From the end of the world

Chapter 590 Xuan Ming's Sniper 2
Ordinary people cannot use their naked eyes to capture the scene I am feeling now. This orange flame attacking the small bowl spread from another unknown distant space, and it only takes one ten-thousandth of a second to descend on the room on the fifteenth floor where we are.

Without giving any sound warning, I grabbed Xiaowan's shoulders and left the room on the 15th floor in one breath. The scene in my vision changed instantly, and I brought Xiaowan to the ultra-high stratosphere.

The clouds that people usually see on the surface of the earth are hundreds to thousands of meters high, and even up to tens of thousands of meters high. The ancients imagined that heaven was located in a world above the clouds. But we are now in an airspace more than 40,000 meters above the ground. The clouds have been left far away from us.

But even at this height, the orange flame still persisted, and my spatial transfer didn't even succeed in creating much distance. Seeing that I couldn't escape, I had no choice but to use my strongest form.

Without wasting any time, the slag weapon was not summoned into my hand, but was summoned directly from my body. In an instant, I entered the third corona form. Because Xiaowan had already confirmed the destruction of the Great Demon Black Tortoise, who was my natural enemy, she naturally did not allow the blessing on my body to remain in the mode that tended to the wrong evolutionary route. On the way to the basement on the 15th floor, she switched the blessing on my body back to normal mode. I am in excellent condition now.

Two super-dense orange-red flames erupted at the same time. One of the flames surrounded Xiaowan and me like a cocoon, while the other flame crashed into the oncoming orange-yellow flame.

Whether it was my flames or the enemy's flames, they were both extremely explosive and destructive. It was as if two super-large nuclear weapons collided with each other, and the collision of the two flames immediately caused an explosion that was like the creation of the world. The shock wave spread out like a tidal wave, and the clouds far below us were shattered, exposing the scenery below.

Standing so high in the sky, the city and countryside below were reduced to the size of a satellite photo. This huge shock wave may have affected distant urban areas, causing casualties and loss of public property to a certain extent, but the extent is probably not very severe. I can feel that the owner of the orange flame has restrained himself a little, and I am also defending and counterattacking with the attitude of offsetting the opponent's attack.

However, this so-called "convergence" is limited to restraint in scale, but it is unambiguous in density. If the gap in level with the opponent is too big, it is impossible to offset it.

The enemy's intention may be to avoid unnecessary casualties, but more likely they don't want to kill Xiaowan. The orange flames coming towards Xiaowan are intended to capture Xiaowan alive. As for the enemy's true identity, it can be analyzed just from this mana fluctuation.

Xiaowan, who was in my arms, also reacted. The overwhelming magical power fluctuations like a mountain collapsing made her face pale. She said in an uncomfortable voice: "Number 4, Xuanming...?"

The orange-yellow flame appeared again, but this time it did not attack the small bowl. Instead, it condensed into the outline of a human body opposite me.

The human-shaped flame made a sound.

"...So you are by the side of No. 2, Zhuang Cheng." The humanoid flame said, "And...I didn't expect you to have made such great progress.

"Last time, when the virtual realm was destroyed, you were clearly unable to block my flames, but this time you were able to match me..."

His voice was serious, and I felt that he truly regarded me as a formidable rival.

The real identity of the attacker is Xuan Ming.

It's really sad.

In the past, I borrowed the power of Xuanming Fire to defeat Mingzhu. If Xuanming hadn't left a foreshadowing in Mingzhu's body, the outcome would have been very different. Mingzhu wanted to kill me, and it would not be much more difficult than it was for me to kill the great demons Xuanwu and Huangquan. The gap between the immature new Great Impermanence and the veteran Great Impermanence is so huge.

But now I can actually compete with the flame controlled by Xuan Ming himself, and he said "we are equally matched". This comparison made me deeply feel the great progress I have made in my strength.

Of course, I didn't forget that there was a small part of my strength. This wasn't just my own strength. While I felt a great sense of accomplishment, I also maintained a calm state of mind and calmly analyzed the timing of Xuanming's surprise attack.

It was as if he was waiting at the exit of the fifteenth floor basement, waiting for us to appear and then launch a surprise attack. Such a coincidence was really puzzling. However, I soon figured out what was going on.

Yuchi once told me that he could use the connection between the fragments of the divine seal to track Xiaowan and No. 7 in the "Doomsday Era". However, because they were separated by different dimensions, he could not accurately lock them and could only confirm their existence. At the same time, he also reminded me that when he tried to track Xiaowan and No. 7, he also sensed another signal trying to lock Xiaowan's location.

