Chapter 598: Pursuing into Reality

With a single horizontal slash, Su Xing actually cleaved Slaanesh of the Four Dark Gods into the material universe. Judging by the combat power displayed, this was by no means an accidental result caused by some scheme or calculation; rather, Su Xing’s combat power had truly reached the effect of severing the void with one strike, truly surpassing the combat power of the Four Dark Gods.

This was simply incredible to the extreme!

The Four Dark Gods, including the current semi-ascended Emperor (partially possessing the power of the Dark Master), all derived their power from the Warp itself. Wherever the Warp reached, they were effectively invincible.

This invincibility was not numerical, nor was it based on magnitude or energy levels; it was not invincibility of dimension, information, or plane, but rather invincibility of conceptual logic.

Simply put, within the Warp, they were the very concept of "invincibility." They could neither be harmed by things below their logical cognition, nor could they be quantified by things below their logical cognition.

To put it more colloquially... they could not be targeted, they possessed an "invincible" tag, and they had no health bars. It was invincibility at the conceptual level.

Since the birth of the four, their only enemies had been each other. Then, after the Fire Thief (the Emperor) was born, even though the Emperor was the most unique individual in this world, he still had no qualifications to sit at the table and converse with them. Everything they did was merely to continue expanding the Warp, and then use the Warp to completely reverse-cover the entire material world, causing the inside and outside to flip. At that time, the Emperor was nothing more than their pawn.

What truly caused them to miscalculate was the Emperor blocking his own ascension ceremony, choosing to sit on the Golden Throne and endure ten thousand years of extreme agony rather than allowing the birth of a fifth Dark God. However, had it not been for the arrival of the outsider, all of this would have just been a matter of time. They could fail countless times, while the Emperor and all civilizations in this world would be finished if they failed just once at a critical moment. Thus, they remained calm and unhurried.

Even when Su Xing came to this world to stir up trouble, and even though his uniqueness allowed him to truly kill Warp demons and consume the essence of the Four Dark Gods, the Four Dark Gods were still not overly panicked. They had ten thousand ways to toy Su Xing to death; it was merely a matter of needing enough time to lay out their plans and cause him to fall into the Warp.

Although many accidents occurred during the process, such as Su Xing being taken away by power from outside this world, or the arrival of two excessively powerful outsiders—while they still couldn't kill them, being unable to kill and being unable to break were two different things...

In short, they did not feel they would fail. Even with the emergence of unprecedented variables, such as that strange thing sucking at the Warp, they still felt it was merely a creation of Blackstone technology similar to the Necrons, at most a bit more powerful. It still could not pose a fatal threat to them or the Warp. On the contrary, the Emperor temporarily breaking free from the Dark Master's corruption for some unknown reason—that was the real problem. As for Su Xing...

Since he dared to enter the Warp, then let him be completely devoured!

Flesh, spirit, consciousness, soul—all extracted and exploited clean!

Each Dark God had their own field of expertise in torture, to torment him for eternity, until every trace of his existence turned into nothingness!!

And then...

Su Xing cut through their delusions with a single slash. Slaanesh, who faced Su Xing, was even cleaved into the material world. This directly exposed a health bar in the material world, breaking the invincibility, equivalent to being baptized in strong acid.

However, regarding Su Xing’s claim that they were the weak ones, the remaining three Dark Gods were unimpressed.

In their eyes, Su Xing was still just a quantifiable "powerful" being. How could someone like that dare to talk to them about being weak?

Immediately, the Blood-Red Dark God roared, wielding a giant bronze axe in both hands as he charged toward the Emperor. With successive axe strikes, thousands of stars were annihilated. Each strike seemed to span thousands of light-years. If an ordinary person were here to see it with the naked eye, their senses would immediately collapse and crumble—truly like the situation in Cthulhu novels where one’s sanity hits zero just by looking.

This was a logical fallacy where one clearly saw something, yet could not understand it at all!

Although the Emperor’s shoulder was shattered, it was rapidly healing. He held his sword in one hand, and every strike likewise annihilated thousands of stars, colliding with the giant bronze axe. Similarly, every impact caused waves to erupt within the Warp, with cracks piercing through the Warp and the material world, sucking in countless lives, warships, and even stars—all were annihilated in their clash.

On the other side, the Bird-shaped Dark God and the Bloated Dark God charged at Su Xing simultaneously, their respective weapons thrusting toward Su Xing from two directions. One weapon seemed to vanish from the naked eye, while the other seemed to strike directly from a higher dimension. It was impossible for a mortal to dodge their attacks!

Compared to the size of the weapons, Su Xing’s size was like a tiny ant about to be crushed by a wooden stick. Yet, he was unhurried, merely chanting: "In heaven and on earth, I alone am the honored one."

Subsequently, he slashed out, and the position he struck was exactly where both weapons were hitting simultaneously. Even though these two weapons were striking from different directions, and even though they were two weapons, Su Xing’s single slash hit both of them at the same time. The causal logic in between was completely fallacious.

But the power... was real and undeniable!

Su Xing’s slash had a destructive power at least eight times greater than the one he had used against Slaanesh!

