Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 594 604: The Mad God (Part 1)

As the bronze gate on the land of Luozhou trembled violently, the first wave of impact from behind the gate finally descended upon the mortal world.

"Squeak~"

"Bang bang bang..."

The bronze door emitted a muffled sound like an ancient behemoth striking the earth, and countless scarlet eyes peeked out from the cracks in the door as it was opened.

In an instant, a large number of wrecked remains surged out from behind the door like a tide, instantly sweeping across the entire land.

These skeletons were almost identical in size and appearance to the skeletons that had invaded the modern world, and wherever they went, the earth was shrouded in foul-smelling black smoke.

Upon seeing this, the Beiming soldiers responsible for guarding the perimeter of the gate immediately sounded the alarm.

Amidst countless gasps of alarm, the disaster behind the door was revealed to the people with unparalleled clarity for the first time.

They quickly assembled on the drill ground, arranged their weapons, and looked toward the direction of the gate with an unprecedented seriousness.

At that moment, a series of explosions rang out; these were the traps they had set near the door.

The first group of skeletons that rushed out the door all fell into the trap without any surprise.

Even with their powerful bodies, they were still torn to shreds by the sheer volume of gunpowder.

Then came the second batch, which, still relentlessly, rushed out the door, leaping over the corpses of their companions, like emotionless and mindless madmen.

Compared to him, the evil spirit army under the command of the Evil Spirit True Lord was like a child compared to an adult, completely incomparable.

The Beiming army, which had already formed a defensive line, stared intently ahead, each of them wearing a tense expression.

This was the first time they had encountered a creature from another world called a Jionghai. Its ferocious appearance and enormous body undoubtedly put them under great pressure.

Even so, no one hesitated; instead, they gripped their weapons tightly and stared at the massive figures.

However, before they could even take the stage, a huge shadow appeared in front of these corpses.

The shadow was like a huge curtain pressing down from the sky, casting a deep darkness over the ground.

"It's the Shadow God! The Shadow God has arrived!"

Many soldiers in the Northern Underworld Army worshipped the Shadow God.

Although the Shadow God was once an evil god with ulterior motives, those who worship him with malicious intent will be blessed with power. This is also true of most evil gods in the mortal world.

However, after joining the Northern Underworld Army, Shadow God abandoned darkness and embraced light, officially transforming into a righteous god.

However, his abilities still lean towards the evil and dark side, and that cannot be changed.

However, because of this, he is one of the few mortal gods under Lin Beixuan's command, besides Bie Bao Shen, who possesses powerful offensive capabilities.

The soldiers of the Northern Underworld Army saw only that huge shadow enveloping the entire skeleton.

Immediately afterwards, the speed at which the skeletons were running slowed down, as if the mud in front of them had suddenly become sticky and muddy, and the originally hard ground had softened into a puddle of mud, hindering their running speed.

The massive skeletons roared madly, trying to break free from the quagmire-like confinement.

However, before they could struggle for long, a dense divine power began to surge within the enormous shadow, and the soft ground became scorching hot, as if it had been boiled, radiating intense heat.

The limbs of the skeleton, which had been buried in the soft mud, began to rot. In the shadows, some tiny creatures seemed to be living, tearing their flesh apart with their ferocious teeth.

Before long, the skeleton's limbs were corroded and broken off, and it struggled to sink into the shadows.

Just then, the bronze door roared again, and an arm, much larger and stronger than an ordinary door, reached out from behind the door and grabbed the door frame.

The King of Corpses, a mortal god.

"Roar!!!"

With a sudden roar from the Skeleton King, waves of sound, like splashes of water from a boulder falling into water, spread in all directions.

Upon hearing the roar, all the soldiers of the Northern Underworld Army covered their ears, feeling as if their heads were a jumbled mess, as if they had been violently stirred by iron spikes.

Some people with weaker mental states even experienced bleeding from their ears and noses.

Upon hearing this roar, the eyes of the decaying corpses that had been struggling and corroding in the shadows suddenly turned crimson.

Their bodies began to mutate, becoming taller and stronger than before, with long and ferocious teeth, and the flesh corroded by the shadows healed rapidly.

"Hiss... Roar..."

A large number of skeletons slowly crawled out of the shadows, their ferocious claws twice as long as before, and their presence even more terrifying.

Having witnessed all this, the Shadow God simply stopped wasting his divine power and turned his attention to the Skeleton King.

The massive skeleton king, resembling a small mountain, noticed the Shadow God's gaze. Its enormous head slowly turned to meet the Shadow God's eyes.

