Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapters 564 & 574: Contending for Supremacy (Part 5)
On the two battlefields of Liangzhou, everyone was fighting fiercely. It was a struggle involving humans, gods, and even foreign powers.

During this tense period, many people also watched the war unfold as spectators.

Xu Lili and Feng Shaoyang were among the recorders dispatched by the authorities to Luozhou to document the battle. Both were quite powerful; although they were not immortals, they were still top-tier experts in the Divine Realm, even among the large number of officials.

Most importantly, these two are skilled at concealment, and most of their skills are related to hiding their form and breath. With their deliberate concealment, even ordinary gods cannot detect them.

At this moment, Xu Lili and Feng Shaoyang were on the edge of the battlefield between the Northern Underworld Army and the Evil Spirit Army, and used the telepathy technique to record the scene.

Both of them were college students in the real world, and when they were sent on missions in the secular world, they were usually only responsible for eavesdropping on certain ministers of the court. This was the first time they had been sent to the battlefield as war correspondents.

"Shaoyang, which side do you think will win?"

Behind a huge, barren rock, Xu Lili and Feng Shaoyang hunched over, their bodies ethereal and transparent, as if water rippled around them.

This state represents the limit of their concealment techniques. Both sides use techniques to cover themselves and then use formations to hide their figures. Even if immortals or gods pass by, they will not be able to detect their presence.

That is why they dared to talk to each other during the most intense battle between the two armies.

“Of course, it’s the Northern Underworld Army,” Feng Shaoyang answered without hesitation.

It's no longer a secret that the Lord of Beiming is a mortal prince, and since everyone here is a mortal prince, Feng Shaoyang naturally hopes that the Beiming army can win.

Xu Lili said calmly, "If it were just the Evil Spirit Army, the Northern Underworld Army might still have a chance of winning, but don't forget that in addition to the Evil Spirit Army, there is also the Zigu Goddess's evil army."

"I just don't know why, even though the two sides have fought to this point, the Chong Army still hasn't appeared."

Xu Lili looked puzzled. According to the official analysts, the Chong Army should have arrived at the battlefield by now.

Just then, Feng Shaoyang felt a sudden burning sensation in his chest. He took out a jade pendant with emerald green coloring on it.

Feng Shaoyang glanced at it and said, "Ke Ke sent word that the Chong Army is being blocked by the Yin soldiers and probably won't be able to get here."

Xu Lili raised an eyebrow: "I didn't expect it to be because of the ghost soldiers."

Feng Shaoyang smiled and said, "It's normal. The Lord of the Northern Underworld controls the Underworld, so it's not surprising that he would send people out to stop the evil army."

"Wherever these evil spirits pass through, the land and buildings will be tainted by their overwhelming resentment and turned into wasteland. Vegetation cannot grow, and water will gradually dry up. Faced with such a bizarre enemy, it seems that only the underworld can deal with it."

As the two were talking back and forth, they heard another roar coming from the battlefield ahead.

It turned out that a group of Fuyi giants who were charging towards the Northern Underworld army had gotten stuck in the muddy ground in front of them.

Xu Lili stared intently and saw an elderly man with white hair and beard standing in mid-air, a hoe in his hand emitting golden light.

"Ordinary folk deities - guardian deities of the land!" Xu Lili exclaimed. "The Northern Underworld Lord has quite a few powerful figures under his command. There are sixteen folk deities brought from Luozhou alone, and there are also folk deities subdued in Liangzhou, making a total of nearly twenty."

"If it were just a contest of the number of mortal gods, the Northern Underworld Lord's side would undoubtedly win completely."

Feng Shaoyang chimed in, "Indeed, it's a pity that wars are never decided by a few people, especially in this secular world."

"Moreover, it's not just the mortal gods; many generals in the Northern Underworld Army are also formidable. Although no generals at the level of Human Immortals have yet appeared, in terms of general strength alone, they are already capable of crushing others of the same level."

"At least compared to the army we officially formed, it is still much stronger. It is no exaggeration to say that it is one of the strongest armies in the secular world of China."

Xu Lili was somewhat moved as she looked at the Beiming soldiers on the battlefield, whose eyes were resolute and who, even with broken arms and blind eyes, were determined to kill the enemy in front of them.

"These people are starving ghosts who crawled out of that pile of corpses in Luozhou!"

"The bureau had suggested sending some capable people to gather the people ravaged by the Xuanhuang Hungry Ghosts in Luozhou. Unfortunately, at that time, the higher-ups believed that Luozhou did not have investment value, so they abandoned the plan. Now, I'm afraid many people regret it."

Feng Shaoyang's face darkened as he said, "The main problem is that the risks are too great. Back then, many people who entered Luozhou never came out, and their safety was not guaranteed at all."

"The fact that Lord Beiming was able to build such a large empire with only a few hundred people from Wumeng Mountain is something that many people admire about him."

Xu Lili and Feng Shaoyang chatted casually while observing the battlefield situation.

Suddenly, Xu Lili raised an eyebrow and pointed her finger, saying, "Look, the Beiming Army has found the weakness of those Fuyi giants."

