Chapter 467 As Expected of My Teacher! (Thanks to Alliance Leader Xifeng Shenkai Zhi Ta for the Reward! Seeking Monthly Tickets!)

Of course, all of this was just Elias's speculation, and Su Zhou had his own views.

"Putting aside the fact that I created the four elemental souls myself...if there are no accidents, even when the Age of Water arrives, it shouldn't surpass the ordinary overlord tier by too much—let alone the Immortal Celestial tier. I'm still far from that, where would they get the foundation?"

As the chief engineer of the new era, Su Zhou was an authority in this regard. However, he didn't know exactly what the situation was in the world of Tartadis for the past few hundred years, so he didn't want to comment. But he was still clear on the rough estimate.

Of course, in other aspects, Elias's speculation was not far from the truth.

"A pirate who wants to become the God of Water...the People of Wind and Fire who entered the sea because of betrayal and a yearning for freedom."

Walking towards the center of the Dawn Plain with Elias, thinking about the situation in this world, even Su Zhou couldn't help but shake his head slightly. He smiled wryly and looked at his student, "Alas, in that case, is everything because of the Soul of Origin Water I threw down in the past?"

Then, standing in the clouds, he looked down at the Holy Fire Tower in the center of the Central Sanctuary. The youth's voice became firm, "Since that's the case, since it's a mess I left behind...then indeed, I should clean it up."

"It's time to eliminate this cycle of cause and effect!"

But after hearing Su Zhou's determined answer, Elias frowned instead.

[Wait, teacher, what does this have to do with you?]

He turned his head in confusion, looking at his teacher: [Isn't this my fault?]

"It's my fault!"

But Su Zhou turned his head, glared at Elias, and said with great momentum, "I threw the Soul of Water myself, and to be fair, a rational analysis, why isn't this my fault?!"

[...Indeed...]

The young god, who was argued with in this regard, was stunned for a moment. He didn't quite understand why his teacher was so forceful in admitting his mistake. It didn't feel like admitting a mistake at all, but rather like an attitude of 'I'm wrong! I'm honest!'...

This confused him a bit.

Opening his mouth, after a long while, Elias whispered: [But...even if there is a relationship, shouldn't we clean it up together...]

Speaking of this, his originally somewhat shaky tone became firm instead.

[After all, it was you, me, and the God of Wind who decided together. We wanted to bring a better future to the children and attract them to move forward...it's just that wanting good things, but causing the worst result, is not something we could have foreseen.]

At this time, the two had already walked in the clouds and arrived at the center of the Dawn Plain, far away from the Central Sanctuary.

The sky had already darkened, and rolling thunderclouds churned beneath their feet. Starlight shone brightly, illuminating the sky above the clouds.

Su Zhou stopped, and Elias also stopped.

The youth turned his head, looked at Elias carefully, and smiled calmly, "Elias, you have always been working hard for this world."

"Originally, I thought you might have other ideas, such as planning to use precepts to regulate the people's intelligence and achieve absolute elite rule based on the clergy class...now it seems that I misunderstood you."

The god in the form of a young man took off the solar crown on his head, and his white hair and the hem of his robe fluttered together in the wind. He carefully sent it back to the distant Central Holy City with spiritual power, and then smiled apologetically at Su Zhou: [Ah, this crown was forged by my believers using the first mithril they refined. I don't want to break it.]

[Moreover, this is indeed my fault. If I hadn't failed to regulate the Judgment Dragon's judgment process, neither pirates nor rebels, nor even those with ulterior motives among my believers, would have appeared.]

Looking around at the vast and empty plain, Elias sighed softly: [Perhaps, this is destiny...]

"No, this is a choice."

Su Zhou interrupted, his tone solemn, "Life always requires choices, even if the final result is not what you want—you can't say that every result you don't want is caused by fate."

"That's the path you chose, it's just wrong, you need to learn to admit your mistakes."

