The City of Bones was moving, and powerful shockwaves affected the entire planet.
Both of the great Star Souls have already been completed.
This is the most powerful force in the world, second only to the power of the gods!
Three ethereal figures stood in the sky, motionless like statues except for the flickering glow of their twelve eyes.
Tian Sha snarled, “Lu Yu, both you and my Star Soul are now complete. There’s absolutely no way we can defeat each other. This deadlock won’t reach a conclusion, even after hundreds or thousands of years!”
“I’ve also realized that our star souls are too similar; there won’t be any result between us.”
“Since there’s no future for us, let’s just part ways.”
“Kill you? That’s the outcome!” Lu Yu sneered. “Then, how about we both die together? If the gods wanted to take us themselves, we’d already be dead. Are you the final link in this apocalypse tide?”
As Lu Yu spoke, the boundless aura of slaughter around him suddenly receded, not a trace of it lingering outside his body.
This is compression, and then further compression.
Lu Yu is transforming himself into a bomb!
Tian Sha coldly said, “This isn’t enough; you can’t kill me this way. Don’t forget, I’m just as strong as you are—the strongest, unstoppable by anyone.”
“So adding a little more should be enough!”
A drop of blood appeared in Lu Yu’s storage space.
This drop of blood was golden, emitting a sacred and inviolable glow.
This was the reward of the drop of divine blood that Lu Yu received, and now this drop of divine blood has been absorbed into Lu Yu’s body.
After absorbing this drop of blood, Lu Yu looked up at the sky and said, “Go ahead, do your worst. Killing me is just a matter of your willpower. You can control the lives of divine servants, right? Then make me self-destruct now. Otherwise, having absorbed this drop of blood, my power will make me second only to the gods themselves. Without taking action, you won’t be able to destroy this city!”
Lu Yu was well aware of the power contained within the divine blood. Combined with the condensed will to kill, this single explosive strike would carry all of his life force, sufficient to eliminate the Heaven-Sundering Star Soul.
When he consumed the divine blood, he had already ceased to see himself as a living person.
However, at that time, the four Phantom Devils plus the army of magical beasts will be more than enough to eliminate all the divine servants.
If they were to face the gods, they would never stand a chance.
By this point, Lu Yu was too exhausted to think much further. Perhaps this was as far as he could go, or perhaps it was a place to start anew.
The three ethereal figures did not move, still silently gazing at Lu Yu.
In Lu Yu’s body, a faint golden hue began to emerge within the blood-colored energy, radiating brilliant golden light.
Golden halos appeared one after another around Lu Yu’s body.
Every time a golden light appeared, part of Lu Yu’s skills within his body would vanish.
Tian Sha froze. He turned his head toward the sky, and suddenly roared furiously like a madman, “Damn it, you bastards! You actually deceived me! You never intended to let me regain my freedom. You’ve just been using me as a pawn all along for this very day!”
“No, we didn’t lie to you,” a shadowy figure said. “You have gained immortality and continued to live. But all of this was merely for this day.”
Boom!
The right eye of Lu Yu no longer emitted a crimson glow, but instead a golden beam of light.
The breath of the divine!
The white light shield around Tian Sha shattered. Golden light pierced through Tian Sha’s heart and ignited his body.
“We once gave you the same opportunity, but you chose a different path,” a shadowy figure said. “Then prove that you are not worthy.”
The divine power burned through the Celestial Calamity, and within moments, it was reduced to ashes by the raging flames of divinity. “The purpose of your existence is no longer needed,” another ethereal figure swept its gaze across the land, looking upon the divine servants and countless city lords.
Boom!
Razer serpents rampaged, countless bolts of lightning cascading from the clouds to the earth, exploding among the divine servants.
The earth became a hell, filled with screams and wails of anguish everywhere.
Innumerable divine servants were turning into ashes, and the enormous planet in the sky was also retreating.
Finally disappeared into the nebula.
Lu Yu was surrounded by more golden halos, one after another emerging in succession.
Finally, a hundred golden rings enveloped his body, perfectly matching the three ethereal shadows in the sky.
