Beams of light, representing their souls and will, rose from their bodies. These beams were no longer the faint, starlike points of light they had been before, but rather brilliant shooting stars, burning with their own life force!
Tens of thousands of "shooting stars" resolutely flowed into Irelia's body.
"No...no!" Irelia cried out in sorrow as she felt the power that contained the will to "sacrifice".
But she was powerless to stop it.
This is the first and last time the alliance has entrusted everything to her without reservation.
"Buzz—!!!"
Upon receiving this immense and immeasurable torrent of will, Irelia's body erupted with an unprecedented golden light that was enough to make the entire planet tremble!
Her body was no longer a translucent energy body, but a physical entity that seemed to be composed of the purest and most condensed "light".
The dim wings of light behind her unfurled a hundred times larger than before, almost obscuring half the sky. Above the wings, instead of blurry stars, were clear faces of Alliance warriors, each bearing a resolute smile.
She amplified the combined forces' power, causing it to surge instantly. Lin Feng's "petrification" power was easily pushed back. The petrified warriors quickly returned to normal.
"oh?"
For the first time, a genuine expression of surprise appeared on Lin Feng's face.
He sensed that Irelia's power at this moment had temporarily transcended the realm of matter. It was a power formed from pure "will" and "concept," a power that should not exist in this dimension.
"Is this... the final form of 'Hero's Power'? To gather the will of all beings into a 'miracle'." His eyes gleamed with the light of a researcher discovering a new continent. "It's... truly magnificent!"
Irelia slowly raised her head. In her eyes, the golden light was no longer flowing, but "tears" as deep as the cosmos, containing countless emotions.
With a gentle wave of her hand, a soft force teleported all the Alliance warriors safely to an unaffected area a hundred miles away.
After doing all this, she finally turned her gaze back to Lin Feng.
At this moment, only the two of them remained in the sky.
"Lin Feng." Her voice was eerily calm, the stillness before a storm, the ultimate tranquility. "Your 'test' is over. Now, it's my turn for 'judgment'."
"Trial?" Lin Feng smiled, a genuine and joyful smile. "Very well. Let me personally experience just how far this power created by 'bonds' and 'sacrifice' can go."
Before he finished speaking, he launched an attack.
He no longer alters the structure of matter on a small scale, but begins to "create" on a large scale, on a planetary basis.
He reached out and gently grasped the barren land below.
“The mountain comes.”
Rumble—!!!
The earth trembled violently, and tectonic plates tore apart. Tens of thousands of mountains were forcibly uprooted from the earth's crust by his telekinesis, like endless swords stabbing towards Irelia in the sky!
Each mountain peak is more majestic than Mount Everest. The sight of countless mountains rising together is enough to make even the gods tremble.
Faced with this attack that felt like divine punishment, Irelia calmly held the Star Sword horizontally in front of her chest.
"Light, burn away all falsehood."
The holy sword in her hand erupted with billions of golden sword energies.
Each sword strike precisely met a mountain peak.
There was no earth-shattering collision. Those solid mountains, controlled by telekinesis, were silently and neatly sliced in half the instant they came into contact with the golden sword energy, turning into the most basic dust and dissipating in the wind.
In just a moment, the terrifying scene of thousands of mountains coming to pay homage was reduced to a sky full of dust.
"interesting."
Lin Feng's exclamation of praise rang out again. He opened his arms wide, as if embracing the whole world.
"Water, come."
In an instant, all the oceans on this planet began to churn violently. The two oceans, east and west, unleashed terrifying tsunamis reaching heights of tens of thousands of meters. Two enormous water dragons, composed of endless seawater and spanning the continents, rose from the sea level, roaring towards the two figures in the sky with a force capable of engulfing the entire world.
This is a power powerful enough to restore a planet to its primordial state.
Irelia looked at the two world-destroying water dragons and slowly closed her eyes.
The wings of light behind her, composed of the faces of all living beings, suddenly fluttered.
An invisible, warm wave spread out.
The two raging, destructive water dragons suddenly stopped in mid-air. The seawater that composed them was no longer raging, but became incredibly gentle and calm.
They seemed to have been given "life" and "will".
They were no longer weapons in Lin Feng's hands, but had become Irelia's guardians.
Two enormous water dragons gracefully circled in the sky before slowly and gently retreating back to their home ocean.
