Gods Vanish on a Cloudy Day
Chapter 31 You're Finished! No one in Heaven or Earth can save you! (Large Update of w Characters)
Unexpectedly, the battle didn't end immediately.
Even after Zhuzhou descended from beyond the heavens and took root in the Nine Xuan Ice Sea, the battle for control around the two-realm spatial portal resumed after a brief pause and continued for several days.
Although Liu Li and Emperor Xuan, the main commanders of both sides, didn't continue to fight, instead holding the line in the rear, the soldiers on both sides still roared and cheered, their morale high.
Both sides invested a large number of drones and Daoist puppets, as well as all kinds of long-range artillery and spell attacks, engaging in an exceptionally fierce confrontation.
In terms of sound effects and momentum, this battle was no less than the previous clash between the powerhouses of the two realms, where they formed arrays and fought each other. Heaven and earth were occupied by countless spells, divine light, and missiles, and the intense explosions and roars shook the clouds.
On the ground, legions of rune-powered spiritual machines, a sight never before seen in history, launched positional assaults under remote control. Earth and the Nine Xuan Realm agreed on an area for a head-on confrontation.
Although there wasn't a single living person among them, and the entire battlefield looked like a robot rumble stage, or a group of people using mechanical Pokémon to duel in a gym, war is war.
And just as this war, which lasted for a full three days and two nights, with a total death toll of one and a half people—one Nine Xuan Realm warrior accidentally hit by a stray bullet, and one Earth warrior unfortunately severely allergic to the Nine Xuan Realm's poor air quality—ended, it was precisely when Su Zhou's changes to the entire Nine Xuan Realm were truly felt.
Using the Electronic Underworld, all the souls of the dead on the battlefield were recovered, preventing the Twilight Kindred from having any chance to obtain souls. The activated spiritual machines responsible for cleaning up the battlefield all returned to the hangar.
Leading the activated spiritual machine battalion was none other than Tang Yuan.
He was the leader of this experimental unit, and so far, his performance had been quite good. Activated spiritual machines were different from AI. Before a true soul was nurtured, they were essentially extensions of the operator's soul, and possessed a certain degree of intelligence. Commanding them was like controlling one's own arms, and they were quite agile.
In the previous battle between intelligent puppets and drones, the confrontation between activated spiritual machines and puppets was like Pokémon with trainers versus wild Pokémon, with an insurmountable generational difference.
In a possible timeline, Tang Yuan, who became the King of Spiritual Machines, relied on this method to awaken a large number of spiritual machines. As time passed, the first batch of spiritual machines all obtained complete souls and became true intelligent lifeforms, eventually establishing a country belonging to the spiritual machines.
However, in this timeline, Tang Yuan controlled his abilities and didn't develop in that direction. However, he was currently studying the relevant electronic spiritual body inheritance under the tutelage of Yan Sheng, and might be able to forge a completely new path in the future.
Su Zhou had always been very interested in this part of his abilities. If he could also learn this trick, he could quickly create a batch of Disaster Wood or other natural spirits and kindreds by activating trees and nature.
At that time, whether it was transforming the world or doing other work, he wouldn't have to do it himself, and his kindreds would serve him.
And now, it wasn't just Tang Yuan.
Since Su Zhou made his move, Emperor Xuan, who had been staying above the two-realm tidal array, was now looking at the east of the Nine Xuan Realm with an incredibly complicated expression.
That was the former ocean of the Nine Xuan Realm.
But due to the changes in the world, the entire ocean was frozen.
If they wanted to restore the Nine Xuan Realm to normal, they had to spend a long time unfreezing the ocean... The reason why Emperor Xuan built the two-realm tidal array was to use the vast spiritual energy generated by the two-realm convection to activate the Yanrong Great Array in the depths of the earth, creating artificial volcanic eruptions on a global scale, and re-'activating' the Nine Xuan Realm's surface ecology, returning it to the primitive era.
Therefore, He saw Bai Yuntian and Su Zhou, who also planned to observe the earth veins, in the depths of the earth veins.
