Chapter 898: The Strongest Profound Meaning
“How… How is this possible?”
The skeleton giant’s face was as calm as the wind, and victory was in its grasp. However, it instantly froze, split, and collapsed into a deep confusion and increasingly intense fear.
In front of it, the mounds of bones that had piled up into a small grave and completely buried Meng Chao were all pushed out by Meng Chao’s spirit power, which was reminiscent of a shockwave. They spread out in all directions like ripples.
Carrying the Golden Tooth Blood Soul Saber on his shoulder, Meng Chao strode out of the endless bones with his head held high.
“Now, I finally understood what Senior Jin Qianxi meant.”
Golden flames that had solidified into lightning were surging in Meng Chao’s eyes.
There was no fear or confusion in his eyes anymore. He stared at the skeleton giant and resolutely said, “Human beings are not monsters!
“Human beings are not natural disasters!
“Human beings should not bring destruction to this world or any other world in the sea of stars!
“We will never follow the path that you have designed and rush into h.e.l.l. We will seek our own path and walk on it unswervingly!
“We will win in our own way and build the Other World into a home as beautiful as Earth in our own way. After that, we will one day build a path to the sky and touch the billions of stars above our heads. However, this path to the sky will never be built with the flesh and bones of innocent people. It will be built with the wisdom and courage of all human beings!”
With every step Meng Chao took, his body seemed to grow a bit larger.
By the time he stepped into the void and appeared above the skeleton giant’s head, his body had already grown a hundred times larger.
Although there was still a distance between him and the skeleton giant…
It was no longer an unreachable gap.
More importantly, he could see the skeleton giant’s hidden weakness.
Inside its seemingly awe-inspiring and indestructible sh.e.l.l, there was no indomitable giant.
It was just a skeleton in a tomb.
“Your path is wrong. You can’t help Dragon City create a bright future. Failure is your destiny, and destruction is your end. You… are doomed!”
Before the skeleton giant’s horrified gaze, Meng Chao jumped high into the air.
His Golden Tooth Blood Soul Saber was surrounded by spirit tattoos. Spirit energy shot out of his hands, and he released golden flames that stretched over a hundred meters long.
It did not resemble a battle blade but a torch that illuminated the darkness, dispelled evil, and guided the way!
It was not the exquisite Celestial Tyrant’s Star Shattering Slash.
It was still a simple and crude basic martial technique that suited the young and old. It was the first form of the One Hundred Saber Techniques, Forward Wind Cutter!
Meng Chao thought of the gold-medal instructor, Demon Yan in his high school days, who had taught him the profound meaning of this saber move.
“To h.e.l.l with profound meaning. Do you still think that we are shooting a movie now? It’s just slashing people around. What kind of bullsh*t profound meaning do you want?”
Meng Chao remembered Demon Yan blowing his beard and glaring at him. “The way you cut someone is not important. Why is it important to cut someone? When your parents, your wife, your children, old and young, your blood compatriots, and the streets, houses, factories, and schools that everyone worked so hard to build… your entire home are behind you, vicious monsters are in front of you. Between your home and the monsters, there is only you and your saber!
“When you realize that if the power of your blade is not strong enough, your killing intent is not strong enough, and your angle is not precise enough to kill the monster, your parents will be gnawed by the monster, your wife and children will be trampled by the monster, and all the best things that you and your compatriots have worked hard to build will be drowned by the monster’s waste—this waste would contain the residue of your parents, wife, and children!
“If you are truly aware of this, you don’t need any profound meanings, moves, or fancy and nonsensical things. The simplest way is to raise your saber high above your head, as high as you want, and then slash it down as heavily as you want. At the same time, you need to firmly believe that even Apocalyptic Beasts can be killed by this slash, infusing all your faith into it. Then, you will be able to perform the most powerful slash across the heavens and earth!”
Meng Chao remembered that his cla.s.smates had all burst into laughter when they heard Demon Yan’s unreasonable words.
No one believed him, and they thought that he was just joking to ease the pressure of the college entrance exam.
“Master Yan, what if you can’t kill an Apocalyptic Beast with one slash?” Meng Chao remembered that the troublemakers in the cla.s.s winked at him.
“Then you haven’t realized how powerful you are and what you have to protect with this power.”
The usually strict Demon Yan had been unexpectedly pleasant that day.
He gazed deeply at the young high school students. In the deepest part of his eyes, there was a flashing sparkle, and he softly said, “Then love, live, build, find, and create the most beautiful and fragile thing in this world.
“Believe me, as long as you find the most fragile thing in this world…
“You will instantly possess the greatest power in this world.
“You will be able to wield the most powerful saber strike in the world!”
In his previous life, Meng Chao had spent his entire existence trying to understand Instructor Yan’s words.
As a chess piece, he had struggled in the whirlpool, but he had never been able to truly love, live, build, and create.
