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Gaining the power to erode now only fills the last gap.

"The principles of construction paved the way for my path."

Cheng Xing stood on the moon, the power he received from the Herrscher of Reason was constantly rewriting the surrounding space and the surrounding values, creating a perfect scene.

"The infinite void has broken down my barriers."

The power belonging to the Herrscher of the Void opened a door to the tree, and Cheng Xing is constantly obtaining what he needs from the tree through this door.

"Lightning created enough magnetic force to draw all the surrounding energy toward me."

"...The fluidity of the Wind Herrscher obtained from the moon is enough for me to perfectly balance the flow of all energy."

Cheng Xing continuously uses the powers he has acquired through theft, robbery, or demand to extend and analyze the power of collapse, constructing his own evolutionary field and constantly making up for the various things he lacks.

Even so, this is still an extremely reckless act, since evolving a Herrscher to the level of a god still requires a long time and a tremendous amount of energy to support it.

Where did he get so much time and energy?

At this moment, the black Cheng Xing finally sensed the echo of the past timeline, and then immediately, through continuous searching with his counterparts at other fulcrums, confirmed a fulcrum.

All the future clones continuously drew power from the tree and the sea, providing support to their past selves.

As for the time?

As long as there's enough energy, nothing else matters.

Cheng Xing looked at the moon, which he had turned completely white, and exhaled. He then took out a musket that looked as black as ink but with a hint of scarlet.

Looking at the Earth ahead, he gave a final smile, then pointed the muzzle of the fire-breathing gun at his temple and spoke clearly in the vacuum environment where sound could not travel.

"Then time needs to be accelerated."

With a gunshot, a massive amount of energy created a golden clock, drawing everything around it into a vortex of time, causing it to flow by rapidly.

Chapter 239: Ascension to Godhood

On the huge golden clock, the hour, minute, and second hands were all spinning at a speed far exceeding the normal range.

This proves that local time on the moon has been accelerated to an unimaginable degree, and the energy torrent that enables this phenomenon is still vigorously supporting it, as if the energy consumption that accelerates the entire moon's ultra-fast time is insignificant. It is unimaginable how this thing can transmit the power of the future so quickly and massively.

Meanwhile, the various Chengxing clones in the future are constantly absorbing the power of the world's essence, which is the power of collapse.

In the world of trees, there is no world without the power of Honkai. After stealing the authority of the gods, Cheng Xing's control over Honkai has long surpassed that of ordinary Herrschers.

They could even perfectly distribute that concept of Honkai to all the dolls, allowing them to absorb such a massive amount of energy.

Such a large-scale energy absorption would naturally attract the attention of the tree. At this moment, the tree, which was originally cooperating with the sea to fight against the collapsing universe of that world, suddenly realized that the worlds that it had just regained were being drained of their power.

And that energy is constantly being transmitted to a point in time in the past of some world.

The tree separated a portion of its consciousness to check what had happened at that point in time. It discovered that the creature that it remembered, which was constantly evolving into its child, had begun to evolve and was using its enormous energy to accelerate the evolution process.

When the time acceleration ends, what was originally just a tool for filtering civilizations in the world will grow into a Honkai God capable of performing the filtering of a large number of world civilizations.

Furthermore, the child possesses a portion of the laws from another world. If I resolve the issues here and then completely absorb and devour the child, I can also obtain a portion of the power from other universes. This would be far more helpful to my growth than the growth of civilizations from several worlds.

Since that's the case, let the child do whatever he wants. After all, it's just some Honkai energy, and it's all extracted from those worlds, so it can't affect the branches themselves. Therefore, the tree withdrew its consciousness and didn't interfere.

However, He also noticed that it seemed that one of the child's clones was approaching a place close to Him and was connecting to the past through a special point in that place.

But so what? Anyway, even if he wants to do something, the moment he touches me, this child will become the perfect food to be devoured.

Since that's the case, let the child do whatever he wants; after all, it's just a matter of changing a few worlds.

Tree and Sea then continued their struggle against that troublesome fellow. Although both sides knew that if the other side were to go all out, the battle would not be as stalemated as it was now, since the shrinking opening was severely limiting their respective outputs.

However, since the stalemate has reached this point, it proves that this stalemate must be profitable. Both sides are constantly analyzing each other's universes, using the laws flowing from that hole to analyze the insights gained from the constant collisions during their battles.

Perhaps because both worlds are in a state of collapse, the similarity between the two universes is extremely high. Therefore, they were exceptionally successful in stealing the laws of each other's universes, which led to both sides involuntarily stopping and allowing this stalemate to continue.

In terms of time span, it would probably take hundreds or thousands of centuries for this hole to completely close, according to human calculations.

It's way too short.

Therefore, both universes must use this short period of time to grow and acquire what they need.

The system, currently on Earth, looked up at the moon, which was brighter and whiter than usual, and sighed helplessly. Then it looked at Otto, who was kneeling on the ground, and said, "You have no bargaining chips to make me change my fate."

"Didn't you say you'd make a deal, devil? Now my soul is right here, take it or leave it! As long as you can change that fate!"

"Yes, I did say before that I wanted to make a deal with you, but I also said that I don't need your soul. Besides, only the future you is qualified to make a deal with me."

"Could it be that you were the one who orchestrated all of this?!"

At this moment, Otto understood why Kallen suddenly learned that the darkness originally buried by Destiny was the devil in front of her, the devil who had allowed her to see the future!

