The portable grandfathers that appear are all problematic.

These are actually blind spots in Xue's Law.

But looking at these two great gods, Xue Dinglu suddenly realized the true nature of the four pillar gods he had summoned, beyond reproduction.

Zeus, the god of courage and strength

Typhon, the god of life and evolution

Poseidon, the god of strategy and courage

Aphrodite, the goddess of love and pleasure

Finally, add the human emperor representing the native empire, the Golden Emperor...

Xue suddenly felt a chill run down his spine. He felt like he had seen this configuration somewhere before, and now he had a very bad feeling.

However, there was no other way. At this time, the four gods of reproduction had become his heroic spirits, and with the pseudo-Heart of the World almost full, two more twisted shadows squeezed in.

This was the most thorough preparation he had made for the final battle. In a world where consciousness was completely dead, power was suppressed, and the Innovation Century and the Insect-Eating Tree could not be directly exerted, this Ji Tou Si was Xue's last trump card.

……

Upon returning to the Judgment Grounds, Xue Lude looked into the distance and indeed sensed the power of a near-5th rank!

This is the pinnacle of power in the normal world. Without using special means or obtaining world authority, being a quasi-5th rank is already the pinnacle of combat power.

Tsk, just as he expected, the other side didn't even bother to act, and went straight for a deus ex machina.

Then let's fight!

After Xue left, he saw the two men looking disheveled.

The real mad viscount and the golden emperor, and for some reason, when the injured golden emperor saw Xue Luding, his vision went black. He had a feeling that he saw four big men with very little clothing behind Xue Luding.

There was even a sense that these four big guys would be his enemies for all eternity.

"What's going on?" Xue Dinglu looked at the two of them.

The Mad Viscount completely ignored the Golden Emperor's gaze towards Xue Luding, and he also felt no pressure from the four layers of heroic spirits. Instead, he immediately shared information with Xue Luding.

"The enemy is a heroic spirit who can summon beasts to fight for him. He was originally very weak, but after fighting us and falling into a disadvantageous position, his combat power instantly skyrocketed at a geometric rate. Now he is already at the level of a demigod. If he continues to grow, I even think that all the beasts he summons will also be at the level of demigods." The Mad Viscount immediately revealed his information.

Xue Dinglu immediately understood. Sure enough, the last enemy was originally just a roadside enemy of about level three, but it was forcibly upgraded to near level five.

But this was already information that Xue Dinglu knew. He had vaguely guessed this part of the situation when he fought the previous skeletal centaur.

Xue even wondered if the other side had already discovered him, this "alien" who was causing trouble, and that the guy who controlled the world's power had reacted by exhaling, thus directly strengthening an existence that was normally unsolvable.

But it is not yet out of his control.

"We need to plan this carefully. That's an enemy that we can't defeat with just a few of us. Take the Golden Emperor beside me, for example. He's the closest thing to a demigod among the heroic spirits, but even he's helpless. We can't win by fighting head-on; we can only outsmart him," the Mad Viscount continued to say to Xue Luding.

"No need, I can handle it," Xue Dinglu said.

Immediately, the Mad Viscount felt a headache coming on. This guy was so stubborn and wouldn't listen to reason. He didn't think Xue Lude was stronger than the Golden Emperor, but the power and stubbornness this unknown guy was showing were giving him a real headache.

Just as the Mad Viscount was about to say something more, the Golden Emperor patted him on the shoulder.

"Trust this gentleman. He is very strong. If he were an enemy, he would be the most terrifying and unsolvable monster. But if he were an ally, I would trust him." The Golden Emperor seemed to see the four big guys behind him through Xue's Law and said.

The Mad Viscount was stunned. This emperor had personally fought against the enemy, and now he believed that Xue Ding could deal with that level of enemy.

Did something go wrong?

The Golden Emperor remained silent, believing not only in Xue's Law, but also in the four heroic spirits behind him.

The Mad Viscount gritted his teeth. He finally understood why this guy, who wasn't particularly outstanding in politics or wisdom, had been chosen as emperor. He possessed terrifying intuition and an unimaginable ability to judge people.

And his judgment of people was even worse than that of the founding emperor whom he had previously looked down upon.

"Alright, I'll trust you this once." The Mad Viscount said, immediately catching up with Xue Dinglu, who had already left, and took out the intelligence he had treasured for many years, saying, "Unknown guy, I'll trust you this time. This is a world secret I've explored, which may be of some help to you."

He immediately recounted his past biological research on the locals, the consistency of their genes, and the distortion of reproductive authority throughout the human empire.

"The world has been deprived of the ability to reproduce. Rather than being united as husband and wife to procreate, everyone is raising the children of 'God.' If 'God' dies, the world will be completely deprived of the ability to reproduce!"

"The gods are dead," Xue Dinglu said calmly.

The Mad Viscount and the Golden Emperor were both taken aback. Perhaps due to their increased charm, they didn't doubt the truth of Xue's words too much, and then asked, "Who did it!"

“My friend,” Xue Dinglu said directly.

