Chapter 2216 - 2209: Ancient God

Zhang Menglong had considered that this might be the ending, but he never expected it to come so abruptly. He originally thought that once this door was opened, perhaps some creatures similar to soul bats would appear.

Even if those creatures were highly aggressive, they were at least tangible, giving everyone enough time to react. But now, it’s clearly a sudden indiscriminate massacre!

Those hopeful Realm Breakers even bore expressions full of hope at the moment of their death, as they initially believed opening this door was their hope for survival. Yet, it turned out to be an unbearably pale death.

Their bodies also transformed into one of the countless Supreme Crystal statues.

"Indeed, this Soul Power can no longer harm me," honestly speaking, Zhang Menglong didn’t feel much emotional fluctuation about those people’s deaths. To him, they were just total strangers, with whom he hadn’t even exchanged a few words, except for some respect towards the Moyan Family.

The door was opened, but the light emitting from it was so blinding that Zhang Menglong could hardly open his eyes and he couldn’t see what was behind the door at all.

Zhang Menglong attempted to absorb the power of the Supreme Crystals, and this time he discovered that his soul could once again start to strengthen by devouring the power of the Supreme Crystals!

However, before, he clearly felt his soul like a bucket being filled, but this time, his soul seemed like a constant Klein bottle, almost impossible to fill up.

The increase was small, yet Zhang Menglong clearly perceived its change nonetheless!

Zhang Menglong took out some golden colloid from a blood slave beast and started absorbing it, and this golden colloid could still be absorbed by his soul!

He picked up the Soul-Cutting Sword and, at random, killed a bat. The energy formed by the bat was also absorbed by him!

"Indeed, it is like this!" Zhang Menglong showed an excited expression.

His soul now is a new condensation born from the souls of three different lives, including his ordinary Human soul as an Earthling and the souls of two golden small men, almost corresponding to the creator, the first humans, and the second humans.

"Creator, Ancient Humans, New Humans..." At this moment, Zhang Menglong could almost match these terms one by one, and of course, this "creator" name was self-named but seemed fairly fitting.

"What will I eventually become?" Zhang Menglong muttered to himself, according to Gou Dan, none of his ancestors had such a unique opportunity.

Now that he could absorb various energy to strengthen his soul, Zhang Menglong naturally wasn’t shy about it; he walked directly to the center of the plaza and began to absorb the Supreme Crystals there.

The crystals on the warcraft and human corpses frozen by the Supreme Crystals gently turned to powder, then transformed into vapor, directly gathering into Zhang Menglong’s body, matching almost the quantity when he left the battlefield.

Even those collected by Zhang Menglong from the Blood Pond were entirely used up cleanly.

Those bodies had already decayed, and when Zhang Menglong absorbed all the Supreme Crystals on the surface, those corpses slowly turned to dust, some disappeared completely, others only left behind remnants of bones.

Zhang Menglong picked up the clothing left behind by members of the Moyan Family, "Don’t worry, I promised you I would do this for you."

After saying this, he set the remaining items on fire, burning them cleanly.

[Principal, we must move on.]

"Yes," Zhang Menglong nodded, already looking forward to what was behind this door.

Zhang Menglong slowly walked into the glowing door, instantly enveloped by a warm force, which was actually entirely made up of Soul Power similar to the bats!

This space looked boundless and endless, a vast void.

"What is this place?" Zhang Menglong turned around, but Gou Dan didn’t provide any information about this place.

"Haha, who would have thought, after millions of years, the one arriving is just such a young fellow." A voice echoed in the space, sounding very kind and benevolent.

"Are you the creator?" Zhang Menglong directly asked the question in his heart.

"Creator? An interesting title indeed," the voice seemed intrigued by the name, "But I am more accustomed to the term the Ancient Humans used for me, usually calling me the Ancient God."

"Ancient God..." Just two simple words, but those called gods are never simple, and from what I’ve seen, this Ancient God created Ancient Humans and New Humans, truly deserving of the title ’God.’

"To reach here, you must possess the soul power of Ancient Humans, New Humans, and a hint of mine. I originally thought only a much stronger entity could come here."

"Oh? You actually have pieces left by that fellow? No wonder, you’re indeed special."

"Pieces left by that fellow? What do you mean?" Zhang Menglong was puzzled.

But the Ancient God didn’t explain further, leaving Zhang Menglong scratching his head with frustration.

"You’ll know sooner or later," the Ancient God chuckled lightly, "Since you’ve come here, would you like to hear a story?"

"I eagerly await your words," Zhang Menglong settled down to listen to the Ancient God’s tale.

"When this world was just born, a life simultaneously came into being, including myself, representing power."

The Ancient God’s initial sentence revealed vast information, indicating that the world where the Ancient God was born was possibly almost concurrent with this one, and his existence even numbers in multiple.

"We found this world too quiet, apart from us, it should have other life, so we began creating life, each Ancient God created various civilizations through their unique specialties, my civilization represents power, some represent wisdom, and they were called Ancient Humans by us."

These details were almost identical to what Zhang Menglong had speculated.

"But for some unknown reason, the souls we created within Ancient Humans contained something extra, an aspect we neither had nor understood."

"Greed?" Zhang Menglong blurted out, as greed takes up a significant part of humanity’s shortcomings.

"Indeed, greed," the Ancient God said, "They initially worshipped us, offered us reverence, considered us their heavens, but simultaneously demanded more from us, power, wisdom, and eventually sought to replace us. However, they were clever; by the time we realized this, they had grown into a formidable force, difficult to eradicate entirely."

"So this is how the war started," Zhang Menglong hadn’t expected the reason to be so simple. Upon reflection, ancient or modern wars are essentially rooted in greed, aren’t they?

"Later on, we exhausted ourselves to annihilate them with our remaining strength, creating New Humans and erasing most of the greed within their souls. Yet, as you can see, I haven’t completely perished!" the Ancient God narrated, "Therefore, those ancients didn’t completely die either! If someone inherits the will of Ancient Humans, this world might once again face war and destruction!"