Chapter 671 Savage (5600)

Su Zhou walked out of the gradually extinguishing pillar of light. He was unharmed from head to toe, as if nothing in the world could hurt him, untouched by any mortal dust.

He had returned to the Heavenly Immortal Realm, which was the Burning Spirit realm in this world, even surpassing those first spirits nurtured by the Divine Tree.

Su Zhou had stayed in the Aian World for nearly a year of the local world's time, and as a former Heavenly Immortal, it was not difficult to return to the Heavenly Immortal Realm in a year.

He already possessed the knowledge and skills, and his vision was commanding, so he could easily analyze the most suitable Foundation Establishment cultivation method for this era, and then advance step by step, growing at a speed that was difficult for everyone to understand.

Returning to the Heavenly Immortal realm in a year was perfectly reasonable.

It would be more accurate to say that with the soul of a Heavenly Immortal as the foundation, Su Zhou's current return to the Heavenly Immortal realm was already a slowing down of his speed in order to recast his foundation and recreate his cultivation method.

Immediately afterwards, Su Zhou walked forward.

The entire Third Army began to retreat.

Then there was a grand rout.

The Third Army's retreat was so embarrassing. Hundreds of warships turned around and retreated, and the soldiers completely lost their will to fight. Even if the officers at the front repeatedly ordered them not to retreat, the soldiers of the Third Army feared the distant powerhouse more than they obeyed orders.

This was not a shameful defeat, because even the leading general did not think that this battle could be won.

The Aharonov father and son originally thought that their task was just to drive away the three parties in the talks. Although they were prepared to be hit head-on, they did not expect the enemy to be so strong.

A god.

Beyond expectations.

"Retreat, collective retreat! Maintain formation!"

The voice of the mountain giant holding the bow was like thunder, and he also slowly retreated, and issued an order to the entire army: "Don't let the enemy notice any flaws, maintain the source energy shield!"

He provided legitimate support for the army's retreat, which injected a boost of morale into the somewhat listless troops. The Third Army gathered its routed momentum and then began a steady retreat.

Burning Spirit realm was the internal name used by the empire's high-level officials for existences that surpassed the limit of the Disaster realm and were powerful to an unbelievable degree.

Every time the Northern Barbarians were able to sweep across the land and destroy civilization, it was because their Tianmu Great Khan or Twilight Priest had achieved this realm, so even Disaster realm experts could only retreat in the face of them, at most only able to save their lives. Only when their souls returned to the Twilight could the barbarians be suppressed back to the Northern Border.

However, apart from a few people, no one knew why this realm was called Burning Spirit.

But Aharonov knew.

The origin of this name came from the gods burning themselves out to seal the Twilight.

Similarly, it also originated from the actions of the strong at the end of each era to burn themselves and extend the era.

Reigniting the Sacred Sun and illuminating the world was the representative of Burning Spirit.

Above the Tower of Babel, the Aian World's largest source energy furnace core, the Burning Spirit Torch, had such power.

However, in the plans of Aharonov, the Solar Emperor and others, they would not reignite the Sacred Sun.

"The Divine Tree is dead. Even if it is reignited, the Sacred Sun will still be extinguished in the future."

"Instead of being trapped in a single world, it is better to light the torch and illuminate the void—we should not be trapped in our dying world, but should go to other worlds to continue our race!"

This was the final conclusion reached by everyone after several discussions.

Reigniting the Sacred Sun was to pass on the fire, burning the most elite and powerful experts in the entire world as firewood to continue the world. This was equivalent to eroding the foundation for survival, drinking poison to quench thirst.

The Sacred Sun of this era would be extinguished in less than ten thousand years, and the next generation of Sacred Sun would last at most six to seven thousand years.

Instead of continuing to pass on the fire, it would be better to directly take all the remaining power in the world and leave the dead land to continue civilization in other worlds.

The existence of civilization and race was never restricted to the homeland.

Aharonov believed that this was the only correct choice—whether it was the Sacred Sun Church, the Light Chasing Order, or even those nobles who wanted to hide in the sea and underground, and wanted to become ultimate creatures, they were all just eking out a living and could not revitalize civilization at all.

The Divine Tree's remaining thoughts, the natural disaster called Twilight, could never be avoided if they stayed in the Aian World.

They should leave.

However, even if they activated the Burning Spirit Torch to illuminate the void and break through the space-time turbulence to observe other worlds, they would need to build huge starship arks to take a large population away from the Aian World, which would take hundreds of years for several generations of people.

