Chapter 128
Chapter 128: The Five Qi Dynasty is complete
Clack.
The mask fell, shattering against the floor.
The very instant it fully separated from flesh and blood, that disintegrating body—froze!
Then, the Thousand-Face Demon Lord.
Opened his eyes once more!
Chen Daozi, Tiffany, Ye Desheng…
3 heads, 6 eyes, all igniting simultaneously with terrifying crimson light!
"Three Flowers Crown The Summit!"
He formed seals with both hands, fingers twisting and folding.
"Five Qi Return To Origin!"
The grotesquely splayed cavity of his abdomen—flesh and blood began to writhe and boil!
Countless dark-red blood vessels extended like tentacles, coiling around the Fate Slot Machine.
Meshing with its outer shell!
"Ascension To Immortality!!!"
With a frenzied roar, his abdomen exploded!
That was no wound—it was some manner of nameless metamorphosis!
The Fate Slot Machine rose slowly from the churning mass of flesh and blood.
Metal and blood vessels in symbiosis!
Gears and bones fused together!
This S+-Grade Cursed Object that had devoured the souls of countless gamblers.
In this moment—fully merged with him as one!
Clack!
The metal cover plate atop the slot machine snapped open.
A hand, rotted to bare bone, reached out from within the machine, gripping the edge with a death-lock.
Then, an ancient head with one eyeball dangling free peered out.
Christopher!
The Thousand-Face Demon Lord's true form had actually crawled out from within the Cursed Object he had forged with his own hands!
He hunched half his body over the edge, releasing a maniacal laugh.
Then, he raised that skeletal hand, and tore the mask from his own face in one motion.
But this time, his body did not dissolve.
"Hahahaha!!!"
Christopher threw his head back and roared to the heavens.
"Do you see it now, Han Fei?! This is my contingency plan!"
His fingers jabbed at his own abdomen—the portion fully fused with the slot machine.
Through the semi-translucent flesh-and-metal casing, 5 enormous symbols were slowly rotating.
【Joker】,
【Revolver】,
【Werewolf】,
【Playing Cards】,
【Dice】.
"Using the Fate Slot Machine's 5 Death Games to replace the human body's five organs and six viscera!"
"Using this Cursed Object—vessel of humanity's most extreme evil and greed—to reforge my Five Qi Return To Origin!"
"Ye Desheng's decrepit stand body could never contain so many Divine Chosen souls! But I can!"
Christopher turned his head.
"As thanks for helping me complete this magnificent experiment, now…"
"Become one of us!"
Han Fei's pupils contracted sharply.
By instinct she raised her hand, wanting to activate Plunder once more.
But there was no response.
Her spiritual force couldn't stir so much as a ripple.
That last Plunder had already burned away her final reserve.
'I'm sorry… Yilin…'
Han Fei's hand fell limp at her side. Her whole body trembling, she shielded her daughter behind her.
'Mama… doesn't have what it takes to get you out of here…'
'These years—it's Mama who's failed you…'
Unexpectedly, the blood-soaked Ye Yilin did not cry out or make a fuss.
The girl only reached out with great difficulty—her hand filthy with blood—and gently stroked Han Fei's weathered cheek.
"Mama… I don't blame you."
"As long as… at the end… our whole family can die together…"
"That's enough."
Han Fei's psychological defenses completely collapsed. Tears burst forth like a broken dam.
She clutched her daughter tightly, waiting for death's arrival.
"Yes! Exactly like that! Embrace me!"
"I'll reunite your family of 3 inside my belly right now!"
Christopher worked himself into a frenzied ecstasy, swiping his claws down toward the mother and daughter!
3 meters!
2 meters!
1 meter!
At this most critical juncture, the temperature inside the morgue—surged violently!
"What is that?!"
A surge of crisis welled in Christopher's heart. His movement abruptly seized.
By instinct he turned his head, looking toward the morgue's sealed door.
The next second!
Boom!!!
The door was instantly melted through by a torrent of raging flames!
And that golden torrent of flame didn't pause for a single moment—making straight for Christopher's face!
"In the Name of the King!"
Christopher's reaction was at its absolute limit—the head of Tiffany on his left shoulder screamed out.
"Establish the Untouchable Rule!"
Hum!
