supreme deity

Chapter 824 Ambition
At the entrance of the Heavenly Abyss Passage, Luo Wangshu stared blankly at the scene above the Divine Palace, where the flower of flesh and blood bloomed in the Garden of Truth.

She then glanced at Lin Rui with a complicated expression and said, "Xiao Rui, you have a really hard heart."

Lin Rui remained expressionless. The 760,000 people in the Garden of Truth had long been tormented by the Eastern Abyss to the point of losing all their intelligence, becoming like walking corpses.

He could still tell whether his master was more important than 760,000 idiots.

He is still human, and human hearts are always biased, with likes and dislikes; it is impossible to be truly selfless.

Luo Wangshu then sighed and rubbed his temples, feeling a slight headache: "Xiao Rui, you think I have been corrupted by the will of the Supreme One, then let me ask you, in my body, have you sensed anything different from my primordial spirit and flesh? You even pulled my Heavenly Canopy True Spirit down from the Heavenly Canopy, so is there anything abnormal about my primordial spirit and true spirit now?"
Lin Rui frowned, then said calmly, "No!"

This is precisely what terrifies him: his master, Luo Wangshu, now seems to be the very essence of the Supreme Celestial Venerable, regardless of his primordial spirit, physical body, expression, posture, temperament, or spiritual energy!

Luo Wangshu smiled slightly: "The concentration of the Supreme Heavenly Venerable's bloodline in my body is very high. I have now awakened at least 70% of the Supreme Heavenly Venerable's bloodline power, and I should be the person in this world who is closest to the Supreme Heavenly Venerable!"

Bloodline power is different from conceptual power.

Luo Wangshu awakened many of the Supreme Celestial Venerable's bloodline talents, but with the support of Ruifang Group's biotechnology, she didn't think much of some of the Supreme Celestial Venerable's bloodline abilities and was unwilling to fall into his trap. She also used the Heavenly Demon Armor to integrate her bloodline, just like Lin Rui.

However, if we were to say who in this world has the highest concentration of the Supreme Bloodline, it would undoubtedly be Luo Wangshu Wuyi.

Upon hearing this, Lin Rui's expression changed, and he looked towards the direction of the Garden of Truth.

At this moment, the sky above the Garden of Truth was churning like a boiling cauldron, and the dark clouds mysteriously condensed into a three-dimensional yin-yang symbol, with blood-red beams of light shooting out from the eyes of the yin-yang symbol, continuously cutting through the sky.

The petals of those flesh-and-blood flowers that should have bloomed disintegrated, turning into liquid light threads with dark golden patterns. Like countless rivers flowing into the sea, they rushed towards the center of the sky, weaving into a giant net that blotted out the sun.

Each filament of light flowed with ancient runes, causing the space to tremble violently. Countless cracks split open like a spider web, from which seeped primordial power carrying the aura of chaos.

As the void trembled, the figure of the Supreme Celestial Venerable gradually solidified. She was draped in a gilded black robe, her silver hair cascading down like a waterfall, with primordial fire dancing between her strands, and her body was surrounded by a conceptual halo as dazzling as a galaxy.

When she opened her eyes, her left eye reflected the past, and her right eye reflected the future; wherever her gaze fell, time and space froze. Her body was formed from countless silver particles of light, each particle containing the ultimate refined power of truth, as if the ultimate principles of the universe had been forged into a physical form.

At this moment, all the divine power of the abyss retreated like a tide, and the entire space of Luojing began to collapse and reorganize—as if this world had finally welcomed back its only acknowledged master.

Before this, Luo Wangshu was naturally the person with the strongest bloodline of the Supreme Being.

But now, the one who possesses the purest bloodline of the Supreme Being is the 'Supreme Celestial Venerable' who is currently solidifying his physical form above the Garden of Truth.

Lin Rui even felt that the so-called 'Battle Spirit Ring' in his hand—that is, the 'Throne of Truth'—was resonating with him.

