Chapter 105 Non-Heart

This wasn't a declaration, but a statement of fact. Even before the words were spoken, Su Zhou had already begun to act.

Buzz—

The sea, which had just experienced multiple nuclear explosions and was filled with scorching sunlight, water vapor, lightning, and raging spiritual energy, suddenly revealed a massive vortex. This vortex swept up all the surrounding spiritual energy in all directions, swallowing it whole like a whale.

Then, a gale began to howl. Relying on an incomparably powerful soul to forcibly draw them in, after swallowing this countless spiritual energy, tens of thousands of azure storm seeds surged out from behind Su Zhou like a nebula, emitting a hum like a swarm of wildly dancing bees.

In the next instant, these storm seeds began to combine and condense, forming a materialized spiritual energy propulsion structure beneath and behind Su Zhou's feet. The majestic spiritual energy was poured into the atmosphere, causing the air to solidify.

And when the youth heavily trampled in mid-air, what bore this power wasn't just the small clump of air beneath his feet, but a nearly solidified, perfectly circular mass of atmosphere behind him, with a surface area of sixteen square kilometers.

Boom!

In that instant, all the power was transmitted into this enormous mass, causing the temperature in this area to rise sharply. The solidified air that Su Zhou's feet touched shattered in a grid-like pattern, like waves rising and falling violently.

The dust in the air was ignited, like a sudden rain of fire, and within this raging blaze, four azure light streaks, nearly a thousand meters long and like wings, erupted from the vector nozzles behind Su Zhou, pushing his speed to the extreme and creating an anomalous, albeit brief, plasma storm with speeds exceeding one million kilometers per hour!

—After advancing to the Heavenly Soul level, what was the most obvious improvement for Su Zhou?

In the past, when Su Zhou advanced to the extraordinary realm with the Sacred Geometric Pentagram, he obtained 'soul acceleration', a bullet-time-like ability. That was what a powerful soul could accomplish: far exceeding the speed of information transmission by human physical nerves, it allowed the mind to slow down time in one's own eyes.

And now, Su Zhou possessed a power that far surpassed his past soul acceleration.

It wasn't about gaining absolute control over his power—in fact, even experts who followed the Path of Law dared not say they could fully achieve that. But now, Su Zhou could adjust all his operations with an extremely fast reaction, with a perceived time ten times greater than that of experts of the same level.

The Nine-tailed Celestial Demon remained fearless in the face of this—it had no concept of fear, only an assessment of the possibility of obliterating its enemy. But even if the possibility of obliteration dropped from 76% to 13% in an instant, it still wouldn't stop.

It was the holder of the Path of Spirit, wielding a divine blade, and as Su Zhou charged towards it, it once again condensed a bone blade in its hand. An excessively large amount of spiritual energy gathered around it, even transforming into a nearly materialized armor. It erupted with acceleration and likewise swung its sword forward.

In an instant, two streams of light collided again. After producing dazzling light and heat, there was a continuous sound of clashing blades. It could be seen that sword energy crisscrossed the sky above the Winged Sea, and the gales that spread dozens of miles away even stirred up large swaths of white shockwaves, creating a hazy cloud of mist that spread throughout the battle area.

The air was accelerated to the extreme. The two sides stood amidst the thunder produced by the high-speed collision and friction of solid atmospheric particles and water vapor, attacking each other. Large patches of azure-blue thunderbolts were born because of their high-speed movements, crisscrossing through the clouds. The storms created by their actions even pressed down on the seabed beneath them, forming a semi-circular bowl-shaped structure, with giant waves constantly spreading in all directions.

"I can see clearly now!"

Amidst this incredibly intense sword fight, Su Zhou was smiling. After the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon advanced to the Earthly Immortal realm, its speed had been an unsolvable problem for the youth—just as he had said to Tang Yuan in the past, after being a whole major realm higher, the suppression of physical attributes alone could outweigh all advantages in terms of Dao techniques and divine powers.

But now, Su Zhou had also advanced to the Earthly Immortal realm, amidst the roar of nuclear explosions, in the transformation of the ever-vigilant Evil-Devouring Demon Lord's divine power, which he had foreseen long ago.

He could sense that his soul was no longer the ethereal, fragile, and loosely aggregated spiritual energy it had been before, but something incomparably strong and incomparably solid.