This was indeed a very ingenious plan—transferring conflicts through the two-realm war; activating the ecology through the flow of world spiritual energy; after knowing the strength of Earth, not taking the initiative to attack, avoiding expanding hatred; and internally, relying on the war to take over the power of conferring kings, consolidating his own authority... Emperor Xuan did the best He could do.
However, as the saying goes, divine powers cannot surpass the destiny of heaven.
All of this planning was too fragile in the face of the light cannon that melted the ice sea.
Celestial Immortal.
The decisive force.
Su Zhou's appearance shocked all the kings of the Nine Xuan Realm.
Yes, each of the twenty-four kings had corresponding trump cards. Some were members of the Pioneer Space, and some possessed the power of Earth Immortals in their lairs. Some of them were extremely talented, and after a period of time, they could become Earth Immortals by their own power...
They might not dare to fight a civilization with a Celestial Immortal, as long as that Celestial Immortal wasn't very strong. They even had the confidence to defeat the other party with various means, under the leadership of Emperor Xuan.
But Su Zhou was too strong.
[Even in the Central Divine Court, a Celestial Immortal with such strength would be regarded as the successor of the Celestial Venerable and receive great courtesy...]
Looking at the light of Zhuzhou's warship cannons in the distance, Emperor Xuan couldn't help but sigh: [If I activate the Star Extremity Flame Fusion Initiation Great Array, I can definitely fight against an ordinary Celestial Immortal with the blessing of the Red Emperor's Orthodox Method, which is also the root of my confidence when facing the Celestial Civilization...]
But, is there any meaning?
It can be fought, but there is no need.
As for Su Zhou, he really didn't care about the war between Earth and Nine Xuan.
He was busy transforming the world. The people of Earth and Nine Xuan were willing to train their troops, so they continued to train their troops. If they were willing to negotiate, they negotiated. Anyway, just treat him as if he didn't exist.
In these three days and two nights, there were many messages from both Earth and Nine Xuan wanting to contact him, but Su Zhou refused them all—the youth fulfilled his promise and would not interfere in this matter.
In the East Sea, a huge Divine Wood warship was flashing with light.
Su Zhou continuously used cannons to bombard the ocean, and accurately activated the earth veins along the way, causing the speed of the ice sea melting to far exceed Emperor Xuan's, and even everyone's imagination.
Within three days, with his own strength, Su Zhou completely melted all the frozen seawater on the surface of the Nine Xuan Realm star, without excessively damaging the local ecology—then, he converted the melted water into cloud rain, thereby transforming the entire Nine Xuan Realm's water resource distribution and reshaping the water cycle.
In theory, this was a very long process, and even with the power of a Celestial Immortal presiding over it, it couldn't be said to be easy.
But Su Zhou didn't intend to finish the work all at once. He just roughly reactivated the dead Nine Xuan Realm's ecology, and then directly started planting trees.
Yes, planting trees.
Su Zhou had always been experienced in this.
Ever since Su Zhou entered the Nine Xuan Realm with the main body of the Divine Wood warship, he had sensed that there were many World Tree roots inside the entire Nine Xuan Realm star.
That unknown, but already dead World Tree was the entire crust of the Nine Xuan Realm. Its roots enveloped the entire planet, and even penetrated deep into the earth veins, absorbing the heat of the earth's core to survive, and didn't rely on sunlight.
Its seed was located in the depths of the mantle, in the center of a huge formation that spanned the entire planet... The Star Extremity Flame Fusion Initiation Great Array, should be its name. The framework of this array was the World Tree's root system, and many underground fortress cities were able to be born because of its power.
In theory, this World Tree, which was at least at the peak of the Celestial Immortal level, and maybe even had the qualifications of a Celestial Venerable, wasn't afraid of the severance of spiritual energy at all. At most, it only needed to hibernate to support a long time, until the revival of spiritual energy.
But as the Lord of Life Tree said, it was dead—perhaps it died in an accident, or because of a Twilight Kindred conspiracy.
In short, the ecological collapse of the Nine Xuan Realm was also partly due to the demise of the World Tree.
"That's about enough."
At this moment, on the once again undulating sea, the Divine Wood warship slowly stopped all its actions.
Although the sea was full of red and black seabed impurities and mineral debris, making it extremely turbid, as time passed, it would eventually return to its original azure blue.
