The legendary Ninth Heaven is the place closest to God. Du Ze doesn’t know what the Ninth Heaven of Divine Comedy is like, but the Ninth Heaven of the Celestial Clan is indeed a very strange place.
It was a space filled with light. Two huge white slabs of stone were suspended in the sky. Because the element of light was everywhere, all objects, including the shadows of the slabs, did not exist, giving people a sense of emptiness. It was difficult to describe how huge the two white slabs of stone were. They were decorated with golden symmetrical patterns and were attached side by side with their long sides. As for what these two slabs of stone looked like, Du Ze felt that if they were vertical instead of flat, they would be a huge...door?
Under the white stone slabs, there is an extremely majestic and elegant building. The spiral staircase fully reflects the ultimate luxury of the Baroque style, standing in front of everyone like a white giant. The Celestial Clan who brought Du Ze and Xiu and his party here pointed at the spiral staircase and said, "We will go up from here."
Du Ze's expression froze. The spiral staircase in front of him was at least a hundred stories high. Are your wings just decorations?
"Why not fly up?" Enoch asked.
"If you can do it." The Celestial Clan glanced at the thief with contempt and stepped onto the stairs first.
After the Celestial Tribe said this, everyone realized that in this space, not to mention flying, even jumping was not allowed. It was as if there was an invisible hand on everyone's shoulder. Once someone tried to leave the ground by air, they would be held down and unable to move. Xiu's space magic was also banned. This kind of coercion and the ban on weapons were all rules set by the God Tower. No one could shake the rules, so they could only follow the Celestial Tribe to climb the stairs.
Layer after layer, circle after circle, Du Ze had already died on the twentieth layer, and was carried by Xiu all the way with his breath frazzled. A certain silly cute sadly discovered that the cute master seemed to have developed a shameful habit of carrying him like a princess, and then even more sadly discovered that he had shamefully become accustomed to the cute master's princess carrying.
As for moral integrity, you'll get used to it after losing it over and over again.
When he reached the middle of the stairs, Xiu suddenly stopped. He stared at the central column of the spiral staircase. His sharp eyes seemed to see through the wall.
"What's in here?"
The Celestial stopped walking after hearing this. He knocked the central column with his staff. In front of everyone's eyes, the white wall of the column gradually disappeared, revealing the contents inside. Verla and Alice covered their mouths in surprise. In front of them, in the center of the spiral staircase, a giant was imprisoned. The giant was as tall as the spiral staircase - no, it should be said that the spiral staircase was built around the giant! He was tied up with a thick chain, and he bent his arms to lift the top of the spiral staircase, but the pattern did not move.
The Celestials put down their staffs, and the walls that had disappeared gradually returned. "As you can see, there is only a Titan inside."
Emma, that's a Titan! In the setting of "Mixed Blood", Titans are demigods born from the union of gods and gods! They are placed here as pillars by the Celestials. Du Ze didn't know how to complain. At the last moment when the wall healed, he seemed to see the Titan in the cylinder raised his eyebrows, and the sad eyes flashed with a look of help.
Is this a flag for some event? Is Du Zewo thinking in Xiu's heart, or is it just a simple episode?
The group continued to climb the stairs and soon reached the end of the spiral staircase. Du Ze was finally put down and stepped on the circular altar at the top of the spiral staircase. The huge stone slab in the sky was now within reach. Only when he stood at the top of the spiral staircase did he realize how terrifying the size of the white stone slab was. Under its cover, Du Ze could not see the sky at all.
"My God is on the other side of the door." The Celestial Clan raised their long staffs, pointed to the center of the altar under the white stone slab, and declared in an impassioned tone: "God of Light is above, Master Xiu, please kneel on the holy stone and swear to God, and you will become the next governor!"
The stone slab in the sky was actually a "door", and the boss was at the other end of the door. Du Ze's eyes moved to the center of the altar. Does this mean that the cute master must kneel there before he can see the arrogant God of Light?
——Are you kidding me? (Comic face)
Du Ze felt from the bottom of his heart that they had encountered the biggest challenge ever in the God's Tower. It was easy for other climbers but it was extremely difficult for them - the Lord of Moe kneeling down before the God of Light... It was simply unimaginable!
