Chapter 729 Annihilation Emissary (6000, Happy New Year, Everyone!)

However, Lothar, the designated target, was undergoing a transformation!

Within the flagship stationed at the rear of the left flank, a scarlet glow suddenly erupted, but it wasn't accompanied by any foul or horrifying aura. Instead, it radiated pure, vibrant vitality, surging like the Yangtze River.

Conquest Emissary Lothar excelled at commanding military formations. His most frequent tactics involved energy plundering, coordinated military maneuvers, and a divine ability to harmonize with vast armies without succumbing to death.

But his true cultivation method was the extreme of the 'Path of Flesh and Blood.'

In the parlance of Earth's pantheon, it was the 'Path of Life.'

The hallmark of this lineage was the transformation of one's life essence. The energy one could control would also be elevated due to the leap in life's essence!

Much like a certain lich ant-man who, by uniting numerous elements within himself, advanced into an elemental lich. The various elemental forces he wielded also evolved, gaining the dual powers of creation and destruction, enabling him to grant life to elements or disintegrate all things into elemental components.

One could see streams of scarlet threads erupting from the flagship, transforming into a dense web. Wherever this web passed, light dimmed, and temperature plummeted, approaching absolute zero. This created a shield where time almost seemed to stand still.

Within this shield, boundless vitality surged. Life energy, almost tangible, formed a nearly indestructible helical structure.

Those mycelia might appear fragile and minute, but in reality, they were super-substances that even a main gun blast from a cosmic warship might not be able to damage in the slightest.

With frozen spacetime as the outer shield and supreme resilience as the inner skeleton—and this was not the end!

At this moment, Lothar, a powerful being within the extremely unique lifeform known as the Darkstar Undergrowth, began to 'reproduce offspring' on a massive scale!

*Poof!* As the mycelia spread, a sky full of white mist drifted away. But it wasn't mist; it was a special kind of spore.

These spores could drift in cosmic new space. If they landed on a life-bearing planet, they could rapidly grow, transforming into a new Darkstar Undergrowth, then becoming a vessel for Lothar's revival.

Although their lifespan was short, lasting only ten days before severing their connection with Lothar and becoming primitive mycelial lifeforms, this duration was more than sufficient.

Furthermore, these spores themselves were the foundation of a vast formation. Each spore possessed a basic rune, and these spores, blanketing hundreds of thousands, almost a million square kilometers, implied a terrifying number of runes, numbering in the quadrillions.

Essentially, this was an advanced form of the Darkstar Undergrowth clan's 'Flesh and Blood Formation.' By utilizing the special active life energy within each spore, it could absorb all surrounding energy, slowly grinding and extracting the original life force, like a millstone!

Once, all life on a life-bearing planet, even the planet's consciousness, was ground down and refined by Lothar using this method, transforming it into a portion of his power.

After expending his original spiritual energy to create this Flesh and Blood Formation, Lothar still couldn't evade the World Tree Divine Spear flying towards him. The scarlet mycelial network roared as it surged forward, and the Flesh and Blood Millstone Formation followed, attempting to grind away the divine spear's might.

Then, half of his body was blasted into a bloody mist. He was pierced by the divine spear, and the sky-covering mycelial network was ignited. Overloading by absorbing Su Zhou's spiritual energy only resulted in its own destruction.

Quite tragic.

The frozen spacetime was almost instantly shattered under the impact of the divine spear carrying immense energy. This wasn't to say the defense wasn't strong enough, but that Lothar had completely misjudged the intensity of Su Zhou's power.

The resilient body was forcefully breached by Ineasium. The power of the three Honored Ones' blessings was unmatched. While tearing apart Lothar's body, it even invaded in reverse, seeking to transform the Void Conquest Emissary into fragile crystal, stripping away all his divine qualities.

After all, Lothar had yet to recover his former Honored One-level strength, so being crushed by Su Zhou was only natural.

But the truly unique thing was that Lothar was smiling.

