God's Gift

As its sound faded, countless meteorites broke off from the approaching planet, piercing the atmosphere and falling into the ocean, destroying ships and creating countless giant craters on the seabed.

Meteorites also appeared in other smaller worlds that were merging with the main world.

Ye Li watched the small worlds merging within the rift, and in the fleeting images, he saw the Abyss Factory being struck by a meteorite.

Ye Li stared at the burning Abyss Factory, his voice filled with panic and helplessness: "Dad! Mom!"

She frantically swam towards the small world within the crevice, but was stopped midway by Shen Minghua, who helped her dodge a falling meteorite. "Ali, calm down!"

“We can’t get there.” Shen Minghua looked at the huge crack in the seawater, hugged Ye Li tightly, and comforted her softly: “Right now, all we can do is help Youyou.”

Just then, countless mutated monsters crawled out from the cracks in the small world, piling up into a living tower and swarming towards Yu Youyou.

Ye Li looked at the monsters and finally calmed herself down. Her eyes turned cold and sharp, and she raised the plasma gun in her hand again, firing at the monsters.

Yu Youyou watched as meteorites continued to fall from the sky, then raised her hand and created a blue barrier in the air to block the falling meteorites.

While she was distracted fighting the meteorites, Dark Star seized the opportunity to burst forth, emitting a red light that instantly pierced through Youyou's shoulder.

Blood spilled from Yu Youyou's mouth, but the barrier above remained completely undamaged.

"Youyou!" Ye Li's eyes widened in alarm as she looked at Yu Youyou, who had been pierced by the red light. She glanced at the broken ship, her gaze quickly searching for an intact gun emplacement.

She leaped onto the capsized wreckage, swam a few steps to the gun emplacement, locked the emplacement onto Dark Star, and pressed the fire button forcefully.

A cannonball hurtled toward Dark Star, knocking it back several steps.

Yu Youyou, panting, cast a grateful glance at Ye Li and continued to support the barrier with one hand.

As the planet that had broken out of its orbit drew ever closer, Yu Youyou's body grew heavier and heavier, and her arms began to tremble slightly.

At that moment, the humans fleeing in countless overlapping micro-worlds all stopped in their tracks. They looked up at the divine figure struggling to hold on in the sky, and at the suddenly halted meteor shower, as if they understood something.

"Look, they'll only be a burden to you." Dark Star continued to pierce through Yu Youyou's body, letting out a mocking sneer:

"You could have stood shoulder to shoulder with me, but you insisted on exhausting your divine power for these ants."

"They weakened you, and now they want to drag you down with them, destroying you along with them."

Its words abruptly stopped.

Suddenly, thousands of points of light appeared in the deep sea. These faint, mayfly-like points of light surged toward Youyou like a galaxy flowing against the current, continuously merging into her body.

Yu Youyou's almost depleted divine power surged and replenished once again.

"How is this possible?" Dark Star looked at Yu Youyou, who had become stronger again, and turned around in shock, finally seeing the source of those light spots.

In countless overlapping spaces and times, humans knelt together, looking up in the direction of Yu Youyou, and the thousands of points of light emanated from their bodies.

Yu Youyou gasped for breath, looking up at those small worlds, where she saw countless familiar faces.

Church members from Endless Land, girls who escaped from Li Family Village, residents of the City That Never Sleeps, civilians within the City of Hope, and wanderers outside the City of Despair...

Across a distorted time and space, they prayed fervently for Yu Youyou.

“The gods are indeed weakened because of them.” Yu Youyou wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, turned her gaze to Dark Star, and smiled.

"But it is also because of them that we are strong again."

The black chains, symbolizing annihilation, once again enveloped Dark Star, tightening and compressing it relentlessly.

A crisp cracking sound rang out, and spiderweb-like cracks exploded on Dark Star's body. Like a deflated balloon, countless energies rapidly flowed out of its body.

As Dark Star watched the energy continuously drain away, its eyes suddenly turned fierce. The planets outside the atmosphere accelerated their approach, and the number of falling meteorites increased several times over.

It gripped Yu Youyou's hand tightly, burning her skin with flames: "Ou Xi, you have to die with me!"

At the critical moment, a giant dragon appeared behind it, opened its mouth and swallowed it whole.

Dark Star struggled to escape, but the energy draining from its body found a new vessel.

They surged into the dragon's body as if rebelling, dragging Dark Star deeper into its depths.

Before the dragon could close its jaws, Dark Star's incredulous voice rang out:

"How can it be……"

"How could Lu Keming possibly devour me!"

The next moment, its voice completely disappeared into the dragon's body.

Yu Youyou looked at the dragon's belly and whispered:

"Because you treat him as a container for storing power."

"You gave him too much power, and in the end, it will only backfire on him."

After Lu Keming swallowed Dark Star, dark red flames quickly ignited on his body. The power of Dark Star had not been completely tamed by him, and the rampaging energy surged wildly within his body.

With only one dragon wing remaining, Lu Keming could not maintain his balance, and he wobbled and fell to the edge of the cliff.

Several cracks appeared on his scales, revealing dark red patterns. Flames then ignited, completely enveloping his body and spreading across the cliff.

He knelt in the sea of ​​fire, struggling to look in Yu Youyou's direction, desperately suppressing the raging power, and barely regained his human form.

But these forces continued to stir the dragon blood, causing his body to twist and contort, dark red lines crawling across his skin, and blood gushing from his mouth.

Yu Youyou swam towards him, her hand passing through the raging flames, and gently lifted Lu Keming's face.

Lu Keming gripped Yu Youyou's palm tightly, using his last bit of reason to maintain his human form, and looked up at her.

He forced a smile, his voice broken and he said, "Youyou, I... I helped you."

“Yes.” Yu Youyou stroked Lu Keming’s face, her voice gentle, “You helped me.”

Lu Keming's smile widened considerably. He closed his eyes contentedly, his breathing grew weaker, and finally, he slumped his head down in despair.

After a long while, his voice rang out again: "Youyou, kill me."

"I don't want to become a mindless monster."

At least in her eternal memory, the last image he left behind would be handsome.