Chapter 733: A Meng's Scheme

Near the Mist Sea west of Fei Neibo Te, in the unusually heavy, dark abyss, a slow‑spinning, deep vortex accompanied by dazzling starlight quietly formed.

A skull bearing a series of different faces shot out of the vortex, ignoring the crushing deep‑sea pressure, and darted toward the deepest trench.

Silently, the once‑dark abyss lit up with clear, brilliant starlight; star after star emerged in the cold black water, dense and dazzling.

The stars cast rays that interwove into a majestic Light Giant Pillar, enveloping the approaching skull and rendering it immobile.

All this happened in an instant, shrouded by dense black fog that made everything silent and hard to detect.

Immediately, streams of data peeled away from the starlight, passed the skull frozen in the Light Giant Pillar, fell to the seabed, and swiftly reassembled the figure of Lei Kedun.

His body was slightly illusory, as if nonexistent, unaffected by the deep‑sea environment, and could walk freely on the seabed.

A moment later, Lei Kedun halted; before him stood a lavish, grand palace made of countless gems, its style discordant with this world, as if from beyond the heavens.

Lei Kedun calmly gazed at the palace, his eyes flashing deep‑blue‑purple light, within which mysterious symbols coalesced one after another.

In this state, his gaze seemed to pierce reality, perceiving the palace's essence and the tightly coiled, unshakable information.

The palace, originally crafted from gems and crystals and dazzling under starlight, now appeared to him as a deep‑black sphere devoid of any light or color.

It continuously absorbed all surrounding spirit, matter, light, and even information.

"Black hole. Is this the essence of the path wielded by the Super Star Sovereign? No wonder it aligns best with the Perfect One; I can annex it."

Muttering softly, Lei Kedun suddenly extended his right hand forward, and one colorless beam after another burst forth from nothing.

These lights, as if composed of countless illusory things, interwove on the seabed into thin, seemingly weightless yet oddly massive and expansive scrolls of civilization.

The moment the lights flared, the effect separating him from reality was broken, and the palace ahead detected his presence.

Suddenly, the already extreme deep‑sea pressure intensified again, warping even the light.

Under this pressure, Lei Kedun's body shattered instantly, turning into a surge of sparkling starlight.

A terrifying suction erupted from within the palace, pulling everything in the surrounding sea toward it, forming a dreadful, all‑consuming vortex.

Under this suction, the interwoven light‑and‑shadow civilization scrolls were drawn toward the vortex's core, encasing it in an airtight sphere.

The surrounding terrifying suction suddenly waned, and the newly formed vortex spontaneously dissipated.

Without the pull of the dreadful gravity, star fragments reconvened inside, revealing Lei Kedun's figure.

He thrust both hands forward, and dim, unclear glimmers materialized out of nowhere, coalescing into an illusory book that unfolded toward the airtight sphere below.

As the illusory pages turned, the "black hole" wrapped by the civilization scrolls transformed into wave after wave of tangled pure knowledge, data, and text, imprinting onto the book.

The illusory book grew heavier, losing color bit by bit, its contents continuously devoured by the "black hole".

Lei Kedun stepped forward, pressed his hand on the now darkened illusory book, and his eyes formed complex, ethereal symbols, injecting a massive amount of tangled, useless knowledge to refill its pages.

At that moment, the seal that had existed in this sea suddenly failed, causing the previously hidden waters to return to reality.

The seabed's shift was instantly noticed by numerous beings, whose gazes from the Star Realm and starry sky fell upon it.

Silently, day gave way to night, and a dazzling starry sky unlike the usual view emerged.

Clear, brilliant starlight pierced the clouds and fog, appearing in the deep sea.

The sudden upheaval nearly made Lei Kedun lose grip on the illusory book; it became abnormally heavy, swaying like a real celestial body.

The shift in gravity caused the entire sea to sway, layers of water surged upward, raising waves dozens of meters high that roared outward toward the nearest coast of the Fei Neibo Te Mist Sea.

Within the abstract, illusory Star Realm, amid the Perfect Land surrounded by crown‑like clusters of color, eyes and strands of black fog silently emerged.

