Chapter 1445: Humanity's Stars Shine Bright (Six) (Double Chapter Mega Update)

Chapter 1447: When Humanity's Stars Shine (Part Six) (Two-in-One Extended Chapter!)

Author: Sanyin YinyuWord Count: 3060

The mud swamp churned beside the skeletal dragon.

This world-destroying calamity from the Howling Wilderness seemed to have been completely enraged by Lord Xuanyu and Lord Wuji. Its tattered bone wings flapped above the mud, and deep within its empty, wind-swept eyes, a strange red glow began to emerge.

The pale bones stirred up a hurricane, and faint whispers, like songs, echoed from the edge of nothingness.

A world-destroying domain rapidly expanded outwards!

Xizai's world-destroying domain was vast, even exceeding the combined reach of Lord Xuanyu and Lord Wuji. The moment this domain opened, wherever "wind" flowed, traces of civilization began to reverse, like scattered sand, flowing back towards the sky.

Modern characters remaining in the ruins began to transform wildly, regressing from regular script to clerical script, then from clerical script to small seal script, followed by large seal script, and finally bronze inscription.

Within mere seconds, the characters that everyone could once understand had devolved into oracle bone script under the influence of the wind!

Not only that,

The reinforced concrete debris in the ruins gradually devolved into ordinary soil;

Fragments of vehicles scattered everywhere visibly transformed back into raw ore;

People's shoes reconfigured into leather, and the rayon in clothing reverted to unknown chemical materials. Under this hurricane that dispersed civilization, all matter returned to dust, and earth to earth.

At this moment, atoms "forgot" all existing structures, returning to their original arrangements.

*Clatter—*

Jian Changsheng's leather jacket and pants disintegrated with a clatter into synthetic materials scattered across the ground. He shrieked in terror, immediately unleashing his killing intent to shield his "vitals," while cursing Xizai vehemently:

"Damn this old pervert!!!"

Sun Bumian's expression changed similarly, but he reached out and found his own clothes were still intact, though a bit loose and faded. He finally let out a sigh of relief: "Good thing my clothes are all silk..."

As for Jiang Xiaohua nearby, she was completely unaffected by Xizai's domain. The mysterious bandages remained wrapped around her, without the slightest change.

And as the world-destroying domain expanded, Xizai's previously shattered half-bone wing visibly began to repair itself, fully restored in just a dozen seconds!

Both bone wings flapped furiously, and the sweeping hurricane forcibly tore its heavy body free from the mud. A suppressive, world-destroying dragon roar once again echoed across the sky!

Seeing this, Lord Xuanyu's face turned grim!

Having awakened from a deep slumber, the power he could exert was already limited. Two consecutive full-force attacks had nearly drained him, and yet the damage he had painstakingly inflicted on Xizai had been restored in the blink of an eye??

"The Dust Dragon that disperses civilization is no joke," Lord Wuji said coldly from the side.

"Its domain can directly reverse atomic structures, causing all material civilization to collapse in the wind... And at the same time, its true form is the primal dragon bone. When civilization regresses to its original state within the domain, its body also regresses and repairs itself."

"Damn it... so it can never be killed?!" Lord Xuanyu gritted his teeth.

"You're right, it's virtually impossible to kill it. At least, not for us."

"Then you just said..."

"What I said was never 'kill it,' but 'deal with it.'" Lord Wuji's sharp eyes turned to Lord Xuanyu.

"While I can change the materials of its body and inflict damage upon it, as soon as it activates its domain, it will restore itself... Therefore, I am no match for it, no matter what. Not just me, but the other Nine Lords as well...

Among the Nine Lords, only three people might be able to deal with Xizai."

"Who?"

"Yang Xiao, Lu Xun... and you." Lord Wuji paused. "Since physical attacks have limited effect on Xizai, Yang Xiao's ability to strike souls might be able to eradicate it on a spiritual level... Lu Xun, on the other hand, has the chance to use star attraction to directly cast Xizai into a black hole in deep space, completing its banishment. As for you..."

