Ten thousand I am across the heavens

Even in the universe where the Goddess of Creation resides, civilizations capable of pushing the Firstborn to this point are extremely rare. Currently, only the civilization aided by the Ancients exists. They once destroyed the Firstborn's body, but even with that destruction, they devised a plan similar to the Wandering Earth. The Firstborn's soul was utterly annihilated, along with all of them.

In the original story, even a race extremely skilled in soul power, whose individual soul power was comparable to that of a top-tier powerhouse on Earth, was easily crushed and killed by the eldest son, leading to the extinction of their entire civilization.

The eldest son's soul strength at this moment is such that he would have an advantage even against a Ninth-Rank Venerable. Historically, the only powerhouse comparable to or even surpassing him is probably the Ghostly Demon Lord. As for whose soul power is truly greater, only those who have actually met can know.

At this moment, sensing this soul fluctuation, even without unleashing any soul-path killing techniques, simply releasing their soul power made the two eighth-level immortals tremble with fear. It turned out that the behemoth they had faced before hadn't been serious at all; if it had, it might have even been capable of instantly killing them both.

The only saving grace was that the eldest son didn't possess the Soul Path Immortal Gu. While the Soul Path was a relatively prosperous school, its members were actually quite few in number. After all, cultivating this school was extremely cruel, often requiring the killing of others to refine the soul. Everyone knew this school was powerful, but not everyone dared to defy the world and become a member of the demonic path.

As a result, among the Gu worms the eldest son collected on the grasslands, even ordinary Gu worms of the Soul Path were few and far between, let alone immortal Gu worms of the Soul Path. This meant that although he possessed immense soul power, he couldn't fully unleash it. His other abilities could be developed by combining his physical body with his expertise in technology and magic, along with the power of this world. Even though the lack of true immortal Gu worms slightly diminished their power, the resulting attacks could still rival the most powerful immortal killing techniques. However, his soul power lacked the Gu worms of this world as an aid. Simply releasing it was far less effective. Even so, this soul power was overwhelmingly superior to anyone present.

The invisible soul power was compressed at this moment, transforming into a smaller version of the eldest son. Gradually, it was compressed and coalesced into a human form. Although not all races in the universe of the Creator Goddess are humanoid, the Creator Goddess herself is humanoid. The seeds of life she sowed instinctively followed her form, creating many lives. At this moment, the soul also took on a humanoid form. However, this humanoid soul appeared as a giant hundreds of meters tall. Compared to the eldest son's enormous body, the soul giant was quite small. It was the eldest son's best effort to compress his soul power to create this form.

Faced with this almost tangible soul, even though the people in the underground base had anticipated the eldest son's move, they still felt incredibly overwhelmed. The power of a soul is less restricted in ultra-low temperatures. While quantum-level transitions are also affected by low temperatures, compared to molecular thermal motion and more macroscopic phenomena, the influence of the quantum level is extremely low. As a result, even in ultra-low temperatures, the soul giant can still move freely. Furthermore, after the soul has condensed to this level, even a simple gesture can unleash powerful physical destruction. Even disregarding the aggregated soul, launching an attack directly at the undefended mental level would inflict considerable casualties on the underground base's legion, even if it charged in and hacked wildly.

"I knew this would happen. There's no way to avoid it. Even if we destroy the eldest son's body, his soul will still exist, and it can exist for a considerable period of time. We have to find a way to eliminate it. With the Gu worms of the Wisdom Path and Soul Path combined, even without a body, his soul is an extremely powerful existence in the current world. This is ultimately a formidable enemy we must face. Have all legions prepare, put on their soul armor, and attempt to enter a state of soul concealment. I wonder if the concealment plan we devised beforehand can fool the eldest son? If it can't, the outcome of this battle will be unpredictable. We might all die here."

Commanders of various legions successively issued similar orders. Soldiers began to don special helmets. These helmets had undergone special modifications. Embedded in the forehead area was a crystal derived from the flesh and blood of the eldest son. Its main component was the eldest son's nervous system. While it couldn't provide direct mental protection, it could synchronize the mental frequencies of everyone in the legion and then disguise those frequencies.

Ordinary disguises, of course, wouldn't fool the eldest son. But what if they used the eldest son's own disguise techniques? The principle of using magic to defeat magic. The staff and research department understood this. The eldest son's investigative abilities were simply too comprehensive. The only one who could restrain him was himself.

In an instant, as the various legions donned their prepared equipment, the human souls that were once clearly visible in the eldest son's soul giant's vision began to extinguish in large swaths. He could still vaguely sense the existence of those human souls, but he could no longer easily lock onto them as before. The inability to lock onto them meant difficulty in precisely attacking their souls. The area-of-effect soul tremors were also very taxing on him, and their destructive power was much lower. Attacking without being able to lock onto them, relying solely on area-of-effect attacks, was extremely inefficient.

The soul giant conjured by the eldest son didn't hesitate for long before charging towards the various legions of the underground base. Humans are ultimately limited by their physical bodies. They can't easily separate their souls from their bodies like the eldest son, even hundreds of kilometers away. Even if some technologies allow humans to separate their souls, control over the body will be compromised, which is undoubtedly fatal in high-intensity combat. Moreover, even if one can separate their soul, they can't stray too far from their body. This means that once the soul giant captures the warriors' physical bodies in the underground base, it can destroy their souls at close range.

