Monsters Will Die if They Are Killed

"...What are you thinking about!"

Su Zhou was stunned for a moment, and after pondering for a long time, he finally figured out what "tree" Elias was talking about just now.

He immediately scolded him angrily and funnyly: "Do I look like someone who can make such a joke?"

"On the contrary, you, a four hundred year old man, why are you still making such a joke?"

[You are also hundreds of years old, aren't you? It's just a little joke. 】

In response, Elias shrugged - although he seemed to be a young lady, he had actually spent hundreds of years in the human world, so it was natural for him to pick up such little jokes easily.

It would be better to say that He was not such a serious person in the first place, but for hundreds of years, He had been shouldering the responsibility of the survival of the world, so that his humanity was gradually erased, and he could only think hard about ways to pass on the order of things.

But now, Su Zhou's return has made most of the pressure dissipate... Although there is still a long way to go in the future, he can now take a breath, and naturally there is room for relaxation.

And...looking at his teacher's slightly shaken head and slightly annoyed expression, the uneasiness in Elias's heart gradually calmed down.

——Su Zhou is also a normal person who would be so stingy over such a trivial joke between men.

You know, since they met again, in the eyes of Elias, Su Zhou has always been so serious and serious, as if he came just to save Tian Qing, so that he even doubted whether Su Zhou was someone A special response measure for saving the world. Whenever the world of Tartadis is in danger, he will arrive.

But now it seems that is not the case.

This is quite gratifying.

"Anyway, the tree I'm talking about... is my companion sacred tree."

Although Su Zhou had no thoughts, he could only feel that the other person's mood had eased a lot when Elias, who was also the overlord, deliberately concealed it, and he actually had no emotions about it, so he casually After complaining, he showed Elias his personal space: "That's the tree. The Tree of Wisdom."

The space cracked open with Su Zhou's will, and a small world appeared in front of the Lord of Fire.

Elias stretched out his head to look and found that on the other side was a small world with a complete cycle of four elements, including wind, sea, earth and fire.

The center of the world is indeed a towering sacred tree dozens of meters high. It is green and white, exuding the aura of wisdom, and a little bee girl is playing with this sacred tree, surrounded by all kinds of people. There are all kinds of grass carvings of creatures, and a magic sword is chopping the air in mid-air, cutting out fire marks, looking bored.

But the World Tree spear remained motionless.

【……I see! 】

After taking a closer look, Elias was amazed and noticed something was wrong in this world: [Is there no other life in this world? 】

"There may be some in the future, but right now, there are only some vegetation."

Su Zhou didn't care very much. He had complete control over his personal space. Whether there was life in it or not was the same thing to him.

After waving to the wisdom tree and saying hello, and asking the other party to wave its branches and leaves and say "Okay~", Su Zhou closed his personal space with a serious expression: "The growth of sacred trees requires soil and water. In the past, I used to cultivate it with the water of Yaochi and the soil of Kunlun, but now, it is slightly insufficient, and I can’t find any other better divine soil and divine water for the time being.”

"That's why I want to see if the 'dust of the world' that is enough to maintain the existence of the world has the effect that suits my wishes."

【I completely understand. 】

Nodding slightly, Elias withdrew his gaze and said with a smile: [Now, let me take you to the outside of the world. 】

Along the coast of Twilight City, the migration of sea people and pirates continues.

And in the sky above, two divine lights flashed away.

The passage to the outside of the world was actually very familiar to Su Zhou.

When he and Elias returned to the center of the Holy Fire Continent, around the Holy Mountain of Dawn where the central church is located, and entered the profound dogma at the bottom of the Holy Mountain, he immediately understood.

The Holy Mountain of Dawn is the corpse of the God of Earth from the previous era. His huge body that once spanned several layers of labyrinths absorbed endless earth elements at the beginning of the era and condensed into a sacred mountain in the center of the world.

And in the deepest part of the mountain, at the beginning of the past era, the heart of the four elements, the birthplace of the soul of the elements, and the sea of ​​underground lava were opened.

The golden red lava boils, and endless fire elements gather in it. In the huge scorching ocean at the bottom of the world, the surging magic power flows endlessly, and even condenses into almost substantial fire essence and elemental barriers.

Elias is the Lord of Fire, so he can naturally overcome these obstacles easily. Under his guidance, Su Zhou passed through the sea of ​​lava and came to the deepest part of the earth, where the 'Original Bedrock' is located.

