The King of Black Fog
Chapter 1235 - 552: Setting Out
At the edge of the Solar System, near Pluto, the blue Earth of solid nitrogen is clearly visible on the celestial body, with countless spaceships arrayed here.
They are saying farewell.
This is the gathering place for Earth's civilization to join the battle at the universe center, where all beings preparing to participate in the Holy City Battle must shatter the void here to prevent affecting any Life Planet.
It only requires the strength of an Immortal to shatter the void and head to the universe center.
Of course, Immortals, Earth Immortals, and even most Heavenly Immortals are not aiming to become Saints.
They have no hope.
This journey is only for honing skills or observation.
Players from across the universe will participate, and even the non-player Heavenly Positions that are still alive will fight with all their might, such as the Elders of the Divine Will Great Wall, who have already set out more than halfway.
Such a grand event is unprecedented, and if you have the ability to participate and witness it in person, how could you let it slip by?
"Are you really going? It's a battle between Heavenly Positions, and you are just an Immortal!" A wife pleaded with her husband to stay.
"Don't worry, I won't participate in any battles, just observe, and will return if anything seems amiss."
The Immortal fully unleashed his aura, with immense Qi making the tiny Pluto, only 0.2% the mass of Earth, tremble.
"To the greatest event between Heaven and Earth, I'm coming!"
A full-force strike of the First Level Human Tribulation reached a certain limit of star-destroying power, connecting with the rules hidden deep.
Bang!
The void split open into a giant rift, as if the universe was being divided.
In comparison to this rift, even a star system seemed as insignificant as dust.
Any being in front of this rift would be terrified with trembling legs, as if facing an Abyss.
Near Pluto, all was silent.
"Don't go!" The wife's fear peaked, crying out.
The voice transmitted far into the vast, dead silence of space through special devices.
The Immortal was also fearful, but resolutely rushed into the rift.
The Immortal's ocean-like life force plunged into the sea like a stone, quickly disappearing without a trace.
The scene before their eyes made people uneasy, it didn't feel like entering the Holy City.
"Could the center of the universe be a land of no return, entering means stepping into an Abyss?" Someone exclaimed in fear.
"So what if it's an Abyss? Watching battles between peerless powers is the best practice!"
Several Immortals and Earth Immortals arrived together, again breaking through the void, and resolutely entered the Great Rift.
The Great Rift, like the eye of a God or Demon, looked indifferently down on all living things, overlooking the universe.
"I don't hope to seize a Saint Position, compared with those top players and old Heavenly Positions, I'm far too inferior, but I cannot fear, if I fear, I truly cannot become a Saint."
"Though I'm not like them now, unable to seize a Saint Position, why should a Saint Position need to be granted by Heaven and Earth! One day I will forge a Saint Position of my own!"
"The Wind of Raging Worlds says the Holy City is the final level of the value game, only twelve can pass it, the eighth Holy City has a Saint Position, what's in the ninth Holy City? Can anyone break through it?"
Gradually, Immortals, Earth Immortals, and Heavenly Immortals continued to enter, each with their own reasons.
Though the Great Rift is terrifying, it is still not insurmountable for Immortals.
Having experienced the Human Tribulation, their minds have long been different.
However, at least one must be an Immortal to restrain oneself from fear in front of the Great Rift, any Mortal would lose confidence before it.
"I hate it so much! In other civilization circles, I'd surely have become a Spiritual Kind, able to shatter the void, head to the universe center, and witness this greatest cosmic event, but on Earth, who can pass the Second Level Human Tribulation!"
Aboard the spaceship, players of 'low origin' and 'weak ability', only able to pass the Second or Third Level Human Tribulation, expressed their regret.
"Just one chance short, I've endured for six years, in the last task there was even a Spiritual Kind from another civilization circle as an opponent, once the value game ends and the Human Tribulation disappears, I will be able to shine past the thousand mountain peaks!"
There's another possibility they dare not speak of—Li Changzhou dies, and his path vanishes.
In such a case, the value game in the Earth area would select a new player to be the Human Tribulation, but whoever it is, would be weaker than Li Changzhou.
As long as it's not Li Changzhou, any player alive for more than six years at the Second or Third Level would have a chance to pass the Human Tribulation!
"Look quickly, Indra and the Goddess Venus are coming, they are also heading to the universe center to participate in the Holy City Battle!"
"These two are players of the first Starry Sky Heavenly Road, they might have a chance to contest for a Saint Position!"
"No way, I bet they can only reach the fourth or fifth city at most."
"That's right, the ones truly qualified to contend for a Saint Position are the top ten of the Starry Sky Heavenly Road ten times, those hundred people!"
"Nonsense! Then are you saying even His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor doesn't qualify to take a Saint Position?"
"His Majesty is naturally a different matter, but how can Indra and Venus compare to..."
This person didn't dare continue speaking.
Strong individuals who have merged with Heavenly Will, in some sense, have already become one with the great cosmic will, they will have a sense when their names are mentioned.
In some civilization circles that openly exhibit the laws of 'survival of the fittest', any lifeform below Heavenly Position will be obliterated if they mention a Heavenly Position's title.
On Earth, there is relative equality, everyone can discuss, but no one dares to denigrate a Heavenly Position.
This is an invisible pressure, instinctively built into life for survival, causing fear that prevents people from speaking, akin to how most people have some degree of acrophobia.
When wanting to denigrate a Heavenly Position, such fear feels like one's foot is caught on a railway track with a train speeding towards you at 300 kilometers per hour.
This oppression is not merely because of status or Strength, it truly comes from the fear at the level of Life Instinct.