Chapter 547 Wielding the Blade for All Living Beings (Two Chapters Combined, 14,000 Words)

Above the Celestial Heavens, golden light erupted.

The shadow of a nine-headed divine bird was originally curled up within a scarlet star, absorbing the surrounding spiritual and baleful energy, like a chick in an egg, peaceful and serene.

But at this moment, a great fire blazed, bursting from within the shell, instantly startling the half-asleep, half-awake Star Lord, who then cried out in anger.

Currently, it was burning with a translucent, light-golden flame all over its body. This flame was completely different from all mortal flames. It was nurtured from the prayers of all living beings, born in accordance with the thoughts of all things, and was the condensation of all the most beautiful wishes.

Its name was Merit.

But now, faced with the source that intended to harm the holder of Merit, this beautiful thing displayed a power comparable to a 'grudge'.

[What exactly is this?! Why, why is there such a huge reversal of the power of prayer?!]

The star-like shell shattered, and sword-like light bloomed from the cracks. The nine-headed divine bird hurriedly flapped its wings.

Using the nearly infinite spiritual light stream of the Celestial Heavens, the Star Lord finally extinguished the flames, but its feathers were scorched black, its whole body was disheveled, and its rest, which had lasted for hundreds of years, was interrupted, wasting all previous recuperation efforts.

Realizing this, Star Lord Tuo Luo howled in furious cries: [It's actually not the evil demonic seed of a Heavenly Devil?]

[This, this is… the light of Merit?!]

Even Nan Zhengkai heard the roar of the gods and demons from the shattered divine artifact, which originated from above the Celestial Heavens.

Therefore, the man blankly raised his head and looked in the direction of Su Zhou.

"You, what did you do?"

Nan Zhengkai muttered to himself in disbelief, his hand clenching the fragments of the Jiqui True Altar after it had been burned by the golden flames, his words filled with incredulity: "Why is your Merit able to backlash even gods and demons?! Even the power of prayer wielded by a Heavenly Devil couldn't possibly have this much!"

"And, and you're not a divine bird! Tuo Luo Star Lord's curse is something even the Vermillion Bird fears, so why are you unharmed?"

"Just what are you?!"

He exclaimed.

Because of this, Su Zhou captured that fear.

The pulsation of the power of prayer, far more obvious than 'attention', was captured by the divine power of 'Unification of All Thoughts'.

--Found you.

Opening his eyes, Su Zhou's eyes were now completely healed. His gaze flickered as he locked onto Nan Zhengkai's location beneath the earth's veins.

Through the power of prayer, he already knew the thoughts in Nan Zhengkai's mind.

However, he did not intend to respond.

The youth raised his blade.

Silence. Only silence was the greatest contempt. Although everyone said that Su Zhou was a contrarian, in reality, the youth could understand many things, many, many things.

The very act of questioning was because he agreed with a part of the other person's reasoning, which was why he had the desire to ask, correct, question, and argue.

It was precisely because he could agree with Yala, the Divine Tree, the Lord of Silence, and even the path of the Pioneers and Perfection.

Even Destiny… even Dusk, who he had not yet met, but who was hated by all great existences.

As long as he wasn't clear, didn't understand, then Su Zhou wouldn't easily deny it, and would go to communicate, to argue and fight with them.

--Because, the willingness to communicate was, in itself, a kind of acknowledgement.

--Therefore, he would be silent in the face of things he denied.

And then, destruction.

Monsters were silent. If it could communicate, it meant that it could perhaps be understood and persuaded, and would naturally no longer be unknown, no longer frightening.

And now, Su Zhou was Nan Zhengkai's monster.

But Nan Zhengkai's fear was only momentary.

He was, after all, the leader of the Zheng Yang Kingdom, a man who could have unified the world if not for Ming Zhengde.

Faced with the silent, powerful divine bird, Zhu Zhou, whose power's source was difficult to understand, the man immediately steeled his resolve after a brief moment of panic.

"No matter how terrifying an existence is, it's nothing more than a god or demon."

And he held the power and inheritance of a certain generation of Star Lord Zi Wei.