An invisible Absolute Domain expanded in an instant.
That torrent of flame—halted in midair, a mere 3 inches from his face!
"Hmph…"
'Some brat showing up to ambush a deity? Is that all you've got~'
The mocking words hadn't even fully left his lips!
Breakthrough!
That supposedly Untouchable rule barrier!
Shattered to pieces before that golden flame!
Only now did Christopher see the true form of that torrent of flame.
It was a spear!
A dragon spear forged entirely from boiling dragon blood!
Driving straight for his throat!
The instant the spear broke through his defenses, a silhouette appeared at the spear's rear.
The man's lean waist unleashed force in one explosive motion.
His right leg traced an arc through midair, and delivered a kick squarely onto the spear's tail!
Boom!!!
The dragon spear accelerated a second time, flames erupting completely!
"Schk!"
The sound of flesh being pierced rang out!
The dragon spear drove clean through Christopher's chest, lifting him off the ground as it carried him along.
Pinning him to the wall at the far end of the morgue!
The entire basement shuddered violently beneath that single strike!
"This…"
Han Fei opened her eyes, staring in disbelief at the divine intervention unfolding before her.
"Move!"
A hand slapped down hard onto Han Fei's shoulder.
She spun around.
"It's me! Guo Shuai!"
The young man with half his face disfigured gasped for breath, hauling her up from the ground with one pull.
"Quick! Stop getting in our master's way!"
Piano rushed forward, hoisting the weakened Ye Yilin onto her back in one motion.
Quanquan huffed and puffed as she shouldered the unconscious Guan Ming, her little legs sprinting at full speed to follow.
Han Fei was dragged by Guo Shuai in a mad dash toward the exit.
At the instant she was about to step into the darkness, she couldn't resist looking back—toward the man standing at the center of the sea of flames.
That silhouette…
So familiar!
It's him!
That night—the shooting star that tore the sky open and descended from the heavens!
That day at the gambling table—the madman who pressed a revolver against her own forehead and kept pulling the trigger for a solid minute!
Both silhouettes merged perfectly with the man before her eyes in this moment.
The corners of Han Fei's weathered face curved upward into a smile.
'Looks like… the King of Hell doesn't dare take our lives today.'
The group disappeared into the darkness.
Inside the morgue, only fire and murderous intent remained.
"Ahhhhhh!!!"
At the wall, Christopher let out a bestial roar.
He frantically channeled the Untouchable Rule, applying it to his own body.
Both hands gripped the scorching spear shaft, and wrenched the dragon spear that had pierced his chest free!
"Tss!"
The spear left his body, dragging out a gush of black tainted blood that corroded deep pits into the floor wherever it fell.
He crashed down onto the ground with a thud, fixing his gaze on Jiang Nan standing at the center of the hall.
"Truly formidable…"
"Not unworthy of the monster who slaughtered the Divine Fetus single-handed."
"The Joker's worthless stand body—must have died at your hands too, I imagine?"
Jiang Nan gave no answer.
He simply raised his right hand with casual ease, fingers loosely curled.
The dragon spear lying on the ground transformed into a streak of red light, instantly flying back in reverse into his palm.
The next second.
Bang!
Only a ring of burst air pressure remained where he stood—Jiang Nan's figure vanished on the spot!
No wasted words, no probing, not even half a line of posturing delivered!
Only the most pure!
The most extreme killing!
'So fast!'
Christopher's 4 heads operating in unison!
"Chen Daozi! Spit!"
On his right shoulder, Chen Daozi's head snapped its maw wide open.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!
4 jet-black daggers shot out!
Those were the Time Daggers Chen Daozi had left over before his death!
Every single one carried enough power to instantly kill an A-Grade aberration!
Every single one was an absolute rule of touch-and-die!
Sealing off every possible evasion space Jiang Nan had!
However.
At the ten-millionth-of-a-second before the daggers were about to strike Jiang Nan.
The world—drained of color.
All things became grey and white.
Leaping flames suspended in midair, shattered stone fragments hovering before his eyes.
Jiang Nan stood within the absolute stillness of the temporal domain, observing those 4 daggers that were almost upon him.
He extended a finger.
A light flick.
The 1st—reversed its blade, aimed at the center of Tiffany's brow.
The 2nd—aimed at Chen Daozi's throat.
