Chapter 1449: When Humanity's Stars Shine Brightest (8) (Two in One Super Large Chapter)

When Humanity's Stars Shine Brightest (8) (Two in One Super Large Chapter)

"Damn it..."

"The coverage area of the Calamity of Corruption is getting bigger and bigger!"

On the battlefield of the Tianshu Domain, Lu Liangren looked at the ground that was gradually mostly covered by the Calamity of Corruption's flesh and blood domain, his face extremely ugly.

Right now, the Tianshu Domain was originally being charged and slaughtered by the Calamities of the Sighing Wilderness, and behind them was a Calamity of Corruption constantly encroaching on the earth. Even the places for them to stand were becoming fewer and fewer. One step forward was a skeletal hell, and one step back was a flesh and blood Buddhist kingdom. They were like trapped beasts caught in the crack of death, unable to see a silver lining no matter how far they looked.

"How much longer can Mr. Han hold on?" Hong Xiu asked hoarsely at the side.

Lu Liangren raised his palm. An eye had already been drawn on his palm with a Calligraphy Brush. As he closed his own eyes, the eye on his palm began to emit a faint light.

And at this time, in the high-speed moving building Rubik's cube a few kilometers away, an eye similarly painted on Cui Ran's shoulder slowly opened...

"Mr. Han... hold on a little longer..."

Pfft——

A bright red blade accurately pierced into the shoulder blade of a bloody figure. That figure sitting in a wheelchair slightly twitched, and then fell back into dead silence.

Dripping fresh blood mixed with minced meat dropped all over the ground. Mosquito-like faint breaths were exhaled from the nostrils. Mr. Han's facial nerves were constantly twitching, but he stubbornly didn't utter a single word.

Lu Liangren couldn't bear to watch anymore. He closed the painted eye and answered hoarsely:

"Probably not much longer... He is only Rank 8 after all. Maintaining the domain at high intensity for so long is already his limit. If it drags on any longer, I'm afraid his life and the lives of hundreds of thousands of people... not a single one will be saved."

Hong Xiu gritted her teeth tightly. She looked back. That fleshy, turbid Buddha towering in the center of the Tianshu Domain still shone with "holy light". That massive meatball "Buddha Head" currently had its eyes tightly closed, as if chanting sutras with closed eyes. At this time, more and more people with lower Ranks were affected by the Calamity of Corruption and began to actively walk towards the flesh and blood territory...

Hong Xiu was just about to say something else when a loud rumbling noise suddenly came from deep underground!

BOOM——!!!

The earth paved with flesh and blood suddenly burst out with a massive amount of cracks, as if something under the crust was vibrating frantically.

Those pieces of flesh and blood that were about to touch the edge of the battlefield all shattered. Fine cracks began to spread from the outer periphery to the center, ultimately actually beginning to climb up the body of that fleshy, turbid Buddha, like a black dragon carved from the earth coiling upwards!

And between these shattered earth cracks, wisps of formidable aura leaked out...

"This is..." Lu Liangren's eyes slightly lit up,

"The Lord of the Red Dust?"

Underground.

Flesh and blood root stems as thick as giant pythons almost filled every corner of the earth. If someone were to activate x-ray vision at this time, they would discover that the underground of the Tianshu Domain had completely become a paradise of flesh and blood. Those giant gears that were once used to operate the domain blocks had all become plump flesh and blood fruits. Precision components had also turned into roots, operating silently.

And at this time, in this underground flesh and blood paradise, a long-haired figure wearing a white training suit broke out directly from one of the massive flesh and blood fruits!

Her speed was very fast, but the endless flesh and blood root stems around her were even faster.

Countless flesh and blood root stems surged from all directions. She was like an ant that had mistakenly wandered into the body of some giant beast, completely unable to escape the palm of this giant beast... But facts proved that she didn't need to dodge at all.

As those flesh and blood root stems drowned her, wrapping her into another massive flesh and blood fruit, after a brief silence, that white-clothed figure broke out once again!

The surface of her body was covered with a glowing thin Membrane. No matter how violently these flesh and blood root stems tried to bind or tear her figure, they would disintegrate without a trace the instant they touched this Membrane!

If observed from a microscopic level, one would discover that it wasn't a Membrane at all, but was woven from countless Strings vibrating at the same frequency. That was like a boundary line between matter and energy states. The Calamity of Corruption's physical attacks were very difficult to cause substantive damage to Su Zhiwei.

This was also the reason why Su Zhiwei was able to deal with the Calamity of Corruption for so long while fighting alone.

"You're getting anxious."

