Chapter 413
Sea Capital, Nanjing East Road.
Above the sky, Guanyin, who was bound by the Shine Magic, opened her eyes. She looked down compassionately at the earth, and her bronze-colored face began to writhe and crack, peeling away large amounts of dust like rain.
The next moment, this Supreme Calamity Beast dispatched by [Tathagata] crumbled with a smile, its enormous corpse decomposing in the air, from which a phantom bronze lotus flower was born, swiftly flying towards the Tianpu Bridge.
At the same time, the Seraphim, Jörmungandr, Tartarus, and Takemikazuchi, who were sealed in Pocket Dimension by the Doomsday Diva, mysteriously collapsed and shattered, extracting only their most essential authority, power, and calamity. They broke through the seal and fell together.
High in the sky, Beelzebub looked at Xie Qingyu, who was playing the Electric Guitar. Its ugly, distorted face was full of insatiable greed.
The Beast of Love let out a sigh of joy and regret. Its body, pierced and bound by the symphony of revenge, instantly disintegrated under the authority of [Amor], returning to its most primal form, transforming into scarlet eyeballs, and plummeting to the ground.
Xie Qingyu instinctively wanted to stop him, but she lost sight of the target [Nemesis of Love] and before she could start playing it again, Beelzebub's "corpse" had already disappeared.
On the other side, the apostles/ Supreme Calamity Beast bound by the Shine Magic, and the Plague Lord fighting against Iris, all went through similar processes, and together they circled around the Public Performance venue.
At that moment, in front of the bus stop, six bishops committed suicide together.
The man removed his top hat, shook his head regretfully, and gazed at the Twelve Apostles / Supreme Calamity Beast, which collapsed and crumbled, withered all over the sky, and turned into scorching Light Band that shattered the Graffiti World and passed through the grand scene of the Fairy Tale Land.
The next second, Thousand Faces exploded into a burst of fireworks.
The future is already predetermined.
The Public Performance venue, which had been shrouded by the Fairy Tale Witch and Charlotte, was finally stripped of all its protection by the combined power of the twelve Disaster God, forcibly returning to its original coordinates and crashing down.
At that moment, neither Charlotte, nor Kiriwake Yayoi, nor Xie Qingxuan had time to react.
The pillar of light that erupted from Chu Wangshu's core pierced through the clouds and reached the atmosphere the instant the coordinates returned to reality. The twelve Disaster God powers collided with it and merged into the twelve swaying Light Band, completing their unification.
[Ymir], [King of Salt], [Herdi], [Amor], [Chaos], [The Solar Era Amaterasu the Sun], [Amenominaka], [Nargal], [Tiamat], [The Old Testament], [Tathagata], [The Three Pure Ones]...
All the authority of these twelve Disaster God to descend upon the human world was poured into Chu Wangshu's body in one breath, and with this perfect vessel that could contain the calamities, an unprecedented Flower of Evil bloomed.
In just 0.001 seconds, the 30,000 spectators surrounding the stage were reduced to fragments and minced meat in the expanding pillar of light. Even the Witch decisively revived Ama-no-Habakiri, Futsu-no-Mitama, and Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi could only barely protect herself with Xie Qingxuan and were pushed dozens of miles away.
Even the Doomsday Diva, high in the sky, still casting her Shine Magic, along with Dorothea, Iris, and Xie Qingyu, could not protect the vast Sea Capital from the expanding light and heat.
One second later, the Sea Capital, home to nearly a hundred million people, was reduced to ruins. A scorching beam of light spread across the entire Great Xia, illuminating a brilliant cross on the planet's surface. This was broadcast to the Supreme Council via satellite, proclaiming... the birth of the Supreme Lord.
Volume 1: 387. The Thirteenth Disaster God, Only Silence Remains.
The world froze.
In that instant, all the Calamity Beasts and Calamity Species lurking around the world collapsed and disintegrated under the grand will, refined into their most primal forms, carrying with them the genetic fragments that had been abandoned by the calamity swarm, and flew towards the Sea Capital like a streak of meteors.
At the same time, the entire Great Xia was engulfed by the calamity. As a cross-shaped star bloomed on the surface, the flesh and blood of billions of people evaporated. The black tide, constructed from the Soul Remnants, flowed backward to the center of the intact stage, irrigating it and turning it into pure nourishment.
