Chapter 1447: When Humanity's Stars Shine Brightest (6) (Two in One Extra Large Chapter!)

When Humanity's Stars Shine Brightest (6) (Two in One Extra Large Chapter!)

The quagmire churned beside the skeletal giant dragon.

This World-Ending Calamity from the Sighing Wilderness seemed to have been completely enraged by the Lord of Hanging Jade and the Lord of Wuji. The incomplete bone wings flapped above the quagmire. Deep within those hollow wind-tunnel pupils, a trace of eerie red light began to emerge!!

The pale skeleton whipped up a hurricane. Waves of vague murmurs, like a song, rang out from the end of nothingness.

A World-Destroying Domain rapidly expanded towards the surroundings!

The range of the Cessation Calamity's World-Destroying Domain was extremely large, even exceeding the combined sum of the Lord of Hanging Jade and the Lord of Wuji... And the instant this domain opened, wherever there was a flow of "wind", the traces of civilization began to flow backward towards the sky like drifting loose sand!

The modern text remaining in the ruins began to undergo frantic changes and jumps, regressing from regular script to clerical script, then from clerical script to Small Seal Script, and then to large seal script, bronze script...

Within just a few seconds, those words that everyone could once understand had already regressed into oracle bone script under the effect of the wind!

Not only that,

The fragments of vehicles scattered everywhere visibly turned back into ore;

People's shoes reconstructed into leather, and the rayon of their clothing turned into pieces of unknown chemical materials. Under this hurricane that scattered civilization, all matter turned from dust to dust, and earth to earth...

At this moment, atoms "forgot" all existing structures and returned to their most initial arrangements.

Patter——

Jian Changsheng's leather jacket and pants broke down into synthetic materials all over the ground with a patter. He screamed in terror, immediately releasing Killing Intent to block his "vital parts", while cursing the Cessation Calamity:

"Damn this old pervert!!!"

The expression of Sun Bumian at the side also changed, but he reached out and wiped, finding that the clothes on his body were still perfectly fine, just a bit loose and the color had faded quite a bit. He finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Good thing my clothes are all real silk..."

As for Jiang Xiaohua at the side, he was not affected by the Cessation Calamity's domain at all. Those mysterious bandages were still wrapped around his body without the slightest change.

And with the expansion of the World-Destroying Domain, the Cessation Calamity's half bone wing that had originally been shattered actually began to visibly repair itself. In just over ten seconds, it had already returned to its original state!

The bone wings on both sides flapped frantically. The sweeping hurricane forcibly broke its heavy body free from the quagmire. A world-destroying dragon roar full of oppressive feeling once again resounded through the sky!!

Seeing this scene, the Lord of Hanging Jade's expression was extremely ugly!

Awakening from slumber, the power he could exert was inherently limited. Two consecutive full-force strikes previously had almost hollowed out his body... And the damage finally inflicted on the Cessation Calamity with great difficulty had actually returned to its original state in the blink of an eye??

"The Dust Dragon That Scatters Civilizations is not a joke." The Lord of Wuji at the side spoke in a deep voice,

"Its domain can directly regress atomic structures, making all material civilization collapse in the wind... And at the same time, its main body is an original dragon bone. When civilization regresses to primitive within the domain, its body will also undergo regressive repair."

"Damn it... Doesn't that mean it can never be killed?!" The Lord of Hanging Jade gritted his teeth.

"You're right, it's almost impossible to kill. At least, we can't do it."

"Then you just said..."

"What I said was never 'kill it', but 'resolve it'." The Lord of Wuji's sharp pupils looked at the Lord of Hanging Jade at the side,

"Although I can change the material of its body and cause it damage, as long as it activates its domain, it will return to its original state... So, I am by no means its match. Not just me, the other Nine Monarchs are the same...

Among the Nine Monarchs, there are only three people who could possibly resolve the Cessation Calamity."

"Who?"

"Yang Xiao, Lu Xun... and you." The Lord of Wuji paused for a moment. "Since physical attacks have limited effects on the Cessation Calamity, Yang Xiao's ability to directly attack the soul might have the possibility of obliterating it from the spiritual level... Lu Xun, on the other hand, had the chance to use star attraction to directly throw the Cessation Calamity into a black hole in the deep space of the universe, completing the banishment. As for you..."

"You mean, you need an artificial super-large black hole." The Lord of Hanging Jade instantly understood the Lord of Wuji's meaning.

