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Chapter 788 The End of All Things Returning to One (6K Subscriptions Requested)
"Ah!"

The Supreme Lord of Hope was initially shocked by the astonishing transformation in Lin Rui, then sneered in disdain: "Power that relies on the faith of mortals is nothing but a dead thing with only a facade."

Thinking back to 30 years ago, when he followed the Great Sun Lord to dominate the world, the sect belief of Tianjixing had reached its peak. All the gods established their own sects in order to resist the pull of the root, but in the end they all gave up. The Great Sun Lord even destroyed his sect with his own hands.

Today's Church of Light is nothing more than what they had left over from the past. Although the faith of all living beings can bring certain benefits to the gods, its disadvantages are also obvious.

What surprised Lord Hope was that Lin Rui had raised his conceptual power to such a level with the help of the 'Glorious Altar', a kind of artificial sky curtain artifact.

However, as He said, this forcibly enhanced power cannot be freely controlled and manipulated. In this ever-changing conceptual confrontation, it can only play a minor auxiliary role at most.

At this time, the holy thunder and fire emanating from Lin Rui and the Great Sun Golden Crow became more and more violent. The dazzling light collided violently with the dark red aura emanating from the Lord of Hope, causing gorgeous and dangerous energy ripples in the sky.

Each ripple was like a sharp blade, tearing the sky apart and creating countless faults.

In the nine-layered halo behind Lin Rui, countless holy thunder and fire condensed frantically, transforming into long spears of thunder and fire, shooting towards the Lord of Hope like a torrential rain.

The spear's momentum burned the sky and melted the earth. Wherever it went, not only was the air instantly ignited, but time and space were also torn apart.

At the same time, Lin Rui's 'True Heavenly Eye' slowly opened between his brows, his eyes as sharp as torches, looking towards the Lord of Hope from afar.

With this bloodline ability that can see through all illusions, he spy on the weaknesses of Lord Hope, observe the changes in His divine power, predict His future, and even reach His origin.

The conceptual forces of the two clashed fiercely across a thousand-kilometer stretch of ocean. Hope and the Law of Purity, the power of Holy Thunder and Tribulation Fire, and the concept of slaughter collided, ripping all of space and time into shredded fragments.

The Lord of Hope tried to use the method of hope to create various favorable conditions to completely wipe out Lin Rui, but these were all purified one by one by Lin Rui's method of purification.

The method of purification is the most suitable conceptual power for Lin Rui to use at present - it does not require complex changes, nor does it require the careful manipulation of time, space and cause and effect. Lin Rui only needs to clear and purify everything around him that does not belong to him, and use the extremely violent power of purification to remove all obstacles.

Lin Rui burned the calamity fire of Hope Heavenly Lord and blasted the holy thunder of Hope Heavenly Lord, but was also killed by Hope Heavenly Lord.

Only the lightning and fire spears that Lin Rui blasted out with the blood and will of 7.2 million priests gave the Lord of Hope a headache. The Lord of Hope could indeed kill these spears, but each kill required a certain amount of divine power.

There is also the Great Sun Golden Crow, which continuously blasts out the 'Sun Divine Light' and 'Great Sun True Fire'. Although it is not even one tenth of the Great Sun Heavenly Venerable's divine power, once it is hit, it can still threaten his divine body.

Therefore, I hope that Tianzun will focus on avoidance, move around Lin Rui at high speed, and avoid the bombardment of those thunder and fire spears.

He seized every opportunity to get close to Lin Rui, engaging in close combat with him, and doing his utmost to consume Lin Rui's abyss source essence and source core.

The continuous clash of their blades produced a roaring sound that was beyond the audible range of humans. The red-gold blade light and the dark red blade light intertwined with each other. Every collision burst out with dazzling light, like the scorching sun exploding in the sky.

The blinding light forced everyone on the battlefield to close their eyes tightly. Even a brief glance could result in burns from the light.

The energy wave generated by the collision was like a raging tsunami, spreading out from the center of their fight to the surrounding areas.

Wherever this energy wave passed, the air seemed to be boiling water, rolling violently and making a deafening roar. Time and space were like broken mirrors, with countless tiny cracks appearing. These cracks spread rapidly, dividing the space into countless irregular fragments, forming a weird and distorted spatial turbulence.

