Chapter 134: The Old Gods Are Dead, the New Gods Shall Rise

These countless Frost Light Points, at this moment under Baichuan's command.

Ignoring the melting from the searing body heat, willing to consume themselves to produce layer upon layer of hard, thick ice, thereby forming an ice claw sheath wrapped around his claw.

And with that, in an instant he swiped at the blood-red worm that seemed to sense something was wrong and tried to dodge, then his neck bulged.

He truly unleashed the first expending Burst since gaining the power of Ice Frost, the target—

The center of his claw!!!

"Crack!!!"

In an instant, boundless cold erupted; amid a series of "crack-crack" freezing sounds, his claw was frozen into a massive lump of incomparably hard ice, and within that ice a blood-red worm over a meter long was trapped frozen.

Having done this, he looked at the blood-red worm that seemed completely motionless.

Baichuan laughed out loud for the first time, narrowing his eyes as he gazed at the worm with a dangerous look.

Immediately, the Fire Light Points also began slowly moving toward the ice encasing the worm, wisps of fine heat gradually melting a tiny portion of the ice within, liquefying it into a small puddle of ice water.

Normally the Fire Light Points cannot move, because once they leave his air sac tissue, they will die.

But at this moment he no longer cared about the cost; even if they would die shortly after moving, he did not care.

After all, it was merely power constrained by another, no longer worth cherishing.

As the cold liquid soaked the blood-red worm, it seemed to slowly regain clarity; both furious and bewildered, it stared through the ice at the massive monster before it.

Those eyes, as if burning, were filled with malice toward it.

It could feel that he was draining the origin of the Strange Beast without regard for cost, willing to destroy one of his own claws for this, and the sole purpose was to trap it.

Why?

Having enjoyed this planet for over a thousand years, and having by chance gained intelligence, it felt bewildered, and angrily voiced its confusion at him:

Why must you do this?

Willing to perish together for it?

Yes, in its understanding, this was a path to mutual destruction.

Because for a Strange Beast, that power is everything.

One loss, all loss; one glory, all glory.

Without it, life will cease to exist!

Facing its confusion, Baichuan, for the first time since arriving at Tiandu, opened his mouth to answer.

He narrowed his sharp eyes, coldly staring at the blood-red worm trapped in his claw.

Even now, having trapped it, he had not stopped the continuous output of Light Points reinforcing the ice and heat, to maintain the small amount of liquid within the ice.

Then he suddenly spoke, answering word by word:

Standing upon the supreme Heavenly Throne of this planet, this world, I will not allow any creature other than myself to exist!

As the words fell, without waiting for its reaction.

Terrifically unmatched electrical energy erupted; this current, squeezed out by Baichuan overloading his current body, far exceeded the previous three thousand volts, and was poured wholesale into the liquid in his palm.

In an instant, dazzling light bloomed from his palm, a terrifying brilliance produced because the electrical energy was too extreme, using water as a medium to erupt.

"Hiss-hiss—!!!"

Within mere seconds, Baichuan felt his long-numb claw violently shaking; amid this shaking, a piercing wail rang out.

That was both the blood-red worm's struggling shriek and the result of gases produced by the electrolysis of water; had he not at this moment stopped the Fire Light Points.

And kept madly inputting Frost Light Points, he felt this claw would probably have exploded along with the ice.

For a moment, he could only extend his other claw to press down hard; even so, he felt it growing harder and harder to control.

Time slowly passed amid the stalemate between the two.

Five minutes later, the struggling in Baichuan's claw finally ceased, and he confirmed the blood-red worm's death in due time from the information on his panel.

Only then did he shakily stop, and with a tremor of the ground, he collapsed completely onto the earth.

This was because today's expenditure had been too severe today—not only in stamina and energy, but also mentally, and the exhaustion from physical injury.

Fortunately, now everything was over; he was the last snake still standing.

Not only that, he had also obtained the root of all the supernatural in this world.

Thinking of this, Baichuan looked at the blood-red worm's corpse still fixed in the ice within his claw; the scan had now begun.

And this was his true confidence, the reason he did not choose Symbiosis with the worm.

The power bestowed by the other ultimately still belonged to the other; once the other was displeased, it could be taken back at any time—for instance, the Ice Frost and Fire Light Points that had suddenly fallen silent earlier, or Zhou Tianzi before that.

Only abilities and power that truly belong to oneself will not be constrained by others.

Anyway, as long as its corpse remained, its abilities would eventually belong to him!

At the same time, without knowing the other's background, he did not plan to make direct physical contact with it, nor did he plan to eat it directly; that was too dangerous for him.