"And not an ordinary black hole, but a 'one-way black hole' with a set area of effect. Otherwise, you'll destroy the entire Earth." The Lord of Wuji's gaze returned to the Cessation Calamity, asking solemnly, "You're dying soon, so we only have one chance."

"... Are you confident?"

"Heh." The Lord of Hanging Jade wiped the scarlet blood from the corner of his mouth. On that pale face, a hint of a smile emerged. "The first person among the Nine Monarchs to banish a World-Ending... I really like this title."

After saying this,

The Lord of Hanging Jade slowly closed his eyes:

"One minute."

"Understood."

The Lord of Wuji's figure floated up, charging straight towards the complete Cessation Calamity that had broken free from the quagmire!

At the same time the Lord of Wuji made his move, the Lord of Hanging Jade slowly raised his hand, grabbing towards the dust drifting in the air... The breeze brushed past the earth. Those wisps of dust mostly scattered with the wind. Only a single incomparably tiny grain of sand remained, pinched between the Lord of Hanging Jade's fingertips.

In the next second,

The mass of that grain of sand began to rapidly soar!!

The mass of the grain of sand was soaring, but at the same time, the area of mass soaring was constantly shrinking under the Lord of Hanging Jade's precise control... Due to the uneven distribution of its own mass, the already tiny grain of sand began to peel off layer by layer, dropping from millimeter level to micrometer level, and then to nanometer level...

The spatial scale was constantly shrinking, while the mass was constantly soaring. When the Lord of Hanging Jade's ability range shrank to the Schwarzschild radius, space collapsed in his hand, and a tiny black dot was born.

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM——!!!

At the same time, the Lord of Wuji stomped his foot on the earth. Invisible ripples spread out, and the soil of the entire battlefield was directly transformed into a liquid metal swamp!

Under the Lord of Wuji's control, liquid metal "towers" frantically rose from the ground, as if weaving into a giant birdcage, blocking towards the Cessation Calamity flying close to the ground!

As long as there were materials, the Lord of Wuji could accomplish mutual conversion between any substances. And at this time, the earth was an inexhaustible source of materials!

The hurricane swept by the Cessation Calamity swept across heaven and earth, but it couldn't make these liquid metals regress to their original state. After all, these were inherently not creations of civilization, but material forms that inherently existed in the world.

As its massive body crashed into the "birdcage", the hard bones coupled with the terrifying inertia brought by super mass directly caused these liquid metals to twist and deform. If they hadn't inherently been non-Newtonian fluids, they would probably have completely shattered long ago.

Even so, this birdcage still couldn't pin down the Cessation Calamity for too long. The Lord of Wuji could only continuously trigger nuclear explosions, influencing the Cessation Calamity's movements through the impact of the explosions.

At this time, a black hole the size of a building had already gradually taken shape in the sky in the distance.

The collapsing black hole began to continuously devour the surrounding matter, and there was also a force field at the edge of the battlefield absorbing the excess gravity of the black hole. Light distorted around them. As the air was drawn into it, everyone's breathing began to gradually become difficult... At the same time, they could feel an increasingly strong attraction force pulling at their bodies.

"Hurry up!!"

With the descent of that steel Wuji Domain, several figures were already standing at the edge of the domain, shouting at the survivors below.

They seemed to be Divine Path Possessors. They gently raised their hands, and sections of painted stairs connected towards the earth. At this time, the survivors in the domain couldn't care about that much either. The battle of these demigods was becoming increasingly massive. If they didn't leave now, they would all have to die here!

"Are we going up?" Jian Changsheng looked at Sun Bumian.

Sun Bumian didn't have the slightest hesitation:

"We're not going. Those should be Ying Fu's people... This domain is Lou Yu and Ying Fu's territory. If we go up, wouldn't it be walking right into a trap?"

"Then forget it, we'll run ourselves!"

Jian Changsheng and the other two were, after all, bold due to their high skills. They directly turned around and charged towards the Gray World. No matter what, they had to leave this terrifying battlefield first.

The black hole in mid-air became increasingly massive, its radius having already exceeded four hundred meters. The building fragments in the distance were like being pulled by an invisible giant hand, rushing towards the sky. Even the liquid metal swamp created by Lou Yu began to be affected, with large metal water droplets floating upwards one by one...

Creating a black hole wasn't difficult for the Lord of Hanging Jade, but wanting to create a black hole capable of completely devouring the Cessation Calamity required a massive amount of Spiritual Power consumption.

"Cough cough cough cough cough..."

Below the black hole, the Lord of Hanging Jade frantically coughed up blood.

With every cough, his aura would weaken by a notch, as if injecting his own life into the black hole.