Lin Rui sent a thought to the 'Battle Spirit Ring': "Ring Spirit, speed up the refining of the Separation and Union Heavenly Venerable Source Core! It needs to be completed within 10 minutes."

Note: To accelerate the refining of the Separation and Union Celestial Venerable Source Core, an additional 4000 million Soul Power Points are required!

Lin Rui didn't care at all: "I'll give you 6800 million soul power points and help me refine it as quickly as possible."

Over the past three years, he has accumulated about 190 million soul power by continuously slaughtering demons with his alien body. He just spent more than 100 million soul power to have the War Spirit Ring help him refine the source core of the Separation and Union. Now, the remaining 68 million soul power is of little use.

The Supreme Celestial Venerable is about to awaken, and Lin Rui anticipates that this will be his last time using the Throne of Truth, so he decides to leave nothing behind.

These soul points don't actually belong to him; the so-called soul points that Lin Rui obtained through killing are all stored in the Throne of Truth.

This was actually a deal. The Throne of Truth used its various supernatural powers to lure Lin Rui into killing demons and helping it collect the source material in order to restore itself.

Seeing Lin Rui continue to press on her brow with one finger, showing no intention of acknowledging her, Luo Wangshu raised an eyebrow, a hint of displeasure and mockery in her eyes: "You think that's the so-called 'Supreme Celestial Venerable'? After her true spirit awakens, I can get rid of the Supreme Celestial Venerable's corruption and contamination, but are you sure that's really the Supreme Celestial Venerable?"

Lin Rui was taken aback by these words and looked at them again: "What do you mean by that, Master?"

Luo Wangshu pulled Meng Weiyun in front of him and waved her in front of Lin Rui, speaking leisurely: "The blood of the Supreme One flows like a long river, scattering among all living beings into myriad forms; the true spirit differentiates like a reflection in a mirror or the moon in the water, reflecting a thousand faces, all of which are the true self, just like a thousand rivers with water and a thousand rivers with the moon, ten thousand miles of cloudless sky."

Therefore, we are all merely the Supreme Celestial Venerable's breath, thought, anger, and joy; we are simply one entity with many facets. How can there be a distinction between you and me? Therefore, I am the Supreme, and so is Weiyun, and all those remnants of the Supreme's blood are also the Supreme—Xiao Rui, do you truly believe that what awakens within that body in the Garden of Truth is more 'like' the Supreme Celestial Venerable than your teacher or Xiaoyun?

Lin Rui first frowned deeply, then seemed to be thinking: "Does Master mean that whoever among you controls all the power of the Supreme One is the main body of the Supreme True Spirit, and is the true Supreme Heavenly Venerable?"

“Indeed!” Luo Wangshu smiled slightly: “It is only in the last six months that I have gradually come to understand this principle. The Supreme True Spirit has not yet gathered, like scattered sand covering the fields, like a spark igniting a prairie fire. Even that thing on the Garden of Truth is nothing more than a phantom pieced together from fragments and incomplete chapters—”

Don't forget the path I cultivate, the 'Mind-Only, Self-Only,' which is to take my heart as heaven and earth, and to determine the universe with my thoughts! If at this moment I were willing to use my body as a furnace, my soul as a catalyst, to gather all things into one, then I would be the one who can build a tower from sand, the one who can gather fire to create the sun.

At that time, she will be both Luo Wangshu and the Supreme Celestial Venerable!
Upon hearing this, Meng Weiyun was filled with confusion and bewilderment, wondering what her master meant. Could it be that she wanted to replace the Supreme Celestial Venerable? That was too crazy, too terrifying.

Lin Rui also gasped, realizing that his master was probably still his master, unchanged.

He also sensed his master's lofty ambition, truly befitting someone who cultivates the path of 'idealism and self-realization'.

But is Master's statement too presumptuous? What kind of powerful being was the ancient Supreme Celestial Venerable? Can Master truly become the main body of the Supreme True Spirit as he says?

