[Age 14: In the guise of A-Yun, you walk through the war-torn Xianzhou Zhuming. The war between the Suiyang and the Xianzhou has reached a fever pitch. Under the call of the powerful "Suihuang," scattered Suiyang begin to gather on a massive scale. You see countless powerful Suiyang individuals, those once-separate flames, now continuously flowing towards a single point in the sky above the Zhuming. They merge and devour one another, forming a terrifying conglomerate entity of ever-increasing energy levels. This conglomerate gradually becomes monstrous. To the naked eye of the Xianzhou mortals, it is a "Calamity's Crimson Star" hanging in the sky, emitting an ominous red glow. The appearance of the Crimson Star casts a shadow of doom over the entire Xianzhou Zhuming.]
[The Xianzhou Alliance, of course, will not sit idly by. Your Golden Threads capture the Xianzhou leadership, in their extreme panic and desperation, initiating a do-or-die plan. The young, valiant general who rose to fame during the war volunteers to lead a suicide squad composed of the Xianzhou army's elite. Their mission is to carry a powerful siege weapon and launch a surprise attack on the not-yet-fully-formed "Crimson Star," hoping to destroy it from within. It is a plan of mutual destruction.]
[You watch all of this with a cold eye. The structure of the Crimson Star, the assembly point of the suicide squad, their assault route, the weapon's characteristics... all information flows continuously into your consciousness through your Golden Threads. You understand the key to this gamble better than anyone on the battlefield.]
[At this moment, how will you act?]
[1. Answer the Suihuang's call, join the main Suiyang force, and participate in the attack on the Xianzhou suicide squad.]
[2. Roam the edges of the battlefield, focusing on consuming defeated or wounded Suiyang to maximize your own power growth amidst the chaos.]
[3. Use the information from your Golden Threads to manipulate the course of the battle, attempting to mislead the Xianzhou or the Suiyang to create a more advantageous chaotic situation for yourself.]
Seeing the options, Jiang Mo quickly weighed them.
Option one, join the Suihuang's main force? A head-on clash with the Xianzhou's elite troops? No, the risk was too high. A Suiyang of his level would likely be turned to ash in an instant in a collision of that magnitude.
Option three, manipulate the battlefield? It sounded tempting, but with his current strength, even with an information advantage, trying to play games of power between the two behemoths of the Suihuang and the Xianzhou Alliance to influence the entire war was beyond his capabilities. One misstep, and the consequences would likely be worse than being cannon fodder.
Hmm... it seemed only option two was the safest bet. Taking advantage of the chaos to profit, maximizing gains while ensuring his own safety. The power boost from consuming those scattered Suiyang had already given him a taste of what was possible. Now, the battlefield was about to offer up even more, and even stronger, "supplements"... How could he miss out on such a buffet?
"I choose 2!" Jiang Mo made his decision.
[You choose to continue consuming your own kind, taking advantage of the chaos. Villain Value +100.]
[Age 15: You control A-Yun's long-hollowed-out body, moving like a ghost through the brutal war zones of the Xianzhou Zhuming. The Golden Threads are your best eyes and ears. You precisely avoid the area where the "Crimson Star" is converging and also steer clear of the Xianzhou suicide squad's assault path. Your targets are the large Suiyang conglomerates shattered on the main battlefield, or the powerful individual Suiyang who have lost significant energy in battle and are fleeing in panic.]
[You extend your hand and absorb the on-the-verge-of-dissipating Suiyang. A torrent of pure Suiyang energy floods into this body, ultimately being completely absorbed by your greedy Suiyang core. With each consumption, your own flame grows stronger. Your Suiyang fire begins to flicker with a faint, eerie cyan-green glow—a sign that its power is highly condensed and approaching a higher level.]
[A-Yun's body, under the impact of this increasingly powerful Suiyang energy, has been reduced to a mere container. His flesh and bones are screaming, his life force on the verge of extinguishing at any moment. But you don't care. The mission of this mortal shell is about to be completed. All you needed was a temporary vessel to safely get you through your growth period.]
[Age 16: The final showdown between the Xianzhou Alliance and the Suiyang "Crimson Star" erupts. Through your Golden Threads, you witness how the young, valiant general leads his suicide squad, fighting through blood and breaking through countless obstacles to successfully penetrate the "Crimson Star's" violent core. What follows is an explosion that cannot be described with words.]
[The "Crimson Star" in the sky, like a punctured balloon, instantly collapses inward, then transforms into a pitch-black void that swallows all light and matter. The edges of the void are distorted and unstable—it is the most terrifying celestial phenomenon in the universe: a black hole! A destructive shockwave sweeps out in all directions from the black hole's center. Everything in its path, whether Suiyang energy constructs or Xianzhou buildings, is turned to dust.]
[Thanks to the early warning from your Golden Threads and the massive power boost from consuming numerous Suiyang, you manage to control A-Yun's body and take refuge in an underground shelter just moments before the shockwave hits. Even so, the intense tremors cause your Suiyang fire to flicker unstably. And A-Yun's mortal body, in the face of this catastrophe, can no longer hold on. With a cracking sound, the body that had been with you for over a decade completely turns to ash and dissipates.]
[Your Suiyang energy form, that cyan-green flame, is fully exposed to the outside world for the first time. But thanks to your previous frenzied consumption, your current strength is far beyond that of an ordinary Suiyang. You will not dissipate after losing your host...]