"The God of Light is behind this door?" Xiu Yu asked.
The Celestial Tribe nodded carefully: "Yes, so please kneel down before the God to show..."
"kneel--?"
Under everyone's gaze, Xiu glanced at the Celestial Clan member and slowly smiled. "Why should I kneel?"
The Celestial Clan's breath paused as he was stared at by a pair of red eyes that seemed to drag him into the abyss of blood. His words were as intermittent as his breathing: "You, you must become a follower of the God of Light before you can--"
"To become a governor?" Xiu continued the Celestial Clan's words, his lips curved in a way that looked puzzled but was in fact mocking. "Then what? Like the previous governor, lead the patrol officers to collect light elements everywhere?"
Du Ze's eyes widened slightly in shock. Xiu's words turned into a massive amount of information that instantly filled his brain. At that moment, he seemed to understand something, but also seemed to understand nothing.
"The last governor was also a tower climber, right?" Xiu casually said a shocking fact. "As long as I kneel down, I will become the governor... No," Xiu rejected the previous statement, with a smile on his face. "Should I say a puppet?"
Boom—Du Ze's heart skipped a beat. At that moment, he understood everything. This was the biggest trap in the Celestial Tribe dungeon. The Celestial Tribe had been talking about "becoming the Governor" from the beginning to the end. If the climbers followed the Celestial Tribe's steps, the final outcome would really be "becoming the Governor". Du Ze finally understood the incongruity he had felt with the glowing body before. The creatures simulated by the Divine Tower would never say the word "clear the level" no matter what. They were equivalent to NPCs in the game, and naturally would not have concepts and vocabulary beyond the game. So, although the previous Governor was a very authentic Celestial Tribe, he was actually a climber...?
The more he understood the layout of the Celestial Tribe dungeon, the more frightened Du Ze felt. If he made a mistake, he would be trapped deeper and deeper in the Celestial Tribe dungeon like stepping into mud. Du Ze didn't know how many tower climbers had failed because of this "kneeling", but the number must be quite a lot. Because whether it is a living being or a god, there is a tendency to blindly obey the powerful party. Little did they know that the divine tower that set the rules had always followed the settings of Yi Ye Zhi Qiu.
[The Celestial Tribe paid for humility and took away healing. ]
True arrogance is not only directed at people of lower classes, but also at the desire to step on those in higher positions.
The silver-haired dragon looked up at the huge gate in the sky, and the blood-red ambition deep in his pupils seemed to want to burn the existence behind the gate to ashes.
"I'm here to kill you, not to be your puppet."
The huge gate that blocked out the sun and sky hung heavily above, as if mocking the insignificance and arrogance of the people below. The Celestial Clan, who was shocked by Xiu's words, came back to his senses with great effort. He pointed at the disrespectful Xiu, and his previous respect was gone. "Are you going to fall?"
Xiu tilted his head slightly, and the light-colored hair fell onto the mocking curve of his mouth.
“I’ve wanted to do this for a long time.”
This was like a signal. Du Ze felt the back of his hand getting hot. When he raised his hand, he saw the mark of a broken wing on his left hand. Being judged as a fallen person at this time made Du Ze not know whether to cry or laugh. Rachel and others who had not experienced the patrol were a little confused about the broken wings that appeared inexplicably on their hands, but they quickly entered a state of preparation for battle, because at this time countless Celestials were rushing in from all directions, and their momentum was obviously not good.
Due to the restriction on flying, it would take some time for the Celestial Clan's army to come up. Du Ze looked up at the floating giant gate above. During this time, they had to find a way to pass through the giant gate. It was not just the Celestial Clan that was banned from flying, they were the same. Even if the giant gate was only ten meters away from them, they could not cross the ten meters to touch the giant gate, let alone open it.
As Du Ze was thinking, his gaze naturally moved downwards. When he saw the altar at his feet, he suddenly remembered one thing - that Titan!
