Chapter 245 The Long Road 7200

Even before refuting the Water God, Su Zhou had already begun accumulating the energy needed for his breath attack.

Although called a breath attack, it was actually Su Zhou condensing the power of thunder, the Storm Seed, and the sacred geometric pentagram, representing the pinnacle of his own energy attacks.

At the same time, without waiting for Yala to respond, he spoke to himself in his mind: "Yala, I understand."

"The so-called True Form is the strongest weapon formed by an extraordinary individual using their own body and extraordinary power."

Ordinary magical treasures and equipment are weapons created using natural treasures or the materials of magical beasts. But ultimately, isn't the flesh and blood condensed by the True Form a kind of extraordinary material? So, in essence, the shape of the True Form doesn't really matter, right?

Although it has strong life-saving abilities, it's understandable to regard it as a defensive magical treasure. And in terms of attack, it's even simpler: the True Form's attack is equivalent to the user and a magical treasure of comparable strength attacking together—how could such power not be strong?

"Su Zhou, what exactly are you trying to say?!" Even Yala couldn't figure out what Su Zhou was thinking at this moment, and subconsciously asked.

"The True Form is a cannon!"

He replied decisively in his heart, and at that instant, the vertical pupils in Su Zhou's eyes were obscured by increasingly intense spiritual light. The cyan-purple spiritual power around him, like flames, changed three times a second, sometimes transforming into lightning, sometimes into flames, and sometimes into a storm wind. The Circulation of Heaven and Man also operated rapidly, frantically connecting to the power of the surrounding great sources of spiritual energy.

In the short time he spent talking with the Water God, Su Zhou had already stabilized the energy circulation within his body. The True Form, made of God's flesh and blood, became the foundation for him to break through his own limits.

And his voice still echoed in the soul space: "What dragon shape? As long as it's long, it's fine, right? Then a cannon barrel can also become a dragon? Thinking about it carefully, the dragon is completely like humans, a matter of free interpretation. If I think it's a dragon, then it's a dragon!"

At the moment the words were spoken, it could be seen that the power gathered around Su Zhou began to condense. The vortex-like majestic spiritual power began to shrink rapidly, and then entered the spine within Su Zhou's body—also the most complete True Form spiritualized organ in Su Zhou's entire body after this True Form transformation!

This spine was covered with dense flesh and blood runes. It was like a cannon barrel, used to transmit Su Zhou's vast spiritual power, accumulate it, compress it, and then conduct and release the 'magical treasure'!

At this moment—Su Zhou broke through to the Commander Realm!

Su Zhou already possessed all the essential elements of the so-called Commander Realm. He was even incredibly skilled in using his own Natal Divine Power. And when he relied on the Water God's divine flesh and blood to break through the barrier between heaven and earth and began to resonate with the surrounding spiritual power, he naturally and smoothly advanced to the Commander Realm!

Not a Commander Realm advanced through the Sacred Geometry Path, but a Commander Realm advanced with the Minghong Transforming Dragon Method—when the Minghong Transforming Dragon Method's True Dragon transformation is successful, it is either the High or Peak stage of Extraordinary, and after awakening the Natal Divine Power, one can achieve the Commander Realm. And Su Zhou, who already had Divine Power, achieved the Commander Realm with an incomplete True Form, which is enough to prove how deep his accumulated foundation is. This also represents that the strength of his True Form dragon body far exceeds ordinary True Dragons, and can even be comparable to a complete Heavenly Dragon Divine Dragon!

At the same time, the Water God also noticed something was wrong. He discovered that Su Zhou's aura was rising steadily, his spiritual power increasing tenfold in an instant. Finally, he even opened his mouth wide—an abnormal, star-like glow was brewing within it, and the spiritual light, like blazing flames or thunder, was so intense that it obscured his face.

It could be seen that from the end of Su Zhou's True Form transformed giant tail, the purple-cyan spiritual light lit up along the thorn-like tail fins, and then surged upward along the spine, transforming with the brilliance of purple, cyan, and blue. And finally, when that light was transmitted to his mouth, three hundred and sixty Greater Circulation Storm Seeds converged into one, with the Miedu Blade (Blade of Extinction) divine sword as the core, condensing into a blazing white divine light.

Then, a new star bloomed!

At the moment when Su Zhou, who had advanced to the Commander Realm, transformed the divine sword into a cannonball and launched it with his strongest breath attack, which condensed all his power, the world didn't even have time to make a sound. All the air in front of him was completely pushed away by the excessive power, turning it into a vacuum, making it impossible for sound to transmit.