Su Zhou looked down at this world, and then nodded slightly: "The Lord of Life Tree's technology is really good. With His world transformation technology bonus, it will only take half a year at most for me to restore the Nine Xuan Realm to a vibrant state."
"But half a year is still too long. It's better to ask the Lord of Life Tree to come over and adjust it himself, or I can plant another Divine Wood."
Talking to himself, the youth couldn't help but laugh: "Come to think of it, I've planted quite a few trees?"
The Tree of Wisdom naturally goes without saying. The small tree transformed from the World Tree spear, although difficult to grow because of the Twilight, can also be considered the second one.
Zhou Buyi of the Divine Wood world, although not planted by Su Zhou himself, but if you have to say it, without Su Zhou, Zhou Buyi would not have become a Divine Wood, which can be considered half.
As for the Water Divine Tree of the Reincarnation world, and the An息 Divine Wood of the Perfect world, they were all planted by Su Zhou.
Turning his head to look, Su Zhou's connection with Divine Wood was indeed very great—this was also why he was able to directly transform into the warship Divine Wood form through his own experiences and knowledge, even though he hadn't obtained any Divine Wood inheritance.
At this time, Su Zhou condensed a part of the Divine Wood power, transformed it into amber heavenly crystal, and then fired another cannon, bombarding it into the depths of the ocean.
This seed, which was parasitized with part of the Divine Wood power, would grow in the high-temperature ocean volcanic environment. It was not a true Divine Wood, but it was enough to purify the surrounding area, gradually changing the ecology when Su Zhou was not in the Nine Xuan Realm.
At this point, all his work was done.
The process was very smooth. Although some Twilight Kindred intended to launch suicidal attacks on Su Zhou during his transformation of the world, it was clear that it was purely suicide.
Those guards from King Chen's territory didn't even have time to take action. They were all hunted down and killed by Su Zhou with auxiliary cannons thousands of miles away, turning into a small cloud of fireworks burning in the sky after he sensed the approach of the Twilight aura.
To be honest, this was quite rare. With strength that didn't even reach the Earth Immortal level, attacking a Celestial Immortal, this kind of thing could only be done by Twilight Kindred, who completely ignored the instinct of life.
However, things weren't over yet.
Just as Su Zhou stopped, dense ripples came again from the two-realm spatial portal in the distance.
The Nine Xuan Realm army couldn't help but retreat slightly, and the kings changed color—at this point, they already knew very well that in this war between the Nine Xuan Realm and the Celestial Realm, the Nine Xuan Realm had lost thoroughly. Facing the enemy's reinforcements, they were helpless.
However, what emerged from the spatial portal wasn't a large army of armored troops.
But another batch of drone engine operation sounds.
Thousands, or even tens of thousands with time, of drone swarms formed a long line, flying forward like migrating flocks of birds.
The drones that arrived this time were vastly different in shape and performance from the previous combat drones—each of these drones carried a huge storage compartment, and their performance was more inclined to durability and stability, not caring about maneuverability.
They flew over the sky and began to scatter particles like rain and mist. Although the Nine Xuan Realm cultivators didn't dare to take action, they curiously pulled some of the particles into their hands to observe, and were immediately shocked.
Because those particles were all plant seeds!
Moreover, they were spiritual plants that could grow on barren celestial bodies such as the moon and Mars, relying on sunlight and ice, and possessed a certain Divine Wood aura!
The team led by Li Yeyu was driven back to Earth by the Nine Xuan cultivators after collecting the ecological information of the Nine Xuan Realm.
They naturally knew the situation of the Nine Xuan Realm, and were very clear about what the Nine Xuan Realm needed most now—that was a large number of plants that could grow in the most difficult environments.
Whether it was to allow the Earth people to be stationed in the Nine Xuan Realm for a long time, or to turn this former Celestial Venerable's back garden, now a ruin, back into the pride of mankind, these plants were of utmost importance.
And if it was Su Zhou alone, it would be impossible to cultivate a large number of such plants in a short time.
But he was not alone in the first place.
Behind Su Zhou was an entire civilization.
