Chapter 954 Old Acquaintances and Innovation (Part 1, 6000)

"The Five Supreme Sages..."

At this moment, even the Primordial Candle Dragon couldn't help but sigh, "Although some come from different universes and timelines, and were even once part of the taboo, you all are truly chaotic now."

—Is this the primordial world of chaos?

In the chaotic universe, so many Chaos Gods and Demons, Innate Gods and Demons…

There are so many powerful beings who retroactively change the past for their own selfish desires.

The Multiverse True Spirit is no exception. To achieve its own goals, it disregards the self-will of all life, wantonly distorting space and time—if this isn't chaos, what is?

But it's not just that.

Within the Hún Tiān Realm (World of Primal Chaos), even the Five Supreme Sages, who suppress the Multiverse True Spirit, were born.

If chaos is opposition to everything, then the Five Supreme Sages are undoubtedly opposed to the Multiverse True Spirit!

[You are more chaotic than us.]

Facing Su Zhou's advance, the Five Supreme Sages said in a deep voice: [You always want more and more possibilities, more impossible possibilities.]

[You want to create more chaos, more free will… But Primordial Candle Dragon, freedom and possibility are not just hope and love for all beings, but also despair and poison.]

[You clearly know that one of the taboo's true names… is the prototype of a monster called Freedom and Possibility, isn't it?]

They spoke with a hint of reproach: [Yet you still act this way.]

Su Zhou was silent.

Yes. Freedom is not an absolute good.

Infinite possibilities are even more so.

Unable to predict the future, unable to follow cause and effect, absolute freedom, doing as one pleases, what kind of world would a powerful being create?

Love, belief, and trust are the source of power and the infinite foundation for restraining the strong.

But if it is a free being… they would certainly not care, because freedom has nothing but itself, and itself is the source of all its power.

It is the [Self-Existent].

But, facing the accusations of the Five Supreme Sages.

"Shut up."

He said.

Su Zhou said to the Five Supreme Sages, his tone calm, but the content was unprecedentedly direct and rude: "I want to ask—you say you believe in the future of the multiverse's beings, but I have appeared, a me who is stronger and more hopeful than you, why don't you believe in me?"

This was an accusation that could not be more direct, filled with anger, annoyance… but in reality, Su Zhou understood why.

Because of respect.

The Six Great Tides, respect Su Zhou… Do they merely believe in the Candle Dragon? They truly see Su Zhou as the greatest hope for the 'Transcender,' so they want to sacrifice themselves to fulfill the possibility of Su Zhou becoming a Transcender.

Yes.

The Six Great Tides are fighting Su Zhou here so that, after victory, they can sacrifice themselves, allowing Su Zhou and the beings after him to become Transcenders.

And Su Zhou is fighting the Six Great Tides here so that, after victory, Su Zhou can sacrifice himself, allowing the Six Great Tides and the beings after them to become Transcenders.

Respect, and arrogance.

Infinite beings are like this, having a logic of action different from all other beings… and love.

—It can't be done without me.

Even sacrifice is the same.

Therefore.

Su Zhou was angry, and… equally.

He also had respect for his enemies.

Therefore.

In the Candle Dragon Heaven, there was a burning flame.

A heart-fire, hotter than anything, as if burning with the soul, was shining.

"Did you think I brought my Candle Dragon Heaven, using the power of many great inheritances to come here seeking the truth, to listen to your pleas and demands for me to compromise? To make me watch you sacrifice innocent beings?"

"Don't joke around, I'm here to make the entire multiverse better and block all dark futures!"

The youth took a deep breath, and the entire Candle Dragon Heaven began to rotate, accumulating infinite power.

"I will use my correctness to defeat you, along with that taboo."

Under the wary gaze of the Five Supreme Sages, he declared.

"The thing I'm best at is breaking reincarnation, realizing impossible possibilities, and taking down those undead and invincible villains. The number of bad people and monsters I've killed along the way is countless. I live to take down those freaks who bring darkness to all beings—you can't stop me. You will all be defeated by me later. I will definitely suppress the 'taboo' that you say is 'absolutely unstoppable' to the point where it can't even utter a word. As for sacrifice, that's even more absurd. As long as I am still alive, as long as the Candle Dragon can still shine, as long as the flame of innovation is still burning, no one but me will get the chance to burn myself to drive away the shadows and darkness of all things!"

Even Su Zhou, who was good at rhetoric, was perhaps making such a declaration for the first time. At this moment, he only felt a force boiling, and this force originated from him, but did not entirely belong to him. Instead, it belonged to the entire multiverse, to the future of infinite multiverses, to the beings who had chosen his Candle Dragon path in reverse.

[…But your choice will only increase the possibility of the sealed multiverse being swallowed by the taboo.]