Su Zhiwei looked at the frantically surging flesh and blood root stems around her, speaking calmly, "Is it because I've found the right direction?"

The instant this sentence was spoken, the surrounding flesh and blood root stems stagnated for a moment. It was as if it understood Su Zhiwei's meaning. In the next second, those flesh and blood root stems surged towards her even more furiously, like meat walls from all directions beginning to compress towards the center, wanting to thoroughly crush Su Zhiwei here.

Su Zhiwei's figure was gradually squeezed and covered by flesh and blood, but the next moment, the aftermath of String Theory swept abruptly. The matter that came into contact with the String Membrane on the surface of her body was transformed simultaneously. A raging fire directly swallowed the surrounding flesh and blood in reverse, and a charred stench spread in the air!

"No matter how massively you grow, how much matter you assimilate, how scary you look... your main body is just a seed."

"As long as the seed is destroyed, everything about you will wither and dissipate."

"And these methods of yours can stop the other Nine Monarchs, but they uniquely can't stop me..."

Su Zhiwei's figure walked out from the raging flames. Matter and energy formed an absolute balance on the surface of her body. Those pupils that seemed to see through everything had already locked onto a certain direction deep within the flesh and blood...

"I... found it."

Su Zhiwei's palm thrust out abruptly. The String Membrane on the surface of her skin directly melted all flesh and blood obstacles before her eyes, forcefully digging out a huge hole.

And at the deepest part of that hole, a seed that looked exactly like a black and white Buddha eye was beating silently like a heart...

Thump—— Thump——

The muffled heartbeat echoed among the wriggling flesh and blood, pulsating rhythmically like drumbeats.

Su Zhiwei's five fingers broke through the flesh and blood, grabbing straight towards that Buddha eye. At the same time, that muffled heartbeat became louder and faster, as if the entire earth had come alive!

For some unknown reason, an ominous premonition suddenly flashed through Su Zhiwei's heart.

Her palm stopped abruptly in front of the seed.

But in the next second, that seed actually broke free from the surrounding flesh and blood restraints, actively crashing towards Su Zhiwei's palm!!

The instant the Buddha eye seed touched the String Membrane, an eerie mental power permeated out. Su Zhiwei's mind was briefly dazed. Before her pupils, "Buddha light" slowly rising from the turbid air almost swallowed everything...

In the flesh and blood behind her, a miniature version of the fleshy, turbid Buddha idol was slowly outlined.

The tumor-like pupils of that Buddha idol were tightly closed, but the perfectly round mouth slowly opened. A pair of arms made of root stems gently reached from behind towards Su Zhiwei's head, the hands softly covering Su Zhiwei's eyes.

The Buddha opened its mouth, turbid light misting;

Fusion had already begun.

...

"Look!"

"A shooting star!!"

In the Spirit Void Domain, countless residents saw a shooting star speeding from the end of the sky and exclaimed in astonishment.

"It couldn't be the Red Star coming back again, could it?"

"How could that be? The size of this one obviously isn't the Red Star. Moreover, when the Red Star passed by just now, there was a red glow."

"That does indeed seem like it's not the Red Star... It looks like... a big bird?"

"Wait, is there a person on that bird?"

"..."

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, that afterimage that flew like a shooting star to the sky above the Spirit Void Domain suddenly swayed violently. A person and a bird plummeted down rapidly from high in the sky!

Amidst waves of exclamations, those two figures crashed into a broad plaza with a boom!

BOOM——!!

Heavy dust flew up. The terrifying impact directly shattered more than half of the plaza's ground. The people wandering in the plaza simply didn't know what had happened. Panicked dog barks and people's curses rang out simultaneously.

The dust drifted away,

A white-haired figure in ragged clothes staggered out of the deep crater...

"Hey! What are you doing?? You scared my son, do you know that!" A woman holding a shivering white pet dog pointed at him and yelled,

"Our family's is a purebred Bichon! Only three months old! He was already timid to begin with, and now you've given him a stress reaction!!"

A man passing by couldn't stand it anymore and couldn't help but push her,

"Are you crazy? He's not an Ordinary Person!"

"So what if he's not an Ordinary Person? No matter what kind of Divine Path Possessor you are, shouldn't you apologize for scaring my son?"

"Crazy woman, open your eyes wide and see what's in that crater!!"

The woman glared at him fiercely, signaling that she wasn't afraid of him at all. But when she actually saw into the deep crater out of the corner of her eye, her whole person was stunned.

In the deep crater at this time, a massive, sacred phoenix-like creature was already paralyzed on the ground like mud, devoid of breath... It wasn't crushed to death, but rather seemed to have been forcibly exhausted and overworked to death.

