Chapter 748: Chaos

Except for the one who fell into slumber, all the remaining A Meng simultaneously reached out and pressed the monocle over his right eye, turned his body and smiled at Lei Kedun, saying:

"I have little interest in stealing Antigonus's traits and authority; that would only add to my burden. My goal has always been to awaken it, or, kill it."

"Either way, it will free it from its current predicament and allow me to achieve my purpose."

"Since that's the case, you all should stay together."

As he spoke, Lei Kedun's figure instantly swelled, black mist continuously spewed from his body, sprouting one indifferent, distant eye after another, forming a giant the size of a mountain.

Along with his expansion, the palace that Antigonus had pulled into the Mysterious Secret Realm also swelled; brilliant starlight had at some point seeped into this space, continuously converging and descending, turning the deep, dark palace into an endless wilderness!

Maintaining his crow form, A Meng calmly surveyed the surroundings and, with a tone barely concealing curiosity, asked, "Interesting, you swapped the positions of your clone and your true self? What made it happen?"

As he spoke, his figure also swelled, becoming the size of a mountain, clad in a black ancient wizard's robe and a matching pointed soft hat.

One after another, surrounding clones turned into pale streams of light and re-entered his body, supplementing his power and raising his state to the peak.

The surrounding changes made the maddened Antigonus regain a fragment of sanity, and he awkwardly managed to say, "Knowledge. Wilderness"

Neither Lei Kedun nor A Meng paid any attention to this half-fool who had just emerged from slumber.

Subtly, they also reached a consensus: first kill Antigonus—one to let it be reborn elsewhere and completely break free from the Night Goddess, the other to address the Heavenly Sovereign's partial revival by sealing the Sovereign's coffin more tightly.

After a silent standoff for a second, A Meng and Lei Kedun instinctively turned and both looked at Antigonus.

An acute sense of crisis instantly snapped Antigonus back to awareness, and it resisted.

"I make a wish"

Its wish was cut off before it finished; it forgot what it intended to say.

The next second, countless tangled useless pieces of knowledge erupted in its mind, as if to burst every spirit worm on its body.

Antigonus's body instantly exploded, turning into a vortex of countless slick tentacles forming a deep, dim worm-like whirl.

Tentacles stretched out wildly, striking Lei Kedun, striking A Meng.

At the same time, some tentacles reached into the fissures of history, pulling out three projections from the past.

One of them bore a beautiful face, appearing almost human female, but its ribs and waist sprouted two beastly legs covered in short, coarse black hair; black filaments encircled its body like extending tentacles.

It is the Daughter of the Destructive Demon Wolf, Antigonus's sister, once the Mother of Heaven worshipped by the Night Nation!

Another is a middle‑aged man with a deep black robe, facial features resembling a South Continent native, also the "Underworld Emperor" Sa Lingger of the Destructive Demon Wolf from the divine era! The last one appears to be a man in his thirties, with brown long hair, sharply chiseled lines, a firm resolute mouth, a high nose, and blue eyes full of madness and cruelty.

It is the highest‑ranked, most potent of the three historical projections, already having mastered two sequences and an extraordinary trait as an Angel King, and also the "Regicide Prince" Alista·Tuduo!

As the three figures were just dragged out of the historical fissure by the transparent slick tentacles, a bell rang across the wilderness.

An indescribable intangible torrent seemed to traverse ages, instantly flooding the surroundings and stealing the sustaining time of the historical projections.

The Mother of Heaven, Sa Lingger, and Alista·Tuduo's figures vanished the instant they appeared! A Meng lifted his hand, pressed the monocle over his right eye, and said with slight sarcasm:

"It's been over a thousand years, and your methods are still the same; not a hint of progress."

"It has been dreaming for a thousand years; if there is any progress, you will not be facing Antigonus but Fu Sheng Xuanhuang Tianzun."

Lei Kedun casually added, and as he spoke his figure became insubstantial, as if he didn't exist, and even his spiritual thread faded, breaking free from Antigonus's control.

Regaining his state, Lei Kedun caused each eye that sprouted around to coalesce complex, illusory symbols within them.

In that instant, a torrent‑like, terrifying information storm formed, engulfing Antigonus and A Meng, bombarding every spirit worm and time worm with massive useless knowledge, rendering them unable to think or react effectively.

