Chapter 1 The Onset

Contrary to popular belief, the seemingly disadvantaged Heavenly Devils took the initiative.

The Six Paths of Reincarnation Tribulation Truth Technique contained all the power and divine abilities of a world.

'The Path of Humanity' was the mortal realm within all Six Paths illusions. Under the control of normal cultivators, countless Six Paths puppets, or the souls of truly intelligent beings drawn into it, would live and reproduce within, nurturing new information and souls.

For the Heavenly Devils, with the Spirit Suppression Tower raising Qingqiu people, they had no need to worry about the source of souls and spiritual energy. They only needed to continuously extract the souls of the Qingqiu people they cultivated. After the mental virus invaded them, they could pre-enact individual lives and even collective civilizations in the 'Path of Humanity', calculating all possible scenarios, and cultivating and modifying powerful souls nurtured through nurture to constantly accumulate spiritual energy.

'The Path of the Pratyekabuddha Heavenly Humans' was a higher-level illusion. Certain souls born with extraordinary qualities would be selected individually to enter it, as would souls that exhibited extraordinary characteristics in nurture.

They were the reserve force for all combat Heavenly Devils, and would be subjected to individual key erosion, endowed with divine abilities, and conduct research in cultivation and science... These Great Heavenly Devils would constantly optimize their divine abilities and cultivation techniques through constant thought, better controlling the power of heaven and earth, and with the help of numerous soul components, their power was comparable to large supercomputers.

As for the 'Majestic Asura Path', it was an eternal illusion simulating combat and slaughter. There, countless souls were simulated into various forms, such as humans and various sub-races of humans, various divine beasts and demonic beasts, and even imitations of immortals and gods, all of which would engage in endless厮杀 in the Asura Path illusion.

Here, the Heavenly Devils extracted an endless stream of combat experience for all special situations. As long as there were enough samples and data, they could counter any existence and simulate corresponding combat forms.

This was the power of the Three Virtuous Paths of Wensheng. Three divine abilities that were more like cultivation than fighting, they, along with the Three Evil Paths of Tribulation specialized in fighting, formed a huge, complete, and incomparably powerful immortal divine ability.

And now, under pressure and crisis, the original Qingqiu Heavenly Devil had to change its original combat strategy and fight Su Zhou in another way.

[Anti-Dragon-Serpent Mode Activated——]

Icy thoughts circulated in the mental network, and countless Heavenly Devil souls flew from the distant end, converging into the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Devil's body, gradually restoring its power.

At this moment, a rumbling sound rang out, and the Six Paths gears behind it were now changing their shape. The originally glassy gear representing the Heavenly Human Path began to gradually recede to the rear, and a gear made of metal and iron appeared in front. Each gear was slowly rotating, meshing with each other, and changing its shape.

Then, it released a tragic bloodiness, filled with the aura of strife!

[Six Paths Truth Technique · Majestic Asura Path!]

[Simulation: Golden-Winged Garuda!]

In an instant, the original Nine-Tailed Heavenly Devil form began to change. The power of the Six Paths converged, and thousands of tactical thoughts and memories condensed into one—soon, an emblem of a golden-winged bird appeared on the metal-iron gear and was attached to the Heavenly Devil, causing it to grow wings on its back, and a phantom of the giant bird appeared.

And welcoming this change was a blade of light that arrived later but struck first.

In the distance, Su Zhou earnestly waved the divine blade through the air. In the burst of tearing the atmosphere, the incomparably hot spiritual energy blade flew at a speed of more than thirty kilometers per second under the youth's full slash—it contained a temperature of over 50,000 degrees, and the blade slashed at the transforming Heavenly Devil, causing ice-blue soul light to spill out.

Immediately, the Heavenly Devil's body shattered and began to collapse. It fell towards the sea like a kite with a broken string—but this was not a genuine lack of support, but an illusion.

It could be seen that, during the fall, many Heavenly Devil soul lights were transmitted remotely by the matrix, causing its body to regenerate rapidly in mid-air. And at the moment its body touched the sea surface, a perfectly circular area sank slightly, as if a huge disc embedded in the sea surface.

