Chapter 741 A Broken Blade is Enough (Thanks to Alliance Leaders Verdant Mountain Mist and Sword Song All Night!)

【Evil Soul of Nihility Hierophant · Celestial Abyss Stardust】

【A sorrowful soul who, unable to wait any longer, rises up to pursue its own truth】

【Although tattered and filled with emptiness and death, this monster soul still thirsts and rages】

【Directly consume to drastically reduce the cost of distorting spacetime, greatly increase the difficulty of being detected by divination, greatly reduce the difficulty of creation, and obtain the special energy system 'Stardust'】

【Stardust, a special energy exclusive to the Nihility Hierophant, is the refined divine power remaining from the power of creation, appearing in the form of stardust, perhaps capable of nurturing worlds and creating all things】

【Burn with spirituality to transform into a 'Cosmic Star' spirit attachment, attaching to all equipment and items】

【Forge using special techniques to cast a 'Nova · Light of Creation' Soul Weapon】

【Harmonize and consume using special techniques to obtain the inheritance of 'Stellar · Genesis Foundation'】

【Born from the miraculous universe, destroyed by the era of ending, lonely due to the unified race, waiting for the companionship of twilight】

【Striving to transcend nothingness, leading to coordinate the cult, seeking to understand the end of existence and the meaning of continuation, thus incarnating as a pioneer, constantly reincarnating in the cosmic stars and countless civilizations】

【Ultimately, to transcend predetermined fate, choosing to create a perfect world】

【It has found the answer, but it is only its own answer—because it can only answer its own confusion, thus embarking on the path of becoming a monster】

The Nihility Hierophant's evil soul is powerful to an almost incomprehensible degree.

Clearly, the evil souls of Heavenly Sovereigns are also different. Compared to the Nihility Hierophant's evil soul, the evil soul of Entropy Shadow Sovereign, Ya Dian, is clearly a level or more lower.

Moreover, the Nihility Hierophant's evil soul is the first one Su Zhou has obtained that can grant a 'special energy system'!

'Stardust' is a special energy refined from the power remaining from the beginning of creation. It appears to be a mass of gray-black mist, with faint white and silver light points flickering within, like a miniature, translucent universe.

The Nihility Hierophant's power, although not very clear before, with the displayed breath, impact, and destructive force, were all basic abilities that a 'powerful Heavenly Sovereign' could display.

Whether it was manipulating spiritual energy, distorting spacetime, teleporting, traversing worlds, or unleashing a breath capable of destroying planets, all were very strong fundamentals, lacking the unique divine abilities and power of a cultivator.

But now it seems that the Nihility Hierophant's power is indeed rooted in 'creation'.

Whether it was the Time Crystal Armor or the World Dragon form revealed later, both were the most powerful divine abilities of the creation lineage. However, because its strength had not fully recovered, it did not display the most quintessential parts of its inheritance before being killed by Su Zhou, who was wielding the power of many immortal gods and Emperor weapons.

Of course, the reverse is also true—the Nihility Hierophant probably never understood Su Zhou's core divine ability until its death. Looking only at the surface, it only saw Su Zhou using all the elements and Five Elements spiritual energy divine abilities, and then transforming into a dragon-bird giant, a death star warship, and a divine tree, wielding both a knife and a spear, without a single core.

Who could guess that?

But if it were said to be 'Chaos', then it would probably be very understandable what the main purpose of Su Zhou's messy hodgepodge of divine abilities was.

The hodgepodge itself is the core!

"Creation… create a new world."

Using the power of the Celestial Scale to fly through the void, Su Zhou carefully studied the essence of the Nihility Hierophant's evil soul: "Because the era of its own race ended, it wandered lonely in the universe for billions of years, only to be greeted by a group of new races that it could hardly understand, and even treated it badly… No wonder it wanted to create a new world."

"Although it is still not very clear how it transformed into a monster, it should be the guidance of those subsequent Great Existences, right?"

The 'Stardust' energy is quite special, capable of easily performing void creation, creating many things out of thin air, even its own small universe.

No matter how rare the divine gold, no matter how scarce the materials, as long as it is an existing thing, it can be created and replicated by Stardust without any restrictions, depending only on the amount consumed.

However, Stardust itself requires a long time to refine and extract. The Nihility Hierophant was able to cultivate in this area with ease because of its extremely long existence, and because it was originally a remnant of the power of creation.