Chu Wangshu's body remained intact. She was like an infant returning to the womb. The Magic Armor that had been built on her body evaporated, and the black tide and calamity turned into fabric that covered her fair skin. Her jet-black hair fell like ribbons, growing to cover her ankles.
The Light Band, engraved with countless pieces of information, genes, powers, and history, is like the moon orbiting the earth, protecting it and expanding outwards layer by layer, forging a giant cocoon that encompasses thousands of miles, like a sacred heavenly kingdom.
The girl's consciousness was in a state of chaos. At the moment she opened the [Great Full Bloom] and accepted the sunflower into herself, her soul also accepted the twelve Disaster God sequence that had been continuously hindered by her parents' blessings.
If that's all there is to it, with the gifts of the stars, the end, and the hero, there's still hope of turning the tide and creating a stalemate.
It originated from the sacrifices of the twelve apostles/ Supreme Calamity Beast and seven bishops, which infused the essence, authority, and calamity of the twelve Disaster God into it, completely disrupting the balance of the scales and eroding and assimilating her perfect and pure soul.
Ultimately, we are moving towards coexisting and symbiotically coexisting with disaster-stricken communities.
In the blink of an eye, after countless cycles of birth and death, the bloated and vast horde of calamities once again coalesced into one. The twelve sequences of Disaster God collided and repelled each other, yet they were all perfectly integrated within the body of the Supreme Lord, moving towards the ultimate unity that represents great harmony.
Infinite sublimation.
Infinite evolution.
Beyond limit.
High above, the Miracle High Wall that had sheltered humanity for 17 years trembled violently, its surface covered with countless cracks, like decay that time could not resist, peeling away like a heavy rain of snowflakes, with streaks of light falling one after another.
[Undying], [Silver Mirror], [Funeral Procession], [Blood of Sighs], [Wall of Sighs]...
These blessings, once held, fell like broken bricks of a building, amidst sighs heard by all humanity. A shimmering torrential rain fell upon the Sea Capital, composing an epic and poignant scene with the sea built of calamity and the black tide intertwined with the Soul Remnants.
Chu Yuanqing is dead.
At that moment, the Relief Witch's mind was controlled by [Amor], causing the Golden Temple to vanish instantly. The spells left behind by Xie Qingyu and Charlotte were stripped away by the combined authority, and the surging light and heat killed Ji Qianju and destroyed the body of this Savior.
As a result, her weary, fragile, and cracked soul, in the instant all restrictions were lifted, returned to the [pure white] forged by its authority and blessings, and became one with it.
Thus, [Pure White] lifted its suppression of the thirteen forbidden zones, global calamities, Calamity Species, and Calamity Beasts, bringing back the young Savior who once vanquished calamities, reversed infinite possibilities, and Holding Laevateinn.
The sparks illuminated Chu Yuanqing's pure white hair. Her weak, broken, mottled soul, devoured by nothingness and nearly extinguished, was rekindled and burned fiercely under the obsession with salvation engraved in her self, concepts, life, and will.
With each breath, the scorching sunset clouds swallowed the endless black tide, and the ancient and enormous towering shadows erupted like mushroom clouds. The demonic sword that had accompanied her through the first cycle of time, carrying the mythical concept of world destruction, descended once more like a meteor from the heavens.
At this moment, the blessings bestowed upon all humanity in the first playthrough return one by one from [Pure White], along with the Disaster God authority that was once plundered, which is also fused into the body and flesh as they are intertwined.
The gilded light in Chu Yuanqing's eyes shattered; her left eye bore the mark of authority from the Old Testament, while her right eye displayed the lotus pattern of the Tathagata. Her hair sometimes crystallized, sometimes melted, like the snow atop the Tianshan Mountains, carrying the power of the King of Salt.
That intense heat, enough to burn the universe, is concentrated in the heart. The Golden Law of the [Solar Era] is bound here, unable to move. The branches of [Ymir] pierce through cells and bones, and the scales forged by [Herdi] bloom deep within the soul.
There are also six other powers, as in the past, that bless oneself, paying a price for the moment of blessing.
In the past 17 years, she had never felt so relaxed. Even the curse of the Sea of Truth became as light as dust as she reached the ultimate realm, reforged the Light of the Soul, transcended the unity of heaven and man, and returned to the ultimate realm of the Martial God.
This is the ultimate last gasp before death.
From this moment forward, she could be consumed at any time, forgetting everything, sinking into nothingness, and swallowed by the Sea of Truth.
