CHAPTER 742: CHAPTER 608 IT STARTED TANKING!

"You’ve won the championship!"

The golden letters had not yet faded when the world suddenly burst forth with countless overlapping shadows.

A female silhouette emerged from these illusory shadows.

Behind her, there was an endless number of figures.

As she spoke, the infinite figures spoke in unison, saying:

"Champion, whether you are an ordinary person of the worlds, a Divine born from the world, or the world itself—"

"You now have the credentials to hear the true secret of the ’Virtual World.’

"This secret represents boundless danger, but it is the only hope for you and all beings."

"Choose."

"Truly listen to this secret, or cover your eyes and ears and abandon it."

"You can take a lifetime to ponder this question."

"When you are ready, you can make your decision at any time."

A lifetime?

Wu Xiaode looked at the heaps of corpses in town.

For such a matter, who would need a lifetime to decide?

"Let’s hear it."

He spoke.

The numerous overlapping shadows behind the woman emerged, completely surrounding Wu Xiaode and gradually transforming into an entirely new vista.

It was a vast, boundless world.

On the ground

countless splendid buildings gleamed.

Beings from the Ten Thousand Clans spread across mountains, rivers forests, and seas.

Divine and mortal beings mingled with each other.

Occasional conflicts arose but quickly subsided.

—because the world was too abundant, beings fulfilled their desires with little cause for grievous grievances.

In the central expanse of this boundless world, a Divine pillar stood towering.

Babylon!

This was the pillar connecting the Eternal Sacred Realm with the world of beings!

One day.

A figure plummeted from the top of the Divine pillar, looking utterly bedraggled.

While still in mid-air, it roared loudly:

"Disaster! ’Eternal Ascension’ is coming, we are all sacrifices, sacrifices!"

"Eternal beings created us just to sacrifice us!"

This voice echoed through the entire world.

The next moment.

The Divine pillar, along with the heavens and the earth, thunderously collapsed, slowly falling towards the ground.

It seemed as if something immense in the depths of the sky was looking down upon this world.

The messenger, upon being glanced at, turned directly into a spray of blood in midair.

The scene shifted.

From the depths of the sky, intense light beams descended.

The entire world was pierced by these dense light beams and thunderously shattered into countless world fragments, scattering ceaselessly into the dark Void.

A female voice resonated next to Wu Xiaode’s ear:

"’Pangu’ was shattered into the All Worlds."

"Beings entered an era of great destruction."

"This was a tragedy for all beings, but there’s also good news—"

"The civilization forged by beings has halted, even regressed, such that the entire sequence of ’Eternal Ascension’ has also paused, unable to reach the ’critical point.’"

"Mysterious life cannot descend."

Wu Xiaode furrowed his brow.

The Pangu World was shattered so easily?

If that’s the case, even if it once again gathered all the scattered world fragments and even obtained the world of these newly born world-class life forms, what then?

—Wouldn’t it just be shattered again?

Seeming to know what he was thinking, the female voice slowly resonated:

"What shattered ’Pangu’ was an immensely powerful sequence from the Eternal Sacred Realm."

"’Sequence’ is a power belonging to the Eternal level."

"In fact—"

"’Pangu’ was not completely defenseless, it gathered all its power and created a ’sequence’ for beings, hoping to use it to protect the era of beings."

"But before the ’sequence’ was completed, Pangu was shattered."

"For countless years, the last mechanism formed by ’Pangu’ has always been selecting truly powerful individuals from beings, hoping these strongest beings could protect the ’sequence’ and give it a chance to evolve."

Wu Xiaode realized and softly said:

"Could it be... this mechanism is the championship tournament?"

"Exactly, the championship tournament has been held countless times—"

"Each champion of a tournament will obtain this ’sequence.’

"But since the destruction of ’Pangu,’ the champions protecting this ’sequence’ have, without exception, been subjected to full-force attacks, all failing."

"Until this time, even the ’Virtual World’ has been completely destroyed."

