Chapter 604: Law of Elemental Creation and Destruction

Chapter 604 The Law of Elemental Genesis and Annihilation

Li Wei returned to Maple Leaf City from the divine kingdom of the Goddess of Magic.

The Goddess of Magic hoped he would enter the Weave to search for the will of the Firmament World.

To gather the strength of the entire world to resist the gods.

And she informed him how to contact the world's will through the Weave.

After returning to Maple Leaf City.

He was in no hurry to do this.

Clearly, the crisis of the world's destruction was imminent, yet Li Wei still had the leisure to go shopping with Gu Sewei.

He even took the initiative to invite Reina to join them.

Under the watchful eyes of the gods, none of Li Wei's actions could be hidden.

He had promised the Goddess of Magic to look for the world's will, seeking the last remaining hope for this world.

Yet Li Wei delayed his departure.

The core of the sun.

Lolth had fallen completely silent.

Divine fire of twelve colors burned slowly across the surface of the law's spider silk.

As the power of the divine fire grew steadily stronger, Lolth was almost unable to hold on any longer.

Suddenly, two spatial rifts tore open in the void.

Sensing something, Lolth slowly opened her eyes.

Her pupils of divine power pierced through the sun to gaze upon the scene outside.

Two deities from the Underworld appeared in the Astral Plane, looking at the massive, multicolored sun not far away with expressions of desire.

This sun before them, capable of generating divine power, was something all gods desperately yearned to possess.

However, they had not come this time to claim this sun of divine power.

They were here to destroy it.

The gods had promised them that if they could destroy that multicolored sun of divine power in the Astral Plane, they would be allowed into the pantheon of the gods and become one of them.

The two deities mobilized the power of their own laws, launching an attack against the unfathomably immense sun.

Shockwaves tore through the starry sky, enveloping the sun's surface and ripping its crust apart.

Countless torrents of magma erupted along the fractured terrain, escaping the sun's gravitational pull.

This was the power born from the Law of Shockwaves.

The entire starry sky trembled.

The shadow behind the other deity expanded relentlessly, spreading to shroud the whole sky as if transforming into a colossally massive monster intent on swallowing the entire sun of divine power.

The shattered fragments of the sun flew into the giant shadow monster and vanished from sight.

The shadow led to the Shadow Plane.

That was another world.

A desolate world filled with darkness and silence.

Even a sun would be eroded and extinguished by the shadows there.

The very moment the sun came under attack, Li Wei had already noticed the appearance of the two deities.

He looked at Lolth and asked, "Did you call them here?"

Lolth denied it, "No."

"Let me out, I will help you deal with them together; you are no match for them alone," Lolth said quickly.

Li Wei ignored her.

The two deities also seemed perfectly aware of just how formidable Li Wei's strength was while he resided inside the sun.

They had absolutely no intention of drawing close to the sun.

Across a vast distance, they relied on their law abilities to execute long-range strikes against the sun.

Under the influence of the Law of Shockwaves, the sun was on the verge of falling apart.

The collapsing solar fragments were swallowed by the Shadow Plane, turning into silent dust.

Gazing over from distant planets, a striking phenomenon of a celestial dog devouring the sun appeared in the sky.

The sun was about to be consumed.

"Truly a troublesome ability."

Li Wei exerted all his strength to halt the fracturing of the sun.

He deployed the Law of Strength to counter the shockwaves caused by the Law of Shockwaves.

Yet he could not prevent the Shadow Plane from swallowing the sun's light and heat.

This was power originating from an entire plane.

It did not belong to that deity; he was merely borrowing this formidable world-strength.

In a daze, Li Wei also understood why the Goddess of Magic believed that as long as they gathered the power of the whole world, they could contend against the gods.

The power of a single world was indeed incomparably vast.

Otherwise, the gods would not have gone to such painstaking lengths to seize the authority of the world, devouring its strength piece by piece.

Li Wei was likewise unable to withstand the erosion from the Shadow Plane.

If it were a stalemate, he could easily hold out for hundreds or even thousands of years.

The two deities from the Underworld would not be able to completely swallow his sun either.

But the Firmament World was in imminent danger.

Who knew if the Firmament World would even exist after hundreds or thousands of years?

Perhaps, this was exactly the outcome the gods desired.

Li Wei had shared an extremely covert conversation with the Goddess of Magic.

It concerned whether the Firmament World could truly break free from the control of the gods.

He could not allow himself to be trapped and left to die here.

