Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 596 606: Divine Abyss

"Is this... the end?"

Xi Xuan stood there somewhat dazed, staring in the direction where the Mad God had disappeared, his eyes revealing a hint of confusion.

He had fantasized that a strongman from their side would step forward to withstand the Mad God's offensive, and then lead the Northern Underworld Army to victory.

But in reality, it was much easier than he had imagined.

The arrogant and domineering Mad God of the past seemed to have been wiped out of thin air with a paintbrush, as if he had never existed.

The stiffened and fallen skeletons were now completely silent, like wooden sculptures.

As the blood mist gradually dissipated, Cheng Yun and other mortal gods emerged.

Their injuries had not healed as much as Xi Xuan's; they were still very weak, but their condition was much better than when they were hanging in the air.

"Thank you for your help, Divine Lord!" Several mortal gods, including Cheng Yun, knelt before Divine Lord Huan Xin, expressing their gratitude.

Wei Yang glanced down at Cheng Yun Shen, then gently waved his hand. A breeze swept across the face of the mortal god, carrying a faint fragrance of herbs.

Smelling the fragrance, Cheng Yun Shen soon realized that the lifespan he had lost due to the damage to his origin was slowly recovering.

In their eyes, it seemed that a powerful rule of heaven and earth had compensated for the damage they had suffered. Under normal circumstances, it would have taken them at least a hundred years to recover on their own, but under this rule, the time was shortened by more than ten times.

Seeing this, Cheng Yun was even more grateful, and his admiration for Wei Yang reached its peak at this moment.

Compared to the mortal rulers, these mortal gods are like ordinary mortals; there is a difference between gods.

Xi Xuan saw all this and respectfully said to Wei Yang, "If it weren't for the Divine Lord's help this time, we would probably have been wiped out. All the soldiers of the Beiming Army will enshrine your shrine in their homes and offer incense every day."

Wei Yang glanced at Xi Xuan and nodded indifferently.

At the level of secular deities, their demand for incense offerings is not as high as that of major secular deities.

Ordinary incense is not only not a good medicine for them, but it also becomes a burden.

Wei Yang said calmly, "Dealing with these things behind the door is what I should do. At the same time, he asked me to keep an eye on you. Since I promised, I will not break my promise."

"Him?" Xi Xuan was taken aback upon hearing this, but quickly realized who Wei Yang was referring to.

You can guess it almost without even thinking.

"I didn't expect the Prefect to be so capable, even able to persuade a layman to come," Xi Xuan thought to himself.

"Now that this matter is settled, I'm going to the next place." Wei Yang nodded to Xi Xuan and said softly, "There are two golden gates in Liangzhou. Besides this place, there is another place I need to go to. I'll leave the rest of this place to you."

"Respectfully seeing off the Divine Lord!" Xi Xuan bowed to Wei Yang.

Wei Yang nodded, and after a wisp of breeze, he disappeared from everyone's sight.

Xi Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, feeling the pressure on him inexplicably lessen.

On this day, resistance against the slain was being staged throughout the land. Some survived the fighting, while others were buried forever in the earth.

On this day, mortal gods would occasionally fly across the sky, and the people in the city, upon looking up, were no longer surprised by this sight.

Urged by officials, they continuously carried stones and oil to the city walls, and rapidly built defensive fortifications under orders.

The servants and soldiers of the powerful families have been handed over to the garrison commanders in the city for unified management, to jointly face this unprecedented crisis.

Because not all defenses near the gates are vulnerable to the attacks of the skeletons. If a defense is breached, the skeletons' next target will be densely populated areas.

The people in the villages outside the city had already been forcibly brought into the city. The villages that used to be filled with the smoke of cooking fires are now just empty thatched huts.

A few bold wild dogs sniffed around at the village entrance, picked up a piece of fat left on the ground, but were startled by a sudden howl from afar and fled with their tails between their legs.

That was the roar of the wreckage coming from the direction of the defensive line; even from dozens of miles away, it still sent chills down one's spine.

A spirit peeked out from the branches of a giant locust tree, looking toward the source of the sound. Having only recently gained sentience, it didn't know what it was, but a life-or-death fear, stemming from its biological instincts, welled up inside it.

As the population gradually migrated into the city, these spirits who had been cultivating in the wild felt uneasy and began to hide deep in the dense forest, wanting to get away from the place that made them uneasy as soon as possible.

After dealing with Wu Chi, who emerged from the second golden gate of Liangzhou, Wei Yang then went to a valley.