Who could guarantee the progress of the project? Who could guarantee the implementation of the policy?

Believe in morality, would people change? Believe in those short-sighted people who, not to mention several generations, would abandon the future of future generations for the sake of present enjoyment?

Aharonov only believed in power.

Asmodeus XIII, for his own power and ruler status, would choose to advance this plan. The Burning Spirit Torch and the civilization migration plan would make him a saintly emperor for all ages. When he arrived in the new world, he would be an existence beyond the emperor, the sole and permanent ruler of the new civilization, an immortal existence, surpassing the gods.

Whether as a friend or a subject, the general felt that the emperor would do this.

——In the past, the souls of Burning Spirit practitioners could reignite the Sacred Sun and continue civilization.

——And in the future, the souls of Burning Spirit practitioners would guide the direction of civilization and recast glory.

The old general believed in such a future... so he would never allow this plan to fail.

Su Zhou obviously would not let the Third Army leave so easily. Since the other side wanted to attack him, they had to pay the price.

He looked up slightly, his eyes locked on the main force of the Third Army.

Then, the four-headed giant dragon roared, its tail swept across the wilderness plains, directly flattening a small hill, turning it into dust flying in the sky. This immediately made everyone realize that it was not an ordinary mental projection, but a real entity.

Or, a soul with physical characteristics.

He had not yet taken action, but if he did, everyone believed that even if the Third Army was not removed from the rolls that day, it would suffer unacceptable losses.

"Stop him!"

Therefore, Aharonov did not hesitate. His mental projection directly raised his longbow, and as the vast earth element source energy was drawn from the earth, one-quarter of the leyline power around the Ionia Mountains was suddenly drawn away—in the next instant, countless rocks and dust transformed into a torrent of earth and stone under the guidance of the source energy, converging towards the top of the longbow against gravity.

It looked as if mountains were condensing on the tip of the longbow's arrow, condensing into a rotating, golden-red, molten rock arrow.

Okolyolov also immediately followed suit. The spear in his hand dissipated, turning into an earth-yellow mist that surrounded him, and then the mist gathered and condensed, wrapping around the arrow shaft.

Another mountain giant fully blessed this ultra-dense material arrow, making its weight exceed 15 billion tons, approaching more than 20 billion tons.

If a mere hundred-meter-long earth element arrow was just ordinary rock, it would weigh at most ten thousand tons. The mass of 20 billion tons exceeded the density of white dwarf matter. It was the result of Okolyolov's mass blessing.

Boom! When the arrow was shot, this white dwarf arrow was indeed a world-changing, apocalyptic disaster from a visual point of view alone.

The distorted light in the sky and the rocks and dust suspended in the air due to gravity changes formed two funnels centered on this arrow, rotating and flying towards Su Zhou.

An arrow weighing 20 billion tons, even without any extraordinary power, could destroy a small-scale ecosystem and create a geological damage layer with a diameter of about 100 kilometers, destroying everything in the entire northwest wilderness.

Even though the Aian World was much larger than Earth, half of the continent would vibrate due to this blow, worthy of the combined power of two Disaster realm experts.

"This is the level a terrestrial immortal should have."

And this was precisely why Su Zhou did not immediately take action to suppress the Aharonov father and son.

He wanted to see what kind of combat power a strong person in this world with a complete heritage, who was not a demonized person's bloodline instinct, nor had become a Disaster realm due to an accident, would have when going all out.

And the facts proved that the Disaster realm was indeed comparable to the Earth civilization's terrestrial immortal realm. Although they might not be as complete as terrestrial immortals in some aspects due to the different world environment and the lack of multi-era inheritance, because of the forty times the density of source energy, the strong in this world could easily mobilize the power of heaven and earth to advance, even if they did not have any special skills.

Therefore, demonized people without inheritance did not need to choose any path, and could advance to the 'Path of Spirit' by relying on the special nature of the world.

This was comparable to the Divine Tree lineage automatically advancing to the Path of Spirit after becoming a mature body.

No wonder Rozeria, a Disaster realm expert, was enough to preserve his family in various forces. Even the arrogant empire only persuaded him to stand in line instead of exterminating him, because if Rozeria retaliated in anger, the entire southern part of the empire would probably be turned into a vast swamp.