"Almost there... Almost there..." The Lord of Hanging Jade looked at the continuously expanding black hole above his head, muttering to himself.

BOOM——!!!

The liquid metal birdcage was smashed through by the Cessation Calamity.

The Lord of Wuji glanced at the outline of the black hole in the distance, and then looked at the skeletal giant dragon glaring angrily at him, his eyes narrowing slightly...

"It's time to hit the road... stupid bird."

The Lord of Wuji's palm plunged violently beneath the liquid metal swamp.

Dense electric light began to wander on the surface of the metal swamp. The Lord of Wuji seemed to have grasped the authority of Material Science, slowly gripping and rising upwards... As the matter frantically transformed in his hands, the area of the liquid metal swamp began to dramatically increase!

Three hundred meters, five hundred meters, one thousand meters, two thousand meters, ten kilometers, fifteen kilometers, thirty kilometers...

Under the Lord of Wuji going all out, the original Hanging Jade Domain had completely become his material repository. All the matter here floated and sank in the super swamp of liquid metal. And immediately after, the entire liquid metal swamp began to rapidly shrink again!

Matter will not appear out of thin air, nor will it disappear out of thin air...

While the liquid metal swamp stretching for tens of kilometers shrank,

An object of extremely high density was slowly pulled out of the swamp by the Lord of Wuji!

That was a spear.

It's said that the Lord of Wuji pulled it out, but in reality, the Lord of Wuji's hand didn't touch it at all. Its density was simply too great, so great that almost no living creature in this world could lift it. He could only rely on his Material Science ability to make it levitate, being virtually grasped in the Lord of Wuji's palm...

And the instant it was forged, terrifying radiation burst out in the air. A five-kilometer radius was entirely shrouded in a strong annihilation field. The thunder produced by air ionization frantically wandered on the surface of the spear!

Even the atmosphere directly above it was invisibly hollowed out into a large hole. Cosmic radiation from outside Earth sprinkled down upon the earth. This demigod battlefield had completely been reduced to a forbidden zone for life.

This was a Neutron Star Spear with a density exceeding that of a white dwarf. The weight of the matter per cubic centimeter reached up to 500 million tons...

It was equivalent to packing the entire Mount Everest into a sugar cube.

The Cessation Calamity's skeletal dragon wings fully spread, the aura of World-Ending blotting out the sky and sun... Its domain was the nemesis of all civilizations, but it seemed to not have much effect in front of the Lord of Hanging Jade and the Lord of Wuji. One of these two utilized physical rules, and the other utilized basic material conversion, neither involving any civilized power at all.

But even so, relying solely on that original dragon bone and the power of civilization reversing for infinite rebirth, it was not the least bit afraid of the Neutron Star Spear in the Lord of Wuji's hand.

However, the gradually expanding black hole in the air made it feel a trace of danger.

Just as the Cessation Calamity was preparing to flap its wings and leave the range of the black hole first, a powerful aura from the distance abruptly locked onto its figure. Only to see that the Lord of Wuji had already virtually grasped and raised that Neutron Star Spear. The frantically ionizing spear tip was like the muzzle of a gun tracking prey, having already aimed at its body!

Almost at the same time, Ji Xuan violently coughed up the last mouthful of pitch-black blood. The original black hole surged massively by another large circle at the last moment, directly shrouding the Cessation Calamity's body within it!!

Just as the shocked Cessation Calamity was preparing to break away, the Lord of Hanging Jade shouted that name with everything he had!

"Lou Yu!!!!"

SWISH——!!!

The spear in the Lord of Wuji's hand was abruptly thrown!

A miniature neutron star streaked across the sky at this moment, carrying terrifying kinetic energy like a sudden flash of lightning, precisely flashing to the Cessation Calamity's chest!

The Lord of Wuji precisely predicted the scale of the black hole that the Lord of Hanging Jade could achieve at the end, as well as the Cessation Calamity's movement trajectory. The instant the Neutron Star Spear crashed onto the Cessation Calamity's skeletal body, the terrifying power directly tore a large chunk off its body...

At the same time, it also pushed its massive body towards the deepest part of the black hole!

With the Cessation Calamity's power, it could completely withstand this spear head-on. It would be nothing more than using its domain to restore its body afterwards. But what was truly fatal at this time wasn't the spear itself, but the artificial black hole behind it that leads to who knows where in the universe!!