"You mean, you need an artificial, super-large black hole." Lord Xuanyu instantly understood Lord Wuji's meaning.

"You're dying, so we only have one chance." Lord Wuji's gaze returned to Xizai, and he asked gravely,

"...Are you confident?"

"Heh." Lord Xuanyu wiped away the scarlet bloodstain from the corner of his mouth, a smile appearing on his pale face. "The first among the Nine Lords to banish a world-ender... I like that title."

With that,

Lord Xuanyu slowly closed his eyes:

"One minute."

"Understood."

Lord Wuji floated up and charged directly towards the fully restored Xizai, which had broken free from the mud!

As Lord Wuji moved, Lord Xuanyu slowly raised his hand, reaching for the dust drifting in the air... The breeze swept across the land, and most of the dust dispersed with the wind, leaving only a tiny speck of sand, which Lord Xuanyu pinched between his fingers.

The next second,

The mass of the speck of sand began to skyrocket!!

The mass of the sand speck surged, but simultaneously, the area of this mass increase was continuously shrinking under Lord Xuanyu's precise control... Due to uneven mass distribution, the already tiny speck of sand began to peel away layer by layer, decreasing from millimeter scale to micrometer scale, and then to nanometer scale...

The spatial scale continuously diminished, while the mass incessantly surged. When Lord Xuanyu's ability narrowed the range to the Schwarzschild radius, space collapsed in his hand, and a tiny black point was born.

*Boom boom boom boom—!!!*

Meanwhile, Lord Wuji stomped his foot on the ground, and invisible ripples spread out, transforming the entire battlefield's soil directly into a liquid metal swamp!

Under Lord Wuji's control, liquid metal "towers" surged crazily from the ground, intertwining to form a gigantic birdcage, trapping Xizai, who was flying close to the ground!

As long as there were materials, Lord Wuji could achieve any mutual conversion between substances. And at this moment, the earth was an inexhaustible source of material!

The hurricane Xizai unleashed swept across heaven and earth, but it could not revert the liquid metal to its original state. After all, these were not creations of civilization, but naturally existing forms of matter in the world.

As its massive body crashed into the "birdcage," the hard bones combined with the terrifying inertia caused by its super-mass directly twisted and deformed the liquid metal. Had they not been non-Newtonian fluids, they would likely have shattered completely long ago.

Even so, this birdcage could not restrain Xizai for long. Lord Wuji could only continuously trigger nuclear explosions, using the shockwaves to impede Xizai's movements.

By this time, a black hole the size of a building was gradually forming in the distant sky.

The collapsing black hole began to incessantly devour surrounding matter, light twisted around it, and as air was drawn in, everyone's breathing gradually became difficult... Simultaneously, they could feel an increasingly strong gravitational pull tugging at their bodies.

"Hurry up!!"

As the Steel Wuji Domain descended, several figures already stood at its edge, shouting down to the survivors below.

They appeared to be Divine Path possessors; with a slight lift of their hands, drawn stairs connected to the ground, section by section. At this point, the survivors within the domain no longer cared about anything else. The greater the scale of this demigod battle, the larger the commotion, and if they didn't leave soon, they would all die here!

"Shall we go up?" Jian Changsheng looked at Sun Bumian.

Sun Bumian didn't hesitate for a moment:

"No, those are probably Ying Fu's people... This domain is Lou Yu and Ying Fu's territory. If we go up there, aren't we just walking into a trap?"

"Then never mind that, we'll run ourselves!"

Jian Changsheng and the other two, being bold due to their skills, turned directly and rushed towards the Gray Realm. They needed to get away from this terrifying battlefield first, no matter what.

The black hole in mid-air grew larger and larger, its radius already exceeding four hundred meters. Fragments of distant buildings seemed to be pulled by an invisible giant hand, rushing towards the sky. Even the liquid metal swamp created by Lou Yu began to be affected, with large metallic droplets floating upwards...

Creating a black hole was not difficult for Lord Xuanyu, but to create one large enough to completely devour Xizai required a massive expenditure of spiritual energy.

"Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough..."

Below the black hole, Lord Xuanyu coughed up blood frantically.

