Chapter 16 Monsters Die When They Are Killed (End)
Part 3 Eternal Gaze - Conclusion!
Monsters Die When They Are Killed - The Complete Book, Finished!

And along with this declaration, a burst of flame abruptly ascended from the ocean of the Initial Flame. The light of this flame was no longer pure, yet it wasn’t cyan-purple either. A stagnant power was spreading, converting all purity into a pitch-black abyss. The Initial Flame, burning fiercely, was now transforming into the tranquil Abyss of Ending—the great abyss that would only be born when the multiverse was ultimately incinerated, the final destruction.

Flame is fire, and abyss is water; the opposition and rotation of movement and stillness, existence and nothingness, continued.

Pure white fire condensed on the dark abyss, then dissipated, revealing the figure hidden behind it.

Instantly, Su Zhou couldn't help but be stunned.

Because the image that unfolded before him... was almost identical to himself.

No, there were still some slight differences.

Standing tall in the pitch-black abyss, surrounded by the Initial Flame, the slender youth wore a white robe, yet his skin was even whiter than the robe. He held aloft a pure ball of fire, seemingly un-'polluted' by Zhuzhou, while the other hand tightly gripped a manifested longsword of the Black Abyss, exuding a dangerous aura.

He was quite angry at the moment, his chest rising and falling slightly. Even his delicate face was filled with rage. Beneath his waist-length black hair, his eyes, as empty as a void, burned with pure light, staring straight at Su Zhou.

It looked like a younger version of Su Zhou, the boy pursing his lips, his eyebrows raised, almost gnashing his teeth as he squeezed out an angry rebuke, word by word: [You actually, actually...]

"Actually allowed you to exist again. Multiversal True Spirit, this is probably our first exchange."

Su Zhou smiled and picked up the conversation. He realized that when he was repelled by the Multiversal True Spirit, which had re-awakened its self-will, it had already materialized an image identical to his own, causing him to chuckle again: "You've even gotten younger. It seems your mindset is much younger than mine."

Of course, the current Su Zhou was different from the Multiversal True Spirit. The other's eyes were merely a flame burning in the dim void, while he himself had human eyes, only as bright as gemstones and stars.

But even so, the appearance displayed by the Multiversal True Spirit was a face of supreme beauty that transcended gender, species, and different aesthetic views—a symbol of sublimity and beauty that could be deemed as such by any living being.

Not to mention the aura, which also overwhelmed Su Zhou. The terrifying divine power, as if capable of crushing the ages, was condensing and boiling around it in anger, as if it would completely obliterate and distort him in the next instant.

But Su Zhou remained smiling, while the Multiversal True Spirit, the [Self-Existent One], remained angry.

[Why!]

Unable to endure any longer, the True Spirit angrily questioned Su Zhou: [Why make me exist?! Wasn't it better for me to remain silent and extinct? You could have locked me away, and waited for the Transcendent to appear and destroy me, right?!]

[Why pursue a better ending? Wouldn't truth and correctness naturally reveal themselves if you just waited?!]

It was angry, it was sorrowful. The monster that was originally unable to communicate had now transformed into a person, possessing techniques, self, and everything that could make it even more powerful.

But it was not happy about it at all, instead feeling fear and hatred.

"Because of love."

Su Zhou said softly, "Love is patient, love is kind."

"It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud, it does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs."

"Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth."

"It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

"The fourth kind of love is unconditional giving, giving all beings the right opportunities, the possibility of choice, even if it hurts me, I wouldn't want you to make mistakes, even if giving you self-will harms me."

As he spoke, Su Zhou slowly walked forward, approaching the Multiversal True Spirit: "Multiversal True Spirit, love is doing the right thing, and making others believe, and firmly believing yourself."

He walked step by step, his words firm: "I am just doing what I love, doing the right thing, doing what I should do."

[I don't want this self-will!] The Self-Existent One clenched his fists, glaring at Su Zhou as he approached: [You violated my will, is this what you call correct?!]

"Really?"

Standing before the Multiversal True Spirit, Su Zhou said calmly, "I merged with you before, and I happen to know that you once communicated with a great existence that I am quite familiar with, waiting for someone to awaken you—perhaps everyone else thinks that awakening you refers to those from the 'Hun Tian Realm' arriving at the Quiet Abyss and awakening you who are self-sealed, and then you will have a reason to transform into a monster and completely destroy the entire multiverse, with others bearing half the blame for this mistake."

