Gods Vanish on a Cloudy Day
Chapter 44 As Expected, My Skills Are Still Superior (7200, Happy Holidays Everyone!)
As for changing homes, Su Zhou had already considered it.
The Twilight Kindred clearly regarded him as a must-kill target, or rather, they regarded the Divine Relic in his possession as something they were determined to obtain.
And he obviously couldn't hand over the true core of his growth, so the conflict between the two sides was destined to be a life-and-death struggle.
However, the Twilight Kindred's all-out attack was indeed not something a Celestial Immortal could solve: even if he, Su Zhou, were to kill them all, he couldn't! Did they really think that the flood-like Twilight Kindred were all data? At least several stars' worth of mass – even a pig couldn't kill that many.
He had to find a way to quickly and easily resolve the Twilight Kindred, or to further improve his strength, so that he could protect himself and the Earth.
And how could he better understand the Twilight Kindred? Or quickly improve his strength?
The obvious answer was to go to places with more Twilight to understand them in depth, and to travel to other worlds to gain experience.
Combining the two meant going to see a world of Twilight.
Naturally.
Su Zhou didn't plan to go to the Twilight's original world, as that would obviously be asking for trouble.
Great existences like Perfect, who didn't care about anything, were truly rare. According to Yala, the body He left in the multiverse was also consciously building His own original world, cultivating His own power and Kindred, in order to practice His own correctness and prepare for future escape.
And Twilight, naturally...
"Hey, wait, is it possible that Twilight, that autistic being, really doesn't care about anything and just lets His original world grow wildly?"
Thinking of this, Su Zhou suddenly froze, then looked at the shining starry sky with narrowed eyes, "I have a feeling that this possibility isn't low..."
In any case, after thinking of this possibility, Su Zhou couldn't help but feel a little tempted, but then he shook his head again.
"Forget it, safety is the most important thing."
Twilight was the strongest Great Existence appointed by Chaos, and he didn't need to actively run to the original world to gamble on whether the other party was really autistic.
If it was just to understand Twilight and more quickly solve those sick Kindred of His, the world's energy level didn't need to be high – an ordinary affected world like the God Tree World would be fine.
A plan was a plan, but what to do with the 6.5 billion people in his personal space?
After roughly conceiving the future development and beginning to guide the Earth Fleet to set sail, Su Zhou locked his destination on hr6819, a black hole in the southern Taurus constellation, a thousand light-years away.
It was only four solar masses, neither large nor small, and its distance was exactly within the normal navigation range of the Earth Fleet, neither too close nor too far, and its direction was exactly opposite to that of Earth.
However, when the fleet started its engines, and Su Zhou set sail with the Earth Fleet and the nine cheering Aether Dragons, he suddenly recalled the 6.5 billion Huo Xi people in his personal space.
Under the comfort of the Wisdom Tree, these 6.5 billion people were sleeping peacefully in their bodies, while their souls were resting in the electronic Netherworld.
It was indeed relatively stable now, but that was only for a short time.
After a while, when Su Zhou and the Wisdom Tree could no longer keep the bodies of these 6.5 billion people dormant, and their souls returned to their bodies... that would be troublesome.
His personal space could hold a meat mountain of thirteen cubic kilometers, but it couldn't hold 6.5 billion people who needed living space!
The environment in which these people once lived was a starfaring civilization environment similar to modern society, and even Earth would have great difficulty preparing a world in advance to accommodate these 6.5 billion people.
This was obviously not something the Earth civilization could do – the Earth civilization hadn't completely solved poverty within its own borders – the Seres Celestial were more like it.
These children of living planets only lived on living planets, and there were many life planets in their territory, and their technology was sufficient to quickly create an environment sufficient to maintain a large population.
Su Zhou felt that he might indeed be able to ask the Seres Celestial to temporarily take care of the Huo Xi people.
However, that would have to wait until after he joined up with the Seres Celestial's Golden Fleet...
As for the Golden Fleet?
They were on their way, on their way.