[Through the bedrock, there is the void outside the world. 】

In the flowing sea of ​​fire elements, Elias turned his head and spoke to Su Zhou cautiously, and the young man nodded slightly. He responded solemnly: "I feel it...Is this the end of the world?"

The feeling of passing through the bedrock is not special. For Su Zhou, it is just a very dense earth element barrier. With the power of the Overlord level, he can break through with brute force. However, under the guidance of Elias , the process was unexpectedly easy, it felt like an ordinary passage through the time and space gate.

Generally speaking, Elias will not physically travel across the world. In order to reduce consumption, he spends most of his time traveling through the world in spirit - but this time he is accompanying Su Zhou, so he doesn't mind spending a little more effort.

Soon, the two of them arrived outside the world.

——Icy Void-Great Ashes Area——

The world shrouded in a layer of gray hazy light blooms with crystal-like brilliance in the frozen void. It is placed in a hazy mist like a nebula, covering everything and even everything in the void. The bright brilliance is deflected layer by layer. Refracted, showing countless colors and brilliance.

And two insignificant light spots slowly lit up from this crystal-like brilliance, then broke through and emerged on its surface.

"Is this the void?"

When Su Zhou arrived outside the world, he had no particularly unexpected feeling. If I had to use an analogy, it felt like he was in a surging ocean current that was thousands of times more powerful than the ocean, with endless power and intention. Take him to turn as the world turns and move as the world moves.

Moreover, because there is no protection from the scale of the gods, he feels that the void around his body is slowly condensing and freezing. If he does not release energy to resist, he will be completely sealed in the void like frozen amber. middle.

"It is indeed the frozen void...the 'sealed world' after the great seal."

Buzz - The blue-purple heavenly soul emerged from above his head and turned into a shield like a ball of light. Su Zhou stabilized himself in the void. He turned his head and looked at Elias, and found that the other party also had layers of light all over his body. Layers of fire runes are used to maintain stability in the void.

[Normally, if the soul travels, it will not encounter such a big resistance. It is many times more convenient to travel through the void with the soul alone than with the real body. 】

Elias explained that he had been traveling in the void around the world of Tartadis hundreds of years ago, so he is naturally very familiar with it: [The dust of the world nearby is difficult to collect, let's go to the other end. 】

"Listen to you."

Su Zhou let out a long breath, and turned into a stream of blue-purple light, following closely behind Elias.

While on the way, he couldn't help but raise his head and look into the distant void.

You can see, even under the cover of the endless misty dust of the world, you can see the bright light released by the endless world in the frozen void, which is billions of times more dazzling than the stars.

However, in this endless brilliance, there are silver lines that seem to run through the infinite distance. They span all realms and infinite voids, seeming to run through the entire multiverse, and even the great seal itself.

With just one glance, Su Zhou could tell that these silver lines were the 'pioneers'.

In other words, the last legacy left by the pioneers - the essence of the 'pioneer space'!

In the world of Tartadis, there is also a silver line coming from infinity and connecting to this world.

"...Sure enough, the pioneer's hand reached here."

Staring at this line, Su Zhou followed its brilliance and glanced at the whole world of reincarnation. But as he looked at it, he couldn't help but be stunned: "Wait a minute, that's not..."

His eyes were fixed on the surface of the world of reincarnation, some areas that were slightly dim like sunspots... In those areas, there was still a part of the gray mist that was filling the air. They absorbed the surrounding ash and dust and replenished it into the Tal Tower. Within the world of Dis, order is maintained.

"Surprisingly, the gray mist incarnation of the Lord of Silence still exists and hasn't left?"

Staring at the gray mist, Su Zhou already knew that Lord Ji had been watching the world, but he was still a little surprised: "Elias said that when He and the God of Wind broke away from the barrier of the world and came to the void, Then I saw all the gray fog receding... Now that I think about it, His departure was just to cultivate the enterprising spirit of these two gods."

The young man at this moment can roughly understand the thoughts of Lord Ji.

The other party just wanted to make the lives in the reincarnation world progress bit by bit, and he also induced it bit by bit, until in the end, the lives in the world could completely control the life and death cycle of their entire world.

Then, gradually transcend reincarnation.