Countless warriors on the battlefield rubbed their eyes, hardly believing what they saw, their voices trembling as they stammered, “H-He actually became a god?”
A massive planet is vanishing, and countless divine servants are being destroyed.
Does all of this signify the end?
“What exactly am I?” Lu Yu asked, looking at the three ethereal figures.
His half-human, half-dragon form was vanishing, as all the power within his body, and even everything within his storage space, was disappearing.
But his eyes became brighter, seeing through the illusions.
He saw the true face of the deity.
The three ethereal figures were merely three skeletons, with only a small amount of flesh remaining on their bodies.
Among the remains of one skeleton, only the heart was still beating, with no other flesh or blood remaining.
“What’s going on here?” Lu Yu looked toward the three ethereal figures.
The space before Lu Yu’s eyes transformed, and in the next moment, he and three ethereal figures were already standing within the boundless starry sky.
Lu Yu gazed at a planet, his eyes seemingly transcending the void, as if his consciousness had directly descended onto that world, witnessing its mountains, rivers, and all the life thriving upon it.
There is life here as well.
One by one, nations rise upon the plains, and within their cities unfold the stories of life and death, poverty and wealth.
Every soul, every thought of a person appears in his eyes, in his mind.
Lu Yu was startled and withdrew his gaze, turning his attention to the three ethereal figures before him.
“We’re going to die!” Three ethereal figures gazed at Lu Yu, slowly speaking.
Neither joy nor sorrow.
As if death were not a big deal!
If this were to be announced on Earth, it might be a sensation, even a shocking piece of news that would stun everyone.
However, now it sounded like the most delightful news to Lu Yu’s ears.
Having experienced one battle after another, he had long since become indifferent to life and death.
Even if a god could die, it wouldn’t surprise him.
“You should have died long ago,” Lu Yu replied coldly.
“You can celebrate. You should also know what position you’re in now, right?”
“I hope I can still be the ordinary me. I just wish to live in my original city and live freely?”
“Then do you want to live in your old Fanggang, day after day being chased and hunted by others, living a life separated from your parents? Do you want your mother to continue living in poverty, watching her being treated like trash by your so-called family, being ordered around like a servant? Can you possibly seek justice for that raped girl without losing your own life?”
“We gave you the opportunity, which you could never exchange for an ordinary life.”
Lu Yu fell silent; he didn’t know how to respond.
A faint shadow continued, “Lu Yu, fate is not as you perceive it.”
“What exactly are you trying to say?” Lu Yu frowned. “Let me continue enduring this boring apocalypse, and keep carrying out merciless killings?”
“This is merely a trial for the inheritance of the divine bloodline. If we die, someone must take the place of the god.”
“Every step you take is a test. If even one step is wrong, do you think you could obtain the divine blood?”
“Sky Demon merely erred at the final step, thus becoming a puppet instead of a god!”
The three ethereal figures spoke in unison.
Lu Yu said coldly, “I don’t care about your trials. What exactly do you want me to do by making me a god?”
“Perhaps you don’t understand everything we’re asking you to do right now!”
“When you live long enough and use your divine power to see through the greed, helplessness, pain, and hatred behind everything, you will understand the meaning of a god’s existence.”
“You will understand one day, when you sense death approaching, that you should not draw conclusions too soon.”
“We’re leaving now. This planet was originally set up by your predecessor for the inheritance of the divine bloodline. Now that you have obtained the divine blood, everything here will cease to exist. However, we still need to establish the inheritance. Now we can安心 (rest assured) to go and prepare everything for the inheritance. When you sense the approach of death, you will also come to know the location of the inheritance planet we have set up.”
Three ethereal figures were retreating backward.
“Wait,” Lu Yu called out to the three deities. “Does that mean even the first Soul Master failed as well? I’ve seen the Blood Desert, witnessed their battle against the army of divine servants—were all those things illusions?”
“Sacrificing one’s life to create a final hope for companions is not something everyone can do. Every step you take must be the right one. They gave up their companions in pursuit of power, and that was already a mistake.”