However, the Nihility Hierophant's most quintessential ability was to use Stardust to create a world with itself as the seed.

As usual, the Soul Weapons and enchantments formed by the evil soul are basically accumulation, tasteless to eat, a pity to discard. The only commendable thing is that the Soul Weapons that are enchanted and forged have a material similar to Time Crystals, almost immortal and indestructible, and, like spiritual light, can be shaped at will.

But Su Zhou already has the Blade of Annihilation (although it broke again), so he naturally wouldn't be so fickle.

As for directly enhancing essence or cultivating inheritance, Su Zhou hesitated for a moment.

Su Zhou is not very concerned about the method of creating a world, because he already has the Inheritance of the World-Bearing Scale given by Yala. The Nihility Hierophant's method of using oneself as the boundary cannot be compared with the inheritance of this Great Existence.

In the final analysis, the World-Bearing Scale is also a method of using oneself as the boundary, or rather, the world will become a part of the future 'World Dragon True Body'.

Moreover, strengthening essence can also obtain the special energy system 'Stardust', which is clearly another kind of inheritance. However, compared to the Nihility Hierophant's acquired method of becoming a world with oneself, this is more like a bloodline talent, so it is counted as essence strengthening.

After thinking for a while, Su Zhou still chose essence.

He stretched out his hand and swallowed the evil soul, which was like a translucent universe shadow.

The taste of the Nihility Hierophant's evil soul is bitter.

Extremely bitter, bitter without the slightest strange taste.

No, even bitter cannot describe it. If the bitterness that human sensory organs can express is a drop of water, then the taste of the Nihility Hierophant's evil soul is like the ocean, a surging, boundless raging wave.

Unlike the anger, confusion, and sorrow of its lifetime, the Nihility Hierophant's soul contains only a bitterness so thick that it is extreme.

People cannot understand each other, let alone completely different lives?

But Su Zhou is different. When he devours the evil soul, the devoured and him are no longer 'others', but a part of himself.

So, at this moment, Su Zhou, with his eyes tightly closed, can sense what the Nihility Hierophant is thinking, everything that this Stardust behemoth is pondering.

——Life, in fact, does not have the instinct to want to live.

Although it sounds contrary to common sense, this is the truth. Although some simple creatures do have the most basic instinct for self-reproduction, the instinct to 'live on' is not necessarily there. They simply try their best to eat, grow, and reproduce, and then rely on quantity to exist, rather than relying on actions that seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

And the lives that are able to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages just happen to not have this instinct. Especially, if no one teaches them, no parents teach them by example, whether it is hunting, mating, or reproducing offspring, these skills all need to be learned through acquired learning.

A life that knows nothing will not want to live—just like the Nihility Hierophant of the past, who existed alone in the increasingly cold universe after the demise of many of its kind.

But it obtained immortality—the immortality achieved by being the prototype of all the stars in the world.

This is immense good fortune, eternity that only Stardust life can obtain due to the original environment at the beginning of creation. If it were other Immortal Heroic Fantasy worlds, it would be equivalent to obtaining a part of the merit of opening the sky and splitting the earth, and then directly leaping to become an Immortal God Sovereign.

It's just that this power only painfully extended the life of a life that didn't want to live for billions, tens of billions of years.

Waiting…

What life can wait for tens of billions of years?

Even after being recruited by the Nihility Order and spending a period of peaceful time, the Nihility Hierophant's innermost heart still contained an unresolvable bitterness, a past so vast that all lives could not understand or bear, a bewilderment and wandering calculated in billions of years of light, and many hardships and torments.

So, one day, the Nihility Hierophant, wandering between many paths, received favor.

At this moment, Su Zhou perked up, and Yala also stood up, her tail erect and her eyes wide open.

Because they both sensed the aura of other Great Existences.

"It's 'Creation,' 'Ending,' and 'Destiny'!"

The serpent spirit's tone was solemn. It said in a deep voice: "Although there are auras of other Great Existences, these three are the most core and the most intense!"

"Su Zhou, what did They do to the Nihility Hierophant? Can you tell?"

"Let me see…"

Su Zhou also frowned, repeatedly savoring the bitter taste that even immortals and gods could hardly swallow, extracting the memories he wanted from the Nihility Hierophant's vast, ocean-like terrifying pain—even he felt that his soul was shaking at this moment, with the Nihility Hierophant's power and the aura of the Great Existences surging together, something even a Heavenly Sovereign could hardly bear.