All the attacked power was evenly distributed into this disc-shaped sea, and the high temperature enough to burn all materials in the mortal world sank into the vast ocean, merely raising the temperature of the seawater in this area by a dozen degrees... This kind of 消力 (xiāolì) technique (defusing power), could be called magical, but for an existence that had once ascended to the Earth Immortal realm, it was just an instinct.

Soon, when white mist rose from the disc-shaped sea surface, the Heavenly Devil, which had already transformed and regenerated, transformed into the form of a Golden-Winged Garuda, let out a high-pitched cry, and flapped its wings towards Su Zhou—it flew rapidly, and the power of the wind appeared, causing the atmosphere to naturally separate in front of it, allowing it to move forward without resistance.

Its wings, claws, and long beak all faintly displayed a mysterious posture, which was the strongest combat technique aimed at the Dragon-Serpent lineage.

But for Su Zhou in human form, anything against the Dragon-Serpent was nonsense—he was a dragon and a human. When the enemy restrained the dragon, he was a human, and when he restrained the human, he was a dragon. This was the beauty of double standards.

"Scram!"

Facing the original Heavenly Devil that was speeding towards him, seemingly trying to drill a hole through his body, or even completely smash him, Su Zhou shouted. The Blade of Extinction in his hand had been activated to the limit, and at this moment, it was constantly radiating intense spiritual light like the sun, and streams of corona-like energy rose from above it—at this moment, he slashed out again, and while severing its wings and shattering a large number of souls, he also once again knocked the Heavenly Devil into the sea from afar.

Su Zhou did not seriously entangle with this incarnation of the Destined Heavenly Devil. He was only attacking it while dissipating the original Heavenly Devil's soul mass, while using spirit vision to determine the location of the enemy's main matrix.

Su Zhou knew very well that the other party was a great existence acting as a proxy for an entire planet. Its stamina was far longer than his own. If he didn't want to be dragged down, he had to immediately find the source of the Heavenly Devil's power transmission.

Soon, by observing the source of the ice-blue soul light that appeared when the Heavenly Devil regenerated time and time again, Su Zhou found the direction of the Heavenly Devil headquarters—located on the seabed in the northwest of the world, that was their lair.

Since that was the case, there was no need to continue entangling.

Without paying attention to the Heavenly Devil's pursuit behind him, Su Zhou turned around and flew directly towards the northwest at full speed.

He also had wind resistance, and the air resistance was reduced to the extreme. With the Lán (storm) armor simulating the nozzles of a warship, narrow streams of cyan-purple spiritual energy appeared behind him, turning him directly into a shooting star.

"呷!" (xiā)

And noticing Su Zhou's movements, the original Heavenly Devil in the form of a Golden-Winged Garuda floated up from the sea. Its wings had been regenerated, and then it let out a high-pitched cry, closely following behind Su Zhou.

After all, it was in the form of a divine bird. Relying on almost infinite spiritual energy and the explosive power that had gradually recovered to the middle stage of the commander realm, it actually kept up with Su Zhou's tail, without being left behind, and its strength was still constantly recovering.

Moreover, it was still constantly using divine abilities to harass Su Zhou's actions.

"No, I can't shake it off."

Noticing this, Su Zhou immediately stopped flying. He stopped abruptly as if he had no inertia, and then turned around, accelerating in the opposite direction towards the other party—Su Zhou faced the wind with a blade, shattering the Heavenly Devil Garuda's body comparable to divine metal, and then followed up with a heavy kick, stomping on its beak.

The powerful force enough to shatter a mountain peak completely shattered the Heavenly Devil Divine Bird's beak, skull, and even the front end of its spine. Countless soul lights burst out, exploding into countless ice-blue light particles in mid-air.

Immediately afterwards, he pressed down on the middle of the Heavenly Devil's spine with his backhand, using pure brute force to press it towards the seabed.

Boom! A meteor fell, and a deep and dark well was immediately created on the sea surface, and it could be seen that a droplet-like vacuum structure was rapidly falling towards the seabed.

The depth of four thousand meters was broken through in an instant. In the violent shock, they had already reached the seabed.