Whether it is finding a way to completely maintain the existence of the world, or leaving one's hometown to find a brand new and stable world, whether it is the Lord of Fire who stays behind, or the Lord of Wind who travels to a distant place, they are all methods of transcendence, both are ways of transcendence. The path of reincarnation.

And this cycle of reincarnation, this process of maintaining order, transcending the world, and exploring endless distances, is a [Song of Wind and Fire] worthy of being praised by all life.

At this time, Su Zhou was feeling the deep meaning of Ji Zhu - of course, in simple terms, it might be summed up by a simple label like 'Ji Zhu's mother'. After all, there is such a great being who painstakingly cultivates his own children. Even if this love is a bit twisted and unacceptable to ordinary humans, I am afraid that this is really the only one.

At the same time, Elias, who had already started taking action, came to Su Zhou's side with a piece of world dust.

[Teacher, look. 】

Following the young god's spiritual thoughts, Su Zhou turned his head. He saw that Elias was holding a dark gray mist like flowing clouds in his hands. The misty energy glow even made a wave of light appear in the surrounding void. Layers of silver light spots, these light spots are connected to each other like human nerves, transmitting some mysterious information to each other, turning into a scenery that is far more gorgeous than a star cluster.

Looking around, the dust of this world is endless, filling all the void around it. Even with all his eyesight, Su Zhou cannot see the end.

"A little prettier than I imagined."

With a sigh, Su Zhou stretched out his hand, and his spiritual power turned into an invisible giant net, trying to capture part of the dust of the surrounding world and take a closer look at it - but the strange thing is that it was originally enough to capture tens of millions of tons of sea water. Lan Dun's hand, which grabbed a small hill, seemed to be useless at the moment. It created the gathering place of the dust of the world, but did not pick up any dust.

[Teacher, the dust of the world cannot be captured with magic power. 】

Looking at this scene, Elias chuckled. He stretched out his hand and showed off his skills to Su Zhou: [The dust of the world can only be captured with the soul - this is why I only used the soul to travel in the past. , because there is not much benefit in carrying the real body. 】

The so-called magic power is actually another name for spiritual power. There may be different subtle differences between them in different worlds, but they are essentially the same thing.

When Su Zhou Dingqing took a look, he realized that what enveloped the dust of the world in Elias was indeed not magic power, but a network purely composed of soul stars.

Immediately, he was amazed, and then asked his external search engine in the soul space.

"Yara Yala, do you know what this means?"

The red snake spirit was currently at the top of the tree of wisdom, using its tail to slap the fruits made of demon souls hanging above. After hearing Su Zhou's words, he said lazily: "It's very simple, the dust of the world. , is the pure essence remaining after the destruction of the world. It itself is a superior essence that transcends spiritual power, magic and other energy. If you use spiritual power to salvage it, it will be like fishing for water with water, and you will get nothing."

"But the soul itself is a condensed and stable form of spiritual power. Although it is also water, its properties are more similar to ice. It can not only pick up water, but also absorb a certain amount of world dust with its own structure and temporarily solidify them. "

Having said this, he turned his head and looked at Elias out of the corner of Su Zhou's eyes: "This student of yours who is twenty times older than you, his soul has changed due to years of contact with the dust of the world. You can now travel through the void at will. In this regard, your soul practice is far inferior to His."

Saying this, Yara seemed to be caught in some kind of memory, and he couldn't help but whisper to himself: "The soul captures the energy in the void and gives it back to the world after it dies. The world breeds life, and life breeds souls with gradually increasing energy levels. Gradually, the spirituality and energy of the entire world becomes stronger and stronger, until finally, it becomes a truly extraordinary world.”

"And if the world dies and is destroyed, it will turn into more world dust and spread in the void, allowing other worlds to capture and absorb it, giving birth to more souls, creating a virtuous cycle... This is the way of advancement in the world, the way of reincarnation. road."

With a long sigh, Yala stopped talking, and Su Zhou earnestly kept all this information in mind.

"Is the relationship between the soul and the world actually like this? The connection between the world and life is actually so close..."

Thinking in his mind, Su Zhou temporarily suppressed this doubt, then adjusted his soul, turned into a giant net, and captured the dust of the world in the distance.

But this time, as Elias said, it was much easier than using spiritual power - although some of the misty gray mist still slipped away from the net, most of the world's dust was absorbed by Su. Caught in the morning.

