Chapter 574 - 529: [Slay the False God! Completed!]
Shi Ming’s Spiritual Power probed inward. He began to communicate with the Colorful Insect, following the path fate had laid out.
"Go! Colorful Insect!"
"For tomorrow!"
"I promise you by the Nirvana Origin of the [Moth], you will be granted a new life. This is your last chance!"
An agreement was reached!
BOOM—
Within the Hundred-Floor Celestial Tower, a corruption so rich in color it was almost abstract erupted. Guided by Shi Ming’s Spiritual Power, it surged out of his Sea of Spirit in an orderly torrent, rushing to contaminate Huang Ji, who was trapped in a knowledge snare.
The poor insect, a puppet of fate, was now unreservedly burning its most precious origin.
But as a pseudo-god, Huang Ji’s Defense Power was terrifyingly strong in all aspects. The Bicolored Celestial Calamity, unleashed by the Colorful Insect burning its origin, couldn’t directly contaminate this pseudo-god. The Colorful Insect could only follow their agreement and find a workaround. It leveraged the bloodline connection between Huang Ji and her more than one thousand children, doing its utmost to contaminate those with weaker wills, those who were younger, or those still at the Holy Hall Tier!
This made things much simpler.
Huang Ji’s fortune of having many children had now become her downfall.
Shi Ming watched everything unfold.
10, 20, 50, 100... The contamination spread from the easy targets to the difficult ones, ignoring space and quickly infesting the entire bloodline. Huang Ji’s children who were still at the Legend Tier or Holy Hall Tier were completely unable to resist this blood-borne corruption, becoming slaves to the Bicolored power one by one.
"It’s past 30%... Push harder!"
"Excellent, over halfway there!"
"She seems to be waking up! Quick! Quick!"
"..."
Trapped in the knowledge snare, Huang Ji sensed that something was wrong. The corruption hadn’t infected her directly, but a pseudo-god’s intuition was incredibly sharp! She instinctively perceived an unprecedented crisis.
Her eyelids twitched!
She was on the verge of waking up!
Shi Ming’s Spiritual Power conveyed his will, piercing through the Hundred-Floor Celestial Tower and echoing in the Sea of Spirit and the ears of the Colorful Insect:
"You’re still not using your full power!"
"Do you want all our efforts to be for nothing? Are you going to lose this final chance?"
Of course, the Colorful Insect didn’t want to lose this chance.
Fooled by fate, it now burned its origin even more furiously, all for the promise of "being granted a new life."
It also understood that this wasn’t just the last chance to control the pseudo-god named Huang Ji; it was its own last chance as well. The speed of Shi Ming’s power increase—the one suppressing it—was unbelievable. If it couldn’t gain freedom today, then by the time Shi Ming possessed abilities comparable to a new god, it would never see the light of day again.
It gritted its teeth.
The speed at which it burned its origin increased dramatically.
This overdraft was irreversible and caused it immense harm, possibly even leading to devolution. But right now, there was no other way. Even if it devolved from a [Celestial Calamity] to a [Disaster], that was far better than being imprisoned forever!
’Give me liberty, or give me death!’
’As long as I can escape this damned tower, there’s still a chance.’
The multicolored Bicolored corruption condensed into an impossibly vibrant black, a shade that even the top designer in the cosmos, the [Grand Architect] Creator Uncle, would struggle to comprehend. It wrapped around the soon-to-awaken Huang Ji, layer by layer, subtly contaminating her descendants. In every corner of the Star Sea, and even within Huang Ji’s Divine Country, the [Womb of Proliferation], her children—those with weak minds and insufficient resistance—silently became vassals of the Bicolored power one by one.
Shi Ming could also use the Bicolored power.
Naturally, they became Shi Ming’s vassals.
"Keep going, only 1% left!"
At the critical moment, Shi Ming roared!
Trapped in the knowledge snare, Huang Ji instinctively grew frantic. She felt her bloodline being defiled without her knowledge. Her mind began to reject the complex information from the [Knowledge Snare], and her thoughts became vacant. She had finally broken free from the knowledge snare and opened her eyes!