Li Wei chose another path—to detonate the sun.

The Law of Strength acted upon the interior of the sun, constantly elevating its internal gravitational force.

Gravity originated from mass.

Generally, the greater the mass, the greater the gravity.

Under the influence of the Law of Strength, the sun's mass underwent no change, yet its gravity continued to rise relentlessly.

Until the gravitational force within the sun exceeded the limit that its matter could withstand.

The entire sun collapsed inward.

Rose felt everything around her pressing in.

She realized something was wrong.

“What are you doing?”

“Let me go!”

Rose’s face changed drastically as she screamed in terror.

The sun was undergoing changes even she had never known.

She sensed an immense crisis—a life-or-death peril.

The transformation about to occur in the sun was enough to unleash power capable of destroying gods.

In the Astral Realm, two divine beings watched the rapidly shrinking sun with expressions of astonishment.

“What is going on?”

“What happened?”

The scene before them surpassed their understanding.

Humanity had observed the cosmos for eons, witnessing the death of stars only through advanced instruments and mathematical theories.

Gods who had lived for millennia, tens of thousands of years, or even hundreds of thousands or millions of years—

in the lifespan of a star, which spanned billions or tens of billions of years, were but brief as ephemeral insects born at dawn and dead by dusk.

Gods often preferred looking down upon the world; they rarely gazed up at the heavens.

It was difficult for them to witness the death of a sun after tens of billions of years.

What would become of the sun after it died?

The first stage was the collapse of matter.

The sun's density increased rapidly. The collapsing material underwent violent fusion reactions, transforming matter into energy that burst forth.

From a distant planet, the spectacle appeared as a magnificent and dazzling supernova explosion.

But for any life caught within the range of such an eruption—

even gods—the sight bore no relation to grandeur or magnificence.

To them, it was the color of death.

Gods who had never seen a supernova witnessed firsthand the entire process from the sun's collapse to its explosive end.

As they had wished.

The sun was destroyed.

Yet it was not destroyed by them.

Li Wei had deliberately triggered the destruction of this sun.

He burned away everything the sun held, unleashing one final, dazzling brilliance upon the world.

The moment the two gods sensed mortal danger, they turned and fled.

But the speed of the supernova was too great.

In an instant, their figures vanished into the radiant glow of the cosmic explosion.

Li Wei once imagined whether detonating a sun could destroy a divine realm.

Now he knew the answer.

If it were a god-realm like the Golden Prairie, a single solar detonation could obliterate it tens of thousands of times over.

This was a force that even gods feared.

Mapleleaf City—just after sunset, the sky darkened.

People lit lamps, preparing for nightfall.

Suddenly, a beam of light appeared in the sky, illuminating everything.

It dispelled the darkness, brighter than daylight itself.

No one could look directly at the radiance from beyond.

Anyone stepping outside felt searing heat burning their skin.

Everyone took shelter indoors.

Even the defensive arrays of the mage towers activated, struggling to block the intense light pouring down.

Li Wei stood at the edge of his balcony, gazing toward the heavens.

Toward the direction of the recently ignited sun.

Toward the direction of the supernova.

Guthvie approached from behind, shielding her eyes with her right hand, squinting as she asked in shock, “What’s happening? What is this?”

The sky outside blazed with blinding white light.

There were no clouds, no sun—only endless radiance when one looked up.

Stare too long, and even a professional’s eyes would ache, perhaps even go temporarily blind.

Li Wei wrapped his arms around Guthvie’s shoulders and guided her back inside.

“It’s nothing. Just some unexpected developments. I didn’t expect that sun to be so close to the Skyvault World. It caused a bit of an impact.”

Guthvie didn’t quite understand what Li Wei meant.

Still, if he said it was nothing, then there was no need to worry.

The blinding white light blanketing the Skyvault World lasted a full month.

During that time, most regions of the world remained under perpetual daylight.

Many invading races from other worlds found themselves unable to endure the relentless glare.

Some previously precarious defense lines inexplicably held firm.

Especially those facing invaders from the Underworld and the Dark Realms.

When the light erupted, they fled in disarray, abandoning armor and weapons alike.

Only after a month did Li Wei, in the Astral Realm, manage to intercept part of the radiation heading toward the Skyvault World.

Compared to the total energy released by the supernova, it might not have reached even one hundred millionth.

“You’re completely insane!”

Rose shouted, perched atop Li Wei’s shoulder.