Not to mention the Zhengguo Agricultural Saint lineage, which had already had similar artificial spiritual plant projects to green deserts and build colonies on alien planets, there were many previously recruited 'special personnel' under Su Zhou's command who were good at this part of the work.
That is, the kindreds of the great existences on Earth.
Bo Qingye was a Divine Wood kindred. Her great-grandfather, the 娑羅双樹 (娑羅双樹, *suō luō shuāng shù*, Sal Tree), was the only ancient Divine Wood split body on Earth that had ancient memories.
Under the guidance of the 裟椤双樹, Bo Qingye quickly made a name for herself in the New World Exploration Department, designing many spiritual plants with special effects—for example, the 憩灵草 (憩灵草, *qì líng cǎo*, Soul-Resting Grass) that could calm people's souls, and the 转灵花 (转灵花, *zhuǎn líng huā*, Soul-Turning Flower) that could purify spiritual energy pollution, were all her recent research results.
And recently, by studying the genes of various 'weeds', and using the Divine Wood method to improve them, she and a group of professional professors from the Department of Agriculture jointly completed a large number of special plants.
Countless seeds of the most tenacious plants were scattered by drones around the spatial portal, mixing with the world rain brought down by Su Zhou into the surface mud.
In the next few days, these plants would germinate, quickly spread and renew, and solidify the soil.
At the same time, there were also many drones heading towards the ocean. What these drones were carrying were no longer plants, but many special seaweeds.
This kind of seaweed grew extremely fast, and its renewal rate was extremely fast. They could fill a large area of water in a short time, absorbing a large amount of toxic substances and sand, and then directly die, turning into nutrients.
"Well done!"
Seeing this, Su Zhou couldn't help but smile slightly.
He knew that he didn't need to do the rest of the work himself. The Zhengguo side would do all the cleaning up.
And the Nine Xuan Realm, if they weren't stupid, wouldn't hinder this move.
At this point, the only thing left to do, apart from completely eradicating the possible Twilight Kindred in the Nine Xuan Realm, was one thing.
Raising his head, Su Zhou looked at the several bright moons that had slowly emerged above his head.
He looked at the Celestial Venerables' palaces.
Thousands of years ago, when the spiritual energy was cut off, someone must have, most likely the Twilight Kindred, destroyed the plans left by the Celestial Immortals of the Central Divine Court, destroyed the ability of the Celestial Venerables' palaces to control celestial phenomena, and extinguished the nine stars, which turned the Nine Xuan Realm into its current state.
Although now, the spiritual energy had revived again, and all nine stars had reappeared, they were only pure light sources. All the power that they held as Celestial Venerables' palaces in the past had disappeared.
Boom!
Once again, the tail of the ship spewed out intense spiritual energy jets. The field of vision began to stretch, and the churning black and red ocean and the gray and white land spread in all directions, eventually turning into a curved sphere.
Under the gaze of all the Earth people and Nine Xuan people, the huge warship flew towards the top of the sky.
Until the end, it also became a star.
The Nine Xuan Realm wasn't big. The sky was only 40 million meters high, only one-tenth of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
Its original sun was just a yang-attribute demiplane that moved on the surface of the world, orbiting the Nine Xuan Realm at a regular speed—that is, sunrise and sunset.
And the nine Celestial Venerables' palaces also operated according to the same principle—they were each located in independent demiplanes, absorbing the wandering spiritual energy in the void of the multiverse, and then releasing light, like stars.
Looking at it from afar, it seemed to be several spatial portals that were releasing dazzling light. They seemed to directly lead to the inside of the star, or like a theoretical white hole, with visible heat and endless spiritual energy spewing out in the high sky, scattering towards this world.
Rising to a height of 40 million meters, the edge of the small world, Su Zhou's gaze could already penetrate the space-time barrier.
He could see that on the other side of those spatial portals, there were many simple and solemn palaces erected. Their styles were different. Among them, there was a golden-red imperial style, a palace surrounded by endless heavenly fire, and a plain and mountain range covered with metal weapons, filled with iron-blooded肅殺 (肅殺, *sù shā*, solemn and murderous) aura.
