Am I the only one who didn't ascend?

In the gray world, life is destined to be accompanied by darkness.

The gray gale on the surface is enough to blow away the bodies of all living things. The survivors can only lie down and bury themselves in the thick dust to keep safe for a moment.

However, the gale is unpredictable. Sometimes there will be a tornado that penetrates the sky and the earth, whistling past, sucking away hundreds of meters of ash in an instant, and grinding the gray people who nest in it into gray particles that fill the sky and the earth.

For the gray people, once they see the gray sunlight on the surface, it basically means that their death is approaching. Therefore, the gray people's life can only keep digging down and constantly consolidating the dust dome above their heads, as if racing with the wind.

And the civilization accumulated by humans for hundreds of thousands of years quickly disappeared in this desperate escape.

When Wang Luo's eyes came to this gray world, he only saw a group of gray people with deformed bodies like worms crawling in a long underground tunnel under the dust. They have basically lost their vision and can only perceive external objects through hearing and touch, and then wriggle their bodies little by little. They move very slowly and have to open the suction cups on their abdomens every once in a while, crawl on the wall of the tunnel, and fall into hibernation.

At the front of the tunnel is a giant about ten times the size of the other gray men.

Although he is called a giant, he has almost no human form. Due to long-term life in the pit, his limbs have been highly degenerated, like four small tumors. In addition, he is naked, muscular, with hard lumps on his skin, and a spiral drill horn on his forehead, constantly digging down in the compacted ash pile.

That is the Taixu Tianzun of this world... Seeing him like this, Wang Luo was shocked.

Although I have long known that the appearance of the Tianzun living in the origin of Taixu must be very different from that of the present world, I really can't imagine that the dignified immortal ancestor would become an insect in the illusion...

But soon, as Wang Luo gradually deepened his observation of this world, the absurd feeling in his heart gradually disappeared.

Because at least for the surviving gray people in this world, Taixu Tianzun is still the ancestor who created the world for them.

Among the gray people living in this pit, only Tianzun has horns to dig out the ash pile and a huge mouth to swallow dust - this dust-covered land has long been devoid of nutrients for survival, but is full of poison. But Tianzun, with his incredible mutation, has formed an organ in his body that can digest dust. He swallowed the dust around him into his stomach and turned it into his own flesh and blood. After that...the hard skin on his body would occasionally fall off, which was the food left for future generations.

Swallowing and digesting dust is not easy. The dust in this world is essentially the ashes of civilization, containing the resentment of countless dead people, and is the most violent poison in the world. Every time Tianzun swallows dust, he will fall into great pain, but in order to provide for the tribe behind him, he has no choice but to overcome the pain and continue to dig down in pain.

Although the power of Tianzun in this world is not strong, he is the unique savior.

The long excavation also has an end. After an unknown period of time, the ash pile in front of Tianzun suddenly produced a slight color change - although it was only an extremely slight and almost imperceptible change, it was captured by Tianzun keenly. He was immediately happy and let out an indistinct roar from his mouth. The sound wave passed back along the pit, shaking off several resting gray people.

Then, this small surviving tribe fell into ecstasy.

Although the gray people have almost lost the language of civilization, they still have human emotions. They twist their bodies in the pit, like dancing.

Because this long journey is finally coming to an end.

In the entire gray world, there is only one paradise. It is said that in the era when civilization still existed, there was a fire hidden in the endless underground, a fire that was enough to ignite the world, and even the strong wind on the ground could not blow it out. As long as you find that fire, you can find the eternal paradise.

As an outsider, Wang Luo certainly knew that the so-called paradise was actually the dark soil... When civilization still existed, it was the worst place that many people could imagine, and the remnants of civilization were settled in it.

However, compared with the world full of flying ashes, perhaps the dark soil can also be called a paradise.

The celebration of the grays did not last long, because the act of revelry was too luxurious for the grays who had to save every bit of physical strength. Many grays fell into paralysis after twisting violently, and some elderly grays died suddenly, and their remains became part of the dust on the spot.

So Tianzun roared again, reminding the tribe not to be careless. After a short rest, he would dig through the last section of the road and open the door to the "dark land".

At this moment, the horns on his forehead seemed to sense something, and suddenly turned his head with him, and the two eyes that seemed to have degenerated under the horns suddenly opened.

