Chapter 638 - 425: Dao Rhyme (2)

Therefore, having the Book Spirit check his body for abnormalities after each return had become a necessary procedure.

The next second, a soft white light enveloped him. A pleasant warmth spread through his body, as comfortable as soaking in a hot spring.

"DING! A True Divine Seal has been detected on Reader 10036. Removal will require 100,000 payment! Do you wish to proceed with removal?"

"A True Divine Seal!"

Xu Shu’s expression changed drastically.

He carefully scanned himself with his senses but found nothing.

"What is that thing?"

"Acquiring information about the True Divine Seal requires a payment of one hundred. Proceed?"

Xu Shu’s expression darkened.

But he was all too familiar with the Book Spirit’s rules.

He could only answer,

"Yes!"

The moment he spoke, a line of information appeared in his mind—the details of the True Divine Seal on his body.

This is a power imprint from an eternal life form.

Once It discovers you have deceived It, you will face a reckoning, and the price will be more than you can bear.

Of course, if It does not find fault with you, then you will remain unharmed.

’An eternal life form?’

Xu Shu’s eyes flickered as he instantly recalled the Forbidden Mecha he had encountered on Iron Rock Star.

The sense of oppression it exuded was unimaginably terrifying.

If anyone could have left such a brand on him, it could only be an existence like that.

He thought the matter was over, but he never expected it would leave something like this on him.

While it didn’t seem harmful for now, it was a ticking time bomb, and someone else held the detonator.

Naturally, Xu Shu wanted to have it removed if possible.

But that would cost 100,000 payment.

That was enough to exchange for a complete S-Level Bloodline or Cultivation Technique.

He couldn’t afford it even if he sold himself.

...

Xu Shu’s departure had no effect on the world he had left behind.

「Back in the original world.」

The sun was still expanding.

It was like a searing hot air balloon being slowly inflated. Its once-sharp silhouette grew hazy, as if melting into a roiling sea of light.

Massive tongues of fire churned on the sun’s surface, intertwining and colliding with a deafening roar.

Its volume continued to grow, its light growing more brilliant. The color shifted from deep red to fiery orange-yellow, and finally to a blinding, incandescent white.

As the sun’s expansion continued, the solar flares grew more violent, spreading outward like torrential waterfalls of magma, indiscriminately spewing superheated matter.

The corona was also expanding. The plasma within seemed to have broken its bonds, gathering immense energy to form terrifying solar storms that swept out in all directions.

Everything in their path was pulled and twisted by this immense force.

The twelve planets orbiting the sun began to destabilize, and alarming cracks appeared on their shields.

Once the shields shattered,

not a single living being on the twelve planets would survive. They would either die in the terrifying solar storms or be dragged into the sun by the increasing, distorted gravity and consumed by the flames.

Unfortunately, even knowing the outcome,

no one had any way to stop it.

...

Dark Realm thugs, civilians, the upper class, those in power, Mecha Masters—all were equal in the face of such a terrifying cataclysm.

There would be no special treatment.

Just as everyone waited in despair for the end to come,

the next second,

the ever-expanding sun suddenly stopped. Its blazing light began to dim, as if suppressed by some unknown force.

The planetary higher-ups were stunned to discover through their monitoring equipment that a colossal shadow had faintly appeared within the sun. It resembled a boundless, giant serpent, swimming through the sun’s core.

The scientists quickly reached a shocking conclusion.

The sun’s energy was being devoured by this mysterious, giant serpent.

But this was the sun.

How could any life exist in such a Purgatory, where temperatures reached millions of degrees?

Let alone a giant serpent capable of devouring a star’s energy.