Monsters Will Die if They Are Killed

The Ascension Empire is an ancient galactic country with a history of 820,000 years. It is an imperial multi-ethnic and multi-element country.

The origin of the empire is located in the edge of the galactic disk near the Small Magellanic Cloud, in a remote area near the galactic halo. If in the language of the earth, the shining section where the Cernostians are located is the second ring of the imperial capital, then the origin of the ascended empire The ground has moved to the underground caves in the northwest mountains.

There is no paradise for life in this remote area. There are less than twenty star systems within a vast area of ​​nearly two thousand light-years in diameter, and the only planet that harbors life is a planet far away from its parent star. Death Star'.

This planet has a harsh environment. It is wrapped in ice and snow, and the oxygen concentration in the ocean is extremely low. However, there are many volcanoes around the equator that are constantly spewing out sulfur dioxide and other gases, catalyzing the icehouse effect to become increasingly extreme - below zero A storm of 100 or 200 degrees Celsius stirred up on the snow-white flat plain, and in the refraction of the thin sunlight, it set off a rainbow light storm like ice lanterns.

For other intelligent life, such an environment is enough to trigger a mass extinction of life, and it is not surprising that it completely became a Death Star.

But on this planet, a species that is constantly striving for self-improvement has emerged as a result.

A kind of 'ice crystal' life.

Not only heat can breed life, nor only carbon-based, silicon-based, or elemental life involving spiritual energy can be born in such an extreme environment - even the fierce and unrestrained star hurricanes in gas giants In it, consciousness belonging to the wind can also be bred, not to mention a more stable ice star?

As long as there is a structure that can stably replicate itself and record information, life may be born.

In the ice around the volcano, a kind of crystal life is being born. Under the high-pressure environment at the bottom of the frozen ocean, a crystal structure that can self-replicate and proliferate appears. It is similar to a gem, a kind of The self-generating 'snowflake crystal' has a dense molecular structure, but its density remains unchanged, allowing it to accumulate more information.

On this geologically active planet, but frozen by the far-solar environment, ice crystals spread in accordance with plate activity, re-condensing discrete ice crystals and water with unstable structures as a reproduction process, and are constantly changing due to volcanic movements Dissolve, reconstruct, undergo a slow 'evolution'.

Their evolution is very slow, just like the condensation of gemstones. It takes a long time to evolve, reconstruct and evolve. However, using internal heat vibration and mechanical waves in ice crystals as information transmission media, they 'react' very quickly. After the ice crystals formed at the bottom of the planet's ice sea and initially formed stable large-scale ice crystals that were close to the multicellular life clusters of life on Earth, they acquired preliminary intelligence.

Ice crystal life was born on this silent and fierce, cold and hot planet. They spread their clusters with the help of geological movements, and even accelerated their evolution with the help of the high heat in the cracks in the earth's crust and the high pressure of the ice sea.

Their tool is ice, methane ice, and pure ice crystals are all their materials. They use this tool to induce the heat of the planet, burn and dissolve the ice sea, and create a brand new living area.

They worship the plate cracks spreading at the bottom of the ice sea, worship the insignificant light in volcanoes and seafloor ice. This group of beings whose existence is based on cold, but yearns for heat and 'evolution' has even created a life based on ice and fire. A primitive religion that worshiped the god of creation and destruction.

Because ice crystal life will turn into discrete ice crystals or water after death, and these materials will give birth to new ice crystal life, so destruction and birth are one for ice crystal life.

And when they, yearning for light, headed towards the top of the ice sea, it was already four million years after they became wise.

Without the high pressure at the bottom of the ice sea, the structure of ice crystal life is no longer stable. It will be a very long time until they reconstruct the crystal structure that can adapt to the low pressure environment.

As for how shocked the ice crystal life was when they left the dark bottom of the ice sea and stared at the ice storm shining in the distant sun and reflecting the rainbow light in the sky, that was a 'beauty' that carbon-based life could not understand.

Like all intelligent life, they became curious.

I am curious about the nature of the ice sea and the planet I am in, I am curious about the origin of the rainbow light storm, I am curious about where the seemingly unreachable light in the sky comes from, and I am curious about the principle of my birth.

And how to get to the places you’re curious about.

Ice crystal life has limitations. The surface temperature is higher than the bottom of the ice sea. The ice crystal life dissolves and reconstructs faster. However, it is difficult for them to speed up and send their compatriots to the sky - accelerated birth. The heat would ignite their methane ice tools, melting the ice that allowed them to exist.

