Chapter 941 Deep Gloom (6000)

Yuan Cangmeng descended upon Huntian.

The moment He arrived, He floated in mid-air, without His own physical body, only a wisp of His essence soul.

To prevent Zhuzhou from truly encountering danger, Su Zhou did not投将many Zhuzhou true forms responding to his call into Huntian.

He simply used himself as a server, injecting the divided souls and projections of the Zhuzhou into different spacetime nodes.

This was a desperate measure. After all, with the obstruction of the Five Supreme Sages and Huntian itself, even Su Zhou found it difficult to interfere with Huntian. The bandwidth was limited, and the latency was very high... In that case, it was better to throw in a divided soul to operate independently.

In other words, the many descending Zhuzhou were essentially the heroic spirits descending upon the Huntian Realm through Su Zhou's power. Only when the heroic spirits returned could they obtain their memories from Huntian.

But even so, it was faster than dealing with the Five Supreme Sages' shielding!

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In any case, with this method, Su Zhou could also rely on the identities of the many Zhuzhou to conceal a trace of his power and delve deep into Huntian.

Even with the suppression of the Five Supreme Sages, his power could not spread on a large scale within Huntian, but what the youth needed was not simple conquest, occupation, or erosion.

He needed the truth.

——Huntian Realm·Fifth Epoch·Asuoluo Island Cluster——

[This universe… is it a Great Aether Universe?]

After descending upon the Asuoluo Island Cluster, the first thing Yuan Cangmeng felt was that the structure of the entire universe was different from ordinary worlds.

As a member of the Divine Tree lineage who often created small worlds on a whim, He was unusually sensitive in this regard: [Such a large airspace, completely supported by a pure ascending force lifting up numerous islands… Where does this power come from? It seems to originate from the earth?]

[But isn't the earth supposed to provide gravity? Why does this land release an ascending force sufficient to support numerous spacetime domains?]

Yuan Cangming looked beneath the airspace, at the bottom of the densely packed, layered island clusters.

At the bottom of the endless abyss, which could not be seen at all, was a hazy grayish-blue.

That was the 'Cloud Realm' of the Huntian Realm.

The structure of the Huntian Realm was actually quite easy to understand.

The bottom layer was the 'Forbidden Land', which no one had ever visited or even thought about. Perhaps the Dao Integration experts knew a little, but not much. As for ordinary people, they had no idea there was such a thing as land. They spent their entire lives growing old on a certain floating island, never even traveling to other islands.

And above the Forbidden Land was the extremely thick 'Cloud Realm', where even time was distorted.

The Cloud Realm of Huntian was not a real cloud, but a highly distorted area where spacetime itself might turn into a terrifying twisted storm. When it roared by, it would plunder hundreds of years of life from those who entered the Cloud Realm, and spatial chaos was even more common.

If one did not have the ability to be a spacetime reference point, that is, the power of Dao Integration, then once inside, it would probably take millions of years to get out. Even if one did, they might appear at the other end of the Huntian Realm.

But even for Dao Integration experts, if their strength was not strong enough, entering it would not only be dangerous but also extremely embarrassing.

And above the Cloud Realm was the normal airspace – an endless airspace, with each airspace separated by chaotic time flows and spacetime barriers. In the Fifth Epoch, this was the 'Weak Water of Time' and the 'Samadhi Divine Wind'. Only by breaking through the terrible karmic obstructions formed by these winds and rains could one travel from one airspace to another.

In the void of the multiverse, this difficulty was probably even greater than traveling from one universe to another during a spacetime storm… After all, no matter what, the world itself would release light, turning into stars to guide travelers to determine their coordinates. But within the Maha Karmic Obstructions, it was like a ship in a storm, drifting with the waves was the situation most of the time.

[Even I can't get through it…]

Staring at the terrifying aura churning in the Cloud Realm, Yuan Cangmeng couldn't help but shake his leaves – although He was now in spiritual form, it still felt as if He was being blown by a cold wind: [At least the island airspace inside this Huntian is large enough, one island cluster is worth tens of millions of trillions times my Tiansui Realm… Huh?]

