187: Chapter 187: Part of the True Meaning of the Law of the End

On the front lines, the warring Abyssal Blood Army and the mechanical legions simultaneously ground to a halt.

Turbulent energy swept across the battlefield, blowing away swaths of kin.

The Blood Slaughter Infantry slammed their heavy shields into the ground, yet they were still flipped over, shields and all, for dozens of meters.

The Tyrant ceased its slaughter of the mechanical army.

The towering behemoth turned its head, its crimson eyes gazing toward the sphere of destruction in the sky.

It could no longer sense the Creator's aura.

"Roar!" The Tyrant let out a roar, pounding its chest repeatedly with both arms.

Its Void Realm wings unfolded, and it prepared to charge recklessly toward the center of the explosion.

High in the sky, the Six-Winged Insect King emitted hurried hisses.

Anxious emotions were transmitted through the psychic network, and the entire Abyssal Blood Army teetered on the brink of a riot.

On the other side, Bai Ye was in a dire situation.

The aftershocks of the explosion directly affected the River of Styx above.

The pale river of death surged and churned under the pull of the shockwave, and the giant bone hands reaching out from the river shattered one after another.

"Damn it! Damn it!"

Bai Ye lay flat on the back of the Frost Ancient Dragon, his body tossed about by the storm.

The River of Styx fractured.

The three Mechanical Deities, who had been suppressed all this time, seized the opportunity.

The deity controlling the [Zero-Degree Domain] broke free first, its mechanical body erupting with frigid frost energy.

It froze the remaining giant bone hands into ice shards and shattered them with a kick.

The other two deities followed closely behind, rushing out from the gap in the River of Styx.

Bai Ye looked up, his face turning green as he watched the three murderous lumps of metal.

"Brother Lin Yuan, please don't die!" Bai Ye prayed inwardly.

"If you kick the bucket, I'll be finished at the hands of these freaks today!"

Dozens of kilometers away.

In the shadow of a stone pillar, Cheng E pressed himself against the cold rock wall.

His face was pale as paper, and his forehead was covered in cold sweat.

The coin he had just thrown had drained all the Divine Power from his body, and even overdrafted a portion of his life Origin.

But his eyes were incredibly fanatical.

"Dead, he's definitely dead." Cheng E panted heavily, looking toward the distant center of the explosion.

Life-Track Deprivation directly severed Lin Yuan's Karma and vitality, combined with the physical destruction of six Fifth-tier Demigods self-destructing.

Under such a double-kill, let alone a Fifth-tier Demigod, even a true divine Clone descending would have to lose a layer of skin.

Cheng E leaned against the stone wall, his brain beginning to churn.

With Lin Yuan dead, the Abyssal Blood Army would be leaderless and bound to collapse.

Next, it would be Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao's turn.

"Although Bai Ye is a coward, his real strength is somewhat worth seeing."

"His near-death counterattack should at least be able to take out two or three of Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao's Mechanical Deities."

Cheng E calculated the balance of power between the two sides in his mind.

Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao currently had eight Mechanical Deities left at most.

As long as Bai Ye could wear them down a bit, and he could find an opportunity to strike from the shadows, he would win.

Just as Cheng E was immersed in his dream of being the oriole behind the mantis, a sense of fatigue suddenly surged into his heart.

His eyelids became heavy as if they weighed a thousand pounds, and his thinking began to slow down severely.

His limbs grew weak, and even standing became extremely difficult.

Identity Card side effect: Sloth.

"Damn it... why now of all times..." Cheng E bit the tip of his tongue, trying to use the pain to stimulate himself to stay awake.

But the sense of laziness originating from the depths of his Soul was difficult to dispel through physical means.

Right now, he just wanted to lie on the ground and sleep comfortably until he died.

Cheng E desperately dug his nails into his palms, bracing his crumbling body.

In the sky, the sphere of destruction finally exhausted its energy.

The smoke, dust, and turbulent energy gradually dissipated.

The space where Lin Yuan had just been located had collapsed.

All that remained there was a deep, void black hole, its edges covered in dense spatial cracks, slowly healing.

Nearby, Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao's eyes flickered with constantly refreshing data streams.

"Target area energy scan complete."

"Vital signs: Zero."

"Divine Fire fluctuation: Zero."

"Danger neutralized."

Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao's core processor stopped overclocking, and her body temperature began to drop.

Although she had lost the combat power of six Demigods, she had successfully killed Lin Yuan.

In her logical judgment, this combat loss ratio was an absolute victory.

She turned her head, her mechanical eyes locking onto Bai Ye in the distance.

"Order issued: Clear remaining enemies. Primary target: Bai Ye."

In mid-air, the three Mechanical Deities that had just broken free from the constraints of the River of Styx.

Along with the other five deities on the defensive line below, they simultaneously turned and locked their energy onto Bai Ye.

Eight Demigods, plus the mechanical army regrouping below.

Bai Ye looked at this formation, his scalp tingling.

