Gods Vanish on a Cloudy Day
Chapter 45 All of You Here Are Trash! (6700)
[Eternal Star God? Not the Array of Celestial Stars?]
Hearing Su Zhou’s words, the Guide of Termination didn’t even ponder how Su Zhou had guessed their current situation. Instead, He was perplexed by the change in the final plan of the Dao of Equilibrium: [When did they change their plan?]
Obviously, these pantheons, led by the Dao of Creation, didn't quite understand that the Dao of Equilibrium had already been brainwashed by the will of the universe.
They didn’t even quite understand what plan the Dao of Equilibrium was carrying out internally.
Su Zhou didn't find this strange, because the Dao of Equilibrium was indeed keeping it well-hidden. If it weren't for Kastala Luo's assistance, and his own personal trip to the depths of the Dao of Equilibrium to stop them from carrying out the Starry Sky Grand Ritual, as well as several clashes with the Armaments of Harmony, he probably wouldn't have understood these secret messages so deeply.
Since that was the case, Su Zhou didn’t bother saying more. He simply gathered his dragon body and circled in the vacuum, laughing softly, “If you go all out and use the Armaments of Harmony, it will be a sure kill. I’ll turn around and run right now."
"Unfortunately, I guess you can't use it."
Looking at Helan Di's expression, it was clear Su Zhou had guessed correctly again.
[Mere words.] At that moment, the Guide of Termination's eyes narrowed. Although He had the upper hand in the previous battle, the fact that a Harmonious Dao expert was only slightly superior when fighting a Creator Machine God who hadn't even reached Harmonious Dao was extremely abnormal: [What do you know?]
But the truth was, the time spent fighting Su Zhou was too much, and it had affected their plan. Not to mention the important engineer Skir who was defeated earlier, a portion of His power couldn’t even quickly defeat this Primordial Candle Dragon. Although He had the upper hand now, to truly defeat this Primordial Candle Dragon would probably require another three hundred rounds of battle.
There was no time to waste.
So, Helan Di stretched out His hand, palm upward, as if holding something.
This trans界 projection of the Harmonious Dao expert solemnly spoke: [Your Candle Dragon race is indeed naturally gifted, but you are stubbornly deluded, blocking the righteous path.]
His voice shook the void, even the sub-space stirred up tides and huge waves.
And with Helan Di's words, a phantom of a book appeared in His imaginary right hand.
[Armaments of Harmony - The Book of All Heavens Guiding the World]
There was also a great difference between Armaments of Harmony.
The "Cessation of War" Giant God of the Vortex of Strife was a veritable killing weapon; and the "Truth and Balance" of the Dao of Equilibrium also had supreme divine might, capable of arbitrating all things.
However, Armaments like the "Bell of Manifesting the World" of the Dark Abyss Dao and the "Scripture of Surpassing All Possible Worlds" of the Tower of Utmost Heaven were inclined towards assistance, mostly proving the correctness of the Great Dao, or magic treasures with special functions. Fighting was just an extra function.
And the [Book of All Heavens Guiding the World] was this type of Armaments of Harmony. Its purpose was to prove the Dao of [Termination], guiding all beings in all heavens and worlds to understand the incompleteness of their own Great Dao, and understand their destined termination.
This was its original intention, but when used for attack, its power was no less than other Armaments of Harmony.
Even Machine Gods and Creator Machine Gods, powerhouses who were theoretically immortal, would be guided by this book to elicit their own 'self-destructive factors', undergoing all kinds of tribulations, making it difficult to escape.
Even those at the Harmonious Dao realm would be plagued by calamities, making them unable to move freely, and all kinds of flaws could be amplified thousands or even tens of thousands of times by the Land of Termination.
Even though it wasn't the main body of the Armaments of Harmony that had come, but a projection summoned by traction, the overflowing aura of Harmonious Dao still rapidly burned the already shattered brown dwarf star on the side, stripping away the stellar matter, leaving only the white dwarf star core in the center.
The moment it appeared, it caused the Armaments of Harmony of many other forces to shake, causing the gods of the entire Creation World to frown.
Helan Di held this book, His eyes indifferent, looking down at Su Zhou, locking onto his opportunity: [Primordial Candle Dragon - may I ask, from beyond the heavens, to this universe, what exactly is your intention?]
Time and space trembled, and the heavens were terrified.
[The Dao of Extinction?] [Why use the Armaments of Harmony so abruptly...] [Since the Dao of Equilibrium, the Armaments of Harmony of the Ten Heavenly Pantheon have been dispatched more and more frequently, which is not a good thing for the universe!]