The Divine Tree Zhuzhou, who had begun to observe the Asuoluo Island Cluster, let out a soft hum: [This island cluster is so strange, how can it possess both 'prosperity' and 'decay' at the same time?]

The area where Yuan Cangmeng descended was located in the outermost 'Void Zone'. There were basically no islands suitable for survival, no civilization, and even valuable minerals were rare. It was the safest area that Su Zhou had roughly sensed and chosen for the many Zhuzhou.

However, the Divine Tree Zhuzhou saw that there was an extremely vast and brilliant light shining in the distance, bringing with it an incredible aura of decay, emptiness, and destruction.

And the twisted spacetime at the edge of the Maha Karmic Obstructions, which was struck by this light, released an unbelievably vast amount of pure vitality!

At first, relying on this simple perception, Yuan Cangmeng thought that the armies of two airspaces were engaged in a great battle, one controlling the power of decay and the other controlling the power of life… This was not an uncommon situation.

But upon closer observation, He was shocked to realize that things were not so simple.

Releasing that vast power of annihilation was not a necromantic disaster, demonic spawn, or ghostly nightmare, but a vast, dazzling 'Guardian Fleet' like a constellation of stars!

And being swept and struck by the power of annihilation, releasing pure, unadulterated vitality, was a 'twisted spacetime' that He could not understand at all, only felt a blur before His eyes, and could not look directly at!

[What's going on?]

It was difficult for Yuan Cangmeng to understand. He felt puzzled and couldn't help but turn to the system for help: [Group Leader, isn't this a bit strange?]

"Not strange."

'Su Zhou's' voice came from the depths of Yuan Cangmeng's soul, explaining to him: "The power of annihilation, nirvana, overturning the heavens, and breaking through the barriers just now should be a high-ranking monk entering nirvana and passing away, triggering the supreme power of extinction to surge back into the mortal world. In simple terms, you can understand it as a conceptual antimatter jet that can wash away all tangible and intangible matter and concepts."

"And the latter is probably some kind of living cosmic spacetime? This is even more common. For example, after you create the Tiansui Realm, if you integrate the Divine Tree body into the origin of the universe, then merge your own Divine Soul with the entire Tiansui Realm, and control the entire world freely, you can become a living world will."

"The latter cannot be defeated by conventional methods unless you destroy the entire world with absolute power that surpasses it. But the power of extinction and nirvana used by the former is precisely a power that can also cause the world will to return to extinction."

After explaining in detail, 'Su Zhou's' tone also carried a hint of doubt: "The problem is a bit strange – I saw that those Guardian Buddha Soldiers can actually control the direction of the power of extinction? In theory, the nirvana light produced by a high-ranking monk entering nirvana should be centered on the one who entered nirvana, spreading indiscriminately in all directions. That is the final self-destruction method, used to perish together with an invincible enemy, but they seem to have turned it into a weapon?"

Nirvana requires pure enlightenment and silence, an empty mind, but with a single thought holding onto the self-shattering Divine Soul. Only in this way can nirvana light be triggered to surge back. But in this way, the one entering nirvana cannot control the direction of the nirvana light, just like after a nuclear bomb explodes, the nuclear bomb cannot control the direction of its radiation.

Controlling where the nuclear bomb hits and controlling the nuclear reaction at will and constraining the direction of its released energy are not the same level of difficulty… The former can be achieved by a commander-level expert, while the latter requires at least a Celestial Immortal, or at least Su Zhou's foundation as a peak Earth Immortal.

Similarly, summoning nirvana light and controlling nirvana light are not the same difficulty. The former can be done by any Immortal Celestial in the corresponding system, while the latter requires at least a Heavenly Emperor, or even a Dao Integration expert to control this pure power of the Great Dao that delves into the conceptual realm.

