High Above

The omen is over.

Ian felt a severe dizziness - even after his precognitive vision was improved, he could not observe the omen three times in a row.

Especially, the last existence he saw.

The void breeds evil...

The embryo of the complete void that breeds evil...

That kind of thing...can actually exist? !

"What happened in the center of the earth?"

Holding back his dizziness, Ian's soul floated on the blue river, staring at the omen that had just disappeared.

——The monster in the center of the earth is emitting its first cry before its birth, and just such a precursor directly destroyed the entire virtual realm of Terra, causing the collapse of the virtual realm around the world, creating countless subspace mazes and The abyss of silence.

Although the number of dead souls increased rapidly during this period, which strengthened the power of many spiritual gods, allowing them to protect some of the most critical facilities and cities of the civilization, and contained all the dead souls, so from this perspective, the Terran civilization Except for some material assets, nothing was lost.

But the death of the real population is enough to make everyone vigilant.

In particular, the evil in the void comes from the plan of the ‘Nightmare Demon King’, which is actually closely related to the souls of all living beings.

Ian believes that its appearance and gestation are definitely closely related to the development of the Dead Lord/Spiritual God line!

"No, I have to talk to Grand Duke Thorin about this - something is wrong!"

The first thing that Ian thought of was that someone had added ingredients to the Death King's plan. When the Death King system spread, it would also lead to the development of the Nightmare Demon King series of plans.

He immediately thought about the omen of getting out of his own way, and alerted Archduke Thorin who had probably not gone far and diverted his attention.

Although he is a lunatic, he is still a guy who hopes that his people can survive.

Ian still can't figure out why the Void Breed exists, but there is no other explanation other than blaming it on the Gnosis Academy.

unless……

Ian, who originally wanted to take the initiative to escape from the omen, paused his actions.

One possibility after another, one piece of information after another, flashed through his mind.

——If the evil of the void wants to take shape and turn from an illusory nightmare into a reality, it requires the fear of intelligent life on the entire planet.

——The Void Breed has a strange characteristic. It can spontaneously absorb the power of the virtual world, the real world, and even all environments to maintain itself. This is its greatest confidence that as a super-physical life, it can roam the galaxy in one body.

——The Void Breed is a river-level destructive creature, and it naturally has the ability to move at super-light speeds.

——The evil that breeds in the void... grows with the growth of the spiritual god system.

——The Void Breed was deliberately created by someone, and this person is definitely related to Grand Duke Thorin. Otherwise, it is absolutely impossible for a fourth-level energy leveler to disappear without telling any news. He would have been able to do so long ago It reminds the kingdoms of Terra that there is evil in the void, and even his death can serve as a reminder.

Grand Duke Thorin is not dead, he may have joined forces with the person who cultivated the evil of the void!

In any case, whether they died or joined forces with the people who cultivated the evil of the void, they must have something to do with it!

In this way, even if it is impossible, the answer is obvious.

"it's me……

Ian murmured to himself, his tone filled with disbelief, and looked towards the blue river where the long-gone 'omen' was: "Did I do it?"

The young man said in disbelief: "I guided the souls of the whole world, guided the despair and hatred, fear and sorrow... and single-handedly cultivated the evil of the void?!"

"It's actually me!?"

At this moment, due to fatigue and dizziness, the cyan vortex formed by Ian's spiritual energy began to gradually break.

But he can still see the possibilities emerging in time.

Along with the massive earthquake that caused the entire planet's plates to collapse, streams of pitch-black poisonous gas spewed out from the center of the earth. They were the embodiment of death that penetrated the virtual world and the real world. They sprayed violently, causing the planet to collapse. The crust of the planet is constantly cracking, shattering, and then shrinking into the innermost core of the star.

Amidst the cries of countless beings on the earth, the atmosphere on the surface of Terra was blown away. A spherical atmosphere spread towards the outside world, and then was completely withdrawn to the center of the earth by an inexplicable gravity, causing the white atmosphere to It undulated and formed a shape like a spiked ball.

