Extraordinary Pedigree.

Chapter 954 The Black Void Within the Archon's Cave

Etheric subspace.

This is a realm where common sense cannot prevail; it is a chaotic projection of logic's collapse.

The upper limit is inverted from the ground, inanimate objects burn, language freezes, time transforms into liquid and slowly drips down the spine of the stars, space opens and closes endlessly like breathing, forming an eternally breathing divine organ.

And in the deepest part of this distorted sky, the God of Flesh and Blood descended.

He came from the seventh layer of the ether, crossed six layers of etheric authority, squeezed and penetrated the spacetime winch, and with a spiritual mass of billions of tons, he forcefully crashed into the second layer of spiritual projection—a realm that is only separated from the baseline reality by a membrane.

【His boundless coverage】.

His body has no end, like a giant structure formed by space itself being swallowed by flesh and blood, with countless eyeballs, writhing star shells, half-cracked gear-like limbs and disordered cosmic skeletons floating inside.

His body cavity, which was like a canopy, slowly unfolded, scattering divine spores all over the sky, and the entire ether trembled within His belly.

At this moment, in subspace.

Standing on the edge of the spiritual deflection zone, Xia Xiu suddenly felt his right palm burning hot.

Regarding "His boundless coverage," Xia Xiu, this fourth-order [Cassis] of lust, was already extremely familiar with it.

He is a blind, primordial, fleshy giant who acts solely on instinct—He can give birth to faceless deities and hordes of beasts, but he does not possess reason or wisdom in the human sense.

However, He is not entirely mindless.

【His boundless coverage】still possesses animalistic or even predator-like cunning instincts, capable of driving subordinates or inducing worshippers to complete large-scale sacrifices and interdimensional expansions, but this will is more like a chaotic instinct... a feeding instinct rather than a well-organized strategy.

Since obtaining the fragment of the Fourth Consul of the Six Commanders of Lustful Flesh, Xia Xiu has been able to control a portion of the flesh that has detached from Him and has been able to barely translate His originally chaotic will.

For example, right now he can vaguely sense a kind of chaotic feeling of unhappiness.

"...I see you...come back...come back..."

"A sweet shape...my stuff..."

He chanted softly, like the tides, or like the entire subspace devouring itself.

His gaze was fixed on Terra.

The small blue sphere floated within the spiritual membrane, its projection resembling an innocent and flawless fruit, quietly rotating and hanging unsuspectingly in the windy void.

He extended a tentacle, which seemed to be woven from dreams and blood clots, with every inch of its surface surging with half of its own consciousness.

However, the moment the tentacles touched the blue sphere, a silent shockwave exploded outwards.

Bang! ! !
The shockwave actually repelled its tentacles, like glass bouncing away rotting flesh.

His enormous fleshy tentacles swept across hundreds of miles of ether, indiscriminately wiping out countless spiritual beings, projected civilizations, and walking consciousness spirits wherever they went.

They wailed, collapsed, twisted, and burst.

A single failed attempt to touch it resulted in the deaths of countless innocent ethereal beings in the surrounding area.

And at that moment, He finally noticed.

Around Terra, a crystal-clear thin film structure emerged, like a glass dome inverted on the planet.

Like a reflection of a dream, or like the crown of the celestial bodies.

That is—[Crystal Sky].

[His boundless expanse] fell silent for a moment.

It seemed like they were waiting for something, or perhaps they were thinking about something.

The next moment, He seemed to become interested.

A dozen or so thicker tentacles, glowing with a blood-red luster and divine plague patterns, emerged from His enormous body cavity, which churned like a nebula. Each tentacle carried a shadow and tremor on a world scale, and slowly and heavily moved toward the glass dome that enveloped the blue planet.

"split……"

"let me see……"

Those tentacles, carrying supreme oppression, chaotic instinct, and spiritual erosion, were as fierce as a star god's scalpel, yet also like a child curiously trying to pry open a toy's shell.

At this very moment, Terra in reality also begins to respond.

The entire planet trembled, and the epicenter seemed to be everywhere.

An extremely faint distortion appeared in the sky above the city, and the sky itself was stained with a transparent, flowing film of blood.

The moment people looked up at the sky, almost everyone felt a dizzying sensation that pierced their soul.

A few seconds later, the sky cleared and the person woke up.

But no one knew that just a moment ago, a "divine eye" had been watching them from afar.

Xia Xiu closed his eyes in the distance. He could sense the fluctuations of the Six Commanders of Lustful Flesh. When the Ultimate Creature self-destructed, the Governor had already flowed into the interior of Terra.

As the current leader of the Lustful Lineage who is still active, he was naturally able to detect this fluctuation.

"We must expel the mindless one from the second floor..." Xia Xiu thought to himself.

Byd's four monarchs and the Red King pulled off a big stunt, attracting the attention of the clueless.

Now, he has two ways to lure the mindless one away.