But the result was unexpected.

"Nothing."

He said, his tone so shocked that it seemed he couldn't believe it at all: "Did nothing?"

Yala: "?"

"Really nothing!" Su Zhou quickly reacted, and he explained in a deep voice: "Creation, Ending, and Destiny did communicate with the Nihility Hierophant."

"But They only gave inheritance, and then did nothing, and left like that!"

"What?!" This time it was Yala's turn to be shocked. It was so incredulous that it said: "Just gave inheritance, and then left without doing anything?"

"How is that possible! How could They do that?!"

Su Zhou could sense that Yala's emotions were extremely agitated, far more shocked than when it had previously sensed the aura of the Great Existences.

For a time, Su Zhou was also shocked, but he could not understand the reason for Yala's incredulity.

"What's wrong, Yala?" Su Zhou asked, puzzled: "Although this is indeed very strange, is it something worth being so agitated about?"

"Of course, Su Zhou… How could a Great Existence not impart its own correctness to the other party?"

Slowly swaying its tail, the scarlet serpent spirit had become completely serious. It pondered, thinking about the meaning of the actions of the other Great Existences: "Just like all the Great Existences you have encountered before, even Twilight would tell you, tell you Their correctness."

"Didn't you encounter Destiny? It also explained its Dao to you, right? Whether you agree with it or are willing to practice it, it will indeed do so, because this is the meaning it recognizes."

"Only by recognizing the Dao will you be given inheritance. It's not about qualifications, but because if you don't recognize this correctness, practicing the cultivation method of a Great Existence is really easy to go astray, or you won't be able to cultivate it at all!"

Su Zhou thought about it, and it was indeed the case.

Although Undying Blood, Sacred Geometry, and World-Bearing Scale seemed to have no prerequisites, the more one cultivated them in the later stages, the more one needed the support of relevant will. Otherwise, the entire divine ability would be rootless duckweed, let alone support Su Zhou's Candlelight Dragon True Body.

The simplest analogy: a person who does not recognize the Dao of Chaos at all, even if they obtain Undying Blood, cannot play it like Su Zhou.

Recognizing correctness first, and then cultivating inheritance, is clearly the norm.

But the Nihility Hierophant is different.

In the memory that Su Zhou observed, the Nihility Hierophant even actively asked the many Great Existences about the correctness They held, but the other Great Existences did not say a word, only vaguely encouraging the Nihility Hierophant to walk its own path.

They also had expectations.

And the Nihility Hierophant did walk its own path.

However, this is the path of a monster, a path that shines in the abyss.

Unlike what Su Zhou and Yala had imagined, the Great Existences did not create a monster, but the Nihility Hierophant became a monster itself.

But, is all of this really unrelated to the Great Existences?

Why did They not say a word?

"…I feel…"

After thinking for a while, Su Zhou frowned and pondered: "Is it possible that Creation and Ending, these Great Existences, don't want to use their own correctness to interfere with other lives anymore?"

"Just give all things and sentient beings the power to pursue correctness, and then They themselves choose the correctness in their hearts?"

"But, we should spread the correctness far and wide!"

Naturally, upon hearing this, Yala immediately retorted in a deep voice: "The entire multiverse is vast and boundless, with billions upon billions of paths. To entrust the choice of the path forward to mortals who cannot even see themselves clearly, how can They find a path that is truly suitable for themselves?"

"Even Chaos is not about blindly choosing a place based on luck, and then blindly walking down it—Chaos is about taking responsibility for the choice, and choice requires a person's subjective will. In other words, they need to know what they are doing and what they want!"

"And does the Nihility Hierophant know what it wants?"

Su Zhou was silent.

What the Nihility Hierophant truly wanted, not to mention Su Zhou, it probably couldn't even say itself.

It hated the creator of the universe for creating such a universe that made it lonely and painful. It wanted to find the ultimate meaning of life. It wanted to create a brand-new world, a world with meaning and correctness.

And what exactly did it want to do?

Su Zhou could even say that the Nihility Hierophant wanted to seek death, wanting to die through a grand war, or to seize the final victory and then create a new world.

It's just that it didn't even know this point itself. This confused and painful life was so at a loss.

