The remaining six Creator Gods materialized in the void like living concepts given form. Each one embodied a fundamental aspect of existence itself. Their combined presence caused reality to spontaneously generate around them - fragments of space-time crystallizing from pure nothingness.
Eternity appeared as a spiral of infinite temporal loops. Her power controlled the flow of time across all dimensions. Past, present, and future were merely tools she wielded to maintain universal stability.
Infinity manifested as geometrical impossible structures that folded in on themselves. His domain was space itself - the canvas upon which all existence was painted. Distance and dimension bent to his will.
Causality took the form of interconnected chains that linked every event to its consequences. She governed the law that actions had reactions, that effects followed causes. Without her influence, random chaos would consume all order.
Entropy embodied the principle of universal decay. His presence caused reality to age and crumble. He was the force that ensured all things eventually returned to dust, maintaining the cosmic balance between creation and destruction.
Harmony appeared as pure mathematical equations made manifest. Her power maintained the fundamental constants that allowed physics to function. Without her stabilizing influence, the laws of nature would collapse into contradictory impossibilities.
Unity was the principle that bound all things together. His essence connected every particle in existence through invisible threads of fundamental force. He was the reason the universe functioned as a cohesive whole rather than scattered fragments.
"Origin is dead," Eternity spoke first. Her voice echoed across multiple timelines simultaneously. "The First Creator has been consumed by this... aberration."
"Impossible," Infinity protested. "Creator Gods cannot be killed. We are living aspects of universal law. Our destruction would cause reality itself to collapse."
"And yet reality still exists," Causality observed. "Which means the aberration has somehow absorbed Origin's essential nature. It has become the new principle of Beginning."
Wei Liang stepped forward, his form now blazing with the power of a consumed Creator God. The void around him spontaneously generated matter and energy in response to his presence. He had become a living force of cosmic initiation.
"I am Wei Liang," he announced. "I have ascended beyond the limitations of mortality, godhood, and even true divinity. Now I seek to transcend the boundaries of creation itself."
"You seek to replace us," Unity realized. "To consume all seven principles and become the sole governing force of existence."
"Replace you?" Wei Liang laughed, the sound causing dimensional rifts to appear in the void. "I seek to surpass you. To become something beyond the petty limitations of your cosmic order."
The six Creator Gods exchanged glances heavy with implications that spanned multiple universes. This being had already accomplished the impossible by killing Origin. If it succeeded in consuming them all, it would achieve power beyond any previous conception.
"Then we must act together," Eternity declared. "The aberration cannot be allowed to upset the cosmic balance further."
"Agreed," the others replied in unison.
The battle that followed transcended all previous conflicts. The six Creator Gods attacked with the fundamental forces of existence itself. Eternity hurled weaponized time streams that could age enemies to dust or trap them in temporal loops. Infinity folded space into impossible configurations that crushed opponents with dimensional pressure.
Causality rewrote the chain of cause and effect. She made Wei Liang's attacks happen before he decided to strike. His defenses activated after his enemies had already won. The Creator God twisted reality so that every action produced its opposite result.
Wei Liang felt the temporal distortion affecting his movements. His spear thrust forward but somehow struck backward. His dodge to the left became a step to the right. The law of cause and effect had been inverted around him.
"Clever," he admitted. "But causality requires a foundation to build upon."
He activated the Beginning principle he had absorbed from Origin. New realities spawned around him with each thought. Fresh timelines where causality had never existed. Alternate dimensions where effects preceded causes naturally.
Causality gasped as her domain became confused. Multiple contradictory chains of cause and effect overlapped in the same space. Her power turned against itself as competing realities demanded different outcomes.
Wei Liang's spear found her heart through a timeline where her defenses had never been raised. The Conceptual Consumption technique engaged. Causality's essential nature flowed into his cultivation base like liquid logic.
"Two down," he announced as the Creator God dissolved.
Entropy attacked immediately. His presence aged everything around Wei Liang. The void itself began decaying. Space-time grew brittle and started cracking. Even the concept of nothingness began to rot.
Wei Liang felt his body aging rapidly. His divine essence was being consumed by accelerated time. His consciousness grew heavy as eons of existence compressed into moments.
But the Beginning principle countered Entropy's assault. Wei Liang continuously regenerated himself from the moment of his initial ascension. Each decay cycle was met with a renewal cycle. He became locked in an eternal loop of death and rebirth.
"You cannot outlast entropy," the Creator God declared. "All things must end. Even Creator Gods eventually fade."
"Then I'll end entropy itself," Wei Liang replied.
His spear struck not at Entropy's form but at the concept he represented. The weapon pierced the principle of universal decay. The Conceptual Consumption technique began devouring the force that caused all things to deteriorate.