Thus, in the deepest depths of the earth, at the convergence of the earth veins along the coast of Nanze Province, Nan Zhengkai solemnly grasped the handle of the Azure Sky Zheng Yang Ruler with both hands. The blue-haired, red-eyed man's spiritual power surged throughout his body, pouring into the Dao weapon like a tide: "In the end, it's just a True Person."

"How can a star on the ground compare to a star in the sky?"

He roared in a low voice, and the divine weapon suddenly emitted endless light, then transformed into an incomparably huge Heng Mountain Giant Ruler that was attached to Nan Zhengkai's body.

--May I reside in the Azure Sky, transform into Zheng Yang, and illuminate the ten directions, bringing light to the human world.

Immediately afterwards, there was a rumbling sound.

--If the geomagnetism force that absorbed all things and moved all living beings originated from the power of the earth.

Then, the existence that held the most powerful 'Earth Power' in this world was not the 'land' itself.

It was the vast and blazing sun in the sky.

Even though the Tianyuan World was unbelievably vast, and in Su Zhou's eyes was almost comparable to a gas giant, its surface area and mass were still too insignificant compared to the real sun.

Back then, the newly promoted Star Lord Zi Wei, Nan Zhengyang, was not yet a hero who had risen from the chaos of war, but a small local official in a county town. He had always been fair and impartial in enforcing the law, and could fairly judge any suspenseful case or dispute. Therefore, he was called the Azure Sky Grand Master by countless local residents.

As time passed, even after a long period of time, the Star Lord Zi Wei still liked this title very much, so he used it in his proudest divine weapon, and placed it with his own name as a memorial.

Even… during the period when he had just advanced to become a Celestial God, he had specially traveled to the Guixu Burial Ground and intercepted a section of the light stream from the 'Guixu Sun River' and smelted it into his divine ruler, allowing this divine weapon that ruled the world to advance to become a Dao weapon.

At this moment, Su Zhou also sensed the commotion underground.

He immediately frowned, raised the long blade in his hand, and blue light patterns flickered on the black blade, overflowing with the light of thunder and fire.

In the next instant, lightning flashed and flames burst, and a fire dragon that stretched for dozens of kilometers crashed straight towards the earth veins where Nan Zhengkai was located.

That place was originally a basin, but during the previous battle between Su Zhou and Nan Zhengkai, it had risen into hills, and the hills were full of deep cracks.

However, accompanied by bursts of violent earth-shattering tremors, the hills, which were already full of cracks, immediately collapsed, and a huge hand, made of soil and rock, that was several hundred meters long, emerged from the depths, pressing down on the surrounding mountains.

Boom! Another giant hand broke through the earth and rose from the flat ground not far away, pressing down on the ground again.

Instantly, the mountains shattered, the plains were dented with palm prints, the entire Prison Sea Forbidden Zone was shaking, and a colossal earthen statue, more than a thousand meters tall, climbed out from the depths of the earth veins, as if climbing out from the abyss.

The fire dragon that Su Zhou slashed out with the Blade of Annihilation flew at a speed of more than two thousand kilometers per second, accompanied by a high temperature of more than 1.5 million degrees. The red background was edged with golden and white flames, comparable to a full-force strike from the youth himself. The shockwave and light pressure, enough to shatter mountains, hit the chest of this rock giant.

However, it was useless.

The moment this strike landed, it released a light effect comparable to a nuclear explosion, but the result was merely smoothing out the layer of soil and rock residue attached to the rock giant's body, revealing its silver-brown body, like a metal mountain.

Standing on the earth, the metal giant had an angry expression, with a hideous face. In its sunken eyes, there burned molten lava balls like the sun. Its standing posture was like a divine statue.

When it stood on the ground, a radiating area centered on it began to sink, forming a small, irregular basin.

Inside the basin, the soil and rocks began to melt, the trees burned fiercely, and the river water evaporated into long clouds. A hellish area had already formed, and a vast river of light rotated behind it, emitting divine light.