Time is running out.
Chu Yuanqing reminded himself.
In fact, her rationality and state of mind were not as good as they had been a week ago. It was as if she was still in a dream during an afternoon nap, wandering in a bizarre world, her thoughts slow and chaotic, clinging to the last remaining fragments of her personality to maintain her will.
It could be said that she maintained her self purely by relying on an infinitely stretched sense of time, repeating the Light of the Soul - finding a new anchor point - returning to normal.
Even so, upon seeing the figure in the center, protected by the horde of disaster, a silent tsunami still surged within the dulled emotional mechanism, suppressing the instinct to draw the sword directly and causing immense turmoil.
That's... Xiao Shu?
Chu Yuanqing saw the power of thirteen Disaster God in her daughter. She looked up into the distance and saw the blessing called [Thousand-Mile Eyes], which transcended time and space and revealed thirteen forbidden zones that were activated and erupted as [Pure White] collapsed.
Among them, except for the one marked blank, the other Disaster God of the forbidden zones all arrived in the form of embryos, traversing dimensions and teleporting in. Their unusual movements caused their powers to tremble as well.
This is the corrective force of the Sea of Truth at work.
In theory, she has already absorbed most of the powers of the calamity horde. Neither the forbidden zones nor the Disaster God have any room to be born. It is the corrective force of the Sea of Truth that forcibly divides this power, giving rise to the current situation.
And now, this corrective force continues to increase.
The scales in Chu Yuanqing's mind spun. She squeezed the power of [Herdi], combined with numerous blessings, captured traces of the future, and instantly absorbed a massive amount of information. She peeled back the fog and glimpsed the truth behind it all.
Sunflower = The thirteenth Disaster God.
That is - [Child of Man].
When Xie Qingxuan first mentioned the Black Tide to her, information about the thirteenth Disaster God had surfaced in her mind. Unlike the other Disaster God, it was formed by the Black Tide, which was created from the Soul Remnants of all mankind after the other Disaster God had been defeated.
If we say that the other Disaster God are imported...
The thirteenth Disaster God -- [Child of Man] -- is a completely new sequence constructed by the calamity swarm when it was on the verge of extinction, using the genetic information of the local population and the Soul Remnants. In a sense, she is a mirror image of the Savior.
This is actually a common practice of the disaster swarm, an experimental behavior for the purpose of evolution. The difference is that the [Child of Man] is a temporary creation after being forced to the limit. It is not complete, but it is still more powerful than imagined. It is a more special kind of Disaster God sequence.
Chu Yuanqing deduced the past, and she guessed that in her first timeline, after defeating the [Child of Man], she did not use her body to contain the other's power.
Firstly, it's unnecessary. She is blessed by all mankind and crowned by the stars, while the [Child of Man] is a product born from the plunder of native power, making her a mirror image of the other.
Secondly, the sequence of [Child of Man] is incomplete, and even the swarm itself cannot contain it. At the critical moment when the planet is on the verge of destruction, she does not have time to slowly devour it with Laevateinn.
Ultimately, it disintegrated on the spot, returned to the stars, and became nourishment.
As a result, when Chu Wangshu was born, the "Child of Man" was also mixed into the spark bestowed by the stars, and remained dormant for a full 17 years, reviving as Lantern Fairy when she became Magical Girl.
The sunflower is, of course, a remnant of Chu Wangshu's soul.
However, this peeled-off part was originally the result of the concept of stars repelling each other, but by a twist of fate, it has evolved into the current situation.
Chu Yuanqing understood the logic and realized the crux of the problem: her daughter was special, possessing the potential to reach the highest level whether as Magical Girl, a human, or a living being.
Therefore, the calamity swarm wants to use this child as the leader, and with the help of this special status, to integrate the thirteen Disaster God sequences, including the [Child of Man], and even devour all the chaotic calamities, to achieve true ultimate evolution.
Even if she succeeds and returns to her peak, she may not be able to defeat the swarm again.
The lotus flower in the Savior's eyes spread, emanating a cool, compassionate, and sorrowful shimmer. She took a deep breath, her anger burning like a raging fire in her lungs, but her increasingly cold reason, along with her obsession with saving the world—her greatest anchor—covered her.
This was her constraint, and also her reins.
Long ago, Chu Yuanqing had considered the worst-case scenario.
