Chapter 251 As Everyone Knows, a Life-or-Death Struggle Only Takes One Chapter

"Buzz!"

The God of Wind didn't understand what 'Dāo Lái' (Blade Come) meant in Chinese, but at the instant Su Zhou shouted, He unhesitatingly took the initiative and launched an attack.

Now that the battle had begun, there were to be no rules. No matter what the enemy intended to do, He couldn't allow it to succeed.

The giant bee, enveloped in wind, vibrated its wings slightly. Its entire body instantly accelerated from a standstill to supersonic speed. Before the thunderous sound of the sonic boom could even propagate, the wind spear—powerful enough to bore a hole through a city wall with a single strike and shred a tank into scrap metal—charged towards Su Zhou's head with the force to penetrate everything.

However, Su Zhou was no slower.

At this moment, the sacred geometry fundamental cultivation method within Su Zhou's body activated, with the power of the Sacred Triangle and the Pentagram operating simultaneously. Every scale on the dragon's body shimmered with a solid triangular radiance, linking his entire body into a unified whole. And deep within Su Zhou's eyes, the Pentagram slowly rotated, his soul accelerating with flashes of lightning, allowing him to clearly see the God of Wind's every move.

The God of Wind's swift strike was truly fast beyond compare. Even the God of Water's body would likely be pierced with a massive bloody hole. This attack power completely compensated for the difference in size. However, Su Zhou's goal wasn't to rely on his scales to withstand the enemy's strongest spear.

He exhaled. The wingless great dragon, possessing limbs almost like a human, now adopted a stance almost like a martial artist trained for many years. Facing the oncoming supersonic gale, Su Zhou wasn't nervous at all. He merely sidestepped slightly, avoiding the God of Wind's assault by a hair's breadth.

The air shockwave from the sonic boom was enough to tear flesh and blood, but these aftereffects couldn't penetrate the defense of Su Zhou's dragon scales. And during this dodge, Su Zhou even calmly reached out, the vast water-attribute spiritual energy condensing in his palm, perfectly 'pressing' onto the middle section of the God of Wind's wind spear. Then, he exerted force, pushing it outwards.

Without using the Zhou Shen Lan Jia (Surrounding Armor of Azure), using wind-attribute abilities in front of the God of Wind was simply laughable. Su Zhou used pure water-based spiritual energy. This move was simply a basic pushing hand technique.

This push directly hit the weakest point of the storm spear, causing the God of Wind, who had also reacted and wanted to adjust the angle, to be pushed away before He could counterattack.

Whoosh—Everything happened in less than a second. The God of Wind, whose spear was pushed away by Su Zhou, didn't lose His balance due to the excessive speed like other supersonic movers, tumbling around after being pushed.

He quickly regained stability, stopping the momentum of His charge as if without inertia, hovering in mid-air. But in His huge compound eyes, reflecting Su Zhou's figure, a light of astonishment and uncertainty seemed to flicker.

Su Zhou didn't say much, because this was just technique.

The so-called technique is needed in situations where the physique is comparable and the strength difference is not too large, and its meaning is to allow the weak to overcome the strong, and also a weapon that can make the strong even stronger.

The God of Wind certainly also had His fighting techniques. His control over adjusting His balance through the wind, so as not to roll around on the ground after being pushed by Su Zhou, and His inertialess hovering ability were His unique skills. Similarly, the techniques that Su Zhou couldn't use against the nearly thousand-meter-long God of Water, could be used when facing the God of Wind.

At this moment, both Su Zhou and the God of Wind simultaneously had a thought flash through their minds.

"Interesting, such a huge body can actually maintain such agility?"

But this thought was fleeting. In the next instant, both sides launched attacks again at the same time.

Su Zhou was the first to strike.

The great dragon opened his mouth, and light blue spiritual energy was gathered from the surrounding atmosphere. Su Zhou's mouth was like a vast sea, gathering all the pure water-attribute spiritual energy from the surrounding world into himself. Then, it was transformed into a surging torrent, powerful enough to tear through steel armor and blast through the earth and mountains, directly bombarding the God of Wind floating in mid-air!