Like a dragon pearl, or rather, a crown, an incomparably powerful core.

With it, Su Zhou's thinking speed had increased a thousandfold. The Nine-tailed Celestial Demon's incredibly swift attacks were now like slow motion to him. Even though the opponent's power was still immeasurably vast, and each sword strike suppressed him, he could now find the flaws and weak points in the opponent's sword strikes and easily suppress it in return.

Moreover, it wasn't just that.

Su Zhou could now sense that this 'dragon pearl' integrated the functions of all his divine powers—Evil-Devouring Demon Lord, Myriad Thoughts as One, Heart of No Thought, Flames of Karmic Sin… These divine powers were all engraved in this dragon pearl, allowing it to continuously grow and strengthen, just like the dragon pearl left behind by the Heavenly Pool Dragon King in its corpse. This pearl was its inheritance and power itself.

Even, the dragon pearl could separate some of its divine power, respond to and bestow it upon others… This was the starting point for immortals and gods, who could bestow their power and directly impart their teachings, unlike human immortals, who could only pass them down orally, even if they established a sect.

At this moment, realizing that the close combat that had previously given it an advantage was no longer effective, and might even be turned against it by Su Zhou, the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon immediately changed its fighting style. It suddenly thrust its sword out with all its might, forcing Su Zhou back. Then, with a flick of the bone blade in its hand, it transformed into a glazed purifying vase-like magic item, as if formed from frozen ice.

The Xuan-black Six Paths Wheel emerged behind it, and an icy aura permeated the air.

[Netherworld Hell Path - Great Crimson Lotus Netherworld Divine Light]

—Patma, also known as the Crimson Lotus Flower, with piercing cold, the body transforms, breaks, like the Crimson Lotus Flower.

—The suffering person, experiencing extreme cold, skin and flesh freeze, blood cracks into lotus flowers.

In an instant, countless spiritual energy and heat in the surrounding heaven and earth frantically poured into the glazed purifying vase in the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon's hand, as if entering the Ruined Void. Everything gradually fell into stillness, and extreme cold spread in all directions.

Then, with the endless spiritual energy brought by the Path of Spirit gathering, an incomparably solid ice-blue cold light shot out from the vase, pointing directly at Su Zhou. This light, along its path, emitted a deathly, icy aura like that of hell. A deathly aura of decay surged ceaselessly, as if directly dragging people into the Netherworld.

This was a great divine power comparable to the previous 'Heavenly Human Path - Purging Calamity Eradication Divine Light', and it was even more lethal to flesh and blood. If this divine light were to hit Su Zhou's Candle Dragon True Body directly, it would instantly freeze the entire dragon body in an ultra-low temperature close to absolute zero. If the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon's strength hadn't recovered somewhat just now, it wouldn't have been able to use it at all.

But facing this divine light was the black and white, equally icy Flame of Karmic Sin.

With karmic flames blazing, Su Zhou silently swung his sword straight down, unleashing a cold, deathly aura. The surrounding thunder and clouds were cleaved in two by the black and white light—and the Crimson Lotus Divine Light was no exception. It was split into two streams of light under the Blade of Extinction, which had been pushed to its limit.

The sword slashed through the divine light, and the raging karmic flames even spread along the trajectory of the divine light towards the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon. Although the karmic flames could only destroy the soul of the mindless and unconscious Celestial Demon, and couldn't completely destroy its mind, after all, you couldn't destroy something that didn't exist. But it was indeed a troublesome attack, forcing the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon to throw away the glazed purifying vase it was holding, to avoid being ignited by the karmic flames.

However, Su Zhou, holding the long sword of karmic fire and preparing to launch a second assault, didn't succeed in getting close to the enemy—because the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon, which had once again switched back to the Heavenly Human Path, had almost transformed into a large divine light emitter. The ends of its nine tails began to condense layers upon layers of completely different divine officials, and then, like a rainstorm, they poured down on Su Zhou from afar, forcing Su Zhou to withdraw his sword and defend, using the sword imbued with karmic fire to block and deflect these divine lights one by one, like a Jedi Knight deflecting laser beams.

