41: I curse you, so that the path you take will have no regrets and no tragedy!

Zhang Wei's fate as a "sacrifice" was already sealed.

The world's will, at the cost of its own "destiny" and "karma," unleashed an unavoidable strike!

Chii—

The golden chain ignored the obstruction of divine power.

Like a phantom, it pierced through the divine power's defense.

Under Su Ke Ke's disbelieving gaze, it gently touched Zhang Wei's glabella.

"No—!!!"

A mournful shriek echoed across the star sea.

Zhang Wei's body lost its vitality.

A pure and fragile soul was brutally dragged out of her body by that golden chain.

Endless black mud and sin, like sharks smelling blood, frantically surged into her soul.

They sought to completely pollute and tear apart this purity!

The Gate of Reincarnation roared open behind her!

That was the abyss leading to endless suffering, until complete annihilation!

These soul fragments, in every future life, every reincarnation, would become "beacons" attracting all calamities and malice, ensuring she would never find peace!

The figure of her dear friend, within Su Ke Ke's embrace, transformed into specks of starlight and completely dissipated.

In the Sea of Concepts, Gu Jianghan "watched" this drama, named "Original Sin," about to return to the hands of fate.

He "saw" Zhang Wei's mortal soul, how, the moment it entered the Gate of Reincarnation, it was submerged by the world's infinite original sin and malice.

Crack... crack... crisp sounds of shattering.

They did not come from the outside but directly resounded in the dimension of the soul.

Zhang Wei's soul was like an exquisite porcelain vessel forcibly filled with lava.

Its surface was covered with spiderweb-like cracks.

With just another blink of an eye, it would shatter into the most primitive spiritual dust.

Never to be reborn!

To be reborn as livestock for all eternity!

Just at this critical juncture, Gu Jianghan, who had been watching the play with interest, slightly furrowed his "brow."

Hmm?

The core supporting character leaving the stage early?

This won't do; without this "concern" as a shackles, the subsequent drama would lose half its tension.

He made no movement; he merely had a thought.

A supreme will, transcending laws and karma, imperceptible to any being, instantly descended.

It was like an invisible thread of destiny, forcefully "stitching" together Zhang Wei's rapidly shattering soul fragments with an almost barbaric demeanor.

The soul remained tattered, the world's evil still raged within it, and the process of reincarnation did not stop.

But, for now, it wouldn't shatter.

This important "actor" was forcibly kept on the stage by the director.

The next moment, the long-dormant "System" interface, something even her current 12th-tier self couldn't comprehend, lit up before Su Ke Ke's eyes for the last and most dazzling time.

【Ding—! Ultimate Mission Released: Resist Destiny】

【Mission Description: The script of destiny has been written, the sacrifice has returned to reincarnation. The final chapter of the story will be penned by you. Go, find her, protect her, and snatch her back from this damned fate!】

【Enter the River of Reincarnation, seek her traces across countless worlds, shelter her true spirit, until you possess the power to shatter the shackles of fate.】

【Mission Reward: Happiness.】

"...Happiness?"

Su Ke Ke murmured these two words, as if using all her strength.

She laughed, a laugh more sorrowful than crying, a laugh that made the entire starry sky tremble.

She slowly raised her head.

In those eyes, once as cold as an abyss, only one thing remained, pure to the extreme—love, and the madness born of love, enough to overturn everything!

Su Ke Ke slowly straightened her body, her expression terrifyingly calm.

No tears, no shouts.

Not even a hint of killing intent was revealed.

That sorrow, deeply etched into her soul, enough to move even gods, was so thick, so heavy, that even the space-time around her seemed to freeze into eternal amber.

This extreme silence was more chilling than any earth-shattering outburst!

She slowly raised the scythe of the eternal elegy in her hand, not pointing it at any enemy, but at the elusive "destiny" in the ethereal.

Then, with a voice devoid of emotion, like proclaiming a truth, she pronounced the most vicious yet tender curse upon herself and the entire multiverse.

"I curse you, Zhang Wei."

"From this day forward, no matter what reincarnation you fall into, no matter what being you become, my presence will always be by your side. You will never be able to leave me."

"I curse you, Zhang Wei."

"Your tearful eyes, from this day forward, will never shed another tear. All the sorrows of the world will be estranged from you."