Su Zhou even saw a huge pillar, emitting a cyan starlight. It released vigorous vitality, and there were obvious traces of dragon scales grinding on the pillar.
That was the Dragon Resting Pillar that the Azure Dragon Star Venerable usually used for resting and seclusion.
It was actually a Great Celestial Venerable-level imperial weapon supreme treasure!
Of course, although Su Zhou could see these treasures, he didn't feel much excitement in his heart... If you had to say it, wasn't his personal space also his Celestial Immortal Su Zhou's palace? The Extinction Blade was also a Daoist weapon. The divine sword blessed with the iron of the town prison demon slaying might not be as good as the imperial weapon now, but it would definitely surpass it in the future.
But more importantly, the internal situation of these Celestial Venerable palaces.
"As expected."
Retracting the images from the sensors, Su Zhou nodded slightly in his heart: "All the formations inside have been destroyed by a rather powerful force—very powerful, at least at the Celestial Venerable level!"
This wasn't Su Zhou talking nonsense.
In what was clearly the 'Red Emperor Palace', a huge palace made of crimson red, as if forged from flame crystals, there were thick flame currents swirling around the top of the palace. The light released by the flame currents illuminated the entire world, making the inside and outside of the palace clear and distinct.
It formed a great formation, constantly absorbing the wandering spiritual energy in the void of the multiverse, and then converting it into pure fire-attribute spiritual energy and light and heat, and then spraying it towards the entrance and exit of the palace—that is, towards one of the three suns of the Nine Xuan Realm.
In the era when spiritual energy was cut off, it should have been able to convert the spiritual energy stored inside the palace and continue to illuminate the Nine Xuan Realm, but Su Zhou could see that a huge, unmatched claw print destroyed many palaces and formation foundations inside the palace, completely smashing the spiritual energy storage pool inside the palace, and extinguishing this 'sun' of the Nine Xuan Realm thousands of years ago.
If it weren't for the fact that the great formation laid down by the Red Emperor still had a certain self-repairing function, perhaps even with the revival of spiritual energy, this sun would continue to be dim.
The same was true inside the other Celestial Venerable palaces. There were almost identical claw prints that successively destroyed the formations inside those palaces, completely extinguishing all these stars.
Su Zhou even saw a Celestial Venerable magic treasure being destroyed...
That was a demon-subduing bell pestle, with nine stars shining on it. It should be the weapon of the '斗姆元君' (斗姆元君, *Dǒu mǔ yuán jūn*, Dipper Mother), releasing the power of innate Qi, and shaking the surrounding space.
But this Celestial Venerable magic treasure had already been damaged. Its handle was broken, and the main body of the bell pestle was full of cracks. Fragments of shattered divine metal floated above the palace, shining like a galaxy.
It seemed to have been fighting against the enemy without a master, but it was defeated and shattered.
This was also why Su Zhou believed that the one who destroyed all of this was at least a Celestial Venerable.
Celestial Venerable's magic treasures didn't have intelligence, at least they had a little self-acting ability—just like the Extinction Blade, as a Daoist weapon, essentially held all the Dao rhymes that Su Zhou himself possessed. A fully awakened Celestial Venerable weapon was equivalent to the Celestial Venerable's personal arrival in a short time.
To be able to destroy a Daoist weapon without leaving obvious injuries on oneself, this strength was very obvious.
"The Nine Xuan Realm's foundation is really deep, no less than the Celestial Realm."
Nodding slightly, Su Zhou's expression was a little solemn: "And the Celestial Immortals of the Central Divine Court are indeed very fair."
Not all Celestial Venerables left their weapons behind, but all Celestial Venerables left their inheritance behind. According to the results of his current observation, the Nine Xuan Realm had at least three or four Celestial Venerable imperial weapons, similar to the Zhengguo's national treasure weapons, or even slightly more.
As for Qingqiu, if it weren't for the existence of the Destiny Celestial Demon, in theory, they should also have the relevant inheritance and imperial weapons of the 'First Emperor' and 'Lord of Soldiers', but now they were lost. The Zhengguo official guess was that they should be around the Qingqiu seal, but because the nature of the imperial weapons made them difficult to find.