Faced with the white dwarf arrow flying towards him, which Aharonov called the 'Earth Core Cinder Arrow', the source energy around Su Zhou's four-headed giant dragon surged wildly, and its four heads intertwined, like entangled tree roots.

And the four elements merged, and finally transformed into a thick and solid cannon barrel.

Familiar? Of course it was familiar, because this was Su Zhou imitating the 'Dragon Head Giant Cannon' formed by the Devouring Star Beast's fusion of the eight-headed Aether Giant Dragon's body.

As everyone knew, the Aether Giant Dragon was a dragon, and the Seven-Headed Scarlet Dragon was also a dragon. Isomorphic replacement naturally had a similar effect.

Boom! In an instant, the heavens and earth shook. The residual waves of the elemental anti-matter engine operating in the four-headed giant dragon's body, even at full power, caused the nearly substantive source energy fluctuations to spread in all directions.

Then, the four-element anti-matter cannon fired. A pale halo surpassing the sun rose on the ground, and at the same time, it erased all elemental reactions within a radius of 300 kilometers centered on Su Zhou—this place temporarily became a dead magic zone, and the pure anti-matter light column enveloped the Earth Core Cinder Arrow, gradually disintegrating and stripping away the condensed earth element arrow bit by bit in silence, and finally turning it into nothingness.

The anti-matter light column weakened a little after disintegrating the Cinder Arrow, but even so, it still flew diagonally towards the top of the sky for thousands of kilometers, and some aftershocks even reached the world barrier area above the firmament, causing a series of curtain-like auroras to appear at the top of the sky in broad daylight.

That was the brilliance of the world barrier being shaken and producing vibrations.

Although the old general was not directly hit, the elemental anti-matter cannon stirred up the source energy balance in the surrounding world, and his mental projection began to disintegrate little by little, requiring him to expend all his strength to stabilize it.

His mental projection was kneeling on the ground, while his human body raised his head and looked at the aurora in the sky.

Then, he lowered his head and looked at the giant dragon in the distance, his face pale.

Not only were the Aharonov father and son pale when they saw their full-force attack being easily blocked by Su Zhou, but even the Light Chasing Society faction present were dumbfounded.

The Aian World was so vast that even if a Disaster realm expert destroyed everything with all their might, it would only affect a part of the continent, not to mention that the more source energy a Disaster realm expert operated with all their might, the more easily they would be eroded by the source energy and feel pain—this was the residual poison left by the Divine Tree after being betrayed by the gods. Anyone born in this world could not escape it.

Therefore, the empire faction wanted to leave this world, because even if they struggled to survive, they would only endure thousands more years of pain and torment.

However, the Burning Spirit realm surpassed this point.

Their power could affect the entire world—determining the continuation of the world, or the destruction of the world.

Faced with Professor Svetray, no matter how hard the Aharonov father and son struggled, the outcome was a destined failure.

However, Light Chasing leader Abner frowned, "That's not right."

He showed a puzzled expression and looked around, "Aharonov is not famous for his combat power. He is a general, known for his strategic deployment and tactical command—what about Illuvitz?"

"The empire's first knight, the emperor's long spear, and Illuvitz, who is inseparable from Aharonov, the undefeated Illuvitz?"

"Why isn't he here?"

This question was also the Sacred Sun Pope's question. Although he was amazed by Su Zhou's strength, he was even more surprised by this point.

After all, the two old men were quite aware that Su Zhou was much stronger than them, but they could not tell whether Su Zhou was at the peak of the Disaster realm, or had surpassed that boundary.

On the other hand, Illuvitz, as the former emperor's guard and Aharonov's close friend, how could he not be with the Third Army when they attacked the three Disaster realm experts?

He also thought that Illuvitz was in the Third Army, so he didn't think about fighting, but instead retreated to the headquarters as soon as possible.

If it was just the Aharonov father and son, although they were formidable enemies, it was not such an urgent matter.

Su Zhou didn't care about this. Even if two more Disaster realm experts came, it would be the same for him. Even if the empire's first knight was a Burning Spirit, a Heavenly Immortal, it wouldn't be a big deal.

"You have been defeated, it's time to surrender."

He said calmly, the source energy echoed and vibrated, causing his voice to resound throughout the northwest wilderness, "Tell me, what exactly does that emperor want to do, and the details of your specific plan. This way, I will judge you according to your crimes."

And Aharonov naturally wouldn't take such words of persuasion seriously, and directly ignored them.