[Suppressing Yuan Shifting World Undying Body]

With the Azure Sky Zheng Yang Ruler as an assistant, and with his own incomparably powerful cultivation, Nan Zhengkai pushed the dharma body of the 'Heaven and Earth One Qi Suppressing Yuan Golden Chapter' to the highest realm. At this moment, he moved the dharma body of his Shifting World Undying Body, then raised his head and looked at Su Zhou, who was staying in mid-air.

The giant raised its hand, and a line of fire flew out from the palm, then turned into a vast Yang Flame light stream that affected tens of thousands of meters in mid-air, surging towards the youth.

That was a flame and impact that was even more powerful than a solar flare, carrying an incredible impact force and electromagnetic light, and had the power to cut off the heavens and the earth.

"So strong!"

At the instant the attack failed, Su Zhou determined that Nan Zhengkai had definitely used his trump card. He took a deep breath: "This is almost the power of the Heavenly Immortal Realm. No, it already is--apart from Zhuque Yan Chi Li, I didn't expect Nan Zhengkai to have reached this point!"

Staring at the ocean current rushing towards him, the youth was even more shocked: "Moreover, the form of this flame flow..."

"Isn't this an accretion disk?!"

Taking flight, Su Zhou did not intend to take this attack head-on. He directly gained altitude, dodging the sweeping of this vast flame stream at the fastest speed--but even so, it was still very difficult, because under the near-light-speed flame attack, only someone like Su Zhou, who held the Divine Eye of Light and Time and could see the scene a few seconds in the future, could dodge it.

Then, he raised his head and looked at the high heavens.

At this moment, Su Zhou recalled the sigh he had when he first saw the 'sun' of the Perfect World.

--Is this the sun? Why is it vertical?

At that time, he sighed like this, but even so, he didn't think too much about it. After all, the world was full of wonders, and no one had said that the sun had to be round--just like his personal space. If Su Zhou wanted, he could completely make the fire element sun and the blade spirit into a bow or a strawberry, which was a shape full of girlish hearts, let alone a mere long strip.

But now, he suddenly understood something.

That strange, vertical sun, that strange luminous structure...

"I see, that's indeed not a star."

Muttering in a low voice, Su Zhou suddenly understood: "That's an accretion disk--an accretion disk that emits light comparable to the sun because of its high-speed movement!"

"But, what kind of celestial body's accretion disk is it that it can be so huge?"

The youth didn't have time to think about this question.

Because the 'Shifting World Undying Body' driven by the fusion of Nan Zhengkai and the Azure Sky Zheng Yang Ruler had locked onto Su Zhou at this moment.

He unleashed his strongest strike.

The silver-brown metal giant was about 1,700 meters tall, and was still constantly expanding and growing larger. It was composed of countless solid rocks and divine iron of various colors, and each piece of divine iron had a large number of crystals formed by the condensation of earth vein energy as an auxiliary. Countless formation patterns were layered on top of each other, equivalent to a small-scale earth vein engine.

And the endless engines were connected to each other and resonated, and were connected to the earth veins beneath their feet, absorbing the energy of the earth veins to grow. In an instant, it could create a constantly growing, incredibly huge mountain giant.

"Zhu Zhou!"

The mountain giant raised its fist, and Nan Zhengkai roared furiously. Compared to the previous anger because of his own powerlessness, the man himself didn't actually know what he was angry about now, but this roar did stimulate the spiritual power in his body.

Countless earth vein engines roared, causing this Zheng Yang transformation to punch out, shaking the space and erupting with terrifying power enough to shake half of Nanze Province.

Divine might was like a prison, and the heavens and earth were overturned.

The Shifting World Undying Body punched out towards Su Zhou, whose expression was solemn as if facing a great enemy. The mountain giant's clenched right fist began to burn fiercely. The incomparably brilliant flames first incinerated Nan Zhengkai's own true body. The incredible energy instead backfired on him first.

All that could be seen was a flash of light that enveloped most of the sky condensing into the shape of a fist, bombarding like a tsunami. Wherever it passed, the atmosphere burned into a sea of fire, the seawater emitted white gas, and the province was filled with it.

