Chapter 76: An SSSS-Grade Female is Born!
Warning pheromones?
Hua Rong didnāt know much about females or pheromones, but he had just seen Admiral Asilanās distressed reaction, while the Emperor, the Crown Prince, and the Twins had remained relatively calm.
Could it be that the pheromones Tangtang released toward him were different from theirs? Theirs served a standard function, while his… could induce estrus?
His heart suddenly began to race, thumping so hard it felt as if it might leap out of his chest.
Did this mean that Tangtang liked him too?
The Kingās slightly downturned eyelids concealed his burning, red pupils. In truth, his previous shyness, panic, and self-blame were merely a facade; his true thought was that he wanted herāvery, very much.
“Reporting to the Queen!”
“The testing ceremony is ready!”
“Good.” Queen Janni took the young girl’s hand. “Tangtang, letās go.”
Su Miantang nodded. Just as she turned around, the six men called out to her in unison.
“What is it?”
“When you endure the Power of the Beast God later, please don’t force yourself.”
“If you feel even the slightest discomfort, call it off immediately!”
“I know, don’t worry.”
She flashed them a sweet smile and followed Queen Janni. Adhering to the ancient, mysterious, and complex ritual, she walked step by step toward the statue of the Beast God.
The six males stood up and followed from a distance, watching the scene. Every one of them held their breath, their expressions solemn.
Dongā Dongā Dongā
Dongā Dongā Dongā
Dongā Dongā Dongā
Three loud, echoing chimes from the Beast God Temple rang out, spreading across the entire Central Star. This signaled that the Empire was about to awaken a high-level femaleāan event of great fortune and glory for the entire nation.
Citizens from thousands of households dropped what they were doing and walked out of their homes in curiosity and excitement, looking toward the Beast God Temple.
Someone had actually activated the Beast God statueās testing ceremony again!
The last time it was used was for the noble daughters of several famous ducal families, all of whom were incredibly exalted S-grade females.
Would it be the same this time?
“Tangtang.”
Arriving beneath the statue of the Beast God, Queen Janni picked up a dark brown book embedded in a stone tablet. She opened it and began reciting a language Su Miantang didn’t understand, sounding like an incantation that could stir some great power.
A golden light gradually emanated from the tall, majestic statue.
“Now, try to drive your pheromones.”
As those words fell, everyone’s attention shifted to Su Miantang.
Inside the hall, it became so quiet that even the sound of a pin dropping would have been clearly audible.
They were both eager to see her pheromone grade and terrified that the Power of the Beast God might be too overwhelming and harm her. They stood ready to rush forward and protect her at a momentās notice.
Su Miantang slowly raised her hand.
BOOMā
A deafening sound suddenly erupted, like a mountain collapsing or the earth splitting. Accompanied by the sound of rolling stones and the fading golden light, the massive commotion startled the six males. Just as they were about to rush over, they witnessed a truly shocking scene!
Tangtang wasn’t injured at all.
Instead, the statue of the Beast God… had exploded!
It blew up!!!
These top-tier combat males, who usually remained unfazed even if Mt. Tai collapsed before them, were now completely dumbstruck. Their souls trembled, and they even forgot to breathe.
How… how could this be?
Could it be that she wasn’t SS-grade, nor SSS-grade, but SSSS-grade?
Whether for females or males, SSS-grade was theoretically the ceiling of existence. If one exceeded that… Their eyes flickered with disbelief as they looked at the young girl.
Was she a human, or a god?
Seeing the situation, Queen Janniās legs went weak, and she almost knelt before her. Fortunately, she caught herself by leaning on a nearby emotionless robot. However, with Su Miantang’s current grade, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration even if the Queen of a nation bowed her head in submission.
How could she have destroyed the statue of the Beast God? That was the maximum level set by the Beast God himselfāSSS-grade. Who was she really, and where did she come from?
“Uh…”
Su Miantang looked at the scene before her, feeling a bit awkward.
Great.
She had just blown up the Beast God statue that the nation had worshiped for thousands of years. This was basically the equivalent of digging up someoneās ancestral graves.
But she hadn’t even used much strength!
Was this some kind of “tofu-dreg” construction? Was it a scam?
No one knew exactly when the Beast God statue was born; they only knew it had existed before the beasts on the planet evolved into humans.
For thousands of years, it had stood in the hearts of the Central Galaxy’s citizens as the image of a deityāunshaken by wind, unbroken by rain, and even the cruelest wars couldn’t damage it in the slightest.
The citizens’ worship of it was deep-seated, etched into their very genes. They had even established a “Beast God Festival” to offer sacrifices and bow before it.
With its collapse, everyone who heard that earth-shattering sound of shattering was terrified. Some believers even collapsed or fainted on the spot.
