Devouring World Dragon

Chapter 294 The Universe in Destruction

In the ruins of the old world, in a strange world known as the subspace.

In the chaotic and disordered old world, spacetime was distorted, the boundary between life and death was blurred, everything was in chaos, and anything was possible. In the ancient past, the old humans once used subspace to achieve faster-than-light travel, but this also brought some more troublesome things, such as evil gods and monsters.

After the New Humans, the evil god was sealed away, and monsters were accepted. The New Humans discovered other faster-than-light methods, and the subspace was deliberately forgotten. Without the support of intelligent beings, the subspace's original negative effects were gradually eliminated, and it gradually returned to the simple, chaotic world it once was.

But after a long period of time, the seal was finally broken.

"How dare a mere being seal away a god?"

The Bloodthirsty God, stepping out from the void, gazed upon the starry universe before him, a surge of rage welling within him. Of the four gods, it was the first to break free, for it sensed the approach of war, an unprecedented aura of conflict.

This aura pleased it, strengthened its power, and allowed it to escape its predicament ahead of schedule.

It had been sealed away for too long, yearning to celebrate its release with blood and heads, and this unprecedented war was the perfect celebration.

Behind the Blood Demon, numerous hands and heads emerged from the void, these bizarre limbs making sounds as they tried to restrain the Blood Demon.

"Get us out of here first."

"Khorne, you..."

But when faced with those equally sealed evil gods, the Bloodthirsty God didn't even glance at them, and continued forward, his cold eyes fixed on the universe before him.

"Hahahaha, those foolish mortals, actually think the war will end? Dream on! War and slaughter are eternal. Let me see what these laughable mortals are up to this time..."

Bloodthirsty God strode forward, determined to spread his fame throughout the universe once more, but in the next instant...

"..."

In silence, the Bloodthirsty God vanished into nothingness amidst endless white light.

The white light was so intense that the heads and hands that struggled to emerge all vanished, and the agonizing evil gods retreated back into the warp.

"This power...this is...run!!!"

Screaming, the evil gods fled in disarray into the deeper reaches of the warp. Even if gods were immortal, this would be enough time for them to recuperate for a very long time, and the God of Bloodlust was even more uncertain about how long it would take for him to be reborn.

……

Outside the universe, in a subsidiary microcosm.

Long ago, the new humans and their united civilizations abandoned inhabiting the physical universe, instead creating miniature universes to escape this inevitable final war. The physical universe had become nothing more than a resource for these civilizations; the matter within it no longer needed to be mined directly, as machines could handle the task.

This microcosm is inhabited by many non-human races, including an insectoid civilization.

On a hive-like urban planet, numerous six- and eight-limbed insectoids were in a panic, running around haphazardly. Some winged insectoids took flight, colliding frequently in the air, but no one knew where to seek refuge.

"The end of the world is coming! Run!"

The strange insectoid language was spoken in a jumble of words, and the most frequent one was this.

Some spaceships are taking off urgently, and some high-ranking individuals stumble and shove themselves into the ships, not knowing where they are going.

"Anywhere is fine, just hurry! Get out of here as soon as possible!"

Although they knew in their hearts that going anywhere would be pointless, some people still urged them on desperately, as if doing so would allow them to escape their fate of death.

Such scenes are happening everywhere in this microcosm. On all the planets, those strange and wonderful civilizations are struggling in panic, not knowing where to escape to.

But when that beam of light that pierced through the universe shot into it, the enormous beam swept across a large part of the universe, unleashing its furious power and destroying trillions of stars within it.

The microcosm began to collapse, irresistibly descending into destruction.

……

"Warning...warning..."

Huge red warnings flashed across the display, tinging the strange space with red.

These strange creatures, representing various races, were in turmoil, suddenly falling from the brink of victory into the abyss of despair. It all happened so suddenly, catching them completely off guard.

"How could this happen... Is there no other way?"
Some people shook their heads in disbelief and asked.

In the displayed images, at the deepest point of countless beams of light, endless light surges forth, each beam containing an incredibly powerful force. These beams are destroying the structure of the entire universe, prematurely extinguishing the physical universe that should have continued for billions of years.

