Gods Vanish on a Cloudy Day
Chapter 43 Friends, Automatic Grinding is Simply a Pipe Dream (1w1)
While the forms of Mechanoid Gods vary, they are mostly humanoid, as they represent a cultivator's most powerful and complete imagination of themselves.
In other words, if a member of the human race has a Mechanoid God form that is not humanoid, but bestial, insectoid, or even indescribable, then this person either has mental issues or possesses unimaginable strength, being exceptionally powerful in certain special divine abilities, leading to the alteration of their very essence.
Of course, since most beings in the Creation Realm are related to great existences, it is very likely that it's not an either-or situation, but rather both.
They're all sick.
Just like the Mechanoid God currently extending a segmented tentacle to attack Shao Shuangyue and the others across time and space.
No one knows the past of World Weaver, Skir. To those outside the Path of Karma Termination, He first appeared as a god, responsible for repairing the damaged spacetime barrier of the Creation Realm after the God War. His specific task was to use the spacetime gauze He weaves to mend those loopholes, preventing the invasion of void monsters.
In a sense, He and His colleagues could be called the universe's platelets.
However, no one dares to underestimate this Weaver who seems to be just a paperhanger because anyone with even a slight understanding of spacetime divine abilities knows what it means to be able to mend cosmic rifts with one's own woven network.
It means that His spacetime skills, taken one step further, could touch the edge of Dao integration, already reaching the baseline for assisting in the creation of a proto-universe.
[A Mechanoid God... and a few Ascended Ones?]
Skir, though far away on the periphery of the Creation Path's Beginning Light Heaven, billions of light-years away, still launched an attack that tore through spacetime against those remnants of the universe who dared to reach into the prison He supervised and constructed. The nearly tangible ripples of spiritual power churned spacetime, like a long river sweeping in.
He shook His head: [Commendable courage, but utterly lacking in reverence.]
Spiritual ripples should not possess much power, but because they can vibrate spacetime, these seemingly weak undulations were like the blades of a meat grinder. With a slight churn, spacetime cracked vertically and horizontally, and a long dent was pressed out, shattering all tangible matter along the way.
Even the prison of spacetime itself, that energy tunnel filled with light, was cleaved apart. Accompanied by crisp cracking sounds, traces of cleaving and hewing appeared, nearly causing it to collapse.
With merely a sweep of His tentacle, a vibration of spiritual power, Skir made it more terrifying than most divine abilities.
"Plan A!"
Since they dared to assault a god's prison, the renowned Prison of Spacetime, how could Shao Shuangyue and the others not be prepared?
At the black-haired girl's command, Xing Ying immediately took a step forward.
The platinum light in her eyes shone brightly, and the entire Flying Rainbow transformed amidst a violent mechanical roar. Centered on the Dragon Maiden, it once again transformed into a temporary Mechanoid God body—a silver, glittering, winding, and coiling steel dragon.
The tail of this giant dragon lifted high, and the chainsaw module, modeled after Su Zhou's, was rapidly rotating. As the teeth on the tail spun, the runes engraved on the chain blades also rotated, containing the aura of chaotic overthrow, denying all things.
It was not a pure chainsaw, but teeth that tore through correctness.
Facing the incoming attack, the Dragon of Dao Bearing slashed down with its tail, and the spacetime surge caused by Skir split in two, as if the Red Sea parted by Moses, or like butter under a hot knife.
[Is that the 'Path of Dao Denial' from the Dark Abyss Path? Although it bears the emblem of the Vortex of Strife, could it be that the Source of Contradiction and Fairyland are supporting that group of fleeing cowards?]
Although Skir is a spacetime engineer, He has seen too many battlefields and knows too many divine abilities. He recognized the origin of Xing Ying's move at a glance.
While it was somewhat strange that a Mechanoid God from the Ruins of Creation would possess a divine ability from the Dark Abyss Path, and whether this meant that the two had secretly formed an alliance, this was indeed the most common Path of Dao Denial in Chaos.