After thinking for a while, 'Su Zhou' was a little uncertain: "Unless."

"There is a strong enough obsession… allowing the one entering nirvana to maintain a trace of clarity even at the end, thereby restraining the flow of nirvana light."

But this conflicted – how could one enter nirvana with obsession?

For a time, 'Su Zhou' could not deduce the answer: "Little Yuan, pay attention to collecting intelligence yourself."

[Yes!]

Yuan Cangmeng nodded his tree trunk.

This 'Su Zhou' was not the real Su Zhou, but the 'system old grandpa' that Su Zhou provided for all the Zhuzhou. In essence, it was a powerless incarnation of Su Zhou.

The real Primordial Zhuzhou was still in the outer universe void, confronting the Five Supreme Sages and guarding against the possible arrival of the torrent supporting the Five Supreme Sages.

The Five Supreme Sages themselves were equivalent to a torrent, and this torrent, in terms of status, was not inferior to any proper torrent.

To be honest, any one of the Five Supreme Sages, if thrown into the multiverse to travel, had the potential to achieve a torrent. It could even be said that they were able to become a torrent by using the power of Huntian in a combined form precisely because they had the potential to become a complete torrent.

Su Zhou also couldn't figure out why five torrent reserves – or even five torrents, according to the timeline – would give up their possibility of becoming a torrent and huddle in the Huntian Realm to play as a combined entity.

But this also proved one point in reverse, and that was that the Five Supreme Sages were at least telling the truth in one aspect.

That was, they had indeed made great sacrifices for their 'goal'.

After all, becoming a torrent was the prelude to transcendence. Although the prelude to proving transcendence might require an infinitely long wait, the torrent itself could wait infinitely.

The Five Supreme Sages giving up becoming a torrent was equivalent to giving up the absolute possibility of proving transcendence. Even Su Zhou couldn't think of a grand plan that could be larger than the future of five torrents.

It should be known that the World of Creation had made such a big deal, a group of Dao Integration experts fighting to the death for two or three epochs, almost causing the universe's will to go berserk and destroying their own civilization, and only produced two or three possibilities of becoming a torrent.

And the Five Supreme Sages gave up five, and there was nothing in the entire multiverse that could compare to it.

Unless it was…

——a true [Transcendent].

Faced with such a large scheme and the undercurrents surging in the dark, even Su Zhou could not be too careless. He decided to have his incarnation accompany all the Zhuzhou to collect information at every spacetime point and judge possible situations.

At this moment, Yuan Cangmeng was speeding towards the front line of the battlefield.

He did not have the power of a True Form Creator-level expert now, but his realm was still there. Moreover, the group friend [Lezi Mo] often encountered situations where his Dharma body was destroyed and his soul was incomplete. With his kind sharing, basically all the Zhuzhou in the group had learned how to rapidly flee, conceal themselves, and collect intelligence when only a wisp of their remnant thought was left.

This method became less useful as one grew stronger, but if Yuan Cangmeng wanted to become stronger, he could just find an uninhabited floating island, take root, and absorb the spacetime changes, and he could easily recover to his full strength – not to mention that his own ancestor was helping him cheat as a system, and his heroic spirit might become even stronger than his main body. After returning to his main body, his main body would directly advance to the peak and perfection of the Heavenly Venerate Creator on the spot.

The Guardian Buddha Soldier fleet was extremely large, and its formation blotted out the sky and covered the sun. From a distance, it looked like a dense nebula, stretching across an area of hundreds of light-years. Its mass itself caused serious curvature and distortion of spacetime, sealing off this spacetime region.

In fact, for those islands located behind the Buddha Soldier fleet, the tail flames of the Guardian Buddha Soldier fleet were their sun and stars, and the mass of the Buddha Soldier fleet also caused these many islands to rotate around the fleet, forming star-system-level support ecosystems.

However, Yuan Cangmeng keenly noticed an extremely abnormal thing.