For ice crystal beings, there is only one way to explore the sky, the stars and the mysteries of the distance.

That is to build a tower.

A tower over 400,000 meters high.

This is a long time.

Dissolving, moving the mass of the ice sea, and condensing a tall tower on the surface of the earth. Constant dissolution and reshaping is a process that requires all ice crystal beings to devote their lives generation after generation. This process lasts for millions of years. The time of building the tower Even longer than the time it took for them to reach the surface from the bottom of the sea.

In the process of building the tower, they encountered many difficulties.

For example, the shaking of strong winds, geological movements caused by volcanic eruptions, disintegration caused by storm friction, melting caused by the focus of high-level sunlight, etc...

The ice crystal structure is unstable, the planning is wrong and needs to be rebuilt, the location chosen is wrong and not at the equator, it is affected by the force of the planet's rotation, etc...

However, this is merely a difficulty, not an unanswerable question.

In the process of building the tower, they gradually mastered the secrets of the planet, understood the nature of ice, and learned the limitations of their own race.

They even know that as residents of an ice star, the process of entering space is almost equivalent to suicide, and the light they yearn for is actually a scorching fireball that can burn their entire planet, a hell that can destroy all ice crystal life. .

——But so what?

In the process of exploration, constantly dissolve and reshape yourself.

Go beyond your natural limitations, go beyond who you are.

In the process of building the tower, make the tower better step by step, surpassing the height you have climbed in the past step by step, and even surpassing all the mountains on the planet, transcending the atmosphere of the planet, and going straight into the universe. .

This is already the joy of ice crystal life and the meaning of survival.

【Beyond】

From the bottom of the planet's deep ice sea, melt the ice step by step and climb to the top.

Then he started from the surface, which was nothing but light and storm, building towers of ice, transcending the atmosphere of the planet, and heading towards the even more empty vacuum of the universe.

A world beyond the ice.

Beyond the surface of the planet.

Beyond the turbulent atmosphere.

Beyond the vacuum of the universe.

When the life of ice [transcends] its own life essence and replaces part of its own crystals with mineral crystals, achieving a 'mechanical' transformation similar to that of human beings, they embark on a journey to the universe.

They began to transcend all constraints and rush to the other side of the future.

Even transcendence becomes the goal in itself - nothing to do with freedom, strength, choice, or anything else.

[Transcendence] is not about being better than others, [transcending oneself] is a way of life.

This is the lifestyle I chose when I ascended to the empire.

Even though there are thousands of different races in the Empire, and even though the capital of the Empire has been moved to the hidden subspace realm of the Shining Zone, the core will not change.

Whether it is carbon-based, silicon-based, sulfur-based, amino-based, or crystal life like them, or plasma life on stars, or gas life on gas giants, the essence is the same.

Because transcendence is the essence of life, as long as you uphold this point of view, sublimating your original self and 'ascending' to a higher level is the 'right' path.

As for the process of transcendence, whether it is to transform into a giant of light, or to transform hensin into the ultimate life through biology or mechanization, or to directly merge into a super robot, that is another matter.

'Iridescent Crystal·Ning Hui' is the Ascended Empire's ambassador to Earth. His name in the language of Earth means 'ice crystals that can refract seven-color rainbow light under the sunlight, the radiance of eternal tranquility'. He is a very artistic person. It sounds like a very cultural name, but earthly language cannot perfectly express this beauty.

The Ascension Empire welcomes people who transcend themselves by any means, but this kind of transcendence does not mean becoming stronger by any means. They believe that systematically and regularly looking for methods and channels to become stronger, and then surpassing one's own limits step by step is orthodox.

Whether it is the transcendental transformation of spiritual energy, the comprehensive transformation of mechanization, the cultivation of information cluster base from the genetic level, or the direct transcendent life elementalization, they are all the paths to ascension.

Ning Hui is a traditional Ascended Empire man. He looks like a silver-white humanoid model - of course, his body is an octagonal ice crystal prism, and his current body only imitates the human body structure.

Like all Imperial people, they all regard constantly surpassing themselves as their life goal, and becoming stronger is their way of life.

However, even the people of the Ascended Empire, which sounds very extreme, are not willing to become stronger in the dusk way.

Even if you join the Void Cult, you can obtain all kinds of secret knowledge and inheritance as quickly as possible, and you can quickly surpass your original self and become stronger, the same is true.

Because that is not transcendence, but madness before nothingness.

That's why Ning Hui was shocked by Su Zhou's words on the screen in front of him.

