Chapter 919: Borrowing Your Power

Continuous strong earthquakes and roars came from deep underground.

The holy city, once a symbol of supreme power in the Free Federation, was splitting along its central axis into a bottomless, pitch-black ravine.

Whole rows of skyscrapers collapsed one after another, filling the air with dust.

The moat water poured backward into the ground fissures, whipping up water pillars a hundred meters high.

Countless citizens wailed and fled amidst the ruins.

"Help! Who can save my child!"

"My leg is broken! Where is the rescue team!"

High above in the firmament, space continued to collapse, and dense debris rained down.

High-tier Professionals tried their utmost to raise magical shields, but in the face of the world-collapsing power, the shields shattered in batches.

Zhou Huai hovered ten thousand meters high in the air, overlooking the scene below as fierce winds whipped his dark gold battle armor into flapping sounds.

Heavenly Dao had fallen, and the world was collapsing.

At this point, there was no room for maneuver between him and that Mr. Duan; this battle was unavoidable.

But he was not in a hurry to tear through space to fight the other party to the death; instead, he slowly raised his right hand and made a void-grasping gesture toward the collapsing world below.

"Hum——!"

A low hum reverberated between heaven and earth.

The fully fused phantom of the origin sacred tree inside his body burst through him, appearing in the Void Realm and then expanding violently against the wind.

Ten meters, a hundred meters, a thousand meters…

In just a few seconds, the sacred tree phantom expanded to tens of thousands of meters, its massive canopy shrouding the entire sky above the Free Federation.

Emerald green branches and leaves blocked out the sky and sun, emitting a sacred, high-dimensional radiance that completely dispelled the silent gloom.

The citizens and Professionals on the ground who had previously closed their eyes to await death all raised their heads.

"That… what is that?"

"A tree? A giant tree that blocks the entire sky!"

"Has a deity descended? A god has come to save us!"

Countless people stared at the sacred tree in the sky radiating endless vitality, forgetting even to flee.

Zhou Huai did not waste time with explanations; time was tight.

Mr. Duan had extremely high standards and only wanted to absorb the Origin of top-tier experts in the ruins. He looked down upon the meager power of ordinary Professionals completely, even feeling that Mortals were like ants that could be casually wiped out with a wave of his hand.

But Zhou Huai was different.

The individual power of these ordinary Professionals was indeed insignificant before a Transcendent, but their massive numbers formed the Foundation of the entire professional world and served as the cornerstone constituting this era.

Anyway, with the world collapsing, everyone could hardly escape this catastrophe. It would be better to gather them in one place and turn them into a force for him to fight Mr. Duan!

"Gather!"

Zhou Huai let out a low shout.

The sacred tree phantom drooped countless soft green light ribbons, accurately penetrating the ruins and avoiding spatial rifts, completely wrapping around all living Professionals and ordinary citizens of the Free Federation.

Tens of millions of survivors turned into dense green light spots, flying along the light ribbons into the sacred tree and being taken into the independent Small World opened up by the sacred tree.

The once bustling and wailing ruins instantly became completely deserted.

But this was only the beginning.

Zhou Huai did not stop; he raised his hand to slice open a spatial rift and stepped in, appearing above the Great Bear Country.

Here, glaciers were shattering crazily, and biting winds and spatial turbulence tore the earth to pieces. Tens of thousands of Berserkers roared in the wind and snow, yet they could not stop the sinking of the earth.

Zhou Huai lowered the light ribbons once more.

"Swish, swish, swish!"

All surviving Professionals and citizens of the Great Bear Country were entirely taken into the sacred tree space.

Next was Sakura Country, where islands sank and seawater poured backward; Kimchi Country, where tall buildings snapped and ruins stretched continuously;

Ancient Egypt, where pyramids collapsed and yellow sand filled the sky; Persia…

Zhou Huai's figure flashed above one collapsing country after another.

Wherever he passed, green light bathed the earth, and all survivors were picked up, sparing them from being swallowed by the collapsing world.

Finally, Zhou Huai traversed the Void Realm and appeared above the imperial capital of Great Xia Country.

At this time, the imperial capital had long fallen into complete chaos.

Streets were torn into isolated islands, spatial rifts spread across the entire city, and military rescue efforts were completely ineffective in the face of the disaster.

Standing on the city tower was a blood-stained figure, none other than Zhao Qingcang, holding the position of Great Xia Marshal.

His hands were already dripping with blood, left behind from shattering a giant meteorite that smashed toward the civilian area.