Only Chanawiya, a powerhouse of the Dao of Equilibrium, a Divine Chosen of Harmony, noticed a trace of something wrong. He raised His head, stared at the distant other world, and His tone was filled with confusion: [This is... the aura of the Primordial Candle Dragon?]
[After fighting us, he actually went to attack the Dao of Extinction again? Haha, could it be that he really didn't lie, that he isn't an enemy of ours, but intends to make the entire Creation World directly better?]
Slightly shaking His head, this kind of thing was too unbelievable to say. Chanawiya would rather believe that the Primordial Candle Dragon was trying to devour the essence of the Great Dao of the various pantheons, preparing for His own Harmonious Dao, which is why He was testing the heavens.
But no one had ever said that Su Zhou didn't think so.
After all, the two didn't conflict.
"Finally, you've used the Armaments of Harmony?"
At this moment, Su Zhou's dragon scales and muscles were trembling slightly, which could be described as 'heart-stopping'.
The moment the projection of the Book of All Heavens Guiding the World appeared in Helan Di's hand, he stopped all action and stared at the seemingly ordinary classic with a black cover.
That was the entity of the Dao of Termination, proving the truth that all things return to death.
This time, Shao Shuangyue and the others would succeed if they could rescue the people. If they were intercepted, Su Zhou had long prepared a means to help. If it was just that, it would be unremarkable.
On the contrary, the appearance of the Harmonious Dao expert Helan Di, and the Armaments of Harmony that He used, were the real surprise and harvest.
"Compared to the correctness of Chaos, Perfection, and Reincarnation, which I have already witnessed, it is still the Equilibrium of the Dao of Equilibrium, and the Termination of the Dao of Extinction, which I have never personally experienced, that can make me understand the mysteries of the truth."
Harmonious Dao, Harmonious Dao, how can one achieve Harmonious Dao without seeing the truth?
What Su Zhou wanted was not just to sit in a well and look at the sky, only achieving Harmonious Dao in a small world, a universe—what he wanted was to leave his Dao fruit in the entire sealed multi-universe!
But all of this would have to wait until he withstood this strike.
"You ask me why I've come?"
Raising His head to look at the terrifying aura that was vaguely locking onto Him from the black scripture, the young man curled His lips: "Good question!"
The Dragon of Bearing the Dao that He had transformed into flicked His long tail, and then straightened His entire body.
His body bent slightly, and in an instant, the entire Dragon Body of Bearing the Dao transformed into a great bow!
Bow of Bearing the Dao!
Buzz—blue-purple flames burned, and endless divine light, like birds returning to their nests, gathered from all directions, condensing into a bowstring.
The longbow opened itself, and endless Dao runes, mixed with the world barrier of personal space, condensed into a long arrow that seemed to distort the reality of the universe!
Using the dragon body as the bow, and the divine will as the string, Su Zhou transformed Himself into a divine weapon, and used His own Dao as an arrow.
"I am naturally here for innovation, for all beings, for all the wishes of all beings that are worth satisfying, for all the grudges of all beings that are worth clearing away!"
Along with this loud declaration, all the life, souls, bloodlines, and even the spiritual Qi of the Dragon Body of Bearing the Dao, were poured into the arrow: "Guide of Termination Helan Di, try my one strike, Arrow of Heavenly Evolution!"
Then, it was shot out.
Boom!
With a bang, the long arrow flew, piercing through the space-time of two worlds, tearing apart the void of the starry sea, and disappearing in an instant.
Any Creator Machine God, when seeing this arrow, would feel fear in their hearts, because it was an arrow that was bound to hit and destroy, unless their understanding of the Great Dao was better than Su Zhou's, so that they wouldn't be evolved and worn away by this arrow, becoming useless.
[Nonsense! All beings in our Creation World live and work in peace and contentment, where do these resentful wishes come from!]
To this, the Guide of Termination Helan Di's expression didn't change. He flipped the scriptures in His hand and shouted: [Your Dao is incomplete, so you should show your flaws and enter extinction, and end without illness.]
Immediately, as the 'Book of All Heavens Guiding the World' turned its pages, one could see ancient runes of the Great Dao transforming into ripples of black Qi, converging into an incomparably condensed long line in the vacuum. It was like the traces of knives and swords, the scars of axes and halberds. Wherever it passed, the vacuum was destroyed, the sub-space was silent, and all the spells, divine powers, and the Great Dao tended towards silence.
Originally, because of the battle between Su Zhou and Helan Di, countless divine lights and divine patterns were intertwined in the surrounding space-time. But now, with this wisp of black line sweeping across, all the remaining patterns were shattered, turning into meteors, falling like rain.
