Am I the only one who didn't ascend?

Chapter 584 The End of the Origin
In the gray world, life is destined to be accompanied by darkness.

The gray gale on the surface was enough to blow away the bodies of all living things. The survivors had no choice but to lie down and bury themselves in the thick dust to stay safe for a moment.

However, the strong winds were unpredictable. Sometimes a tornado that penetrated the sky and earth would roar past, instantly sucking away the ash layer hundreds of meters thick and grinding the gray people who built their nests in it into ash particles that filled the space between heaven and earth.

For the Grays, seeing the gray sunlight on the surface basically means death is approaching. Therefore, the Grays spend their lives constantly digging downwards and consolidating the dust dome above their heads, as if they are racing against the wind.

The civilization accumulated by mankind over hundreds of thousands of years was quickly destroyed in this desperate escape.

When Wang Luo's eyes came to this gray world, he saw a group of gray people with deformed bodies like worms crawling in a long underground tunnel under the dust. They had basically lost their vision and could only perceive external objects through hearing and touch, and then wriggle their bodies little by little. They moved very slowly and opened the suction cups on their abdomens every once in a while, crawling on the wall of the tunnel and falling into hibernation.

At the front of the tunnel was a giant about ten times the size of the other gray men.

He was called a giant, but he was almost inhuman. Due to long-term living in the pit, his limbs had been highly degenerated, like four small tumors. In addition, he was naked, muscular, with hard lumps on his skin, and a spiral drill horn on his forehead, constantly digging down in the compacted ash pile.

That is the Taixu Tianzun of this world... Seeing him like this, Wang Luo was shocked beyond words.

Although I already knew that the appearance of the Heavenly Lord living in the origin of the Great Void must be very different from that of the present world, I never imagined that such a great Immortal Ancestor would actually become an insect in the illusion...

But soon, as Wang Luo's observation of this world became more and more in-depth, the feeling of astonishment and absurdity in his heart gradually disappeared.

Because at least for the surviving gray people in this world, Taixu Tianzun is still the ancestor who created the world for them.

Among the gray people living in this pit, only Tianzun has horns to dig out the ash pile and a huge mouth to swallow dust. This dust-covered land has long lost nutrients for survival, and is instead poisonous. But Tianzun has developed an organ in his body that can digest dust through his incredible mutation. He swallows the dust around him into his stomach, turning it into his own flesh and blood, and then... the hard skin on his body will occasionally fall off, and that is the food left for future generations.

Swallowing and digesting dust is not easy. The dust in this world is essentially the ashes of civilization, containing the resentment of countless deceased people. It is the most powerful poison in the world. Every time Tianzun swallows dust, he will fall into great pain, but in order to provide for the tribe behind him, he has no choice but to overcome the pain and continue to dig down in the pain.

Although the power of the Heavenly Lord of this world is not strong, he is the one and only savior.

The long excavation also had an end. After an unknown amount of time, the ash pile in front of Tianzun suddenly had a slight color change. Although it was only an extremely slight, almost imperceptible change, Tianzun was keenly aware of it. He was immediately delighted and let out an indistinct roar. The sound wave spread back along the pit, shaking off several resting gray men.

Then, this small group of survivors fell into ecstasy.

Although the Grays have almost lost their civilized language, they still possess human emotions. They twist their bodies in the pits as if dancing.

Because this long journey is finally coming to an end.

In this gray world, there is only one paradise. According to legend, in the era when civilization still existed, there was a fire hidden in the endless depths of the underground, a fire that was strong enough to ignite the world, a fire that could not be extinguished even by the strong winds on the ground. As long as you find that fire, you will find an eternal paradise.

As an outsider, Wang Luo certainly knew that the so-called paradise was actually a dark and evil land... When civilization still existed, it was the worst place many people could imagine, with the remnants of civilization settled in it.

However, compared to the world filled with flying ashes, perhaps the dark soil can also be regarded as a paradise.

The Grays' celebration did not last long, because revelry was too extravagant for the Grays, who had to conserve every bit of their energy. Many Grays became paralyzed after twisting violently, and some elderly Grays died suddenly, their remains becoming part of the dust on the spot.

Then Tianzun roared again, reminding the tribesmen not to be careless. After a short rest, he would dig through the last section of the road and open the door to the "dark land".

At this moment, the horns on his forehead seemed to sense something and suddenly turned his head. The two seemingly degenerate eyes under the horns suddenly opened.