The light of warp travel crossed the cosmic space measured in light-years, and under Su Zhou's leadership, the entire Earth Fleet was flying at top speed towards the black hole starfield in southern Taurus.
And similarly, all the Twilight Kindred who had come in pursuit of the Divine Relic were closely following behind the youth.
At this moment, in the third spiral arm of the Milky Way, many emerging civilizations that had just entered the interstellar era around the Silent Era, and had not yet officially joined the grand stage of cosmic civilization, detected strange subspace signals and spiritual energy fluctuations with inconceivable energy levels, exceeding the upper limit of their detectors, in addition to bewilderment and shock.
"Something has streaked past the edge of our galaxy... the energy level is very high, almost, almost like a flying small star?!"
"Is that the thrust from an antimatter engine?!"
"There's an extremely large, powerful existence approaching our world... huh, after him, there are even more existences approaching?!"
These emerging civilizations, who didn't know about the Twilight Kindred, nor the truth of the universe, observed the Earth Fleet's flight through the universe, and also observed the Void Cult fleet that was closely following behind them, launching a surprise attack at top speed.
This scene shocked them – these young civilizations had just ascended to the starry sky, full of joy, thinking that they were children favored by the stars, and would explore the entire sea of stars in the future.
But who would have thought that before such excitement had passed for a few years, a cosmic army whose aftershocks could destroy their entire exploration fleet would come surging past the edge of their planets.
They didn't even notice whether there were civilizations in the surrounding galaxies.
And regardless of whether these civilizations were greatly hit and strove to become stronger, or were immediately shut off, vowing not to come out of seclusion until they had climbed to the peak of technology, becoming Sword Gods of Shili Slope.
In short, even these ordinary civilizations could observe the chase between Su Zhou and the Twilight Kindred.
Then those truly powerful, high-level civilizations that had spread the name of their civilization throughout the entire Milky Way tens of thousands of years ago would naturally also focus their attention on the area around Su Zhou's group from beginning to end.
[Detected a large-scale abnormal energy field change.]
Stars rippled, and the huge stellar network consciousness aggregate, whose member individuals spanned the entire Milky Way and was said to be a 'Milky Way Webway Ai' left behind by an ancient civilization, firmly locked its observation lens on the other side of space-time, and an incomparably vast psionic wave ran through the ends of the network, causing numerous stars to dance and shine.
Being one, and also myriad, uniting into one, yet also divided into myriad wills, gazing.
——In the center of the Milky Way, in the shining region, in the secret subspace starfield, in the capital of the ancient Milky Way empire, the 'Ascension Empire', in the 'God-Enlightened Star'.
"Your Majesty, please look, those Void Cultists have begun to act again, and this time their hunting target is an α psionicist awakened from a mysterious Ω psionic civilization self-proclaimed in the Black Domain Forbidden Zone..."
A mechanized electronic voice rang out in front of the Emperor's Iron Throne, tens of thousands of meters high, piercing straight into the atmosphere, with endless humility.
The Ascension Empire never restricted the choices of its citizens, whether it was to use the most advanced mechanical creations to modify their bodies and become powerful steel giants through 'Mechanical Ascension'; or to use powerful biological technology to self-modify and 'Gene Ascend' themselves, becoming gene-enhanced space marines.
Even psionic ascension, becoming a complete psionic being, a psionic controller who could enter and exit the heavens, was a path.
Whether it was steel, flesh, or psionic energy, all were acceptable.
Even pure intelligent Ai, as long as they were willing to obey the laws of the empire, worship the empire's pantheon, and show respect to the 'Adult' sitting on the Emperor's Throne, could be a member of the empire.
Even integrating the three ascension paths was not impossible.
[Mm.]
And as a will that caused the psionic light of half a planet to flicker and sparks to fly slowly awakened, the entire Emperor's Throne,
Or rather, the entire God-Enlightened Star, began to slowly change and deform.
Soon, a super-giant space reconnaissance array that was based on a planetary structure and slowly transformed was successfully transformed, and then swept across half of the Milky Way.
[Vermin.]