This Void Honored One, clearly severely injured and on the verge of death, with the brand of light from the World Tree Spear still etched upon him, was laughing at this very moment.

[Su Zhou, your true body is shattered, your saber-shaped divine weapon is exhausted, and your soul-body avatar is entangled by my military formation!]

Although he was about to die, he wasn't the slightest bit afraid—few members of the Void Cult feared death—the Conquest Emissary even spoke with relish: [And now, I have entangled your second divine weapon.]

[How many trump cards do you have left, how much power? I may die, but you will be defeated by us!]

"Damn, is it really necessary to state a war of attrition so righteously?"

When Su Zhou heard Lothar's solemn and indignant soul transmission, even he, with his unwavering will, was momentarily stunned. He understood, of course, that this meant reinforcements from the Void Cult were about to arrive.

But as expected… that momentum, that shameless attitude for victory…

Even members of the Void Cult had shining qualities from which he could learn!

Not only that, but Su Zhou was also fully aware that although Lothar was severely injured and had specifically mentioned reinforcements were coming, the Conquest Emissary was far from truly dead.

Not to mention that his entire vanguard army was the cornerstone of his rebirth, those spores dancing in the sky were all potential hazards.

Only because the millstone formation made of spores had been destroyed by the divine spear's bombardment did the spores scatter across the sky. Without eliminating these spores, at most one could only say Lothar was seriously injured, not eliminated at all.

Besides that.

Su Zhou looked up. He surveyed the Void Vanguard Army, which, though much sparser than at the beginning, was still a formidable force.

—These warships were also a problem, needing to be resolved together.

Confessing here, Su Zhou currently lacked a super wide-area-of-effect divine ability.

Even the Warp Divine Blade he had used before, which could directly cleave through the vanguard army formation with a single strike, or even split a planet open, was only a type of great divine ability, not a true AoE that could eliminate all but opponents of his level who were getting in the way.

The karmic fire of the Extinction Blade could certainly ignite all evildoers, but it was only useful if he could strike them with it, not to mention the Limitless Divine Lightning, Great Celestial Cycle Azure Seed, and other divine abilities. This was one of Su Zhou's shortcomings.

However, this wasn't a big problem.

Because the strong could always compensate for their weaknesses in other ways.

At this moment, facing the Void Army before him, still full of fighting spirit, Su Zhou drew the Extinction Blade once again.

Just as Lothar had said, the Extinction Blade was very weary from bearing the burden of the Warp Divine Blade. Although it wasn't to say it couldn't be used, forcing it would not only cause great consumption, but would also be detrimental to the upcoming battle against the many reinforcements of the Void Cult.

Therefore, he wasn't using this blade to kill others.

But to cut himself!

A flash of golden-red light, and a spray of cyan-purple blood erupted. A long gash appeared on Su Zhou's left arm, and countless blood droplets splashed out from the wound, transforming into cyan-purple spherical dots in the vacuum of space.

With Su Zhou's current physique, only divine weapons of the Heavenly Venerable Emperor tier could break through his defenses, and his blood was naturally not ordinary blood. It was the liquid spiritual quality carrier flowing in his body, inhabited by a vast life-force spiritual engine.

This blood was the blood of a Heavenly Venerable, in other words, the most precious treasure of heaven and earth in this universe.

It was often said that Immortals and Gods were immortal and indestructible, that a single drop of their blood could revive the dead and flesh out bones, and that a single hair could grow into a towering tree.

This was not a falsehood, but a fact. Even elements themselves could give birth to spirits, these kinds of life, because of their rich spiritual engine. How could the blood of a Heavenly Venerable, containing such a powerful carrier of spiritual engine, not give birth to new life after leaving the main body?

Some Heavenly Venerables even cultivated this peculiarity to the extreme, to the point where plucking a hair could divide into thousands, and one person could become an army.

Just like what Su Zhou was doing now.

Su Zhou struck with his blade, blood splattering across the sky, but his expression was calm, with a slight smile.

