Chapter 1343: Chapter 1088: Divine Decree_2
"Merge, accelerate!" For some reason, Long Yi always felt that the decree from the god didn’t seem to be in a hurry, as if it wasn’t anxious at all. If the decree were a person, it looked utterly composed, as though it held all the winning cards. Therefore, he immediately made the two consciousnesses merge at a faster pace. This time, the divine decree finally began to panic. However, this time, it didn’t attempt to deploy a rule to interrupt the merging process. Instead, it transformed into a golden sphere of light and collided directly with the God Eater!
The God Eater was immediately subjected to immense pressure because the golden sphere could also consume rules! On one hand, the golden sphere’s decree was devouring the God Eater, while on the other, the God Eater began to devour the divine decree with all its might. The competition was about who could devour faster and whose devouring ability was stronger!
In the past, the God Eater had swallowed many Divine Envoys without encountering any resistance. Could it be that those so-called Divine Envoys did not possess the divine decree at all? Otherwise, how could the divine decree simply watch itself being devoured?
To Long Yi’s surprise, the God Eater was gradually falling behind! It simply wasn’t a match for the divine decree!
Giant strength!
Long Yi marshaled all the Giant’s strength to aid the God Eater. The terrifying power of the Giant surged in, making the God Eater’s light shine even brighter, and the divine decree was suppressed for a moment.
Bang!
Long Yi seemed to hear something shattering— it was actually a layer of shell on the surface of the divine decree! The God Eater’s arcs of electricity twisted and devoured the entire shell. And within that shell, Long Yi actually saw a mask!
It was a golden mask with three eyes. A pair of eyes, akin to those of a Human, closed, but the single eye occupying the entire forehead was round open, staring intently at Long Yi.
"What the hell are you looking at!" roared Long Yi fiercely. The acceleration of the consciousness merger made his head spin, and his temper soured.
"Those who dare to defy the decree shall be sentenced to imprisonment," said the mask, and as it spoke, the mask slowly grew larger, soon covering the entire sky! The God Eater was still desperately devouring, but the mask remained unmoved! Long Yi could feel the God Eater’s power continuously increasing, indicating that it was still consuming rules from the mask. However, the might emanating from the mask even caused Long Yi to feel an occasional loss of consciousness!
"You wish to imprison me? I am curious to know what sort of cage you plan to use to lock me up, hahaha!" Long Yi said weakly.
"Thy Divine Soul shall be divided into 99,999 parts; thy Divine Status shall be divided into 99,999 parts; thy consciousness shall be divided into 99,999 parts. Thou shalt be imprisoned within the Eternal prison, until..."
"Wait a minute!" Long Yi’s loud shout actually interrupted the mask mid-sentence.
"Your last words will not be recorded, but your crimes will be logged in full," said the mask.
"Define your own existence!" Long Yi suddenly roared.
"I am the divine decree, the watcher of God," said the mask.
"Whom do you serve!" Long Yi yelled again.
"Thou dost not possess the authority to know," replied the mask.
"Who allowed you to appear within my consciousness!" Long Yi continued to bellow.
"Thou dost not possess the authority to know," the mask reiterated.
"What relation do you have with the descending Heavenly Kingdom!" Long Yi yelled once more.
"Thou dost not possess the authority to know," the mask spoke in an unchanged tone, continuing in this manner.
"Yes, I know I have no authority, but I am merely delaying time! Because I know, you are not a truly living being, you are just a rule, an artificial intelligence rule. But the one who programmed you apparently overlooked a BUG—that as long as you are receiving external information, like now, when you begin processing my speech, you will interrupt your previous activities. I don’t know whether the person who endowed you with artificial intelligence was too stupid or too confident, to give you only single-threaded processing capabilities. But for me, this is my greatest chance for survival because I can use this time to keep stalling, until my God Eater completes its first evolution!"
Boom!
The gluttonous snakes that had densely surrounded him suddenly coiled into a ball, transforming into a spherical lightning bolt. Then, that ball-shaped lightning bolt suddenly stretched out and turned into a new gluttonous snake!
This time, the gluttonous snake had a solid form, just like a real snake with a head and a tail, no longer made up of wild electric arcs, but completely composed of light.
Buzz!
The gluttonous snake opened its mouth, and a beam of light directly hit the single eye of the mask.
"Warning, experiencing external rule invasion, emergency cessation of the punishment process, beginning the clearance of external rules."
Incomprehensible Divine Texts emerged around the mask, these texts flowed furiously, then repeatedly struck the God Eater’s body. However, every Divine Text that hit the gluttonous snake disappeared instantly upon impact—now, the gluttonous snake was much more powerful than before.
"Warning, the external rule codenamed ’God Eater’ second stage identified, unable to confront directly, proceed to immediately destroy Divine Status and Divine Soul and then self-destruct, to erase all traces!"
The mask issued another voice.
"Gluttonous snake, find the core rule immediately! Seize control for me!" Long Yi shouted. At this moment, Long Yi’s face was quite terrifying, for the fact that such a thing had lurked inside his head for so long without his knowledge made him feel extremely unpleasant. This God’s Law Decree was only a rule used for remote monitoring; who knows who might be watching from above!
Without delay, the gluttonous snake turned into countless small spheres of light, which again transformed into electric arcs that gripped tightly within the mask. In the blink of an eye, the enormous mask began to shrink continuously, finally reducing to the size of a palm and falling into Long Yi’s hand. The gluttonous snake then drilled out from the single eye on the forehead of the mask, carrying a tiny sphere of light in its mouth.
The structure of the entire sphere was simple—it was a strangely shaped Rune, surrounded by numerous dense, small Runes. Long Yi did not recognize the central Rune, but he knew the small Runes around it were a form of Divine Text.
Is this the control core?
"Disassemble it for me, I want to see where this thing came from," Long Yi commanded the gluttonous snake.
The gluttonous snake was even more eager, and with one bite, the core immediately disintegrated into countless tiny rules within its stomach. At the same time, Long Yi could access the knowledge about these rules.
"This thing, it actually comes from the Heavenly Kingdom?" Long Yi murmured.
The descended Heavenly Kingdom, the source of all the Giant’s knowledge, the precious treasure trove that truly made the Giants what they are now.
And now, Long Yi received a new name.
Heavenly Kingdom, and not the descended Heavenly Kingdom. That meant somewhere, there existed such a tremendously powerful world. A world with highly advanced technology, with divine mastery over energy. A world that, in the eyes of us mere living beings, was countless times more powerful than a god, because they could actually command gods!
God’s Law Decree, coming from the Heavenly Kingdom.
If one does not obey God’s Law Decree, they will be split into ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine parts.
Just like the gods of this Plane.
Clearly, Long Yi now understood why the gods split themselves into so many parts—it was definitely not out of their own volition, but because of the punishment from God’s Law Decree. As to why God’s Law Decree would punish her, Long Yi did not know, nor did he want to know; he just felt he had reached the utmost point of exhaustion, he needed to rest deeply.
Long Yi withdrew from his own consciousness, surprised to find that he was indeed holding a mask in his hands. But he no longer had any interest in these matters, he needed to rest. He fell into a deep sleep, his consciousness and Divine Soul still slowly merging. Amidst this, various inexplicable rules and patterns kept emerging, but aided by the helmet, Long Yi forced his brain into a protective state, paying no further attention to these changes.
The gluttonous snake wriggled out of Long Yi’s hand and circled above the mask, protecting Long Yi, with its light flickering. (To be continued. If you like this work, please visit Qidian (qidian.com) to cast your recommendation votes and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)