"He is the Lord of the South Sea." Someone in the crowd whispered.

There are no phoenixes in this world. If someone could create one, it could only be the Lord of the South Sea.

The woman's arrogance was instantly weakened quite a bit. She coaxed the little dog with a bow in her arms while muttering in a low voice: "So what if it's the Lord of the South Sea... Can the Lord of the South Sea be unreasonable? If he scared my son, he should apologize..."

Chu Changqing didn't even cast a second glance at these people.

He lowered his head, coughing violently, pale strands of hair falling from his head one by one. In order to rush to the Spirit Void Domain at the fastest speed, he had pushed two phoenixes to their limit along the way, and now his body was also nearing its limit.

But even so, he didn't dare to delay in the slightest. The longer he delayed now, the more critical the battlefield would be, and who knows how many people would die tragically at the hands of the Calamities.

Fortunately, the place where he landed was already at the edge of the Lingxu Base.

He walked forward briskly.

"He is the Lord of the South Sea?"

"A while ago, the newspapers mentioned him almost every day... Establishing the Alliance Council, weakening the power of aristocratic families, conscripting and redistributing the resources of wealthy families, building the logistics system for the Five Great Realms' war... A man of the hour."

"What man of the hour? Didn't you hear the news just now? The South Sea Domain is destroyed!"

"The South Sea Domain is destroyed, so why is he still here? Isn't he the Lord of the South Sea?"

"Looking at him like this, he probably deserted..."

"I heard that the South Sea Domain fell so quickly because the Integration Faction rebelled, and he was the one who personally let those Fusionists into the city."

"Ah? How did such a stupid person become a Nine Monarchs?"

"Who knows? The newspapers even praised him to the skies... Hmph, I see him as a traitor. Maybe the reason he survived the South Sea Domain is because he colluded with the Forbidden Sea!"

"Damn, that's truly a disgrace to humanity!!"

"To tell the truth, the other realms are also dumber than the last... They said the Hanging Jade Domain could summon the Lord of Hanging Jade, but for some unknown reason they still dropped the ball; The Tianshu Domain even claimed to be the center of the realms, with so many people gathered together, how could they still not eliminate a Sighing Wilderness?

The Lord of the Red Dust is even more useless. A dignified Nine Monarchs in peak condition, is it that hard to solo kill a World-Ending?

Not to mention the Hidden Clouds Domain. Although they don't have a Nine Sovereign Tier overseeing them, they shouldn't fall to a disadvantage no matter how weak they are, right? Even if they ignore that World-Ending Calamity, can't they eliminate the other Calamities in the World-Ending territory first? Or use some strategies from 'The Art of War'?"

"Have you read 'The Art of War'?"

"I haven't, but as long as they had, they wouldn't be this weak, right?"

"It's still that bunch of Calamities who are afraid of our Spirit Void Domain. If they ever dared to attack, I'd definitely show them what's what!"

"..."

On a peaceful street, countless figures walked out of their houses. Having heard that the Lord of the South Sea had descended from the sky, they ran out one after another to watch the excitement, eating Sunflower Seeds while expressing their views on this war, occasionally commenting on the pros and cons of the Nine Monarchs, calmly and unhurriedly pointing out the state of affairs.

Chu Changqing heard all of this, but he didn't have the slightest intention of refuting it. He just silently lowered his head and walked forward.

At the same time, figures hurried over from the distance.

"Lord of the South Sea? Why are you here??" A Rank 8 Path of Strategy asked in surprise.

"Step aside."

Chu Changqing answered in a deep voice without even lifting his eyelids.

These Path of Strategy cultivators seemed to have guessed something, their expressions instantly becoming incomparably complex. They immediately moved aside to open a path, simultaneously dispersing the surrounding onlookers, leaving a path for Chu Changqing straight to the Lingxu Base.

The Lingxu Base was different from other bases. This base was established at the highest point of this domain, which was on Mt. Lingxu.

"Cough cough cough..."

Chu Changqing stepped onto the stone steps of Mt. Lingxu. With every step, his figure flashed dozens of steps like teleportation. This towering mountain path reaching into the clouds was trodden underfoot by him in just a short fifteen seconds...

Many people were overseeing the Lingxu Base, but not a single one dared to stop the Lord of the South Sea.

They all knew why the Lord of the South Sea had come.

Chu Changqing smoothly entered deep into the Lingxu Base like this. But unlike other bases, the depths of the Lingxu Base were not enclosed, but rather a large open-air space.

Dense jungles and rocks were scattered everywhere. Among them, an ancient wooden temple stood silently.