"How the Hell am I supposed to fight this!" Bai Ye immediately gave up the idea of resisting.

He waved his bone staff, preparing to make a run for it.

As for those low-level skeletons, if they died, they died; saving his own life was most important.

Just as Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao ordered a full-scale attack and Bai Ye prepared to flee.

From deep within the black hole, which was about to heal, came an unusual sound.

The sound was muffled and long, like the breath of some unknown existence.

The gaze of everyone on the battlefield was drawn toward it.

Suddenly, a hand reached out from the void black hole.

The back of the hand was covered in dark cyan ancient patterns, exuding an aura of pure dead silence.

Yet the palm was surging with brilliant golden light.

Even more eerily, the hand lacked any texture of flesh and blood.

It was entirely forged from materialized Divine Fire and Soul Power intertwined.

The large hand rested on the edge of the black hole.

It tore with force.

"Rip!"

The space that was healing was ripped open by this hand.

Everyone's heart on the battlefield skipped a beat at this moment.

The data stream in Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao's eyes fell into chaos, and alarms sounded in her core processor.

"Warning! Unknown high-energy reaction!"

"Warning! Unable to parse target life form!"

Vice Monitor Chu Xiaoxiao could not understand the opponent's form at all.

Could it be that the underlying rules of this Rubiks Cube World had been broken, spawning a hidden final boss?

The opening widened.

A figure slowly walked out from the void.

The moment they saw the figure clearly, everyone gasped.

It was a demon that looked as if it had crawled out from the deepest depths of Hell.

Its appearance barely retained a human outline, and its height had increased to nearly three meters.

Its entire body was intertwined with dark cyan energy and golden Divine Fire. There was no skin, no muscle, no bone.

On its faceless countenance, only two vortexes burning with gray, eerie light slowly rotated.

Although it was unrecognizable.

But that aura of unruliness, wildness, and the familiar fluctuation of Divine Power allowed everyone to recognize his identity.

Lin Yuan.

He was still alive.

No, to be precise, his current state had already surpassed the conventional meaning of "alive."

Bai Ye sat on the back of the Dragon, completely stunned.

The bone staff he held was frozen in mid-air, his mouth open wide enough to fit a fist.

"What... what the Hell is this thing?" Bai Ye swallowed, feeling a chill run down his back.

He did not feel happy that Lin Yuan had survived.

On the contrary, he was panicking intensely.

As an expert in manipulating Souls and Death Qi, Bai Ye could perceive just how terrifying the aura emanating from this "Demon Lin Yuan" before him was.

A high-dimensional sense of oppression that completely transcended life and death.

He seriously suspected.

That Lin Yuan had lost his human sanity and turned into a monster that only knew how to kill.

What if this thing didn't recognize its own kin and turned to gnaw on him too?

The Demon Lin Yuan hovered in mid-air.

He slowly raised his featureless head and looked at the sky.

Two gray, eerie lights flickered in his eye sockets.

He felt great.

Unprecedentedly good.

Those few short seconds just now felt as long as several epochs to him.

When Cheng E's coin sank into his brow, the Law power of Life-Track Deprivation severed all his connections with this world.

His vitality was extracted, and his Divine Fire faced the desperate situation of being extinguished.

Following closely behind was the destructive energy generated by the self-destruction of six Demigods.

Under such a double baptism, his Physical Body hadn't even lasted a microsecond.

Bones, blood, and cells were all annihilated in the extreme high temperature.

But just at the extreme of death, where his Physical Body had perished and his Soul was about to dissipate.

Lin Yuan did not feel fear.

He felt a beautiful serenity.

In that darkness, he saw the threads of Law.

He saw the partial truth of the forbidden Law [End and Origin].

Life and death were never opposing poles.

They were a closed loop.

The end of the End is the Origin.

Living through death.

These four words were just an empty slogan in textbooks.

But when Lin Yuan truly abandoned his obsession with his Physical Body and let death consume him, he truly touched this door.

At the moment his Physical Body vaporized, Lin Yuan made a crazy decision.

He did not use Divine Power to resist the explosion, but instead took the opportunity to completely disintegrate his remaining Divine Fire and Soul.

He used himself as a furnace and the destructive energy of the explosion as fuel.

He applied the divine technique [Wither-Bloom Mark] in reverse upon himself.

Wither to the extreme, and it becomes Thrive.

Life-Track Deprivation drained his vitality, so he would use pure Death Qi to recast his Foundation.

Six Demigods destroyed his Physical Body, so he would use Divine Fire and Law to reshape his body.

He walked in the narrow gap between life and death.

Every shattering of his Soul was accompanied by a higher-dimensional reorganization.

In the end, he crossed that boundary.

Shedding his mortal coil, his body was forged by Law.

His current body was no longer constrained by the fragility of a human Physical Body.

As long as the Divine Fire did not extinguish and the Law did not collapse, he was an immortal existence.

This wonderful experience of controlling everything and transcending the rules intoxicated Lin Yuan.