The two sides once again engaged in an intense long-range attack and defense. At the same time, the two were constantly approaching the Celestial Demon Headquarters' matrix, and Celestial Demons from other areas were also constantly surrounding the direction of the battle. With the addition of both, the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon's power was constantly increasing, but it discovered that no matter what method it used or what Six Paths divine power it activated, it couldn't suppress Su Zhou again.

All kinds of high-power spiritual energy Dao techniques from the Heavenly Human Path, imitations of various divine beast and immortal god true bodies from the Asura Path, destructive divine powers from the Hell Path, curse interference from the Hungry Ghost Path… Except for the Human Path and the Animal Path, two Six Paths divine powers that weren't good at fighting and were only used for cultivation and assistance, the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon had used all the other four divine powers, but Su Zhou could easily parry them all, with ease, completely different from before the breakthrough.

However, it still had an advantage.

That was spiritual energy.

At this moment, the battle between the two overlord Earthly Immortals was endlessly shifting between the sea and the sky. They sometimes exchanged blows on the surface of the sea, sometimes entered the seabed, using spiritual energy Dao techniques to attack each other. The two also often flew out of the sea and entered the ten-thousand-meter-high sky to engage in fierce chases. The trajectory of the two sides' battle looked almost like an electrocardiogram, with a violent w-shaped fluctuation.

Although it sounded much better than before, in reality, the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon was still the one taking the initiative in the attack, while Su Zhou was the one taking the initiative in terms of rhythm. In order to lead the battlefield to the Celestial Demon matrix, Su Zhou had given up many opportunities to attack, but even so, in the face of the Celestial Demon's fierce attack, the youth could still retaliate.

Boom! With a bang, in the entanglement, they once again plunged into the depths of the sea, dragging out streams of light. Su Zhou and the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon's power was too great, and each of their actions would tear apart the atmosphere and stir up sea waves. Neither side was an ordinary Earthly Immortal. One was a Destined Great Demon, a transforming Deus ex Machina, and the other was a champion chosen by a great being, holding the Undying Blood.

The Nine-tailed Celestial Demon's combat experience was extremely skilled. Its Six Paths Illusion had the accumulated combat experience of countless people for thousands of years, but this was meaningless to Su Zhou. He simply wasn't an existence that ordinary people could imagine, and ordinary combat experience was useless.

Just like now—because Su Zhou's previous sword slash with the Flame of Karmic Sin missed, exposing a few flaws in his upper body, the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon, feeling that it had found an opportunity, immediately erupted.

Violent spiritual energy condensed. The Celestial Demon clenched its five fingers. This simple action condensed the vast power gathered from the Path of Spirit, enough to shatter mountains with one punch. It held this vast power in its palm, and then used the fastest, strongest, and simplest straight punch to smash towards Su Zhou's forehead.

Was the power of this punch ten thousand tons, one hundred thousand tons, or one million tons? It couldn't be calculated like that, because the power of spiritual energy was above the destructive power of matter. The violent spiritual energy shook the surrounding sea water, directly blasting a huge vacuum circle out of the seabed.

But in response, Su Zhou didn't dodge or avoid it.

—Fragile.

Looking straight at the Celestial Demon's right fist slowly smashing towards his forehead, Su Zhou only had such a thought in his mind.

—Such a fragile thing actually dares to smash towards my head.

Without any hesitation, Su Zhou laughed wildly and directly condensed his power in his head. He simply and decisively slammed his head towards the Celestial Demon's fist!

A terrifying explosion that made one's heart tremble appeared once again on the seabed. And this time, it was the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon that was severely injured! In the collision between head and fist, the head had actually won. Its right arm was twisted and broken, and even its entire shoulder was shattered by the great force. The entire being flew out backwards, directly blasted into the depths of the seabed rock shell!

In response, Su Zhou, who had only broken his spine and hadn't suffered much damage, easily straightened his head—the firmness of the head and forehead far exceeded that of the hand. The reason why ordinary people didn't use their heads to attack was simply because the head was a vital point for them, and the benefit-to-loss ratio was too unfavorable.

But the vital point of an extraordinary person wasn't the head. No, did extraordinary people really have vital points?

The combat skills of ordinary people, even if accumulated for billions of years, would definitely be unable to step into the density of extraordinary people. Su Zhou didn't hesitate. He didn't go after the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon, but instead rapidly flew towards the Celestial Demon matrix, which was not far away.