After speaking, he was silent for a while. Su Zhou suddenly revealed a somewhat nostalgic smile, he looked at the outline of the distant Dawn Holy Mountain, and then said softly, "I suddenly thought, isn't Zhou Buyi the same?"

Elias, who was no longer standing beside Su Zhou and came to face him, asked with some doubts: [Who is Zhou Buyi?]

"A person I once helped, a friend, I met him a little earlier than you."

Withdrawing his gaze, Su Zhou moved his arms a bit. He commented fairly, "He is also...someone similar to you. A little more extreme, because he is very lonely, and you, your mentality is a little better than his, after all, you are young."

Speaking of this, Su Zhou suddenly felt that something was wrong—don't look at Elias who is still in the form of a teenager, in fact, he is almost four hundred years old. Compared with him, he is really a little young.

But the facts are one thing, the momentum cannot be lost. After all, all the Fire People are essentially his descendants and dependents, and so is Elias.

As for the dependents being older than himself...can the affairs of transcendents be calculated by age?

He is indeed an elder!

Obviously, Elias didn't expect Su Zhou to be in his early twenties. He didn't see this, but took it for granted that he was indeed young and still needed to learn, so he curiously asked: [Does that person also respect you, teacher? Did you also separate from him for a long time?]

"Yes. He does respect me, and the time we separated is a little shorter than the time I separated from you."

Su Zhou nodded, meeting Elias's eyes. He could see flames burning in the other's gray eyes, and the elemental power condensed to the extreme was quietly pulsating within the other's body. So the youth nodded with a smile, "Moreover, the most similar point is that he, like you, wants to challenge me."

[...You found out, teacher.]

The corners of Elias's mouth rose, and an invisible crimson golden halo was gathering behind him. The air, which had cooled down due to the rain, began to rise gradually, causing rolling heat waves to surge in the air.

"Of course, putting aside the fact that you hardly concealed it, whether it was from the initial spiritual power collision, and the subsequent confrontation, you were trying to probe my limits."

Su Zhou lowered his head, glanced at the surrounding plain, and shook his head, "And coming to the central part of the Dawn Plain, far away from the Central Sanctuary, and sending your fragile crown back...this is almost a clear indication."

The youth was somewhat nostalgic, "And Zhou Buyi was like this too—from the very beginning he wanted to challenge me, and he was always looking for a reason to have a fight with me."

"You guys are all the same kind of person."

But Elias just smiled lightly. He stared at the youth in front of him, at this finally returned 'god', and said with emotion: [That's only natural, teacher.]

[I have spent a long and lonely time, leading my people forward together.]

[Four hundred years have passed, I have led the Fire People to grow, develop, build civilizations and kingdoms, and become true gods and leaders.]

At this moment, Su Zhou and Elias were both located three thousand meters above the Dawn Plain. Flowing clouds churned beneath them, like a rushing, never-ending flowing earth.

And now, as a crimson golden circular radiance bloomed in the sky above, like a blazing sun, causing the rushing clouds to be pushed away, breaking a large hole.

The white-haired young god stood in mid-air, walking barefoot in the atmosphere, step by step towards a higher place, and with each step, the light around him became more scorching and vigorous. Elias exchanged glances with Su Zhou, who was smiling and looking up, and his tone became more confident: [Indeed, I have made mistakes, but now, I am different from the teenage boy who, four hundred years ago, could only watch you go all out to save the world.]

[Now, I can also plan the order I designed—even if you don't come, I can save this world and redefine the new order and era.]

At this moment, he looked at Su Zhou with a hint of rare excitement and anticipation: [Now that I have grown to a limit, a bottleneck, I suddenly saw the leader and helper of my childhood.]

[Have I become a qualified god now? Have I become the person I wanted to be?]

[Am I doing well now?]

Speaking of this, Elias's tone became solemn, and he said in a deep voice: [Teacher, please guide me!]

[Let me know if I have grown!]

Saying so, Elias stretched out his right hand, five fingers pointing upwards, gently lifting it.

