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Chapter 556: 552
Burning his True Spirit, Gu Jinlai brought forth an unprecedentedly powerful spiritual performance that delivered the final blow to the Aries Star Lord.
Annihilation! Annihilation! Annihilation!
The very "concept" of the Aries Star Lord’s existence was rapidly annihilated in the flames formed by Gu Jinlai’s burning of the True Spirit.
It swiftly dropped from its original dominance of fifty percent of the body down to forty percent, thirty percent, twenty percent, ten percent.
Then it further declined to nine-tenths, six-tenths, three-tenths, one-tenth...
For a time, this massive figure that spanned kilometers and emanated terrifying Spiritual Pressure was now completely under the control of Gu Jinlai’s True Spirit.
...
"This is impossible!?"
Duanmu Chengyun, Dong Xuanzi, Su Xin, Zhang Yingzhen, Zhao Piaomiao, as well as the two great Demon Gods, Star Trace and Long Xiao, felt the rapidly annihilating presence of the creator and could not help but exclaim in shock.
The creator!
What a terrifying existence it was!
A thousand years ago, it was a nightmare that constantly loomed over the heads of cultivators, including Demon Spirits!
Even though Gu Jinlai was a True Immortal...
Perhaps he cultivated as a Heavenly Monarch through some unknown method.
But even so, the gap between him and the creator should still theoretically be as vast as a chasm.
The disparity in their strength, let alone a tenfold difference, even if it were dozens or hundreds of times, would not be exaggerated.
But now...
Gu Jinlai seemed to be overwhelming the creator with the momentum of a devastating force, almost as if he was on the verge of completely eradicating him!?
For a moment, the several Void Immortals felt as if all the common knowledge they knew was being destroyed.
"How can this be..."
Su Xin murmured to herself.
Duanmu Chengyun, Zhang Yingzhen, and Zhao Piaomiao felt even more unsettled in their Divine Sense.
Just a few breaths ago, they were still shaken to their core by the sudden appearance of the creator, struggling to compose themselves for a long time.
But now, such a mighty creator was on the verge of being overturned and possibly slain by Gu Jinlai, a True Immortal...
"This is madness."
Duanmu Chengyun said.
In his life, he had experienced countless major upheavals.
He had lived through the destruction of Holy Lands, the fall of True Immortals, the collapse of Grotto Heavens, and great battles between Demon Gods...
But the scene before him...
It all felt so unreal.
"But if... Gu Jinlai really erases a creator..."
Dong Xuanzi suddenly muttered to himself.
As soon as these words came out...
All the Void Immortals who were unsettled had a moment of realization, and the room fell silent.
...
The tide had turned.
The Aries Star Lord, who was struggling fiercely, suddenly stopped.
He realized that the tide had turned.
In his eyes, there was a hint of reluctance, along with a longing for this world.
"After a thousand years, the path of the Heavenly Master has been perfected to this extent..."
The Aries Star Lord sighed deeply and abandoned all resistance,
"In seeking eternal life my entire life, I ultimately perish in eternal life."
"You just perished by my hand,"
Gu Jinlai said.
"Yes, perished by the hands of a Heavenly Monarch,"
The Aries Star Lord said somewhat self-mockingly.
The grudges between him and Gu Jinlai were always of one kind—survival.
A struggle for survival.
For the sake of his continued survival, he had chosen Gu Jinlai as a Dao Mark.
Gu Jinlai refused to become his incarnation walking upon the Earth and chose to resist unto death.
"Perhaps, this world has never had any truly eternal beings. A torrent made of countless pieces of information and changes surges forward; getting lost in the Spirit Realm is like being abandoned by the flood of new information and variation, being eliminated by history..."
He looked at Gu Jinlai: "You are now at the height of your life, radiating brilliantly, but one day, you will be like me, sunset over the west mountains, discarded by the times..."
"You cannot see that,"
Gu Jinlai said.
"Cannot see anymore,"
The Aries Star Lord paused, his thoughts seeming to slow.
It took a while for him to repeat the phrase, his expression tinged with a touch of sadness: "Yes, cannot see anymore."
The next moment, the "concept" of his existence was completely submerged by Gu Jinlai’s True Spirit.
Like the waves washing over the sand, the former waves are chased and overturned by the latter.
"Wuu!"
The Spirit Realm Body of the Aries Star Lord seemed to detect something, emitting a faint surge of Spiritual fluctuations, like the low moan of a being on the verge of death.
"The Spirit Realm Body of the creator,"
Gu Jinlai quietly felt the strength of this body.
And the connection between this body and the Spirit Realm...
Immediately after, streams of Qingguang infused into the True Spirit, like oil poured onto a fierce fire, causing the already fiercely burning True Spirit to erupt into a dazzling and brilliant blaze of Spiritual fire.
The mighty Spiritual energy, like a torrent, instantly spread to every corner of this Spirit Realm Body.
Originally moaning with a hint of "death" upon it, the Spirit Realm Body seemed to be infused with a new current of life, activating it from its previously moribund state and once again making it burst with vitality.
As Gu Jinlai’s True Spirit burned to the extreme, the Spirit Realm Body appeared to be fully stimulated.
"Roar!"
A colossal figure over a thousand meters tall bellowed at the sky.