Their eyes collided directly with Wang Luo's.

In an instant, Wang Luo felt as if he was falling from a high altitude. The strong sense of weightlessness and dizziness lasted for about one or two breaths. When he came to his senses, he realized that the Tianzun was not looking at him.

But an outsider who was like him and did not belong to the gray world.

It was a black giant whale that descended on the surface world... It had a huge and smooth body, with a layer of fine hair on its surface. Each hair was a powerful arm, supporting it to swim freely in the dust pile.

And the indestructible gale had no effect on it, as if the resentment brewing in the wind could not touch it at all. Then, the giant whale also had an extremely keen sense of smell. It kept turning over the pile of ash, smelling every wisp of residual smell in the ash, and then...

Finally locked onto the tunnel where Tianzun was.

In the giant whale's lower jaw, hundreds of eyes opened at the same time, each eye contained a sharp look like a sword, and each invisible sword was aimed at the same person.

But the next moment, the giant whale turned its eyes away, shook its body, sank into the ground like a shuttle, and shuttled towards the end of the tunnel.

At the end of the pit, closest to the surface, there was a nest that was about to be abandoned. In it, there were several young gray people, who were still slowly chewing and swallowing the skin pieces left by Tianzun, making the final preparations before migration... But at this time they were stared at by the black giant whale.

The giant whale swung its body willfully. Every time it went deep into the ash pile, it would raise the dust around it. This swaying was faintly stirring up the strong wind on the ground. After a moment, a small tornado took shape in the swaying, constantly sucking up dust and throwing it into the sky, making the underground nest more exposed.

Once the ash layer above the nest was sucked dry, the gray people exposed to the "sunlight" would surely die without a burial place. At the critical moment, Tianzun did not hesitate any more. He let out a furious roar, alarming all the gray people in the entire pit. And every gray person who felt the roar had a faint blood color on his body.

Several gray people with stronger bodies struggled to tear open the skin in front of them, and stretched out their short but strong and powerful arms from the gap with hot blood. Those were the weapons that the strongest group of surviving gray people had. At the most important time, they could spare no effort to temporarily replace Tianzun and open up a passage for the tribe.

Tianzun said nothing more. His sturdy body moved up along the pit. His movements were so swift that he seemed out of tune with all his compatriots. When he reached the top of the tunnel, the young gray man in the nest was still trembling.

"Roar..." Tianzun simply comforted the young gray man, and then spit out a piece of bloody meat to an old gray man who was responsible for taking care of them. The old gray man immediately swallowed the fresh meat, and then a fire ignited in his body, causing him great pain... but his strength doubled. He immediately opened his suction cup, carried the cub on his back, and crawled deep into the tunnel.

At this time, the sound of wind could be faintly heard above his head.

Tianzun let out a final roar, and the nest that once protected a group of gray people collapsed in the roar... revealing a gray sunlight.

The dark giant whale floated on the wind, like a solar eclipse, and the projection of its body fell on Tianzun's head.

The next moment, Tianzun showed no sign of weakness. His insect-like body contracted and exploded like a spring. In the blink of an eye, he rushed into the sky, into the sunlight and strong wind!

The strong winds that were enough to kill all the gray men did not have a fatal effect on Tianzun. Although every gray particle would leave a scratch on his skin, Tianzun did not mind at all. He just retracted his head and aimed his sharp horns at the heart of the giant whale.

This black monster was like a sudden nightmare, descending into a world that was already like a nightmare. So far, it has destroyed many gray man nests... and the nest that Tianzun is guarding now is the last gray man nest in this world.

Tianzun also has no way to retreat.

Tianzun, in desperation, burst out with extraordinary power... Although it has used most of its power to support the increasingly degraded tribe in the past long years, so that its body is getting weaker and weaker, far inferior to the black giant whale. But when he had no way to retreat, the sharpness of the horns on his forehead made the giant whale timid for a moment.

The giant whale's intention to retreat only flashed for a moment, and the next moment the same hatred broke out in the giant whale's heart. However, the momentary hesitation was enough to be fatal. The horns of Tianzun finally pierced deeply into the giant whale's abdomen, and with the momentum, they cut a long and deep track, smashing more than a dozen eyes staring at the abdomen!

