Chapter 478: Everything is War (2/3)

The golden-light giant expressed incomprehension.

Since when did this Self-Calamity become so fierce?

Logically speaking, even if this Self-Calamity had advanced to the Shengsheng Cengci, shouldn't it have ended up shattered in an instant when facing this unreasonable monster?

But the result was the direct opposite of what he had imagined.

Gospel of War revealed a look of surprise, seemingly caught off guard. The monster that had been swatted away by Li Heng stood up again, roaring incessantly, its scarlet eyes rolling in anger.

Li Heng nodded in satisfaction.

It seems Source Power is still the eternal god.

Moreover, he had just sensed it; this Infinite Power was not without its uses. It could compensate for the insufficiency of Source Power and, by combining with the essence of Source Power, erupt with heaven-shaking might.

If he had purely used Source Power to defend just now.

Then he would have had to consume even more Source Power.

At this moment, Gospel of War began to take Li Heng seriously, or rather, he began to take seriously this thing that he still called a Self-Calamity in his eyes.

After all, he knew the strength of this monster under his command. Relying on that absolute strike and absolute power, it could shatter and tear apart anything. Even if something could withstand it, that was not something a newly advanced Self-Calamity should be able to achieve.

Infinite Power lies in quantity, while Absolute Power lies in quality.

The monster regrouped and lunged at Li Heng again, with even greater force than before. If it had been a fierce tiger leaving the mountain just now, it was now a demonic dragon emerging from the abyss.

Clearly, Li Heng's casual swat just now had not caused much damage to this incomprehensible monster.

"Meaningless attack."

Li Heng smiled, erupted with Infinite Power again, mixed in Source Power to elevate his essence, and collided with the monster's absolute lunge.

In an instant.

Under the clash of the two powers, at the center, one great universe after another slowly opened, evolving the four basic forces. Then, one great universe after another slowly perished, with earth, wind, water, and fire in chaos, returning to Emptiness.

This was the clash of the Shengsheng Cengci.

The terror of the power and the breadth of its reach were beyond what ordinary beings could imagine. Fortunately, the Great Void is formless and qualityless, and cannot be described in terms of space or spacetime.

It is not merely a confined set of heavens.

Otherwise, it would have long since been shattered by the Sacred.

At this time, Gospel of War was even more surprised.

He had thought that facing a monster that was now completely serious, the Self-Calamity should have fallen into a disadvantage, but he had not expected that the two sides would actually be evenly matched and locked in a stalemate.

This was truly too unexpected.

Even when he had not been sealed and was running rampant through the Great Void, he had never encountered such an unexpected situation.

Just as he was hesitating whether to make a move.

The balance that had been deadlocked was directly broken.

Li Heng added a bit more Source Power, instantly swatting the monster away again, ending the scene of universes being created and destroyed. He immediately pressed the attack while the enemy was down, injecting extremely powerful Source Power, supplemented by Infinite Power, and unleashed a strike of ultimate sublimation.

In an instant, the monster was blasted to pieces on the spot, erupting with endless blood mist that seemed to want to infect the surrounding Void. But the next moment, a sweep of Source Power passed by, and the blood mist turned into nothingness.

Hmm?

Gospel of War's expression shifted slightly. He had originally thought it was just a normal second time falling into a disadvantage; after all, the monster he had created still had quite strong vitality.

But after he sensed it, he discovered that the monster under his command had truly been blasted to pieces, without even a chance to resurrect and re-condense!

Was this not a bit too unbelievable?

He had not made a move just now mainly because he considered that the monster under his command would not die so quickly. It was like a stock that a normal person holds that keeps showing green, but the magnitude of each drop is not large; one simply wouldn't believe it would crash so quickly.

After all, the magnitude of the decline was small.

Which meant its ability to linger on was quite strong.

Li Heng was not surprised by the result of this strike. After all, he had been willing to inject Source Power, to the point where his reserves were bottoming out, directly obliterating the monster's immortality. It would have been strange if it hadn't died.