And in the next instant, the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon, which had been blasted into the seabed crust, also leapt up again. It also transformed into a stream of light, closely following behind Su Zhou, and launched another attack.

Even if he advanced to the Earthly Immortal realm, it was impossible for Su Zhou to defeat the opponent in a short period of time. The Path of Spirit was just too annoying. The foundation nourished by a planet was too deep, and it couldn't be erased in a short period of time.

Soon, in a series of chases and battles, the two finally arrived in the center of the Winged Sea, above the Celestial Demon Headquarters, the undersea mountain range.

The sea howled, the waves surged, and in this place where the two major plates intersected, ocean currents and gales were roaring forward at all times, circulating nutrients and heat throughout the world. Huge typhoons swept the dark clouds that shrouded the entire world towards every corner of the sky and earth.

With torrential rain, two streams of light, in the flashes of lightning, tore apart the clouds and the sea surface and arrived here.

Here, the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon's strength instantly increased again—the reason was very simple. The spiritual energy and Celestial Demon souls that originally had to travel a long distance, half a planet away, no longer needed to be transmitted a second time. They could directly gather on it. This power directly pushed the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon back to almost its initial, strongest form, the form that Su Zhou had killed with the Scarlet Firmament Sword Qi!

Boom! The Six Paths Wheel was now completely revived. Behind the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon, a huge 'Three-Faced Six-Armed Venerable God True Body' even emerged. He held a magic weapon in each hand. The Heavenly Human held a sword, the Human a pestle, the Asura a spear, the Hell a vase, the Animal a wheel, and the Hungry Ghost an altar. The three faces displayed different divine powers, with 'compassion', 'wrath', and 'majesty'. This divine power body was like a casting of gold and stone, surrounded by a glazed treasure light.

Compassion implied creation, majesty implied domination, the Six Paths Hands. Implied the endless reincarnation that was created and dominated.

And now, in the center of the 'wrathful' divine face's eyebrows, a third eye that seemed to condense the Six Paths, representing 'ultimate destruction', emerged.

—Tzzz!!!

In an instant, a blazing red divine light shot out from top to bottom, aiming at Su Zhou. It cut through the clouds and the sea surface, dividing the torrential rain and gales between heaven and earth into two. The powerful energy even created a patch of plasma sparks in the air. Countless plasmas and lightning leaped and disappeared in mid-air, reducing everything along the way to particles.

However, because the true body's movements were too large, this strike didn't hit Su Zhou—the youth, who had long expected this, had long since rapidly ascended, transforming into a phantom and arriving at an altitude of several thousand meters. The destructive divine light cut through the sea, stirring up violent tsunami shocks, without damaging a single hair on his head.

Of course, this attack was nothing to the Celestial Demon, which possessed the Path of Spirit. As the blazing red light in the third eye flashed again, a second divine light was about to strike again.

But Su Zhou, who had already completed all his combat goals, didn't intend to entangle with the opponent any longer.

Himself—the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon—the location of the Celestial Demon matrix.

A straight line, extending at an angle, had already formed.

In the distance, the Celestial Demon army was approaching, and in front of him, the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon was gathering strength.

The final trump card should be taken out.

It was at this very moment—thinking this, Su Zhou solemnly took out the World Tree Spear from his personal space, and then aimed it at the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon from afar.

—Awakening, extraordinary, leader, overlord.

Su Zhou had come all this way, fighting countless powerful enemies. He never tried to understand the hardships of his enemies, nor did he want to know why they were evil, why they had become monsters to be judged and punished by him.

However, after devouring evil souls, even if Su Zhou didn't want to know, the various sufferings that originated from the depths of the soul, the sorrows that stemmed from helplessness, and the malice that was born innately in sin and bloomed from it, always made the Evil-Devouring Demon Lord sigh.

The State Preceptor, the God of Water, the Silent One, the monster who had forgotten its name, Matvey, and the many divine beasts of the Beast God Realm… The Supreme Five Extremes Divine Thunder True Method, the true body foundation and Water Assistance, the Heart of No Thought, Myriad Thoughts as One, the blood of the Ancestral Divine Dragon, and the Flame of Karmic Sin.

Even if he despised and hated the sins of these monsters, Su Zhou had to admit that, whether it was ugliness or selfishness, death or madness, no matter how twisted, they were all existences with their own 'hearts and souls', with their own 'wills'!