Wu Xiaode suddenly thought of Emperor Bai.

So that’s how it is!

No wonder Emperor Bai hadn’t immediately come seeking trouble after the calamity descended.

It was aiming to destroy the sequence belonging to beings!

Too bad—

He had come here.

Wu Xiaode suddenly felt uneasy and hesitated,

"The World Master of the ’Virtual World’ is dead; do I still have a chance to obtain this ’sequence’?"

A female voice spoke,

"You won the last championship of the ’Virtual World,’ which means you have this authority."

"This is truly the last opportunity."

The voice fell.

The surrounding anomalies disappeared completely.

The world returned to normal.

Wu Xiaode suddenly found many images in his mind.

—All of them were scenes of former championship contenders at the moment of their deaths.

The demons released magic directly from the Void, destroying an entire planet.

The championship contender of that time was on that planet.

Another champion, with Pangu’s sequence, escaped the demons’ pursuit but was suddenly pierced through by a tentacle that emerged from the Void.

—This was a mysterious life forcibly awakening from slumber, leveraging the ’sequence’ from the Holy Realm to complete a kill.

Another champion had just left the ’Virtual World’ and was immediately besieged and killed by thousands of powerful beings.

The demons had paid a great price to make humans kill their own!

Innumerable, all were the tragic deaths of champions.

Even Wu Xiaode was shocked.

"Can I back out?"

He sighed.

It was too late—

The Book of the Dead appeared automatically, flipping to a blank page, with several lines of ice crystal small text emerging:

"The sequence ’beginning’ belonging to all beings has been placed here."

"It is a sequence exclusively for all beings."

"Please set the initial evolution rules for this sequence."

Wu Xiaode closed his eyes and thought hard.

This sequence was still a blank slate.

If he wanted to strengthen it, he first had to set the evolution rules for it.

Now, there was only one last chance to let it evolve.

This opportunity was in his own hands.

What kind of evolution rule should he give it?

Wu Xiaode pondered for a long time but realized that every idea he came up with had been accomplished by former champions.

In those past years—

Some champions had set the rule as "eating," meaning that by replenishing various energies, it could evolve.

Others had set it as "following"—

As long as they became stronger, the sequence could also grow stronger.

Even one champion had set the rule as "spreading."

As the name implies, by spreading the sequence far and wide, the more people who acquired it, the faster it would evolve.

Countless rules covered all the methods of growing stronger.

But without exception—

All those past champions had failed to make it to the end.

They and their sequences were all destroyed.

Wu Xiaode pondered deeply and still found no solution.

Suddenly.

A flash of spirit light appeared in his mind.

Yes.

All the rules for growing stronger were well-known, an obvious "Red Sea."

—Perhaps this was also why the enemy could always follow the clues to find the champions and their sequences?

If that was the case—

Why not learn from fairies?

Fairies focused on the unconventional cosmic rules.

He should also carve out new rules, allowing the sequence to use this rule to upgrade!

With this thought, Wu Xiaode’s spirit was invigorated, and he spoke,

"I’ve decided."

"You are the force left by ’Pangu,’ helping all beings to combat external enemies; you are the only sequence born from all beings."

"The enemy will surely know all the paths of power of all beings."

"Then we shall do the exact opposite—"

"Let’s just slack off."

Following his words, a line of small text appeared on the page:

"You have set the upgrade rule for this sequence to: slack off."

"Is this confirmed?"

"Confirmed," Wu Xiaode said.

All the small text vanished, and then the upgrade rule for the sequence appeared on the page:

"This is the last survival chance for the sequence."

"This is also the only ’sequence’ held by all beings, the hope to combat the sequences of the Holy Realm and the mysterious lives."

"At this historic moment of ’Pangu’ reopening, as mysterious life descends upon the world, and eternity casts its gaze upon humanity in these perilous times—"

"The ’sequence’ has once again acquired evolution rules."

"It begins to slack off!"