A strong, wild spiritual pressure radiated from him like a storm, sweeping across all directions.
The Void Immortals and Demon Gods, already petrified by the scene before them, all looked up one by one, staring incredulously at that vast figure.
That figure was so massive, so terrifying, so soul-shaking.
Even the mighty Void Immortals felt their breathing freeze at that moment.
"Roar!"
Outside the Demon Realm Rift, it seemed only the bellowing of that fearsome Spirit Realm Body echoed, reverberating through heaven and earth.
...
"He did it!? With a True Immortal and Heavenly Monarch dual-cultivation base, he has erased the creator..."
It took Duanmu Chengyun a while before he could catch his breath.
It seemed as though just recovering from that shocking moment depleted a lot of his strength.
"Gu Jinlai..."
Zhang Yingzhen felt the same way, looking at that massive body, his eyes filled with fear.
It was a type of fear completely different from when he first learned that Gu Jinlai had True Immortal Cultivation.
"What is he now!? A new creator!?"
No one knew.
The other Supreme Void Immortals watched that towering Spirit Realm figure, also unsure of what to make of Gu Jinlai now.
What his identity was.
What he intended to do.
What his goal was.
All of it was a mystery.
An unknown and terrifying mystery.
After all...
What floated before their eyes in the Void was a fearsome monster capable of erasing even the creator.
"Huff!"
Sudden violent spiritual fluctuations erupted from Star Trace Demon God’s body.
Being more sensitive to spiritual power than the five Supreme Void Immortals, the Demon Gods felt even greater pressure.
The figure floating outside the gates to the Demon Realm seemed like a Heavenly Track behemoth that obscured the Void; just blocking the spiritual pressure emanating from his body was already exhausting nearly all of their strength.
Now that they finally struggled free from the state of his bursting spiritual pressure, Star Trace Demon God immediately stirred its spiritual energy, "This human called Gu Jinlai relied on burning his True Spirit to land the ultimate blow on the creator! No matter if he is human, demon, spirit, or Heavenly Master, right now, he must be at his weakest! No matter the cost, we must kill him on the spot!"
"A being merely at the level of a Heavenly Monarch was able to erase the creator’s existence... what kind of path has he walked on!"
Fear was visible in the eyes of Demon God Long Xiao.
Only another monster can kill a monster.
To Demon God Long Xiao, Gu Jinlai at this moment probably seemed even more terrifying than the like of the creator.
Intense fear pricked at Demon God Long Xiao’s divine sense, but as a high-ranking member of the Demon Spirit race and the responsibilities they bore, it couldn’t back down.
For a moment, it felt a touch of madness.
"Kill him!"
With a roar, the Demon God surged into the sky, terrifying energy gathering in its hands, with the target being the kilometer-high phantom on the Demon Realm Rift.
As Demon God Long Xiao took action, Star Trace Demon God didn’t hesitate at all; a rapid expansion of eight pairs of wings unfurled behind its gigantic Demon God Body.
Each pair of wings, forged from special metals, ignited dark purple flames after being infused with energy, shooting straight up into the heavens.
Seeing the two Demon Gods engage, Duanmu Chengyun, Dong Xuanzi, Zhang Yingzhen, and others felt a shiver in their hearts.
"We..."
All five Void Immortals looked at each other at the same time.
To intervene or not to intervene?
To intervene or not to intervene?
Was the figure possessing the creator’s Spirit Realm Body really Gu Jinlai, or was it...
A monster that just looked like Gu Jinlai?
Before they could make their final choice amidst their dilemma and hesitation, the massive phantom atop the Demon Realm Rift had already made a move.
Gu Jinlai felt two Demon Gods, each over a hundred meters in size, burning their own power to launch their strongest attacks at him; his massive body, somewhat slow to respond, lowered its head to gaze at the two smaller Demon Gods below.
Yes, the smaller Demon Gods.
What normally would be seen as colossal and majestic Demon God Bodies, each hundreds of meters tall like towering buildings, now seemed "small" in his view.
Who would describe them with words like "colossal" or "majestic"?
Just like an ordinary person would view two little rabbits.
Not only did they appear smaller, but their attacks, which were once powerful enough to threaten a Divine Beast or the body of a True Immortal, seemed unable to inflict any harm on him.
"No, to me now, a being from the Spirit Realm, these attacks aren’t attacks at all, but rather some of the less active spirits among the Spirit of All Things."
Gu Jinlai mused.
Using such spirits to attack him was like using water to slap another puddle of water.
It only added more water to that puddle.
The attacks from Star Trace and Long Xiao were just like that.
He only needed to slightly shift his form...
No, that’s not right.
Gu Jinlai couldn’t rapidly change his form.
This Spirit Realm Body was too massive, too cumbersome for his True Spirit.
Even if he burned his True Spirit to place himself in the strongest eruptive state, he still couldn’t fully control this body.
So, the only thing he could do was to let the "spirit" on his body stretch a bit, and then the energy blasted out by the two Demon Gods simply "passed" through him.
"Physical attack immunity, energy attack immunity..."
Gu Jinlai uttered.
Such life was quite unreasonable.
Besides being toppled in a battle on a spiritual level, they were invincible.