Her body had shrunk significantly—

now less than the size of a palm.

Li Wei replied calmly, “If you survive, consider yourself lucky. Don’t provoke me, or I’ll crush you with one slap.”

Rose fell silent.

To survive, Rose had made an immeasurably heavy sacrifice.

She was no longer a deity.

Her divinity had been entirely given to Levi.

Her divine body was also gone.

The current form she inhabited was an ordinary spider’s body, shaped by Levi using the power of nature’s divine might.

All that remained of Rose was her self-awareness.

She had lost all her powers.

Levi had chosen to spare her life because Rose had offered him a proposal that stirred his heart.

Two streaks of light surged upstream, flying toward the source of the supernova explosion.

They were two divine essences.

Levi grasped the two essences, and thirteen-colored divine flames erupted in his palms.

The thirteenth color was Rose’s purple.

With a firm squeeze, the two essences shattered, rapidly burning away into nothingness within the divine fire.

He now held dominion over two laws of the underworld realm.

The divine flame revealed its fourteenth and fifteenth colors.

Levi chose the path of ultimate ascension—to burn everything away in order to become a god.

His divine flame, born from unwavering belief, possessed the power to incinerate all things.

This was also why Levi could use stars as fuel, burning them to transform into divine energy.

Gods and divine essences were also fuel.

Levi could, like the gods, burn entire worlds into divine power.

But compared to burning worlds, he had better fuel at his disposal.

After experiencing the supernova’s explosion,

Levi comprehended the law of elemental birth and death amidst absolute destruction.

More precisely, he had grasped the law of elemental annihilation.

He had yet to comprehend the law of elemental creation.

However, once the progress bar of understanding had begun,

For Levi, mastering the true law of elemental birth and death was merely a matter of time.

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The sun had already transformed into a supernova and fully erupted.

This eruption would continue for a long time.

In the end, the sun would become a neutron star less than ten kilometers in diameter, drifting silently through the void.

A harbinger of death in the darkness.

Any object that drew near would be torn apart by its immense gravitational pull.

If the sun had been twenty times more massive,

It would have ultimately collapsed into a black hole that devoured everything.

Levi was grateful that the ignited sun would not evolve into a black hole.

Otherwise, the not-so-distant Sky World—though it had escaped the clutches of the gods—would still be swallowed by the black hole in the future.

Levi left the still-exploding supernova.

He went in search of a new sun.

Levi extended his finger, slicing open a spatial rift and opening a passage through space.

He said to Rose, “It’s time to fulfill your promise.”

Rose resisted, “You’ve taken all my power. How can I possibly accomplish what I promised you?”

Levi replied, “That’s your problem. Not mine.”

He tossed Rose into the spatial passage and teleported toward the nearest star.

Divine flame ignited the star, transforming it into an endless stream of divine energy.

To trigger the sun’s explosion, Levi had just expended ninety percent of his divine power.

He sought another star to rebuild his strength.

To prepare for what lay ahead.

What came next would require vast amounts of divine energy to achieve his goal.

Divine power was the force that drove changes in the laws governing reality.

To alter the fundamental rules of the world required an enormous amount of divine energy to resist the existing order of natural law.

It was the power to reshape heaven and earth.

What Levi was about to do was no less than reshaping the heavens and overturning the earth.

Before that, however, he first needed to fully grasp the Law of Elemental Birth and Death.

Levi sank deep into the heart of the sun, accumulating divine power while comprehending the law.

Within the Sky World,

The month-long polar day finally ended.

People rushed out of their homes, singing and dancing joyfully in celebration of the disaster's passing.

Levi stood on the balcony of the mage tower, gazing down at the citizens of Mapleleaf City as they danced and sang.

There was still time to be happy.

Soon, there would be no chance for such joy again.

In his heart, Levi secretly harbored doubts about the goddess of magic’s plan.

He couldn’t be one hundred percent certain it would succeed.

“The will of the world within the Weave—it’s time to go find it.”

Levi told Gusevi about his intention to enter the Weave.

Once inside, he might no longer have the mental capacity to pay attention to the outside world.

Gusevi was somewhat surprised, unable to understand why Levi, having already become a demigod with power rivaling that of deities,

Would still need to enter the Weave.

Wasn’t the Weave something only weak mages relied upon?

Though she did not understand, whatever Li Wei chose to do, she supported him with all her might.

"Go with peace of mind. I will wait for you to return, always."

(End of Chapter)