Immediately, the light of a new star, like the sun, began to condense in his hand. The authority of the Lord of Fire manifested, and immediately endless fire elements appeared from all directions like fire streaming across the sky, and then converged towards the young man's palm.

In this instant, it was as if a sun was being held in the palm of his hand, and most of the Dawn Plain was illuminated. Even as the fire elements continued to converge, the scope of its illumination was constantly increasing, and all raised objects cast long shadows on the ground because of this light.

In the distance, at the Central Sanctuary, the clerics who had begun to receive the teams of criminals into the city raised their heads, and some of them dropped the teachings in their hands, forgetting to pick them up.

Aimon was the same. This gray-haired cleric sensed the huge wave in the distance, but revealed a carefree smile—no one had more confidence in their god than he did.

Rumm, who had been escorted back to the city by Matthew and Gail, turned his head and looked into the distance. The purple-haired God-blessed One looked at this scene with a complicated expression, and the great pirate Albert was the same, the red-haired Sea King looked at the light in the distance.

"God...a god war?" Isshar took a step forward in disbelief, wanting to rush over to stop it. This God-blessed One couldn't understand why the two gods who had been chatting so well before would suddenly start fighting, and it seemed that his lord was the one who took the initiative.

But soon, the knight stopped, because he suddenly realized that the aura in the distance did not have any meaning of battle, or even the slightest bit of disgust, hatred, or dissatisfaction.

There was only pure curiosity and anticipation.

Su Zhou stared at the young Lord of Fire in front of him, and the flames in the other's palm. He was a little lost in thought and did not reply immediately.

This attitude made Elias feel dissatisfied, and the young man holding the sun in his palm lowered his head with some disappointment: [Do you think I'm childish?]

"Ah, no."

Su Zhou reacted and shook his head seriously, then said seriously, "Of course not."

"I'm very satisfied."

Su Zhou narrowed his eyes, the corners of his mouth slightly raised. The youth said with emotion: "Rather, it should be like this."

"Elias, everyone has their own path. I have traveled through so many worlds, and I originally only had a vague concept in my mind, but now, after seeing your enlightenment, I finally understand this truth."

"Unlike Yala, she thinks that everything in this world is wrong, all are flawed...but I think that everyone in this world is correct."

Facing the God of Fire who had already shown his power before him, Su Zhou also began to release his spiritual power. Immediately, with the sky-soul pearl like a dragon ball hanging in the night sky, another round of purple-blue sun appeared in the dark sky.

As lightning flashed and thundered beneath his feet, the youth said calmly: "However, some people's correctness is only their own correctness, and some people's correctness is the correctness of more people."

"Moreover, above correctness, there is more correctness, and there is no most correct. Everyone should continue to work hard and move forward to become better, rather than considering themselves correct and most correct, thereby stagnating."

It could be seen that the Heavenly Soul Pearl, which was still being reorganized, but had mostly completed its reorganization, with 90% of the work already done, hung above Su Zhou's head, like a crown.

Above it, the spiritual halo like a corona flickered, and curses and vows intertwined and rotated, turning into a vortex, and then black and white karmic flames shot out from it.

--Overlord realm, Heavenly Soul Karma position.

The essence of this realm is to sublimate the cultivator's supernatural powers, sublimate their beliefs, sublimate their souls, bodies, and skills.

As long as the cultivator of this realm can continuously understand and explore, he can infinitely improve himself and sublimate himself.

Until he becomes immortal.

Above this Heavenly Soul Karma position representing the soul, profound rune patterns were slowly emerging, and then slowly changing. It was not caused by reorganization, but a manifestation of 'change' and 'innovation'—this Heavenly Soul will never stop changing.

Because, in all the heavens and myriad things, the only thing that does not change is change itself.

This is also the truth that Su Zhou learned from his friend Zhou Buyi.

[So, teacher, you think I am also correct?]

Hearing Su Zhou's words, Elias was slightly surprised and repeated it in disbelief.

To this, Su Zhou nodded, and then shook his head.