In short, it involves finding the weaknesses of most divine abilities to nullify them. As the user of this divine ability, Xing Ying's vision, judgment, and decisiveness were also above average, surpassing ordinary Mechanoid Gods. It was hard to imagine that this Dragon of Dao Bearing had only been born for less than a decade.
Worthy of His serious attention.
Skir did not act as casually as before but seriously cast a divine ability.
On the tentacle that extended across spacetime, all the light converged. In an instant, it became almost non-existent, no longer possessing the might to stir spacetime, seeming like an ordinary gray-black ant antenna, one that might even be considered long dead.
No, it was already dead, yet it moved. Without any warning or aftershocks, its speed was impossible to predict because spacetime seemed to lose its meaning in the face of this already non-existent tentacle, occasionally ignoring a small distance.
An incomplete version of the Path of Karma Termination's supreme divine ability, [Total Extinction Breath]. Plunging oneself into pure ending, even the world itself cannot capture the existence of the user. Therefore, its attack ignores all distance, defense, spacetime, and cause and effect, and others' attacks cannot kill one who has already died and ended. It is truly a method of annihilation in mutual destruction.
However, the Path of Karma Termination is born from death. Others may not be so lucky, likely having a life taken away, then being beaten down by Path of Karma Termination experts who have strengthened themselves after self-termination through various contingencies.
In other words, it's a death knight flow.
"What the hell is this? Is a Creation Machine God taking us too seriously?!"
Not only Xing Ying, who faced this attack directly, but also Shao Shuangyue and the others within Xing Ying's body, providing spiritual power and divine ability support, felt their hearts and souls turn cold.
The black-haired girl stared at that gray-black segmented tentacle, which was several thousand meters thick at the tip alone, and whose overall length was unknown. She could completely imagine that if this strike were to hit a planet, even without any divine ability attached, it could directly shatter a continent, smashing a continental planet until magma splashed and its structure shattered.
What's more, there was that black aura that looked extremely ominous?
Therefore, she urged rapidly, "Quick, quick, use that!"
"Of course, I know!"
How could Xing Ying not know? But she couldn't sense Skir's attack at all. That was the most terrifying aspect.
Because she didn't know, she couldn't defend. Even if she had temporarily regained the power of a Mechanoid God, if she were struck by this attack containing great divine power, her body and all her companions within would die. Only their souls could barely survive.
The chaotic 'Path of Breaking Dao' was useless. At least her skill in the Path of Chaos had not reached the point where she could break an already terminated object. Xing Ying immediately changed the circulation of spiritual power within her body, constructing a new divine intent. In an instant, a hazy gray mist enveloped the Dragon of Dao Bearing, and she also manipulated the Mechanoid God body, coiling it into an egg shape.
The next moment, the gray-black tentacle lashed out at this giant egg that was several kilometers long—the giant egg transformed by Xing Ying was accelerated to thirty-five percent of the speed of light in a few breaths. If it collided with Earth, Earth would crack on the spot.
The giant egg flew, colliding with a tunnel in a spacetime rift on one side. Instantly, countless spiritual patterns shattered and scattered, turning into ashes after burning. A small amount of the material structure behind the spiritual patterns also melted and evaporated under the heat brought by the ultra-high-speed collision, turning into a golden-red nebula mist filling the Prison of Spacetime.
[Eh?]
But this time, Skir was surprised again. Blocking His attack was a divine ability from the 'Path of Rotation,' the prototype of the Imperishable Soul. Although, like the previous divine ability, its essence was merely imitation, the one being imitated must have been a powerhouse who had already successfully cultivated the Imperishable Soul, so they had grasped a trace of its divine essence.
The Imperishable Soul's defense had nothing to do with the form of others' attacks. It was a product of subjective idealism. As long as it was not within the user's range of recognition, even non-existent attacks would be blocked. Just like just now, the dragon egg wrapped in a thin layer of Imperishable Soul actually blocked His inevitable strike.
—To be able to use both the great divine abilities of the Dark Abyss Path and the Path of Rotation at the same time? No wonder the Balance Path and the Creation Path want to hunt down this Dragon of Dao Bearing. It truly has its divine mysteries!