Boom! It could be seen that one person and one bird were hitting the seabed sedimentary rock with a peculiar joint technique action, stirring up a large area of ​​sea dust. They fought while moving forward towards the direction of the Heavenly Devil's lair in the distance, bringing a series of explosions and high-speed ocean currents along the way.

At this moment, in order to break free from Su Zhou's restraint, the Heavenly Devil had shed the form of the Golden-Winged Garuda and returned to its original Nine-Tailed Fox appearance—even a low-intelligence AI had discovered that having a strong Dragon-Serpent aura did not mean that the other party was a snake, not to mention that the original Heavenly Devil's AI level was not low. It was now甩动 (shuǎidòng - waving/flicking) its nine black tails, lashing towards Su Zhou like steel dusters.

However, the shockwave storm armor surrounding Su Zhou blocked all of these iron tails that were enough to shatter alloy chariots. He noticed that this Heavenly Devil was constantly struggling, trying to get rid of his control, and the spiritual energy all over his body was still constantly rising, and it had now recovered to the high stage of the commander realm, and was even constantly moving towards the peak of the commander realm.

Crack! Su Zhou pressed his left hand on the Heavenly Devil's spine, as if he was pressing on a fish on a cutting board. He waved the Blade of Extinction expressionlessly, cutting off the monster's limbs, and annihilating its soul with the power of the divine blade—the Heavenly Devil had no vital points, and even complete destruction could not kill it, but would only waste spiritual energy in vain, and give the other party a chance to reunite its body and escape control.

But how could the Heavenly Devil be a monster that could be so easily suppressed? At the moment Su Zhou cut off its body, it directly self-detonated a part of its soul. At the same time, the phantom of the gear behind it turned again, transforming into the Heavenly Human Path, and began to manipulate the huge water-based spiritual energy of the entire seabed to attack Su Zhou.

However, Su Zhou also had the power of water assistance, deflecting those water-based spiritual energies. Facing the Heavenly Devil's counterattack, his response was to continue urging the divine blade, even directly inserting the blade into the Heavenly Devil's brain, directly evaporating the brain matter in the other party's skull like a hot water rod... Although the Heavenly Devil had no brain matter, destroying the brain structure, which was part of the thinking organ, would indeed reduce some of its thinking ability.

Ocean currents crisscrossed, high heat spread, and huge vibrations reverberated on the seabed. The battle between Su Zhou and the Heavenly Devil stirred up everything within a few kilometers into a mess. A huge vortex was even formed in the deep sea, and the seabed sedimentary rock was sunk into a perfectly circular bowl shape, with lava flowing at its bottom, forming a red molten basin located on the seabed.

The seawater exploded and boiled, and countless bubbles mixed with high-heat air rose towards the sea surface—at this moment, it seemed that Su Zhou had the advantage, but his heart sank.

"Not good, the other Heavenly Devils are coming!"

Sensing that a Heavenly Devil army from the northeast was rapidly approaching tens of kilometers away, the young man's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly felt bad. This was also why he didn't want to entangle with this original Heavenly Devil too much when he had the advantage before, and why that Heavenly Devil, despite its weak strength, relied on regeneration to pester him to hold him back.

On the entire Qingqiu Star, all Heavenly Devils were essentially a whole, one was all. With many Heavenly Devil clusters constantly advancing and rushing over, it was an idiotic act to entangle with their strongest battle incarnation, merely wasting the advantage established by the Crimson Firmament Sword Qi.

But sometimes, plans could not keep up with changes.

Sure enough, as the Heavenly Devils in the distance continued to approach, the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Devil, which was firmly suppressed by Su Zhou and had its head pierced by the Blade of Extinction like a kebab, suddenly seemed to have taken some kind of magic pill, and suddenly erupted with bursts of inconceivable spiritual energy.

Rumble! A violent explosion appeared in its spine. In order to break free from Su Zhou's restraint, this Heavenly Devil simply self-detonated its spine, and the violent force even blasted Su Zhou hundreds of meters away.

"Tsk, damn it, there are still too few ancient Heavenly Devils like the Nine Li people who have their own wisdom. Most Heavenly Devil souls cannot generate愿力 (yuànlì) (vows/aspirations)... Otherwise, with such a huge number, I could use the Unity of Myriad Thoughts, and even an Earth Immortal would not be unbeatable."