Afterward, the Emperor sneered disdainfully: [Truly as their name suggests, infinitely void.]
[The Seres Celestial have sent a request for cooperation... then send out our warriors to crush those vermin.]
[The empire's awakening needs to be declared with the blood of enemies.]
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
In the universe, there were quite a few civilizations that acted swiftly, and most of them understood the current situation at the first moment, and understood from the Seres Celestial, or their own observations, that the Void Cult was launching its first large-scale operation after the psionic resurgence. As long as they hindered them, it would definitely not be wrong.
Interstellar reconnaissance systems spanning galaxies, giant mechanical metal detection arrays, civilization-level super psionic aggregations gazing into the distance...
Buzz.
Space-time oscillated.
They were all observing, wanting to know how their aid target, that α-level psionicist, would deal with the pursuit of the Twilight Kindred, and why he was regarded as a target by the Void Cult.
However, from the beginning, they had all misunderstood one thing.
That was, Su Zhou was not being chased.
But rather, he was looking for a trash can far away from his doorstep.
Therefore, everyone saw.
On the edge of the black hole starfield in southern Taurus, Su Zhou, who had found his 'trash can', suddenly stopped and turned his head to look at the Void Cult fleet that was chasing after him from the other side of space-time.
The black hole starfield designated as hr6819 was sparse in matter and barren as a desert, and other than the gravity of the black hole, this dark starfield was empty.
However, in this darkness, there was a cluster of silver-blue radiance shining.
That was the tail thrusters of the Earth Fleet, and the shields surrounding the Aether Dragons.
Of course, the most dazzling light was still the seemingly small figure located in front of the fleet.
Cyan-purple spiritual light spread, and he seemed to have noticed the numerous peeks and gazes from the other side of the universe, but this figure didn't care, but generously displayed his power, allowing everyone to observe.
Then, the Void Cult fleet appeared.
This fleet was extremely fast, and was a main fleet of a civilization that was considered technologically advanced in the Void Cult. They happened to be located in the third spiral arm, and the fleet was cruising in an area less than three thousand light-years away from Ross 128.
Therefore, after Su Zhou displayed the Divine Relic in his hand, this fleet, which received a request from the Void Cult headquarters, arrived at top speed.
The main body of most of its battleships was a high-density metallic substance, displayed in the form of a huge, thick carapace, with various seemingly noisy and rough, but actually extremely precise psionic patterns on it.
High-density matter was maintained for stability with some kind of electromagnetic confinement field and psionic array, making it extremely sturdy and stable, almost impossible to be destroyed: Although this technology was clever, it was not mysterious, and one step further was the 'White Dwarf Armor' and 'Neutron Star Armor' series that the entire Milky Way was very familiar with.
This fleet was not infinite in number, but there were at least tens of thousands of ships, and densely packed warp circles floated on the edge of the starfield - they had obviously also discovered that warping into the gravitational range of the black hole was a wrong choice, so they cautiously chose to jump to a safe area.
A safe area that Su Zhou had already judged.
Therefore, when these Void Cult fleets that had warped at top speed opened their observation lenses, what they saw was Su Zhou's indifferent gaze, with his arms crossed in front of his chest, stepping on the head of an Aether Dragon, standing in the void of the universe.
"Are you finished?"
The youth's soul shook the spirit world, transmitting to the hearts of all the enemies who came, and the will that burned like a raging flame seemed to carry suppressed laughter, asking everyone in a low voice: "Are you all here?"
"Have you said goodbye to your friends and family, and prayed to God?"
[Target found!]
Shocked that the target had not continued to 'escape', and even dared to turn around and fight them, the commander of this fleet, a creature that looked roughly like a starfish to Earthlings, immediately ignored all the strange situations after a brief moment of astonishment, and then ordered an attack: [Lock onto the psionic fluctuations, and launch a full-range, full-field attack!]
Between the stars, silver filaments of light lit up, and the scene of tens of thousands of warships simultaneously charging their cannons, the light produced by the aftershocks, could even bring a daytime lasting nearly ten seconds to this dark starfield.
