Chapter 41 The Aftermath

“Next, leave it to us,” the dean said.

“This battle is also a show of force for our human race in this territory. Killing two abyss powerhouses is more deterrent than killing just one.” The Eternal Tower Master also had a strong killing intent.

The Eternal Tower Master, who had ventured into the abyss many times, had no sympathy for those who engaged in long-term abyss sacrifices.

He might occasionally perform abyss sacrifices if there was a special need.

But to do it long-term meant complete corruption by the abyss, utter depravity, and becoming a puppet of the abyss.

“Alright.” Xu Jingming instantly vanished, retreating into his Mind World, so as not to affect the dean and the others.

Standing within the Mind World, Xu Jingming watched from afar. “Yu Fangtuo and I have an old grudge. It once tried to use causal attacks to kill me. Now, we have a new one. If it escapes, with its personality… even if it fears the strength of the human race, it will definitely hide in the shadows, quietly seeking revenge.”

Therefore, he preferred to let Qiong Yuque go.

Qiong Yuque didn't have much conflict with the human race. This time, Qiong Yuque didn't lose anything. Among the three abyss powerhouses, Qiong Yuque had the lowest grudge against humanity. Such conflicts were common in the vast abyss. As long as the losses weren't too great and the human race was strong enough, Qiong Yuque wouldn't invite trouble.

“Get lost!” Yu Fangtuo, now freed from the illusion, faced an even more terrifying siege by the dean, the Tower Master, and the Island Master.

“Suppress!” A giant black flame palm emerged from the void, mightily pressing down on Yu Fangtuo, who wielded a black long staff.

Yu Fangtuo was immense, roaring as it swung its staff. An abyss phantom appeared behind it, the staff's power terrifying. But before the black flame palm, it seemed so weak.

The black flame palm was irresistibly powerful. With a single strike, the staff was sent flying, Yu Fangtuo's arm shattered, and its immense body was crushed.

Its most prized body was shattered by a single strike.

“It’s all because of that Xu Jingming from the Mind World lineage. He trapped me with an illusion!” The crushed Yu Fangtuo transformed into countless black liquid droplets, each with Yu Fangtuo's face appearing within.

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With a bang, a large amount of black liquid suddenly exploded, the terrifying power tearing open a gap for escape. A large amount of black liquid instantly flashed and escaped through the gap.

But the dean, the Tower Master, and the Island Master didn’t care. They simply watched as flames ignited on the black liquid. The black fire burned, and each drop of liquid let out a miserable howl.

“Stop, stop, stop! I surrender! I surrender!” Many black liquid droplets showed Yu Fangtuo's face, making anxious sounds.

But the three human high-dimensional lives ignored its pleas, coldly watching everything.

“No!”

“I surrender!”

“Let me go!”

The black liquid droplets that escaped the formation all let out miserable cries, echoing in the high-dimensional space, making the watching high-dimensional lives tremble.

These black liquids were full of terrifying vitality. As long as one drop escaped, Yu Fangtuo could survive.

But the flames unleashed by the three human high-dimensional lives, using a forbidden weapon, were too powerful, even burning the enemy's life imprints along the threads of karma.

Yu Fangtuo wasn't like the Abyss Thousand-Eyed Spider Demon. It mainly had a strong body and hadn't imprinted its life imprint in the abyss.

The essence of its life was in those black liquid droplets, which took a full three breaths to burn away in the flames.

During those three breaths, Yu Fangtuo went from begging for mercy to roaring in unwillingness, to wanting to drag more high-dimensional lives down with it.

“Die together, let’s die together!” All of Yu Fangtuo's black liquid droplets dispersed, crossing time and space, wanting to contaminate the high-dimensional lives in this universe.

The high-dimensional lives were startled. They didn't want to be touched by Yu Fangtuo's dying move!

They didn't want to be contaminated by the terrifying black flames either.

“What a madman!” A voice roared. Several Eternal realm high-dimensional lives of this real universe took action, influencing space-time to prevent the black droplets from approaching.

After all, there were nearly a hundred Eternal realm high-dimensional lives in this universe, guarding the real universe for a long time. They weren't so easily provoked.

Yu Fangtuo had a strong obsession. Amidst its miserable and unwilling howls, all the black droplets were burned away.

Only then did the dean, the Tower Master, and the Island Master appear, collecting the remains left behind by Yu Fangtuo's death.

“Everyone…” the dean said with a smile, his gaze sweeping in all directions.

“The territory occupied by the Abyss Thousand-Eyed Spider Demon, ‘Si Nan,’ will henceforth belong to the human race. Our human race loves to make friends and live in harmony with its neighbors, but if anyone invades our territory, we will surely eradicate them!”

The dean's voice spread in the high-dimensional space, and the high-dimensional lives in this real universe heard it clearly.

“The human race?”

“This newcomer human race is not to be trifled with. They're much stronger than the Abyss Thousand-Eyed Spider Demon!”

“Three abyss powerhouses were quickly defeated when they joined forces, with two dead and one fleeing.”

“Looking at our universe, the strength of this human race is probably among the top few.”

The high-dimensional lives of various races were quite wary. The strange and mysterious powerhouses had intimidated most races with the strength they displayed upon their first appearance. Qiong Yuque, who was fleeing, looked back at the real universe from afar.