"It's impossible..."

A scholar-like man sighed.

"If the snake's initial energy was 1, then our energy is 32000, while the energy of the entire physical universe is 78 billion. We only chose to fight after ensuring we had an absolute level of energy."

As the scholar spoke, two numbers first appeared on the screen: 1 and 32000.

There is no doubt that the new human civilization has carefully considered the power of snakes.

Normally, the power of a snake is only at the subgalactic level. Although it can reach the level of a galaxy cluster, it is not invincible under normal circumstances.

However, considering the monster's peculiar nature, the new human civilization waited until it had gathered power theoretically tens of thousands of times greater than the monster before choosing to fight.

The new human civilization has mined a vast amount of matter. Although this energy may still be a small fraction of the total energy in the physical universe, the vast majority of energy in this universe is inherently unusable. A significant portion of the usable energy resources have been exhausted by this new human civilization.

“We were already being very careful… but just now, at the moment the snake came back to life, the energy that burst forth from its body…”

The scholar paused for a moment.

On the screen, the number 1 began to grow wildly, followed by a rapid increase in numbers: ten thousand, one hundred million, trillion, hundred billion... In just an instant, the entire giant screen was filled with countless expanding and changing numbers.

Endless, limitless.

This vast physical universe is the manifestation of the power of the Old Gods. All evidence suggests that even in the end, the Serpent was far inferior to the Old Gods in terms of pure power; the Old Gods only lost to the monsters in terms of characteristics. Scholars once believed that the Old Gods were defeated because they could not fully utilize their power, but now, the power emanating from the Serpent's body far exceeds this physical universe by countless times.

It was a completely absurd dream.

The series of logical principles that scholars had established and firmly believed in were all shattered in the face of this incomprehensible monster.

Power? Energy level?
These things, which scholars believe to be at least immutable and the most fundamental elements of the rules, were mocked by the monster and crushed in the most ruthless way. "From an energy level perspective, the snake's energy level increased countless times in a short period of time. We simply cannot defeat this kind of power."

The scholar murmured, then finally covered his face.

From the old humans to the new humans, from a tiny planet to the vast universe, a hundred thousand years of effort... has still turned to dust.

"how so……"

"impossible……"

"I don't believe it, I don't believe it..."

In the strange space, a cacophony of sounds rose and fell. Among the many strange races, some were in despair, some were in disbelief, and some looked helplessly at the only gods in the world.

The new god remained silent, the non-gods gazed into the distant void, and the fish god... wait, where is the fish god?
Suddenly, someone realized that the Fish God was gone.

The small tank was empty except for swaying water plants; the little fish that had lived from the old world to the present was nowhere to be seen.

……

In the universe, a small fish darts through spacetime, frantically thrashing its tail in a state of extreme panic, leaving behind only a trail of turbulent spacetime.

"It's all over, it's all over. I never thought these guys would really mess this up... How could this happen..."

The Fish God was devastated.

As a fish with no ambition, only thinking about nibbling on aquatic plants and occasionally playing with a few beautiful little fish, it may have godlike strength, godlike wisdom, and godlike lifespan, but it really has no ambition.

After the Great Flood, when the Atlantean and Serpent-People civilizations were almost completely destroyed, and a power vacuum descended upon the world, it ate water plants; when countless heroes and great figures emerged among humanity, creating new civilizations, it ate water plants; when the gods began the second creation, creating a new world, and the war between gods and demons reached the edge of the universe, even obliterating the Great Dao, it fled and hid, then found a small pond to continue eating water plants…

To humans, this little fish seemed utterly unambitious and incredibly lazy, but to the little fish, it was perfectly happy.

Just as it said many years ago when a human named Leonardo da Vinci found it: "I still can't understand why you humans have such strong desires. You want everything: the continuation of your race, knowledge, power. Why can't you just sleep soundly like me, and when you wake up, eat some seaweed? Wouldn't that be better?"

The fish has already obtained everything it wanted. As for power and the state in the eyes of humans, they are readily available to the fish, but it has no interest in obtaining them.