The 3rd—aimed at Ye Desheng's temple.
The 4th—aimed straight at Christopher's right eye.
Having done all this, Jiang Nan even leisurely stepped back one pace, holding the spear single-handed, arms folded as he watched.
Time resumed its flow!
Whoosh!!!
4 streaks of light turned traitor and drove back toward their owners!
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
4 rings of steel against steel rang out!
Sparks flew everywhere!
The daggers were stopped by an invisible barrier a mere 3 inches from the 4 heads' faces.
Christopher went blank for a second.
'Huh? This guy's ability… is Reflection?!'
Jiang Nan paid no heed to his shock, looking toward the head of Tiffany.
'So-called Rule-Type…'
He mused inwardly,
'No.'
'In essence, it's merely a low-grade form of a domain.'
Having gone through the battle with the Joker, Jiang Nan had long since seen through the true nature of these abilities.
That which could truly generate something from nothing, rewriting reality—was his Instant Eternity.
Whereas Tiffany's rules were nothing more than forcibly implanting a piece of code within the range of her force field.
As long as it was a domain, it could be overwhelmed by brute force with a domain!
Jiang Nan raised the dragon spear in his hand, a thought stirring within him.
Hum!
The invisible force field of No Entry Forbidden Domain on the Dragon God Imperial Armor began to circulate, spreading along his arm to the spear!
The originally red spear body—condensed from high-temperature dragon blood—was instantly overlaid with a layer of armor markings.
1 layer, 2 layers, 3 layers…
Scales raised in reverse, dragon's might shaking the heavens!
Dragon blood as bones, domain as armor!
A brand-new killing weapon fully capable of rending every false rule—awakened completely in Jiang Nan's hands!
"What kind of aura is this…"
The arrogance finally receded from Christopher's face. For the first time he revealed an expression of wariness.
He could clearly feel the oppressive might radiating from that spear.
Was causing his Untouchable Rule to cry out in anguish!
‘I have to use that move. But before that—I must create distance!’
The thought had barely flashed through Christopher's mind when Jiang Nan was already moving!
The spear launched like a dragon!
Afterimages flickered!
Everywhere the eye could see—red afterimages ripping through the air!
Christopher couldn't capture the trajectory of the speartip at all, relying only on the instincts honed through hundreds of battles to twist his body!
Schk!
The speartip grazed across his left shoulder, taking a massive chunk of flesh clean off!
Schk!
Another flash of cold light!
The dragon spear pierced through the edge of his lower abdomen at a ruthless angle!
The Untouchable Rule before the absolute violence of Jiang Nan!
Was like a piece of wind-riddled torn cloth—utterly incapable of withstanding this kind of brutality!
"Urraaah!!!"
Christopher let out a wail.
Dodging in a wretched scramble, he channeled every ounce of power within his body in a frantic attempt to counterattack.
But Jiang Nan was too fast!
The spear momentum too ferocious!
Like a sudden violent storm, each thrust faster than the last, each thrust heavier than the last!
Speartip flicking! Stabbing! Slashing! Smashing!
A total one-sided slaughter with him pinned into a corner!
At this rate…
Within 3 seconds, he'd be stabbed into a pulp while still alive!
"You forced my hand!!!"
Driven into absolute desperation, Christopher went completely unhinged.
He bit the tip of his tongue. Tiffany's head snapped both eyes wide open and shrieked.
"In the Name of the King! Establish the absolute rule—guaranteed three-of-a-kind on all draws!!!"
Simultaneously, the head of Chen Daozi on his right shoulder deflated in an instant. He channeled the final last reserves of this body.
999 days of temporal power—without reservation, pouring it all into the Fate Slot Machine in his abdomen!
The Fate Slot Machine fundamentally needed flesh and blood to acquire the energy that drove it!
And Chen Daozi's ability was fundamentally also a form of energy accumulation!
So it could serve as a substitute!
That was why he had needed to fuse with the other party first!
"Come on! I'll keep drawing until you're dead!!!"
999 days! Enough to make the slot machine ignore cooldown and pull 30 consecutive times instantly!
Plus Tiffany's guaranteed-hit rule, 30 inevitably triggered divine-tier effects—one bombardment after another!
“Even if a god descended, they'd have to kneel before me!”