This scene was extremely similar to the God of Water's breath, which gathered the water of the three lakes, but the power was far too different. The God of Wind didn't even think of dodging. He just vibrated His wings slightly, and layers of the Lan Dun (Azure Shield), extremely similar to Su Zhou's Zhou Shen Lan Jia, but even more stable and solid, rotated and tore apart the torrent of breath that Su Zhou spewed out, turning it into a mist of water.

The God of Wind originally planned to continue charging while driving the Lan Dun against Su Zhou's water breath, but soon, amidst the water vapor, the light of azure-purple demonic fire lit up again, startling Him. Su Zhou's breath was like it didn't need time to accumulate, continuously spewing out. Now it directly changed attributes mid-way, pressing towards the giant bee.

"How can water and fire elements be used at the same time, and switched so quickly?!" Raising His wind spear, directly scattering Su Zhou's flame breath, turning it into a rain of sparks, the God of Wind's heart was filled with confusion: "Even if one can control multiple elements, they are used sequentially, or mixed together in one go. How can they be switched so naturally and without flaws?!"

But immediately afterwards, an even more shocking scene occurred. Just as the water mist and sparks scattered by the God of Wind hadn't dissipated, a light of azure-blue lightning burst out from the ground again!

Three elements?!

The God of Wind hurriedly raised the lightning spear created by His other forelimb, using it as a lightning rod to avoid the lightning spewed out by Su Zhou. He was truly confused: "Are the creatures of another world so strange? Controlling three elements at the same time is something that no god in any era has been able to do!"

He didn't see Su Zhou using the wind attribute of the Lan Jia, the fourth attribute, or his shock would have been even greater.

At this time, as Su Zhou continuously switched attributes, using various spraying bombardments to bombard the God of Wind, the surrounding celestial phenomena were also slowly changing. The water vapor of the three lakes that the God of Water had summoned a few days ago hadn't completely dissipated. With the power of wind and rain being controlled, the clouds began to gather, forming heavy rain clouds in this area.

At the moment the clouds roughly gathered to a certain extent, Su Zhou shouted loudly, his lower limbs exerted force, and the vast spiritual power exploded at the bottom of his feet like a rocket, causing this behemoth to leap high, pouncing towards the God of Wind!

Just as the God of Wind thought that Su Zhou wanted to use jumping to attack Him up close, and so He immediately flew backwards to create distance, Su Zhou's body heavily fell towards the ground below, and then fell to the earth like a meteor!

A behemoth weighing more than three thousand tons, jumping high with the blessing of spiritual power, and then falling down violently with the blessing of spiritual power.

Just how terrifying was this smash?

Boom!

Spiderweb-like cracks spread from the point of impact. The enormous force was evenly transmitted to the entire earth. In just one second, a vast area of square kilometers completely shattered into dust. Countless rock debris, carrying unimaginable kinetic energy, surged rapidly towards the sky like anti-aircraft guns, covering the area where the God of Wind was located.

At this time, the water mist from the previously scattered water-based breath still permeated this area.

The God of Wind naturally wanted to retreat, avoiding this artificially created cloud of dust, but the light of azure-blue lightning darted and bloomed like dragons and snakes in this humid dust cloud. Even if the God of Wind absorbed this lightning with the lightning spear on His right wrist, His movements were still stagnated for a moment.

At this moment, taking advantage of the fact that the God of Wind didn't control the surrounding wind elements, Su Zhou, who had briefly used the Lan Jia to accelerate, came rushing towards Him at His true full speed, with a piercing sonic boom!