The advantage of the Celestial Realm was estimated to only lie in the Transmission Dao Tower.
Of course, there was also luck—the Holy Serpent Ling Lian Prayer Society and the Heavenly God Descent Society, as kindred organizations of great existences, didn't rage like the Qingqiu Celestial Demon and the Nine Xuan Twilight, so that they almost cut off the civilization inheritance.
"Could it be that there was a Twilight Kindred inside the Central Divine Court at the time, and even had the strength of a Celestial Venerable?"
Suspecting this in his heart, Su Zhou couldn't help but snort coldly. A circle of complex runes appeared around the Divine Wood warship, and the Five Virtues Divine Light rotated.
Then, it accelerated and rushed towards the other side of the Nine Xuan spatial portal.
"Let me see who did it!"
Boom, with a short roar, Su Zhou rushed into the Red Emperor's palace against the dazzling divine light that was comparable to a star's jet flow.
The feeling wasn't bad. For the current warship form of Su Zhou, the mere stellar jet flow and corona were nothing more than bathwater, at most able to burn the dust off his surface.
If you wanted to hurt him, it had to be the gamma-ray burst during a supernova explosion, and it had to be a direct hit. Otherwise, just grazing it might just charge the warship.
After the extreme intense light, it was a piece of red.
Su Zhou arrived inside the Red Emperor's palace.
The Red Emperor, the creator of the Flame Melting Light Illuminates the World True Spirit Original Seal Method. It was said that He was almost a natural god, born with extremely powerful cultivation talent, completely different from ordinary weak humans.
But He was full of kindness to these weak compatriots, and generously held fire, leading a human tribe out of the siege of many divine beast clusters, and establishing several stable human settlements before the Central Divine Court was established.
The inside and outside of this former Celestial Emperor's palace were filled with various strange heavenly fires. In other words, it was filled with incredible cosmic radiation and nuclear fusion phenomena—whether it was Cherenkov radiation called the Six Ding Divine Fire, heavy nuclear fusion called the Fire in the Stone, or 'Annihilation炎 (炎, *yán*, flame)' similar to the black hole fire layer, where even information was evaporated, all the flames that humans could imagine, could find, and had named in the past were stocked here.
Many palaces, each palace, was a warehouse for worshiping a kind of fire. It was the evidence left by the Celestial Emperor so that future generations could quickly regain the knowledge of the relevant inheritance after the revival of spiritual energy. Even the most dull civilization could immediately master this knowledge after obtaining it.
Although it sounded a little incredible, this situation was like the prompt in a certain civilization game, where the ancient ruins provided you with the inspiration for controllable nuclear fusion—or even micro-room temperature nuclear fusion.
But now, most of the palaces that worshiped these strange heavenly fires had been destroyed by a huge claw print.
This claw print was extremely huge, nearly a hundred times larger than the size of Su Zhou's warship Divine Wood—it was hundreds of miles long and wide, and its four long fingers, at least two hundred kilometers long, deeply penetrated the depths of the earth's crust.
The Zhuzhou warship, which was thousands of meters long, was already as huge as a mountain, but the other party's claws alone were a continuous mountain range. If the main body was a little bigger... it would be unimaginably huge!
No, the other party shouldn't be a lifeform on Earth!
"This is really big..."
Floating above this palm print, Su Zhou frowned, and the anger in his heart gradually grew as he looked at these destroyed inheritance palaces.
Cutting off people's inheritance, and creating such a disaster in the Nine Xuan Realm... The evil of the Twilight Kindred was truly intolerable!
At this moment, he could sense that the breath that was almost substantial was still remaining in this palm print—a platinum luster flowed in the palm, lasting for a long time.
Just like the palm print of the Western Mother Great Celestial Venerable sealing the Beast God Realm, this unknown Celestial Venerable who destroyed the Red Emperor's palace formation left behind his own aura.
It was an indescribable Qi machine, full of endless wilderness and primitiveness, as rough and grand as a star, but also full of the flavor of devouring.
This power, after thousands of years, had experienced the severance of spiritual energy, but was still constantly devouring the spiritual energy operation in the Red Emperor's palace, making this sun of the Nine Xuan Realm dimmer than its peak, and making the temperature of the Nine Xuan Realm particularly cold.