The moment he was blasted away, Su Zhou couldn't help but have such a thought flash through his mind. He could see that the Heavenly Devil in front of him was actually returning to the Earth Immortal realm once again under the blessing of the surrounding Heavenly Devil clusters.

Kā kā kā kā (onomatopoeia for rattling sounds), the phantom of countless meshing gears rotated behind it, and the six colored gears of white, yellow, red, cyan, black, and purple evolved into the Six Paths illusion. All the previously stagnant springs were resetting.

With the black Nine-Tailed Heavenly Devil as the center, dazzling light was like a sun on the seabed, vaporizing the water flow—under the power of the Spirit Path, everything around was filled and dominated by spiritual energy, and the whole world seemed to pause.

It had to be said that the original appearance of this Nine-Tailed Heavenly Devil was indeed extraordinary. Su Zhou could be said to have seen for the first time a guy who might be even better-looking than himself, or more accurately, had more temperament.

If all Nine-Tailed Foxes looked like this, it was no wonder that the Nine-Tailed would become a symbol of auspiciousness.

But now, that highest-level appearance only had a cold, machine-like expression because it was controlled by the Heavenly Devil.

At this moment, Su Zhou could see that the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Devil had transferred the ends of its nine tails to its chest. It stretched out its hands, and the ends of the nine tails and its hands simultaneously condensed a point of spiritual light.

Streams of deep blue light gathered from all directions, which was the spiritual energy from the entire surrounding sea—even in the deep sea, this spiritual light was still so dazzling, illuminating dozens of miles around, but soon, the range of this spiritual light began to shrink sharply, leaving only a faint light that could only illuminate its face, except for that point of deep and almost black spiritual energy light ball.

[Heavenly Human Path · Purification Calamity Extinction Divine Light]

Extremely complex runes condensed in that point of light, and then bloomed layer by layer like a flower—accompanied by a buzzing sound that made the entire ocean tremble, a divine light that combined the vast divine power of the ocean shot out from the point where the Heavenly Devil's nine tails converged.

Deep blue was so thick that it was almost black, seemingly unremarkable, and the extremely condensed power did not even cause any anomaly. Only the front end bloomed with a strong light like a supernova, flying towards Su Zhou.

There was no time to dodge, that was the speed of light. When the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Devil condensed the full power of the Earth Immortal and launched a必杀 (bìshā) (sure-kill) strike, Su Zhou knew that it was absolutely impossible to avoid it.

Therefore, he did not dodge or avoid it. In a burst of equally dazzling light, he transformed into his true form of Zhú Zhòu (Torch Dragon), and a giant dragon body of one hundred meters high appeared on the seabed. Then, he condensed far more spiritual energy and dragon scales than his human body, blocking it in front of his chest, intending to use his strongest defense to resist.

But it was of no use.

The streamer flew by, and the incomparably condensed Calamity Extinction Spiritual Light directly penetrated Su Zhou's storm armor, dragon scales, flesh and bones of his arms. It also penetrated the dazzling golden crystal in the center of Su Zhou's chest, and directly spread through the flesh and blood towards the endless distance—it easily penetrated the hills and mountains in the sea, just like breaking through cream. While creating a huge lava crater, this Calamity Extinction Divine Light even broke through the sea surface obliquely, and went straight into the sky.

Rumble rumble! It could be seen that where the light passed, a series of sea surface explosions and expansions occurred, and endless high-heat water vapor boiled out of the sea surface, rising into a huge mushroom cloud.

At this moment, it could also be seen that in the center of Su Zhou's dragon body, a cylindrical penetrating wound with a radius of about fifteen meters had exploded open. The flesh and blood bones in the hollow had been completely evaporated and turned into nothingness.

Such a terrifying and condensed destructive force, if it were in human form, would definitely be completely destroyed, killed on the spot, and it would be difficult to regenerate... But fortunately, it was a dragon body, and fortunately, Su Zhou's true body was large enough, and the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Devil's attack was too concentrated, so in addition to this penetrating wound, he actually had no additional injuries—moreover, what Su Zhou put behind the seemingly conspicuous golden crystal was just useless filling flesh and blood, and even if it was penetrated, it would not affect his combat power.

