You Are Our Faith!

"You killed my brother!" Within the absolute domain, flames raged. At this moment, the Luohun Valley Lord stared fixedly at Su Yu, his expression chillingly cold. Su Yu laughed. "What does that have to do with me?" "You devoured him yourself. What does that have to do with me?" Su Yu wore a look of complete detachment. *Your brother was absorbed by you. Who killed your brother?* Su Yu beamed brilliantly. "You insisted on barging in, and even when your brother was on the verge of death, you refused to release your restriction. Why waste your breath saying so much now?" The Luohun Valley Lord remained utterly impassive. Release the restriction? If he released it, outside was King Wu, who had integrated with a world. If that happened, more than one person would die! At this moment, he suddenly regained his calm. He sat cross-legged and said nothing more, silently waiting. *Burn, then!* If this dragged on long enough, who lived and who died was anything but certain! A lord of a forbidden land would definitely intervene! Even if not for King Wu and Su Yu, the sudden move made by Dead Spirit Hell alone would draw someone out. Back when the Lord of Dead Spirits came here, everyone had stepped in to obstruct him, and this time would be no exception! *Drag it out!* Right here, he realized that Su Yu's willpower was resilient beyond imagination. Initially, seeing how young Su Yu was, he had thought little of him, but now he realized that youth... also meant charging forward fearlessly! This person had surely suffered countless tribulations. Naturally. Without enduring immense suffering, how could anyone have reached this stage today? At this moment, the Luohun Valley Lord made his decision: drag it out! *** Flames consumed Su Yu. Su Yu also saw the other party sit down cross-legged. His opponent was a top-tier expert after all, and they were currently inside his Great Dao seal. If things dragged on, Su Yu might not necessarily lose, but another lord of a forbidden land might arrive. "Are you trying to stall?" Su Yu smiled, but the other party remained silent. "Why don't you try to forcibly kill me? I am weaker than you, after all!" The Luohun Valley Lord was entirely unmoved. Having cultivated for countless years, he was well acquainted with provocation and would never fall for such bait. Su Yu sighed. "If you kill me, you might reap massive rewards! I am a Heaven-Opener, after all..." The other party did not utter a single sound. Seeing how stubborn this fellow was, Su Yu felt a bit helpless and remarked with regret, "You really know how to endure. Your brother died, you know!" Saying so, he wasted no more words and continued feeding various kinds of Great Dao power into the fire. The flames flared up wildly, blazing far more fiercely than before! "Playing with fire will only get you burned!" The Luohun Valley Lord responded coldly. With his brother integrated into him, he was far more stable than before. This lunatic was simply burning himself to ash! *Did you truly think this fire couldn't burn you to death?* These flames did not belong to Su Yu alone; they were the fire of his own Great Dao, stoked with fuel by Su Yu. The fire was not burning just one of them. Since Su Yu was weaker, Su Yu would collapse first! In all his long years of cultivation, this was the first time he had encountered someone like this, someone setting himself on fire! Su Yu smiled. "Burn myself to ash? That remains to be seen!" He continued adding fuel, chuckling. "Make it fiercer! Once you burn to death and I devour you, I will naturally recover... Of course, if you burn me to death and devour my heaven, you can recover as well! Why not take a gamble? Whoever dies, the survivor takes all! If I die, King Wu dies, and everyone else dies... You will be the ultimate winner!" Winner takes all! The Luohun Valley Lord remained silent, withstanding the flames without a word. Su Yu teased, "You won't take a gamble?" The Luohun Valley Lord said impassively, "Having reached my level, why would I need to gamble? All I need to do is wait for the outcome! Those who gamble are the weak!" "You really are rigid!" Su Yu chuckled and stoked the flames further. The fire consumed heaven and earth. Flames ignited across Su Yu's body, and the Luohun Valley Lord was set ablaze as well, the inferno roaring with unrestrained fury. Panting for breath, Su Yu smiled. "This is your absolute domain. As the fire burns you, it also burns your Great