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Chapter 501 The Resentful Monarch
Chapter 509 The Resentful Monarch
Ling Shu's delicate body trembled slightly, her beautiful eyes filled with shock and...despair.

The truth is far too cruel.

Their beliefs, which they had upheld for countless eons, seemed like a joke at this moment.

They are not heroes who protect the world, but just a group of pathetic ants trying to plug the leak in a soap bubble that is about to burst.

Only Daoxu remained unmoved.

Because he had already "seen" all of this.

What the lampkeeper said merely confirmed his "observation".

"And what is that tower?" Daoxu asked again.

The lamplighter took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the pounding in his heart. With a flick of his finger, a tiny, almost invisible "point of light" appeared on the "real" star map.

This point of light is neither within that enormous "bubble" nor above the "Black Coast".

It hovers between the two, in an extremely delicate position.

“This is us,” the lamplighter said, pointing to the point of light, “or rather, this ‘Tower of Light’.”

"It is called the 'Boundary Tower,' but it also has an older name, the 'Last Coordinate.'"

"It is the last relic left behind by the previous 'bubble' before it completely shattered."

“The last one… was just a bubble?” Ling Shu exclaimed.

“That’s right.” The Lantern Keeper smiled bitterly. “Before our ‘world’ was born, there were other ‘worlds’. They, too, were born, shone brightly, and then… were ‘digested’, just like us. And the inheritors of that era, in their final despair, poured out the last strength of their civilization to build this ‘World-Suppressing Tower’ and shot it out of the ‘bubble’.”

"Its purpose is neither to fight nor to protect."

"It's 'positioning'."

"It is like a nail, firmly embedded in the dimension of 'reality.' It proclaims the existence of an 'absolute coordinate' to the entire chaotic sea. As long as it exists, it means that the concept of 'existence' has not been completely erased, nor has it completely slid into the abyss of that 'king's' dream."

"The three of us were guardians who strayed into this place nine eras ago while chasing a Queen of the Void. We should have been swallowed up by the distorted spacetime, but we were attracted by the beacon of this tower and eventually became its new 'lamplighters'."

“We are here, using our own great path as ‘fuel’ to keep this tower running, so that this ‘last coordinate’ will not be extinguished.”

After the lamplighter finished speaking, the entire little world fell into a deathly silence.

The truth was so heavy that it almost suffocated Cangya and Lingshu.

Dao Xu, however, extracted key information from these words.

"Is the fuel... almost gone?" he asked.

The lamplighter was startled. He looked at Dao Xu in disbelief, as if he had never expected that the other party could see through their greatest predicament in an instant.

He nodded bitterly: "Yes. The burning of nine eras has exhausted ninety-nine percent of our origin. This 'Suppressing World Tower' can, at most... hold on for another instant."

A single instant, for beings at their level, could be a thousand years or ten thousand years.

But ultimately, it has an end.

“Once the Town Tower is extinguished, this ‘last coordinate’ will disappear. Our ‘world,’ that enormous ‘bubble,’ will lose its last ‘anchor.’ Its rate of sinking and shattering will accelerate by more than ten thousand times.”

"At that time, the protection of the torch will become meaningless."

"Everything will come to an end."

A deep plea was evident in the lamplighter's eyes.

"Lord Daoxu, you are the first being in countless eras to be able to freely walk in this forbidden zone and come to the tower. Your 'Dao' has transcended the limitations of 'illusion' and touched upon a deeper 'reality'."

"You are our only hope."

"We need you to find new 'fuel' for this tower."

"What fuel?" Daoxu's answer remained concise.

“‘The Primordial Core’,” the Lamp Keeper uttered an unfamiliar name. “It is one of the most fundamental ‘foundations’ that constitute our ‘bubble’ world. At the beginning of the world’s birth, there were three ‘Primordial Cores’, which together formed the stable structure of ‘existence’.”