In order to avoid being consumed by the curse and to maintain her individuality in the most extreme circumstances, to protect her family and fight against the Disaster God, she engraved her obsession with saving the world in the Light of the Soul with the [Pure White Aria].
In other words, once more of her self is consumed by nothingness, her soul and will will only be left with the obsession to save the world, supporting her to burn as brightly as possible until the very end.
This is certainly the right decision.
But the consequence was...
As long as she doesn't lose her temper and find a way to satisfy both sides, there's only one path left for her.
That is, to personally kill Chu Wangshu, destroy the container that can satisfy the calamity, defeat the thirteen Disaster God in one fell swoop, and save the world.
The Pure White Witch tried her best not to think about the worst possible outcome. With her hand, Laevateinn slashed across the heavens and earth, scattering fiery clouds that covered the Donghuang Federation, burning the surging Disaster Tide and black tides, and stripping away the nutrients that nourished the Cocoon of Heaven.
In the center of the stage, Chu Wangshu, startled, opened her eyes.
The girl's pupils were as colorful as the starry sky. The twelve Light Band that wrapped around her solidified into crystals of various shapes and full of beauty, floating behind her and rotating silently.
The black tide, drawing upon immense amounts of power, information, and genes, wove itself into a spiked crown, upon which remained numerous holes for inlaying diamonds and gems, faintly intertwined with traces of Magic Element and spells.
I'm so hungry.
Chu Wangshu looked up in confusion at the Savior high in the sky. Her consciousness was in a daze, and she could only smell a fragrant and delicious aroma from the other person because of her instinctive hunger.
She is still in her juvenile stage, far from being fully formed, and shares instincts with the swarm, yearning for ultimate evolution.
However, the source of food was completely cut off by Laevateinn, making the Pure White Witch, who possessed many Disaster God powers, seem particularly alluring. Just a glance at her stirred greed and emptiness in one's flesh and soul.
--Eat her.
"No, no, that's Dad."
"No, what's wrong with me? What happened?"
Before the little girl could think, her consciousness returned to a hazy state, overwhelmed by the swarm of Disaster God, and dominated by the only [Child of Man] among them—the sunflower.
Chu Wangshu landed lightly on the stage, her Magic Armor transformed back into a youthful and lively stage outfit. She tilted her head back, curled her lips into a charming smile, and twirled around in place, like an idol eagerly awaiting praise from her fans, displaying her lively spirit.
The girl's eyes crinkled as she looked at the Savior who had suppressed the disaster 17 years ago, and whispered:
"Dad, are you satisfied with the performance on stage this time?"
Sunflower's brows and eyes revealed a delicate expression of slight headache. She mimicked the girl, adopting a coquettish expression, smoothing her skirt, and pouting as she complained:
"It took me a lot of effort to convince Xiao Shu to use [Great Full Bloom]."
"This child's intuition is very similar to yours, and his soul is incredibly difficult to manipulate. Even [Amor's] bewitching influence doesn't affect him much."
"In the end, it was only by using [Herdi's] power that she saw all the broken future timelines, which made her lose her composure and, with the thought of sacrificing everything to save everyone, she used [Great Full Bloom]."
Disaster victims have no emotions.
The words they uttered were all driven by a strong sense of purpose.
Chu Yuanqing must die. She possesses too much Disaster God authority, so much that it severely hinders the fusion process, preventing this vessel from absorbing the complete concept of the calamity horde to become the supreme master who transcends all Disaster God, whose existence represents perfection and whose birth embodies the Supreme Lord.
Therefore, whether it's winning hearts and minds or stalling for time, rhetoric is the cheapest option.
The monster, using Chu Wangshu's body, revealed a harmless smile. She tilted her head slightly and uttered words that sent chills down one's spine:
"You've raised her very well over the past 17 years."
"So, do you want her to wake up? I don't mind. If she wakes up and sees her fans, friends, hometown, and even billions of people dead because of her own whim, she'll definitely be easier to deal with."
"By the way, I didn't see Yayoi and Mom. What do you think of them now...?"
Before he could finish speaking,
The fiery clouds were like paint that overwhelmed the world, spreading across the sky and the earth.
The surging vacuum zero-point energy of the Cosmic Dimensions erupted with heat energy surpassing that of an infinite nuclear explosion, transforming into a sword that tore apart the cocoon of heaven, melted the ruins of the Sea Capital, and was about to turn the Great Xia plate into magma, as a silent response.