Chapter 1447: When the Stars of Humanity Shine (Part 6) (Two-in-one, expanded chapter!)

The quagmire surged beside the skeletal dragon.

This world-destroying Calamity from the Sighing Wilderness seemed to have been thoroughly enraged by the Lord of Xuanyu and the Lord of Wuji. Its remaining bone wing flapped above the quagmire, and deep within those hollow wind-tunnel pupils, a trace of eerie red light began to emerge!!

The pale bones whipped up a hurricane, and faint whispers, like singing, sounded from the end of the void.

A world-destroying domain rapidly expanded outward!

Xizai’s world-destroying domain had a massive range, exceeding the sum of both the Lord of Xuanyu and the Lord of Wuji... And the moment this domain expanded, wherever "wind" flowed, the traces of civilization began to flow backward toward the sky like drifting sand!

The modern characters remaining in the ruins began to change and jump crazily, regressing from regular script to clerical script, then from clerical script to small seal script, then to large seal script, and bronze script...

Within a few short seconds, the characters that everyone could once understand had regressed into oracle bone script under the influence of the wind!

Not only that,

The steel and concrete remains on the ruins regressed bit by bit into ordinary soil;

The fragments of vehicles scattered everywhere visibly turned back into ore;

People’s shoes reconstructed into leather, and the rayon of their clothing changed into chemical materials of unknown origin. Under this hurricane that brushed away civilization, all matter returned to dust and earth...

At this moment, atoms "forgot" all existing structures and returned to their most primitive arrangement.

Patter—

Jian Changsheng’s leather jacket and pants decomposed into a pile of synthetic materials with a patter. He screamed in terror and immediately released his killing intent to cover his "vital parts," while cursing Xizai:

"Damn this old pervert!!!"

Sun Bumian’s expression changed as well, but he wiped his body and found that his clothes were still fine, just a bit loose, and the color had faded quite a bit. He finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Good thing my clothes are all real silk..."

As for Jiang Xiaohua, she was not affected by Xizai’s domain at all; those mysterious bandages remained wrapped around her, without the slightest change.

And with the expansion of the world-destroying domain, Xizai’s half-bone wing, which had been shattered, began to visibly repair itself. In just over ten seconds, it had recovered as if it were brand new!

The wings on both sides flapped crazily, and the sweeping hurricane forcibly pulled its heavy body out of the quagmire. A world-destroying dragon roar filled with pressure echoed through the heavens once again!!

Seeing this, the Lord of Xuanyu’s expression was incredibly ugly!

Having awakened from slumber, the power he could exert was limited. The two full-force strikes earlier had nearly hollowed him out... And the damage he had painstakingly inflicted on Xizai had recovered in the blink of an eye??

"The dust dragon that brushes away civilization is not something to be trifled with," the Lord of Wuji said coldly.

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

"Damn it... does that mean it’s impossible to kill it forever?!" the Lord of Xuanyu gritted his teeth.

"You’re right, it’s almost impossible to kill. At least, we can’t do it."

"Then what you said just now..."

"What I said was never 'killing it,' but 'solving it.'" The Lord of Wuji’s sharp eyes looked at the Lord of Xuanyu.

"Although I can change the material of its body and inflict damage, it will recover as soon as it activates its domain... So, I am by no means its opponent, and not just me—the other Nine-Lords are the same...

Among the Nine-Lords, there are only three people who might be able to solve Xizai."

"Who?"

"Yang Xiao, Lu Xun... and you." The Lord of Wuji paused. "Since material attacks have limited effects on Xizai, Yang Xiao’s ability to strike the soul directly might have a chance to erase it from a spiritual level... Lu Xun has a chance to use star guidance to throw Xizai directly into a black hole in the deep universe, completing an exile. As for you..."

"You mean you need a man-made super-large black hole," the Lord of Xuanyu understood the Lord of Wuji’s meaning instantly.