“This was originally a test established for the Ten Mutated Star Souls. Your star soul power was personally bestowed by the divine. Only the complete Ten Mutated Star Souls can withstand the final inheritance of divine blood. You’re also extremely fortunate because the last will of the Foreseeing Star Soul noticed you. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have received that ring unless you killed everyone and every living being, destroyed an entire civilization, ruined your own palace, absorbed all the star soul powers to complete your star soul. But sadly, by then you would have already gone astray and failed to complete the final inheritance. That’s exactly what Tian Sha did, and that’s why he took the wrong step.”
The three ethereal shadows gradually faded away and vanished.
The final words that echoed in Lu Yu’s ear: “Forgive our previous rudeness. Coldness and mercilessness were merely to make this test more brutal, so as to truly see the depths of your soul.”
Lu Yu remained silent. Should he accept the apology from the god?
He could feel the three ethereal shadows separate in the starry sky, heading in three different directions.
There was a desolate wasteland, an endless darkness with no sign of life.
Even gods will eventually return to nothingness.
“Then what am I?”
Lu Yu looked at himself, his body radiating brilliant golden light.
“I’m still Lu Yu, still myself! It’s just that I’ve won, I’ve fulfilled my promise.” Lu Yu took a deep breath, the golden light receded, and the golden halo vanished.
He next arrived on the land, standing in the city of Fanggang.
At this time, people were still looking up at the sky.
They only vaguely felt that Lu Yu was in the sky, perhaps engaged in a final battle with the gods.
The last hope, will it succeed?
When Lu Yu suddenly appeared on the battlefield, standing on the city wall as he always had before, everyone held their breath and turned their gaze toward him.
Lu Yu smiled slightly, then raised his hand and clenched it tightly in the air.
No ripple of power, no sound.
Everyone and the magical beasts looked at Lu Yu’s fist and his smile.
Suddenly, no one knew how to describe the emotions of the moment.
Silence—
The harbor was silent.
Then everyone jumped up together, bursting into a frenzy of shouts.
Weapons were thrown into the sky.
“It worked!” people shouted, hugging each other tightly.
“It’s over, it’s over!” Countless people cheered, shouting excitedly.
Someone left the harbor to carry the news from here to all the cities.
All the cities that had not been destroyed received the news.
Cheers and shouts echoed across every corner of the land.
At the end of the horizon, the sun is rising. As the darkness fades away, the stellar soul power within each person is also vanishing.
People are still ordinary people; everything is returning to its primitive state.
The ruined land is healing, and the devastated mountains are growing ancient trees that reach the sky.
The river flows with clear water, and birds in the sky sing joyfully.
The star spirit stones on the tall walls of Fanggang were dimming, transforming into ordinary stones.
One by one, the domain guardians turned into stone statues.
The puppet warrior vanished.
All traces of the apocalypse had vanished.
“A New Beginning!”
The Dragon King with three eyes looked at Lu Yu and said, “We’re leaving.”
“Thank you all for your help,” Lu Yu said, bowing deeply to all the dragon warriors. “Without all of you at the final moment, I would not have succeeded.”
“Not evading at the last moment, this truly befits our dragon race’s reputation for being warlike,” laughed the Golden Dragon King. “We may be warlike, but it’s just our race that’s warlike. Before you, we will never be the most warlike.”
“Haha!” Lu Yu and all the dragon warriors laughed.
Lu Yu shook hands with the Three-Eyed Dragon King, and a golden glow in his palm merged into the body of the Three-Eyed Dragon King.
Lu Yu smiled and said, “Take it back—it will be the seed that can bring the dead back to life.”
The Three-Eyed Dragon King was taken aback, then burst into hearty laughter, though he did not say anything.
He now knows Lu Yu’s current identity.
The Dragon Clan returned to the void, and the Dragon’s Nest was sealed.
The blood color in the Blood Eyes was also fading, and the power within their bodies had long since vanished.
Lu Yu seemed to catch a glimpse of the future, where humans and the Blood Eyes remained locked in opposition!
“Was it successful?” Huo Wu appeared in front of Lu Yu, her eyes red as she asked.
“It worked!” Lu Yu hugged Huowu tightly and shouted, “Come, let’s go home!”
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(Final Episode!)
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