Chapter 1554

"He's crazy …" Lilliath muttered behind Gu Ding.

The other members of the Gu Ding Pirate Crew chose to remain silent. They sympathized with Kou De's experience.

Even Gu Ding did not say anything else because he had also imagined that if he had been in Kou De's situation, he might have made the same choice as Kou De.

"Gu Ding, when I first met you in that tavern, I had a feeling that you would achieve something. I have a feeling that one day in the future, you will definitely achieve something. However, I really didn't expect that you would grow to this point. " Kou De looked at Gu Ding again. "I invited you to join my pirate crew, but you refused …"

Hearing this, many people were surprised. Even the people of the Gu Ding Pirate Crew had never heard of this, and Gu Ding had never mentioned it.

"I can now extend another invitation to you and your crew as long as you are willing to join the Heavenly Way Alliance. I can make you the deputy leader of the Heavenly Way Alliance. I can even give you full control of the Human Tribe's Chaotic Universe after the great purge, "Kou De stated his terms.

"Gu Ding …" Emperor Thirteen and the other senior members of the Union Government looked in Gu Ding's direction with worried faces. In their opinion, Kou De's terms were extremely generous, and they were worried that Gu Ding would agree.

"I think you should consider my offer carefully because if you refuse, it means that you and I will have to go to war. When that happens, I can only kill you and your companions, "Kou De added.

"Kou De, I started out later than you did. You were already famous before I started out. Later on, when I became an Interstellar Pirate, I always made you my goal. I would often check your bounty and think about when I would surpass you. This pursuit even lasted for several years.

"Later on, there was more and more negative news about you, and you did all kinds of unscrupulous things. Because you were afraid that if you let an evil person go, you would kill all the civilians on the planet. In order to obtain information, you made a crew member on your spaceship sacrifice herself to go undercover. In the end, when the truth came out, what you cared about was not the crew member's life, but the information she obtained … It's getting harder and harder for me to agree with what you did. Even now, you have turned to the Heavenly Demons and attacked the humans. No matter what reason you use, I cannot agree with it! "

"So, my answer to you is still the same as it was twelve years ago — I reject your invitation." Gu Ding shook his head and gave his answer. "If you want to fight, I will accompany you to the end!"

"Very good! Although this is not the answer I wanted to hear, your courage is still worthy of admiration. "Kou De clapped his hands and smiled. "Since you have chosen to fight, then let's fight!"

As soon as Kou De's voice fell, Gu Ding's Inner Universe suddenly opened up and pulled both Kou De and himself into it.

With their current strength, if they were to fight in the real world, the dimension where the Union Government was located would probably collapse in just a few blows. Therefore, Gu Ding chose to fight in the Inner Universe.

"Inner Universe … You really haven't advanced to Sovereign Level!" Kou De narrowed his eyes slightly. He had felt that Gu Ding's aura was very strange.

In fact, if one advanced to the Sovereign Realm, their internal universe would undergo a transformation, evolving into a divine country. Within the God Nation, the Daoist Rhymes were naturally formed and could automatically evolve into life. The more life there was, the larger the size of the God Nation, the more stable the space-time would be, the stronger the Daoist Rhymes would be, and the stronger the life form would be. Correspondingly, the Sovereign's strength would also become stronger.

However, Gu Ding had not formed a God Nation, and his Inner Universe had not even nurtured a Spirit Embryo. This meant that Gu Ding had not even reached Sovereign Level. The entire Inner Universe was dead silent.

"Cultivation and strength are two different things. There's no need to mix them up." A flash of embarrassment flashed across Gu Ding's face. He did not know what was wrong with him. Now that his body had condensed more than eighty thousand paths, his internal universe was constantly expanding. However, he still had not stepped into Sovereign Level and condensed a Spirit Embryo in his internal universe.

"However, your internal universe is unusually large, and the space-time stability is surprisingly high …" Kou De quickly noticed the abnormality of Gu Ding's internal universe.

"Let's fight. There's no need to talk so much nonsense." Although Kou De was complimenting him, Gu Ding still felt very embarrassed.

"Alright, let's fight then!"

Kou De also very seriously opened up his God Nation, enveloping Gu Ding and the surrounding area. He did not use his God Nation to collide with Gu Ding's internal universe. Instead, he opened up another battlefield in Gu Ding's internal universe.

The main purpose of this was to counteract the influence of Gu Ding's internal universe's Daoist Rhymes. Moreover, if his internal God Nation's Daoist Rhymes were stronger than the other party's, pulling the other party in would cause the other party to be suppressed by the Daoist Rhymes.

After finishing his preparations, Kou De finally made his move. He spread his arms to his sides, and countless golden rays lit up behind him. There were tens of thousands of them. Obviously, he did not intend to hold back from the start. He did not even intend to test Gu Ding's strength. He wanted to kill Gu Ding completely.

Gu Ding, on the other hand, stood motionless in the void, quietly watching the scene in front of him. It was as if he was not at all surprised that his opponent would use a big move right off the bat.

"Go!"

With a low growl from Kou De, tens of thousands of golden rays shot toward Gu Ding like meteors. Each of the golden rays had the power to tear the sky and the earth apart. They cut gullies in the void, which were caused by the collapse of time and space.

Not only was the golden ray's attack powerful, but it was also extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, it appeared in front of Gu Ding. There was no way to avoid an attack of this level.

Gu Ding did not seem to have any intention of dodging the attack. He stretched out his palm and pressed it into the void. A huge black vortex condensed in the void and swallowed all the golden rays that were shooting toward it. It was like a giant whale swallowing water, swallowing everything without leaving a single ray behind.

Seeing this scene, even Kou De raised his eyebrows. He had thought that even if this kind of attack could not cause substantial damage to Gu Ding, it would still cause him some trouble. He did not expect Gu Ding to deal with it so easily.

However, the next moment, he saw something even more unexpected.

After swallowing the attack, Gu Ding stretched out his hand again and pressed it in the void. The entire void in front of him began to quickly form countless transparent crystals.

The crystals quickly formed a round mirror with a diameter of more than ten meters, and the mirror was facing Kou De's direction.

Kou De vaguely felt a trace of unease. Then, Gu Ding's hand that was controlling the black vortex began to make complicated hand seals with one hand. After the hand seals were completed, the black vortex began to merge with the transparent mirror.

It seemed like Gu Ding had done a lot of things, but in fact, everything happened in an instant. The black vortex and the transparent mirror merged in an instant.

After that, Gu Ding made another hand seal with both hands, and an extremely powerful aura slowly seeped out of the mirror.

Just as Kou De's face was filled with astonishment, he saw a black arrow about a meter in diameter slowly protrude from the surface of the mirror. In just a moment, the black arrow completely broke out of the mirror and appeared in the void.

The moment the arrow appeared, Kou De felt that he was locked on to. He could even faintly feel the remnants of his aura on the arrow.

"Did it absorb my attack just now and then turn it around to attack me?!" Kou De immediately understood the principle of Gu Ding's move.

"Boom!"

A terrifying sonic boom resounded through the air. The black arrow carried with it an endless amount of power as it tore through the air and swept towards Kou De …