This was a punch that moved mountains and overturned the sea, a punch that overturned the heavens and earth, a full-soul strike that represented the Guixu Sun River. Under this endless power of resonance between the Dao weapon and the weapon master, neither True People nor gods and demons could stop Nan Zhengkai at this moment.

What vengeful spirits, divine birds, Five Virtues, and Five Elements were all meaningless things. All things collapsed, and spiritual power was annihilated. This was the only outcome when facing this Shifting World punch!

--Even that Ming Zhengde couldn't do it!

But Su Zhou was not Ming Zhengde.

Faced with the Shifting World Divine Fist that was approaching at near light speed and couldn't be dodged at all, so what?

Since he couldn't dodge it, then he wouldn't dodge it.

Even if the operation of the external Five Elements was sealed off, and the True Body was forbidden, Su Zhou was still fearless of any powerful enemy!

Therefore, the youth took a deep breath, then raised his hand, circulating his spiritual power, and transformed it into a shield to block in front of him.

But in the first instant, the shield was shattered by countless high-speed, high-temperature plasma gases and gamma rays.

Like a moth fluttering in a storm, the spiritual power shield that Su Zhou condensed around him, which was enough to block the divine powers of ordinary Earth Immortals, was useless. It was instantly penetrated, and the youth's ribs and hand bones shattered in an instant. His entire body was blasted backwards by this punch.

Accompanied by the crisp sound of bones breaking, the youth, whose bones were covered with countless cracks, was bombarded by this torrent-like fist and retreated rapidly. The skin all over his body had been burned to ashes, and the skin and flesh used to construct a human form were erased, leaving only the layer of solid, craggy scales beneath the surface of his body.

But even so, the scales that directly bore the brunt of the impact were also bursting in a series of explosions, revealing the crystal-clear, cyan-purple crystal-like muscles beneath, with the spiritual power that was condensed to the extreme circulating within, indestructible.

However, under the impact of the Azure Sky Zheng Yang's Shifting World Divine Fist, even such muscles began to melt. The structures composed of muscle fibers fell down like melted rock candy. The viscous liquid dripped down, then annihilated in mid-air, emitting a slight evaporation explosion sound.

And during this process, Su Zhou was blasted to the end of the heavens and the earth. He came to an altitude of millions of meters.

Here, if it was still on Earth, he would have probably entered outer space long ago, but here, he could only see the dark void and the moving stars in the distance.

Everything happened in one second.

In just one second, Su Zhou seemed to have suffered heavy damage and was completely annihilated in the torrent.

But at this moment, the spiritual power in his body also reached a limit.

Multiple spiritual powers were now forming a cycle within his body.

Thunder flashed, and electromagnetic force was manipulated, fixing the structure of matter.

The mad wind surged, and the power representing movement surged in the outside world, shifting the attack that was about to strike.

The water flowed gurgling, rotating like a vortex, absorbing the power of the outside world while strengthening itself.

The wood energy lingered, and the seeds of the divine tree rooted in the body dissipated their vitality, allowing all injuries to heal themselves.

Finally, there was fire. The fire burned fiercely, strengthening the foundation of everything. It was the strongest, the first, and the most vigorous power.

The spiritual light of the major attributes was emitted, forming a constantly rotating cycle within Su Zhou's body--this was certainly not the limit. It was still a bit short. He was still lacking an earth-type cultivation technique to solidify the foundation, so that he could form a complete cycle of the Great and Small Five Elements, and even the Four Great Attributes.

At this moment, Su Zhou even recalled the darkness he had seen in the secret realm where the Tower of Myriad Wonders was located.

[Nothingness Without End]

Now that he thought about it, the defensive magic array that devoured all spiritual energy was based on the rotation of the Five Elements attributes. It was only by absorbing all the spiritual power from the outside that it could present that extreme appearance.

Thinking was only an instant--it could be seen that dark and dim shadows began to spread on Su Zhou's body surface, blocking the constantly impacting terrifying flame stream.

Even, this dim shadow transformed into a semi-circular shield shape, blocking in front of the youth.

Sub-Nothingness Without End.

