Chapter 312: Swear by this Heaven and Earth

The tyrant knew everything.

He knew the source beyond the limits of mortal imagination, knew the countless terrifying existences, and even knew more secrets outside the world. This did not weaken or extinguish the tyrant's ambition. This peerless figure, who was only a line away from death, had a more magnificent torrent of ambition burning in his heart.

He was no longer limited to just one world, nor was he limited to so-called godhood. He wanted to become a greater existence, he wanted to rule all the worlds he could see and know!

The tyrant knew everything through the Forbidden Canon. He even knew the truth of the Sea of Spirituality and the root of the initial changes in this world: the Ring.

Through the ritual spell that manifested the Forbidden Canon, he sacrificed more lives. Even when slaves were not enough, he sacrificed the citizens of city after city, including a large number of low-level extraordinary beings he felt were worthless, and in the end, almost all extraordinary beings, and... the entire world!

Borrowing this immense power, he cast his will into the Sea of Spirituality and mixed it with the Ring. That almost killed him. Although in terms of the meaning of life, he actually died the moment he sacrificed, his personal spirit and soul still retained some independence. And when mixed with the Ring, his self-cognition and soul were impacted and almost annihilated, leaving only his ambition and evil.

The world continued to evolve, time continued to move forward, one era, two eras, three eras... At a certain moment, when that era ended, the colorful and brilliant evolution of the world suddenly stopped, and the End Giant appeared.

That was the new will mixed with the tyrant's ambition and evil, half of the world distorted by the Ring...

The tyrant was defeated, and won again, died, and lived again. From then on, there was no more tyrant, but there was one more End Giant. The so-called End Giant was a part of this world, and also the process of the Ring's activation, life-ification, and personification.

The Ring wanted to continue to erode and transform this world, turning the entire world and all lives within it into nutrients for its growth, so that it could be completely formed, and then... evolve toward its source!

So the End Giant was actually the world itself, at least a part of the world. So when the End Giant woke up from the slumber of the era cycle, those who knew of the End Giant's existence and had read the Forbidden Canon would be transformed and distorted by it. At the same time, Wu Pifu would also be attacked by natural forces. The reason was very simple: the End Giant was the world itself!

It could not be killed, could not be destroyed, and could not even be resisted, because lives living in the world simply could not resist the world itself.

Facing the End Giant, countless mortals, extraordinary beings, and gods tried their best but still could not cause the slightest influence on it. And under the influence of the End Giant, the dead lives did not truly die, but were like being swallowed and chewed, their essence constantly being drawn away and digested, and then the undigested parts were thrown into the next era. The End Giant used the power of the Ring to begin to distort this world.

And what was digested was not just life, but also the world itself, which contained a large amount of source rules. The End Giant's ambition was surprisingly large. It not only wanted to restore the essence of the Ring, but also longed to become the next source. And this world, which contained many source information, was also its target to swallow.

Although the difficulty of completely digesting all this was extremely great, the End Giant's plan was to digest a little bit every era, accumulating little by little, and finally, it could completely turn everything in this world into its own!

However... when the Ring turned into the End Giant, when the Ring, which should not have had consciousness, possessed consciousness, something that came to this world along with the source awakened...

"That's right, it's me."

A voice appeared beside Wu Pifu. No form could be seen, but there was a voice.

"I am not a life of this world, but a source that first descended on this world. The name of that source has been completely lost. I can't even chant it. You can call it the Ring of Time and Space, the Ring of Perfection, the Ring of Distortion... all are fine."

"... In the final battle, I had already perished, completely destroyed, body and soul destroyed. It was impossible to revive, but because of this inexplicable reason, I revived in this world. To be honest, I am already very tired. Most of the memories of the past have been lost, leaving only fatigue and loss, as tired as an eight-hundred-year-old man. This life should have been my leisurely time after retirement, but I encountered such a terrifying schemer..."

The man's voice continued, and new changes appeared before Wu Pifu's eyes.

A tiny bit of the essence in the Ring turned into a new life and was born into this world. First, it was ignorant, then it grew. Slowly, its lost memories began to return. In this world, it had relatives, partners, lovers, and even children. It put down all the impassioned feelings of the past and truly enjoyed everything in this world like a mortal. Although it was almost immortal even without cultivation and possessed powerful strength, it really sank into the ordinary urban life, living silently.

But this ordinary life was broken by the End Giant. When the End Giant descended, the man didn't protect anything, and everything he cherished was gone.

In the next era, the man revived again. He had the essence of the Ring, so he would not be swallowed and digested by the End cycle, so he remembered everything from the previous era. He began to search, searching for everything he cherished—relatives, friends, lovers, children. Relying on his strength and the essence of the Ring, he found them, but they were no longer them...

At that moment, the man was heartbroken, and the courage hidden by the peaceful and comfortable life appeared on him once again.

