Chapter 1438

Absolute Zone Zero.

"Judgment of the Galaxy's fate……Please please, Xing must definitely win! I still want to eat tomorrow's egg pudding!" Xixifu clasped their hands together, continuously bowing up and down before the sky curtain.

"Yeah! I I I am too…I haven't seen the orthodox sequel of Star Radiance Knight yet, I also don't want to die!" Billy likewise clasped their hands together, muttering under their breath.

"You two are really enough……" Ling looked at these two idiots in the living room, helplessly holding their forehead, "Praying in the living room is utterly useless; if you're really afraid, you'd better go find Xige Lide first and find a safe shelter."

"But how could there possibly be a safe shelter on Luosikailifa! It's originally a city floating in the sky; if the Iron Tomb's 'Annihilation' equation infects the entire Luosikailifa, it will definitely——definitely crash, huh shopkeeper!" Billy was so scared their voice began to distort.

Xixifu drooped their head, face hanging low: "But looking on the bright side……we'll probably be dug out first, right?"

"If Roshekeli Law truly gets infected by the 'Destruction' equation, and inorganic life is affected, then..." Bell suddenly lifted her head to look at Billy standing before her, and Iees, her whole person as if suddenly drained of blood, her face turned deathly pale: "... Isn't it that Billy, and all the Bomub on Roshekeli Law, will not escape disaster? Not only that, the entire 'Heaven's Calculation Hub' will collapse, then..."

Bell no longer dared to continue thinking.

Not only will Roshekeli Law suffer, but New Aelido will also plunge into chaos; by then, it will likely be a 'doomsday' even more terrifying than the Void Crisis.

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Starlight passed through the long whale spine, each vertebra blooming with flowers. The ocean seemed to greet her, this savior, in its gentlest way.

She arrived beneath Hayesong, seeing only a small school of fish circling her; suddenly, a ring of waves rose beneath Starlight, gently lifting her toward Hayesong.

Is this an invitation?

Starlight reached out her hand, just as her fingertips were about to touch Hayesong——

A finger lightly pressed against her lips.

"Looks like my banquet is over."

Hayesong had already awakened; she pushed Starlight gently backward, while she herself glided rearward like a nimble fish, accompanied by the hum of her sword, darkness instantly surging from behind her.

——That was a giant whale. No, it was a whale formed from a school of fish, it opened its massive maw and swallowed her and Hayesong whole. Yet within this torrent, Hayesong steadfastly held her hand.

They surged through the turbulent currents, through flickering light and shadow, diving deeper and deeper into the flow; the water's feel began shifting from real to illusory, then from illusory to transparent, finally like a sheer veil lightly lifted.

Starlight opened her eyes; before her lay an endless Star Sea.

She felt as if she had stepped from one dreamwalk into another dream. Above, below, left, right, in every direction, starlight like shattered diamonds was inlaid above her head, silently flowing within the star river. The runes of the eleven Titans shone brightly aloft; in a daze, she realized Hayesong had brought her to the center of the vortex.

"Fortunately, you arrived as promised. People's waiting has not been in vain." Hayesong said sincerely, "After the world entered destruction, only I remain, using my voice to sustain this solitary banquet. For thousands of years, I have prayed to the lightless sea (the canopy of Weng Faluos), hoping it would return Huixiang, but the void has never answered."

Fortunately, you arrived as promised. People's waiting has not been in vain.

Has the long wait been agonizing?

"To catch a glimmer of light in the futile abyss is already the greatest comfort. Compared to those who have been forgotten, I have no right to speak of torment." Hayesong turned her head toward the nearby basin, "From now on, we will walk toward the world's end. At this moment, heroes have waited too long. Let us declare our resolve with our swords."

Hayesong slowly stepped forward and shouted angrily: "Prisoner of the ocean, bearer of thirty million lifetimes of sins, divine ritual audience, slave of 'knowledge'—reveal yourselves: the savior has returned, the moment of execution has arrived."

"I see: an awakened one who mistook fallacy for truth returned to the cavern, trying to bring her companions into the sunlight she once bathed in…" Laigushi slowly emerged and walked toward the two of them, "Unfortunately, a prisoner remains a prisoner, unable even to perceive the fact of her own imprisonment."

"As one of the only two beings in this world with free will, I regret your choice. But I will preserve your right to speak, after all, every actor should have a final line."

"As a narrator, you talk too much." Starlight said coldly.

"Believe me, this is the final act. To make the climax that decides the galaxy's fate serve as this world's dusk—how fitting." Laigushi spread his hands, his tone tranquil, "My thoughts reside beyond myth; defeating an incarnation projected in an experiment is meaningless. My body is a shadow cast by firelight, my words are echoes wandering in the cave."

"How can the actors contend with the audience? Kaslauslan cannot do it, and the Demigods' sacrifices are also in vain. As for the two geniuses you have placed your hopes on——"

"May I ask: where are they now?"

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Jujutsu Kaisen

"Black Tower and Screw Gum… lost?"

This terrifying thought instantly occupied all of Itadori's mind.

"No, impossible…… Ms. Black Tower is an Envoy, after all; although this guy before us is also an Envoy, it's impossible that we'd be helpless against Laigushi, right? And besides, we still have Screw Gum."

Kusakabe Atsuya shook his head: "They must have used some means to isolate the two geniuses, after all this is the Imperial Scepter. Moreover, Laigushi also has that whatever 'Sonnet Algebra'… this is its home turf."

"Laigushi is both an Envoy and the operator of the scepter; if we compare to the jujutsu world… an Envoy is equivalent to a Special Grade Sorcerer, this scepter, planet-sized, is Laigushi's 'Domain Expansion'; even if Black Tower is likewise a Special Grade Sorcerer, fully entering this domain would still take time when the domain is closed."

"What a hassle……" Itadori scratched his head in annoyance.

Kusakabe Atsuya paused, then continued: "Moreover, what Laigushi said is not wrong; the entity present here is merely a projection of the true form beyond myth; the upcoming battle could very well become a war of attrition—Starlight can defeat it countless times but cannot kill it, yet she cannot afford a single mistake……any single loss would tilt the galaxy's fate toward 'Destruction'."

"Although reluctant, our fate—Earth's fate as well—seems also bound to Starlight, truly a headache."