Collapse Iron: I just transmigrated! You want me to save the Black Tower?!

[Tail: Hmph! What does it have to do with me! I'm not going to die!]

[Huo Huo: That's not what I meant! I meant...]

Topa stared at the image on the screen, resting her chin on her hand and thinking for a while. Zhang Zhang curled up at her feet, making uneasy humming noises.

She reached out and touched Zhangzhang's head, but didn't look away.

[Topa: I don't think anyone can get used to death.]

Opal: So what was it all for? Fame and fortune? What's left after death?

[Gold Sand: What if he really just thinks that way?]

[Gold Sand: What if he wasn't joking, wasn't mocking himself, wasn't trying to gain sympathy, and genuinely felt that after dealing with everything, he could go and die?]

[Jade: ...Why?]

[Jinju: I don't understand.]

[Zhenzhu: Only by living can we create more value; death means everything is back to zero. This is the simplest logic, so why doesn't he understand?]

[Ruan Mei: Perhaps, in his eyes, life was nothing more than a bargaining chip to achieve his goals.]

[Fireworks: Wow, Ms. Nguyen Mai still dares to speak out? They look like they're about to settle scores with you.]

[Nguyen Mai: That's not me.]

[Nguyen Mai: I didn't do it either.]

[Black Tower: You should go explain to Immortal Boat. I can't be bothered with the biggest danger right now. I advise you not to seek your own death.]

[Ruan Mei: ?]

In the video, Jiang Jiu didn't say much about death.

He skillfully changed the subject.

Jiang Jiu chuckled, "Just kidding. Let's go, the sooner we finish this, the sooner we can go back and rest. I'm exhausted..."

He snapped his fingers, and the power of nothingness killed the insects that were hatching around him before they even came into being.

In the central area, Ruan Mei knelt before a giant dragon-like insect, clutching her chest in disbelief at the scene before her.

"Why......"

A desperate whisper came from not far away.

Her voice was very soft, and each word was so broken that it was almost inaudible.

"Why...are they immortal...why..."

"Why has reproduction lost its power...?"

Her tone was even tinged with a hint of madness, and her eyes held not only despair but also a touch of insanity.

"It must be...it must be that there aren't enough immortal dragon descendants...there won't be a problem...no, no..."

"No, no, no, no...!!"

Black Tower pursed his lips: "She's insane."

"Judging from this, she seems to want to use reproduction and immortality, using the power of immortality to partially regress reproduction, thereby extracting a concept about 'life' from it."

"But it seems she failed."

Jiang Jiu nodded slightly: "She succeeded once, but it was all for the benefit of Feng Rao."

[Ruan Mei: ...How stupid.]

[The enlightened people: ???]

[The people of Wisdom: You used the lives of our people for experiments, fed our unhatched dragon eggs to insects, almost creating a new star god, almost dragging the entire universe into an insect plague, and you—say—how—stupid?]

[Made-upon people: Nguyen Mai! You *swear* *****

[To the people of the Vidyadhara clan: Do you know how many people your experiments have killed? Do you know how many families your miracles have destroyed? Do you know how many members of the Vidyadhara clan have died because of your so-called "life"?]

[The enlightened people: You say it's stupid?! You're the stupidest one! You son of a bitch!]

[Kouyuan-kun: ...Ruan Mei.]

[Lord Huyuan: Are you provoking the Wisdom Clan?]

[Nguyen Mai: No.]

[Nguyen Mai: I was merely commenting on the actions of "myself" in the video.]

As Hu Yuanjun looked at Ruan Mei's comments, his emotions grew colder and colder.

[Huyuan-kun: Evaluation? You have no right to evaluate.]

[Lord Huyuan: You gambled away the future of my clan, lost everything, and then casually said, "How stupid."]

[Huoyuanjun: Ruan Mei, do you think the Chiming Clan is easy to bully?]

Ruan Mei didn't say anything more.

It doesn't make sense to her; it's a waste of time.

In the video, Nguyen May seems to have gone a little crazy about her obsession with the failure of her experiment.

Nguyen Mai knew perfectly well that she had no room for regret.

She's not stupid; on the contrary, she's a genius.