But even so, Su Zhou, who had quickly returned to human form again and began to retreat rapidly in the sea, could not help but sink in his heart.

"This is bad..."

The Nine-Tailed Heavenly Devil had once again returned to the Earth Immortal realm. Although it was far less powerful than the Earth Immortal at the beginning, which possessed an overwhelming advantage over him, with the support of the Heavenly Devil cluster, its spiritual energy recovery speed was incredibly fast, and it was estimated that it would not take ten minutes to return to its peak state.

This made Su Zhou couldn't help but sigh: "Is this the Earth Immortal karma position?"

The Spiritual Path was so unreasonable in terms of energy recovery and upper limit! No matter what method was used, whether it was connecting to the Heavenly Devil network, or cooperating and uniting with heaven and earth, or even if it was just a natural talent, like a divine tree, with naturally higher spiritual energy than others of the same rank by dozens or hundreds of times, that was also considered the domain of the Spiritual Path.

Ordinary humans were limited by their own souls and skills, or even the ability of their bodies to withstand it, and could not control too much spiritual energy that exceeded their upper limit, but the Heavenly Devil collective network was different. The Spiritual Path it cast with its own characteristics, as well as its control over this spiritual energy, could be described as vast as the sea and reaching the pinnacle, and it could easily break through this limit.

At this moment, on the entire planet, in the Six Paths illusion and the Spirit Suppression Tower that were all over the world, all the Qingqiu people puppets who had been eroded and turned into 'spiritual energy generating life support suits' were producing spiritual energy continuously, and then relayed by the Heavenly Devil matrix and灌输 (guànshū) (infused) into this incarnation—even if the spiritual energy was greatly lost during the long journey, the spiritual energy of all living beings in an entire world converged. Even if 99% was lost, it was not something Su Zhou could compete with.

Now, because Su Zhou had been constantly entangled with and approaching the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Devil before, their current location was still about three hundred kilometers away from the Heavenly Devil matrix in the submarine volcano in the center of the Lianyi Sea—if there was no Heavenly Devil entanglement, Su Zhou would soon be able to reach it, but now, this distance had become a天垒 (tiānlěi) (natural barrier).

Because the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Devil, whose spiritual energy had skyrocketed, had reversed its offensive and defensive positions and began to pursue Su Zhou, who was trying to escape the battlefield.

Boom!

The Nine-Tailed Heavenly Devil stepped on the seabed with both legs, and in an instant, countless seabed bottom dust that had accumulated for thousands of years was vibrated and floated up.

In a booming explosion, its body disappeared, and the seabed sedimentary rock under its feet continued to collapse, forming a huge crater. At the same time, its arm also mutated into an ice-blue bone-bladed long sword, flashing with extremely sharp cold light.

In response, Su Zhou, who knew that he could not escape, could only turn around, hold the divine blade and meet it. The two immediately turned into cyan-purple and ice-blue streamers, entangling and бомбардируют each other on the seabed.

Clang! The divine blade and the bone blade intersected, fists and feet collided, and狂暴 (kuángbào) (violent) currents formed whirlpools in the deep sea, emitting thunderous roars.

During the entanglement, Su Zhou's eyes flickered, shooting out two beams that penetrated the Heavenly Devil's eyes. But not to mention that the Heavenly Devil didn't need to use its eyes to lock on, the ends of its nine tails also condensed nine beams, returning the color to Su Zhou, and burning through the youth's chest and abdomen.

The aftershocks spread, and the area where they fought was like being continuously бомбардируют by a dozen group artillery armies. Thousands of blade lights flickered, tearing out huge cracks thousands of meters long on the seabed. Each time their fists collided, it would create turbulent海底 (hǎidǐ) (submarine) vortex tornadoes.

In the tremors caused by their confrontation, the deep-sea mountains and hydrothermal vents that had existed there for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, or even since the birth of the ocean, could not withstand it and quickly collapsed and shattered, becoming numerous collapsing debris and stones.