And in this process, fragments of the earth's crust, continents and cities were blown hundreds of thousands of meters into the air. Human flesh and blood stirred and rubbed against the rocks and steel at the speed of sound, eventually turning into balls of meaningless organic mud. Even if some ascendants do not die immediately from the drastic changes caused by the fragmentation of the planet, the subsequent extreme pressure changes and the magma sea flowing out of the mantle will let them know what the most painful death is.

The world is destroyed.

And the monster that destroyed the world took a deep breath.

All matter and soul were swallowed into the center of the earth. A huge and terrifying beast that was so ferocious that it could not be described in words slowly revealed its spiny back from the core of the star. It raised its head and exhaled, The violent super storm blew the material in front of its head into the depths of the universe at a speed of thousands of kilometers per second, and the ink-colored light that lit up in its eyes contained no extra thoughts except pure destruction and devouring.

but……

Ian saw an insignificant mark on the top of the giant beast's head.

A diamond... represents the mark of the 'Dead King' or the 'Spiritual God'.

But it is more complicated, with cyan lines spreading on the top of the head of the Void Breed, absorbing the souls of all living beings, source matter and fragments of the void into its body.

And then...it sailed into the distance.

In the flames of the broken planet, in the scattered atmosphere, in the smoke and dust that the earth's crust and mantle spread in all directions, turning into clusters of newborn asteroids, a giant beast swallowed up the souls of all living beings and the essence of the planet, and turned into itself and drove into the distance. of resources.

It vibrated its four wings, and the distortion of time and space unique to warp speed began to appear around the evil in the void.

It's about to go.

It has already set off.

And what happened next, Ian could never see again.

Just like Ian couldn't see himself in the worm hive, when his future self completely mastered the body of the void breeder, he would no longer be able to see the future of this path.

He is already a 'spiritual disaster'.

Ian stared blankly at the fragments of this omen, his eyes blank. He had no other thoughts in his mind at the moment except 'madness', but this madness was unexpectedly in line with his nature.

Rather...

Sure enough, that's what he did!

It is precisely because of his identity as a prophet and a human being that he provides cover and choice, so other forces know nothing about it!

“I see—I totally get it!”

At this moment, Ian finally fully understood what his future self was thinking, and he simply exclaimed: "That's it! That's it! That's it, we can fly out!"

"Not just me, but everyone - everyone on the entire planet can fly out!"

The original prototype of the Dead Lord was the psychic spaceship ‘Spiritual Fire’.

It is a kind of immigration ship or fire type designed by Inega II in order to take human souls away from Terra, which is about to be blocked by the prison star prison. In terms of design, it is perfect. The only shortcoming is, There are still dozens of technical problems that need to be overcome before it can be formed.

Inaga II solved some of the technical problems himself, but there were still many that remained unsolved until his death.

Archduke Thorin also solved some of the problems, but the most important core issues such as 'normal light speed or super-light speed of movement', 'soul carrying capacity' and 'maintaining an environment suitable for soul existence for a long time' have not been solved.

If these technical problems are not solved, even if a spacecraft is invented, it will not be able to carry a few people, let alone all mankind.

The Dead Lord technology developed by Adebert, with its soul stack derived from artificial souls, solves the problem of carrying capacity - the existence of the Dead Lord itself is the accumulation of souls. The more souls, the bigger the ship.

But other problems still exist.

Ian thought to himself that he should be able to solve the warp engine problem, but maintaining the existence of a high-energy environment for a long time, almost forever, could not be solved.

Since it can't be solved, let's not think about it for the time being... develop the sect and territory first.

This is the development direction you choose on this path.

Then... I saw the giant dragon.

The dark golden dragon sprinted out of the earth's mantle and headed straight out of the Star Prison.

——It turns out that there is an individual who can really rely on his own strength and determination to go into the void alone?

--this……

——I can do this too!

Shocked by the power and determination of that dark golden dragon, I was probably determined to follow that path because of this.

The path called ‘spiritual disaster’.

The strongest creature on the continent of Terra is not a true dragon, nor a swarm of insects.

In terms of sheer power, the Void Breed in the Nightmare Plan, a super creature that even a real dragon feels extremely fearful of, and even instinctively afraid of, is synonymous with power.

