Chapter 373 The Impossible Rain (8000-word Chapter Seeking Monthly Tickets~)

Entangled white fire lines streaked across the sky, finally plummeting to earth.

In that instant, over three hundred thousand tons of immense weight, carrying terrifying impact, directly struck the once-silent ruins of Maya City.

In an instant, the earth trembled, and the entire geological structure began to visibly twist, shatter, and deform.

Solid rock transformed into fine dust, undulating like water waves, causing the surrounding earth to violently shake, creating localized super-earthquakes. Soon, they were heated into magma by the power of the Divine Dragon during the intense movement, turning the entire impact site into a roaring sea of lava.

The ruins that had roughly resembled the city's original form were now partially transformed into a vast, golden lake, with fiery sparks and raging winds surging and igniting the entire land.

At this moment, deep within the sea of lava, the battle of the behemoths continued.

Su Zhou and Matvey were locked in combat, slaughtering each other in a manner unimaginable to ordinary people.

Matvey's head had been directly pierced through halfway by Su Zhou's earlier punch. There was a fist-shaped cavity on his left face, with a translucent wound shimmering with milky white light.

Originally, this punch shouldn't have caused such great damage. Even Su Zhou wouldn't have been able to injure the white Divine Dragon, who had already begun his apotheosis, with a single blow.

However, the moment Su Zhou charged up, Matvey directly extended his snake tail, tightly wrapping it around the other's waist—he directly bound himself to Su Zhou, even if he couldn't rely on retreating to dissipate the force. The result was half of his head being shattered!

[Close combat… a foolish choice!]

The thick, powerful snake tail tightly coiled, just like when Ying Long and Zhu Zhao fought in the past. Matvey directly twisted Su Zhou's lumbar vertebrae at the first moment, even at the cost of enduring the damage!

In the scorching lava, cold thoughts were transmitted: [You, who are already weaker than me, are simply delivering yourself to my doorstep!]

Su Zhou naturally wouldn't reply to such words. He opened his mouth and bit down directly on Matvey's dragon body with a fierce momentum. Immediately, flesh and blood splattered, and the white Divine Dragon's entire right shoulder, along with a portion of his chest cavity, was directly swallowed into Su Zhou's mouth, chewed to pieces.

Matvey endured the pain. Taking advantage of Su Zhou's inability to focus when biting down, he directly punched Su Zhou's chest with his right fist. The punch, which was coated with a rapidly rotating mental barrier like a drill, carried a hint of stagnation, piercing through Su Zhou's chest and ribs, directly entering the chest cavity!

Even the scales of Immortality and Fafnir's armor could only be directly blasted open when facing the full force of a Divine Dragon's apotheosis-fueled punch, only providing a slight delay. Matvey's hand shattered the bone plates beneath Su Zhou's chest, broke through layers of fascia defense, and grabbed his heart.

Without any harsh words or unnecessary actions, he directly clenched Su Zhou's thundering Leize Heart and crushed it, completely destroying this spiritual energy organ that had previously been detonated, leaving him half-dead.

But at the same time, Su Zhou also calmly launched a counterattack. The exoskeleton wings that he had just generated directly detached from his back, and then the vector nozzles erupted with cyan-purple spiritual light—immediately, this pair of bone wings was like a pair of ferocious long blades slashing down, directly striking Matvey's arms, slicing them off!

The brief fight lasted only an instant, resulting in one side losing its lumbar vertebrae and heart, and the other losing its chest and arms. The two giant dragons temporarily separated, and then simultaneously began to regenerate rapidly!

[Arms are something I can have as many of as I want!]

In less than a few seconds, as white light flowed from the wound and condensed into the form of arms, the Divine Dragon with a human body and snake tail had returned to normal. He was preparing to continue his attack, but suddenly stopped and stared blankly at the Zhu Zhao Dragon opposite him.

"I can regenerate as many hearts as I want, and even throw a few away!"

It could be seen that at this time, countless fleshy buds were twisting and entangling together at the wound on Su Zhou's chest, and then regenerating at a speed visible to the naked eye, creating a brand-new heart—Fa You Yuan Ling (Law has Primal Spirit) meant that Su Zhou didn't need to actively repair himself at all, but rather his body began to repair all his wounds the moment he was injured.

