231: Chapter 231 The Truth Behind the Tyrant's Fall!

The moment the hem of the code-dress shattered, the golden fragments suspended in mid-air for 0.3 seconds.

Then, they spontaneously pieced together and reorganized, condensing into a light curtain.

Images were flowing across the light curtain.

An utterly desolate black continent.

Two figures stood by the edge of a cliff.

The one on the left was completely shrouded in shadows, tall and with a blurred silhouette.

Was that the Tyrant?!

The one on the right—

Golden hair reached down to her waist, her features exquisite and cold.

She looked exactly like the dozens-of-meters-tall Avatar of the Heavenly Dao before them.

Only, she was scaled down countless times, possessing a human size and human posture.

She leaned sideways against the Tyrant's shoulder, her fingers toying with a wisp of shadow.

Seeing this scene, Chen Du's brain stalled for a full two seconds.

"Wait..."

He pointed at the light curtain, then at the floating Avatar of the Heavenly Dao opposite him.

"The two of you were together before?"

"No! You were a fucking couple?!"

The Avatar of the Heavenly Dao suddenly raised her hand.

A golden power of laws swept out, striking the light curtain into dust!

The fragments scattered and fell within the Sea of Code, swallowed clean by the monstrous mouth of the sacrifice notebook.

But her expression had already changed.

Within those eyes condensed from pure data, visible disorder appeared.

"That is... outdated data."

Her voice was no longer steady; a faint tremor mixed into the synthesized tone.

"Has been deleted."

Chen Du's mind raced.

Giant serpent, Heavenly Dao?!

Tears.

It all connected.

"Deleted?"

Chen Du sneered, "You can't even control the projection, and you're telling me it's deleted?"

He gave the Heavenly Dao no room to breathe.

Dark Gold Flames erupted from the depths of his pupils!

"Tyrants Gaze!"

This time.

The remaining tyrants authority within his body was like a fuse being lit, outputting frantically toward the Avatar of the Heavenly Dao.

The effect was immediate.

The Avatar of the Heavenly Dao's body trembled violently, and more memory fragments were "shaken" out.

An overwhelming kaleidoscope of memories flashed by.

The Tyrant stood on a floating island, facing a terrifying existence pieced together from countless eyeballs.

He held a mass of golden code in his hand; after examining it closely, his expression contorted.

At the base layer of the code, crimson parasites were crawling everywhere.

The Tyrant rushed into a Golden Temple and slammed the contaminated code down in front of the Heavenly Dao.

A look of confusion appeared on the Heavenly Dao's face.

She looked down at the parasites wriggling in the code, her lips slightly parted.

The Tyrant was shouting.

No sound could be heard, but his mouth movements could be recognized as a single word: "Run!"

In the blink of an eye, the scene shifted to a battlefield.

The black continent collapsed.

The Tyrant was covered in blood, facing the joint siege of the god of fear and... the Heavenly Dao alone.

The Heavenly Dao's gaze had changed, with crimson garbled code churning deep within her pupils.

The Tyrant did not strike back.

From beginning to end, his Shadow Power was used entirely for defense.

The moment the golden chains pierced his chest, the Tyrant reached out toward the Heavenly Dao's face.

His fingertips touched her cheek.

Then, his body shattered.

The images dissipated.

The Sea of Code returned to a deathly silence.

Chen Du hung in mid-air, something indescribable churning in his chest.

He wasn't someone easily swept away by emotions.

But at this moment, even his breath carried a scalding heat.

"History... was falsified."

Chen Du squeezed the words out one by one from between his teeth.

The Tyrant's rebellion on the murals, the Heavenly Dao and the god of fear joining forces to crusade against the Tyrant, the collapse of the tripartite balance—it was all fake!

The Tyrant didn't want to devour the Heavenly Dao.

He discovered that the god of fear was secretly eroding the Heavenly Dao and wanted to take her away.

But the Heavenly Dao had already been contaminated.

She had personally killed the person who wanted to save her.

"Don't..."

The Avatar of the Heavenly Dao's voice cracked.

Half cold synthesized tone, half trembling female voice.

"Stop using that power!"

Large areas of black necrosis began to appear on the surface of her golden body; the crimson parasitic code was activated by the resonance of the tyrants authority.

"You will... awaken it..."

Chen Du understood the weight of those words.

The god of fear's parasitic code had always been hidden deep within the Heavenly Dao system.

His authority was like a key; the more forcefully it was used, the faster the lock would open.

If the Heavenly Dao system collapsed, all players who relied on the laws to live would be buried with it.

"sacrifice notebook!"

Chen Du roared in his mind.

"Where is the Tyrant's Source Divinity sealed? In this Sea of Code or beneath the Holy Mountain?"

The monstrous mouth sniffed, its fangs clattering.

[Both! Half is locked inside this woman's body, and the other half is sealed beneath the Holy Mountain! Bite her first! Quick! While her consciousness is in chaos!]

Chen Du no longer hesitated.