Such a chaotic life is not the kind of relative that Chaos wants.

"But this is the truth." Raising his head, Su Zhou digested the Nihility Hierophant's evil soul, he continued to sense the aura of the Great Existences contained in the other party's evil soul, and whispered to himself: "The Great Existences who communicated with the Nihility Hierophant have all decided not to interfere with the choices of sentient beings anymore."

"They are wrong."

Yala said firmly: "The fact is also true, They created a monster. If you give sentient beings power but don't give guidance, then it's only a matter of time before they become extremely egoistic existences."

But as it said this, the serpent spirit itself fell into contemplation: "But… why would They do this?"

"Could it be…"

The fragments in the memory were only these.

In the Nihility Hierophant's evil soul, there were not many relevant pieces of information, and the communication with the various Great Existences was similar, at most answering some of the Nihility Hierophant's questions about cultivation.

As for the correct concepts, not a single bit.

In a way, unexpectedly easy to talk to? No nagging, not even any cleaning, just giving inheritance and teaching how to cultivate, just listening to it feels very simple and refreshing, without so many twists and turns.

But the fact proves that such teaching will definitely go wrong in the end.

After all, the laissez-faire style of happy education will only turn you into other people's fun in the end.

Su Zhou knew that with the current information, he could only summarize these problems, and he could not infer any more.

So, he and Yala did not continue this topic, but instead let the youth concentrate on digesting the Nihility Hierophant's evil soul.

After a period of time, in the void, in the silver light shield transmitted by the Celestial Scale, the youth with his eyes closed opened his eyes and looked at the palm of his right hand.

There, strands of black mist were condensing, and in this thin, dark mist, there were also more subtle points of light flickering.

This trace of 'Stardust' power, if used to create something, probably couldn't even create a cell phone, only a phone case.

But, this is indeed an omnipotent creation power—it can also create immortal gold of the same quality as a phone case. Even the rarest of treasures, as long as there is enough Stardust reserves, it can create them all, and it only looks at quality, not at material or rarity.

One kilogram of dust and one kilogram of gold are equally precious.

As long as it is a substance or energy that can be nurtured in the universe, Stardust can create them all. As long as Su Zhou has seen it, he can use Stardust to restore and reproduce it.

Even the universe itself is not impossible to create.

It's just that this part is the Nihility Hierophant's inheritance domain, and Su Zhou doesn't need that kind of cultivation method either. He can just use the personal space created by the World-Bearing Scale.

"Not bad!"

Su Zhou was obviously very satisfied with this. Although the power of Stardust is not the kind that can directly become invincible and convert into combat power immediately, its versatility and universality are very suitable for Su Zhou's multifaceted combat system, and can comprehensively complement the combat capabilities of the Candlelight Dragon lineage.

It is a lubricant between many systems, especially suitable for strong people like Su Zhou who have diversified combat capabilities and a very high range of attack.

Moreover, it's not just these things.

In thought, Su Zhou stretched out his hand, and a golden divine whip appeared in his hand.

The Legendarily said to originate from the Celestial Venerable of Morality, and was also used by the Human Kings of later generations. The Mountain-Driving Whip releases a terrifying earth-element spiritual light that is enough to manipulate the quality and gravity of the world. It is almost like a sun, and its mere appearance infects the spiritual energy environment of the entire world.

After being re-stimulated by the power of the Heavenly Sovereign, it will probably take some time for the divine object to gradually hide its light and return to its original form.

But even under such brilliant divine light, Su Zhou could still see that there were cracks in the divine patterns on the Mountain-Driving Whip, and many subtle damages had appeared on the main body.

The Nihility Hierophant's power was so powerful that even if Su Zhou combined with the Twelve Emperor Weapons and assisted with the three Sovereigns of Serestheria, as well as the power transmitted across realms by many other immortals and gods, it would only be a mutual destruction.

Su Zhou himself certainly suffered the majority of the damage, but the remaining destructive power was absorbed by the many Emperor weapons.

Those Emperor weapons and divine artifacts that were only projections were fine, but divine weapons like this, which were the main body, would inevitably be damaged.

Even a divine craftsman would probably need to spend a long time to repair the damage to these Heavenly Sovereign Emperor weapons with technology. Not to mention other things, it would take a long time to prepare the materials that are similar to the essence of the entire divine weapon, let alone forge them into a suitable shape after preparing the materials.

