Chapter 1 The Addition of the Wind God

The addition of the Wind God went unnoticed.

Not even Grand Duke Elias of Nesser knew that the grey-haired man who had suddenly appeared beside Su Zhou was an ancient god from a bygone era. Su Zhou also found it a little difficult to explain why the Wind God was traveling with him, so he vaguely said that the other party was a temporary companion, and he would reveal his true identity in the future.

"Mr. Su, I always feel like that man is a little strange..."

When the two were alone, Elias would try to remind Su Zhou, "He always gives me a dangerous feeling, and he disappears suddenly, without me knowing where he went."

Of course he's dangerous... As a quasi-dependent with some of Su Zhou's blood, Elias's sensitivity to energy was much higher than before. He could easily sense the unrestrained wind element fluctuations around the Wind God. His physical instincts told him that the other party was powerful enough to kill him instantly.

"Just treat him as a randomly spawning NPC. Anyway, he won't do anything to the city."

Su Zhou could only reply to Elias's worried reminders in this way. And the Wind God did act like a randomly spawning NPC, wandering around Nesser City these days, sometimes doing good deeds like helping old people back home, and sometimes watching Su Zhou spread the Dragonscale Elixir.

Even though Su Zhou had sewn his torn lower body back together after the battle with the Wind God, a large amount of blood and flesh could not be returned to his body. Since that was the case, Su Zhou did not waste it. Instead, he took it back to the city and had the various alchemical workshops and potion masters work overtime to produce potions.

With assembly lines and semi-automatic magic circle manufacturing, the potions needed to supply the entire city were ready. There was still a lot of Su Zhou's flesh and blood left over. If Nesser City could contact other survivors in this world, they would have planned to sell or give away these potions.

"There aren't many survivors left. The Water God's followers have basically destroyed all the shelter cities in the former Thousand Lakes Kingdom region, and the shelter cities in other regions have long since moved into the Underworld Labyrinth due to the depletion of the water veins."

The Wind God's words confirmed this disheartening news to Su Zhou, "Settling in the Underworld Labyrinth is actually giving up the identity of 'living beings'. Although it doesn't seem like a problem in this apocalyptic situation, at the end of the era, they will be considered dead and will not be able to enter the next era."

In fact, the Water God's city-slaughtering sacrifices had caused huge casualties in the major shelter cities, and even created huge undead clusters on the surface. These undead clusters had been surrounding Nesser City recently, resulting in several extremely fierce city defense battles.

"Are there really no other survivors?"

Su Zhou, who took the lead in wiping out the attacking undead with his Dominator-level strength, once again defended Nesser City and received the fanatical worship of countless people, was not very happy. He was still a little unwilling to give up. "Even if there are only a few dozen or a hundred people left, it doesn't matter. With my speed, it's enough to transfer them all here..."

He really didn't want to abandon anyone.

"First of all, you have to be able to find them, which is almost impossible in itself."

The Wind God shook his head. "Secondly, with only a few dozen or a hundred people, how can they survive on the surface without entering the labyrinth? And there are no large-scale shelter cities left. Even if there were, they would have been slaughtered by the Water God's city-slaughtering acts... Otherwise, why do you think I could find this place so quickly?"

"Because Nesser City is one of the few remaining cities of Earthlings in this world."

Hearing this, the young man became dejected and fell silent.

Yes, after the battle with the Wind God, Su Zhou completely digested his true form. Now, he could transform his true form into a soul and store it in his soul space. When needed, he could manifest his true form and store his main body in his soul space instead.

This used a certain transcendent law of 'matter-spirit conversion'. It was originally a very complex technique, but through generations of summary and simplification by cultivators, it had been simplified to the point where even ordinary cultivators could use its basic functions.

Similarly, recently, as Su Zhou sought guidance from the Wind God, his Zhou Shen Lan Jia (Surrounding Mist Armor) had also been greatly improved.

