"Does the future … depend on us?"
Even a guy like Daniel Zhang was slightly stunned when he heard Li Yao's roar. An unprecedentedly serious expression appeared on his face.
The other Awakened ones, whether it was the Prison Breakers or the Prison Keepers, felt as if a door had opened in the depths of their minds, emitting infinite golden light.
Not only the Ark Island, but also the people who were fighting against the apocalypse all over Earth seemed to have heard the call from the underworld. The golden horn became louder and louder, telling them — Don't give up hope!
At this moment, countless solid shackles were torn apart, and countless ancient seals were broken. Countless heroic spirits recalled the glory, dreams, dignity, and pride before countless reincarnations, the monstrous mistakes they had once made, and all the efforts they had made to make up for their mistakes!
Every person, every person on Earth, every heroic spirit who had once commanded the sea of stars and roared in the universe, their brainwaves were like raging flames that soared into the sky and broke through the nine heavens, breaking through the fragile walls of the Prison of Reincarnation!
On the battlefield of the Ark Island, the shell of the silver giant had obviously dimmed. Ugly black spots even appeared on it, like oxidized silver.
This was the weakening effect brought by the awakening of the heroic spirits.
Li Yao, on the other hand, had received the blessings of countless heroic spirits. The more he fought, the braver he became, and the stronger he became. Originally, the "super colossus" still had traces of artificial carvings, but gradually, after being refined by the battle flames, it was integrated into one, as if it was a living creature condensed from millions of tons of steel.
Boom!
He stomped on the sea, setting off monstrous waves. The waves were steamed by the battle flames, forming hundreds of steam dragons that bared their fangs and brandished their claws. They attacked the silver giant at the same time.
Pa!
The reefs on the Ark Island were all driven by Li Yao's telekinesis. They flew into the air one after another and were crushed into the finest dust. The dust rubbed against each other at an extremely high speed and instantly turned into a flaming sword that was hundreds of meters long and stabbed straight into the silver giant's chest.
Crack!
Under the control of Li Yao's soul, thousands of lightning bolts lunged at the silver giant in a hurry, trying to mince it into pieces. Countless devastating dents were popping up on the surface of the silver giant like a pond in a storm.
"Tell me, what is your ultimate goal!"
While launching storm-like attacks, Li Yao roared at the top of his voice. "An unparalleled being such as yourself, who is born from the souls of billions of creatures, can't consider such a lowly goal as' dominating the universe 'as your lifelong destiny, right? Tell me, why are you doing this? Why are you imprisoning billions of heroic spirits in the Reincarnation Prison and not being able to escape for billions of years?! "
"You wouldn't understand even if I told you."
The silver giant took thousands of blows in just a few seconds, but after every blow, the wounds that went deep into the bone would be healed instantly. A black gap that looked like a mouth suddenly opened on the silver face that did not have any facial features, and it let out intense mockery. "What I want to do is absolutely incomprehensible for a one-dimensional life form like you!"
"You didn't say anything, so how do you know that I can't understand?"
Li Yao smashed the silver giant's head again and again. "For a man who loves peace and detests violence as much as I do, fighting and killing are the most annoying things. Why can't we just sit down and talk it over and make things clear? Whether you are 'Earth's Will' or 'Flood', you were made of billions of wronged souls who were abandoned on the 'Origin Earth' at the very beginning. Am I right? All of us share the same origin, and should be helping each other in the boundless darkness of the Multiverse. Why do we have to fight each other and even come up with such a long and torturous method? What do you actually want from the six billion heroic spirits?! "
The silver giant sniffed and did not reply, but its speed was doubled all of a sudden. It was a giant that supported the sky, but it was more agile than a dragonfly or a butterfly. Dodging all of Li Yao's attacks, it circled to Li Yao's back and stabbed its four arms at the "super Colossus" brutally like four sharp awls.
Even though Li Yao was strong enough to enter the "Combination Stage" and receive the blessings of countless heroes, he was still caught off guard by the silver giant's attacks that suddenly changed the rhythm of the attack. However, he did not stop talking at all.