The sea surface below was pressed down more than 300 meters by their power, and the turbulent sea water around them raised huge waves, like a roaring beast, sweeping in all directions.

The huge waves hit the surrounding warships. The sturdy warships on the sea were like fragile toys in front of the huge waves. They were easily thrown up and dropped. Some were even directly smashed by the huge waves and turned into a pile of scrap metal and sank to the bottom of the sea.

The mountains on Huangshan Island also began to collapse. Huge rocks rolled down from the mountains and hit the ground, raising a cloud of dust. The sturdy bunkers built by the Beisheng Guardian Army were also destroyed in an instant, and they had to retreat into the warships.

Fortunately, they built many tunnels, otherwise they would not be able to stand firmly on the ground. Even martial artists above the dragon level would be blown away and about to fall. If they were not careful, they would be swept away by the hurricane or caught in the aftermath of the battle between the two gods, and their flesh and blood would be shattered into pieces.

At this time, the first and second envoys of the Liao Dynasty were as pale as paper. They had to use all their strength to suppress the fleet under their command.

Fortunately, they retreated in time and only lost a small number of warships.

Even the huge fleet under Lin Rui's command was affected. They were in the center of the battlefield, and the layers of clustered force field shields were broken like peeling an onion.

However, most of the power that affected them was purified and burned by Lin Rui's fire of catastrophe.

"Ok?"

At this time, Lord Hope discovered that Lin Rui's consumption was far lower than he expected, even less than one tenth of what he expected.

This Lord of Purity stood on top of the Great Sun Golden Crow, withstanding the thousands of sword beams from the Lord of Hope without moving, his Dharma appearance was majestic and his divine power was magnificent.

This person was trying his best to simplify their battle, to avoid it becoming a more complicated situation, and to avoid exposing Lin Rui's weaknesses in martial arts, escape techniques, and application of concepts.

But Lin Rui had to pay a price for doing so. He had to release a large amount of light and heat at all times, and spread them out in all directions to avoid being found by the sword light of Lord Hope that could penetrate any hole.

Every strike of his sword had to contain the power to crush the Lord of Hope, so that the Lord of Hope would not dare to confront him head-on.

The power of Lin Rui's sword strike would require Hope Tianzun to use three to five sword strikes to neutralize and resist it.

However, Lin Rui's vitality was always at its peak, without any sign of decline, and was continuing to recover.

A look of enlightenment gradually appeared in the eyes of the Supreme Lord of Hope: "Your divine weapon is transformed from the source of the source core of the Supreme Lord of Infinite Blade? So that's how it is—"

Lin Rui controls his various powers with the concept of "one" and the method of "Wuji", so his consumption is probably much smaller than what Hope Tianzun expected.

There is also the golden crow of the sun under Lin Rui's feet.

There is a reason why the Lord of Purity has been standing above its head. Lin Rui is drawing power from the source core of the Great Sun Golden Crow to reduce his own losses.

What made Hope Heavenly Venerable even more shocked and angry was that the flesh and blood of this Great Sun Golden Crow was most likely cultivated based on the flesh and blood left by the seventh generation of leaders - and actually originated from Great Sun Heavenly Venerable!
At this moment, the Abyss of the South turned into a golden light and flew back from a distance.

He should have defused the flying knife called "Root Slash", then flashed back from a distance and flew towards Lin Rui.

Just when Hope was filled with surprise and anticipation, Lin Rui sneered again: "Get lost!"

The nine-layered light wheel behind Lin Rui unexpectedly shrank into a singularity again, merging with the sword energy emitted from Lin Ruimei's heart, and slashed towards the abyss of the south.

Thus, the Abyss of the South was forced to transform into a stream of light and flow towards the distant horizon again.

I hope Tianzun saw clearly this time that Lin Rui's sword not only integrated his many conceptual powers, but also incorporated the spiritual energy and blood of 7.2 million priests, as well as the will and faith of the 2.9 billion believers in the glorious altar.

“This guy—” Hope Tianzun’s pupils shrank slightly, and his eyes were filled with ripples.

This ultimate move called Root Slash might not be very effective when used on Lord Hope, but when used on the Abyss of the South, it would render Him helpless, with no other option but to dodge.

