Chapter 838: Chapter 838

The battle began swiftly and ended just as quickly. With the Beetles’ final burst, the whole ordeal lasted no more than twenty minutes, leaving the entire city silent. The city, lacking many sealed environments, saw all its exposed citizens perish cleanly.

Perhaps there were still some who could hide in their home’s secret rooms, but such people would be few. The entire city had turned into a city of death, and Du You was certain that the number of survivors inside would not exceed two hundred.

Beetles were everywhere throughout the city, and with their collapse, a vast amount of dark elements spread out.

Du You no longer intended to fight, as the enemy’s last resistance had vanished. The Tian Gang Martial Artist’s bursting power was weak, and they didn’t last much longer than ordinary people, soon dying off without a survivor.

Du You knew that the final burst breakthrough of the five Martial Gods was actually the last struggle of the world’s will. The last bit of power burst forth, allowing the breakthrough of five Martial Gods, yet it was still not enough to allow everyone to break through.

But this struggle only made a few Tian Gang Martial Artists persist a bit longer.

After this bit of power was exhausted, the world’s energy fluctuations had reached their peak.

"Master, look quickly, the World Origin is about to appear," Lin Yucha suddenly pointed out at the city’s sky.

Du You nodded, "Yes, it is about to appear. Let’s go over there." Du You directly summoned Xiaozi, carrying the two sisters, and himself rode the Black Jade Griffin towards that direction. ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝•𝖿𝗂𝗋𝖾•𝘯𝘦𝘵

A short time later, a sphere of indeterminate color slowly emerged, its immense noble pressure giving Du You a sense of being utterly insignificant.

Perhaps, this wasn’t an illusion. He was now facing a world, albeit one that had been at his mercy. Taking a deep breath, Du You tried to calm himself down.

This was his first encounter with the World Origin, and he believed there would be more to come. Following the Secret Method, Du You began his actions. First, his Magic Power was massively released, continually corrupting and infecting the World Origin.

The surrounding dark elements, all produced by his skills, theoretically belonged to his skills too. Through Dark Spirit Light, Du You continuously drew the nearby dark elements to replenish himself.

After consuming a large amount of Magic Power, Du You finally tainted the Light Ball. The entire surface of the Light Ball turned a murky black color, but the penetrating light, though dimmed, did not dissipate.

The whole world seemed to freeze at that moment, different from the last scene Du You had witnessed.

Of course, the last time was in the Otherworld, where the Laws were complete. The present one being merely a Derived World with incomplete Laws, the whole world being frozen didn’t particularly surprise Du You.

Next, Du You didn’t stop but started controlling his Magic Power, drawing bit by bit.

The most important aspect of that set of Secret Methods was this: using a special Runes to control the entire World Origin. This task took Du You three days to complete.

"Whew, 999 special Runes, finally done." Throughout the process, Du You felt almost drained. It was more exhausting than fighting for three days and nights, as it required continuous focus.

Normally, this kind of work wouldn’t be done by someone below the fourth tier. To control lower-level worlds, pre-drawn Rune scrolls were used instead. That someone in the fourth tier could independently complete this task was rare worldwide. And now, Du You had accomplished this feat.

What followed was no longer Du You’s concern. With a thought, he connected to his domain.

The power of the domain was not supposed to cross worlds to reach here, but now the situation was different. With Du You as the coordinate center, the power of his domain spread here, a special force merging into the World Origin.

The World Origin instinctively repelled, bursts of conflicting powers erupting, and even Du You was pushed increasingly further away from the World Origin Light Ball. Next, it would depend on the devouring power of the domain.

"This process will probably last five days in this world. Let’s just wait patiently," Du You said while watching alongside the two sisters as the Light Ball continually changed and was eroded, beyond the current capacity of Du You’s powers to intervene.

"It’s said that to completely refine a world on one’s own, one must at least reach the seventh tier, I wonder if it’s true," Lin Yucha quietly remarked, awed by the spectacle.

Any lingering doubts in her mind gradually dissipated.

"Who knows, we’ll find out when we reach that height," Du You never doubted his ability to reach that pinnacle. He was merely accumulating power for now, and one day, he would stand at the peak of the world.

"By the way, let’s take this time to clean up the battlefield. It’s frustrating; it seems nothing was left behind, not even the mission," Du You realized that the mission to destroy Wu Country had disappeared.

After all, the mission reward was originally formed from capturing world power. Now that he controlled the World Origin, it was impossible to have a reward, and naturally, the mission disappeared.

At most, there was a consolation prize, which was the spheres erupted from those temporary Martial Gods he had killed. Unfortunately, since those Martial Gods were manufactured, besides earning a good amount of Crystal Coins, Du You didn’t obtain much else. The Martial Gods who had broken through and the original ones did yield a few weapons.

But they weren’t suitable for Du You, mostly being ordinary melee weapons like swords, which he didn’t regard highly. His group quickly tidied up, but there wasn’t much material on these Martial Gods.

Du You could only collect the items and deal with them later.

But at the end, Du You’s expression changed, "I didn’t expect this; this item is actually my advancement material." Du You looked at the Sacred Spring of Martial God, bottled a vial, and only this one vial was useful; the rest were of no use.

But for advancement materials, one portion was enough.

"Master, what does this advancement material correspond to?"

Du You didn’t conceal it: "It corresponds to my Dark Spirit Light, great stuff. Once Dark Spirit Light is upgraded, I will surely possess greater endurance." The feeling of never running out of Magic Power was really too good. Since his breakthrough, such feelings had been rare. Even with the Slaughter Badge, killing ordinary people was still too slow for recovery.