【……What! ? 】

He turned his head first and said in shock to the representative of the Earth, who was already sweating on his forehead: [Is it possible that the Earth side has joined the Void Cult? ! 】

Similar words also appeared in the mouths of ambassadors from other alien civilizations.

No wonder.

After all, Su Zhou's words I faced the 'god of dusk' and obtained the true and correct path of dusk sound like a sentence pronounced by fundamentalist believers against revisionist believers - or vice versa.

In short, it smells like orthodoxy fighting heresy.

And calling himself orthodox doesn't mean that Zhu Zhou feels that he is also a member of the Dusk family?

Everyone, wait a minute!

In this regard, even after reaching the leadership level, the representative of the Earth, who was still sweating on the back of his forehead, was miserable, but he still showed the determination of a diplomat: Let us wait a little longer, listen. Let’s listen to Minister Su Zhou’s explanation!”

——Then he kicked the ball to Su Zhou.

[No need to worry, everyone. 】

Regarding this, Su Zhou had long known that his words would definitely cause misunderstandings, but this was exactly the method he used to attract the attention of everyone present.

Facing those ambassadors of alien forces who were panicking and wondering whether they had surrendered to dusk, the young man replied with a smile: [I believe that in most civilizations, primitive religious beliefs should have been born, and there have also been cases that are completely different from the 'doctrine'. Different distortion systems. 】

[Religions that require kindness, in turn, persecute good people; religions that encourage innovation, in turn, restrict innovative methods; doctrines that aim at the well-being of all people, can still be twisted into an organization of looting and exploitation by people with greed in their hearts]

[This is exactly what I mean: all the ancient lords, the 'those evil gods' we are familiar with, most of their essences are similar to those original 'teachings', and there are many intelligent lives and endless, everyone according to their own desires, their own Interpreting these teachings based on your own intentions and understanding will naturally lead to distortion]

[The Order of Nothingness is the most distorted one]

With that said, Su Zhou gestured for Shao Shuangyue to move the camera behind the Death Star.

Immediately, all the alien ambassadors on Callisto saw the Ten Faces of the End that had transformed into a 'Twilight Cocoon'.

[That is the Void Annihilator, who destroyed nearly 3,000 interstellar civilizations in the last 40,000 years! ? 】

Immediately, Ning Hui, the ambassador of the Ascension Empire, let out a breath of cold air. It was hard for him not to be shocked: [He, was he sealed by you? ! 】

The Ascension Empire and the Ten Faces of the End have also fought against each other. In its heyday, the Ten Faces of the End carried the laments of thousands of civilizations and the blessings of the Void Order. Many galaxies were dim wherever they passed. From the subspace, it looked like a sky that directly connected many stars. The obscuring dark shadows, just passing by, can cause the destruction of some small civilizations.

The Ascension Empire, which has always ignored race and regards all life as the seed of ascension, will naturally be hostile to the Annihilator who destroys the seeds of civilization. The two sides have been fighting in various major regions of the galaxy for tens of thousands of years, with each having its own victory or defeat.

But, want to completely seal an Annihilator?

How can this be!

[No, I did not seal Him]

But what Su Zhou said next was extremely unreasonable: [I just debated scriptures with him, convinced him, and made him repent, start practicing the true way of dusk and dusk, and become autistic]

[Now, He is a cocoon and our research sample, which allows us to study the form of this Dusk Familia and better create various methods against the Dusk Familia]

Ning Hui: [? ? ? 】

Discussing scriptures?

Can scripture analysis convince an Annihilator of the Order of the Void who was at the peak of his Omega-class psyker? Can this terrifying messenger of destruction, who destroyed thousands of civilizations and affected more star regions, fall into isolation and turn himself into a cocoon? !

How could he believe it! How could there be a scenario in this world where you could defeat the final BOSS just by talking nonsense!

But it is what it is.

Later, Su Zhou showed on the screen the whole process of persuading Jumian Jumian not to self-destruct but to fall into the embrace of Dusk.

【This this……】

Su Zhou succeeded in the sutra analysis, and the process of causing Zhan Yan to shut himself up on the spot even made the ice crystal structure in Ning Hui's body tend to melt a little, and the gaseous life next to him expanded several times, obviously falling into Great confusion.

And Su Zhou finally succeeded in convincing everyone that he indeed had the Dusk Noble Phantasm in his hand that was specially designed for members of the Void Cult.

