Survival in Sequences: Eighteen Years Old, Slaying Monsters Like Horses

Xu Si's hand pierced through the chaotic torrent, like a gray-black lightning bolt flowing upstream.

That torrent could erode all laws and shatter all existence, yet it suddenly became docile the moment it touched Xu Si's palm, like a raging torrent crashing into an ancient abyss. Swept by that deeper chaotic aura, it parted on its own to make way for him, creating a narrow path.

"Fu Xiaojian!" Xu Si's voice pierced through layers of chaos, striking directly at the disintegrating figure.

Fu Xiaojian's right arm had completely disappeared into the gate. His dark golden true form of law collapsed and peeled off from the shoulder like a wax figure being burned by raging fire. Large pieces of shattered light were stripped off his body and greedily devoured by the Gate of Return to Nothingness behind him.

"Don't come any closer!" Fu Xiaojian turned around. Only half of his face remained human, while the other half was completely covered by chaotic gray-black patterns. Even the dark golden light deep in his eye sockets began to dissipate.

He's still being stubborn.

Xu Si ignored him and moved forward again.

He knew that if he didn't intervene, Fu Xiaojian would definitely be wiped out by the endless chaos.

"Did you hear me! I told you not to come any closer!" Fu Xiaojian roared, his only remaining left hand suddenly swung out, the broken laws of order condensed into the last dark golden chain, which was actually lashed out at Xu Si.

Xu Si merely tilted his head slightly, and the chains shattered inch by inch before they even got close.

Xu Si stopped all his movements.

"I...don't need you to save me."

Fu Xiaojian seems to have developed a self-destructive tendency; if he cannot achieve his goal, he might as well just disappear.

Xu Si's eyes narrowed; Fu Xiaojian was now unable to even follow his own path.

His only fate is complete annihilation.

But he couldn't just watch it perish completely.

The docile, grayish-black mist enveloped Fu Xiaojian layer by layer, hindering the continued invasion of chaos.

"Do you think I'm pitying you?" Xu Si asked.

In Fu Xiaojian's only remaining eye, the dark golden light flickered like a candle in the wind.

His lips moved a few times, and half of his face, eroded by chaos, showed no expression, but the emotions in his eyes were so intense they were almost overflowing.

"You saved me, and then what? You can judge me? Laugh at me? Enslave me?" His voice was like the wind squeezed out of a shattered chest, with a hissing noise.

"And then what? The person you're going to save is a bastard who just threatened you with the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. How are you going to explain this to Tashan and the others? How are you going to explain this to Jiao Jiao?"

Xu Si did not answer.

He simply took another step forward.

The Gate of Return to Nothingness seemed to sense his approach. The crack trembled violently, and the chaotic torrent surging from within intensified abruptly, like a roaring, enraged beast, or a subject welcoming his king.

Fu Xiaojian's body had been dragged in halfway; his left leg and half of his chest and abdomen had all disappeared into the churning gray-black void inside the door.

"Xu Si! Did you hear me! I don't need it! So what if I fail?"

"You don't need it." Xu Si finally spoke, his voice unusually clear in the boundless gray void.

"It's what I need."

Fu Xiaojian's eye suddenly widened.

"You fucking..." Xu Si's voice suddenly choked, half of the swear word stuck in his throat, and he no longer had the strength to curse.

Xu Si reached out again. This time, his palm no longer contained the faint chaotic energy from before, but rather twelve laws and boundless chaos woven into a rapidly spinning vortex.

The vortex was initially only the size of a fist, but it expanded to thousands of feet in a fraction of a second. The gray-black chaotic energy surged, rolled, and collapsed within it, generating a terrifying suction force that even caused the Gate of Return to Nothingness to tremble.

It's not the door that's swallowing things up.

It was Xu Si who was seizing the chaos that had escaped.

"You're insane!" For the first time, genuine terror appeared in Fu Xiaojian's eyes. Only now did he truly feel Xu Si's power.

"If I weren't insane, I wouldn't have been able to open the Gate of Return to Nothingness!" Xu Si said.

The moment he finished speaking, the enormous chaotic vortex in his palm suddenly shot forward.

boom--

No words can describe the shock of that moment.

The entire gray void resembled a shattered mirror, with billions of cracks appearing simultaneously.

The chaotic torrent surging from the Gate of Return to Nothingness, which was frantically devouring everything, now seemed to be locked onto by an even more powerful natural enemy, and all of it was swept back towards Xu Si's palm.

