Chapter 196: A Slash

Zhang Chulan: "Who am I? Where am I? What did I just see?"

Ye Fan: "What kind of thing is this?"

One moment ago he was still bound, about to suffer Su Lin's miserable fate, the next moment this person was unrivaled across the universe, looking down on the world…

If this guy hadn't said those cringy lines after entering the starry sky, Ye Fan would probably still be immersed in the shock brought by Su Lin's earlier proud bearing of "heaven and earth, only me."

Damn it, he totally showed me up!

Song Shuhang: "These lines sound so familiar, haven't I heard them somewhere before."

Song Shuhang felt that his roommate Tu Bo seemed to have recited this while watching a drama — what was it called… Qi-something? Qi-zong?

Lu Mingfei: "Is that the point? The point is what he just did — add points, what add points?!"

Lu Mingfei felt so frustrated — does this guy's cheating have no upper limit… Half the plan is ruined now, at most he can only take revenge on the mastermind.

In the group chat livestream, the bullet comments briefly vanished before reappearing.

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan: "Any worry about Cheat Bro is a disrespect to Cheat Bro, I was wrong, this is too outrageous!"

Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan: "Bro Su! Sell me a cheat! My plug-in can't keep up with the version anymore!"

Han Li: "……"

Purple Gold Divine Dragon: "@Klein, you told me earlier to one-on-one this thing?!"

Purple Gold Divine Dragon: "Your conscience is rotten to the core! This Dragon Grandpa almost got screwed by you! What do you mean I'll be able to beat it next year?!"

Purple Gold Divine Dragon felt even his dragon scales were standing on end — is this something he could beat?! That ball of Chaotic Flame in his hand, if it had just been used on himself…

This Dragon Grandpa would have turned to ash!

On the planet hidden by the Mother Tree of Desire.

The surface of this planet was covered in flesh and blood, with flesh-and-blood flowers blooming upon it.

Su Lin took a single step, 跨越 the concept of space to arrive outside this flesh-and-blood planet.

You think this is the Mother Tree of Desire's true body? Then you're wrong.

The Mother Tree of Desire has other titles — Father of Demons, God of the Lost Mind, Horned Sihou.

It actually doesn't have much to do with reproduction and life — that's the Fallen Mother Goddess's domain. What the Mother Tree of Desire is most related to is "desire," "darkness," and "shadow."

Its incomplete Source Quality "Shadow World" is the shadow side of the universe, the dark side of all life.

Su Lin condensed a horizontal blade, just about to use Wind Spirit Moon Shadow to copy-paste a wave of fully stacked critical-hit bullet-comment attacks, when that flesh-and-blood planet underwent some changes.

That flesh and blood rapidly dissipated, transforming into humanoid creatures of various forms.

There was a humanoid female with a holy appearance, white hair and red eyes, who sweetly showed Su Lin a smile.

Right after her, a palace-dressed humanoid female with black hair, black eyes, and skin smooth as snow and greasy as fat.

Ages ranging from young to mature, some even looking like the 2D girls in Su Lin's room.

Some thoughts and ideas were conveyed to Su Lin's side — they actually wanted to bear children with him.

He confirmed one thing once more: the Mother Tree of Desire really is the kind of Outer God that's lost its mind, wanting everything it sees — it used to want the Source Fortress, wanted the Fallen Mother Goddess's domain, and now it even wants Su Lin's power.

Incredible, worthy of being the embodiment of desire.

Not right! It wants to buy time!

"Monster! I can tell at a glance that you're not human!"

Su Lin immediately wanted to use the first stance of the Divine Sword, "With no woman in one's heart, the blade is naturally divine."

The surrounding environment suddenly changed.

Beep beep—

A car horn sounded, Su Lin hurriedly stepped aside. He stood on the crosswalk at an intersection, surrounded by buildings built of reinforced concrete, wearing a school uniform on his body.

"Su Lin~~~"

A white-haired, red-eyed girl ran over and took his arm.

"What are you spacing out for?"

Su Lin was slightly stunned. He still remembered he was about to make a move on the Mother Tree of Desire, but now many memories that didn't belong to him appeared. Hmm… these memories wanted to become part of his original memories, but were blocked outside — now they were like a movie.

The plot was roughly an urban love story about a high school boy named Su Lin and his 138 girlfriends.

Hmm… this space and the people within it actually truly exist. It doesn't seem like something the Mother Tree of Desire could do.

Let me see who wrote this trashy script. Su Lin couldn't help laughing as he surveyed this space. His gaze pierced through layer upon layer of stacked space and saw the master of this space — the source of the blurred, illusory, and real power.