The entire spiral staircase was built around the Titan, and even the altar at their feet was lifted by the Titan. The tower had already given them a hint that as long as they freed the Titan from his shackles, it would be easy for them to open the giant door.
Having figured it out, Du Ze looked at Xiu excitedly, wanting to tell the little cute master his discovery - eh?
Seeing the tall and handsome silver-gray-haired young man beside him suddenly shrank into a fair-skinned boy, the sudden gap made Du Ze's brain unable to wrap its head around it.
The flax-haired dwarf stood in the center of the altar and stretched out his hand toward the huge stone door. His oversized sleeves and star chains slid down his slender wrists, making him look somewhat funny and cute. However, no one dared to despise that small figure. In the astonished eyes of Enoch and others, several thick metal pillars suddenly pierced out of the void as if piercing through thin paper. As if stretching out clothes, the metal pillars pulled to both sides, and the void was torn into a huge space crack, revealing a metal mechanical face.
"What...is that...?" Enoch's voice was like a broken radio, intermittent and jammed, and his expression was full of disbelief; Rachel looked at the mechanical face, breathing heavily, as if recalling some nightmare.
機械臉上碩大的“眼球”轉了轉，每一個被瞥見的生靈都不寒而栗。在金屬柱的撕扯下，空間裂縫越來越大，裏面的事物也一點一點地展現了全貌：腦袋、軀體、手臂——所有人這才發現，那約有十米來長的金屬柱竟然只是那個龐然大物的手指！
撕啦——
艾莉兒忍不住捂住嘴巴，即使發不出聲音，但她仍然想要驚叫。一具幾乎占據整個視野的機械傀儡跨出破裂的空間，遮天蔽日地站在了所有人面前。在卡巴拉的陰影中，修仰頭露出了甜美的微笑，他張開五指，透過指間縫隙，那并不大、甚至可以說得上小巧精致的手像是完完全全掌控住了那扇巨門，以及門後的那一位。
“開門吧。”
就像是一個前來拜訪做客的好朋友，修軟糯的聲音像糖一樣融化在機械傀儡的起身聲響中。卡巴拉擡起機械臂頂在了白色巨門上，它太過龐大了，一舉一動都會引發整個空間震蕩。
“轟隆隆隆——”
不可一世的巨門劇烈顫抖，連帶着整個世界都在顫動。螺旋樓梯一點點崩塌，帶着數不清的天族一同隕落。杜澤已經沒心思去挖掘讀作鳥人寫作天族居然會摔死這一槽點，他在颠晃中努力穩住身體，即使事先已經知道萌主擁有卡巴拉這一大殺器，當杜澤親眼目睹這一切時，他還是本能地感受到一絲恐懼。
太強大了……
巨大的機械傀儡張開金屬嘴巴，發出無聲的嘶吼。在八星機械傀儡恐怖的推力下，白色巨門終于不堪負重，被卡巴拉蠻橫地推開了一絲縫隙。耀眼的光從門縫中穿透而出，在一片沉悶的轟鳴中，吞沒了所有人。
杜澤只覺得世界一瞬間被染成純白色，當那些白色一點點褪去後，金色占據了整個視野。杜澤怔怔地望着金碧輝煌的神殿，不僅是他，幾乎所有人都因這一剎那的空間轉換而陷入了不可避免的忡愣狀态。唯有修由始至終盯着前方的神座，勾起的嘴角卻并沒有柔和的感覺。“好久不見。”
神座之上，光明神俯看着修，滿眼的複雜。