Skir was not surprised that His attack would be blocked by a Mechanoid God. After all, He was billions of light-years away, spanning half of the Creation Realm's observable universe. No matter how skilled He was in spacetime techniques, there would inevitably be losses.
However, the method by which Xing Ying blocked His attack was too strange. After all, each supreme divine ability contained an extremely unique 'self-consistent logic.' In other words, it contained a 'man-made truth.' Ordinary gods might not be able to cultivate even one to completion, just like Him. Because He focused on the laws of spacetime, His 'Total Extinction Breath' had not yet reached its ultimate form.
Generally speaking, only powerhouses at the peak of creation, or even in the Dao Integration realm, could completely master the essence of one or several supreme divine abilities, but whether they could cultivate to the highest realm was not certain.
But soon, before Skir could suppress His astonishment, various scenes flashed through His mind.
In the next instant, the Dragon of Dao Bearing, which had originally coiled into an egg shape, would split itself into two. One end would carry the aura of the Myriad Burial Ground, forcing Him to retreat with a self-destructive momentum, while the other end would use the divine power of the Balance Path to forcibly coordinate spacetime and close the spacetime rift He had opened. And they would take this opportunity to escape.
This was not false, but the truth. Although it was only a glimpse, the [Eye of Ultimate Revelation], another supreme divine ability of the Path of Karma Termination, revealed to Him one possible outcome of this event. At least, if He didn't find a way to deal with it, this would be the reality.
But how to deal with it?
[Good job!]
[Not bad, not bad, this is how you should fight. Otherwise, you'd be unworthy of being our sparring partner for so long, receiving countless moves!]
[But still be careful! The enemy is in the Great Heavenly Venerate realm. Even if He is slightly slow to react due to traversing endless spacetime, if He is determined to use force to overcome skill, it's not something that 'Water Group Machine's' current body can withstand!]
Inside the soul space, the All-Heavens Candle Dragon Mutual Aid Group.
The many Candle Dragons who were watching the battle from Xing Ying's first-person perspective cheered loudly when they saw Xing Ying block Skir's 'Total Extinction Breath.'
Since obtaining the attention of the Primordial Candle Dragon and being able to enter this group, Xing Ying had been communicating with the other members, exchanging cultivation experiences and combat techniques.
She would even often find a few members to spar and hone her skills in the arena set up by the Primordial Candle Dragon.
After all, merely teaching divine abilities was meaningless. Power that has not been used is all just theory—in that case, why not practice with each other? Coincidentally, the All-Heavens Candle Dragon races are almost all different. Fighting with these compatriots is equivalent to fighting many powerhouses from the myriad worlds.
In fact, if Xing Ying's combat experience were not so rich, she would not have been able to block the continuous attacks of a Lord of Creation, even if she could use many powerful divine abilities to deal with different situations.
At this moment, having seen through the Dragon of Dao Bearing's plan, Skir also became serious, truly treating Xing Ying and the others as opponents, and not just as mice who had sneaked into His home while the Path of Karma Termination was conspiring about the great scheme.
But even if He forced back Xing Ying, who intended to self-detonate using the Twilight Technique, with a divine light, He could not predict the other party's next action.
Because the one fighting Him was not just one person.
"I can't do it anymore. Using several great divine abilities at the same time is messing up my soul power. I can't..."
Even for the Dragon of Dao Bearing, continuously using multiple conflicting supreme divine abilities was obviously a suicidal act. Although Xing Ying's body was intact at the moment, her thoughts were as chaotic as those of a mortal who had been staying up for seven days and seven nights straight, on the verge of sudden death.
Before she could finish speaking, she had already fainted. Without a word, Shao Shuangyue and Jiu Ming, who had long communicated and trained, immediately reached out, guided spiritual power, and took over control of the Dragon of Dao Bearing's body.
And at this moment, Skir's next wave of attack had already arrived.
It was the 'Spacetime Compression' that compressed spacetime, turning billions of miles into mere inches.