“The ultimate victor… will always be me!”
Christopher's arrogant words weren't even finished—
Schk!!
The dragon spear had already pierced through his brow!
The speartip entered through the forehead, erupting from the back of the skull, trailing a long string of blood blossoms!
Christopher's body went rigid. His voice cut off without warning.
Was it over?
Yet Jiang Nan's brow furrowed.
Something was wrong.
He gripped the spear shaft, feeling that the moment the speartip pierced through the other man's brain—it was locked in place by some force…
At the same time.
Ding ding ding ding ding!!!
The slot machine jackpot music—rang out abruptly!
Jiang Nan sharply looked down.
On the screen fused with flesh on Christopher's abdomen.
3 symbols had stopped rotating, erupting with blinding rainbow light.
【Joker】.
【Joker】.
【Joker】.
Three aces! The highest gift of fate—absolute invincibility!
Boom!!!
The next second—Jiang Nan didn't even have time to take a defensive stance!
The whole person was sent flying!
Bang!
The dragon spear tore loose and flew out, stabbing diagonally into the ground with a humming vibration.
Jiang Nan's body was buried deep within a rubble pile!
Smoke and dust billowed.
Christopher withdrew his striking fist, while simultaneously no longer thinking with his head blown open.
His wounds recovered at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Not even the ghost of a scar remained.
He rolled his neck.
Then, he looked down from above at the distant ruins.
Bang.
Rubble exploded apart. Jiang Nan rose straight from the debris.
"I acknowledge you—no need for words."
Christopher smiled arrogantly.
"You are fortunate. You've successfully forced out my ultimate trump card."
"As the highest tribute to your strength…"
"Allow me to personally fuse this perfect physical form of yours completely into my body!"
"Come! Use your flesh and blood… to help me ascend to godhood!!!"
"Hahahahahaha!!!"
Deranged laughter rang straight up into the night sky.
Inside the morgue, the smoke had yet to clear.
Jiang Nan rose from the rubble, his crimson pupils locking onto that monster still in the process of healing.
"Hand grasping the blazing sun…"
He spoke, his voice low, yet rumbling like thunder.
"Shattering the stars and rivers!"
The 8th Dragon Tongue—spoken aloud!
Boom!!!
With him as the center, a wall of air swept across the entire morgue.
Dragon God Imperial Armor.
Metamorphosis.
The originally dark-red armor recovered in an instant—those wounds as though they had never existed.
The color of the scales began to shift—fading from dark-red to a deep and solemn black, then bleeding gold from within the black!
Dark-gold.
But…
Jiang Nan lowered his head for a glance at his back.
No dragon wings.
'No sun…'
He understood it instantly.
The essence of the 8th line was borrowing the power of the sun, completing the final metamorphosis.
And here, was Basement Level 1.
No light.
Only endless darkness.
'But…'
Jiang Nan clenched both fists, sensing the surging power within his body.
'Enough.'
The next second.
He vanished on the spot!
Christopher's pupils contracted sharply—no time to react whatsoever!
A fist covered in dark-gold dragon scales had already smashed into his face!
Boom!!!
Christopher was sent flying!
Crashing through the morgue wall!
Crashing through the ceiling of Basement Level 1!
Crashing through the floor slab of the 1st storey!
Rubble, rebar, soil—burst open in his wake, blasting out a tunnel that went straight up to ground level!
Rumble!!!
Outside the hospital, the ground suddenly erupted.
Christopher was blasted out from underground by a single punch, soaring high into the air—then crashing back down hard!
"Cough… cough cough…"
Christopher climbed out from a pile of hospital beds, staring at his own chest.
Though he hadn't suffered actual damage.
But he understood…
"That punch…"
"If I hadn't had invincibility protecting me, I'd probably have been shattered to dust on the spot, wouldn't I?"
He raised his head, watching the figure that was slowly walking out from the underground fissure.
Dark-gold armor, gleaming and radiant.
Jiang Nan, had arrived.
"Very good… absolutely excellent!"
Christopher bared a savage grin. The slot machine in his abdomen began to spin.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
【Revolver】, 【Revolver】, 【Revolver】!
3 matching symbols lit up!
Revolver—Death!
A jet-black revolver coalesced in his palm.