Then, a sky full of psionic arcs and lightning storms crashed down towards Su Zhou.
Holding the Nirvana Blade, Su Zhou slightly raised his eyelids, and casually glanced at those 'Great Disintegration Beams' that looked like lightning, but were actually using psionic energy to disintegrate molecular structures, directly destroying all matter and spiritual force entities.
[Second volley!] The Void Fleet commander continued to shout, the distance in the universe was long, and even if it was beams of lightning, it would take time to hit the target, and powerful psionicists could warn in advance, and even beam attacks could not guarantee a hit, so firepower coverage was indeed the correct choice.
So once again, silver vortices releasing light waves appeared in the Void Fleet, and this time, what they released was no longer molecular disintegration beams, but white, thick particle beams.
High heat, high impact, plus the previous molecular disintegration beams that could embrittle any material, no existence could survive under such a volley, and could only dodge.
And as long as Su Zhou started dodging, the fleet commander believed that the other party would definitely be contained by him until the next batch of Void Cult fleets arrived – until their power could crush Su Zhou and obtain the Divine Relic in his hand.
But all of this was just imagination.
Because Su Zhou's indifferent voice said the last sentence.
"Void Cult trash, are you ready to be swept into the trash can?"
The beams crossed arcs of light in the vacuum of the universe, Su Zhou's hand tightly gripping the Nirvana Blade exerted force slightly, and slashed forward. Immediately, a blade edge slashed through the darkness, and the resulting wave-like psionic tide oscillated in the vacuum like a tsunami, instantly suppressing all the fluctuations of the particle beams and molecular disintegration beams.
The members of the Void Fleet even felt like they were having a hallucination, that at the moment when Su Zhou swung his blade, one black and one white star collided together, and then the blazing white light was uncertain, transforming into a monstrous wave in one breath, pressing towards them.
At this moment, all kinds of beam weapons of the fleet had already arrived in front of Su Zhou, but when they encountered the antimatter blade light that Su Zhou had slashed out with the Nirvana Blade, they instantly turned into nothingness. The molecular-level disintegration beam was the earliest to be neutralized and cancelled out, turning into a harmless ray of light in the universe, and the particle beam seemed to have encountered a natural enemy, their energy was forcibly stripped away, and turned into a part of the blade light in reverse.
In addition to the beams, there were also some physical attacks, sub-white dwarf matter bombardments formed by high-density matter confinement came late, they were originally a 'net' used to restrict the direction of Su Zhou and the Earth Fleet's actions, but now they seemed quite ridiculous, these physical projectiles turned into ashes at the moment of touching the blade light, the high-density matter of the metal exploded at the moment of being melted, and then condensed into large patches of iron mist in the cold vacuum of space, flashing with silver light.
The fleet commander was the first to react, and he was shocked to see that all the offensives of the entire fleet were ineffective - chasing Su Zhou all the way, he really thought that Su Zhou was seriously injured because of the great battle with the Star Eater, so he was afraid of their strength - and now he realized that the other party had other plans at all, and after not taking him seriously, he made a decisive decision and immediately ordered the entire fleet to turn around and prepare to escape.
But it was too late - the spirit world was oscillating, and the electromagnetic signals were in a mess, Su Zhou's sweep directly turned the outer periphery of this starfield into a communication isolation zone, and a hurricane-like energy storm swept across with heat waves exceeding that of stars, and the storm also had an incomparably sharp divine blade, cutting off all contact and thoughts.
Therefore, when the fleet flagship had just turned around to prepare to escape, the commander discovered that the fleet behind them was completely silent, like sculptures in the universe: an incredible psionic heat wave swept across the starry sky, and most of the hulls with high-density matter as armor were fine, but the people inside the ships had turned into charcoal, and their proud warship defenses had instead become coffins that turned them into grilled starfish.
And many fleets outside the range of Su Zhou's blade light were also affected, and many captains were located in the safest area of the warship, and when their ships were hit by the psionic heat wave, they could live a little longer, but this was instead a kind of torture, because the heat wave that exceeded 100,000 degrees at the moment of contact basically wiped them all out in an instant, and even psionicists could hardly survive under such high heat, and they subconsciously breathed, but felt that their internal organs were burning, producing a pain worse than death.