That was the manifestation of the power of the Celestial Venerable in the real world. If there were no accidents, the power of the Celestial Venerable would also be 'immortal and indestructible'. As long as it was used, it would almost be impossible to be worn away.
In other words, compared to Celestial Immortals who were only immortal themselves, the characteristic of Celestial Venerables was that their spells would also be permanently continued. Their blessings to mortals would continue until the mortal's death, and even after the soul was reincarnated, a part of it could still remain on their soul, and there would still be a legacy after a hundred generations.
Su Zhou slowly landed. He approached the palm print, and then observed the power left in the palm print... And as if sensing Su Zhou's approach, the platinum aura in the palm print immediately surged up as if it had life, and then curled towards the warship like a tentacle.
Of course, this was meaningless.
Su Zhou snorted coldly. He didn't even use the main gun. He just erected a feather-like floating cannon from the side of the warship—the cyan thunder flashed, and the Thunder Extreme Void Cannon fired, cutting off this platinum tentacle in half, turning it into light dust all over the sky.
Even the power left by the Celestial Venerable was impossible to hurt a prepared Celestial Immortal after thousands of years, let alone Su Zhou, whose strength could even pit a Celestial Emperor. How could he be compared to ordinary Celestial Immortals?
Without much talk, Su Zhou directly stretched out his branch and absorbed a part of the platinum light that he had scattered.
Then, he took out the 'Book of Prajna' and sensed it.
In this instant, a light ten thousand times brighter than the sun lit up in front of Su Zhou's eyes.
Just as he sensed the aura of this unknown Celestial Venerable, endless light surged, and the illusions and phantoms of thousands of different stars emerged from it... From brown dwarfs that were almost gas giants, to red dwarfs that were close to the lower limit of stars, to orange dwarfs with smaller mass... Then there were normal, golden main sequence stars, and other white, blue, and colored stars.
These stars had nothing in common. The only thing they had in common was that they eventually destroyed themselves and dissipated... It was as if something had taken the material of these stars, destroyed their internal balance, so that these stars destroyed themselves one by one, either quietly collapsing, or violently supernovaing.
Stars expanded, and then contracted. After the extreme intense light, it was the dim universe. Hundreds of stars exploded and extinguished one after another, forging the path of that unknown Celestial Venerable—He was a super lifeform that patrolled among the universe's stars and ate stars. He was born parasitized in gas giants, and ate the world on which ordinary life depended.
Of course, it wasn't completely devouring the star's mass. This unknown Celestial Venerable-level super lifeform essentially absorbed the purest spiritual energy inside the star. Only this kind of spiritual energy could supply His needs. The other spiritual energy that didn't meet the conditions was nothing more than food residue, just like humans only ate crab meat and crab roe when eating crabs, while the other larger mass shells would not be touched.
[Who is it, spying on me?]
And at this moment, from the distant other side of the world, in the depths of the vast starry sky, a will awoke from a long slumber. He seemed to have sensed that someone was spying on his roots, and then roared angrily, directly starting to counterattack.
For a time, the incomparably bright light became blazing again. The wave that was enough to engulf everything, mixed with the most primitive and desolate devouring power, which was also the most meaningless and most empty greed, stretched out tentacles towards Su Zhou, seemingly wanting to turn around and devour Su Zhou's soul tentacles that were exploring Him.
However, this unknown existence seemed to have mistaken the situation and the opponent.
In the soul world, Su Zhou stood at the very front of this light. Layers upon layers of radiance, originating from the Divine Wood world, the Reincarnation world, the Perfect world, and even the four worlds on Earth, were condensed from the power of vows and merit, which was like a nine-layered pagoda, covering him so tightly that it was airtight. Anyone who had eyes and could see this scene would completely give up the idea of attacking Su Zhou from the aspects of soul and curse.
But now, didn't the other party not see it?
The youth didn't even bother to raise his hand. When the platinum devouring radiance touched the vow power merit on his body surface, it was like a jellyfish's tentacles slapping against the universe alloy. No matter how hard it licked, it couldn't lick half a crumb from the mass of merit vow power that was so dazzling that it couldn't even see Su Zhou's face.
