Chapter 138 Of Course, That's My Fault!

Of course, all of this was just Elias' speculation, and Su Zhou had a different view.

"Leaving aside the fact that the four elemental souls were all created by me... if there are no accidents, even the arrival of the Age of Water shouldn't exceed the ordinary Overlord realm by too much, right? Not to mention the level of an Immortal Celestial, I'm still far from reaching that. Where would they get the foundation?"

As the chief engineer of the New Era back then, Su Zhou was an authority in this regard. However, he didn't know what the situation in the Tartadis world had been like for the past few hundred years, so he couldn't comment. But he still had a clear idea of the general foundation.

Of course, in other respects, Elias' speculation was not far from the truth.

"A pirate who wants to become the God of Water... A people of Wind and Fire who entered the sea because of betrayal and a desire for freedom."

Walking towards the center of the Dawn Plain with Elias, thinking about the situation in this world, even Su Zhou couldn't help but shake his head slightly. He smiled wryly and looked at his student, "Ah, so it turns out everything is because of that Source Water Soul I threw down in the past?"

Then, standing in the clouds, he looked down at the Sacred Fire Tower in the center of the Central Sanctuary. The youth's voice became firm, "In that case, since it's a mess I left behind... then of course, it should be cleaned up by me."

"It's time to eliminate this karma!"

But after hearing Su Zhou's resolute answer, Elias frowned instead.

[Wait, Teacher, what does this have to do with you?]

He turned his head in confusion and looked at his teacher: [Isn't this my fault?]

"It's my fault!"

But Su Zhou turned his head, glared at Elias, and said with a strong momentum, "The Soul of Water was thrown by my own hand. Let's be rational here, why isn't this my fault?!"

[...True, indeed...]

The young god, having been refuted in this regard, was stunned for a moment. He didn't understand why his teacher's admission of guilt was so imposing, it didn't feel like an admission at all, but rather like 'I'm wrong! I'm honest!'

This confused him.

Opening his mouth, after a long while, Elias lowered his voice and said: [But... even if it is related, shouldn't we clean it up together...]

Speaking of this, his originally somewhat uncertain tone became firm instead.

[After all, it was you, me, and the God of Wind who decided together. We wanted to bring a better future to the children and attract them forward... It's just that wanting good things, but causing the worst results, is something we couldn't have foreseen.]

At this time, the two were already walking in the clouds, having arrived at the center of the Dawn Plain, far from the Central Sanctuary.

The sky was already dark, and rolling thunderclouds churned beneath their feet. Starlight was brilliant, illuminating the sky above the clouds.

Su Zhou stopped, and Elias also stopped.

The youth turned his head, looking at Elias, he smiled calmly: "Elias, you have always been working hard for this world."

"I originally thought you had other intentions, such as planning to use precepts to regulate the people's wisdom and achieve absolute elite rule with the clergy as the mainstay... Now it seems, I misunderstood you."

And the boyish god took off the solar crown from his head, his white hair and robe fluttering in the wind. He carefully sent it back to the distant Central Holy City with his spiritual power, and then smiled apologetically at Su Zhou: [Ah, this crown was forged by my believers with the first piece of fine gold they refined. I don't want to break it.]

[And, it is indeed my fault. If I hadn't failed to regulate the judgment process of the Judgement Dragon, neither pirates nor rebels, nor even those with ulterior motives among my believers, would have appeared.]

Looking around at the vast, uninhabited plain, Elias sighed softly: [Perhaps, this is fate...]

"No, this is a choice."

Su Zhou interrupted, the youth's tone solemn: "Life always requires choices, even if the final result is not what you want—you can't say that every result you don't want is due to fate."

"That's the path you chose, it's just wrong, and you need to learn to admit your mistakes."

After saying that, he was silent for a while. Su Zhou suddenly revealed a somewhat nostalgic smile. He looked at the outline of the distant Dawn Holy Mountain, and then said softly, "I suddenly thought, isn't Zhou Buyi the same?"