[Is it an antimatter shock cannon?!] The heat wave had already caught up with the flagship, and in despair, the fleet commander noticed the essence of Su Zhou's slash, and an absurdity that was difficult to pretend appeared in his mind: [How is it possible, how can an individual use a cold weapon... use...]
He died, burned to dust.
Moreover, he was terribly wrong.
Because the Nirvana Blade was obviously hot.
"Indeed, I am still more skilled."
Withdrawing the Nirvana Blade, which had generated extremely high heat due to the collision of antimatter at the blade, Su Zhou nodded with satisfaction - a temperature of over a billion degrees, if this wasn't a heat weapon, what was a heat weapon?
A real cold weapon should be like the moon, pushing a planet to crash, that's cold enough.
No... wait, in that case, wouldn't the real cold weapon be a black hole?
The temperature of the surface of a massive black hole is close to absolute zero, if there really was a martial art called 'Black Hole Fist' in this multiverse, then it would probably be the pinnacle of genuine cold weapons!
Withdrawing his divergent thoughts.
Compared to the various actions of the entire Void Cult fleet, Su Zhou really only made one slash, which had a bit of a 'is that it?' feeling.
Afterward, he turned his attention to the Nirvana Blade, which had been returned to his personal space, and couldn't help but sigh: "The protection of the Vermillion Bird spirit fire is really strong, there is no softening phenomenon at a temperature of over a billion degrees, next time if there is a chance..."
"I'll also transform into a Vermillion Bird myself, and self-produce and self-sell."
Originally, the normal choice should have been 'return to the Perfect World and ask the Vermillion Bird for more', or 'go to the Pioneer Space and exchange for some', but because of the Candle Sun, it turned into a peculiar self-production and self-sale.
But all of this was a minor matter.
"Let's just do it here."
Reaching out his hand, the seeds of the Tempest gathered, and the vast psionic energy transformed into a nearly tangible force field, moving the numerous Void warships that still had wreckage to the side, piling them into an asteroid composed of ultra-high-density metal.
Su Zhou was like a network worker who put all kinds of takeout boxes on the table, waiting to throw them all into the trash can when the time came, temporarily ignoring those metal garbage, letting them slowly drift towards the center of the galaxy, that black hole.
This was the advantage of being located in the black hole starfield - the enemy dared not warp casually, and after killing them, there was no need to care too much about the battlefield.
Simply perfect.
At this moment, Su Zhou raised his head, his eyes deep, as if he could see the depths of the deep universe: "There are quite a few guys coming - I hope the Seres Celestial who are on their way can be faster, otherwise even if I can solve it, I will be too busy."
So, after that, the youth looked around the universe, and he increased the 'volume', causing the vast psionic fluctuations to resound in the stars!
"Hey, whether you're reinforcements or Void Cult guys, are you listening?"
"Hurry up! I'm in a hurry!"
And just as Su Zhou officially launched an announcement to the surrounding starfield.
All the civilizations that were peeking in this direction were in shock.
And in addition to shock.
In the entire Milky Way, possibly the oldest civilization, a creation left behind by the original ancient civilization, one of the Milky Way empires, the 'Milky Way Webway Ai' still faithfully recorded all the relevant information in accordance with its duties.
[Start evaluation... Target Su Zhou.]
[Target source: Originally Black Domain Forbidden Zone, now Earth civilization.]
[Civilization level: Originally Ω, now unknown.]
[Target race: Unknown.]
[Evaluation result: α-level psionicist... Error! α-level psionicist cannot describe the target's strength!]
[Confirmed, it is a 'special existence' described in the 'Creator' records!]
National Day Mid-Autumn Festival, happy holidays! Went out to visit relatives today, a little late, sorry!
Tomorrow I can finish writing this volume, and then it's the end of the volume, extra summaries and a new volume... speed up, speed up!