647: Chapter 699 Reaching the Summit of Divine Ascension!

Under the watchful eyes of Fama and the other nobles, An Ke finally became a Sequence Nine.

Now, what they needed to do was wait for An Ke's origin to reach the divine level, then help him fulfill the conditions for apotheosis.

At that time, they would hold a civilization-wide live broadcast on the Azure Planet.

Through the broadcast, they would mobilize humanity's reverence for An Ke, making the majority of humans recognize him from the bottom of their hearts, achieving a unity of minds.

Then, they would have tens of millions of people sacrifice their own blood.

The nobles themselves would use the blood to construct a massive promotion ritual, enveloping the entire planet...

Finally completing the Fusion.

By that stage, even if humanity regained their senses and realized they had become sacrifices for a divine promotion,

it would be to no avail; no one could stop An Ke from ascending to the god level.

Even An Ke himself would be unable to stop it.

Tike, Fama, and the other nobles were also prepared for the moment An Ke would come to settle accounts with them.

As previously discussed,

at that point, the Ordered Universe would have been successfully preserved.

An Ke settling scores with them would be an internal family matter and would not threaten the survival of the Ordered Universe.

So it didn't matter.

Besides, it was difficult for one god-level being to kill another.

For now, they only had to wait for An Ke to reach the divine level.

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Inside the game.

The outskirts of Ascension Peak.

At this moment, Xiao was already broken and battered.

Under the devouring of the many "An Ke" clones, he couldn't even heal himself.

Yet Xiao continued to chuckle "Hehe."

“In this game, the ultimate winner will be me!”

“Sequence Nine is An Ke's end point.”

“An Ke will absolutely never ascend to the god level...”

Jingang, controlling an "An Ke," shouted fiercely, “Skeleton man, what kind of nonsense are you spewing?”

“If Master wants to ascend, he will ascend. There is nothing he cannot do.”

After speaking, Jingang threw a punch.

Xiao was sent flying, crashing heavily onto the ground.

He was now so weak that he couldn't even transfer the damage to his Mental Strength.

Of course, another reason was that his Mental Strength had also taken a heavy hit.

The team led by Huahua had devoured Xiao's mental sea until it was in tatters, with almost nothing left.

However, Xiao lying on the ground—no! Rather, the Disorderly Existence—was still laughing.

Even though he was currently like a stray dog.

This made everyone feel very displeased.

Even at this point, he was still laughing.

Erha flickered and appeared in front of the Disorderly Existence.

With his back to the opponent, he said, “This is the end for you!”

As Erha dealt the final blow to Xiao, everyone completely dealt with the Disorderly Creatures on the outskirts.

Thus, everyone gave up controlling An Ke's consciousness bodies and instead looked through An Ke's perspective from within the New World.

By now, An Ke had already reached the 97th floor.

“So fast?!”

Wu and the other contestants were incredibly shocked.

Back then, the strongest Sequence Nine demigod had taken at least several years to reach the 97th floor.

After all, the higher the floor, the greater the difficulty.

Although a Sequence Nine was already beyond the vast majority, they couldn't withstand the sheer number of enemies.

Under the siege of enemies like a rising tide, one would get injured every time.

This could be seen from how the Sequence Eights had just besieged Xiao, a Super Sequence.

Two fists are no match for four hands.

So above the 95th floor, even a Sequence Nine demigod would have to rest for a period after clearing a floor.

But An Ke had met almost no resistance, reaching the 97th floor directly!

No! It was already the 98th floor!!

Naturally, An Ke didn't need to go through the same trouble as other Sequence Nines.

At the same level and below, he was absolutely invincible.

He could assimilate any enemy, fusing them into his own origin.

The current An Ke was the strongest Sequence Nine demigod.

This meant that beneath the true gods, he was invincible.

Invincible in the truest sense.

The ability granted to him by "Natural Affinity" was a bug-level existence.

As the Disorderly Creatures on the 99th floor were assimilated by An Ke,

he arrived before the passage leading to the upper floor.

Inside the New World.

Everyone looked at this Dream-like, golden-glowing passage, their hearts filled with complex emotions.

“After all these years, we have finally arrived here...” Wu murmured.

He and some of the other contestants had much to say on the matter.

The contestants had spent at least decades here, and the longest had even been here for thousands of years.

The time spent in the game was so long that they had begun to feel that this was reality.

They had forgotten reality, forgotten the past.

After all, how many years had they actually spent in reality?

Even for long-lived civilization races, it was at most a hundred years or so.

How could that compare to the time spent in the game?

Were their former family and friends in reality still there?

“Heh...” another demigod contestant chuckled low, shaking his head and laughing at himself: “Suddenly, I'm a bit afraid to return to reality...”

“To think that even after reaching the demigod level, I would still feel fear...”

“Wahahaha! Are you afraid that since you've been on live broadcast all these years, you'll suffer social death?”

The other civilization contestants spoke and laughed, making the atmosphere quite lively for a moment.

Kata, Jin Xiaoxiao, Oufu, and the others were also very moved.

However, unlike the other contestants' sentiments,

for them, this journey was merely like going on a long business trip.

It hadn't even been a year.

At this moment, An Ke's low chuckle from above interrupted everyone's discussion.

“Everyone, don't be too optimistic.”

“This path is not the one leading to reality.”

“The path to reality seems very close, but it is also very far and very difficult.”

Hearing this, everyone nodded, finding it reasonable.

Previously, everyone thought that by clearing the last floor and getting the Holy Grail, they could reach reality.

But reality told them it wasn't like that.

This place was a cage.

To return to reality, one had to ascend to godhood and then break through the constraints of the game's rules.

Most importantly, the BOSS ahead was still extremely dangerous.

They couldn't kill the opponent; they could only interfere with its erosion of Ascension Peak and bind it within the peak as much as possible.

They had to stall until An Ke ascended to the god level.

“Alright! All preparations are complete.”

“Next is to hold back the Disorderly Existence!”

“Victory will belong to us in the end!”

“Oh!!!”

In the New World, thousands of people cheered in unison.

An Ke no longer hesitated and stepped onto the Dream-like stairs radiating golden light.

“Clack, clack, clack!”

Accompanied by the sound of footsteps,

soon, the 99th floor appeared before everyone.

This place was very different from the other floors below.

The floors below each had a different landscape or scene.

But the 99th floor was empty.

It was as if it stood above the clouds.

And in the middle of the vast white expanse stood a throne.

A person sat on the throne.

He wore a mask, upon which were carved mysterious blue symbols.

The mysterious symbols represented the sky and the sea.

Outside.

“Azure...”

Fama murmured.

The nobles were all too familiar with this figure.

After all, in all the long years of the nobles, there were only ten thousand or so of them.

They were intimately familiar with one another.

“No! He is no longer Azure,” Tike said gloomily.

“He should be called the Disorderly Existence.”

Beneath the long robes, disorder and chaos could be seen surging.

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