[That terrifying sound just now… did the Beast God statue fall??]
[It didn’t fall, it exploded! Iām outside the Beast God Temple, and I even picked up fragments of the statue. Apparently, it exploded while testing a femaleās pheromone grade!]
[A female blew up the Beast God statue? Are you kidding me? Her pheromones would have to exceed Queen Janni’s level. Thatās impossible!]
[Perhaps you all remember the eerie blooming of peonies all over the sky at noon? Someone said it was an information-body back then, but no one believed it. If you put it together with a female blowing up the statue now…]
[Heavens! Legend has it that there is a strand of SSS-grade combat power within the statue, and only a corresponding SSS-grade pheromone can withstand it. If someone could blow it up, does that mean she is a higher, SSSS-grade female?]
[An SSSS-grade female? Is she even human?]
[An SSSS-grade female has actually been born in the Empire! Itās a miracle!]
[I can’t imagine how powerful the pheromones of an SSSS-grade female would be. Wouldn’t she be more powerful than all the females in the Central Galaxy combined?]
[I heard that female pheromones are linked to appearance. The higher the grade, the more beautiful they are. If I can witness the peerless beauty of an SSSS-grade female in this lifetime, I can die with no regrets!]
[Just wait. If she really has been detected, the Imperial Family will definitely announce it!]
[With females being so rare in the Empire, to have an SSSS-grade female born… it must be the Beast God manifesting to send a supreme treasure to protect the galaxyās prosperity for ten thousand generations!]
On the exploding Star Network, bullet comments flew like rain. Some people, while discussing, even bathed and changed their clothes, kneeling and bowing toward the direction of the Beast God Temple to offer their thanks.
The Eldest Princess, who had fallen into the Misty Miasma Swamp from high altitude and ended up filthy and smellyānot even eight baths in the river could remove the stenchāsuddenly heard the earth-shaking sound. She looked toward the Beast God Temple with a dazed expression.
“An S-S-S-S grade female.”
“How is that possible? How can this be?! How can this be?!”
Translator’s Note: Hello everyone! This is your translator. Can you believe it? Su Miantang literally broke the scale! In these interstellar novels, “tofu-dreg construction” (č±č ęø£å·„ēØ) is a slang term for poorly built infrastructure. Miantang’s power is literally off the charts. Stay tuned to see how the guys react to having a literal goddess in their midst!
Chapter 77: Don’t Leave Us
“Tang… Tang…”
The holy scripture in Queen Janni’s hand fell to the ground. She subconsciously called out her nickname, then quickly shut her mouth, fearing she might offend her.
“Your Majesty.” Su Miantang awkwardly withdrew her hand. “Whatās going on?”
“This… this…”
Queen Janni was so excited she was incoherent. She stepped forward quickly, losing all her usual dignified poise.
“Itās because your pheromone grade is too high, too powerful! Even the Beast God statue couldn’t withstand it!”
Even the Beast God statue couldn’t withstand it?
Su Miantang had heard her say earlier that there were three strands of combat power in the statue: one strand represented S-grade, two represented SS-grade, and three represented SSS-grade. The number of strands one could withstand determined their pheromone grade.
Now that the statue was shattered, did it mean she had exceeded that limit?
“SSSS-grade?”
“Yes.”
Queen Janni nodded heavily, then shook her head.
“At the very least, SSSS-grade.”
In fact, throughout the history of the Central Galaxy, the highest combat level for males and the highest pheromone grade for females had both been SS-grade. SSS-grade was merely a beautiful fantasy of the people, much like the belief that gods must existāit was already the ultimate peak.
As for SSSS-grade, it wasn’t just a numerical value; it represented “no limit.”
“That high?”
Su Miantang was also shocked.
Queen Janni looked at her deeply. “Tangtang, you possess the power to control the life and death of anyone in this world!”
“Even…”
Even more powerful than that.
Powerful beyond her scope of understanding.
After all, she was only an SS-grade female and didn’t understand the world of SSSS-grade.
Yes, she never thought there would come a day when she would use the word “only” to describe her own pheromones, which had dominated the Central Galaxy for many years.
She finally understood why Jun Chengyin’s spirit, which had clearly completely collapsed, could be saved by Tangtang, and why Admiral Asilan, who was clearly hit by a miasma bomb, could return from the dead.
In front of an SSSS-grade female, nothing was impossible.
She possessed the life force to turn decay into magic.
Behind them, the six males suddenly shifted from incomparable shock into deep fear.
They rushed to the young girlās side at high speed.
“Eh?”
Su Miantang was suddenly hugged tightly by Asilan and Jun Chengyin. Fred and Enzo took her hands, while Hua Rong and Lu Sili stared at her with burning gazes. She was somewhat confused.