In essence, this divine ability was no different from storage spells, both turning a vast space into a small ring or storage bag. But in Skir's hands, this ordinary spell was enough to seal many Mechanoid Gods. Many of those imprisoned in the Third Prison of Spacetime were personally sealed by Him.
And He was indeed the warden of this Third Prison, the officer in charge of all the prisoners!
However, Xing Ying, who should not have been able to offer any resistance, rose up.
In an instant, the Dragon of Dao Bearing's body erupted with power far surpassing its usual strength, avoiding Skir's imprisoning attack. Countless card lights flashed from behind the dragon's body, transforming into various spells and monsters, all sorts of enhancements amplifying it. There was even a card that transformed into a scapegoat, taking the spacetime suppression and sealing in place of the Dragon of Dao Bearing.
It was Shao Shuangyue, the captain of the Flying Rainbow, also known as the current pilot of the Dragon of Dao Bearing's body, who was using her power to squeeze out every last bit of potential from her mech, even unleashing one hundred and twenty percent of its power. With the full support of her first mate, Jiu Ming, who even used the extremely precious life-saving card, 'Scapegoat,' they managed to break free.
"Go!" Even simple dodging was causing Shao Shuangyue, who had not entered the Ascended realm, to feel her brain burning. She was bleeding from her mouth and nose, and even wanted to scream in pain. It was as terrifying as stuffing the books of an entire Earth library into the brain of a salted fish. Even though she had tested it a few times before, there was no Great Heavenly Venerate casting spells in the sky, trying to suppress them.
"Funiya, is the teleportation spell ready? Leave the Spacetime Prison, sacrifice directly, and displace us away!"
And Jiu Ming was already lying on the ground. The dragon-human youth instantly activated dozens of magic and sacrifice cards, and even sacrificed several monster cards. These powerful spells and divine abilities, which originally required the slow unfolding of a card deck to take effect, should have been the 'equivalent exchange' of the Balance Path, requiring the sacrifice of many costs to achieve.
But with things so urgent, Jiu Ming could only sacrifice himself to achieve the effect. However, he was already an Earth Immortal, so his current state was barely better than Shao Shuangyue's. "Turn around, let's run! Dechimus's wife and the other Pioneer explorers have already been rescued. We've already made a great profit, completing the mission!"
As for Dechimus, he had burned himself out after using existence erasure. If he didn't return to the Pioneer Space, his actions in the Creation Realm would probably be useless from now on.
"No problem, hurry up and get out of the spacetime anomaly zone. I've already prepared everything here!"
On the other side of spacetime, Funiya, located inside a gas giant on the edge of the Balance Path starfield, was busily preparing in an extremely hidden formation, filled with all sorts of divine materials and sacrificial offerings.
Infiltrating a great divine system to rescue people? How could they not have made thorough preparations for success or failure? Shao Shuangyue and the others had long prepared a way out to run directly. That was to have Funiya prepare enough sacrifices and cause-and-effect items of everyone present on the other side of spacetime. When the opportunity came, they would sacrifice them and use the power of balance to directly displace them.
[Vermin!]
But Skir's reaction was far faster than they had imagined. Even though His attacks had failed repeatedly, He was not too surprised. After all, anything could happen in the back-and-forth between gods.
Therefore, this Mechanoid God did His best and used His most powerful divine ability.
Spacetime Reversal.
Not achieving the effect of nearly reversing time by relying on black holes and the twisting of spacetime from high gravity, what Skir used was the power that could only be used in the world He wove, which was the Prison of Spacetime—forcibly shifting every elementary particle, causing it to return to its original position recorded some time ago.
As everyone knows, time is just a scale, a measurement of energy changes, a measure of material movement. There is no concrete existence truly named 'time.' As long as enough energy can be paid, the vector of entropy can be locally reversed in a controlled manner, achieving the most foolish method of spacetime reversal.
Now, Skir already knew that there was definitely a great power behind this group of thieves. The divine abilities they mastered and their own qualities could not be explained by ordinary Pioneer Space visitors.
For a time, everything in the Prison of Spacetime began to flow backward in reverse.