Although the underground base was concealed using the eldest son's own technology, making it difficult for him to precisely lock onto a large number of targets, it was still possible to lock onto a small number of targets at close range. Now that they were right in front of him, even if they were just blurry mosaics, their locations were already exposed. It's like how camouflage clothing can indeed conceal one's figure in the jungle, but if someone is standing right in front of you moving at high speed, then not seeing them is truly blind.

Therefore, the Soul Giant acted decisively, immediately leaving its physical form and charging towards the army's location in the underground base. This was like stirring up a hornet's nest. Previously, to maintain firing frequency, the various legions had been clustered together. Although piloting fighter jets, they had all been parked on launch pads to launch simultaneous attacks and inflict maximum damage on the eldest son's body. Now, seeing the Soul Giant charging towards them, the legions immediately took off, their fighter jets scattering in all directions, looking like a hornet's nest that had been disturbed. The scene was enough to make someone with trypophobia faint. However, this seemingly chaotic scene was actually orderly within the chaos; each legion's flight path had been predetermined, preventing any overlap. Otherwise, such a high density of takeoffs would have already resulted in collisions.

The Soul Giant had anticipated this. During his previous battles with these humans, he had noticed their ability to fly at high speeds using tools, achieving a kite-like effect. This meant that even if he managed to get close enough to attack, he could only hit a few people at a time, resulting in potentially very low kill efficiency. In normal combat, the eldest son could disregard the cost and directly expend his soul power to sweep across the entire planet. He could replenish his soul power later wherever he had an advantage, whether by absorbing the souls of victims or by absorbing surrounding matter to strengthen his body physically—both methods allowed for rapid recovery.

Unfortunately for him, the people at the underground base had implemented a scorched-earth policy. On the snow-covered plains, there wasn't a single human, not even a wild animal. The surrounding area was frozen solid, near absolute zero, making it practically worthless as a resource. Even if he absorbed the souls of tens of millions of victims, it would be a drop in the ocean for the eldest son. The two most readily available "replenishments" were actually the two eighth-level cultivators who had previously attacked him. Their souls were incredibly powerful. Absorbing them could somewhat compensate for the energy drain from his area-of-effect attacks, but the eldest son had deduced from the previous battle that these two strange beings were extremely cunning. They would almost certainly not give him a chance to capture them; otherwise, he would have already devoured them.

Various factors prevented him from instantly annihilating the entire enemy force with a wide-range attack. After being corrupted, the eldest son gained even greater fighting power due to his madness, but this corruption also unleashed a stronger sense of self within him. Consequently, the seeds of egoism began to sprout deep within his heart.

While this grants creatures greater survivability, it also eliminates their ability to make certain choices. For Zhang Zi, perishing together with the underground base is meaningless. He needs to win while preserving sufficient strength. Therefore, the Soul Giant begins to traverse the battlefield at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye. Although the soul doesn't reach the speed of light, its near-massiness allows for incredibly rapid acceleration. Furthermore, the surrounding environment, almost a vacuum in the extreme cold, provides virtually no resistance to this acceleration. Thus, despite being flight, the soul's limbs move as if teleporting.

Warriors piloting fighter jets can fly in a vacuum, and with their thrusters they can accelerate to near-maximum speeds in a vacuum, but their own mass makes them far less agile than ghostly spirits.

The two pilots had no time to react before the white giant flashed and appeared beside them. At that moment, it was too late to react. Even though one of them had entered a state of blankness and displayed a strong will to survive, a massive, unparalleled surge of soul energy erupted, and he collapsed instantly. The two elite warriors had no time to resist; they lost all self-awareness. The fighter jet went out of control and plummeted from mid-air. Although the escape pods ejected, the physical damage from the soul-annihilation was so severe that even if their bodies survived, there was no point in trying to save them.

After inflicting the initial casualties, the Soul Giant became increasingly adept at this rhythm. Even without the ability for large-scale instant kills, his superhuman speed allowed him to systematically eliminate enemies one by one. His extremely light weight was now an advantage. During high-speed movement, whether accelerating, decelerating, or turning, he was far more agile than those cumbersome fighter jets, able to traverse distances of several kilometers in an instant. Even if the enemies became widely dispersed, this continuous series of instant kills would eventually wipe them out.

More than a dozen more fighter jets crashed from the sky, and only a few seconds had passed. The Soul Giant's speed was increasing, and if things continued to develop this way, a full-scale attack on the various legions in the underground base was only a matter of time.

"Do you think you're the only one who can achieve almost no mass?" He Cheng stared sharply at his eldest son's soul, which was flashing in the air. Then, he unleashed his own command skill, which he hadn't used for quite some time: mass manipulation.

Using the 17th Legion's devastating spread ability, his command skill was also amplified, enveloping all legions. This was considerable pressure for him. But at this moment, his eyes were completely blank. Relying on his current special state, he endured this pressure, preparing to bestow a powerful buff upon the entire army.

And he truly succeeded. As the entire army was enveloped in mass control, every soldier traversing the skies unanimously chose to reduce their own and their vehicle's weight to the minimum. Everyone became as light as a feather. Thus, accelerating, turning, or even directly using reverse thrust to achieve backward movement all became effortless for them.

The previous Soul Giant was like an animal facing plants—it could eat whichever it wanted, and once discovered, there was no chance of escape. But now, the Soul Giant is like a large fish in a pond, and the warriors he faces have become a school of agile little fish. As he charges, these little fish quickly scatter in all directions. Only occasionally, when he encounters a slow-reacting one, can he catch it on the spot.

[To be continued]

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