Celestial-Human Cycle, Dragon-Serpent Vigor, True Spirit Undying… the three great divine abilities that Yala's Undying Blood bestowed upon Su Zhou were now rarely used intentionally.

Dragon-Serpent Vigor naturally need not be said, it had already transformed into the foundation of his flesh and blood structure, becoming a rather important basic component of the Candle Dragon body. True Spirit Undying even more so sheltered Su Zhou's soul with numerous vows, rendering many rules, laws, and soul attacks ineffective.

Only the Celestial-Human Cycle, since Su Zhou achieved the Overlord realm, he could crush his enemies relying solely on his foundation, so naturally there was no need to use this kind of accelerated recovery divine ability.

And after becoming a Land Immortal, Immortals and Gods themselves were in harmony with heaven and earth, able to control all kinds of free-floating energy, so there was even less need for it.

However, there were never useless divine abilities, only users who didn't know how to use them.

At this moment, Su Zhou bestowed the divine ability of Celestial-Human Cycle upon all of his blood.

Then, in the space of a breath, endless spiritual energy was attracted by these blood droplets, filling them and then being converted and devoured.

The massive amount of spiritual energy brought by the Celestial-Human Cycle rendered these minute things indescribable. They swelled and proliferated in a bizarre way—

[Wh, what is happening?!]

The severely injured Lothar had intended to hold out until reinforcements arrived, or wait to be killed by Su Zhou and delay until his rebirth and revival—he believed his army was enough to stop Su Zhou, who had now lost two weapons and his true body soul-body.

But just as he was catching his breath, the Conquest Emissary was stunned to find that his army was disintegrating.

Or rather, defecting!

One could see cyan-purple streams of light crisscrossing in the vacuum of space. They were swelling and proliferating, like a mass of mad flesh and blood, pouncing on the warships of the Void Cult one by one, and then disappearing into the armor of the warships.

After a few breaths, the entire warship began to shake violently, mutating. Distorted faces and eyes appeared on the original metal or crystal armor, and roots and tentacles, like plants or gelatinous bodies, began to sprout from the gaps in the armor, shaking violently.

Some warships even grew a bizarre, half-mechanical, half-flesh face on top!

Then, these warships came to life, launching a fierce attack on other warships of the Void Cult!

Su Zhou called this divine ability 'Whether You Want to or Not, You're Candle Dragon Now!', of course, in classical terms it would probably be 'Celestial Demon Possession.'

But this was actually not accurate, because Celestial Demon Possession only changed the thinking algorithm of a mind, while Su Zhou was simply giving warships a distorted life, and then using this distorted, mad creation to attack other Void forces, making them kill each other and self-destruct.

If the Void Cult vanguard army was still at its peak in the beginning, this trick would be useless. Not to mention Lothar could definitely counteract it, Su Zhou could only bestow divine abilities on a limited amount of blood, and the warships he could corrode were also limited, and would be easily disintegrated and destroyed by themselves.

But now, with the commander severely injured and the fleet scattered, they naturally couldn't stop Su Zhou's forced Candle Dragonization technique.

The Candle Dragonized warships that had been forcibly converted shifted their bows, and no matter how the Void soldiers inside cursed, they began to gather energy and then fire.

"Boom!"

With an explosion, within the main gun's range, several warships were directly penetrated by friendly fire because they dodged, and their shields didn't rise in time, shattering them into pieces!

Because of the Candle Dragon instinct's fine-tuning in this regard, the warship's main gun's power had also become stronger!

Of course, Lothar had also encountered strange dark energy races such as 'Energetic Symbiotic Parasites' that could corrode warships in the past, but that kind of corrosion was nothing more than remotely controlling warships through signals, rather than making the warships come alive, turning them into living beings, and then launching attacks.

He even saw a mothership-class warship being corroded. It was a supply ship and not armed, but that didn't mean it couldn't attack—the Candle Dragon mothership directly tore off a part of its own hull, and then, under the attachment of proliferating flesh and blood, mutated into a fist.