Lin Rui's expression was cold and stern: "Master is far too arrogant. The Supreme Celestial Venerable roamed the ancient times and suppressed all the gods. How could your 'self-centered' path, which has not yet reached the divine level, replace and dominate it? Even if you can fuse with a part of the true spirit, you will only become a wisp of her soul. Just like rivers flowing into the sea, they will eventually return to their origin."

The serene power emanating from his fingertips grew even more powerful: "This disciple would rather you be alive and well now than see you merge into the Supreme Being."

Luo Wangshu sighed softly. She knew it would be like this, which was why she had to keep it a secret from Lin Rui, secretly cultivating more of the Supreme Bloodline to strengthen the concept of truth to a higher level. "Little Rui Rui, do you like me? Do you like Luo Wangshu? And do you like Wei Yun? Don't you want us to become someone else?"

Lin Rui's fingers trembled violently, and the aura of the power of purity suddenly became disordered.

"Master?!"

His expression instantly returned to its cold sternness, his eyes as calm as an abyss: "This isn't a matter of liking or disliking, nor is it relevant to the present moment."

Meng Weiyun was stunned again, carefully observing Lin Rui's expression and reaction.

She felt a mix of emotions, including a little bit of secret joy.

Luo Wangshu chuckled again, and as usual, pinched Lin Rui's ear.

The tips of his ears were slightly red. As the Lord of Light, the one worshipped by hundreds of billions of people in the Abyss of Heaven, it was truly rare for him to lose his composure like this for them.

Luo Wangshu's silver hair flew wildly, and the True God Mark in his eyes suddenly burst forth with a dazzling silver light: "Little Rui Rui, you underestimate your master too much. Rivers flowing into the sea? No, what I will become is the Void that devours the heavens and seas! No matter how strong the Supreme Celestial Venerable is, he is nothing but a phantom of the past, while I, Luo Wangshu—"

I possess seventy percent of the Supreme Heavenly Venerable's bloodline and have absorbed the essence of Heavenly Demon technology. After a century of dedicated cultivation, I have attained enlightenment through the principle of "only the mind, only the self." My heart is the Heavenly Dao, and my thoughts are the laws. This world was originally meant to flow within the lines of my palm. From this day forward, there will only be one Supreme Heavenly Venerable in this world, and that is me, Luo Wangshu!

She looked up at the Garden of Truth, her silver hair dancing wildly like flames, and the divine runes of truth spreading across her body like living things: "Moreover, look closely, is that the Supreme Celestial Venerable truly in the Garden of Truth?"

Lin Rui stared intently, then his gaze sharpened.

He saw that although the form of the 'Supreme Celestial Venerable' above the Garden of Truth was mostly solidified, it faintly exuded a strange aura. The silver hair that fell like stars was now mixed with a few strands of dark red lines, as if it had been eroded by some kind of power.

Beneath her gilded black robe, her body was shrouded in wisps of dark purple patterns that occasionally flashed through the silver light particles, spreading like a spider web beneath her skin, completely at odds with the pure primal power that should have been present.

The past and future reflected in her eyes were also shrouded in a chaotic shadow, sometimes distorted, sometimes broken.

Even more unsettling was the fact that fine cracks appeared at the junction of the yin and yang fish of the yin-yang symbol that unfolded beneath her feet. Dark golden liquid seeped from the cracks, like contaminated blood, slowly eroding the entire pattern.

With each breath she took, the surrounding space trembled, but the tremors were mixed with discordant fluctuations, as if the source was connecting with reality through her and permeating her existence in reverse.

"This is?"

Lin Rui felt a slight unease, but was not surprised at all.

He had always believed that this 'Garden of Truth' harbored a huge conspiracy, and had long ago laid out plans and had countermeasures in place.