"You have done some things right, but you have also done some things wrong. You are correct, but you can still be more correct, and you must not be complacent."

"You have not managed the order well, there is still room for improvement in terms of law, and you have also made wrong choices, leading to the birth of pirates, and further leading to the current elemental imbalance, the crisis of the entire Holy Fire Kingdom, and even the world of Tartadis."

"So, I'm now going to give you some guidance... Oh, I'm too lazy to find a reason."

Speaking halfway, Su Zhou suddenly felt quite bored.

He stood above the dark rain clouds, with his hands behind his back, and then sighed to the disciple in front of him, who was like the sun: "In short, you go first."

"Just treat it as me guiding a student."

Facing the teacher standing with his hands behind his back, Elias couldn't help but recall the distant past, and the words that Su Zhou had once said to him.

——Even if we are still in reincarnation, we must try our best to live in a better, happier reincarnation, rather than being satisfied with inferior happiness.

This, perhaps, is the true meaning of 'more correct' and 'innovation' in the teacher's mouth?

Time flowed.

Four hundred years ago, also in the Dawn Plain, on the Dawn Holy Mountain, a statue of a youth standing with his hands behind his back, and a majestic dragon, was erected.

At that time, the young man, who had already been revered as the Lord of Fire, looked up at this statue. Amidst the cheers of the surrounding people, he secretly vowed in his heart—one day, when the teacher returns, he will surely hear the whole world sing his name.

Now, Su Zhou has returned, and the name of the Lord of Judgment resounds throughout the world. He has fulfilled his oath.

And Su Zhou also thoroughly reflected on and sublimated his supernatural powers because of the Lord of Judgment.

In the past, all causes and effects, all cycles, all reincarnations.

In the present, there is meaning, there is reward, there is result.

At this moment, Su Zhou was waiting, he was waiting calmly for Elias's attack.

But Elias, on the other hand, calmed down.

The Lord of Fire held up the sun in his hands, and he looked around the world—the Central Sanctuary, the clerics, the God-blessed Ones, the teams of criminals, the pirates in the distance, and the myriad people living in the entire Tartadis.

In the young man's eyes, there was love, regret, remembrance, pity, and self-blame.

And a hint of pride.

In the past, at the end of the Age of Earth, the God of Water attacked with overwhelming force, and endless floods and rain were about to submerge Naiser City. In order to save his people, he did not hesitate to risk his life and self-detonate the elemental magic circle to fight against that invincible god.

No one knew what kind of enlightenment the young man had at that time, and what kind of despair the humans were in at that time... but now, recalling it, wasn't it just 'unwilling'?

Because he was unwilling, he wanted to break fate, because he was unwilling, he wanted to innovate his own life, because he was unwilling, he wanted to break all reincarnation.

Now, a long time has passed since the new era, and all the people have lived and worked in peace and contentment.

But the enlightenment in the young man's heart has not changed.

[Compared to the apocalyptic world that was always filled with gray fog in the previous era of reincarnation, how good is it now? Even if I need to forever collect the world's dust as fuel to maintain the existence of this world, it is still so.]

[I want to protect this era. To protect a better world than before.]

Naturally, there will be many unpredictable things and disasters in the middle... Perhaps, this is also a kind of reincarnation?

But who cares——if it is reincarnation, then break it!

At this moment, around the Central Sanctuary, all the clerics had left the city.

Among the hundreds of thousands of people, some were of the Enlightenment rank, some were of the Chosen rank, and the four God-blessed Ones were also standing outside the city. They were all standing on the vast prairie, watching the two blazing suns confronting each other in the distant sky. The purple-blue lightning halo and the golden-red blazing sun's light intertwined, dividing the sky into two different colors.

"My Lord!"

Suddenly, one person clasped his hands together, and a cleric piously bowed and prayed to that round of slowly rising sun.

"My Lord!"

Then, it was the second, the third, the fourth...

"Lord of Fire!" "Lord of Fire!" "Lord of Fire!"