However, in this series of rapid offensive and defensive battles, Su Zhou was completely suppressed by the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Devil—although he could also cause damage to the Heavenly Devil, and the two sides relied on their high-speed regeneration不死 (bùsǐ) (immortal) characteristics to entangle each other, but in the final analysis, Su Zhou, who had no support, was at a greater disadvantage.

It could be seen that because the submarine dust was surging upwards, the sea surface, which had become turbid and unbearable, suddenly rose with countless boiling bubbles. Patches of white mist poured out from the exploding bubbles and rose into the air, and the turbulent ocean currents made the seawater within hundreds of meters suddenly arch up, forming a hill of seawater dozens of meters high that was constantly gushing out.

And in the blink of an eye, the hill formed by this seawater was lit up by a stream of ice-blue spiritual light. It exploded from the inside out, rising into a long white plume, and two meteors jumped out from it, flying towards the sky above.

From the sky to the seabed, and from the seabed to the sky, the atmosphere shattered in a violent roar. Thunder, fire, and flashes, as well as high-heat strong wind and rain impact waves followed, and in the battle between two beings who could completely be called 'immortals and gods' in the past, disaster-like destructive power was spreading.

Su Zhou fought and retreated, and even with his vast spiritual energy reserves, he was about to be exhausted at this moment—the rapid spiritual energy recovery of the Heavenly Human Cycle could not make up for the consumption of this level of battle. Moreover, the spiritual energy density of the entire world could not support him to endlessly absorb stray spiritual energy and convert it.

Even in the end, because of the long-lost lack of spiritual energy, causing a brief imbalance in the spiritual energy circulation in his body, Su Zhou's figure stagnated for a moment.

And noticing this flaw, the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Devil immediately burst out, launching a charge in the sharp sound of the atmosphere breaking, and slammed into Su Zhou. Su Zhou could only barely prop up the Blade of Extinction to block the bone blade slash that the other party wanted to cut him in half with his right hand, but his left hand was grabbed by the Heavenly Devil.

Crack! At the moment they passed each other during the charge, the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Devil directly exerted force and tore off Su Zhou's entire left arm—although it was subsequently forced back by the breath Su Zhou spewed out, and the severed left arm was also regenerating rapidly, Su Zhou undoubtedly fell into a bitter battle.

"The suppression of a great realm is indeed not so easy to overcome..."

The advantage of the Spiritual Path was so unreasonable. Now Su Zhou felt very tired, his physical strength and spiritual energy were almost exhausted, and the spiritual light in his eyes was much dimmer, but the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Devil could still maintain its peak state and launch attacks continuously.

His eyes rolled, locking onto the monster that was still entangled with him, Su Zhou was wielding his blade and fighting with the other party, but thoughts were flying in his mind: "I still have the last trump card left. If I use it, in this situation, I can indeed reach a balance with this Heavenly Devil... But it can become stronger, but I may not..."

"Or should I just ignore everything and choose a path to break through on the spot..."

Just as Su Zhou was hesitating, he seemed to sense some movement, and suddenly raised his head, looking at the high sky with some surprise: "What..."

And at the same time, there were ripples rippling in the depths of his soul.

[What are you still hesitating about, Su Zhou? That's no ordinary Heavenly Devil—]

Like thunder passing through the night sky, a calm voice sounded in the depths of his heart.

—A long-sleeping will, sensing its truly hated enemy—

—A destined enemy, an absolutely uncontrolled possibility—

—Its name is Chaos, and it has now opened its eyes—

The voice that had not been heard for a long time rippled in the depths of the youth's mind, as if from the other end of a distant time and space. It said in a deep and thought-provoking tone: [It is the embryo nurtured by 'Destiny', the 'Dominator Great Devil' formed by using the Heavenly Devil as a placenta to absorb nutrients. It is not on the same level as most of the enemies you have encountered before.]

"Yala!?"

Hearing this, even in the midst of battle, Su Zhou subconsciously widened his eyes slightly, and his heart moved slightly—he said in surprise: "You've finally woken up?!"

[Of course.]