Only by obliterating and judging this kind of 'evil' did the Evil-Devouring Demon Lord divine power have any meaning!

At this moment, the azure-purple dragon eyes stared at the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon in front of him, staring at the majestic and powerful Three-Faced Six-Armed Venerable God True Body behind it. This Earthly Immortal-level combat dharma body was actually the opponent's true trump card. If he hadn't used the Scarlet Firmament Sword Qi to blast the opponent at the beginning, he would probably have had to face this terrifying combat form's uninterrupted attacks from the start.

Powerful, too powerful. Su Zhou had truly never seen such a strong enemy. Even Matvey in his Divine Dragon form didn't give him as much pressure as the other party. This was the Destined Great Demon nurtured by the entire Qingqiu Star, a favored one also watched by a great being—if it really succeeded in sublimating, then it wouldn't be surprising if it devoured the body of the Warlord, which had been sealed off, and advanced to the Heavenly Venerate level in the future.

However, it had no heart.

Such a powerful monster, without a heart, without intelligence, without its own consciousness, it didn't even have a soul of its own, no thoughts or desires… Like fate, a tool of fate, like a Deus ex Machina, simply a powerful tool airdropped from offstage by the 'playwright'.

If the Qingqiu people, as the pets of immortals and gods, were a kind of fate, then wasn't the existence of the Celestial Demons itself a kind of fate as tools?

[Heartless monster.]

Therefore, as the blazing red light gathered in the third eye of the Celestial Demon dharma body, Su Zhou raised the World Tree Spear in his hand and issued a detached proclamation. Streams of incomparably profound aura, which made people's minds clear and their thoughts agile, began to spread in all directions.

The azure wood energy brilliance was drawn out by the youth from the World Tree Spear. This aura, filled with gentleness and overflowing with life, was like a too dazzling light in the dark Qingqiu Star, illuminating the heavens and earth like the sun.

"Here it comes, here it comes—"

In the soul space, the spirit of the Wisdom Tree sensed the pull. The symbiotic divine tree, which had causal entanglement with Su Zhou, made a cheerful sound, and then leaped out from it, transforming into a ball of azure-white soul light, and plunged into the spear in Su Zhou's hand.

Buzz—In the instant the spirit of the Wisdom Tree plunged into the spear, the cool aura, which gave people a sudden sense of enlightenment from time to time, became even thicker, and the azure Wisdom Tree Spear in Su Zhou's hand became brighter and brighter, releasing all kinds of 'wisdom light'.

And the youth, with eyes that were either compassionate or indifferent, gazed at the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon in front of him.

[To execute without instruction is called tyranny. You don't understand the meaning of evil at all, nor do you understand what sin is. Killing you is not judgment, but simply destruction.]

[Since that's the case, then now, I will bestow wisdom upon you!]

In an instant, with Su Zhou's will, the wisdom light erupted, illuminating a hundred miles around.

The azure-white radiance, containing the divine power of the Wisdom Tree, swept away all darkness and haze, causing all ignorance and blind obedience in the entire world to dissipate into nothingness.

The light swept across, and in an instant, the Celestial Demon clusters in the distance were swept by the wisdom light. The Qingqiu Celestial Demons and Quli giants, whose expressions were stiff and whose eyes were dull, all paused in their rapid flight. All kinds of agile light suddenly appeared in their eyes, some with doubt, some with confusion, and some with inexplicability.

"Strange, why am I here? Wait, who am I?"

"I want to annihilate the Chaos proxy… Why annihilate it?"

"Where is the Chaos proxy? Oh, it's in front!"

In an instant, all the Celestial Demon clusters fell into chaos. Although they still knew that their goal was to eliminate Su Zhou, they gave birth to all kinds of confusion and doubts because of the emergence of wisdom and self-awareness.

—Sincere heart for wishes, confused heart for prayers, joyful heart for blessings, fearful heart for requests, resolute heart for vows, resentful heart for curses, angry heart for struggles.

All thoughts, whether sincere, confused, joyful, fearful, resolute, resentful, or angry, were all part of 'Willpower'.

Behind Su Zhou, the azure-purple 'dragon pearl' emerged. This was his 'Heavenly Soul Karma Position', the presentation of the 'Nature of the Path', and it immediately operated at full speed.