And Elias, who was no longer standing beside Su Zhou but had come to face him, asked with some confusion: [Who is Zhou Buyi?]

"A person I once helped, a friend, someone I knew a little earlier than you."

Withdrawing his gaze, Su Zhou stretched his arms, he commented fairly: "He is also a... person similar to you. A little more extreme, because he is very lonely, but you have a better mentality, after all, you are young."

Speaking of this, Su Zhou suddenly felt something was wrong—don't look at Elias's boyish appearance now, but he is actually almost four hundred years old. Compared to him, he is the real young man.

But the truth is one thing, the momentum cannot be lost. After all, all the Fire people are essentially his descendants and dependents, and so is Elias.

As for the dependents being older than him... can the affairs of transcendent beings be calculated by age?

He is indeed an elder!

Obviously, Elias didn't expect Su Zhou to be essentially in his early twenties. He didn't see that, but instead took it for granted that he was indeed young and still needed to learn, so he curiously asked: [Did that person also respect you, Teacher? Did you also separate from him for a long time?]

"Yes. He did respect me, and as for the time we separated, it was less than the time I separated from you."

Su Zhou nodded, met Elias' eyes, he could see flames burning in the other's gray eyes, and the power of elements condensed to the extreme was quietly pulsating in the other's body, so the youth smiled and nodded: "And, the most similar thing is that, like you, he also wants to challenge me."

[...You found out, Teacher.]

Elias's lips curled up, and an invisible red-golden halo was condensing behind him. The air, which had cooled down due to the rain, began to rise gradually, causing rolling heat waves to surge in mid-air.

"Of course, let's not talk about how you hardly concealed it. From the initial collision of spiritual power, and the subsequent confrontation, you have been trying to probe my bottom line."

Su Zhou lowered his head, glanced at the surrounding plain, and shook his head: "And coming to the central part of the Dawn Plain, far from the Central Sanctuary, and sending your fragile crown back... this is almost an obvious hint."

The youth was somewhat nostalgic: "And Zhou Buyi was the same—from the very beginning when he met me, he wanted to challenge me, and he has been looking for reasons to fight me ever since."

"You guys are all the same."

And Elias just chuckled, He gazed at the youth in front of him, gazed at this 'god' who had finally returned, and said with emotion: [That's natural, Teacher.]

[I, spent a long and lonely time, leading my people forward together.]

[Four hundred years have passed, I have led the Fire people to grow, develop, and build civilizations and kingdoms, becoming a true god and leader.]

At this moment, Su Zhou and Elias were both located three thousand meters above the Dawn Plain, with flowing clouds churning beneath them, like a rushing, unceasing flowing earth.

And now, as a red-golden circular halo bloomed above the sky, like a bright sun, causing the galloping clouds to be pushed away, breaking a large hole.

The white-haired boyish god stood in mid-air, walking barefoot in the atmosphere, step by step towards a higher place, and with each step, the radiance around him became more fiery and vigorous. Elias met Su Zhou's eyes as he smiled and looked up, his tone becoming more confident: [Of course, I have indeed made mistakes, but now, I am different from the little boy of four hundred years ago, who could only watch you desperately try to save the world.]

[Now, I can also plan the order I designed—even if you don't come, I can save this world and redefine the new order and era.]

And at this moment, He looked at Su Zhou with a rare expression of excitement and anticipation: [And now, when I have grown to an upper limit, a bottleneck, I suddenly met the leader and helper of my childhood.]

[Have I become a qualified god? Have I become the person I wanted to be?]

[Am I doing well now?]

Speaking of this, Elias's tone became solemn, and he said in a deep voice: [Teacher, please guide me!]

[Let me know, whether I have grown!]

Saying so, Elias stretched out his right hand, five fingers upwards, and gently lifted it.

Instantly, the light of a new star, like the sun, began to condense in his hand. The power of the Lord of Fire manifested, and instantly endless fire elements emerged from all directions like fire raining down from the sky, and then gathered towards the boy's palm.

