Chapter 731 Is This an Update?! (6200)

Su Zhou actually didn't have any ulterior motives towards Lothar. The only reason he looked at Him was because the World Tree Spear was still stuck in this guy's body.

Let's just say they weren't close.

"Spear, come!"

The youth raised his hand and called out softly. The massive Spear of Light immediately shattered on Lothar's mycelial body, which had been pierced through its vital points. At the same time, a subtle stream of light pierced through the universe and returned to Su Zhou's hand.

The silver-green divine wood spear was in perfect condition. Strengthened by the power of the World Tree and the extraordinary divine abilities of the three Cenosystrian Sovereigns, it had actually benefited greatly after severely injuring Lothar by absorbing a large amount of spiritual power, and its material had subtly improved.

If it were to turn into a person now, it would definitely be radiant and glowing, having gained at least three pounds. It would look like it had devoured someone else's meal.

This was like using someone else's credit card to fatten oneself!

Su Zhou wasn't surprised. After all, the World Tree Spear was essentially a divine wood, so what was so strange about divine wood absorbing spiritual energy to grow?

What truly interested him now were the two severely injured Annihilation Envoys.

He casually tossed the remaining remains of the King of Emptiness into his personal space, then planted the World Tree Spear into the still highly active fragments to suppress their vitality.

After doing all this, Su Zhou flew up, opened a rift in his personal space, and suppressed the Starry Psyche Phantom, which was still trying to break free from the influence of the Five Elements Extinction Divine Light.

In a sense, the Starry Psyche Phantom wasn't a conventional intelligent life form.

It originated from the glittering zone, a powerful spiritual entity born from the collision of several pulsars, and was essentially the embodiment of the Dao of Spirit. Its soul was so vast that it could project a shadow that blotted out the sky in the subspace, and its power was enough to make stars tremble and dim.

In its prime, this Annihilation Envoy could cause a fleet, or even a living planet, to lose contact simply by appearing. When they were rediscovered, there would be no living creatures left, not even viruses.

However, this wasn't a kind of self-awareness—it was merely a pure intelligent reaction.

Yes, a pure intelligent reaction.

The Starry Psyche Phantom had a soul and intelligence, but no self-awareness.

Perhaps many people believed that self-awareness was an extremely necessary thing, but in reality, many lives didn't have it. Not to mention microorganisms that were too simple to even recognize themselves, even very complex intelligent life forms might not be able to have the thought, "The life in the mirror is me" when looking in the mirror.

Imagine, imagine a life that could provide feedback on all external activities, no matter how small. From others intending to touch it to killing it, it could perform a feedback action based on the relevant algorithms.

This feedback could even support it in acting like a gentle and kind old man comforting a crying child, but it had no idea that it was comforting this child, and it didn't know what "itself" was at all—it was just using the feedback of the algorithm to make its body move and do what it should do.

Like some advanced AIs, they could clearly understand that the computer in the mirror was a super-intelligent AI server, and even analyze the details of the computer, but they wouldn't think about whether that computer was themselves—because that was a meaningless bug, just like how the human brain would beautify its image in memory and tamper with and deceive the recorded information. This kind of "self" was also a kind of deception.

As a pure spiritual entity, the Starry Psyche Phantom naturally wouldn't deceive. It possessed superb intelligence and could roam freely in the star sea. It was the creature that could provide feedback on all actions, a monster that was simple to the extreme, yet complex to the extreme.

They were the ultimate truth machines, survival machines, and wouldn't stop for any reason. They would do anything to better their own survival.

Pursuing the most extreme "existence," so they had to make the brilliant world "dim"—the existence of intelligent life itself was a drain on the entire universe, in other words, a mistake.

Therefore, the radiant Starry Psyche Phantom naturally made a "feedback."

It, as the most certain and correct thing, had to eliminate all life in the universe.

Not for any reason, just for its own existence.

"A pure monster."

When Su Zhou drew his saber and cut the Starry Psyche Phantom into seven or eight pieces in the starry sky, like cutting sausage, and then stuffed them into the four continents of his personal space to suppress them, he understood from the other party's thinking this idea that was so simple that even refuting it seemed like a waste of energy.

If the King of Emptiness became an Annihilation Envoy and an alternative Twilight Dependent, perhaps there was a bit of helplessness and being scammed about it.

Then the Starry Psyche Phantom was a purely egoistic, and also selfless, monster.

The appearance of the Starry Psyche Phantom made Su Zhou realize a fact—that monsters didn't even need a self, but could still make heinous choices for the sake of simply existing.

To be honest, the youth felt quite strange about this, and it was somewhat counterintuitive.

Before this, he had always been thinking about why the "monster" existence had fought with the Great Existences in the past.

After all, to be fair, hatred and selfishness weren't special keywords, but rather the norm in the multiverse.