Not only that, it could be seen that in the cold-smiling Divine Dragon's hands, there were also two balls of fleshy buds twisting and gestating. Their form was, in fact, also Leize Hearts!

"You still think the heart is a vital point? Is this your first time being a Divine Dragon!"

Without hesitation, Su Zhou threw the Leize Hearts condensed in his hands at the other—before this, those two Leize Hearts had already begun to flash with cyan-purple lightning, on the verge of detonating.

"Let me tell you how many hearts I have!"

Accompanied by the convergence of cyan-purple lightning, the already melted magma was ignited again, vaporizing into golden-red fire mist. Dazzling flashes bloomed in the golden-red lake. Facing these two Leize Hearts that had begun to explode, Matvey let out a silent roar. He pushed his hands forward, pushing these two clusters of exploding lightning towards the outside of the lake, towards the sky!

Boom! Two extremely bright beams of lightning went against their trajectory, straight into the clouds, and then a violent explosion occurred. Dazzling flashes began to light up above the sky, forming two sun-like spots of light. All the surrounding clouds were blown away, revealing the bright silver moon and starlight behind!

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Su Zhou, who had already completed his regeneration, began to charge again. Accompanied by the impact that caused the magma to explode and splash, he retrieved the two wings he had launched earlier, reloading them on his back—the vector nozzles restarted, and his speed was even faster. He instantly approached Matvey's body.

However, this was exactly what the white Divine Dragon wanted. The moment Su Zhou approached, he lowered his head, and his indifferent, ring-shaped pupils rotated. An invisible mental force directly acted on Su Zhou's head, and then erupted at point-blank range!

Crack! Even the Divine Dragon's solid skull couldn't resist this great power, which was enough to shatter the earth's crust. In an instant, Su Zhou's head was directly kneaded into a mass of bloody, blurred debris, and blood gushed out from his neck…

No blood?!

[Your head… is empty?!]

As the headless Su Zhou punched the center of Matvey's eyes again, directly causing his skull to dent and deform, spraying out countless streams of milky white light, the white Divine Dragon realized that Su Zhou's head, which had just been kneaded to pieces, actually had no brain inside! Not only that, the eyeballs inside were also fake, just ordinary crystal balls!

——Your head is the one that's empty!

To this, Su Zhou didn't bother to reply—What a joke! Does the brain have to be in the head? Wouldn't it be stupid to hold up such a huge flaw! Unless he planned to use a rocket head to escape and detach his brain from combat, otherwise, shifting the position of the brain when facing a strong enemy was commonplace. To use human vital points to speculate about cultivators and Divine Dragons after transcending the ordinary was truly an empty-headed thing to do!

Now, Su Zhou's brain was located in his left calf, the lower half of his lower back, and near the thoracic vertebrae of his spine. Just like his heart, he could regenerate two of these organs if one was blown up. If the brain couldn't explode, he would have created a few on the spot to throw at Matvey!

A modernized transcendent, a mechanized modified Divine Dragon, an undead, a rocket origin, and a Zhu Zhao Dragon could not be speculated about using common sense!

Immediately, Su Zhou and Matvey were entangled again. The headless Divine Dragon and the white Dragon God were intertwined, fighting each other with the most intense force. The friction between their bodies would create a series of violent explosions.

The headless Divine Dragon swung heavy punches, hammering the giant serpent like a hammer striking an iron block on a forging table, erupting with bursts of overflowing fire mist. The Dragon God also vibrated his wings, causing countless feathers on them to scatter, emitting beams of extremely bright light, launching all-round penetrating strikes against Zhu Zhao, some of which penetrated the scales, and some of which were deflected, blooming with dazzling white sparks.

The dragon tail, like a blade, slashed over, but was blocked by the Dragon God also swinging his tail. The two intertwined, emitting a loud roar of clashing metal.

A hand blade cut off Su Zhou's left scapula, and then he dodged sideways. Matvey narrowly avoided Su Zhou's double wings cutting again. The sharp bone wings launched like missiles could even cut through mountains, but even so, the breath that Su Zhou spewed from his headless neck was still too difficult to defend against, piercing through his forehead.