"And not an ordinary black hole, but a 'one-way black hole' with a set range, otherwise you would destroy the entire Earth." The Lord of Wuji looked at Xizai again and asked solemnly, "You are dying, so we only have one chance."

"...Are you sure?"

"Heh." The Lord of Xuanyu wiped the scarlet blood from the corner of his mouth, and a smile appeared on his pale face. "The first of the Nine-Lords to exile a world-destroyer... I like that title."

After saying this,

The Lord of Xuanyu slowly closed his eyes:

"One minute."

"Understood."

The Lord of Wuji floated up and charged straight toward the fully recovered Xizai, which had broken free from the quagmire!

As the Lord of Wuji moved, the Lord of Xuanyu slowly raised his hand, reaching for the dust drifting in the air... A breeze brushed across the earth, and most of that dust scattered with the wind, leaving only a tiny grain of sand, which the Lord of Xuanyu pinched between his fingertips.

The next second,

The mass of that grain of sand began to soar rapidly!!

The mass of the sand grain was soaring, but at the same time, the range of the mass increase was constantly shrinking under the Lord of Xuanyu’s precise control... Due to the uneven distribution of its own mass, the already tiny sand grain began to peel off layer by layer, dropping from millimeter scale to micrometer scale, then to nanometer scale...

The spatial scale was constantly shrinking while the mass was constantly soaring. When the Lord of Xuanyu’s ability range shrank to the Schwarzschild radius, space collapsed in his hand, and a tiny black dot was conceived.

Dong, dong, dong, dong—!!!

At the same time, the Lord of Wuji stepped on the ground, and invisible ripples spread out. The soil of the entire battlefield was directly transformed into a liquid metal quagmire!

Under the Lord of Wuji’s control, liquid metal "towers" rose crazily from the ground, as if weaving into a giant birdcage, locking onto Xizai as it flew close to the ground!

As long as there was material, the Lord of Wuji could complete any mutual transformation between substances, and at this moment, the earth was an inexhaustible source of material!

The hurricane swept by Xizai raged between heaven and earth, but it could not make these liquid metals return to their original state; after all, these were not civilization creations, but material forms that already existed in the world.

As its massive body collided with the "birdcage," the hard bones combined with the terrifying inertia brought by the super mass directly caused these liquid metals to twist and deform. If they hadn't been non-Newtonian fluids, they would have likely shattered completely.

Even so, this birdcage could not restrain Xizai for long. The Lord of Wuji could only continuously trigger nuclear explosions, affecting Xizai’s movements through the shock of the explosions.

At this time, a black hole the size of a building had already gradually taken shape in the distant sky.

The collapsing black hole began to continuously swallow the surrounding matter, and at the edge of the battlefield, a force field was absorbing the excess black hole gravity. Light distorted around them, and as air was drawn into it, everyone’s breathing began to become difficult... At the same time, they could feel an increasingly strong attraction pulling at their bodies.

"Come up quickly!!"

With the arrival of the steel Wuji Realm, several figures were already standing at the edge of the realm, shouting at the survivors below.

They seemed to be possessors of the Divine Path, gently raising their hands, and drawn staircases connected to the earth. The survivors in the realm couldn't care about anything else now; this battle of demigods was getting bigger and bigger, and if they didn't leave, they would all die here!

"Are we going up?" Jian Changsheng looked at Sun Bumian.

Sun Bumian did not hesitate at all:

"No, those few should be Ying Fu’s people... This realm is Lou Yu and Ying Fu’s territory. If we go up, aren't we walking right into a trap?"

"Then forget it, we’ll run ourselves!"

Jian Changsheng and his two companions were bold, turning and charging toward the Gray Realm. Regardless of anything else, they had to leave this terrifying battlefield first.

The black hole in mid-air became increasingly massive, its radius already exceeding four hundred meters. Fragments of buildings in the distance were drawn by invisible hands and rushed toward the sky. Even the liquid metal quagmire created by Lou Yu began to be affected, and large metal droplets floated upward...