He was so obsessed with the concept of "life" that he was willing to pay the price, even his life, after weighing the pros and cons.

She doesn't care as long as she can achieve her goal.

From initially agreeing to the research on the Immortal Boat, to the later irreversible consequences of the Immortal Boat's actions, she chose to take a gamble and use the shortest possible time to bring the seed to fruition.

"It must be...it must be something wrong with the immortal dragonborn..."

"Since the dragon descendants on this immortal ship are no good... then..."

She seemed to have just noticed Jiang Jiu and Hei Ta.

She looked at the person in front of her in a disheveled state. The dragon egg of the Brightness began to shake violently, and cracks were pushed open, from which crawled one insect after another.

"...Get out of the way."

Black Tower took a step back, and Jiang Jiu gripped the Lonely Star Sword, advancing step by step.

"The most perplexing aspect of the concept of life is that life is endless, life is constantly being born, and life is continuously reproducing."

Jiang Jiu's calm voice rang out in this space.

He stepped forward, the Lonely Star Sword hanging at his side, its tip not pointing at anyone. Before the void, insect swarms would die upon approaching, and living beings would be annihilated upon touching it.

The area where the insects were being raised was completely enveloped by nothingness, and this encirclement... was constantly shrinking.

“But unfortunately, this is the end of the road…” he continued, his gaze passing through the twisted dragon worms and locking onto Ruan Mei’s deep blue eyes, which were filled with despair and madness.

"...It has already been extinguished by the God of Abundance himself."

"In other words, no matter what, your power will never reach the threshold of a Star God."

He stopped less than ten meters away from Nguyen Mai and the giant dragon-horned worm, and roughly assessed its strength.

“At the same time, as long as you can’t reach the Star God,” Jiang Jiu raised the Lonely Star, the blade reflecting his own calm eyes, “you can be killed.”

With a thought, Ruan Mei caused the insects in front of her to suddenly burst forth and pounce on Jiang Jiu.

Jiang Jiu took a step back to dodge the claw, and with a backhand slash, left a destructive erosion on the insect's body.

"I sympathize with you and I respect you, but I cannot condone your experiment."

“This research, which comes at the cost of the entire universe, means that even if I don’t settle accounts with you now, you will die at Kakamu’s hands sooner or later.”

[Star: So, Nguyen Mai was swallowed up by abundance?]

[March 7th: Wasn't he killed by Jiang Jiu?]

[Star: The concept of life seems to have been eaten away.]

[Himeko: It wasn't Ruan Mei who was swallowed up, but rather the destiny itself. She tried to create a new destiny, but the destiny she created highly overlapped with Abundance, which had existed for tens of thousands of years. How could a newly born destiny possibly contend with a destiny that had matured for tens of thousands of years?]

[Star: So she brought this upon herself?]

Himeko: ...You could say that.

[Star: That's terrible.]

March 7th: Not so bad.

[Dan Heng: ...Life doesn't need a destiny.]

[Danheng: A person who loses reverence for life can never embark on the path of life; she never had the possibility of reaching life from the very beginning.]

From the very beginning, there was no possibility of success in this situation.

[Huaiyan: What a pity...]

[Cloud Cavalry: What's the pity?]

[Huaiyan: It's a pity those sword blanks haven't taken shape yet, it's a pity those forgings aren't finished, it's a pity those people... haven't gone home yet.]

And they will never be able to go home again.

The Yunqi Army did not ask any further questions.

The workers in the workshop looked at the fire in the furnace and suddenly felt that the fire was very cold.

[Huaiyan: The Immortal Ship... needs to be changed.]

With Ruan Mei's matter settled, Xianzhou's problems were almost over.

Various factions discussed the final fate of the immortal ship, but Jiang Jiu seemed to no longer care about these matters.

last of the last.

The Black Tower sent him a final verdict, packing Jiang Jiu and the space station together and taking them back to the vicinity of Azure Star.

Jiang Jiu found an empty room and scrolled through the notes on his phone.

Remembering the courtyard, breeding, Onpharos...

[March 7th: So Onfaros still needs to be dealt with... Do you think he can beat him now?]