"But I firmly believe that that is not true slumber and awakening... True slumber is precisely when you transform into a monster without self, completely silent."

"And now—I have awakened you."

"And I will stop you."

[You cannot stop me]

In that instant, the Multiversal True Spirit recovered from its anger and became calm. It gazed at Su Zhou, then turned its head to look at Hun Tian: [Now, I am also you. Although I cannot completely leave this place, my power can penetrate your seal.]

[I will eliminate you, and then destroy the multiverse again, returning everything to tranquil nothingness.]

Gazing at the direction of the sealed multiverse, the True Spirit said firmly: [You are me, you cannot stop me.]

"Go ahead and do it."

Su Zhou said, watching the True Spirit before him, who now had a 'belief', smiling happily: "True Spirit, if this is what you want to do, then do it. This is your freedom—but don't forget one thing."

He gazed at the youth before him, raising his hand, raising the longsword in his hand that was condensed from belief.

Su Zhou calmly declared: "I will stop you."

"If you are a god, I am your opposition; if what you do is the correctness in your heart, I am your eternal questioning."

"If you want to bring darkness, I am the bright day that illuminates the dark night; if you want to bring destruction and despair, I am the light of hope that guides the masses."

"True Spirit, even if you turn back into a monster, I can transform you back into a better existence countless times, through 'Innovation'!"

Su Zhou's voice shook Hun Tian, and even the Multiversal Quiet Abyss rippled.

More words were meaningless.

Two people with the same face looked at each other, with infinite flames splashing from their opposing time-spaces, transforming into one universe and time-space after another. It was the collision of utterly different wills, giving birth to infinite possibilities.

After that, pure white and cyan-purple light rose from the pitch-black abyss, bursting forth, and intertwined, soaring out of Hun Tian!

At this moment, after regaining its self-will, the Multiversal True Spirit felt that its power and techniques had greatly improved compared to when it was purely empty. It was now capable of bypassing most of the seals set by Su Zhou, projecting a portion of its power away from Zhuzhou Tian, and contaminating the entire multiverse.

——For infinity, even a portion is completely sufficient.

Instantly, in the sealed multiverse, in the sea of void that sparkled with the light of endless world-stars, shining like countless glittering gemstones, a pure white lightning flashed.

Accompanied by a terrifying rumble that could shake all things, this pure white lightning pierced through countless time-spaces—and then, endless Heavenly Demon Taboos were born and descended into those worlds, universes, planes, and time-spaces, following the derivation of the white lightning.

Even parallel time-spaces were not spared; that infinitely derived, infinitely split possibility was also infected... Not only that, but as the white lightning flew, the shadows of 'Heavenly Demons' began to emerge within the endless time-space structure of the entire sealed multiverse.

[Eternal Heavenly Demon] [Absolute Heavenly Demon] and [Infinite Heavenly Demon]

Chaos Gods and Demons, Evil God Calamities, Rebellious Time-Spaces, Calamities of All Beings, Unfathomable Heavenly Demons.

The five terrifying demonic entities that plagued Hun Tian, sealed by the Five Supreme Saints at the cost of everything—the multiverse's own purification, restart, and deletion methods—began to spread throughout the entire multiverse!

For a time, it was as if the white lightning had transformed into a tree of thunder that pierced through all universes and time-spaces, bringing irreversible destruction to all time-spaces and possibilities.

At this moment, not only the six Flood who set the seal widened their eyes, revealing expressions of shock and disbelief, but even all beings in the multiverse instinctively felt an indescribable despair, like creatures living on a planet seeing the planet collapse, a star explode, like residents of a plane seeing a time-space storm, a world falling into the abyss.

Everything was the same; the entire multiverse had begun the final deletion process.

[You cannot stop me]

The lightning seemed to be declaring this.

But what followed was cyan-purple flame.

"I can."

The flame responded to the lightning, cutting through the void of the multiverse like a shooting star, announcing the arrival of true light in the future like the morning star.

At this moment, the cyan-purple flame was rapidly splitting, following the white lightning and pouring into all the universes and time-spaces of the multiverse, and each portion, like the Multiversal True Spirit, possessed infinite power.