To put it bluntly, the monsters were all existences above the multiverse level. Even if they were all rotten to the core, they should only roam in their own worlds, but if that were the case, the other Great Existences probably wouldn't know about it.

But, what if the monsters themselves didn't have common sense in the general civilized sense?

After all, violating all laws and common sense was the very definition of a monster.

Su Zhou frowned slightly. He felt that his past speculations about monsters seemed to be too "anthropomorphic"—because he had communicated too much with Great Existences like Yala, the Divine Tree, and the Lonely Master, to the point that he felt that monsters were just the opposite of them.

In reality... the essence of monsters was likely more indescribable than anyone imagined, and might not even possess any intelligence or self.

After suppressing the Starry Psyche Phantom, just like the King of Emptiness, Su Zhou didn't "kill" them right away.

Because killing them so casually might trigger immortality, allowing them to escape and preventing Su Zhou from getting the information he wanted.

He focused on imprisoning the King of Emptiness and suppressing the Starry Psyche Phantom with the world, causing the five continents of his personal space to be hung with spiritual rainbows of different colors—after doing all this, Su Zhou had the energy to pay attention to the remaining vanguard army of the Void Church on the field.

Thus, a catastrophe descended upon the members of the Void Church.

Wherever the black-haired youth's figure passed, there were explosions and destruction, annihilation and termination.

The already diminished and hard-won assembled troops once again collapsed.

Su Zhou's existence itself was a massive spiritual energy lock. His interference with spiritual energy could prevent most spaceships from making spiritual energy leaps—in other words, if one's strength wasn't at the very top of the universe, then no matter what one's strength was, they would lose all chances of escape when facing Su Zhou.

Controlling his mind-light body and reforming his true body, Su Zhou recovered roughly 100% of his strength in just ten minutes.

And at this moment, he also came to the side of the Annihilation Envoy Lothar, and easily suppressed and sealed this Void Church Conquest Envoy who had intelligence and could communicate.

Then, came the questioning.

"Where is the subsequent Void Army?"

The thunderous giant hand that Su Zhou created was exchanged for a gale, it was so huge that even the mountain-like mycelial aggregate was held in the palm.

Su Zhou calmly stared at the Conquest Envoy in his palm: "What are their specific routes of action, and what is the situation of their divided forces?"

"Don't not answer. If you don't answer, I'll eat your soul later and go find it myself."

——This guy, could it be that he still wants to continue the surprise attack?!

Just hearing Su Zhou's question, Lothar had already guessed the other party's purpose, and immediately, this Conquest Envoy couldn't help but be shocked.

Su Zhou not only wanted to stop the vanguard army he was in... he asked these questions because he naturally thought that he could be a match for the entire fighting power of the Void Church!

[Too arrogant!]

Lothar originally wanted to say this, but because Su Zhou was really strong, really single-handedly wiped out Him and the entire vanguard army, and also took down two Annihilation Envoys, he stopped himself from answering.

As for answering...

[Kill me.]

He didn't hesitate. When he heard the threat of death, Lothar no longer trembled because he was facing Su Zhou. This Conquest Envoy was filled with joy: [Eat my soul too, let me completely return to the Void!]

"...I'm just annoyed by you bunch of Void Church people, all of you are lunatics..."

Although he had expected it, Su Zhou couldn't help but sigh: "But you're right, whether you expect it or not, it's time for you to return to the Void."

Dandelion Galaxy, Dandelion Star.

The dandelions who had witnessed the entire cosmic war didn't understand what those colorful spiritual patterns and the shining brilliance in the sky represented, but even the most ignorant dandelion knew that the suffering and redemption on their planet all originated from those lights above the stars.

Was it a god, or a demon? Was it the power of creation, or a harbinger of destruction?

All of this, the dandelions couldn't be sure, couldn't know—but, after a scorching hot blade of light flashed across the starry sky, for some reason, all the dandelions in their hearts breathed a sigh of relief, as if the threat that had always existed was destroyed, and their race was once again a little safer.

However, it wasn't the time to be happy either.

Their homeland was in ruins. For the dandelions of today, this was arguably the most difficult moment.

However, at this moment.

While a few dandelions still couldn't help but occasionally look up and gaze at the brilliance in the sky, they saw a few fragments of meteors, sparkling with a strange aura and filled with rich vitality, falling once again towards this ravaged land.

This undoubtedly triggered the fragile nerves of all the dandelions. They watched the fragment of the meteor fall to the ground with extreme tension, praying that it wasn't the second black fog.

It really wasn't.

When the bravest dandelion passed through the billowing smoke and heat and saw the true form of the 'meteor', he couldn't help but be shocked by the scene before him.

Because, what was presented before him was a semi-transparent cyan-purple crystal blade fragment, which seemed to be a part of a true body long saber. On it, there were a few runes flashing, and it seemed that a powerful cultivation method was being passed down on it.

