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Chapter 552: 548
"Resistance is meaningless."
The voice of Aries Star Lord, along with the spiritual tsunami, flooded into the True Spirit of Gu Jinlai.
With just a touch, Gu Jinlai’s True Spirit, which was known as Primordial Chaos, had been struck by the tsunami leaving fine cracks, and a strand of spirituality, consciousness, and thought process not belonging to him infiltrated swiftly towards the inside of his True Spirit.
Meant to break through the True Spirit’s defenses, reaching deep into the soul.
"Fire!"
Burning Heart!
This soul secret technique manifested as flames that suddenly erupted around the perimeter of Gu Jinlai’s True Spirit, wildly incinerating the spiritual tsunami poured in by Aries Star Lord, as if to turn all this power into nothingness.
...
Spirit Realm life can be creator beings, but creator beings cannot simply be Spirit Realm life.
Creator beings consist of themselves and Spirit Realm life.
The self is the coordinate of the Spirit Realm life in the real world.
Since "self" relates to whether a creator being transformed into Spirit Realm life can return to the real world again, for any creator being, this body that helps them anchor their coordinates is very important.
To preserve this body, those in the Spirit Realm constantly extract spiritual power, refining powerful artifacts to protect their path.
Giant divine weapons, Heavenly Dragons, Floating Islands, Ruins Beasts, these are all protective creations of creator beings.
Aside from these protective artifacts, creator beings themselves are often very vulnerable.
Because just maintaining the coordinate relationship between the self and the Spirit Realm life consumes a great deal of Essence Qi Spirit.
Therefore, strengthening oneself is not an easy task.
Yet they must continue to become stronger, or they will lose contact and those who have become Spirit Realm life form will become lost.
This is why creator beings will go to great lengths to reach space, search other worlds, and plunder resources.
Their own vulnerability is the greatest weakness of creator beings.
As for bringing life forms that roam the Spirit Realm down to the real world...
Their bodies can’t bear it.
Just like an old computer can’t run a super program.
Once the body collapses, the creator being, consisting of two parts, will degenerate to pure Spirit Realm life, and the concept of "self" is lost.
The current Aries Star Lord, by means of contingencies, could be summoned back to reclaim the concept of "self."
But to truly sustain the concept of "self," he still needs a container. 𝔫𝖔𝖛𝖕𝖚𝔟.𝖈𝖔𝔪
A Dao Mark.
To make this container completely fit his requirements, Aries Star Lord first needs to remodel the coordinate to fully match his shape.
The way to remodel is to use his "self" concept to dissolve the "self" concept belonging to Gu Jinlai, eroding the True Spirit and even the soul.
Just like now, spirituality, consciousness, and thought patterns not belonging to Gu Jinlai are seizing the opportunity provided by the breach in the True Spirit to quickly infiltrate his soul.
...
"Boom!"
The tsunami was soaring.
The spiritual power cast down by Aries Star Lord with overwhelming force annihilated Gu Jinlai’s Burning Heart Soul Secret Technique and continued to pound on the True Spirit with undiminished momentum, causing his True Spirit to shake uncontrollably.
"Void!"
The Spirit of Gu Jinlai inspired.
Soul Secret Technique—Wall of Nihility consolidated to fend off the relentless spiritual tsunami cast down by Aries Star Lord.
"This time, you can’t escape."
The spiritual fluctuations of Aries Star Lord echoed around Gu Jinlai.
But Gu Jinlai, as if unaffected, maintained the Wall of Nihility, letting Aries Star Lord’s spiritual tsunami wash over him.
Even though a single Wall of Nihility couldn’t hold for long, when one Wall of Nihility fell, there were thousands upon thousands more to be condensed.
And he, taking advantage of this precious time, soared towards the Demon Realm Rift at maximum speed.
"There won’t be another Star Gate that just happens to exist allowing you to leave my horizon, even if you did leave..."
The voice of Aries Star Lord continued to resonate.
Meanwhile, surrounding the spiritual tsunami, outside of Gu Jinlai’s True Spirit confined to a corner, a cluster of light as fierce as the sun was rapidly condensing into a faint outline seemingly taking shape.
This was Aries Star Lord.
Or rather, it was the concept of the life form known as Aries Star Lord, all its traces.
Including his memories, personality, experiences, and the values formed through interactions with the outside world, and so on.
And as this concept in Gu Jinlai’s mental world gradually became clear, the mighty Spirit Realm Life in the Spirit Realm noticeably started to become somewhat sluggish.
As if a human had lost their soul.
Aries Star Lord, looking at the Wall of Nihility standing before the spiritual tsunami, sincerely exclaimed, "Truly astonishing potential."
He raised his hand, and the spiritual tsunami, as if it had life of its own, gathered a Giant Sword behind it.
"But now, it is mine."
The Giant Sword roared, condensing a sharpness far surpassing the spiritual tsunami, and in an instant pierced through the Wall of Nihility.
"Buzz, buzz!"
A new Wall of Nihility was again condensed into form.
"You don’t understand."
Aries Star Lord said, "Spiritual attacks with ’concept’ and those without ’concept’ are simply incomparable."
As his thoughts moved, the newly formed Wall of Nihility collapsed once again.