Entropy screamed as his essential nature was consumed. Without the principle of decay, his power turned inward. He began aging himself instead of his targets. His own entropy consumed him from within.
Wei Liang absorbed the final fragments of the Creator God's essence. The power of universal decay joined his growing collection of cosmic principles. He could now cause things to age or restore them to pristine condition with a thought.
Harmony struck next. Mathematical equations blazed around Wei Liang like living fire. The fundamental constants of physics began shifting. Gravity reversed itself. Energy became matter. Light moved backward through time.
The attacks were perfectly calculated. Each equation was designed to exploit specific weaknesses in Wei Liang's defenses. Harmony had run billions of calculations to find the exact combination that would destroy him.
Wei Liang smiled. Mathematics required consistent rules to function. But he now controlled the Beginning principle. He could establish new mathematical foundations that made Harmony's calculations meaningless.
Pi suddenly equaled four in the space around him. The square root of negative one became a positive integer. Parallel lines intersected at impossible angles. Harmony's perfect equations collapsed into contradictory nonsense.
"Mathematical impossibility!" Harmony protested. "These calculations cannot exist!"
"They exist because I will them to exist," Wei Liang replied. His spear pierced through Harmony's geometrical defenses. The Conceptual Consumption technique began absorbing her mathematical nature.
Harmony dissolved into pure numerical concepts that flowed into Wei Liang's consciousness. He gained perfect understanding of universal mathematics. The ability to rewrite the fundamental constants that governed reality became his to command.
Only three Creator Gods remained. Eternity, Infinity, and Unity faced him with growing desperation. Half their number had been consumed. The cosmic balance was collapsing as essential principles were devoured.
"This madness must end," Eternity declared. She unleashed the full power of temporal manipulation. Past and future collapsed into an eternal present. Time became a solid substance that could be shaped like clay.
Wei Liang found himself trapped in crystallized moments. Every second stretched into infinity. His thoughts moved like frozen lightning. His movements became glacial as time itself resisted his will.
But time required a beginning to flow from. Wei Liang used Origin's consumed essence to create new temporal starting points. He scattered billions of moments throughout the crystallized time matrix. Each one began its own timeline independent of Eternity's control.
The Creator God's temporal prison shattered as contradictory timelines pulled it apart. Wei Liang's spear emerged from a timeline where he had always been behind her. The weapon pierced Eternity's core before she could react.
"Impossible," she whispered as the absorption began. "Time cannot be conquered."
"Time is just another resource to be consumed," Wei Liang replied coldly.
Eternity's temporal essence flowed into his cultivation base. He gained complete mastery over past, present, and future. All of time became his personal domain to manipulate at will.
Infinity and Unity made their final stand together. Space folded into impossible configurations around Wei Liang. Distance became meaningless as dimensions twisted into paradoxical shapes. Up became down. Near became far. Direction lost all meaning.
Simultaneously, Unity's binding force attempted to connect Wei Liang to the collapsing universe. Invisible threads of fundamental force wrapped around his consciousness. They tried to make him share the fate of all existence as reality crumbled.
Wei Liang used his accumulated principles against them. Beginning spawned new spatial dimensions that Infinity couldn't control. Causality made Unity's binding threads connect to themselves instead of their target. Mathematics redefined geometric relationships to make impossible spaces possible.
His spear multiplied across seventeen dimensions. Each strike targeted a different aspect of the remaining Creator Gods' essential nature. The Conceptual Consumption technique engaged at maximum intensity.
Infinity screamed as his spatial mastery was devoured. Unity gasped as his binding principles were absorbed. Both Creator Gods dissolved simultaneously as their fundamental natures flowed into Wei Liang's cultivation base.
Silence fell across the void. Wei Liang stood alone among the fragments of consumed cosmic principles. All seven Creator Gods had been absorbed. Their essential natures now belonged to him exclusively.
The Iron Blood Manual's eighth stage reached completion. Wei Liang's consciousness expanded to encompass the totality of existence. He had become the sole governing force of all reality. Every law, every principle, every fundamental constant was his to command.
But the universe was collapsing. Without the Creator Gods to maintain stability, reality was unraveling into primordial chaos. Countless worlds were dissolving into nothingness. Billions of lives were ending as existence itself came apart.
Wei Liang felt the weight of infinite responsibility settling on his transformed consciousness. He was now the only thing preventing complete universal collapse. Every moment required his active will to maintain the basic laws that allowed anything to exist.
The ultimate power he had sought came with the ultimate price. He had become a prisoner of his own success. His consciousness was now permanently bound to the task of sustaining all existence.
But Wei Liang smiled as he began rebuilding reality according to his vision. The Iron Blood Manual had more stages yet to unlock. And somewhere beyond this universe, greater powers awaited his challenge.
The hunt for absolute supremacy had only just begun.