This is because many of the conceptual powers on the flying knife are similar to the power of the Southern Abyss, but at a higher level! It is a conceptual power close to the super-limit level.

For concepts with the same attributes, a slightly stronger one can have a crushing effect.

But the point is not here. The point is that Lin Rui has mastered this ultimate move, as well as his martial arts and fighting style, his understanding and application of concepts, all of which are beyond human expectations.

Although Lin Rui has been simplifying the battles to avoid exposing his weaknesses, what he possesses now is no less than those of the immortal level who have been practicing for many years. This is not something that can be mastered by someone who has only practiced for three years and is only at the eighth level.

Furthermore, his martial arts conception of "all things return to one, one being gives rise to all things" is definitely over 80% complete! It's simply incredible.

——What's the reason for this? What kind of secret does this guy have?
I hope Tianzun will suddenly understand. Perhaps this is what Huanhuan Tianzun wants to know, and it is the reason why that guy gave up suppressing the remnants of the Great Sun.

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Inside the presidential residence of the Earth Federation, hundreds of holographic projection screens are suspended under the dome, projecting every frame of the divine battle over Huangshan Island.

This war between gods was so magnificent, brutal and massive that it affected the surrounding 3000 kilometers of sea surface soon after the fighting began.

At this time, no drone could stay near the battlefield, and no monitoring equipment could accurately capture the scene of the war between gods.

The method adopted by the Federation was to hire more than one hundred mercenaries from the eighth and ninth realms to pull a military-grade reinforced submarine optical cable and approach 500 kilometers around the battlefield to shoot.

108 top-tier supercomputers were then assembled to help infill and restore the footage, presenting the earth-shattering divine battle unfolding in the waters near Huangshan Island to the eyes of the Earth Federation's top dignitaries. Light and shadow intertwined, energy ripples swirled like a dream, and a heart-pounding aura of destruction filled the spectators with a surge of emotion and awe. The president stood before the screen, his rock-hard face etched with shock, his gaze fixed on the screen, afraid to miss a single detail.

The President's Chief of Staff's eyes lit up with surprise as he muttered to himself, "Is this the power of God? Such a powerful battle is beyond my comprehension."

He had seen the video of Lin Rui and Dreamy Tianzun fighting in the sky.

However, the battle in the sky is very abstract, the video distortion is even more serious, and the Federation’s artificial sky is incomplete and cannot fully bear the power of the two gods. The battle between the two is obviously reserved, so it feels different from the battle in reality.

Many high-ranking government officials, senior congressmen, top academicians and business tycoons in the conference room were also whispering to each other and discussing this shocking battle in low voices.

"That's the Supreme Hope and the Southern Abyss, and Director Lin is actually deadlocked with them! How can this person, who has only been rising for a short time, possess such strength?"

"What Mr. Lin? It's His Highness, the Lord of Purity, the Abyss of Heaven!"

"What kind of secret technique is that? Even the Southern Abyss dares not touch it and runs away when they see it?"

"I'm not sure. The image is too distorted, and I can't see clearly. I now strongly doubt the nature of concepts. We scientists say that the so-called concepts are actually super-dimensional interference.

The Origin can be understood as a 'bottom-level code library,' essentially a self-iterating, activated space. By directly inscribing the divine imprints of the Origin and the Sky Curtain, the gods bypass the laws of three-dimensional physics and project the miracles of conceptual embodiment into the real world. But is this really the case?

"Incredible! According to what President Xie just said, His current conceptual power has been stimulated to a level close to the Transcendental Level. With His Eighth Realm Body, He controls Transcendental Concepts, condensing the flames of faith of 7.2 million priests and the torrent of will of 2.9 billion believers into a sharp conceptual blade—"

"When I heard that the Lord of Purity led his army to Huangshan Island, I thought he was crazy, but now it seems that he is well prepared."

"Incredible! The Ninth Abyss rose to prominence in just three years. Just how deep is his comprehension and talent? To have achieved such martial arts accomplishments in just three years? And to be able to control and apply conceptual abilities to such an extent—"

Some people were also amazed at the divine power displayed by the Great Sun Golden Crow.