His eyes collided directly with Wang Luo's.

In an instant, Wang Luo felt as if he was falling from a high altitude. The strong feeling of weightlessness and dizziness lasted for about one or two breaths. When he came to his senses, he realized that Tianzun was not looking at him.

But he is an outsider who does not belong to the gray world like himself.

It was a giant black whale that descended to the surface world... It had a huge and smooth body, and a layer of fine hair on its surface. Each hair was like a powerful arm, supporting it to swim freely in the dust pile.

The indestructible gale had no effect on it, as if the hatred brewing in the wind could not touch it at all. Then, the giant whale also had an extremely keen sense of smell. It kept turning over the pile of ashes, sniffing every wisp of smell left in the ashes, and then...

Finally, they locked onto the tunnel where Tianzun was.

In the giant whale's lower jaw, hundreds of eyes opened at the same time, each eye contained a sharp gaze like a sword, and each invisible sword was aimed at the same person.

But the next moment, the giant whale turned its eyes away, shook its body, sank into the ground like a shuttle, and shuttled towards the end of the tunnel.

At the end of the pit, closest to the surface, there was a nest that was about to be abandoned. Inside it, there were several young gray men, who were still slowly chewing and swallowing the pieces of skin left by Tianzun, making final preparations before migration... but at this time they were targeted by the giant black whale.

The giant whale swung its body willfully, and every time it went deep into the ash pile, it would raise the dust around it high up, and this swaying was faintly stirring up the strong wind on the ground. After a while, a small tornado seemed to be formed in the swaying, constantly sucking up dust and throwing it into the sky, making the underground nest more exposed.

Once the gray layer on top of the nest is sucked dry, the gray people exposed to the "sunlight" will surely die without a burial place. At the critical moment, Tianzun did not hesitate any more. He let out a furious roar, alarming all the gray people in the entire pit. And every gray person who felt the roar had a faint blood color on his body. Several gray people with stronger bodies struggled to tear open the skin in front of them, and stretched out their short but strong arms from the gaps with boiling blood. Those were the weapons possessed by the strongest group of surviving gray people. At the most important time, they could spare no effort to temporarily replace Tianzun and open a passage for the tribe.

Tianzun didn't say much, his sturdy body moved up the pit, his movements were so swift that he seemed out of tune with all his compatriots. When he reached the top of the tunnel, the young gray man in the nest was still trembling.

"Roar..." Tianzun simply comforted the young gray man, and then spat out a piece of bloody meat to an old gray man who was responsible for taking care of them. The old gray man immediately swallowed the fresh meat, and then fire ignited in his body, causing him great pain... but also doubled his strength. He immediately opened his sucker, carried the cub on his back, and crawled deeper into the tunnel.

At this time, the sound of wind could be faintly heard overhead.

Tianzun let out a final roar, and the nest that once sheltered a group of gray men collapsed with a loud bang... revealing a patch of gray sunlight.

The pitch-black giant whale floated on the wind, like a solar eclipse, casting the shadow of its body on Tianzun's head.

The next moment, Tianzun showed no sign of weakness. His insect-like body contracted and exploded like a spring. In the blink of an eye, he rushed into the sky, into the sunlight and strong wind!
Those strong winds that were powerful enough to kill all the gray men did not have a fatal effect on Tianzun. Although every gray particle would leave a scratch on his skin, Tianzun did not mind at all. He just retracted his head and aimed his sharp horns at the heart of the giant whale.

This black monster was like a sudden nightmare, descending into a world that was already like a nightmare. So far, it has destroyed many Gray nests... and the nest guarded by the Heavenly Lord today is the last Gray nest in this world.

Tianzun, there is no way to retreat either.

In a desperate situation, Tianzun burst out with extraordinary strength... Although he had used most of his strength to feed the increasingly degenerate tribe in the past long years, so that his body became weaker and weaker, far inferior to the black giant whale. But when he had no way to retreat, the sharpness of the horns on his forehead made the giant whale timid for a moment.

The giant whale's intention to retreat only flashed for a moment, and the next moment the same hatred broke out in the giant whale's heart. However, the momentary hesitation was enough to be fatal. Tianzun's horns finally pierced deeply into the giant whale's belly, and with the impact, they cut a long and deep track, smashing more than a dozen eyes that were staring at the belly angrily!

The giant whale let out a painful howl, but the pain soon turned into rage. It swayed its body, ignoring the blood flowing from its abdomen, and gradually struggled to fly upwards.