The blazing white energy torrent soared like a tsunami. It brushed against the lake water, causing the lake water to explode and vaporize. It brushed against the hills, causing the hills to collapse into ash. The fragmented atmosphere issued a distorted groan, and the dust in the air burned into sparks, scattering like rain, and lava splashed in mid-air.

And the Water God also roared—even though Su Zhou had broken through to the Commander Realm, his total amount of spiritual power still had an essential difference from His. It was just that He had been severely injured from the beginning, and was even invaded by Su Zhou, almost destroying His magic furnace core, so He had always been in a weakened state.

Now, facing Su Zhou's long-accumulated peak strike, He also used His full strength. The Whale God also opened His abyss-like giant mouth, and the crown crystal on His head flickered. He began to inhale, and the surging water flow converged in His mouth at super-high speed. The transparent air turned into white mist under the rapid vibration of this water flow—the water flow, magic power, and the rain and spiritual light flying between heaven and earth were all taken into the Water God's mouth.

In the next instant, a cyan light suddenly rose, cutting through the sky. A brilliance more dazzling than the sun bloomed, and even thunder appeared in the air because of it—where this light passed, the solid rock turned into gas, the rain retreated, all things turned to ash, and the atmosphere was lifted by the aftershocks, turning into shockwaves and forming tornadoes.

Whale God and Su Zhou, one large and one small, one left and one right, two rays of light so bright that it seemed as if only they existed between heaven and earth, intersected in the middle.

Then, first there was silence, and then there was a tremor that resounded through the sky!

————Boom boom boom boom!!!!

A cyan-white semi-circular energy light ball, with the origin of the two breath attacks colliding as the center, rapidly expanded on the ground. The lake water and the earth turned into nothingness under this power, forming a giant pit.

After that, the cyan-white energy light ball shattered, and the two breath attacks tore and cut each other, being dispersed into dozens of smaller beams, which burst out in all directions, forming a series of explosions. A sky-covering gray-white mushroom cloud rose slowly above the shattered energy light ball, with blue electric arcs scurrying within the cloud.

And at this moment, a tiny flash of metal flashed across the sky, piercing through the huge breath attacks and clouds, carrying the power to kill souls, and hitting the crystal on top of the Water God's head, who had not yet reacted!

Crack crack crack... A series of small shattering sounds came, and it could be seen that on top of the Water God's head, in the midst of His astonished expression, a golden-red blade that was only the main body was inserted into the crystal on top of the Water God's head, which was like a crown, and countless fine cracks were spreading on the crystal.

That was the one in the very center of the three crystals, also the largest one—and now, this cyan-blue crystal shattered and collapsed in the Water God's almost frantic screams of pain, turning into countless lusterless fragments!

"This is the focusing effect!"

Su Zhou laughed loudly, his gray-white scales emitting bursts of cyan smoke as if they were overloaded—these dragon scales could resist attacks, but they were not just external attacks. The chaotic spiritual power within Su Zhou's body would also be absorbed and transformed by these scales, allowing him to freely use his True Form as a cannon barrel, condensing the most powerful force without worrying about self-destruction.

Previously, when preparing the breath attack, Su Zhou used his own breath attack power to wrap the Miedu Blade (Blade of Extinction), and used Storm Armor to condense a structure similar to an armor-piercing projectile around the Miedu Blade (Blade of Extinction). And at the moment he launched his breath attack, this armor-piercing projectile, which condensed the power of three hundred and sixty Storm Seeds, was launched with Su Zhou's full power!

Ordinary armor-piercing projectiles are loaded with high-performance explosives. The concentrated explosive impact pressure is enough to accelerate the armor-piercing metal body to eight kilometers per second, which is more than twenty-three times the speed of sound. Although most of Su Zhou's breath attack power had to be used to fight against the Water God's breath attack, the remaining power definitely exceeded ordinary high-performance explosives by an unknown amount.

At the moment when the three hundred and sixty Storm Seeds shattered together, all the power was added to the Miedu Blade (Blade of Extinction), condensing at the top of its blade. The Miedu Blade (Blade of Extinction) was directly accelerated to dozens of times the speed of sound by the power of the jet stream!

Su Zhou simply didn't think that his breath attack could win against the Water God. He was just an ordinary extraordinary individual who had just entered the Commander Realm, while the other party, even if He had fallen back to the Commander Realm due to weakness and had been severely injured by the elemental array, was still the realm of the former God—however, the Water God was not invincible. Judging from the result, Su Zhou won the gamble.