In other words, he had never known what the strongest saber in the world looked like.
But now, he felt that he had found the answer.
The most fragile thing in the world was hope.
By pouring the most fragile hope into his seven-foot-long saber through the simplest moves, it could emit a more dazzling light than a supernova explosion!
Meng Chao was guided by the golden torch, and he flew to the top of the skeleton giant’s head.
His entire body was enveloped by the burning light of hope, which fused with the Golden Tooth Blood Soul Saber.
He used his own spirit as fuel to ignite this golden hope, illuminating the illusionary s.p.a.ce formed by the b.l.o.o.d.y skeleton.
Even the skeleton giant, the monster mastermind’s spirit core, subconsciously narrowed its eyes in the face of this incomparably precious and bright hope. Its enormous body moved a few steps back, and it even stretched out its hand, wanting to block it.
Therefore, Meng Chao saw its weakness clearly.
Following the trajectory of hope, he unleashed the most powerful slash in the sky and on Earth.
Shua!
Time seemed to freeze at that moment.
The entire skeleton giant and the whole skeleton cave turned into a golden ocean.
Meanwhile, Meng Chao lay sprawled on the ground in the deepest part of the golden ocean.
The Golden Tooth Blood Soul Saber, which had been transformed by his spirit energy, turned into golden flames and disappeared in pieces.
During his fierce battle with “Lu Siya” earlier on, he had used Ultimate Burning to drain his flesh and blood.
Right now, in order to escape from the monster mastermind’s illusionary s.p.a.ce, he exhausted his spirit energy to the limit.
However, the effect of this saber…
Gritting his teeth, Meng Chao turned around with great difficulty.
After the golden wave gradually subsided, the skeleton giant froze in the most ferocious manner like a deformed statue.
It bent down and stretched out its hand, trying to crush Meng Chao on the ground like a bug.
It had no time to pay attention to the fact that Meng Chao had cut off its ‘nerves’ with a single slash and tossed it aside, wrapping Lu Siya’s green coc.o.o.n.
However, from its glabella to its b.l.o.o.d.y mouth full of fangs, to its chest made of countless skulls, to its abdomen with another b.l.o.o.d.y mouth, and then to its waist, a narrow wound that was more than a thousand meters long had appeared.
In the depths of the wound, golden light surged, as if golden lava was about to spew out.
No, it was not just that.
Behind the skeleton giant, a long and narrow golden crack also appeared on the wall of the skeleton cave.
The two cracks seemed to have a life of their own. They grew longer and brighter, and continued to spread and extend in all directions.
The power of Meng Chao’s blade had actually pierced through the monster mastermind’s spirit core, ruthlessly tearing apart the boundary of the illusion!
The skeleton giant’s overwhelming palm was just inches away from Meng Chao.
But no matter what, it could not press down.
It was trembling.
The entire skeleton karst cave was also shaking.
Large ma.s.ses of bones fell from the ceiling of the karst cave. The dim bones scattered like flowers from a G.o.ddess. Before they even landed on the ground, they had already turned into dust and spiraling green smoke.
“This is impossible. You… are only a mortal…”
A shocked and angry voice came from the depths of the giant skeleton’s rapidly collapsing chest.
“And you are only a beast.”
Meng Chao responded coldly.
He took a deep breath, endured the pain of his soul splitting, and crawled toward Lu Siya.
The green coc.o.o.n that was made of billions of thorns and wrapped around Lu Siya had all withered and turned into ashes under the burning of the Golden Flames.
Lu Siya woke up slowly and coughed violently.
“Let’s go and escape. We still have hope. We can make it in time!”
Meng Chao growled. He carried Lu Siya and crawled toward the widest and brightest part of the golden crevice on the wall of the skeleton cave.
He knew that the slash just now was not enough to completely destroy the monster mastermind’s spirit core.
Although he had already exhausted all of his spirit energy…
The other party was, after all, an absolute existence that could summon wind and rain and destroy the world during the ancient war.
Even the Ancients’ s.p.a.ce-based orbit weapons and the erosion of billions of years hadn’t been able to completely kill it.
He, who hadn’t yet surpa.s.sed the divine realm, could only leave an indelible scar on its spirit core to stop it.
He had to escape from the crack in the illusionary realm in a few minutes or even seconds!
Sure enough, the two staggered and barely took a few steps.
An earth-shattering roar sounded behind them.
The bone giant had been cut into two halves from the top of its head to its waist by Meng Chao’s earth-shattering slash.
As the golden light shone and spread, every piece of skeleton around its body was ready to move. They fought to escape.
Its huge body was about to be torn apart and disintegrated.
From the cracks of the bones and the dark eye sockets of hundreds of millions of skulls, countless scarlet tentacles and pale green vines drilled out. Like surgical sutures, they pieced the broken body back together!