Chapter 679: Eliminate the Insects

"Lord Fang Xing has already become a Fourth-Step Dao Lord?"

Slap!

Wan Jian Dao Lord slapped himself again: "I'm such a fool, truly..."

"If I had known Lord Fang Xing would soon ascend to Fourth-Step Dao Lord—even one capable of rivaling Eternal Beings—I would have centered my entire strategy around him..."

With a peer-level entity to distract him, plus taboo weapons, we might have wiped out the 'Civilization Elegy-Bearer' in one strike!

Fang Xing could even have rushed to the Eternal Battlefield, ensuring the complete death of both insectoid Eternals!

The entire human race’s situation would never have been this dire!

But alas...

What use is talking about this now?

Above the cosmic battlefield.

The Civilization Elegy-Bearer’s hand flashed with light, revealing a harp: "Are you the Starlight Civilization’s final card? No... if Starlight had you, they would never have hidden you in prior battles... So you’re a newly ascended Fourth-Step Dao Lord?"

A genuine smile appeared on his face: "The Grand Cosmic Will truly favors our insectoid kind... Even if you represent humanity’s last resistance, eliminating you here will settle everything."

That’s right!

At this moment, Fang Xing was virtually humanity’s final card.

If he perished here, the blow to all human civilization would be cataclysmic.

"Civilization Elegy-Bearer, you’re very confident?"

Fang Xing suddenly said: "Have the wounds left by the spacetime fleet and taboo weapons fully healed?"

The Civilization Elegy-Bearer had been besieged before, then rushed straight to the Eternal Battlefield—no time to recuperate, perhaps even worsening.

Upon hearing this, Kui Lan, Xiao, and even Wan Jian Dao Lord all brightened.

Undeniably, the Civilization Elegy-Bearer was immensely powerful!

Perhaps, the only chance for victory lay here.

"Try it—you’ll find out."

The Civilization Elegy-Bearer lightly plucked a string on his 'Cosmic Strings,' producing an odd syllable.

In an instant, Fang Xing felt the fundamental constants of the universe being altered; contradictions and conflicts erupted everywhere!

Even the very 'foundation' of his existence was questioned—possibly to be erased from the universe...

"Of course—peak civilizations each have their own cards; they can produce artifacts that instantly restore Eternals. It’s only natural your insectoid kind gave you one."

Fang Xing sneered: "If I can’t kill the Civilization Elegy-Bearer at peak state, it’d be too dull."

"Pan Wu!"

He stepped forward—the universe instantly dissolved into chaos, earth, fire, wind, and water reforged.

A figure of incomprehensible grandeur, towering beyond measure, appeared—the ultimate embodiment of force and destruction.

—The Pan Gu Demon God!

In the Pan Gu Demon God’s hand was a colossal axe, descending like the splitting of heaven and earth!

If the Cosmic Strings had been altered, then simply reforge the universe.

The power of the Dao crashed down, intertwining and canceling each other...

Then, as the Heaven-Splitting Axe fell, the harp’s strings snapped one by one.

The blade swiftly swept across the Civilization Elegy-Bearer’s body, tearing through his armor...

Compared to the towering Pan Gu Demon God, the Civilization Elegy-Bearer was like a tiny insect, crushed effortlessly.

"Did we get him?"

Xiao’s eyes sparkled with delight.

"No! You can never imagine the strength of the Civilization Elegy-Bearer..." Kui Lan wiped his tears, voice low: "On the Beast Civilization front, facing our insectoid assault, we deployed every means possible... yet were still obliterated like dry grass before a wildfire. We even suspected this green-armored humanoid youth wasn’t even his true form..."

Boom!

Indeed, after Fang Xing smashed the Civilization Elegy-Bearer into pulp, wave upon wave of civilization shadows erupted from where his body had been.

Countless civilization shadows converged, forming countless tombstones.

Upon each tombstone were inscribed the names and deeds of the buried civilizations...

【The Dark Civilization, deeply studied cosmic dark matter, proposed the 'Dark Ring' structure hypothesis...】

【The Colossal Beast Civilization, a civilization formed by enormous beasts, where a single beast often constituted an entire ecosystem...】

【The Nata Civilization, worshipped nature, a branch of strange beast-people...】

At the end of each epitaph was recorded the date of the civilization’s destruction.

The dense array of tombstones numbered well over one hundred thousand!

The further back, the older the history.

These were clearly civilizations destroyed by the insectoid race throughout history—even including insectoid branches!

As the tombstones emerged, a strange melody resonated from the void.

A staggering sense of grief instantly invaded Fang Xing’s soul, bypassing all spiritual and willpower defenses, striking directly at his True Spirit!

Aowu!

The Pan Wu Dao roared like a snarling dragon.

At the dragon’s pearl, a demon wolf of destruction emerged, its jaws clutching a strange crystalline insect.

On the insect’s body were engraved patterns of tombstone inscriptions, forming dense circular tattoos.

Crack!

The demon wolf bit down—the strange insect instantly turned to dust.

"Found it."

In reality, Fang Xing’s eyes lit up—he had seen the Civilization Elegy-Bearer’s true form!