Taking advantage of the Water God's suffering unprecedented damage because the crown crystal on top of His head was shattered, Su Zhou once again condensed his full power—he burned the remaining divine flesh and blood power in his abdomen, transforming it into lightning and flames. The Storm Armor could not be used temporarily because the Storm Seeds were shattered. Now he could only use the power of the Fire Spirit and Thunder Method.

But that was enough. Su Zhou's gray-white, wingless dragon body was now shrouded in cyan-purple flames and cyan-blue lightning. Even a True Dragon that controlled flames and lightning could not compare. He pounced towards the Water God, who had fallen into a chaotic state, and once again pulled open the curtain of battle!

Half of the dim world was illuminated by the flames and lightning rising around Su Zhou.

And even though the core spiritual power organ was destroyed, the muddled Water God still roared and woke up at the moment He sensed hostility, and started a great battle with Su Zhou—and although Su Zhou's body had become huge, his movements were still extremely agile. In fact, his strong arms and legs made his mobility even better.

The Water God's counterattack certainly caused the air to shake and stirred up violent hurricanes, but Su Zhou could also use the wind to move freely in this hurricane, using his huge body to create wounds on the incomparably huge Water God.

The two monsters fought each other, and the lake water churned and vibrated under the bombardment of their power. Even the distant City of Nesser observed the spiritual light from afar because of this.

The city guards and other extraordinary individuals who were still protecting the city and shelters lowered their heads in that direction. They devoutly recited Su Zhou's name, and even knelt on the ground, praying that he would return victorious.

Similarly, in the Water God's Followers' camp, countless fishmen and intelligent undead also prostrated on the ground, worshiping from afar.

But the two sides in the battle could not hear them.

This life-and-death battle lasted for a full hour, until the storm stopped, the waves calmed down, and the praying people fell into deathly silence.

And the distant battlefield also fell into silence.

But this silence was not the end, but a stalemate.

The huge Water God was covered with explosive wounds. Su Zhou's attacks after True Form transformation were no longer just scratching an itch for Him, but a real and fierce attack that could scrape off a piece of flesh. Endless blue blood flowed from these wounds, and the giant whale, unable to continue controlling the wounds, could only let it soak through a surrounding area of water.

And Su Zhou had disappeared without a trace.

However, it could vaguely be seen that the dying Water God's giant mouth was tightly closed.

He was exerting force, as if trying to bite off something located there.

In the mouth of the giant whale, equally exhausted, so much so that at the end of the battle, Su Zhou, who had been swallowed into the mouth of the giant whale in the final explosion, was raising his arms like jacks, supporting the giant whale's mountain-like upper jaw—the gray-white wingless great dragon's feet had even stepped into the giant whale's flesh, but he was about to be unable to support it. There was even a cracking sound from the bones of his arms, as if they were about to break.

This had nothing to do with courage, will, or determination. Under the Water God's power, Su Zhou's body was indeed not as good as the other party's. Even if the giant whale was extremely weak now, even if it was difficult to close its mouth, Su Zhou would be crushed into pieces if he relaxed, simply by relying on weight.

Crack—

He couldn't hold on anymore—a crisp cracking sound rang out, and the bones of Su Zhou's arms shattered directly. Bone fragments burst and impacted outside his body, like a blooming white flower. This forced him to bend over and use his dragon-transformed, broad spine to replace his arms, continuing to resist the giant whale's upper jaw.

And in the process, the giant whale's mouth closed a little more, as if it could completely crush Su Zhou in the next instant.

At this point, they had both lost the leeway to speak. One silently applied force, and the other silently resisted.

Until a burst of laughter came.

"It's almost at the limit."

Su Zhou, whose eyes, nose, and mouth were all overflowing with blood, said loudly, laughing: "My dragon scales have reached their limit. They can no longer absorb the spiritual power in my body, transform it into impact, and block your oppression."

"So, you're going to admit defeat?" For some reason, the Water God, who was also laughing, sent a soul message like this: "It's not too late to admit defeat now."

"No."

Su Zhou slowly shook his head: "Don't you understand yet—I can finally self-destruct."

At the moment the words were finished, the scales around Su Zhou's body began to light up with white light.

The gray-white dragon scales of the wingless great dragon were special scales created by Su Zhou using the Five-Spirit Colored Scales as a prototype. They could absorb elemental spiritual power, transform it into other spiritual power, and then cancel each other out, turning it into pure impact force, spraying it out along the set grooves to relieve the damage caused by spiritual power attacks.