It was very simple.

If the number of universes in Zhuzhou Tian was regarded as the set of natural numbers n, and an arithmetic sequence was set as p1, p1.1=10x-1, p1.2=10x-2, p1.3=10x-3... where the value of p1 belongs to n.

After that, Su Zhou projected the power of the subset universe that he had differentiated to the sealed, multiversal, infinite universe time-space that was invaded by the Multiversal True Spirit. There, the power of 'Zhuzhou Infinite Power' would grant infinite 'New Zhuzhou' power to those universe time-spaces. Zhuzhou Infinite Power would become the manifestation of real infinity there, fighting against the endless Heavenly Demons originating from the Multiversal True Spirit.

For a time, such scenes could be seen.

As white lightning flashed across the sky, bringing despairing Heavenly Demons, cyan-purple stars sparkled and descended with infinite power.

In the void, in infinite time-space, in the unbelievable silent nothingness, the flames of war ignited, and the power of Zhuzhou and the Multiversal True Spirit unfolded simultaneously in infinite worlds and parallel time-spaces, starting a vast war that swept across the entire multiverse.

It could be seen that in an infinitely large universe-world, clusters of twisted time-spaces began to emerge, eroding the surrounding universe time-spaces, causing stars and galaxies to twist and collapse, even cracking open a pitch-black heavenly abyss, wanting to completely devour the universe itself.

Unfathomable Heavenly Demons descended here, returning everything to twisted nothingness, but then the surging of Infinite Power condensed into endless insect-Zhuzhou in the vacuum. These Zhuzhou were hideous and terrifying, brutal and greedy, a swarm of evil locusts that could devour time-space and entropy. Their flapping wings caused layers of turbulent flow in time-space.

The Unfathomable Heavenly Demons were naturally not afraid of this mere insect swarm. Endless twisted time-spaces crushed towards the locust swarm, as if they could completely crush these bizarre giant insects with just one blow—but everything was the opposite. Accompanied by the ear-piercing buzzing of wing friction, this swarm of locusts, which gnawed at time-space, rose into a cloud of pitch-black mist, intertwining with the Unfathomable Heavenly Demons, devouring and transforming each other. Infinity and infinity constituted an endless rotation.

In the distant future, the Unfathomable Heavenly Demons would become part of the natural disasters of this universe, transforming into various evil demons and monsters, descending on many planets through the heavenly abyss, and the infinite power of Zhuzhou would also spread, granting the planets and civilizations that were invaded by evil demons the power to resist. Those who wielded the power of insect-Zhuzhou would be called 'Zhuzhou Knights'!

Not only that, not only insect-Zhuzhou.

Chaos Gods and Demons, transformed from the Great Dao, appeared in any high-magic, high-spiritual world. As the awakened origin of the Great Dao, as the existence at the source of time, just their every move would cause the destruction and restart of countless time-spaces. They should have been able to destroy everything with a flick of their hand, but the light of Zhuzhou closely followed, transforming into a timeline, tightly entwining these Chaos Gods and Demons.

As everyone knows, the axis is a long strip, which is a snake, even more so a dragon, and also has a time angle—therefore, these endless divine dragons, or rather, Demonic Dragon Zhuzhou, opened their giant mouths and tore and fought with those angry Chaos Gods and Demons, crossing the past and future, fighting in infinite time-spaces, preventing all historical changes and substitutions.

It could also be seen that the Calamities of All Beings were spreading in many worlds. These Heavenly Demon Disasters, which would deprive the power of the root of all time-space existence, were enough to make a real universe become illusory, unreal, and completely return to nothing in an instant, like a computer without power, unable to process any information or carry any information.

However, accompanied by the cyan-purple flame, many seeds of divine trees descended. At the same time that the Calamities of All Beings spread, the Divine Tree Zhuzhou also began to take root and sprout under the support of Infinite Power. The infinitely expanding branches and roots were located inside the world, in the center of the moving court and the quiet abyss, replacing the Multiversal Support that had withdrawn its power, becoming the new foundation of many world time-spaces.

