, his hands clawed fiercely tearing at the clothes on his body, revealing his hairy chest.

Moreover, all ten of his fingers had transformed into sharp claws.

Not only that, the handsome man's complexion quickly darkened, his ears elongated and became pointed, and bristles emerged from under his skin, his eyes turned completely blood-red.

The woman initially wanted to support him, but ended up screaming loudly in fright, instinctively retreating.

By the time the surrounding people rushed over, the handsome man was already on the ground, convulsing, revealing the form of a werewolf.

At the same moment, in a nearby high-end restaurant, a couple was lovingly enjoying a meal in a private room.

The lady giggled, raising her glass: "Happy birthday, darling!"

The next moment, her smile froze on her face.

Her hand holding the wine glass quickly became shriveled and withered, her skin turning from fair and smooth to rough and dark, shaping into talons.

Clang!

The wine glass fell to the ground.

"Ah!"

The woman shrieked, hastily standing up.

But then there was a tearing sound, and her dress split open in the back, revealing a pair of black wings.

The man across from her was stunned and fainted on the spot!

Even the woman who had revealed her harpy form was not much better; she tried to rush out of the private room, but just as she took a step, she collapsed to the ground, black smoke swirling around her, her whole body beginning to wither and shrink.

When the harpy woman breathed her last, a fighter in an underground arena had just defeated his opponent, triumphantly waving his fists.

But before he could finish celebrating his victory, his body suddenly swelled up violently, and his skin began to peel away in layers...

Similarly, or under similar circumstances, in different places of Lionheart City, thousands of people showed beastly forms.

Among them were upper-class individuals, commoners, war professionals, and even superpowered individuals.

There were both rich nobles and lowly vagabonds, yet each seemed cursed with malevolence!

An unprecedented chaos erupted in Lionheart City, filled with screams and calls for help.

Yet the city's millions of residents were unaware that they had just narrowly avoided a great calamity from the future!

Meanwhile, in the underground caverns of the VISE Nightclub, Wang Chen was unaware of the chaos in Lionheart City, focusing fully on controlling the Heaven-Ensnaring Punisher Net to weaken the core of the Eight-Armed Divine Statue.

At this moment, the Eight-Armed Divine Statue had shrunk to the size of a human head.

This core emitted a dark radiance, steadfastly resisting the engulfing and suppression of the Heaven-Ensnaring Punisher Net.

The force of resistance was extremely strong.

However, the Heaven-Ensnaring Punisher Net was even stronger, firmly suppressing the Eight-Armed Divine Statue's resistance, preventing it from moving.

As time passed, the Spiritual Power accumulated by the Heaven-Ensnaring Punisher Net became full!

Originally, when Wang Chen hunted the Eye of Nether on Tampas Star, he had "charged" the Heaven-Ensnaring Punisher Net once.

But he used all of that Spiritual Power to condense his own soul fragment, leaving only a bit when he initially used it against the Eight-Armed Divine Statue.

Yet in less than an hour, it filled again, highlighting the thick Evil Power of this Eight-Armed Divine Statue!

And the Heaven-Ensnaring Punisher Net did not stop devouring, shortly after, a cold aura silently flowed into Wang Chen's body through his palm.

And then ascended to the crown of his head!

The Ancient Taoist Stele in Wang Chen's Sea of Consciousness suddenly burst with brilliance, absorbing the strange aura completely.

Unlike the Heaven-Ensnaring Punisher Net, the capacity of the Ancient Taoist Stele seemed endless, absorbing all the aura the Heaven-Ensnaring Punisher Net fed into Wang Chen's body.

Simultaneously, Wang Chen felt his Spiritual Energy quietly growing.

This was undoubtedly a tremendous surprise!

After Wang Chen reached the Eighth Ring level of his Spiritual Energy, its growth rate had been slower than that of a snail, with no real increase of even 1% in power level, completely stagnating.

It could be said that without a special opportunity, it was basically impossible to breakthrough to the Ninth Ring.

Yet at this moment, he once again saw hope for advancement!

When the core of the Eight-Armed Divine Statue was finally worn down, Wang Chen's Eighth Ring Spiritual Energy reached nearly 30% of its power level.

This meant that if he encountered three more statues of the same type, he could achieve a new breakthrough!

However, Wang Chen doubted that another statue of the same type existed on the Iron Lion Star.

He realized that finding the Eight-Armed Divine Statue was pure luck, noticing its unusual aura while passing by the VISE Nightclub.

He never expected to catch a big fish.

This Eight-Armed Divine Statue served as a vessel for the Evil God, its function should have been to absorb people's negative emotions, greed, lust, desire to kill, and so on, then grant power to its followers.

The person who worshiped this statue was undoubtedly Qin Qin.

He placed the Eight-Armed Divine Statue in the nightclub's basement, clearly intending to absorb negative emotions more effectively.

But Qin Qin never expected that while gaining power, he became a slave of the Evil God, with his life under control!

In fact, if not for Wang Chen's timely arrival on this planet and his discovery of the Eight-Armed Divine Statue, within a decade or so, the statue could have accumulated enough Telekinesis to allow the Evil God's descent...

In such a case, not just Lionheart City, the entire star would have become the Evil God's hunting ground!

Wang Chen's action of destroying the Eight-Armed Divine Statue today was a deed of great merit.

After resolving this massive calamity, he quietly left the cavern and returned to the surface through an alternate passage.

Only then did Wang Chen become aware of the chaos in the city.

But this had nothing to do with him.

When Wang Chen returned to his hotel, he received a communication from Zhao Kai.

Through his conversation with the fleet commander, Wang Chen learned about the large-scale bizarre incident that had just occurred in Lionheart City.

Currently, the empire's top officials have been informed of the situation and dispatched the elite forces of the Bureau of Investigation and the Security Bureau to the Iron Lion Star System urgently.

And if Wang Chen felt unsafe, Zhao Kai could immediately dispatch a ship to take him back to the Space Fortress.

Wang Chen declined politely.

He did not believe there was anything on this planet that could threaten him.

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The second update is delivered.