Who would have thought that he could breathe without a head? But thinking about it carefully, it was indeed not strange, after all, breathing originally had nothing to do with the mouth.

But even so, no matter how tired he was, no matter how injured he was by Su Zhou's endless strange attacks, Matvey, in the final analysis, was also a Dragon God who could temporarily wrestle with Jormungandr with brute force. Just as he said, Su Zhou rashly approaching him was simply courting death.

Finding an opportunity, Matvey, who was purely stronger, directly punched out with one hand, passing through Su Zhou's chest and grabbing his spine—then, he didn't simply crush it as before, but instead grabbed this bone and performed an unprecedented shoulder throw!

Boom! In the lava lake, magma splashed. Su Zhou's true body was directly pressed against the rock shell at the bottom of the lake. The white Dragon God completely suppressed him, making him unable to move.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, as Matvey's divine thought moved, countless golden Dragon Locking Chains derived from the void, completely entangling Su Zhou's entire body, almost like a mummy. This divine art, originating from the Progenitor Dragon, was even more powerful in the hands of the now apotheosized Matvey. If it hit, even Su Zhou would be unable to move.

[Hoo, hoo…]

Breathing heavily, Matvey found it hard to imagine that the Zhu Zhao Dragon, who was not considered too outstanding in mythology, was actually so powerful, and could actually exhaust him to such an extent.

Relying on the brute force of Jormungandr's true body, forcing himself to spend a lot of power to suppress him, and then using his true body to attack, consuming a lot of his energy and mental power when he was caught off guard… But even so, he was still the victor!

Without rashly trying to kill Su Zhou, Matvey couldn't guarantee whether Su Zhou had any other tricks up his sleeve, such as detonating himself again when he was about to be killed, blowing himself up while also sending a piece of flesh flying out, and then returning in full strength after a period of time to challenge him again… This possibility, which made even the Dragon God's spine feel cold, made Matvey completely give up the idea of killing Su Zhou immediately, and instead planned to directly seal him in the depths of the Kobol Mountains, along with his summoner…

Wait, where was his summoner?

The moment Matvey began to think, a strong light erupted again from Su Zhou's headless neck—thinking it was Zhu Zhao's last burst of breath, Matvey immediately retreated, avoiding this direction. But he didn't expect that what spewed out of Su Zhou's neck was a rather strangely shaped vertebra.

This vertebra seemed ordinary, but the inside seemed to be hollowed out, and a rocket at the tail propelled it away, as if escorting someone away…

Without time to think more, Matvey immediately discovered that as this vertebra was ejected, the huge body of the Zhu Zhao Dragon seemed to have lost all its power. He no longer struggled, but allowed the Dragon Locking Chains to completely entangle him.

What was going on?!

The white Dragon God raised his head in surprise, looking in the direction the vertebra was flying away, but before he could analyze more, an even more intense sense of danger appeared.

"It's just a cockpit ejection, nothing to see!"

But at this moment, a figure that was extremely small compared to the Dragon God's body, burst out from the Zhu Zhao's huge dragon body with dazzling lightning and sword light, and rushed towards Matvey at high speed!

Humanoid.

This was Su Zhou's third form besides the 'Jormungandr Body' and 'Zhu Zhao Body'.

Humanoid Main Body!

Black hair scattered and danced, the solemn youth held a sword in one hand and a spear in the other. The Blade of Annihilation and the World Tree Spear simultaneously flashed with cyan-blue and cyan-green spiritual light. His whole body was entangled with black and white Karma Fire, and the silver-white lines presented by the full activation of Ten Thousand Thoughts Returning to One covered every corner of his body.

At this moment, Su Zhou, who was also approaching his limit, had used all his strength—Ten Thousand Thoughts Returning to One, Karma Fire of Sin, Devouring Demon Lord, and the weapons that were enough to leave a name in legends!

"I have heard all of these curses!"

Grasping the World Tree Spear in his hand, this divine weapon, which was made from the branches of the World Tree just like the legendary Gungnir, erupted with dazzling divine wood light. Roaring loudly, Su Zhou entrusted his 'Wrath' upon it. Immediately, scarlet blood light spread, and vein-like lines flowed throughout the divine spear. The youth roared and threw it out with all his strength, turning it into a streak of bloody lightning!

