Legend Management Bureau Chapter 454

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He Suoyi also realized that the situation around him had changed. Although he had obtained the Ultimate Dark Bodhi Heart, the Portal he used to arrive had vanished.

“Young Kid… you truly underestimate me.” He Suoyi slowly pressed the Ultimate Dark Bodhi Heart into his own chest. “Did you think this would be enough to kill me?”

In the next second, cracks began to surface across the entire black Buddha, and surging waves of formidable power seemed ready to erupt.

Du Yu gently waved his hand, conjuring a colossal Portal. It was a full twice the height of the Mahakala.

This was a size that even Xing Tian had never been able to manifest back in the day.

The Terminator watched this unfold, unable to stop himself from frowning. Though he had not experienced the Great War, he could vaguely guess the outcome.

“Du Yu, where are you sending the Mahakala?” the Terminator muttered to himself. “The timeline you reside in is already independent. There are no other timelines left for you to traverse… What are you going to do?”

Du Yu merely smiled faintly. He reached out and clenched his fist. An indescribable, massive force pressed down on the giant Portal, slowly bending it out of shape.

“It actually works…”

Du Yu thrust both hands forward, pressing down on the Portal and forcefully crushing it into the shape of a hemisphere.

He waved his hand again, creating another colossal Portal, and similarly molded it into a hemisphere.

“One as the entrance, one as the exit. This is perfect.”

Du Yu’s hands danced through the air. The two hemispheres, accompanied by massive wind pressure, slowly drew closer together. Ultimately, they formed a complete, flawless sphere, trapping the gargantuan Mahakala inside.

The many Immortal Beings on the Battlefield watched this scene in stunned silence, thinking for a moment that Pan Gu had descended upon the world.

It did not take long for a deafening roar to echo from within the spherical Portal.

The explosive force entered through the left door and rapidly blasted out from the right door.

A world-destroying power continuously swirled within the sphere, unexpectedly forming a closed internal loop.

If there were anyone inside the sphere, they would definitely be shredded to pieces by the endlessly churning forces.

“The Northern Emperor is definitely not going to survive this, but what about you, Old He?” Du Yu said with a laugh. “You absolutely cannot die. Every single version of ‘Du Yu’ is counting on you to hold on.”

A minute passed.

Ten minutes passed.

The spherical Portal was still trembling violently. It seemed that for the internal energy to completely dissipate, it had to be absorbed by something.

At that thought, Du Yu slightly flicked his finger, accelerating the flow of time inside the Portal.

Ten years. Twenty years. A hundred years.

While only a minute passed outside the door, three hundred years had elapsed inside.

The trembling of the spherical Portal finally ground to a halt, but the entire sphere had turned a burning red. It looked like an alien egg, as if something was about to hatch from within.

“Crack.”

A tiny fracture appeared on the sphere.

Du Yu revealed an uncontrollable smile. He then noticed a black shadow completely identical to himself materialize by his side. The shadow grinned as well, yelling, “It worked! It actually worked! Hahahaha! You lunatic! You absolute madman!”

“Get lost!” Du Yu swatted the air fiercely, dismissing the phantom, before turning his gaze back to where He Suoyi was.

“Old He, you really cannot die. I… will be the ultimate victor!”

At that moment, a massive, crimson finger covered in cracks abruptly pierced through the sphere and slowly extended outward.

The sheer volume of this single finger was even greater than the entire Mahakala from moments ago.

If whatever was inside the sphere was allowed to fully emerge, there would be nothing left in this world capable of containing it.

“Du Yu!!!!”

A deafening, muffled roar rumbled from within the sphere.

“I will claim all of your lives!!!!”

Du Yu’s hands continued to weave through the air, and a new, colossal Portal materialized.

He slowly levitated beside the sphere and gave it a gentle push. The entire globe, along with that monstrous finger, sank right into the Portal.

Du Yu turned his head and cast another glance over the Battlefield.

Eight or nine out of every ten monks had already been incinerated, leaving only a scant few lingering on their last breath.

He then looked at the numerous Immortal Beings, who were currently staring at him as if he were a monster.

Du Yu smiled and said, “Everyone, we will meet again in the ‘Correct’ reality.”

With those words, he stepped into the Portal as well.

…

The Terminator stared in despair at the massive sphere before him. Its cracking was accelerating.

And the cavern here was rapidly expanding because of this very sphere.

After all, this cave could not be destroyed. For every fraction the sphere grew, the cave grew along with it.

“Du Yu… you lunatic!!” the Terminator roared. “You want to blow up… this place?!”

Du Yu appeared right behind the sphere, smiling as he nodded. “That’s right. I’m going to use Old He to blow this place to kingdom come.”

“How is that even possible?!” the Terminator hissed through gritted teeth. “You should know! The ‘space’ here cannot be destroyed! It will just regenerate!”

Du Yu looked back at the giant sphere. He Suoyi’s entire hand was about to break free.

“Is that so?” Du Yu pursed his lips. “Unfortunately, your guess is wrong again. What I want to blow up isn’t ‘space,’ but ‘time.’ This is something that can only be achieved after He Suoyi transforms into the giant Buddha.”

“Blow up… time…” The Terminator was stunned for a moment before he lowered his head in despair.