Much faster than the efficiency with which the spiritual tsunami had been striking.
Just as he said, the same spiritual power.
The personal descent of the Aries Star Lord and the pressure brought by only one Endless Spirit Seed were incomparable.
If the pressure exerted by the Endless Spirit Seed Gu Jinlai previously faced was like that from a normal person, now...
He was facing a bloodthirsty killer with countless lives on his hands.
Even if his physique might not have been much more outstanding than that of an ordinary person, the oppression felt at the level of Gu Jinlai’s spirit slowed his heartbeat by a fraction.
But...
Qingguang poured in.
The constantly trembling True Spirit rapidly stabilized.
Immediately afterward, more spiritual power was stimulated and transformed into walls of spiritual power in front of the Aries Star Lord.
"You cannot kill me."
Gu Jinlai affirmed his belief.
To avoid allowing emotions like timidity, fear, and horror to impact his performance, he even hypnotized himself into believing the Aries Star Lord’s attacks were nothing but a means to temper his True Spirit.
"Your attacks only make me stronger."
Gu Jinlai’s spiritual power quivered.
"You think to wear me down as you did with my original Endless Spirit Seed?"
The Aries Star Lord looked at Gu Jinlai, his spiritual telepathy filled with pressure, "You have no idea how important you are to me! To avoid repeating last time’s mistakes, I’ve drawn a vast amount of spiritual energy and concepts from my Spirit Realm Body, to the point that the operation of the Spirit Realm Body has slowed down. The power I now possess is ten times stronger than the Endless Spirit Seed, and with my ability to derive ten times the effect from a fraction of spiritual power, I am a hundred times stronger than you."
Gu Jinlai’s True Spirit stabilized, Qingguang flickered, and he remained unmoved.
"That’s not all, my Spirit Realm Body keeps supplying me with spiritual energy by drawing from the Spirit Realm itself continually! How many hundreds of times stronger than you am I? Hundreds, if not thousands of times!"
The Aries Star Lord’s voice continued to echo, carrying a powerful penetrative force that shook Gu Jinlai’s spirit, "You won’t last long. Merge with me, become a part of me, and together, we shall witness the creator’s greatness anew."
"Continually?"
Gu Jinlai desperately defended against the Aries Star Lord’s onslaught while operating the Chaotic Star Light Body with all his might, streaking across the Void like a bolt of lightning.
Once he reached the Demon Realm, he wanted to see how the Aries Star Lord would continue transmitting his power without interruption.
Four thousand miles, three thousand miles, two thousand miles, one thousand miles...
Despite the Devils retracting their defenses, the major spatial rift was still in a crucial opening phase, with numerous Devils lurking around.
There was even a powerful Demon King overseeing the area.
However, just as the Demon King was about to sense a life form approaching at an extreme speed, a bolt of lightning tore through the Void and struck its body with furious, fierce force, turning it instantly into char.
"Roar!"
The surrounding Devils bellowed in anger.
But then, as the shadow of the Aries Star Lord’s Spirit Realm Life form appeared at the end of the sky, anger turned into terror.
"This is... a monster!"
"How is this possible..."
"This world indeed still hides such monsters! Flee! Run for your lives!"
The Devils, who would normally throw themselves at Heavenly Masters with voracious hunger, now seemed to activate a deep-seated fear in their souls, scattering in all directions with utmost speed.
Even the intelligent Demon Kings were no exception.
In fact, they fled even faster.
"Swoosh!"
Light flashed as it broke the sky.
Gu Jinlai, like a streak of lightning, plunged into the vast opening of the Demon Realm Rift.
Outside, the creator’s Spirit Realm Body that was dragged into the Demon Realm Rift by Gu Jinlai seemed momentarily stunned.
Then, an intense spiritual power began to emanate from it, and its colossal body skimmed at low altitude before...
Colliding with the Demon Realm Rift.
However, unlike the Demon Spirits that were directly repelled by the rift, the Aries Star Lord’s Spirit Realm Body began to project parts of its own spiritual power into the interior of the Demon Realm.
It seemed...
That their very life forms allowed for such transformation.
Unlike Demon Spirits, they possessed an additional body that could act as a Dao Mark.
Though this body was weaker, it could serve as a container in key moments.
Despite the immense size of the creator’s Spirit Realm Body, because of the existence of this container, they could project one percent of their entirety into it, using it as a transfer station to disassemble and reassemble themselves.
This was why the creators could hunt Demon Spirits in the Demon Realm a thousand years ago, and why strong Demon Spirits could not freely ravage the human world through the Demon Realm Rift.
...
"The Demon Realm?"
The Aries Star Lord was the first to sense the changes in the outside world.
His connection with his true body in the True Spirit Realm and with his own senses had weakened immensely.
Moreover, because Gu Jinlai had not yet fully transformed into his Dao Mark, the Spiritual Power projected from the Spirit Realm Body could hardly be received.
Or rather, the amount that could be received was extremely scant.
"You think to block me through the collapsing environment of the Demon and Spirit Realms?"
The Aries Star Lord quickly understood.
And Gu Jinlai’s form also stopped.
He concentrated his spirit on his True Spirit, facing the Aries Star Lord obstructed by walls of Nihility.
"Our battle, now, has only just begun."
