"Then, how about trying to birth yourself again?"
〖 Incubate the third Divine Embryo? 〗 Shengnai narrowed his eyes: 〖 I can't disagree that the inside of Life Bearer is truly the most appropriate location for incubation, but not only won't be of help to our current situation, this is also an environment completely under Mequik's control. I wouldn't be able to absorb even a little bit of useful resources, would I be able to succeed? 〗
After all, advancing to become a Pathway Entity, like the name suggested, required one to completely encompass one's existence into one's Pathway. This was why the Seven Gods all held superior control over their own existence compared to regular entities, even if Shengnai had Killer J's support, there was still quite a gap between the two sides.
This was literally fighting on the opponent's home turf, as everything around them was under Mequik's control, everything had been marked with the other party's brand, not to mention they had to make sure to constantly protect their own consciousness to not become immersed within her Principles and Ideals.
"Seems like you haven't actually woken up yet. The boss would never question whether or not he'd succeed!" Killer J opened his eyes wide, then once again broke another infected part of Shengnai's soul.
〖 It seems like I was truly infected by Mequik's Pathway quite a bit… 〗Shengnai sighed after thinking briefly and said.
Mana surged forward in his hands to form two blades as he looked straight towards the charging lifeforms and fought them.
The essence of Life was 'to take for oneself', and there just happened to be so many preys for him to take from right here, even if the other party had the best environment, while he had the absolute worst environment possible right at this moment.
The blades in Shengnai's hand mercilessly slashed through those lifeforms, killing them through his own understanding of Life, taking their lives to collect the resources to incubate the third Divine Embryo for himself.
More and more vitality mana was being collected by Shengnai to form his new body, but more lifeforms were also gathering towards them. Each of these lifeforms were equivalent to the third stage of release, while none of them had obtained a Seed of Truth, there were simply too many of them, and Shengnai wasn't exactly in a great state.
All of Shengnai's life force had been stripped away earlier, his strength waning as time passed, even the flames of his life were gradually being snuffed out.
There was still a battle ongoing outside with various schemes and plans reaching their critical points. A lot of Mequik's attention had to be placed on dealing with the others among the Seven Gods, but even so, it wasn't difficult at all for her to restrain a few lifeforms inside her body.
If Mequik diverted just a bit more attention to adjusting the Pathway inside her body, then it would be even easier to push Shengnai to his death, but she couldn't afford that much attention at all. This wasn't something to be glad about, as that only meant that their plans were already reaching a pivotal point.
Barren Shadow had restrained the majority of his targets but also became restrained in return in the process. While The Unreachable Gate restrained the others, he himself also drew everyone's attention, putting all sides into a stalemate. Once they succeeded, they would be able to harvest everything from everyone here, turning everything into a part of themselves.
〖 Life and soul, what exactly is the link between them? Why does the soul exist? And why does life exist? 〗
Shengnai's body was now wrapped inside a thick layer of cocoon clothing. The incubation of a Divine Embryo, at its core, was the creation of a more perfect life structure corresponding to the environment as well as the previous life structure; but with the current circumstances, that was impossible.
〖 It seems the third Divine Embryo is impossible, I've created a blueprint for my own Tree of Life, but didn't have the chance to complete it 〗Shengnai could clearly sense bits and pieces of his own vitality slipping away, the same sensation he had experienced in the past: 〖 How irritating 〗
"Damn, our car got flipped" Killer J sat blankly next to him waiting to die, it was as if it was no longer possible to salvage everything.
"If I knew this, I would have tried to cross-dress to bribe the author, maybe I would have gotten a lot stronger, who knows? Killer J clenched his fist and silently sighed emotionally, then abruptly turned to the side: "Huh? Huh? Huh!"
…
Eternal Heat was currently accumulating power for one last strike; facing Eternal Heat, Mequik fully extended all of her tentacles in front of him, her numerous grey tentacles reaching into various aspects to completely seal off every aspect possible.
The fully extended tentacles appeared as branches, some of the suction cups on them had also opened up. Mequik reached both of her arms upwards, forming a complete union with the tentacles on her lower half, which appeared like an inverted tree.
This was Mequik's Pathway------ the Tree of Life blueprint, the Kabbalah, which displayed all life structures that currently existed in this world.
Observing this, Negary suddenly felt like this wasn't done to defend against Eternal Heat's attack, but rather to perform some sort of unique ritual.
This feeling only became increasingly clearer, at which point a mass of information flowed into Negary's mind, which only included one crucial piece of information among them-------- Life Bearer and Eternal Heat were one and the same.
This was quite an inexplicable thought, but Negary understood very well that he himself would never have any inexplicable thoughts. If there were, it could only originate from either Killer J or Lan Shan, but since he had sent Lan Shan to a different place, the only answer remaining was Killer J.
Negary had never attempted to restrain both the thoughts and actions of Killer J who represented his chaotic side, because that was the way to best exert his usefulness. This was also why Negary didn't try to stop him when he entered Shengnai's soul and instead helped him hide that fact.
〖 Then, this information was sent out by him? 〗
Knowing this, Negary first removed the excess and meaningless information, then began to consider how much of this was believable.
〖 From what I can tell, a lifeform might not necessarily be limited to manifesting a single Pathway, but one of the Pathways must be the main one 〗
Negary himself was like this, as he had researched numerous Pathways, but his Pathway of Manipulation had always been at the center, which was quite easy to discern.
For that reason, none of the others had ever suspected that the two Righteous Gods were actually one and the same, since both of them had displayed their separate Pathways without any overlapping Principle and Ideals from the other.
But if the two of them were one and the same, a lot of things now made sense.
Why Great Magus Stim was so easily controlled by Mequik, why Mequik would have a weakness regarding the soul, why Eternal Heat made sure to protect all of his information from leaking when faced with Red Tears' attack, as well as various other minor details. A lot of suspicious acts from both of these entities could very easily be explained.
Eternal Heat's true goal wasn't simply The Unreachable Gate and the Moon Tree, he wanted to take this chance to devour all other Righteous Gods, and Mequik displaying the Kabbalah was part of Eternal Heat's evolution ritual.
Every Pathway would be absorbed by him, supporting his evolution to the next phase.
〖 Sun, Life, Death, Ocean, Soul, Shadow, Unknown, Manipulation, Mana 〗Negary slowly recited the representation of each Righteous God's Pathway, the Great Magus' Mana Pathway hadn't been completed, but it was already quite close: 〖 And of course, the final one------ World 〗
〖 If all of this is true, then the Moon Tree world itself would be one of the sacrifices as well, these are the ten fruits of the inverted tree that would represent Eternal Heat's sublimation 〗
〖 He's trying to ascend! 〗
