The previous encounter was still vivid in Shuhu's mind. He was absolutely convinced that even if this played out a thousand—ten thousand—times, he would still be able to firmly suppress that bizarre trick.
What's more, he was currently on the Luofu. His greatest trump card, Jidu Mirage, could no longer do anything for him.
The instinct to survive crushed all pride and calculation.
Shuhu's shattered body exploded—violently—into countless emerald fragments, scattering in all directions like a swarm of startled fireflies.
This was his final life-saving ace.
Each fragment contained a portion of his essence and consciousness. As long as even one piece escaped, he could slowly regenerate through the power of Abundance.
And yet—
[The World!]
A time stop so broken it was practically a cheat.
Time fell once more into absolute stillness.
The fleeing green shards froze mid-flight like insects trapped in amber, locked into their posture of escape.
Wei Qing moved through the halted spacetime with leisurely ease.
Pff. Pff. Pff…
In the stopped time, faint little sounds of annihilation rang out.
More than ninety percent of the scattered fragments winked out in an instant—silently—like they had never existed at all.
All that remained in the void were a few specks of charred ash, and Shuhu's lingering fluctuations—terror and unwillingness taken to the extreme—slowly dispersing.
The Abundance Emanator Shuhu—once a name that made the Xianzhou Alliance blanch—had, in this moment, had ninety-nine point nine percent of his existence erased.
Only a negligible remnant, barely clinging to life, was compressed and trapped in Wei Qing's palm.
Wei Qing stared at the tiny emerald mote there—weak as a candle in the wind.
It was Shuhu's origin force, crushed to the limit, overflowing with Abundance's vast, twisted vitality.
Become an Emanator of Abundance.
He still remembered the system's main quest.
The idiot system didn't strictly require him to complete it—but now that Finality's death threat hung over him, the calculus had changed.
He didn't know how he'd ended up being targeted, but if there was a way to gain more power, he wanted it.
In the original timeline, Yingxing—just an ordinary short-lived—had obtained Abundance's immortality merely by consuming a small piece of Shuhu's flesh.
The result, however, had been grim: mara-struck, unable to die even when he begged for it.
If someone else devoured this sliver of Shuhu's origin, possession might indeed be a risk.
But not him.
Setting aside that he and Shuhu were both Emanator-tier existences—how could Shuhu, in this half-dead state, seize him?
And besides—
This body of his had been forged personally by Nanook.
How could it possibly be taken so easily?
Five seconds elapsed. Time resumed flowing.
Without hesitation, Wei Qing immediately chained another [The World].
He raised a hand and pressed the emerald glow into his chest.
The moment it touched his body, it didn't merge—
Instead, it erupted with astonishing rejection.
Abundance's surging vitality and Destruction's dead-still annihilation—two utterly opposite essences—collided inside his shell at the most primal level.
But the body Nanook had crafted with His own hand…
its very foundation was the denial and ending of "Abundance" itself.
It refused growth.
Refused restoration.
Refused every "blessing" Abundance represented.
Another five seconds passed.
Wei Qing felt that his body… hadn't changed.
Not just "barely changed"—it was fair to say nothing happened at all.
So he'd been taking it for granted?
He had thought he could evolve the way Yingxing did—by swallowing Shuhu.
And yet, just as Wei Qing prepared to end this farce and bring Shuhu's chaos to a close—
A calm, gentle will—one that seemed able to soothe all wounds and embrace all things—rang soundlessly within his heart.
[What do you seek?]
There was no coercion in that intent.
Only pure curiosity—and a kind of loving compassion.
In the next instant, the entire Luofu battlefield—no, even the distant starfield beyond—every living being, whether Cloud Knight or Abundance fiend, felt it and turned toward the source of the radiance.
Above Wei Qing's head, the sky—empty just moments ago—rippled like water.
Something manifested that could not be described by any language.
Holy.
Compassionate.
An Aeon, revealed amid boundless light and life.
Its gaze fell upon Wei Qing.
The Aeon who presided over the Path of Abundance—
Yaoshi—
had turned Their attention to this place.
The Abundance followers instantly fell into total ecstasy. They discarded their weapons, prostrated themselves, and howled praise and prayers as if weeping blood.
The Cloud Knights, meanwhile, were crushed by an indescribable pressure and dread. Even if the Plagues Author seemed to have no intent to strike, Their infamous name alone was enough to break an ordinary soldier's mind.
For a moment, both sides—Abundance fiends and Cloud Knights alike—halted without meaning to.
And the one most deeply enveloped by that compassionate gaze was Wei Qing.
Perhaps because no "proper" answer came, that gentle voice sounded again:
[What do you seek?]
In the span of a breath, Wei Qing's thoughts accelerated to an unprecedented speed.
He still didn't know why Yaoshi had descended, nor why They were responding to him—
but Wei Qing understood one thing clearly:
This was an opportunity.
A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
An opportunity to soar—an opportunity to never eat beef again.
And so, he made a decision that betrayed the wisdom of his ancestors.
"I want to become the Aeon of Abundance."
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