The brilliance of the Torch Dragon, shone in the corner of the universe.

Perhaps, in the distant future, another brand new civilization will be born on this planet.

At this moment, it wasn't just the dandelions.

The three Cenosystrian elders also felt extremely shocked.

The King of Emptiness and the Starry Psyche Phantom, two Annihilation Envoys in their prime, were terrifyingly powerful beings who could safely escape under the siege of multiple Cenosystrian elders and golden fleets. One had the ability of foresight that was almost impossible to kill, and the other had an unimaginably large reserve of spiritual power.

Even if the former used the same foresight ability to influence it, it wouldn't hinder the King of Emptiness's powerful space-based ability. If anything went wrong, He would escape.

The latter even required a special seal to suppress.

Who knew that Su Zhou would use his own foresight ability, the Heavenly God Scale, and the divine power of his personal space to forcibly take down these two Sovereigns head-on.

[...This is a huge encouragement to all civilizations fighting against the Void Church!]

Lord Purity muttered to himself: [Two Annihilation Envoys have destroyed countless civilizations, but many civilizations have also survived their attacks—Su Zhou, you have almost single-handedly annihilated all four Annihilation Envoys.]

[Such prestige, such a happy event, is enough to greatly boost the morale of the entire anti-Void alliance!]

Lord Radiance laughed heartily: [Hahahaha, that might be a bit difficult. The Void Hierarch's strength shouldn't be underestimated. It's better to be cautious.]

It wasn't a boast.

After all, if it weren't for these Cenosystrian Sovereigns, he wouldn't have been able to defeat the Shadow of Entropy so quickly, obtain his wicked soul, and jump to the Dandelion Galaxy at the fastest speed to intercept the vanguard army.

One link after another, if one link couldn't keep up, the Void Church's army would advance hundreds or thousands of light-years further, destroying more civilizations.

As for subsequently defeating the two Annihilation Envoys, it was also because these Sovereigns ignored their own consumption and helped him maintain his full strength. Otherwise, if they fought, there would be no way to completely and heavily injure the enemy at the first moment, and there would be more variables in the Void.

At this moment, in front of Su Zhou, was Lothar's mycelial body, which had gradually turned into ashes and was being burned into nothingness in the universe by the black and white karmic fire.

A pure black wicked soul floated before Su Zhou's eyes.

Reaching out and tightly gripping the huge wicked soul in the palm of his thunderous giant hand, Su Zhou didn't eat it immediately, but closed his eyes to sense the memory information stored within.

Then, he opened his eyes and showed a puzzled expression.

"Strange."

Su Zhou murmured to himself: "The Void Hierarch isn't with the main universe army, nor is he with the outer universe void demons?"

"He disappeared mysteriously, even the Conquest Envoys and Annihilation Envoys within the Void Church don't know?"

For a moment, Su Zhou thought that the Void Hierarch was just hiding his tracks and wanted to launch a surprise attack on the Twilight Starfield from another route.

But for some reason, he felt very wrong.

——No, it's not that simple.

The youth thought so, his brows furrowed.

What the Void Hierarch wanted to do was definitely more than just what was on the surface... the Great Rift of the Twilight Starfield was just a preliminary preparation for him to draw the power of the outer void to invade the main universe, and not an absolute goal. What this guy wanted to do was definitely more incredible than he imagined.

Moreover, the power of the Void Church wasn't limited to just this universe!

After widening his horizons, Su Zhou immediately felt that the possibilities of the Void Hierarch's current actions were as numerous as the stars. If he only focused on the current sealed universe, there was no way to figure out his movements.

"We must observe the movements of the Twilight Dependents and their clans in many universes."

Muttering to himself, Su Zhou made up his mind and smiled: "Fortunately, I left many secret pawns in the worlds before, and now I can use them."

Then, the youth calmed down and cast his mind into his personal space, onto the imprisoned King of Emptiness and Starry Psyche Phantom.

"Of course." His eyes became deep: "Before that, it's better to turn the enemy's power into my own and upgrade on the spot."

……

All Heavens and Myriad Realms Torch Dragon Mutual Aid Group

The Free and Unfettered Heavenly Devil Torch Dragon, whose ID was [I'm Not a Free and Unfettered Heavenly Devil!], was currently listlessly flipping through the chat logs in the group, analyzing the psychological qualities, life backgrounds, personality traits, ways of dealing with people, and behavior patterns of each group member.

Although there was a bored element in it, this was indeed the basic skill of a Heavenly Devil.

Since a hundred days ago, when he was beaten to pieces by the Descended Immortal God, and only his Heavenly Devil True Soul escaped, returning to the outer-realm demon domain to recuperate, he was invited into this strange chat group. The Heavenly Devil Torch Dragon sensed the divinity and strangeness behind this group.

