Dragon Tribulation of All Realms

Chapter 396 - No Longer Fate
"I have completed the task."

Wu Chen stood in space, strolling across the moon, now gravitationally unstable due to the disappearance of Earth. His pure silver spread beneath his feet with each step, visibly coloring the moon with his light.

The Earth is already in his annihilation.

Earth has already broken free from the conventional coordinates of this universe.

When he finished, he found that the unstable spaces that appeared in every corner of the earth had been completely corrected and filled. The possibility of the birth of otherworldly projections had been completely eliminated.

No new gates will ever be born on Earth again, as long as it neither escapes annihilation nor returns to the ordinary universe. His promise to himself has thus been fulfilled. And his theory of origins has provided him with immense resources.

The demon god's growth progressed dramatically as a result. The demon god, who had previously only managed to swallow the Earth with the help of willpower, could now easily contain even the moon. And when his footsteps reached every point on the moon, and his silvery radiance engulfed every region of its surface, this satellite of Earth would belong to him.

His annihilation domain thus expanded dramatically.

The expansion is so great that the moon will be placed hundreds of thousands of kilometers away from Earth, just as it has always been.

Earth once again possessed tidal forces. Of course, before that, many scholars whose worldviews had been shattered had been driven to suicide—which, of course, meant nothing to him. For all life and death on Earth was now under his control.

He is no longer the Grim Reaper.

He is simply a 'god'.

He looks down upon and observes everything on Earth, yet he does not interfere with the planet except by responding to prayers. Whether the people on Earth believe or hate, worship or resist, it is all the same to him.

His witch returned to his side.

"My lord, what do you plan to do next?" she asked Wu Chen.

“Make the bottle bigger, until it can hold everything,” Wu Chen replied.

The Annihilation Domain in his hand transformed into a bottle, which he then placed on his belt. The solar system experienced a degree of gravitational disturbance due to Earth's disappearance. However, these slight ripples quickly subsided as the galaxy adjusted itself.

Earth's proportion in the solar system is ultimately too small. Three parts per million is neither significant nor negligible. This star system quickly adapted to the absence of the Earth-Moon system, and its eventual evolutionary trajectory is almost identical to its initial one.

The problem is not big.

Wu Chen knew he still had plenty of energy left to grow.

Before long, he will be able to contain the entire solar system in a narrow sense within the bottle. And after some time, perhaps he will be able to contain the solar system in a broader sense as well.

That time is even destined to be earlier than the point at which Voyager 1 leaves the general solar system. And once that day happens, what difference does it make whether Earth is inside or outside the bottle?
Wu Chen felt the difference wasn't significant. Therefore, it shouldn't be significant. As long as the speed at which humanity expands the boundaries of its understanding can't keep up with the speed at which he enlarges the bottle, then human civilization, as in the past, will not encounter any obstacles in its growth.

—I feel I have done everything I could to be kind and righteous.

He convinced himself that it was indeed a strong argument.

And so, at that very moment, the little sense of responsibility and belonging he had for human civilization as a whole, which he had acquired through his past education, was completely exhausted.

He has done what he was supposed to do.

This planet has done him no more favors that he can repay.

The Dragon Catastrophe had ended, and his influence had neither been deliberately concealed nor expanded. In his eyes, this azure star had finally become a celestial body not significantly different from other planets or other worlds. And his gaze no longer lingered on this planet.

God is always like this. Since He governs everything, He doesn't favor any side. Perhaps in the distant future, one day, everything in the entire observable universe will be contained in His annihilation vial. And at that moment, perhaps He will unhesitatingly discard the vial, offering oblivion and freedom as the final gift to all the civilizations placed within.

That time may not be so far away.

Beside him, his priestess asked him in a soft voice.

"But how are you going to do that?"

How can this be done?
How can the Annihilation Realm be allowed to continue to expand, bringing more resources under its control?
The answer is simple: just start eating. If you can devour a star, wouldn't all the remaining problems be easily solved?
"Do it this way."

Wu Chen gazed at the sun before him, a smile gradually appearing on his lips. His body dissolved into the silvery radiance, and within this boiling silver light, it rapidly expanded.

He had already swallowed the entire Earth-Moon system. So at this moment, he already possessed the size corresponding to the Earth-Moon system. A silver behemoth, still tiny in the face of the sun but already comparable in size to a planet, gradually took shape, and finally manifested as a long, winding snake.

A pure silver snake.

A pure silver snake can swallow an elephant.

He didn't particularly like this form, but it was the most efficient at devouring. And soon, many stars in the solar system disappeared one by one. Until one day, it could finally tear at the sun with all its might.

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Time on Earth flowed silently for a full hundred years. And the Earth a hundred years from now is not actually that different from the Earth a hundred years ago.

Humans remain the most intelligent of all beings. Humans continue to fight and kill one another.

Humans still look up at the stars and down at the earth. On this day, an exploration ship returning from outer space brought back intelligence that the world wanted to know.

"We have the data; the sun does indeed exist! The so-called 'sun map theory' is a complete lie. Our human world is still incredibly vast!"

The bureaucrats on the screen exclaimed excitedly, and the crew on the exploration ship received countless applause and flowers. Many were disheartened and frustrated, while others were filled with pride. And all of this was under the watchful eye of the One and Only God.

The gods know.

God doesn't care.

God stands in front of two adjacent tombstones.

He stared at the two tombstones for a long time, then nodded toward them. He had already resurrected them once, and this time, he didn't intend for them to remember him.

"In this way, the debts of gratitude for giving birth and raising will be fully repaid."

Wu Chen waved his hand, and the inscription on the tombstone blurred, releasing the soul beneath it. These two, connected to him by blood, were thus granted a third chance to live on Earth.

He would never look back. Even if they managed to get a fourth chance, the reason would inevitably be something else. And his priestess would always follow behind him, waiting for his next command.

“My Lord, what do you want to do next?” she asked.

And he answered.

“Go to another place,” he said. “There, I will become king.”

(End of this chapter)