"One of them transformed into the origin of the 'flame,' representing 'order' and 'continuity.'"

"The other one, over the long years, was corrupted by the Ruins of Return and degenerated into the 'Source of the Ruins of Return,' representing 'chaos' and 'the end.'"

"And the last one..."

A complex look flashed in the lamplighter's eyes.

"It represents 'change' and 'possibility.' It has no fixed form or fixed attributes. It lies dormant in the deepest part of the dam, in that 'unknown land' that even we cannot explore."

"Find it, bring it back, and integrate it into the Town Tower. Then the tower can be reignited. And our world can gain more time."

"Time..." Dao Xu's eyes flickered slightly.

He remembered the sleeping "king" on that throne.

Perhaps what they lack most, and what they can only strive for, is "time".

We must strive to have the qualification to "look into the eye" of that "King" before he truly "awakens".

"Where is the unknown land?" Daoxu asked.

Just as the lamplighter was about to answer, his expression, as well as that of Cangya and Lingshu, changed drastically at the same time!
boom! ! ! !

The entire town's boundary tower experienced an unprecedented and violent tremor!
Inside the tower, in that peaceful little world, the light curtain in the sky began to flicker wildly, as if it might shatter at any moment!
"Oh no!" the lamplighter cried out in horror. "It's 'them'! They've discovered this place!"

"How is this possible!" Cangya roared, grabbing the giant stone axe behind him, his fighting spirit surging. "The Town-Suppressing Tower has the ability to shield 'coordinates,' those 'shadows' couldn't possibly have discovered us!"

"It's...it's him!" Ling Shu's intelligent eyes were now filled with terror as she stared intently at Dao Xu. "It's not that the tower has been discovered! It's that they're following Lord Dao Xu's 'traces'!"

Daoxu, a "variable" that does not belong to the category of "bubble".

His appearance was like lighting a torch in the darkest night, a torch that even the "King's" dreams could not completely obscure!
He brought "hope" to the lamplighters, but also the most terrifying "disaster" to this last refuge!
Dao Xu slowly turned around, his chaotic eyes piercing through the light barrier of the Town-Suppressing Tower, gazing at the distorted spacetime outside.

there.

An indescribable "huge shadow" is slowly "permeating" from the foundation of "existence".

It has no fixed form.

At times, it transforms into a pitch-black ocean formed from pure "malice".

At times, it transforms into a single, icy vertical pupil, blotting out the sky and composed of the "despair" of countless shattered worlds.

Its aura was billions of times more terrifying than any other creature from the Dao Ruins that had encountered before. That "malice" was so pure, so condensed, as if it were the very embodiment of the concept of "malice."

“It’s…it’s one of the seventy-two ‘Ink Shadow Monarchs’ under the ‘King’s’ throne!” The Lamp Keeper’s voice trembled with despair. “It’s the ‘Monarch of Hatred’! Damn it, how could it be it! Its rank is high enough to be among the top ten of all the monarchs!”

The mere wisp of aura emanating from that "vengeful monarch" caused the distorted spacetime outside to become even more violent and chaotic.

Countless fragments of spacetime, eroded by its aura, uttered mournful cries of unbearable burden, and then completely "dissolved," transforming into the purest "nothingness."

It is "clearing out".

It is announcing its arrival with an air of supreme dominance.

It has only one goal.

That is, the "anomaly" who dared to spy on the "King's" slumber and escape from the "King's" will.

The light of the Town-Suppressing Tower is dimming rapidly under the pressure of its aura.

Cracks have begun to appear in the world inside the tower.

The earth was cracking, the streams were drying up, and the cranes were letting out terrified cries as their bodies were slowly turning into dust.

“It’s over…it’s all over…” Cangya’s hand, gripping the giant axe, trembled slightly. He wasn’t afraid; rather, he felt a profound sense of powerlessness in the face of such an absolute disparity in strength.

This is not an enemy they can fight.