--This was deduction, the power of Myriad World Innovation.

Under the scouring of the surging Shifting World Divine Light, the black face that had already turned into coke slowly raised, and a pair of purple-cyan eyes lit up, their light bright and hot.

Su Zhou tightly grasped the Blade of Annihilation in his hand. In this impact mixed with ultra-high-temperature particle beams and strong gamma rays, any divine weapon would turn into a soft popsicle, right? Even the most solid divine iron would be melted and could no longer be used to attack.

However, the divine blade forged from the Nanming Li Fire was not afraid of high temperatures, and was still devouring high temperatures, devouring the brilliance that surpassed the sun.

Even, at this moment, the surface of Su Zhou and Nan Zhengkai's Shifting World Undying Body lit up with a light blue light at the same time.

This light was Cherenkov radiation. The high-energy spiritual power particles released by Nan Zhengkai entered the Sub-Nothingness Without End that surrounded Su Zhou. In this spiritual power medium formed by the rotation of numerous attribute spiritual powers, the speed of the high-energy particles exceeded the speed of light in this medium. Therefore, it would emit a flame-like light.

It was called Nuclear Fusion Flame in the ancient past, and it was also called the Holy Flame of Annihilation.

And in the Tianyuan World, it was called the Six Ding Divine Fire.

Using the power of the earth veins to create heavy nuclear fusion, the power erupted by the huge Shifting World Dharma Body also had a limit. A few seconds later, when Nan Zhengkai wearily retracted his already burned-out right arm, the area around the mountain giant had already collapsed into a lava basin, forming a volcano-like environment. The surrounding area was covered with a large area of dark radioactive glass material.

Within a hundred miles centered on the Shifting World Giant, everything was burning, flowing, and the earth was like a bowl filled with lava.

But this was just an aftershock. Nan Zhengkai used the essence of the Dao weapon in the Azure Sky Zheng Yang Ruler to release the Shifting World Divine Fist. Its power was enough to destroy celestial satellites and create huge scars. Even the anti-matter breath of Su Zhou's cosmic war form could not compare to it.

"Is it over?"

Slowly taking a step back, the Dharma Body of the Shifting World Undying Body was somewhat dispersed, and countless overdrawn earth vein engines began to fall off and shatter.

Nan Zhengkai was currently unable to distinguish Su Zhou's fluctuations in the chaotic and messy spiritual energy environment. A look of victory appeared in his eyes.

After all, that was the power of Guixu, the power of the rapidly rotating celestial accretion disk in the Sun River surrounding Guixu.

With such a terrible divine power, what True Person in this world could resist it?!

But even such power...

Faced with the black shadow that Su Zhou simulated to Nothingness Without End, it still didn't succeed completely.

At the end of the distant horizon.

The azure-golden brilliance lit up once again.

Under Nan Zhengkai's incredulous and astonished gaze, Su Zhou's aura was constantly recovering.

"Why?"

He sensed the aura that was still undying in the distance. The leader of Zheng Yang murmured to himself: "Why are you always so persistent? Why can't you be destroyed even like this?"

"I was clearly about to unify the world back then, but then Ming Zhengde popped up; Ming Zhengde was clearly about to be suppressed by the gods and demons, but then a Zhu Zhou popped up... What is the reason for this?!"

Far away, Su Zhou, whose flesh and blood was regenerating, did not reply.

Because he was unwilling.

As long as there were still people in this world who were unwilling, there would always be someone who would refuse.

The shattered spiritual bones had just been glued together, and the melted flesh and blood was still recovering. At this time, Su Zhou had not even completely regenerated the skin and flesh that looked like humans. On the coke-like black body, the flames originating from Azure Sky Zheng Yang were still burning fiercely, constantly scorching the newly regenerated flesh and blood.

But even so, Su Zhou still tightly grasped the Blade of Annihilation. He silently charged towards the direction where Nan Zhengkai was located, gathering violent power in his hands.

The youth gripped the divine blade, and then slashed diagonally at the Shifting World Dharma Body with the fastest, strongest, and most powerful strike, bringing up endless wind and thunder.

