The Beginning II

The third time.

Phantom Vine made his move again.

This time, the vines were almost completely immune to the decomposition of Wind Energy, and rushed towards Lin Hui at an extremely fast speed.

"Is it an evolutionary rank?" Lin Hui understood, recognizing the other party's rank.

If it can develop adaptive resistance to Wind Energy, which is capable of countering Source Disaster Energy, then the opponent must also possess power of equal rank.

It's important to understand that the current Wind Energy also contains the power of Lin Hui's Propagation True Status. It's not ordinary Wind Energy.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be possible to suppress the relentless erosion caused by the Wind Disaster.

"You have good judgment, so what? Do you want to change your mind?" Phantom Vine Teng asked again in a deep voice.

"Senior, I address you as 'Senior' not because of your strength... but simply because you are a pioneer."

Lin Hui remained calm, then suddenly pointed at Phantom Vine.

A surge of power erupted.

In an instant, a new Phantom Vine actually condensed and appeared on one side of the Phantom Vine!!

"!!??" Phantom Vine's expression changed drastically. As soon as the new Phantom Vine appeared, she sensed something was wrong. Apart from her Void Hole eyes, the other party was exactly the same as her, both possessing the power of an evolved rank.

It's just slightly weaker than mine.

Not only that, but soon, a second, a third, a fourth, four more Phantom Vine appeared around it, surrounding its main body.

Swish!

The four Phantom Vine exploded simultaneously, transforming into countless thick, black, sharp thorny vines that lunged at the Phantom Vine's main body. At the same time, they smashed some of the vines that were rushing towards Lin Hui.

A great war suddenly broke out.

Lin Hui sat alone on the outer side, watching the battle of four against one Celestial Venerables. The Multiverse directly copied and added four Phantom Vine, although none of them were pseudo-Celestial Venerables who had made nine moves, their regular strength was no different from that of the Phantom Vine.

This is the terrifying aspect of True Status like the complex positional case.

A few dozen breaths later, the Phantom Vine let out a mournful cry, transformed into a black streak of light, and fled in a sorry state.

But she hadn't flown very far when she was enveloped and trapped by countless blue Wind Energy mixed with black vines, forcibly pulled back, and shrunk to float in Lin Hui's palm.

"I was just worried about how to make a move against someone I know. Since you've come to me, I'll have to offend you..." Lin Hui said softly.

"What do you want to do!?" Phantom Vine instantly sensed something was wrong.

But it was too late.

Countless Propagation forces surged around her, rapidly eroding her body.

hiss...

The Phantom Vine's belly began to swell rapidly, and then... it exploded with a bang.

A huge, black, hard vine grew from its abdomen.

The vines twisted, grew, thickened, and expanded, blossomed, bore fruit, and then countless fruits fell to the ground.

The fruit exploded again, and out of it sprang countless tiny, blurry black figures.

Each of these little figures possesses a portion of the power of the Phantom Vine, and is blessed with an evolutionary status; they are all of the Phantom Vine's own bloodline. In essence, they belong to her.

However, because they were born with the True Status of Propagation, they were completely obedient to Lin Hui.

The giant vines continuously blossomed and bore fruit, which burst open and transformed into a hundred million tiny people.

This cycle repeats itself endlessly.

As soon as these little ones were born, they rushed towards the Wind Disaster area below.

They referred to Lin Hui as their father and Phantom Vine as their mother, but what they did was constantly tear Phantom Vine apart from her flesh and blood.

Lin Hui stared at this scene, motionless.

This is a new development and application of Propagation True Status.

The enemy is forced to Propagation, but the children Propagation possess their own individual will and are not under the enemy's control; they are only controlled by Lin Hui, the subject of the Propagation.

Such unlimited Propagation will severely deplete the opponent's vitality, making them increasingly weak, until finally, the opponent is completely drained by Propagation, splitting into countless children, and ultimately perishing.

"You're insane!!" Phantom Vine screamed, struggling frantically, but she was only a Celestial Venerable with a distorted position, unable to break free even from the Propagation position, let alone the subsequent reproductive positions.

In theory, for a position to be converted into combat power, a suitable combat system needs to be built.

The fact that the Propagation slot can exert such destructive power is the result of Lin Hui's own development.

Who says that the person who gives birth to children has no destructive power?

If people continue to reproduce like this, even a Celestial Venerable like Phantom Vine will become unable to make ends meet, quickly weaken, and even exhaust themselves.

The addition of countless black figures has accelerated the rate at which Wind Energy erodes Wind Disaster.

Lin Hui sat cross-legged in the same spot, his face serene.

Before him, the Phantom Vine's pure white and perfect body floated, with vines constantly growing from the wound on its abdomen, blossoming and bearing fruit, splitting into batches of tiny black figures.

Whenever she's about to use her last super-powerful attack, her Propagation rate slows down a bit, giving her a chance to catch her breath.

Once her thoughts fade, her Propagation rate will accelerate again.

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In the distant, Black Domain.

A figure in white robes gazed at the Lin Hui, who sat serenely in the void, sighed, and turned to fly away into the distance.

"Are you just going to leave like that?" Suddenly, a figure in a black cloak appeared behind the white-clad figure, calling out to them in a hoarse voice.

It was the Heart Source Demon Emperor who had left earlier.

"What do you want to say?" The man in white stopped and glanced sideways.