First of all, all the members in this group were Torch Dragons, and each Torch Dragon's bloodline was different, but all of them were resisting some kind of hegemony, or intending to transform the entire society.

Even the most peaceful Divine Wood Torch Dragon was now building a barren world, leading many primitive lives to prosperity and strength.

Secondly, this chat group spanned the entire multiverse.

The world where the Heavenly Devil Torch Dragon was located was quite vast, with many strong Immortal Gods. There were countless strong people who could enter and exit the outer universe void. He knew the multiverse, or rather, the concept of the local All Heavens and Myriad Worlds was not strange.

And through various detailed judgments, the Heavenly Devil Torch Dragon could be sure that all the worlds where the Torch Dragons were located were different, and among them, there were quite a few large worlds that were different from the Immortal God Great World, and the environment of the outer universe void was also very different.

This alone was enough to make the Heavenly Devil Torch Dragon, who was originally keen on causing trouble, settle down and obediently be a Heavenly Devil who guided newcomers.

And what was even more terrifying was the third point.

That was the group owner who had always been diving and not speaking, and didn't know if he was secretly peeping at the chat logs in the group.

That person's ID was directly 'Torch Dragon', and was speculated by all group members to be the 'Primordial Torch Dragon'!

"To be able to pull people across the entire multiverse, how strong does this strength have to be? Even the Heavenly Emperor can't do it, right?"

Thinking so, the Heavenly Devil Torch Dragon couldn't help but shake his head. His body was still recondensing at the moment, and he really had nothing to do except for watering the group on weekdays: "Moreover, the truly terrifying thing is the content of the group files..."

Group file.

It was the 'inheritance package' publicly displayed to all group members in the All Heavens Torch Dragon Mutual Aid Group.

Although it was difficult to understand why, there were indeed many powerful inheritances publicly given to all Torch Dragons for free in the shared files in the group—from the Great Free and Unfettered Heavenly Devil Secret Method 'Devouring Evil Demon Lord', the Divine Wood Orthodox Method 'Warship Divine Wood', to the Pseudo-Dao Great Divine Power 'Formless Dharmakaya', the Five Virtues Divine Light Divine Power Transformation 'Great Five Elements Destruction Divine Light Cannon'... and so on. Many secret techniques that were considered extremely important in the Thirty-Three Heavenly Courts were simply wholesaled and distributed for free here!

And this group file also encouraged everyone to share their own unique divine power secret methods!

The more unique secret methods that all Torch Dragons uploaded, the more free and public shared divine powers would be in the future, according to what the group file said!

Now, after two months of trial and error, the Heavenly Devil Torch Dragon had put his mind at ease and began to try using the many divine powers in the group file.

Anyway, it wouldn't hurt to use them for nothing. He was already miserable, and he was secretly attacked by others, so he would just be more miserable.

But don't even mention it! After practicing the Devouring Evil Demon Lord, although he felt that his personality had become subtly biased towards being a chuunibyou, he did indeed have less hostility, and he had more of the true meaning of 'free and unfettered', and his recovery was indeed faster!

As for the other Torch Dragons, such as the Divine Wood Torch Dragon who had already started practicing, it was said that he could now release Torch Dragon Leaf spaceships to conduct remote bombing strikes on his behalf!

In short, no matter who created this group, and no matter what his thoughts were, every Torch Dragon benefited from him.

"Is there really anyone in this world who is willing to help others for free?"

Thinking so, the Heavenly Devil Torch Dragon couldn't help but shake his head with emotion: "Or rather, is it just that we can't find what he is asking for, or that we don't care?"

"It's possible that both are true."

At this moment, following his thoughts, he opened the group file again, browsed through it casually, and then planned to close it, leave the group, and go back to continue practicing.

However, after glancing at it, the Heavenly Devil Torch Dragon's eyes suddenly froze.

[This... what is this?]

He stared blankly at the new divine powers in the public inheritance that were showing a 'uploading' progress bar, and the three new divine powers named 'Invariable Matter', 'Future Foresight', and 'Heavenly Spirit Transformation Pivot'...

His eyes widened, and then he immediately took a screenshot, made a turn, and directly sent it into the group!

[I'm Not a Free and Unfettered Heavenly Devil!]: [Picture picture picture, this is, is this an update?!]

[Eating Sleeping Beating the Emperor]: [?!]

[Trees Are Not Good at Sports, But Are Good at Hitting People]: [Grass]

[It's Peng Not Pigeon]: [Ah, this?]

[The Dragon That Can't Be Fed]: [Yay!]

[A Cold and Ruthless Group Watering Machine]: [Actually, it actually updated!]

It actually updated!

On New Year's Day, the VIP group exploded, terrifying jpg

However, perhaps this is also a kind of innovation?