The only ones who could do such a thing, besides him, were the Lord of the Divine Seal and Xuan Ming.

Obviously, the source of the signal was Xuan Ming. Before, he couldn't lock onto Xiao Wan because they were in different dimensions, but when I brought Xiao Wan to the real world, he locked onto Xiao Wan in an instant, and immediately activated his fire power, trying to capture Xiao Wan on the spot.

"Xuan Ming, what is your purpose?" I asked, "Why do you want to take Xiao Wan away?" "This is not the first time I have taken action against this child. You should have thought a lot since we last parted." Xuan Ming said, "I will admit it to you directly - yes, I have set my sights on this child's identity as the Son of God. I want to start the heaven sacrifice ceremony, and she is an indispensable living sacrifice."

"For what?" I demanded.

"In order to lock the real location of the Lord of the Divine Seal with the power of the ritual." Xuan Ming answered very calmly, "The end of the world is a disaster brought about by the Lord of the Divine Seal. I want to eliminate this culprit and strangle the root of all this."

"You mean, the Lord of the Divine Seal is a living person. After bringing doomsday disaster to the world, he has been at large and is now active somewhere." I said.

"Not bad." Xuan Ming nodded.

"Then I can tell you directly that the Lord of the Divine Seal we saw in the past was the consciousness of the Divine Seal itself. The real Lord of the Divine Seal - the 'Seal Holder' is most likely the Human God Tai Sui of the Gospel Institute, who has long been dead. The current Lord of the Divine Seal is either the consciousness created by the Seal Holder, or a ghost attached to the Divine Seal after the Seal Holder's death." I said, "No matter which side it is, the Lord of the Divine Seal cannot be a being that can move in the real world."

"--Oh?"

Xuanming's gaze, projected from the flames, was full of a serious scrutiny.

"Besides, even if you really find the Lord of the Divine Seal and have a way to destroy it, what can you do?" I said, "The root cause of the doomsday lies in the wrong human history. Even if the culprit disappears, the wrong human history will not automatically return to its original state. Just like even if the murderer is sentenced to death, the murder victim will not resurrect on his own...

"If your goal is to save the world, aren't you working in a direction that is of no benefit?"

Xuan Ming said thoughtfully: "...You seem to have known a lot of the truth."

"I don't need to tell you the truth. You should know it very well." I said, "You must have had some contact with the Gospel House in the afterlife. In order to win you over, they probably told you the truth about the end of the world. It was you who asked the head of the Gospel House, Yama, to find Xiaowan in the afterlife. Have you joined the Gospel House?"

"Joining the Gospel Institute... me? To promote that worthless human slaughter plan?" Xuan Ming smiled disdainfully.

It seems that he is not in favor of the human genocide plan, but he seems to have acquiesced that he was the one behind the Gospel Temple's wanted list for Xiaowan.

"Zhuang Cheng, maybe you do know some information that I don't know, but correspondingly, I also know some truths that you don't know either." Xuan Ming said, "First of all, you misunderstood a very important thing. Tai Sui is indeed a character with a very deep affinity with the Divine Seal. It's understandable that you would mistake him for the owner of the Divine Seal... but he is not the real 'Master of the Seal'.

"The real culprit who found the divine seal in the forbidden land and caused the end of the world is someone else."

“——What?” I was surprised.

"Secondly, 'finding the culprit' and 'saving the world' are inextricably linked." Xuan Ming said, "The current divine seal is in a contradictory state of being both fragmented and intact. Although we can only access the fragmented divine seal - that is, the fragments of the divine seal, there is still a complete divine seal in the hands of the seal holder.

“Because of the contradictory state, I am afraid that even the seal holder cannot drive the power of the seal as he wishes. However, if we want to restore the seal to its true complete state, we must get the complete seal from the seal holder.

“Only the Divine Seal can repair this wrong world.

"Yama, that despicable villain, doesn't dare to use the divine seal to save the world, but I do."

Xuanming seemed to have mastered some secrets that were unfamiliar to me. Where did he learn them from? From Yama, the head of the Gospel Monastery? Or from some other unknown channel?
"From your flames, I can sense an extremely strong will to protect you. Even if I ask you for number two, you will not give it up. It seems that I have no way to capture it for the time being." Xuan Ming said, "For now, let's give up, but in the near future, after I have resolved the matter with Meng Zhang, I will come back to officially decide the outcome with you."

After saying this, the flames that formed the shape of a human suddenly exploded, and Xuanming disappeared in front of us.

(End of this chapter)