Chapter 254: Witness the End!

The scarlet sword light was swung out by the Yuan Tu Treasure Sword, then drifted down from the starry sky and struck Mount Buzhou!

A booming sound suddenly arose, the massive mountain shattered again amid wails, the power of a sage is evident……

Having lost Mount Buzhou's support, the heavenly stars soon began to fall, from a few here and there to whole swaths crashing down, the brilliant starry sky began to become empty and dim once more.

The falling stars dragged long tails of flame, slamming heavily into the earth.

This land thus cracked again, the omen of apocalypse reappeared……

"You……"

In the starry sky, the upper half of the purple giant shadow looked bewildered at that scarlet figure, not understanding his train of thought, having just finished sealing him, then turned around and lifted the seal…… What madness is this?

Ming He withdrew the Yuan Tu and A Bi that had pierced his two halves, remaining silent.

Zi Ying was startled and uncertain, but immediately joined his two halves together.

0.5 jun + 0.5 jun, the steadfast jun is revived in full glory!

"What exactly do you want to do?"

Zi Ying watched Ming He with great vigilance—when things go awry, there must be a demon; Ming He, who had always desperately maintained the primordial world's survival, actually took the initiative to destroy Mount Buzhou and undo his seal…… This is not right!

"Master."

Ming He sheathed his two treasure swords, gazing at Zi Ying with a complex expression.

Although after fully merging with the Dao, His character had completely changed, but Ming He knows that the Dao Ancestor actually still possesses consciousness, and has all along been dragging the Heavenly Dao's feet.

Otherwise, once the Heavenly Dao and the Dao Ancestor unite as two sages, plus the extra Pangu divine power, Ming He alone could not possibly defeat them!

"Master, I, the disciple, feel ashamed; the mission to preserve Heaven and Earth may not be accomplishable……"

Ming He bowed shamefully toward Zi Ying:

"I, the disciple, have decided to actively destroy the world, to help the Heavenly Dao reunite Pangu!"

His expression changed:

"Are you confident?"

The questioner is obviously the Dao Ancestor.

Ming He shook his head:

"No……"

He pondered for a moment, then suddenly asked:

"Is it because of that Xue Xuan brat?"

"Yes."

Zi Ying closed his eyes.

Then opened them:

"Good."

He asked no more, said no more, and simply sat in silent meditation amidst the starry sky……

【As Heaven and Earth continue to collapse, the substance of the Primordial Wasteland grows ever more tenuous, and the incursion and penetration of "non-being" into "being" become ever more severe.】

【The starry sky is being pulled and distorted, the land twisted and faded, the entire Primordial Wasteland is gradually disappearing……】

【Yes, disappearing!】

【"Being" diffuses into "non-being", matter annihilates into the immaterial……】

【Although in theory matter is not destroyed, merely shattered, objectively existing matter neither vanishes nor appears out of nowhere; it only keeps moving, changing its form and structure.】

【But if they scatter too far, that essentially amounts to disappearance!】

【Thus arises the dispute between Ming He and the Heavenly Dao: the Heavenly Dao believes it can, when diluted to the utmost extreme, stage a bottom-out rebound, thereby reassembling Pangu's true form and reopening the heavens.】

【The Dao Ancestor and Ming He, however, are pessimistic about this, for theory and reality are always two different things; no matter how perfect the plan, in practice there will always be a snag, and nobody can say whether a theoretical "bottom-out rebound" actually exists!】

【What? You say why the Heavenly Dao is so confident?】

【Sorry, because He is a second idiot……】

【A second idiot always has some inexplicable confidence; even if nobody can be sure of this theory, he dares to bury his head and charge forward!】

【Consequences? When has a second idiot ever had a brain to consider this?!】

【Precisely because the two sides have had a dispute, this led to the Dao Ancestor wholeheartedly merging with the Dao, and the Dao Ancestor dragging his feet, allowing this muscular second idiot to be subdued by Ming He.】

【Otherwise, as the revived consciousness of Pangu, His authority over Heaven and Earth absolutely surpasses that of a sage; if they truly fought, Ming He would be stuck by His permission check, tormented to the point of ecstasy……】

【But now, since Ming He has actively given up on stubborn resistance in utter despair, the Dao Ancestor dragging his feet alone is meaningless; might as well give up and let the Heavenly Dao begin reassembling Pangu!】

【Under Ming He's tense gaze, the meditating Zi Ying's body gradually emanates ever stronger Pangu divine power……】

【Will it succeed?】

【Nobody knows, including you.】

【You can only anxiously observe the Primordial Wasteland from beyond the heavens, awaiting that change.】

【This is important, for if it succeeds, you can return to the previous node, report this exciting good news to Ming He of that time, and then save everyone!】

【The true grand perfect ending is right before your eyes.】

【But if it fails……】

【Then not only will this branch meet destruction, but the next branch, the branch after that…… will likewise be declared hopeless, for you lack the ability to change this, and restarting however many times is useless.】

【This is naturally despairing, for it represents the best outcome you can ultimately achieve—merely leading people to hide in the "Eternal Primordial Wasteland", becoming a quantum superposition state, transcending the concepts of life and death……】

【Can this be considered a grand perfection?】

【At least you think it isn't.】

【And what will cause you even more pain is your father's trust in you; he, acting on the Dao Ancestor's orders to guard Heaven and Earth, is an absolute world-shaking hero, yet because of your unrealistic idea, he abandoned his mission!】

【If it succeeds, that's fine; if it fails, what will you say?】

【All kinds of thoughts and speculations surge in your heart, telling you: you can only succeed, you cannot fail!】

This only increases your psychological pressure……

Gradually, the stars fell to earth! Beidou, Nandou, the Twenty‑Eight Mansions…… the Zhou Tian stars all collapsed, crashing onto the primordial wilderness!