Moreover, even if it is a 'fantasy', the Void Spawn can forcibly absorb the powerful essence of natural spiritual energy to maintain itself in the virtual realm. This is also the 'ability to maintain existence for a long time' that the Spirit Fire Project continues.

In this way, you only need to be able to summon the evil of the void and control it...and then turn it into the largest 'body of the dead king', carrying the soul of all living beings, and that's it!

Even now, Ian can guess the process of implementing the plan.

The formation of the evil in the void requires the 'fear' of all living beings.

As for all living beings, not everyone can do it. A soul must exist, and its fear can be used to catalyze evil in the void.

Therefore, he promoted the spiritual god system and asked the forces of all Terra to help him build a complete system of the dead king, so that all human beings would have souls.

Then, many spiritual gods were born, and they became the gods of their respective people and the protectors of their souls after death.

Because the soul is immortal, can we no longer be afraid?

wrong.

Spiritual gods are not real gods, and they are not eternal existences. They will die, and they will also be destroyed, and at that time, the souls that coexist with them will probably also perish.

The horror of human death is prolonged.

twice.

At that time, mankind will usher in two deaths.

When the body dies, people fear that their souls will be left homeless.

When their souls return to their dead king, they will be terrified to death.

Moreover, in the entire soul form, the souls will be afraid, even more afraid - just like some people who commit suicide simply because of impulse will never want to commit suicide again after the suicide fails.

Because they all know very clearly that this time they are facing a real and completely dissipated death.

And there will be no second chances.

This more intense fear became the food that catalyzed the nightmare.

The fear of all living beings sank into the center of the earth and into hell. With the help of Archduke Thorin, they cultivated the embryo of the evil of the void in the place with the highest energy and the lowest terrain on the entire planet, and made it grow until it shattered the planet. , born from the core of Terra.

This is the spiritual disaster - the withering disaster of the broken planet, giving birth to the evil god!

And this evil god and beast that destroyed the world will become an ark that carries the souls of all living beings.

Immediately afterwards, he flew towards the other end of the cage.

Of course, Ian didn't know how he controlled the Void Breed at that time, nor did he know how he made this huge beast become the dead king...but he could figure out the rest.

However, he single-handedly contributed to the formation of the system of gods, and then destroyed the entire Terra, just to allow the void breeding spacecraft to set sail.

This kind of thing feels very desperate no matter how you think about it.

Ian wondered.

Even if he is crazy, if there is no reason, I am afraid that he will not easily give up the new order of Terra that has been formed and is developing at a high speed and launch the void breeding spacecraft.

Unless at that time, he had already learned some vital information from some places, forcing himself to make this choice at that time.

In other words, he is actually so bad inside.

That's it... to get to the top of the sky, no matter the cost.

And this is information that Ian cannot predict now, and only Ian who is on that path knows.

Of course, Ian was also blaming himself for the spiritual disaster path in his heart - can't this mean that what he did was wrong? With the speed and direction of the development of Terra, if you really want to rely on your own strength, without taking any shortcuts, without relying on the evils of the void, and relying solely on yourself, you will definitely encounter a lot of troubles, and it may even be impossible to complete.

What's more, he also brought all the Terran people with him. Although they all died, they died quite miserably... But who knows... The result is not bad, is it?

As he defended himself, Ian was speechless.

Obviously, this approach is not in line with his character.

If you had chosen the path of the insect swarm, you would definitely have no hesitation in doing such a thing.

But precisely because he has rejected the path of the swarm once, the current Ian will not give up easily or take shortcuts.

"Perhaps, the me in these omens is not the future predicted from the 'me now' as the starting point... interesting."

Ian thought thoughtfully: "The power of precognitive vision as a precognitive spiritual power is really unimaginable to me... It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the strongest prophetic spiritual power."

Although he is not as powerful as other prophets in a specific direction, in terms of comprehensiveness and information acquisition, one omen from Ian can equal the amount of information that other prophets can obtain through several large prophecies.

But then again.

The path of the swarm... is really a la carte.

These are the thoughts in Ian's heart.