“Whatās wrong with you all?”
“Tangtang, don’t leave us, okay?”
“?”
She was perfectly fine, why would she leave them? Did blowing up the Beast God statue in Central Star carry a death penalty?
Jun Chengyin clarified her confusion. “Your pheromone grade is simply too powerful. So powerful that… Iām afraid you will transcend this world and become a god.”
After all, she was only 18 years old and already SSSS-grade. What did SSSS-grade even imply? How powerful was it? Would she differentiate again? What would her lifespan, her journey, and her final destination be like?
No one knew, and no one could predict it. After all, this was unprecedented.
A god?
Su Miantang laughed.
Why hadn’t she noticed they were so superstitious before?
She looked at the usually heroic males, whose eyes were now filled with deep worry and fear. Like a group of pitiful puppies afraid of being abandoned, they looked at her. She couldn’t help but reach out and flick their foreheads.
“What god or ghost are you talking about?”
“I am a human, a living human. I won’t just vanish into thin air.”
“Really?”
“Really, I promise you.”
The six of them all showed extremely relieved smiles. Queen Janni was also so happy she couldn’t close her mouth, but soon, she thought of a serious problem.
“The news of the Beast God statueās pheromone testing ceremony has already been proclaimed to the world through the bells.”
“Now that the statue is shattered, many people must have guessed that the Empire has awakened an SSSS-grade female. This is a blessing for the whole country, and everyone must be very happy and eager to see Tangtang. However, this might also bring potential danger to Tangtang…”
Su Miantang: “Danger?”
Asilan also seemed to think of something and frowned slightly. “Susu, you are now the highest-grade female in the world, a supreme treasure. You possess powerful pheromones that can mark and soothe any male. This might attract the greed of many.”
Fred: “Among them are regions not controlled by the Imperial family or the law, such as the Wormhole. There might even be high-level males from planets outside our galaxy. Because they cannot find a suitable female and cannot endure the torture of their estrus period, their spirits are on the verge of collapse. Or, they may want to obtain high-quality offspring, so they might kidnap you and force you to breed.”
In his years of interstellar warfare, he had seen how shameless, greedy, and morally uninhibited those people could be.
Enzo: “But the Central Star has the Admiral’s restrictions. Inside the Imperial City, there is the Crown Prince, as well as my brother and me. We will definitely do our best to protect Tangtang!”
Queen Janni: “You are all pillars of the nation, and itās not that I don’t trust you. Iām just afraid there are too many covetous eyes, making it impossible to guard against everyone. Nowadays, weapons in many galaxies are very advanced, and no one can guess what new kidnapping methods will appear. If we can’t respond in time… just like back then, I never expected that Chenyin would be taken away by a group of Shadow Robots in the safest part of the Imperial Palace.”
“Actually, this is the scariest part…” Lu Sili said with dark eyes. “Some mysterious and evil organizations will target Miantang’s genes.”
As a scientist, he knew the madness of those “Fatal Poisoners” for rare genes. They wouldn’t even let an S-grade go, let alone an SSSS-grade.
Speaking of this, Jun Chengyin seemed to have a stress response and gritted his fangs. “I will track their traces with all my might and wipe them out completely!”
“…”
Hearing their discussion, Su Miantang looked at her hands in silence.
Good things are indeed double-edged swords.
Hua Rong thought for a while and gestured to Queen Janni.
āMother, then we can just announce to the citizens that the Empire has awakened an SSSS-grade female, without disclosing Tangtang’s name or identity.
“At this point, thatās all we can do.”
Queen Janni summoned an attendant to write the decree according to Hua Rong’s suggestion. However, some subtle eyes and ears hidden in the Imperial Palace still quietly passed the name “Su Miantang” out.
It reached some prestigious families, the mysterious Wormhole, and the distant universe…
Deep within the shattered Beast God statue, three strands of golden combat power gradually condensed together, resembling a human eye. It watched the young girl intently, its gaze deep and burning.
This night, under the seemingly calm surface, massive waves were surging.
After witnessing the “Peonies blooming across the city” and the “Explosion of the Beast God statue,” the billions of citizens of Central Star were too excited to sleep. They waited with high spirits for the Imperial family to release the news.
Finally, at eight o’clock, the news came out.
Three pieces in a row.
Each more explosive than the last!
Translator’s Note: Poor Miantang! She just wants to live a quiet life, but now she’s a “supreme treasure.” The “Shadow Robots” (ęå½±ęŗåØäŗŗ) mentioned by the Queen give us a little hint about Jun Chengyin’s dark past. Also, did you catch that “eye” in the statue? Spooky!
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