Soon, all the clerics were chanting the name of the God of Fire. They were either praying piously, bowing and worshiping, or just bowing and clasping their hands together, but what remained unchanged was the respect in their hearts.

Everyone in the world of Tartadis knew that it was the Lord of Fire who led the people out of the wilderness. He lit a bright torch in the darkness, and led generations of the People of Wind and Fire to build their own civilization in a strange world, like a melodious long song.

"My Lord!"

Isshar was waving the flag representing the God of Fire at this time, and he was also chanting loudly——of course, there were also people praying to the Lord of Judgment. Aimon was smiling and paying tribute to that round of purple-blue lightning wheel, he did not say a word, but held firm beliefs in his heart.

At this moment, above the Dawn Plain, Elias, the God of Fire, heard these voices.

The white-haired god's long hair danced wildly in the wind, and he revealed a smile. The ends of his hair also seemed to begin to burn, like flames.

And the small sun in his palm had already burned to the extreme at this moment. Star-like fluorescent lights appeared in the air, and then turned into crimson golden translucent ripples of wind, pouring into this miniature sun.

Everything was changing—becoming hot, becoming cold, becoming dry, beginning to melt.

In the sky above the Dawn Plain, hot winds began to surge, and on the ground of the Dawn Plain, the tender green vegetation withered instantly under the blazing light.

Even, in the end, the surrounding light began to dim, because the light ball was too bright, causing an illusion... and in the dark areas of the distant plain, frost was condensing, because all the fire elements and free energy in the surrounding world were converging towards the palm of the god.

All 'movement' was undergoing corresponding changes, either accelerating or stagnating. One huge magic circle after another floated behind Elias, forming a perfectly round rune sun.

And in his palm, the fire element of the entire Dawn Plain was condensed into a golden-red fireball like the sun, which was pulsating with extremely hot power, like a heart, overflowing with endless light and heat.

If such a strike were launched towards the Central Sanctuary, it would instantly flatten that city, and even the surrounding Dawn Holy Mountain would probably not be spared. Even the aftermath could probably burn the Dawn Plain into a lava hell, and the hot wind would affect thousands of miles.

[Teacher, I have not created a perfect world, and I am not perfect.]

Speaking softly to himself, Elias could sense that the vows of hundreds of thousands of people from the distant Central Sanctuary were surging towards him in a mighty manner. Everyone's cheers, prayers, and piety were unparalleled, shaking the heavens and the earth. It seemed to turn into a warm wind blowing on his face, making his heart surge.

In this instant, the Lord of Fire's power rose to the limit!

[Therefore, for a better world, even if I sacrifice myself, I will not hesitate!]

[This is my enlightenment—for all the people, for this world, the enlightenment of being a god!]

——Elias, four hundred years of meditation... the moment of sublimation!

In the turbulent storm, the young man solemnly pushed out the small sun in his hand, like pushing out a star.

There was a moment of dead silence in the world.

The high-altitude troposphere and rain clouds immediately began to burn and boil violently.

In an instant, extreme heat ignited the air, and a burning bright band erupted in the sky above the entire Dawn Plain. It emitted a strong light, igniting all combustible gases and dust, causing endless fire rain to fall within a hundred miles, and even the rain clouds were sublimated and dissipated.

The small sun dragged such a bright river of light, inverted in the design sky. It flew across the sky, with the light of destroying everything, and flew towards Su Zhou!

This is the genuine power of a god!

"You want to change the world by sacrificing yourself?"

Facing this strike, which his nominally student had sublimated and unleashed with all his strength, the Heavenly Soul Karma position above Su Zhou's head became brighter and brighter. He laughed loudly, but his eyes flashed with a fierce light. The youth's right hand had reached into his personal space: "My student, today I will teach you the last lesson!"

"These words, my old friend Zhou Buyi once said to me, and now, I will say them to you once!"