Boom! With the blessing of Su Zhou's soul-stripped attack, the divine spear遁入了灵界 (遁入靈界 - Dun ru lingjie - entered the spirit world), and then in the instant that even the Dragon God couldn't react, it easily broke through the shimmering rainbow-colored mental barrier, pierced into Matvey's chest in shock, and entered his body, before Yin lightning exploded!

Bang! A dull explosion sounded in Matvey's body. His chest swelled up into a bowl-shaped bulge, and an incredibly bright light shone inside. Su Zhou took advantage of the momentum to burst forth. He gripped the hilt of the Blade of Annihilation with both hands, and then transformed into a stream of light, slashing towards the huge Dragon God!

[How laughable… even the Dragon God's main body cannot defeat me, let alone a human form?!]

Even so, Matvey was still strong enough to counterattack. He painfully pressed one hand on his heart, and decisively waved the other, casting a divine art—in an instant, countless golden chains flew over. Countless huge chains of divine power, winding like dragons, flew in the air, wanting to grab Su Zhou, this flying insect, and completely crush him.

But the sword-wielding person skillfully waved the divine sword. Black and white Karma Fire entangled around the blade, allowing it to easily shatter all the incoming chains—even, in the resounding clang of the divine sword's spirit, as if cheering, the Senran Karma Fire was conducted out of the blade, igniting Matvey's divine power, causing him to let out an unprecedented scream, and even fall to the ground.

[Ahhhhh!!!! What, what is this?!]

Immediately, violent divine power erupted. Incredibly thick mental barriers were created layer upon layer, directly blasting away Su Zhou, who had originally intended to approach. This great power even overturned most of the lava lake.

But no matter how much power erupted, the Karma Fire would not be extinguished—this was an interrogation originating from the heart, a self-ignition of one's own karmic burden. If Matvey was at his peak, he might have been able to isolate it with his extremely exquisite mental power, severing an arm and escaping, but now, after fighting Su Zhou for so long, he no longer had the extra power to separate it.

In the lava lake, the overturned lava began to fall, and the fire rain streaked across the darkness and starlight, as if igniting the entire Northern Lands and the city.

Beneath the sky, the scarlet light was still flashing. Looking around, everything was red. The huge fire tornado and the thunderous rumble were intertwined. That was the aftermath of the battle between Su Zhou and Matvey, and it swept over the mountains and earth, reducing everything to destruction.

At this moment, countless tumbling thoughts surged from his mind, and Senran Karma Fire tested every soul.

Not only Matvey, but also the tens of millions of souls that had been merged into one with him. Black and white cold flames rapidly swept over, bringing countless pains, which were being transmitted throughout the entire thought network, and all the pain was being borne by 'God'.

Disconnect—as long as he disconnected, all this pain would no longer have anything to do with him!

As long as he disconnected the entire so-called network of mutual understanding, and made all minds return to independence, then this pain would naturally be borne by everyone themselves, and not by him!

Without thinking, Matvey was very clear about this.

As long as he did this, then he would only need to bear his own Karma Fire, so that he could still retain the power to fight—Zhu Zhao was also at the end of his rope. His human body could not defeat him, who was about to complete his apotheosis!

But even so.

Matvey had no intention of disconnecting at all.

Even though he uttered extremely unbearable, intolerable painful screams, he still endured all of this.

——God… is bearing.

The desires of people, the pain of people, the happiness of people, if there is something desired, then tell it to God!

Impossible desires, pray to God; unbearable pain, let God bear it; unattainable happiness, let God grant it.

Just like the Dragon Balls and the Progenitor Dragon, since humans cannot obtain what they desire and cannot figure out how to fulfill their wishes, then make a wish, pray to the Dragon Balls, and then change the world!

[If… I can't even do this, then how can I merge all the lives in the world and bring happiness to all the painful and confused souls?]

If he couldn't even bear this much responsibility, how could he carry out such an arrogant thing!

With a firm resolve, Matvey slowly stood up even though he was covered in Curses and Karma Fire. His expression was firm and crazy, and his ring-shaped pupils had turned blood red.