Creating a black hole was not difficult for the Lord of Xuanyu, but creating a black hole capable of completely swallowing Xizai required a massive consumption of spiritual power.

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

Under the black hole, the Lord of Xuanyu coughed blood crazily.

With every cough, his aura weakened by a notch, as if he were pouring his own life into the black hole.

"Almost... almost there..." the Lord of Xuanyu muttered to himself, looking at the black hole expanding above his head.

Boom—!!!

The liquid metal birdcage was smashed through by Xizai.

The Lord of Wuji glanced at the outline of the black hole in the distance, then looked at the skeletal dragon that was looking at him angrily, his eyes narrowing slightly...

"Time to go... you stupid bird."

The Lord of Wuji’s palm plunged into the liquid metal quagmire.

Dense electric light began to roam on the surface of the metal quagmire. The Lord of Wuji seemed to grasp the authority of materials science, slowly gripping and lifting upward... As matter transformed crazily in his hands, the range of the liquid metal quagmire began to increase dramatically!

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

Under the Lord of Wuji’s all-out effort, the original Xuanyu Realm had completely become his material warehouse. All matter here floated in the super quagmire of liquid metal, and then, the entire liquid metal quagmire began to shrink rapidly!

Matter cannot be created out of nothing, nor can it disappear out of nothing...

As the dozens of kilometers of liquid metal quagmire shrank,

A substance of extremely high density was slowly pulled out of the quagmire by the Lord of Wuji!

It was a spear.

It was said that the Lord of Wuji pulled it out, but in reality, the Lord of Wuji’s hand did not touch it at all. Its density was too great—so great that almost no creature in this world could lift it. It could only be suspended by the ability of materials science, held virtually in the Lord of Wuji’s palm...

And the moment it was created, terrifying radiation erupted in the air. A five-kilometer radius was shrouded in a strong annihilation field, and thunder generated by air ionization roamed crazily on the surface of the spear!

Even the atmosphere directly above it was invisibly rolled into a large hole, and cosmic radiation from outside the Earth spilled onto the planet. This demigod battlefield had completely become a forbidden zone for life.

This was a spear with a density exceeding that of a white dwarf, with every cubic centimeter of matter weighing as much as five hundred million tons...

It was equivalent to packing the entire Mount Everest into a sugar cube.

Xizai’s skeletal dragon wings were fully spread, and the world-destroying aura blotted out the sky... Its domain was the nemesis of all civilization, but it seemed to have little effect in front of the Lord of Xuanyu and the Lord of Wuji. These two used physical rules and basic material transformation, which did not involve any civilization power at all.

But even so, relying solely on that original dragon bone and the power of infinite rebirth through civilization regression, it was not afraid of the neutron star spear in the Lord of Wuji’s hand.

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

Just as Xizai prepared to flap its wings and leave the black hole’s range first, a powerful aura suddenly locked onto its figure from afar. The Lord of Wuji had already raised the neutron star spear, and the crazily ionizing tip of the spear, like the muzzle of a gun tracking prey, was already aimed at its body!

Almost simultaneously, Ji Xuan spat out the last mouthful of black blood, and the black hole expanded by another large circle at the last moment, directly engulfing Xizai’s body!!

Just as Xizai was shocked and prepared to break free, the Lord of Xuanyu shouted that name with all his might!

"LOU YU!!!!"

Song—!!!

The spear in the Lord of Wuji’s hand was suddenly thrown!

A micro-neutron star streaked across the sky at this moment, carrying terrifying kinetic energy like a thunderbolt, precisely flashing to Xizai’s chest!

The Lord of Wuji precisely predicted the scale of the black hole the Lord of Xuanyu could achieve at the last moment, as well as Xizai’s trajectory. The moment the neutron star spear crashed into Xizai’s skeletal body, the terrifying power tore a large chunk off its body...

At the same time, it pushed its massive body into the deepest part of the black hole!

With Xizai’s power, it could have completely withstood this spear, merely using its domain to repair its body afterward. But what was truly lethal at this moment was not the spear itself, but the man-made black hole behind it that led to who knows where in the universe!!

