173: Chapter 173 Sealing Gods at the Bottom of the Well

The black cradle rose.

Inside the cradle, that colorless heart was still beating.

Thump.

Thump.

With every beat, the entire First Middle School sank an inch lower.

It wasn't collapsing.

It was more like being dragged underground by that heart.

Li Yan stared at the two words on the wooden plaque, his expression suddenly turning ugly.

[Cuilan]

"Using Jiang Feng's mom to make a fuss again?"

He cursed under his breath.

The Dragon Girl moved the infant pod in her arms behind her, and her small face also turned cold.

"Bad things."

Zero Seven didn't speak immediately.

She stared fixedly at that old wooden plaque, her face gradually turning pale.

"That's not right."

Jiang Feng looked up at her.

Zero Seven swallowed hard.

"This isn't Auntie Liu's aura."

Li Yan was stunned.

"It's not?"

Zero Seven nodded.

"The name is the same, but the anchor is much older."

"So old... it might have existed even before First Blue Star created Pangu."

Beside the shattered podium, only half of the Black-robed Principal's body remained.

He let out a low laugh.

"Someone finally saw through it."

"Cuilan is not a person."

"It is the code name for the First Generation Mother Anchor."

"Pangu Unit 01 was born from this very anchor."

Jiang Feng looked at the cradle.

"So, the reason you targeted my mom later was because she had the same name?"

The Black-robed Principal said, "More than that."

"Same name."

"Same fate."

"The same resilience."

"She was the vessel most closely resembling the original Cuilan."

"Unfortunately, she was far too disobedient."

Jiang Feng nodded.

"Your eye for talent is lacking."

The Black-robed Principal paused.

Jiang Feng continued, "My mom has never listened to you."

Li Yan almost burst out laughing.

Even at a time like this, he could still slip in a barb.

This was exactly his style.

The colorless heart in the cradle suddenly contracted.

On the wooden plaque, dark red thin lines seeped out from the characters for 'Cuilan'.

Those thin lines did not rush toward Jiang Feng.

Instead, they crossed the Void Realm and stabbed directly toward the Wuji Source Realm.

To be precise.

They stabbed toward the Tianshu Dragon Garden.

Jiang Feng's gaze turned cold.

"You still dare to reach out?"

He reached out and made a grasping motion.

Those dark red lines were pinned down by him from across the air.

The ends of the lines twisted like living creatures, desperately trying to burrow out.

A System prompt popped up.

[Detected: Residual chains of the First Generation Mother Anchor.]

[Target: Liu Cuilan's reality anchor.]

[Usage: Replace, Overwrite, Synchronize.]

[Plunderable.]

Jiang Feng didn't waste a single word.

"Plunder."

[Secret Art: Pangu Plunder activated.]

[Plundering residual chains of the First Generation Mother Anchor.]

[Obtained All Attributes: 0.3 Ganges Sands.]

[Current Base Six-Dimensional Attributes: 2.3 Ganges Sands.]

The dark red lines snapped one by one.

At the same time.

In the Wuji Source Realm.

Inside the Tianshu Dragon Garden.

Liu Cuilan was holding a basin of freshly washed vegetables when she suddenly looked out the window.

Jiang Jianguo immediately stood up.

"What's wrong?"

Liu Cuilan frowned.

"It felt like someone was calling me just now."

Jiang Jianguo's face darkened.

"Who?"

Liu Cuilan thought for a moment.

"Didn't sound like a good person."

The Clone the Dragon Girl had left at home nodded seriously.

"Grandma's judgment is correct."

Liu Cuilan set the vegetable basin on the table.

"Then ignore them."

"Wait for Xiao Feng to come back for dinner."

The scene flashed by.

Jiang Feng retracted his gaze.

The smile on the Black-robed Principal's face froze.

He saw that the residual chain had snapped.

Snapped in the truest sense.

It wasn't shielded.

It wasn't blocked.

It was directly snatched by Jiang Feng and converted into his own attribute points.

The Black-robed Principal's voice was heavy.

"You can even plunder a Mother Anchor?"

Jiang Feng looked at him.

"If you can steal, why can't I rob?"

Li Yan slapped his thigh.

"Reasonable!"

The Dragon Girl nodded vigorously.

"Master robs cleanly."