Let alone now that they are exhausted, even in their prime, facing a "Shadow Monarch", they would only be instantly annihilated.

However, it was precisely in this despair that...

Daoxu has moved.

He did not go to see the three lamplighters who had fallen into despair.

He simply and calmly raised his right hand.

On his unchanging face, in his chaotic eyes, the newly born "fighting spirit" seemed to find an outlet at this moment, and it burst into flames!
He couldn't directly challenge that "King".

But His "watchdog" has come to his doorstep.

Then let's kill him first and talk about it later.

Dao Xu's figure disappeared from the spot.

In the next instant, he appeared outside the Town Tower, facing the terrifying "Lord of Hatred" who was slowly descending.

He stood alone before that final "coordinate".

Inside the tower, the three lamplighters, through the crumbling light barrier, witnessed a scene they would never forget.

Before that "Lord of Hatred," a figure powerful enough to make an entire era tremble.

That lonely figure appeared so small.

So insignificant, like a speck of dust.

But it was this very "dust" that emitted a supreme radiance that even the monarch's "resentment" could not conceal!
"road……"

A voice, indistinguishable in gender yet containing the ultimate truths of the universe, slowly emerged from Dao Xu's mouth.

"...where...is...located".

Boom! ! ! !
At this moment, the entire restricted area of ​​the boundary sea dike, all the "laws" and all the "principles," began to be reconstructed, with Daoxu as the center!

As those four words fell, the whole world seemed to be put on pause.

No, it's not paused.

Instead, it was "rewritten".

Taking Daoxu as the origin and his will, which seemed to contain the laws of heaven, as the brushstroke, a supreme "reason" and an absolute "order" swept out wildly in all directions like a silent cosmic storm!
The "space" that had been twisted into a pretzel was forcibly "smoothed out" by this storm, restoring its original flatness and vastness.

The "time" that surged like a waterfall and solidified like amber was forcibly "unified" under this storm, restoring its most constant flow rate.

The "Blade of Time" on the left, compressed from the Milky Way, had countless stars that were born and died in a cycle. At this moment, all of them were frozen in time. Then, the blade disintegrated inch by inch, turning into the purest spatial dust. The light and shadow of those stars disappeared into nothingness, like illusions blown away by the wind.

The fragment of the dam on the right, trapped in the "eternal present," had its "repetition" state broken. The ferocious beast of the void, which had been holding its claw raised, was instantly erased from existence without even being able to roar upon regaining its freedom, under the "correct" rules of time and space, because it should never have been here in the first place.

The mirages of the "past" and "future" melt away rapidly, like ice and snow under the blazing sun.

In just a few breaths, this distorted corridor, already raging to the extreme and polluted by the aura of the "Lord of Hatred," was actually "calibrated" into a... absolutely silent, absolutely normal void!
This is a realm of "Tao"!

Here, Daoxu is the only truth!
Inside the tower, Cangya's knuckles were white from gripping the giant axe too tightly. The violence and anxiety on his face had been completely replaced by a kind of stunned shock.

"What...what kind of power is this?" he murmured, his voice hoarse. "He didn't use any magic...he just...said a sentence..."

“No, he’s not casting a spell.” In Ling Shu’s beautiful eyes, the light of wisdom had transformed into a raging storm. Her delicate body trembled slightly as she spoke, word by word, “He’s… ‘defining.’ He’s forcibly imposing his own understanding of ‘correctness’ onto this world. Within his domain, anything that doesn’t conform to his ‘understanding’ is ‘false,’ and will be…corrected!”

The lamplighter's usually calm and collected eyes were now churning with emotion. He had seen something much deeper.

Dao Xu's actions, seemingly "purifying" this area, are in essence a kind of "erosion" that is more domineering and unreasonable than the pollution of the "resentful monarch"!
The pollution of resentment towards the monarch is "distortion," turning "normal" into "abnormal."

(End of this chapter)