"Primordial Hunger, High-Dimensional Observer, Superstar Dominator, Inextinguishable Whispers"

So it's you lot of sneaky bastards.

"All the big shots are here~"

Su Lin looked at the student council president, the class beauty monitor, the girl next door, and the 2D girl who had crossed over into reality, who had appeared by the street.

"You really are one hell of a genius."

Relying on his current attribute values, Su Lin quickly understood what these Outer Gods wanted to do.

They had analyzed that he possessed a large portion of humanity — should say, he was a human with incomparably powerful strength — so they had partially fused themselves with truly existing humanoid lives.

Moreover, they should have used some means of predicting the future, caught that this crisis had a time limit, and also sensed in advance that Su Lin would carry out a great purge against them, not limited to just the Fallen Mother Goddess and the Mother Tree of Desire.

On one hand, they attempted to confuse Su Lin's ideology, cooperating with the Mother Tree of Desire to analyze the surface information, trying to tempt him or implant memories. Among this was an inversion of illusion and reality — this power mainly came from Primordial Hunger.

They knew the success rate of this was very low; the Fallen Mother Goddess's precedent was right there, so on the other hand was the real point.

These Outer Gods attempted to morally kidnap Su Lin. The High-Dimensional Observer raised this dimension to a real dimension, and at the same time this truly existing dimensional space was linked to Su Lin's actions.

This dimensional space was the size of a small starfield, containing roughly a hundred billion humanoid lives. The Superstar Dominator's power was precisely the sun these lives depended on for survival.

There was also a third point — their powers were forming a resonance, and this world was not only becoming increasingly real but was also separating from the main plane.

They planned to exile Su Lin in an endless maze of time and space.

"We have no intention of making an enemy of you." The one who spoke was "Inextinguishable Whispers." Although Its voice was sweet at this moment, It still tried to cooperate with "Primordial Hunger" to alter Su Lin's reality into this plane.

"There's still 1 minute 0 seconds." Su Lin said with great interest: "Drag it out, drag it out hard."

"In fact, you cannot annihilate us, and the Fallen Mother God has not truly perished." The one who inherited a sliver of spirituality from the Superstar Overlord spoke: "As long as this universe exists, She will return sooner or later."

"And you cannot maintain this state for much longer."

"1 minute 13 seconds, continue." Su Lin said with a smile, ignoring the barrage in the livestream room where his goofy friends were teasing him. Of course, some people were reminding him to end this quickly—he naturally understood this reasoning.

"You can return inside the barrier now; there's no need to keep clinging to us, it's meaningless." The will of the decaying monarch who was supporting his arm spoke.

Su Lin nodded and said to "Them": "That's about enough."

Su Lin held a horizontal blade in his left hand and a divine-grade longsword in his right; the merit halo behind his back faintly manifested, shifting from dim to slightly bright.

"When I attain Bodhi, the apocalypse shall not exist, the outer demons shall not exist!"

"When I attain Bodhi, chaos shall be set right, sentient beings shall have hope, and all vows shall be fulfilled!"

At the original location of the universe, an incomparably enormous figure sat cross-legged, perfect and flawless, eyes lowered brimming with the meaning of redemption, gazing at a star domain in its hand. Sanskrit sounds arose, and the entire heaven and earth were filled with glazed Buddha-light and sutras—A Buddha-land in the Palm.

The plane that hid various unstable underlying logics and outer god avatars transformed into the Buddha-land in Su Lin's hand; golden lotuses bloomed in the cosmic deep, and control was seized by Su Lin.

The chaotic, distorted power tried to struggle once, and those unstable rules that could trigger a crisis of destruction at any moment were purified away.

Moral kidnapping? Forced unbinding!

You may not respect me, but you cannot disrespect Feng Ling Yue Ying.

He plucked a suitably sized sun from the universe and placed it at the center of the plane created by this "High-Dimensional Observer," continuing to strip away along the outer gods' operations, employing the skill he had drawn last time—"Dimensional Exile"—to make it completely distant from this universe.

After all, in a while he would become a weak, helpless Jin Dan cultivator again, and the Buddha-land would definitely disappear.

Along with this thought, the merit halo behind Su Lin's back gained a slight sense of solidification; although still somewhat unreal, it was no longer as illusory and ethereal as before.

The merit halo should increase luck points, right?

The feeling in the Mysterious World is much better than at home; at home alone it's very boring, with no merit or points to earn. Entering this world, everyone here is a talent.

The outer gods speak so nicely, I super love being here.

The star river ahead transformed into a heavenly waterfall, rushing toward Su Lin at a speed at the physical limit. Su Lin did not attempt to defend, instead letting these stars strike his body.