Supporting his broken body, the Black-robed Principal whispered:

"It's useless."

"The Origin of Pangu Unit 01 has already awakened."

"It is not like those scraps you've killed."

"It is the thing closest to the source of the First Blue Star."

As soon as he finished speaking.

The cradle exploded.

The colorless heart suspended in mid-air.

A crack opened on the surface of the heart.

An infant walked out from within.

No.

It wasn't an infant.

It was only the size of an infant.

But its body was covered in ancient patterns.

On its forehead was a black vertical mark.

There was no heart in its chest.

Only a slowly rotating colorless core.

Zero Seven's expression changed drastically.

"Pangu Unit 01!"

Li Yan instinctively took half a step back.

It wasn't fear.

It was his body warning him that if he stood any further forward, not even ashes would remain.

Pangu Unit 01 opened its eyes.

There were no whites.

Only two clusters of colorless light.

It didn't look at Li Yan.

It didn't look at Zero Seven.

It only looked at Jiang Feng.

[Latest Pangu Model.]

[Self-sustaining core detected.]

[Mother Source contamination immunity detected.]

[Heaven-Opening Command counter-measure detected.]

[Judgment: Optimal recovery subject.]

Jiang Feng looked at it.

"This Material talks quite a lot."

Pangu Unit 01 raised its hand.

There was no shadow of an axe.

There were no pillars of Law light.

It just pressed down gently.

The ground of the entire First Middle School was instantly turned into countless thin layers.

Embedded within each layer was a world.

Planets.

Star Domains.

Star Seas.

Great Realms.

Heavenly Realms.

Origin Realms.

Chaos Realms.

Grandmist.

Wuliang Mountain.

Nine layers of worlds were crushed together by its single palm.

Zero Seven's voice cracked.

"Nine-World Compression!"

"It wants to compress the status of all worlds into a single nail to drive into your core!"

Pangu Unit 01's fingertip descended.

A colorless nail took shape.

The nail made no sound.

Yet it caused a fine crack to appear in the Purple-Gold Canopy sustained by the Dragon Girl.

Li Yan gritted his teeth.

"This thing is much more ruthless than the Principal."

Jiang Feng looked up at the colorless nail.

"This is not bad."

Zero Seven was stunned.

Not bad?

In what way was it not bad?

A second later, she understood.

Jiang Feng reached out and directly grabbed that Nine-World Nail.

A shallow mark was pressed into his palm.

But it was only a shallow mark.

System prompts exploded.

[Touching residual rules of Nine-World Compression.]

[This rule originates from the Pangu Unit 01 Origin.]

[Plunderable.]

Jiang Feng tightened his fingers.

"Plunder."

Boom!

The Nine-World Nail shattered on the spot.

The projections of the nine layers of worlds were torn apart by Jiang Feng, turning into colorless streams of light that surged into his body.

[Secret Art: Pangu Plunder activated.]

[Plundering residual rules of Nine-World Compression.]

[Obtained All Attributes: 0.5 Ganges Sands.]

[Current Base Six-Dimensional Attributes: 2.8 Ganges Sands.]

Li Yan was dumbfounded.

"Someone smashes nine worlds at him, and he uses them to add attribute points?"

Zhang Changlin was silent for a long while.

"This is no longer a battle."

"This is restocking."

The Dragon Girl's eyes were sparkling.

"Master knows how to live frugally."

Pangu Unit 01 paused for the first time.

[Recovery failed.]

[Initiating Heaven-Opening Mother Decree.]

The colorless core in its chest began to rotate.

Above the First Middle School, a giant hand appeared.

That hand held an axe.

The axe blade did not strike Jiang Feng.

Instead, it struck toward the Wuji Source Realm.

It struck toward the Tianshu Dragon Garden.

The calm on Jiang Feng's face diminished by a fraction.

"You truly never learn."

He took a step forward.

The entire playground of the First Middle School simply vanished.

It didn't shatter.

It was erased by the sheer pressure of his mass.

Jiang Feng appeared in front of Pangu Unit 01.

Just as Pangu Unit 01 looked up.

Jiang Feng had already smashed a punch down.

No skill name.

No charging up.

Only pure, absurd power.

Thud!

Pangu Unit 01 was smashed deep into the ground.