Moreover, he reluctantly believed that he had indeed met the true form of Dusk and Twilight and obtained the other party's true source of scriptures, so he could carry out a dimensionality reduction attack on the Void Cult.

[The original meaning of Dusk of the Order of Nothingness has extremely serious flaws - I even suspect that their supporters are probably not Dusk]

After the display, Su Zhou solemnly announced to everyone: [Behind them, there are probably other ancient lords pretending to be people of dusk... or even some kind of 'monster']

Regarding the monster, Su Zhou didn't give much explanation, but the meaning was very clear and everyone could understand it.

[Just like the reinforcements of a void cult that I saw when cutting off the wormhole, the 'Flood' is similar to a monster. All the intelligent souls of civilized races are for the blood food that supports his own existence... The real dusk When the dependents saw this kind of existence, they would have already turned him into nothingness. How could they join forces with the Flood Demon? 】

Su Zhou had long been confused about this.

The erosion of the Order of Nothingness by other great beings, and even the replacement and distortion of the Twilight Familiar, probably started before a very ancient era.

For example, in Star Eater's memory, there is something about the forerunner of the oldest Order of Nothingness, the legendary creator of the space-time rift in the Laniakea Super Galaxy Cluster, and the 'Pioneer of the First Generation of Order of Nothingness', which is very inconsistent with the Dusk Familiar. Even the definition of family members.

Why?

nonsense!

The real Dusk Familia, how can they find the time to hit the universe and create space-time rifts!

If there were really that level of Super Dusk Familiar, people would sleep in the heat-death universe, or sleep peacefully in the vastly expanding silent universe.

If it doesn't work, it will directly transform into a central super black hole, sit inside the event horizon and watch the reincarnation of the universe, waiting for the arrival of nothingness!

Can those who hit the seals of other universes be called Dusk Familiar? Who in the serious Twilight Family has time to move around!

There is an easy-to-understand analogy: Has anyone seen Dusk break through the great seal?

No, right? Even though the great seal itself was broken, Dusk didn't even bother to walk out of the prison door.

A truth.

Su Zhou had reason to suspect that either the oldest pioneer of the Void Religion himself was a member of the Dusk who was bewitched and distorted, or he was a fake member of other great beings.

The news brought by the young man will undoubtedly shock the entire galaxy and even the universe.

It directly denies the foundation of the existence of the Nihility Cult and denies the 'correctness' they insist on.

Compared with physical destruction, this fundamental lack can even eliminate the possibility of the Nihility Cult reappearing in the future.

[This information must be conveyed to His Majesty immediately! 】

Ning Hui thought of this, and now he couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to pass this information back to His Majesty the God Emperor of God Qixing.

However, next, a question asked by the Celestian ambassador stopped the anxious ambassador (or madam, ice crystal life has no gender).

【Mr. Su Zhou】

The Celestian said in proficient earth language: [Although you showed the process of 'discussion' to persuade the Ten Faces of the End... But according to my observation, before He was convinced, the Ten Faces had already been defeated by you. , on the verge of self-destruction]

[What I want to ask is... what level has your current strength reached? 】

As soon as this sentence came out, it seemed to wake up the dreamer.

The Ecological Hall, which had been slowly calming down, suddenly fell into a commotion.

——Yes, the previous situation was obviously the result of the final defeat of the Ten Faces... Su Zhou's soul has not yet returned, and his body can defeat a former Omega-level psyker?

Then his strength...

[We are indeed almost at Tianzun]

And Su Zhou also replied lightly: [After a while, maybe I can really advance to Tianzun, it’s almost there]

These words that finalized the facts made the whole place fall into silence again.

Five years after his psychic return, Su Zhou started from scratch and broke through to the level of α-level psyker. This was already unbelievable. Except for some special races, few carbon-based lifeforms could achieve such a great feat.

And after he traveled to another world for two years, when he returned, he was secretly about to break through to the level of an Omega-level psyker and reach the realm of the Heavenly Lord?

Let alone the Milky Way, there is no such example in the observable universe!

While other former Heavenly Lords are still practicing hard and intending to restore their peak cultivation, a brand new Heavenly Lord is about to be born from scratch... No matter how you think about it, it is a cold joke.

The smile represented by the Earth representative is particularly stiff.

He really wanted to celebrate, but halfway through he froze due to excessive shock.

Behind the Earth representatives, the Earth's top officials who were simultaneously audio-visualizing the entire meeting had unwavering expressions, but their emotions were all equally shocking and inexplicable.

Among them, Goddess Milo was even more stunned.

