The Growth of a God

Chapter 859: Thousand-Faced God
As the highest authority in the city, the entire city started running like crazy following Qin II's orders.

The "Xuanhuang Trial" was originally a selection ceremony for the empire's most elite troops.

During the empire's most prosperous period, the Xuanhuang Corps formed through the "Xuanhuang Trial" numbered only a few tens of thousands of people.

This is an all-round test of physical strength, spirit and faith.

Those who join must even undergo dozens of inhumane surgeries and transformations before they are qualified to become true Xuanhuang soldiers.

Because only in this way can the trial-taker control the armor forged by the mysterious energy and intimidate the gods with his mortal body.

This was the case during the empire's heyday, let alone Tianxuan Island today.

The launch of the "Xuanhuang Trial" basically announced that the city was about to enter a state of major and severe non-combat casualties.

For those who are participating in the trial today, death may be the best outcome other than success.

Mental breakdown, physical deformation, and even complete transformation into a monster...

Without the medical conditions of the empire's heyday, everyone knows what it means to participate in the "Xuanhuang Trial".

The resulting public outrage and complaints are naturally inevitable.

But on the other hand, there are still people in this city who, like Qin II, maintain faith and hope, and are willing to risk their lives for the continuation of the city.

Therefore, along with this massive "Xuanhuang Trial", the entire city entered a state of emergency mobilization.

Every day, nearly a hundred young men who failed the trials were sent to the hospital...

Every day, more and more deformed monsters are sent to the cremation cemetery...

Under the propaganda and guidance of the city radio, the names of those young and middle-aged people who sacrificed their lives were deeply imprinted in everyone's mind.

Even those protesters who originally opposed Qin II's actions did not dare to show up and offend him at this time.

Whenever a young man passed the trial, he would be sent to the Emperor's Statue, where the city's most professional engineers would tailor a dark yellow armor for him.

Those Xuanhuang armors were made by extracting the Xuanhuang Qi from the emperor's portrait, and naturally possessed the attribute of being indestructible.

Especially in this ruined world, only warriors wearing black and yellow armor can travel to places outside Tianxuan Island without being alienated.

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"This place... is much crazier than I thought."

Standing at the outermost edge of the city, Li Hao and Xuan Jizi, who had turned back into human form, gazed at this bustling city.

Although this place is also within the scope of Tianxuan Island, it does not belong to the city.

Surrounding this city, various mechanical bunkers and warning defense networks can be seen everywhere, which are ten thousand times more rigorous than the military workshops in the Crazy Mountains.

There are artillery attacks and drones flying overhead at all times.

The activated land summoned giant puppet beasts, and the surging waves turned into the howling of a banshee...

Everywhere you look, countless monsters and strange visions created by the fall of gods are trying to invade this only pure land.

The thousand-foot-tall statue of the emperor is naturally the strongest guardian of this pure land.

Even if it just stands quietly in the center of the city, its majestic image holding a sword is enough to deter those powerful monsters and visions.

Because when this city was first built, those evil gods tried to invade here.

Then, Qin II drove the statue of the emperor to kill all evil, expel the evil gods, and forcibly seized the ownership of the island.

It can be said that what really kept this paradise alive was not the cannons and bunkers built around the city.

The motionless statue of the emperor is the real nuclear weapon of this city.

"Another heir has arrived?"

The dark shadow suddenly bulged up, and the invisible monster turned into a solid entity.

Under Xuanjizi's stunned gaze, a being from a higher dimension descended into this ruined world. He was not one of those evil gods, nor was he one of those alienated monsters and phenomena.

His essence is an ever-changing and unconventional existence, a god that is above all living beings.

"I knew it was impossible for all the gods to leave this world."

As if he had expected it, a slight smile appeared on Li Hao's lips.

"Are you a local god?"

"Or are they the foreign gods who are always paying attention to the direction of this world?"

In response to Li Hao's question, the ever-changing evil god also laughed.

The next second, the evil god actually changed into Li Hao's appearance, and the same mysterious yellow aura emanated from his body.

Seeing this scene, before Li Hao could react, Xuanjizi's brain went into a state of confusion.

Because from its perspective, the evil god did not simply turn into Li Hao's appearance.

From the biological standpoint to the Yuanqi attributes, the other party perfectly simulated Li Hao's existence.

Even the extremely mysterious Xuanhuang Qi is exactly the same as Li Hao's.

"I can be you, it, the emperor, or any living being or god in this world..."

The evil god smiled like this, and his body changed into different images such as Xuanjizi, Emperor Qin, Qin II, etc.

Men and women, old and young, tall and short, beautiful and ugly...

The technique of his transformation is lifelike and impeccable.

Even Xuanjizi couldn't tell the difference between the other party's transformation into a mechanical Taoist and himself.

"The Faceless Ones?"

At this moment, Li Hao said the other party's name thoughtfully.

The ability displayed by the other party is exactly the same as that of the ever-changing Faceless Man.

"The Faceless Ones?"

The evil god on the opposite side was obviously stunned for a moment, and then he actually changed into the form most commonly used by the Faceless Man.

It was a monster that resembled a human.

The endless starry sky was reflected in the places where the facial features originally stood, giving people a mysterious feeling.

"I never thought that this time the successor would have actually met the rebellious 'me'."

Now it was Li Hao's turn to raise his eyebrows in surprise. He never expected that the other party was not the Faceless Man.

Or to be more precise, it was the first time that Li Hao knew that there was more than one Faceless Man.

"You are not the Faceless One?"

Obviously noticing Li Hao's surprise, the evil god opposite laughed again.

"Of course I am not the Faceless Man. The Faceless Man is just one of my thousands of faces."

"I am the Thousand-Faced God, an admirer of the chaotic order."

"Every world that can give birth to chaos will give birth to my incarnation."

"My birth means that the world is heading towards chaos, so you can also call me 'Creeping Chaos'."

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