On the temple's plaque, four large characters were written with Dragon Soaring And Phoenix Dancing calligraphy:

——[Spirit Void Ancient Temple].

Seeing these four familiar characters, a trace of reminiscence flashed through Chu Changqing's exhausted eyes... That was written personally by Lu Xun back in the day.

Chu Changqing slowly pushed open the temple doors. Heavy dust fell from the door cracks, as if no one had set foot here for a long time. Inside the Buddhist temple, there were no altar tables, no kneeling pads, no grand bells, no Buddha statues...

Only a massive Hibernation Pod stood in the center of the wooden temple.

Flowers blooming, birds singing, the pod sitting in the ancient temple. Technology and ancient charm overlapped at this moment. Coupled with the mathematical symbols carved on the temple pillars, a mysterious and grand aura blew against the face!

Seeing the figure hanging upside down in the ancient temple, Chu Changqing's expression was somewhat complex...

"Long time no see... coward."

He muttered to himself.

The figure slumbering inside the pod didn't seem to hear his call. In the silent ancient temple, it was so quiet that only Chu Changqing's own breathing could be heard.

"Do you know... Lu Xun still misjudged me."

"He wanted me to lead the Nine Monarchs of this era... But..."

"I can't do it, I can't do it well..."

"No matter how hard I try, I am ultimately not him..."

Chu Changqing slowly raised his hand, gently drawing a line across his own chest.

Skin and flesh were opened like a zipper. Inside the bloody chest cavity, a heart was slowly beating... And right now, on the surface of that heart, there was actually a Gu Worm-like organism rooted within it, as if continuously extracting Chu Changqing's life and storing it inside.

"I made a mistake, and having made a mistake... I should pay the price." Chu Changqing slowly closed his eyes,

"I know you get dizzy at the sight of blood, so, I won't feed you blood every day..."

"I have already given two-thirds of my life to this Life Gu. It will exude my blood on time every day to nourish your body... With it around, you can live for at least another five years."

Chu Changqing inserted his fingertips into his chest cavity. That Life Gu seemed to receive guidance, pulling its body out from the heart and slowly climbing onto his fingertip.

At this moment, Chu Changqing seemed to be drained dry, visibly withering...

His white hair,

His isolating himself in the Cangyun Base for so long,

Were all to nourish this Life Gu... From the moment he knew the South Sea Domain was destroyed, he had already made a decision.

Under normal circumstances, Chu Changqing could use his blood to nourish one Nine Monarchs daily, allowing them to live long. In the Nine Monarchs' original plan, he only needed to nourish one Wu Tongyuan.

But it was different now.

Those people were right, he, Chu Changqing, was a sinner. He had failed Lu Xun's expectations of him. He no longer had the face to continue living as a Nine Monarchs... So, he chose to give up on himself.

Gathering the Life Gu extracted too much of Chu Changqing's life force. He could no longer use the power of the Nine Monarchs. Moreover, in order to subsequently supply a sufficient amount of blood to Qi Muyun, his consciousness would fall into slumber, allowing his bodily functions to continue operating... In other words, he would become a vegetable.

From now on, there would no longer be a Lord of the South Sea in the world. The only value of his existence was to become the "nourishment" for the other two Nine Monarchs.

This was the punishment he gave himself.

Chu Changqing looked at the Life Gu on his fingertip, staggering as he tried to stand up, while speaking hoarsely,

"Among us... the one Lu Xun trusted and favored the most was you... I have already disappointed him once..."

"You... don't repeat my mistakes."

Chu Changqing used his last ounce of strength, slowly clenching his fist.

His consciousness began to blur, his body began to stiffen, his everything was irreversibly leaving him... His time was almost up.

But in those dim eyes of his, for the last time erupted a cyan purer than jade. He gambled everything he currently had on this punch!

"End this chaotic farce..."

"Wu Tongyuan."

BANG——!!!

Chu Changqing's fist smashed the Hibernation Pod. That Life Gu on his fingertip directly penetrated the splashing fluid and drilled under Wu Tongyuan's chest.

In the next second, a terrifying fluctuation so blinding one couldn't look directly at it gushed out from within the ancient temple!!

BOOM——————

Visible spatial ripples spread out, sweeping across the ancient temple, sweeping across the Lingxu Base, sweeping across the entire Spirit Void Domain!

Everyone within the Spirit Void Domain looked up simultaneously, gazing blankly at this Mt. Lingxu towering into the clouds... Dense mist swirled around the mountain peak, making it unclear to see.

But immediately after,

A curly-haired figure draped in a White Coat Wearer stepped out from it slowly.

The Lord of Spirit Void, Wu Tongyuan.