Chapter 226: When It Comes to Sealing the Gate, You Still Have to Look to Chaos!
While Noah was sealing the door, Chaos was also sealing the door.
Noah locked onto the Hole left by Him, mainly relying on the intelligence and information collected during their previous confrontation, and Chaos did the same.
Thus, Noah locked onto the Hole of Chaos.
And Chaos also obtained a great deal of information from Noah.
From Noah, He sensed the planet, sensed the Lord of Civilization, sensed the species known as humanity, and sensed extraordinary Divinity...
A being capable of simultaneously possessing all these traits was, in Chaos's data analysis, undoubtedly regarded as the Lord of the Planet.
Therefore.
In His database, attempting to completely seal off such a being by separately blocking each of their characteristics one by one was absolutely impossible.
Because if the opponent was the Lord of the Planet, then even if He did something minor, gaps would appear in His own sealing network.
So, Chaos proceeded with the sealing according to the optimal solution originally researched in His database for such situations.
—That was to directly seal the opponent's essence based on their aura.
This approach had the widest coverage and absolutely guaranteed that the opponent could not pass through His Hole.
However, the cost was that because the coverage was too broad and the diversity too great, it might "accidentally harm" His own side—meaning that beings on His side possessing the same characteristics would also be sealed off!
But Chaos wasn't particularly worried about this.
After all, He had drifted through the Void for so many years, and the traits He possessed were already different.
Sealing off the essence of a Lord of the Planet—this scope absolutely could not extend to Him!
What a joke! What kind of Lord of the Planet hadn't been recorded in Chaos's database!
Whether it was the data He had collected Himself or the database of the mother star that created Him—with so much data, so many Lords of the Planet.
He truly had never seen a Lord of the Planet who could simultaneously embody the concepts of planet, Lord of Civilization, Lord of Species, and Lord of Pantheons, while also bearing labels like Enemy of the Star, Civilization Hunter, Species Destroyer, and Devourer of Pantheons!
Because these labels were completely opposite!
Incompatible!
So, it was fundamentally impossible to simultaneously possess these traits!
Thus, Chaos—who had long since lost the concepts of planet, civilization, and species, and instead gained concepts like Enemy of the Star and Civilization Hunter—unhesitatingly used a wisp of Noah's aura He had collected to directly seal Noah's essence at the Hole!
This sealing was irreversible.
Now, Noah absolutely could not pass through the Hole to reach His side.
While He could cross over at any time.
Now, Chaos felt He was already in an invincible position!
However, if He were to try and see whether He Himself could still pass through the Hole, He might receive some unexpected surprises.
After all.
Even Chaos couldn't have imagined.
Some people, on the surface, possess the concepts of planet, Lord of Civilization, Lord of Species, and Lord of Pantheons.
But in secret, they harbor an Umbral Star Core...
And what could better satisfy the traits of Enemy of the Star, Civilization Destroyer, Species Hunter, and Devourer of Pantheons than a being who possesses an Umbral Star Core?
Regarding the battle of wits between Noah and Chaos currently unfolding in the cosmos, the other beings on Earth remained completely unaware and unconcerned.
On Noah's side, after fully absorbing the eastern territories, they were now in a period of consolidation.
Attila was also sweeping through those smaller tribes.
Once the necessary constructions were completed and the sweeping operations finished, the Great Crown of the King of the World that Noah sought to forge would only lack its final piece—namely,
The continent!
However, the New Continent was different from other regions.
Other regions were known to everyone; even if not fully understood, they were at least heard of.
But the New Continent—this was something no one had even heard of.
Thus, after Noah absorbed Japan and then moved south to take the "legendary southern continent," Australia, the scholars within Noah's territory compared maps and discovered that in all the world maps currently known and widely accepted, every land had already been dyed in their colors and marked with their labels!
Consequently, some scholars had already begun to proclaim Noah as the King of the World!
Noah was aware of this but did not stop it.
This led to Zelretch and his party, who arrived at Tianjing—the city Noah built on the original site of Xianyang, the former capital of Great Qin—hearing Noah referred to as the King of the World throughout their journey.
They, too, acknowledged this...
After all, in their view, Noah should be the same kind of being as ORT, located on that unknown continent. Their teacher Solomon had spoken of ORT's true nature, so if Noah was the same, then calling him the King of the World was not inappropriate.
Moreover, although they did not know what ORT's Crystal Valley represented in its original planetary environment, Noah's Age of Gods revival, similar to the Crystal Valley, held immense significance for them!
Thus, no one objected; in fact, they might have accepted it even more than ordinary people.
After all, compared to titles like Human King or God-King—the Ultimate One of the Planet being the King of the World was not unacceptable.
Although before seeing Noah, they had never imagined that a star could have a WQ.
"Lord Zelretch, we have been in Tianjing for two days and have submitted our application several times, but that one still refuses to see us. This..."
One of the Magi traveling with Zelretch spoke, and the others shared the same confusion.
In response, Zelretch gently shook his head.
"Don't rush. That one not seeing us means he temporarily does not wish to... When I submitted the application, I left a trace of our teacher's aura on it, so that one must have seen it and is intentionally keeping us waiting."
"So we must not be impatient; we need to wait patiently."
Completely unaware that Noah had taken Morgan near the sun to engage in a battle of wits with Chaos, Zelretch spoke with remarkable composure.
"Although I dislike wasting time, in situations like this, whoever rushes first loses."
"And moreover..."
At this point, Zelretch smiled.
"We came just to say hello. Although we have our own needs, they aren't urgent to that extent. On the contrary, the other party has sensed the teacher's presence. Even if they are the 'King of the World' or this planet's Ultimate One, they cannot simply ignore it, right?"
"So, don't rush. Just wait a few more days—the other party cannot avoid us forever. Be patient."
Completely unaware that Noah hadn't even glanced at their application, and hadn't even returned yet, Zelretch was quite confident and persuaded the Magi around him to continue waiting.