“Yu Fangtuo is dead too!” Qiong Yuque could clearly sense that all causal connections related to Yu Fangtuo had disappeared.

“These mysterious powerhouses are so strong that the three of us couldn't resist them, resulting in two deaths and one escape.” Qiong Yuque sighed inwardly, “My long-term activity area doesn't include this territory. This time, I was invited by the Thousand-Eyed Spider Demon to this territory. After returning to the abyss, I will never come to this territory again.” Qiong Yuque was truly afraid.

It had no thoughts of revenge or entanglement, only wanting to be as far away from those mysterious powerhouses as possible. It, Qiong Yuque, hadn't lost anything in this conflict.

The dean, the Tower Master, the Island Master, Xu Jingming, and Chi Meng gathered together, celebrating their great victory.

“This plan went very smoothly,” the dean said with satisfaction. “We completely killed the Abyss Thousand-Eyed Spider Demon and even killed Yu Fangtuo. The deterrent effect of this battle is enough.”

“I believe that in this real universe, few will dare to provoke us easily!” The Eternal Tower Master also said.

The Time-Space Island Master, holding a wine glass, also smiled.

“Jingming, when you lured those three, you seemed to have been tainted by pollution,” the dean asked.

“It’s fine. I immediately self-destructed that avatar,” Xu Jingming said. “Only some pollution information was transmitted to my memories. I can suppress it now and estimate that it will take a little more time to completely resolve it.”

The Eternal Tower Master solemnly said, “Don't underestimate abyss pollution. You must go all out and resolve this pollution first. Leave everything else to us.”

“That’s right. You don’t need to worry now. We will be responsible for taking over this territory and sorting it out. At the same time, we will also prepare all the work for migrating the humans from our home universe,” the dean also said. “These preparations are estimated to take decades. Let’s tentatively set it for eighty years from now. You, Jingming, will be responsible for carrying the small universe and migrating the entire human race to our new home.”

“Is the selection of humans for the Mind clan according to the original plan?” Xu Jingming asked.

“Proceed according to the original plan,” the dean nodded. “Our race migration plan is already much more generous than that of the Void God race. In fact, our home universe is still many years away from destruction. Many planetary lives can live to old age and die peacefully. On the contrary, migrating to a strange universe has a certain mortality rate.” Xu Jingming nodded.

Although the new universe home they had chosen was very suitable.

Deaths would still occur. In their home, planetary lives could live peacefully and grow old until death.

“Leave it all to us. You should go and focus on dealing with the pollution,” the Time-Space Island Master urged.

“Alright.” Xu Jingming got up, and his figure disappeared without a trace.

The dean, the Tower Master, the Island Master, and Chi Meng then began to talk about trivial matters.

“Jingming has put in the most effort and taken the greatest risks for this migration,” the dean said. “In the next eighty years, we must prepare everything well. Then, Jingming will only need to be responsible for sending the small universe to our new home.”

“Yes.” Chi Meng also nodded. His strength was limited, and he couldn’t help much before. He still wanted to spend more effort on handling the trivial matters of race migration to help his fellow clansmen share the burden.

Within the beast hide space of the Mind World territory.

Xu Jingming sat cross-legged in the starry sky, frowning slightly. “Although this beast hide space can greatly isolate karma, the abyss pollution is too terrifying. I self-destructed my avatar to cut off most of the pollution transmission, but the memory transmission cannot be prevented.”

Each avatar shared the same memories, and memory pollution could not be isolated.

“Fortunately, my *Bafang Tu* (Eight Directions Chart) has been cultivated to a good realm. The fifth realm, the Great Joy Realm, is also largely achieved.” The memories that Xu Jingming encountered that were polluted, many of which were emotional, couldn't shake him in the slightest.

This was because the third realm, the Mind Realm, of the *Bafang Tu* completely controlled his various emotions.

Appetite, lust, desire for comfort, and greed had all passed the *Bafang Tu*'s test. The vast majority of these memory pollutions couldn't affect him in the slightest.

“Most of the memories can’t affect me,” Xu Jingming said with a deep gaze.

But there were still some memories that were affecting Xu Jingming's mind.

“I’m not reconciled, I’m not at ease, I want to live, I want to live on.” That was an image of Xu Jingming in the future. At that moment, Xu Jingming was filled with grief and indignation, with too much unwillingness and too many concerns.

“I can’t die now, I can’t die. I want to revive, I want to revive countless people of the human race, I want to change the past, I can’t die!”

Memories of unwillingness before death.

“How much I wanted to take that last step, just a little bit away from reaching the third realm.”

“Having lived for a hundred and twenty abyss epochs, am I ultimately stopping here?”

Some other future memories of Xu Jingming contained great regret, not resentment, but only anticipation for a higher realm.

“Self-detonating the avatar prevented most of the pollution, and I suppressed and sorted out more than 90% of the memory pollution, leaving only a small amount… A total of 321,029 kinds of Xu Jingming's memories, with past memories and future memories, all with very deep imprints, as if they were trying to imprint themselves in my consciousness, trying to confuse my original self-cognition.” Xu Jingming's expression was calm.

“This pollution has made me understand, what does the desire for superiority count for in the face of life and death?”

“Only by living can we have the hope of changing everything!”

Too many kinds of past and future memories allowed Xu Jingming to more transcendently examine his own path.