Dao... You are expending double the effort!" "And so are you!" The Luohun Valley Lord retorted. Since it was Su Yu who kept feeding fuel into the fire, and that fuel was Great Dao power, their expenditures were roughly equal. Yet possessing an additional Dao of power represented an immense divide! He was simply stronger than Su Yu! Dreaming of burning him to death was pure delusion! At this moment, no one else could intervene unless they shattered King Wu's sea of will. But if King Wu's sea of will was destroyed, Su Yu would definitely lose. Thus, no matter how furious King Wu was, no matter how he roared, he was completely helpless. Faintly, King Wu's powerless roars could be heard echoing from outside. The two had erected an absolute domain inside his sea of will, tormenting and burning each other. Yet he, the owner of this sea of will, could do nothing at all! King Wu's voice echoed in, thick with fury and shouting, "Hold on! I'll go slaughter all those bastards, then come back to save you!" Su Yu smiled faintly, not replying. *Save me?* *I don't need it!* He was not necessarily weaker than his opponent. With the four Great Emperors integrating their Daos into him, Su Yu had advanced a bit further along the path of thirty-one Daos. Of course, he had not yet reached the next threshold, but... don't forget, Su Yu possessed a dual heaven! He did not possess only a single world! At this moment, if Su Yu was willing, he could summon his world. Of course, it might not be able to break through the Heavenly Gate, and a mere projection of the Heavenly Gate could only grant Su Yu a fraction of its might, not the full power of his world. Summoning his world... If he truly summoned it, the commotion would be immense, and his identity would likely be completely exposed! Whether he was the secret weapon of the Lord of Dead Spirits or a Heaven-Opener from the myriad realms made a world of difference. At this moment, Su Yu had not yet decided to summon his world. It was merely enduring pain! Between life and death! *Outside the gate, I opened Life and Death, but here, I have not done so.* Su Yu pondered: what if he opened Life and Death here? Even the Lord of Dead Spirits could not open Life and Death here. For Su Yu, the Dao of Dead Spirits had already been opened here, established the moment Qu Gang merged into him. As for the Dao of Life, it had also been opened. Yet opening them did not inherently create a world of Life and Death! Only by integrating life and death, achieving mutual conversion between them, would it truly become a world of Life and Death. Su Yu had not summoned his world or drawn upon power from outside the gate. He was enduring the agony, withstanding the searing burn, and even incinerating his Great Daos, precisely to experiment, to contemplate: should I take the risk and attempt it here? To open a world of Life and Death! However, his vitality was too weak. Yes, far too weak. Su Yu's death qi was immense. After the four Great Emperors merged into him, Su Yu's Dao of Death had grown exceptionally potent. But what about the Dao of Life? How could balance be achieved? Without balancing life and death, how could he open Life and Death? The Lord of Dead Spirits possessed a world stronger than Su Yu's, but for that very reason, opening Life and Death was far harder for him than for Su Yu, and he lacked experience. Su Yu did not lack experience, but he lacked the power of the Dao of Life! If he did not have enough power of the Dao of Life, once he died, he would be unable to revive! At that point, any talk of life-and-death conversion would be a joke. Of course, since Su Yu was preparing to open a world of Life and Death, he was not acting without any certainty. He looked toward his opponent, the Luohun Valley Lord. This man was exceedingly powerful; an immortal and indestructible powerhouse like him possessed vitality that was shockingly dense. If Su Yu could slay him at the very instant of his own death and absorb his vitality, allowing himself to return from death to life, it would work. A powerhouse of thirty-two Daos was more than enough to sustain Su Yu's rebirth! Yet... could it be done? To use his own life as the price to kill him—if Su Yu failed to kill him at the final moment, then once he died... he would truly be dead! Not only would he perish, but everyone inside his world would die as well. The myriad realms side would be somewhat better off, as there would be a buffer of time before collapse, and the Human Sovereign was there to shelter those people and detach them from his world. But here, everyone, including King Wu, would die. "Life and death..." A smile appeared on Su Yu's face. *Should I give it a try?