Zhao Qingcang stared at the continuously collapsing city and the crying commoners below, his eyes filled with despair.

"We can't stop it… We simply can't stop it…"

Great Xia's elites had already tried their utmost, but amidst the catastrophe of the era's destruction, human strength was far too insignificant.

"Could it be that our Great Xia… is truly going to perish today?"

Just at this moment, the sky suddenly lit up with green light.

A figure draped in dark gold battle armor and backed by a sky-shielding giant tree appeared above the imperial capital.

At the same time, Zhou Huai's calm and powerful voice resounded across the skies of every city in Great Xia, clearly transmitting into the ears of every survivor.

Zhao Qingcang raised his head abruptly, recognizing the figure above—it was none other than Great Xia's universally acknowledged strongest expert, Zhou Huai.

The despair in his eyes instantly transformed into wild joy.

Zhou Huai had come, which meant this catastrophe still had a turning point!

Beneath the city tower, countless Great Xia citizens and Professionals raised their heads one after another, bursting into exclamations.

"It is the Ever-changing Star Lord!"

"The Ever-changing Star Lord has come to save us!"

Zhao Qingcang took a deep breath, enduring the violent spatial turbulence, and shouted loudly toward high altitude:

"Zhou Huai! What on earth is going on?"

"Why has the world become like this?!"

Mid-air, Zhou Huai looked down at Zhao Qingcang on the city tower.

Continuously crossing the globe and housing billions of people consumed an extremely heavy amount of mental energy, but his tone remained exceptionally firm:

"Marshal Zhao, the Ninth World is about to completely collapse."

"I don't have time to explain too much to everyone."

Zhou Huai took a deep breath, his gaze sweeping across below.

"Next…"

"I'll borrow everyone's power for a moment!"

As his voice fell.

The sky-shielding light ribbons crashed down, bathing every inch of Great Xia's land in light and entirely wrapping around all survivors, including Zhao Qingcang on the city tower.

"Swish——!"

With a flash of light, everyone in Great Xia was also taken entirely into the sacred tree space.

After finishing all this, Zhou Huai hovered above the completely deserted ruins.

The origin sacred tree inside his body erupted with dazzling radiance.

The faith, faint lights of life, and power of billions of people, though weak individually, gathered together to form a terrifying torrent.

Power poured backward wildly through the branches of the sacred tree into Zhou Huai's body!

"Boom——!"

The dark gold battle armor on Zhou Huai erupted with purple-gold brilliance, and his aura climbed step by step.

The barrier of stepping into the Early Stage Transcendent realm was instantly shattered under the impact of billions of people's power. The surrounding space twisted and annihilated under the terrifying air pressure.

Early Stage Transcendent realm!

Middle Stage Transcendent realm!

Late Stage Transcendent realm!

Finally, accompanied by a roar that shook the Void Realm, his aura stabilized at the Peak Transcendent realm, just half a step away from the Dominator realm!

Zhou Huai opened his eyes, spat out a mouthful of foul air, and instantly shook apart the spatial turbulence in front of him.

Everything that could be done had been done, and all preparations were ready.

Next, it was time to go meet that old friend.

He raised his right hand and slashed fiercely at the Void Realm before him.

"Tear!"

"Crack——!"

A cross-era rift exuding high-dimensional aura was forcibly ripped open.

Zhou Huai did not hesitate, stepping across and directly crossing endless dimensions to appear within the core ruins of The Eighth World.

At the center of the ruins, collapsed ruins and turbulent energy were everywhere.

Mr. Duan stood within the Void Realm, exuding terrifying coercion.

He was raising his hand toward Ming Ze, Red Lotus, and other old-era SSS-Rank Experts below who had been resurrected by the power of time and lacked any ability to resist.

As long as he swallowed all of these people, he could complete the final missing high-dimensional divine persona.

Right at this moment, a spatial rift opened not far from Mr. Duan.

Zhou Huai stepped out from the rift, looking down condescendingly at Mr. Duan, who was preparing to make a move.

Feeling the surging power of the Peak Transcendent realm within his body, he raised his hand and greeted:

"Mr. Duan, it really has been a long time."

Mr. Duan's hand movements suddenly stiffened. He raised his head abruptly, staring at the figure emitting purple-gold brilliance.

When he saw the newcomer's face and perceived the oppressive feeling on the other party that was no less than his own, or even slightly superior, this Transcendent who had calculated across countless eras and was always calm showed astonishment on his face for the very first time:

"Zhou Huai? Why are you here?"