It took me six years on the path of the swarm to save the first batch of wealth, and I began to push Nanling and the Grand Duchy together - Nanling was just the edge of the world, and the Grand Duchy was essentially a dead land. Loneliness is basically an invalid achievement.

After the push, he had a head-on fight with the Terran coalition. After being blown up, he was forced to lurk for more than ten years to rebuild his fortune. He could only go to the New World to dig up rocks in the mantle, and then go to the center of the earth. It seemed that he was going to destroy the world. The Terran people became nervous as never before and wanted to form a coalition of all factions to deal with them.

In fact, I was probably fighting fiercely with some monster when I transformed into a swarm of insects.

Ian is basically sure that he himself on the insect swarm path has also discovered something is wrong in the center of the earth... He also doesn’t know if there are void breeders on the insect swarm path, and whether Archduke Thorin is the real first person to cultivate void breeders. ——If so, that would be fun.

In this case, the reason why I went to the center of the earth on the path of the insect swarm was probably not to destroy the ecosystem of Terra, but to deal with the real enemy, the doomsday monster that would destroy Terra and the insect swarm together.

By the way, I took the blame for the changes in the earth's crust before the evil of the void awakened.

Of course, in the world where the insect swarm is located, even if there is a void breeding evil, its strength will definitely not be as strong as the one carefully raised by Ian himself on the spiritual disaster path. Otherwise, the insect swarm will not be able to defeat it at all.

But in fact, it’s not all the fault of Chongquncai, but the startup speed.

Ian was only at the first level when he was on the path of the swarm. Even with the blessing of the Great Labyrinth of the South Sea, he did not have much technology and various knowledge in his hands. The cards he mastered were compared to those of the countries of Terra and major forces. Very few.

Therefore, it seems a little stretched.

But on the spiritual disaster path, I started with the dual second level peaks, the Dead Lord and the Dead River Arms, and the entire Avak Central Laboratory.

Not to mention that Ian has also undergone a super evolution through study and research in the Imperial Capital, and his alchemy skills are completely different from before.

Oh, one more thing.

Those on the spiritual disaster path hide themselves very well. They use lords and sects to hide their true thoughts. They make friends with everyone. They have the support of the Dragon Worship Cult, the Huaiguang Church and the Empire. Even Canaan Moore’s reputation is extremely high. .

He did not start from scratch alone, but continued to grow and become stronger with the support of a group of people... absorbing nutrients from the many forces in Terra and becoming his own strength.

In this way, no one doubted his plan and no one discovered it, giving him the possibility of success.

but……

Was it really successful?

Or……

Did he really find all the key points and get all the information he should?

Ian wondered if he could do better.

I stayed in Nanling and cultivated fields for fourteen years. Although I developed a huge force, opened the prelude to the Century of Gods, and reached its peak within the next ten years... But can I compress the time a little more? , and get some more information?

On the spiritual disaster path, have you really achieved perfection?

——The answer is no.

While exiting the Omen, Ian saw it.

In the vast time, the blue river and its branches were interrupted out of thin air, as if it encountered a cliff. The rushing river of spiritual energy was cut off, and then turned into nothingness.

On the other side of the distant starry sky, on the edge of the Prison Star Prison, Ian saw a spreading blue pattern.

A distorted light spread and became empty nothingness.

This is a sign.

He, who transformed into a spiritual disaster and controlled the evil in the void, did not fly out of the Prison of Prisoners.

Why?

——Is there someone blocking it? Or is it that the cracks in the Star Prison only appear to exist, but are actually effective enough to prevent anyone from leaving it?

——Is it because he is not strong enough to break out of the prison? Or is it because the existence of the evil in the void itself does not allow him to enter and leave the Prison of Prisoners?

Ian doesn't know. Even the spiritually catastrophic person himself didn’t know.

【——Change one——】

Vaguely, Ian heard a tired voice, with a majestic spiritual sound that echoed in the souls of billions of sentient beings, resounding in the depths of his soul: [——Change another road——]

【——This is not the right way——】

"I see."

Looking at the cyan lines from a distance, Ian whispered to himself.

To myself and to myself.

Afterwards, he fell out of his precognitive state and returned to the maze of subspace.