All the colors of the world bloomed from the impact of this star river, but a grey gleam broke free from within, surpassing spatial limits and piercing the Desire Mother Tree that was attempting to flee.

It was a grey horizontal blade.

The Desire Mother Tree was pinned in the void; after a wailing sound emerged, the shadow devoured this horizontal blade. Before long, this horizontal blade became a demon with an enormous body, turning to backlash against Su Lin.

It was formed from Su Lin's own power and could ignore Su Lin's own defenses.

The shadow curtain was drawn open, and demon armies like an ocean appeared one after another. These varied, alien forms fearlessly surged toward this side, all possessing the qualities of Su Lin's horizontal blade.

Streams of delirious whispers arose, attempting to awaken every object on Su Lin's body, every thread of flesh and blood, every single hair, wanting to make Su Lin disintegrate into independent individuals. Unfortunately, this was ineffective against Su Lin.

Thus, these whispers transformed into a vortex, turning this region into a black hole with distorted rules.

The demons born using Su Lin's power as a template offered up their own spiritual bodies through self-sacrifice; countless souls merged into one to become the seal of this place.

Time began to displace, space began to distort; this place became a chaotic land where beginning and end were one.

The High-Dimensional Observer seized the opportunity and reduced the dimensionality of the trap region. In this way, even if the Lord of the Mysteries entered this trap, it was unknown how long it would take to escape.

Various strange, distorted powers appeared one after another; They were not aiming to kill Su Lin, but to stall for time to reach the future They had foreseen.

"Is this all? Disappointing." Su Lin's voice faintly rang out: "My verdict is—not as good as the Fallen Mother God."

Light flooded the universe, and the black hole—already gradually flattening into two dimensions, devouring everything—shattered within the boundless radiance.

This region of the universe, sparsely adorned with a few "surviving" stars, suddenly became hazy, dreamlike and illusory.

"In heaven and earth, I alone am honored!"

That enormous figure sitting cross-legged pointed one hand to the sky and one hand to the earth, recreating the starry sky!

The space around him was interspersed with broken yet dreamlike glazed swastika characters; the golden light vanished in an instant, all chaotic and distorted rules returned to normal, and the demons' souls were purified.

"Time's up. Born as a human... sorry, mixed up the lines."

The enormous figure vanished, and Su Lin deduced all the outer gods' information from the broken jade divination in his hand.

He stood in the starry sky and swung a sword; eight bronze greatswords carried sword-light, slaughtering all life and all things, rushing toward different alien spaces in the universe, bringing endless endings within the outer gods' domains.

"Hoo—" Su Lin let out a long breath, instantly feeling his thoughts clear, so refreshed he couldn't be more refreshed.

【0:17】

Su Lin looked at the source substance "Shadow World" left behind by the Desire Mother Tree and felt a bit troubled. If he took it, there might be some hidden trap inside; in the group no one walks this route; putting it in the system backpack purely takes up space, and the system has no recycling function—selling it wouldn't even fetch a good price.

Huh? There seems to be someone inside—no, not a person, a demon, but in terms of rank it's at the True God level.

Su Lin perceived through his senses that the "Shadow World" was connected to an isolated region, and the isolating power shared the same origin as the Creator's remnants.

Alright, Su Lin knew who it was.

The Dark Side of the Universe. Faputi, believed by followers to be "the Lord of the Abyss, the destroyer who will surely erode and corrupt the entire real world and the entire vast universe."

Then He was corroded and controlled by the Desire Mother Tree.

This is quite awkward.

Logically speaking, if the outer gods did not exist, He would be the most dangerous existence on Earth.

Speaking of which, the region opposite is the Abyss; I heard that place is so polluted that not even a few demons remain.

The divine grade in Su Lin's hand transformed into a longsword. He thought of an idea: borrowing his current panel's mana value of 9999, he fully drove the divine-grade longsword.

Vast holy light poured from reality into the Shadow World, dyeing this source substance with rich holy light power; the "Shadow World" temporarily became the "Holy Light World."

Then the holy light flowed along the connection into the Abyss, and under Su Lin's micro-control, a great renovation was carried out on Faputi and the Abyss.

Anyway, there aren't many demons left. Why not—

【0:03】

Su Lin returned inside the barrier, withdrew the power on the ring, and without obstruction, the Creator's remnant power caused the barrier to rapidly heal.

【0:01】

Su Lin's perception had not yet faded. He turned his head to look at the starry sky behind him; the presence of the outer gods, originally extinguished, was slowly but resolutely reappearing.

【0:00】

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Su Lin stood high in the sky, suddenly feeling a wave of emptiness.

End of chapter.