* When he came behind the gate, Su Yu had brought many intentions, but the one thing he had not brought was a burden! The world behind the gate inspired despair. Yet having come this far, Su Yu felt no despair. Only the pursuit of the Great Dao, the yearning for freedom, and the exploration of heaven and earth could drive away all despair! He looked at the Luohun Valley Lord and smiled. "Valley Lord, how about we play a game?" The Luohun Valley Lord felt a slight chill in his heart! *What is he planning now?* Su Yu's smile was radiant. "Care to play? It's very interesting!" "What are you trying to do?" The Luohun Valley Lord said coldly, "You lunatic, do you truly not fear death? Having reached our cultivation level, must we fight until one of us falls the very first time we meet? What deep-seated grudge is there between you and me?" Su Yu smiled. "None... but... you want to go outside! How about you agree not to go out?" The Luohun Valley Lord said nothing. Su Yu chuckled. "You see, this is a clash of Daos. Why would there need to be any deep grudge? I have no choice either!" A clash of eras, a clash of Great Daos! The Luohun Valley Lord remained indifferent, refusing to speak further. *No matter what you say, I will pay you no heed.* Su Yu laughed, his laughter growing increasingly deranged. His Great Daos ignited one after another. The furious flames forced muffled groans from the Luohun Valley Lord, while Su Yu also groaned in agony, clenching his teeth so hard that they shattered. Yet through the pain, he kept smiling. "A world of tribulation, a world of darkness, an apocalyptic world—this world truly brings despair!" Despair! "The Three Gates Era, the Myriad Realms Era... must every era endure cataclysm after cataclysm?" "I don't know who is right and who is wrong... Perhaps when my era is sealed away, perhaps... I too will think of leading my era to charge out, annihilate the next era, and resurrect my own!" "Is the Lord of Time in the wrong?" "Perhaps... he never cared about us at all... He was merely following the natural rules of cyclical eras, while we... simply refuse to accept it!" Su Yu roared, his voice laced with pain and a hint of wild pride. "And so, I will defy the heavens! You want to annihilate us? Impossible!" Staring at his contorted face, the Luohun Valley Lord's brow furrowed repeatedly. The person before him was clearly a powerhouse of the new era, yet he was madder, more agonized, and more despairing than those from the old eras! Was it because those of the old eras had grown numb to despair? Yet this youth refused to accept it! Refused to accept the opening of the Three Gates, refused to accept that the Three Gates would wipe them out? Right and wrong were no longer distinct or clear in this moment. What right or wrong? There was none! There was only defiance. Su Yu had never known true hope. From the moment he was born, the human race had been besieged by the myriad clans. War had been raging since his birth. Living in the rear, he had enjoyed six years of peace—the six most tranquil years of his life—yet he barely remembered them. From the day his memories became clear, he had lived through despair after despair. At this moment, Su Yu wailed, screaming shrilly as the flames tore his soul apart. The fire also wrung muffled groans of agony from the Luohun Valley Lord, yet the Valley Lord felt that victory was near! The lunatic before him had burned himself to the brink of death, yet he still kept adding Great Dao power! Therefore, the victor would be him! "Why... was I born at the end of an era?" A spine-chilling laugh suddenly slipped from Su Yu's lips. "If... I had been born at the dawn of an era, perhaps... I wouldn't have struggled so... After peacefully living for a hundred thousand years, two hundred thousand years... what would death matter? But I... am still young... Why must despair define my entire life?" "You have broken!" The Luohun Valley Lord suddenly sighed, closing his eyes in silence. This person had broken! No matter how formidable his mental willpower, he could not withstand such excruciating torment in the end! "Broken?" Su Yu chuckled. At this moment, he actually chuckled. "Heh... How could I be... I've always been completely sane. How could I break? Isn't this how a normal person behaves? You are the ones who are mad! When an era falls, let it fall, yet you insist on courting death!" Flames raged as Su Yu twisted his neck! *I broke?