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 to flap its wings to break free from the black hole’s gravity, but with its own mass increased, it simply did not possess such power... Moreover, even the air had been sucked away by the black hole.

The skeletal dragon’s body was swallowed by the black hole bit by bit, and finally, those storm-filled pupils of anger and unwillingness disappeared completely into the darkness...

No one knew where Xizai had been exiled to,

But perhaps for at least a hundred years, it would have no chance to return to Earth.

After the black hole swallowed Xizai, it began to collapse and dissipate, and a blood-covered figure fell straight from the sky.

At this time, the land of the entire realm had been drained by the Lord of Wuji, turning into a giant meteorite crater. Just as the consciousness-blurred Lord of Xuanyu was about to crash into the ground, a palm suddenly grabbed his collar, removed the gravity, and gently threw him into the pit beside him.

"Well done," the Lord of Wuji said calmly. "I admit, you really do have the capital to put on a show."

"...Heh..."

The Lord of Xuanyu lay flat on the ground, as weak as a corpse. He ignored the Lord of Wuji’s sarcasm, and in his weak eyes, there was only appreciation for himself. "This time... we really saved the world."

"We only exiled one world-destroyer. We are still far from saving the world." The Lord of Wuji raised his hand and pointed to the massive steel realm in the sky. His eyes were as bright as stars.

"I am the one destined to be the person who saves everything."

"I didn't notice before... you damn... are even more of a show-off than me." The Lord of Xuanyu was speechless.

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

"Pfft..."

The Lord of Xuanyu wanted to say something else, but he was too weak to speak. His various bodily functions were on the verge of stopping, and his eyes felt as heavy as lead, slowly closing...

The Lord of Wuji saw this scene and remained silent for a long time, finally choosing to turn around and prepare to leave.

Just then,

He heard a rustling sound coming from behind him again.

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

"...What are you doing?" The Lord of Wuji was incredulous.

"The great hero in the story is standing until he dies..." the Lord of Xuanyu said stubbornly. "Even if I, Ji Xuan, die, I will die standing. That way, when others find me later... they will definitely be moved by my spirit."

The Lord of Wuji: ...

"Childish."

The Lord of Wuji couldn't help but curse.

"Lou Yu..." The Lord of Xuanyu stood swaying. Even though his eyes were about to close, he spoke again.

"If you intend to put on one last show before you die, you can shut up." The Lord of Wuji was a little impatient.

The Lord of Xuanyu shook his head.

Thump—

Whether it was voluntary or he simply couldn't support himself anymore, he stumbled, and his whole body knelt directly in front of the Lord of Wuji...

The Lord of Wuji was stunned.

"Lou Yu..." The Lord of Xuanyu lowered his head and said hoarsely,

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

"You..."

"Treat them well..."

As his voice fell, the Lord of Xuanyu’s lowered eyelids closed completely. The last trace of vitality in his body, like a candle in the wind, extinguished silently...

A whimpering cold wind brushed across the barren land.

The Lord of Wuji stared blankly at this scene, frozen in place like a statue.

After a long time, he finally came back to his senses and looked at the Lord of Xuanyu, who had died while half-kneeling. A trace of complexity flashed in his eyes.

He walked straight to the Lord of Xuanyu’s corpse, grabbed his collar, and forcibly pulled him from his half-kneeling posture to an upright one, fixing him in this posture of being tall and handsome above the ruins...

At this time, the Lord of Xuanyu’s legs were supported by the metal transformed from materials, and even if a thousand years passed, he would not easily fall.

"Better to stand."

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

The Lord of Wuji casually brushed the dust off the Lord of Xuanyu’s shoulder and turned to walk toward the floating steel realm in the distance.

The black hem of his robe fluttered in the whimpering wind. The Xuanyu Realm had been erased from the map of humanity... and a brand-new Wuji Realm was beginning to reveal its edge.

……

……

Caught a cold, feeling terrible, taking a day off.