The axe-hand that was striking toward the Wuji Source Realm instantly recoiled.

In reverse, it hacked toward the First Middle School.

[Heaven-Opening Command: Counter-measure triggered.]

[Heaven-Opening Mother Decree rewritten.]

[Target corrected: Original Blue Star First Middle School.]

Boom!

The entire school split down the middle.

Classrooms.

Corridors.

Residual pages of attendance registers.

Production line umbilical cords.

All were hacked in half by the axe light.

The Black-robed Principal's remnant body let out a roar.

"No!"

Jiang Feng pressed his hand down.

His voice was not loud.

"Shut up."

The last section of the Black-robed Principal's body was crushed into dust.

[Zero-er triggered.]

[Residual thoughts of the Original Principal erased.]

[Principal overwrite permissions erased.]

[First Alma Mater escape tunnel erased.]

Pangu Unit 01 crawled out from underground.

The colorless core in its chest was cracked.

It felt no pain.

But it began to retreat.

[Pangu No. 1 intensity exceeds Unit 01.]

[Requesting takeover by the Original Blue Star main body.]

Jiang Feng gripped its head.

"Request denied."

[Zero-er triggered.]

[Main body takeover permissions erased.]

[Unit 01 recovery permissions erased.]

[Mother Anchor replacement permissions erased.]

Pangu Unit 01 finally made a sound.

It was no longer a mechanical voice.

It sounded like a child.

"Cuilan..."

Jiang Feng's movements paused for half a breath.

From within the cracked core of Pangu Unit 01's chest, a segment of imagery floated out.

It was very old.

An earthen hut.

A woman holding a child covered in patterns.

The woman's face was unclear.

Only her soft voice could be heard saying:

"Don't be afraid."

"You are not a tool."

"Your name is Pangu."

The next instant.

The image shattered.

Jiang Feng looked at Pangu Unit 01.

"So your mom was stolen too."

Pangu Unit 01 did not answer.

the colorless light in its eyes began to flicker wildly.

It was as if that memory had burned through its programming.

Jiang Feng released its head and instead pressed down on the core in its chest.

"Then let's end this."

"Don't be their dog anymore."

[Secret Art: Pangu Plunder activated.]

[Do you wish to plunder the Pangu Unit 01 Origin?]

[Prompt: Direct plundering will yield complete Materials, but Unit 01's residual consciousness will dissipate completely.]

[Option available to purify contamination; yields will be reduced.]

Jiang Feng said, "Purify."

Li Yan was momentarily stunned.

The Dragon Girl, however, was not surprised at all.

She whispered:

"Master doesn't eat dirty things."

The colorless core vibrated violently.

Wisps of black contamination were drawn out by Jiang Feng and then zeroed out.

Pangu Unit 01's body slowly became transparent.

It looked at Jiang Feng.

This time, the light in its eyes was no longer empty.

"Don't... become a god."

Jiang Feng frowned.

"Why?"

Pangu Unit 01 raised its hand, pointing toward the deepest part of the First Middle School ruins.

There was a well there.

On the well cover, a line of words was engraved.

[Level 1000 Fusion Port]

Pangu Unit 01's voice was intermittent.

"Godhood... is not a crown."

"It is a lock."

"Becoming a god... will allow First Blue Star... to see your True Name."

With those words.

It completely dissipated.

A colorless Origin fell into Jiang Feng's palm.

[Purification complete.]

[Obtained core material: Pangu Unit 01 Origin 1/1.]

[Materials for condensing pangu godhead are now complete.]

[Current attempt to Breakthrough Level 1000 is possible.]

[Warning: Upon successful Breakthrough, your unique True Name coordinates will be exposed.]

[Warning: The Original Blue Star main body is awakening.]

[Current Base Six-Dimensional Attributes: 3 Ganges Sands.]

Jiang Feng looked at that well.

The sound of water came from the bottom of the well.

Once.

And again.

Like something was turning over in the extreme depths.

Then.

A woman's voice echoed from beneath the well.

It wasn't Liu Cuilan.

It wasn't the original Mother Body either.

That voice was older.

Closer.

It was as if the entire Blue Star itself was speaking.

"Jiang Feng."

"The Materials are ready."

"Come down."

"Mom will deify you."