* *No, I haven't!* *How could I!* *** Meanwhile, on the outside, King Wu went mad slaughtering the fleeing powerhouses. Those he could capture, he severed their Daos and forced them to integrate into his world; those who refused, he swiftly executed, forcibly stripping their Great Daos to absorb them! At this moment, King Wu's face was ashen! He could see everything! After all, that was his own sea of will! Seeing Su Yu's horrifying smile, all lingering resentment within him suddenly vanished! What kind of despair had this young man endured to become such a monster? Had his life truly held not a shred of hope? What had the myriad realms gone through all these years, and what had Su Yu gone through? Su Yu had asked about his past, but he had never asked about Su Yu's. Because Su Yu was too young—so young that King Wu had never taken an interest in his background. A mere few decades; the kid had lived so briefly, what could he possibly know? What could he understand? Yet at this moment, King Wu realized that perhaps he had been wrong. Precisely because he had risen in such a short span of time, his life was perhaps far more profound and complex! Otherwise, how could he have risen so swiftly? "Su Yu!" Seeing Su Yu's unraveling state and manic smile, King Wu could bear it no longer and roared frantically into his sea of will, "Stop courting death! If you can't kill him, then give up! Luohun Valley Lord, undo your seal, and we will retreat!" "Otherwise, you won't gain anything either!" The Luohun Valley Lord heard this. He actually wanted to undo the seal and retreat, but at that moment, Su Yu bellowed fiercely, "You dare! Taishan, how dare you! I planned for so long, and he belongs to me! If you dare release him, I will kill you! How dare you disobey orders on the battlefield!" Seeing his frenzy, King Wu could not hold him back. He bellowed in rage, shattering an enemy before him with a single punch, pulverizing him into meat paste! He roared, screaming, "Kill! Slaughter everyone who refuses to integrate their Daos! Did you hear me?" Around him, Blade Master and the others felt a chill run down their spines. This King Wu was utterly insane! They dared not delay and threw themselves into slaying the formidable enemies! With the four Emperors present, along with Envoy Asura and King Wu, despite the large numbers in Luohun Valley, massive casualties were swiftly inflicted on their experts! Throngs of experts surrendered! The rogue cultivators who had been lured here earlier were also slaughtered in droves, and the survivors surrendered one after another! In the blink of an eye, across the entire area, enemies were either dead or captured! In less than five minutes, the vast domain of Luohun Valley fell entirely silent! A desolate stillness! Corpses littered the void, drifting aimlessly. The survivors all knelt in the center, encircled by powerhouses whose eyes were bloodshot from slaughter. These people all turned to look at King Wu. Where was the Tribulation Lord? Where was the Luohun Valley Lord? Both were still alive, yet neither could be seen! Right now, there were not even any fluctuations! The entire region was quiet. Where on earth had those two gone? King Wu did not speak. The Great Emperors vaguely guessed where Su Yu was and turned to look at King Wu. King Wu sat down cross-legged, ignoring everyone. At this moment, like a spectator, he watched Su Yu and the Luohun Valley Lord inside his sea of will test each other's endurance, competing to see who was madder! *** "Keep burning!" The flames grew increasingly ferocious. The Luohun Valley Lord coughed up blood continuously. He glanced sideways at Su Yu; that fellow was burned to the point that his soul appeared on the verge of shattering! "You are courting death..." The Luohun Valley Lord could not help roaring in fury, "Must you insist on mutual destruction? If you die, I will still live!" Yet if he survived after being battered by this lunatic, he would likely be gravely wounded and near death! Of course, devouring Su Yu's world might bring tremendous gains. Even so, he would rather do without such gains! "Su Yu, stop now, and I won't pursue you... Even if those reinforcements arrive, if you flee, they won't fight you to the death..." "Cough, cough..." He