Chapter 638: Shi Ming: I'm Going to Take It All

Chapter 638: Chapter 590: Shi Ming: I’m Going to Take It All

Gimme that!

The consciousness of Three Paths Heaven tried to resist again, but it was forcibly suppressed by thirty million points of Spiritual Power. Coupled with the divine pressure from the Eye of the Divine—an unbearable weight upon its existence—it completely dissipated within the Hundred-Floor Celestial Tower in just a few short seconds.

Three Paths Heaven had perished on its path to becoming an Ancient Evil!

The “loyal” Colorful Insect still had its uses, but the consciousness of Three Paths Heaven no longer had any reason to exist. Obliterating it, keeping its essence while discarding the dregs, was the wisest choice.

‘The two Ancient Evil Sources have been perfectly extracted.’

‘With no combat damage whatsoever.’

Shi Ming blinked.

‘And their original host body, the Colorful Insect, is also sealed within me.’

‘If I use [Gnaw] to create a bug, I can make these two Ancient Evil Sources equate me with the Colorful Insect. There’s a chance they’ll let me use them, let me fuse with them, instead of being like the source of the Flower of Evil Thought, which I could only purify to absorb its power—such a waste.’

Countless gnawing worms emerged from Shi Ming’s pupils.

They roamed between the void and reality, across his Sea of Spirit and his physical body, gnawing into existence a bug that was not yet real. The principle they exploited was quite simple—

Condition 1: The Colorful Insect is inside Shi Ming’s body, which is approximately equal to “the Colorful Insect belongs to Shi Ming.”

Condition 2: The two Ancient Evil Sources originally belonged to the Colorful Insect.

Condition 3: Combining Conditions 1 and 2, it can be inferred that the two Ancient Evil Sources originally belonged to Shi Ming.

A simple principle of ownership made everything fall into place logically.

Only the Colorful Insect, an Aberration sealed away as a tool in another Heaven-Reaching Tower, had the vague feeling of being cuckolded.

Unfortunately, it had been stripped of its ability to perceive the outside world. It didn’t even know how the battle had progressed and could only wait in confusion.

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After the consciousness of Three Paths Heaven dissipated, all the Source Blood it had produced remained on Xiaobai’s body.

Thanks to the unique nature of the Star Spirit Race, Xiaobai’s consciousness had not completely vanished. It had merely been squeezed into a dream bubble, detained within an illusory dreamscape.

As long as the corruption on this body was completely cleansed, her consciousness would slowly return.

Shi Ming’s Right Arm Red Pattern began to absorb the Source Blood remaining on Xiaobai’s body.

This, too, was a great restorative.

The Source Blood could accelerate Shi Ming’s fusion with the two Ancient Evil Sources, acting as a lubricant. When dealing with creatures like Aberrations, one had to devour every last scrap to prevent their return. Unlike the gods of before, who were merely erased on a physical level without their roots being cut, creatures like the Ancient Evils could still regrow.

Using the three conditions, the tens of thousands of gnawing worms continuously searched for a loophole.

Finally, Shi Ming felt the rejection from the Ancient Evil Sources sealed in the tower disappear, replaced by a sense of intimacy based on a blood connection. It was as if they were a part of Shi Ming himself—subordinate to him like his hands, feet, and torso, born from him just like his other Nirvana Sources.

The exploit worked.

The opportunity had arrived!

The Hundred-Floor Celestial Tower came crashing down.

Countless crimson tendrils extended from the outside world into this space, slowly coiling around the two Ancient Evil Sources. They brought a soothing comfort, like that of a parent, and guided the sources toward a homecoming fusion with Shi Ming.

From the surface to the core, from outside to in.

And soothed by the blood connection, neither the source entwined with twisted thorns, [Thorn of Eternal Ruin], nor the rose-shaped source, [Rose of Sin], felt any rejection. The Bicolored Celestial Calamity, another source from the Colorful Insect that already belonged to Shi Ming, acted as the bridge between him and the two Ancient Evil Sources, like the youngest of three brothers intimately introducing his long-lost true father to his two older brothers.

‘Come.’

‘Return to your father’s embrace. This is the place where you were born.’

The Source Blood was consumed drop by drop as nourishment. Within the ancestral land of the Star Spirit Race, with Shi Ming at the center, a great number of thorns and roses grew once more. They grew to form a solid barrier, enveloping Shi Ming within.

“Ancient Evil” was a form of power, but it was also a title, one representing the King of the Aberrations.

At this moment, for the first time, that title was being taken up by a being other than an Aberration.

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On the third day, [Thorn of Eternal Ruin] and [Rose of Sin] established a preliminary connection with Shi Ming through the bridge of Bicolored Celestial Calamity.

On the seventh day, under the gaze of the Eye of the Divine, Shi Ming began to fuse with them.

On the thirteenth day, the fusion proceeded smoothly.

On the twentieth day, the two sources had a rejection reaction with the lingering symbol of Evil Thought Heaven. However, Shi Ming resolved it immediately. Thanks to this opportunity, he completely purged himself of all concrete and abstract connections to the Flower of Evil Thought. From that moment on, the Flower of Evil Thought had nothing more to do with him.

On the twenty-seventh day, [Thorn of Eternal Ruin] and [Rose of Sin] had truly and completely fused with him, just like his current [Gnaw] and [Zero].

Shi Ming now possessed the qualifications to evolve into an Ancient Evil.

Viewed from the outside, Shi Ming—without revealing his Nirvana power from the Star Sea—looked exactly like a sinful Aberration. One of his arms was covered in dark green, thorny vines, while the other bloomed with blood-red roses. These roses covered his Right Arm Red Pattern, losing some of their botanical beauty in exchange for the domineering presence of raw power.

The fusion was complete.

His evolution, however, had stalled.

To become a true Ancient Evil, he needed a sufficient amount of the power of [Suffering] and [Sin]. This was a necessary path for their revival, and the requirements wouldn’t be reduced just because the sources had a new master. Of course, with the unreserved help of other fully-formed Ancient Evils, the time required could be shortened.

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In the Star Sea, a rift was torn into space as if by the sharpest of blades.

A man with features as sharp as swords stepped out from it. Where his body touched the Star Sea, space shattered like glass. He was the ultimate weapon of slaughter; even the stable Dark Cosmos had to yield before his aura of slaughter.

Following the man was a graceful fox-woman.

As she too stepped out of the spatial rift, her eyes first lit up, but then she covered her nose and mouth, unable to hide her look of disgust.

‘The Star Sea is so beautiful.’

‘And yet, I can feel that power I loathe from the depths of my being. Sinful Heaven… he really is hiding here.’

The fox-woman’s power symbolized joy and desire, while Sinful Heaven’s power symbolized sin and suffering. The two were natural opposites. If it weren’t necessary, they wouldn’t have come together in a hundred thousand, or even a million, years.

“Control yourself.”

“A crisis is upon us. The lineage of Evil Thought Heaven has been severed.”

“We must help Sinful Heaven achieve his final evolution in the shortest time possible.”