World’s End: My Keyword is One More Than Others

When the news of the ascetics spread, White Stone City was thrown into chaos.

Both those with martial souls and those without began to fervently train themselves through painful methods, especially the warriors below three-star martial soul level, who seemed to have found a shortcut to becoming stronger.

Moreover, becoming an ascetic meant becoming a disciple of Holly, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that motivated many.

The city was filled with the sounds of agonized screams.

The busiest people were the healers and water magicians, as too many people were injuring themselves due to impatience.

The next day.

Du Ge, who still hadn't developed a splitting skill, noticed the situation in White Stone City and issued a proclamation in the name of King Holly: "Ascetic training varies by individual constitution. Do not rush your cultivation; health should always come first."

Then.

Du Ge gathered all those injured from ascetic training, brought them together, and used a large-scale water healing spell to treat their injuries, offering them encouragement and advice.

He also announced the formation of a medical team led by water magicians, dedicated to treating those injured from ascetic training at a low cost.

Such a righteous act earned Du Ge a significant boost in attributes.

...

By noon, having dealt with all the governmental affairs, Du Ge left White Stone City with Prince Nelson, accompanied by Grand Duke Lynch, Old Gao, Lather, Leen, and others.

As for Morris and the two nine-star guardians of the ducal mansion, he left them in White Stone City to maintain order.

Simon, who had neither a martial soul nor magical talent, was also brought along by Du Ge, who personally taught him and sought ways for him to find a path in cultivation.

Taking Simon to travel the world was a promise Du Ge had made to him, and a righteous person never breaks their word.

A thousand-mile dyke can be destroyed by an ant's nest; as an Alien Star warrior, no detail can be overlooked.

...

Traveling with Du Ge was a terrifying sight.

Splitting could increase attributes, and Du Ge was eager to develop a new skill.

So, he was constantly torturing his own body, breaking his hands, arms, ribs...

Relying on his extraordinary recovery ability, he almost broke every part of his body.

When the strongest person keeps striving, their recovery ability grows stronger, to the point where healing magic is no longer needed.

This motivated everyone.

Leen, Lather, and others also strained against their bodies along the way, breaking their finger bones, arms...

They didn't dare go as far as Du Ge, who could directly chop off his own arm, but they still dared to break their bones.

Moreover, seeing Du Ge remain expressionless while torturing his body, they also learned to endure the pain silently.

But for those who hadn't experienced the tempering of the Alien Star Battlefield, enduring the pain was actually very difficult, so Du Ge's team was filled with strange sounds like "uh," "ah," and "ugh."

Luckily, they were using flight techniques to travel in the sky.

Otherwise, if they were walking on the main roads, who knows what rumors would spread from those who heard them!

Even so, a group of self-mutilating strongmen flying overhead was a horrifying sight for those below.

The spread of ascetic techniques wasn't fast; outside of White Stone City, people didn't know it was a form of cultivation. To them, it looked more like a group of liches flying by.

Fortunately, most people didn't know what Holly looked like; otherwise, with his actions, his righteous attributes would surely plummet.

...

Prince Nelson and Grand Duke Lynch were also crazily self-mutilating.

Ascetic techniques had proven to be effective and reasonable; no one wanted to fall behind on this path to godhood...

However.

Grand Duke Lynch, who had been tricked by Du Ge again, never looked happy.

He had expected Holly to make him take the blame and was prepared for it, but he hadn't expected that within a day, Holly would dump the mess on him!

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Such a person, yet everyone still thought he was a good, righteous, and noble person—there was no justice at all...

Under Holly's manipulative actions, the reputation of Grand Duke Lynch in White Stone City had become utterly foul.

Grand Duke Lynch was very suspicious that one day Holly would drag him out for a sacrificial offering and use him to boost his own reputation.

Thinking of this, Grand Duke Lynch was even more motivated to temper himself; he needed to save his life!

The prerequisite for saving his life was having strong enough power.

If he could have Holly's near-immortal recovery ability, combined with his growing magical prowess, maybe one day he could really challenge Holly!

