Chapter 1003: Witnessing Extinction

Chapter 1003: Chapter 363: Witnessing Extinction

This exploration of the Ancient Ruins was a turning point.

The core members of the Salvation Society also underwent a transformation, becoming members of the Bronze Long Table under the various Creator God codenames.

They no longer drifted aimlessly like at the beginning of the Spiritual Energy Resurrection, but used the gains from this ruins Old Dreams to frantically elevate themselves.

Because they knew that the extinction calamity of the Second Cosmic Era could descend at any moment.

Five years after the Spiritual Mist.

The crowd whose strength had skyrocketed gathered once more, still in the Bright Hall of the City of Dawn.

The only difference was that the ordinary long table originally in the Bright Hall had already been replaced by the Bronze Long Table they had obtained from the Ancient Ruins.

Yes,

no matter how they tried to explore the mysteries of the Bronze Long Table, they had never been able to grasp its Magic Gate.

They could only leave it idle in the Bright Hall, using it as a table.

Now, all nine seats by the Bronze Long Table were occupied.

Only the upper-left seat remained empty; it had originally belonged to that little boy from the ruins, but ever since his mysterious disappearance last time, he had never appeared again.

Han Zhan stared at the lone empty seat, deep in thought.

It was still Adam who spoke first:

“Over these years, we’ve played at being Creator Gods, sweeping away Exotic Beasts, exploring the ruins; our own Dao has also grown rapidly, allowing us to step into the Divine Realm.”

“Now there are no more Exotic Beasts rampaging, and all the ruins have been explored. If we count the time, there shouldn’t be much left before the River of Eternal Darkness’s annihilation descends.”

“With the Divine Realm, can we withstand the River of Eternal Darkness?”

Adam voiced this question, and the other members at the Bronze Long Table all fell silent.

The most straightforward Giant Sword Knight, Yax, shook his head and said, “Absolutely not.”

“We used to be too weak, like frogs at the bottom of a well, watching the moon reflected in a puddle, thinking the River of Eternal Darkness was merely at the Divine Realm.”

“But now we’re already strong enough, far stronger than before, and when we look at the River of Eternal Darkness again, we find it’s far more powerful than we imagined—there’s even this feeling of mayflies gazing at the azure sky.”

As their strength grew,

they became even less confident about victory.

Because the farther one walks toward the end of the Dao, the more one feels their own insignificance.

After stepping into the Divine Realm, this feeling grew even more intense.

Yax’s words made the already heavy atmosphere sink a few degrees deeper.

The Salvation Society could not save the world; the Creator Gods could not create worlds.

That made all their efforts into a pale, powerless joke.

Just then, a figure suddenly coalesced on the upper-left seat.

The little boy who had been missing for so long finally appeared again.

“Looks like you’ve hit a bottleneck.” The little boy swept his gaze around them, nodding in satisfaction.

“You’ve improved even faster than I expected. In such a harsh heaven and earth, to make this kind of progress has already exceeded my predictions.”

The little boy’s appearance left the members of the Salvation Society somewhat surprised.

The only one not surprised was Han Zhan, who had yet to speak, because he had already sensed the little boy’s presence in advance.

The little boy looked toward Han Zhan; after a flash of astonishment in his eyes, he clicked his tongue lightly.

Just as Han Zhan could sense his existence, he could also sense that Han Zhan’s Realm at this moment was already almost no different from his own.

“Pangu the Creator God’s Dao really is domineering.” He couldn’t help but exclaim.

“Go on, what response plan do you have? Ever since you had us sit at the Bronze Long Table back in the Ancient Ruins, we’ve been within your plan. If you had no further arrangements, do you think I’d believe that?”

Han Zhan said firmly.

Hearing his words, the little boy, exposed, didn’t feel embarrassed; he merely chuckled twice.

“Indeed, I had my own purpose in seating you at the Bronze Long Table.”

“But we also share a common goal—to stand against the River of Eternal Darkness, don’t we?”

As the little boy spoke, he stopped hiding anything. Behind him, an image of a sky-supporting colossal tree suddenly manifested; the tree-shadow swayed grandly, magnificent as it rippled.

The great tree seemed to be his true body.

The next second, several golden, dazzling seeds shook loose from the branches, caught by the little boy as he raised his hand.

Not too many, not too few—exactly eight.

“After becoming Gods, if you want to advance further, you depend on Dao comprehension.”

“These eight tree seeds can help you break through in your Dao, take another step forward, and become true Creator Gods.”

Hearing the little boy’s words, the crowd of the Salvation Society were all shocked.

With their current vision, they naturally understood how difficult a Dao breakthrough was.

And the golden tree seeds the little boy so casually handed out actually had such miraculous effects?!

If that’s the case, doesn’t that mean you could casually create a few more Creator Gods?

As if he had guessed their thoughts, the little boy chuckled a few times and cut off their train of thought:

“Don’t overthink it. These eight seeds are already the fruit I condensed over two Cosmic Eras. If you want more, there aren’t any.”

The little boy turned his gaze to Han Zhan again and said, “Your Realm is only one step away from the Creator God; you don’t need the seeds to help you break through.”

“You’re giving us something this rare and precious—what price do we have to pay?”

The members of the Salvation Society did not immediately take the golden tree seeds. Han Zhan, as their mouthpiece, asked in return.

“A price?”

The little boy’s gaze swept across their faces one by one, then he shook his head. “The price—you’ve already paid it.”

“Already paid it?”

“Yes. This Bronze Long Table is your price.”

As the little boy spoke, his right-hand fingers lightly tapped the tabletop of the Bronze Long Table, producing a crisp ringing of metal.

“This is a Supreme Treasure forged in the First Cosmic Era.”

“Its Ability is actually very simple: once any one of you at this table falls in battle, it will devour their Cultivation and then feed it back to the others who still live.”

“So the price is that your lives are bound together. As long as the Bronze Long Table exists, you must fight to the death.”

One falls; the rest are nourished.

What a domineering, powerful Ability.

No wonder the little boy insisted they sit at the Bronze Long Table and bind themselves to it.

Providing the golden tree seeds was the same logic.

Because the stronger the ones at the table, the stronger the survivors would become after they fall.

This was an investment that couldn’t lose.

“Is this the final trump card you’ve prepared against the River of Eternal Darkness?” At this moment, Han Zhan spoke.

He could already infer that the other party must be a powerful existence who had survived from the First Cosmic Era; otherwise, he wouldn’t have such artifacts and such strength.

The little boy nodded slightly, hiding nothing.

“Yes. To defeat the River of Eternal Darkness, one must have the resolve to cast aside life and death.”

“So—are you ready?”

Beside the Bronze Long Table, the members of the Salvation Society again fell silent.

In that silence, Adam was the first to stretch out his hand, take a golden tree seed from the little boy, and put it into his mouth.

The golden seed melted the instant it entered his mouth; at the moment of entry it transformed into a cloud of golden motes, merging into his Dao.

With the infusion of the golden seed, Adam’s Dao underwent several rounds of enlightenment, surging forward at breakneck speed!

Seeing this, the others each picked up a golden tree seed and put it into their mouths.

They had made their choice.

To cast aside life and death, and bear witness to annihilation.