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

Gu Wenxun's voice echoed wildly in Chen Dou's mind.

Chen Dou could no longer hear what he was saying.

He could only feel that his body was gradually losing control.

The fingers are still being devoured.

Chen Ya's breath was so weak that it was almost imperceptible.

Before her last vestiges of consciousness faded, she whispered only one sentence:

"Brother... I don't blame you..."

Then, her body began to disintegrate from her fingertips, turning into countless pale golden specks of light that flowed into Chen Dou's body through his palm.

He devoured her.

Chen Dou's pupils dilated to the extreme.

He watched helplessly as Chen Ya disappeared from his arms.

Watching her last trace being completely devoured by his devouring power.

"No--!"

Chen Dou's soul let out a roar that even he himself could not hear.

That roar was meaningless; it contained only the most primal and utter despair.

Gone.

My father and mother are gone.

The village is gone.

Now even Aya is gone.

By his own hands...

Chen Dou's soul is collapsing.

The secret techniques that bound his soul began to loosen.

He wanted to become a demon.

He wants to destroy everything.

But Gu Wenxun had long been on guard against him.

"it's useless."

Gu Wenxun's voice was cold and smug.

"Your will has collapsed, and your soul is about to give out."

"From now on, everything you have belongs to me."

Chen Dou struggled.

Struggling frantically.

He could feel his consciousness shattering, like a broken mirror, with fragments falling one by one.

But those fragments did not disappear.

They come together in the darkest places.

Deep within Chen Dou's soul, there is a ray of light.

The light was small and dim, as if it might go out at any moment.

But it exists.

For ten years, no matter how many times Chen Dou fell into despair, how many times he was devoured by demonic energy, or how many times he struggled on the edge of life and death, this light never disappeared.

Gu Wenxun once asked him what it was.

Chen Dou said he didn't know.

He actually knew.

That is hope.

It was the last thing in his heart that hadn't been swallowed up by the demonic energy.

That's why he can still smile like an older brother in front of Aya.

This was the light of hope he had always held onto, and the light that had allowed him to maintain absolute rationality from beginning to end.

But now, that light is going out.

He was in despair.

He was truly desperate.

He killed his own sister with his own hands.

He devoured Aya.

The big bird died too.

He has nothing left.

So, the light went out.

Because my heart is dead.

First God, then Demon.

It is the demon of destruction born from the death of absolute divinity.

What about first demon, then god?

It is through absolute despair that absolute sanity is born.

For the past ten years, Chen Dou's divine body has always been just a little short of completion, because Chen Dou has always held onto a sliver of hope.

It was this glimmer of hope that prevented him from truly taking that final step.

Even the divine body could not take the final step.

Just as he was in utter despair, the light that had been extinguished deep within his soul suddenly shone again.

It exploded with a brightness that was 100,000 times, 1 million times, or even 10 million times greater.

Gu Wenxun's maniacal laughter abruptly stopped.

He sensed it.

A power he had never felt before, nor had he ever felt in Chen Dou's soul, was awakening.

That power has nothing to do with words like white, light, compassion, or kindness.

It's colder than the coldest ice.

It is deeper than the deepest abyss.

Harder than the hardest iron.

It contains no impurities.

There was no swaying.

Like a sophisticated machine infused with all the rules, it began to operate.

This is the divine body.

The ancient pattern raises a question.

"What...what is this...?"

Deep within Chen Dou's soul, the extinguished light of hope was rekindled.

This time, however, it was no longer a warm, gentle, and humane light.

It's cold.

It was as cold as ice that would never melt.

It is still.

It was as still as the deathly silence at the end of the universe.

It had no emotions, no hesitation, and not the slightest wavering.

That is absolute divinity.

First comes the demon, then the god; from the extreme despair, absolute divinity is born.

Chen Dou's shattered soul was reassembled at this moment.

His soul was as if it had been thrown into an invisible furnace, repeatedly forged and recast by that extremely cold divine light.

All the confusion, anger, fear, and sadness were stripped away like impurities and burned to ashes.

Only the purest things remain.

"Ancient Pattern Inquiry".

Chen Dou's voice echoed from the depths of his mind.

The voice was extremely calm, without the slightest emotional fluctuation, like an echo coming from an ancient well ten thousand meters deep.

Gu Wenxun's laughter had long since stopped.