"I curse you, Zhang Wei!"

Her voice suddenly rose.

"Every one of your lives will inevitably end in comedy! Every one of your endings will inevitably be happy and fulfilling! Tragic fate will never be qualified to touch you in the slightest!"

"This curse, guided by my divine authority as the God of Calamity, sworn by my true spirit, until all heavens return to ruin and divine flames extinguish!!!"

This was not a plea, nor a wish!

This was her using her 12th-tier divine authority as a sacrifice, forcibly twisting her own karma, declaring an unending war against the "Tragedy Laws" of all worlds!

When the last word fell—

—Boom!!!!!

The scythe of the eternal elegy in her hand let out an unprecedented wail, echoing throughout all heavens!

【Authority ③ · Wail Concerto】—Triggered!!!

All the suffering you have experienced will become the power source of this scythe.

The deeper your sorrow, the stronger its power, with no upper limit!

A childhood of broken homes and lost loved ones... the loneliness of being betrayed by a dear friend... nights spent weeping in despair... watching her dear friend being cast into the reincarnation of endless suffering before her eyes, yet being powerless to stop it—this sorrow, angry and painful.

Foreseeing that she would fight endlessly in the long river of billions of years to protect her.

The "grief" brought by this responsibility was boundless and infinite!

All of it, her painful past, now transformed into the purest, most fundamental, most terrifying power, like a breached dam, frantically pouring into the scythe!

The scythe's aura began to climb in a completely unreasonable manner, tier by tier!

12th-tier mid-stage!

12th-tier peak!

Half-step 13th-tier!

That ineffable power made the eight ancient manifestations of original sin feel a trace of emotion called "fear" from their insane instincts!

In the Sea of Concepts, Gu Jianghan "saw" this scene, his "eyes" filled with satisfaction.

The curve of his "lips" widened, eventually turning into silent, wild laughter.

Marvelous!

Simply marvelous!

Hahahahaha!

To turn grief into power!

To take a curse as an oath!

To refuse the tragedy destiny wrote for you, and to personally create your own comedy?!

Good! Excellent!

This is the actor I most wanted to see!

On the battlefield, Su Ke Ke, holding the greatly empowered divine scythe, merely glanced indifferently at the eight outwardly fierce but inwardly timid monsters, and the trembling world's will.

Destroy them?

No, that would be too easy for them.

She swung her scythe, not at an enemy, but to cut open a profound spatial rift before her, behind which was the turbulent River of Reincarnation!

She saw it.

She saw Zhang Wei, reborn as an orphan in the next world, about to be burned alive by villagers due to her "misfortune."

She saw Zhang Wei, reborn as a princess in the world after that, about to be devoured by a demonic dragon at her coming-of-age ceremony due to a "curse."

She saw Zhang Wei's inevitably tragic fate in countless worlds.

"I'm coming, Wei Wei."

Su Ke Ke said softly, her tone filled with unprecedented tenderness and resolve.

"This time, there will be no more tragedies."

As her words fell, she took a step.

Her divine consciousness followed Zhang Wei's soul, leaping together into that defiled Gate of Reincarnation!

【First Life】

She was an innocent girl in the late years of a dynasty, sacrificed to the River God.

Just as the priest raised the butcher's knife, a black shadow descended from the sky, and the Scythe of Calamity severed the entire altar along with the so-called "River God."

Su Ke Ke, dressed in black, remained silent, watching her live a peaceful life in a new village until she died of old age.

【Second Life】

She was an orphan in the Interstellar Federation, exiled due to a genetic defect.

Just as she was about to faint and starve to death on a desolate planet in the cold night, a private fleet from a top financial conglomerate descended from the sky, took her away, and declared her the sole heir of the conglomerate.

On the bridge of the fleet's flagship, Su Ke Ke, in military attire, looked at the "100% Genetic Match" report displayed on the screen.

【Third Life】

She was an apprentice at a magic academy, bullied for her inability to condense magic power.

After she was pushed off a cliff, a giant hand covered in black dragon scales steadily caught her.

In the abyss, the World-Destroying Demonic Dragon, into which Su Ke Ke had transformed, opened its golden vertical pupils, looking down at the tiny figure in her palm.