That was, there were actually not many Creator Heavenly Venerates in the entire Guardian Buddha Soldier fleet…

This "not many" meant that there were only eight, less than the fingers on two hands. To be more specific, the Buddha Soldiers in this airspace were divided into eight divisions, and only the supreme commander of each division was a high-ranking Creator, not even at the peak.

This shocked Yuan Cangmeng greatly. He himself was a high-ranking Creator, still a little short of the peak. He thought that even if he recovered his full strength after entering Huntian this time, he could only say that he would have to hide his roots and walk carefully, and he wouldn't dare to breathe loudly.

But what happened? The supreme commander of an army that looked like a top-level force was only about the same strength as himself?

He tentatively collected some information about the Guardian Buddha Soldiers, and there was no obstruction. He could easily collect any information he wanted from the fleet.

[I can be the supreme commander of the Guardian Army? Their fleet size is almost endless, so there should be a Heavenly Emperor-level expert as the supreme commander…]

It was difficult for Yuan Cangmeng to understand, but that was the fact. The supreme commander of a division fleet was a Creator Heavenly Venerate, while the commanders and instructors of the subordinate fleets were stronger, ordinary Creators, and normally Immortal Celestials.

The power of the mortal realm in the entire Fifth Epoch of Huntian was unimaginably low – there was not a single Dao Integration expert stationed on the entire Asuoluo Islands, which was the size of an observable universe.

Even though Huntian was already a prototype of the multiverse, containing infinite spacetime, this situation was very strange… especially since Yuan Cangmeng had just seen his ancestor kill the experts of the Tianyou Underworld Sea Dao and the Mose Extinction Dao with a single finger.

There were not a few of those Dao Integration experts. It wouldn't be strange to leave an incarnation if they didn't station their true bodies, right?

[Maybe this is the special thing about Huntian, not that there are no experts, but that Dao Integration experts don't interfere with the world?]

Pressing down on his doubts, the Divine Tree Zhuzhou muttered: [Let me see what their enemies are like…]

In the direction of the twisted space, it was constantly being suppressed by the Buddha Soldiers' overwhelming strikes. There were currently no signs of spreading and expanding, but in contrast, the Buddha Soldiers were still unable to completely eliminate it. Those twisted spacetime phenomena that seemed to be overflowing from another airspace were still emitting a pure life aura.

Even the Divine Tree might be slightly inferior in purity.

Yuan Cangmeng was not surprised. Life itself could not be pure, and having self-will meant impurities. He was just not clear about the other party's name.

[Wufang Heavenly Demon? A strange name. The Heavenly Demons in my memory are like the group friend Lezi Mo. They mainly look for trouble, argue, and corrupt people's Dao hearts, and generally don't directly engage in destructive actions…]

Frowning in thought, Yuan Cangmeng noticed that the strength of the Wufang Heavenly Demon was just so-so – about the middle to high level of the Creator? And it had to be a very large group of twisted spacetime to have the volume of a Creator-level expert. Scattered small pieces were only commendable for their immortality.

But when swept by the nirvana light released by the Buddha Soldiers, they melted like ice cubes soaked in boiling water.

"Little Yuan, see how the Guardian Buddha Soldiers are releasing the nirvana light."

'Su Zhou' said. As a purely auxiliary incarnation, in order to maximize the avoidance of interference from the Five Supreme Sages, his old grandpa system needed to rely on other Zhuzhou to collect information.

But that was enough. Even if the Zhuzhou lineage was not very strong, they at least had a spirit willing to cause trouble and a heart hoping to make the world a better place. In this way, the information collected was much more than possessing an ordinary passerby.

[Yes, I will go and observe]

Responding, Yuan Cangmeng approached the Guardian Buddha Soldier fleet.

With his strength, unless he directly provoked the supreme commanders of the eight divisions, he could come and go freely in other places – before long, he found a fleet area where nirvana light was shining, and then quickly infiltrated it to observe how the Guardian Buddha Soldiers were using the power of mere Immortal Celestials to control the great supernatural power of nirvana light, which required a Heavenly Emperor to use at a minimum.

