The Ninth Herrscher's Thousand-Person Origin, an Unsolvable Calamity! Conceptual Enemies Transcend Physical Divine Power

Xiao Xiao tugged at his sleeve, saying somewhat uneasily, "But... that city gives me a very uncomfortable feeling, it's too cold."

Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi exchanged a glance, both seeing the gravity in each other's eyes. Xu Sanshi's usual playful demeanor vanished. "Didn't you hear that voice just now? It said it was a 'calamity' assessment. This city is likely to suffer."

Inside the imperial palace of the Sun Moon Empire, the rulers, including Dai Hao and Xue Ye (who witnessed this scene through dimensional shifts), were more wary and envious of that highly advanced civilization.

However, the scene did not show war or earth-shattering clashes of Soul Skill. Instead, it zoomed in and focused on a series of insignificant little people.

[Honkai is a trial the universe sends to select civilizations. The Herrscher are the agents of the Will of Honkai.]

[In the first eight Honkai, humanity faced Gods- like entities that controlled the physical and conceptual Laws of wind, lightning, fire, death, and ice. But in the ninth Honkai, the strategy changed.]

[The Ninth Herrscher, whose name is Domination. She is not one person, but a thousand.]

Accompanied by the system's narration, the images on the Light Screen flickered continuously.

The scene depicts a mediocre office worker, ruthlessly insulted and fired by his boss, desperately looking at his seriously ill wife's bills in the rainy night; a girl, bullied and isolated by her classmates, pushed down the stairs, lies in a pool of blood, her eyes filled with resentment; and a superhuman, misunderstood by the public and betrayed by the halo of heroism, ultimately suffers disgrace and ruin...

Without exception, these people are all "losers" who have suffered huge setbacks in real life and harbor resentment.

"This is... what they call Herrscher?" Tian Hen rubbed his temples. As a powerful being who controlled the Rules space and the universe, he couldn't understand it. "These are just ordinary people with no strength to even kill a chicken. They're not even as good as Level 1 Ability Users. How could they become Calamities?"

Qin Emperor Ye Yinzhu, quietly stroked the strings of his zither, keenly discerning the hidden meaning within the scene. "No, Brother Tian Hen, look into their eyes. In their eyes, there is an extremely terrifying commonality. It is... utter despair and extreme hatred for the world."

Just then, the narration on the Light Screen sounded again, carrying a suffocating sense of oppression.

[A thousand losers, abandoned by the world, at the depths of despair and resentment, heard the whispers of 'God'.]

[The Will of Honkai completely merges with their Negative Emotions. No powerful bloodline is needed, no arduous training required; as long as the darkness within one's heart is deep enough, one can become Herrscher.]

"Boom--"

In the scene, countless eerie red and black energies shot into the sky from these ordinary people. Their faces became distorted, and their consciousness was pulled into an unknown space.

In the God Realm Committee, Rong Nianbing, the God of Emotion, suddenly stood up, the seven divine swords in his hands emitting a piercing clang, his usually gentle face now filled with horror.

"This is impossible!" Rong Nianbing exclaimed in shock.

"Nianbing, what's wrong?" Tang San turned and asked, rarely seeing his colleague so out of sorts.

Rong Nianbing took a deep breath, her voice trembling slightly. "Emotions... those are Negative Emotions to the extreme! In the Douluo Universe, the seven emotions and six desires can be transformed into power, but that requires an extremely high realm and a long period of cultivation. However, this so-called ' Will of Honkai ' has skipped all the processes, using the Negative Emotions of a thousand mortals as nourishment to forcibly catalyze a monster capable of destroying the world! What a domineering and irrational method this is!"

Deep within the Star Dou Great Forest.

The recently revived Gu Yuena's exquisite face was shrouded in a layer of frost. She gazed at the humans being maliciously devoured within the Light Screen, a mocking sneer curling her lips, "Humans, you pride yourselves on being the most intelligent of all beings, yet your hearts are filled with filth and selfishness. This so-called Ninth Herrscher is nothing more than the evil fruit of humanity's own making."

Tang Wulin stood beside her, clenching his fists, but he didn't know how to refute her, because the bullying and betrayal shown on the Light Screen were commonplace in the Douluo Continent.

Tang Ya, the former victim of the Evil Soul Master forces and the leader of the Tang Sect, was trembling in Bei Bei's arms. She had fallen into Evil Soul Master because of hatred and was all too familiar with the feeling of Domination resentment.

"Bei Bei, the aura emanating from them is ten thousand times more terrifying than the most evil Evil Soul Master. Evil Soul Master merely absorb resentment to cultivate, but these people are themselves aggregates of resentment!" Tang Ya's voice trembled.

Welcome to -- Theater of Domination.

Accompanied by a strange yet cheerful circus tune, the images on the Light Screen instantly changed.

It is no longer the real world, but a bizarre space that is absurd, distorted, and filled with Rules geometric shapes.

Broken gears hang in the sky, and a black and white chessboard is laid out on the ground. In the center of the stage, there are no real humans, only countless "puppet masters" whose bodies are pieced together from wood and whose faces are painted with eerie smiles.

[The first puppet appears.]

[The second puppet appears.]

[The thousandth puppet appears.]

Hundreds upon hundreds of marionettes danced wildly in the theater, emitting shrill laughter. Each puppet represented a "loser" in the real world. In this space, they shared Remembrance, shared hatred for humanity, and shared the Authority of the Herrscher.

"A spiritual purgatory... an independent space entirely constructed from consciousness and Laws!" As the God of Emotion and a powerful spiritual being, Huo Yuhao saw through the essence of this theater at a glance. His Spiritual Eye flashed with intense light. "Such terrifying spatial mastery. This theater doesn't exist at any coordinate in the Real Universe; it's built within the subconscious of humanity. As long as Negative Emotions persist, this theater will never collapse!"

"Not only that," the Fire Empress's red lips parted slightly, her beautiful eyes reflecting the flames in the theater, "Those puppets may seem fragile, but they share absolute information. Kill one, and the others will instantly know your weakness. This is equivalent to facing a thousand like-minded enemies simultaneously, and... they are immortal, because their true form is hidden deep within the theater."

Upon hearing this, Purple Emperor, Ji Dong, and the others all gasped in shock.

In their understanding, defeating an enemy means destroying their body or soul. But what use is a punch to God King air against a monster formed from "concepts" and "emotions"?