Chapter 514 - Simple Last Words

The ancestor of the Spirit Demons, Meng Lei, had never expected her side to lose the battle against the Blood Coliseum. She couldn’t imagine the mighty Kui Ox falling to Han Wu, nor that he would lead his army to invade the Dream Demon Civilization.

The moment he crossed its threshold, the Will of the Dream Demon Civilization suppressed him. It not only sent an alarm to every Spirit Demon about his invasion, but also attempted to suppress Han Wu’s strength to that of a Common life form.

Naturally, Han Wu did not accept such treatment. After all, he had the Divine Civilization’s backing. In response to the suppression, he relied on his authority as a God and the Blood Coliseum’s owner to request support from the Divine Civilization’s Will.

His request was approved, and the Divine Civilization’s Will traversed myriad worlds to descend to their location. Its overwhelming presence easily erased the suppression of the Dream Demon Civilization’s Will. At the same time, Han Wu and his army received a buff that raised all of their parameters.

Han Wu raised his thumb and praised the Will of the Divine Civilization for the amazing assist. With the buff activated, he remained an Earthsunder life form, but his strength was now roughly average amidst all the other Earthsunder life forms.

Even though it fell short of the power he gained through Replicate, it still brought him a peace of mind. This was his true strength, fully his own, rather than the fleeting surge Replicate granted.

“Kill them all!” Han Wu’s battle spirit was at an all-time high as he led his army into the Dream Demon Civilization.

Meng Lei had no choice but to activate her civilization’s final weapons, the Spirit Demons on par with the Kui Ox.

Xiang Liu and Jiu Ying marched into battle. Xiang Liu was a nine-headed snake, its towering form rising 1,000 meters high and stretching 10,000 meters in length. Even its casual movements cracked the earth, let alone its full force in battle. When it appeared, all nine heads hissed and attacked Han Wu with venom and torrential water.

Han Wu’s army had just left the Kui Ox’s waterlogged battlefield before it found itself fighting amid floodwaters once again.

Jiu Ying was equally powerful with nine heads of its own. It could spew fire and water simultaneously. Seeing Xiang Liu drown the battlefield, Jiu Ying followed suit and launched a torrent from every mouth to aid Xiang Liu.

With the battlefield fully submerged, Xiang Liu judged the moment ripe and summoned numerous water snakes to glide through the flood and ambush their enemies.

Even Meng Lei joined in the fray. She was a nine-tailed fox, and each of her tails had merged with a treasure from the Dream Demon Civilization. She drew upon several of them and conjured violent storms to aid Xiang Liu.

Water poured from the sky and surged powerfully below. Even though Han Wu’s army could fly, they struggled to evade the relentless deluge.

Han Wu responded by creating vast numbers of Floating Stones and shaping them into a massive plaza for his army to rest and avoid the flood. He then ordered his units to do everything in their power to hold their ground.

Before long, the reason for his command became clear. He intended to ascend into a Major God in the Dream Demon Civilization!

Han Wu had already gathered the Divine Jurisdictions he planned to comprehend: Conversion and Duel. The two powerful Divine Jurisdictions would support his ascent into a Major God.

He found a suitable location in the center of the Floating Stone plaza and started his ascension. Out of his eight Earthsunder life forms, Karot could not fight due to his heavy reliance on terrain, and Dark Locust was still reassembling his body after Self Detonation. The remaining six gathered around Han Wu and formed a protective perimeter.

The three Spirit Demons controlled the flood and formed a massive water python to attack Han Wu’s Floating Stone plaza.

Steely charged first. He fused all 100 greatswords into a massive blade of hurricane and struck the massive water python.

An explosion followed, sending sheets of water spraying in every direction. Steely felt no satisfaction. The water python reformed in less than three seconds and attacked again.

Steely used Steelcutter numerous times to stop it, but each strike drained a lot of his strength while the Spirit Demons remained unscathed. They could repeat the attack tens of millions of times without faltering.

After five exchanges, Steely finally lost and retreated to the Floating Stone plaza. Alpheus quickly took his place and attacked the python. The other four Earthsunder life forms stayed on standby, buying Han Wu as much time as possible.

Meanwhile, Han Wu drifted deep within his consciousness. The two Divine Jurisdictions sensed his ambition to ascend and were fervently draining his Divine Essence. His account, which had tens of thousands of Divine Essence, emptied in an instant.

The Duel Jurisdiction posed no problem. It had already reached completion and stabilized after draining the Divine Essence. However, the Conversion Jurisdiction was still in its early phase and lacked sufficient development.

Han Wu found himself in a bind. If he allowed it to absorb energy from the surrounding environment, it would take a huge amount of time to fulfill its energy requirements. He had no choice but to tap into the Divine Essence under the Blood Coliseum’s account.

That account still held 420,000 Divine Essence, more than enough to turn Conversion into a mature Divine Jurisdiction.

“The Blood Coliseum is mine, and the Divine Essence in that account belongs to me too. There’s nothing wrong with using my own resources!” he muttered.

He guided his Conversion Jurisdiction to the account, and it started draining it at an alarming rate. At first, it was 10,000, then 20,000, 30,000, and so on.

Han Wu’s heart ached as the Divine Essence poured away. He couldn’t have known that his Conversion Jurisdiction required such an enormous sum to mature. What he didn’t realize, however, was that this process was expanding the scope of what he could use it over.

Before this, Han Wu could only apply Conversion to various types of elemental energy and turn them into one of his eight Divine Aspects’ powers. As it matured through the absorption of Divine Essence, its capacity increased. It now allowed him to convert any absorbed energy into any power from any Divine Aspect that he knew. Spending mere tens of thousands of Divine Essence for such growth was a bargain!

After absorbing 190,000 Divine Essence, it finally stopped and condensed into a sliver of Divine Jurisdiction. It was no longer in its early phase. With the maturation of his Divine Jurisdiction, Han Wu was now a Major God.

The Will of the Dream Demon Civilization was outraged once it learned what had happened. It wasn’t because it couldn’t withstand a Major God’s pressure, but because it was powerless to stop the outcome.

Han Wu had ascended into a Major God within its world, and he would now permanently claim a portion of its resources. Even though the loss amounted to only one part in 10,000, it was still infuriating because that share was gone forever.

Nonetheless, Han Wu had completed his ascension, and the Will of the Dream Demon Civilization had no choice but to grant him part of its power.

After absorbing that power, Han Wu opened his eyes and saw that all six of his Earthsunder life forms had been critically injured. Steely had suffered the worst damage, having lost all of his arms.

Han Wu burned with fury at what had happened. He activated Conversion, which had consumed close to 200,000 Divine Essence to mature, to fight against the three Spirit Demons. He absorbed the massive water python, converted it into Life Energy, and healed his Earthsunder life forms. Once they fully recovered, he turned his gaze back to the three Spirit Demons.

“Die!” He converted the energy into Destruction and Death, formed a massive palm, and slapped the three Spirit Demons.

That powerful blow erased Xiang Liu and Jiu Ying. Meng Lei withstood it, though barely. As Han Wu released more of his energy, even she couldn’t withstand it. She was slapped away, and every one of her tails shattered.

“I will allow you to speak your final words,” Han Wu said as he appeared before her. It was the last act of mercy he would grant to a powerful foe like her.

Meng Lei coughed up blood. Even without a finishing strike, she wouldn’t be able to live long. With the final traces of her life, she glared at him. “My children... will avenge me... Just you wait—”

He crushed her before she could even finish, muttering, “Are your last words that simple?”