He finally understood everything… This man had actually instigated He Suoyi’s rebellion on the Battlefield just to orchestrate all of this.

“I guessed countless possibilities… but I never imagined you would do this… This is why you refused to give up your identity as ‘Time’… Because you needed to bring He Suoyi in here…”

“Pretty much,” Du Yu nodded. “It’s just a pity that the last time He Suoyi exploded, the power wasn’t enough; it only blasted cracks into ‘Time.’ This time, I want to shatter ‘Time’ completely, which is why I gifted him an adequate amount of ‘Suffering.’ He absorbed all the agony from the Mahakala’s explosion by himself. As long as he detonates here, He Suoyi will blast a path through every Cave of Time. And if the yield is just a bit higher, he can completely obliterate every single Cave of Time in existence.”

A gargantuan arm suddenly thrust out of the spherical Portal, covered in millions of jagged cracks. Consequently, the cavern rapidly expanded upward to accommodate the arm.

Du Yu smiled faintly, opened a Portal, and flew straight into that colossal arm.

He needed to find He Suoyi’s true body.

To guarantee this master plan would succeed without fail, he had to add one final spark.

The internal world here was impossibly vast. Fortunately, He Suoyi was glowing a burning crimson, making him visible from far away.

Du Yu flew for several hours before finally arriving by He Suoyi’s side.

“Du… Yu…” He Suoyi looked as though he had aged several hundred years. His body was covered in scars, and his eyes spewed flames of fury as he glared viciously at Du Yu.

“Long time no see, Old He,” Du Yu said with a grin as he walked forward.

“You’re not outside waiting to die… Are you here to stop me?” He Suoyi asked through gritted teeth.

“No, no, no,” Du Yu shook his head. “Don’t overthink it, Old He. You do whatever you need to do. I’m just here to add fuel to the fire.”

“Fuel to the fire?” He Suoyi asked. “What do you mean?”

“Exactly what it sounds like.”

A raging inferno instantly ignited all over Du Yu’s body as he slammed his palm onto He Suoyi’s chest.

“Ahhhhh!!!!!”

Even though He Suoyi had endured three hundred years of Suffering, he still could not resist this eerie, unnatural flame.

“Does it really hurt that much?” Du Yu asked with a smile. “I can’t let you just self-destruct on your own. You have to be burned alive… Only then will your ‘Suffering’ reach the highest level in history.”

But He Suoyi was already rolling wildly on the ground, completely unable to hear a single word. Amidst his agonizing screams, the surrounding environment began turning a deep, bloody red.

Bloody Suffering was relentlessly stacking upon itself, and Ultimate Darkness and despair were surging forth.

Having finished his task, Du Yu opened another Portal and returned to the side of the Creator.

He dispelled the two spherical Portals, intentionally releasing He Suoyi’s crimson Buddha.

In the next second, a blood-red hurricane swept through the entire Cave of Time.

The surrounding walls and the ground rapidly receded from the two men until they completely disappeared from sight.

When the gale finally ceased, only a vast expanse of blood-red and a sky full of fractures remained around Du Yu and the Terminator.

Du Yu knew that He Suoyi’s colossal Buddha had already filled The Void within the Cave of Time. He was now infinitely approaching boundless, his form completely indistinguishable.

“Du Yu… we… are about to disappear, aren’t we…” the Terminator sighed, saying, “And not just us. Every Du Yu in existence across this world will have all traces of their existence erased. Why go to such lengths just for the Original Du Yu?”

“Maybe I just refuse to accept my fate,” Du Yu replied. “I don’t want to be controlled forever. I want to be an Operator.”

“Liar…” the Terminator murmured. “Is this what you meant when you said… you would come back to save me? You are killing me with your own hands!”

“Have I not saved you?” Du Yu blinked, asking with a face full of confusion. “Are you not the ‘Du Yu who became Time’? No matter which Du Yu I save, I am saving you!”

“Ha, hahahaha…” The Terminator revealed the final bitter smile of his life. “You are right. I have lost.”

“No,” Du Yu shook his head. “If you surrender now… it’s still a little too early.”

With that, he vanished from his spot.

The Terminator closed his eyes and entered his own inner world.

He found Du Yu standing there, searching for something among a myriad of fragments.

“I killed so many people simply to confuse you,” Du Yu said. “If I told you the final truth, I’m afraid you wouldn’t be able to handle the loss.”

“We have already reached this point. What could possibly be left that I cannot accept…”

“Is that so?” Du Yu smiled. He opened his mouth and mouthed a few words to the Terminator.

That single sentence was like a cataclysm, ensuring that the Terminator would find no peace even in death.

In the next second, true devastation struck.

Accompanied by the continuous shattering sound of breaking glass, Du Yu and the Terminator could not even open their eyes.

The Cave of Time was blown apart, forming countless temporal rifts. In a fraction of an instant, every single rift shattered completely.

An infinite number of Caves of Time were blasted through. Countless iterations of ‘Time’ collided into one another amidst agonizing screams, ultimately dissolving into nothing but ash.

A massive tempest raged, painting the sky a violent, bloody red.

The infinitely massive He Suoyi was endlessly shattering an infinite number of Caves of Time.

It was all finally over.