Boom! Two behemoths collided in mid-air. The God of Wind's reaction ability could be described as flawless. Even though Su Zhou had paralyzed the opponent for a moment with a series of attacks, in the end, He still reacted. The wind spear, with a spiral cutting force, directly pierced through the scales, piercing Su Zhou's abdomen. This strike instantly broke through Su Zhou's dragon scale defense, blessed by the Sacred Triangle, and pierced Su Zhou straight through.

However, for Su Zhou, this kind of damage was meaningless. The core of his body was only the spine, scales, and heart, perhaps with the addition of a dual-state brain. Other parts were just decorations, like that Beast-Taming Demon General in the World of Sacred Trees!

Su Zhou had always been good at absorbing the advantages of his enemies. Just like now, the great dragon, who didn't think that being stabbed in the stomach was anything, had already grabbed the giant bee's wings with both hands. He condensed the spiritual power of flame and lightning on his claws, broke through the God of Wind's Lan Dun defense, burned the thin wings, and then crushed them into powder!

Whoosh whoosh—The two giant beasts immediately fell back to the earth from a height of hundreds of meters, smashing onto the ground, and stirring up large swathes of dust again.

Yes, Su Zhou's true form didn't have wings and couldn't engage in aerial combat. But, he could pull those who could fly down to the ground and back to a familiar field to fight! This was a technique that any internet giant was extremely good at!

However, Su Zhou underestimated the God of Wind.

Without wings, one couldn't fly?

How could the wind be such an inconvenient thing!

"—Whoosh whoosh!"

A rapid and sharp whistling sound of wind rose up. At this time, the God of Wind, although unable to speak, and without soul transmission, the wind was His will. Accompanied by the atmosphere roaring, a piercing howl like a tornado swept across the world sounded. In the giant compound eyes of the God of Wind, who had been dragged down from the sky by Su Zhou, cold light flowed.

Then, He directly stabbed all three spears on His arms and tail into Su Zhou's body!

"Giving up defense and purely attacking, wanting to perish together?" For a moment, even Su Zhou didn't react. His chest and abdomen were pierced through by the God of Wind. Wind, lightning, and poison were tearing apart his flesh and corroding his body. But even so, Su Zhou didn't stop his attack. He resolutely waved his strong dragon arms, forged like steel, carrying flame and lightning, and bombarded the God of Wind's compound eyes and head carapace.

But after a few seconds, Su Zhou, who noticed that everything around him was falling, and his body suddenly lightened, knew the God of Wind's true purpose!

Boom boom—Around Su Zhou and the God of Wind, the wind had formed a huge spiral sphere. It was holding up Su Zhou's thousands of tons of behemoth body, along with all the surrounding soil and rock debris, and was rapidly flying towards the sky at sub-sonic speed!

In just a few seconds, the entrance to the maze became a small dot like a fingernail, and Nesser City also turned into a size that seemed like a model, appearing in the corner of Su Zhou's eyes.

Buzz buzz!

As the God of Wind controlled the gale, bringing Su Zhou into the sky, the dragon's strength, which lost the earth as a point of leverage, dropped sharply. Around him, the wind, rotating at high speed like a sharp blade, was cutting his flesh. Su Zhou, who was pierced by the God of Wind with three spears, was like a sufferer nailed to the cross, passively enduring the opponent's attacks again and again!

But, similarly, the God of Wind underestimated Su Zhou.

Who said that if the body was pierced, one couldn't launch an attack?

How could the power of transcendence be shallowly bound by the common sense of ordinary life!

Boom! At this time, layers of cyan-blue arcs of electricity began to burst out around Su Zhou. These arcs of electricity condensed and intersected around him, and in an instant, it seemed as if they had formed a lightning armor. The God of Wind, who was in direct contact with Su Zhou's body, basically endured 100% of the lightning released by Su Zhou with his own body as a medium!

The two trembled violently and painfully at almost the same time, emitting silent howls of pain, and the burnt smell of roasted flesh permeated the air. In an instant, the spiral gale that had been holding the two of them up into the sky dissipated, and the two of them began again to fall from a height of several thousand to nearly ten thousand meters towards the earth!