But now, for Su Zhou, these problems are all small problems.

"Let's try."

Stretching out his hand, Su Zhou concentrated his mind and once again condensed some 'Stardust'—condensing this kind of thing is also very difficult for a Heavenly Sovereign, no less than fully releasing a great divine ability once. But the good thing is that it can be stored. Creating a little when one is bored on weekdays means one won't have to worry about too little at critical times.

Then, he condensed these scattered dust particles onto the damaged wounds and divine patterns on the Mountain-Driving Whip, simulating the surrounding artifact material and filling them completely.

In just less than ten minutes, Su Zhou let out a long sigh of relief and smiled as he picked up a divine whip that had returned to its complete form, no longer dazzling and brilliant, but now releasing a warm spiritual light, but even more majestic and solemn.

"Very good! It seems I have quite a talent for repairing things."

As he said this, Su Zhou planned to repair all the Emperor weapons he currently possessed on the spot.

The major civilizations on Earth sent their national divine artifacts, although they definitely thought that there would be some damage, but how could Su Zhou allow those who had helped him to suffer losses?

Soon, the many divine artifacts were all repaired and restored to their complete state.

The spiritual light of the many divine artifacts surrounded Su Zhou, making him look like the Heavenly Sovereigns in myths and legends who held many magical treasures.

No, he has indeed already reached the realm of the Heavenly Sovereign!

In short, Su Zhou now has basically recovered to his full strength.

"Now, even if there are a few Heavenly Sovereigns in the alien world fleet, I can probably fight and defeat them."

Clenching his fists, and sensing the power in his body that had become much more abundant after his revival, Su Zhou couldn't help but raise his head and look around the entire Ice-Sealed Void.

Because Shao Qiming found the initial fall site of the Celestial Scale and drew in a part of the sealing power, the power of the Celestial Scale was also strengthened, and his return to the sealed universe was much faster than others had imagined.

In the time he spent digesting the evil soul of the Nihility Hierophant and repairing the divine artifacts, he had almost crossed the Ice-Sealed Void and arrived at the periphery of the sealed universe.

And it was at this time that Su Zhou suddenly sensed that many chaotic fluctuations were converging towards a corner of the sealed universe.

It was not Void Demons, but… Twilight Kin!

Not only that, but the strength, pressure, and even the style of the void fleet of these Twilight Kin were all different from the Nihility Order fleet that Su Zhou had destroyed most of!

"As expected, have they all arrived? If I hadn't destroyed the Nihility Hierophant, these guys would probably have cooperated with the Void Demons and the Nihility Order from the inside out, right?"

Narrowing his eyes, Su Zhou stared at the gathering dusky yellow clouds in the distance. He focused his attention, and then smiled: "Really, I was almost late. Fortunately, I ran fast enough and recovered well enough."

Vaguely, the youth could still sense that there were many Immortal Gods and even Heavenly Sovereigns in those fleets.

They were silently forming a formation, preparing to break through the space-time rift with absolute strength and continue the plan of their defeated compatriots.

But Su Zhou didn't care.

What the enemies do, what they want to do, has nothing to do with him.

All he has to do is make them all die, turning them into corpses that cannot think or move, that's all.

So, Su Zhou stretched out his hand and pulled out a knife from his personal space.

The Blade of Annihilation had already been broken, and although most of the fragments of the blade had been collected by Su Zhou, even if they were glued and restored with Stardust, only half of it was left now. It was a genuine broken blade.

But now, there was an invisible light extending from the gap in the broken blade, burning so fiercely that it was burning fiercely in the Ice-Sealed Void as soon as it appeared, lighting up a brilliance like a star.

For a time, the allied forces of the Twilight Kin from several different universes, who had been silently forming a formation, were in commotion. The strong ones among them jumped out of the military formation one after another, and turned back in shock to see what sudden cosmic disaster had occurred behind them.

But they could only see a tiny figure, and a knife light that repeatedly obscured the sky and the sun.

Yes, it was just a broken blade.

"But a broken blade is enough."

In the next instant, Su Zhou charged.

Then, he will be victorious.

6800, I have to go out for dinner tonight, so I can't write a 10,000-word update, but I still wish you all a Happy Lantern Festival!

Thanks to Alliance Leaders Verdant Mountain Mist and Sword Song All Night! The chapter name is too long, I'll add it tomorrow!