The mission tower manager felt his ears were out of whack.

——It seems like just yesterday this little guy went to the Mission Tower to inscribe and practice the law and break through to the Heavenly Immortal. Why is he trying to break through to the Heavenly Lord again?

——Did I accidentally fall asleep for decades or hundreds of years?

It's no wonder that Goddess Milo is in a trance. After all, she is a small world consciousness with an endless lifespan, the spirit of the mission tower, and her concept of time is different from that of humans.

Even a human would find Su Zhou's advancement speed incredible, let alone her.

And just when the three-eyed cyan goddess doubted the accuracy of her time recording, Su Zhou seemed to be able to hear the other party's confusion, and nodded with a chuckle: Actually, meeting the Lord of Twilight this time is really helpful to me. The practice is of great help]

[I have recast my practice and revised the foundation of my Taoism again - when I return to Earth, I will probably go to the mission tower again to imprint my new inheritance]

Ah this?

Hearing this, Goddess Milo was startled. Her expression looked a little happy and a little painful: Is it coming again?!

It is undoubtedly a good thing for the Preaching Tower to be able to record a brand new Tianzun Tiandi level cultivation method.

This is the meaning of her existence.

However, Su Zhou's inheritance has an inexplicable aura and contains the power of many ancient lords. Every time she burns it, she feels very strange and strange...

It's hard to put into words.

And on the distant earth, with the joyful and tangled expression of Goddess Milo, Su Zhou smiled calmly and said: [In short, the Void Cult is no longer a terrifying opponent with no solution, and their mysterious veil has been peeled off by me. Next, they are nothing more than a group of miserable people who have been distorted from being 'correct']

【Now, I will return】

With this announcement, the vacuum of the universe and the Judgment Death Star began to shake and transform in the shining psychic thunder.

The seemingly solid all-metal spherical Death Star is now transforming under the will of the young man.

It began to rotate and stretch, just like a ball of dough being stretched by a ramen master, and gradually transformed into a long 'dragon' shape!

Long or short, fat or thin?

Meaningless!

boom!

The jump engine was activated at the joints of the dragon's spine, and a blue light shone on the dorsal fin, causing the entire metallic cosmic dragon to emit a cloud-like halo of blue aura.

[Ready, everyone]

After ending the communication with the distant earth, Su Zhou transferred his will back to his body. He laughed amidst Shao Shuangyue's cheers and the expectant eyes of Jiu Ming and Tang Yuan: [Let's go home! 】

The star sea dragon roared, dragging a long ribbon of clouds and mist in the starry sky.

Then, ripple-like space fluctuations enveloped Shenlong, and then took him to the other side of distant time and space.

Su Zhou, who has been away from the earth for two years, is on his way home!

And it was the Cernostians' golden fleet that was belatedly arriving to pick them up from afar!

But it's not surprising, after all, the golden fleet and patrols will always be late no matter what time it is.

at the same time.

The other side of the universe.

Subspace, the home system of the Trade Federation, the capital of trade.

Faint yellow stars illuminate the entire subspace galaxy.

In the completely mechanized core of the planet, inside the pure and blazing star furnace, six pairs of eyes shrouded in endless brilliance slowly opened, bloomed with ice-blue brilliance, and then closed tightly again.

[In the end, the Ten Faces...actually fell into nothingness? 】

[Obviously everything in this universe has not received the gospel, so it has returned to nothingness...Tenmen, you are really selfish]

Sighing like this, the ice-blue eyes of the leader of the Void Cult were tightly closed, but his huge body swayed gently, which caused the entire trading city to begin to shake violently. The earthquake on the surface proved that he was desperate in his heart. Not acting so calm,

After being silent for a long time, He opened his eyes again and made up his mind.

[Our way of nothingness is truly correct... If there is nothingness, what is the meaning? Without destruction, how can it be correct? 】

[I will pray...the evening light, guide me]

【Guide me in the right direction】

After a brief silence, a voice sounded.

【——No truth, no destiny】

【——There is no way of heaven, no supreme being】

【——There is no eternity, no immortality】

【——Never perfect, never omnipotent】

【——Everything, all colors, no redemption, no meaning】

He began to chant, chanting the ancient holy words of praise.

In front of the six pairs of eyes, complex geometric crests began to appear.

[——Praise to the dusk, showing me my end! 】

——He chanted.

then.

The aura from the far end of eternity was drawn, causing the stars in the sky to rotate and turn into phantoms.

Finally, it was revealed in front of Him.

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