Section 045: Three thousand children can slay gods! Crimson Gold achieves [Twilight of the Gods]!-Começando como um bebê, cultivando o Dao e tornando-se um Lorde(Brisa que desperta da embriaguez)

"That is definitely enough. The upper limit of a Mountain-Realm cultivator's battle potential is only ten million points of vital energy. Even if the Nightmare Grudge Mother is a deity, its total energy pool will not exceed one hundred million points..."

"Three thousand origami toddlers are more than enough to kill it. Next... I just need to quietly wait for the Nightmare Grudge Mother to reveal a flaw."

"The flaw will arrive very soon. It is evolving, and before long, it will surely reach a critical moment. That will be the time of its death."

The Nightmare Grudge Mother had no idea that a little child had already meticulously arranged its fate.

This child, crawling like a gecko, inched forward toward the flesh-and-blood nest bit by bit.

Invisibility + Feigned Death Trick + Coercion Simulation and a series of other miraculous skills allowed Xu Ran to transform into an utterly ordinary, completely unnoticeable, invisible Ghoul-Hag.

Even when the Nightmare Grudge Mother's spiritual power swept through every ten minutes, it still failed to detect Xu Ran's presence.

"It really is cautious... Any other cultivator who sneaked in here would have been discovered... But who told me to be self-disciplined from the very first day I was born, grinding out a dozen divine skills?"

"Heh, I was born simply to disgust you."

Xu Ran smiled faintly.

Of course, he only despised the Nightmare Grudge Mother strategically.

In reality, his heart was pounding wildly out of sheer anxiety. Without his insane self-discipline, he would never have found a way to break the deadlock today.

Fortunately, he had not failed himself—on the 2,328th day after his birth, he was already attempting to slay a deity!

"However... do all my divine skills seem tailored specifically for slaying deities?"

"Especially Origami Psychometry, which seems born explicitly to slaughter spectral entities."

"This shouldn't be a coincidence. There must be some special reason causing my miraculous skills to have such specific targets, and causing me to practice fanatical self-discipline from the very first day of my birth, unwilling to rest even for a single day."

Amidst his murmurs to himself.

It was as if some sort of answer welled up deep within Xu Ran's heart. Of course, this answer was neither clear nor complete, and would require future verification.

"Hmm?"

Just as he was waiting aimlessly.

Xu Ran's gaze suddenly sharpened as he glanced at the Nightmare Grudge Mother.

Within the flesh-and-blood nest, the Nightmare Grudge Mother abruptly began to emit a rhythmic heartbeat.

Each beat of the heart sounded like a battle drum.

Dense clusters of purple-green points of light, resembling fireflies, swarmed in from all directions and gathered around the Nightmare Grudge Mother!

The purple-green fireflies dissolved together, viscous like petroleum, resembling corpse water radiating radioactivity. They wrapped around the Nightmare Grudge Mother, constructing a bizarre cocoon of light that ceaselessly emitted "purple-green radiation," while purple-green "liquid" dripped constantly, inducing dizziness.

"Heh, has it reached the critical moment of evolution?"

From the perspective transmitted by Worker Bee Number One, the life level of the Nightmare Grudge Mother was climbing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

So much so that even the dull-witted infant zombies gained a hint of intelligence, slowly floating toward the Nightmare Grudge Mother and clinging to its body to form a "shield."

"Mother... Protect Mother..."

The shrill cries of the infants were imbued with a bizarre, magical quality that induced nausea and revulsion.

Xu Ran collected his focus, driving the three thousand origami toddlers to slowly approach the Nightmare Grudge Mother and cling to its body: "Mother... Protect Mother..."

The Nightmare Grudge Mother had no suspicions whatsoever: "Good, good, good, protect me... I am about to become a god!"

"You... shall live forever and experience eternal bliss within my divine kingdom."

The Nightmare Grudge Mother emitted a laugh—a laugh paranoid and maniacal, brimming with a joy originating from the deepest depths of its soul.

"Hilarious."

Xu Ran remained expressionless, his mind intently sensing the three thousand origami figures. When every single piece of origami clung to the Nightmare Grudge Mother, making zero-distance contact with it...

Deep underground where one could not see one's own hand, Xu Ran, still in his invisible state, abruptly opened his eyes, revealing an overwhelmingly nuclear-wholesome smile.

"Make a move!"

With a single thought, the arms of the three thousand origami toddlers transformed into pitch-black blades in an instant, and then, in unison, they slashed forward!

The three thousand origami toddlers viciously carved and chopped at the main body of the Nightmare Grudge Mother.

A year ago, second-sequence Origami Psychometry could instantly slay a deep-blue high-level Ghoul-Hag with a single strike.

A year later, the origami skill had advanced to the third sequence, and its restraining power and lethality against spectral entities had increased a hundredfold.

The cocoon of light was sliced open, and thousands of crisscrossing wounds appeared on the main body of the Nightmare Grudge Mother, from which viscous, eerie petroleum flowed...

The Nightmare Grudge Mother: "...???"

It felt pain, but it did not take it to heart.