That was the way to solve a knowledge snare—by becoming a fool.
WHOOSH—
The long river of fate formed a closed loop, its tributaries connecting head to tail, signaling that the destined track was complete.
Fate arrived as scheduled.
"Master..."
This lofty, arrogant, and one of the most ancient pseudo-gods, once a favorite of the gods and now the Withered Queen, lowered her head before Shi Ming. Through the reverse contamination of the Bicolored corruption’s causality, she had acknowledged Shi Ming as her master.
The Colorful Insect breathed a sigh of relief.
It had burned through most of its origin.
Just a little more and it would have dropped a realm, devolving from a [Celestial Calamity] to a [Disaster].
’But thankfully, I’ve completely contaminated this woman and her thousand-plus children! That’s already a small clan! Once that Shi Ming fulfills his promise and I escape my suppression, I’ll also be the master of these creatures. They’ll become my loyal puppets, aiding my resurgence.’
Shi Ming looked at Huang Ji and smiled, seemingly very satisfied with this result.
"Very good."
"Next—"
He used 90% of his remaining Spiritual Power, multiplied its force tenfold, and activated the Sword in the Stone!
"Don’t resist."
A super blade of Spiritual Power, so vast it was unstoppable and world-destroying, descended from high above like a giant guillotine about to sever the pseudo-god’s head. Carrying the indomitable pressure of the Hero of the Stone, it tore through space and the earth!
BOOM!
The colorless space cracked open with black fissures!
A chasm far wider than the Abyss of the End was carved into the earth. If viewed from another planet, one could even see a scar visible to the naked eye!
The Sword in the Stone, urged on with full power, was this terrifying!
Having a pseudo-god as a servant seemed prestigious, and she would be a decent combatant, but only those loyal to Shi Ming alone were worthy of calling him master.
As for traitors...
Only after they became mere origin energy could Shi Ming be at ease.
Besides, he had a [Slay a Pseudo-God] mission that he urgently needed to complete! And how could he be at ease when Huang Ji had a conjugate master in the Colorful Insect?
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Without resisting, Huang Ji fell under a special Spiritual Power attack of over thirty million points.
After a pseudo-god dies, just as when the gods of old fell, all creatures existing within her Divine Country and all her direct descendants will perish, and the Bicolored corruption on them will dissipate completely.
The once-thriving Divine Country, the [Womb of Proliferation], began to crumble and wither. Over a thousand of the pseudo-god’s descendants perished at the same instant, with no survivors.
???
The Colorful Insect was dumbfounded.
’What are you doing?’
’Why did you kill her?!’
Soon, it understood—
’This human was afraid these contaminated creatures would also become my vassals, so he chose to destroy them all rather than risk sharing control.’
’So ruthless!’
’The humans of this Star Sea are truly vicious!’
’But now is not the right time to turn on him.’
’After I gain my freedom, it won’t be too late to rest for a few thousand years and then get my revenge. When that time comes, HMPH! I’ll use the same method to contaminate him, and then use the same method to kill him!’
Its weary voice was like that of a dying cicada in autumn:
"Shi Ming,
"According to your promise, you should release me now, so I can also obtain a new life..."
The Colorful Insect knew that oaths in the Star Sea based on Nirvana Origin could not be broken. If one were to violate them, their own origin would suffer a backlash.
This Shi Ming was ruthless and decisive with others, but he wouldn’t let himself suffer the slightest loss. It was impossible that he would forcibly break an oath and suffer a backlash, especially since this backlash was not something one could simply choose to endure.
Shi Ming’s gaze focused on Huang Ji’s corpse as he directed his remaining 10% Spiritual Power inward, toward the Hundred-Floor Celestial Tower in his Sea of Spirit.
Moths circled in his eyes.
His voice was layered, overlapping,
a sound that echoed across the Sea of Spirit and pierced through the body of the Hundred-Floor Celestial Tower:
"With my help and guidance, you have already turned over a new leaf and abandoned the dark for the light."
"Doesn’t that count as a new life on a higher level?"