The man began to walk on the earth. He treated every life with sincerity, searched for every extraordinary path, made friends with all the comrades who perceived the End cycle, and told everyone about the existence of the End Giant. He even relied on the essence of his Ring to record the Forbidden Canon in text content and distributed it to everyone.

In that era, almost all the powerful extraordinary beings united together. All the power of the era gathered into one, and people worked together to face the End Giant, and then... the inevitable failure occurred.

Because they could not truly eliminate the End Giant, just as they could not break this world. To say something unpleasant, they couldn't even break the outer skin of the End Giant.

That era ended once again.

When the new era appeared, the man revived again, and he keenly perceived that the extraordinary level of the entire world had dropped by a level. The extraordinary beings became weaker, and at the same time, the spirituality of the lives revived in the new era became less, their spirits became more unstable, and the entire world was indeed heading toward the end completely.

The man perceived the essence of the End Giant and also perceived why the End Giant could not be defeated. He did not give up, but fell into deep thought.

In that era, he wandered among the wise men of multiple eras, talked with them, studied with them, thought with them, and then...

He suddenly had a great idea.

"That day, he kowtowed to the green mountains, faced the sea, and asked the heavens devoutly."

"The green mountains said, give me your legs."

"The sea said, give me your arms."

"The heavens said, give me your body."

"He laughed, take it, take it, give it all to you." "The green mountains gave him the unshakable belief like a mountain."

"The sea gave him the heart to accommodate everything like the sea."

"The heavens gave him the far-sighted vision like the sky."

"That day, he swore by this heaven and earth."

The man dismantled his essence and integrated it into this world, turning it into another Ring essence to compete with the End Giant for the share of this world. And the thing born from this Ring was the Demon Castle, which also distorted time and space, distorted life and all things. All eras could be connected to the Demon Castle, and lives entering the Demon Castle could be transformed into "monsters," commanders, and Demon Castle Lords. At the same time, the tomb area of the Demon Castle could also collect past information, precipitate it, accumulate it, and even the Demon Realm in the deepest part was the counterpart to the Sea of Spirituality...

"There's no way, if you can't beat them, join them. It's not shameful, right?"

The man's voice sounded again, but it didn't feel like teasing, or self-deprecation, in Wu Pifu's ears...

Because in Wu Pifu's visual perception at this moment, he really saw everything.

That was not a simple spell, or a magic ritual, or a achievement that could be accomplished by a quick death. The Demon Castle was not something that was easily shaped, but a huge pain of self-decomposition for tens of thousands of years or even longer, integrating his own essence into this world bit by bit, which was thousands of times more painful than being cut by a thousand knives.

He made a vow with this world and the common people of this world: return the bones to the father, return the flesh to the mother, and return everything of himself to this heaven and earth and the common people.

!

"... Give me your lives, once, twice, three times... go to die and cycle countless times!"

"When the moment comes when the End Giant can be defeated, I will surely drive the world to hack off its head! To pay tribute to all the lives that resisted this tyranny!"

"Just like the vow I made with this world at this moment!"

"My ambition... will never change!"

The green mountains, the sea, and the heavens accepted his legs, arms, and body, and the common people were with his soul...

The war between the Demon Castle and the End Giant, the war of snatching the essence of this world, from that moment until now.

The room, the furniture, and the man appeared again before Wu Pifu's eyes.

The man waved his hand, and everything disappeared, leaving only a void. And his body began to expand, turning into a hazy giant, about ten meters high, with mountains, rivers, seas, heavens, and all things in nature in the haze. And this giant spoke with a voice like thunder.

"Now you know the reason for testing whether you could destroy that cup just now, right?"

"That is a part of the world."

"Those who cannot break the world's defense are not qualified to challenge the End Giant."

"Now only the final test remains: whether you can defeat the other two-thirds with the volume of one-third of the world. It's a pity, the End Giant has already swallowed two-thirds of this world. Even if I absorbed the essence of many extraordinary lives in the way of the Demon Realm, it is still only one-third of the total volume of the world."

"So... defeat this giant. It is only ten times your strength. Defeat it, and prove that you are qualified to carry an entire world to defeat the End Giant!"

Wu Pifu stood silently in place. Although he took the Spirit-Breaking Blade in his hand, he did not launch an attack immediately. He just looked up at the giant, and after a long while, he said: "This is the remnant of your final will. Once I break this giant... you will die."

"I am already dead."

The giant said this sentence, laughed inexplicably, and then his voice turned serious: "This joke is not funny at all, but I still have to say, I am already dead. What remains now is just a vow..."

"A vow made with the world and the common people."

That day... he swore by this heaven and earth.

Wu Pifu closed his eyes, opened them, and cupped his hands.

"Wu Pifu, has met you!"

Raised his blade, slashed upward.

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