Chapter 574: Sending the Heavenly Lord to the Star Realm Lord
Chapter 574: Sending the Heavenly Lord to the Star Realm Lord
Word count: 2003 · Last updated: 2025-10-21
Chapter 574: Sending the Celestial Lord to the Lord of the Star Realm
. The biggest problem for the "Mysterious Attendant" who was promoted to Sequence One is undoubtedly the Celestial Lord's consciousness contained in the Beyonder characteristics.
Especially when there are already two "Tianzun consciousnesses" in reality, one true and one false.
Clearly, the two Celestial Lords had reached a consensus. Now that they were sealed, they had somehow fooled someone or exploited some loophole, establishing a certain degree of connection with the Beyonder's extraordinary characteristics above Sefirah Castle.
Although the seal cannot directly accommodate this characteristic, it can be replaced by Klein in the ceremony.
After all, this is one of the things that the "Lord of Mysteries" is best at.
He stole some of the Luminary's abilities, twisting Crane's ritual of the Etheric Ghost into a simultaneous ritual of both the Etheric Ghost and the Mysterious Attendant. This contaminated Crane's spirit during the extremely dangerous "Ascension Ceremony," forcing Crane to take on the characteristics of the Mysterious Attendant without any supporting materials.
Schizophrenia is the most common form of mental disorder.
Tianzun can use this to allow Klein to split into a personality without thoughts, memories, or instincts, as the perfect container for His descent.
This is what the two Heavenly Lords thought and did.
Obviously, they succeeded.
The new consciousness was replaced in an instant and successfully assimilated the characteristics of the "Mysterious Attendant".
It wasn't because of Crane's advance acting, but because this personality resurrected the Lord of Mysteries.
What better way to play the Servant of Mysteries than to successfully resurrect the Lord of Mysteries?
But soon, the two Heavenly Masters discovered the problem.
After their consciousness awakens, all of their Beyonder characteristics should be simultaneously drawn to them due to the extraordinary "Law of Aggregation of Beyonder Characteristics."
Even if those characteristics have been contained or sealed, there is no way to prevent them from returning.
unless.
There is resistance from the same person.
He raised his head and looked towards the astral realm.
He saw a priest. His hair was jet black, with a yellowish-gold hue at the roots. His eyes were a pure golden glow. His skin was fair, his features were deep, and his eye sockets were sunken, resembling those of the people of northern mainland China today.
ancient sun god.
The present God, the Creator, the Maker, the Omniscient and Omnipotent, the Lord of the Stars.
The astral realm has descended, the sea of chaos has descended.
One after another, indescribable concrete symbols appeared around Clayenby, who had been replaced by the Celestial Lord, as if an ocean encompassing all possibilities and all colors appeared between him and the Source Castle, the highest point in the spiritual world.
He blocked the return of his Beyonder characteristics and severed his connection with Sefirah Castle and the spirit world.
No wonder Clain had to inform Aroldus before the ceremony.
Because Arodes came from the Chaos Sea, what he knew was equal to what the Ancient Sun God knew.
Tianzun looked at the ancient sun god with clear eyes. In a trance, he seemed to see the god who had always been at odds with him.
No wonder, no wonder God is willing to postpone his resurrection and willing to temporarily give up his power.
As an omniscient and omnipotent being, He was able to see countless futures and arrange countless scripts at the moment of His initial resurrection.
No, not just God.
There is also a bunch of inexplicable data.
Happiness, joy, and anti-despair...
A large amount of data filled the spiritual world, making His spiritual world "smoky and miasma" and "a mess."
Some of his attempts at resistance were swallowed up by the Sea of Chaos, some were suppressed by the Astral Plane, and the rest were swallowed up by these data.
Finally, Crane appears.
The consciousness of the Celestial Lord, who had no consciousness but no Beyonder characteristics and could not reach Sefirah Castle and control the spiritual world, was pierced through the chest.
Tianzun looked at Crane with his dark, dull eyes, and a grin on his lips.
Old stuff, write a script for me again.
This was the last thought of Tianzun's consciousness before it dissipated.
Translucent, slippery tentacles emerged from the face of Clayne, who was parasitized by the Celestial Lord, followed by his neck, body, and limbs...
Until a large number of tentacles condensed from worms appeared all over Hun's body.
The tentacles curled inward, enveloping the body that once belonged to Crane.
