Chapter 670: Tower to the Heavens
Wang Ye struggled and sat down on the ground suddenly.
Divine Power Tianyang spread his arms and smiled, "Wang Ye! I once told you, this world is sick. All the sufferings of the human world stem from themselves. Now, I have cured it! Eternal peace has come! I have found this greater meaning!"
"You exterminated us… On this street… Everyone on this street is just your avatar. You're merely playing house with those few executioners of yours. Look at the puppets on this street! You live in your own fiction, leaving me behind to humiliate me, deluding yourself into thinking I'd accept your act!" Wang Ye cursed.
Divine Power Tianyang tilted his head slightly and said, "They aren't my avatars. They merely share a high degree of consistency with my will and ideas! I have become what I yearned to be! I have brought peace, eradicated all human maladies! Death, poverty, hunger, war, disease, discrimination… These no longer exist. I did it, Wang Ye, you must agree!"
"Not a chance! I despise you! Despise the apocalypse you brought, despise your bloody massacre! You can never become a god!" Wang Ye spat in fury.
Divine Power Tianyang took a deep breath, grabbed Wang Ye's shoulder with his left hand, and said, "Come, let me show you something."
With that, Divine Power Tianyang transformed into a beam of golden light, enveloping Wang Ye. Then, he was wrapped in this warm light; the dazzling white light made it impossible for him to open his eyes. The next second, he felt his feet leave the ground, soaring upwards.
In just five or six seconds, he felt his feet touching the warm desert again. His vision suddenly opened up, as the vast red desert filled his sight, sand grains flooding between his toes.
Wang Ye knelt down on the ground, his hands sunk into the sand, looked up, and saw a gigantic tower standing in the distance.
The tower was a complex cylindrical shape, wide at the base and narrowing as it rose higher. Its outer wall had helical ramps, and many descendants, with the help of a towering iron gray giant, were transporting building materials to the top of the tower.
Wang Ye looked upward from the ground. The tower soared into the clouds, its top invisible. Based on the size of people, Wang Ye surmised that the base of the tower covered an area far beyond imagination, surely larger than the Yin Country's former Fengrao City cauldron.
At this moment, Divine Power Tianyang appeared again, arms crossed, gazing at the distant tower, and said, "We will build this high tower. Those Divine Descendants and descendants who cannot fly will be able to use this to go to the moon. To Ra's remains."
"What is this for?" Wang Ye asked.
"War still exists in other chapters of the grand narrative. I don't want this place to become a battlefield; I want to start the war on their territory. The moon is the perfect outpost." Divine Power Tianyang replied.
Wang Ye suddenly understood: what he called warring with the stars was endless fighting. After killing everyone on Earth, he would go kill in the universe… Earth's humanity had all been turned into his puppets. In the ensuing fight, if they all died, where would he replenish his troops?
Perhaps Divine Power Tianyang never considered that he had already been filled with a dark heart full of desire for killing, enslaving, and assimilating other beings. Now, he was no longer human.
"Wei Tianyang, kill me, end this farce. I don't have the ability to kill you now, nor do I wish to witness your evil deeds," Wang Ye said.
Divine Power Tianyang shook his head, grabbed Wang Ye's throat with a large hand, laughed, "No, I won't let you die. I once said you and I are the same kind of people, only, not as lucky as I am. I lay on the operating table and got this power. Before, I said this ability was a curse; now, I would say it's destiny. Wang Ye, you are another me, only you haven't realized it yet. I want to let you see what I'm doing. I want you to transform. You still have a chance, Wang Ye, you could become my Knight, but your mind isn't fit yet."
"Why don't you just assimilate me? Is brainwashing no good on me?" Wang Ye mocked.
"Shut up! Knights and soldiers are completely different! I want you to sincerely acknowledge me, respect me! Not for me to do it personally!" Divine Power Tianyang raged.
"Doesn't that admit then that those things are just your puppets!" Wang Ye replied.
Divine Power Tianyang was somewhat annoyed, stepping on Wang Ye's back and pressing him down in one motion.
Then, he grabbed Wang Ye's neck with his right hand, leaned down, extended sharp claws with his left hand, and tore open Wang Ye's robe at the abdomen.
"Do you want to anger me? That's so easy, angering me is very easy. I want to take care of you, let you transform slowly, but I thought too well of you! But I won't change my mind!" Divine Power Tianyang laughed.
Wang Ye chuckled, "Oh, really? I won't change my mind either!"
As soon as the words were spoken, Wang Ye felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, Divine Power Tianyang's claws casually tore open four large gashes in his abdomen, his intestines popped out, and a large pool of blood gathered on the hot sand.
Wang Ye clenched his teeth in pain, his body involuntarily contracting.
Divine Power Tianyang, however, lifted him up, one hand gripping his neck, the other grabbing his ankle, pulling him straight. Then, from behind, two more hands extended, randomly slashing at his body.
Wang Ye rolled his eyes in pain, his thin body like a piece of cured meat, sliced by ten knives, instantly covered in blood and flesh, entirely blood-soaked.
"I will destroy your body and mind, torment you, heal you, over and over, I want to see how long you can endure!" Divine Power Tianyang said.
With that, he threw Wang Ye onto the sand.
Wang Ye lay sideways on the hot sand, his intestines draped out, the world turned black and white.
At this point, Divine Power Tianyang stomped his exposed intestines into the sand, a warm surge reached his mouth and he couldn't help but spit it out—blood.
Wang Ye's whole body was cold, no longer feeling his lower limbs, his eyes blurry, quickly losing consciousness.
However, dying wasn't that easy.
Divine Power Tianyang transformed into golden light, enveloped Wang Ye, and instantly returned to the Peikuode Hotel, tossing the broken Wang Ye onto the floor of the room, in front of Aha.
"What happened to him?" Aha asked calmly.
"He refuses to change." Divine Power Tianyang said indignantly.
To fit into the room, Divine Power Tianyang changed into human form, wearing a long black robe.
"You need to give him time, violence will only make him resist us." Aha said.
"I don't believe in human will, nor do I believe in human bodies. The pain of the flesh and the cold reality will change him; I merely sped things up a bit." Divine Power Tianyang said.
Aha nodded helplessly, she understood him, just as she understood herself.
"Heal him." Divine Power Tianyang said before leaving the room.