I, the Rock King Emperor with 21 billion in power, have joined the chat group.

---Such powerful strength, such a beautiful soul!

As he was lost in thought, a clear, crisp voice suddenly rang out.

"A black candle?! A black candle?!!!!"

Upon hearing that familiar voice, Black Candlelight froze for a moment, and then immediately turned around and looked in the direction from which the voice came.

There, a girl with fiery red hair was looking at him with a look of surprise and delight.

The girl had fair skin, rosy cheeks, and a supple body.

A bright red, transparent carp was wrapped around the girl's skin.

"Red Lake?! And a little princess!!"

"You're really still alive, and your body?!?!?!"

"Aaaaaaahh ...

Hahahaha!!!

"I'm so glad to see you again!!"

...

The earth's surface.

In a certain underground cave.

The solid ice sculpture held the body of William, the reserve hero.

A pale golden light curtain spread to this spot, and a particle of light began to drift slowly down.

It circled the ice sculpture twice, but ultimately rushed straight in without a second thought.

Instantly, golden rays of light began to radiate outward from the inside of the ice sculpture.

After a few minutes, the ice sculpture enveloping the reserve hero William began to melt.

His physical injuries gradually disappeared.

Then, in the next second, this reserve hero, who had once sacrificed his life, opened his eyes.

"I...I'm not dead??"

William shook off the ice from his body and asked, looking completely bewildered.

Then, in the next second, he unconsciously remembered the promise he had made, and his expression gradually became firm.

"Wait for me, Elmelia, Daddy is coming back to see you now."

.......

The changes taking place in the world influenced by this golden light curtain and golden particles are all within Zhongli's sight, far beyond the planet.

His expression was calm and indifferent, as if nothing in front of him could affect his emotions, given that one and a half of his body had already been destroyed.

His brain was rapidly calculating and analyzing the weight of the souls of beasts and humans in this world, calculating possible mistakes and the future, and calculating the possibilities belonging to the planet.

Then, finally, the pale gold particles stopped floating around his body.

Zhongli's body, now only a head, remained in space, gazing down at the gray planet below.

At this moment, the golden film had completely covered the planet without a single gap, and the golden light particles began to modify the souls of all the [beasts].

The transformation of this world is nearing its end.

Zhongli, this clone, finally decided to enter the final stage.

His head closed its eyes, letting his senses begin to fall uncontrollably.

Just like when he once learned from a being named Gojo Satoru in the [Spellcasting World].

In the blink of an eye, he plunged his body, now only a head, into the innermost part of this world.

Then, his clone's brain and consciousness immediately began to construct his own matter in the innermost, lowest layer of this world.

---The plan has begun.

Everything started to turn around.

---I will forge my own path and create my own possibilities.

---So, come with me.

----To save countless universes and civilizations.

----From this moment on.

Chapter Thirty-Three: The First Step in the Path Built by Zhongli

The innermost part of the world.

The deepest, most profound depths.

There is a place where time, space, consciousness, soul, and so on do not exist, and cannot even be preserved.

Zhongli's last consciousness descended upon this place.

What he learned from Gojo Satoru in the "World of Spells" played a very important role in Zhongli's life during this period.

This is also the most important part of his plan.

At the deepest part of every world lies its true core.

In the world of sorcery, there exists a tiny, omnipresent [spell power].

In the Spider-Verse, they are the most basic form of life, existing across galaxies.

In this world of seventeen beasts, the essence is the [soul].

In this world, all the superficial aspects of life and death are unimportant; only the soul is the essential existence.

Every existing soul is formed by the combination and interlocking of fragments of the soul.

Besides the Star God's soul being ground down, the souls of other intelligent beings were also ground into tiny fragments at the bottom of the world.

However, compared to the soul fragments of the Star God, even the smallest ones are like grains of sand. Once the soul of an ordinary life is ground up, it will turn into something as basic as molecules or atoms.

They recombine and reconnect with each other, ultimately transforming into a new soul.

From the deepest perspective of the world, the "beast" is an aggregation of souls. A vast number of souls have gathered together, and the basic substance of these almost countless souls constitutes this existence.

That's why they have the characteristics of being immortal, eternal, and everlasting.

"interesting."

At the very bottom of a world where no sound could be heard, Zhongli's voice suddenly began to appear.

Then, the world changed its trajectory, and that soul, which existed only as a head-sized golden particle, carrying Zhongli's consciousness, began to spread throughout this world, to the center of this planet.

The golden light particles gradually extended, just like the light particles in the surface physical world. These particles at the bottom layer also began to envelop the planet.

Click!

The sound of the mirror shattering came again.

It was as if something fixed had been destroyed, as if something that had always been maintained had been shattered.

The world was reshaped at this moment.

A pale golden light sustained the world, transforming into a membrane of light that enveloped everything. After this membrane of light covered the entire planet, it began to change further.

It began to shrink.

The light contracted and gradually transformed into the shape of a large tree.

It is unclear whether this is Zhongli's intention, the intention of the soul of this world itself, or the inevitable form that will appear when the soul fragments of the entire planet are combined.

The colossal tree, radiating a pale golden glow, even broke through the deepest layer of the planet's spiritual dimension and reached the surface.

Then Zhongli's consciousness seeped into the giant tree and began writing a program belonging to the enormous tree.

On the first day, a pale golden light enveloped the planet, and all the beasts and all intelligent life were beneath it.

The sun rises, and its radiance pours in.

A massive amount of sunlight shone upon the planet, but it was all blocked by a pale golden curtain of light.

The entire planet was shrouded in darkness, except for the pale golden light that shone upon it, as if the world had turned into a golden world.

The next day, the light curtain extended, and the original radiance of the sun fell onto the earth's surface.

The pale golden light curtain split into waves of golden rain, which fell from the sky and the heights of the universe.

It fell to the ground, landing on the surface of every one of the seventeen beasts that felt nothing.

The other intelligent life forms also received a wisp of pale golden light.

At the level of the soul, which only a few can see, pale golden particles of light transformed into tiny light curtains that enveloped the souls, distinguishing the differences between each existing soul.

That heavy, separate entity merges into the bottom layer of the world; that clear, integrated entity merges into the individual's soul.

This is to separate the pure from the impure, and to distinguish the useful from the useless of the soul.

On the third day, pale golden particles of light began to gather at the bottom of the world, and layers of pale golden lakes of souls gathered on the giant golden tree.

Beyond these converging golden lakes, the scattered souls on the innermost parts of other planets gradually become scarce.

This land, once rich, has been transformed into a lake, providing a habitat for humankind.

On the surface of the world, the sandstorm gradually subsided. An icy comet from outer space was captured by the pale golden light curtain outside the planet and then melted into water vapor that spread throughout the planet, beginning to form rainfall.

Then, the green plants that had almost disappeared long ago began to cover the earth again, as if time had sped up.

On the fourth day, all the beasts and intelligent life forms on the earth's surface, enveloped in golden particles of light, fell into a deep slumber.

The plants began to grow wildly, and the rainfall formed lakes where they grew.

The microorganisms that originally belonged to this planet in the lake began to evolve and develop rapidly.

The pale golden curtain of light above the sky gradually thinned, and the whole world was once again illuminated by real sunlight.

The moon's orbit returned to normal, and the forces of tides began to affect the planet.

On the fifth day, at the bottom of the world, the golden giant tree began its work.