He has been reincarnated through countless worlds, adorned with billions of mythological terms!

Tian Dou did not ask any further questions.

Three orbs of light rose simultaneously and flew in three different directions—silver-white towards the southwest, golden-red towards the south, and silver-gray towards the southeast.

Instead of choosing the strongest pillars of light, they selected three deities most likely to cause massive casualties in a short period of time: the crimson God of the Sun, the emerald green God of the Tides, and the earthen-yellow Goddess of the Earth.

They, like them, are gods who have died once.

Incomplete, insane, driven only by the instinct to destroy, they cannot be ended by true death.

……

Headquarters of the National Security Bureau, China.

Yun Jingran stood in the center of the circular command room. Among the hundreds of light screens floating in front of him, half of them had turned into snowflakes—the energy reaction in those areas exceeded the range of all the detection equipment.

His fingers no longer tapped the armrests, but simply hung quietly at his sides.

Yun Jin's voice came from behind: "Dad, the three energy reactions in the Mangcang Mountains have disappeared."

Yun Jingran's voice was so calm that it didn't sound like he was talking about an apocalyptic catastrophe. "Southwest, due south, and southeast, three directions, very fast."

"The objective is clear—they're not coming for us, they're coming for those moving beams of light."

Yun Jin remained silent.

The hall was quiet for a moment.

"Continue monitoring."

……

Around the world, the pillars of light that were moving in all directions have changed.

In the southwest, the silvery-white light collided with the crimson pillar of light, and the shockwave tore apart all the clouds within a radius of a thousand miles.

Due south, golden-red rays and emerald-green pillars of light intertwined in the sky above the South China Sea, churning the seawater hundreds of meters into the air.

To the southeast, silvery-gray light and earthen-yellow pillars of light confronted each other on the edge of the western desert, causing the entire land to tremble.

Three battles, three battlefields, three ancient gods.

They should have stood on the same side as the gods in those pillars of light, but they chose the other side.

Why?

Nobody knows.

Perhaps at some point, they remembered their former selves.

Perhaps at some point, they didn't want to be cleaners anymore.

Perhaps in a moment, they decided—to become guardians of the world once again.

……

South China Sea, private islands.

An underground chamber.

The pale blue light from the spirit core cast flickering shadows on Wei Changsheng's face.

He sat cross-legged in the center of the secret chamber, the surrounding spiritual cores much dimmer than they had been a few months ago. All eighteen spiritual veins—five obtained in exchange from Tianmu, and thirteen he had found himself over the years—had been completely absorbed by him.

His spiritual energy was so abundant it was almost overflowing, and his cultivation level was stable at the early stage of the Tribulation Transcending Realm.

not tall.

Before those ancient gods who have been resurrected and once held sway over all the laws of this world, the early stages of the Tribulation Transcending Realm are nothing.

But he doesn't care.

He opened his eyes.

There was no fear or hesitation in those eyes, only a long-suppressed excitement that could finally be released.

He doesn't like fighting—he likes "fighting" itself.

I like the feeling of walking on the edge of life and death, where you could die or live every second.

That feeling made him feel alive.

He stood up and moved his somewhat stiff fingers, the bones making a faint cracking sound.

With eyes closed, senses probed out of the secret chamber, across the island, across the sea, across the atmosphere, and touched the auras that were rising from all parts of the earth, moving in all directions, carrying world-destroying power.

Densely packed, countless.

Each one is stronger than him, much stronger.

Some are ten times stronger, some a hundred times stronger, and some are so strong that he can't even perceive them.

The corners of his mouth curved into a smile.

"Eighteen years."

He muttered to himself, "It's been eighteen years since I've had a proper match."

Step out of the secret room and onto the island's ground.

The sky was dark red.

It was neither sunrise nor sunset, but the colors of countless pillars of light rising from the depths of the earth, interwoven in the sky—crimson, deep blue, emerald green, ochre, gold, silver, purple, and white, like countless pillars supporting the sky cutting the night sky into fragments.

He looked at the beams of light, his gaze shifting from one to another, as if selecting prey.

Then he chose—a golden-white pillar of light in the southeast direction.

Its aura wasn't the strongest among all the awakened gods, but it was the "purest".

It was a pure, unadulterated will to end everything.

Such pure opponents are the most difficult to deal with, and also the most interesting.

The corners of her mouth curved even higher.

He exerted force with his feet and disappeared from the island.

……

The northern ice plains.

Zhou Yan stepped out of the cultivation chamber on the research vessel and walked barefoot onto the cold ground.

His body was still very thin, with his ribs protruding one by one, but he had a thin layer of muscle that he had gained a few months ago, like a skeleton wrapped in a cloth.

He walked to the safe, opened it, and took out the black crystal.

The crystal remained black, reflecting no light, but it was slightly warm in his palm.

"I've reinforced the passage," Zhou Yan said softly, as if talking to himself, "You can't get through."

A dark red light flashed across the surface of the crystal, like anger or fear.

"I feel really bad for lying to you all for so many years."

His lips twitched slightly, whether it was a smile or something else was unclear. "But since you want to destroy the world, I don't want to increase the difficulty so soon, so I can only ask you to come back later."

He gripped the black crystal tightly, closed his eyes, and let his consciousness delve into its depths.

There is a spatial passage that is taking shape, connecting the blue planet to somewhere deep in the starry sky.

At the other end of the passage, countless interstellar races are gathering, waiting for the moment when the passage is fully opened.

Unbeknownst to them, while Zhou Yan was reinforcing the passage, he also buried dozens of destructive restrictions inside.

This was something he deliberately set up—so that after the other side painstakingly broke through the restrictions he had placed, they would see only despair.

Zhou Yan opened his eyes, put the black crystal back into the safe, and locked it.

Then he turned and walked toward the exit of the research vessel, his bare feet stepping on the cold metal floor, leaving a trail of blurry footprints.

Pushing open the hatch, the biting wind from the North, carrying ice crystals, rushed towards my face, cutting tiny wounds.

He didn't pay attention, but just looked up at the moving pillars of light in the sky.

Deep blue, emerald green, crimson, ochre, gold, silver, purple, white—countless beams of light, countless deities.

"It's worth quite a few points, isn't it?"

He was talking to himself.

Then he stepped forward, barefoot on the ice, each step leaving deep cracks.

……

Huaguo, a coastal city in the south.

Ji Wujiu stood on the roof of an abandoned factory, watching the moving pillars of light in the sky.

His expression was somewhat complicated.

Unlike Wei Changsheng's excitement, or Zhou Yan's calmness, he had a more conflicted expression, as if he were making a difficult decision.

Standing beside him was a clone, also resembling himself, with the same conflicted expression.

Another clone came up from downstairs, still looking conflicted.

Four directions, seven clones, nine clones—each looking at him with a conflicted expression.

Ji Wujiu sighed.

"Okay, okay, I got it."