In the mode of the 'Myriad Thoughts as One' divine power!

Buzz—The wisdom light affected the ten directions of heaven and earth, but the truly most dazzling wisdom light was shining on the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon.

The incomparably powerful divine wood power didn't harm the Celestial Demon in the slightest. In addition to awakening the independent will of the ten thousand Celestial Demon souls, it also went directly into the deepest part of the Celestial Demon network collective, directly into the core of the 'primordial corruptor', awakening a negligible memory of a certain fragment.

—What… did I do?

That was a memory of an ancient immortal god era, a Qingqiu king.

In the past, the will of the Nine-tailed Celestial Fox 'awoke'. Countless revolving lanterns flashed before Tu Shanrong's eyes. The scenes of the past millennia regarding the Celestial Demons and what happened on Qingqiu Star, the dim, tragic, despairing, and the scenarios that made the Qingqiu people sink into suffering all poured into his mind, obedient to countless memories.

At first, he was still at a loss, not knowing why, but soon, as he was already a member of the Celestial Demon network collective, he swept through all the information in an instant with his vast computing power.

The Spirit Suppression Tower, corroding souls, raising bodies… Capturing, hunting, assimilating… The complete destruction of civilization, the unwilling sinking of the race, the sad cries of the people…

In that instant, it stopped attacking Su Zhou, stopped gathering power. The Celestial Demon trembled, shivering, raising its hand, staring at its own hands, its eyes filled with despair and regret.

"I, I all…"

It seemed to want to say something.

But just like every battle before…—Su Zhou never listened to any monster's confessions and self-declarations.

Myriad Thoughts as One activated. The thousands of Celestial Demons, the endless Willpower, at this moment, transformed into a light far surpassing the sun, surrounding him. The azure-purple spiritual energy even directly generated electric arcs, constantly jumping and expanding around the youth, causing his long hair to stand on end!

[Heartless monster, I will bestow a heart upon you!]

The extremely solemn Su Zhou raised the divine wood spear in his hand—above the Winged Sea, a dazzling clear light lit up in the dark Qingqiu Star, incomparably sacred, incomparably holy energy gathered on it, causing the originally still-solid divine spear to instantly ignite with flames, like a thunder spear held by the Thunder God!

—And after gaining wisdom, all fate would inevitably be broken, without exception.

—Even the Eden ordained by God, the paradise dominated by fate, was the same.

—Life transcends reincarnation, transcends fate…

—It began from gaining wisdom, gaining possibility!

[Now—]

On the roaring thunder spear, a heart-stopping, violent Willpower surged, and a destructive energy that distorted the atmosphere and turned all things into nothingness condensed, even corroding Su Zhou's own flesh and blood, forcing him to hold it tightly with his constantly shattering bones.

[Accept your judgment!]

Even though the hand holding the spear was about to turn to ashes, Su Zhou stared at the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon in front of him, holding up this Willpower of the Celestial Demons, condensed by thousands upon thousands, nurtured by the divine wood, and solemnly proclaimed this. His eyes seemed to burn with a light like the sun, and then, resolutely threw out the thunder.

At that moment, the thunder light streaked across the sky, like a shooting star piercing through the world.

The azure-white divine light even illuminated the deep sea, causing the mountain range where the Celestial Demon's core, buried thousands of meters deep on the seabed, was located to manifest. All dark and twisted auras dissipated in an instant, dragged out long shadows.

The World Tree Spear almost transformed into true light. It struck the Nine-tailed Celestial Demon in an instant, crossing a distance of several kilometers, and then the immeasurably vast power blasted it into the seabed, into the mountain range, into the depths of the earth's crust, shattering everything along the way.

Undersea mountain range, the location of the Celestial Demon matrix.

This was the boundary between two continental plates.

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the founding Heavenly Emperor of the Central Divine Court sealed part of a Heavenly Venerate's divine body here, turning the power of the planet into a great formation to suppress it under two overlapping plates, and used the two continental plates as the base of the seal, drawing an ancient formation sufficient to suppress the world.

Because of this, the activity of the plates gradually fell into dormancy around this seal, and the active volcanoes gradually cooled down as a result.