coughed violently. With each cough, blood burned, Great Daos burned, and what he spat out was raw Great Dao power—shattered fragments of Great Dao power! He was profoundly aggrieved! Where had he provoked this guy? Out of so many forbidden lands, why did he have to target him first? Meanwhile, Su Yu had stopped shouting and ceased talking. He simply continued feeding fuel, continually fanning the flames. The fire burned him beyond recognition, twisting his very soul! At this moment, Su Yu was contemplating: how could the life-and-death conversion succeed? How could he strike a fatal blow against the opponent? Killing the other party at the exact moment of his own death, causing the opponent's vitality to erupt—that was his only chance of survival. Of course, he could summon his world... but why summon it? Summoning it brought no benefits. *Or instead of summoning it, draw a portion of world power through the Heavenly Gate for an instantaneous burst... Slaying him the instant he thinks I am at my weakest?* Thought after thought surfaced. Soon, those thoughts were scorched away by the flames. This soul fire was extraordinarily vicious! At this moment, Su Yu forgot the pain. He was accustomed to thinking through agony. He looked at the Luohun Valley Lord, his gaze still remarkably clear, carrying a contemplative glint. At this sight, the Luohun Valley Lord suddenly felt an inkling of unease! *What is this guy planning?* Su Yu suddenly smiled. Even though that smile could no longer be seen on his ruined face, the Luohun Valley Lord knew he was smiling! "Su Yu!" The Valley Lord bellowed, both enraged and uneasy. He roared, "I cannot be killed! You cannot kill me! Su Yu... we can cooperate! Cooperate, do you hear me?" "You come from the myriad realms. Aren't you worried that the forbidden lands will invade the myriad realms? I can help you! I attained the Dao through the mind; the essence of mind and soul is immortality! Having swallowed the Dao into my body, I am an indestructible existence!" Su Yu murmured softly, "How could that be? The mind is also a form of power, and as long as it is power, there is no invincible power, no immortal existence... I am currently considering how to obliterate you!" "Mental power... the soul... there are actually many ways to obliterate them... The simplest are corrosive power and the power of death, both of which can target them... Integrating the Dao into your body doesn't make you invincible! I integrated an entire heaven into my body, and even I don't believe I cannot be killed!" He smiled, a thoughtful look in his eyes. Looking at the suffering Luohun Valley Lord, he suddenly asked, "King Wu, has anyone breached Severance Gorge?" *** Outside, King Wu snapped his eyes open, scanning the surroundings. Sensing outward! Faintly, he detected several formidable auras approaching this direction. At that moment, the Lord of Dead Spirits also barked fiercely, "I can block teleportation arrays, but if they come in person, I cannot stop them!" This had been agreed upon beforehand! He could obstruct teleportation arrays, but once they arrived in person, he could not join the battle. If he engaged in combat, no one would be left to block teleportations, and if a brawl broke out, he would be besieged... That would spell disaster for him! *** King Wu sensed for a moment and quickly vibrated his voice through his sea of will. "Soon! The Lord of Dead Spirits blocked the teleportations, but he cannot stop people from arriving on foot. The nearest lord among the neighboring forbidden lands is already nearing Severance Gorge!" "How much longer?" Su Yu asked. King Wu answered swiftly, "No more than thirty diyuan! The opponent is a lord of a forbidden land!" Exactly how long that meant, he could not say for sure. However, covering thirty diyuan would take a fourth-rank expert a month, but a first-rank might need only three days. For a transcendent expert, it might take merely half a day. It seemed slow, but if the other party utilized teleportation or spatial techniques, they would be far faster. Otherwise, they could never arrive so quickly. Those arriving promptly all possessed certain means of spatial transit! The Luohun Valley Lord heard this as well, shouting with a touch of excitement, "The first to arrive will definitely be the Immortal of Changsheng Heaven! He excels in all manner of Dao arts and can arrive very soon... Su Yu, stop being obstinate! Flee!" "Is that so?" *The Immortal Ancestor is the first to arrive?