Chapter 510: Wuming: I Should Be the One to Become a God!

After they left, Su Mu repeated the process and set to work on his old acquaintance, the Celestial Sovereign of Longevity.

With the experience from his last attempt, this God-Slaying only took a single year to successfully erase the Celestial Sovereign of Longevity's consciousness. The price, however, was another month of being completely drained.

The toll of God-Slaying was simply too immense to recover from in such a short time.

Following the Celestial Sovereign of Longevity's death, the massive divine tree began to wither. Its green leaves instantly yellowed, plummeted, and dissipated into the void.

The trunk and roots soon followed, dissolving completely.

No matter how many times he witnessed a god pass away, the sight remained awe-inspiring.

With the Celestial Sovereign of Longevity dealt with, Su Mu entered recovery mode once more. Wuming was as punctual as ever; the very second Su Mu finished recuperating, he arrived without a moment's delay.

Without resting, Wuming immediately brought Su Mu to the next Divine Realm.

God-Slaying, resting, and then more God-Slaying. This endless cycle actually gave Su Mu the feeling of working a routine job.

Ten years later.

Twisted Divine Domain.

This was a bizarre space resembling the starry expanse of the cosmos, yet it contained no stars. There were only swirling distortion vortices of varying sizes.

These distortion vortices spun silently, looking as if they could devour all sound and light in the world. They varied greatly in scale—the largest spanned a million li across and blotted out everything, while the smallest were as tiny as a fist.

Su Mu sat properly within the largest distortion vortex. Endless crystalline blue light surged from his body, continuously seeping into the maelstrom.

In the distance, Wuming stared unblinkingly at the massive vortex, muttering with near-sickly obsession, "The last one... Just this final one left!"

Amidst his murmurs, the vortices scattered across the starry sky suddenly ceased their spinning. A chain of pops followed—

Billions of shattering sounds rang out. At the exact same moment, every single vortex shattered and returned to nothingness!

Su Mu slowly opened his eyes. The crystalline blue light within them extinguished, and a smile surfaced on his pale face. "From this day forth, the world... is without gods!"

"No, you are wrong. There is still one god left," Wuming's eerie voice rang out.

"Oh?" Su Mu raised an eyebrow. "Who?"

"You!" Wuming snapped his head up, his once calm face now crawling with ferocity.

"Three Thousand Laws, heed my command!"

"Seal!" He pointed a finger across the void at Su Mu.

Rumble—!

The heavens and earth trembled violently. The massive Great Web of Law instantly manifested from higher dimensions, crashing down to suppress Su Mu.

The Laws covered all things in the world, naturally including this Divine Realm. With the Great Web of Law unleashed, Su Mu had absolutely nowhere to hide.

Watching the massive net of Laws descending toward him, Su Mu shook his head in resignation. "Is this how you repay me?"

The current Wuming seemed like a completely different, unfamiliar person. A fire called ambition burned in his eyes as he sneered, "You are also a god, so you deserve to die!"

"And what about you?"

"Hmph! I am not like you. My heart is set entirely on the continuation of the human race. I should be the one to become a god!"

Clap, clap, clap...

Su Mu couldn't help but applaud him. "Such righteous double standards are truly admirable. However, are you certain you can seal me?"

Wuming sneered repeatedly. "I know your methods inside and out. Otherwise, why do you think I chose to seal you instead of killing you? Your trick of hiding in dreams cannot evade the Laws! Do not forget, the Three Thousand Laws also contain powers pertaining to dreams!"

The next moment, the Great Web of Law completely enveloped the dream state Su Mu resided in, then slowly contracted.

An invisible binding force wrapped tightly around Su Mu. He was sealed within the dream, unable to escape. Even the dream itself was solidified within the Twisted Divine Domain.

Seeing his plan succeed, Wuming threw his head back and laughed wildly, the flames of ambition blazing fiercely in his eyes.

"No one can stop me from becoming a god anymore! Hahaha..."

"So this was your goal? Use me to kill all the gods, and then ascend to godhood yourself?" Even sealed, a smile still hung on Su Mu's pale face.

"Exactly! The gods are the source of all disaster, so the gods must die. But the human race needs its own guardian deity, and that will be me!" Wuming laughed maniacally.