But this didn't mean it had completely fallen into silence—geological activity still existed, especially in this kind of place where two plates intersected. The geological structure was extremely complex, and underground faults were staggered and distributed. If one magma chamber was emptied, there were even more magma chambers distributed to its left and right.

It only took one glance to see that the entire undersea mountain range was essentially the lava accumulation point of a dormant supervolcano.

And now, a divine light of judgment, carrying a Nine-tailed Celestial Demon, pierced through the earth's crust and pierced into the depths of the earth.

Then, it suddenly erupted.

Immediately, the endless light released the seal—it broke free, causing the most intense light and heat to spread, tearing apart everything around it while creating incredible explosions and light and heat, and even causing the entire underground cavity to vibrate and collapse. All the ice-blue Celestial Demon crystal pillars were shattered as a result, and the extremely delicate matrix was completely destroyed.

Then, the magma chamber, which had been silent for hundreds of thousands of years, was detonated.

—Boom… boom boom boom boom!!!!

As the entire underground cavity collapsed, the already fragile geological structure instantly triggered a chain reaction. In the violent tremors, a series of undersea volcanoes began to erupt, or rather, explode!

At this moment, tens of billions of tons of seawater were lifted into the air, giant waves more than three kilometers high were stirred up, and the undersea mountain range was destroyed and torn apart like building blocks in the mighty force of plate vibrations. In the center of the sea, a fiery umbrella-shaped cloud, rapidly rising and soaring into the ten-thousand-meter-high sky, began to spread throughout the entire atmosphere, and an incomparably powerful shock wave began to spread throughout the world, using the earth's crust and seawater as carriers.

The extremely powerful shock wave was almost like a materialized fist, blasting towards the high sky. The dark clouds were scattered in an instant, but even denser volcanic ash replaced them. They mixed with seawater and turned into turbid rain, falling on the sea surface, making the ocean within hundreds of miles turbid and unbearable.

In a few hours, these waves and shock waves would crash into the coast of the Qingqiu continent, located in the southeastern part of the Winged Sea. The powerful air currents and sea tides would sweep across the surface. The tropical rainforests of the entire coastal area would be directly submerged, or even smashed to pieces, and large trees would be easily broken like toothpicks.

And the incredible explosions would spread across half the planet, and in six hours, they could even be transmitted to the former refuge of the Gu clan, still as loud as thunder.

[—In the past, Gonggong fought with Zhuanxu for the title of Emperor, and in anger, he struck Buzhou Mountain, breaking the pillar of the sky and severing the cords of the earth.]

[—The sky tilted to the northwest, so the sun, moon, and stars moved there; the earth was not full in the southeast, so water and dust gathered there.]

Dust rose into the sky, turning into pervasive dark clouds, spreading in all directions across the entire Winged Sea.

Even Su Zhou couldn't resist this power. He simply increased his altitude, avoiding the strongest wave of the impact, and then indifferently watched the umbrella-shaped cloud, which was trembling and shaking in the sky and earth, and the large patches of magma that were constantly spewing and spreading across the entire sea surface, his eyes without any emotion.

Without a doubt, after this volcanic eruption, an island, or rather, a series of narrow volcanic archipelagoes, the prototype of a new continent, would appear here.

The aura of the Celestial Demon had completely disappeared—Su Zhou could see that a pitch-black evil soul, without a trace of luster, so concentrated that it could almost devour light, was flying towards him along the shock wave of the volcanic eruption.

Flying back with it at the same time was the World Tree Spear.

"…Tools have no good or evil."

Taking the spear and the evil soul, Su Zhou stroked the divine wood spear, which was emitting light spontaneously after being strengthened by endless Willpower, and then lowered his head, staring at this evil soul, which was condensed to an inconceivable degree.

He breathed out a breath, long and lingering, as if containing complex emotions: "Only existences with wisdom can be declared evil and judged."

But no matter how much he judged, the lost lives, the time that the Qingqiu people had lost, the time of those dozen centuries, could never come back.

Shaking his head, he didn't continue to say anything. Su Zhou turned around and flew towards the coast of the Qingqiu continent amidst the roar of the volcanic eruption and the firelight of the lava.

—At least, he had broken fate and brought change.

"How was it, Yala?" During the flight, such a voice sounded.

[As expected of my contractor, Su Zhou.] And the snake spirit's laughter echoed in the soul space.

—Perhaps just that was enough.