Because right above the giant whale's head, the originally small tornado seemed to be stimulated by the blood and expanded at an alarming speed.

The giant whale does not need to use its own power to kill the gray people. It only needs to stir up the wind in this world. The poison in the wind is no problem for the giant whale, but it is deadly to every gray person. Although Tianzun can resist the wind to a certain extent, he is ultimately wearing down his own vitality.

At this time, facing the rapidly expanding tornado above his head, Tianzun not only did not retreat, but twisted his neck, trying to use his horns to expand the wound in the whale's abdomen... The giant whale felt unusual pain and immediately contracted its abdominal muscles, clamping Tianzun's horns like a pair of pliers, making it impossible for him to escape and difficult to continue to stir the wound... But the soft abdomen could not remain tight for long, and soon the wound was enlarged to a terrible and hideous size under the struggle of the horns, and pieces of rotten and broken flesh and internal organs slipped out of the wound and were swept away by the wind.

On the other side, in just a moment, Tianzun was blown into the wind, and countless tiny flaws appeared on his rough body, and the flaws expanded at an alarming speed, as if the whole body was rapidly melting in the wind...

This is a life-and-death duel.

This is the life-and-death duel between the two Heavenly Lords, Taixu and Taichu.

However, just as Wang Luo was concentrating on the fierce battle in the pages of the book, almost unable to take his eyes off it, his peripheral vision caught a glimpse of another corner of the world... and in an instant, he lost interest in the outcome of this battle.

As he blinked his eyes, Tianzun's fierce fight came to an end in an instant, and the tragic process was completely omitted.

The black giant whale, that is, Taichu Tianzun, lay withered in the dust. The wound on its abdomen had expanded almost twice, and most of its internal organs and blood had left its body, making its huge body look shriveled and twisted. In this fierce battle, Taichu had an absolute advantage in strength and had seized the opponent's weakness, almost gaining the upper hand, but was ultimately defeated by Taixu Tianzun's desperate counterattack.

On the other side, Taixu Tianzun also won a tragic victory. His body shrank by almost nine-tenths, leaving only a worm-like body like an ordinary gray man, with broken horns and weak skin... If it weren't for the giant whale's corpse to help him block the wind, he would have died on the spot. But despite such a serious injury, he managed a smile.

The greatest threat to the world was finally eliminated, and the road to the ultimate paradise was opened up by him personally to the last step. As the savior of the Grays, he had done everything.

Although it might be difficult for him to witness with his own eyes the scene of his tribe settling down in the paradise and rebuilding civilization, the joy of victory still made him feel that he had no regrets in death.

However, as if there was some kind of mysterious will pulling him, he not only did not die, but gradually recovered his vitality in the corpse of the giant whale. After an unknown amount of time, when the skin and flesh of the giant whale completely disappeared, he had recovered 40% to 50% of his strength, his body became huge again, and his skin had the ability to resist the wind. So he forced himself to endure the fatigue and quietly dived into the dust pile under him, crawling little by little, looking for traces of the tribe.

The previous tunnel had collapsed a lot in the fierce battle between the two Tianzun, but Taixu Tianzun still found the way back in the dust bit by bit. With great expectation and joy, he dug away the dust blocking the way bit by bit, and then saw the familiar tunnel, and went deeper and deeper along the tunnel.

Finally, he came to a road that was gradually getting darker. From here on was the road that the Grays had opened up with their lives, and at the end of the road, he could faintly see fire.

After an unknown amount of time, the fire gradually expanded in the field of vision and became brighter and brighter. However, the bright fire also brought a hideous shadow. Taixu Tianzun faced the shadow, and his squirming figure gradually slowed down and stopped.

Because, when he got close enough, he finally saw the truth of the fire.

It was indeed a ball of fire, but it was not a fire that could lead to civilization, but a fire of doom that was more terrifying than the strong wind on the ground. The tribesmen that Tianzun cherished and protected had all been roasted into charred corpses by the flames, but their corpses did not disintegrate, but continued to cast hideous shadows outwards.

It was like a bad joke, giving people despair when they had the most hope.

Tianzun stood in front of the fire for a long time, until his own body was gradually burnt in the flames... and with Tianzun's final death, the page of the book in Wang Luo's hand suddenly turned into ashes.

"So, this world ends here? Even if the two Heavenly Lords perish together?"

(End of this chapter)