His Shadow Wings flapped violently!

His figure turned into a streak of black light, lunging straight at the Avatar of the Heavenly Dao!

The Avatar of the Heavenly Dao raised her hand to release Chains of Law.

The golden chains were still dense, but their trajectories showed obvious deviation.

Chen Du sidestepped.

A chain flew past his ear.

One swept over his head, shearing off a few strands of hair.

Another stabbed toward his chest, but was caught by his Shadow Armor!

A Giant Shadow Claw formed on his left hand!

He grabbed the Avatar of the Heavenly Dao's wrist!

Golden and dark gold light collided like a nuclear explosion!

Chen Du felt his entire arm, from bone to flesh, screaming.

The power of laws was negating his physical existence, with a "delete" command written into every cell.

He didn't let go.

He bit his lip until it bled.

"Strip it... out for me!!"

"Sacrifice!!!"

The monstrous mouth projected directly from Chen Du's mind and bit down on the Avatar of the Heavenly Dao's wrist!

Black fangs pierced the golden code layer, embedding deeply into the internal structure!

The Avatar of the Heavenly Dao let out an earth-shattering shriek.

The entire Sea of Code surged with a hundred-meter-high data tsunami!

...

Deck No. 0819.

Shockwaves slapped down from the sky round after round.

The shield was battered like a sieve; Lin Keke knelt on one knee, her magic circle teetering.

"I... I can't hold on much longer!"

"Don't you dare fall!"

Tang Ran roared, her scythe of calamity sweeping out, hacking three Mechanical Apes that had rushed onto the deck into pieces.

Taking advantage of the Avatar of the Heavenly Dao being occupied, the Orc legion at the foot of the Holy Mountain swarmed toward the fortress like ants.

Xia Lai screamed over the comms.

"Big Sis! That Statue! Attack its heart! The Archbishop said the Statue is the link node between the Heavenly Dao and the Pantheon!"

At the highest point of the island superstructure.

Xia Xin lay behind the Storm Ripper, her scope locked onto the massive, still-beating heart inside the hundred-meter Statue's chest.

Three thousand two hundred meters.

Wind speed, north-northwest.

Breath held.

Index finger squeezed.

Boom—!

A dark gold stream of light tore through all the smoke over the battlefield, plunging straight into the Statue's chest!

That house-sized heart was pierced through by a single shot!

Rumble—!

The Statue let out a wail, and a large amount of gold-and-black intermingled liquid gushed from the bullet hole in its chest, pouring over the entire basin like a rainstorm.

The Orc legion slipped and fell in the viscous liquid, their formation instantly collapsing.

Tang Ran seized this opening, leaped off the deck with her scythe of calamity, and plunged into the center of the beast tide.

Wherever the scythe blade passed, severed limbs flew.

She was covered in blood, laughing maniacally.

"Get out of the way—! This old lady is going to tear down that mountain of flesh!"

...

In the sky.

At the same time the Statue's heart was pierced, a huge gap appeared on the Avatar of the Heavenly Dao's body.

Golden code poured down from the gap.

The monstrous mouth of the sacrifice notebook had been waiting for this very moment!

Its fangs suddenly twisted!

A fist-sized crystal, emitting a dark gold glow, was forcibly dragged out of the Avatar of the Heavenly Dao's body!

The moment the crystal was detached.

The Avatar of the Heavenly Dao's body shrank by ten meters.

Her long golden hair began to grow dim.

She slumped down in the Sea of Code, her skirt spreading out around her.

Chen Du clutched the dark gold crystal and landed a dozen meters away.

A layer of skin on his left arm was charred, and his Shadow Armor was shattered, leaving only a piece on his chest.

But he stood tall.

The crystal pulsed in his palm, its frequency perfectly synchronized with his own heartbeat.

This was a part of the Tyrant's Source Divinity.

The Avatar of the Heavenly Dao looked up.

Her golden hair fell loose, and for the first time, exhaustion appeared on her face.

She looked at the crystal in Chen Du's hand.

Her lips moved.

"He... was like this too."

"Wanting to shoulder everything alone."

Then, the golden Sea of Code began to collapse rapidly.

The crack in the sky above was healing, pushing Chen Du and Xia Mo downward.

The two fell from the closing crack, their Shadow Wings barely spreading to slow their descent before they slammed heavily onto the deck of the No. 0819.

Chen Du knelt on one knee, gasping for air.

The dark gold crystal in his hand grew brighter and brighter.

The entire fortress trembled slightly in its pulsation.

The girls gathered around.

"Captain! How is it?"

"Are you okay? You scared me to death!"

"I think I saw... where's that woman in the sky?!"

Chen Du didn't answer.

Because from three thousand meters deep beneath the Holy Mountain, a muffled roar that reached into his very marrow resounded.

Thump, thump, thump.

It was a heartbeat.

It meshed perfectly with the pulsation of the crystal in his palm.

It was the other half of the Tyrant's Godhead, calling out to its master!!