Silently listening to Su Zhou's declaration, the weary Non-Enlightened Awakener could only sigh softly, murmuring: [What you said is correct, but what we seek is not a possible correctness, but to not make mistakes… If we rashly pursue correctness…]

"You fools, that's why you can't win against me."

[You…]

"Didn't hear clearly? I said you are fools! Only pursuing not being wrong? All things are like sailing against the current, not being wrong is to sink into error and compromise with it. Not thinking about going against the current, pursuing the infinite absolute and eternal correctness, I'm starting to doubt whether you even have half a chance of becoming Transcenders. But the problem is not here. I have made my decision, and now it's time to implement it."

With only the last Great Tide remaining between them and the Hún Tiān Realm (World of Primal Chaos), the Candle Dragon Heaven began to become hazy, but it was not illusory. Rather, it was as if countless, infinite universes and timelines were overlapping in the Candle Dragon Heaven.

Located within the Candle Dragon Heaven, Emperor Hongshi laughed. Even the suspicious and uncertain Supreme Sage of the Beginning suddenly understood after a brief moment of confusion. He turned his head in shock, staring at the endless prison-worlds in the Candle Dragon Heaven.

He saw that the endless prison-worlds were expanding, growing, transforming from a mere infinite prison into a true universe.

And under the effect of infinite power, the Candle Dragon Heaven also began to gradually sublimate from a multiverse prototype into a true multiverse.

The so-called multiverse prototype is a multiverse that already possesses the substance of a multiverse but is still encompassed by the multiverse born from the Great Tides. Unless the Great Tides can create a new possibility that has never appeared in all the possibilities of the original multiverse, an 'e' outside of 'ABCd,' the prototype will always be a prototype.

But this is actually a paradox—because which being that can become a Great Tide hasn't pioneered a completely new possibility? In other words, any Great Tide that can create a multiverse prototype can turn its prototype into a true multiverse at any time.

The reason they don't is simply because it is meaningless for becoming a Transcender, does not affect the Great Tide's combat power, and even, conversely, is a shackle for the Great Tide.

Especially for the Six Sealing Great Tides, becoming a multiverse themselves would only increase interference with the Multiverse True Spirit, greatly increasing the possibility of it awakening prematurely.

—Love is power, and also responsibility, guidance, duty, and shackles.

But now, Su Zhou broke through this shackle without hesitation.

Only because his love covered the entire territory, including the Multiverse True Spirit and the Six Great Tides fighting with him.

"I am now going to defeat you, and you have to fight back."

The Candle Dragon Heaven emitted a roar that shook the multiverse: "This is the question and the answer."

"This is war!"

In this instant.

The Candle Dragon Heaven began to 'skyrocket.'

Honestly, it was more like breaking through the sealed multiverse than skyrocketing.

Originally, the Candle Dragon Heaven's rushing impact was merely an impact with infinite power. Now, however, the Candle Dragon Heaven replaced the impact with its own expansion, but the infinite force remained unchanged, even directly breaking through the multiverse membrane, exposing a portion of the Candle Dragon Heaven to the pan-infinite multiverse derivative axis.

[What…]

Rather than being hit by a dump truck, it was more like the dump truck suddenly turned into a mountain mid-flight. This wouldn't be anything, but the mountain's growth rate was also infinite. Immediately, the unprepared Five Supreme Sages were propped up by the 'Candle Dragon Heaven,' which was still expanding infinitely and still skyrocketing…

Then, they were pinned between the 'Candle Dragon Heaven' and the barrier of the 'Sealed Multiverse'!

Moreover, as the barrier of the Candle Dragon Heaven continued to merge with the Sealed Multiverse, the Five Supreme Sages were stunned to discover that, in just that instant, they were about to be 'squeezed out' of the Sealed Multiverse by the Primordial Candle Dragon!

[No! His power carries elements that we cannot analyze for the time being—is it information from other multiverses?!]

The Qian Yuan Dao Venerate had been trying to resist, even suppressing Su Zhou's skyrocketing Candle Dragon Heaven back—of course, they could do it. The plan of the Five Supreme Sages and the other five Great Tides was that if the Hún Tiān Seal failed, they would use brute force to suppress the Multiverse True Spirit.

Even if the Candle Dragon Heaven transformed from a multiverse prototype into a multiverse, its power essence would not increase in essence. It would merely be an infinite surge in mass. Furthermore, because of the Great Seal and the Multiverse True Spirit, compared to the Sealed Multiverse, which still had some 'unknowns,' the Candle Dragon Multiverse, which they already knew inside and out, was easier to deal with for them.

However, who knew that the internal structure of the Candle Dragon Multiverse was completely different from most multiverses… If one had to say, it was like a complex coordinate system composed of multiple axes!