The Cessation Calamity's enraged roar only resounded in the sky for an instant. As its body was dragged into the center of the black hole, even its voice was swallowed. It struggled, wanting to flap its wings to break free from the black hole's gravity, but under the circumstance of its own mass being increased, it simply didn't possess such power... Not to mention, even the air had been drawn away by the black hole.

The body of the skeletal giant dragon was swallowed bit by bit by the black hole. Finally, those storm pupils full of anger and unwillingness completely disappeared into the darkness...

No one knew where the Cessation Calamity was banished to,

But perhaps for at least a hundred years, it wouldn't have the chance to return to Earth.

After the black hole swallowed the Cessation Calamity, it began to collapse and dissipate. A figure covered in blood fell straight down from the sky.

At this time, the earth of the entire domain had already been drained dry by the Lord of Wuji, turning into a giant Meteorite Crater. Just as the Lord of Hanging Jade, whose consciousness was blurred, was about to plunge headfirst into the earth, a palm violently grabbed his collar, removed the gravity, and gently tossed him onto the crater ground beside.

"Well done." The Lord of Wuji spoke calmly, "I admit, you indeed have the capital to pretend."

"... Heh heh..."

The Lord of Hanging Jade lay on his back on the ground, as weak as a corpse. He had already ignored the Lord of Wuji's sarcasm. In his weak pupils, only appreciation for himself remained. "This time... I really saved the world."

"It was merely banishing a World-Ending, you're still far from saving the world." The Lord of Wuji raised his hand, pointing at the massive steel domain in the sky. His eyes were as bright as stars,

"I, am destined to be the one to save everything."

"Why didn't I realize before... you fucking... are even more of a pretender than me." The Lord of Hanging Jade was somewhat speechless.

"Because I'm already proving that my path is the correct one."

"Tch..."

The Lord of Hanging Jade still wanted to say something, but he was already too weak to speak. His various bodily functions were on the verge of shutting down. His eyes were heavy as lead, slowly closing...

Seeing this scene, the Lord of Wuji was silent for a long time, ultimately choosing to turn around, preparing to leave.

Right at this moment,

He heard a rustling sound ring out from behind him again.

The Lord of Wuji turned his head, finding that the Lord of Hanging Jade who was supposed to be "dead" had actually gritted his teeth and stood up again, like withered grass in the wind that could topple to the ground at any time.

"... What are you doing?" The Lord of Wuji found it inconceivable.

"The great heroes in stories, are always standing even until death..." The Lord of Hanging Jade spoke stubbornly. "Even if I, Ji Xuan, die, I must die standing. That way, when others find me in the future... they will definitely be moved by my spirit."

The Lord of Wuji: ...

"Childish."

The Lord of Wuji couldn't help but curse.

"Lou Yu..." The Lord of Hanging Jade stood unsteadily. Even though his eyes were almost closed, he still spoke again.

"If you're planning to pretend one last time before dying, you can shut up now." The Lord of Wuji was somewhat impatient.

The Lord of Hanging Jade shook his head.

Plop——

It was unknown whether it was voluntary or he truly couldn't support himself anymore, he staggered, and his entire person directly half-knelt on the ground facing the Lord of Wuji...

The Lord of Wuji was stunned.

"Lou Yu..." The Lord of Hanging Jade lowered his head, speaking hoarsely,

"My subjects... I leave them to you..."

"You..."

"Treat them well..."

As the words fell, the Lord of Hanging Jade's lowered eyelids completely closed. The final trace of vitality within his body silently extinguished like a candle in the wind...

The whimpering cold wind brushed past the barren earth.

The Lord of Wuji stared blankly at this scene, standing in place like a statue.

After a long time, he finally slowly snapped out of it, looking at the half-kneeling, dead Lord of Hanging Jade, a trace of complexity flashing through his gaze.

He walked straight up to the Lord of Hanging Jade's corpse, grabbed him by his collar, and forcefully yanked him up from the half-kneeling posture to an upright standing position, fixing him in a tall, straight, and handsome posture upon these ruins...

At this time, the Lord of Hanging Jade's legs were already supported by metal transformed from materials. Even after a thousand or a hundred years, he wouldn't easily fall.

"Better stand."

"Dying on your knees... doesn't suit you."

The Lord of Wuji casually patted the dust off the Lord of Hanging Jade's shoulder, then turned around, walking towards the suspended steel domain in the distance.

The hem of his black clothes fluttered lightly in the whimpering wind. The Hanging Jade Domain had already been erased from humanity's tectonic plates... And a brand new Wuji Domain was gradually revealing its sharp edges.

...

...

Caught a cold, in poor condition, resting for a day.