"It turns out to be the area in the center of both scapulae that connects to the spine!"

Wu Huo pulled a long sword from the back of a Fuyi giant, where blood was flowing, his eyes filled with ferocity.

Despite his severe injuries, his movements were completely unaffected, as the power of the Luoqi lineage suppressed him.

News of the location of the Fuyi Giant's weakness quickly spread throughout the entire Beiming Army. With this information, killing the Fuyi Giant became much easier than before.

Zhang He used the power of his army to conjure giant spears that flew out, each one accurately piercing the weak points of the Fuyi giant.

Many more Fuyi giants were trapped by Hutu God's quicksand. The slowly flowing sand made it impossible for them to climb out. Then, stone spikes pierced their bodies, hanging them one by one, no matter how much they cried out.

"What a waste!"

Just then, everyone felt a strong gravitational pull, and the mortal gods on the side of the Evil Spirit True Lord finally made their move.

The Heavenly Centipede Immortal's gravity field covered a vast area, almost enveloping the entire battlefield. Everyone outside the Evil Spirit Army was subjected to the heavy pressure effect.

Some of the Fuyi giants, who had been preparing to turn back and flee after seeing the mass deaths of their companions, suddenly lowered their bodies and knelt on one knee.

"Heavenly Centipede Master, why are we also being suppressed by your altar?" a Fuyi giant roared.

A colossal figure slowly appeared in the sky, and the Heavenly Centipede's booming voice resounded: "Didn't the Emperor of Fuyi tell you that you are merely goods used to trade with us?"

"From the moment you set foot on this land, you either defeat the Northern Underworld Army and live, or you die on this battlefield."

The Fuyi Giant shouted, "No, that's not what you said back then!"

However, the centipede did not answer him. Instead, a huge thorny leg descended from the sky and pierced through the body of the Fuyi giant from top to bottom.

"Who else wants to escape?"

The voice of the Heavenly Centipede reached the ears of the remaining Fuyi Giants, causing them to tremble and turn around to charge back towards the Northern Underworld Army.

Upon seeing this, Wu Huo couldn't help but curse the Heavenly Centipede for its ruthlessness in his heart, and his body continued to shrink back to its original size.

The remaining few Fuyi giants, who had lost their will to fight, no longer needed him to transform and stop them; Zhang He could easily defeat them by using his military strength alone.

The more troublesome thing now is the altar site of the Heavenly Centipede.

The immense pressure weighed on the Northern Underworld Army, making their movements extremely slow and rendering them completely unable to resist the offensive of the Evil Spirit Army.

Moreover, several thick, thorny legs would occasionally fall from the sky, disrupting the formation of the Northern Underworld army.

Zhang He took a deep breath, intending to gather more troops to fight against the Heavenly Centipede Immortal. However, with the fate of the Evil Spirit True Monarch Immortal, the Immortals on the Northern Underworld Army's side also began to move.

The divine fire of Xiaoming God, like a giant fireball, crashed into the giant Heavenly Centipede Immortal with a loud bang.

Although the attack did not cause much damage, the fireball shattered into countless sparks.

But when these sparks landed on the soldiers of the Northern Underworld Army, they instantly healed their injuries, with effects even surpassing those of Bai Xian's healing magic.

Meanwhile, the Celestial Centipede felt his physical strength rapidly draining away as the fireball disappeared.

"Hehehe..."

Eerie laughter echoed as the Painted Skin Immortal and the Evil Eye Immortal emerged, accompanied by four other mortal gods.

Minor folk gods - Mirror God, Minor folk gods - Clay God, Minor folk gods - Corpse God, Minor folk gods - Malaria-eating God.

The Evil Spirit True Lord now has all three immortals and four mortal gods under his command.

They arrived through the air, their eyes fixed fearlessly on the thirteen mortal gods of the Northern Underworld Army.

Protector of the Earth, God of Households, God of Storage, God of Shadows, God of Night, God of the Woo, God of Five Colors, God of Clouds, God of Turtle Treasure, God of the Stove, God of Wind, God of Feathers, God of Great Travel...

The Evil-Eyed Immortal chuckled and said, "Having a large number of people is useless."

"Why don't you try and see?" The God of the Yu turned his head slightly, a cold glint in his eyes.

In an instant, the divine domains of various mortal gods unfolded in the sky, and the moment the divine domains collided, space cracked like a shattered mirror.

Under the gaze of the colossal evil eye, a fierce battle erupted between the mortal gods.

Xu Lili's vision-penetrating spell emitted a blinding white light, forcing her to close her eyes.

Her telepathic spell allows others thousands of miles away to see the current battlefield scene in Liangzhou.

It was like a live broadcast of the real world, with every scene transmitted through her eyes.

However, at that moment, the power of the twenty mortal gods in the sky collided violently, and the scattered divine power affected her vision-enhancing spell, almost causing her to go blind on the spot.