In this instant, it was like a sun was being held in the palm of his hand, and most of the Dawn Plain was illuminated. Even as the fire elements continued to gather, the scope of its illumination was constantly increasing, and all raised objects cast long shadows on the earth due to this light.

In the distance, at the Central Sanctuary, the clergy who had begun to receive the teams of criminals entering the city raised their heads, and some of them dropped the scriptures in their hands on the ground, forgetting to pick them up.

Aimon was the same. This gray-haired priest sensed the vast fluctuation in the distance, but showed an indifferent smile—no one had more confidence in his god than he did.

And Lumm, who had been escorted back to the city by Matthew and Gale, turned his head and looked into the distance. The purple-haired God-blessed one looked at this scene with a complicated expression, and the great pirate Yarber was the same. The red-haired Sea King gazed at the brilliance in the distance.

"God... god war?" Ishaar took a step forward in disbelief. He wanted to rush over to stop it. This God-blessed one couldn't understand why the two gods, who had been talking so well before, would suddenly start fighting, and it seemed that his Lord was the one who started it first.

But soon, the knight stopped, because he suddenly realized that there was no fighting intent in the distant aura, not even a trace of disgust, hatred, or dissatisfaction.

There was only pure curiosity and anticipation.

And Su Zhou stared at the young Lord of Fire in front of him, as well as the flame in the other's palm. He was a little lost and didn't respond immediately.

And in the face of such an attitude, Elias felt dissatisfied. The boy, holding the sun in his palm, lowered his head with some disappointment: [Could it be that you think I am naive?]

"Ah, no."

And Su Zhou reacted, he shook his head seriously, and then said earnestly: "Of course not."

"I am very satisfied."

Su Zhou narrowed his eyes, his lips slightly raised, and the youth said with some emotion: "Rather, it should be like this."

"Elias, everyone has their own path. I have traveled through so many worlds, and I originally had only a vague concept in my mind, but now, after seeing your resolve, I finally understand this truth."

"Unlike Yala, she thinks that everything in this world is wrong, full of defects... But I, on the other hand, believe that everyone in this world is correct."

Facing the God of Fire who had already shown his power before him, Su Zhou also began to release his spiritual power. Instantly, with the Dragon Pearl-like Heavenly Soul hanging in the night sky, another round of purple-blue blazing sun appeared on the dark sky.

With lightning and thunder flashing in the clouds beneath his feet, erupting with loud rumbling, the youth said calmly: "It's just that some people's correctness is only their own correctness, and some people's correctness is the correctness of more people."

"Moreover, above correctness, there is more correctness, and there is no most correctness. Everyone should continue to work hard and move forward, becoming better, instead of thinking that they are correct and most correct, thereby stagnating."

It could be seen that the Heavenly Soul Pearl, which was still being reorganized, but had already been mostly reorganized, with nine out of ten parts completed, hung above Su Zhou's head, like a crown.

Above it, a corona-like halo of spiritual power flickered, with resentment and wish power swirling and rotating, turning into a vortex, and then black and white karmic fire burst out from it.

—Overlord Realm, Heavenly Soul Karma.

The essence of this realm is to allow cultivators to sublimate their divine powers, sublimate their beliefs, and sublimate their souls, bodies, and techniques.

As long as the cultivators in this realm can constantly understand and explore, they can infinitely improve themselves and sublimate themselves.

Until, they become immortal.

Above this Heavenly Soul Karma, which represents the soul, mysterious rune patterns were slowly emerging, and then slowly changing. It was not caused by reorganization, but a manifestation of 'change' and 'innovation'—this Heavenly Soul would never stop changing.

Because, among all the things in the universe, the only constant is change itself.

This was also the principle that Su Zhou learned from his friend Zhou Buyi.

[So, Teacher, you think I am also correct?]

And hearing Su Zhou's words, Elias was slightly surprised, and he repeated once with some disbelief.

To this, Su Zhou nodded, and then shook his head.