* That person was indeed proficient in all kinds of Dao arts and would certainly know spatial transit. Su Yu estimated that it might take... three minutes? That was indeed fast! Holding out for three minutes would be effortless for the Luohun Valley Lord! This was the first time Su Yu had encountered someone so difficult to kill! Strictly speaking, their difference was merely half a Dao of power, and Su Yu was a Heaven-Opener. Yet he failed to secure any advantage. The gap of half a Dao had drawn an immense divide between them, nullifying all his advantages! This was also the first time Su Yu truly felt the enormous disparity between transcendent experts and those below transcendent rank. The Soul Lord at thirty Daos was dead, and he himself was on the brink of death, yet this fellow could still hold on! And he himself was nearly at his limit! *Whatever, let's do this!* Su Yu weighed the timing of his strike. His Great Dao power was constantly draining away, leaving him increasingly feeble. The Luohun Valley Lord had also been weakened, his aura fluctuating unstably. Watching Su Yu weaken step by step to the verge of death, the Valley Lord was speechless! *Does this guy truly have to burn himself to death before he's satisfied?* *I've never seen anyone play like this!* King Wu's urgent voice came through: "Enough, stop! Don't you still have to go rescue Wen Yu? If you die now, how will you save her?" Su Yu ignored him. *Not enough!* *Continue!* *Let the flames rage on!* Suddenly, the Luohun Valley Lord was no longer in a hurry. Although he was thoroughly weakened, Su Yu was even weaker! He looked at Su Yu, a thought surfacing in his mind: *Should I... take this chance to strike him down?* At this moment, Su Yu was so frail that a single palm strike seemed capable of crushing him. Within his absolute domain, he could sense that this was no act. The other party was truly weakened to the extreme, on the verge of death at any second! At this moment, his heart stirred. If he killed Su Yu, everyone outside would die. He could devour everything Su Yu left behind! Though wounded, after devouring it, he would most likely recover, or perhaps... open a heaven of his own! He looked at Su Yu, and Su Yu was looking back at him, smiling. "Even if I die, I'll deal you a vicious blow. I'll detonate this world so you get nothing at all..." "Then go die!" A chilling voice suddenly rang out. In the next instant, the Luohun Valley Lord vanished from his spot and reappeared beside Su Yu, a sharp sword materializing in his grasp! A sword forged from Luohun Valley itself! Overwhelmingly powerful! Faintly, he seemed to have returned to his peak in an instant, seeking to execute Su Yu with a single blow while he had the chance! He would give Su Yu no opportunity! *Pfft!* The sword pierced his body! It felt effortless, causing the Luohun Valley Lord to pause slightly. *So easy?* Naturally; the opponent was far too weak! Yet at that very moment, Su Yu suddenly detonated. The instant he exploded, a gate manifested. The Heavenly Gate! This was nothing extraordinary; almost everyone capable of coming here possessed a Heavenly Gate, so the Luohun Valley Lord paid it little heed. Still, he intended to destroy the Heavenly Gate to prevent his opponent from surviving through it! Yet right at this moment, a surge of power suddenly erupted from within the Heavenly Gate. It was not excessively strong! Yet this modest power poured into Su Yu's body, and Su Yu, who had seemed thoroughly slain by that single sword strike, instantly coalesced back together. In that split second, the Luohun Valley Lord could see nothing except a pair of eyes! A pair of icy eyes! Filled with madness and calm, filled with disdain, as though saying: *I've finally lured you in!