But that's not what Xu Si wants.

What he wanted was to open a path.

Thirteen pure laws gathered in Xu Si's palm. He wanted to see if gathering the laws could really open the door to the laws.

In Xu Si's palm, thirteen laws, like thirteen formless dragons, spun rapidly around the chaotic vortex.

Time, space, matter, energy, life, wisdom, destiny, order, creation, plague, destruction, battle, mystery.

These laws, originating from the very source of chaos, are all extremely pure, far surpassing any of the ones Fu Xiaojian had previously pieced together.

Fu Xiaojian's last remaining eyeball suddenly enlarged, and even the faint, almost dissipated dark golden light deep within its pupil seemed to re-condense for a moment.

The laws and chaotic vortex in his palm were not separate from each other, but nested in a way that Fu Xiaojian could not understand at all.

The laws swirl on the outside, while chaos lies hidden within. They are distinct yet intertwined, like an ancient compass whose outer ring is engraved with myriad laws, but whose inner depths are unfathomable.

He had previously stripped away all the laws, allowing chaos to flow back.

Now, he is using the laws to counteract chaos, attempting to pry open that door from another direction.

"Yes, it's definitely possible!" Fu Xiaojian exclaimed, seemingly insane.

Xu Si chuckled. Was he fulfilling his own expectations or Fu Xiaojian's expectations by doing this?

The moment Fu Xiaojian finished speaking, Xu Si flipped his hand.

The chaotic vortex containing the thirteen laws suddenly contracted, all the laws were compressed to their limit in the same instant, and then suddenly erupted within a thousandth of a breath.

boom--

A beam of light shot out from Xu Si's palm.

It's hard to describe the color of that light; it's as if all the colors in the world have been shattered and then reassembled, leaving only a "multicolored" light that is whiter than white and blacker than black.

It crashed straight into the Gate of Return to Nothingness.

The entire void was first still.

Then, the door moved.

The light shining through the gap was exactly the same as the light emanating from Xu Si's palm.

The moment the two lights touched, the door that had been silent for countless billions of years slowly opened half an inch.

Then, the Gate of Return to Nothingness actually slowly opened before Fu Xiaojian's eyes.

Fu Xiaojian was stunned, and Xu Si was also stunned.

Because it wasn't chaos that forced open the Gate of Return to Nothingness; it was truly opened with a key.

Therefore, the convergence of laws can indeed open the door to laws.

"It's open..." His lips moved, his voice cracking like a fallen leaf being trampled.

"It's open..." Xu Si didn't look at him.

His gaze pierced through the half-inch crack in the door, looking into the abyss behind it that even he was unwilling to easily peek into.

He already had some understanding of what was behind the gate when he opened it before, and now it seems to be even more profound.

But he didn't want to know what lay beyond the Gate of Return to Nothingness.

Fu Xiaojian's gaze was fixed on the wide-open door.

The aura emanating from behind the door made the entire gray void groan, as if something older than chaos and deeper than the void itself was slowly awakening within.

In his one remaining eye, madness and greed burned like wildfire.

"It's open...it's really open..."

He dragged his broken body toward the door, like a moth drawn to a last glimmer of light.

"Bang!"

Xu Si stepped on his shoulder, pinning him to the spot.

"Don't you understand yet? If I remove the chaotic energy, you could be annihilated by it at any moment! What gives you the right to even enter my doorstep?"

Xu Si's voice descended from above, like a knife piercing Fu Xiaojian's body.

"You didn't open this door. You have no right to interfere!"

Fu Xiaojian suddenly looked up, half of his face was completely swallowed by the chaotic patterns, only his single eye was still staring at him desperately.

"So what? The door's already open! All I have to do is go in, just step inside, and I can—"

Fu Xiaojian let out a low growl, like a wild beast driven to the brink of despair.

His broken left hand suddenly shot out, reaching straight for Xu Si's throat, the last few strands of dark golden law of order still clinging to his fingertips.

Xu Si didn't dodge, he just pressed down harder with his feet.

Before those few strands of the laws of order could even touch his skin, they shattered into countless fragments of light.

"What can I do?"

Xu Si slowly squatted down to look him in the eye. Dark gray chaotic energy seeped from every pore of his body, turning the void within a hundred feet around him into a deathly silence.

"What do you think chaos is? What do you think power is?"

"You still think you can hurt me?" Xu Si grabbed his wrist and twisted it gently, and a crisp sound like bones cracking immediately echoed in the air.