In the personal space, at the top of the divine tree, the red snake was wrapped around the treetop. It opened its pupils, and its body surface flashed with a red glazed luster. A circle of ring-shaped marks appeared in its pupils.

But soon, these marks faded away, and it transmitted its voice seriously: [I have sensed my mortal enemy... The existence I hate the most, no exceptions!]

[Destiny... I didn't expect this playwright without freedom to have awakened to this point, and even have the spare power to carry out 'Fate Promotion' for His眷族 (juànzú) (family/dependents)? Haha, it seems He sensed the aura belonging to me on your body, and He directly took action and personally controlled it.]

"Fate promotion... what is it?"

At this moment, the Nine-Tailed Fox seemed to sense something. It let out a long roar, and then the spiritual energy all over its body boiled like fire. Its feet shook, and the air turned into solid iron and stone under its rapid steps. This Heavenly Devil turned into a stream of light and slammed towards Su Zhou.

Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang!

The Blade of Extinction and the ice-blue bone blade collided thousands of times in an instant. Numerous small openings and cracks appeared in the damaged parts of the bone blade, almost like serrated teeth, and were on the verge of breaking. But Su Zhou's hand holding the blade was also shaken loose, forcing him to send the Blade of Extinction back to his personal space to prevent the divine blade from coming loose and flying to a place he didn't know.

But even so, Su Zhou still subconsciously asked his long-lost external search engine for this information: "And Destiny, what is the relationship between this great existence and you?"

['Destiny', the Destiny Driver... is like a playwright,编排出 (biān排chū) (arranging) the plot he wants to see, changing the world at will, inserting fates called prophecies, and creating all kinds of changes that he thinks are correct—the so-called promoting destiny is nothing more than modifying all the futures he doesn't want to see. Absolute 'order', He is my absolute nemesis since the beginning of my birth.]

Yala's tone was filled with uncomfortable anger: [And Fate Promotion is the ritual He uses to create his highest-level dependents—only those who are permitted can change their fate and become more powerful existences. Otherwise, why do you think this Heavenly Devil is so strong? Even if it is a true Overlord realm Heavenly Devil network aggregate, after being killed by you two or three times, it should almost collapse, and it will take ten and a half months to re-condense. How can it be like this, killing it is like not killing it, and it comes back again and again?]

[This guy is about to advance to one of 'Destiny's' most powerful dependents, the 'Deus Ex Machina' Fate Great Devil!]

Simple words could not cover all the information. When Yala spoke, endless information was directly transmitted into Su Zhou's soul.

Destiny Driver... was just another name for Him. Just like the real name of 'Lord of Reincarnation' was 'Lord of Silence', the real name of 'Source of the Divine Tree' was 'Great Dao Tree', and the real name of 'Lord of the Horizon' was 'Pioneer', the true尊名 (zūnmíng) (honorable name) of this great existence in the Universe Void was 'Dominator of Determinism'.

Everything was a predetermined fate.

His correctness was to forcibly change a story and dominate the direction of a world through 'prophecy', 'destiny guidance', or even 'Deus Ex Machina', so that the 'destiny' in His heart could be fulfilled.

At this moment, the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Devil... no, a 'Deus Ex Machina' that was transforming, was like a lightning bolt flying through the sea and sky. As the ice-blue streamer jumped, it crossed a distance of more than ten kilometers and came to Su Zhou.

Su Zhou wanted to dodge, but the other party's speed was too fast. Or rather, because of the lack of spiritual energy, Su Zhou could no longer capture the attacks that he could still deal with before.

As an ice-blue cold light slashed across, a huge knife mark appeared on the youth's chest and abdomen, and the ribs on his right side were cut off neatly, bursting out a cloud of blood.

[Destiny's' awakening time was even earlier than mine, but He was silent and unknown. He had bad luck and didn't encounter a dependent like you, and He happened to encounter a断绝 (duànjué) (severed) spiritual energy, so that He has only recovered to the current state. ]

The snake spirit's voice echoed in Su Zhou's heart. It did not worry at all about Su Zhou's seemingly miserable state now, but said calmly: [Su Zhou, you are not a confused person, you should have already made a choice in your heart.]