Clay pulled his hand out from the chest of the body that looked exactly like his own, and watched as the wound healed rapidly. Finally, the "Deep Sleep Flower" that Clay had placed inside the body when he penetrated it was absorbed into the body.
That was a flower he had just picked in the Goddess of Night's kingdom at the behest of the Goddess of Night.
In the mystical world, there is a particularly simple way to solve split personality, which is to directly kill the second personality.
Although the Pillar's consciousness is immortal and cannot be completely killed, it is possible to put it into a long-term sleep.
The Celestial Lord in front of him had wrapped himself in a coil with his tentacles in the last few seconds before his consciousness fell asleep. Clay raised his hand and pushed on the surface of the coil.
The tentacle coil quickly flew backwards.
A door opened in the spirit world behind him, and Tianzun floated out, but did not fall into reality.
He fell into the astral plane.
The exit from the spirit world was directly grafted into the astral world.
A hand reached out from the starry sky, grabbed Tianzun like a baton, pulled him, and threw him to a higher place.
There, a colorful sun hangs high above the starry sky.
This is not a symbolic symbol, and the style of painting is incompatible with the entire star realm.
That was the colorful ball of light that the ancient sun god obtained from Ahana.
The intersection between the spiritual world and the astral world was disconnected, and Crane withdrew his gaze.
As expected, it is safest to pack up Tianzun's consciousness and send it to the "Lord of the Star Realm".
Silently, a grayish-white mist emerged behind him. Above the mist was an ancient palace. Inside the palace stood a door stained with a hint of blue-black and made up of countless light balls.
This light gate appeared quite clearly in the spiritual world, separating out a rather blurry shadow and casting it towards Crane's body.
As this phantom transformed into a complex symbol and imprinted itself between Crane's brows, the entire spiritual world and the real world outside began to shake slightly, as if they had experienced an earthquake from a very far distance.
At this moment, Crane's surroundings became dark, and one illusory star after another appeared, surrounding the strange light gate, as if trying to gather together.
Crane raised his right hand, raised a finger, and drew a square door in the air.
Then, a door really appeared.
It was a wooden door, looking old, worn, and weathered, as if it had existed there from ancient times, in the air of this spiritual worldArrival at Calderon City
Chapter 575 Arrival at Calderon City
Word count: 1840 · Updated: October 21, 2025
Chapter 575 Arrival at Calderon City
Crane grasped the door handle, twisted it, pushed it, opened the door, and walked in.
Deep in the spirit world, hidden beyond the thin mist of Calderon City, Clayne, who had already completed his ascension, appeared there.
The scene before him was essentially no different from other places in the spirit world. Rich, bright colors overlapped, and a thin mist permeated some places. In the depths, pairs of eyes turned away one after another, not daring to look directly at this "mysterious waiter" who had completely digested the potion at birth.
Crane paid no attention to the ethereal creatures.
He simply stretched out his hands, feeling the new power he had just gained.
Whether it was the Ether Ghost or the Mysterious Attendant, he was already familiar with these abilities, so there was nothing much to say.
His own Fool's Mask appeared on his face, and Crane felt a new ability within him.
As expected, I can also possess the abilities of a useless scholar, which means that I will definitely be promoted to a useless scholar in the future.
First, Useless Scholars can create a large number of seemingly useless and absurd spells.
Simply put, he can only do what he "can do".
For example, if he can somehow make a stone float, then he can make the stone float without using that ability.
But just as Crane cannot kill the Fallen Mother Goddess no matter what, the "Useless Scholar" cannot create any spell that can affect the Fallen Mother Goddess.
Second, it is useless for scholars to have eyes that can analyze everything in the world.
He can learn the extraordinary abilities of the analyzed world; he can make the analyzed world absurd, distorted, and incomprehensible; he can see through the direction of all things in the world and become an "omniscient" existence to a certain extent.
Of course, it is also limited by the reserves of spirituality and divinity.
Third, it is the most core ability of useless scholars.
It is creation at will, creating everything you imagine based on your own knowledge.
He can make pencils that tell stories, and when put together, they can create a heroic show of defeating the Doom Monster. He can also create dancing sweeping machines that, as soon as they start dancing, cover the floor they just cleaned with dust again.
This is the embodiment of the authority of childlike fun.
In the hands of useless scholars, knowledge does not necessarily bring prosperity and a future.