【That's it! 】

Elias on the side smiled and nodded. He was not surprised at all that Su Zhou could learn it immediately. After all, this matter is very simple as long as it is explained clearly: [I don’t know how much world dust you need, teacher. Anyway, just capture it yourself. 】

[My true body represents the incarnation of the fire element in the world of Tartadis. If I leave the world for too long, I am afraid that it will cause a "fire element imbalance", so I will go back first and then travel with my soul. 】

"no problem."

Su Zhou naturally would not refuse, and he also understood that the elemental spirits bound the gods... Their bodies became the human pillars that maintained the existence of the world. They could not leave the world too far. If they wanted to travel far, they could only use their souls to travel far. Travel.

Elias's golden-red light disappeared into the shell of the world. After Su Zhou tried to capture a large amount of world dust, he found that unless he split a part of his soul, it would be difficult to capture the pure essence of world dust. It materialized and turned into something similar to the elemental soil in his imagination.

"Is it possible to use my own soul or evil spirits as a culture medium? It's not impossible...it's just a waste."

Su Zhou was troubled by this aspect, but soon he remembered the 'burned out embers' left behind after being burned by the fire of karma in his soul.

Burning out embers are the ashes of the soul left after the evil soul has been burned by the fire of karma. Su Zhou has not found its effect yet, but in general, it presents a pure soul quality... If we say that there is only the soul If it can store and stabilize the essence of world dust, then it should be possible to burn out the embers.

He did it as he thought, and Su Zhou took out the burning ember from his soul space.

In the fine black mist, the cold light of black and white karma fire flickers, swaying in the void, like the high-temperature smoke emitted from a factory chimney.

This thing is like burning out coals of fire, burning out embers.

Su Zhou tried to merge it with the dust of the world, and the results were exciting.

The burned out embers indeed exerted a soul-like effect. It completely absorbed part of the dust of the world. The two clouds of smoke and dust merged with each other, and finally turned into a cloud of dark powder in Su Zhou's hands... This powder had nothing to measure. It is heavy, but it has a touch similar to that of matter. It is a pure spiritual existence, the dust of the world that manifests an entity!

As for the materialized dust of the world, Su Zhou carefully picked up a handful, put it in his mouth, and tasted it carefully... It was not really eating it, but sensing the properties of this material with his soul.

As a result, the taste suddenly made his eyes light up: "It's very good!"

"Although it's a bit bitter, it's very fragrant and delicious... It's just like... it's like dark chocolate powder. Although it tastes bitter, it still has a rich aroma!"

Because part of the materialized dust of the world is composed of burned-out evil souls, after Su Zhou swallowed the powder, he immediately felt a power feedback, which replenished a large amount of his soul power - even though he didn't need it now. , but if his soul is severely damaged in the future, he can use some saved world dust to quickly repair his injuries!

At this time, there was no need to hesitate. Su Zhou took out all the burned out embers, and some of them were saved from before. Because they were too weak, even the Wisdom Tree had no interest in awakening them. The extraordinary and commander-level demon evil spirits, All used to blend with the dust of the surrounding world.

When he was halfway through, he suddenly frowned: "Wait a minute, the soul is not a strange material to be honest. I have evil soul reserves, so I don't need to use my own soul to reserve them. But if there is a How could the evil strong man not harvest the souls of all living beings and capture the dust of the world as a reserve after he noticed the magical effects of the dust of the world?"

At this time, various legends about the soul in myths and legends emerged in Su Zhou's mind. Among them, the soul as the currency of transactions between gods and demons always puzzled Su Zhou in the past - what is the human soul? How can virtue be favored by gods and demons? Especially after he achieved extraordinary achievements and realized that the soul is just an extra thinking organ of intelligent life, this confusion became even stronger.

But now, after realizing the wonderful relationship between the soul and the world, and the soul and the dust of the world, Su Zhou suddenly realized... I am afraid that in this multiverse, for those beings who can travel through the void, the soul may indeed It's some kind of currency.

For a moment, Su Zhou's heart suddenly became heavy, but soon he shook his head: "Well, it's all just speculation."

"Wait until I actually encounter this kind of existence in the future... then I'll think about how to kill them."

Putting this thought aside for the time being, Su Zhou opened his personal space and sprinkled the materialized dust of the world directly on the soil around the wisdom tree.