Many correctnesses… from [Chaos] to [Great Dao], from [Reincarnation] to [Perfection], from [Twilight] to [World], and finally from [Creation] to [Destiny]…

The eight axes were the clearest, the 'correctness' that the Primordial Candle Dragon was most familiar with.

However, in the very center of these eight axes was a hazy, illusory axis, uncertain whether it was true or false, real or unreal.

Its name was [Innovation].

In addition, there were seven more illusory axes rotating and intertwined, the correctnesses known to other Su Zhous.

Now, the sixteen axes, eight real and eight virtual, constituted the coordinates and interlaced relationships of the infinite universes within Su Zhou. The axes rotated and intertwined, and the infinite and complex Great Daos revolved. They also contained much information from outside the Sealed Multiverse, truths that the Great Tides had never seen or known.

Faced with such an incredible multiverse structure, no matter how talented the Qian Yuan Dao Venerate was, it was impossible for him to know the truth in a short period of time—not only the Five Supreme Sages, but even the five Great Tides who had chased up, wanting to continue to join forces to stop Su Zhou, were stunned by this. They vaguely sensed an extremely dangerous, incredible aura from Su Zhou's internal multiverse.

The sixteen axes intersected and rotated, weaving a complex and unbelievable multiverse structure with one axis as the center. It used infinite universe timelines as its trunk and infinite parallel timelines as its branches. And the parallel timelines split infinitely, as leaves, as flowers, as the infinite veins in the leaves. This infinite division repeats eternally, eventually transforming into a vast structure that is indescribable, boundless, and eternally and infinitely derivative and intersecting. The entities of infinite timelines are merely the foundation for its eternal self-derivative division.

It was like a vortex, a coiled sleeping dragon, a blooming flower, a bird's nest, and a dragon's lair… It had infinite soaring power, wanting to break through all obstacles, to transcend all reincarnation.

The moment it was born, it pierced through the barrier of the Sealed Multiverse, transforming into a dreamy and magnificent flower blooming on the Sealed Multiverse; a sacred tree rooted in the Sealed Multiverse, majestic and awe-inspiring, eternally gazing on the pan-infinite multiverse derivative axis!

The Five Supreme Sages and the Hún Tiān Realm (World of Primal Chaos) were now located in the center of this Candle Dragon flower, or rather, in the mouth of the Candle Dragon, at the top of the crown of the Candle Dragon sacred tree.

That was undoubtedly the form of the Candle Dragon Heaven after it transformed into a multiverse entity.

But its true essence…

——Is a seal.

[Great Seal]

[You are not imitating the multiverse at all!]

The Delusional Creator, the most skilled in creation and the most imaginative of all the Great Tides, was shocked to see this scene: [You are imitating… the Great Seal!]

[You're crazy! You're using your Tide Proof to imitate the Great Seal?!]

Even the Great Tides felt extremely incredible.

The Five Supreme Sages and the Hún Tiān Realm (World of Primal Chaos) were being imprisoned by Su Zhou with the multiverse timeline that imitated the Great Seal structure, unable to escape at all.

But in this way… it was equivalent to one thing.

That was that the 'Primordial Candle Dragon' himself would also fall into the seal.

Su Zhou did not reply.

Because his choice was a matter of course.

——Innovation.

——Old Acquaintances.

The so-called old acquaintances are all things of the past, including the paths pioneered by the sages, the outdated knowledge, the fancies that have been denied, and the rules that have fallen behind the times.

They are the ethics that should not continue to be followed, the mistakes that should not be taught, all the packages that can be left behind, those old acquaintances are undead, residing in the souls of all beings. They are not entities, not a substantial demon, but a thought, a fragment of information, a force that makes people stay in place, unable to move forward, unable to move towards the future.

Old acquaintances are a kind of sacrifice. Sacrificing everything of the past sages, their lives, thoughts, obsessions, beliefs, and lives, transforming into the light of a new era.

Su Zhou was not denying old acquaintances, those were the embers left after the fire burned, although they were useless, they had once given people light. Su Zhou loved and respected the light that those old acquaintances had brought to all beings, those sacrifices who had made mistakes for countless people in later generations.

——But, all 'old acquaintances' should not affect the new 'better'!

And now.

For the Sealed Multiverse, the Great Seal was an old acquaintance.

The Five Great Tides and the Five Supreme Sages were old acquaintances.

The Multiverse True Spirit was an old acquaintance.

Great Existence was an old acquaintance.

Su Zhou was also an old acquaintance.

——All existence was an old acquaintance.

——Therefore, [Innovation] was needed!

"You say that is the Great Seal? You are wrong, the Great Seal has no key, all beings are the key. Whether the Great Existences can escape the seal or not, the right is in our hands."

