Chapter 438: What the Holy God Thinks, Gnawing on the Stars

"In other words, you are also here to destroy our home? Even though that little girl just said we aren't enemies, that you came to resolve the current situation, so this 'current situation' actually includes us? We gods and humans who are raised and kept in captivity are actually just living tools for your training?"

The Holy God responded to Du En's words with a targeted retort, revealing so much content all at once that Ming's expression sank as she listened.

Because it was very obvious that the Holy God, just like the Dark God, had perceived the truth of the star!

Yet she had kept it hidden from me the whole time! She couldn't help but grit her teeth in secret, and couldn't resist glaring at Jiang Ying's side.

Or rather, at that bunch of "lonely ghosts and wild spirits" that had popped up earlier.

Jiang Ying, feeling that she had suffered an unprovoked disaster, was surprised that their divine sense conversation had been eavesdropped on; she tensed her nerves and paid no mind to the glare from the annoying person beside her.

At the same time, subconsciously, she wanted to argue, to say something like she wasn't some evil extraterrestrial demon, and that our Falling Feather Meng Sect were all people of high aspirations.

But looking at the back of the person in charge, Du En, she showed great restraint and did not interrupt at this moment.

These situations sound like a lot, but in reality, it was all in the blink of an eye.

At this time, Du En spoke up: "Rather than saying we are here to destroy your home, it is better to say we are here to help clean up the mess. If possible, we wouldn't need to be so aggressive; we could just smoothly settle in, play dumb, and leave."

"..."

The Holy God fell into silence, and that blurry, indistinct face within the light seemed to carry a hint of a smile.

It looked the same as always, possessing a touch of gentle tenderness.

"However, there is a doubt that concerns me."

"What doubt?"

"You previously spoke of the source of life when facing the formless mother created by the Dark God, so conversely..."

"That's right. Since I know the situation of the source of life, it is obvious that I have seen and know its actual state. In other words, the majority of the star's source of life is now under my control."

Hearing this, Ming suddenly realized the truth, and even Jiang Ying finally sensed something strange.

Once the term 'source of life' appeared, she suddenly had the urge to interrupt, and internally she felt an inexplicably strong hostility toward the Holy God, as if she were a thousand times more detestable than the Dark God, an ultimate villain comparable to the scoundrel Bu Yi.

What the hell? Is there someone even more evil than the scoundrel Bu Yi?

Could the Holy God be the Falling Feather Supreme?

Amidst the fluctuations of her emotions, Jiang Ying reacted quickly, immediately suppressing the agitation in her heart, frowning and looking around nervously, as if locking onto an unknown enemy.

Seeing her behave this way, Ming felt a bit of regret and silently unclenched her fist.

If this person had made any move just now because of the influence, she would have had to stop her with direct violence! At this moment, Du En actually felt that same influence, even more intensely, because his own recent injuries were being filled and repaired by the star's source of life; it was inevitable that its influence would remain for a short time, and he would need to refine it well later to completely remove it.

But who was he? He dared to pluck wool from the true Phoenix Yu Hen; a mere fifth-tier star source of life that had been marrow-extracted and downgraded, even if it was the especially unique source of life of this Source Star Realm, could not shake his Dao heart and will!

The Holy God also knew this, which is why she did not hesitate just now and used the source of life fragment to treat him.

"Do you want to destroy the star's source of life? Has the Fluorite Disease already infected that place?"

As if responding to Du En's inquiry, the sea of disease outside the Dark Capital began to churn, the defensive array left by the Dark God became precarious, and the others changed color, immediately becoming nervous.

If no one stood up to curb it, once the sea of disease broke the dam, the nearly ten million crowded population in the Dark Capital would be infected again, and it would be the kind that was instantly incurable!

Because every drop of disease water in that sea of disease was highly pure Fluorite Disease essence; a normal person—no, even an ordinary Transformation Divinity stage cultivator—could not touch it, or they would be finished!

"No, that's not right. His Excellency the Dark God said that through his efforts, the source of the Fluorite Disease had actually been dismantled, becoming the foundation of that sea of disease, losing the possibility of going deeper, otherwise it wouldn't have been forced to bloat out an interlayer between the surface and the interior!"

Ming denied that worst-case possibility at this moment.

The Dark God had also produced evidence of this back then, proving he was not the mastermind behind the Fluorite Disease, and that he had even made countless efforts until, as a last resort, he could only let the Fluorite Disease erupt and spread early to control the harm to the maximum extent.