The expression of the huge Dharma Body was angry, but it was difficult to unleash the previous strike to kill Su Zhou--even the power of the Azure Sky Zheng Yang Ruler needed to be replenished. Consuming the inherited source in the Dao weapon so frequently was just destroying the foundation in the Dao weapon.

Therefore, staring at the bursts of wind and thunder coming from above his head, Nan Zhengkai's eyes widened in anger. He shouted angrily, and then the Shifting World Dharma Body dimmed, and all the power gathered in his hands again to form an azure divine ruler--a crack suddenly appeared in the position of the mountain giant's head, and a figure soared into the air, charging towards the youth in the distance.

Two streams of light collided, and there was another clanging sound.

But this time, the sound was not crisp enough.

Even divine weapons would be damaged if they collided with Dao weapons frequently. The Blade of Annihilation had collided with the Azure Sky Zheng Yang Ruler many times, and some parts of the blade were already worn out at this moment, but Su Zhou didn't care about this at all. He had never regarded the Blade of Annihilation as a blade. He had always used it as a hammer to swing and smash, and anyway, the blade spirit was gone. A weapon just needed to be easy to use. What was there to care about so much?

Tools should be tools so that they can exert their maximum power.

On the other hand, Nan Zhengkai's expression was gloomy in this short exchange of blows. He could see that Su Zhou really didn't care at all--how simple was it to repair a divine weapon? He had seventy or eighty great craftsmen under him who had the ability to repair divine weapons. Even if it was broken, it could be repaired perfectly.

But Dao weapons were different. They were not just tools, but also inheritance and proof. Who in this world could guarantee that they could 100% repair a Dao weapon well? The Azure Sky Zheng Yang Ruler was struck hard by the Blade of Annihilation. Even if the damage was only one-tenth of the opponent's, it was still an unacceptable loss!

The wind howled, and concentric waves rippled across the South Prison Sea, because there were strong people fighting in the sky, causing the waves to surge. In this Prison Sea Forbidden Zone where Nanze Province and the South Prison Sea overlapped, trillions of vengeful souls were bound in the World Cleansing Demon Subduing Formation. They howled and watched the battle in the distance, staring at the tornadoes, typhoons, and intertwined divine lights that were rising in the distance.

Boom! Lightning flashed, and Han Shiling stood on the top of the high platform in the center of the Prison Sea Forbidden Zone. He stared blankly into the distance.

He saw that the scarlet-golden brilliance representing Zhu Zhou and the azure-red brilliance representing Nan Zhengkai were rapidly colliding and shaking in the sky like spirals, erupting with brilliance comparable to the sun at the end of the sky, creating terrifying shocks and impacts that affected hundreds of miles.

They were evenly matched. Even though the seriously injured divine bird incarnation and the exhausted leader of Zheng Yang were weak, they were not comparable to ordinary True People. Every attack of theirs made Han Shiling tremble with fear.

However, even an evenly matched battle had an end.

Finally, accompanied by a light that was like a self-explosion, as well as Nan Zhengkai's incredulous exclamation and roar, he saw the azure-red light dim and fall.

"Your heart can actually self-destruct too!? Why can your body still move even after I've cut off your head?!"

That was a voice filled with confusion, incomprehension, and even despair: "What kind of monster are you?!"

Su Zhou still didn't speak.

Monster or not, human or not, were really boring questions.

If it was divided according to the ideas of most people, then there would always be guys who called themselves humans despising humans, and guys who were not humans caring for humans.

In this world where the strong could freely manipulate genes and transform a person's bloodline into a completely different creature, it could only be said that innovation was needed if they still valued physical characteristics at this time.

Having his head cut off by the divine ruler, but his body took out the Thunder Swamp Heart from the back of his waist to self-destruct, and took the opportunity to slash out a blade, splitting the ribs on the left side of Nan Zhengkai's chest, Su Zhou raised his regenerating arm, and his fiery hair fluttered in the wind.

He once again raised the blade, with flames dwelling on the already-sharpened blade.

--Innovation--

The physical evolution of humans has long since stopped.

