Chapter 2425 - Heavens Doomsday! (2/2)
“It’s him!”
Wang Chong was also shaken as he realized who this was. Moreover, Wang Chong also felt a familiar energy from that illusory figure behind the High Priest.
This was the energy of the Stone of Destiny, the energy of the earliest! The first Stone of Destiny!
Bzzz! Wang Chong’s eyes flashed as time energy swept over them. A moment later, Wang Chong seemed to see something in the endless river of time, and his eyelids twitched a little.
Dao Yi stared at Heaven and sternly said, “Every sip and bite is preordained by destiny. Fortuitous beginnings and messy ends all have their reasons. Heaven, tens of thousands of years ago, I said to you that if you regarded all life as nothing more than grass seeds, all life would consider you a grass seed. One day, someone would appear to end your outrageous ways, and now, everything is as predicted.”
“No! Impossible! I even had you…”
Heaven stared in shock, appearing like he had seen a ghost. He had never imagined that his most powerful foe from tens of thousands of years ago would still be alive and right in front of him.
Dao Yi placed his palms together and calmly said, “You already killed me tens of thousands of years ago and took my Stone of Destiny, right?
“At that time, I knew that I could not stop you, so I voluntarily abandoned my physical body and Stone of Destiny, leaving only a wisp of my soul on the body. I drifted about for many years, watching as you destroyed world after world and obliterated innumerable civilizations, carpeting the ground in bodies. I was waiting all this time, knowing that I could never stop you, but that that person designated by destiny was certain to appear,” Dao Yi sternly said. For many years, he had wandered the world as a soul, unable to do anything but be a spectator to tragedy after tragedy. But now, everything was finally ending.
“Heaven, you were wrong. No matter what your initial intentions were, this was not a reason for you to destroy the world.”
Master Guangcheng sighed and said, “You are now even working against your initial intentions. Things did not need to reach this stage, but alas, you long ago wandered down the wrong path, and there is no going back.”
“Hahaha! We were wrong?”
The fallen Heaven mockingly laughed.
“Only We can truly save the world, to kill life to save life! Wang Chong, Master Guangcheng, Dao Yi, do you think you’ve won? A world without Us will only truly begin to face calamity. There is no harm in telling you a secret. We have only occupied the body of the leader of the otherworldly invader expeditionary force, but there are many more like this leader in that world.”
Buzz!
The three of them grimaced at these words.
“Hahaha, remember this moment for eternity. Everything is far from over. The true calamity is only just beginning!”
With these last words, Heaven looked at Wang Chong, a profound smile on his lips.
Boom!
A moment later, Heaven froze in this final position as if time had stopped. His soul began to rapidly decay, and his body soon disintegrated into particles of dust that vanished into the world.
As the oldest and most powerful existence in the world, Heaven had lived for tens of thousands of years, far beyond the scope of an ordinary human. This required an enormous strength, and now that this strength had dispersed, he naturally could no longer maintain his existence.
Whoosh!
A gust of wind blew past, and after a brief silence, the countless human soldiers began to cheer.
“It’s finally over.”
As Wang Chong looked at the excited faces around him, he relaxed. After paying a heavy price, humanity had emerged victorious. Though there were still many things that needed to be done, those were matters for the future.
“Return to the capital!”
Wang Chong’s simple words triggered a mighty cheer, and countless messenger birds took off in all directions, some of them flying to the Promised Land.
Humanity had finally won!
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Several years went by in the blink of an eye, and the wounds dealt to the world by that decisive battle on the Turkic steppe slowly recovered.
Everything was reviving, and those areas where the ground had broken open and lava had flowed out were now covered in lush grass and grazed upon by vast herds of cattle and sheep.
Over in the distant Promised Land, countless civilians had returned to the continent after the conclusion of the war, but even so, the Promised Land was not abandoned. It was developed into another place of residence, and as it thrived, it became a new country. Of course, the Promised Land was still a vassal to the Great Tang, and each year, countless people and resources traveled between the continent and the Promised Land.
After that bitter battle, all the peoples of the continent completely merged together, beginning to marry between each other and mingle. Without the threat of war and with the people safe and happy, the economy flourished, and even fishing industries began to develop. The population exploded, quickly growing to double the population before the war, then triple, quadruple…
The human world was growing more and more developed and prosperous.
The population explosion and the Supreme King’s influence led the new generation of youths to have an adventurous spirit. The polar lands to the north, the oceans to the west, volcanoes, deserts, and even the southern pole to the south of the Promised Land… all of these became areas that they explored.
Supported by ample capital, the Great Tang’s tower ships also became more developed. Their numbers swelled, and they grew even more grandiose and imposing in size. There was an endless stream of people taking these tower ships to various parts of the world. Some top-class experts in the human world even had the urge to explore the cosmos.
At this time, after all the peoples of the continent had been brought together, the capital of the Great Tang had been expanded to five times its original size. Grander and with more people than ever before, it had become the new capital of the human world.