Although there were still points to criticize in doing so, since no better strategy could be proposed, one could only sigh and accept it, recognize the reality, and plan countermeasures accordingly.

The Dark God actually had this same mindset.

So now, what was the Holy God thinking? Ming could not help but become even more nervous, feeling extremely uneasy.

However, the mother—the Mother God—who was usually easy to talk to, had no mood to care for her youngest daughter at this moment, and spoke on her own: "Do you remember the situation after leaving the Holy Mausoleum and going to the Holy Capital?"

"... That tree?"

"Yes, that is the Great Tree of the Source of Life. It can be considered her final counterattack. Su perfectly completed his mission, using the Holy Capital to crush her resistance, thereby leaving the source of life with no more energy, only able to make a desperate struggle by influencing the star's living beings."

"What you took out from the Dark God's body, could it be?"

"That's right, it is the core fragment of the source of life. Although most of it is in my hands, she seemed to have long perceived my thoughts, so she took advantage of the Dark God seizing that part to secretly hide inside his body."

"So that is why you needed to kill the Dark God?"

"That is correct."

"... The purpose, could it be?"

"On this star, why are there only Transformation Divinity cultivators? Even though we reached the half-step Void Refinement stage a hundred years ago and could leave the surface, why can we still not advance any further?" The Holy God lowered her distant eyes, bringing an indescribable sense of oppression: "The Dark God was too naive. All schemes must be based on one's own strength. If the realm is not enough, self-righteous actions will only have a counterproductive effect. Therefore, if we want to truly break the black curtain, only when the source of life emerges from the depths, and we destroy and devour it, lifting the shackles of our realm, can there be a glimmer of possibility for success!"

"... In the Rain Valley, helping the Blood Lotus Dark Woman—no, the Holy Woman—break through, was that also just your rehearsal?"

"What do you think? I can clearly make people break through to the Void Refinement stage easily; I clearly have such power, yet when it comes to myself, I simply cannot do it... The shackles pulled tight by that black hand must be broken today!"

As the Holy God spoke, she raised her gaze to look at the high sky, no longer looking at anyone, and spoke in an exceptionally remote and ethereal manner: "Messengers from beyond the sky, you know all this. If you still want to stop me, then come!"

As the words were spoken, the deity suddenly disappeared.

Whether it was the brilliant radiance or the figure within it, they did not actually exist here at all, so naturally, it was impossible for light to shine everywhere.

As for her true physical body, it had of course already returned to where it was before.

In the deepest part of the Star Source Realm, where the mother source of the spiritual veins was located, the Holy God had been waiting here all along. At this very moment, she pieced the obtained source of life core fragment back into the source of life itself, and immediately a shockwave erupted.

The source of life of this Source Star Realm was truly extraordinary; its power to resist had already been dismantled, yet at this moment, it could still erupt with an unusual shockwave, attempting to expel the Holy God who had snuck in here.

But unfortunately, she had long anticipated this. The shockwave reached where she was and immediately began to vent outward along the god-made spiritual veins. In the blink of an eye, it overflowed and leaked from the eighty-eight spiritual spring villages; it was impossible for it to affect her.

It sounds very simple at first listen, but in reality, there is another mystery.

The shockwave of the source of life's eruption is aimed directly at the essence of living beings. As long as one has not merged into a Dao body and completely cast off such innate shackles, one will be affected by it. Even a powerful deity like the Holy God could not easily take it.

And the reason she could easily vent it is actually very simple! The so-called god-made spiritual veins are new blood vessels she created. The spring water in the spiritual spring villages used to block and purify the Fluorite Disease is precisely the deity's blood!

The Holy God uses her own strength to resist the Fluorite Disease and create a sanctuary for people. The Dark God knew this, Ming was clear on it, and Du En saw it too. Before, they all thought this was her burden, but only now was her hidden intention exposed! Therefore, the source of life's true final resistance was just a futile effort. The eighty-eight god-made blood vessels that penetrated the interior and exterior and reached the surface had long since gone deep into the sea of disease in the interlayer.

At this moment, as the Holy God exerted her great power, endless veins immediately branched out. Outside the Dark Capital, the sea of disease—the residue of divine power that had already crushed the Dark God's defensive array—in the eyes of the Great Snake, which was filled with terror, the waves that were about to pour in suddenly flowed back and retracted.

It could even taste a hint of panic and terror from within it!

But at this stage, no matter what other hidden conditions the interlayer Sickness Sea might have, it was no longer up to it.

Because the Holy Spirit was rising, detaching from the source of life, and breaking through toward the surface layer.