At this exact moment, it was at the critical juncture of evolution. Wasn't a little bit of pain completely normal?

These were the birth pangs of evolving into a deity.

Throughout the entire universe, there had never been painless abortions, nor painless cocoon-breaking deity-transformations!

Since it was breaking its cocoon to become a god, it ought to endure extraordinary pain.

Let the pain come more fiercely!

Achieve nirvana and ascend through the throes of birth! Hehe! Hehe!

"Huh? No reaction at all?"

Xu Ran's heart sank to the bottom. Before implementing the plan, he had rehearsed it in his mind a hundred times and considered countless possibilities.

Yet he never expected that the Nightmare Grudge Mother would act as if nothing had happened, not only completely unaffected, but even emitting triumphant, confident, and joyful laughter.

"Could my plan be about to fail?"

Xu Ran furrowed his brows.

He drove his willpower fiercely!

No matter what, even if it fails, I'll strip a layer of skin off you!

Thus, in an instant, the three thousand origami toddlers savagely tore open the skin and flesh of the Nightmare Grudge Mother, transforming into bizarre vampires crazily devouring the ghost energy within its body!

Violent devouring!

The ghost energy within the main body of the Nightmare Grudge Mother was pulled out in streams and sucked into the bodies of the origami toddlers.

The bodies of the origami toddlers inflated like balloons at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Under normal circumstances, the devoured ghost energy would be converted into psychometric energy to reinforce the bodies of the origami.

However, Xu Ran gave them no time to digest it at all.

Xu Ran had only a single command: devour fiercely! Devour desperately! Until you explode!

Therefore, the origami toddlers devoured recklessly, expanding to their absolute limits until their bodies became rounded spheres, seemingly on the verge of bursting apart at any second.

All of this happened extremely quickly.

In a mere thirty seconds, the Nightmare Grudge Mother lost thirty million points of vital energy.

The body of the Nightmare Grudge Mother shriveled and shrank, resembling a crumpled cloth bag.

It finally noticed something was amiss: "?????"

What is going on?

The birth pangs of transforming from a cocoon into a god don't seem to be like this. It felt as though it had been pierced into a sieve, with surging power escaping from its wounds.

The next second, the purple-cyan zombie-woman face abruptly opened its eyes!

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"Children... My children... What are you doing?"

"No! You are enemies!"

The Nightmare Grudge Mother was dumbfounded. Never did it expect that its proudest, supposedly invincible, and supposedly absolute control over the toddlers had lost its effect!!

Not only had its absolute invincible ability failed.

It had also been outmaneuvered by three thousand bizarre toddlers who broke through layer after layer of defense to lurk right beside it...

Even worse, these bizarre toddlers were taking advantage of its critical evolutionary moment to frantically devour the energy of its main body using extremely strange abilities.

What on earth were these things?

The Nightmare Grudge Mother had never heard of them, nor had it ever seen them!

It could not understand!

It was consumed by towering rage!

Tens of thousands of infant zombies lunged forward, emitting shrill and eerie cries. The fat granules of the flesh-and-blood matrix also writhed madly, and throughout the entire nest, echoes cascaded layer upon layer, deafening to the ears.

"Swoosh—"

One origami toddler after another was torn by the zombie infants, sustaining huge wounds.

Yet they paid no heed.

They only focused on continuing to cling to the Nightmare Grudge Mother, devouring frantically.

Right from the start, Xu Ran had chosen an all-in combat strategy. There was no retreat for the three thousand toddlers; they did not know what pain was, nor did they know what retreat meant.

At Xu Ran's single command, they clung like leeches to the Nightmare Grudge Mother, devouring against the clock.

The violent devouring by the three thousand origami toddlers was simply too terrifying.

With every passing second, millions of points of vital energy were forcibly sucked out.

The bodies of the origami toddlers swelled further, but their sturdiness also rose correspondingly. The wounds torn open by the zombie infants slowly healed, turning them into even more terrifying spheres.

"Get lost!"

The Nightmare Grudge Mother's voice trembled, fury burning across the zombie-woman face. It was currently at the critical juncture of evolution! Never mind losing tens of millions of vital energy points, even losing a few million would be enough to cause its evolution to fail.

Bizarre purple flames burned fiercely on its main body, and umbilical cords lashed out at the three thousand origami toddlers, wrapping around them like venomous snakes.

The bodies of the three thousand origami toddlers were stained with flames.

Yet what of it?

The three thousand origami toddlers possessed no superfluous consciousness whatsoever. Acting precisely like madmen, they extracted tyrannically and devoured violently. Their bodies, already swollen into spheres to the point where they could expand no further, finally detonated.

"Bang!"

One origami toddler after another burst apart on cue, their fragments rampaging through the nest while clusters of psychometric energy bloomed like fireworks.

The Nightmare Grudge Mother frantically devoured its "own" main body energy.

Yet the very next moment.

It stood dumbfounded, furious and exasperated.

Because it watched in horror as the energy inside the toddlers... had already been tainted?!

That contamination was bizarre and vicious, scorching its soul and causing it excruciating agony.

The Nightmare Grudge Mother was consumed by irrepressible rage.