As for why he dared to act this way throughout the entire process, unafraid that the Light Points he used would once again fall silent, naturally he had his own considerations.

From the very beginning, the silencing of his power seemed to be due to the strange waves emitted by Zhou Tianzi's bizarre eyes.

This had already made him suspicious; later, that worm had been constantly tempting and luring him, from wanting him to feed it with his own flesh and blood at first, to eventually compromising, seizing the flesh and blood of other animals.

The entire process was tempting him to agree, not forcibly silencing his power or violently invading his body.

Moreover, after it left Zhou Tianzi's body, it became listless and drained, and he had previously known that driving this Light Point power each time required enormous energy.

And that worm's body was so tiny.

Everything pointed to the fact that this worm was in its weakest, most helpless state, so much so that it could not even silence his power to forcibly achieve Symbiosis.

Once he missed this golden opportunity, he might regret it for the rest of his life.

Thus, he decided to gamble!

Actually, throughout the entire process, had that worm been even slightly tougher, Baichuan estimated he would not have been so forceful, but would have chosen to temporize and play along with it.

First achieve Symbiosis with it, scan and evolve out its abilities, then take it slowly.

Unfortunately, it might have intelligence, but it was a bit too simple and hasty.

Reflecting on what he had just done, even Baichuan's heart was pounding with nervousness, and at this moment he felt his entire body utterly exhausted.

Because one claw had become a Cage, and his body was covered in massive wounds.

After resting for a while, he rarely reverted to his former serpent crawling method; fortunately, his belly scales hadn't degenerated that quickly.

He didn't leave directly, but merely crawled up the surrounding city wall and took stock of the current situation.

Then he headed straight for the somewhat dilapidated imperial palace. As expected, there were still a large number of things left inside, as well as some Strange Beasts tightly bound.

At this moment, Baichuan no longer cherished those Strange Beasts as he once did. First, he slowly scanned out their ability models, then evolved them before plundering them.

He directly treated these Strange Beasts as food, tearing and biting them mouthful by mouthful. After this vicious battle, the energy he had stored had long since been completely depleted.

If he didn't replenish it, he was afraid he would starve to death right here in Tiandu.

That would be far too laughable.

Amidst a bout of feasting, the enormous sound of chewing echoed through Tiandu Neicheng... or perhaps it could now be called Tiandu Feixu.

This sound reverberated through Tiandu Feixu, causing the ordinary people in the Middle City and Outer City to be terrified to the extreme, and they began packing up everything they could carry and fleeing Tiandu.

Thus, after Baichuan scanned out and confirmed this worm's ability, and then destroyed its corpse, the vast Tiandu had already become an empty city; all the living had long since fled.

And three days had already passed since the initial descent upon Tiandu.

Also on the third day, he could feel the Ice Frost and Fire Light Points within his body beginning to show signs of death.

He understood this was because of the death of the root of all power—that blood worm.

The original root had perished, so how could its remnants and derivatives survive on their own?

Moreover, the closer one was to this dead blood worm's environment, the faster this power would collapse under its stimulation. Of course, there might also be the reason that Baichuan had been frantically suppressing and consuming it in use.

In any case, the power within his body had inevitably begun to enter a phase of death and collapse.

Regarding this, Baichuan was not panicked at all. Let it disappear—after all, it was someone else's power.

For him, who now possessed the entire ability model of the blood worm, these things no longer mattered.

It could truly be said: The old god is dead, long live the new god.

The deity who created the supernatural system in the old era has died, so a new era and new deity should appear.

And that day would not be far off. They would eventually welcome a new era—an era belonging to him, Baichuan.

He would ultimately ascend the supreme Heavenly Throne and be crowned as a god!

However, it would still be a long time before those powers completely vanished, enough to let that group of supernaturals linger on for a while.

He was in no rush. The throne was ahead; whenever he stepped upon it would be entirely up to him.

He took one last look at this place of ruins, especially where the imperial palace stood.

After so many days of searching, he had discovered many books inside, but unfortunately he couldn't read them. His intuition told him there might be a great deal of research on Strange Beast energy within.

But he still couldn't read them. Since that was the case, he couldn't let others benefit either.

Baichuan sensed the power within him that was continuously dying and collapsing. Because of this, without the Light Points absorbing and storing heat, his body temperature began to gradually leak and rise once again.

In that case, since the power was dying anyway, why not let him indulge one last time.

He already knew the ultimate Burst of flame power.

Now let him see how terrifying the Ice Frost power, nurtured by his massive body over so many years, would be when fully unleashed.

Whether it could compare to the Burst of flame.

(End of this chapter)