Chapter 665 - 422: Life’s Struggle

Chapter 665: Chapter 422: Life’s Struggle

"Tell me everything."

Lu Cang tossed her arm back to her. At the same time, a stream of emerald-green liquid materialized and flowed into Luo Yan’s body.

Her injuries were severe, but not fatal.

Now that she could speak properly, Lu Cang didn’t mind healing her first.

’Besides, I’ve already taken the Divine Artifact. With her combat strength, she shouldn’t be able to challenge me.’

Luo Yan caught the severed arm.

She pressed the severed arm against the torn flesh of her shoulder. Shadows emerged from the two ends, weaving them together seamlessly.

The severed arm was gradually restored to its original state.

Meanwhile, the bloody hole in her abdomen was also gradually healed by Lu Cang...

Although Lu Cang didn’t know how to heal, he was a Pharmacist. Concocting a few healing Potions was simple enough for him.

Luo Yan gazed at Lu Cang with a complicated expression.

Even though Lu Cang had healed her injuries, she could still feel that this child who had appeared out of nowhere was not going to be easy to deal with.

...

「First Floor of the Sea Abyss」

Kumironi stared at the empty, open space where Lu Cang had completely vanished...

’He actually managed to completely escape my Perception?’

SWOOSH—

In the next instant, Kumironi’s vast Divine Thought swept out!

Nine hundred million kilometers up.

Nine hundred million kilometers down.

Nine hundred million kilometers across.

Every living thing within this Range came into Kumironi’s view, from Tier Eight High Level Demons down to creatures not even at Tier One—even mayflies so weak it was debatable whether they could be called life.

All of them appeared within Kumironi’s Perception.

But there was no sign of that little child.

"How interesting..."

In the final moment before Lu Cang completely vanished, Sophia had also sensed another, detestable aura.

"To think An Su is also helping this little one."

"Could it be that An Su is the one backing him?"

Everyone who came to the Secret Sea today had powerful backing. No one would be foolish enough to come to the Secret Sea without a patron.

If no one had helped him, Lu Cang would be dead by now.

As she pondered Lu Cang’s origins, a sudden tightness gripped her chest.

Kumironi clutched his heart and gritted his teeth. "Still trying to break free from me?"

"You and I are one now, my dear Kumironi."

"I am you."

However, the pain intensified, and the newly grown flesh within his body writhed in agonizing convulsions.

Because Lu Cang had extracted the soul, Sophia had chosen another method to usurp Kumironi.

But the drawbacks of this method were far greater than simply seizing the soul... and it gave Kumironi room to struggle.

Kumironi pressed his other hand to his head, but the voice that came from his mouth was in a tone completely different from Sophia’s.

"Sophia, you had to call to me in the Secret Sea to seize my body..."

"You must have a lot of restrictions, don’t you?"

Kumironi’s heart beat even more violently. A layer of emerald green, like a gemstone, even began to encase it.

Kumironi was resisting Sophia’s invasion.

"Tsk... Stubbornly defiant."

"Do you really think you can oppose me with your power?"

"Don’t forget, your power comes from me. We share the same Source."

Hearing her words, a faint smile played on one side of Kumironi’s lips.

"Heh... The same Source, you say?"

"Then let’s not share the same Source anymore."

BANG!

In the next instant, Kumironi’s emerald-like heart exploded!

"Did you think you could successfully kill yourself?"

Her voice echoed between heaven and earth, reverberating.

"I told you, you are me. Do you really think you can die before a divine being who commands life?"

Kumironi’s heart shattered, then was reborn!

"Of course... I don’t."

"But."

"What if I wasn’t trying to die?"

"I learned the difference between a divine being and a true Level 9 Reincarnator from Lu Cang. Lady Sophia, you must be walking a path different from that of a Reincarnator."

BANG—

Cracks instantly covered Kumironi’s body.

But the moment these cracks appeared, they were immediately repaired, leaving him as good as new.

Kumironi’s Level was shattering.

Level 6 Healing Master.

Level 5 Healer.

Level 4 Healer.

...

His Level was dropping, yet his aura didn’t weaken in the slightest.

Sophia said pityingly, "You are trying in vain to defy Divine Power."

Kumironi said with great difficulty, "If you could use your full power, you wouldn’t have to resort to such roundabout methods."

A small, emerald-green Core was forming within Kumironi’s heart.

Outside his body, Kumironi’s flesh grew wildly, sprouting hundreds of arms, legs, and heads as if it were blooming. Each head had a different face.

Each one would replace the real Kumironi.

Each one was Kumironi himself.

"Why do you continue this futile resistance... I have already walked every path you have ever taken. Your understanding of life is laughably childish."

"The more you resist, the deeper you will sink."

’I have to admit it,’ Kumironi thought.

’Indeed, I’m no match for a true Life Divine Being.’

’But no matter what, I have to resist until the very end.’

’I’ll condense my own life into an essence.’

Within his heart, a tiny, emerald-green essence took form...

And then...

With extreme difficulty, Kumironi used his Mind Touch to access his Storage Bag.

A Scroll unfurled!

BOOM!

A blazing white Light soared into the sky!

In an instant, it broke through the layers of the Sea Abyss and shot up into the infinite sky—

It was the Guiding Ritual. This was the Ritual Lu Cang had deciphered back in Kernoya. It had no other Effect; it simply released an absurdly massive signal, a pillar of white Light that shot straight into the heavens!

"What’s the point of releasing something like this?"