杜澤的目光在修和光明神之間游弋，這是修和光明神第三次對峙，也是早已被注定的最終對決。每一本小說都會有一個最終BOSS，他是整本小說的最終目标，被打敗後将迎來小說的完結。雖說現在yy小說非常流行在最終BOSS後加個隐藏BOSS，但從感情上來說，到最後才跳出的隐藏BOSS怎麽也比不上和主角打交道了整本書的最終BOSS，就像是現在的修和光明神一樣。和以光明神為首的光明神殿打交道一直是《混血》的主線劇情，無論是最初的審判，還是之後的追殺，光明神殿一直想要置修于死地；無論在天空之城，還是在獸族部落，光明神從來沒有掩飾他對修的殺意——最終BOSS試圖殺死主角，就像是主角開金手指一樣天經地義。這種相互敵對是不可調和、并且不斷累加的。因此，雖然目前很多信息都暗示了光明神之後還會有個隐藏的創世神，但比起虛無渺茫的創世神，萌主真正想打倒的應該是眼前的光明神。
沒有多餘的寒暄，修直白地對光明神道：“我的時間很緊。”
侏儒一臉笑容像是在催促一同玩游戲的小夥伴快點按下“準備”按鈕。“我們速度結束吧。”
卡巴拉的機械臂擦過修一瞬間砸向神座，它的身軀明明很龐大，動作卻是一種不可思議的迅猛。
“轟！！！”
神座一瞬間碾成粉末，強大的風壓吹散了侏儒淺栗色的頭發，修在狂風中展露笑容，那個笑容太過無邪，帶着孩子式的純粹殘酷。卡巴拉擡起沉重的拳頭，破碎的神座上空空如也，而光明神不見了蹤影。
所有人都警戒起來，卡巴拉歪了歪巨大的頭，看起來有種笨拙的呆萌感，事實上它的機械眼在那一瞬間掃描過整座神殿，然後迅速定位了空中的某一點。整座神殿類似于羅馬萬神殿的拱頂架構，它的空間極大，甚至可以裝納下卡巴拉。絲絲縷縷的光芒在神殿上方聚合，光明神在高空中俯視巨大的八星機械傀儡，他剛剛并不是躲開了卡巴拉的攻擊，而是被碾碎後再次重生。當看見修對他笑的那一刻，光明神再也無法維持他那高高在上的姿态，神情一瞬間變得扭曲。
相較被神塔限制實力囚禁在這裏的他，那個人已經強大到可以将他踩在腳底了。他完全可以預想到，被規則所寵愛的那人，将會擁有如何輝煌的未來——那個異端将會取代他、不，應該說是超越他，成為真正的衆神之首，被萬靈所敬仰。
他、不、甘、心！
嫉恨讓光明神的眼神染上瘋狂，他會殺死那個異端，哪怕規則不允許，就算付出一切代價，他也要殺死那個異端——
還沒等光明神完全凝聚出身體，卡巴拉已經伸手一把抓了過去。在巨大的機械手所帶來的力量下，哪怕是神祗也顯得如蝼蟻一般渺小。光明神毫無抵抗能力地再次失去軀體，然而只要有光存在他就能無數次重生。在遠離卡巴拉的那端，光明神迅速地重聚身體，這一次不待身體完全回複就使用出了神術。
熟悉的巨大光球又一次充斥了杜澤的視野，宛如一顆隕落的太陽向他們堕下。不用修下指令，卡巴拉早已握起了金屬拳頭，一拳轟向光球。
“砰——”
奪目的光芒中，一只有些融化的機械巨手穿透破碎的光明，将光明神頃刻握成了粉末。
維爾拉等人呆若木雞地旁觀着這一切，卡巴拉與光明神的戰鬥完全波及不到這裏，杜澤瞅着身旁好整以暇的修，擁有卡巴拉的萌主簡直無敵了。不過越是強大的事物越是擁有致命的弱點，要驅動如此可怕的機械傀儡，所需要的能量也極其恐怖——三個神格加上一萬顆龍晶等無數稀有材料，才僅僅能讓卡巴拉活動一天。
光明神再一次在光明中重塑了身體，與卡巴拉陷入了拉鋸戰。消耗戰可是奶媽型職業的特長，光明神只用拖到卡巴拉的能量用盡，就可以贏得這場戰鬥。
“會做元素結界嗎？”修突然問雷切爾。
雷切爾怔了怔，然後點頭恭敬地回道：“會，不過需要一點時間。”
“去把神殿封起來。”
“是的，殿下。”
魔族們分散到神殿的各個角落，開始刻畫魔法陣。光明神注意到後想要阻止，卻被卡巴拉阻擋，偶爾漏下的攻擊也被老約翰和莫爾解決掉了。
紫黑色的魔法陣在神殿潔白的地板上一點點成型，仿若一種對聖潔的亵渎。當魔法陣完成後，雷切爾将雙刀插入魔法陣中央，激活了魔法陣。整個神殿瞬間被一道透明的膜“封閉”了，外界的元素無法進來，裏面的元素也無法出去。與此同時，卡巴拉轟碎光明神的神術，它不再攻擊光明神，而是用巨掌護住修和杜澤一群人。
在被卡巴拉用手掌護住的最後一秒，杜澤望到機械傀儡張大了嘴巴，像是活人一樣用力吸氣。下一秒，陰影籠罩了杜澤的所有視角，他看不到外面究竟發生了什麽，只能感覺到時不時的震動，那大約是光明神使用神術砸在卡巴拉的身上。即使被這樣攻擊，卡巴拉捂住所有人的雙手紋絲不動。
等卡巴拉擡手将所有人放出來時，杜澤看着眼前的場景産生了一瞬間的迷茫——他是不是還待在卡巴拉的手中沒有出來？眼前的不再是金壁輝煌的神殿，而是看不到邊緣的黑暗。杜澤擡頭傻傻地望向龐大的機械傀儡，難道剛剛卡巴拉将神殿中所有的光明元素都吞食了嗎？！
既然光明神能在光中不死不滅，那麽除去光就可以了。
卡巴拉伸手抓向光明神，這一次沒有光明元素給光明神恢複身體，如果被抓實了就真會将光明神攥成粉末。
“別殺——”
杜澤的阻止只說到一半卡巴拉的手就握住光明神了，那一刻杜澤仿若聽到心髒停止跳動的聲音，他還有很多事情想要問光明神，比如說當初在天空之城的那場對話，又比如……創世神。
修瞅了一眼杜澤，然後轉過臉去。杜澤看到卡巴拉用手指從掌心中捏起什麽跪了下來，指尖上正是他以為被萌主消滅的光明神。卡巴拉捏着光明神的翅膀，像是呈現禮物般讨好地放在呆掉的杜澤面前。
