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.

Gu Jinlai stood on the steps of the Aries Star Palace, surveying Starlight City, located several miles away.


Although it was not his place of origin, it was the political center of Star State.


And as Star State served as a transport hub, Starlight City's geographical location was also exceptionally favorable.


Having been accustomed to the towering skyscrapers and high towers of Wind and Rain City and Liuhuo City, and having visited the Imperial Capital enveloped by the main array of the Complete Heaven Gathering Star Array, he now looked at Starlight City and no longer felt any particular emotion about the city itself.


What truly stirred his feelings were the people inside it and some memories of the hardships endured in earlier times.


"Palace Master! You... you've finally returned?"


Xin Tianqi looked at Gu Jinlai's figure, his eyes filled with emotion and sighs.


Chapter 564 - Chapter 560: Arrangements