Why? Because humans no longer need to innovate in this area.

The evolution of organisms is passive. They need to adapt to the environment and change--if they want to eat meat, they need sharp claws and motor organs. If they want to defend themselves, they need hard shells and scales. If they want to fly, they need wings and insect wings, or vector nozzles.

But humans don't need it. If humans want to kill, they invent weapons. If they want to defend themselves, they invent armor. If they want to fly, they have airplanes and spaceships. Humans use wisdom to create tools. Humans themselves don't need to adapt to the environment, and can even foresee the environment to create corresponding tools.

Tools are not only an extension of the human body. The updating of tools can also be regarded as human evolution and innovation.

--Compared to other chemical substances, nucleic acids can self-replicate. It has innovated from its kind.

--The emergence of cells composed of nucleic acids and proteins has also innovated compared to other polymers.

--And organisms composed of cells still exist today. All organisms are like this, including humans. Its innovation is the evolution of wild animals, the choice of nature.

--Until the emergence of wisdom, the innovation of this natural organism was replaced by wisdom.

--And the power of transcendence is the condensation of wisdom.

The innovation of human culture and technology is the process of continuous progress and transformation of human beings, a wise creature. This is innovation, and it has already entered a higher and newer dimension.

The power of Myriad World Innovation was operating in Su Zhou's body. During the battle, Su Zhou was learning Nan Zhengkai's combat experience of hundreds of years. Although most of them could not be used, he could still accumulate some techniques that could be used.

Dust can be used to build divine mountains, and droplets of water can be used to gather into the seas.

The so-called innovation is such a thing.

Nan Zhengkai could feel the almost visible speed of improvement in Su Zhou's martial arts--if Su Zhou's skills could only be regarded as second-rate before, and he was only crushing the enemy with his incomparably powerful foundation, now he could almost be called quasi-first-rate. Not only could he defend against most of his attacks, he could even counterattack occasionally.

Boom!

Su Zhou smashed the divine iron raindrops that Nan Zhengkai had condensed with the power of the earth veins with the Blade of Annihilation, and then transformed into a rocket and rushed forward, avoiding the high-temperature plasma storm condensed by the Azure Sky Zheng Yang Ruler. The places he passed were full of gravity traps composed of earth vein geomagnetism divine light, trying to slow down the youth's pace and kill him.

But Su Zhou's speed was too fast, and he had been using the Lightning Punishment Void technique to interfere with the surrounding spiritual energy. The activation of the gravity trap was always slow, and it was only when Su Zhou rushed to Nan Zhengkai's side and slashed down with a blade that it was barely activated.

Although the light of the collision of the brilliant blades lit up again, it was just a fragment of the short offense and defense between the two True People that happened in a thousandth of a second.

The experience accumulated by ordinary people practicing for 10,000 years was not as much as the experience they gained in five minutes of fighting at such a density.

"I have deduced the future, we cannot win. The continuation of mankind will never be decided by humans themselves!"

And in this battle, Nan Zhengkai was still roaring. He was always angry, always helpless. This man was determined. He gave up bringing other comrades and came with divine and demonic secret treasures, which showed this point. His battle was full of cathartic hatred: "If you want to inherit humanity, you must bow to the gods and demons!"

"It's okay if only tens of millions of people are left, or millions of people are left. It's enough if there are 100,000 people. Even if it develops from the primitive ape-man period, it's not impossible--it's better than the ominous descending, all living beings are gone, and the million-year history of our human race is wiped out in one fell swoop!"

The sacrifice of humans is for continuation, and the resistance of humans is for survival. Therefore, there will always be fearless people who stand up for the survival of others among humans.

Not for glory, not for rewards, just because it is necessary. They did not think about themselves when they sacrificed, but only firmly believed in the future, firmly believed that one day in the future, someone could fall asleep in a world without sacrifice, accompanied by gentle starlight and breeze.

That's why they are angry.

"You and Ming Zhengde are not for inheritance and sacrifice at all--you are just meaningless deaths, meaningless resistance!"

