77: God has come! Su Keke: "Child, you are broken, mom will help you fix it"

Laws wailed, and space grieved.

Xi Xi’s awakening.

It was like a mental tsunami.

The Happiness Field, originally used to forcibly inject joy and maintain a false prosperity, had begun to lose control and spiral into a frenzy!

It was no longer a gentle (even if false) blessing.

Instead, it transformed into a destructive energy storm, the purest, most violent, and most chaotic!

It ignited the core laws of the entire Land of Joy.

The splendid golden plaza began to crack.

The sky was torn open with gaping black fissures.

The surrounding Smile Guard, before this power, disintegrated piece by piece like sand sculptures.

The Joint Squad struggled to hold on.

Le Blanc, especially, bore the brunt, suffering a backlash from this wrath originating from the world's core; she retreated in horror and desperation, unable to fend for herself.

At the center of the storm, Gu Yanci’s life force was so faint it was almost nonexistent.

He lay there quietly.

The wound on his chest no longer bled.

Because life itself was about to drain away.

Just when everyone thought this Chain Breaker was about to sacrifice himself and perish completely, a faint yet incredibly resilient and fiercely burning golden-red flame quietly emerged from the penetrating wound on his chest.

【Indomitable Wrath (Echo)】!

This wisp of flame, originating from the core of the World of Wrath and formed by the will of the girl named An'an, lost its final restraint as Gu Yanci’s life fire was about to extinguish.

It was like a fierce beast, imprisoned for a long time, finally breaking free from its cage!

The flame wildly pulsed and expanded.

It was no longer content to be a mere backdrop, to slumber here as an external “prop” or “legacy.”

It yearned for a new, fervent will-carrier that would allow it to fully burn and release!

As soon as it appeared, it immediately sensed the anger in this world, an anger that shared its origin but was even more vast and primal.

That was Xi Xi’s wrath!

“Roar—!”

Accompanied by a roar that seemed to span eons, full of defiance and struggle, the wisp of golden-red flame violently broke free from Gu Yanci’s body!

It transformed into a brilliant streak of light.

It ignored the raging law storm around it.

With an unyielding determination, it shot straight into the sky!

This sudden scene astonished everyone present.

Even Gu Jianghan, who had been watching the drama with keen interest in the Sea of Concepts, showed a hint of surprise.

‘Cross-world resonance of emotional echoes? Heh… it’s getting more and more interesting.’

Under everyone’s shocked gaze, the golden-red streak of light traced a magnificent arc across the sky.

Like a meteor pursuing its destiny, it finally plunged into Xi Xi’s chest, into the position of her heart!

In an instant, a completely unfamiliar scene flashed through Xi Xi’s mind:

A red-haired girl with a high ponytail, clad in tattered armor, stood atop a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, clutching a broken battle flag.

Facing an overwhelming horde of enemies, she let out an earth-shattering roar.

That voice.

It resounded directly in the depths of Xi Xi’s soul:

“I am the last bastion of the Empire! If you wish to trample my nation, you must step over my corpse!!!”

Boom!!!

Xi Xi’s body violently trembled.

The chaotic law storm, born of sorrow and confusion, found its “core” and “will” at this moment!

The scattered, chaotic, and violent grief and indignation emanating from her instantly reversed and converged.

In its place.

Was a monstrous wrath, tempered by a thousand trials, condensed to its extreme, and imbued with sacred majesty!

The pain and struggle in her eyes vanished.

When she opened her eyes again, two fiercely burning golden-red divine fires blazed within them!

The previously uncontrolled law storm now completely subsided.

It transformed into angry runes, encircling her like a divine halo.

She slowly floated upwards.

Her white skirt billowed without wind.

In the blink of an eye, her demeanor transformed from a “sorrowful caged bird” to an “Angry Goddess wielding judgment”!

She was no longer Xi Xi.

She was the embodiment of “Joy” and “Wrath.”

An unprecedented and complete avatar of vengeance!

The newborn goddess slowly lowered her head.

Her eyes, burning with divine fire, coldly swept across the entire scene.

She ignored the terrified Le Blanc.

She ignored the struggling Joint Squad.

She didn't even glance at Gu Yanci, whose life force was almost extinguished on the ground.