The Conquest Emissary stared blankly at this scene. He saw the mothership swinging its iron fist in the vacuum, beating his former comrades fiercely. It even crushed a cruiser with one hand, and then stuffed it into its material replenishment port, crunching and eating it.

After eating, the mothership became even larger, and even let out a roar like a dragon's cry.

…He felt like he was dreaming, or rather, in an ultimate nightmare, his mind was blank.

Even though Su Zhou had already broken through the vanguard army's defenses, was bringing the Seven-Headed Dragon Heartlight Body, and was heading towards his area by leaps and bounds through devouring the wreckage of surrounding warships to recover about a quarter of his true body, it was still the same.

But after all, he was also a Void Conquest Emissary with a firm will, a strong man who had undergone rigorous training. When encountering strange things, he would at most be shocked for a while, but he wouldn't really lose his mind because of it.

What's more, the time had come.

Just as the Void Vanguard Army was almost completely annihilated and plunged into chaos, and Su Zhou approached Lothar by leaps and bounds, preparing to suppress the Conquest Emissary.

Accompanied by extreme spacetime distortion, two wormholes suddenly appeared around the Dandelion Galaxy, erupting with waves of Void energy sufficient to destroy all life!

"Hmm?"

Frowning, these Void fluctuations naturally had no effect on Su Zhou, but there wasn't only him in the Dandelion Galaxy. On the second planet, there was also a primitive intelligent civilization!

Reaching out his hand, Su Zhou pressed down with his palm, as if smoothing out a wrinkled piece of silk clothing, blocking the Void fluctuations spreading towards the entire galaxy.

At the same time, an extremely powerful electromagnetic signal flashed from one of the wormholes. In an instant, endless cyan-blue light waves surged, transforming into a whip of light pregnant with the intention of emptiness and annihilation, lashing towards Su Zhou.

Wherever this whip passed, all things were destroyed. The warships of the Void Cult disintegrated, fragments of asteroids shattered into dust, and even light itself was wailing. Their frequencies were violently fluctuating and changing, as if plunging into complete chaos.

Even those Candle Dragonized warships couldn't resist this annihilating whip of light. A portion of the Candle Dragon warships disintegrated on the spot, turning into nothingness.

No defense was meaningful. Under the electromagnetic wavelength whip's offensive that disintegrated the fundamental forces, whether it was a spiritual power field, a shield, or a material barrier, all were broken through with a single blow, as if they didn't exist.

This light seemed to have targeted Su Zhou's moment of smoothing out the Void fluctuations, intending to catch him off guard.

[It's the Annihilation Emissary, Starry Phantom Soul!]

Honored One Senostia, who had been on guard all along, recognized the roots of this old opponent at a glance. Honored One Panjing's expression was extremely solemn: [To think, this Cosmic Phantom Soul would arrive so quickly!]

It seemed long, but in reality, from the time Su Zhou warped to the Dandelion Galaxy until he completely suppressed Lothar and the Void Vanguard Army, it hadn't exceeded an hour from beginning to end.

For a war on a cosmic scale, the Void Cult's response was swift, and Annihilation Emissary Phantom Soul's attack was even more fierce, seizing the timing accurately.

However, Su Zhou didn't care about this.

He even scoffed, as if disdainful.

"Is that all you've got?"

With such ridicule, Su Zhou immediately dodged when facing this unstoppable whip, appearing thousands of kilometers away, dodging the attack that seemed inevitable, but was actually just a simple whip strike.

Not dodge or evade?

Don't be ridiculous!

Phantom Soul's attack directly extracted electromagnetism, one of the fundamental forces. Aside from truly perfected Ineasium, any material or shield was just clay and paper. Only a fool would block it.

Su Zhou's Ineasium was only at the beginner level. Blocking it wouldn't grant him any achievements to brush, so naturally he would dodge if he could.

Anyway, Su Zhou's own humanoid body had a small target, making it easy to dodge this silly 'Sun Extinguishing Whip' that could only hit a planet, or even just a star.