Rumble, as the party initiating the attack, Su Zhou was the first to regain consciousness. In this turbulent lightning, the great dragon, whose teeth seemed to be distorted by lightning, opened its mouth. Su Zhou seemed to have regained the madness he had when fighting with the national preceptor and the demon emperor. He directly aimed at the head of the God of Wind and bit down, as if to directly bite off the opponent's head in one bite!

But how could the God of Wind's carapace be so solid? How could the power to control the wind be so great? The giant bee, who had also regained consciousness, drove the gale, and the Lan Dun stubbornly resisted Su Zhou's giant mouth, not letting the other party really bite down and swallow its head. It was even controlling power, planning a counterattack.

But, at this moment, one could see that in the far distance, a small long knife was rapidly rushing towards the place where the two were entangled, surrounded by lightning.

The blade of the Miedu (Nirvana) Blade was controlled by Su Zhou's lightning. Then, the Tianlei Yujian (Heavenly Lightning Sword Control) True Method!

A blast of blue spiritual light erupted. The divine blade controlled by thunder and electromagnetism instantly turned into a shocking rainbow. Then, it inserted into the back of the God of Wind at an angle that Su Zhou's body could never reach!

Buzz!

For a moment, the gale almost dissipated for an instant. The God of Wind originally didn't care about this weapon that looked like a needle, but when this needle really pierced into His body, He realized in astonishment that this Miedu Blade could directly attack the soul, and it was so hot, it was as if a large amount of magma had been poured into His body, and lightning spread along these lava, destroying all the body tissue behind Him!

At this time, Su Zhou and the God of Wind had fallen into the rain clouds. In that moment, the great dragon actually took the initiative to transmit a message to the God of Wind.

"Do you know what dragons do in my hometown?"

This was the purest trash talk to distract the enemy. The God of Wind originally didn't intend to pay attention to Su Zhou at all, but was preparing to exert force and directly tear Su Zhou's body with His spear. But in the next instant, Su Zhou used practical actions to tell the God of Wind the answer.

That was naturally—summoning wind and calling thunder!

Immediately, under Su Zhou's full control, terrifying lightning snakes, like a net, burst out in the rain clouds that had already begun to gather and rub against each other. These flashing lightning lights were like they had life, winding and circling in the clouds. Then, with a flash enough to illuminate the world, they gathered towards the direction where the Miedu Blade was located!

Everyone knew, don't go out with metal equipment on rainy days!

Rumble! Infinite thunder was condensed and conducted to the God of Wind's body along the Miedu Blade, which immediately caused the God of Wind to issue a silent and miserable cry. However, this attack was far from enough to kill a former god close to the god-level. In this overly intense pain, He even exploded with His strongest power. The gale gathered in the spear of the God of Wind's arm, like the sharpest blade, directly cut Su Zhou's flesh and blood, cutting the wingless great dragon's body up and down, taking the chest and abdomen as the cutting point, splitting it in two, and bursting out huge flowers of blood!

But at the same time, Su Zhou also burst out with his strongest attack!

Boom boom boom—Spiritual power reactions like explosions were condensing in Su Zhou's mouth. The four elements of thunder, fire, wind, and water were stirring in the mouth of the laughing demonic dragon. That crazy dragon, with the spine as the barrel and the mouth as the muzzle, had prepared the final breath.

Boom—Crack crack—!!

The water aided the thunder, the thunder aided the wind, the wind aided the fire. The crystalline back fins flashed in sequence with the blue, azure, purple, and white spiritual light. The enormous energy density even ignited the air, emitting a strange piercing sound. Finally, Su Zhou's power turned into a chaotic breath, like electric plasma, directly drowning the God of Wind's compound eyes and head, turning Him into nothing.

In this instant, the huge electromagnetic explosion, mixed with the enormous energy in the thunderclouds, even erupted with a light that far surpassed lightning.