He discovered that the hidden doors and restrictions he had painstakingly buried deep within Chen Dou's soul over ten years were rapidly losing their effectiveness.

Those secret techniques he personally taught Chen Dou, those shackles he thought were flawless, melted away rapidly like thin ice under the scorching sun under the crushing force of that absolute divinity.

"You little rascal..."

For the first time, Gu Wenxun's voice wavered.

But Guwenxun is still Guwenxun after all.

An authority holder who has reincarnated hundreds of times, an old monster who has survived to this day through countless reincarnations.

His will had long been hardened by hundreds of life-and-death experiences, making it as firm as iron.

As a privileged individual within the Paradise of Reincarnation, he was already a prodigy among prodigies.

In a battle of wills, how could he possibly lose?

"Don't think that having a bit of divinity will turn the tide!"

Gu Wenxun let out a low roar, his powerful willpower like unchanging ice, unyielding and even exerting pressure.

How could hundreds of lifetimes of reincarnation and hundreds of thousands of years of experience be suppressed by a mere twenties?

Even the strongest absolute divinity lasts only a moment.

Gu Wenxun's will surged back like a flood bursting its banks, suppressing Chen Dou's divinity once again with even greater ferocity.

"You've got something now."

Gu Wenxun was panting, his voice filled with a complex mix of shock, anger, and greed.

"But unfortunately, you've run into me."

"Who isn't a prodigy? How can you, in your early twenties, compare to my hundreds of thousands of years of experience?"

Chen Dou's soul was struggling violently, but Gu Wenxun's control was getting stronger and stronger. He was like someone who had sunk into a bottomless swamp and could not climb out no matter what.

His hand was still stuck in Chen Ya's chest.

The power of devouring is still in operation.

Chen Ya's body had mostly disappeared, and pale golden light spots kept pouring into Chen Dou's body, where they were frantically refined by the gods and demons.

Chen Dou watched helplessly as his younger sister disappeared little by little, but there was nothing he could do.

That kind of despair, even for Chen Dou, who had already possessed absolute rationality and transformed into a god.

The wavering persisted uncontrollably.

……

Just as Chen Dou and Gu Wenxun's wills were locked in a fierce battle deep within their souls, the situation outside also changed.

Hei Ze and Luo Jiuyou did not rush forward any further.

They were stopped.

Six thousand heavenly soldiers, three hundred heavenly generals, twelve heavenly officials, and three great immortal kings have all arrived.

Moreover, this time, they formed a true Myriad Immortals Locking Heaven Formation.

The entire sky deep within the Sea of ​​Illusion was dyed gold by that great formation.

Countless immortal runes intertwined to form a net, completely sealing off the space within a radius of millions of miles.

Kurosawa looked up, his dark golden vertical pupils narrowing slightly.

"This is a huge problem."

He felt that the energy circulation in his body had slowed down by at least half, and even raising his hand felt like dragging a star.

Although Luo Jiuyou was still somewhat eccentric, he was clearly not as eccentric as before.

"The worldly energy within me has been suppressed by 50%."

He stretched his shoulders.

This Myriad Immortals Locking Heaven Formation was specifically designed for outsiders like them.

Lock the space, lock the energy, lock the soul, lock all means of escape.

Forget about fighting, you can't even run away if you want to.

"These people from the Heavenly Palace really want to kill us."

Luo Jiuyou licked her chapped lips, and madness reignited in her eyes.

"That depends on whether they have the ability."

Hei Ze and Luo Jiuyou stood back to back, facing the heavenly soldiers and generals surging in from all directions, without flinching in the slightest.

Behind them, Mu Lan had been pulled up at some point.

Her left arm was completely gone, half of her body was soaked in blood, and her face was deathly pale.

But her eyes were still open.

"Who pulled me up?" she asked weakly.

"Stop talking nonsense, can you fight?" Luo Jiuyou said without turning his head.

Mu Lan gritted her teeth, propped herself up, and stood up. The remaining curse power around her barely condensed into a thin protective shield.

"They can fight."

"Then let's fight."

The heavenly soldiers moved as soon as the words were spoken.

A golden torrent surged in from all directions simultaneously, accompanied by deafening battle cries.

The three of them held nothing back, unleashing their full power and colliding with the countless celestial soldiers.

The battle instantly intensified.

……