331: Chapter 331 The Fall of a Hero

Chen You stood on the starlight red carpet.

Above his head was a sliver of stinging crimson.

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West Gate Square had originally been filled with cries and screams.

At this moment, the group of players closest to Chen You were stunned.

A Shield Warrior rubbed his eyes and pointed into the air, shouting loudly.

"The health bar! How is God You's health bar still empty!"

The voice spread rapidly through the crowd.

The gazes of three hundred thousand players focused in unison on that number.

One point of health.

Only one point of health.

"What's going on? Can God You not afford medicine?"

"Are you stupid! Experience Spirit Rain is falling over the whole city; do you think money is all it takes? This is absolutely a forbidden technique that defies heaven and changes fate!"

"He exhausted his life essence just to give us these benefits!"

"And now he's dragging his broken body with only one point of health left to come out and block the bone dragon for us!"

A female Priest clasped her hands together, tears streaming from her eyes.

"God You, go back quickly! Don't worry about us!"

"Right! At worst, we'll just die! Don't take such a risk!"

Tens of thousands of players followed suit, shouting at the top of their lungs.

The waves of sound shook the heavens.

Listening to the deafening shouts, Chen You's mouth twitched slightly.

These people's imaginations were a bit too wild.

However, these players had certainly helped him build the atmosphere to its peak.

Chen You felt that if he didn't die a bit more tragically now, he would be letting down all these people's tears.

The bone dragon paid no heed to the players' shouts.

It only felt that this tiny human before it was provoking its majesty.

Its nine skeletal heads reared up simultaneously.

Dark red Nether Cold Fire compressed frantically within its throats.

The surrounding space distorted due to the extreme heat.

Chen You did not choose to strike with his sword directly.

Instead, he reached into his bag and pulled out a jade box.

It was the special item—Collapse of the Heavenly Dao.

Chen You linked himself as a target; he had already linked the bone dragon earlier while it was in a neutral state.

The bone dragon exhaled.

Nine pillars of dark red fire converged into a single beam of destruction tens of meters in diameter, heading straight for Chen You's face.

On the city walls, Salos gripped his battle-axe tight.

Oro closed his eyes.

Arrow of the Moon stared fixedly at Chen You's hand.

Chen You did not dodge.

He held the Collapse of the Heavenly Dao high in his hand.

He exerted force with his fingers.

*Crack.*

A crisp sound of shattering.

The sound wasn't loud, yet in an instant, it drowned out the bone dragon's roar and the shouts of hundreds of thousands of players.

The white jade box shattered.

An indescribably terrifying aura soared into the sky.

The sky split open.

The layer of dark clouds over Cangxing City was torn apart by an invisible giant hand.

A pitch-black crack, ten thousand feet long, spanned across the horizon.

Immediately after, red raindrops poured down from the crack.

"Blood! It's blood rain!"

The players looked at the sky in terror.

The blood rain fell upon them.

There was no expected corrosion, nor were there any damage notifications.

There was only a strange sense of warmth.

The rain penetrated buildings and equipment, falling directly onto everyone's bodies.

That beam of Nether Cold Fire, powerful enough to destroy half the square, vanished into thin air when it reached a distance of three feet from Chen You.

Not even a wisp of smoke remained.

The flames in the bone dragon's eye sockets flickered violently.

It felt a fatal threat.

It wanted to retreat.

It was too late.

*Boom—*

A pure white pillar of light, a thousand meters in diameter, crashed down from the crack in the sky.

The Light of Guidance.

The pillar of light accurately enveloped both Chen You and the hundred-meter-long Nine-Headed Abyss Bone Dragon.

The bone dragon let out a shrill scream.

Its indestructible Mythic-grade skeleton began to crumble inch by inch within the white light.

It turned into a sky full of blue specks of light.

Digitalized dissipation.

And Chen You, at the center of the light pillar, was likewise dissipating.

His legs, torso, and arms were bit by bit turning into golden flowing light.

Chen You lowered his head, looking down at the three hundred thousand players below with their stunned faces.

He felt he had to say something at this time.

He adjusted his expression, making his gaze appear compassionate and resolute.

He slowly spread his arms, as if embracing this world that was about to shatter, or as if performing a solemn sacrifice.

Chen You's thin lips parted slightly.

His voice wasn't loud, but under the enhancement of the laws of the Collapse of the Heavenly Dao, it was like a great bronze bell, booming deep within every player's soul.

"Dust to dust, earth to earth."

"Today, I shall use this remnant body to suppress the Abyss."

The next second.

The white light exploded violently.

The blinding light robbed everyone of their vision.

At the same time, a paralysis effect was triggered.

Three hundred thousand players, plus the three guild leaders on the city walls, along with all the NPCs in Cangxing City, were all frozen in place.

Even their breathing was forcibly suspended.

Two seconds felt as long as a century.

[World Announcement: Player [Chen You] has successfully suppressed a Mythic-grade Calamity Source. His heroic deeds shall be permanently recorded in the annals of the Source Realm!]

The world announcement flashed three times. Upon clicking it, one could even see the final image of Chen You before his death.

The crack in the sky closed.

The blood rain ceased.

In mid-air, that luxurious pyramid palace lost its power and slowly descended.

And the figure wearing the Moon-white Daoist robe, along with the nine-headed berserk Abyss Bone Dragon, had completely vanished.

Not even a trace of ash remained.

The square was dead silent.

*Thud.*

A Thief's knees went weak, and he knelt on the ground.

"God You..."

"To save us, Lord God You perished together with the monster!!"

It was unknown who shouted first.

The next second, the entire Cangxing City completely erupted.

Cries, wails, and shouts of disbelief pierced the clouds.

"God You's righteousness is immense!"

"Waaaah, he clearly could have left, he clearly could have ignored us!"

The Chamber of Commerce manager, Three Waters, crawled out from behind a stone lion. Looking at the empty air, he gave himself a hard slap.

"I deserve to die! I actually let the Lord endure such backlash!"

Atop the city walls.

Salos maintained his axe-holding posture, his muscles tense all over.

He gasped for breath and turned to look at Oro.

Oro's face, which always wore a smile of having everything under control, was now deathly pale.

"Did you see that?"

"I saw it." Oro swallowed hard. "There was no damage calculation; that wasn't an attack skill."

Arrow of the Moon turned around, her hands pressing against the edge of the city wall.

Her long, pointed ears were twitching violently.

"Law Erasure."

Arrow of the Moon spat out those two words.

Salos and Oro looked at her simultaneously.

"That item in his hand." A look of near-fanatical reverence showed in Arrow of the Moon's eyes.

"That item can obliterate a target from the level of rules in an instant!"

Oro sucked in a cold breath.

"This..." Oro murmured in a low voice, "Could he be the very will of the Source Realm?"

...

Inside the Supreme Training Room, Chen You's main body was still immersed in cultivation.

The dissipation of his clone caused him no loss, but he didn't summon another clone immediately.

"At most another hour..."

He felt he was about to break through to the Ninth level of Qi Refining.