Just like dogs enjoy catching frisbees, dogs feel happy when they catch them, but even if humans could do it, they wouldn't be interested in doing it because humans can't and don't want to understand the simple joy that dogs experience.

Similarly, fish have no interest in understanding human desires.

If given the choice, the little fish might choose to remain like this forever, silently nibbling at the water plants in the ancient pond.

But snakes are enemies of the universe, enemies of all life.

Because one day it will swallow everything whole, and the little fish understands that even wanting a small pond is impossible; the arrogant and conceited snake will not heed any of its requests.

"Whether we perish now or launch a great campaign, we will still die. Since we are going to die anyway, is it not better to die for our country?"

The little fish faced this kind of despair: do nothing, die; resist, die. Given this, even the least ambitious little fish was forced to join the ranks of the new humans.

It can be said that it was precisely the existence of snakes that forced the birth of a trans-temporal civilization that has spread from ancient times to the present and throughout the universe.

The little fish did indeed try its best to help humans defeat the snake. But when the snake awoke from its death, the little fish reacted the fastest, without any hesitation. As soon as it saw the snake returning from nothingness, the little fish immediately ran away.

How can we fight? There's no way to fight.

That wasn't a resurrection, but an awakening from death. Death was just a long slumber for the snake, like sleeping when it's tired.

But now that the new humans have beaten this monster so badly it's covered in welts, the monster is completely enraged and has no intention of sleeping anymore. If you force it to sleep, it will open its eyes and wake up again in the next moment. It's impossible for it to die again. How can you fight it like this? Time to run!

but……

"Escape...how do we escape...escape to the past?"

As it travels through time and space, the little fish is also figuring out where to escape to.

The little fish tried to go against the flow of time and escape upstream. It first went to the era of the God Emperor, an era in which the God Emperor transformed into a lighthouse and guarded the subspace, before the birth of new humans.

Although it chose to join the new humans, Little Fish still kept a hunch. It had some connections with the God Emperor back then and obtained a permit to ensure that it would have nowhere else to go and could hide in the God Emperor's era.

Regardless, although the order of time and space means nothing to monsters, at least the cause and effect should be respected. After all, there are snakes from the past in that time and space. You can't go against your past self, can you?

But when Xiaoyu arrived in the era of the God Emperor... he was dumbfounded to see huge beams of light galloping through the universe.

The lighthouse in the warp was engulfed by pillars of light, and the four evil gods, still at their peak, fled for their lives. Galaxyes were destroyed by pillars of light, even the center of the galaxy was no exception, and the serpent of the past simply disappeared into the pillars of light, merging with its future self.

"What the hell??? All of spacetime has been disturbed???"

If we observe the universe from a more macroscopic perspective, taking the future spacetime as a node, countless beams of light will travel towards all spacetimes, causing the entire timeline to shake and fall into destruction.

Spacetime allows for a certain degree of disruption, but the timeline will naturally repair everything, ensuring that cause and effect remain stable. In the past, hiding a small fish in spacetime wouldn't be a big deal. But now, all spacetime is under attack. The originally stable spacetime cause and effect has been destroyed. If this continues, without the support of cause and effect, a single, isolated spacetime simply cannot be maintained and will fall into complete destruction.

At that time, only that one monster will remain in the void.

The little fish, possessing divine power, traveled through countless timelines, but in the end, it discovered that there was no way to escape; the past and the future had become the same.

Has it gone completely mad?

The little fish stared in disbelief at the universe and even the entire timeline that was on the verge of destruction.

Looking at the countless beams of light around him, the fish god realized that he might really have no way to escape any longer. Blinking, the little fish opened its mouth in a very human-like way, as if to sigh.

There's no way to escape now, so...

In the vast emptiness of space, a small pool of water suddenly appeared out of thin air. The little fish swam in this pool, as if transported back to the past, its entire body unconsciously relaxing, feeling a rare sense of peace and ease. Then, it lowered its head and nibbled on some water plants. In its final moments, a last thought flashed through the little fish's mind.

"It tastes so good..."

The next instant, the pool was swallowed up by a streak of light.

Fish God, dead.

(End of this chapter)