First, they used the flesh-and-blood lineage and the Fourth Consul to distract the mindless one.

Secondly, we need to enter Terra, take in the Archon, complete the Carnal Lineage, and use [Adabos] to get the Mindless One to leave...

As he was thinking, the space was shattered by a tremor, and a figure descended beside him.

The second swordsman, Muhammad, came to his side, and he looked at Shahshut.

At this moment, the blazing light on Xia Xiu's body was fading, the burning of the [Sarafiel Archangel Module] had stopped, and he slowly shed his twelve rings, his figure becoming like that of an ordinary person.

Seeing this, Muhammad spoke in a heavy tone:
"It seems that now I am the only one who can expel this thing back into the depths of the ether."

As he spoke, Muhammad clenched his right hand.

Xia Xiu immediately understood what the second swordsman intended to do.

The opponent intends to use its own "existence" to issue the command to "blast the God of Flesh and Blood out of the second layer," and then unleash a fist with a power exceeding the 1M horsepower limit to blast the God of Flesh and Blood away from this place.

He had no doubt that the second swordsman was capable of doing this; however, if that punch were actually thrown, Muhammad might not die, but…

Muhammad's fist was already halfway up in the air.

Ether was like water, space was like a membrane, and everything around him vibrated and surged between his five fingers, as if the entire spiritual structure would collapse as soon as he put his mind to it.

That is the power of "being".

Just as the sky was about to collapse, Xia Xiu raised his hand and pressed it on his wrist.

His voice was deep and calm, yet carried an undeniable decisiveness.

"There's no need to do that now."

Muhammad was slightly taken aback.

He didn't immediately put his hand down, but instead slowly looked at Xia Xiu with his deep, star-like eyes.

The two looked at each other and remained silent for a long time.

There was no disbelief or doubt in those eyes; they were simply waiting for the fourth swordsman to speak and explain his reasons.

Xia Xiu then spoke up:

"I have a way to stop him, and I will carry out the specific methods. I can't reveal too many details."

“But I… need to go to Terra.”

Muhammad gave Xia Xiu a meaningful look. As a [Miracle Worker], he had actually sensed an extremely familiar fluctuation from Xia Xiu just now, and he knew what that fluctuation represented.

He knew what that meant, of course, but he didn't ask any further questions.

Because the fourth swordsman chose to step forward at this moment, and he also believed in Eden's choice.

Muhammad sighed softly, then nodded, his tone steady and firm:
"Go ahead and do it."

“I’ll be here watching—if you fail, then it’ll be my turn.”

Xia Xiu didn't say much, he just nodded slightly.

Then, he closed his eyes slightly and connected his spiritual sense to the Sea of ​​Eden.

He awakened that familiar response authority on a spiritual level, submitting a teleportation request with the priority command of the fourth sword wielder, while simultaneously sending a stream of coordinates.

The next second, a response echoed in his mind: 【Rainbow Bridge - Positioning Complete, Terra Reference Surface Preparing—】

A rainbow rose from the depths of the ether, and he stood at the center of the silver light, his figure slowly disappearing into the blazing white vortex.

Muhammad stood there, gazing at the spatial rift that was about to close.

His fists drooped down.

In the final moment before the light faded, he murmured:
"Lust... Eden... Heaven truly inherited Arn's..."

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Terra: Benchmark Reality

N 43° 20′ 25.8″

E 28° 29′ 42.1″

Northeast Bulgaria, on the shore of the Black Sea.

The sea breeze sweeps across the salt-covered cliffs, whipping up tides and rock fragments that crash against the pale, broken edges.

This is Cape Cagliacola, a remote place forgotten by war, mythology, and deep-sea rituals. And at the end of that ancient cliff, a seven-colored rainbow pillar suddenly hangs down from the sky.

The Rainbow Bridge, like a razor blade, sliced ​​through the atmosphere, the sea breeze, and the entire surface of reality, falling silently in a way that cannot be described in words.

And at that moment, an angel descended.

As Xia Xiu slowly emerged from the rainbow light, his body was enveloped in a faint halo. The intense heat had not yet dissipated, and beneath his feet, a purple-gold pattern, swirling like an eternal zigzag line, automatically unfolded in the air.

That's his avatar ability [Möbius strip].

He stood on it, as if suspended in the cracks of reality.

Before him, below the Cagliacola Cape section, a massive natural stone gate, eroded by salt frost, suddenly opened up.

It was an arched opening, as if someone had ripped out the throat of a colossal beast from the ground.

The cave entrance was deathly silent; the water flow had frozen.

The inner walls were covered with rings of grayish-white, calcified, vine-like growths, no longer human or object, but like silent lesions solidified by time itself.

These calcium filaments, like stony wool, cover the rock and water inch by inch, swallowing up sound, light and heat.

Xia Xiu bent down and walked in.

Behind the archway is an underground cavern.

