NIP Chapter 353 The Destruction of Jormungandr
Chapter 353 The Destruction of Jormungandr
The South Heavenly Gate looks like a tiny dot, and the people on the city wall look like ants.
He looked up at the chaos, where a gray dot was growing larger.
From the size of a soybean to the size of a peanut, from the size of a peanut to the size of a walnut, from the size of a walnut to the size of a fist.
Jormungandr is near.
Su Fan reached his hand into the chaos.
He reached in, and the chaos enveloped his arm like a layer of sticky mud.
He stretched forward with all his might, his arms sinking into the chaos, his shoulders sinking into the chaos, his whole body sinking into the chaos.
There is no light, no sound, and no direction in the chaos.
It was all gray fog, as thick as paste.
He swam forward, the mist flowing around him, sticky and gooey, like swimming in mud.
He swam for a long time until he reached the gray dot the size of a fist.
The gray dot isn't a dot; it's a snake.
The snake was huge, so big that its head and tail could not be seen.
Its body is gray, the same color as chaos.
Its scales are gray, and each one is as big as the South Heavenly Gate.
Its eyes are gray, without pupils or whites; they are just two gray spheres.
Its mouth has no teeth, only layers of fleshy folds filled with gray mucus.
Jormungandr.
Su Fan stood in front of the snake as if he were standing in front of a mountain.
He couldn't see the snake's head when he looked up, nor could he see its tail when he looked down.
The snake's body stretched out in front of him, its head invisible to the left and its tail invisible to the right.
The snake's eyes flickered, and two gray balls aimed at Su Fan.
A sound came from the snake's body, not from its mouth, but from its scales; every scale was vibrating and making the same sound.
"Where is Pangu?"
Su Fan said, "I'll wait for you up ahead."
The snake's body twitched.
It's not swimming forward, it's shrinking back.
It shrank by one zhang (approximately 3.3 meters) and then stopped.
"I will not go. I will not go to my death."
Su Fan said, "If you don't go, Pangu will come looking for you."
The snake paused for a moment.
"I eat corpses, not living gods. Pangu was alive, but I don't eat him. I only eat corpses. When the primordial world becomes a corpse, I will come again."
Su Fan said, "The primordial chaos will not turn into corpses."
The serpent said, "Yes. Everything will turn into corpses. Pangu will, you will, and I will too. Nothing is eternal in chaos. Corpses are eternal. Corpses do not change, do not age, do not die. Corpses will always be there."
Su Fan didn't speak.
He reached into his robes and pulled out Pangu's heart.
The heart is still there, so Pangu didn't swallow it?
No, Pangu swallowed it.
Is the heart in his hand fake?
He looked down at the heart in his hand; the heart was blue and glowing.
But there were no cracks in the heart, no warmth, and no beating.
This is fake.
The heart Pangu gave him was fake.
Pangu kept his own heart in his bosom and swallowed the fake heart.
Su Fan put the fake heart back into his arms.
He looked at the snake.
"Pangu is waiting for you."
The snake said, "I will not go."
Su Fan said, "Then I'll fight you for Pangu."
He raised his right fist, which was enveloped in golden light.
There were black lines, blue lines, white lines, and red lines in the light.
Five paths, intertwined.
He punched the snake's scales.
The fist collided with the scales—BOOM!
The scales shattered, and gray blood gushed from the cracks.
The snake twisted its body, and its tail swept across from a distance, like a mountain crashing down.
Su Fan couldn't dodge and was swept by the tail, sending him flying. He tumbled countless times in the chaos before finally crashing into something.
He stopped and looked back.
It collided with Pangu.
Pangu stood in the chaos, his body taller than Mount Buzhou, his blue skin covered in cracks, from which golden blood seeped.
He looked down at Su Fan.
"You've arrived."
Su Fan said, "They're here."
Pangu said, "I have been waiting for you for a long time."
Su Fan pulled out his real heart from his pocket.
The heart of Pangu.
The heart was beating in Su Fan's palm, just like a real heart.
"Senior, your heart."
Pangu took the heart and looked at it.
"I thought you would swallow it."
Su Fan said, "I am not Pangu. I do not devour."
Pangu put his heart into his mouth.
As his heart entered his throat, his body began to change.
The crack healed, the bleeding stopped, but the bluish tinge on the skin deepened.
His aura rose from the peak of the ninth level to above the ninth level.
A new realm, without a name.
Pangu looked down at Su Fan.
"Step back. I'll hit it."
Su Fan stepped back.
Retreating into chaos, one cannot see Pangu, nor can one see the snake.
Only two gray shadows could be seen, one standing and one lying down.
The one standing is Pangu, the one lying down is a snake.
Pangu raised his hand, but there was no axe in his hand.
But he doesn't need an axe.
His hand was an axe.
He struck the snake on the head with a palm strike.
Palm and head collided, boom—!!!
Chaos exploded.
A slit was cleaved through the gray mist, the slit extending from Pangu's palm into the depths of chaos.
The snake's head split open, and gray blood gushed out from the crack like a gray river.
The snake's body twisted, and its tail lashed out at Pangu.
Pangu was sent flying, tumbled a few times in the chaos, and then stood up again.
He walked back and struck again.
Another crack appeared on the snake's head.
With the third strike, the snake's head shattered.
The snake's body stopped moving, and gray blood flowed from its neck, into the chaos, mingling with the mist and becoming indistinguishable.
Pangu withdrew his hand and looked at Su Fan.
"I'm done fighting."
His body began to shatter.
Starting from the feet, they gradually transformed into blue light spots.
The specks of light drifted into the chaos and were swallowed by the gray mist.
His eyes were still open, staring at Su Fan.
"I am dead. The primordial world is now in your hands."
Su Fan said, "Okay."
Pangu's head shattered.
The blue light dissipated, leaving nothing behind in the chaos.
Su Fan stood in the chaos, looking at the snake's corpse.
The snake was huge, so big that its head and tail could not be seen.
Its body lay across the chaos, like a gray mountain range.
Su Fan turned around and swam back the way he came.
He swam for a long time, reaching the highest point of the sky, emerging from the chaos, and falling back to the South Heavenly Gate.
Sun Wukong squatted on the city wall battlements, watching him.
"Where is Pangu?"
Su Fan said, "Dead. The snake is dead too."
Thor shrugged the hammer off his shoulder and dropped it to the ground.
"Jörmungandr is dead?"
Su Fan said, "He's dead. Pangu killed him."
Thor paused for a moment, then picked up the hammer.
"I'm leaving. Asgard is left unattended."
He turned around, crushed the teleportation talisman, and disappeared from the spot in a flash of blue light.
Su Fan walked to the city wall, sat down, and looked at the sky.
The sky was blue, a very clean blue.
In the deepest part of the blue, there is nothing left.
The gray dots are gone.
Sun Wukong squatted down next to him, his golden cudgel resting on his knees.
"Kid, what's next?"