At that moment, both of their brains were buzzing, and the "god" observing this place was also experiencing a buzzing sensation...

Upon seeing the intelligence handed over by this heroic spirit, Xue Dinglu confirmed his identity.

It was the identity he had previously used: the Mad Viscount...

So I've been pretending to be him in front of the real person all along...

But now is not the time to dwell on these trivial details. Looking at his research, Xue Dinglu understood why he had the nickname "Mad Viscount".

He doesn't treat others as human beings at all, acting like the most insane scientist, conducting crazy human experiments, and directly kidnapping royal and ducal heirs for reproductive research. It's no wonder he died.

He was only discovered after more than ten members of the royal family had been kidnapped, which shows he was an exceptionally good at hiding his identity.

At the same time, the Mad Viscount's research also proved many of the conjectures of Xue's Law.

As expected, he could only summon the Outer God, who represented reproduction, because reproduction was lacking in this world.

The Ninth Apostle was born on this planet. It is currently unknown what the world was like before His birth, but now that He has been born, He has initiated this grand expedition ceremony in this world, in which both sides become snacks for the Divine Tree.

At the same time, the Ninth Apostle holds the power over the world, just like Zeus who has completed the creation of the world, including the power of procreation.

After the Ninth Apostle died, most of his authority was stripped away, especially the most crucial authority known as procreation, which was rendered ineffective...

The entire world, all living things, have been completely plunged into infertility.

No, according to the Mad Viscount's research, the reproductive authority was also missing. Perhaps it was lost when the Ninth Apostle ascended, or perhaps the reproductive authority was destroyed when the Ninth Apostle fought against the original world consciousness during his ascension.

The reproductive authority subsequently created by the Ninth Apostle was essentially just a clone.

The races in their world do not actually reproduce offspring; they simply reproduce their own clones.

But all individuals, even if they have different outward appearances, have the same core genes.

It's like a world of clones.

Now the power of reproduction has completely disappeared, and the whole world has fallen into a state where the gods are dead, and all living beings can no longer reproduce.

Xue Dinglu closed his eyes. Sure enough, this was the underlying logic behind why he could only summon heroic spirits that represented reproduction.

The so-called Outer God summoning ritual was not created by him. In essence, it was the world that summoned the Outer God through him, an alien, in order to replace the originally missing "reproduction".

Schrödinger's law is merely a medium.

Or perhaps, Xue's Law became a "sacred relic," summoned by this world to be the Outer God it needed most.

The Xue Law's sealing of the four foundations is also correct; if any one of them were to reclaim its place in the power of reproduction, it would bring unimaginable disaster to the entire world.

Zeus is the song of killing and scorching, Typhon will turn everyone into a den of monsters, Poseidon will turn everyone into something monstrous, and when Aphrodite reclaims her power of reproduction, she will turn the whole world into the land of Slaanesh, a place of pleasure and debauchery.

This is fucking a headache...

After the Ninth Apostle died, who held the reins of power in this world? Did He still have his own consciousness?

Xue's Law doesn't know, but based on all the available intelligence, the truth will emerge after the victory of this great expedition.

He has now filled in most of the gaps in the world's intelligence and information; all he needs to do next is...

war!

Chapter 335 Zeus, let's use "insult" on it for the sake of the world!

Xue Dinglu then saw the enemy they had encountered, the barbarian they had spoken of.

Beside him was a beast resembling a giant deer, and above his head was a circling bird of prey. At this moment, he was merely looking at Xue Dinglu from a distance, yet the aura and pressure he exuded were extremely strong and powerful.

Near-5th rank, even the giant deer and the giant eagle have near-5th rank strength.

It's very strong, but everything is within people's expectations.

At this moment, Xue Dinglu even had the mood to ask, "Do you know what exactly that contamination originating from the Heroic Spirit Contract is?"

The Golden Emperor looked completely bewildered, while the Mad Viscount pondered for a moment and said, "A kind of soul?"

"More or less, but your research on the soul is still lacking. It seems to be a humanoid race that integrated into the entire Heroic Spirit Summoning system through specific means before the Heroic Spirit Summoning."

"It's not just that they might appear in the contracts of Heroic Spirits. I even suspect that for humans, they are the ones who enter the contracts to be a burden, while for demons, they are responsible for strengthening those Heroic Spirits, or directly replacing the summoned Heroic Spirits to enhance the overall strength of the demon side," Xue Dinglu said, sharing his research.

At this moment, both the Golden Emperor and the Mad Viscount were stunned again. They suddenly understood what Xue Dinglu was trying to say and said, "You mean, the reason that barbarian and her pet suddenly became stronger is because they were invaded by that kind of pollution?"

"But for the demons, this invasion of pollution means replacing the original heroic spirits, or perhaps their so-called summoned creatures are actually all controlled by those foreign souls that are like the sources of pollution?" the Mad Viscount added.

"Yes, Yellow Weasel, when you first completed the Great Expedition, did your side have any summoning or clone-type Heroic Spirits?" Xue Dinglu looked at the Golden Emperor.