After a long while, as the white light slowly disappeared, Xu Lili saw a giant monument thousands of feet tall collide with an ancient bronze mirror. The countless illusions reflected in the mirror and the runes on the monument devoured each other.

Above their heads, the Shadow God's shadow chains and the clay god's army of terracotta warriors were locked in a fierce battle. Black viscous liquid seeped from the cracks in the terracotta warriors, corroding the ground wherever it dripped.

The Evil-Eyed Immortal's pupils swirled with an eerie blood-red light, and the Five-Colored God in the Northern Underworld Army let out a shrill scream. His divine power dimmed at a visible speed, and it seemed as if countless insects were wriggling beneath his skin.

It is the Five-Colored God, and the other mortal gods of the Northern Underworld are all the same.

"It's the Malaria Soul Gu that devours the Malaria God. This thing can absorb divine power and must be eliminated quickly."

Xiaoming God saw the symptoms on their bodies, and with his slender fingers he pointed to his brow, from which he took out an orange-red flame that emitted a warm light and passed it through the bodies of the mortal gods.

The Feather God's sleeves billowed, from which countless feathers shot out. These feathers looked light and airy, but when they landed on the Heavenly Centipede Immortal, they weighed a ton, pressing his thorny feet into the ground.

The Five-Colored God waved his folding fan, creating a five-colored ray of light in the air. This light seemed capable of washing away all power in the world, cleansing the eerie blood-red light from the pupils of the Evil-Eyed Immortal.

The forces of the mortal gods in the heavens clashed fiercely, while the Northern Underworld Army and the Evil Spirit Army below were also fighting a brutal battle.

At this moment, the two armies moved overhead, resisting the forces that the celestial gods occasionally hurled down while colliding with each other's forces.

Many soldiers of the Northern Underworld Army were wounded in this war, and a large number of the Evil Spirit Army died completely, their bodies crushed to pieces by pairs of feet as they fell to the ground.

Overall, on the surface, the Northern Underworld Army has begun to gain the upper hand. Whether it is the side of the mortal gods or the Northern Underworld Army, the scales of victory seem to be tipping in their favor.

But at that moment, the Evil Eye Immortal opened his arms, and countless eyes suddenly exploded. The Mirror God's body turned into ashes and merged into the air, turning the space into mirrors that could refract light.

These mirrors focused on the Evil Eye Immortal, allowing his power to be unleashed to its fullest extent.

At this moment, the previously unknown Cheng Yun God stepped forward, drawing the surrounding clouds to transform into enormous shields that blocked the path of the Northern Underworld God.

However, the evil eye's power was amplified again and again by the reflection of the mirror god's mirror, instantly piercing through the cloud shield and finally landing on Cheng Yun God.

His body was pierced by the power of the evil eye, and the surrounding divine domain collapsed rapidly. No matter how he tried to reassemble his divine power, he could not repair the damage to his body.

The Evil Eye's attack shattered his incense temple, and the divine domain of the Cloud God slowly dissipated, falling from the sky.

The god Chengyun perished and was reincarnated into the cycle of incense offerings.

Upon witnessing this scene, the mortal gods of the Northern Underworld went completely mad.

Although everyone understood that even they faced a great risk of death in this war, they had all made their own preparations.

But now, seeing the mortal god who had come all this way fall, they were filled with deep sorrow, and after this sorrow came overwhelming rage.

The God of the Yu God directly revealed his true form, and all his divine power transformed into a giant deer antler that crashed into the Evil-Eyed Immortal.

The Mirror God wanted to use the distorted mirror imagery remaining in space to alter the trajectory of the antlers' attack, causing it to deviate from its intended path.

However, the divine power of the Mirror God seemed to be completely unaffected by the Mirror God at this moment, directly breaking through the boundary between space and divine body, and pressing against the Mirror God.

"boom!!"

The sound of a mirror shattering echoed through the heavens and earth. The Mirror God flew out from the void, his divine domain was pierced, and the incense temple within his body was destroyed.

Before the roar of the Mirror God's fall had faded, thousands of star patterns suddenly appeared on the Turtle God's shell. He formed hand seals and chanted incantations. The divine power scattered throughout the battlefield seemed to be summoned and surged wildly into his body.

The next second, the Turtle God spat out a dazzling galaxy. Wherever the starlight passed, the air emitted a sharp crack, sweeping straight towards the Malaria Eater God.

The Malaria God's expression changed drastically. He hurriedly manipulated his Soul Gu to meet the attack. Countless black Gu worms flew out from his body, forming a black barrier in the air.

However, it is unknown how long the Turtle God had been gathering power for this attack, which combined the strength of many mortal gods present, including the Malaria God.

Therefore, as soon as the Gu worm came into contact with the divine power of the Turtle God, it emitted a sizzling burning sound and turned into wisps of black smoke and dissipated.

The Malaria God tried to retreat in terror, only to find that his feet were somehow firmly bound by the Shadow God's shadow.

The Milky Way crashed into him, the divine domain of the Malaria God shattered inch by inch, and his body turned to ashes in the intense light.

In the blink of an eye, the three mortal gods perished.

(End of this chapter)