Chapter 512: The Villain Was Actually Me?

Seeing Wuming's sudden appearance, Su Mu wasn't surprised. Instead, a long-absent smile touched his lips. It was like a sudden breeze blowing through a sweltering room, sweeping away all his stifling boredom.

"I like this kind of surprise."

"You won't be smiling for long," Wuming said calmly.

Right at that moment—bang!

The door to the room flew open.

Yang Dongqing, Nangong Mengli, Jun Wushang, and the other members of the Seven Deadly Sins walked in one by one to stand behind Wuming.

They seemed like completely different people now—utterly alien, their faces devoid of emotion as they stared coldly at Su Mu.

Su Mu noticed a golden chain connected to the center of each of their chests. As if cast from divine gold, the chains stretched endlessly into the void.

He narrowed his eyes and looked up. His deep gaze pierced the roof, landing upon the firmament.

There, the massive web formed by the stars of the Three Thousand Laws had already blanketed the entire world. Billions of golden chains cascaded down from those Stars of Law.

He also saw that the courtyard outside was completely surrounded by the people of the Temple of God Slaying, along with a boundless sea of Transcendents. They formed a puppet army millions strong, all of them expressionless, and all bearing a golden chain linked to their chests.

Every Transcendent in the Illusion Ash Realm had converged here. Even from beyond the realm's borders, countless more chained Transcendents were rushing to join them.

At this moment, Su Mu felt as if he were standing in an icy wasteland surrounded by raging blizzards, with all the freezing cold in the world converging upon him. The entire world was truly his enemy!

"Do you think gathering all the Transcendents in the world is enough to deal with a God?" Su Mu smiled. "Especially a God who has fused with the Creator's Authority?"

Wuming's eyes were as placid as an ancient well. "Fusing with the Creator's Authority takes time. Back then, both the Heavenly Venerate of Myriad Laws and Xuan Tian obtained the Creator's Authority, but did either of them succeed in fusing with it? They couldn't do it, and you... will be no different.

"Stop thinking about struggling and look at your chest."

Su Mu looked down, a brilliant golden light reflecting in his eyes. Shockingly, a golden chain was connected to his chest as well.

Suddenly, he found that he couldn't move his body—as if it no longer belonged to him at all.

"All of you Transcendents advanced step by step from the Bronze Law, unaware that the moment you connected to the Laws to gain power, you were bound ever deeper by them. Little by little, you placed yourselves right into the spider's web.

"And now... it is time for me to pull in the net." Wuming's calm face radiated the confidence of absolute victory.

Su Mu smiled faintly. A soul radiating crystal-blue light slowly stepped out of his body, casting off the restraints of the flesh.

His physical body was indeed linked to the Laws, but his soul was the God of Nightmares.

However, once he completely separated from his physical form, he realized that... a golden chain was connected to his soul as well.

"This is..."

"Have you still not realized?" Wuming looked indifferently at Su Mu. "Do you really think you were the one who discovered the Xuantian Origin back then? That was merely me letting you find it. The Xuantian Origin transformed into the Dream Law many years ago, and I tampered with it long before that. While this little trick isn't enough to completely bind a God... it is at least enough to leave you with nowhere to run."

Su Mu looked at the golden chain linked to his soul and felt a sense of restraint. The confinement wasn't intense, nor did it hinder his normal movements, but it firmly locked him into the Real World, preventing him from escaping into the illusory dreams.

"Run? You prepared such a wonderful surprise for me, I'm too thrilled to even think about running." Su Mu paused, sweeping his gaze over Yang Dongqing and the others before laughing. "However, this much of a surprise isn't enough."

Over the past ten-odd years, Yang Dongqing had long since become a Demigod. In the Divine Dream World, he had reached the apex of the Gold King tier. Upon arriving in Heaven, he connected to the Saint Law and advanced to the Saint Grade. Later, Su Mu had given him Heilong's Divine Corpse, the Firmament-Swallowing Lord, allowing him to advance to the Demigod Realm.

Besides Yang Dongqing, King Chi and Duanmu Qing had also advanced to the Demigod Realm. King Chi fused with the Lord of Illusory Ashes' Sovereign of Flame Hell, and Duanmu Qing fused with the Lord of Dawn's Merciful Holy Mother of Myriad Blossoms.

The attributes of these three perfectly matched those three Divine Corpses, allowing them to advance to the Demigod Realm early on.

After becoming Demigods, they rarely had the chance to fight. Usually, they only sparred with one another. To think that today, they could finally go all out—only for their opponent to be Su Mu.

At this moment, Wuming slowly extended a finger and tapped lightly at the endless firmament. Above the four great webs of Laws spanning heaven and earth, an even vaster Law unexpectedly appeared!

This great web of Law was formed from very few stars—only a few hundred—but the overwhelming might contained within each and every star was enough to rival a Demigod!

"Is it enough now?" Wuming asked mildly.

Su Mu narrowed his eyes. "You pulled Demigods into the Laws as well?"

"Correct. I do not merely control all the Transcendents in this world, I control all the Demigods as well! This... is the Demigod Realm Law!

"Today, I shall lead all living beings to jointly strike down a God!"

An earth-shattering aura erupted from Wuming. The Three Thousand Laws resonated, and a terrifying roar echoed across heaven and earth.

This was the culmination of all the transcendent power in the world. It was the power of all living beings.

Even if all living beings were as insignificant as ants before a God, a single spark could start a prairie fire. When they gathered together, their power was something not even a God could ignore.

"Now this is finally getting interesting." As Su Mu spoke, his figure slowly levitated into the air. He abruptly appeared high in the firmament, looking down upon all living beings.

Countless pairs of icy eyes on the earth stared back up at him.

The Transcendents seemed endless as they packed the ground. Even though Su Mu had ascended high into the sky, he couldn't see the end of them.

"Everyone, follow me... God-Slaying!!" Wuming, the master of the Temple of God Slaying, issued his command to all the Transcendents.

This battle between all of humanity and the sole True God, Su Mu, officially began.

In this very moment, Su Mu was suddenly struck by the illusion that the dragonslayer had finally become the dragon. How had he ended up as the evil God standing against all of humanity? His former teammates had turned against him, becoming his enemies. So... the ultimate villain was actually himself?

He couldn't help but laugh. "Forget it, being the villain isn't so bad. It's just that... a villain should at least act the part.

"Come out, all of you."