And the interlayer Sickness Sea had already been colonized by her; once the vascular network formed, she immediately treated it as her own flesh, easily driving it, wrapping it, dragging it, and swallowing it in reverse...

Controlling the source of life, occupying the Sickness Sea, swallowing the heavens and earth in reverse—the eighty-eight Spirit Spring Villages, those water networks of lakes and streams that had been locked in a tug-of-war with the Fluorspar Sickness, now bared their fangs, and like bottomless pits, swallowed up all the Fluorspar Sickness mutations that had long been interlocked with them!

Accompanying the Holy Spirit's ascent, the sickness Qi of heaven and earth, or rather, the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth, was completely plundered by her; the special aspects of the entire star would be devoured and exhausted from the inside out!

When she reached the back of the surface layer, her wounds had all healed; when she entered the outermost layer, her radiance covered the earth, and that protruding place was none other than the Holy Capital! The Holy Capital, which had originally been destroyed due to the massive mantle plume eruption—no, it should be said, why the mantle plume geological catastrophe erupted so easily here, and why it stopped after one burst, the reason was actually already very clear.

It was fragile because the Life Source Tree had once protruded from here, attempting to block the Holy Spirit.

It was stable because the Holy Capital was a fortress built by the Holy Spirit; although it had been destroyed, it had also thereby plugged the wound of the astral realm, and at this very moment, it was also opening a passage for its master, allowing her to succeed in her ascent with great ease.

Even in the Dark Capital far on the opposite side, Du En and the others could easily see the Holy Spirit at this moment! The tip alone, revealed on the horizon, was over six thousand li in scale; as she continued to rise, a sun kept flying upward, and its scale continued to grow as the Holy Spirit devoured the source of life and the source of spirit—initially a few tens of thousands of li, it rapidly expanded to over a hundred thousand li, until finally, when it hung in the air and stabilized, it reached a full eight hundred and eighty thousand li! The masses looked up... but there was no such situation.

Yun silently lowered her hands; the people she had brought out had already quietly fallen into a deep slumber.

Her brother Jin, at this moment, took off his narrow mask, breathed in the fresh air devoid of sickness Qi, and muttered to himself, "After one act, there is yet another act..."

Behind him, in that last stop, the Spirit Spring Village—the very first Spirit Spring Village—the lingering images of those from the past had peacefully departed, and the remaining citizens of the Holy Nation had all been saved, even falling asleep now as the preventive pill took effect.

Therefore, the only ones who could witness the greatness of the deity now were the cultivators at the Spirit Transformation stage.

Even though they appeared exceptionally tiny when compared to one another, they were, after all, at the Spirit Transformation stage, in the process of "transforming into a deity," so they did not immediately prostrate themselves in complete worship and reverence upon seeing such greatness.

Turning their attention back to the key point on the ground, the center of the Dark Capital, at the top of the ruins and debris.

Jiang Ying was numb from watching; her expression was nothing but blank.

She had thought she was someone who had seen the world—the scale of the Dark God's true body of several thousand li, and having once witnessed the corpses of the True Dragons and Dragon Kings in the Dragon Palace, as well as seeing the five past Dragon Venerables through the gaze of a Dragon King.

But at this very moment, her mouth was dry, and she felt only shock.

Golden Crow, Sun God Bird, the Hanging Sun Holy Spirit!

Seen with her own eyes, felt with her own body, such a powerful heaven-defying deity, wantonly scattering her own light, a light and greatness sufficient to illuminate the star!

She was the Great Sun!

"No, to think that even like this, she is still not at the Void Refinement stage; this, this, a supreme posture? A fledgling state of a Divine Venerable?"

The more Jiang Ying thought, the more her expression changed drastically, then she turned her head abruptly to look at Du En, who had quietly approached and was silently watching that round of Holy Sun.

She couldn't help but speak: "Du En, in the current situation, the Fluorspar Sickness seems to have been resolved, and the Holy Spirit doesn't look like a villain who would go on a killing spree; on the contrary, if she breaks through, she might instead become a vital force for our side, after all, there are still those True Lords like the scoundrel Bu Yi, each one formidable and terrifying, as well as the one above all people and all living things, the pinnacle of this boundless heaven and earth, that Supreme who dominates the human world..."

So many words, but there was only one core point.

Although you still seem to have some objections, it is obvious now that we cannot win, so why not just let it go? As the saying goes, those who understand the times are heroes; the rational path left behind by the Dark God shall be inherited by me!

(End of this chapter)