In the center of the cave, something chilling appeared.

It was a pitch-black sphere with a diameter of six meters.

Black, black that completely swallows all light.

Any light that touches its surface will be swallowed up as if by a bottomless abyss, leaving no reflection and not even a ripple.

Its curved surface occasionally ripples like water, but it is not water—it is the membrane of the surrounding reality's rules undulating as if breathing.

Stone chips fall, and as soon as they approach its boundary, they vanish instantly, like snowflakes touched by fire.

What's even more disgusting is the "flesh wall" surrounding the hemisphere.

Brownish-red, and breathing.

A living curtain made of human skin hangs down from the cave wall, connecting the ground with the edge of the hemisphere, enveloping the entire space into a living temple.

It is seeping out.

Strands of pale pink fluid flowed from the tissue, carrying salt water and spreading underwater; within each writhing fold lay some kind of dismantled human fragment.

Dental arch, eyeballs, half a spine, knuckles, embedded folds...

There was no order to it; it looked as if someone had dissected, crushed, and mixed together hundreds of corpses and then haphazardly sewed them together onto the same piece of living skin.

Occasionally, one of the eyeballs will suddenly open, the whites of the eye will turn yellow, the pupil will be stiff, and it will close again in a flash, without consciousness or focus.

Xia Xiu slowly approached.

He soon discovered that what was chilling was not only the pitch-black hemisphere itself, but also its shadow.

A thin, wavy line, like a water curtain, quietly rose from the edge of the black ball.

The wave-like shadow was initially only the size of a fingernail, but in the next instant it multiplied wildly like a lesion.

copy!

A new hemisphere grows outside it.

At an unpredictable speed, from the size of a palm to a water tank, then to a house, and even the size of an entire cave wall, it only takes the blink of an eye.

As the replica touched the ground, the stone wall was wiped away like paper.

Click-click-click.

The wall of flesh also began to tremble.

After the shadow touched its outermost skin folds, the flesh peeled away from bottom to top, revealing rows of teeth that were still moving. The eyeballs opened one after another, as if they were all trapped in some kind of irresistible nightmare.

Circles of shadows are spreading outwards.

Devour, rewrite, repeat...

Standing on the boundary between rampant growth and elimination, Xia Xiu felt nauseous.

"Sometimes I have to admire Yorn. How does he communicate with such a boundless primordial chaos?"

Faced with this distorted cosmic order, can we really expect to subdue it?

For a fleeting moment, Xia Xiu wanted to completely destroy this thing, but he knew he couldn't do that.

He has to subdue it.

Just as Yann completed the six trials.

Inside the cave, the black sphere continued to slowly split and swell.

Its shadow peels away layer by layer like a lesion, turning into fleshy, fibrous mucous membrane tissue at the junction of the seawater and the rock wall, spreading continuously, as if turning the entire seabed space into an incubation sac.

The arched stone walls have begun to peel, soften, and flow.

The seawater, which should have been icy cold, was distorted into a fleshy red viscous liquid, emitting a subtle, pulsating sound.

Xia Xiu stood on the [Möbius strip] on the water, his figure motionless, his right hand touching the [Lever of Heaven], his forehead slightly furrowed.

"It's not too aggressive, but..."

He looked down at his right hand.

On that hand that was touching the air, extremely fine mucous membranes were spreading on the surface of the skin, and some kind of flesh-and-blood mutation was taking place.

Seeing this, Xia Xiu immediately used the [Flesh and Blood Reshaping Technique] to shake it away, and whispered:

"As expected, its abilities are similar to those of the ultimate life form... no, or rather, the ultimate life form's abilities probably come from it."

"This is your ability... to actively penetrate and modify the DNA of any biological structure in the environment or the subject of contact, to perform multiple analyses, fragmentation and recombination of the genome of the subject, and then to perform non-purposed reassortment synthesis based on the collected genetic fragments."

In other words.

The black sphere in front of me does not have a logical creation goal, but rather is like a virus or an evolutionary engine, constantly creating new biological structures by mixing everything as its underlying command.

"This kind of power can even influence those who are crowned."

Xia Xiu could sense that underwater, those fleshy tentacles were silently climbing up the rock walls, drilling into sea crevices, diving into undercurrents, and gradually combining with microorganisms, schools of fish, plankton, and algae.

That natural cross-species fusion is happening spontaneously.

Teeth emerge from translucent fins, the texture of the stone transforms into wriggling mucus, and a turtle sprouts tentacles...

At this moment, the black sphere inside the cave is actively modifying the DNA of all living things around it, and mixing the DNA modifications to cause them to mutate.

It is arbitrarily altering the surrounding life structures, turning them into other unknown alien creatures.

Moreover, Xia Xiu could sense that the radiation and expansion range of this ability... was unlimited.

If left unchecked, the black sphere in front of us could turn all the creatures of Terra into aliens in just three days.