The Calamities of All Beings still wanted to continue drawing the power of the Divine Tree Zhuzhou, but although trees are not good at movement, that was Zhuzhou! Therefore, it could be seen that as the Calamities of All Beings began to extract the power of the Divine Tree Zhuzhou, countless bizarre and terrifying branches also inserted into the void Calamity Dao.

For a time, a blood-colored light lit up, and the cosmic power extracted by the Calamities of All Beings also began to be absorbed by the Divine Tree Zhuzhou. The two sides devoured each other, extracted each other, yet another endless round of confrontation.

Facing the many rebellious time-spaces, the Divine Bird Zhuzhou spread its wings, revealing the Prajna patterns that displayed all wisdom, finalizing the recording of the real history.

And against the gods and worms representing omniscience and truth, the black Demonic Dragon that devoured existence and brought dusk was also conceived and born from the light of Zhuzhou, roaring at those high and mighty Heavenly Demons.

All beings in the entire multiverse saw it.

There were two infinite forces, bursting forth in the void, flying, and piercing through infinite time-spaces.

Either Unfathomable Heavenly Demons, or Chaos Gods and Demons, or Calamities of All Beings, or Evil God Calamities, or Rebellious Time-Spaces...

Either ferocious swarms of insect-Zhuzhou locusts, or vast dragon-Zhuzhou dragon swarms, or endless Divine Tree Zhuzhou forests, as well as Demonic Dragons and Divine Birds...

This was a 'Legion'.

Because the number of Zhuzhou is numerous!

The [Day Legion] belonging to "Innovation" was now blocking the incredible 'Freedom' army of the multiverse in the infinite time-spaces of the entire multiverse!

[How is this possible?!]

The Self-Existent One who pursued freedom, the Multiversal True Spirit in the form of a young boy, could not believe it: [Why can you block everything?! The other Floods clearly cannot...]

"I said it a long time ago."

Su Zhou, who had been closely following behind, confronting the True Spirit, said calmly: "They are just amateur Floods—it is I, and only I, who can be considered a true Flood."

[But even so, you cannot surpass me]

Raising his head, the boy glared fiercely at Su Zhou, and the Multiversal True Spirit said: [You can only catch up to me at most, there is no way you can surpass me]

[You are not a Transcendent, there is no way you can always be like this! And I will act in this way from beginning to end, bringing the end to the entire multiverse, until you make a mistake, until you cannot stop me!]

"Yes."

To this, Su Zhou nodded frankly: "I am not a Transcendent, I can only confront you forever at most."

He said: "Yes, the True Spirit of the sealed multiverse, the Self-Existent One of freedom, you are so powerful, so special, that just your existence is almost equivalent to half a Transcendent... If you are not a Transcendent, there is no way you can fight against you, even a Flood like me can only follow behind you and make up for the confrontation, but cannot truly stop you."

"If it were a Transcendent, if it were a Transcendent, then any contradictions could be resolved, any sacrifices could be recovered, and any choices could be perfect."

As he said this, he couldn't help but sigh: "If it were just me alone, then what you said would be correct."

The Multiversal True Spirit stared at Su Zhou suspiciously. It did not believe that Su Zhou would actually agree with his words like this, instead of refuting them as he had done before.

"However."

Sure enough, Su Zhou changed the subject. He looked around the entire multiverse and smiled softly: "How can there only be 'me'?"

Su Zhou's gaze swept across the sealed multiverse, sweeping across this world that he loved.

He looked, he saw.

He saw that in the Divine Tree World, Zhou Buyi had become a Celestial Immortal, and was gradually searching for the second home of mankind in the universe starry sky together with the Panlong Immortal Tree.

He saw that in the Reincarnation World, his bishop, Eamon, was trying to open up a new home in a ruined world together with his student, Elias. Their work was arduous, but they finally succeeded in igniting the fire of order by relying on the many dusts of the world around them, causing the world to return to prosperity.

He saw that on Earth, his friends, Shao Qiming, Shao Shuangyue, Tang Yuan, Jin Qiong and Bai Yingxue, as well as all the seniors and juniors of the Zheng Nation, everyone he knew and didn't know, were all climbing to higher levels on the basis of what he had created. If he was a high mountain, then they vowed to become another one, or at least stand on top of the high mountain and look at the higher sky in the distance.

