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Chapter 817 450: Mischief in Progress (Part 2)

Mm.Although they were born from starlight, they didn't know any powerful frontal combat Divine Techniques; instead, they chose to transform into appearances that everyone respects, anticipates, and craves, pulling those people into their arms.

When they embraced them, beautiful dreams descended along with it.

Even though most Cultivators actually stopped dreaming a long time ago.

Yet this dream managed to perfectly deceive their "desires."

It nurtured thoughts of degeneration.

They fantasized, their heads exploding one after another like bursts of blood-flowers.

More living beings crawled out from their remains.

Like a tide of starlight, they began sweeping across this world.

Everyone observing this world was stunned.

"What is this?"

"What a bizarre power…"

They had never seen such a strange method.

Li Ye explained calmly, "These are Spiritual Objects born from their desire to know. They're extremely curious about every living thing in this world and will think of every way possible to replace them.

Consider it a little idea I picked up from you all."

Desire to know, living beings?

Li Ye's friends immediately felt that Li Ye's method was really not bad.

Use their own way against them, after all.

It was their pursuit of knowledge that caused many worlds that originally shouldn't have had problems to start having problems. They were like those Demon Path Cultivators manipulating everything from behind the scenes, completely unconcerned about the job itself, only caring about experiments and projects.

As for whether those people would come cause trouble later…

That would just be pure courting death.

The Gnostic School really wasn't afraid of anyone coming to make trouble.

Aside from having a hundred burrows like a crafty rabbit, those with the ability to retaliate wouldn't come for various reasons, while those without the ability couldn't even make it here.

But.

"Why can't they be destroyed?" Yao pointed at that world and asked curiously, "Why can't so many attacks, even mythic weapons, affect them?"

"Sigh." Gnostic Li Ye let out a sigh. "Because this is the underlying Tao Laws of the Gnostic School, personally set by the Ancestor Master back then.

If one seeks knowledge, one shall not be destroyed.

So even if their heads have blown apart, their bodies are still moving forward."

He looked at the calm Li Ye.

He felt that if someone like this went crazy, he'd really be crazy enough.

Come to think of it, that did seem to be the case.

When those mortal dynasties were overthrown, wasn't it the farmers who overthrew them?

Could this be some kind of ruthless bloodline passed down in a straight line?

"What are you staring at me for?"

Li Ye was very dissatisfied with that look of his that was practically like he was looking at some sort of Demons and Monsters, as if he himself were some villain.

All he did was make use of a bit of the rules.

Who told their desire to know to be so overwhelming?

So strong that even after death it could give rise to Spirit Bodies to continue searching.

"N-no… nothing." Gnostic Li Ye very uncharacteristically chickened out a little; his desire to know was actually no weaker than anyone else's.

If Li Ye used this thing on him, he wasn't even sure if he could withstand it.

And judging from the looks of it, the stronger the desire to know, the more terrifying the suppressive power that came with it. After all, who could refuse the pleasure brought by knowledge?

Anyway.

The others glanced at this world.

It was at least a fairly important world of the Gnostic School, yet it had been completely wrecked by this lotus of his.

They didn't need to take action at all.

If they did, they might accidentally interfere with Li Ye's methods.

What's more, if they stayed here any longer and got blocked off by some powerhouse of the Gnostic School, that would be trouble.

Better to hurry to the next world.

If you're doing bad things, you have to string them together and do them fast—hit once and then run!

So.

They quickly headed for the next world.

This time, after quite a bit of jostling, Chaos finally snatched the chance.

His method was much simpler.

He directly took out a brush made from his own bones, and with a grand sweep, splashed ink and painted over that world.

As they say, when the brush moves, the God descends.

Every stroke of his created a "Deity."

Some held hoes, some carried swords, some held Eight Trigrams diagrams…

In any case, it gave people a strong sense of déjà vu.

"Wait."

"These Deities?"

Li Ye finally couldn't help but ask.