Du Ze couldn't help but look at Xiu, and found that the dwarf was looking away with an expression of indifference, and only half of his white and tender cheeks could be seen. Du Ze always knew that the God of Light had always been a quick kill for Mengzhu, and now the God of Creation had also become Mengzhu's minefield. Even so, Xiu still put the God of Light, whom he wanted to kill, in front of him, and asked him to ask for information about the God of Creation, whom he hated the most.
Du Ze was deeply moved. In order to live up to the kindness of the cute master, a stupid cute decided to fight quickly. Du Ze walked in front of the God of Light. The moment he approached, the God of Light, whose wings were pinched by Kabbalah and could not move, suddenly raised his head and showed an indescribable expression when he saw Du Ze clearly. "It's you."
Du Ze was not good at speaking, so he got straight to the point: "Do you know any news about the God of Creation?"
Like other main gods, the God of Light was also stunned at first when he heard Du Ze asking about the God of Creation. However, when he came back to his senses, there was no doubt in the eyes of the God of Light, but clarity - as if Du Ze asking about the God of Creation was the most normal thing for him.
"Of course I know."
Du Ze felt his blood circulation speed up. He stared closely at the only god who might have clues now. His heart was beating with anxiety because of the truth that was about to come. "Tell me."
"I will tell you." The God of Light looked at Du Ze with a twisted burning gaze. He stared at Du Ze almost eagerly, as if the black-haired young man was a devil who could fulfill his revenge, even at the cost of his soul. "But after you kill him!"
Even without specifying the name, everyone knew who the God of Light was referring to. In this regard, except for the person involved, the only feeling of the people present was that it was ridiculous - how could Du Ze kill Xiu?
And Du Ze rejected the God of Light as everyone thought: "I will not kill Xiu."
"Don't you want to know the news about the God of Creation?"
Du Ze shook his head. His tone was very ordinary, as if he was stating a piece of common sense that needed no explanation or argument.
"Even if I can't get any information about the God of Creation, I won't kill him."