"You have done things right, but you have also done things wrong. You are correct, but you can still be more correct, and you must not be complacent."

"You have not managed the order well, and there is still room for improvement in the legal aspects. You have also made the wrong choices, leading to the birth of pirates, and further leading to the current imbalance of elements, the crisis of the entire Holy Fire Country, and even the Tartadis world."

"So, I am now preparing to give you some pointers... Ah, I'm too lazy to find a reason."

Halfway through speaking, Su Zhou suddenly felt quite bored.

He stood above the dark rain clouds, with his hands behind his back, and then sighed to his disciple, who was like the sun in front of him: "Anyway, you make the first move."

"Just consider it as me guiding a student."

And facing the teacher who was standing with his hands behind his back, Elias, at this moment, couldn't help but recall the long-ago past, the words that Su Zhou had once said to him.

——Even if we are still in reincarnation, we must try to live in a better and happier reincarnation, rather than being satisfied with inferior happiness.

This, perhaps, is the true meaning of 'more correct' and 'innovation' in the teacher's words?

Time flowed.

Four hundred years ago, also in the Dawn Plain, on the Dawn Holy Mountain, a statue of a youth standing with his hands behind his back, and a majestic dragon, was erected.

At that time, the boy, who had already been honored as the Lord of Fire, looked up at this statue, and amid the cheers of the surrounding people, he secretly swore in his heart—one day, when the teacher returns, he will surely be able to hear the whole world praising his name.

Now, Su Zhou has returned, and the name of the Lord of Judgment resounds throughout the heavens and the earth. He has fulfilled his vow.

And Su Zhou has also thoroughly reflected and sublimated his divine powers because of the Lord of Judgment.

In the past, all causes and effects, all cycles, all reincarnations.

In the present, all have meaning, have rewards, and have results.

At this moment, Su Zhou was waiting, he was just waiting calmly for Elias's attack.

And Elias, on the other hand, had calmed down now.

The Lord of Fire held up the sun in his hand, He looked around the entire world—the Central Sanctuary, the clergy, the God-blessed ones, the teams of criminals, as well as the pirates in the distance, and the ten thousand people living in the entire Tartadis.

In the boy's eyes, there was love, regret, remembrance, pity, and self-blame.

And, a hint of pride.

In the past, at the end of the Earth Era, the God of Water attacked with overwhelming force, and endless floods and rain were about to submerge Nasser City. In order to save his people, he did not hesitate to risk his life to detonate the elemental magic circle, just to fight against that irresistible god.

No one knew what kind of resolve the boy had at that time, and what kind of despair the humans had at that time... But now, recalling it, wasn't it just 'unwillingness'?

Because he was unwilling, he had to break fate, because he was unwilling, he had to innovate his own life, and because he was unwilling, he had to break all reincarnation.

Now, a long time has passed since the new era, and all the people are living and working in peace and contentment.

But the boy's resolve in his heart has not changed.

[Compared to the doomsday world of the previous reincarnation era, which was always filled with gray mist, how good is it now, even if I have to eternally collect World Dust as fuel to maintain the existence of this world.]

[I want to protect this era. To protect a better world than before.]

Naturally, there will also be many unpredictable things and disasters in the middle... Perhaps, this is also a kind of reincarnation?

But who cares—if it is reincarnation, then break it!

At this moment, around the Central Sanctuary, all the clergy had walked out of the city.

Among the hundreds of thousands of people, some were in the Enlightenment realm, some were in the Chosen realm, and the four God-blessed ones were also standing outside the city. They were all standing on the vast grassland, watching the two blazing suns confronting each other in the distant sky. The light of the purple-blue thunder wheel and the golden-red blazing sun intertwined, dividing the sky into two different colors.

"My Lord!"

Suddenly, one person put his hands together, and a priest bowed and prayed piously to the slowly blazing sun.

"My Lord!"

Then, there was the second, the third, the fourth...

"Lord of Fire!" "Lord of Fire!" "Lord of Fire!"