Moreover, this was merely a mere monster, a derivative of the Disaster. The three monsters were not at the Shengsheng Cengci before they separated; only after merging did they count as the Shengsheng Cengci. If he had to face this thing as if facing a great enemy, how would he deal with the Disaster?

Li Heng also received the notification that the Source Power had been credited.

First, an astronomical amount of Source Power replenished his depleted reserves. Then, an additional five hundred Golden Source Points were added—a massive haul!

Now, his total number of Golden Source Points had reached nine hundred, about to break through the one-thousand-point mark.

The golden-light giant watched all this in a daze.

He had not expected that the Self-Calamity, which he considered the weakest, would erupt with such might and, in turn, suppress the monster under the Evil God of War, which was simply too terrifying.

Especially when he realized that the monster had not resurrected after being blasted apart, his heart surged with monstrous waves. Could it be, could it really be, that the monster was actually killed!

A humming sound rang out.

Gospel of War spoke again.

He rode upon his red horse, with endless war behind him, and reached out toward Li Heng, making a gesture of invitation. The humming sound reached Li Heng's ears and instantly transformed into words Li Heng could understand.

"Good strength, you may serve as a general under my command."

Li Heng's expression was strange upon hearing this.

To kill his dog and still be recruited, and not even hold a grudge for that slap earlier? This Gospel of War is interesting. Of course, judging by the calm demeanor of this Gospel of War, he seemingly did not place much importance on that monster...

However, even so, he did not want to be any kind of general.

Gospel of War is a Disaster, not some army.

The words he heard about serving as a general, in terms of the original intent of Gospel of War's words, certainly would not be any general under his command; it might turn into some unspeakable thing.

So, he would pass on that.

Utilizing Infinite Power and mimicking the humming sound emitted by Gospel of War, Li Heng also expressed his own meaning to Gospel of War.

"You can come and be my subordinate."

As soon as these words were spoken, the scene became strangely silent.

The golden-light giant fell silent, unable to help but swallow his saliva, wondering if this Self-Calamity had been drinking fake alcohol? It was one thing to suddenly advance to the Sacred, but to actually dare to provoke this Evil God of War?

Isn't this like the God of Longevity eating arsenic—tired of living?

Although he did not understand, he was also extremely delighted in his heart.

The two of them should hurry up and fight, to delay a little time for him; he does not ask for this Self-Calamity to perish together with the Evil God of War, he only asks that it can drag things out until he stabilizes the seals in other areas.

"Since that is the case, then let me devour you."

After a moment of silence, the Gospel of War responded calmly. Following this, the infinite war behind him moved, transforming into a torrent of war that surged toward Li Heng, causing Heaven and Earth to tremble.

Within it, war encompassed everything; it could be said that every war within Li Heng's cognition, and those not within his cognition, were all contained therein.

The wars of humans.

Cold weapons like blades, spears, swords, and halberds; hot weapons like airplanes and cannons; as well as various rule-based weapons—a single movement could restart the universe and annihilate the multiverse.

The wars of immortals; Daoist techniques, Supernatural Abilities, and supreme treasures—re-enacting Earthly Fire Wind and Water and opening up the Great Thousand Worlds and heavens was the norm.

The wars of gods; Divine Kingdoms held high, and the gods falling.

Besides these, there were many, many more, encompassing everything.

At this moment, they all transformed into war, declaring war on Li Heng.

This was the power of the Gospel of War, the collection of war.

Li Heng's expression remained calm; facing the menacing and infinite war, he used Infinite power to defend, and once again utilized Source Power to raise his essence, preventing the war from scattering him upon the first impact.

The Great Wall forged from Infinite power collided with the torrent of war, instantly erupting with monstrous might, and endless shouts echoed throughout this sealed and static plane.

It was fortunate that this plane was currently sealed and static.

If it had not been sealed and static, it might have already shattered this plane, fought its way outside the True Realm, or even shattered the True Realm itself.

