Chapter 511 - 361: All Is Ready, Corrupted World

「One month later.」

On the top floor of the Jiangzhou City Superpower Management Bureau.

Wei Song stood before the floor-to-ceiling window, gazing at the clear sky outside.

"Time to wrap things up."

His figure left a scorching afterimage in the air. The next second, he appeared a thousand meters high in the sky, and the might of a Late Stage of Legend swept across the entire city.

The people below all looked up, and someone recognized the gray-robed figure.

"It’s the Ashbringer!"

"General Wei is heading to battle again!"

Cheers erupted from the streets below, swelling into a tidal wave of sound.

Wei Song didn’t linger. He transformed into a streak of light and shot toward the east, where one of the last three Level Five Rifts awaited.

On the East Sea Shore, this Rift had also appeared two hundred years ago.

Corruption had been leaking out for two hundred years. A carpet of putrid fungus covered the entire coastline, and the reefs crawled with dark purple tumors. In the water floated the corpses of mutated fish.

Inside the Rift, twelve Legend-rank Mutant Beasts guarded the exit. Some resembled giant starfish, while others looked like rotting whales...

When Wei Song descended upon the Rift, all the Mutant Beasts roared at the sky in unison.

"Noisy."

Wei Song made a grasping motion with his hand, and a small, grayish-white spark appeared in his palm.

There was no dazzling light, no earth-shattering explosion.

The next second, the space within a hundred-kilometer radius of him suddenly froze. The Mutant Beasts’ roars caught in their throats, and the blighted fungus on the ground was locked in place.

Wei Song blew gently. The spark drifted away, transforming into billions of ash-like particles.

They landed on the Mutant Beasts, on the blighted fungus, and on the corrupted Earth.

In an instant, everything—from matter to Energy, from physical form to corruption—was reduced to nothingness within the Ashes.

The twelve Legend-rank Mutant Beasts didn’t struggle in the slightest. Their bodies disintegrated from the outside in, turning into a grayish-white powder that scattered in the wind.

The blighted fungus vanished, revealing the corroded Rock beneath.

Afterward, Wei Song’s figure flickered continuously, scattering motes of gray sparks until not a single wisp of the Abyssal Aura remained.

Wei Song reached out and made a grasping motion. From the depths of the Rift, a fist-sized, Dark Gold fragment of World Origin flew out.

The fragment had just begun to struggle when it was silently Purified by the panel.

Without a glance, Wei Song stored it in a special spatial container and turned, vanishing from the Rift.

In the Red Sands of the Northwest, the Level Five Rift was even more concealed, hidden deep within a subterranean cavern and lying wide open.

Five Middle Stage of Legend Mutant Beasts slumbered here. Their forms were humanoid, but they had six arms, three heads, and skin as hard as Obsidian.

Wei Song appeared directly in the deepest part of the cavern, his aura completely unconcealed, rousing the slumbering creatures.

Dozens of crimson eyes snapped open at once. A terrifying Spiritual Shock, like a physical spike, stabbed viciously toward the intruder.

Wei Song took a step forward, and a grayish-white ripple lit up on the ground beneath his feet.

Wherever the ripple passed, the Poisonous Fog dissipated, fleshy conduits withered away, and mountains of bone turned to dust.

Sensing mortal danger, the five Mutant Beasts erupted into action at once.

Their arms tore through the air, Obsidian-like fists smashing toward Wei Song’s head, only to freeze three meters away from him.

AOOOW!

All the Mutant Beasts shrieked in agony, their eyes filled with terror and bewilderment.

They could only watch helplessly as their bodies—starting from their fists and spreading to their arms, torsos, and heads—turned bit by bit into grayish-white dust.

Five seconds later, the cavern fell silent. All traces of corruption had vanished, leaving only a thin layer of gray dust on the cavern walls and floor.

Wei Song reached out and pulled a larger mass of Dark Gold World Origin from the Rift’s core.

’Thirty percent denser than the one from the East Sea.’ He nodded slightly and vanished again.

In the Southern Border Rainforest, the situation was unique. The Rift existed in symbiosis with a thousands-of-years-old banyan tree. The Mutants had fused with the flora, forming a bizarre ecosystem that was half-plant, half-flesh.

The entire rainforest was alive. Every leaf was an eye, and every root was a tentacle.

The moment Wei Song arrived, the entire rainforest awakened. Countless vines erupted from the ground, coiling toward him like giant pythons.

Leaves detached from their branches, turning into sharp, flying blades that shrieked as they sliced through the air. Roots tore themselves from the soil, their ends splitting open to reveal maws filled with sharp teeth.

This was no longer a mere collection of Mutant Beasts, but a single monster formed from the entire forest.

Wei Song finally grew a little more serious. Hovering in mid-air, he formed an ancient Seal Technique with his hands before his chest.

"Ashes: Heaven and Earth Annihilation."

As soon as he spoke, the entire world fell silent.

All the attacking vines, flying leaves, and roots froze a hundred meters away from him.

Immediately after, a wave of gray spread out from beneath Wei Song’s feet, rapidly suffusing the entire rainforest.

The lush green rainforest turned a deathly grayish-white, then disintegrated into fine dust that rustled as it fell.

The fleshy parts were even more fragile. They melted away silently, like ice and snow under a blazing sun.

Ten seconds later, the rainforest, which had spanned hundreds of square kilometers, had become a grayish-white desert.

The ancient banyan tree at the center was reduced to a giant stump. In the center of its flat top, a brilliant golden mass of World Origin floated.

’Thankfully, the panel helped. This mass of World Origin is even larger than what the other Level Fives had.’ Wei Song collected the World Origin and gazed into the distance.

On Profound Yellow Star, all the Level Five Rifts had now been Purified, save for the two that Ian had intentionally left behind.

’Cleanup complete. Perfect timing to send these to my main body for absorption.’

「In a secret chamber beneath the Jiangzhou City Management Bureau.」

Ian sat cross-legged in the center of a Witch Array. Three golden masses of World Origin floated before him.

He opened his mouth and inhaled lightly. Like fledglings returning to their nest, the masses of World Origin flew into his mouth.

The next second, his body began to glow with an incandescent white light, and the air in the secret chamber instantly became ten times fresher.

Within his Sea of Spirit, the ring representing the Rule of "Purification," originally at 93% completion, was now advancing rapidly.