Although Yuan Cangmeng had not fully learned it, and the Divine Tree did not have eyes, he had still mastered some of the basics of the Primordial Zhuzhou's 'Infinite Eye', which was completely sufficient for use now.

Then, he saw it.

A scene of a soul filled with obsession, belief, and dreams; and the soul of an Immortal Celestial, burning together.

A detached soul, triggering the immortal light of extinction, should have been a joyous nirvana, a sublimation of mutual achievement.

But the owner of the soul chose to interrupt, forcibly destroying his own fruitional position and disrupting his own process of nirvana.

Immediately, the pure aura of extinction surged back into the material universe, as if spacetime had opened a large hole leading to a world completely filled with colorless light. A surging colorless torrent overflowed from it, spreading in all directions.

——It should have been like this.

At the moment when the Immortal Celestial soul was completely burned away, this immortal soul, which should have completely lost its self-will, temporarily regained all its will because of that detached soul. And at the moment when it was about to return to nothingness, with great courage, great belief, and great determination, it gathered all the nirvana light and turned it into a cannon shot at the Wufang Heavenly Demon.

Yuan Cangmeng was stunned.

The first soul had already passed away, only the remaining pure obsession was restrained, serving as a primer.

And the second soul burned itself completely voluntarily, and then condensed the vast energy transformed from its self-disintegration into a blast to attack the enemy.

This cannon shot was the destruction of two immortal god-level pure souls.

That was not a soul, not the condensation of the spirituality representing the mind of a wise life, not the place where will resided, nor the tide of the Sea of Souls and the Light of Souls.

Not the starting point of dreams, nor the knot of beliefs; not the outbreak of ambition, nor the source of desire.

That was just ammunition.

[How could it be…]

The Divine Tree Zhuzhou murmured, watching the other party turn himself into nothingness. For a moment, he didn't understand: [Why would they go so far…]

It was just a 'Creator-level' demon, and there was no need for an Immortal Celestial to turn himself into a cannonball and throw himself out… Not to mention that the detached soul was essentially a seed with a promising future, at least a god-level fruitional position.

Why was it consumed like firewood? Without any pity, without any hesitation.

Resolutely as if everything was not precious…

Yuan Cangmeng urged his soul to operate, but it was still difficult to understand what was going on. In his own world, in order to cultivate a strong person who could be expected to become an Immortal Celestial, he had poured in great effort. Wanting to cultivate an individual like 'Chi' was also a major topic for the Divine Tree Creator.

He couldn't understand why something so rare and worthy of his love and attention would be wasted so unappreciated.

But he didn't have time to think.

At this moment, in the Shiva-class core Guardian warship,

A light lit up.

Yuan Cangmeng stared blankly as this light burned, broke out, and grew stronger – and then passed over himself and surged towards the endless Wufang Heavenly Demons behind him.

He didn't have time to say anything.

Then another light lit up.

One bright, dazzling, even blinding light after another flew past the Divine Tree Zhuzhou's side, top, and feet.

That was the front line of the Guardian Buddha Soldiers against the Five Heavenly Demons, an attack and counterattack launched with thousands of inhabited islands as the basic protection target, with a diameter of thousands of light-years as the unit.

At the edge of spacetime, at the end of the airspace, even the endless darkness was illuminated by this overly bright light, as if it were daytime.

The light was falling like rain, illuminating the entire Asuoluo Island Cluster.

It was a torrential rain, only the raindrops were souls, glowing.

——The darkness was illuminated, just like those worlds that had once been illuminated by the Zhuzhou.

However, Yuan Cangmeng trembled silently, and just by watching this rain, his soul was shaking.

He feared this light.

He feared the courage, determination, and 'sacrifice' that he had once admired.

He began to fear these things, more than he feared all the deep gloom.

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