* "You should be the one to die!" At this moment, a power entirely different from this realm surged from Su Yu's body, fusing with the power here. In an instant, a unique energy burst forth! The union of Yin and Yang! The power drawn forth was indeed not immense! Roughly around twenty-two Daos of power, which was not particularly formidable in a battle of this caliber. Yet the moment it merged with Su Yu, his own power competence seemed to undergo a qualitative transformation. In an instant, Su Yu also seemed to return to his peak, perhaps even stronger than his peak! Wearing a smile, he suddenly transformed into a world, tightly enveloping the Luohun Valley Lord as if seeking to fuse with him! The Luohun Valley Lord struggled violently, roaring in fury, "Even so, you cannot kill me... unless we die together!" At this moment, Su Yu's strength was roughly on par with his own! Yet even so, if Su Yu wanted to kill him, he would have to pay with his own life. Perishing together with him—was it worth it? It wasn't worth it! He wanted to propose taking a step back, to let it go, that it wasn't necessary! Yet in that instant, Su Yu resumed his original form, dressed in white robes and wearing a calm, composed smile. "How could I die? I will never die... because I have faith!" Of course, that was nonsense. In truth, it was because he would attempt the fusion of life and death to revive once more! However, there was no need to explain that. At this moment, all the Great Dao power within Su Yu snapped simultaneously! An inferno of terrifying intensity instantly engulfed both of them. Wearing a smile, Su Yu held the Luohun Valley Lord in an inescapable grip, looking up at the sky with a grin. "Be careful, and good luck. If I return too late... everyone is done for!" At this moment, King Wu's expression shifted drastically! In the next instant, the powerhouses surrounding him began trembling violently. One after another, their expressions changed drastically as their Great Dao power dissipated, and in the next moment, their Great Daos snapped! *Rumble!* Some exploded directly, while others did not explode, instead instantly entering a state of absolute extinction! "No..." Someone wailed in agony, but it was too late! *Rumble!* A tremendous roar echoed as heaven and earth seemed to collapse. In that split second, everyone sank into extinction. In the blink of an eye, hundreds of bodies floated through the void. Some wore expressions of despair, some fear, some defiance, and some burning hatred! King Wu struggled as well. In the next moment, the light in his eyes slowly faded into extinction. With a mix of helplessness and defeat, he cursed mentally, *Damn you, Su Yu, you lunatic!* *I know what he's trying to do!* *Revive once more!* Just like the first time he had met Su Yu—a cycle of life and death. But waking from that state was unimaginably difficult. He heavily suspected that if he and Wen the Second hadn't called Su Yu back last time, Su Yu would have died for good! As for Su Yu claiming he had set an internal timer, King Wu didn't believe a word of it! "You truly are a lunatic..." He muttered softly, the light fading from his eyes. In the next moment, his head remained held high, but the vitality in his eyes was utterly gone. Not just him—around him, every single person was the same, all having entered absolute extinction! In an instant, the vast region fell into boundless, desolate stillness! Devoid of any life! In the distance, a ripple traveled over, carrying a hint of bewilderment. *Where are the people?* *Are they all dead?* *** At this moment, an earth-shattering eruption of power swept across heaven and earth! Two clashing forces suddenly detonated, tearing the firmament to shreds! Two frenzied figures materialized over Severance Gorge. "Su Yu... you lunatic!" The Luohun Valley Lord's roar, steeped in despair, fury, and defiance, reverberated through heaven and earth! At that moment, Su Yu's laughter rang out. "I am no lunatic. I am a seeker of the Dao... In seeking the Dao... one may die... Hahaha..." *Boom!* The sound of Great Daos snapping shattered the air! A dark, surging river suddenly manifested in the sky! That river violently convulsed! Because a Dao-swallower had perished! *Rumble!* The great river churned, sweeping apocalyptic might across the four directions! *** "Su Yu?" At this moment, powerhouses all around were shaken to their core, muttering the name in disbelief. *Su Yu?* *The Luohun Valley Lord is dead?* *Two lords of forbidden lands died today?* Even if the Soul Lord was somewhat weaker, the Luohun Valley Lord was by no means weak; he was a true transcendent expert! Yet now, he had perished together with an enemy? Where on earth had this lunatic come from? *Su Yu...