However, just as Su Zhou dodged the whip of light, short-range warping thousands of kilometers away, a pale fist suddenly rose from the darkness, striking like a falling star, heading straight for Su Zhou's back!

This fist seemed to have accumulated infinite power with just a lift of the hand. When the fist was thrown, it was like a stellar explosion, carrying an unstoppable, vast momentum. It was difficult to imagine how such power could have been lurking in the darkness before, and how it had judged Su Zhou's possible landing point, and then launched a direct sneak attack.

[It's the King of Empty Prisons!]

Honored One Guangyao's expression changed drastically at this moment. The light brand's spectrum changed rapidly, obviously recognizing the Void Annihilation Emissary who was also infamous in His era.

Although Su Zhou had expected that a second Void Cult powerhouse would attack him, he really hadn't thought that the opponent could predict his short-distance warp, and then launch a sneak attack.

In a hurry, he could only immediately turn around to defend, initially transforming his arm into Ineasium, blocking it in front of him.

However, the King of Empty Prisons' power was too vast. The power of this blow was probably equivalent to the fall of a one hundred quintillion ton small planet. It didn't seem like something a mere humanoid fist could deliver. Su Zhou, who was hit, immediately twisted his body into a strange angle. He flew out, his entire person turning into a shooting star, falling towards the seventh planet of the Dandelion Galaxy.

Boom!!!!

Su Zhou collided with the planet's surface, immediately causing a super-giant earthquake that affected the entire planet. The surface of this large rocky iron-core planet, with a mass of about 4.5 times that of Earth, was originally solidified rock shell.

But now, because of Su Zhou's fall and force dissipation, a series of continuously spreading cracks covered two-thirds of the planet's surface. The huge amount of rock dust that soared into the sky even shot out of the planet's satellite orbit, spreading uncontrollably towards the distant cosmic vacuum!

But this was not the end.

"Bang!"

With a dull landing sound, a huge giant with four arms covered in an exoskeleton landed on the seventh planet, which had already begun to undergo violent geological movements.

His expression was unexpectedly calm, or rather, he didn't have any emotional fluctuations at all. Whether it was the sneak attack just now or the waiting now, it was as if nothing in the world could make him feel excited.

At the same time, on the horizon of the seventh planet, a dazzling light lit up, but what rose wasn't the sun, but the 'head' of a super-giant light stream.

This light stream was so vast and long, and so iridescent, it was as if a painter used the starry sky as a canvas, and then used all the colors he could use to paint an extremely bright curve, outlining a vast soul.

He surrounded the orbit of the seventh planet, bringing the planet far more light than the sun. The high-frequency electromagnetic waves even turned all the areas covered by his brilliance into microwave ovens. Half of the surface of the seventh planet was sparking because of the strong electromagnetism, the solid underground ice layer melted, and the metal veins released radiation, even burning fiercely.

They were either calm, or indifferent, or rather, using a Void perspective that ordinary 'life' couldn't understand at all, gazing at the 'life and meaning' filled existence not far away.

Just like all the Twilight Kindred, they also had their own doubts and bewilderment, and 'why'.

But, unlike Yadian—their inquiry was annihilation and termination itself.

——Annihilation Emissary · Starry Phantom Soul.

——Annihilation Emissary · King of Empty Prisons.

The smoke and dust dissipated. On the seventh planet, in the center of a huge crater, a black-haired youth with a solemn expression, who was rubbing the arm that had just been regenerated, was walking out from it.

His clothes and armor had been broken just now. Although he had temporarily condensed a new layer, it was a fact that he had been severely injured.

"Very strong…"

Breathing out a sigh, Su Zhou solemnly gazed at the two Void Cult powerhouses in front of him, two Cosmic Honored Ones who had also stood at the peak of Ω in the past, and had now retrieved a considerable portion of their power.

Then, he laughed.

Faced with extreme error, no one would want to argue and explain.

Therefore, in the next instant, the battle began.

Then, it ended again in five minutes.

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