Soon, all the clergy were shouting the name of the God of Fire, they were either praying and worshiping piously, or just bowing and putting their hands together, but what remained unchanged was the respect in their hearts.

Everyone in the Tartadis world knew that it was the Lord of Fire who led the people out of barbarism. He lit a bright torch in the darkness, leading generations of Wind and Fire people to establish their own civilization in a strange world, like a long and melodious song.

"My Lord!"

Ishaar was waving the flag representing the God of Fire at this time, and he was also shouting—of course, there were also people praying to the Lord of Judgment, Aimon was smiling and paying tribute to the purple-blue thunder wheel, he did not say a word, but he had firm belief in his heart.

At this moment, Elias, the God of Fire, in the Dawn Plain, heard these voices.

The white-haired god's long hair was dancing wildly in the wind, he showed a smile, and the ends of his hair seemed to start burning, like flames.

And the little sun in his palm was now burning to the extreme, and glittering fluorescent light appeared in the air, and then turned into red-golden translucent waves of wind and poured into this micro sun.

Everything was changing—becoming hot, becoming cold, beginning to dry, beginning to melt.

In the sky above the Dawn Plain, the hot wind began to surge, and on the ground of the Dawn Plain, the tender green vegetation instantly withered under the illumination of the blazing light.

Even, in the end, the surrounding brilliance began to dim, that was because the light sphere was too bright, causing an illusion... And in the dark areas of the distant plain, ice was condensing, because all the fire elements and free energy in the surrounding world were gathering towards the god's palm.

All 'movement' was undergoing corresponding changes, either accelerating or stagnating, and one huge magic circle after another floated behind Elias, forming a circular rune sun.

And in his palm, condensed by the fire elements of the entire Dawn Plain, the golden-red fireball, like the sun, was pulsating with extremely hot power, it was pulsating like a heart, overflowing with endless light and heat.

If such a strike were to bombard down, if it were aimed at the Central Sanctuary, it would instantly raze the city to the ground, and even the surrounding Dawn Holy Mountain would probably not be spared. Even the aftershocks would probably burn the Dawn Plain into a lava hell, and the hot wind would affect thousands of miles.

[Teacher, I have not created a perfect world, and I am not perfect.]

Speaking so softly to himself, Elias could sense that the wish power of hundreds of thousands of people in the distant Central Sanctuary was surging towards him mightily, everyone's cheers, prayers, and sincerity were unparalleled, shaking the heavens and the earth. It seemed to turn into a warm wind blowing on his face, making his heart surge.

In this instant, the Lord of Fire's power rose to the limit!

[So, for a better world, even if I sacrifice myself, I will not hesitate!]

[This is my resolve——For all the people, for this world, the resolve of a god!]

——Elias, four hundred years of contemplation... The moment of sublimation!

In the turbulent gale, the boy solemnly pushed out the little sun in his hand, as if pushing out a star.

There was a moment of deathly silence in the world.

The high-altitude troposphere and rain clouds instantly began to burn and boil violently.

In an instant, extreme heat ignited the air, erupting with bright, burning light bands above the entire Dawn Plain. It emitted a strong light, igniting all combustible gases and dust, causing endless fire rain to fall within a hundred miles, and even the rain clouds sublimated and dissipated.

And the little sun dragged such a bright river of light upside down over the design, it leaped across the sky, carrying the light of destruction, and flew towards Su Zhou!

This was the true power of a god!

"You want to change the world through sacrifice?"

And facing the full-strength strike of his nominally student, Su Zhou's Heavenly Soul Karma above his head became brighter and brighter. He laughed loudly, but his eyes flashed with a fierce light. The youth's right hand had already reached into his personal space: "My student, today I will teach you one last lesson!"

"My old friend Zhou Buyi once said this to me, and now, I will say it to you once!"

After saying that, he had already drawn out the World Tree Spear from his personal space. Endless wish power brilliance flowed on the cyan-white sacred wood spear, and in the next instant, with Su Zhou's spiritual power injected, a powerful and unparalleled force began to strengthen this spear, causing winding and spiraling rune patterns to emerge on its bright outer side.