The primordial wilderness collapsed again, and the Five Regions and Four Seas faded bit by bit into nothing……

Meanwhile, a speck of purple light in the starry sky grew increasingly bright!

That is the Hongjun Heavenly Dao; they are growing stronger, and the more the primordial wilderness is shattered, the stronger they become. The Pangu divine power that destroys all laws signifies that they may soon regain Pangu after the heavens and earth perish.

Even though everyone felt uneasy, Er Sha Zi still charged ahead head‑down……

As time passed, not only the primordial wilderness but even Heaven beyond Heaven began to tremble!

This small world, opened up by the Dao Ancestor, lies between the primordial wilderness and the "Eternal Primordial Wilderness"; though its nature is the same as the "Eternal Primordial Wilderness"—both are the sages' creations of something from nothing—and theoretically unaffected by the primordial wilderness's destruction, it still suffers collateral tremors because it is attached to the primordial wilderness's heaven‑and‑earth membrane……

When Heaven beyond Heaven shuddered, you all shuddered with it: 'It's coming!'

The Zhou Tian stars have mostly fallen; the brilliant star sea has turned dim and dull, leaving only the sun and moon—and even they can't hold on!

You watched in shock as the two main Zhou Tian stars crashed down: the sun fell to earth, its blazing true fire refining the land's fragments; the moon fell, and icy frost blanketed all directions.

One cold, one hot—the already shattered Five Regions and Four Seas now sank utterly into Chaos, spreading and spreading…… until they vanished without trace.

This land—destroyed!

Without the Zhou Tian stars' suppression, the dim, light‑less starry sky began to collapse: the heavenly canopy shattered, and Chaos seeped more easily into the primordial wilderness's starry expanse.

The starry sky bereft of stars seemed to have nothing to spread on the surface, but in fact Chaos continued to erode it!

So what exactly is Chaos eroding?

'It's space……'

Jin Bing muttered to himself: 'Even space, the most fundamental existence, is spreading……'

Or think the other way: it's not that space is expanding, but that space is being 'filled up' by Chaos!

The line between 'being' and 'non‑being' is fading; there's no telling who's spreading whom or who's filling whom…… Perhaps Chaos is eroding the primordial wilderness, or perhaps the primordial wilderness is eroding Chaos—either way, it amounts to the same thing: the primordial wilderness is doomed.

The final moment has arrived……

You stared fixedly at the ancient heaven‑and‑earth space twisting toward ruin, that point of purple light growing brighter and brighter……

Until the moment the primordial wilderness vanished completely, the purple light's brightness also reached its peak……

Boom—

It sounded like a drumbeat, like a thunderclap, like a heartbeat!

The purple light at peak intensity burst forth, and the scene of heaven‑opening and earth‑splitting reappeared!

The vast purple light surged with the power to shatter all laws; it sought to destroy the endless Chaos, to gather the scattered matter back and condense it into a single ultimate 'singularity'!

All that's needed is to retrieve them, and heaven and earth will reopen, a prosperous age will return, and everything can revert to that distant primordial era……

The purple light successfully broke through Chaos; even 'nothing' could not withstand the Pangu divine power's law‑shattering effect, for 'nothing' counts as a kind of 'law'!

At this moment, joy rose on your face!

It turns out we misunderstood the Heavenly Dao; the Heavenly Dao is not blind confidence but true certainty.

On the contrary, we petty folk have been blocking their way, splashing cold water…… We are truly heinous, daring to vilify the resurrection‑prison disk!

They deserve punishment! They deserve to be struck by the Purple Sky Divine Thunder! They deserve to be hit by the Pangu divine power!

The Heavenly Dao is great—no further words needed!

The debt of gratitude to the prison disk is not yet repaid!

You were so excited, and then……

The purple light suddenly trembled!

Chaos pressed in again!

The purple light instantly turned from the sun into a star, then flickered and faded until it disappeared completely……

Everyone lost consciousness at the same instant; in that final moment you saw the helplessness on Jin Bing's face, and also the despair and sorrow on everyone's faces in Heaven beyond Heaven.

You also saw that wisp of fading red light!

Finally, you saw yourself—your face deathly pale, your eyes filled with utter despair……

Ding! You died; the wrong choice led to a bad ending…… As it turns out, everything was already predetermined, and everyone's worries were not without reason.

Your last hope faded……

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(End of chapter)