Christopher raised his hand, aimed at Jiang Nan, and pulled the trigger!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
6 consecutive shots!
Death-Qi bullets carrying the rule of certain-death, aimed straight for Jiang Nan's head, heart, and throat!
Every single one with enough power to instantly kill an S-Grade aberration!
Every single one an absolute rule of touch-and-die!
Jiang Nan didn't dodge.
He didn't even move.
Simply raised his right arm and held it in front of him.
Clang clang clang clang clang clang!
6 crisp sounds.
Sparks scattered.
Smoke dispersed.
Christopher's smile froze.
Jiang Nan slowly lowered his arm.
The dark-gold arm guard—had 6 bullet tips embedded squarely within it.
The tips had lodged into the dragon scales, but that was all.
Not even the flesh had been touched.
"This… what kind of armor is this?!"
Christopher stared with eyes wide in disbelief.
6 instant-death bullets—only left 6 shallow dents?!
"No…"
He suddenly understood something.
"It's not the bullets… it's that domain!"
He stared hard at the armor on Jiang Nan's body.
"Your armor comes with a built-in domain! It cancels out my rules!"
"No wonder my Untouchable Rule has no effect on you!"
"But!"
"Right now I have invincibility protecting me!"
The slot machine still flickered with rainbow light on his abdomen.
"Since rules are useless on you, I'll switch to a different one!"
"In the Name of the King!"
Before the words were done.
A presence arrived from behind.
Christopher whipped his head around.
No one.
No—he was already behind him!
Jiang Nan had appeared 3 meters behind him at some unknown moment, right index finger held upright before his lips.
"Shh."
【Word Spirit·Silence—activated!】
Hum!
With Jiang Nan as the center, an absolute silent domain unfolded instantly!
Christopher opened his mouth, wanting to issue a new Sovereign Rule.
But.
Not a single sound could come out!
He could only watch helplessly as Jiang Nan vanished on the spot, and then—
A fist came hammering in from the front!
Boom!
One punch to the face!
Boom!
Another punch to the chest!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Every punch Jiang Nan threw carried enough force to collapse a mountain!
Christopher was pounded into a retreat step by step, completely powerless to fight back!
Though invincibility was protecting him, these attacks couldn't touch his fundamental essence!
But it hurt!!!
"Ahhhhh!!!"
He screamed inwardly with all his might, yet couldn't make a single sound.
‘How many abilities does this guy have?!’
‘Another Silence just popped out?!’
‘Is this a normal number of abilities for a human being?!’
Christopher took punch after punch with no way out, forced into passive endurance.
But he had lived for over a hundred years after all—even in agony, his brain never stopped working.
'Must… must pile massive damage on him… all at once…'
'As long as the damage exceeds the tolerance limit of his armor… it can be done!'
Jiang Nan was thinking through the same problem in the midst of battle.
'Invincibility…'
He watched the faintly shimmering rainbow light on Christopher's body.
'This thing must have a time limit.'
'Find the gap, and one strike ends it.'
'But……'
The corner of Jiang Nan's mouth curved slightly upward.
'Too much trouble.'
'Rather than finding a gap, better to…'
He drove a punch out, sending Christopher flying a hundred meters!
'Drain him dry!'
Christopher hauled himself out of the rubble, staring Christopher down.
The 2 faced off across a hundred-meter gap, trading gazes for 3 seconds.
Then!
Both pulled back simultaneously!
Christopher pressed both hands against the Fate Slot Machine in his abdomen, frantically channeling it!
Ding ding ding!
The slot machine spun furiously!
This time, he needed to draw the card that could clinch victory in a single strike!
【Playing Cards】, 【Playing Cards】, 【Playing Cards】!
3 matching symbols locked in!
Playing Cards—Bombardment!
14 groups of void bombs condensed in his palm!
Group 1: 3-Point Bomb!
Group 2: 4-Point Bomb!
……
Group 14: Rocket!
The destructive power of each group increased exponentially!
Christopher clutched a cluster of void energy capable of destroying an entire hospital, and charged straight at Jiang Nan!
"Come on!!!"
He was roaring!
Though inside the Silence domain there was no sound, the savage expression on his face said everything.
'In the window of invincibility, blow your turtle shell to pieces all at once!'