Her gaze seemed to pierce through reality, through the world's barriers.

Precisely and coldly, it locked onto the causal thread that manipulated everything, hidden deep within the world.

Then, with a new, cold, and majestic voice, a voice capable of shaking the very foundation of the world, she uttered two words, syllable by syllable:

“Su… Ke… Ke!”

That call, imbued with divine wrath, was like a nuclear bomb thrown into the Sea of Causality.

It instantly detonated the entire world's underlying logic.

The cracks in the sky stopped spreading.

The collapse of the plaza also came to an abrupt halt.

Time and space, it seemed, fell into absolute silence under this call.

At the other end of the plaza.

Above the land cleared by the law storm, the air rippled slightly like water.

A figure silently materialized from nothingness.

She had no earth-shattering aura.

Nor did she cause any world-rending phenomena.

She simply appeared quietly, as if she had always stood there.

She wore a plain white, most simple long dress, and was barefoot.

Her face was identical to the mother in Xi Xi’s memory, gentle and beautiful.

But her eyes were filled with a sorrow so substantial that the entire universe could not dissolve it.

And… a divine indifference that regarded all living beings as dust.

The God of Calamity, the Guardian, Su Ke Ke.

She had arrived.

She didn't look at anyone.

From the moment she appeared, her gaze was solely fixed on Xi Xi, who floated in the air, encircled by a divine halo of wrath.

Her gaze was not like that of a mother looking at a rebellious daughter.

It was more like someone looking at her most beloved, flawless porcelain, now stained with an indelible blemish.

That heartache and disappointment almost overflowed.

“My child…”

Su Ke Ke’s voice was very soft, very gentle.

It reached the depths of every person's soul present.

“You are sick.”

The golden-red divine fire in Xi Xi’s eyes flickered violently.

She clenched her fists, squeezing out words through gritted teeth:

“I’m not sick! I just… remembered!”

“Remembered?”

A hint of confusion appeared on Su Ke Ke’s face, which then turned into deeper pity.

“No, that’s not your memory, that’s corrupted ‘data.’ Anger, sorrow, pain.”

“…These are the lowest, dirtiest emotional viruses. I cleansed the entire world for you, created the purest paradise for you.”

“Why… do you still go into the garbage heap to pick up these things that should have been destroyed long ago?”

Her voice was filled with genuine bewilderment and heartbreak.

As if Xi Xi’s actions were the most malicious desecration of her greatest masterpiece and deepest love.

“That’s not garbage!”

Xi Xi roared.

“Those are our rights as human beings! To cry, to laugh, to hurt, to be angry! That is living!”

“Living?”

Su Ke Ke gently shook her head and smiled.

The smile was both compassionate and cruel.

“No, child, you are mistaken. ‘Your’ existence is not for you to ‘live.’”

She raised her hand, pointing distantly at Xi Xi.

Her tone was gentle, as if telling a bedtime story.

“You are the most perfect firewall I created for ‘Zhang Wei,’ her first and most important cradle to isolate all pain.”

“Your mission is to be eternally happy, to feel all the ‘joy’ of this world for her, and to block out all other ‘viruses.’”

‘She is… a tool that exists for Zhang Wei.’

Everyone in the Joint Squad felt a chilling shudder when they heard this sentence.

Su Ke Ke looked at the monstrous wrath on Xi Xi’s face.

She sighed, and the last trace of warmth in her eyes turned into a god-like coldness.

“And now… you are corrupted. You are broken.”

These words, like the sharpest knife, pierced Xi Xi’s heart.

That suffocatingly gentle maternal love reappeared on Su Ke Ke’s face.

“However, it’s alright.”

She said softly.

“Mommy is here. Mommy will ‘cure’ you. I will help you clean up all these dirty ‘impurities,’ along with their ‘sources of contamination.’”

“To make you my most perfect, purest, only-smiling obedient daughter again.”

As her words fell.

Su Ke Ke raised her slender, fair hand.

Her target was not Xi Xi, who confronted her.

But rather, she pointed at Gu Yanci, who lay on the ground, his life force about to cease.

She intended, in front of Xi Xi, to completely erase this greatest “virus source” that caused everything to lose control, from this world!