"Are you asking me?" The weathered middle-aged man didn't know when he had acquired the nickname "Weasel," but he was now certain that Xue Lude was calling him, so he had no choice but to answer, "Yes, the Heroic Spirit Shadow Lady that I once summoned was a clone-type Heroic Spirit. She could instantly create nine phantoms... and each phantom possessed a certain amount of the original's strength and could become a physical entity..."

"Even after my great expedition, the Shadow Lady continued to help me govern the country, gather intelligence, and collect information on tribes across the continent. She also taught people how to live in peace and prosperity, how to reproduce and multiply, and how to increase the population as much as possible..."

At this point, the golden emperor was stunned, and a look of horror appeared in his eyes.

Yes, in fact, the greatest contributor to his successful unification of all the tribes on the continent and the establishment of the empire was his former spirit, the Shadow Lady. She was a very talented and resourceful spirit who was like his teacher, teaching him countless things and unifying the entire empire.

Especially with the help of her clone, she successfully completed the basic framework and planning of the entire empire, which led to a booming population.

When he died, the population of the entire continent had recovered from tens of thousands to nearly a million, and now it has even reached a billion.

Just as the Mad Viscount said, he was a completely unqualified politician, let alone a qualified emperor. To be an emperor, one must achieve far beyond the ordinary, and one must have a great will and a very high vision, seeing the future that ordinary people cannot see.

Does this guy, who could only eat tree roots in the mud when he was a child and treated finding a nest of small insects as if it were a delicacy, really have such vision and political acumen to survive in that hellish environment of the demon realm, where just getting enough to eat was a struggle?

No, the initial structure of the entire empire was basically handled entirely by the Shadow Lady. She single-handedly completed all the work required by the highest-ranking rulers. And by the time she grew old, the Shadow Lady had successfully cultivated a large number of truly talented individuals as her successors.

Moreover, the Shadow Lady is not only her teacher, but also her...

lovers!

Could it be that……

"You mean that the Shadow Lady's clone, like the pet summoned by this barbarian, is being secretly controlled by some kind of monster? Or perhaps, the Shadow Lady herself is one of these monsters?" the Golden Emperor immediately asked.

He even felt that his success, the establishment of his empire, and his entire life were all born from the manipulation of something behind the scenes, and that everything about him was the result of their deliberate guidance.

I felt like a puppet on strings, as if I had become their tool.

Xue Dinglu did not reply. He silently took out the pseudo-Heart of the World and handed it to the Golden Emperor.

"Let's see if your spirit is among them," Xue Dinglu asked casually.

The Golden Emperor was completely stunned. He stared blankly as he carefully examined this inferior treasure, which resembled a small world, and saw nearly ten twisted and terrifying soul shadows within it. These were the sources of contamination hidden in the Heroic Spirit Contract.

The Mad Viscount smuggled these sources of pollution into a small snake and then sealed it away, while Xue Luding was even more ruthless, imprisoning them all in this inferior artifact as if he were a centralized command.

He didn't find anything unusual on the first scan, but when he scanned it a second time, he was shocked to find a familiar figure among them. It was one of the many clones of his former Heroic Spirit, the Shadow Lady!

In other words, just as he suspected, his former heroic spirit, as well as the shadow of his teacher, comrade-in-arms, minister, and lover... was actually just a twisted monster...

She even descended upon this great expedition of summoning heroic spirits more than once, and on more than one occasion, she influenced the course of the entire world from behind the scenes...

It's even possible that it wasn't a woman; it might have played any gender.

As for becoming one's teacher and lover, it may just be one of millions of games.

Thinking of this, the Golden Emperor lowered his head silently, his whole body trembling for no reason.

They are like a hidden hand, controlling everything in the world. The victory of the Great Expedition, the establishment of the Empire, and the Empire where everyone can live smoothly under the sky and the sun are all just a game for them!

The Golden Emperor trembled at the thought, his whole being filled with inexplicable... rage!

He was furious, furious beyond measure. After learning part of the truth about the world, he was even angrier than if he had heard that all people in the world have the same genes or that everyone is infertile.

This shows that everything he has done so far in his life has been useless; his entire life has been nothing more than being someone else's toy.

Xue Dinglu retrieved the pseudo-Heart of the World, and he already knew that the Golden Emperor had discovered an acquaintance within it.

These twisted souls they have always ignored may be the true kin of the Ninth Apostle, and this great expedition may be a kind of amusement for them to study, or it may be a reasonable means for them to feed different corpses to the Divine Tree.

Or perhaps it was just a game they were playing.

Those ghosts, those twisted ghosts capable of corrupting anyone, seemed to always float above the world, influencing the world's major processes every hundred years.

Or perhaps, every century they have parasitized and possessed the souls of the victors, thus quietly infiltrating the empire and advancing it for another century.

In the distance, the figure with the wild beast gradually drew closer.

Xue Ludao tossed aside the pseudo-Heart of the World in his hand and smiled as he looked at the near-5th tier enemy.