Chapter 639: Descent

The thirty-first day had arrived.

Shi Ming hovered in a corner of the Star Spirit Race’s ancestral land. Without any reminder from the Eye of the Divine, he felt a stirring in his heart and looked up toward the sky, where countless bubbles were stacked high.

‘They’re here?’

Just as he had seen in his visions, a fissure split open in the sky.

Near the fissure, the ownerless, brilliant bubbles all burst into nothingness. They scattered iridescent dust, but the scene was anything but dreamlike. At that moment, the ancestral land of the Star Spirit Race was like an egg forcibly stabbed with a dagger. Parts of it were violently torn asunder as a tyrannical, murderous aura burst through the opening, rampaging through unchecked and unstoppable.

Immediately after, two figures stepped out from the fissure and into the ancestral land, bringing with them a blazing killing intent and an irrepressible corruption.

One figure’s form was all brutal, hard lines, like a natural-born weapon of slaughter.

The other figure’s gender was indiscernible, but they seemed to be the very incarnation of desire.

Slaughter Heaven, Luxury and Lust Heaven.

They might have new names now, but there was no doubt they were far beyond the likes of the Flower of Evil Thought and Three Paths Heaven. Over the past hundred thousand-plus years, they had absorbed enough power to evolve into true Ancient Evils.

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The instant the ancestral land cracked open, the two Ancient Evils appeared before Shi Ming.

Shi Ming had the chance to study them up close.

The reborn Slaughter Heaven was worthy of his title as the symbol of slaughter and violence. If Shi Ming hadn’t used his thirty million points of Spiritual Power, a mere direct gaze would have been enough to fill his heart with a lust for war, driving him to unleash a massacre and spread blood and death everywhere.

Luxury and Lust Heaven was a different flavor entirely.

Perfection. Temptation.

Unfortunately, the current Shi Ming, bearing the power of Sinful Heaven, was completely immune to this kind of “stereotypical temptation.” He even felt a physical revulsion to it.

Every generation of Sinful Heaven was an artist of suffering. They didn’t resist union; on the contrary, they drew negative emotions and power from it. It was just that the unions of Sinful Heaven often possessed a kind of beauty that only a small fraction of creatures could appreciate—things like love born from a sea of hatred, fatal sadomasochistic affairs, the beauty of a neighbor’s wife, the preferences of Cao Cao… and so on and so forth.

With complete Ancient Evils before him, Shi Ming did not use the power of the Eye of the Divine.

His current identity was that of an incompletely evolved Sinful Heaven. He could not reveal a supreme power from the Star Sea in front of true Ancient Evils. He had to suppress even the slightest sliver of wishful thinking. Only by being a perfect actor could he direct a perfect story.

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The fox-like woman had been unable to hide her disgust and loathing ever since she arrived in this Secret Realm. She even covered her nose and mouth, making no effort to conceal her aversion to the power of Sinful Heaven.

But when she steadied herself and caught sight of Shi Ming, brimming with vigorous lifeblood, her eyes lit up just a little.

‘His stamina should be quite high.’

‘A pity, a pity.’

As Paradise Heaven lamented to herself, the blade-like man spoke.

“I am the new Chaos King, Annihilation Heaven.”

“This is the other Chaos King, Paradise Heaven.”

“Since you have inherited the power of Sinful Heaven and your revival has surpassed seventy percent, you should be no stranger to our power. The Chaos King, Evil Thought Heaven, has now utterly perished. The other three Ancient Evils must return to their places as soon as possible.”

“We have come here to aid you.”

His voice was heavy and sharp, like the clang of swords.

Chaos Kings were the same as Xenofreak Kings.

Fully awakened Ancient Evils would never use the term “Xenofreak” to refer to themselves. In their eyes, the Ancient Evils were the most perfect creations of chaos, the most orthodox of beings. To use a low-class term like “Xenofreak” on themselves was blasphemy, a self-delusion. Those of the Star Sea who had gone astray were the true xenofreaks.

“Evil Thought Heaven has perished?”

Shi Ming looked at the two of them with a doubtful expression.

Then, faced with the power and bloodline they displayed, he “completely let go” of his suspicion. Returning the favor, he also revealed his own power. Thorns and roses grew rapidly around him—the power of a genuine Ancient Evil, though it had not yet reached its peak.

“You may call me—”

“Original Sin Heaven.”

Ancient Evils were arrogant. Even though one revived from a backup of its origin source inherited the power of its predecessor, deep down, it was unwilling to admit it was the continuation of a failure and a fallen being. Therefore, most of them would devise a new title for themselves. For instance, the former Slaughter Heaven was now named Annihilation Heaven, and the former Luxury and Lust Heaven was now named Paradise Heaven.

Shi Ming, playing the role of the revived Sinful Heaven, naturally followed suit and chose a relatively fitting title for himself. For the successor to sin and suffering, it was only natural to believe that creatures are born with original sin, and suffering is the trial they deserve.

Original Sin Heaven.

The name was very fitting.

Annihilation Heaven showed little emotion at this name. His gaze remained icy; in his view, even a grand title was just an insignificant designation.

Paradise Heaven, however, frowned.

‘Original sin?’

‘What an arrogant claim.’

‘What does he mean, creatures are born with sin?’

‘How are they sinful?’

‘Creatures come into this beautiful world to indulge in worldly paradise. They should stay far away from even the slightest trace of suffering; it has always been this way. As for those species that actively take on sin and suffering, they’re either brain-dead or going against their own nature. Where does this talk of original sin come from?’

A conflict of ideologies was an unavoidable clash.

‘Hmph.’

She remembered Annihilation Heaven’s earlier warning and said no more.

Shi Ming naturally sensed Paradise Heaven’s displeasure. However, with the Eye of the Divine and his thirty million points of Spiritual Power as a foundation, his thoughts were completely unaffected by any doctrines of sin and suffering. He certainly wouldn’t truly immerse himself in the idea of original sin; his previous statement was merely to establish his persona.

‘Best not to overdo it.’

He agreed with neither the ascetic nor the debauchee.

Annihilation Heaven paid no mind to this little interlude. For him, as long as he could achieve the sole purpose of his trip, everything else was irrelevant.

“The origin source of Evil Thought Heaven was completely annihilated.”

“The beings of the Star Sea may be stronger than we imagined. Paradise Heaven and I have come this time precisely to lend you a hand. After one hundred and twenty thousand years, a new Chaos King should be born in this starry sky.”

“I have already foreseen it.”

“The day you truly revive,”

“will also be the day this Star Sea is remade.”

As Annihilation Heaven’s voice fell, he raised his right hand. Pure origin blood seeped from a wound in his palm. Every drop carried a tyrannical killing intent. They oozed out one by one, finally flowing like a long river before Shi Ming, who was several notches weaker in presence.

He looked at Shi Ming as if looking at a subordinate who needed his support.

“Absorb it. This will allow you to revive at the fastest possible speed.”

Just as most help from “superiors” is given to achieve some ulterior motive, Annihilation Heaven’s aid was not free.

He had his own plan.

To absorb his origin blood was to be tainted by his karma. The price was to have a portion of his power flowing within one’s body, and to honor him as the supreme one.

There can only be one king in the chaos.

History has already proven that a situation with four kings coexisting only leads to constant internal strife. This time, he would subvert the old tradition, bring the other Ancient Evils under his control, and become the one true Chaos King!