With a stab of the divine ruler, Nan Zhengkai once again saw through a flaw in Su Zhou, and he intended to directly shatter Su Zhou's spine, but he didn't expect that the youth had also predicted his flaw, so he stretched out his left hand to block the divine ruler.

Crack, under the power of the Azure Sky Zheng Yang Ruler, Su Zhou's left hand was instantly burned and turned into black coke. The five fingers were entangled together in a chaotic manner, but at the same time, Su Zhou kicked out and kicked Nan Zhengkai's chest armor.

In this long battle, the Gengjin Star Armor bestowed by the Celestial God had been broken and incomplete. Whether it was the chest armor or the helmet, most of it had been broken. Under the half-missing helmet, Nan Zhengkai's mouth could be seen overflowing with blood.

The circulation of the spiritual power in his body had begun to become hot and painful. The internal cycle was not as tough as Su Zhou, and he could not persist in fighting with all his strength for such a long time.

"--Is resistance meaningful?"

Therefore, the voice became clearer, and he asked in confusion: "Isn't living more important than any meaningless resistance?"

"Ming Zhengde and you have such strong power, much stronger than me. If you become Star Lord Zi Wei, wouldn't you be able to protect the human world?"

"My actions, your actions, and Ming Zhengde's actions are all completely meaningless--the thoughts of mortals are not important to the gods and demons at all!"

"When the great calamity comes, the gods and demons will gather the spiritual light of the entire Tianyuan world for millions of years to condense the soul of the Five Virtues Phoenix--what they want is to destroy this old world and use the light of creation to create a new world!"

"A world without the tribulation of longevity, without the Origin True Dragon, without all disasters, a world of the Celestials where everyone can be happy, everyone can live a normal life, with a long and long life--at that time, we True People can also become gods, and everything will return to normal!"

"As long as I become Star Lord Zi Wei, I can take my kingdom to the new world... With such a perfect future, is resistance meaningful?!"

"Is it really necessary to resist?"

Saying this, he lowered his voice again and hissed in a low voice: "Why are you unwilling to compromise?"

At this moment, in the Central Continent, in the Central Plains.

In the Kyoto Imperial Palace, Ming Zhengde, who had already met with the patriarchs of the five divine bird clans, Xuan Bird, Vermillion Bird, Chongming, Green Bird, and White Phoenix, slowly walked out of his residence.

He was currently thinking about the next thing about the earth vein formation, and was repeating the process of fighting against the Nine Nether Demon Army in the past hundreds of thousands of times in his mind.

Then, sensing something, he suddenly raised his head, and golden light flowed in his eyes. The man looked seriously to the distant south.

There, familiar auras were erupting, fighting, and releasing light.

For some reason, Ming Zhengde suddenly remembered his rebirths.

--Is resistance meaningful?

In his heart, this question that Nan Zhengkai had asked him countless times in the distant past suddenly floated up.

It was a ridiculous question.

It was like the pain of struggling in the battle with the Kun Demon in the first dozens of rebirths.

Ming Zhengde knew long ago that with his strength in this life, it was impossible to break through the armor of the True Person-level Kun Demon who was aiming at him, and he would definitely die.

Ming Zhengde knew long ago that he would be reborn. Even if he was not reborn, this Kun Demon True Person would be annihilated by the army of other True People and cultivators who would arrive later.

Ming Zhengde knew that his revenge would be avenged and that the pain he suffered would be rewarded.

He also knew that the sword he was stabbing at this time, which could not hurt the enemy at all, was meaningless.

Ming Zhengde knew clearly that he would start over if he failed, but he still tried his best to save all living beings again and again.

He knew that his actions were likely to be a struggle that would not have any effect even if repeated countless times, but he still acted like this.

As long as they were dogs, humans could continue, and the human race in the Tianyuan world might be able to continue...

Didn't Ming Zhengde know this?

However--

However...

Even so.

The man.

The man who considered himself a mortal.

He would still wield his sword.

He would still clench his fists.

Even if it was repeated a hundred times, a thousand times, ten thousand times, or even thirty thousand times and more, it would still be the same.

And for the youth, it was even simpler.

--Is