However, there was a star that went against the trend and crashed towards that incomparably condensed Great Dao divine pattern!
Clang!!!!
A roar that was much louder than all the previous shocks combined, exploded in the space-time of two worlds. This was the Dao sound formed by the collision of the Great Dao, and it was impossible to hear even a trace of it without becoming a Creator.
The light that surpassed a supernova suddenly lit up the originally dark Dyson sphere star field, illuminating the remains of the Third Prison floating in the void, making it transparent inside and out.
Even those gods and powerhouses who were theoretically imprisoned in the stagnant space-time were awakened by this strike, trembling blankly.
For a time, everyone present, except for Xing Ying, who didn't faint for some unknown reason, lost consciousness.
But even Xing Ying was bombed by this giant roar containing endless truths, and was so dizzy that she couldn't seriously observe the outside world through sharing Su Zhou's perspective.
But even so, as the true Dragon of Bearing the Dao, she still vaguely heard Su Zhou's laughter.
"So that's it, so that's it! All things and all beings have a time of termination, and all things and all matters also have an end to their termination!"
"Termination is to annotate all corruption, and also to pave the soil for a better future—the Book of All Heavens Guiding the World is a 'Book of Guidance' that records all the mistakes made by all beings, even gods, and also records their self-destructive factors!"
"It's not guiding them to destruction… the essence of this Armaments of Harmony is to guide all beings to the 'inevitable termination', and then to that 'better' future!"
The Dragon Girl of Bearing the Dao could hear such voices.
She could hear that although Su Zhou was obviously seriously injured, as if His entire body was constantly decaying and dying, entering termination, He was still smiling, smiling happily and sincerely.
She heard Su Zhou, who was smiling like this, say His conclusion seriously.
"Guide of Termination Helan Di."
That young man, the Primordial Candle Dragon, was almost certain: "You are very innovative!"
[What innovation?!]
In contrast, at the other end of space-time, Helan Di, who realized that He had not annihilated the Primordial Candle Dragon with one blow and sent Him into 'immortal rebirth', was also extremely astonished—this was a strike from a Harmonious Dao expert carrying Armaments of Harmony, which was bound to hit weaknesses and lead people to destruction. Even an immortal body that could be called perfect, when faced with this incomparably powerful Harmonious Dao force that could even tamper with the reality of the universe, would have to die at least once before it could completely remove its influence.
Ordinary immortals and gods, even if they were hit by this strike and were lucky enough to be resurrected, would still be entangled by the Book of All Heavens Guiding the World after their resurrection, and would continue to suffer calamities, and would eventually be destroyed by them!
But Su Zhou was different.
He had tasted enough of calamities, and could even make different self-corrections and resistances against all kinds of enemies and great calamities.
The power of the Book of All Heavens Guiding the World was indeed incredible. The moment the young man encountered it, he noticed countless self-destructive factors contained in His body—not to mention the hidden dangers of the Great Dao of many great existences being in His body, just the fact that the Dao of Innovation had not yet been self-consistent was enough to make Him suffer a Harmonious Dao backlash and self-destruct.
But…
What if it wasn't perfect?
"That's enough—where in this world are all the problems solved?"
The longbow had been broken, and the bowstring was broken. The Bow of Heavenly Evolution, transformed from the Dragon of Bearing the Dao, was already in tatters, and the exposed spine of the dragon body could be seen.
But even this tragic dragon's eyes were still so bright, without any sign of decadence.
Even, as the blue-purple flames burned, many of the wounds on the dragon's body were slowly regenerating, ignoring the Armaments of Harmony forces that were hindering the recovery.
Su Zhou used His own body, life, soul, and even the Great Dao, to comprehend the correctness of 'Termination'.
Yes, yes—termination is an annotation to all corruption, and also the soil for a better future.
Termination is the truth. All things, all eras, and even the universe, the Great Dao, and even the multi-universe itself, must have a day of termination, whether it is because of their own decline, or the destruction of other powerhouses.
Acknowledge termination, embrace death, and then, with death as the beginning, start the journey again.
Just as some people's spirit and will are unremarkable when they are alive, but grow and expand after they die, far more than when they were alive.
This was an undoubtedly correct Dao.
But, to fight against the inevitable termination, is a 'correct' answer really needed?
The answer was obviously no.
Su Zhou operated His own spiritual power to restore His injuries. He smiled and sighed: "Empires will inevitably end, federations will inevitably dissolve, families will inevitably decline, and aristocratic families are destined to split—there will never be lasting prosperity, and there will never be immortality. Even immortal immortals and great existences will be sealed, silenced, and worn away from immortality, truly dying, or temporarily 'being terminated', leaving the correct battlefield of the outside world."