To the useless scholar, knowledge is nothing but mud in the hands of a child. No matter how the child shapes it into an ugly or beautiful appearance, as long as it brings a smile, all efforts will be rewarded.
This is the "useless scholar," the ability that Crane once described as the "invincible scholar."
"Heh." Klein smiled.
He seemed to begin to understand why this ability was called "useless".
This is not uselessness in the literal sense, but rather a childish uselessness that seems "futureless" to the public.
With a chuckle, he lowered his hand and stepped into the mist.
Through the mist, Crane's eyes saw a magnificent city that could only appear in myths and legends.
This city is different from normal cities. Instead of rising upwards, it stretches out in circles towards the end of a deep pit underground, giving people the overall feeling of "an inverted mausoleum."
"Hmm... a bit like... a larger bird's nest," Clean commented. "Sure enough, even after becoming a god, the Immortal Bird Progenitor still hasn't gotten rid of some of his habits."
The buildings inside are of various styles, but all are equally unique.
Some of them are tall pale stone pillars with huge single houses polished out of the tops. Some are long and rectangular with doors on the roof and no windows at all. Some are built underground with a tombstone at the entrance. Some are built with bones and are in disarray.
In this city so quiet that it seemed as if the entire city was dead, Crane walked leisurely and unhurriedly, looking like an old man who had just finished a meal and was taking a walk in the park.
With just one glance, Clayne caused a faint gray mist to appear around him. By relying on the status of "Source Castle", he directly resisted Calderon's rule of transforming all living beings into the dead.
Becoming a dead person didn't have any negative impact on him, but he just didn't like that cold and indifferent feeling.
Because the "Miracle Worker" has the ability to resurrect, after possessing the ability of the "Useless Scholar", you can directly resurrect without any prerequisites.
Therefore, becoming dead really had no effect on him.
Then he took a step forward, and with just one step he entered the depths of Calderon visible to the naked eye.
This is also the ability of a "useless scholar".
Because the Battlefield Magician can jump across space, Crane only needs to take a step forward to perform a spatial transfer without using any extraordinary abilities.
Ignore the process and go straight to the result.
This seems to be a partial manifestation of the authority of Absurdity.
Crane felt like he was beginning to like the abilities of the "Useless Scholar".
"Of course, it could also be the novelty of having just acquired a new ability. Any ability would be fine, but I just wanted to try it out." Crane defined his behavior.
As they went deeper and deeper, none of the monsters hidden in this strange city dared to show up. The aura of "Source Castle" made their instinct for survival overcome their crazy tendencies and predatory habits.
The deeper he went underground, the quieter Crane's surroundings became. Although those strange buildings were well-preserved, they seemed to have been dead for many years. Even the atmosphere had become cold, dark, and decayed.
He intuitively believed that once he adapted to this environment and his body and mind became silent, he would die gradually and irreversibly in the true sense of the word.
The closer you get to the ground, the stronger this feeling becomes.
So Crane pulled out his cell phone and produced a speaker from the air.
"Well, then let's listen to... the robin's song." Clean nodded, casually clicked on the playlist shared by Cerus, and then used the amplifier to amplify the sound. With the addition of his extraordinary ability, the sound was so loud that the whole city of Calderon could hear the singingThose who destroy themselves
Chapter 576 Those who destroy themselves
Word count: 1954 · Updated: October 21, 2025
Chapter 576 Those who destroy themselves
After crossing the distance, Crane walked forward for a while and finally saw the bottom of the deep pit.
It was a huge, dark palace that blocked the way down.
The palace was supported by huge pillars and was inlaid with various bones and different parts of corpses. Some places were even covered with bloody skins of different races.
"Ah, I've also come to the Royal City sewers." Clayne produced a lantern in his hand. "I hope I don't run into any of Miyazaki Hidetaka's incarnations."
"It would be a bit troublesome if we ran into a bunch of Miyazaki Hidetaka here."
Crane recalled the time when he played Elden Circle.
"Huh? That's weird. I can't remember what I saw in the game before." Crane shook his head. "It seems like it triggered the brain's automatic protection mechanism."
He had no intention of pulling out the memory from the depths of his brain and walked forward.
Through the open door, we entered the palace.
On both sides of the hall are coffins of various shapes and colors, lying there quietly, as if even existence itself has been weathered by death.
As Crane entered, some sounds suddenly came from inside the coffins, as if rusty joints were opening one by one.
Clain raised his eyes, which had been lowered slightly, and swept over them. All the coffins suddenly became quiet.