"You still owe him a favor for resurrecting someone," the Demon Emperor said calmly.

"He doesn't need us anymore," the man in white said.

"Whether he needs it or not is his business; whether we do it or not is our business," the Demon Emperor said.

The man in white paused for a moment, then turned around and looked down at the massive battlefield of Wind Disaster Wind Energy.

"If you and I join alone, we'll be nothing more than a drop in the ocean. If you'd like to contribute, you can come with me to contact the other Resistance Army forces," the man in white suddenly said.

"Alright." The Demon Emperor nodded vigorously. "Having finally come back to life, wouldn't it be a waste of this chance to revive if we didn't join in on such a lively event?"

"You're not going to hide anymore?" the man in white asked in surprise.

"No... Hiding in the end, sitting idly for countless years, will ultimately lead to nothing. It's better to choose a new way of living," the Demon Emperor laughed.

The man in white understood.

The two turned around and glanced at Lin Hui, whose physique was enormous.

"He... for some reason, seems to be getting bigger?" the man in white said.

"Yes, I noticed it too. I thought it was just my imagination, but I didn't expect..." The Demon Emperor nodded.

"I wonder what rank he fused with..." the man in white said.

The most crucial step from the Thought Endures Eternally to the status of a Celestial Venerable is the fusion of positions. First, the imprint is upgraded to a position, and then the location is chosen.

They were stuck at the stage of engraving upgrade.

Essentially, for an imprint to ascend to a higher status, it must implant its own concept into the minds of living beings on a vast scale and over a long period of time, then deepen and accumulate it generation after generation, sublimating from an individual image into a conceptual image, thereby completing the ascension.

For example, the deeds of some folk heroes, after being sung and passed down, gradually become legends, then myths, and then, as time goes by, when people mention a certain concept, the first thing that comes to mind is this hero. Only in this way can they slowly complete the process of being imprinted in their status and upgraded.

This upgrade requires an extremely large scope.

However, since their resurrection, the two of them have personally witnessed Lin Hui's rapid ascent and growth, eventually reaching the level of a Celestial Venerable.

The problem is, none of them saw Lin Hui go through any of the engraving and ascension steps. It was as if he skipped the intermediate ascension process entirely, disappearing for a long time before returning as a Celestial Venerable.

This makes absolutely no sense.

The strangest thing is that at this very moment, they are still discovering that Lin Hui's true form is growing larger and larger.

Because of the battle against the Source Disaster, Lin Hui was unable to recover external Wind Energy. Instead, he had to continuously maintain the escalation of the battle by releasing more Wind Energy.

Under these circumstances, how could his physical form possibly still be growing larger?

This was a deep-seated question in both of their minds.

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Lin Hui never imagined that this duel would last so long.

He started the war, but by the time he realized that the war could not be stopped, a thousand years had passed.

Over the course of a thousand years, the power of the multidimensional dimension that he originally thought would be exhausted has inexplicably increased with each battle.

He used immense power to increase the amount of Wind Energy, and then overwhelmingly suppressed the Source Disaster Energy. Such a massive scale of use has continued uninterrupted for thousands of years.

This is completely different from his performance in the previous tests.

This gradually made him understand what the true source of power of the complex grammatical form was.

That is the opposite of destruction, an increase in power similar to the power of creation.

The Source Disaster destruction reduces all things, while the power of abundance increases all things, thus creating a balance between the two.

Otherwise, destruction will only decrease, and everything will eventually collapse.

This explains why the power of the complex position increases with each battle: war brings massive destruction, and the more destruction, the more the complex position, as the True Status, receives its power replenishment.

Because the most crucial part of the Celestial Venerable's identity—the inscription and sublimation into a rank—is still missing, Lin Hui cannot fully grasp and accept all the information of the two ranks, so he can only use this as a guess.

Even so, his current power is already terrifying.

The protracted war gradually reached a stalemate, Wind Disaster mobilized the Disaster Energy of other areas, initiating a final, stubborn resistance.

The chaotic battle between Clear Jade Mountain and Source Disaster gradually became a recurring scene in the conversations of the surrounding Fusion Faction and Resistance Army.

They passed down the war in which Clear Jade Mountain attempted to replace the Wind Disaster as the Battle of the Wind Lord.

The vast area of the great battle was also known as the Wind Lord War Zone.

Because of the constant and frenzied conflict, confrontation, annihilation, and transformation between Wind Energy and Wind Disaster Energy, this vast region spanning billions of light-years has been designated as Destruction Forbidden Zone by numerous emerging forces.

As time went on, the Lord of the Eternal Life Sect and the Heart Source Demon Emperor also brought two Resistance Army armies from a great distance to join the Battle of the Wind Lord.

As the war gained further notoriety, more and more Resistance Army and Fusion Faction were drawn into it.

Some joined the Clear Jade Mountain camp, while others were driven by the Source Disaster and forced into battle.

This has led to the confrontation growing in scale and scope.

Gradually, Lin Hui, as the master of Clear Jade Mountain, began to spread his reputation as the Yang God and the Wind Master, both openly and secretly.

The final crucial step of the Celestial Venerable's ascension is gradually beginning.

The massive gathering of people and groups also brought Lin Hui a new opportunity to collect the Existence Force.

Under his orders, Clear Jade Mountain began a new round of collecting and Existence Force.