"As long as there are beings with different ideas gathered together, there is nothing that is eternal, just like the rise and fall of people's hearts."
"But, no matter what form it takes, whether it is a country, an alliance, a giant enterprise, a gestalt, the union of life will not change… even if the problem is not solved at all, there will always be contradictions between humans, even in a harmonious society, there will be other ways to become inwardly involved, compete, and generate hatred and strife."
——But, so what?
The imprint of the Great Dao Tree flickered behind Su Zhou, helping Him to regenerate His body and get rid of the influence of the Armaments of Harmony.
——Even if the mistakes are not corrected, even if the lessons are not learned, even if humans cannot learn from history and understand the reasons for their failure from the failures of others.
Everything is still continuing.
If you make a mistake, correct it a little next time. If you can't finish it, leave it to the next time.
If it's not self-consistent, then just freely prove it. Anyway, if someone points out the mistake, just add a patch. If one time is not enough, then do it again and again.
"Termination… can also be innovation!"
It could be seen that, with the blessing of the Great Divine Wood Dao, Su Zhou's body, which had been destroyed by the Armaments of Harmony, was almost completely regenerated.
The Dragon Body of Bearing the Dao, which was enough to encircle the planet, was even more ferocious and tough than before, but it could be seen that at the inverse scale of the giant dragon's heart, there was a wisp of gray-black divine will lingering, causing the wound there to constantly self-destruct and damage, making it impossible to heal.
That was precisely the most pure 'divine will' that originated from the Armaments of Harmony, from the collective condensation of the gods of the Dao of Extinction!
Staring at this scene, the Guide of Termination Helan Di, who was holding the Armaments of Harmony, frowned.
If one strike failed, He would of course want to launch a second strike.
But, just as Su Zhou actually didn't have any special reason to be an enemy of the Ten Heavenly Pantheon of the Creation World, He actually didn't have any reason to push the Primordial Candle Dragon, a powerhouse who was almost Harmonious Dao and couldn't be completely killed in this universe, to the real enemy.
What's more, Helan Di also knew very well that even if He launched a second, third, fourth, or even more Harmonious Dao strikes, it would be meaningless.
Su Zhou could take one strike, proving that if He wanted to run, it was more than enough—He couldn't kill the other party at all.
So, closing the Book of All Heavens Guiding the World, the Guide of Termination sighed: [Primordial Candle Dragon… you are indeed a powerhouse who is already close to Harmonious Dao. If it weren't for my main body coming, no Harmonious Dao powerhouse would have the confidence to suppress you.]
[But, Candle Dragon, are you really going to do this?]
He lowered His head and looked at Su Zhou, who was raising His head: [Those you are protecting and rescuing are remnants of the will of the universe—those visitors from another world in the Pioneer Space, one by one, are all stowaways who colluded with the will of the universe and told It many secret messages.]
[If it weren't for these explorers, how would the will of the universe have known about the time when the Frozen Void thawed? And how would It have a channel to quickly recover and affect the future of our universe?]
Speaking to this point, Helan Di's tone became stern: [It is the actions of these people that are about to plunge the beings of my Creation World into a sea of fire and disaster! Thousands of worlds are about to collide, we have no choice but to accelerate the plan!]
However, the Guide of Termination's tone quickly softened: [Of course, we also know that all of this is not their fault, but the plan of the Pioneer Space behind them—and it is also related to the group of cowards in the Dark Abyss Dao, so we are only imprisoning them, not allowing them to return to their old nests, as a punishment.]
[Primordial Candle Dragon, I see that you are also a holy being who walks the grand and righteous path, why do you act perversely and help the will of the universe, such a source of disaster?]
After proving His strength, the Dao of Extinction was finally willing to reason.
As soon as He started reasoning, Su Zhou became energetic. After waiting for Helan Di to finish speaking, he immediately shook His head and replied, "Who said I was helping the will of the universe?"
"In fact, I just came over from the Dao of Equilibrium and beat up both them and the will of the universe—at least I reasoned with them well."
"And."
Saying this, Su Zhou raised His head, His gaze seemed to be able to see beyond the void: "I think you're right—it's definitely wrong for those people in the Dark Abyss Dao to want to run now. The problems of the Creation World can't be solved by running away. When facing problems, you should face them head-on, bravely take responsibility, and walk on the edge of the abyss, facing the darkness directly."
"But you don't have to worry, they said they want to leave, did they ask the Vortex of Strife for permission?"