“I don’t know what happened in ancient times, but judging from the ancient documents and murals you’ve unearthed, as well as the current situation, that Lord of Destiny is clearly up to no good.”

Luo Wangshu's silver hair flew wildly, her eyes flashing like lightning: "If I do not defy this destiny, this world will eventually be devoured by the Root, and all living beings will lose their true selves. Little Rui Rui, do you think I am merely vying for the Supreme Being? No, I am vying for the last chance of survival for billions of living beings in this Celestial World! Who else but me can withstand this calamity?"

However, at this moment, the primordial aura emanating from the 'Supreme Celestial Venerable' had already alerted and enraged all the abysses.

The Undying Dragon Lord, who had been targeting the Eastern Abyss, was the first to attack. His ten-thousand-meter-long dragon body coiled like a mountain range, and the dragon horn on his forehead slashed down like a heavenly blade, carrying the dual concepts of 'shattering' and 'undying', directly striking the top of the 'Supreme Celestial Lord's' head. This attack caused the space around the 'Supreme Celestial Lord' to collapse inch by inch, revealing pitch-black void rifts.

The 'Spiritual Void Dragon' of the Western Abyss also transformed into a twisted shadow, its mouth wide open, and the power of nothingness surged out like a tide. Wherever it passed, it not only erased the Supreme Blood Remnant in the Garden of Truth, but also eroded and dissolved the conceptual aura around the Supreme Celestial Venerable, as if it wanted to completely erase the 'fact' of her existence from this world.

The two cosmic dragons intertwined and roared, the clock gears on the black dragon's scales spinning wildly, and the white dragon's void bone spears raining down like a storm. Time formed a chaotic vortex around the Supreme Celestial Venerable, her movements sometimes frozen, sometimes accelerated, even the trajectory of her flowing silver hair became fragmented.

The Devouring Celestial Venerable's 'Spiritual Devouring Dragon' was the most ferocious, its body collapsing like a black hole, its fangs wreathed in the newly acquired 'Extinction' technique. With each bite, the Supreme Celestial Venerable's gilded robe ignited with eerie blue flames, and those silver particles were 'burned' into nothingness.

The Lord of Darkness did not arrive in person, but countless tentacles emerged from the shadows of the divine palace, each dripping with the poison of eternal silence that freezes the soul. They entwined the Supreme Celestial Venerable's feet like thorns, attempting to drag her into the abyss of eternal darkness.

The attack from the Celestial Venerable of Dreams was the most unpredictable. Suddenly, seven-colored bubbles appeared in the Celestial Venerable of Dreams' silver hair, each bubble reflecting a distorted memory illusion. Her left eye's 'past' was forcibly altered, while her right eye's 'future' showed a terrifying image of her body being completely corrupted by the Root.

Even Wei Fan, the divine mechanical angel recently subdued by Lin Rui, unfurled his three-thousand-mile-long mechanical bone wings. One hundred thousand gilded runes fell from his wings and combined in the void to form a massive 'Divine Rune Restriction Array,' which descended like an iron cage, locking down the space above the Garden of Truth.

Wei Fan's eyes were filled with intense shock and anger.

The gods' defense against the source is almost instinctive, and even He is no exception.

Even as the heavens and earth crumbled, the Supreme Celestial Venerable remained standing in the center, completely unmoved.

The cracks in the Tai Chi diagram beneath her feet were multiplying, and the dark gold pollution had already eroded more than half of it. The aftershocks of the gods' attack tore a thousand miles of ravines into the land of Luojing, but she smiled ironically with a slight upturn of her lips.

Lin Rui felt that this smile was seven parts similar to Luo Wangshu's.

"In vain."

The mere casual remark of "Supreme Celestial Venerable" halted the offensive of all the Abyss and War Dragons.

Her blood-stained silver hair suddenly grew wildly, and like a reversed galaxy, it instantly shredded the Spirit Devouring Dragon at the forefront into countless points of ghostly blue light!

(End of this chapter)