Ignoring these things, Crane stepped into the depths of the hall. There was a gray-white stone staircase leading down, and a huge stone tablet stood at the entrance.
At the top of the stele stood a slender statue of a giant bird, seemingly made of bronze, with various pale symbols on its wings.
Beneath the bird-shaped bronze statue, on the surface of the stone tablet, characters from the "Language of the Dead" appear as simplified birds of varying shapes or coiled snakes, forming two ambiguous sentences:
"Even the gods cannot escape."
"Even if you die, you will be detained."
This time, Crane stopped and stood in front of those two sentences for a long time.
His intuition told him that the River of Everlasting Darkness was just below.
And an inexplicable intuition reminded him that there seemed to be something more complicated than the River of Eternal Darkness.
"Looks like we've reached the boss's room."
Subconsciously reaching his hand into the mist of history, Crane wanted to pull out the "Aha" he had seen in the simulated universe.
Unfortunately, it failed.
After hesitating for a moment, Crane took another step, walked around the stone tablet with the bronze statue on top, and walked down the gray stairs step by step.
After descending for an unknown amount of time, the aura of Sefirah Castle around him expanded reflexively, becoming extremely dense, like a grayish-white silk cocoon.
At the same time, Crane tilted his head slightly and heard a faint, phantom clacking sound.
This seems to indicate that deep underground, not far from the current location, there is an underground river flowing slowly.
The further he went, the stronger the feeling of death looming over his head became, causing Crane's pupils to shrink.
Crane lowered his head and looked at his feet.
At some point in time, a dark, unreal stream of water surged in from there.
Even light cannot exist on its surface.
Crane tried to teleport directly there, but found that the space itself was dead silent.
There was no choice but for Crane to fly over.
A pair of wings appeared on Crane's back, and after flapping twice, he soared into the air.
These are not ordinary wings, but mechanical wings created by Clain based on the wings of the Doomsday Beast.
Ahead, beyond the end, was a void, and in the void flowed a straight, broad, illusory, colorless, dark river.
The river was so blurry and difficult to see clearly because it was surrounded by a grayish-white, thin mist that acted like a barrier.
Flapping its wings, it descended to a distance close to the river.
Crane placed his palms together in front of his chest.
Layer upon layer of doors took shape in Crane's hands, one ring within another, one layer within another.
Crane intends to use part of the Gate's power to create a seal-like device to take away the water of the River of Eternal Darkness.
But at this moment, something in Crane's heart moved, he frowned, and stood up a little.
He inexplicably felt the threat of death.
But Crane couldn't explain where the threat came from.
I can't explain it, but I just feel it's dangerous.
Sensing danger, Crane began to hover above the river.
But the water below remained calm.
Soon, Crane found the source of the threat.
It was a tributary, where huge, pale stone pillars stood one after another, as if they were supporting something to prevent it from collapsing.
At this moment, between these stone pillars, at the edge of the tributary, countless slightly blurry, translucent figures walked back and forth, wandering, slowly but unceasingly. Sometimes they walked into the depths of the tributary, sometimes turned back, but they could never escape the vague shadows of the river.
One area is particularly special.
At its center sat a human figure, almost as large as the surrounding stone pillars.
It was draped in a dark robe, and its profile was already old.
Its face had distinct Austronesian features, but was rotten in patches and covered in colorless feathers.
Crane knew him; he was Mr. Azk's father, the "God of Death" and "King of Hades" Salinger of the Fourth Century.
At this moment, the Hades was sitting in the river with his head drooping, looking out of tune with the people around him, as if he was caught in a whirlpool of "meaninglessness".
The biggest difference between it and the other figures further away is that it has no color at all.
The other figures still retained the most basic black and white that distinguished them from the shadows themselves, but Salinger did not even have the most basic black and white.
It's like being stripped of all color.
Not only it, the river water beneath it and the surrounding area were colorless, extending to a large area.
No color, no meaning.
There is only "nothing".
The Essence... is contaminated?
Are you kidding?
What could possibly contaminate the Essence?
Looking at Salinger, Klein's brow furrowed deeper and deeper.
Suddenly, a word popped up in Crane's mind.
Those who destroy themselves.
The death mark of the "Emperor of the Underworld" Salinger in front of him, for some unknown reason, became a suicide.
As a result, all the tributaries of the River of Eternal Darkness were polluted