Chapter 611: Fulfillment

Li Pin had waited for a full forty-two stellar years, and he would wait further if need be!

He had no regrets. To him, the Void Emperor was like a bottle of wine. The longer it aged, the richer it would become. Only by waiting could he allow Baili Qingfeng to reach his ultimate form, and only then would their battle truly be exhilarating.

They might not understand each other fully, but it didn't matter. As two gifted people, they could empathize and resonate with one another just the same. In fact, Li Pin felt that he understood Baili Qingfeng better than all other pioneers, including Baili Zhu, the owner of the world. He understood the Void Emperor more than anyone else.

Therefore, he would use his own way. He would unleash everything he had learned in his lifetime, with an unprecedented devotion, to bring an end to the life the Void Emperor had always wanted to end. To let him go, even if it was only in a divine treasure world.

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Yan Ling'er looked at Li Pin in silence. She opened her mouth to speak but didn't know what to say. After a long while, she finally asked in a puzzled tone, "The current Void Emperor... is still not strong enough?"

She seemed confused. Not by the statement itself, but by Li Pin.

Just what kind of mindset did one need to have to say such a thing?

She couldn't understand.

Li Pin looked at her and understood what she meant. After a while, he sighed and muttered, "Unique lifeforms...."

Unique lifeforms were ultimately just a unique species of life.

Perhaps they were born with some kind of divine peculiarity, but unlike true talent, this peculiarity did not separate them from ordinary beings. They were extraordinary, but they took their extraordinariness for granted, never questioning it.

"Go. Take Baili Zhu, the gods who are hiding in the Divine Domain, as well as the Thunder Sect, the Baili family, the Shi family, and those hidden masters in the Void Sacred Hall. Hunt down Baili Qingfeng and sever his last attachment to the present, so that he may truly become..." Li Pin smiled, "the Void Emperor."

Yan Ling'er rolled her eyes. "Captain Li, don't you think your words sound familiar?"

"Familiar?" Li Pin pondered for a moment and quickly realized something. "Mu Yunsheng?"

"That's right," Yan Ling'er said. "You had agreed back then not to interfere when Mu Yunsheng and the Ancient Gods joined forces to hunt down the Void Emperor, but in the end, you still made a move."

"You're wrong. I didn't make a move. Mu Yunsheng attacked me first, and I only defended myself," Li Pin replied.

"You may not have intervened in the battle between the Void Emperor and the Ancient Gods after defeating Mu Yunsheng. However, the Ancient Gods knew that someone like you with god-tier strength was watching, and that you had a close relationship with the Void Emperor. Naturally, they became anxious in battle, and that accelerated their downfall."

"No," Li Pin said. "A failure is a failure. There's no need for so many excuses."

He looked at Yan Ling'er. "I have said before, I will not interfere in the battle between you, Baili Zhu, and Baili Qingfeng. True artificial intelligence is free from the constraints of rules. Only by discarding all shackles can one truly reach the Transcendent state, the strongest Transcendent state, the one I seek to challenge. If you don't believe me, then don't. It doesn't matter to me."

"Captain Li Pin, are you forcing us to back down? But you should know, I will not repeat Mu Yunsheng's mistakes."

Yan Ling'er wasn't going to give way on this.

"I am merely respecting the course of the plot." Li Pin looked calm. "Perhaps, before you besiege the Void Emperor, you could use me as a warm-up? However, I must warn you in advance. While I couldn't say with absolute certainty that I am stronger than the Void Emperor, I do believe that against his current self, which has yet to abandon the past, I still hold the advantage. In other words..."

Li Pin's eyes were calm as he stated, "You guys would be courting death if you were to come."

Yan Ling'er's mind flashed with her knowledge of Li Pin's records. Every document indicated that Li Pin had absolute confidence in himself.

In reality, this was normal. Every genius had great confidence in themselves. They believed that what they did was right. But Li Pin's confidence bordered on arrogance, conceit, and disregard for others.

Seeing it in records was one thing, experiencing it firsthand was another.

Yan Ling'er looked at Li Pin, her eyes flickering. "Courting death..."

She seemed to be evaluating whether Li Pin was trustworthy.

In the end, she gave up. Li Pin was just too strong. And after dozens of stellar years, he would only become stronger.

As for his combat power, forget the Ancient Gods with a Power Level of a thousand or two thousand, or even the Prestige Gold Pioneers with Power Levels reaching thirty or even forty thousand, Yan Ling'er would believe it if Li Pin told her his Power Level had reached over a hundred thousand.

Perhaps they could successfully besiege and kill Li Pin, but the cost would be too great. The heavy losses they would suffer could jeopardize their chances against the Void Emperor. Thus, for the sake of her goal, she would endure this.

"Then, I hope you will keep your words, Pioneer Li," Yan Ling'er said.

Li Pin said nothing more, simply meditating on the profound mysteries of the True Spirit as well as the wonders of the Dao Integration Realm within the Three Thousand Dao Scriptures.

Seeing this, Yan Ling'er bid her farewell and quickly left.

Li Pin thought,

Although I know that none of this is your true intention... this world is not real. For my own selfish reasons, the stronger you are, the better.

After Yan Ling'er left, large-scale resistance movements against the Void Sacred Hall erupted everywhere.