"Didn't you say before that for you to become a god, you would need to kill all Transcendents in the world to fuse the Three Thousand Laws..."

"Hmph!" Wuming interrupted. "Ascending to godhood naturally requires a price. Killing all Transcendents isn't exterminating the human race. On the contrary, after they die, the remaining humans will live far better under my protection!"

"Then why didn't you become a god sooner? Why wait until after I killed all the gods to make your move?"

Wuming looked at Su Mu mockingly. "I know you are stalling for time, hoping to recover your strength and break the seal. However... that is nothing but wishful thinking.

"I admit that I wouldn't be able to seal you at your peak. But right now, you are completely drained. You need a full month to recover completely, and that month is more than enough time for me to kill all the Transcendents and become a god!

"They are connected to my Three Thousand Laws; killing them will be effortless!

"So I am showing you mercy by letting you die understanding the truth. The commotion caused by ascending to godhood is too great, especially when fusing the all-encompassing Three Thousand Laws. It would trigger celestial phenomena and awaken all the slumbering gods.

"Ever since the God-Slaying war, the gods have been hostile toward one another. Naturally, they would never allow me to ascend, so they had to die first!"

"Oh..." Su Mu feigned a look of sudden realization. "So that's how it is. Thank you for clearing that up for me."

Wuming gave Su Mu a mocking glance. "Stay here and enjoy the rest of your life. Once I inherit the majority of the Heavenly Venerate of Myriad Laws' power, I will return to kill you. After you die, there will be no more Transcendents in the world, and I will become the complete Heavenly Venerate of Myriad Laws!"

With that said, he turned and began to leave.

But right at that moment, Su Mu called out to him.

"Please wait a moment."

Wuming's footsteps paused. He turned back and said coldly, "I have no interest in hearing you beg for mercy, and I hope you don't. After all, you and I are the only two beings in the world who have fused with the origin of a True God. Do not tarnish my status."

Su Mu smiled faintly. "Actually, that's exactly what I wanted to say. I hope you won't beg for mercy later."

Hum!!

Crystalline blue light erupted outward. At this moment, Su Mu was like a deity looking down upon the world. A terrifying might spread from his body, causing the entire Twisted Divine Domain to shake violently!

He took a step forward, leisurely walking right out of the Law's seal.

"What!?" Wuming was greatly shocked. "That's impossible. Your power is clearly depleted; how could you possibly walk out of my seal!"

Feeling the vast aura radiating from Su Mu, Wuming's expression changed wildly. "No... That's not right! Your aura... Why has it grown stronger!?"

Su Mu walked toward him step by step, an elegant smile hanging on his lips. "Because I found the last piece of the Xuantian Origin."

Wuming's pupils abruptly shrank. "How is that possible! I searched all over Heaven, and there was absolutely no Xuantian Origin... Where did you find it!"

"Oh?" A look of surprise flashed through Su Mu's eyes. "Didn't you hand it to me yourself?"

"I handed it to you..." Wuming suddenly froze as a thought of disbelief flashed through his mind. "The Three Thousand Laws!!"

"Smart," Su Mu praised. "If the Xuantian Origin couldn't be found anywhere in the world, that meant it could only be in the hands of the gods. But if it couldn't be found in the major Divine Realms either, guess... where would it be?"

For a moment, Wuming felt like falling into an ice cave. His lips trembled as he spoke. "There are twelve True Gods in the world. If it couldn't be found across the ten great Divine Realms, then it could only be in the hands of the last two fallen gods.

"And of the two fallen gods, one is Xuan Tian, and the other is... the Heavenly Venerate of Myriad Laws!"

"Correct." Su Mu had already arrived right in front of Wuming, watching him with a smile. "The last piece of the Xuantian Origin was fused into the Three Thousand Laws by the Heavenly Venerate of Myriad Laws long ago. I'm guessing that during the God-Slaying war back then, when Xuan Tian stole the Creator's Authority, a portion of his origin was severed by the Heavenly Venerate of Myriad Laws.

"Otherwise, why would there be a Law pertaining to dreams among the Three Thousand Laws? For example... the Bronze Law Sequence 1, Dream Journey Spirit Trace!"