With each cough, his aura weakened a notch, as if he was pouring his very life into the black hole.

"Almost... almost there..." Lord Xuanyu muttered, watching the black hole above him continuously expand.

*Boom—!!!*

The liquid metal birdcage was shattered by Xizai.

Lord Wuji glanced at the outline of the black hole in the distance, then turned his gaze to the skeletal dragon angrily glaring at him, his eyes narrowing slightly...

"Time to go... silly bird."

Lord Wuji's palm plunged abruptly beneath the liquid metal swamp.

Dense electric light began to crawl across the surface of the metal swamp. Lord Wuji seemed to have grasped the authority over material science, slowly gripping and lifting upwards... As matter frantically transformed in his hand, the liquid metal swamp's area began to expand dramatically!

Three hundred meters, five hundred meters, one thousand meters, two thousand meters, ten thousand meters, fifteen thousand meters, thirty thousand meters...

With Lord Wuji's full effort, the original Xuanyu Domain had completely become his material repository. All matter within it floated and sank in the super-swamp of liquid metal, and then, the entire liquid metal swamp began to rapidly contract!

Matter does not appear out of thin air, nor does it disappear into nothingness...

As the tens of kilometers of liquid metal swamp contracted,

An incredibly dense mass of material was slowly pulled out of the swamp by Lord Wuji!

It was a spear.

It was said that Lord Wuji pulled it out, but in reality, his hand never actually touched it. Its density was simply too immense, so great that virtually no creature in this world could lift it. He could only make it levitate using his material science abilities, held virtually in Lord Wuji's palm...

The moment it was created, terrifying radiation erupted into the air, engulfing a five-kilometer radius in a strong annihilation field. Thunderbolts, born from the ionization of air, wildly coursed across the spear's surface!

Even the atmosphere directly above it was invisibly ripped open, creating a large hole through which cosmic radiation from beyond Earth poured down. This demigod battlefield had completely become a forbidden zone of life.

This was a spear with a density greater than that of a white dwarf star, with every cubic centimeter of its material weighing up to five hundred million tons...

Equivalent to fitting the entire Mount Everest into a sugar cube.

Xizai's skeletal dragon wings fully spread, its world-ending aura eclipsing the sky... Its domain was the bane of all civilization, but it seemed to have little effect before Lord Xuanyu and Lord Wuji. One utilized physical rules, the other fundamental material conversion, neither involving any civilizational power.

Yet, even so, relying solely on its primal dragon bone and the power of civilization's reversal for infinite rebirth, it showed no fear of the neutron star spear in Lord Wuji's hand.

But the gradually expanding black hole in the sky made it feel a hint of danger.

Just as Xizai prepared to flap its wings and escape the black hole's range, a powerful aura suddenly locked onto its form from a distance. Lord Wuji, with a virtual grip, had already raised the neutron star spear, its wildly ionized tip like a gun barrel tracking its prey, already aimed at Xizai's body!

Almost simultaneously, Ji Xuan violently coughed out his last mouthful of dark blood, and the original black hole suddenly expanded greatly once more at the last moment, directly engulfing Xizai's body!!

Just as Xizai, in shock, prepared to escape, Lord Xuanyu desperately screamed that name!

"Lou Yu!!!!"

*Swoosh—!!!*

The spear in Lord Wuji's hand was suddenly hurled!

A miniature neutron star streaked across the sky at that moment, carrying terrifying kinetic energy like a sudden flash of lightning, precisely striking Xizai's chest!

Lord Wuji had precisely predicted the final size of the black hole Lord Xuanyu could create, as well as Xizai's trajectory. The moment the neutron star spear violently impacted Xizai's skeletal body, terrifying force directly tore away a large chunk of its form...

And at the same time, it pushed Xizai's massive body towards the deepest part of the black hole!

With Xizai's power, it could fully withstand this spear strike, merely needing to use its domain to restore its body afterward. But what was truly fatal at this moment was not the spear itself, but the artificial black hole behind it, leading to an unknown part of the cosmos!!