The damaged tunnels were restored as the light mist and smoke re-condensed into runes and arrays, and the collapsing spacetime rifts also re-condensed from collapse in a scene like rewinding a tape.
Even those Pioneer Space explorers who had been rescued by Shao Shuangyue and the others and stored in the core storage room of the Dragon of Dao Bearing seemed to fly out involuntarily, returning to those seals.
—What if someone escapes from prison?
Reverse spacetime.
The world of gods is that simple and crude.
In the face of a Lord who was truly serious, Shao Shuangyue and the others had no room for resistance.
[Let me do it!]
And at this moment, Shao Shuangyue, who was about to completely faint, heard an eager voice.
Then, accompanied by Xing Ying's 'permission,' who forcibly mustered her spirits, another vast soul from beyond spacetime descended upon the body of the Dragon of Dao Bearing!
The black-haired girl seemed to see a bright bird shining with five kinds of light soaring and merging into the body of the divine dragon.
In an instant, a brilliant divine light revolving with the five elements, as if containing a world, enveloped the Dragon of Dao Bearing, preventing the effect of time reversal from acting on everyone.
[Five Virtues Divine Light, the Heart of a Perfected Person?!]
Skir, who had been surprised too many times and did not want to taste this unexpected feeling again, felt extremely tired. But even so, He could not help but be shocked: [Why is the power of the Nirvana Path...]
Giving up on thinking, this Mechanoid God continued to attack, but the one fighting Him was another Candle Dragon soul, full of energy and vigor from another spacetime.
For a time, it could be seen that the Spacetime Weaver revealed His full appearance. His main body was a giant insect, almost like an ant, but with wings, usually prostrate on the universe, weaving His own spacetime web.
Skir's Mechanoid God form was extremely large. It seemed that He was doing other work before, so He did not carry His Mechanoid God armament specifically used for fighting. But even so, the segmented tentacles of the spacetime giant insect, as well as the spacetime hands that were more flexible and powerful than the physical limbs, were extremely dangerous, not inferior to any divine weapon.
However, under the control of the Divine Bird Candle Dragon, the Dragon of Dao Bearing was extremely flexible, freely shuttling through the giant insect webs that were woven. Even if it was occasionally hit by Skir, it blocked it with the Five Virtues Divine Light and the sturdy body of the Dragon of Dao Bearing, ready to break through the giant web at any time.
Of course, the Divine Bird Candle Dragon was not that strong either. He had only recently broken through to the Heavenly Immortal realm under the Primordial Candle Dragon's divine ability giveaway and generous lectures. After Skir saw through the flaws in His Five Virtues Divine Light and invaded His Five Elements Small World, He was about to freeze Him and the entire divine ability together.
[Switch!]
However, in the next instant, with Xing Ying's another 'permission,' a Hun Dun chaotic, demonic soul shadow instantly entered the dragon's body, and the already dimmed Divine Bird soul laughed loudly: [So this is the power of a Heavenly Venerate? As expected, it's powerful. This combat experience will definitely be useful for the next time!]
[This?!]
And Skir, who had just planned to seal the Five Virtues Divine Light, immediately felt a burst of confusion in His soul in a daze. Soon, He, who had been through hundreds of battles, awoke in surprise and realized that someone was using the most hidden and vicious soul divine ability to erode His soul.
[Devil, Celestial Demon——] The giant insect's six eyes lit up with gray-black light. He was actually going to use the Total Extinction Breath to make His soul return to death, causing the Celestial Demon Candle Dragon that had invaded His soul to 'perish together'——and He happened to be reborn after death, although there would be great sequelae afterward, He could temporarily obtain a more powerful force.
[Are you serious? Sorry, brother, I was just kidding!]
Seeing this, how could the Celestial Demon Candle Dragon continue to play this game of dancing on the tip of a knife with the other party? He directly said goodbye and then slipped away.
The shadow of the Celestial Demon separated like lightning, and at the moment when He left, an aura as bright as the scorching sun, full of vitality and filling the world, reappeared on the Dragon of Dao Bearing's body.