And similarly, with these scales, Su Zhou could also transform his spiritual power into pure impact force and power, and use it to block the giant whale's bite.

However, the dragon scales had a limit—and after it reached its limit, it would explode.

This was originally a feature used as reactive armor, but now it has become Su Zhou's last means of attack.

And now, it exploded.

In the midst of the roar and the strong light, endless lightning and flames burst out in the Water God's mouth. In an instant, the giant whale's mouth was forced open for a moment, and a bloody, wingless dragon shape struggled to roll out of it, while the giant whale was shaken out of a mouthful of blood by the vibration that occurred in its own mouth.

"Ah ah—I can't die! At least, not now, I can't die yet—"

At the end of his life, the Water God was still struggling. Tears of blood flowed from the giant whale's eyes: "No, if I die, my people..."

At this time, Su Zhou, who was being ridiculed by Yala as 'almost perishing together with Him, using revival', did not utter his habitual mockery.

He struggled to get up from the ground, looked at the God who was still talking about his people until the end, and pondered in silence.

——Good and evil are relative. Even a monster that slaughters ordinary people just to restore its own power just wants to protect its own people.

Is there absolute justice under the magnitude of races and civilizations?

"You asked me why, why fight for the Earth people who have nothing to do with me, and I gave my answer."

Finally, facing the dying Water God, he slowly approached the other party. Su Zhou didn't seem to be afraid at all that the other party would suddenly burst out again and swallow him into his mouth. He asked like this: "And now, Water God, I want to ask you a 'why'."

"Why? At the end of the era, when the previous generation of civilizations revived, you could obviously communicate and cooperate with other civilizations. You could completely exchange your thoughts during the apocalypse and prepare methods to fight against the apocalypse. You could undoubtedly gather the power of several eras and make the best choice—why did you have to kill and fight each other, letting everything evolve to the point of massacre?"

Su Zhou did not support the Earth people. If the Earth people were to slaughter the Water people, or the Wind people were to slaughter the Water people, or any other existence of any other era, just to restore their power, even without any more lofty purpose, just to restore their power, and wantonly slaughter the innocent old and young of another race, or even the civilians who could not pose any threat to the other party, then he would definitely take action and stand in front of the 'weak'.

Su Zhou is the Devouring Demon Lord. His justice is his own justice. Other people's thoughts have nothing to do with him, and he will never change his own concept of good and evil because of other people's opinions—but, in the final analysis, he is still a young man under the age of twenty.

He firmly believes in his own correctness, which does not require any reason, but he wants to know why others do not do the right thing.

He was puzzled by this.

"Why not do that?"

The Water God raised His tired eyes, and the giant whale's pupils were dilating. Death was inevitably coming.

But at this time, His expression was much more relaxed: "Nameless existence, because I don't have the strength."

"The Earth people you see are an abnormal civilization that lost its gods and inheritance because of the severance of the Demonic Tide. And during the general era change, we gods who have just revived cannot defeat those gods."

"If those gods have malicious intentions towards me, and they say they want to cooperate, but they just want my knowledge, and then betray me after they get it and turn around and destroy my people, what should I do? If I don't use blood sacrifices to restore my own power, but other gods do, what should I do?"

The giant whale's voice was getting weaker and weaker: "I can only use the fastest method to restore my own power and get the bargaining chips to fight with other gods at the end of the era. This is also the message that the previous generation of Water Gods told me... Haha, this is my first revival, and the result is the last revival. To be honest, in this mutual killing of gods, I really don't know who has ever really won in the end. Most gods perish together, causing the era to change naturally—just like this time's Earth God, He is obviously a god born naturally in the first reincarnation, otherwise, how could He even forget to leave behind His inheritance."

Su Zhou listened to all this in silence, his expression unchanged, and at this time, the giant whale's voice was still mumbling.

"Unite as one and work together, do you think we don't want to? The essence of civilization is communication, but the essence of civilization is also self-protection. My people are behind me, how can I take risks?"

Hearing this, Su Zhou spoke, and he asked in confusion: "I don't know all this, but this time, is that really the case? The current Earth people obviously don't have the power to resist you, and there is no Earth God to stop you—He has already transformed himself into a part of the origin earth to continue this era, so why do you still have to slaughter this time to restore your own power?"

"Because there is the existence of the Wind God, He revived with me... If He restores His power through blood sacrifices, and I don't do that, then my people will also be slaughtered..." The giant whale's voice even carried a moment of incredible cheerfulness: "Haha, in the end, we are just prisoners of reincarnation, repeating in this eternal cycle."

