734: Devour...light and darkness...

Although he had known from the Guang Yao People's meeting that they had an opponent called An Yao.

He also knew that An Yao might notice the Niu Ru Alien Planet through the actions of the Guang Yao People.

But when Yang Dian truly saw this thing that resembled an An Yao Creature before his eyes, he was still surprised by its bizarre state.

It had no fixed form, its entire body was an extremely dark, irregularly flowing shape that could even swallow light.

Its form would also change with people's thoughts.

If one thought it was a person, it would turn into a person with two hands, two feet, and dark facial features.

If one thought it was another shape, it would transform into a sphere, a cylinder, a polyhedron, or other strange forms.

It was truly incredibly strange.

The An Yao Creature, which had just appeared and was staring intently at the Envoy of Light, noticed Yang Dian's gaze.

It, which had previously focused all its attention on the Envoy of Light, suddenly turned its head.

Although Yang Dian didn't know if that was its head, he could feel that it was looking at him.

“You can see me?”

The An Yao Creature seemed to be stating a fact; the voice resonating on the Mental Energy level contained no emotion.

Before Yang Dian could ponder the meaning contained in those words, the An Yao Creature had already transformed into a sky-obscuring curtain and enveloped Yang Dian.

Frowning and taking a step back, Yang Dian, who instantly escaped the curtain's embrace, tentatively extended his Mental Energy towards An Yao.

As expected.

His Mental Energy didn't detect anything.

Or rather, as soon as it touched An Yao, it vanished without a trace, as if Yang Dian had never possessed that Mental Energy.

Perceiving that dozens of stars in the abode of his Soul had disappeared in an instant, Yang Dian couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

“The power of Devouring?”

In a trance, he returned to the time when he first entered the Lizardmen Alien Planet three times and swallowed that dream butterfly flower.

His Soul ascended endlessly.

Then... he glimpsed the truth.

“I can too.”

He no longer dodged An Yao's pounce.

When An Yao once again transformed into a curtain and enveloped Yang Dian, Yang Dian not only didn't dodge but even actively stepped forward, entering the pocket An Yao had opened.

“Right, right, this is how it should be!”

An Yao's calm voice now sounded somewhat excited.

“Let us merge into one!”

Yang Dian, whose five senses and Soul were all devoured by An Yao, closed his eyes, allowing An Yao to continuously corrode his hair and devour his flesh and blood.

He concentrated his consciousness in the depths of his Soul.

In the depths of his Soul, on the dark black spot at the core of his true spirit.

“You are right.”

Opening his eyes again, Yang Dian's pupils became pitch black, identical to An Yao, a kind of black that seemed capable of devouring everything.

“Let us merge into one.”

An Yao, which was devouring everything of Yang Dian, including his voice, paused.

Aside from certain people whose consciousness had collapsed, it had never encountered anyone who cooperated with it so much.

‘Why does it feel a bit off?’

As the thought arose, it felt a power of devouring, also containing the devouring attribute, but clearly more powerful and terrifying than the devouring ability it possessed, suddenly erupting from Yang Dian.

If the devouring ability it possessed was on the material and energy level.

Then the devouring power erupting from Yang Dian's body was on the level of rules, Origin, and even concepts.

‘Matter, energy, rules...’

‘Devouring everything.’

‘This is what I want...’

As the thought just arose, it suddenly plunged into darkness again.

The An Yao Creature was strong in devouring, and it slept eternally in devouring.

“I think I've mastered my ability.”

Opening his eyes in the darkness, Yang Dian stretched out his right hand, palm facing upwards.

The An Yao that enveloped and corroded Yang Dian's body flowed backward, gathering in Yang Dian's palm and turning into a long sword.

‘My strength has increased too quickly; the equipment I used before can't keep up with me.’

‘I wonder if this thing can supplement the star matter.’

As his thoughts arose, the dim sunlight around him began to twist, converging into a beam of light.

“Eh?”

His gaze swept across the surrounding deep Universe that had lost its light, then he looked down at the ‘an yao corpse’ that was regularly trembling in his palm, and finally, Yang Dian's gaze fell upon the Envoy of Light.

But before he could speak, it had already let out an incredible exclamation:

“You killed An Yao?”

As soon as the words fell, a surge of anger inexplicably appeared in the deep Universe around him, which had not yet been filled with light.

The entire lightless region of the Universe seemed to be casually torn apart by a supreme existence; dust, water vapor, and other matter, or even space itself, were kneaded into a ball, ultimately forming an extremely dark, irregularly flowing shape that could even swallow light.

“I am immortal and indestructible!”

Layers of angry shrieks erupted from the newly born An Yao, transforming into a Mental Energy tide that twisted the Universe in circles.

Looking at the newly born An Yao, which was identical to the previous one, not only in Mental Energy but also in Soul and true spirit aura, Yang Dian's pupils contracted sharply.

“How is that possible?”

“Why not possible?” An Yao seemed to have gained intelligence after dying once:

“Do you think that by grinding away my Soul and devouring my true spirit, you can kill me?”

“My existence is both destruction and new birth.”

“I am...”

“You are a big-headed ghost!”

Yang Dian stretched out his right hand and grabbed the newly born An Yao, a covetous look in his eyes.

“Since you're alive, then die once more.”

As his voice fell, his pupils had already transformed into the deepest darkness.

In An Yao's eyes, those were two bottomless, eternally rotating black holes.

“No!!!”

The Soul-shaking wail echoed far and wide, sweeping back and forth like waves in the desolate Universe.

Until a certain moment, it abruptly stopped.

Having devoured An Yao again, Yang Dian piled the new an yao corpse on top of the old an yao corpse.

The two merged; although the quality didn't increase, the quantity directly doubled.

‘An Yao, what a good thing~’

‘Not only did it help me master my ability, but its body is also a treasure.’

‘If it could be resurrected a second time.’

Thinking this, Yang Dian's gaze fell on the light.

“Guang Yao Civilization? An Yao Civilization?”

“Envoy of Light? An Yao Creature?”

Casually tearing the an yao corpse in his palm into a strip and wrapping it around his waist, Yang Dian stated with certainty:

“Are you an Envoy of Light, or Guang Yao itself?”

“An...”

Before Yang Dian finished speaking, beneath the shadow of the light, an incredibly deep darkness appeared, as if it could devour everything.

Seeing that darkness, Yang Dian couldn't help but curve his lips into a smile.

The next moment, the Envoy of Light, or rather Guang Yao, transformed into a human form.

Behind Guang Yao, a dark shadow transformed into a long snake coiling upwards.

Although it had no eyes, Yang Dian could see that the long snake formed by An Yao was staring intently at him.

“Human!”

Guang Yao and An Yao spoke simultaneously, layers of voices entering Yang Dian's mind.

“Thank you for making me understand the rule of light and darkness being one body.”

“I am light, and also darkness.”

“Two sides of one coin, the two poles of the world.”

“To thank you.”

“I bestow upon you (to be) light (and darkness)...”