——Even if I stay here forever, I won't kill him.
The God of Light looked at the black-haired young man opposite him. Just like before, this man rejected him again.
Even if he finally catches his desire, he will give up his own desire and persistence for the heretic and follow the heretic without regrets.
"ha……"
That's ridiculous. That's really ridiculous.
"I have changed my mind. I will now tell you about my relationship with that person."
This person is obviously, obviously——
"You are the one chosen by the God of Creation, the only one who can kill that heretic." The God of Light smiled distortedly. "The reason I came to you is because that one told me so - the only meaning of your existence is to kill him!"
The voice of the God of Light echoed in the darkness, clearly reaching everyone's ears. Du Ze stood there in a daze, and the others focused their eyes on Du Ze in astonishment, even Xiu slightly widened his eyes. However, it was that moment of absent-mindedness that allowed the God of Light to seize the opportunity he had coveted for a long time.
An eye formed by light suddenly opened in the darkness. This was the first one, and soon there was a second, a third... countless eyes opened in the darkness. They were densely packed in all directions, staring at the creature in the center. Kabbalah no longer held the wings of the God of Light, because the wings of the Celestial Clan had melted into light spots like snow and were absorbed by the sphere on the chest of the God of Light.
Du Ze stared at the eye-shaped sphere in disbelief. Is that - the judgment?
No, although it was very similar to the Judgment that Lilia had used in the Sky City, the sphere suspended in front of the God of Light was even more exquisite and terrifying. It seemed to have been freed from some kind of restriction, revealing its true form.
"This is my weapon, Judge."
It's really a ruling!
Du Ze was choked by the words of the God of Light. Judgment is the strongest weapon of the Celestial Clan. It has the characteristics of sacrifice. This kind of weapon is extremely powerful because it costs life. At the beginning, Xiu almost died under Judgment. Yi Ye Zhi Qiu did not write the detailed reasons, but just said that once locked by Judgment, there is no way to avoid its fatal attack.
"Don't look—"
Hearing Du Ze's reminder, the melting God of Light smiled mockingly.
"Real adjudication never needs to be locked up."
In countless pairs of eyes, the God of Light disappeared until only half of his face remained. Even with only half of his face, one could still see how malicious his expression was.
"Because it's a rules weapon."
The God of Light said, "You are already dead."
These words were like spirit, becoming reality the moment they were spoken.
“Du Ze…!”
The sudden pain made Du Ze's face twisted for a moment. He bit his teeth hard, wishing he could break them to get rid of the excruciating pain. Cold sweat wet his black hair. Du Ze panted rapidly. In the dark vision, the judge opened his eyes as if he had just woken up, and then lazily arranged the black light that was about to be emitted.
Why did he feel so much pain? Even though the Judge hadn't launched an attack yet, he felt as if he had been pierced by countless rays of light, like a piece of rag with countless large holes in it.
Warm red liquid flowed down from his forehead and was about to flow into his eyes. Du Ze couldn't help but stretched out his hand to wipe it. When he saw a big hole on his right hand, he was completely stunned.
Why could he see the other side of his palm, why was it bleeding, why was it so painful - it was not just like that, he was now basically a piece of "rag"!
"This is the rule. Once it is set, it cannot be violated." The tone of the God of Light was very subtle, as if he was mocking others, but also as if he was mocking himself. "The rule of judgment has an absolute hit rate. No matter how you defend or evade, it is meaningless, because you have already been set by the rule to be penetrated."
Before it completely disappeared, the curve of the God of Light's mouth showed both satisfaction and madness.
"I finally killed you hahahahahahaha..."
...Impossible...How could Xiu die...!
The ominous words of the God of Light caused Du Ze more pain than the wounds that pierced his body. The black-haired young man held up his heavy eyelids and tried hard to find Xiu.
He just heard Xiu calling him...
Coo.
A large amount of blood gushed out, flowing out with the heat of life. The eyes were filled with darkness, and they silently witnessed the death of the black-haired young man.
Before his death, Du Ze was ultimately unable to see the person he cared about the most.