"I know that a thermonuclear war once took place on the 'Origin Earth', and on the wasteland where nuclear dust was drifting, a small group of nobles and magnates ruled most of the civilians. In the end, when the 'Origin Earth' was doomed, those nobles and magnates even deceived the civilians and escaped on starships, leaving billions of civilians to die on Earth. As it turned out, the billions of people were burned to death by the flames caused by the meteoroids that hit the sun, but their wronged souls that contained infinite fury and vengeance incredibly survived and condensed into a brand-new life form, which was your predecessor!"
Li Yao shouted, "I know that you are a super life form that exists for revenge. Later, the war between the 'supercivilizations' and the 'Primeval Civilization' was a war of revenge for the billions of undead souls on Earth against a tiny group of nobles and magnates in the universe!
"Of course, you have a reason to seek revenge. If I were one of the billions of abandoned civilians, I would've done the same thing!
"However, you have completely won the war. After billions of years, the nobles and magnates who escaped from Earth in the past have long been obliterated. As for the survivors of the Primeval Race, including the six billion heroes that you imprisoned in the Prison of Reincarnation, most of them have nothing to do with the nobles and magnates at the beginning at all. Every debt has its debtor. Even if you have the greatest grievances, you should've cleared them by now, shouldn't you? Why are you so persistent in destroying everybody and even the entire civilization of mankind? "
"So, you noisy cockroach, you don't know anything at all. You don't know anything, yet you dare to talk here."
The four arms of the silver giant immediately turned into four silver storms, easily resolving the new wave of attacks that Li Yao made with rocks, lightning, and tides. "You're right. When billions of wronged souls were condensed into a perfect 'superbody' for the first time, there was indeed only one thing on our mind, which was revenge. However, the war of revenge was already over the moment the 'supercivilizations' defeated the 'Primeval Civilization'. Even though the Primeval Civilization was not completely wiped out, a few fish that escaped the net were not within the scope of my revenge. I did not establish the Prison of Reincarnation for such boring things as' revenge '."
"Then, what is the purpose of everything exactly?"
Li Yao thought quickly and was greatly enlightened. "Are you really trying to achieve 'universal peace' by connecting everybody's soul so that everybody can share their feelings and memories so that the universe will never be free of war, violence, pain, and hatred?
"No, you must not do that. Love and hate are two sides of the same coin in the first place. Selfishness naturally leads to violence and hatred, but it is also the source of motivation for the evolution of life. Our curiosity, exploration, imagination, and creativity are all born because of our independent souls. Every one of us is a king of our own soul. Do not turn us into everybody's slaves!
"It's like, like the theorem of thermodynamics says, heat can only be transmitted between objects of different temperatures, and it is exactly such a transmission of heat that gives rise to the brilliant universe and civilization. According to your approach, everybody will open their soul, everybody will be melted into a super body, and their feelings and will will be equally distributed. It's like all objects will be at the same temperature. There will be no more transmission of heat, and there will be no more molecular changes. The whole world will be dead silent, and both the civilization and the universe will be mired in the miserable hell of absolute zero. Do you understand?"
"Of course I do. You just don't."
The silver giant said coldly, "Whether the Multiverse Sea is at peace or at war, whether I am victorious or you rebels triumph over the strong enemy, and even the outcome of the war that is going on right now … I don't care about such boring things at all.
"No, I don't exist for some laughable mission of 'keeping the Multiverse in absolute peace'. It's nothing more than a laughable cockroach like you using your shallow intellect to speculate about me. It's utterly meaningless."
"W-What?"
Li Yao was stunned. He subconsciously thought that the silver giant was lying, but his instincts vaguely told him that the giant really did not care. It did not care whether or not it was defeated by him, did not care about the outcome of the battle in the grand universe, and did not care whether or not the Reincarnation Prison that had been built for billions of years would be destroyed overnight.
Otherwise, judging from the series of performances just now, the being known as' Earth's Will 'or' Flood 'would have been too weak.
"W-What are you going to do exactly?"
Li Yao did not know whether he was scared because of his fury or because of his fear. He did not even dare to ask further. Instead, he simply waved the fiery saber that was made of dust, lightning, waves, and hydrogen and oxygen atoms and stabbed it at the giant's chest.
This time, the silver giant did not dodge but allowed Li Yao's flames of fury to pierce a shocking wound on its chest. The wound was even splitting and tearing to two sides, as if a black, bloody mouth had been opened at the center of its chest. Behind the wound was not an ocean but a glittering mist.
"Since your curiosity is so strong, I'll let you get what you want!"
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