After A Meng and Antigonus briefly stiffened, Lei Kedun's right hand, wearing a mechanical glove, pushed forward, causing the surroundings to emit faint, dim, colorless glimmers that seemed composed of countless illusory things. In an instant these lights surrounded A Meng and Antigonus, rapidly eroding their bodies, reducing their matter to basic particle structures.

The moment the faint glimmer neared him, A Meng reacted, instantly stealing his own position and vanishing from the spot.

He seemed to have anticipated Lei Kedun's method, having prearranged a way to steal away his own negative effects.

A Meng, whose figure reappeared a short distance away, reached out to grab Antigonus—once, twice, three times. Just freed from the information storm's influence, Antigonus fell back into a daze; any thought that surfaced vanished instantly, leaving it standing blankly, unable to react.

In less than two seconds, Antigonus's body was completely broken down into basic particles, losing its life.

A singular Angel King, the half‑fool Antigonus, was slain less than a minute after awakening!

With Antigonus temporarily offline, Lei Kedun and A Meng faced each other again.

A Meng turned his head, glanced at the countless eyes that had somehow tightly surrounded him, and laughed lightly, saying:

"Our cooperation just now was pleasant."

Lei Kedun nodded, then said, "But that's where it ends."

As the words fell, each surrounding eye lit up with deep blue‑purple radiance, unleashing an exaggeratedly terrifying information storm.

As if gathering all the world's information and knowledge, the storm solidified into tangible light, impossible to evade or resist.

A Meng lifted his hand, pressed the monocle, and his body became insubstantial, as if the concept of his existence had been stolen; no matter how the storm churned, it could never reach him.

"I happen to have a new experiment."

He whispered intriguingly, and A Meng's figure fragmented into successive pale lights, mixing into the surrounding disturbed information storm.

A divine realm full of "errors" appeared and spread over the surroundings, disguising itself as part of countless pieces of information, hidden within the projected wilderness.

In that instant, Lei Kedun felt his grip on information and knowledge slip, becoming sluggish and erroneous.

"Interesting, truly the embodiment of all errors."

"But such loopholes and errors are truly annoying; the chaotic, contradictory logic undermines the rigor of knowledge, which I dislike greatly."

As he spoke, stars continuously streamed through his pupils, forming various symbols that endowed abstract knowledge with tangible power.

The surrounding disturbed information storm grew ever more terrifying, constantly separating and rejoining, coalescing into various forms: illusory hats, strange yarn balls, burning matches, dark ancient horns, archaic designs whose tips to handles were aflame with clusters of blood‑red spears; they seemed to come alive, autonomously targeting a time worm that had disguised itself as an information stream, and launched an attack.

A sharp, unreal tearing sound rang out, and silvery light slashed the deep sky, illuminating the entire wilderness.

Silvery electric serpents leapt out in succession, bearing an intensely tangible, brutal destructive aura, swarming downward to envelop the wilderness Lei Kedun projected, while unleashing a fierce electromagnetic storm that shattered all information structures.

The wilderness, born of information, crumbled inch by inch under the silvery lightning; the besieged A Meng seized the chance, using deceptive rules to steal his own position and mode of existence, fleeing far from the Huo Naqisi Mountains.

As A Meng departed, the silvery lightning and drifting starlight faded together; on the main peak of the Huo Naqisi Mountains, the ancient grand palace vanished, while everything else remained as before, as if nothing had changed.

In Utopia, the "Divine Scion" Si E A, tracking the scent of the "Desire Mother Tree," appeared here; before he could act, the surroundings suddenly darkened—not merely dimming, but he was silently pulled into the shadow of order, losing all interaction with the real world.

The Utopia in reality fell into a silent death; whether outsiders, Kelein's secret partner, or the insects already present, all were fixed in place, repelled and polluted by the underlying rules here.

A pitch‑black feathered crow suddenly fell from the roof; from its eyes, beak and other spots, a transparent worm kept emerging, trying to escape but never able to overcome the rule's suppression.

In soundless silence, the crow's silhouette twisted slightly, turning into an old man wearing a black hooded robe, with long, dense white whiskers on his mouth and face.

The leader of the Secret Cult, Chalatu, had his true body and puppet swapped positions! (End of chapter)