But the next scene almost made Grand Duke Lynch's eyes pop out.

While flying, Du Ge suddenly revealed his Sea God martial soul and then began to cut it.

Grand Duke Lynch watched as the towering Sea God split into two halves and then quickly rejoined...

What was going on?

Holly actually split his own martial soul?

How did he do it?

Since ancient times, everyone knew that martial souls were used to assist in battle; they could grow stronger and develop soul skills. Of course, martial souls could be torn apart in battle by enemies, but no one had ever heard of a martial soul splitting itself.

Moreover, once a martial soul was torn in battle, it often meant the owner would be severely injured, taking a long time to recover to peak fighting condition.

In the battle with the Warden, Lather's four-winged angel had its wings torn off by the Warden's diamond bear, and to this day, Lather was still in a very weakened state, with his four-winged angel still shrunken by one size.

Water healing could treat physical injuries but couldn't restore martial soul damage; only time could heal a martial soul...

But just now, what did he see?

Holly tore his own martial soul, and it quickly returned to its original state.

Not only was the martial soul undamaged, but Holly himself also wasn't harmed...

How strong had he become?

Grand Duke Lynch's firm belief was momentarily shaken.

At that moment.

He even thought, should he just submit to Holly?

This man was invincible...

...

"King, are you alright?" Old Gao, who also saw Du Ge splitting his martial soul, asked worriedly.

"I'm fine."

Du Ge stopped, casually casting a healing spell on his team, and began pondering the technique of splitting the martial soul. He often multitasked, thinking that splitting mental power would be easy, but it turned out that splitting mental power was completely different from multitasking.

Although he appeared nonchalant, his head was about to explode.

When the Sea God martial soul split, it felt like his soul was being forcibly torn in half.

Unprecedented pain.

Whether in the Simulation Field or the Alien Star Battlefield, although injuries healed quickly, the pain was never blocked.

Du Ge had suffered many injuries: knife wounds, sword wounds, poisoning, suffocation, going berserk, and so on; he had experienced almost all of them.

That was why he could break his bones without changing his expression—not because it didn't hurt, but because he was used to it.

But this time, splitting the martial soul really made Du Ge taste unprecedented pain; if not for maintaining his invincible image, he would have almost screamed.

Despite the pain, Du Ge didn't plan to give up. At the moment of splitting the martial soul, he truly saw hope for breaking free and even resisting Pan-Universal Entertainment.

By splitting his mental power or soul, as long as he could retain part of his consciousness, it would be like leaving part of himself in the Alien Star Battlefield.

That way, he could precisely know how Pan-Universal Entertainment handled bodies enhanced to the extreme by keywords and what happened to battlefields disrupted by Alien Star warriors.

If Pan-Universal Entertainment abandoned the Alien Star Battlefield after recalling the Alien Star warriors, it would mean part of his soul had gained freedom.

If that part of the soul had a chance to grow, maybe it could break through Pan-Universal Entertainment from the outside.

Du Ge knew his idea was somewhat far-fetched.

But regardless of success, he had to try; relying on Luo Shuang and the imperial teacher was too uncertain.

The key point was that his hidden keyword this time was "split."

If he couldn't split his soul and mental power with this keyword, what other keyword could help him?

Fortune favors the bold!

He had two souls in his body; even if he split one, it would be fine...

...

At this moment.

Du Ge and his team were in a wilderness. He glanced down and saw a waterfall plunging vertically into a turquoise deep pool below.

For Du Ge, who possessed the Power of Poseidon, water was the best healing elixir. Previously, when he could freely choose a body to possess, his soul was nourished by water flow.

Du Ge turned and flew towards the deep pool, saying as he flew, "I just had some insights about martial souls and need to verify them here. You all guard me."

"Yes," Old Gao and the others responded in unison.

Everyone stopped their self-mutilation.

Those with martial souls revealed their martial souls; the scene of Du Ge splitting the Sea God was too shocking.

They all knew that once Du Ge found a way to split martial souls, the entire world's cultivation methods for martial souls would be revolutionized.

This might truly be a path to godhood...