Xizai's furious roar echoed in the sky for only an instant. As its body was dragged into the center of the black hole, even its sound was swallowed. It struggled, trying to flap its wings to escape the black hole's gravity, but with its own mass increased, it simply didn't possess such strength... Moreover, even the air had been drawn away by the black hole.

The skeletal dragon's body was gradually swallowed by the black hole. Finally, its storm eyes, filled with rage and defiance, completely vanished into the darkness...

No one knew where Xizai had been banished to,

But perhaps for at least the next hundred years, it would have no chance of returning to Earth.

After devouring Xizai, the black hole began to collapse and dissipate, and a blood-soaked figure plummeted straight from the sky.

By this time, the entire domain's ground had been drained by Lord Wuji, transforming into a giant impact crater. Just as the unconscious Lord Xuanyu was about to crash headfirst onto the ground, a hand suddenly gripped his collar, and after neutralizing gravity, gently placed him in a nearby pit.

"Well done," Lord Wuji said faintly. "I admit, you do have the capital to be arrogant."

"...Heh heh..."

Lord Xuanyu lay flat on the ground, as weak as a corpse. He had already ignored Lord Wuji's sarcasm, his weak eyes filled only with self-admiration. "Now... I've truly saved the world."

"You've only banished one world-ender; saving the world is still far off," Lord Wuji said, raising his hand to point at the colossal steel domain in the sky, his eyes bright like stars.

"I am destined to be the one to save everything."

"Why didn't I notice before... you're even more... pretentious than me." Lord Xuanyu was somewhat speechless.

"Because I am already proving that my path is the right one."

"Tch..."

Lord Xuanyu wanted to say something more, but he was too weak to speak. All his bodily functions were on the verge of shutting down, and his eyes, heavy as if filled with lead, slowly closed...

Lord Wuji watched this scene, silent for a long time, then finally chose to turn around and prepare to leave.

Just then,

He heard a rustling sound behind him again.

Lord Wuji turned back and found that Lord Xuanyu, who should have been "dead," had actually gritted his teeth and stood up again, swaying like a withered blade of grass in the wind, ready to collapse at any moment.

"...What are you doing?" Lord Wuji was utterly bewildered.

"The great heroes in stories always stand until death..." Lord Xuanyu stubbornly stated, "Even if I, Ji Xuan, die, I will die standing. That way, when others find me later... they'll definitely be moved by my spirit."

Lord Wuji: ...

"Childish."

Lord Wuji couldn't help but curse.

"Lou Yu..." Lord Xuanyu stood teetering, and even though his eyes were almost closed, he spoke again.

"If you're just trying to show off one last time before dying, you can shut up," Lord Wuji said, a hint of impatience in his voice.

Lord Xuanyu shook his head.

*Thud—*

Whether intentionally or simply unable to hold on, he stumbled, and his entire body directly knelt before Lord Wuji...

Lord Wuji froze.

"Lou Yu..." Lord Xuanyu said hoarsely, his head bowed.

"My people... I leave them to you..."

"You..."

"Treat them well..."

As his words fell, Lord Xuanyu's lowered eyelids completely closed. The last flicker of life within him extinguished silently, like a candle flame in the wind...

A wailing cold wind swept across the barren land,

Lord Wuji stared blankly at the scene, remaining motionless like a statue.

After a long while, he slowly regained his senses, looking at Lord Xuanyu, who had died kneeling. A complex emotion flickered in his eyes.

He walked directly to Lord Xuanyu's body, grabbed his collar, and forcefully pulled him from his kneeling position to an upright one, fixing him in a tall and handsome pose amidst the ruins...

Lord Xuanyu's legs were now supported by metal formed through material conversion, ensuring he would not easily fall even after a thousand years.

"Better to stand."

"Dying on your knees... it doesn't suit you."

Lord Wuji casually brushed some dust off Lord Xuanyu's shoulder, then turned and walked towards the distant, hovering steel domain.

His black robes fluttered gently in the wailing wind. The Xuanyu Domain had already been erased from humanity's territory... and a brand new Wuji Domain was slowly revealing its sharpness.