"Look at this conceptual macro-force field! It has great potential! Not only has the Lord of Purity's conceptual power reached the transcendent level, but this Great Sun Golden Crow's conceptual power is also approaching the peak of the quasi-abyss."

"It's not that easy. We've used conceptual macro-force fields with Abyssal weapons before. What were the results? They can indeed increase their power to a certain extent, but these Abyssal weapons are completely unable to control them. Furthermore, the more, stronger, and more complex the conceptual power of the conceptual macro-force field, the easier it is for the Abyssal weapons to be damaged."

"Indeed, the situation this time is very special. Whether it's the priests of the Church of Light or the Brilliant Altar, they all share the same power as the Great Sun Golden Crow."

"See? This Heavenly Abyss's pure concept has been purifying the body of the Great Sun Golden Crow, keeping it pure. But I have an idea. We can use the power of the Heavenly Abyss's concept to create specialized purification parts."

"We still have to wait for the Great Sun Golden Crow to return to see the specific experimental data. I wonder if East Asia is willing to share it?"

At the same time, some people present also felt strange.

"Strange, Lin Rui shouldn't have fully activated the conceptual macro force field yet, right?"

"No! Even if we exclude the 720 million priests of light, the fleet under Lin Rui still has about 920 million people below the third realm, 341143 martial artists above the third realm, and 13223 people above the sixth realm of dragon transformation. If the concept force field is fully activated, it will not be at this level."

"Lin Rui must have his reasons for doing this. Fully activating the conceptual macro force field will certainly allow him to gain greater power in a short period of time, but it will also be more difficult to control and consume more essence!"

"Indeed, with millions of martial artists and hundreds of different concepts coming together, how can it be easily controlled?"

"Opening it rashly is definitely not a good idea! Have you noticed? His Highness is constantly learning, adapting, and experimenting."

"And now both sides are holding back, and their war dragons haven't appeared."

Li Jianglong, the first commander of the Security Bureau, who was sitting opposite Xie Xingyun, the president of the Martial Arts Association, narrowed his eyes when he heard this.

Now Lin Rui is learning and adapting. He is learning and adapting to the gods' fighting methods, and adapting and trying to use his own various powers.

Furthermore, he felt that Lin Rui was likely to reconstruct the Pure Law in the Abyss, and according to his understanding of Pure Law, he reconstructed it in the depths of the sky.
Lord Hope on the battlefield also discovered this. He also found that Lin Rui's consumption was decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"You are still struggling in vain!"

Blood-red stars suddenly lit up in the depths of Hope Tianzun's pupils, and the blood-red long sword in his hand suddenly expanded, and the blade turned into a red blood river across the sky.

Countless dead souls can be seen wailing and floating in it, and a soul is reflected in each blood bead. Their souls contain many painful memories and hopes, as if there are pictures writing letters - cities burned by war, men, women and children who are being demonized, priests kneeling on the ground to pray, and refugees lighting torches in despair. These souls who once prayed to Him for hope have now turned into boiling fires of resentment on the blade.

Behind him also emerged the shadowy image of an altar built from the bones of hundreds of millions of believers. The eye sockets of those skeletons burned with the eternal flame of faith, chanting a hymn dedicated to "hope" in the long river of time and space.

The sky cracked into ninety thousand scarlet cracks, like the bloodshot eyes of a god. What fell from the cracks was not light, but despair as thick as substance, but it burst into a dazzling golden light the moment it touched the ground.

This is none other than the divine secret sword of the Lord of Hope—the one that refines the hope crystals of billions of lives into the light of god-killing.

"Witness the light at the end of despair!" The Lord of Hope swung his sword and slashed down. Before the sword light arrived, the entire space and time began to be torn apart.

At this time, Lin Rui's nine-layer light wheel began to rotate in the opposite direction, and the fleet and the Golden Crow under him suddenly dimmed. The surging power of light and the holy thunder of fire in front of him were also torn into a huge crack under the influence of the power of hope.

Part of the flesh on his chest was also dying, killed by the blade of Lord Hope.

Lin Rui looked at the two blood beads in the blood river with an expressionless face.

It was because he saw the two goddesses of 'despair' and 'pain' in it.

Lin Rui realized in an instant that these two Gemini goddesses were likely closely related to the Lord of Hope.