Facing the Sacred, the space-time of the World is still too fragile.

Subsequently, it fell into a long stalemate. As soon as the torrent of war washed away a bit of the Infinite Great Wall, it was quickly replenished by Li Heng using Infinite power, beginning a tug-of-war.

Is it now a matter of comparing who has more power and a more abundant origin?

How could that be!

No matter how long Infinite power is used, it remains infinite.

For the Gospel of War, this is even more so.

For this level of existence, once a stalemate occurs, it is an Eternal stalemate, unless a variable occurs.

And at this moment, the Gospel of War was the first to lose patience.

The surging torrent of war underwent another change.

What is war?

First, this point must be clarified.

For the people of Earth, war is a collective, group, organizational, factional, national, or governmental act of using violence, attacking, killing, etc.; it is an armed struggle conducted by two hostile sides to achieve certain political, economic, or territorial goals.

But for the Gospel of War.

He gave an answer: war is everything!

The Void overcame the possibility that the universe could not be born, so the universe appeared—this is war. Basic particles overcame the possibility that life could not appear, so life appeared—this is also war. Hundreds of millions of sperm overcame other sperm, so you as a person appeared—this is even more so war.

Heaven and Earth, the universe, space-time.

Everything, at every moment, is engaged in war!

Even when you breathe, that is a war against the microorganisms in the air, and even against your own kind.

Of course, some might say this is a fallacious argument.

But the Gospel of War is a Calamity by nature, so a fallacious argument is even better. Therefore, the torrent of war expanded once more based on this fallacious argument, transforming into an omnipresent concept, attempting to encompass Li Heng and define Li Heng as being within war as well.

Suddenly, Li Heng felt the pressure of war, and then, unexpectedly, he was irresistibly drawn to merge with the war; after all, within this concept, everything is under the definition of war.

Even the fact that Li Heng used Infinite power to construct the Infinite Great Wall to resist the torrent of war actually belongs to the act of preventing defeat under the concept of war, in an attempt to make himself victorious.

Li Heng frowned, feeling that things were becoming troublesome.

He naturally had a way to break free from this state.

As long as he remained self-independent, jumping out of everything, without contention or defeat, then he would jump out of the definition of war, and the Gospel of War would be unable to do anything to him.

But this state, in a certain sense, is no different from death.

After all, if you are forced to jump out of everything, that means you cannot interfere with anything; isn't that equivalent to death?

But if you jump out of everything and then forcibly interfere with everything, that is equivalent to returning from the state of self-independence and jumping out of everything back into the definition of war.

Then one still cannot escape the cage of the Gospel of War.

The golden-light giant noticed Li Heng's current predicament and could not help but sigh; this is the Terror of the Evil God of War.

In the past, many Sacred beings of the Heavenly Court fell into the hands of the Evil God of War because of this move, becoming a part of the war behind the Evil God of War.

If it weren't for His Majesty acting in time to seal this place.

I fear many more Sacred Sovereigns would have suffered at his hands.

Realizing that Li Heng would inevitably be defeated, and even devoured by the Evil God of War, the golden-light giant accelerated the speed of pacifying the chaos in other areas and restoring the power of the seal.

After all, once the Evil God of War resolves this Self-Calamity.

He will come to resolve him.

Li Heng sighed.

The means employed by this Gospel of War are actually no different from forced inclusion. Although it appears to be the supreme intent that war is everything, in reality, it is implemented by relying on his own Terror power, suppressing others with force.

So what if you know that my argument is fallacious?

Can you escape the range I have encompassed?

There is a saying that goes well.

When debating the scriptures to the end, one still has to rely on one's own power to take action.

This is like Pangu in the Great Flood lore, with one hand of the Great Dao of Power crushing the three thousand Chaos Demon Gods; regardless of what Dao of space-time or Dao of Fate the Demon Gods have, he smashes them all to pieces.

Since that was the case, he would have to cheat as well. Li Heng directly poured in all of his Source Power, excluding his Golden Source Point!