After rescuing the pilots, Ian opened his massive mouth and devoured the colossal monster's body in a few bites. The blue Kaiju blood sliding down the corners of his mouth transformed into specks of golden light in mid-air, fully converting into EMC values that flooded into his body. Once the feast was finished, Ian let out a satisfied burp.
The live broadcast transmitted this transcendent scene across the globe. Upon witnessing such a bloody spectacle, the heart of the audience was not filled with fear, but with a primal worship of this immense power. The silence in the bullet-comment section was a symptom of mortals being struck speechless in the face of a true deity.
However, the silence lasted only a moment before the comments surged like a tide.
"This is a god... the true deity we have always searched for and yearned for!"
"So powerful! He dealt with those monsters so easily!"
"Thank you, Deity, for descending! Please protect us!"
"I understand now—fear is meaningless. Only by placing faith in this great being can we find true peace!"
"He didn't just 'eat' it; He is demonstrating the most primal instinct of life for us!"
"I have found my home! From this moment on, I am His most loyal believer!"
The emergency video conference of world leaders was still in a heated state, with arguments erupting over how to deal with this sudden "deity."
The President of the United States was ashen-faced. "We must immediately consider the worst-case scenario. If he harbors hostility toward us..."
The Huaxia representative smiled slightly. "If God harbored hostility toward you, you would have vanished long ago. You clearly do not understand the might of a deity." He then projected the divine abilities of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Transformations and Seventy-Two Earthly Transformations onto the large screen.
The discussion was interrupted by a terrified report.
"Report! The giant has begun to move!" The military analyst on the screen spoke with a trembling voice. "He is heading toward Mount Fuji!"
The meeting room fell deathly silent.
In the live broadcast, Ian lifted his feet. With every step, he crossed a distance of over ten thousand meters. His silhouette covered half the sky, blotting out the sun. Global netizens speculated wildly on Ian's intentions.
"What is he doing? Why go to Mount Fuji?"
"Is he going to completely destroy Japan?"
"Could there be more monsters there!?"
The answer was soon revealed—Ian arrived before Mount Fuji and looked down at the world-famous volcano. To ordinary people, Mount Fuji was majestic and grand; to him, it was a mere molehill. He bent down, grasped the base of Mount Fuji with his massive palm, and gave a slight tug.
"Boom!"
The entire Mount Fuji was uprooted!
The base of the mountain trailed a massive amount of glowing magma, hanging down like red roots. Ian lifted it to his face as if holding a small ice cream cone. Witnessing this, the audience finally grasped the true scale and power of this "deity."
The Prime Minister of Japan's hands shook. "He... he pulled out Mount Fuji?"
Ian opened his massive mouth and bit off the summit of Mount Fuji. Rock and magma, mixed with ice and snow, were chewed in his mouth. He savored it as if it were a rare delicacy.
After feeding, he scanned the surroundings, his gaze landing on several inland lakes. He bent down, lowering his massive head toward the water, and took a light breath. The water from several lakes rose like tornadoes, forming pillars of water that shot into the sky and into his mouth. In the blink of an eye, the lakes were dry.
Ian swallowed with satisfaction, as if enjoying a refreshing drink.
The world was thoroughly shocked. Social media was nearly paralyzed; servers crashed repeatedly due to traffic overload. People lacked the words to describe what they saw. Following this, the Erlang Shen faith—which had originated in Huaxia—exploded globally.
Not just in Huaxia, but people from every nation began searching for statues of Yang Jian. Online shops saw his statues sell out instantly, and images related to him went viral. "Yang Jian" became the top search term on global search engines, and relevant scriptures were rapidly translated into hundreds of languages so people could learn the legends of this deity.
Meanwhile, on the home planet of the Precursor civilization in a distant galaxy, the entire civilization fell into an unprecedented state of excitement.
Inside the High-Level Biological Research Center, tentacled organisms surrounded a holographic projection, analyzing Ian's data. They shared information via neural links; the entire center functioned like a massive biological computer operating at terrifying speeds.
"Incredible!" The head researcher's tentacles vibrated violently. "The existence of this organism completely violates the law of conservation of mass and energy!"
"Our scans are ineffective; the energy conversion mechanism within its body is completely beyond our cognitive scope!" another researcher added.
"Most shocking of all is that it seems able to alter its own material state and volume at will. This capability is unheard of!"
The Precursor leader urgently summoned representatives from all colonial star systems. The virtual meeting hall projected the complete transformation of Ian from an ordinary human to a ten-thousand-fathom golden body. Every attendee was shaken by this inconceivable change.
"This is the technology we must acquire!" one representative said excitedly, his tentacles knotting in agitation.
"If we can master this capability, our technology will experience a massive explosion!"
"The difficulty of colonizing planets in the future will be greatly reduced!"
The room fell into a commotion as representatives argued over the possibility of capturing this being. A high-caste Precursor slowly raised its upper body; its tentacles had begun to wither, indicating extreme age. The room went quiet as all organisms respectfully waited for this sage to speak.
"I believe," the elder vibrated its tentacles slowly but firmly, "that we have severely underestimated the power of the civilization on that planet."
Its neural tentacles linked to the main console, pulling up data on Earth's mythology collected by the Precursor civilization.
"The 'myths' on Earth may not be simple fiction, but very likely documents recording the true history of this race. They may possess powerful technologies we cannot comprehend."
The hall fell into deep thought.
The leader ordered: "Immediately form a special task force to collect all mythological data from Earth for a comprehensive analysis! I want to know how many more similar existences there are!"
The Precursors rapidly gathered and organized mythological data from major civilizations: Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, Northern Europe, and Huaxia. The analysis results left them horrified.
"Not only is there Yang Jian, but there are countless powerful deities! Zeus, Odin, Shiva, Nuwa, Pangu..."
"They each possess different but equally powerful abilities: controlling weather, creating life, mastering time, altering universal laws, and more."
"If these records are real..."
"They certainly aren't real. Just like our own history, things that cannot be understood get exaggerated!"
The leader fell into a brief silence before making a decision. "But we still cannot take this lightly. Strategy must be adjusted; conventional means cannot deal with these existences. Activate Project Red Fish."
This order caused an uproar among the high levels. Project Red Fish was the ultimate weapon of the Precursor civilization, intended for use only when the civilization's survival was at stake.
The Deep Space Command Center received authorization and immediately sent out a signal. A long-dormant, giant biological weapon began to awaken.
This was the most powerful biological modification achievement of the Precursor civilization—a terrifying existence captured in the depths of the universe hundreds of millions of years ago, subsequently fed and modified countless times. It was not a creature in the conventional sense, but a hybrid of biomass and energy capable of devouring all matter and energy. Its size was comparable to a star; just the six giant eyes on the sides of its body were larger than ordinary planets.
The Precursor home system had long been converted into a massive biological factory, with the resources of the entire star system dedicated to maintaining this super weapon's life. Dozens of planet-sized monsters were forcibly conscripted, turned into biomass to be absorbed just to wake it from its slumber.