[Why seek death to seek life?] The thick voice of the Divine Wood Candle Dragon rang out, shaking spacetime. It could be vaguely seen that all the thorns behind the Dragon of Dao Bearing's body had turned into wooden roots, plunged into the surrounding spacetime, and began to absorb spiritual energy to resist the final dead air that the Celestial Demon Candle Dragon did not have time to shake off when escaping.
[Life and death are both existence, and returning to death is not the end——by the way, Little Sister Bearing Dao's body is really easy to use. Whether it's me or Divine Bird, Celestial Demon, we can actually exert one hundred percent of our power]
[Worthy of the name Bearing Dao, all kinds of avenues can be carried!]
In fact, even Xing Ying herself was a little confused.
"Why...can I adapt to the fundamental Dao divine abilities of other Candle Dragons too?"
"Even if they are all Candle Dragons, the essence of life is different...why can I use the great divine abilities of all divine systems without any side effects without being backlashed?"
The white-haired Dragon Maiden fell into great confusion: "Also, why do these guys in the chat group all want to come over and help me play on their behalf?"
Of course, being able to fight with a Heavenly Venerate, and using a body that can exert one's power one hundred percent, who wouldn't want to?
At this moment, Xing Ying was not fighting alone.
Behind her was the entire Candle Dragon chat group!
And her enemy had the same idea.
[What the hell is all this? How are these remnants of the universe's will all over the Ten Heavenly Divine Systems? What kinds of guys are there?!]
Now, having been eroded by the Celestial Demon and having used the great divine ability of the self-destruction system himself, Skir felt that his head was about to explode.
How could He not understand now that those beings behind the Dragon of Dao Bearing were constantly using many powerful divine abilities with extremely great sequelae, and fighting a war of attrition with Him?
If He were on the other side of spacetime, He might be able to spend the effort to suppress these guys, but He could not travel half of the observable universe in an instant——He really spent time traveling through spacetime, these vermin would have already escaped. He had to spend great power from afar to keep them here.
Unless…
While the Divine Wood Candle Dragon was exerting divine power to rapidly restore the physical strength and energy of everyone, including Shao Shuangyue, Jiu Ming, and Dechimus, Skir made a rather serious decision.
Boom! With a roar, the Mechanoid God form of this Creation Mechanoid God became no longer agile.
He solidified in place, with the four front limbs opened up and down, using His divine body as an array to fix the spacetime channel.
Then, a pure silver-gray soul flew out of the giant insect Mechanoid God body and condensed into a human form.
That was a rather dignified and burly adult man, wearing ancient light armor, leaving behind a thick whip of hair that was tangled together like tree roots, with dark divine light rolling in his eyes, unable to see his pupils.
That was Skir's main body, abandoning the divine body of the Mechanoid God.
The Mechanoid God form is the creation of all beings towards their desired form, it is the most powerful weapon, magic weapon, divine ability and true body of the cultivators of the Creation Realm. Abandoning it is equivalent to giving up more than half of one's martial strength.
However, compared to being so restrained and beaten in a war of attrition, fighting with half of one's power has a higher chance of winning.
But in reality, it was completely different from what was expected. As soon as the true soul was revealed, Skir was struck dumb.
"Quick, quick, He gave up the Mechanoid God body, use the Celestial Demon Heart Erosion Curse!"
[And my Heart-Planting Tree Seed!]
[My Five Virtues Summoning Pure Heart Song can also be used!]
"Don't forget the Divine Plague Curse, use them all!"
Buzz——
It could be seen that all kinds of divine abilities, transformed into lines, were released from the various spiritual power condensation points all over the Dragon of Dao Bearing's body, flying towards Skir's true soul.
These divine abilities were either upright and aboveboard, with the majesty of magnificence, or sinister and vicious, rooted in the soul like parasitic seeds.
Wherever they passed along the way, the white spacetime tunnel was dyed with ink, and the extremely corrosive terrifying spiritual power constantly eroded everything pure white around it, turning it into its own power, but it was so powerful and dignified, like the great sun shining, and the sunlight dyed the clouds.
In just an instant, their power expanded to the point of surpassing ordinary immortal divine powers.