"Nameless existence, you ask me why I don't do the right thing, that's because only the truly strong can do the right thing! Facing the end of the world, facing the change of era, if you also bear countless people and bear your own civilization, then as a God, you can only choose the least bad option."

——The struggle and slaughter between civilizations, fighting for the best opportunities of the era, and betting on that insignificant possibility, is the least bad choice.

"Unless, I am very strong, very strong, so strong that if I want to express goodwill, other existences will not dare to express malice, so strong that if I want to do good, other people will not dare to do evil... Unfortunately, unfortunately, I am not strong enough..."

Su Zhou originally wanted to say something more, but the Water God was already dead.

A light blue, semi-transparent soul like ice crystals emerged.

One half of it was as dark as the dim sea in the deep night, and the other half was as bright as the bright waves under the sun, with the sea of light and the tide of dark night alternating in reincarnation.

"The prisoner's dilemma, indeed, you are indeed prisoners of reincarnation. If you have to choose, you can only choose the least bad one... But, the least bad choice can never break the cycle."

Picking up this huge evil soul, Su Zhou raised his head and looked at the Water God's corpse. He muttered to himself: "You kill each other like this, eternally kill each other, and eternally reincarnate. How is it possible, how is it possible to break this cycle? Even if it has been continued for many generations, who can know if it will encounter a spiritual energy severance like the Earth God? What's more, if the spiritual energy is severed, isn't it just a part of an even bigger cycle?"

"Even I can guess it—the maze has eight layers, or even more, but in the end, only two gods are resurrected. So what about the previous gods? Why are only the Water God and the Wind God resurrected? Also, what about the previous generation of Fire God? This means that not every time can a god be resurrected, right? After multiple era changes, even the marks in the maze have been worn away, and they can no longer be resurrected, and can only wait for new gods to appear..."

For some reason, Su Zhou suddenly felt a flash of inspiration in his heart.

——Wait, since it is said that the maze contains the remains and souls of all past civilizations... Does this mean that the maze is just another concept of the underworld?

The Silent Lord, the maze, reincarnation and rebirth... the reappearance of the maze, the ecological information of the previous era, the souls resurrected from it after death...

But this moment of inspiration was ultimately overshadowed by fatigue. Su Zhou just remembered this train of thought, and then collapsed to the ground—he didn't even have the strength to continue standing.

However, even when he collapsed to the ground, the bloody, wingless great dragon was still whispering to himself.

"The least bad choice... But if you don't even pursue what is right, if you don't even strive for a perfect ending, then how is it possible to get perfection, where everyone can be happy, and there will no longer be any 'evil' endings?"

The Devouring Demon Lord never desires the world to be filled with evil, but that there will no longer be any souls in the world that can be devoured by him.

After a long silence, Su Zhou said with incomparable firmness in the soul space: "Yala, I must become..."

"Become what, Su Zhou?"

The red little snake gently answered the words of his contractor.

"I must, become a true powerhouse!"

Su Zhou said like this, clenching his fists: "And then, choose to do the right thing!"

And the snake spirit just sighed with unknown emotion: "Su Zhou... do you know that this is even more difficult than eliminating all 'evil'. With your current strength, you are really too far away."

"Is becoming a hegemon not enough?"

"Not enough."

"Is becoming an immortal god not enough?"

"Not enough."

"Even if it is enough to create all things and all living beings, the Heavenly Venerate Creator, is it not possible?"

"Not possible."

A short and rapid response, alternating back and forth three times, and finally, Su Zhou sighed, and also asked with a smile: "Even if it is above the Heavenly Venerate, above the Heavenly Venerate, the most powerful existence I know, those 'Great Existences', are they not possible?"

"Haha, Su Zhou, my contractor."

When the words were said here, even Yala laughed: "Isn't there such a sad and pitiful one coiled on your shoulders, among the sealed Great Existences?"

This was indeed the first time that Yala herself mentioned the matter of her being sealed, but she did not continue to say it. Instead, she stretched out her tail and gently stroked Su Zhou's bloody neck. She replied calmly: "Let's go, Su Zhou, continue to move forward."

"Your journey in this world has not ended yet."

It was indeed not a time to stop.

It was time to set off.

So the tired Su Zhou got up and walked towards the direction of Nesser City in the dark night.

The gale was whistling, the rain was dripping down, the clouds covered the stars and moon again, and the cold fog began to spread.

Only a lonely figure could be seen, the journey of a person and a snake.

And the road to pursuing what is right is such a dark and lonely, long road.