The giant whale let out a painful wail, but the pain soon turned into rage. It swayed its body and ignored the blood flowing in its abdominal cavity, gradually struggling to fly upwards.

Because just above the giant whale's head, the originally small tornado seemed to be stimulated by blood and expanded at an alarming speed.

The giant whale did not need to use its own power to kill the gray man. It was enough to induce the wind in this world. The poison in the wind was no hindrance to the giant whale, but it was fatal to every gray man. Although Tianzun could resist the wind to a certain extent, he was ultimately wearing out his vitality.

At this time, facing the rapidly expanding tornado above his head, Tianzun not only did not retreat, but twisted his neck and tried to use his horns to expand the wound on the whale's abdomen... The whale felt unusual pain and immediately contracted its abdominal muscles, clamping Tianzun's horns like a pair of pliers, making it impossible for it to escape and difficult to continue to stir the wound... But the soft abdomen could not be kept tight for a long time. After a while, the wound was enlarged to a horrible and hideous size under the struggle of the horns, and pieces of rotten and broken flesh and internal organs slipped from the wound and were swept away by the wind.

On the other side, in just a moment, Tianzun was taken into the wind, and countless tiny defects appeared on his rough body, and the defects expanded at an alarming speed, as if the whole body was rapidly melting in the wind...

This was a duel of life and death.

This was the life-and-death duel between Taixu and Taichu.

However, just as Wang Luo was concentrating on the fierce battle in the book, his eyes caught a glimpse of another corner of the world... and in an instant, he lost interest in the outcome of this battle.

And as he blinked, the fierce battle between the Heavenly Venerables came to an end in an instant, and the tragic process was completely omitted.

The black giant whale, that is, the Heavenly Venerable Taichu, lay withered in the dust. The wound on its abdomen was almost doubled, and most of its internal organs and blood were gone, making its huge body look shriveled and twisted. In this fierce battle, Taichu originally had an absolute advantage in strength, and seized the opponent's weakness, almost having the upper hand, but was eventually defeated by the desperate counterattack of the Heavenly Venerable Taixu.

On the other side, Taixu Tianzun also won a miserable victory. His body shrank by almost 90%, leaving only a worm body like an ordinary gray man, with broken horns and weak skin... If it weren't for the giant whale's body to help him block the wind, he would have died on the spot. But despite such a serious injury, he managed to smile.

The biggest threat to this world was finally eliminated, and the road to the deep paradise was also opened up by him to the last step. As the savior of the gray man, he has done everything.

Although it is probably difficult for him to witness the tribe settling down in the paradise and rebuilding civilization, the joy of victory still makes him feel that he has no regrets in death.

However, it seems that there is a mysterious will pulling him, so that he not only did not die, but gradually recovered his vitality in the giant whale's corpse. After an unknown period of time, when the giant whale's skin and flesh completely dissipated, he had recovered 40% to 50% of his strength, his body became huge again, and his skin also had the ability to resist the wind. So he forced himself to be tired and quietly dived into the dust pile under him, crawling a little bit to find the traces of the tribe.

The previous tunnel had collapsed a lot in the fierce battle between the two Tianzun, but Taixu Tianzun still found the way back in the dust little by little. With great expectation and joy, he dug away the dust blocking the road little by little, and then saw the familiar tunnel, and went deeper and deeper along the tunnel.

Finally, he came to a road that was gradually getting darker. From here, it was the road that the gray people opened up with their lives, and at the end of the road, the fire could be seen faintly.

After an unknown period of time, the fire gradually expanded in the field of vision and became brighter and brighter. However, the bright fire also brought a hideous shadow. Taixu Tianzun faced the shadow, and his crawling body gradually slowed down and stagnated.

Because, when he got close enough, he finally saw the truth of the fire.

It was indeed a ball of fire, but it was not a fire that could lead civilization, but a fire of the end that was more terrifying than the strong wind on the ground. The tribesmen that Tianzun cherished and protected had all been burned to ashes by the flames, but the corpses did not disintegrate, but continued to cast hideous shadows.

It was like a bad joke, giving people despair when they had the most hope.

Tianzun stood in front of the fire for a long time, until his own body gradually burned in the flames... and as Tianzun finally died, the page of the book in Wang Luo's hand suddenly turned into ashes.

"So, this world has ended? The two Tianzuns, even if they die together?"