Even the users themselves found it difficult to control.
In short, every Candle Dragon, in addition to upright and aboveboard divine abilities, would always prepare some dark...or rather, 'unavoidable' means to do extraordinary things.
And now, it was an extraordinary time.
Faced with these trump cards that had been accumulating power for a long time and could not find the time to use, Skir's personal perception was that it was as if he saw seven-colored rainbows arriving together, directly reaching the place where his soul was.
It was not that He could not resist. With the power of a Creation Machine God, even after being in a war of attrition for so long and having abandoned the Mechanoid God body, sweeping away Shao Shuangyue and the many Candle Dragons' dark hands would not require too much of a price. He might be injured, but it was impossible for Him to be completely unable to fight back and be beaten down.
However, just now, He suddenly trembled for a moment.
Because of a thunderclap.
[Lies]
This thunderous low roar came from the endless depths above the high heavens, like the pure rage brewed from the pain and sorrow that had been deposited and accumulated for countless years: [You are still unrepentant, unrepentant——]
It had no lethality, but it was as powerful as a thousand jun. When it struck down, it was like a bolt of lightning cutting through the dark Chaos, illuminating the pale myriad things.
Skir was familiar with the owner of this voice.
That was why He trembled.
[The will of the universe——] He panicked for a moment: [How could it be? How could He wake up now? Didn't the Balance Path say that everything was normal?!]
Then He was hit.
Skir's soul fell down. He stood there in a daze, as if He had lost connection, and forcibly ate the combined attack of many Candle Dragons.
Even Su Zhou had to practice body refining divine abilities before he dared to stand there and eat the attacks of people who were lower in level than him, let alone Skir, who had not practiced specifically?
"Did we win?"
Seeing this, even Xing Ying was stunned for a moment. She reached out and wiped the engine oil that flowed out of her ears due to the previous battle. The Dragon Maiden, who was still using a man-made body, was a little dazed: "Why did we win? I originally planned to take the opportunity to run away while that guy was dealing with our attacks."
"Don't think, keep running!" And Shao Shuangyue was very practical. She reached out and pulled Xing Ying's face, reminding her: "Do you still want to make up for the attack? Hurry up, be careful, there's more!"
Shao Shuangyue's reminder was right.
Just as Xing Ying decisively dispelled the Mechanoid God body, and then controlled the Flying Rainbow, taking her mission targets to the gate of this Third Prison of Spacetime, they all heard a sigh.
[Skir, that's too ugly. If you're not good at fighting, don't force yourself]
Although it sounded like blame, this voice was very gentle, like a teacher guiding him earnestly: [Although indeed, a Creation Machine God can't possibly have no way to solve a group of prison robbers who are only at the level of ordinary Mechanoid Gods, they are not ordinary Mechanoid Gods]
In an instant, Xing Ying, Shao Shuangyue, Jiu Ming, Dechimus, and even Funiya on the other side of spacetime, and even the Candle Dragons in the Candle Dragon chat group, all fell into a brief stagnation of thought.
Because they sensed that there was a gaze that, although gentle, did not contain much emotion, cast on them.
Dark clouds spontaneously arose out of thin air, and a fierce wind stirred in the vacuum of the universe, instantly causing the entire Prison of Spacetime to be covered in dark clouds, and even the Dyson sphere below it was covered.
Everyone present, and those with self-will, could sense that there was a vast existence, like the embodiment of the universe and the stars, gazing at them with scrutiny.
In that instant, all light, all life, and all color went away, and all things seemed to dim, die, and fall into the end——everyone seemed to see the end of their death, their bodies decaying and annihilating, their wills dissolving into nothingness, and even their souls gradually decaying, turning into flying dust.
Either a long time ago, or after a long time...or maybe, it's now!
"Dao Integration...a Dao Integration expert..."
Among everyone present, Xing Ying, the only one who had seen a Dao Integration expert, that Creation Ruins Titan, barely retained a trace of consciousness. At this moment, her heart was like a stone sinking into the deep sea, falling into endless darkness.
Other than despair, there was no other emotion. The appearance of such a powerhouse was beyond all plans, enough to overturn the fact of certain defeat, making...