It was as if a grand dance to welcome the Queen had been completed.
"Even matter that doesn't possess 'life' can be infected by your will..." Lin Feng's eyes grew brighter and more fervent. "Irelia! You are truly... the most perfect work of art I've seen in thirty years!"
He no longer holds back.
He slowly rose into the air, reaching the same altitude as Irelia, above the clouds, at the edge of the planet's gravity.
"Since that's the case, then I'll show you my true power."
He expanded his telekinetic power to its limit.
His goal is no longer the mountains and oceans of this planet.
Rather... it's the universe beyond the sky!
Against the backdrop of the pitch-black universe, enormous meteorites floating in the planetary belt began to change their orbits uncontrollably.
Tens of thousands of meteorites with diameters exceeding ten kilometers were captured by Lin Feng's telekinetic powers, forming a devastating "space-based fleet".
"This... is my 'divine punishment'."
Lin Feng pointed gently at Irelia.
"Meteor Shower".
The next second, thousands upon thousands of enormous meteorites, trailing long, fiery tails strong enough to burn through the atmosphere, plummeted toward the blue planet like a doomsday judgment!
This attack was no longer intended to kill Irelia.
Instead, the goal is to completely erase this planet, along with all life on it, from the universe!
Even the Alliance warriors, hundreds of miles away, saw countless "suns" falling from the sky, like the end of the world.
A profound and indescribable despair was evident on everyone's faces.
However, even at the eye of the storm, Irelia's face remained utterly calm.
She knew that a simple energy attack was no longer enough to stop Lin Feng.
She slowly raised the Starry Sky Holy Sword in her hand, its tip pointing straight to the sky.
She poured all the will to live from the entire alliance and the entire planet into this sword strike.
The wings of light behind her, and the countless faces with resolute smiles, all transformed into the purest light and merged into the holy sword at this moment.
The blade of the holy sword began to turn transparent, as if it had disappeared from the world.
Instead, there is a pure "conceptual light" that cannot be described in any language, a light that embodies all "hope".
"Lin Feng, you have changed the 'form' of all things."
"And what we are protecting is the 'heart' of all things."
"Take this sword."
"This sword strike is called—"
"We want to live!"
There was no earth-shattering momentum, no devastating energy fluctuations.
Only a single, seemingly slender, golden ray of light shot out from the "vanished" sword tip, meeting the countless apocalyptic meteors in the sky.
That ray of light was so tiny.
That shower of stars was so vast.
However, the moment the two came into contact, a miracle occurred.
The moment all the falling meteorites came into contact with that golden light, they were as if the code had been deleted, silently and completely erased from the most basic level of existence.
They didn't explode, they didn't turn into dust, they just vanished into thin air.
It was as if they had never existed.
The golden light, after obliterating all the meteorites, did not diminish in power and continued to shoot toward its ultimate target—Lin Feng—at a speed that transcended cause and effect.
As Lin Feng looked at the seemingly ordinary beam of light shooting towards him, for the first and last time, his face, which was almost as calm as the "Tao," revealed an expression of "shock" and "bewilderment."
He tried to use his "transformative power" to break it down, change it, and block it.
But he discovered that his power was "assimilated" the moment he came into contact with the light.
This ray of light disregards all physical laws and the conservation of energy.
It is a purely "idealistic" force.
It is the most fundamental and powerful "desire" of all living beings to "live".
However powerful he may be, his strength is ultimately based on "matter".
"So that's how it is..."
"So... this is the ultimate form of 'purity'..."
Just before being pierced by the light, Lin Feng suddenly revealed an incredibly eerie, satisfied smile, as if he had seen the final answer.
The next second, golden rays of light pierced through his body.
The Emperor of the Empire, the "God" of this world, his near-immortal body, composed of high-level energy, vanished peacefully, inch by inch, like a phantom in the sunlight, within that radiance that embodied the hopes of all living beings.
No trace was left.
With Lin Feng's disappearance, the steel fortress that floated in the air in Chengtian City lost its last source of energy.
Its tens of thousands of engines completely shut down.
This cold wonder, representing thirty years of imperial rule, began to slowly plummet into the vast abyss below, like a kite with a broken string.
Above the sky, Irelia exhausted all her power after unleashing that final sword strike.
The dazzling golden light emanating from her body receded like the tide. The wings of light behind her also turned into specks of light and dissipated in the wind.