He saw that in the Divine Dragon World, Ola was leading many divine dragons of time-space, making a wish to the Ancestral Dragon—they hoped that there would be no more wishes in the world, but that the Ancestral Dragon would open up the channels of many time-spaces, so that they could follow the Ancestral Dragon's back to the infinite distance, and explore more and bigger worlds and scenery.

He saw that in the Perfect World, Ming Zhengde was about to complete his salvation. He would become the first human Heavenly Emperor in this time-space, and then, he would also become the first Returning Void to Dao in this time-space, and the Beginning Phoenix and the Origin True Dragon would also prove the Dao and become two new Floods.

He saw that in the Aeon World, Gasha and Loya had become reliable big boys. They did not live up to the name of Hope Light, and joined forces with the remnants of the empire that had lost the Sun Emperor to rebuild civilization under the re-ignited Holy Sun, healing the demonized and bringing equality and hope to all beings.

He saw that in the Creation World, the Only God and the Perpetual Motion Star God were building their homes on the wreckage of the Creation Ring. They had joined the Divine Power Network, supporting this Dao Uniting Armed Force at the peak of Dao Uniting to spread in many universes and time-spaces—in the future, when these two immature guys matured a little, they would undoubtedly become Floods, and bring the Divine Power Network to become a Flood Proof, adding three more Floods to the entire Creation World.

He saw that in the Rhapsody Great Universe, the Fifth Rhapsody was progressing steadily, and all the Alans and Eves were living happy lives, and their future had infinite possibilities to look forward to.

He saw, saw, Su Zhou saw many things.

Whether it was the sealed universe, the Pioneer Space, or the universe time-spaces where the Zhuzhou in the Zhuzhou Chat Group were located in infinite time-spaces, he had his own comrades, and the seeds cultivated by his own comrades were taking root, sprouting, and spreading more seeds.

Whether it was Immortals and Gods, Dao Uniting or Flood, everything new was being born.

The number was infinite, the number of spreads was infinite, the number of superpositions was even more infinite, and the time-spaces traversed were still infinite.

This love that can only be called infinite, this trust that can only be expressed in eternity, this belief that can only be declared absolutely, its true name is 'Zhuzhou'!

All of this, all beings, are Zhuzhou!

Yes.

Su Zhou gazed tenderly at the entire multiverse.

He knew that they would all not be strong enough, that his friends, these newborn Zhuzhou, were still immature, and had not yet fully grown up and become truly powerful and worthy of his trust.

However, Su Zhou was a Flood.

——He is infinite.

——He.

——Has infinite time.

——To 'wait'.

——Wait for…

"Waiting for, the second me."

Turning his head, Su Zhou looked at the Multiversal True Spirit who had fallen silent, and looked at this 'monster'.

[Innovation] said with a smile: "Do you understand? Multiversal True Spirit?"

"In this sealed multiverse, I am the first to reach this realm, the true realm of the Flood, and you are one step slower."

"It was I who arrived, broke through, and therefore absorbed a part of me, becoming the you who are now like this, no longer a 'Freedom Monster', but a 'Freedom Self-Existent One', the you who encompasses me, the multiverse that gave birth to me, can only reach this realm."

"However."

Declaring this, Su Zhou raised his hand, holding up one finger.

His gaze was scorching, almost burning: "You know better than anyone—there is only one Multiversal True Spirit."

"There will only ever be one prototype of a monster."

"And in the future, the real Floods that emerge from the infinite masses of beings, the Transcendent Ones that emerge, the Surpassers, will definitely be more than one!"

"After me, there will be others who are the same as me, because I am upholding the 'correctness' of love, trust and unwavering belief!"

Taking a step forward, Su Zhou moved forward, while the Multiversal True Spirit retreated blankly. The youth laughed wantonly: "This is my unwavering belief in correctness! My trust in all beings! My love for this multiverse!"

"Multiversal True Spirit—what about you!"

[You're lying!]

The Multiversal True Spirit did not answer. At this moment, it was looking around the entire multiverse, roaring: [There is no way—I have never seen any possibility in this multiverse like you!]

"Foolish!"

The youth scolded without hesitation: "We Floods are the impossible possibilities, and Transcendent Ones are even more so beyond all of this!"

"Look!"