"Your order is empty. The laws have become an empty shell. What can you put in? And what can you take out?"

"I—I still have a way! There must be a way!" Fu Xiaojian roared, his one eye fixed on the half-open door, looking like a wolf being dragged by its hind leg.

Seeing Fu Xiaojian's stubbornness, Xu Si withdrew his power of law.

As if a key had been pulled out, the Gate of Return to Nothingness slowly closed before Fu Xiaojian's eyes.

The Gate to the Ruins, which had been fought for for countless years, finally vanished completely into the void.

Fu Xiaojian was stunned. He knew he had no chance, and he knew it was all over.

Success and failure became the most perfect words of mockery at this moment.

The moment the Gate of Return to Nothingness closed, the entire gray void seemed to have its last breath sucked away.

There wasn't even a trace left where the door disappeared.

Fu Xiaojian remained frozen in mid-air, his outstretched hand still in the gesture.

His body was still enveloped by Xu Si's chaotic energy, while the door had already drifted away from him.

"No……"

His voice sounded like it was being squeezed out of a shattered chest.

Xu Si didn't move, nor did he step on him again.

A dark gray chaotic aura flowed slowly around Xu Si, like an old robe being blown by the wind, silent and heavy.

He knew that this scene was no less severe than being slowly sliced ​​to death for Fu Xiaojian, but he still did it anyway.

"It's gone," Fu Xiaojian murmured.

"It's all gone."

In his one remaining eye, the dark golden light had completely dimmed, and what was reflected in the pupil was no longer the gray of endless void, but a deep and empty stillness.

The laws of order had almost completely disappeared from his body, and the other laws had long since crumbled.

The dark gold patterns that once clung to him like a royal robe now resembled cracks in a dry riverbed, spreading across his broken body. Each line was as thin as a hair, yet its depths revealed the bone.

He didn't move again, nor did he try to escape again.

He lay there in the void, like a sculpture whose bones had been removed, ready to crumble at the slightest breeze.

"You've schemed for so long, from fate to battle, destruction, from Orphnoch to Hades, calculating everything. But you never considered that those laws ultimately weren't yours!"

What is not one's own power will ultimately not be used by oneself.

Fu Xiaojian did not respond.

His eyes were unfocused, like dusty glass, reflecting everything in the gray void where there was nothing.

Xu Si suddenly remembered something from a long time ago.

Or rather, in the initial period after the apocalypse began.

Thinking back on all the hardships we've faced along the way.

I recall every bit of the torment and strange suffering.

Fu Xiaojian lay sprawled in the void, like a snake whose spine had been removed.

Xu Si didn't speak again, his gaze fixed on him, but it was as if he could see into a much farther place through him.

"I keep thinking, what would the situation be like now if I hadn't caught up with you that day, and you hadn't stopped to wait for me?"

Xu Si suddenly said.

"Now it's my turn to stop and wait for you!"

Fu Xiaojian's body began to tremble slightly.

"You acted for so long, and you acted so realistically." Xu Si paused for a moment.

"They look so alike that I can't tell which one is the real you."

"Stop talking, why aren't you making a move?" Fu Xiaojian finally spoke, his voice sounding as if it came from underground.

He was waiting for Xu Si to settle scores, but he didn't want to go through another so-called moral torture.

"If I hadn't waited for you, the outcome would have been uncertain!" Fu Xiaojian still seemed unwilling to accept it.

"Yes! It's still too early to tell who will win!" Xu Si agreed.

"There's something I don't understand! Orphna said that all the gods are waiting for their destiny to return? Why are you making it seem like I'm going to become a god?"

"You ask me why... you are the gatekeeper chosen by the gods to replace creation!"

I understand. Creation was supposed to die in the original plan, and once Fu Xiaojian opens the Gate of Return to Nothingness, only a God-King level powerhouse can probably stop the front line.

"I now sentence you to ten thousand years of service on the front lines. Do you have any objections?" Xu Si asked coldly.

He swept away the chaos at the front lines.

But the death of all things will not disappear, so chaos will eventually accumulate to the previous level.

"Why didn't you kill me? Why didn't you avenge fate?"

"Why not avenge the other gods?"

Do you think I'll thank you for your leniency?

"No, never! I'll come back eventually! I'll open the Gate of Return to Nothingness again! Even if it's forever, even if it's forever!"

This is a vow of order.

"Whatever!" Xu Si no longer cared.