248: The Crown and the Curse

As the light faded, the three Titans turned into rubble, and Li Xue凝 lay in the center of the ruins, covered in blood, her life force as weak as a flickering candle in the wind.

She won, but at the cost of her life.

Just as her flame of life was about to extinguish, at the Peak of the White Tower, a dormant giant crystal suddenly lit up!

A thick, pure white pillar of life light descended from the sky, enveloping her.

Massive, savage life energy poured frantically into her body!

As Li Xue凝 was enveloped by the white pillar of light descending from the sky, undergoing a transformative metamorphosis, Su Lei's footsteps finally reached the last step of the Central White Tower.

The Tower's top was a circular space of unimaginable size.

And in the center of this entire space, an ancient-looking crown floated silently.

The crown of wisdom.

The second Civilization Cornerstone.

Su Lei walked towards it.

He could feel that as he got closer to the crown of wisdom, the Soul Core Star in his Sea of Consciousness, which had Fused the imprint of Venerable Tianhe and the power of the Sand of Time, was throbbing excitedly at an unprecedented frequency.

Finally, he reached the crown of wisdom.

He stretched out his hand, reaching to touch that supreme treasure, which condensed all the wisdom of the previous epoch's civilization.

However, just as his fingertips were about to touch the milky white light.

A mournful wail, not human, erupted without warning from beneath the crown of wisdom!

Su Lei's movements suddenly paused.

Only then did he realize that, in the shadow of the crown of wisdom's soft light, a person was actually curled up.

It was a man in the black robe of the Forgotten Ones Sect; judging by the elaborate runic embroidery on his body, his status was clearly not low, at least that of a Bishop-level expert.

At this moment, he was clutching his head tightly, writhing and twitching on the smooth ground like a maggot in agony.

"Too much information, my brain is going to explode..."

"Save, save me..."

The Bishop used his last shred of strength to extend a hand, which was already half-digitized, towards Su Lei.

Su Lei's brows furrowed tightly.

He understood instantly.

This was a trap.

A vicious trap set in advance by the Forgotten Ones Sect, using lives to test the waters.

Clearly, this unlucky fellow had, through some unknown means, infiltrated here before them.

Then, he impatiently tried to read and possess this Civilization Cornerstone, which represented supreme wisdom.

As a result, he became this inhuman, ghost-like apparition.

What the crown of wisdom contained was not simple knowledge.

Rather, it was the countless scholars and wise men of the previous epoch's civilization, in their final moments of collapse, all their unwillingness, resentment... Anyone who tried to read it would be mercilessly scoured and covered by this torrent, eventually becoming a living database possessing endless knowledge but completely losing their self and humanity.

A madman.

"So, this is your true form."

Su Lei looked at the crown of wisdom, which still emitted a soft light and appeared incomparably sacred, and spoke slowly.

His voice caused the Bishop, who was being digitized and decomposed, to suddenly freeze.

His eyes, which were now only data streams, stared intently at Su Lei.

"Who, who are you..."

"Why, why aren't you afraid..."

The next second, the data streams in his eyes instantly became incredibly chaotic!

"No, no, impossible..."

"Your Soul, inside your Soul, how could it, how could it..."

He couldn't finish his sentence.

Because his entire body completely collapsed at this moment.

He transformed into a blue data storm composed of countless formulas, symbols, and garbled code, scattering in this empty and silent Universe, leaving no trace behind.

A Peak Great Grandmaster-level expert was thus erased from this world in a bizarre manner.

"Come out."

"I know you're in there."

"A collective of resentments from a civilization that has already perished, still trying to play such a mysterious trick in front of me?"

As Su Lei's words fell, the entire space plunged into dead silence.

The crown of wisdom still floated quietly, without any response.

"Not coming out?"

"Fine."

In Su Lei's Sea of Consciousness, the Soul Core Star, which had Fused the power of two Civilization Cornerstones, suddenly brightened.

An unrivaled Divine Soul power erupted from his body!

He stretched out his hand and made a grasping motion towards the crown of wisdom.

"Since you're unwilling to come out, then I'll go in myself and drag you out!"

Buzz!

The crown of wisdom, which had always been as still as an ancient well, finally stopped pretending after sensing Su Lei's incomparably overbearing Divine Soul power.

It instantly became incredibly dazzling and incredibly violent!

A terrifying mental storm, no less powerful than Su Lei's, erupted from within the crown of wisdom, fiercely counterattacking towards Su Lei!

There were countless ordinary people, in the final moments of the apocalypse, cursing gods, fate, and everything with venom.

These negative messages were enough to make anyone with an unstable will instantly have their Dao Heart collapse, completely becoming slaves to these resentments.

However, Su Lei's Divine Soul had long been tempered as strong as ten thousand-year-old profound iron through countless life-and-death struggles.

His will had long condensed into his own unshakeable Dao.

"The wails of a mere group of failures who couldn't even protect their own civilization, do you think you can shake me?"

Su Lei's will, like a cold voice, exploded in the mental storm composed of negative information.

"Break for me!"

In his Sea of Consciousness, the Soul Core Star shone brightly!

The golden sand ring, constructed by the power of the Sand of Time, began to spin rapidly.

A supreme Law power representing time and order emanated from his Divine Soul.

Under the scouring of that power, the chaotic torrent of information began to be forcibly smoothed and organized at a visible speed.

The frantic wails gradually subsided.

"No! This is impossible!"

"How could you withstand our billions of years of resentment!"

"Nothing is impossible."

Su Lei's will, like a judgment delivered by a Heavenly God, descended upon the center of this mental world.

"Because you are already a thing of the past."

"And I represent the future."

"The future judging the past is only natural."

Su Lei's Divine Soul power, at this moment, held nothing back.

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