She transformed back into her original form, that translucent girl made of holy light.
Exhausted, she slowly fell from the sky.
But on her face was a relieved and incredibly warm smile.
She knew they had won.
This is a global crackdown on "hope".
In the end, the curtain fell on the victory of "hope".
The ruins of the City of Heaven were slowly sinking into the abyss created by Lin Feng himself. That colossal steel city, a symbol of thirty years of cold, orderly rule, was finally facing its own demise after losing the support of the God Emperor's will. Sunlight, warm and real, for the first time shone unreservedly upon this scarred land.
Above the sky, Irelia exhausted her last bit of power. The dazzling golden light, formed from the collective wishes of all beings, faded away from her like burnt-out firewood. She reverted to her original form as a translucent girl composed of holy light, her body appearing ethereal from the excessive depletion of her power, as if she might vanish into the wind at any moment.
She smiled, closed her eyes with a sense of relief, and her body, like a feather, slowly fell from the sky.
Below, the Alliance warriors, survivors of the orcish attack, erupted in a deafening cheer. Garrosh Bloodhowl, the valiant orc chieftain, let out a long howl, filled with tears and ecstatic joy. Queen Elana, supported by her elves, gazed at the falling figure in the sky, a motherly, relieved smile on her face. Li Yao and Balin, along with countless warriors of different races and backgrounds, embraced each other, freely expressing their joy in victory.
They won.
They, with mortal bodies, defeated the gods.
"Catch her! Catch our hero!" Garrosh roared, the first to rush towards Irelia's landing spot.
However, just as Irelia's body was about to touch the ground, the entire world suddenly froze without warning.
It's not that time slows down, but rather that it's completely and absolutely frozen.
The smiles on the warriors' faces froze. Garrosh's charging stance froze. The dust floating in the air froze. Even the light itself seemed to be frozen in space. The whole world transformed into a vast, eerie, three-dimensional oil painting.
The only one who can move is Irelia.
Her fall came to an abrupt halt, gently lifted into the air by an invisible force. She opened her eyes in shock to find that her already exhausted body was being continuously fed by an incredibly pure and vast energy. This energy was far beyond her comprehension; it was not only restoring her strength, but also… “perfecting” her existence.
Her illusory body quickly solidified, and the holy light became purer than ever before, even faintly revealing a trace of immortal divinity.
"Why...why is this happening?" She felt a fear that came from the depths of her soul. This power reminded her of the man she had just "erased."
"Because the test is over. This is the prize for the winner..."
A voice, calm and direct, rang in her consciousness.
Irelia looked up abruptly.
At the original location of the "God's Throne" tower, in that empty void, on the "canvas" of space, it seemed as if an invisible hand had gently torn open a crack.
Beyond the crack, there was no longer the cosmos, but a pure, indescribable void.
Lin Feng walked out slowly from there.
He was still wearing that white robe, and his face remained calm to the point of being indifferent. But the feeling he gave off was completely different from before. If the Lin Feng of the past was the embodiment of "Tao," the controller of the laws of the universe, then at this moment, he was the creator of "Tao" and "laws."
He stood there as if he were the center of the universe, as if he were the very concept of "existence".
"No...it's impossible!" Irelia's voice trembled with extreme shock. "I clearly...completely erased you!"
Her final strike, imbued with the collective will of all beings, was a pure "conceptual" attack, powerful enough to completely erase an existence from the causal level. That was the limit she, and all living beings in this world, could reach.
"Erase?" A faint smile, as if listening to a child's babbling, appeared on Lin Feng's lips. "What you erased was merely an 'identity' called 'Lin Feng' that I projected into this dimension for this 'stress test.' Just like you would draw a symbol on the ground with your finger to communicate with ants. You simply... erased that symbol."
He looked around at the world he had personally solidified, a hint of appreciation in his eyes.
"But I have to admit, the fact that you 'ants' have evolved the power to erase 'symbols' is beyond my expectations. This proves that the emotional meme of 'hope' has extremely high 'variable' value."
His gaze returned to Irelia.
“Do you know? From the moment you sang your first song of rebellion to the moment you unleashed that stunning sword strike, the power I used, or rather, the full extent of the Empire’s strength that instilled despair in you, is less than one ten-thousandth of my true power.”
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