"Hey, hey, hey, that's too much!"
However, just as Xing Ying and the others did not have time to despair, another solemn voice, mixed with dissatisfaction, sounded from afar: "It was fine for the Creation Machine God to bully the small at the beginning, after all, we were also in a war of attrition——but now that we have lost, how can a Dao Integration expert descend so casually?"
"Are you being reasonable?!" he shouted.
As soon as this voice sounded, it was as if a bright flame was burning in front of them, and warm power poured into their bodies, causing everyone who had been dazed to wake up from their confusion.
Returning to normal, the white-haired Dragon Maiden sensed that the dragon scale necklace on her chest was shining brightly at this moment.
The white scales were not simple matter, but souls and energy compressed to the extreme. Wearing this Candle Dragon necklace was equivalent to carrying a part of the Primordial Candle Dragon with you.
Just like now, the scales on the chests of Xing Ying, Shao Shuangyue, Jiu Ming, Dechimus, and others all self-disintegrated, and then, in the vacuum of the universe, condensed into a virtual human figure.
His eyes were like fire, burning with raging flames and passion.
Su Zhou said in a low voice, with a smile: "However, 'Heralda, the Guide to the End,' are you sure you want to take action? I can sense that you are also doing something quite important on the other side of spacetime, right?"
[Primordial Candle Dragon...Heh, I should have thought long ago that creatures like you who are close to all kinds of avenues must be related to the will of the universe]
The original Skir soul had disappeared, and standing there was a tall human figure condensed from a hazy black mist.
This human figure stood there, like a towering mountain peak, and like a guiding lighthouse. Although the aura of death and destruction that surrounded it was surging non-stop, there seemed to be a trace of pure life force at its deepest point.
——Only when existence exists first, can there be the end of nothingness.
——Only when creation comes first, can there be the end of destruction.
The end is the inevitable end of all tangible things, of all beings who have not reached 'infinity,' those who, because of time, because of strife, because of many reasons, have to step into the river called 'death' need guidance.
Guide them to step back into the world of the living, which is 'destined to end.'
Heralda, the Guide to the End, a Dao Integration expert of the Path of Karma Termination, the holder of the Dao Integration armament [All Heavens Leading the World Scroll], borrowed a body to manifest here.
[Primordial Candle Dragon, do you want to integrate the Dao in my world? We can help you]
Faced with the young man who was far away from Him, although His essence was still not as good as His, but He was already very close, this Guide to the End, whose tone was gentle and whose expression was solemn, finally looked at the other party squarely and extended an invitation: [But you also know that my world is about to encounter the Final Tribulation, and there seems to be a battle between many Dao Integration experts——the universe's will is crazy and ruthless, why sell yourself to Him? Why not join us and create a path for all living beings?]
"First of all, it's not your world, the universe belongs to everyone, I love where I integrate the Dao, I'll do it wherever I want, I appreciate the kindness, no help needed."
And Su Zhou righteously refused. He stretched his arms and squinted his eyes to stare at the black human figure in front of him: "You can fight if you want to fight, don't drag in all living beings——the universe's will is indeed a bit brain-dead, but it's not impossible to communicate with Him."
"I advise you all to be open and honest and say your respective purposes, so that the Ten Heavenly Divine Systems can despise, discriminate, and pick each other's faults, and everyone can make progress together. Wouldn't that be wonderful?"
Obviously, the Guide to the End sensed the feeling of communicating with the Serpent of Overturning Time from Su Zhou.
[Since that's the case, then you must be punished]
However, obviously, Heralda had a good cultivation. He moved the corners of His mouth slightly, but He endured it and did not get angry or harden His fists. His voice was still peaceful: [You invaded my Path of Karma Termination's small universe and robbed the prisoners from the prison. That is a great crime of extermination...]
But Su Zhou directly interrupted: "It was obviously you who illegally imprisoned the Pioneer Space explorers first. Don't act so innocent."
[They help the will of the universe...]
"Even if the will of the universe is ninety-nine percent wrong, don't you have