Its eyes gleamed coldly, and its lips curled into a mocking grin, as if it were mocking the Shadow God's incompetence.

Clearly, compared to ordinary skeletons, the Skeleton King possesses greater intelligence and understands the root cause preventing the skeletons from advancing.

"Grumble gurgle gurgle..."

The King of the Skeletons' throat trembled irregularly, uttering the language of the world behind the door.

It raised its exaggerated arm, and immediately a black wind, bringing in the mundane world from behind the door, swept up.

These black winds carry the dust of the world behind the door, polluting the mundane world, and attempt to spread outwards.

However, the area around each door had already been sealed off by the Shadow God's divine domain, and he could not allow it to spread.

Then, the Skeleton King strode out, and an alien aura, seemingly from the abyss, soared into the sky. Amidst the roars of countless skeletons, the Skeleton King launched an attack on the Shadow God.

The Shadow God expanded his domain to its maximum, took a deep breath, and spread his divine power throughout his body, transforming it into a black curtain that blotted out the sky and spread toward the Skeleton King.

At the same time, a voice rang in the ears of all the soldiers of the Northern Underworld Army.

"Leave this big guy to me, and you'll have to take care of the ordinary skeletons!"

“Within my domain, I can imbue your weapons with Shadow God power, enough to harm those skeletons.”

"Don't be afraid, let's kill all these invaders who have invaded our world together!"

The guard in charge of the bronze gate tensed his muscles abruptly, his eyes turning bloodshot as he drew his long sword and pointed it at the sky.

"kill!!!"

In an instant, armor clashed, swords and spears clashed, and the Northern Underworld Army shouted in unison. All of them stared at the skeleton emerging from the shadows ahead and slowly took a step forward.

"Zhengzhengzheng..."

The long sword was drawn, and a forest of spears pointed straight ahead.

"Tai Bai Wu Chang, divine mechanism against the enemy, military strategy to break through the enemy's defenses, killing and scheming together..." The guard stretched his neck and silently recited the incantation of the first part of the Tai Bai Yin Jing.

"Begin the stance!"

A sudden gust of wind rose from the ground, and the hearts of the soldiers of the Northern Underworld Army were united at that moment.

Their steps were orderly, and even though there were only a little over a thousand soldiers guarding the bronze gate, they still exuded a proud and imposing aura.

These wisps of smoke rose into the sky, gradually twisting and merging into the phantom of a strange beast.

This strange beast was not the Kunpeng, the military force of the Beiming Army, because that required at least ten thousand troops to unleash.

Hovering above the soldiers' heads at this moment was a majestic and ferocious ancient beast with a single horn on its head and flowing beard around its neck—the Zheng.

"Roar……"

The phantom of the ferocious beast opened its giant mouth in mid-air, spewing out not flames or gales, but clusters of dark, condensed military aura.

These malevolent energies descended upon the soldiers of the Northern Underworld Army, as if each of them were draped in an illusory dark purple cloak.

The cloak was shimmering with light, intertwining and merging with the divine domain of the Shadow God, as if tiny shadows were writhing.

The first skeletons to emerge from the shadows pounced forward, their claws carving deep furrows in the ground, their foul-smelling, black saliva dripping from their fangs, corroding the earth with countless holes.

"Stab!" the garrison commander roared.

Without the slightest hesitation, the spearmen in the front row thrust forward in a forest of spears. Their illusory cloaks billowed as if blown by a gale, and mixed with the divine power within the Shadow God's domain, the spears they thrust out carried a terrifying force.

The ferocious beast roared fiercely, and a dark purple halo appeared on the tip of the spear, transforming into streaks of light that instantly pierced through Jionghai's chest.

"Pfft!"

Unlike the previous traps where gunpowder tore apart the bodies of the dead, the spears thrust out by the Northern Underworld Army, now empowered by the power of the Shadow God and their military might, carried a terrifying ferocity.

After being pierced, the body of the corpse immediately burst into a ghostly blue flame.

The pierced skeleton let out a shrill scream, its body visibly shriveling up until it turned into a puddle of black, smoky pus.

"kill!"

The moment the spearmen in the front row drew their spears, the swordsmen in the back row had already stepped onto their comrades' shoulders and leaped down.

With the military's support, their strength was several levels greater than before, and inspired by the massive amount of merits they had accumulated, everyone forgot their fear.

The commander's longsword flashed like lightning, slashing down diagonally and leaving afterimages in its wake. It actually cut a leaping skeleton in half at the waist. The dark purple blade light exploded at the cut, and the flying flesh and blood were immediately burned away by the flames.