The second of the three gods of purgatory is indeed a reborn person. He fell 30 years ago and returned from the sky 30 years later.

He issued an order to many commanders in the core battle group: fully activate the concept macro force field.

Lin Rui's command was transmitted to the entire fleet through the quantum communication network in an instant. In an instant, 16900 warships trembled at the same time. The macro-force field runes engraved on the surface of the hull were like living golden blood vessels, spreading spider-web-like energy veins from the seams of the armor, and then spreading to the surrounding space, interweaving around the fleet into a three-dimensional rune array covering miles.

The halo behind him, formed by the condensation of holy thunder and catastrophe fire, also changed. It first collapsed into a singularity, and then burst out with light brighter than a supernova one ten-thousandth of a second later. It began to integrate the 127 different concepts generated by the macro force field, and finally intertwined into a twelve-fold conceptual light corona.

Lin Rui's six pairs of wings also melted and reorganized in the torrent of concepts, gradually transforming into wings of light flowing with star sand. His Hidden Dragon Battle Armor peeled off inch by inch, revealing a body directly composed of the root divine pattern -

His skin turned into a flowing silver-white chain of concepts, connecting the sky and the roots. Every strand of hair was the curvature of space-time compressed to the extreme. His left eye turned into a chaotic vortex that gave birth to nebulae, and his right eye was the eye of absolute order that deconstructed all things into elementary particles.

The magnificent altars carried by the fleet resonated at the same time. The bright faith of 7.2 million priests was further materialized under the influence of the conceptual macro-force field, and combined with the true eye between Lin Rui's eyebrows, converging into the mark of the original "one" of chaos.

The blood-red river of swords from the Lord of Hope suddenly solidified in mid-air. He was surprised to find that his concept of killing was being purified by Lin Rui. Every time a ray of sword light touched a kilometer radius around Lin Rui, it would decompose into the most primitive particles and etheric spirits and be purified and wiped out.

The chanting of 7.2 million priests and the blood, energy and spirit of nearly 9.6 million martial artists condensed into an extremely huge "Diagram of All Things Returning to One Formation" behind Lin Rui, which was almost in the shape of a three-dimensional Tai Chi.

At this time, the chanting in each battleship was louder and more majestic.

The godly demeanor displayed by Lin Rui made all the priests feel like they were injected with stimulants. Their faces flushed and they prayed more devoutly.

"Have pity on the people of this world, who are filled with worries, sufferings woven together by a thousand calamities. Bones pile up like mountains, blood flows like rivers, and demons roam rampant, obscuring the sky! What joy is there in living? What pain is there in dying? I only pray that the wise Lord will unleash the fire of catastrophe, burning away the corrupt world and bringing forth a new look!"

"The brilliant holy thunder opens the chaos, cleanses the evil spirit and awakens the inner light. The bright fire of catastrophe refines all living things, and the remains of Nirvana transform into golden lotus!"

Amidst that glorious and sacred chorus, Lin Rui looked at the Supreme Hope with cold eyes, his voice seeming to transcend all dimensions: "Indeed! Your so-called hope is a spark that flashes from the ashes of catastrophe. However, when these sparks from the ashes gather together, they can also become a torch that incinerates the world and burns away darkness. This is the very meaning of the existence of the 'Holy Thunder Tribulation Fire', and the foundation of my 'Cult of Light'."

A strong desire burst out from his eyes! This power of hope should not be controlled by a scoundrel like the Lord of Hope.

Although this bastard is no longer running a sect, he still exists today thanks to the recognition of all living beings.

That was long ago, when tens of billions of people held extreme resentment towards Him, and tens of billions of believers placed their hopes and prayers on Him in times of despair.

Although these people have been dead for hundreds of thousands of years, their extreme resentment and hope have been integrated into the sky along with their sky spirits, and will last forever!

At this moment, Lin Rui's six pairs of wings of light, filled with countless star sands, suddenly spread out to an incredible size, covering the surrounding three hundred miles of void. As these wings gently flapped, Lin Rui extended a finger: "This is the end of all things returning to oneness!"

At this moment, the Blood River Sword of the Lord of Hope and the phantom of the altar behind him built with the bones of hundreds of millions of believers collapsed like bubbles.

(End of this chapter)