After speaking, he had already drawn the World Tree Spear from his personal space. Endless vows of light flowed on the blue-white divine wood spear, and in the next instant, as Su Zhou's spiritual power poured in, unparalleled power began to strengthen this spear, causing winding rune patterns to appear on the outside of its brilliance.

In this instant, a huge dragon-snake phantom appeared behind Su Zhou. The incarnation of the Zhuzhou Dragon roared, and then turned into a surging spiritual light stream, and the roaring thunder all poured into the World Tree Spear.

At this moment, it was as if thousands of lightning bolts were condensed in Su Zhou's hand, and rolling plasma and ball lightning flew like fireflies, and thousands of Lán seeds turned into a dense wind mist, like a drill, wrapped around the top of the spear.

Then, it began to rotate!

Su Zhou's power comes from many sources. Lei magic and Lán armor from the Divine Wood World, Water Assistance and Míng Hòng Dragon Transformation Technique from the Earth and the Reincarnation World, and the powerful blood structure obtained in the Divine Dragon World.

However, the real core is the essence of his spiritual power.

That is, strengthening.

Using evil souls to strengthen himself, using vows to strengthen himself, using spiritual power to strengthen himself, using Lán armor to strengthen himself... everything seems extremely complicated, but in fact, Su Zhou's path is to strengthen his pure destructive power through countless complex methods.

And now, as the Heavenly Soul Karma position that is about to usher in new life completes 90% of its replacement, this strengthening has become an even more powerful force.

The vast spiritual power was rotating, like a vortex, like a Guixu, absorbing all the surrounding power and energy. Each rotation destroyed its previous structure, but each rotation made it stronger than before!

This power, this supernatural power, its name is...

A terrifying aura condensed, and devastating destructive power condensed at the top of the divine spear.

And the youth's voice echoed in the world: "Sacrifice is a shortcut!"

Then, facing the approaching fire elemental sun, Su Zhou threw the spear in his hand with all his strength.

In this late night after the sun had set, the flashing lightning made the world as bright as day, and even the light of the sun was eclipsed.

Thousands upon thousands of lightning bolts were rotating, it turned into a vortex of light, making it impossible to look directly at it, but inside it was wrapped with a divine spear that penetrated everything. The wind was its spearhead, the fire was its body, the water was its core, and the thunder was the driving force.

In an instant, a white rainbow hung between the Milky Way, and the sun was penetrated in this way. The flying meteor spear broke through the atmosphere in an instant, destroying the core of the fire elemental sun. It rotated and destroyed the entire structure of this sun, and then flew towards the distant ground without any deceleration, until it also turned into a star.

White rainbow, pierces the sun; meteor, breaks the sky.

Then, there was an extremely violent explosion of light, which exploded at the end of the distant sky tens of thousands of meters away.

At the very top of the sky, violent thunder bloomed into thunder snakes tens of thousands of meters long, and strong electromagnetic shocks hit the high altitude, causing countless winding and dragon-like bright auroras to suddenly appear in the sky above the Dawn Plain.

Buzzing——the sound of electromagnetic fluctuations sounded.

Standing in place, Elias raised his head, letting the light of the aurora fall on himself. The robe that had been charred on his right shoulder slowly shattered and fell off, revealing the skin and flesh underneath that had begun to be mottled and cracked.

The god in the form of a young man silently stared at the high sky.

Just now, the divine spear brushed past his side, bringing a streak of lightning with it, and even now, he still felt a sense of paralysis.

Then, Elias lowered his head and looked at Su Zhou in the distance.

The youth was reaching out to retrieve the World Tree Spear, which had already returned to his hand in spirit form. He noticed Elias's gaze and just smiled slightly.

Seeing this smile, Elias couldn't help but laugh as well, although it was a bit bitter, but more of it was relief.

Failed?

That's not surprising.

After all...

[...As expected of my teacher.]

Elemental Calendar, 307, July 5th, evening.

The God of Judgment entered the country with a group of criminals and defeated the God of Fire in the Central Sanctuary.

The next day, the largest-scale 'second' trial in the history of the People of Wind and Fire was held.

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