[——Transcendent Birth Progress: 00.00%——]

Raising his hand, Su Zhou materialized his planned progress. He stood here, the burning progress made up of cyan-purple flames shining in the multiverse void, and in contrast to this, the black-haired youth who looked exactly like him had a dazed look, as if he could not understand all of this at all.

[Isn't this impossible?] He was puzzled: [Are you crazy?]

"Now, it's 00.00%."

Su Zhou smiled calmly. He gazed at the other party's pure and void eyes, and said softly: "But, look."

"This 0 will become an infinite loop of 00.0000~1%."

Indeed, when the Multiversal True Spirit looked up at the progress bar, that 00.00% did indeed turn into 00.00~1%!

[This, how is this possible?!]

At this moment, the Multiversal True Spirit was truly shaken. He stared at the possibility progress bar that was still infinitely looping and still equal to 0. A violent unease arose in his heart, which was born because of Su Zhou: [You're lying to me, when this progress bar reaches 100%, a Transcendent will be born? How is this possible!]

Then, his expression immediately became firm: [No matter what you say, Su Zhou, you are indeed my greatest enemy]

[Whether you are lying to me or not, as long as I can destroy many time-spaces, your progress bar will naturally stagnate!]

"How could I lie to you?"

With his back to the infinitely looping and infinitely increasing progress bar, Su Zhou faced the Multiversal True Spirit, who had become firm and believed in 'himself' even more firmly, and simply shook his head gently: "Multiversal True Spirit, I really do love you."

"No matter what you think, no matter what you want to do, just confront me, I am willing to bestow blessings upon you."

[Innovation] said softly, with a firm conviction that never wavered: "I am willing to bless you, to obtain true freedom."

"This is the better story that I want to bring to you."

If.

[Miracle] is a story that is more than 100%.

Then [Chaos] is a story that makes 100% never possible.

If.

[Destiny] is a 100% story.

Then [Pioneer] is a story of seeking to surpass 100%.

If.

[Perfection] is a story that fluctuates above and below 100%.

Then [Reincarnation] is a story that prevents everything from returning to 0.

If.

[Transcendent] is a trend of overall increase, regardless of whether it starts from 0 or from 100%.

Then [Existence] [Continuation] is all the stories that are born and extend from 0.

If.

[Creation] is the story of a plus sign on 0 and 100%.

Then [Termination] is the story of a minus sign on 0 and 100%.

If.

[Unification] is the story of 100% equal to 1.

Then [Coordination] is the story of 100 1%.

If.

[Balance] is the story of the equal sign between all the numbers from 0 to 100%.

Then [Nothingness] is the story that takes place on the forever 0.

And the last last… the last of each of these stories.

If, [Innovation] is also a story.

Then, he is the process of leading all things, gradually increasing from that starting point.

It can reach 100%, it can do better, surpass this 100%, and it may just徘徊 between numbers.

But he will never give up any number, and he hopes to move towards better and bigger numbers.

This is…

"This is, my story, and your story, and the story of all beings."

Gazing at the Multiversal True Spirit, the Five Supreme Saints and Five Floods arrived behind Su Zhou from distant time-spaces, and the Hongshi Great Emperor and the Tishi Sacred Venerable also drove the Zhuzhou Heaven to arrive. They and Su Zhou confronted the lonely Multiversal True Spirit together, staring at the pitch-black Quiet Abyss unfolding around the silent True Spirit, and endless Heavenly Demons涌 out.

——If the multiverse is not destroyed, freedom cannot be obtained?

——Such freedom… is so unfree!

[That's not my story, I don't believe you]

Even after hearing such voices, he still said firmly: [I don't believe in this kind of beauty]

Facing the Multiversal True Spirit who believed in his own correctness and firmly believed in his own beliefs, Su Zhou simply spread his arms, smiling calmly, showing all of himself.

He said: "This is the meaning of battle."

"However, remember, Multiversal True Spirit, you have the freedom to choose all possibilities, but as long as you are wrong, you are wrong."

In the last last, just as the [Transcendent Birth Progress] turned into an infinite loop of 00.00~2, facing the Multiversal True Spirit who roared and rushed over, unfolding another battle.

Su Zhou earnestly and solemnly, said that meaningless, but also the advice of all meanings: "Mistakes, are monsters."

"In the face of correctness, mistakes will be defeated…"

"And monsters, when killed, will die!"