At this time, he was actually thinking about the same question.

This time, the Third Army's action was not notified to Illuvitz, but was decided by him and the Solar Emperor.

Because he knew very well that his friend would not be willing to take action and fight Professor Svetray, who he considered to be the 'right' person.

He knew his friend, who adhered to the knight's code, better than anyone else.

[I don't want to fight those rebels. They are just oppressed and forced to resist... Aharonov, I don't want to hurt innocent people. We should clear out those nobles who exploit the people and transform the whole world!]

[My friend, persuade His Majesty... really, although all this is necessary, I really don't like what you are doing now. It has deviated from our original dream...]

"Naive Illuvitz... the end of the world is coming. Where do we have the time to transform society and eliminate all the nobles who can provide resources for us to build the Burning Spirit Torch and the Void Ark?"

He muttered to himself, and the somewhat scattered mountain giant mental projection stood up again.

Aharonov sighed softly, "Someone always has to make choices and do bad things. My friend, if you are unwilling to do these things, then I will do them. Someone always has to make decisions for the future of the world. Existence is everything, and this is the essence of civilization."

"If we don't do this, how can we maintain order and continue all this?"

"Wait."

But a voice sounded, interrupting the old general's muttering, "Do you call this civilization?"

Su Zhou's voice rang out from afar. The giant dragon was approaching in great strides, and his voice was also rapidly approaching, with a hint of anger, "The essence of civilization is not such a low-level thing!"

The smoke and dust gradually dissipated, and the aurora in the sky also began to weaken.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, Su Zhou, with a bright source energy radiance, came to the front of the Third Army.

Ignoring the shivering soldiers who didn't even dare to retreat, Su Zhou stood high on the giant dragon's head, overlooking the mountain giant and Aharonov at the foot of the mountain giant.

"If you regard the necessary evil and sacrifice as the essence of civilization, then such a civilization is better off being destroyed directly!"

He said coldly, and even the large shield in his hand bloomed with a blazing light, like the surface of the sun, proving Su Zhou's anger.

But Aharonov didn't show the slightest fear. He raised his head, looked at Su Zhou, who was almost like another sun, and then turned around and said to his son, Okolyolov, who was on standby, "Okolyolov, look, if everyone is like this Professor Svetray, always wanting to destroy something, then where is the order? Who will maintain the survival of the world?"

"They seem to be reasonable, but in essence, they are no different from the northern barbarians who are single-mindedly trying to destroy the world."

"Father!"

Okolyolov on the side didn't react for a moment. He couldn't figure out why his father wanted to stimulate the Burning Spirit realm expert at this time—it seemed that he didn't intend to kill them directly, but wanted to capture the entire Third Army.

This was not surprising, after all, the Third Army not only had this group of elite soldiers, but also the world's highest-standard equipment. Even if they were replaced with a group of ordinary trained crew members, their combat power would not be weak.

Indeed, they would be captured, imprisoned, even have their cultivation abolished... but at least they could live a little longer.

Why bother satirizing the other party so directly?

But the young general Okolyolov didn't expect that after Su Zhou heard these words, the original anger dissipated a lot, and instead showed an expression close to pity.

"Savage and destruction." He repeated a sentence that Aharonov had said before, and then sneered, "Yes, indeed. It is indeed savage to destroy something that already exists, especially to destroy the existing order. It will indeed bring great chaos, collapse the original society, and even cause wars, causing many people to be displaced and lose their lives."

"But what we are asking for is another kind of order, a future where fewer people will die, live happier lives, have more dignity, and also make civilization stronger—the order you are talking about is nothing more than the hunger of the poor, the insult to demonized people, the coldness to non-nobles, and the chronic slaughter caused by exploitation. Such a present is far better than the terrible future you are talking about."

"We destroy the old order because that thing is rotten flesh. Cutting off the rotten flesh will indeed cause bleeding, but after bleeding, people can survive instead of dying of illness in bed."

At this point, Su Zhou's tone even calmed down, "You are constantly creating bleeding and death, oppressing citizens into rebels. You are destroying people's dignity, intending to tame a group and extinguish all their ideals and wishes, just like the ancient barbarians taming slaves."

"And just when I brought a new and more civilized order to replace you, so that there would be no more bleeding in this world, you said that what I am doing is savage and destruction?"

"Eight thousand years, I dispersed the dark clouds, but you are blaming the thunder."

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