Under that one strike, both divine weapons shattered simultaneously. While Su Xing’s blade had no star-annihilating effects or shattering of all things, just this simple slash caused the entire Warp to tremble. In the incredulous eyes of the two Dark Gods, the blade approached at a speed of nearly 100,000 meters per second. Logically, this speed shouldn't have been enough to prevent them from dodging, but the fact was, Su Xing’s blade passed through, and the heads of both gods exploded and annihilated simultaneously. Both gods were likewise cleaved down into the material universe.

"...I told you, you are the weak ones!"

Su Xing stood with his blade, his voice resounding throughout the Warp: "Did you think this was a joke? A taunt? No, it is a fact... You are truly just poor wretches sitting in a well looking at the sky! Just maggots wriggling in this cesspit! Just self-righteous second-generation gods..."

"You don't even understand the essence of an Ascended Body and the Source. Mere clowns, how do you have the face to stand before me and play these empty games? If I were you, I would either merge the four gods immediately, or abandon all these empty pretenses and use the essential power you can truly wield to clash with me. Otherwise... I fear that after I crush you four bugs, you won't be convinced."

The Blood-Red Dark God and the Emperor, still within the Warp, were both shocked.

When they saw Su Xing cleave Slaanesh with one strike, although they guessed Su Xing’s power, they truly did not expect him to be this terrifying. This had completely exceeded the scope of their understanding and imagination, and had also dealt a massive blow to their inherent cognition.

How is it possible?

A mortal?

A broken blade?

How could it wound them, who were unquantifiable, and even strike them directly into the material universe?

This is impossible!!

"What exactly are you..." the Blood-Red Dark God roared wildly.

Su Xing ignored him, simply raising his blade and running toward the Blood-Red Dark God. As he approached, the Blood-Red Dark God and the Emperor seemed to grow smaller and smaller, while Su Xing grew larger. Although the size gap between them remained vast, by the time Su Xing walked within 100,000 light-years of the Blood-Red Dark God, the Blood-Red Dark God was only one hundred times Su Xing’s size.

"Heh... you're afraid."

Su Xing sneered: "As Khorne, you are actually afraid? Otherwise, why would you shrink so exaggeratedly? And also, do you really think this distance in logical concepts can protect you? Can isolate me? And why only such a small distance? You should have changed it to the size of the universe!"

As he spoke, Su Xing slashed at the Blood-Red Dark God again. It was just an ordinary slash, a slash that could be quantified in the eyes of Khorne and the Emperor. But with the strike, all things went silent, 100,000 light-years turned into a mustard seed, and Su Xing had arrived before Khorne before anyone knew it. With one direct slash, he first severed the giant bronze axe Khorne had hastily raised, then slanted down from his neck, slicing through his lower body. Khorne was immediately split in two, and likewise cleaved into the material universe with one strike.

Su Xing was about to leave, but the Emperor suddenly called out to him.

"What exactly is going on? And why were they killed into the material universe by you? If I go to the material universe, my power is less than one ten-thousandth of what it is now. How am I supposed to fight like you!?" the Emperor asked anxiously.

Su Xing looked at the Emperor and shook his head slightly: "No, you are not an Ascended Body yet. You cannot fight like me. But this is fine; you continue to hold down the Warp, and I will go to the material world to continue beating them up. Now is the time for stalling! Stall for enough time to let this mental world absorb more of the Warp’s essence. When the real enemy appears, our chances will be greater!"

The Emperor still asked urgently: "But the Warp will still shatter, and I must retain the power to fight. So what exactly is going on!?"

Su Xing was silent for a moment, still trying his best to express information that could only be understood intuitively.

"The so-called Source is an infinite cycle and a self-closed loop. I have roughly understood the situation. Although I am very curious why the promotion above an Ascended Body is this path—it shouldn't be... but the specific situation is: the self becomes the world! The self becomes the rules! The so-called Source is actually merging the self with the Dao. When you are in this Dao, you are the creator god who opens heaven and earth, you are the invincible, unquantifiable, absolute invincibility. This is your current state and the state of those four, which is why mortals don't even count as numbers to you!"

"But an Ascended Body is different. An Ascended Body condenses a perfection unique to itself. Even the Source cannot incorporate an Ascended Body into its infinite cycle and self-closed loop. Therefore, for the Source to eliminate an Ascended Body, it can only rely on real, non-illusory power to forcibly kill it, or destroy its perfection before incorporating it into the cycle and loop to slowly digest it."

"And I..."

Su Xing pointed at himself: "I am currently an Ascended Body. Either clash with my real power and forcibly erase me, or come and destroy my self-anchoring, making my perfection disappear. Other than that, there is no third path. But unfortunately, I am 'existing' now, so you can only use power to kill me. However..."

"Mere 'spirit and consciousness,' without transformation, who can move even a grain of sand by imagination?"

Su Xing laughed heartily, then said with a stern tone: "I am off. To them, the material universe is sulfuric acid and aqua regia. Even if I cannot kill them, I will torment them severely and make the entire Warp bleed! And then..."

"We slaughter gods!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 601 =====