You bastards!

Bastards!

Utterly despicable bastards!

Someone was actually poisoning it in return?

"Detestable! Hateful!"

The purple-cyan zombie-woman face burned with extreme fury, dense spiderweb-like cracks spreading across the bizarre visage.

The bizarre poison disrupted all of the Nightmare Grudge Mother's preparations.

Realizing that its methods had been compromised, it shrieked madly, the aura over its entire body collapsing wildly inward.

Hehe, it's panicked, it's panicked.

Xu Ran sneered, retreating over a hundred meters back, leaving the Nightmare Grudge Mother to rage impotently.

At this very moment.

Above the city.

Cultivators wore looks of astonishment, lifting their heads.

They saw that high up in the dome, the giant projection that had been taunting them incessantly suddenly trembled violently. The blue-purple zombie-woman face shattered, and angry shrieks rang out across the heavens, yet its fury was utterly useless.

In its fit of rage, it merely threw a tantrum.

It was no longer even possible for it to control the hostages.

Because the dark-green nightmare threads had all snapped completely.

"Abominable!"

Accompanied by the projection's resentful roar, the phantom that had been suffocating the people shattered with a loud crash!

Zhao Ying: "..."

Gao Yuan: "..."

Huang Liang: "..."

"What the heck? Which divine being is this? They actually severed the nightmare threads without a sound?"

The three of them felt their hair stand on end, utterly shocked: "Who was it?"

"How come there is no news at all?"

Huang Liang: "Ping-ge, is that you secretly ascending to godhood?"

Huang Liang looked toward the location of Mount Qiyun, thinking that Ping-ge was indeed fierce.

Invincible!

Simply too invincible.

Meanwhile, atop Mount Qiyun, Mother's hanging heart finally dropped a few notches: "Director, does this mean... my little Ran's plan was successfully executed?"

The Director nodded: "Phew... Yes, it succeeded. The nightmare threads were severed, and the problem that troubled the strongest ones the most has finally been resolved!"

Mother: "Then why hasn't my little Ran woken up yet?"

The Director let out a breath: "Perhaps he'll wake up in a moment. Don't worry, this child's comprehension and innate bone structure—I would dare call it invincible; he'll be fine! This child is too strong!"

Nearby.

Aunt Lu gazed intently at the nightmare threads turning to ashes: "Is this what comprehension and innate bone structure look like? Old Brother Cheng, you've picked up a huge treasure!"

The Director beamed with radiant joy: "Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!"

He did not take up the topic, offered no explanation, and showed no modesty, merely emitting a continuous burst of laughter.

Up above.

Ye Ping, who had been blowing his flute all along, harbored suspicions within: "Didn't they say four hours? How come it's done in just one hour? Good grief, even I was fooled? The plan was executed with such meticulousness? No wonder it succeeded."

As he was deep in thought, Huang Liang's voice came through the communicator: "Ping-ge, is that you secretly ascending to godhood?"

Ye Ping: "Stop talking nonsense for now. Hurry down to the underground. Remember to look carefully before striking. If you see an invisible child, remember to protect his safety!"

Zhao Ying: "Ah? What invisible child?"

Ye Ping: "In short, about 1.4 meters tall, handsome facial features, possessing the ability to become invisible. That is your primary target for protection."

Gao Yuan: "Although I don't understand what you're talking about, we will definitely protect him well."

Zhao Ying: "Let's go, let's go, to the underground! Kill that bastard of a Nightmare Grudge Mother, damn it to hell! I haven't been this stifled even on the front-line battlefield! Forced to act with tied hands and feet, unable to unleash even ten percent of my abilities!"

As they spoke.

Three figures emitting intense battle auras leaped down into the sewer.

At this very moment.

Within the flesh-and-blood nest, all the flesh, all the zombie infants, and even the children it used as human shields had been swallowed into the belly of the Nightmare Grudge Mother, releasing an energy fluctuation that made Xu Ran's heart leap in alarm.

Even from three hundred meters away, Xu Ran felt palpitations, panic, and extreme danger...

Through the perspective of Worker Bee Number One, Xu Ran spotted a bizarre purple eyeball looming in and out of visibility within the main body of the Nightmare Grudge Mother. The purple eyeball, resembling a whirlpool, warped space, distorted vision, bent light, and twisted spiritual power.

Ultimate bizarreness emanated from the purple eyeball.

Had it not been for Xu Ran's purified spirit body + removal of negative emotions, his soul would likely have already been snatched away by the purple eyeball.

Xu Ran wondered: "What is that?"

The exact moment that doubt arose.

The long-awaited prompt tone rang in his mind.

[Achievement Quest]: You have witnessed the birth of a deity, yet due to your disgusting operation, its process of becoming a god was abruptly interrupted.

Did you catch sight of its divine core? That divine core is exceptionally fragile. As long as you disgust the Nightmare Grudge Mother casually and force it to fight desperately, that divine core will become riddled with cracks.

Go ahead and destroy its divine core. Succeed in the destruction, and you will obtain the crimson-gold achievement—[Twilight of the Gods]...