"This technique is very good in itself, and has great potential, but your practice is very rough... Yes, you use it very skillfully. You can say that you have explored all the potential of this technique, but your practice is very rough."

Regarding Su Zhou's cultivation in Zhou Shen Lan Jia, the wind attribute expert, the Wind God, said that he couldn't turn around for him. This god explicitly pointed out that Su Zhou's use of the Lan Zhong (Mist Seeds) was still at a very প্রাথমিক stage. "Lan Zhong are essentially points that create magical wind. By freely controlling them, you can shape the wind into various forms and even assist your body, unleashing various tremendous powers... But why do you always individually call upon the power of each Lan Zhong?"

"Combine the Lan Zhong into small groups, give them a certain degree of autonomous action, and let them float around you, occasionally bursting out a burst of wind cannons to hinder your enemies' actions. When defense is needed, you can gather these Lan Zhong together to quickly form a combined Lan Shield. Isn't that much faster than having to call them individually every time?"

It was like building a wall with individual bricks versus modular construction. It was a fundamental update of technology.

With the Wind God's assistance and guidance, Su Zhou not only optimized the structure of the Lan Zhong, making the gale they could create even more powerful, but he also thought of countless useful methods. "Indeed, the Wind God's ideas coincide with some of my previous ideas. Moreover, not only the Lan Zhong, but I can also add my other powers to this combination."

"My breath is essentially just gathering power and spraying it out. I don't actually need to do it in my mouth. I can create some structures similar to my spine cannons with Lan Zhong as the core to form 'floating cannons'. When encountering enemies, the floating cannons will fly over first, unleashing a barrage of breath attacks, and then I will personally take action to kill them!"

Su Zhou already had a vague idea similar to this, and the Wind God helped him perfect this idea and technically supported him in completing the modification.

After Su Zhou completely wiped out the undead around Nesser City and upgraded the Lan Zhong, everyone in the entire city, even three-year-old children, were injected with the Dragonscale Elixir made from Su Zhou's blood, only in varying amounts.

In other words, they were all now somewhat resistant to elemental stagnation, and could live normally on the surface even without the protection array.

After Su Zhou finished these things, he set off, preparing to go to the center of the world with the Wind God.

That is, the place where the former 'Earth God' died.

Before that, Su Zhou borrowed a space ring from Elias, returned to the bottom of the labyrinth, and loaded a portion of the 'Primordial Water Element' left behind by the Water God.

Then, he asked Elias, asking him if he wanted to witness the prelude to this era's transition with him and the Wind God.

"Me? Is it really okay?"

The white-haired, grey-eyed boy pointed at himself in surprise. He looked very nervous and a little dejected. "Also, is the world going to end... so soon... I thought it would at least drag on until I died of old age."

What he said was the thought of most Earthlings in this era—so what if the apocalypse comes? It might not come before I die anyway. Every day I live is a gain.

A kind of decadent optimism.

"Perhaps it is the end of the world, perhaps it is the transition of the era, perhaps it is a new life."

Su Zhou replied calmly, "I am going to try some new choices. If I fail, my friend next to me will make another repetitive, but at least stable, choice."

"Don't worry, in my standards, the most important thing is whether it will affect most ordinary people... and you all have my blood, so it is unlikely to be affected. And Elias, as the leader of Nesser City and the leader of the largest group of Earthlings today, I think you may need to witness all of this as a representative of the Earthlings."

Since things had been said to this point, how could Elias refuse?

With Su Zhou's prestige in Nesser City, which was like a god, or rather, simply a god in the world, Elias's going on a long trip with Su Zhou would not affect order in the slightest. After witnessing Su Zhou's power, even those with some careful thoughts would not dare to commit any crimes in anything related to Su Zhou.

In this way, Su Zhou, the Wind God, and Elias set off for the center of the Tartadis world.

That is, the place where the former Earth God sacrificed himself to the world to maintain the existence of heaven and earth.

It was also the place where the most massive 'labyrinth' in the entire world was located.