Immediately, the pitch-black dust flew down, with silver light spots still flowing inside. They turned into crystal lines, falling like rain. The moment these silver lights and black dust came into contact with the earth, they immediately hit the ground. The bright light mist shrouded the surprised Wisdom Tree and Sarah.

"What, what is this?" The little girl from the Wind People on the side was still a little confused. She waved her arms, but found that she could not disperse the smoke and dust. Her hands would even pass through them, as if the light mist did not really exist. .

However, the next moment, with the sudden rise of surprise soul fluctuations, echoing in the personal space, Sarah noticed that there was an inexplicable suction force, which began to absorb all the light mist that she could not touch at all. Pull back.

Turning her head, the little bee girl was surprised to find that the blue-white sacred tree was emitting pure white holy light. All the silver light, mist and black dust were absorbed by its roots and branches, and emitted pure light. Pleasure fluctuates.

Buzz - you can see that the fire sword angels lingering on the branches of the sacred tree are beginning to transform at this moment. They are flying in mid-air one by one, drawing mysterious and mysterious holy runes, and then they all return to the tree of wisdom. The branches began to form cocoons and fell asleep.

The light on the Wisdom Tree was almost as bright as the sun, and the benefits of the dust of the world to it seemed beyond imagination, making the sacred tree make a sound of great joy.

"Run...Run is good!"

Hearing this, Su Zhou, who was smiling and watching this scene with joy, suddenly turned dark. He waved his hand and shouted angrily: "What Zhou Zhou!"

"Can you call me Zhou Zhou?! Think about it carefully, I am your father!"

Although it sounds like a simple bad breath, in a sense, it is not a lie - but at this time, the wisdom tree no longer has the energy to care about this. It was originally a sacred tree in its infancy. The high-grade fertilizer that should not be obtained at this time has once again fallen into accelerated growth and fallen into a short-term slumber.

"Thank you, thank you~ Ah, I'm so, so awesome!"

Muttering about the fluctuations in his soul, Shenmu's consciousness fell into a happy sleep.

The growth of the sacred tree will one day transcend the world, reach the void, and become the 'void sacred tree' that transcends the world... At that time, the nutrients that the sacred tree absorbs for self-sublimation are the world itself and the world floating in the void. of dust.

Su Zhou's conjecture was not wrong. For the divine trees, the dust of the world was indeed a material superior to all divine soils. But... he did not expect that it would be like giving medicinal wine to a child, because it was too much tonic. , on the contrary, the tree of wisdom was replenished and fell asleep in an instant.

"Oh, this, this..."

For a moment, Sarah, who was watching all this, couldn't help being stunned. She never expected that the Wisdom Tree who was playing so well with her would actually fall asleep like this.

But before she could react, the voice of Su Zhou, the Lord of Judgement, sounded in her ears.

"Sara, you play well with the Wisdom Tree, and the Wisdom Tree seems to like you very much... What do you think of it here?"

Hearing this, the girl from the People of the Wind nodded slightly in a daze: "Shu, Shushu is indeed very, very good. I am very happy here, and I have almost forgotten the original world..."

"Then, would you like to stay here and take care of the World Tree?"

At this time, Su Zhou really didn't want to abduct the little girl... As an old father, he really took great pains to find a companion for his child.

After reacting, Sara's eyes lit up and she immediately wanted to agree - but soon, she frowned, as if she had something to say.

Su Zhou knew what the other party was thinking. He smiled and said without waiting for Sarah to speak: "Want to know how your parents are doing now? It's a simple wish. I heard it."

"Don't worry, I will help you find it."

After asking Sara to help take care of the wisdom tree, Su Zhou's will returned to the void again.

He recalled the happy soul fluctuations of the Wisdom Tree and couldn't help but smile and shook his head.

"I have a tree, and under my influence, the current Dragon of Judgment also has a source water sacred tree... Think about it carefully, the legends of Zhutian Zhuzhu are quite consistent."

Thinking of this, he thought of his good friends who were still on Earth, and showed a thoughtful expression: "Speaking of which, Qiming is also following the path of the sacred tree."

Recalling the surprise of the Zhuzhao Group that Shao Qiming brought to him before leaving the earth, Su Zhou couldn't help but nodded slightly: "This time, I will also bring him a gift."