He said lightly. At this moment, the 'Su Zhou main body' located on the pan-infinite multiverse derivative axis descended on the multiverse vortex transformed by the Candle Dragon Heaven. He stared at the Five Supreme Sages and the Hún Tiān Realm (World of Primal Chaos) that he had already captured: "I can't convince you, and I still have to fight you, and I didn't understand the reason for the Multiverse True Spirit's madness until just now… This is enough to show that I am not correct."

"I also need to become better, stronger, and more correct—in that case, I will self-seal myself, and in the future become my own key, all the answers to my own questions!"

If the Candle Dragon Heaven was a lock, then the Su Zhou main body that had now descended was a key—the moment he descended on the Candle Dragon Heaven, he could hear a clicking sound that spread throughout the entire Sealed Multiverse.

——Click.

The seal was locked.

Even if Su Zhou had not had time to analyze the seal in the Hún Tiān Realm (World of Primal Chaos) and unlock the sacrifice seal within it, replacing it with his own power, and the five Great Tides outside were not restricted…

But it could also be said that he had achieved a crucial strategic victory in this Great Tide battle!

[It's hard to imagine…]

At this moment, facing Su Zhou standing opposite him, the Polar Star Holy Emperor couldn't help but sigh: [You actually… really defeated us, the six Great Tides, the seal we accumulated for countless years… in such a short time.]

"Actually, we have fought countless times. All of this has happened countless times before."

At this moment, Su Zhou turned his head and looked at the Five Supreme Sages. He said, "Our game, our battle, has actually happened countless times, in the past, in the future, in countless different presents—our battle has lasted for an extremely long time, but it is no different from an instant."

"Because 'reality' only happens once."

"Now, you have lost, not because you are weak, but because you have gradually recognized, gradually identified with me, gradually learned… that my choice is the more correct correctness in the process of fighting."

"But you are still in doubt now, still in disbelief, still waiting for my explanation."

Raising his head, closing his eyes, the black-haired youth said softly, "So I will tell you that your thinking is missing something crucial."

"That is that our battle is not simply for a result."

"But to create something."

Saying so, Su Zhou wanted to tell the Five Supreme Sages and the other Great Tides the insights he had gained from the pan-infinite multiverse derivative axis, the essence of the many correctnesses he had learned—only they could understand, extract things that were meaningful to them from the infinite information. In this way, they might be able to take it a step further.

While he transformed into a seal, guarding the Hún Tiān Realm (World of Primal Chaos), they could try to become true Great Tides and Transcenders, thereby completely solving the problem of the entire Sealed Multiverse.

But, at this moment.

Just as the five Great Tides outside the Candle Dragon Heaven were about to give up and admit defeat.

——Click.

A strange sound rang out.

Immediately, whether it was Su Zhou, the Five Supreme Sages, the five Great Tides… or even the beings in the Hún Tiān Realm (World of Primal Chaos), or even all living beings in the entire multiverse and infinite parallel timelines, felt a shudder from the deepest depths of their hearts.

Ordinary people were fine, for them, it was just a strange chill, but above the heavens, countless powerful people's expressions changed drastically, and they looked around in astonishment, wanting to know where that incredible chill that went straight to the depths of their True Spirit came from.

And for the Great Tides, the expressions of the Great Tides, whose faces instantly turned extremely bad, immediately focused on the 'Hún Tiān Realm (World of Primal Chaos)' in the center of the Candle Dragon Heaven.

Now, the Hún Tiān Realm (World of Primal Chaos) had become the center of the Candle Dragon Multiverse. In other words, Su Zhou had directly used the Hún Tiān Realm (World of Primal Chaos) as the 'culture medium' for the True Spirit of his multiverse in the future.

In this way, sealing the Multiverse True Spirit would also become the True Spirit of the Candle Dragon Multiverse.

His Hún Tiān Realm (World of Primal Chaos) was originally used as a prison, and the structure of the Great Seal was just right, but compared to the real Great Seal, Su Zhou's version of the Tide Seal, or the Great Transcendence Seal, was gentler and easier to understand… In this way.

Su Zhou felt that he might be able to gradually help this prototype of the 'free monster' while sealing the Hún Tiān Realm (World of Primal Chaos), sealing the Multiverse True Spirit, gradually help Him understand the correctness of the Great Existences, gradually let Him no longer be in pain, no longer be crazy.

Finally… when the multiverse returned to normal, let Him know what He did when He was crazy, how many lives were sacrificed.

Then, let the other party personally save everything that was lost.

This was the future Su Zhou wanted to choose—not sacrificing anyone, not even giving up on the Multiverse True Spirit, saving everyone, saving anyone, using infinite power to save infinite worlds, infinite lives!

This was what he wanted to do.

But, now.

All the plans had been broken.

Because, in the Hún Tiān Realm (World of Primal Chaos), which was being watched by all the Great Tides with horrified gazes… a crack burst open.

There will be another update in the evening!