Chapter 4641: Helplessness in the Great Tribulation
In a flash, Lin Moyu had spent five years in this spatial rift.
During those five years, the number of Shadow Bug Kings he controlled increased to ninety eight. With only two left, he could finally fuse a Shadow Bug Queen.
The Shadow Bug Queen since the world began, no one had ever seen one.
Perhaps one had appeared before, but every witness had died, without exception.
Lin Moyu knew he was about to become the first person to see a Shadow Bug Queen and survive, and that this Queen would serve him.
"Let's hope your abilities don't disappoint me!"
He had high hopes for the Queen the Shadow Bugs possessed a power nearly identical to the origin of Time Essence Stones, but with the addition of spatial powers. As the peak existence of their kind, the Queen, powered by tens of billions of Shadow Bugs, ought to push spacetime manipulation to its very limits.
The ninety eight Shadow Bug Kings scattered, summoning swarms from afar for Lin Moyu to burn and convert.
Now, there weren't many Shadow Bugs left in this rift; those found were scraped from every remote corner.
After another year, the last two Kings were gathered.
A hundred peak Shadow Bug Kings assembled. The mere aura they released naturally was enough to send spacetime into chaos.
Here, time and space twisted, distorting thoughts, Dao hearts, and souls; any cultivator below the Chaos realm would go mad in moments.
"Fuse!"
Lin Moyu commanded, and an unimaginable merger began.
The hundred Kings' bodies turned ethereal. They coordinated their presence so that each matching part of different Kings entered the same timespace.
Cracks spread through space, time splintered, and the entire rift shattered.
The rift broke apart like a spiderweb, the cracks spreading wider and wider until the whole place came apart.
The next instant, the spatial rift collapsed with a roar.
Lin Moyu, along with countless space fragments, fell into the ancient chaos.
Glancing around: "This is the Desolate Scar!"
Chaos Gem confirmed: "Yes, Desolate Scar, very close to the East Extreme."
Desolate Scar, at the eastern border region, meant Lin Moyu had basically returned to chaos proper.
The collapse did not interrupt the fusion of the Shadow Bug Kings the merger continued, the power pouring out ever stronger, with spacetime itself still breaking apart.
Lin Moyu quickly produced the Concealment Pearl and handed it to Little Peng to operate, as he himself, shielded by the world's rules, could no longer use it.
Little Peng poured his power into the Concealment Pearl, but it could no longer hide the emerging Shadow Bug Queen.
Spacetime rupture spread ever wider ten billion, a hundred billion, a trillion miles.
Space broke like tofu, with distant regions yanked near by strange forces.
Living beings in the Desolate Scar were suddenly dragged close and perished in an instant without a sound.
No matter if they were Chaos realm minor, major, or perfected none survived this moment.
In a blink, every lifeform across trillions of miles died.
Such a range held countless beings and all perished at once.
"This is the great tribulation. As long as you're alive, you're caught in it."
Lin Moyu sighed, helpless.
Once a tribulation begins, no one escapes. Survival picks only the favorites of heaven.
After a moment, as the Kings fused, a terrifying phantom of a giant bug slowly appeared.
Its image alone shocked Lin Moyu. Its strength vaguely surpassed even Sovereigns.
Spacetime became tangible under its influence.
Countless images swirled in shattered void, scenes from unknown times and places, all in utter confusion.
Another great shattering came, more space broke, spacetime grew even more chaotic.
Lin Moyu felt uneasy, his own time going awry an instant could be a million years, or go backward by millions.
Fortunately, his powerful body and soul, plus the Primordial Qi protecting his soul world, barely held the temporal chaos at bay.
During this collapse, the Desolate Scar lost a chunk, the East Extreme border was torn asunder.
This was always the junction of Scar and East now the border was smashed, and the East had its own space shredded.
He saw several domains: some with perfected experts who placed them at East Extreme's border, others not fully formed and ownerless; as spacetime broke, they surfaced and were torn to pieces.
No matter how many living beings or how many strong ones a domain had, all died instantly.
Calamity is ruthless: the world does not care about a few lost lives. Even should thousands of domains be wiped out, to the heavens it's negligible.
Chaos Gem said: "The great tribulation is here, even those who survive now will die later. If you want to outlast a tribulation, you need either overwhelming luck or overwhelming strength in other words, you must defy the heavens."
Rules are the sky, tribulation is heaven's calamity. Only those who defy the heavens can survive.
Lin Moyu nodded: "I know. Even Sovereigns struggle for life during a calamity; to them, all other lives are beneath notice."
Chaos Gem chuckled: "If Master wants to save more people, create a Supreme sooner the sooner the tribulation ends."
Lin Moyu shook his head: "Though I don't wish for too many deaths, I will proceed step by step with my plan no rushing, I want each step firm."
He was not without feeling, nor was he self righteous.
He only cared for his own people; as for others, he couldn't take responsibility.
His domains had already finished merging and entered Yushen's Heaven, beyond the calamity.
He had no need to worry about the rest he would follow his plan to the end.
The Shadow Bug Queen kept fusing, its image gradually solidified, its aura growing so vast that the Concealment Pearl could barely hide it.
Lin Moyu wasn't worried, knowing that only he, as the Queen's master, could sense its aura so clearly; others found it nearly undetectable, even the Calamity Sovereign would not easily pinpoint its location.
They could only tell that yet another being, almost their equal, had appeared in the world.
Counting the forming Queen, this world now had five that surpassed Sovereigns but stopped short of being Supreme, not counting Lin Moyu promising an even hotter tribulation.
Boom!
The world's rules crashed down violet thunderclouds gathering in the void, violet bolts splitting spacetime and falling with a crash.
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