However, more skeletons continued to rise from the edge of the shadows, fully activated by the roar of the Skeleton King, their madness and bloodlust swelling to the extreme.

Even as they saw their companions turn into pus, there was no fear in their eyes. As if drawn by invisible threads, they surged forward, stepping over the corpses scattered everywhere.

"Roar!!"

The ferocious beasts in the void roared incessantly. The more intense the battle became, the more the momentum of the Beiming Army rose. The defensive line composed of more than a thousand Beiming soldiers was like an iron gate embedded in the earth. Every swing of the sword and every thrust of the spear was accompanied by the sounds of bones breaking and evil fire burning.

However, the edge of the defensive line still trembled slightly under the impact of the wreckage.

These creatures behind the door were incredibly strong; some spearmen had their spear shafts snapped in two by their claws, and some swordsmen had their blades chipped and chipped by their hard claws.

If the entire Northern Underworld Army were to use their strength to intercept the impact of the wreckage behind the bronze door, the situation could probably be quelled in no time.

However, the bronze gate was not a single gate, but was scattered throughout the various states conquered by the Northern Underworld Army. The troops were dispersed, making the battle much more difficult.

However, this bronze gate defense line is not the most difficult. At this moment, around the golden gate in a certain place in Liangzhou, an even more dangerous and tragic battle is taking place.

A golden door opened, and a large number of skeletons leaped out from behind it. Not only that, but they were also accompanied by flying skeletons with wings that could take to the sky.

One after another, massive skeleton kings, each the size of a mountain, emerged from behind the golden gate, emitting sonic waves that amplified the ordinary skeletons.

Fei Hai, who possesses the power of a mortal god, is even more dangerous than Jiong Hai Wang, because the Beiming Army not only has to face dangers on the ground, but also the terror from the sky.

Fortunately, the Northern Underworld Army stationed around the Golden Gate was far larger than that of the Bronze Gate, and they were also led by a great general.

Xi Xuan, like Wu Huo and other generals, put on his armor. He stared at the flying debris in the sky, then suddenly exerted force with his legs and leaped into the air like a cannonball.

His arms were shrouded in dense corpse energy, which transformed into a pair of large hands formed from the concentrated corpse energy, and directly tore off the nearest flying skeleton.

He embraced Fei Hai's body, and the power of the Corpse God within him surged into Fei Hai's body like a storm, frantically tearing apart his flesh and blood.

Until he and Fei Hai landed, he emerged from a cloud of dust, and Fei Hai had become a shrunken, mangled corpse.

"puff--"

Xi Xuan spat out a mouthful of black blood, his brows furrowed tightly, and said with utter disgust, "Both flesh and blood and divine power reek of an indescribable stench."

Besides Xi Xuan, several other mortal gods also joined forces to set up a domain barrier above the Golden Gate, trapping the flying corpses that wanted to escape.

The mortal gods used almost all of their incense and divine power. Their domains intertwined, no longer opposing each other, but closely united, and they rained down fire from the sky.

Fei Hai and Jiong Hai Wang do indeed possess the strength of mortal gods, but the mortal gods of the mortal world had already been setting up divine power arrays around the door day and night before it was even opened.

Therefore, no matter how many skeletons appear, they can still hold the line and prevent them from breaking through.

Unfortunately, even with prior preparations, the Northern Underworld Army still felt immense pressure in the face of the overwhelming mass of corpses.

Because the corpses stepping out from behind the door never stopped, but kept coming in an endless stream.

"Isn't it over yet?!"

Xi Xuan glanced in the direction of the Golden Gate and couldn't help but mutter to himself, "This is just the Golden Gate. If it were a higher-level gate..."

He dared not think about what would happen next, and focused his attention back on the enemy in front of him.

However, before he could pull down another flying corpse, the golden gate located at the center of countless corpses suddenly emitted a piercing metallic scraping sound. The foul energy surging out from behind the gate abruptly changed, and a terrifying energy flowed outwards, soaring into the sky.

Xi Xuan's eye twitched suddenly, and he turned to look at the Golden Gate.

The other mortal gods who were forming formations in the air and unleashing their divine power also turned their gazes toward the location of the Golden Gate.

They all realized that what was about to emerge from behind the door was definitely some high-level being within the skeleton.

The aura emanating from it was ten or even a hundred times stronger and more substantial than any other skeleton they had ever seen.

"Watch out!" came the warning from the little mortal god Cheng Yun from high above.

The cloud barrier he controlled trembled violently under this aura, and it was broken through by the opponent's aura in less than a second.

This made him realize that what would emerge from behind the Golden Gate next might be incredibly powerful.

(End of this chapter)