"Hehehe! Yes, yes, just as you thought. I'm really curious, after experiencing such a heavy blow and growing far beyond your predetermined future, what kind of qualifications will you have in the future?"

"Now that things have come to this, do you still think I'd do something with you?!"

A golden greatsword appeared in Otto's hand, and his eyes seemed to burn with fierce fire.

The system looked at the fabricated Heavenly Fire Greatsword and shook its head in disbelief, saying, "That toy can't hurt me. You'll still make a deal with me no matter what. Don't you want to create a world where everyone is happy? A world where Kallen doesn't have to bear the responsibilities of a saintess and can just live happily?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"I am fulfilling my dream of a future where everything is perfect for you! A beautiful world for you."

[That's what that idiot wanted to do too.]

Even with such a terrifying process, the accelerated evolution lasted for a full month. After Cheng Xing regained consciousness, he estimated that he had spent approximately ten thousand years during the accelerated process.

It took a full ten thousand years for a mortal to transform into a god. Even with such immense energy support and his own understanding of divine authority, it still took such a long time.

However, Cheng Xing now completely lacks his former human appearance, and also lacks any characteristics related to scarecrows.

He now looks exactly like the god he encountered in that pure white space, just a pure white humanoid figure.

At this moment, Cheng Xing had reached the realm of a god.

So, besides the difference in power and existence, what is the most definite difference between gods and humans?

Yes, that is emotion.

During these ten thousand years, although Cheng Xing was asleep, the changes in his body affected his soul and various other things, so that Cheng Xing's emotions had long been selected as impurities and eliminated in the process of evolution.

For the strongest life form, for a god, emotions are indeed a defilement.

At this moment, Cheng Xing had completely become a deified being.

Although his mind contained all the memories of the past, all the love, hate, joy, and laughter he had experienced, it was still filled with them.

He could even understand what those feelings were like, but at this moment, he still wouldn't experience any emotional fluctuations because of them.

He understands, he comprehends, but he won't change because of it.

This is the divine.

Chapter 240: The Final Battle

Cheng Xing, dressed in black, sat cross-legged alone on the crimson desert. The black monsters that had surged like an unseen wave had long since vanished.

Now he was the only living being left here. He looked at his hands, which had become as white and flawless as jade, and snorted unhappily. Then, a black mist that looked disgusting covered his hands, and his hands, which were originally like jade, gradually turned black and eventually became the skin color of a normal person.

"Seriously, the final evolution is finally complete, and the second stage is over... However, apart from me being able to suppress the assimilation on the main body, the other puppets have probably already begun to change. I need to speed things up over there, otherwise I'll end up losing something in the end."

Muttering to himself, Cheng Xing, dressed in black, stood up from the ground and walked towards the tree that looked far away but also felt very close.

[Simulation ended.]

[Congratulations, host, for evolving to a completely new realm beyond the essence of living beings and mastering a certain concept. The system's duties have ended, and it will completely disengage in 24 hours.]

[Countdown: 23.59.45.]

Cheng Xing felt no emotional fluctuation at the voice that echoed in his ears. He could then clearly sense a certain movement and distortion of time and space around him. Without resisting that pull, he arrived in the future, 500 years later.

When the surrounding distortions ended, Cheng Xing arrived at the starting point of his destiny, the place where he began.

Changkong City...

"An unpredictable level of Honkai energy has appeared in Changkong City! Several of our instruments have already broken down, and we are completely unable to detect what exactly happened there!"

The person in charge of the reconnaissance spoke with fear to Theresa and Himeko behind him.

"...Does this energy mean that the end of your world has come ahead of schedule?"

Kiana stared at the broken-down equipment and the familiar energy emanating from afar. This level of energy reaction was on par with her own, meaning that the end of this world had arrived.

"Since Cheng Xing is not here, then I will protect his world."

Kiana's eyes flashed with golden light, and her casual clothes transformed into her divine armor. When Kiana opened a portal in time and space, intending to teleport directly to Changkong City, she found herself in a pure white space.

"who!"

Kiana sensed an aura that was extremely similar to her own.

“I can’t let you get away with this so easily. Otherwise, I’m not confident I can win against two opponents of my own level. But since that guy has already resorted to such underhanded tactics to find outside help, I’ll use some tricks of my own. He shouldn’t mind.”

Kiana thought she heard her own voice, but that voice sounded more mature and much more frivolous than her own.

"Who exactly are you?!"

However, in this pure white space, no one answered Kiana's question anymore; all that remained were countless crystal-clear white branches that had suddenly sprung up.

Raiden Shin, now in the form of the Herrscher of Thunder, was rushing to Changkong City to check on the situation when a blue whirlwind suddenly appeared in front of him, and a green-haired girl blocked his way.

"Hello, senior! Where are you in such a hurry to go?"

Wendy, the Herrscher of Wind, looked at Raiden in front of her with her slightly glowing blue eyes and a somewhat morbid smile on her face.

"...So it seems the time for the final battle has come?"

Lei Dianzhen seemed to understand something, so she stopped talking and didn't rush over. She slowly drew the weapon beside her and stood facing off with her sword.

Then one of them transformed into a cyan whirlwind, and the other into a deep purple lightning bolt. The two were fighting in an extraordinary way, and the waves they stirred up were constantly churning the sea.

A woman with a veil on her face and hair as white as snow was hurrying towards Changkong City when a man suddenly appeared in front of her, holding a burning greatsword and blocking her way.

“Rule Master, this is the end.”

Kevin swung the Destroyer in his hand without any expression.

Ice and fire clashed in the air.