"God, is desire."

At this moment, someone's voice was sounding. Although his bones were broken beyond counting, Su Zhou, who had been blasted away, was still rapidly flying back with all his strength, and the sword in his hand burning with Karma Fire was as bright as a shooting star.

"Since someone is praying, then the one who possesses power must respond—just like I heard the wails of countless ordinary people in this city, so I came here."

Immediately afterwards, the youth who had transformed into a meteor and was falling, used all his remaining strength to chop the Dragon God, who was barely getting up, to the ground. He also tumbled on the ground dozens of times like a gourd rolling.

But Su Zhou stood up again as if he was ignorant, and looked again at the white Dragon God who was also struggling to get up. His eyes were filled with a terrifying calmness.

"Matvey, perhaps someone in this world did pray to you like this, but the millions of people in this city never prayed to you."

"You and I are arrogant people, but you are more arrogant than me."

At this time, Matvey failed to get up, and was lying prone on the ground again. His spirit had already begun to dissipate under the burning of Karma Fire. Su Zhou's voice seemed to come from an extremely distant place, resounding in the depths of his heart.

In a trance, he seemed to have returned to the time when he was still a teacher and disciple, at the Progenitor God Temple located in the center of the Empire, and at the Elf Battlefield twenty years ago.

In the Imperial Capital, everything was peaceful and prosperous. The bright and beautiful appearance under the daylight was so magnificent. The city was bustling with traffic, and there were thousands of splendors. The people lived in wealth, and the children played happily. There was no famine, no pain, and no dissatisfaction or despair.

Outside the capital, at the frontier battlefield, was a completely different scene—the people were like grass, inexhaustible when cut. Exploitation and oppression filled the world. The farmers lost their land and wailed. Fathers and sons were dragged onto the battlefield and died, but their families couldn't even get compensation. The poor peeled grass and bark, fighting with wild dogs for food.

In the rear, the nobles and the royal family enjoyed the offerings of the people. They schemed against each other for power, and their greedy appetites could not be filled even by emptying the sea and mountains. For their endless desires, wars broke out everywhere in the world, and famines were incessant. Before the Elf War had ended, they were already salivating over the wealthy underground mines of the dwarves, preparing for another war…

You must know that every war consumed living lives. The upper class used various slogans to encourage ordinary people to die, while they enjoyed wealth—this was cannibalism!

And he, Matvey, as a disciple of the Grand Priest of the Imperial Capital, was precisely one of the beneficiaries of all this.

He was also one of the cannibals.

Throughout the world, there was no peace. Sorrows filled everything, so terrifying and fearful.

The Progenitor God Temple taught him to do good and help others, but this could not answer the doubts in his heart. Matvey found it difficult to find knowledge from books, so he could only choose to change the world with his own hands.

——If mutual incomprehension, mutual creation of suffering, and mutual dragging down and sinking were the essence of humanity.

Then, I will change this essence.

I will become a God, and then, make humans better humans.

Having made such a vow, Matvey, who had returned to the Imperial Capital after the war, vowed to allow all souls in this world to communicate and understand each other, and there would no longer be any selfish desires in the flesh.

Humans should be brave, curious, kind, and friendly. They love to explore the unknown, compete bravely, but they will never be selfish, hurt each other, or hinder each other's progress.

But——this is a shortcut.

Perhaps I should wait, I should take the initiative to launch a revolution. I can contact all like-minded people, whether it's Mikhail, or Vika, and even Kumor is not impossible to win over… All those who intend to change the world, perhaps their wishes are different, but we can join hands to smash this ugly old world.

Then, build a brand new and beautiful pavilion on the ruins.

But… I am afraid of the long time, the unpredictable possibilities, and I entrust my wishes to the Dragon Balls…

But, but…

It was precisely because he already knew his mistakes, but still walked on this path.

That was why Karma Fire burned the soul, bringing endless pain.

And just as Matvey was painfully enduring all this, a sword-wielding figure appeared before his eyes, arriving in front of his head.

The huge Dragon God faced the tiny human.

The Mind of No Thought listened to the other's heart, abandoning his Soul of Wrath. The cold and ruthless Devouring Demon Lord was no longer angry. He limped forward, holding the divine sword, approaching the huge Dragon God.

