Ch. 1401Terrifying Freak
Chapter Summary: “Terrifying Freak”
Key Plot Points and Events
- Emperor Nuo discovers that Little Nuo is immune to the Divine Era Bloodline Meditation Method. His attempt to attack Little Nuo through their shared bloodline fails, as Little Nuo absorbs and devours the power instead.
- Emperor Nuo realizes that Little Nuo is not merely a Dao Foundation but an extremely rare “freak”—a being naturally destined to kill its source. Since Emperor Nuo is Little Nuo’s source, he understands that his own death is inevitable unless Little Nuo is eliminated.
- Fearing that his alternate identities would only strengthen Little Nuo, Emperor Nuo recruits powerful allies, including White Peony, the Technological Freak, Witch Yueyao, and Ancestor Green Sandalwood. He offers them numerous treasures as payment.
- The coalition destroys Little Nuo’s world and forces the battle into the Void, but Little Nuo emerges unharmed and instantly kills Ancestor Green Sandalwood by absorbing the Mental Strength and souls connected to his alternate identities.
- Little Nuo proves completely impervious to the group’s attacks. Their divine artifacts are damaged by striking him, while their own alternate identities are slaughtered. The surviving powerhouses flee.
- Absorbing Green Sandalwood’s Mental Strength gives Little Nuo a new ability: he can sense the direction of beings and powers that would be especially satisfying to consume.
- Rather than pursue the fleeing alternate identities, Little Nuo begins tracking their true sources. Over the following centuries, he hunts and devours numerous Alternate-Identity Style powerhouses, causing widespread destruction.
- His body continually evolves through consumption. He grows into a colossal, grotesque organism with countless arms, tentacles, eyes, and mouths, becoming an efficient world-destroying predator.
Character Developments
- Little Nuo is revealed as an unprecedented freak with overwhelming defensive power and the instinctive ability to absorb energy, souls, and Mental Strength. He remains childlike and single-minded, motivated almost entirely by hunger rather than morality, ambition, or revenge.
- Emperor Nuo shifts from confidence to genuine terror. He recognizes that conventional methods cannot defeat Little Nuo and becomes desperate enough to rely on powerful outsiders.
- White Peony is established as a plant demon who has infiltrated and taken control of the entire White Cloud Sect through countless alternate identities.
- The Technological Freak is characterized as a master of cloning and replication, with alternate identities hidden throughout the All Heavens and Myriad Realms.
- Ancestor Green Sandalwood, despite sending only alternate identities into battle, is killed indirectly when Little Nuo absorbs the Mental Strength linking him to them.
- The allied powerhouses lose their confidence after realizing that Little Nuo cannot be harmed and that fighting him only leads to more deaths.
Significant Themes
- Predation and inevitability: Little Nuo functions as a natural predator of Alternate-Identity Style beings, pursuing their sources no matter how they escape.
- Fear of the unknown: Even ancient, powerful beings such as Emperor Nuo are terrified by a phenomenon so rare and incomprehensible that ordinary strategies become useless.
- Insatiable consumption: Little Nuo’s growth is driven by endless hunger. Each meal grants him new abilities and transforms his body further.
- Power without morality: Little Nuo is not portrayed as heroic or malicious. He destroys worlds and kills countless beings simply to obtain food, showing how destructive an instinct-driven force can be.
- The danger of creating one’s own destroyer: Emperor Nuo’s bloodline and Alternate-Identity methods ultimately lead to the existence of a being capable of consuming him and all those like him.
Character Interactions
- Emperor Nuo attacks Little Nuo through their bloodline, but the attempt instead empowers Little Nuo.
- Emperor Nuo bargains with White Peony, the Technological Freak, Witch Yueyao, and Ancestor Green Sandalwood to form an assassination coalition.
- The coalition attacks Little Nuo after destroying his world, but Little Nuo effortlessly kills Green Sandalwood and withstands every other attack.
- Little Nuo’s absorption of Green Sandalwood’s connected Mental Strength changes his perception and allows him to identify desirable prey.
- He subsequently bypasses the coalition’s alternate identities and hunts their original sources, turning the entire Alternate-Identity Style community against him.