[What?]
Helan Di was slightly stunned. He also raised His head and looked at the void.
At the same time, endless light lit up outside the universe.
Hundreds of millions of space-time nodes shone together, and countless steel mists lingered, turning into a magnificent giant array covering most of the outside of the Creation World.
And a four-armed giant god was slowly awakening from His slumber, with scarlet-gold light burning in His eyes.
[The Dao of Dark Abyss… is not allowed to leave.]
The voice of [Armaments of Harmony - Cessation of War] shook the void, stirring up endless space-time turbulence: [And you, the Dao of Creation, stop attacking. With the Cataclysm of the End approaching, we, 'The Vortex of Strife', do not allow you to continue to strife!]
The turmoil in the void was calmed down a little.
Inside the Creation World, Su Zhou and Helan Di, who were staring at this scene, were silent for a while. The former was observing the manifestation of the Great Dao of the various pantheons, and the latter was pondering.
Until Su Zhou's voice slowly sounded: "Some time ago, I also contacted the Dao of Dark Abyss and tried the power of the Bell of Manifesting the World… They didn't deviate from the correct path, but they had different ideas."
"They can do better, they just need a little help—so, I told the Vortex of Strife about their plan—it's reasonable, isn't it?"
——So it was you?!
As soon as this was said, the Guide of Termination was confused.
Okay—this Primordial Candle Dragon is an enemy of the Dao of Equilibrium, fought a battle with the will of the universe, and also opposed our Dao of Creation and Dao of Extinction. Looking at the previous situation of the Dao of Dark Abyss, it seems that the Primordial Candle Dragon and the Bell of Manifesting the World also collided.
So, this Primordial Candle Dragon inadvertently offended all the forces and factions of the entire Creation World a little?
Oh, except for the Four Forbidden Zones.
But it seems that it's only a matter of time.
[Then what exactly is your purpose?]
Helan Di asked in confusion: [Could it be that you really just want to stir up the situation in the universe for fun?]
[Also, who exactly are you, why do you know so much about the secrets of our Creation World? You also seem to know so much about the Great Dao we hold?]
Saying this, the Guide of Termination, whose tone had already softened, became more and more stern. His eyes once again bloomed with divine light, and the Armaments of Harmony phantom in His hand also exuded endless gray-black aura of the end: [Primordial Candle Dragon… who exactly are you?! Stop using 'making it better' as an excuse, tell me your real purpose!]
[If you don't, even if I slow down the plan, I will definitely descend in my true form and suppress you myself!]
"Hey…"
Noticing that Helan Di had become serious again, Su Zhou couldn't help but flick His dragon tail, casually patted the surrounding vacuum like Yala used to do.
He answered somewhat lazily and helplessly: "I really don't understand you Ten Heavenly Pantheons… it's just that I understand the Great Existence too well."
"And… I don't know if it's intentional or unintentional, it seems that there is an existence that is replicating the scene of the former Correct Path War in their original universe."
Closing His eyes, many messages flashed through the young man's mind.
——The first one to escape the Great Seal, [Chaos].
——The first one to escape the Creation World, [Dao of Dark Abyss].
——On the Heavenly God Scale, the great beings allied with Yala.
——In the Creation World, many of the Ten Heavenly Pantheon allied with the Dao of Dark Abyss.
If there were no corresponding hints in this, Su Zhou himself wouldn't believe it!
Opening His eyes, Su Zhou raised His head and said calmly: "Guide of Termination Helan Di—and other Harmonious Dao powerhouses who may be listening, do you really have to make me taunt you before you can understand?"
Saying this, His voice suddenly amplified, like thunder: "You Creation World, Ten Heavenly Pantheon, the plans of all of you present are all trash!"
"Fighting each other, playing against each other? Have you really heard the voices of all beings? In order to fight against the will of the universe? Have you thought about why the will of the universe has to be an enemy of you?"
"Self-righteously thinking that you are correct, even the Great Existence doesn't dare to say that now, and you vassal pantheons dare to be so arrogant, you are simply blinded by lard!"
"I'm here this time to help you move towards an ending where no one will be hurt, an ending that is better than the normal future!"
After saying this, the heavens and earth were silent.
Even outside the void, the three forces of the Vortex of Strife, the Dao of Dark Abyss, and the Dao of Creation, which seemed to be still confronting each other, paused slightly.
Then, they lowered their eyes and looked at the inside of the Land of Termination and the World of Strife.
They were really, from the beginning, on the sidelines, watching Su Zhou and the Guide of Termination's confrontation and battle.
And then, they were directly AOE'd like this!