In this instant, a huge dragon-snake phantom appeared behind Su Zhou, the incarnation of the Zhuzhou Dragon roared, and then turned into a surging spiritual power light stream, howling thunder, all poured into the World Tree Spear.

At this moment, it was like thousands of thunderbolts were condensed by Su Zhou in his hand, rolling plasma and ball lightning danced like fireflies, and thousands of Lan seeds turned into a dense wind fog, like a drill, wrapping around the top of the spear.

Then, it began to rotate!

Su Zhou's power comes from many sources. The thunder techniques and Lan armor from the Sacred Wood world, the Water Assistance and the Mingxing Dragon Transformation from the Earth and the Reincarnation world, and the powerful bloodline structure obtained in the Divine Dragon world.

But, the real core, is the essence of his spiritual power.

That is, strengthening.

Using evil souls to strengthen himself, using wish power to strengthen himself, using spiritual power to strengthen himself, using Lan armor to strengthen himself... Everything seems incredibly complicated, but in fact, Su Zhou's path is to strengthen his pure destructive power through countless complicated methods.

And now, when the Heavenly Soul Karma, which is about to usher in a new life, has completed 90% of its transformation, this strengthening has become an even more powerful force.

The majestic spiritual power was rotating, like a vortex, like a Guixu, absorbing all the surrounding power and energy. Each rotation destroyed its previous structure, but each rotation made it stronger than before!

This power, this divine power, its name is...

A terrifying aura condensed, and destructive power condensed at the tip of the divine spear.

And the youth's voice echoed between heaven and earth: "Sacrifice, is a shortcut!"

Then, facing the incoming fire elemental sun, Su Zhou threw the spear in his hand with all his might.

In this late night after the sun had set, the lightning flashed, making the heaven and earth as bright as day, even the light of the sun paled in comparison.

Thousands upon thousands of thunderbolts were rotating, it turned into a vortex of light, making it impossible to look directly at it, but it was wrapped in a divine spear that pierced through everything. The gale was its spearhead, the flame was its body, the water was its core, and the thunder was the driving force.

In an instant, a white rainbow hung between the Milky Way, and the sun was pierced just like that. The flying meteor spear broke through the atmosphere in an instant, destroying the core of the fire elemental sun. It rotated, destroying all the structures of this sun, and then flew towards the distant ground without any deceleration, until it turned into a star itself.

White rainbow, pierces the sun; meteor, breaks the sky.

Then, there was an extremely violent explosion of light, which exploded at the end of the distant sky tens of thousands of meters away.

At the very top of the sky, the raging thunder bloomed with tens of thousands of meters long lightning snakes, and the strong electromagnetic shock impacted the high altitude, causing countless winding dragons-like bright auroras to suddenly appear in the sky above the Dawn Plain.

Buzzing——the sound of electromagnetic waves vibrated.

Standing in place, Elias raised his head, letting the light of the aurora shine on him, and the charred robe on his right shoulder slowly shattered and fell off, revealing the mottled and cracked skin and flesh underneath.

The boyish god silently gazed at the high sky.

Just now, the divine spear brushed past his side, carrying a lightning bolt that flew past, and even now, he still had a feeling of paralysis.

Then, Elias lowered his head and looked at Su Zhou in the distance.

The youth was reaching out and retrieving the World Tree Spear that had spiritualized and returned to his hand, he noticed Elias's gaze, and just smiled slightly.

Seeing this smile, Elias couldn't help but laugh, although it was a little bitter, there was more relief.

Did he fail?

That was not surprising.

After all...

[...As expected, it's Teacher.]

Elemental Calendar, 307, July 5, evening.

The God of Judgment entered the country with a group of criminals, defeating the God of Fire in the Central Sanctuary.

The next day, the largest-scale 'second' trial in the history of the Wind and Fire people was held.