* This name was renowned across the myriad realms and carried some fame within the Earth Gate, but behind the Heavenly Gate, it was virtually unknown. Those who knew it, like Gui, had already crossed into the myriad realms. In truth, someone faintly recalled having heard this name before. Fa! Yet he could not recall where he had heard it, or rather, could not connect the two. Fa seemed to have heard King Wen threaten the Lord of Dead Spirits once, mentioning the name Su Yu. Yet he still could not link it together! That violent tempest swept across the surroundings, leaving no one with the time to ponder it further! Because both were dead! At this moment, the great river trembled violently! The entire Severance Gorge was bathed in blinding white light! *** In the domain of Luohun Valley, a terrifying surge of vitality erupted! In the next moment, that vitality vanished. The entire area instantly fell into utter stillness, leaving only several hundred corpses floating in the air, including King Wu's! *** At this moment, near Mount Yongsheng. King Wen's expression shifted slightly! "Dead..." He murmured under his breath, his eyes flickering in the next instant. "Life-and-death conversion?" His brow furrowed. *Can he succeed?* *Su Yu has truly lost his mind!* *How could he take such a risk again and again!* Last time, he had witnessed Su Yu pull this stunt, and the boy had nearly died. If he failed to awaken in time, he would truly pass into extinction! Not only that, but lords of forbidden lands were currently rushing there. If he revived too late, he would definitely be slain! King Wen's brow furrowed tightly into deep lines! Taishan was still over there! He knew Su Yu was reckless, but he had not realized that the kid was not merely reckless—he was possessed by madness! If he couldn't kill a single Luohun Valley Lord, so what? Did he truly have to go this far? King Wen felt deeply anxious, filled with heavier worry than he had felt in countless years! *** Mount Tianqiong. The Lord of Tianqiong also sighed with emotion. "It's over, no more show to watch. A ruthless fellow dragged two lords of forbidden lands down to death with him... What a pity!" Beside him, the Heavenly Gate trembled slightly. After a long silence, the Human Sovereign asked in a low voice, "Are they all dead?" "Dead!" "I just heard the name Su Yu..." "Right, that was the guy leading the assault. I must say, he was truly not weak!" The Human Sovereign fell completely silent! Soon, he spoke no more. Back in the myriad realms, he swiftly turned his gaze toward Su Yu's world. At this moment, that world also seemed on the verge of collapsing! However, the speed of collapse was not that fast! Wan Tiansheng and the others flew out rapidly, their faces pale with shock! The Human Sovereign gritted his teeth and roared, "Sever your Daos and merge into my world!" Su Yu might have met with disaster! Was that lunatic completely reckless? Looking at the trembling world and the violently fluctuating Human Lord Seal, Wan Tiansheng sighed softly. "Sever your Daos and merge into the Human Sovereign's world!" Yet he himself smiled faintly, vanished in a flash, and stepped into the Human Lord Seal! *Are you dead?* *Probably not!* *Or have you merged life and death once more?* *I don't know... but since you aren't here, we will wait for you right here!* He entered the great Human Lord Seal, his gaze gradually growing distant. The world was slipping into extinction! At this moment, more figures appeared by his side. Someone chuckled. "Why sever our Daos? If Su Yu survives, wouldn't we lose the chance to return? If he enters extinction... then let us enter extinction together! After years of war... we've slaughtered enough to break even!" Powerhouse after powerhouse stepped forward: King Daqin, King Daming, Xia Longwu... If extinction was their fate, let them all enter extinction together! Su Yu represented their struggle! Never admitting defeat! Fighting to the very end! He was their faith, the light within the darkness! If even he had entered extinction, let all of them pass into extinction together within this world! Outside, the Human Sovereign roared in fury, "Bastards! A bunch of blasted fools! What kind of person raised such fools! Dammit!" *Have they gone mad?* *If he truly entered extinction, are you all just waiting to die?* Wan Tiansheng and the others exchanged glances and smiled. Separated across the Three Gates, the power of extinction took a moment to transmit over. One by one, the light in the eyes of these powerhouses dimmed. With a smile on his face, Wan Tiansheng thought, *I... believe in you!* *I will always believe in you!* *Su Yu, you are our faith... do you know that?* *Without you, we... cannot fight on!* Their gazes turned lifeless, the radiance of the great seal went dark, and the world sank into extinction!