Jiang Nan watched that ever-expanding ball of energy—and smiled.
He reached out a hand, pressing it onto the Sovereign Lantern at his waist.
"Your turn."
Hum!
Primordial black aura churned.
A silhouette emerged from within the lantern.
It was a woman in a nurse's uniform.
She hung her head low, long hair concealing her features.
But the instant Christopher laid eyes on that figure, his pupils contracted violently!
"Charlotte?!"
That was his niece!
His head nurse!
The S-Grade aberration who possessed a spatial teleportation domain!
Jiang Nan was smiling. This was a technique he had thoroughly understood beforehand.
The Sovereign Lantern could forcibly command the abilities of those imprisoned within it.
It had never had an opportunity to be demonstrated.
But now…
The timing was perfect!
"…Bad!"
Christopher understood Jiang Nan's intent in an instant.
'He's going to—!'
The next second.
A hospital bed materialized beneath both their feet!
Hum!
Space twisted!
Both figures vanished from the hospital grounds in an instant!
10,000 meters of altitude.
Bitter wind howled.
Christopher found himself floating above the cloud layer.
Below—the shrunk-down Seattle Mercy Hospital.
Beside him—that cluster of void bombs expanding in violent surges.
"Damn it!!!"
He wanted to flee, but the bombs had already reached their critical point!
Boom!!!
14 groups of void bombs detonated simultaneously!
Blinding white light consumed everything!
The entire sky trembled!
A hole with a diameter of a thousand meters was blasted through the cloud layer!
'How is this guy controlling Charlotte?!'
Christopher ground his teeth.
But the next second, he bared a savage grin again.
"So what?!"
"Even if you can't hear it, that one explosion is more than enough to blow you—"
His smile went rigid.
Because there was no sound.
Not a single sound.
He realized it!
Jiang Nan still hadn't died!
The smoke dispersed.
At the center of the explosion, a golden silhouette was slowly descending.
Jiang Nan.
Dragon God Imperial Armor.
Golden dragon scales gleaming brilliantly under the sunlight, the dragon wings behind him spread like clouds spanning the heavens.
He raised his head, looking toward Christopher.
The true form of the 8th Dragon Tongue.
After absorbing the solar light—had finally manifested completely.
"How is this possible…?"
Christopher muttered to himself.
He'd taken an explosion that terrifying, and not only hadn't died—
He'd actually gotten stronger?!
Jiang Nan gave him no time to think.
Dragon wings beat!
A sonic boom cracked open!
He transformed into a golden streak of light, charging straight at Christopher!
Boom!!!
A punch smashed into Christopher's face!
Christopher's body plummeted downward like a meteorite!
"Damn it!!!"
He roared inwardly, frantically channeling the Fate Slot Machine in his abdomen!
The invincibility window was up!
Before Jiang Nan caught up, he had to redraw invincibility!
Ding ding ding!
The slot machine spun madly!
Failed!
Failed!
Failed!
Each draw was a lavish drain, but he couldn't have cared less!
As long as he drew invincibility, there was still a chance!
But!
Fate seemed to be playing a joke on him.
Invincibility never came—he had no choice but to keep skipping!
4th draw: Revolver.
5th draw: Revolver.
6th draw……
7th draw……
8th draw……
9th draw……
10th draw…
Still failed!
Christopher was on the verge of despair.
Jiang Nan's silhouette was drawing closer and closer—those golden dragon wings had already blotted out the sun!
'Am I… going to die here?!'
He looked down at the still-spinning Fate Slot Machine in his abdomen.
In the end, he made the same choice as the gamblers…
No matter what came next, he was going to use it!
"Gamble!"
Christopher clenched his jaw, and without a care for anything else, pulled the final lever!
Ding ding ding!
The 11th draw!
【Dice】, 【Dice】, 【Dice】!
Dice! Random size change!
Either the enemy shrinks, or he himself shrinks!
Hum!
The rule descended!
Jiang Nan's frame began to shrink sharply!
From 1.8 meters—down to under 1 meter!
From under 1 meter—down to under half a meter!
From under half a meter—down to the size of a palm!
Then!
Disappeared.
"Hahahaha! Got him!"
Christopher roared with laughter.
But the next second.
The laughter froze.
He looked down at his own chest.
There was a hole there.