[But you still haven't chosen... I can feel it, you are afraid. What are you afraid of?]

And Su Zhou was silent in his heart for a moment. Then he sighed: "Yala, I am never afraid for myself... I am just a little confused. If I do not continue to cultivate according to the Divine Geometry, but choose my own path, will I not be able to help you and save this universe?"

"Just like this 'Deus Ex Machina', the dependents of other great existences are gradually appearing. I am no longer unique. If I do not cultivate the strongest cultivation technique and become the strongest existence, then they will defeat..."

[No.]

Yala suddenly interrupted Su Zhou.

The snake spirit's tone was solemn.

[You will always be unique, the Covenant Keeper I blessed. Just like Chaos, there is no similar existence.]

[Choose as your heart desires—but you must never be like me and repeat the path I have taken.]

[Because, this is my 'correctness'... 'Difference' named Chaos, which is absolutely impossible to predict.]

And at this moment, the destiny proxy in the form of a Nine-Tailed Fox 충격 왔다. It punched out, and was blocked by Su Zhou, but the overwhelming force blasted him into the air, even exceeding several times the speed of sound, and bringing up a burst of fire in the atmosphere.

But at this moment, the youth's heart was empty.

Overlord—Earth Immortal.

The so-called Overlord was an existence who surpassed ordinary people in a certain field, and could even be considered a leader among immortals. The four paths to immortality were their representatives.

Su Zhou had the possibility to advance on all four paths, but what he wanted to choose was an irreplaceable, truly his own power.

"Although my body is strong, but I, who have the Assembly True Body cultivation method, can also become stronger through continuous cultivation. Do I really need the 'Path of Life' to go further?"

"Although my combat skills are skilled, I can obtain divine ability techniques through evil souls, and I am afraid I do not need the 'Path of Law' to take the path of '術法通神 (shùfǎ tōngshén) (术法通神 - techniques reaching the divine), almost reaching the Dao'."

"And this spiritual energy is enough. Although I consumed all my spiritual energy this time, it was mainly because I was suppressed by a great realm. If we were both Earth Immortals, I would not be afraid of that Nine-Tailed Heavenly Devil."

In Su Zhou's heart, there was already a choice.

What was truly irreplaceable and truly the core of his own power was his own divine ability, which was born from his 'heart' and 'soul'.

—Devouring Evil Demon Lord.

—Unity of Myriad Thoughts.

—Flames of Sin.

—Heart of No Thought.

The core of all his power was the power derived from the soul.

A point of enlightenment lit up in his mind.

"I... am divine ability."

"I am the Devouring Evil Demon Lord!"

And at this moment.

What Su Zhou had vaguely sensed before, the movement originating from the high sky, had finally arrived!

In an instant, bright radiance flashed in the sky—

In the northwest of Qingqiu Star, it was now midnight. The sky was dark and the sun was out of sight, and the dark clouds were filled with water mist. Su Zhou and the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Devil's battle had even made the water vapor within hundreds of miles around linger. But at this time, beams of bright starlight were inserted straight down from the sky.

Rumble rumble—the sound could not be transmitted in time, but the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Devil noticed at this moment that beams of bright light were guiding and locking onto itself. This light flickered, making everything 無所遁形 (wú suǒ dùnxíng) (nowhere to escape).

"Did they aim?"

"Aim my ass, the spiritual energy below is like a volcanic eruption. They're fighting so hard that the world is falling apart. It would be strange if they couldn't aim!"

Not long ago, in outer space, in Qingqiu's lunar orbit, on the Yuanwang, which had accelerated several times by using the planet's gravity, next to the nuclear bomb发射架 (fāshèjià) (launcher), Tang Yuan was constantly engraving spiritual lines on the nuclear bomb, endowing it with his天赋神通 (tiānfù shéntōng) (innate divine ability) - under the effect of Tang Yuan's talent, these nuclear missiles would all spiritualize shortly after aiming, and pass through the spirit realm in an intangible and immaterial form, directly attacking the target it locked on.

And Liu Wuxin used his 'can see gods' level of mental power to assist the launch system to lock onto the enemy on the planet. He was extremely nervous at the