When 'God' Decides To Start Over

Chapter 1083 412: Only to Be Worthy_2

"Is becoming stronger really that important to you?" Li Xiu looked at Tang Tianzhen and said.

"Very important, only by becoming stronger can one continue to live." Tang Tianzhen said calmly.

"You've lived at Good Luck Slope for so many years, have you become stronger?" Li Xiu asked.

"No." Tang Tianzhen shook his head and replied.

"Then aren't you living well all the same?"

"You've never been to that world, so you don't understand." Tang Tianzhen sighed, "I wish that spirit devour had consumed you just now, I'm really unwilling to personally send you on your way."

"The spirit devour has already been consumed and refined by me, now even if you kill me, you won't see this world heading for destruction. What's the point of attacking me?" Li Xiu spoke indifferently.

"There's certainly no point in killing you, and I didn't say I want to kill you." Tang Tianzhen said as he opened his palm, revealing something to Li Xiu: "I want to give this to you."

"This is... a Spirit Suppressing Stone fragment... it's Li Boyang's..." Li Xiu looked at the crystal shard like colored glass in Tang Tianzhen's palm, still stained with blood, and immediately guessed what it was.

"That's right, I dug the Spirit Suppressing Stone fragment out of his corpse." Tang Tianzhen said as if discussing something trivial, "Once you fuse this last fragment, the Spirit Suppressing Stone will be complete again and can resume its function. By then you will be like the Spirit Suppressing Stone, yet also different."

"The Spirit Suppressing Stone is the catalyst for this world. When it's present, it allows the world to continuously evolve. Now fully integrated into your body, it can't catalyze the world anymore. Instead, your body is constantly catalyzed by it, absorbing the world's energy, until the entire world becomes energy within your body..."

Li Xiu and the severely injured Sixteen Ancestral Spirits felt a chill; while the spirit devour merely consumed the beings of this world, Li Xiu fused with the complete Spirit Suppressing Stone would directly destroy the entire world.

"You said Li Boyang failed because of his ties, what does that mean?" In such a tense moment, Li Xiu suddenly asked an unrelated question.

Tang Tianzhen sighed, "Li Boyang was indeed unfortunate. With his talent and ability, he should have gone much further, but his heart was tainted, so he could only stop here."

"What do you mean?" Li Xiu was still puzzled by Tang Tianzhen's words.

"Our path is solitary, with advancement but no retreat, with death but no life. His heart was no longer pure, so failure was inevitable." Tang Tianzhen said slowly, "Originally, he could've explored the life and death of heaven and earth with me, felt the rebirth of the universe, and pushed his realm even further. Sadly, for insignificant blood ties and for giving his descendants a way out, he merely wanted to open the gates of the universe. Just that intention doomed him to failure. Unable to abandon everything, he would ultimately become a failure."

Li Xiu finally understood Tang Tianzhen's meaning. Although Li Boyang wasn't a good person, he still cared for his blood ties and couldn't bear to see his children perish in this world. So he never intended to have Li Xiu devour all beings, only that Li Xiu could meet the standards as the key.

"Even a tiger won't eat its cubs; the ancients were wise." Li Xiu sighed.

Li Boyang treated those children as his test subjects, yet he couldn't help but see them as more than just experiment subjects.

If he truly could disregard everything, he wouldn't need to battle Tang Tianzhen.

In contrast, Tang Tianzhen was truly merciless, willing to abandon everything for his goal, such a person is truly frightening.

"Fourth brother, complete this final ritual." Tang Tianzhen held the blood-stained Spirit Suppressing Stone fragment, walking step by step toward Li Xiu, his eyes pure and sincere, devoid of any impurities, clear as an untainted mirror lake.

Yet such purity only deepened the profound fear felt from within.

Like people yearning for a clean and tidy city, yet if a city were so clean that no humans were left, how terrifying it would be to be in it.

Li Xiu used his hand as a gun, continuously firing bullets at Tang Tianzhen, each Light Bullet turning into foam and vanishing without a trace as they reached Tang Tianzhen.

Li Xiu frowned slightly, he had seen Tang Tianzhen's fights several times from within the Light Cocoon, realizing Tang Tianzhen's power was strange. The Ancestral Spirit Force unleashed by the Sixteen Ancestral Spirits together was nearly Cosmic Level, yet it was directly rendered illusory before Tang Tianzhen, his power indeed odd.

Now that he tried it himself, it was exactly as he thought; it seemed all power posed no threat to Tang Tianzhen.

"It's useless, the myriad of things in this world are illusory to me, my heart is without evil, naturally not infiltrated by malice." Tang Tianzhen was almost upon Li Xiu.

"Li Xiu, let's join forces and we won't believe we can't kill him." Belona and the ancestral spirits roared.

"This is a fight between him and me, don't get involved." Li Xiu gestured to stop them, swiftly retreating.

His speed was so great, with just a slight move, he had traversed countless spaces within the void.

Yet Tang Tianzhen merely walked step by step, regardless of how fast Li Xiu moved, the distance between them seemed unchanged, just a few steps away.