A bloody, gaping hole.
And inside the hole, a palm-sized golden figure was rampaging with complete abandon!
Blood vessels, muscle, bone!
Torn apart inch by inch!
Shattered inch by inch!
"Urraaaah!!!"
Christopher let out a soundless shriek—the agony driving him to the edge of collapse!
But he didn't give up!
He still had a chance!
The slot machine could still draw!
He frantically forced the already-overtaxed Fate Slot Machine to its limit, squeezing out the last dregs of power at any cost!
12th draw! Dice!
13th draw! Revolver!
……
29th draw!
Ding ding ding!
【Joker】, 【Joker】, 【Joker】!
Invincibility!
The instant the rainbow light blazed—Christopher was nearly moved to tears of joy!
Then!
The 30th draw!
Ding ding ding!
【Playing Cards】, 【Playing Cards】, 【Playing Cards】!
Bombardment!
14 groups of void bombs—condensed again!
'This time… zero-distance detonation… let's see how you survive!'
Christopher raised that cluster of civilization-ending energy, aiming it at his own chest.
At the instant the energy was about to make contact with his own body.
The world turned grey and white.
Jiang Nan flew out from the hole in his chest.
He glanced back at that cluster of energy on the verge of erupting.
Then looked at Christopher's contorted face.
‘Want to take me down with you?’
He shook his head.
‘Too soon.’
Dragon wings beat. He shot out beyond the explosion's range, hovering in midair a thousand meters away.
Then!
He looked down at the dragon spear in his hand.
'Physical and magical attacks can't harm him in his invincible state.'
'Then…'
He raised his head, looking toward that blazing sun.
The essence of the 8th Dragon Tongue was absorbing solar light—adapting to light and fire.
‘In that case.’
‘Tribulation Flame Ashen End, which could burn through time itself?’
‘Could it work the same way?’
Jiang Nan's thought stirred.
Word Spirit·Tribulation Flame Ashen End—activated!
"Using this as a torch, to honor all your remaining years."
"Burn……unto ash!"
Crimson-black flame kindled at his fingertip.
That was a forbidden flame capable of burning dry time itself.
He applied Tribulation Flame Ashen End to himself.
Because he held time resistance, this flame couldn't harm him in the slightest.
But!
It could be attached to other things.
Jiang Nan channeled the crimson-black Tribulation Flame, bit by bit, onto the dragon spear.
The dragon spear began to tremble.
The originally golden spear body started showing black markings that surfaced and spread.
Those markings moved as though alive, eventually wrapping the entire dragon spear.
Half gold, half crimson-black.
Light and fire, merging into one at this moment.
'Still not enough…'
Jiang Nan looked at the spear in his hand.
A form like this—still wasn't enough for a one-hit kill.
Another thought stirred within him.
Dragon blood boiled, surging out from his palm.
That blood condensed and stretched into shape midair!
Transforming into a massive bow.
Jiang Nan set the dragon spear against the bowstring and slowly drew it back.
The bow bent like a full moon.
The spear—like a shooting star.
'This move…'
He narrowed his eyes, taking aim at the distant silhouette.
'I'll call it…'
'Ashen End Meteor.'
Snap.
The sound of a finger-snap.
Time resumed its flow.
Boom!!!
The void bomb detonated inside Christopher's body!
Blinding white light swallowed everything again!
But simultaneously!
A crimson-black streak of light pierced clean through the white!
Within that streak—half golden solar flame, half crimson-black Tribulation Flame Ashen End!
Ashen End Meteor!
Dead center!
Schk!
The dragon spear pierced Christopher's chest, erupting from his back!
Those crimson-black Tribulation Flames flooded into his body through the wound in a frenzy!
Not burning flesh and blood.
Burning time.
All the time within Christopher's body—in this moment began to accelerate its passage!
1 second, equal to 1 year.
10 seconds, equal to 10 years.
His body began to age.
Skin wrinkling, flesh shrinking dry, bones crumbling to dust.
But simultaneously—the void bomb's civilization-ending energy erupted inside his body!
2 catastrophic forces—working in concert from within and without!
Completely tearing him apart!
"No!!!"
That was the last cry Christopher ever released into this world.
Then!
Boom!!!
A colossal explosion bloomed in the 10,000-meter sky.