It was a strange insectoid, resembling a pale yellow giant silkworm, hiding within the fissures of history, countless silk threads connecting it to each tombstone.

'So the "Civilization Elegy-Bearer" is actually a form of time? No—it’s past time, a specialized profession tied to history!'

'To resist the harm this "profession" brings, one must continuously create anchor points in the main universe... For the Civilization Elegy-Bearer, each destroyed civilization is the perfect anchor!'

'Otherwise, it risks being lost in the chaotic currents of history...' The Path of History!

Though it contained elements of time laws, it was far beyond what time laws alone could encompass!

It also carried the weight of civilization itself.

"No wonder the insectoid lineage is called 'Civilization Elegy-Bearer!'"

Fang Xing’s gaze grew profound—he had seen the Civilization Elegy-Bearer’s true form.

It was a colossal 'historical worm,' shaped like a silkworm, capable of freely traversing history, its body bound by countless silk threads to the tombstones.

A flicker in the void—the humanoid green-armored Civilization Elegy-Bearer reappeared.

But Fang Xing knew clearly: this was merely a shadow from history.

Even if slain a million times, it could not harm the Civilization Elegy-Bearer’s true body!

"Hm?"

Fang Xing looked down and saw that the Pan Gu Demon God’s body was now covered in countless epitaphs.

Each new epitaph made the giant’s form grow heavier, more sluggish.

!

These were the weights of entire civilizations!

Moreover, on the colossal axe itself, countless threads had wound around it.

They were 'Historical Threads'—each strand binding the axe, rendering it as stuck in mud, slowly immobilized.

"The power of history! The power of civilization!"

Fang Xing murmured, then began reciting the Great Sun Tathagata Mantra!

Infinite mantra chants surged forth, transforming into the 'Eternal Time-Space Great Sun King Mantra,' drowning out the civilization’s lament in the void.

Xiong Xiong!

An infinite Great Sun emerged above all time and space, blinding light and heat pouring down—the 'Historical Threads' on the axe instantly snapped.

Then, the tombstone inscriptions on the Pan Gu’s body...

Even the weight of civilization meant nothing before the Infinite Time-Space Great Sun!

The next instant, a Great Sun appeared behind the Pan Gu Demon God, like a full moon.

The Pan Gu Demon God transformed—now manifesting the Three-Headed, Six-Armed Wrathful Vajra Wisdom King form, with a Wheel of Time spinning behind him.

This was the 'Eternal Great Sun Time-Wheel Pan Wu Form!'

As the Time-Wheel turned, boundless epochs converged, allowing Fang Xing to see the true form of the 'Historical Worm.'

"Pan Wu!"

The Eternal Great Sun Pan Wu Form roared—the axe crashed down.

Upon the axe, a Great Sun erupted!

It was the fusion of the Great Sun Tathagata Palm into the axe technique—the Tenth Strike: Great Sun Annihilation Pan!

Xiong Xiong!

Terrifying Great Sun energy first ignited the Pan Gu Demon God, then transformed into an indescribable radiance, striking the Historical Worm.

"Ahh!"

The green-armored human in that historical projection let out a scream and vanished instantly.

Then…

Pages of history turned, filling the void with a rustling of countless pages.

Even though the location was correct and the time wrong, beneath the turning of the Wheel of Time, Fang Xing forcibly twisted time and found the true form of the Historical Worm!

Puff!

A massive silkworm cocoon monster emerged, its body covered in burn scars of all kinds.

“Hm?”

Fang Xing instantly confirmed: this Historical Worm had just suffered severe damage, yet had “rewound” its own time back to its cocoon stage, instantly shedding most of its injuries.

Had his own Great Sun not possessed the “Time-Space Indestructible” attribute, the Historical Worm might have immediately restored its peak state after becoming a cocoon!

“But… you overlooked this one point—the fatal mistake.”

Fang Xing let out a long laugh.

In truth, this insect tribe’s “Elegy of Civilization” had not overlooked anything.

The Panwu Dao indeed did not involve secrets of time and space.

But… Fang Xing possessed far more than just Panwu Dao techniques!

This was the root of the Elegy of Civilization’s downfall!

“Kill!”

Fang Xing raised one hand, forming the Great Sun Tathagata Palm.

A light brighter than a star by countless times exploded—above and below, in all directions of the universe, only this indescribably colored Time-Space Indestructible Great Sun remained!

At the center of the Great Sun, the broken cocoon could not resist even a fraction.

In an instant, infinite civilizations and infinite steles were destroyed…

From within the Historical Cocoon came an agonizing roar, with dangerous energy still lurking within.

Clearly, this Elegy of Civilization still had a backup plan—a final trump card!

Aowu!

A monstrous wolf of destruction appeared, its reality unparalleled, carrying an aura of transcendence as it surged into the cocoon!

——True Spirit attack!

——Transcendent Blood enhancement!

Fang Xing showed no hesitation; with his current strength, even exposing his possession of a Transcendent legacy meant nothing.

Boom!

Even though a Fourth-Step Dao Master could resist True Spirit attacks, this impact caused the cocoon to freeze for several breaths.

In those few breaths, the flames of the Great Sun surged forward and burned the cocoon to ashes…

(End of Chapter)