"You're actually still alive, and still in the Earth universe, haven't left?"
Based on this attack of the other party, Su Zhou even understood roughly where the other party was currently located, which surprised him slightly: "Good fellow, you're actually from the same hometown, not an existence from another world!"
"As for now... Reciprocity!"
Exhaling a breath, Su Zhou raised his hand in the soul space.
The greatest means of destruction in the physical sense for Su Zhou now was the 'Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light Cannon', which was the result of condensing all his inheritances and bursting out with all his strength. Even at the Earth Immortal realm, he could use this technique to reverse and attack the Celestial Immortals of the Perfect world. At the Celestial Immortal realm, the further Great Five Elements Yin-Yang Extinction Divine Light Cannon was even more incredible. Su Zhou didn't dare to use it to melt the Nine Xuan Realm ice sea, because if he wasn't careful, he would even pierce through the mantle, which would destroy the star's structure.
And on the soul level, what he was best at was using the 'Fire of Sin' as the source, and the power of the Demon Lord of Devouring Evil and the Power of Eternal Innovation as the core, to condense the seven great vow power curses and ignite the 'Fire of Innovative Karma'.
At this moment, in the endless rushing platinum radiance, a ball of fire suddenly lit up.
The black, white, cyan, and purple colors of the karma fire rotated and burned fiercely.
It didn't judge good and evil, nor did it judge whether it was clear conscience. It just burned fiercely, stimulating all the potential that the other party possessed, and constantly 'evolving'.
This evolution might not be beneficial, and it might not be useful. It might be a distortion, or it might just be a waste. But after being stimulated by this fire, it was like a dry prairie ignited by a spark, or a log rolling down a hillside. It was impossible to stop, and it was getting faster and faster.
In this way, if you couldn't keep up with its speed of innovation, then the soul would be exhausted of all its strength, and then 'burned to ashes'!
In astonishment, the light was ignited. The will on the other side of time and space seemed to have not expected that Su Zhou would be unharmed in his own attack, and even launched a counterattack.
In response, He hastily stretched out more claws and strange flesh that looked like tentacles, intertwined together, turning into a wall like the fire layer of a star, seemingly wanting to resist Su Zhou's flames.
But he had made a mistake in the method.
The more power was piled up, the more fiercely the fire of innovative karma burned. In the face of this karma fire, what was most needed was to stabilize the position. As long as the mind was clear, not thinking about anything else, without war intent and malice, it would immediately extinguish—but who would know this method for the first time they encountered it?
Suddenly, under the light of the four-colored flames, accompanied by a short wail, the unknown will's defensive power suddenly collapsed. Countless cracks bloomed on its flesh wall, and cyan-purple light mixed with black and white sparks emerged from it, flowed, and eventually turned into light pillars like sharp swords, bursting out.
The attacking soul tentacles collapsed, and eventually turned into debris scattered around Su Zhou's soul space, absorbed by the Tree of Wisdom spirit and many Disaster Wood souls.
[Who are you?]
Having been severely injured by this, this grand voice sounded again, but gradually shrinking, seemingly contracting its power.
In addition to anger, He also carried doubts: [I never knew that there was a powerhouse like you in the Milky Way. You have revived so early?]
[The speed is fast, but it is meaningless.]
[In the name of the Nihilism Cult, the Star Eater Kroatoa, I will certainly make you and your civilization...]
"Stop talking nonsense!"
Not giving the other party a chance to finish his lines, Su Zhou, who had roughly figured out the current situation, immediately laughed: "You haven't recovered yet, right? You were summoned by other Twilight Kindred in the past, destroyed many Celestial Venerable palaces, and then barely survived the severance of spiritual energy. You were just awakened by me."
"How much of your strength do you have now? A Celestial Venerable? Or are you even less than a Celestial Immortal?"
[...?]
On the other side of time and space, the existence that called himself Star Eater Kroatoa seemed to be choked by Su Zhou's series of answers, or he didn't understand how to answer. But in short, when He opened his mouth again, wanting to say something, Su Zhou's voice sounded again.
"Wait for me!"