Chapter 1672: A Glimmer of Possibility

The clamor of the crowd outside the door was endless.

The golden living beings inside the hall were silent.

Lord Wuji's cold gaze looked outside the Eternal Palace. The calls of the crowd were like a tsunami crashing against the palace gate, and also crashing against his final resolve and indifference... Inside the Eternal Palace, there were no new "people" left for him to study and transform.

But he hadn't lost yet; he had to find a way to make humanity eternal.

Clang—!

Lord Wuji waved his large hand, and the gate of the Eternal Palace suddenly opened amidst the clamor of the crowd. Just as the crowd was stunned, thinking that Lord Wuji was finally going to come out and give them an explanation, their bodies suddenly flew uncontrollably into the Eternal Palace!

One figure after another flew into the Eternal Palace amidst screams. The open palace gate was like the abyss mouth of a monster, ruthlessly devouring everyone's lives...

The electric light of material science flowed in the depths, and heart-wrenching screams resounded through the sky.

And this horrific scene also fell into the eyes of other citizens who were further away. They witnessed the whole process in shock and fear, then screamed and scrambled to flee into the distance.

Zzzzt— zzzzt!

Deep inside the Eternal Palace, Lord Wuji, wearing black witchcraft robes, raised his hands. The entire Eternal Palace suddenly seemed to come alive, spinning crazily, looking very much like the super cage that trapped Chen Ling at the time... But the difference was that this time, the operation of the Eternal Palace was more complex and cold. Pale lights shone from all directions onto the citizens who were swept in, like a living, giant operating room.

Electric light wandered over the citizens who were swept into the Eternal Palace, and their flesh and blood bodies began to transform into special materials visibly to the naked eye, with a golden luster appearing on the surface of their skin...

They didn't know what had happened, only that excruciating pain was devouring their minds. They wailed heart-wrenchingly, and when their eyes fell on the dense golden living beings beside them, indescribable despair and shock flooded their hearts!

"Lord Wuji is refining living people into gold?!"

"Mom!!! Mom!!"

"It hurts so much... it really hurts so much... I don't want to go down for treatment anymore, I beg you... I beg you to let me go..."

"I don't want to turn into gold!! I don't want to turn into gold!!"

"Lord Wuji!! You are insane!! You will not have a good death!!"

“……”

Begging and cursing echoed in the Eternal Palace, but Lord Wuji acted as if he hadn't heard them, continuing the material transformation crazily. At this moment, he seemed to have turned back into that demon who would stop at nothing to refine the Philosopher's Stone, with only firmness for the eternity of humanity in his eyes.

One body after another began to transform. Their flesh and blood, along with the viruses in their bodies, turned into special materials, but at the same time, their vitality was also rapidly passing away.

The wailing in the Eternal Palace gradually disappeared, replaced by more and more motionless golden sculptures...

They were pained, they were angry, they were struggling.

All their negative emotions were like gold, frozen in the last second before death, like perfect art sculptures telling of suffering, piled and crowded together, filling the entire Eternal Palace.

Zzzzt—

As the last wisp of electric light dissipated, Lord Wuji stood alone in the deathly silent Eternal Palace once again, his eyes full of bloodshot veins!

"It can't be..."

"There must still be hope, it must be that my method is wrong!"

"I need more samples!!"

Lord Wuji stepped out from among the countless golden sculptures. A gap opened above the Eternal Palace, and his black wizard robes flew and rose in the wind, then charged straight toward the surrounding streets!

At the same time, the residents of the Eternal Realm had already exploded.

"Have you heard? Lord Wuji ate everyone who went to the Eternal Palace to make trouble!"

"What?? Really?"

"Really! I saw it with my own eyes! And then I heard their screams..."

"No wonder so many people have gone missing lately? Could it be Lord Wuji..."

"But, but why would Lord Wuji do this? Wasn't it fine before?"

"Yeah, if it weren't for him, we would have died in the Xuanyu Realm long ago."

"Anyway, I don't believe it, there must be a misunderstanding."

Before the words fell, a black shadow passed over everyone's heads like a nightmare!

Immediately after, everyone suddenly felt that they couldn't move. At this moment, their shoes had completely fused with the ground, and no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't pull them out.

Just as everyone was terrified, a black-robed figure descended from the sky.

Zzzzt—!

The faint light of the Philosopher's Stone flickered between Lord Wuji's brows. His cold gaze swept over the residents on the street, and then strands of electric light spread directly from under his feet, instantly crawling onto the bodies of all the imprisoned residents!

Tragic wails sounded on the street!

Amidst these miserable cries, the citizens who once supported and loved Lord Wuji began to turn into golden sculptures. Their expressions were pained and ferocious, and their eyes were full of confusion...

They didn't understand why Lord Wuji, whom they had once regarded as their protector, had suddenly become like this.

"Insane... insane!!"

"Lord Wuji has gone insane!!"

"Run!!"

"Run? We're in the sky, where can we run to?!"

“……”

More and more figures were forcibly transformed into golden sculptures and stopped breathing... and Lord Wuji had no intention of stopping. His movements instead became faster and more ruthless!

Lord Wuji knew very well that he hadn't gone insane.

If he couldn't prove that he could help these residents become eternal, then everything he had pursued until now would be meaningless. He didn't have time to slowly wait for these residents to get sick one by one, and then secretly send them to the Eternal Palace for "experiments"...

He had always been a person with strong execution. Even if it caused panic in the Eternal Realm, it didn't matter. After all, if the Eternal Realm couldn't be eternal, then everything else was just empty talk.

Regardless, he wanted to get a result as soon as possible!

The black-robed Lord Wuji, once regarded as a creator, now seemed to have become a nightmare of the Eternal Realm. Not even an ant could escape wherever he went, only countless short wails, heart-wrenching...

Lord Wuji didn't know how many people he had already harmed. He was just constantly adjusting, trying, wanting to find even a glimmer of success from this endless failure. As long as it appeared, everything would be worth it!

"Xiao Chen! Run!!"

Tian Xiaochen pushed open the door, sleepy-eyed, and saw his father standing at the door in terror.

"What's wrong, Dad?"

"Lord Wuji has gone insane! Everyone who gets close to him turns into a golden sculpture... he's almost at our block! Run!"

After saying this, his father didn't even wait for Tian Xiaochen to react, directly hoisted him up, grabbed his mother's hand with one hand, and rushed outside.

Tian Xiaochen was dumbfounded. He heard endless wailing coming from not far away, while the other directions of the city revealed an unprecedented deathly silence...

As if, only a few of them were left in this world.