"Don't tell me you refined the Tao Lineages of the Seven Great Sects in your world and then manifested them?"

Chaos's hand didn't stop.

He replied, "Yeah, I refined all Seven Great Sects anyway. Brother Li, you mean you didn't know?"

"..."

Why on earth would I know that?

Li Ye stared at those "Deities" who had already begun to show their might.

Their power was truly formidable.

And they all seemed to be at the conceptual level.

For example, the phantom of the Four Seasons Sect: with one swing of that hoe, it directly turned ten thousand miles of Array into… farmland.

It even looked like some very nice black soil, so dark it seemed like oil could seep out of it.

Then came Celestial Vein Sword Mountain.

That Deity didn't care about anything, wildly stabbing up at the sky, like a crazed boar rampaging everywhere, wrecking everything and refusing to fix it.

Then there was the never-to-be-hit Qiongguan Mountain, the Bitter Journey Academy that painted all sorts of Divine Beasts, and Kongxiang Temple that "saved all beings" only to have them enter a Golden Body…

Here you could truly see how powerful Chaos was.

He was in Divinity Transformation.

But he was a Divinity Transformation who had refined seven top-tier Tao Lineages.

If you had to say it, it was more like the River of Cosmic Light and Li Ye's Cultivation were suppressing him. Otherwise, he'd probably already have shot up to Void Refinement by now.

"Tch."

"Why's he showing off so hard?"

"It's just destroying a world."

Maybe Li Ye was watching a bit too intently, because the others immediately felt displeased.

Who here isn't also a world-ending Demon?

What's with you flaunting it all by yourself?

They exchanged glances and collectively dragged Li Ye off.

Then.

It was like a peacock fanning its tail, everyone showing off their Divine Techniques.

Buddha's Light Buddha Soldiers, eternal snowflakes, eternal night…

Li Ye watched with genuine relish.

Good heavens.

This bunch was even more formidable than he'd imagined.

Almost everyone had the ability to destroy a world on their own, and not just in one way. If they hadn't found so few worlds belonging to the Gnostic School, they'd probably still be showing off tricks to perform for Li Ye.

Here, they really had the Gnostic School's system to thank. They never allowed mortals or even their Cultivators' families to live in their worlds.

In their view, research couldn't have outsiders present; it had to be pure.

This meant Li Ye and the others had absolutely no worries.

No need to worry about accidentally hurting innocent people.

Just like that.

They destroyed a full seven worlds.

When they were about to keep making trouble—

A voice called out to Li Ye:

"If you keep making a racket, this old man won't be able to hold them back anymore!"

The voice was deep and grand, and also a bit familiar.

Li Ye looked over.

He saw that in the boundless starry sky, a colossal whale made of different kinds of starlight was staring at them; just one of its eyes was larger than a world.

Its true body was hidden within endless chaotic mist.

It was impossible to see it in full.

[Name]: Star Beast · Gu Qing

[Mood]: Joyful

[State]: The earliest Star Beast born while bathing in the sea of the universe's origin. Its existence is a miracle forged by Nuwa; before Nuwa permits it, no one can kill it.

Li Ye blinked.

He said very obediently,

"Senior Gu, so your true body is this vast."

The whale moved casually.

Chaos split open like seawater with ease.

He transformed into a human form and appeared before Li Ye.

His gaze swept casually over those behind Li Ye whose faces were full of vigilance.

Then the corner of his mouth curved up slightly.

He directly grabbed Li Ye and vanished into the chaos in an instant.

"Ah?"

"Hm?"

"It's fine, we have a contract with Brother Li…"

Just as they were thinking it was no big deal, they were shocked to find—

The Xiangshui Tree branches that connected them to their vessels in this world had actually broken!

But they weren't forcibly sent back.

Instead, they were left here.

They didn't feel happy about it; instead their hearts felt unbearably pained, as if they had lost everything.

In such a vast world with so many people.

Only Li Ye was their friend.

So where on earth had Li Ye gone!