This dazzling and pure light illuminated all darkness, suppressing all extra flames of wind, fire, thunder and lightning, making the world bright.

Whether it was the crowd in Nesser City, who raised their heads in astonishment and pointed at the clouds, or the surviving, lingering lives in the distance, they all saw this scene.

Perhaps the entire dark world saw this light emitted by Su Zhou.

At this moment, Su Zhou and the God of Wind were still fighting each other. Even if one side had lost their lower body, and the other had lost their head and eyes, insects didn't need heads. There were often reports of cockroaches surviving after their heads were cut off, and the vitality of the God of Wind was only stronger. After all, the wind people's intelligence came from the soul. Even if the body was destroyed, the soul could still control energy to exist.

And Su Zhou… now, although Su Zhou had been directly cut in half by the God of Wind's control of the gale, he was originally in the form of a wingless great dragon. To be honest, he was a bit like a lizard, and lizards could break their tails. Su Zhou, as a dragon more advanced than lizards, obviously didn't mind breaking his lower body. So, while the headless God of Wind continued to control the gale and bombard Su Zhou, Su Zhou also continued to punch with all his strength.

Boom! He threw a punch, and flames and lightning gathered, emitting a lightning flash that seemed to be able to burn everything, bringing up layers of supersonic shock waves that spread in all directions.

One could see that Su Zhou's flesh and blood were cut and torn apart layer by layer by the God of Wind's power, like being tortured. Even the bones were ground into powder in the sparks. But the God of Wind's carapace was even more dented and broken by Su Zhou's heavy punch. Huge cracks and fissures sounded in the crisp cracking sound. At the moment when the thick exoskeleton was peeled off by Su Zhou with brute force, the Miedu Blade, controlled by the Heavenly Lightning Sword Control True Method, once again carried the flashing lightning and fire, and sank into the God of Wind's body.

Everything happened in just a few breaths. Just as the two monsters and beasts were destroying each other, their bodies had fallen to the earth.

Boom! The earth suddenly caved in, and the soil and rocks undulated like waves. The earth around the maze was collapsing layer by layer. This entrance to the underworld was directly expanded by the battle between Su Zhou and the God of Wind. In the future, there might be a huge maze entrance with a radius of several kilometers.

In this violent impact, both Su Zhou and the God of Wind felt their eyes darken and lost consciousness.

When the God of Wind woke up, His head had already regenerated. Su Zhou, who had woken up long ago, had also found his lost lower body and sewed it back on.

"You picked up a life."

The calm great dragon said so. He was frowning at this time, picking out the charred pieces of his body from the gaps in his scales and flesh. After picking out a bone fragment, Su Zhou turned his head to look at the silent God of Wind, and said easily: "So, do you want to do as I say? Anyway, there is no loss for you."

"...Ha."

In the soul transmission, the God of Wind only made an emotionless laugh. He knew that this battle, if it was a life-and-death fight, had not been won or lost at all.

Even if Su Zhou woke up first, as long as Su Zhou brought up a little killing intent and stimulated His unconscious self, then He could wake up immediately and continue to fight. At most, Su Zhou would have the first move in the second round. But in the second round, Su Zhou, without the sudden advantage of the Miedu Blade, would definitely be at a disadvantage.

However, He had not been stimulated, and had only slowly woken up after His head had also regenerated, which was enough to prove that Su Zhou had not done so, and indeed, there was no killing intent at all.

To fight with an opponent without killing intent, and still be reduced to what He was now, made Him lose interest.

"What's the point of doing as you say?"

The huge bee god stood up, controlled the gale, and slowly floated in the air. He didn't mean to fight, but said helplessly: "The rotation of all things, the reincarnation of heaven and earth, the laws of nature, what solution can you, a visitor from another world, find?"

"Just like people have birth and death, gods have birth and destruction, civilizations have destruction and rebirth, and the world has decay and new life, all things have reincarnation. I certainly feel sad about this, but I don't think this is something that can be changed."