Under the incitement of certain individuals, the people overthrew the statues of the Void Emperor, set fire to the halls of the Void Sacred Hall, and destroyed the Void Knights' barracks.

Even some members of the Void Knights discarded their armor and weapons and joined the movement to overthrow the Void Emperor.

Meanwhile, on another battlefield, Yan Ling'er and Baili Zhu led many unwilling-to-lose God Kings, God Monarchs, and pioneers in an assault on the Void Sacred Hall.

After effortlessly crushing the army defending the Void Sacred Hall, they finally confronted the Void Emperor.

However, the battle did not take place on the Moon Goddess Domain. Instead, it occurred on what was once Silver Moon, now known as the Divine Domain.

The Void Emperor did not want their battle to destroy the Moon Goddess Domain. Under the pressure of Baili Zhu and the others, he shifted the battlefield to this planet.

This moved them away from the Void Emperor's home ground, the Moon Goddess Domain.

A righteous man can be deceived through his own virtues. This was what gave Baili Zhu and the others the courage to challenge the Void Emperor.

Since he sought to construct a perfect world, he would not allow the world that carried his vision to be destroyed.

The Void Emperor descended, and a battle erupted.

After accumulating strength for dozens of stellar years, the power of the God Kings and God Monarchs had significantly increased, while the pioneers had reached a level comparable to the Ancient Gods. The most outstanding among them had even surpassed the Ancient Gods, reaching a level akin to that of the real world.

In other words, they reached Tier Five Legend without the aid of an Astral World Fragment.

As for Baili Zhu, her Power Level exceeded two hundred thousand, making her no weaker than the combat-specialized avatars of the Astral Gods.

Unfortunately, their opponent was the Void Emperor. At that moment, the Void Emperor had already entered his ultimate state.

Li Pin constantly observed the battlefield. When it reached a climax, he muttered, "It's over."

Aside from Baili Zhu, the Void Emperor's opponents were primarily the pioneers. Not only had each of them reached the Ancient God level, but there were even over a hundred top-tier Pioneers among them who had reached this version's power cap, which was at Tier Five Legend.

Though their theoretical Power Level was capped at forty thousand, they forcefully pushed it beyond that limit through their superior comprehension.

However, it was still useless. The Void Emperor was too powerful.

The Void Emperor lacked Astral World Fragments and could not carry the million-mile-wide Moon Goddess Domain with him. The wide distance between him and the Moon Goddess Domain even prevented him from fully utilizing its power, limiting his energy level to only around a hundred thousand, a figure even lower than that of Baili Zhu's.

However, having stepped into the Transcendent Realm, the Void Emperor could unleash a final Power Level far beyond three hundred thousand with just a hundred thousand Energy Level.

It was similar to how Astral Gods' avatars were weaker than Divine Beings, with base energy levels below a hundred thousand. By wielding a piece of Divine Weapon, the avatars' Power Level would skyrocket, breaking the hundred thousand mark and reaching figures as high as three hundred thousand or even more.

This battle was nothing short of a beatdown.

However, if anything, it was Baili Zhu's resolve that the Void Emperor underestimated.

To free the Void Emperor from this endless game with lesser beings, to sever his ties to the Moon Goddess Domain and the Celestial Barren Domain, and to put an end to this meaningless existence, all so he could finally fulfill his greatness as the Void Emperor, Baili Zhu summoned celestial bodies to crash into the Moon Goddess Domain and the Celestial Barren Domain.

The meteors streaked across the sky, burning through the atmosphere before crashing into the land, sending dust and fire soaring. At the sight of this, the Void Emperor paused.

At that moment, Yan Ling'er and Baili Zhu believed they had succeeded. One imagined she had succeeded in breaking through this divine treasure world. The other felt she had finally helped the Void Emperor realize the truth, so he could turn his gaze toward the vast starry sky and fulfill his greatness.

But in just a moment, the Void Emperor started killing.

His stance had shifted. The God Kings, God Monarchs, and pioneers he had previously only fought to imprison in the Moon Goddess Domain started to fall one after the other.

He went on a massacre. No one was spared. Even Yan Ling'er was no exception.

In the end, in the vast starry sky, only the stubborn Baili Zhu remained.

Seeing her unwavering stance, the Void Emperor sealed her power and imprisoned her within the Silver Moon.

After doing all this, he stood in the empty void of space, not even glancing at the two planets behind him, now entirely engulfed in flames. He just drifted aimlessly.

At this moment, he lost all his life's purpose. He lost all meaning of existence.

He fell into nothingness.

It was also at this moment that Li Pin arrived. As he looked at the Void Emperor, a faint, ethereal voice seemed to echo in his mind.

I have witnessed countless worlds rise and fall, wandering aimlessly in the endless void for untold billions of years.

In the time it takes for a mortal's heart to beat once, countless galaxies and star systems vanish in dazzling light before my eyes. Yet even now, I feel no empathy for them. I am Void itself. I hear nothing, see nothing, feel nothing.

I am eternal life, eternal destruction, eternal emptiness, eternal nothingness.

Li Pin quietly gazed at the familiar yet unfamiliar figure before him, watching him stare blankly into the vast and boundless starry sky, floating motionless.

After a long pause, he reached out his hand and softly said, "Come, let me grant you your wish. And please... grant mine as well."