“Shen Xu, I know you have endured a lot of pain and have been suppressing yourself, but if you still have any rationality left, please answer me one last question…” Li Zhisheng looked up at me and asked, “Do you really want to kill all of humanity?”
I gazed at him, pondering for a moment before calmly replying, “Do you know? Within me not only gather the souls of humanity but also the spirits of other beings in this world, as well as those lifeless entities that humans perceive. What I feel is not just humanity; it is this entire world…”
“Do you remember the last line from the Divine Anomalies Classic after it was unlocked? ‘Where the spirit of void resides, all spirits belong. All things have spirits, and all spirits return to the Void Spirit.’ Now I understand that this phrase does not mean that all spirits will belong to the Void Spirit, but rather that the Void Spirit is formed by all spirits.”
“It’s like humanity; at the beginning of life, human nature is inherently good. It is the environment filled with desires that changes everything. Therefore, I want to let everything start anew and restore this world to the order it should have…”
“Bullshit!” Before I could finish, Li Zhisheng interrupted me angrily. “Since you know that it is the environment guiding human hearts towards evil thoughts, why don’t you change humanity by making others feel goodness?! Instead, you want to destroy humanity! What does that even mean?!”
“The humanity I perceive now is beyond change. If you believe it can be changed, then prove it to me…” As I spoke, I slowly raised my right hand holding the Ancient Blade and gently made a cut on my left palm.
Immediately, blood flowed from my palm and began to drip down.
Seeing this, the Sun Warrior Leader seemed to realize what I was about to do. He exclaimed, “Not good!” and leaped up to catch the blood dripping from my hand.
“We cannot let the God King’s blood fall to the ground; his blood will unite the realms of yin and yang!” The Sun Warrior Leader declared as he unleashed all his power.
At that moment, I saw three Void Gods within him; they were the souls of generals once under Cangdi's command.
“Do you also wish to oppose me?” I asked the three Void Spirits surrounding the Sun Warrior Leader's soul.
They heard me but did not respond; they simply lowered their heads silently.
“My king, I know this is not your true intention. If possible, neither I nor the other Void Gods wish to be your enemies. We are also helpless!”
With that, the Sun Warrior Leader clenched his fists and howled upward, “Fiery… Annihilation!”
As soon as he finished speaking, two majestic You Long appeared in the sky, their dragon roars echoing through the clouds.
“Hey! You guys! If you don’t want humanity to be destroyed, help me hold off the Divine Envoy!” The Sun Warrior Leader turned to Li Zhisheng and Hu Fang.
At this moment, Hu Fang was already in tears, tightly clutching a Soul Sealing Talisman as she sobbed, “I don’t care about anyone else’s life or death; I just want Shen Xu. Please, don’t kill him…”
Li Zhisheng frowned and gritted his teeth. “He is no longer the Shen Xu we knew. Hu Fang, don’t you understand? He has become the God King!”
Seeing Li Zhisheng like this, Mo Yun also stepped beside him and drew a Black Soldier from his waist. “Although I don’t fully understand what you’re talking about, my master once told us that evil people should be eliminated!”
Seeing this, I looked at them and smiled, saying, "Come and give it a try."
As soon as I finished speaking, the Sun Warrior Leader's body trembled and he charged straight at me. Beside him, Gu Kai let out a soft snort, "You overestimate yourself," and flew forward to meet him.
In an instant, the two clashed together. Gu Kai unleashed his dark green Void Spirit, engaging in a fierce battle with the Sun Warrior Leader in mid-air. At that moment, two imposing dragons swooped down from above, diving towards me.
The air was thick with Killing Intent, and a fierce wind whipped up dust and debris from the ground, creating a cloud of chaos. The previously sparse clouds above began to swirl rapidly due to the movement of the two dragons, gradually forming dark storm clouds. Suddenly, thunder roared as bolts of lightning struck down from above, illuminating the pitch-black night sky as if it were day.
"God King, you need not intervene; let me and Hai handle this pointless conflict for you."
Hearing this voice, I glanced at the mysterious woman whose name I had not known until now. Suddenly, her name surfaced in my mind: "Gulu? Go ahead..."
"Yes!" Gulu responded eagerly and immediately shot towards the two dragons like an arrow released from a bow.
Meanwhile, Li Zhisheng and Hu Fang were watching. Upon seeing Gulu attempt to block Fiery Annihilation, Li Zhisheng intended to step forward and restrain her. However, he was injured in multiple places and his strength was far too weak compared to Soul Burial against a Divine Envoy.
Gulu saw Li Zhisheng but had no intention of acknowledging him. She raised her hand and unleashed a gust of wind that sent Li Zhisheng crashing back to the ground.
Mo Yun rushed forward to help Li Zhisheng up, but just then, an overwhelming chill erupted from the fierce battle between Gu Kai and the Sun Warrior Leader. In an instant, it engulfed everything around them, freezing even the surrounding plants into solid ice.
Since Mo Yun and the young assassin accompanying Li Zhisheng lacked the protection of Void Spirit, they were frozen along with the vegetation in that moment.
Their bodies became rigid in place; Mo Yun remained in her pose as she reached out to touch Li Zhisheng lying on the ground...
"What is happening..." Li Zhisheng seemed unable to believe his eyes as he reached out to touch Mo Yun. Just as his hand made contact with her frozen form, several crisp cracking sounds echoed through the air as Mo Yun's icy body shattered into fragments that scattered over him.
"What have you all done!" Li Zhisheng stood up clutching the ice covering him, tears filling his eyes. It seemed that during their time together in the assassin's domain, he had developed feelings for Mo Yun.
"You brought her here; you can't blame anyone else..." I said calmly. Before I could finish my sentence, a loud crash echoed from above. Looking up, I saw Gulu using all her strength to block the two dragons.
This scene resembled when two Void Gods from Yang Master had once resisted the intense Fiery Annihilation released by Li Zhisheng's father; however, this time Fiery Annihilation was aimed directly at me...
At that moment, Li Zhisheng was completely consumed by rage. He lowered his head with a cold laugh and said, "Yes, I brought her here..." Then he suddenly lifted his head with fury burning in his eyes: "If I hadn't brought her here, she might have already been killed by you!"
"Is that so? Perhaps everything was already destined in some way..." I replied indifferently while calmly observing Gu Kai who was locked in combat with the Sun Warrior Leader. He was gradually falling behind now; he had sustained multiple injuries from the Sun Warrior Leader's attacks and blood was continuously spilling from his wounds onto the ground.
"Enough, Gu Kai; you can't defeat him. Stand down," I said to Gu Kai.
He heard my words, struggling to fend off the attacks from the Sun Warrior Leader while forcing himself to respond, "When you granted us the name Divine Envoy, it was already destined that we would swear to protect you with our lives. For us, there is no justice or evil, no good or bad, only loyalty!"
With that, Gu Kai abandoned his defense, channeling all his strength into his palm and launching an attack aimed directly at the chest of the Sun Warrior Leader. Seizing this moment, the Sun Warrior Leader struck back with even greater speed, landing a punch squarely on Gu Kai's heart.
A dull thud echoed as Gu Kai's back erupted in a spray of blood, as if his chest had been pierced directly by the Sun Warrior Leader.
"Such loyalty," the Sun Warrior Leader remarked, releasing Gu Kai and allowing him to plummet from the sky.
"God King, now it's time for our battle..." the Sun Warrior Leader said, catching his breath and shaking the blood from his hands.
I tightened my grip on the Ancient Blade, calmly looking at him. "You will die..."
(End of Chapter)
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