At the center surrounded by a cluster of eyes flashing pure light, Lei Kedun's black, corpse‑like body sprouted eye after eye, strands of black fog weaving a robe around him. Above the Perfect Land, a twisted face emerged, staring at Lei Kedun across a fissure that resembled a celestial trench.

"Super Star Sovereign? I accept the 'black hole' you sent in."

Lei Kedun, expressionless, greeted the spiteful face with a nod; clear starlight separated from his body, breaking into purely terrifying data streams that surged toward the real Mist Sea.

The data torrent instantly spanned the long distance, landing on the Mist Sea seabed and merging into Lei Kedun's body, which struggled to steady the illusory book.

Supplemented by the Star Realm's essence, Lei Kedun's aura instantly rose, stabilizing at Sequence One level.

This is the limit of information he can separate; any more would cause his true self's stature to fall, possibly spawning an independent self for his clone.

Almost simultaneously, somewhere in the Suniya Sea, the starlight above the sky seemed to acquire substance, moving and converging according to a strange pattern.

On a barren island below, A Meng sat cross‑legged on a massive stone, lifted his hand to adjust the single lens over his right eye, and a pleasant smile tugged at his mouth.

Before him, a brass‑colored book floated in midair, its pages turning continuously, revealing silvery‑white characters as successive legal clauses filled the blanks.

A Meng glanced at the progress of Te Lun Suosi Te's brass book, then looked ahead.

Within a hundred meters ahead, a man in asymmetrical, classical aristocratic attire was performing a ceremony to aid "Mr. Men" out of trouble.

As the ritual progressed, he looked up at the changing sky, his gaze fervently moving toward the pre‑arranged offering spot; he intended to sacrifice himself to complete the trio of offerings: "Mystic", "Strange Mage", and "Parasite".

With the ritual's advance, flickering starlight traced one strange, mysterious symbol after another across the sky, coalescing into a vast, illusory double‑door.

On the stone, A Meng rose, his gaze eagerly fixed on the sky, and he murmured with a hint of a smile:

"The Hanged Man's woven humanity is truly handy; it instantly made my clone an independent entity with its own self, humanity, even soul, becoming a genuine descendant of the Abraham family."

Sensing something, he lowered his head, gazed at the brass book hovering before him, and chuckled, "Not bad, a complete set of laws so quickly, though there are still many loopholes."

The brass book before him suddenly shook a few times, as if angry, and the silvery characters began to fade faintly.

A Meng lifted his hand onto the brass book, whispering counsel and threat:

"Heh, just kidding, don't be so careless; after all you're a uniquely evolved being, you must act with scope—we've already signed a contract."

As A Meng's words faded, the brass book steadied again, its pages flipping rapidly forward; the previously gray‑black characters in the first half had, by some unknown time, turned gold.

These golden characters recorded the world's underlying rules, and changes here could trigger alterations to those rules within a certain scope.

Soon the book turned to the first page, dense gold characters writhing, reconstituting rule‑bending phrases: "This place is suitable for opening a gate."

"This place is suitable for the descent of a great being."

"This place is suitable for a god‑making ceremony."

"Here the reality weakens, mystery strengthens."

As Te Lun Suosi Te's brass book inscribed decree after decree altering the world's base rules, the sky's starlight grew even more brilliant, and a deep‑red full moon subtly rose.

The ongoing ritual accelerated; the clones of the "Strange Mages", "Mystics" and "Parasites" that A Meng brought were broken down into pure attributes, drawn upward by the ritual and merged into the illusory gate built of starlight.

The illusory door quickly solidified, creaking as it swayed and was pushed open; countless starlight surged out from behind it, outlining a vague, hazy figure.

This figure was extremely illusory, as if it had turned into a star gate; not a physical being, it was closer to a composite of symbols like 'wandering', 'star‑world passage', 'key', and 'gate'—a peculiar conceptual entity.

At the moment this hazy figure appeared, A Meng stepped forward, and the figure vanished into the boulder, vanishing from reality.

Almost simultaneously, a sheet of silently flowing shadow welled up from the seabed, engulfing that illusory door and obscuring the star‑spangled night sky.

A deep red light shone through from the other side of the door, as if blocked by an invisible force, making it hard for this crimson light to pass through the door and descend; it could only struggle to squeeze out a small portion.

(End of chapter)