The sea of blue light formed by the Billion Wills surged toward the ground, about to once again touch the Tower of Radiance that served as a Shelter!
"One becomes a billion, a billion becomes one... All for me, I for all..."
Frenzied roars continued to echo from within the sea of light, resounding in the depths of every person’s soul.
Inside the Tower of Radiance Shelter, the human survivors were overcome by dizziness and splitting headaches. They clutched their heads, letting out terrified screams and wails.
They felt the terrifying pressure from the Billion Wills, along with its greedy desire—a desire to devour and assimilate them!
The malicious intent within it was so strong that many were frightened into tears, curling into uncontrollable balls on the ground.
At that moment, the survivors finally understood what was happening. They understood that the sea of blue light was not Heaven at all, but a terrifying existence filled with endless malice!
The people who had just touched the sea of blue light had all become corpses, which was proof enough of how dangerous the sea of light truly was.
"Please, save us! Help! Help!"
"I was wrong! I’ll never speak out of turn again, please save me!"
"So we misunderstood you all along! You were trying to save us... You must be a Holy Purifier from the Purification Holy Assembly, right?"
"As long as you let me live, I’ll be your most loyal servant!"
"..."
The people who had just been screaming desperately to leave the Tower of Radiance now understood that Shen Feng was trying to save them, and they immediately began shouting for his help once more.
They finally understood. This young man was a true Exorcist, and that so-called sea of light, which they had thought was Heaven, was actually a terrifying entity composed of countless Evil Ghosts!
Shen Feng remained expressionless, his gaze fixed on the Billion Wills as it continued to descend from high above, completely ignoring their pleas.
Seeing the Billion Wills arrive above the Tower of Radiance, Shen Feng waved his hand. A metallic tentacle instantly shot out from the Gray Tide that formed the tower. Tipped with a blue Quantum Force Field Core, it slammed into the Billion Wills above with berserk power!
The energy from the Beast Gold contained within the Quantum Force Field Core then violently detonated, exploding in mid-air into a blue radiance over a hundred meters in diameter!
A massive hole was immediately blown through the Billion Wills’s luminous body. The descending sea of blue light even paused for a moment before actually rising slightly!
"...One becomes a billion, a billion becomes one... All for me... all for me..."
The roar of the Billion Wills instantly became distorted, growing even more frenzied!
Then, Shen Feng was startled to see that the areas destroyed by the Quantum Force Field Core’s explosion had vanished completely. Even in the surrounding regions, the quantum bodies that made up the Billion Wills were also slowly disappearing!
’What’s going on?’
’Could the explosion of a Quantum Force Field Core really be this effective?’
’But the blast radius is only about a hundred meters. Against the vast body of the Billion Wills, it’s practically useless...’
Suddenly, Shen Feng saw a section of the quantum bodies within the Billion Wills vanish all at once, as if it had been erased!
Immediately after, another part of its body dissipated into thin air.
"Xiaofeng, we didn’t notice before, but the Billion Wills’s volume is more than ten percent smaller than it was before we went to the Stone Statue World! And it’s still shrinking!" Jingwei’s voice rang out, filled with rapturous joy. "It’s working! Our plan was correct! It just needed time to take effect!"
"...One becomes a billion... a billion becomes one..." The voice within the Billion Wills continued to sound, but it had lost some of its previous frenzy and chaos.
The survivors, who had been rolling on the ground from the headaches, now got to their feet, looking up at the sea of blue light in the sky that was no longer descending.
Even a fool could tell that something was wrong with the thing.
Large swathes of blue light were continuously vanishing in the sky. The constituent bodies, which resembled melting corpses, were simply disappearing into thin air as if they had never existed.
Shen Feng stared intently at the disappearing luminous bodies, his eyes widening as an excited look flashed across his face.
’It’s the Gray Tide!’
’The Gray Tide left behind in the Stone Statue Apocalypse was programmed to continuously devour the stone statues.’
’After all this time, the Gray Tide must have reached a certain scale, accelerating its consumption speed and hitting the critical point needed to affect the Billion Wills!’
’The existence of the Billion Wills is still fundamentally based on those stone statues!’
’And the Quantum Force Field Core Shen Feng had just detonated was perhaps the last straw that broke the camel’s back, initiating the Billion Wills’s collapse!’
In mid-air, the sea of blue light that had been steadily approaching the surface began to roil and churn like a tsunami, shaking and swaying violently.
It was like a worm that had been struck in a vital spot, curling up to minimize the damage.
From the ground, many areas within the sea of light in the sky were continuously disappearing. Although the process wasn’t very fast, once a part vanished, it was gone for good!
Shen Feng narrowed his eyes and waved his hand. The entire Tower of Radiance instantly disassembled. The dozens of Quantum Force Field Cores that formed its nodes shot into the sky under the control of the Gray Tide’s tentacles, like Javelins and missiles, piercing into the "body" of the Billion Wills!
The Quantum Force Field Cores instantly dispersed throughout that region of the Billion Wills and then, under Shen Feng’s control, exploded simultaneously!
A furious shockwave of energy erupted, instantly blasting a massive wound dozens of kilometers in diameter within the Billion Wills, causing thousands upon thousands of humanoid constituent bodies to vanish without a trace.
Unable to withstand the continuous disappearance of its constituent bodies, the Billion Wills finally let out a series of howls and drifted back the way it came!
From the ground, the sea of blue light that had descended from the heavens was now returning to the zenith of the sky. It then passed through a thick, black dome and gradually disappeared once more!
As the sea of blue light, which had almost reached the ground, ascended to the zenith, it looked as magnificent and beautiful as an aurora covering the entire sky.
If one didn’t see the semi-molten humanoid constituent bodies up close and only observed the massive form of the Billion Wills from a distance, it could truly be called wondrously beautiful.
It came as quickly as it went. Soon, the body of the Billion Wills had once again passed through the Reverse Dyson Sphere, leaving Earth completely.
The blue light brought by the Billion Wills vanished, plunging the world back into darkness.
The Tower of Radiance had now disintegrated. Only the Gray Tide remained, emitting a faint glow that illuminated the surrounding scene.
The survivors who had been forcibly confined were now released. They stared up at the spot in the sky where the Billion Wills had vanished, their faces filled with dazed bewilderment.
’It’s over just like that?’
They had seen it with their own eyes: the mysterious young man had thrown one ball-like object after another into that terrifying sea of blue light. Then there were explosions, and then the terrifying entity simply left.
’What on earth just happened?’
’Were they... saved?’
Not daring to speak, everyone turned their gazes toward the faint silhouette within the dim light—the mysterious young man.
But the young man was still staring up at the darkness above, motionless as a statue, his thoughts unknown.
"Jingwei, calculate the Billion Wills’s current volume and compare it with the previous data! Also, compare the extent of the loss of its humanoid constituent bodies!"
Inside the Reverse Dyson Sphere, Shen Feng’s Consciousness Antennae conveyed this to Jingwei as he used the Space Telescope on the Reverse Dyson Sphere to look at the Billion Wills, which was now moving away from Earth.
He could see the Billion Wills circling and dancing ceaselessly in space. The chant of "One becomes a billion, a billion becomes one" still echoed in Shen Feng’s mind, though it had grown much fainter.
At the same time, a dazzling flash of light appeared in space!