Su Zhou also stood up, looking at the God of Wind, with the blue-purple dragon eyes, with the spiritual light that had never dimmed.

"You say it can't be changed? That's just wrong!"

He asserted, with a persistent vigor: "People condense into civilization, and the inheritance of wisdom goes back and forth, surpassing the cycle of birth and death. Gods are born in civilization and remain immortal for thousands of years, which surpasses the cycle of civilization's destruction and rebirth. If the gods surpass again, and become stronger, they can absolutely surpass the decay and new life of the world, this locks the cycle of your Tartadis world!"

"Of course, this is indeed difficult, or rather, I also think that taking this path doesn't seem like it can succeed for you. But even if it doesn't seem like it can succeed, it's still a path. No matter how rugged it is, it's still a path!"

"And if there is one path that can be taken, why can't there be other paths? Even if one era can't achieve perfection, then why can't the information be saved and passed on to the civilization of the next era, so that they can improve it? Since there are water people who can cross the alternation of the water and earth eras to survive to the earth era, then surely a box containing research data can also be done, right?"

"Even if my views as a visitor from another world sound like I'm standing and talking without back pain in the eyes of you local creatures, I, who have nothing to do with everything, am already here, not just watching you, but personally helping you, so why can't you try it?"

The words of the huge dragon at this time could be said to be naive, which was already a compliment. In the ears of the God of Wind, it was simply ridiculous.

You know, how could a civilization so easily leave all the information it has gathered to the civilization of the next era? It's like giving everything you have to others.

If the demise of the eras is a true demise, with no chance of reappearing, then this kind of thing might be possible, because civilization needs to prove that it existed. Even if it gives everything it has to others, it still wants to leave proof of its existence—like the Earth's Voyager, a spacecraft wandering alone in the universe. In addition to speaking to the entire universe, it is also to leave proof of the existence of Earth civilization in the universe after the possible demise of future human civilization.

But after all, the demise of the cycle world is not really without a chance. The underworld maze will give them a chance to start over. So, each subsequent era will be the 'enemy' of the original civilization. This generous, final sharing becomes impossible.

Reincarnation—are there few ways to break this eternal cycle? It's just that because of the nature of life, because of the nature of civilization, because of the 'prisoner's dilemma' that 'normal development' can hardly escape, these many civilizations that have been repeatedly reborn and died in this cycle world will never choose those overly generous and selfless methods, nor will they choose those methods that are too decisive and leave no room for turning back.

They would rather fight each other at the end of the era, risking the possibility of dying together, than let others have the chance to continue the era.

Thinking of the reincarnations he had witnessed, the God of Wind couldn't help but remain silent. He hadn't been persuaded by Su Zhou, but Su Zhou was obviously not trying to persuade Him.

Su Zhou was just saying his decision out loud. Whether the God of Wind agreed or not, he would do it.

"God of Wind, tell me what you know about the gray fog, the maze, and the transition of eras."

So said the huge dragon, standing in front of the bee god: "And I will go and find a way to end the cycle myself!"

And the gale rolled, and after a long silence, after a flash of spiritual light, the God of Wind, transformed into a gray-haired human, landed on the ground. He sighed, and then said: "Okay."

However, the God of Wind, who had released His battle form, still had a hint of doubt in His tone: "But before that, Su Zhou. Can you explain to me how you control so many attributes of spiritual power?"

What truly gave Him a glimmer of hope was not Su Zhou's words, but Su Zhou's extremely unique ability in terms of elemental transformation.

At this, Su Zhou smiled. He knew that the God of Wind finally understood his true meaning—only through battle would the other party so clearly notice and believe in his uniqueness.

"This is a special transcendent organ called Wuling Cailin (Five-Element Colorful Scales), which has a method of smoothly converting various elemental spiritual powers. Your world probably doesn't have anything similar, right."

Su Zhou said, his tone meaningful: "Its origin is a long story—but, in my plan, I intend to rely on this thing to try to change this world."

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