Collapse Iron: Cosplaying the Near-Death Star, but with a full destiny.

Xing spoke up from the side, astutely grasping the key point.

"Since the Divine Lord can kill poison, could we borrow it?"

"For example... how about giving Nigori a full-body virus scan?"

"cannot."

Jingyuan answered decisively.

He waved his hand, and the golden light and the enormous deity vanished instantly, restoring the study to its original state.

Only a faint smell of ozone remained in the air, proving that what had just happened was not an illusion.

"The fate of the deity is tied to that of the general."

"It can protect Luofu, it can protect me, and it can even protect you within my territory for a short period of time."

"But it can't leave me, nor can it stay attached to other people for long."

Jing Yuan sat back down in his chair, and that languid air returned to him. But Xing clearly sensed that beneath this languidness lay a sharper calculation.

"and."

Jingyuan picked up his teacup, but this time he didn't drink it. Instead, he observed Hoshino and Hoshino's expressions through the reflection of the tea.

"As I said before."

"Cognition is connection."

"Just now, in order to demonstrate the power of the Divine Lord and to explain the nature of the 'Calamity,' I have broken through that protective layer of 'ignorance.'"

"You all now..."

Jing Yuan raised his eyelids, a dangerous glint flashing in his golden pupils.

"They are no longer innocent bystanders."

"You have become... 'carriers'."

"The Divine Lord just cleaned up the surface pollution for you, but that 'concept,' that 'concept' about Planet 4546, about the red sky and the three-headed corpse, has been deeply implanted in your minds."

"As long as you leave Luofu and leave the protection of the Divine Lord."

"Those things... will come back ten or a hundred times faster than before."

Hoshino's heart skipped a beat.

A very ominous premonition arose spontaneously.

That old fox...

This is clearly a trap!

First, he used rhetoric to pique their curiosity, then he demonstrated the power of the deity to give them a taste of the benefits, and finally he told them, "You have been poisoned. Only I have the antidote, but I can't take it with me."

This tactic...it's just like those unscrupulous salespeople who sell health products.

"Does that mean we'll have to stay in Luofu forever?"

With his arms crossed, Mohoshi had an expression that said, "I'm sticking with you, what can you do about it?"

"Anyway, the Shence Prefecture is so big, supporting a couple more idle people shouldn't be a problem, right?"

"Besides, I resurrected your white moonlight, and this is how you treat your benefactor?"

Jing Yuan smiled.

He smiled like an old fox who had stolen a chicken.

"The Shence Palace can certainly afford to support them."

"but……"

"Miss Hoshino, are you really willing to accept this?"

"Are you content to spend your whole life holed up in this tiny haven, barely surviving on the radiation from the God-King?"

"Are you willing to watch the 'countdown' in your mind slowly reach zero until you are completely assimilated into a new 'monster'?"

"and……"

Jing Yuan's voice suddenly turned cold.

"Once you reach your full potential, the God-King will designate you as a 'target that must be eliminated'."

"When the time comes, I might be the one to deliver that final blow."

Nihoshi fell silent.

She knew Jingyuan was telling the truth.

Although she possesses the power of the end and bears the mark of nothingness, she is not entirely confident that she can suppress this completely irrational "concept virus" forever.

Besides, she's a pioneer.

He was chosen by Akivilli (although he was a hitchhiker on a train).

How could someone possibly spend their entire life hiding in one place like a coward?

"Just say it."

Hoshi sighed and gave up struggling.

"What do you want us to do?"

"Stop beating around the bush, General."

"We're all old foxes, why are we playing these ghost stories?"

Jingyuan put down his teacup.

He took out a jade tablet from his sleeve.

The jade tablet was entirely black, with a red "禁" (forbidden) character engraved on it.

He pushed Yu Zhao in front of Ye Xing.

There is only one road.

"Since the divine ruler can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause."

"Then go... and pull out 'Ben'."

Jing Yuan pointed to the black jade tablet, then to the vast starry sky above.

"Leave Luofu."

"Leave the territory of the Immortal Ship Alliance."

"Go to the source of all calamities."

Planet 4546.

"Let's go there and embark on a... true 'pioneering' endeavor."

"Find the true form of that three-headed corpse, and find the root cause of the 'Disaster'."

"Then……"

Jingyuan made a "throat-slitting" gesture.

"End it completely."

"Only in this way will the curse in your minds be lifted."

"Only in this way can the Immortal Ship Alliance truly break free from this nightmare that has lasted for seven thousand years."

Xing listened from the side with a furrowed brow.

"Planet 4546?"

"Didn't Fu Xuan Tai Bu just say that the planet had already been destroyed by the light arrow of the Emperor's Bow and Fate?"

"Not even ashes are left, where are we supposed to find the original body?"

"The material aspects have indeed been boosted."

Jingyuan explained.

"But the 'coordinates' of that planet still exist."

"That 'empty' space is still there."

"It's now a ruin filled with imaginary number turbulence and conceptual remnants."

"That is, the entrance to the legendary 'afterlife'."

"The place you are going to is not a planet."

"Instead, it is a vast deep sea... situated between reality and nothingness."

"A place formed by the convergence of countless dead civilizations and countless shattered souls... the 'Sea of ​​Ghosts'."

Jing Yuan paused at this point.

He looked at the two young, nameless guests in front of him.

His eyes held both the shrewdness of a general and the worry of an elder for a younger generation.

"certainly."

"This is just a suggestion."

"Or rather... a deal."

"If you help me get rid of this major threat, I will help you remove the curse from your bodies."

"That's fair, isn't it?"

"But I must also warn you."

Jing Yuan's expression became more serious than ever before.

"That place..."

"Even the gaze of the Star God cannot completely penetrate it."

"Once inside..."

There is no turning back.

"You might get lost in the endless deep sea, you might be assimilated by those crazy memories, you might... really become 'monsters'."

"Now."

Tell me your choice.