Chapter 887 - 489: The Lord of Mist Is Still Chasing Me, Damn It

"Yushua, you’ve grown so old now." The girl sighed, wanting to reach out her hand, but the ethereal arm stopped in mid-air, revealing a look of heartache, "All these years, you must have had a hard time, right?"

"Perhaps." The old man smiled too, not noticing himself that today’s smile might have been more than all the smiles in his lifetime combined.

...

Meanwhile, things weren’t going so well on Xue Dili’s side.

This takes us back to the principle of Summoning of Heroic Spirits, gathering Spiritual Particles, but why could these gathered Spiritual Particles even summon this thing?

The Mother Empress of the Shabu Insect Race, or what might be termed the Queen Bee, was specifically responsible for the production and manufacture of other insect units. She could incessantly produce Quasi-Tier Five Shabu Insect Race units like dumplings or spawn Tier Five insect race War Soldiers every few days.

Of course, that was a power she possessed while still alive. Now, the Shabu Insect Race has completely become heroic spirits, theoretically losing this reproductive ability belonging to the insect swarm.

Thus, even if this Mother Empress—which originally brought fatal destruction to Demon Star—was summoned by Summoning of Heroic Spirits, she should lose her original fertility as a Mother Empress. After all, she is now merely in this Spiritual Particle state, and the power belonging to biological weapons should completely be invalidated as expected.

Yet, in the face of the ghostly expressions of Xue Dili and a bunch of demons, this Insect Race Queen has started to multiply!

This purely Spiritual Particle state directly began laying eggs, producing genuine Shabu Insect Race from the egg sacs of Spiritual Particles, in a manner that defied everyone’s comprehension.

Xue Dili: ...

Xue Dili: !!!

Is this right? Is this right? This isn’t right, is it?

This isn’t scientific! Nor is it Magic, because it completely violates the Law of Conservation!

Although the Law of Conservation has been altered quite a bit on the Magic Side, even on the Magic Side, basic laws of conservation should be followed.

For instance, the stronger the power, the greater the price—this is an expression of the Law of Conservation. Everyone knows the Void’s power is strong, but who dares to actively engage with the Void? That would earn you a seat at the Masked Ball, spending the rest of your life suppressing the Void here. As soon as you release your grip on the Void’s suppression, soon you’ll be caught by Void’s monsters, and you’ll turn into the grandest firework in the cosmos.

Xue Dili now finds himself in a situation where the fleas make no difference; he’s already targeted by Void’s monsters, and other costs seem like small rain to him.

But how is this thing being produced? Could it be that you draw energy and matter directly from some breeding Evil God in the Subspace?

Wait a minute, Subspace...

No good!

In the next instant, warped portals tore the firmament. Although what emerged wasn’t a monster with the body of a deer, hands, and a head, it was undoubtedly of the same genre, seemingly a clan belonging to a former Apostle. However, this giant insect had immense and thriving twisted trees sprouting from its head, appearing as a parasitic Divine Tree combination within this giant insect.

Moreover, in Xue Dili’s perception, this thing is merely a vanguard; soon, more teleportation gates will illuminate and arrive here...

Xue Dili: ...

Lord of Mist is still chasing me, damn it!

Xue Dili truly feels like he must have hit the Lord of Mist’s sore point at some time; how is the hatred on his body so great, even more than the Interstellar Corps.

It shouldn’t be due to the Blood of Hell, but... Fuge!

Because he summoned Fuge, is that what enraged the Lord of Mist?

Actually, Xue Dili’s approach has a certain resemblance to being bullied by a school tyrant, unable to defeat the tyrant directly, choosing to resolve the issue indirectly by building a rapport with the tyrant’s mother, then launching a frenzied attack on the tyrant’s birth point.

Though this analogy is quite abstract and twisted, Xue Dili’s actions are indeed similar to what the analogy suggests.

What Xue Dili doesn’t know is that summoning Yi Shan doesn’t faze the Lord of Mist; summoning Dominic likewise doesn’t matter; even pulling out everyone from the 13th Expedition Team is merely adding a few more enemies in the Lord of Mist’s view.

Yet, if what’s summoned is Fuge, then the problem becomes significant—this utterly negates the very reason for the Lord of Mist’s existence.

When its reason for existence is negated, then it can never achieve the reality of becoming a God, thus even though the Lord of Mist is a monster born from Fuge’s twisted obsession, its choice was...

To completely kill Fuge!

This illustrates the difference in thinking between humans and gods; for the Lord of Mist, Fuge now represents an obstacle to its becoming a True God, hence it desires to become a True God, wishing to create many more True Gods; this is its road, and any who obstruct it becomes its enemy—be they subordinates, friends, relatives, or lovers, it will take action.

This is the mentality of a God.

If the Mimic Venerable King truly walks to the end of this path, it will also become like this, transforming into a conceptual god of order that punishes all who violate its order—regardless of who they are—and will pursue unendingly all who violate its order.

Even if those violating order are Venerable Kings, the God of Order would not hesitate.

This is the fate of conceptual gods.

Thus, the Lord of Mist relentlessly pursues Xue Dili, aiming to completely halt the completion of the "Heroic Spirit Hall". Once this is perfected, the Lord of Mist itself will never attain the reality of godhood.