Chapter 18: Becoming the Blazing Sun!

In the chaos, countless maddening sounds seemed to swirl beside my ears, and a vast amount of baseless, absurd whispers kept echoing.

Consciousness kept sinking, the golden flames continually extinguished, and Zhang Jie could feel himself gradually losing control of his body.

Your body is being constantly torn apart by flesh and blood; the disaster blood within and the flesh and blood without are merging, assimilating your body.

Now you, united with that red sun, can easily feel the rhythm of the entire star.

How tragic, how tragic.

How can a mortal body possibly ignite the sun that has fallen into the demonic abyss?

In the darkness, that mysterious existence questioned him again; amidst the chaotic whispers, it gave the mortal a hint of clarity, and he couldn't help doubting his own absurd, ridiculous idea.

Such a tiny mortal finds it hard to destroy even a satellite, let alone a planet or a star.

Just like this...

The golden flames will eventually die out; the mortal finally realizes his insignificance and decides to let his consciousness sink.

But he ultimately feels unwilling; he is unwilling to die like this.

Never give up fighting!

These words exploded in his mind like a thunderclap, and his tightly shut eyes flew open.

Never give up fighting!!!

Exactly; even in death, one must die in a blaze of glory!

Never give up fighting!!!

It's not over yet!

Heavenly Catastrophe Equation!!!

The silent heart beats again! The golden fury flames reignite!

【Heavenly Catastrophe Equation, with my ruined body turned into flames, Disaster Blood Condition—resonance achieved!】

【Negative Trait—Disaster Blood Condition—hidden effect activated!】

【Life Trait—Weird Blood Disaster Body! —activated!】

(SS) Weird Blood Disaster Body: When your will makes even the blood disaster fear you, you have completely conquered the blood disaster; you will become the bane of blood disaster! You will never fear the erosion of blood disaster! You will be able to wield the power originally belonging to the heavenly catastrophe!

The Blood Sun roared; the tiny existence within it suddenly burst forth with a feeling that made it feel utterly terrified, unable to comprehend what had happened.

It could no longer assimilate that tiny existence; instead, it was continually having its own heat stripped away by the other side!

Take the heavenly catastrophe as fuel! Burn the flames of will! Create an immortal miracle!

Endless golden fury flames surged incessantly into Zhang Jie's broken body; the blood and flesh burned to ashes by the golden flames became new fuel, and the prairie-fire momentum became unstoppable.

The Blood Sun's painful, sharp howl echoed throughout the star system; countless eyeballs on the flesh spun wildly, and countless masses of flesh writhed in chaotic motion.

Hahaha! Does it hurt? Are you despairing?

Zhang Jie's mocking, manic laughter rang out, and the Blood Sun's howl grew ever more shrill.

Zhang Jie extended his sole remaining hand; the surrounding golden fury flames continually gathered into his palm, eventually forming a golden spear made of fury flames, which he hurled with all his might at the Blood Sun's core.

The golden fire spear pierced through countless flesh, transfixing the entire Blood Sun; the Blood Sun's suppression of the star's balance was completely shattered, and the star's rhythm reappeared!

The true stellar warmth finally burst forth from the core; endless flesh was dragged into the star's interior, and the heat of tens of millions of degrees instantly vaporized everything.

After a brief eight minutes and twenty-three seconds, the first strand of golden light fell from the sky, like the radiant glow of heaven descending.

Countless people looked up in astonishment, greeting them was the long-lost golden, warm light.

Their sun has come back to life! Their sun has been reignited!

Countless people celebrated joyfully, countless people wept while clutching their heads, countless people worshiped the sun, countless people knelt on the ground and lightly kissed the earth, and countless people gazed at the Blazing Sun, unable to calm down for a long time.

The Ark had begun its return voyage; everyone around was weeping with joy, only Lin Ran stared blankly at the dazzling sun, her eyes empty.

In this world, everyone's sun has been reignited; only her little sun remains forever extinguished.

Ah, Miss Lin Ran, you're here.

A cadre came to Lin Ran's side and handed her a blood-colored spear.

This is what the Leader left for you; he told me to wait a while before giving it to you.

Lin Ran turned around, looked at the familiar blood-colored spear, and it was Disaster Breath...

In her vacant eyes, a surge of despair and grievance finally welled up; she embraced the spear and slowly squatted down, weeping loudly, tears falling onto Disaster Breath, which seemed to sense something, extending its tiny tendrils to gently caress her face, just as Zhang Jie once did.

The more she gazed, the more she thought of him; Zhang Jie had departed so decisively, she thought he had left nothing behind.

This spear flows with his genes, his blood, and her love.

I just want to leave like this... anyway, the world is already safe, I just want to go with Zhang Jie...

But I'm unwilling... how unwilling I am...

Lin Ran felt she was truly a pathetic coward, unable even to die for love.

But to die like this—how unwilling I am!

Lin Ran sat on the ground, crying and laughing, like a madwoman...

Simulation ended.

As the Leader of the Lofty State, you gave up boarding the Ark, choosing to stake your insignificant life on a grand gamble!

You proved yourself to that mysterious existence! You offered everything to the sun, igniting it with the flames of your fervent will! You shall be an eternal legend!

Reward calculation underway; the simulation results are about to be archived into reality.

Consciousness returned; the soul-state Zhang Jie felt as if he had in an instant lived through the entire life of Leader Zhang Jie, not like the simulator that merely summarizes with brief words.

Everything felt so real; everything he experienced and thought in the simulator, he could sense one by one.

This is not a simulation; this is a new life.

But it felt like a grand dream.

Sorting through all his memories, Zhang Jie could not come to his senses for a long time; the life he lived in the simulator was too shocking, so shocking as to feel utterly unreal.

Single Challenge Company, become leader, ignite the sun.

Is this really something I can do?

Zhang Jie muttered, the surrounding spacetime remained still, frozen in the scene of his small spaceship exploding; only then did Zhang Jie have the time to carefully observe everything after his crash.

In the depths of the starry sky, those densely packed blood-colored warships had already revealed their identity; unlike the truck-sized blood warships seen in the simulator, each of these blood warships is satellite-sized, and each exerts a pressure far surpassing that of the original blood mother warship.

Zhang Jie dared to affirm that each one possesses the capability to destroy an entire planet, without exaggeration!

But even though they are so powerful, all of this has been frozen by a mighty force, unable to move.

Simulation reward settlement completed.

Rewards have been distributed!

With that reward distribution, Zhang Jie had no time to think; he only felt that his body in a soul-like state seemed to initiate another simulation, except this time he was sucked into his already exploded spaceship.

With a wave of dizziness washing over him, Zhang Jie only felt that the surrounding time seemed to flow again; fierce explosion sounds and wind rushed in, accompanied by the warning voice of the spaceship AI, and Zhang Jie passed out completely.