The Old Gods

Chapter 1080 Life and Death

There was deathly silence between heaven and earth.

The angry words of the Faceless Jade Venerable still seemed to linger in the ears of all living beings, refusing to dissipate for a long time.

Even gods and demons like the Paper Man and Qing Tu were so shocked that they were speechless, staring in astonishment at the enormous "Jade Corpse Mountain".

When their former homeland was trampled and shattered, the gods and demons only ever saw the Jade Venerable himself and his minions.

The ancient gods always believed that the enormous jade statue was the other party's true form.

But looking at it now...
The true form of the Jade Venerable is actually a mountain of corpses?
Aren't these corpses her people?

As the paper doll gazed at the faces contorted in pain, her horrified expression gradually turned into a complex one.

The countless white jade corpses, piled up like mountains, all had their chests hollowed out.

His heart was cruelly ripped out!
This clan is called the White Jade Clan.

Their biggest mistake was possessing a special white jade heart.

It shouldn't have been discovered by the gods and demons!
The heart is the essence of the entire jade body of the White Jade Clan. When gods and demons crush the White Jade Heart and apply it to their stone-like skin, it can even slightly heal the decaying body.

Disaster was about to strike.

After all, as time goes by, the bodies of gods and demons will gradually decay, and the amount of energy they absorb and use will decrease until they perish.

What exactly are gods and demons?
They possess immense power, capable of conquering everything within their sight; they are born to dominate all things in heaven and earth.

It should rule over all things forever.

But gods and demons cannot live forever!
They could only watch helplessly as their bodies decayed, ultimately dying a lowly death like the lowest of creatures.

Of all these gods and demons, how many are truly willing to give up their lives and relinquish their supreme authority?

The appearance of the White Jade Clan completely changed everything.

The special white jade heart provided gods and demons with a way to prolong their lives, a path they had only found throughout their long existence.

As a result, the White Jade Clan became the object of fierce competition among gods and demons.

Most gods and demons are rational.

They want to keep the White Jade Clan captive so that they can continuously obtain "White Jade Hearts".

In fact, the gods and demons did indeed carry out this plan.

Unfortunately, the good times are not long.

Some gods and demons are on the verge of death and desperately need the white jade heart, while others, though not in such a hurry, are unwilling to give up their own interests.

A civil war is inevitable.

Amidst this chaotic civil war, devastating news arrived—the Baiyu clan had been wiped out.

Genocide?!
The internal strife came to an abrupt end, and the gods and demons rushed to the world where the White Jade Clan was kept, where they indeed found the dead members of the White Jade Clan.

Every member of the Baiyu clan had their heart ripped out!
All that was left for the gods and demons was a pile of worthless bones.

Clearly, someone took advantage of the internal strife to launch a sneak attack and ripped out all the white jade hearts.

Such a idiotic move infuriated the gods and demons!
I wish I could tear the murderer to pieces!

What kind of foolish beings would be so greedy for short-term gains as to ruin the future of the divine and demonic races?

Moreover, this hated guy is quite powerful.

The White Jade Clan is the most valued resource by the gods and demons. Various forces within the god and demon camp have sent powerful individuals to guard it, checking and restraining each other and jointly protecting this hard-won resource.

However, all the gods and demons who guarded the White Jade Clan were killed!
These are a full eight gods and demons!
They were all powerful beings. Were they really all dead?

After all, when gods and demons die, their bodies are gone, and only their primordial energy dissipates, causing their divine souls to rise.

At that time, the Forgotten Spring, which had been summoned temporarily, was unable to find even a single soul that had died in battle.

It's estimated that they were all devoured on the spot by the murderer.

The gods and demons couldn't figure out whether it was an inside job or a sneak attack by some other force.

To this day, the identity of the culprit who slaughtered the Jade Venerable clan remains undetermined.

The only certainty is that the already divided divine and demonic factions have completely broken apart because of this incident.

The dying gods and demons, having lost their last hope, turned their attention to the enemy. The flames of war raged ever onward!

In the end, this civil war affected every god and demon.

Just as the gods and demons were locked in a fierce battle, something entirely new appeared, shattering everything.

The Baiyu clan was not wiped out!

A member of the White Jade Clan who had lost his face returned to the homeland of gods and demons.

She launched a sneak attack from the shadows, slaying the first god-demon, then annihilated a small squad and crushed three or five gods-demons.

By the time the gods and demons finally realized this extraordinary existence, it was too late!
A massacre was about to begin.

The gods and demons, who were originally killing each other and bringing about their own destruction, were united under absolute pressure, but in the end their homeland was still destroyed by the tyrannical Jade Venerable Clan.

The exile began.

What followed was a long period of escape.

Until one day, the human world was greeted by a group of old things that had been utterly defeated but refused to leave the stage of history.

Since the 1980s in the human era, the masses of people, fooled by gods and demons, have lived forever in a huge lie.

People devoutly worshipped a pack of stray dogs, kneeling and kowtowing.

They are respectfully referred to as...
Lord God.

Now, the gods' dream of clinging to life and ruling the three realms has been shattered.

At least in the land of Great Xia, a young human has slain gods and crushed demons, climbing to the pinnacle of godhood and demonhood.

The surviving gods and demons, regardless of their strength, can only live under his will.

There must be no disobedience whatsoever.

The White Jade Clan member who had slaughtered countless gods and sent them fleeing in disarray also arrived in the human world. Having learned from her past mistakes, she changed her strategy, deciding to gradually devour the gods and demons in order to wipe them all out.

Unexpectedly, the lowly human race, enslaved by gods and demons, possessed unparalleled explosive power and seized power within just a few months.

Humanity completely overturned the rule of the old order and entirely replaced the gods and demons.

Undeniably, the Faceless Jade Venerable still maintains her high-handed attitude; she is truly too powerful.

So strong that many things can be ignored.

Day, month, year.

Such a unit of time only applies to the short-lived human race; for her, time is meaningless.

So she soon welcomed the new human god.

She tried to share her ideas with the young human, thinking he would understand her.

Yes, he understands.

But he was just as stubborn as she was, and he had his own principles.

From expectation to disappointment, to an unpleasant parting, and then...
Another battle for survival has begun!

It's an interesting question about who is right and who is wrong.

Was the faceless jade vessel wrong?
Blood debts must be repaid with blood, as a matter of course.

Beyond the mere "blood debt," she had thoroughly seen through the essence of the divine and demonic power system, knowing that beings within this framework decayed in their hearts far earlier than in their bodies.

She knew how cruel and ruthless gods and demons were, and that they were a group of remnants that had to be eradicated!

Is she wrong?

So was Lu Ran wrong?
Should he grant her wish, abandon the entire system of gods and demons, and entrust the human world and the lives of hundreds of millions of compatriots to the hands of the Faceless Jade Venerable?

I imagine that she will treat herself, her family, and her fellow countrymen well in the future, and I pray that she will not change her mind and will not, on a whim, turn the world into a complete jade world.
Who is right and who is wrong.

Justice or evil.

At this moment, the only thing that could be distinguished between Lu Ran and Yu Zun was two words:

life and death.

(End of this chapter)