Then, he placed the blade on the other's head.

The sharp blade broke through the tough dragon body, allowing countless forces to spread along the blade.

——Wish Power blessing, Ten Thousand Thoughts Returning to One, the Demon King recognized by all beings, the immortal Divine Dragon…

On the Blade of Annihilation, beams of divine light lit up one after another, and then turned into raging flames and lightning. The golden-red fire light shone between heaven and earth, and the black and white Karma Fire twisted around it, like a Panlong (coiled dragon) with two colors around a pillar.

Raising the blade, all the power was gathered. Su Zhou silently watched the Dragon God, who seemed to have lost all resistance, and raised the long sword in his hand.

In this final moment, the white Dragon God suddenly raised his head, and his eyes bloomed with dazzling divine light.

That was not an attack, but an inquiry into his heart.

"Otherworldly Divine Dragon, can you change this world?!"

"Nonsense, I definitely can."

What responded was an extremely firm voice.

——Everything originated from the Elf War twenty-two years ago.

Everyone took this as a starting point, raising their desire to change the world.

Desires were intertwined, and the resulting karma was chaotic and endless. Arrogance, decisiveness, madness, and pain were mixed together, causing everyone to try to change this world in their own way, whether it was evil or kind, extreme or cautious, sublime or despicable.

All of this constituted this war for the Dragon Balls.

Except for the Divine Dragon from another world, who had nothing to do with this.

And the artificial human who had just been born less than a week ago, and was as blank as a piece of white paper.

——An artificially created life, and a Divine Dragon from another world.

A combination with no karma with anything in this world, descended here.

"The eliminated imperial system, the cruel single-race ideology, the aimless blindness, and the human completion that comes from patting my head… Although I don't understand the political system, I've only read a little bit of The Capital, but in another world, there are many people who understand this!"

Raising the sword in his hand, the extremely exhausted Su Zhou took a step forward. Karma Fire was born from under his feet, and the black and white cold light replaced the blood light in the sky. The youth's voice resounded throughout the world.

"Changing a feudal empire is enough by making a wish to me!"

To this, the white Dragon God had already closed his eyes. His body was dissipating, and the Karma Fire of millions of people burned out Matvey's soul.

Boom!

Above this burning city, a thunderous roar sounded. The endless water vapor evaporated by the battle between the Divine Dragons surged into dark clouds, and lightning rumbled.

In this world covered by snow and lava, in this city that had been dyed into ashes, sporadic raindrops began to fall.

At this moment, mixed with thunder and Karma Fire, the divine sword fell, and the arrogant person annihilated all the vitality of the arrogant Dragon God.

So between heaven and earth, it rained a rain that could never have happened.

"Yala, why are there so many lunatics in your world?!"

Retracting the blade, Su Zhou's human body lay on its back in the lava. He angrily spat out weakly at the snake spirit in his personal space: "And they all like to go to extremes so much, they're all like lunatics!"

Yala clicked its tongue and said unhappily: "What are you saying as the Devouring Demon Lord? How dare you say others are extreme and lunatics?"

"…That's true."

Without continuing to complain, having exhausted his triple transformation and used all his trump cards, Su Zhou at this moment had no strength left. He could barely even see clearly, and could only open his mouth to catch a bit of rainwater, letting the torrential raindrops pour down on this world, solidifying the lava and extinguishing the flames.

An unknown amount of time passed again, and hurried and gentle footsteps sounded in the rainstorm.

Su Zhou felt that a pair of cold little hands had hugged his head, stroking his face, as if to probe his life signs.

——Is it Aula? She dares to come over. If it wasn't me who survived, but Matvey, then wouldn't she be dead…

Tsk, could it be because I taught her 'courage'? No, no, that's not how courage is used. This little fellow hasn't learned the essence…

Thinking about all this vaguely in his mind, Su Zhou's heart gradually settled down, preparing to fall into slumber.

At this moment, suddenly.

The seven Dragon Balls began to emit light at the same time, and began to vibrate.

All six competitors had withdrawn, and the victor had been determined.

The Dragon Ball ritual had been completed.