The valley is shaped like a sieve, surrounded by mountains on all sides, with only a narrow mountain pass through which people can walk.

What's even stranger is that this so-called valley didn't exist in this area before; it's as if it grew out of thin air overnight.

Moreover, if someone accidentally wanders into it, they will quickly lose their way and come out of the original entrance in less than half a day, unable to find out what is inside the valley.

Wei Yang walked on the soft grass in the valley, her white dress fluttering in the breeze, and the wooden staff in her hand made a melodious bell sound from time to time as she walked.

She did not get lost in the valley; the scenes within it unfolded before her eyes.

In the center of the valley stands a magnificent archway, exquisite and magnificent, far surpassing any bronze or gold gate, and even more imposing.

At the same time, a continuous pressure emanated from the door, a pressure that did not belong to any mortal god but originated from the world behind the door.

Before this door, a young man sat cross-legged on a stone pillar. The wind blew through his thick, black hair, and the inscriptions on the golden band on his forehead shone brightly. His eyes were sharp and wild, carrying a sense of fighting against heaven and earth.

Wei Yang approached the young man, paused to look at the huge and magnificent archway in front of him, and sighed deeply.

"After hundreds of years, it has reappeared!"

"We were the ones who lost in the first place, so its appearance was only a matter of time." Shenhou opened his eyes and turned his head to look at Weiyang.

"Long time no see, what brings you here?"

Wei Yang said calmly, "The outer doors are all open, so naturally I have to come and suppress them. However, he made preparations in advance, which saved me a lot of time."

Shenhou smiled and said, "I thought that without the Underworld and its Lord, the mortal world would surely be defeated, but I didn't expect him to give us hope."

"He was the seed of hope planted by Chenlong; otherwise, he wouldn't have willingly entered the game and sacrificed his life."

Wei Yang looked at the slightly trembling Divine Abyss Gate, and gently tapped the ground with his wooden staff. In an instant, grass and leaves grew rapidly, and thick vines wrapped around the Divine Abyss Gate.

Emerald green divine power fell like stardust, and flower buds of various colors sprouted on the vines.

These flower buds bloomed and swelled at an extremely fast pace, then produced bright red fruits, which immediately burst open. However, the scene of fruit pulp splattering as imagined did not occur. Instead, strings of runes floated, like shackles surrounding the Divine Abyss Gate.

Shenhou sighed: "You know that once it's activated, we can't seal it off with our power!"

Wei Yang said indifferently, "Delaying it a little longer might give us a better chance than letting it open directly and letting those guys out from behind the door."

"Of the seventy-two demon gods behind the Divine Abyss Gate, half were wiped out by us in the last war."

“But that half is only their weakest part,” Wei Yang said calmly. “You know, the higher the ranking, the stronger the pillar.” Shen Hou fell silent upon hearing this. As someone who had been trapped for decades by a blood curse from one of the pillar demons during that war, he naturally knew just how powerful the other party was.

These deities, who crawl among worlds and grow by nourishing themselves with the essence of those worlds, are far more terrifying in power than these mortal lords.

The reason why Jionghai keeps crossing one world after another through the door is to seize the origin of the world and constantly transcend himself.

"Their fixation on the secular world stems from the immense power of its very essence. The essence of one secular world is almost equivalent to the sum of all the worlds they have plundered and devoured."

Even gods will fight like mortals for their own gain!

Shenhou's eyes were as cold as ice, filled with murderous intent: "Then let them come. I will show them that the gods of the mortal world are not as fragile as they imagine."

Wei Yang shook his head and smiled bitterly: "But they have already arrived. We few mortals alone cannot defeat all the demon gods."

Shenhou clenched his fist, his divine power soaring into the sky like a giant pillar. The sky seemed to hang upside down, and the flow of time slowed down dramatically. Everything was turning into chaos.

"At worst, I'll just do what the Lord of the Underworld does and block them all behind the door."

"It's a pity you can't do it! If you could, I really hope you would."

Wei Yang smiled and changed the subject, saying, "That kid should have found those remaining old guys by now. After sleeping for so long, it's really time for them to come out and take charge."

"What realm is he at now?" Shenhou asked.

The "he" in question is none other than Lin Beixuan.

They knew something about Chenlong's plans back then, so they pinned all their hopes on Lin Beixuan.

"When we parted, he was still a mortal immortal."

Upon hearing this, Shenhou became visibly anxious, his voice and tone becoming impatient.

"Too slow! Too slow! A mere Human Immortal can do nothing in this battle. Even if he can kill a few Wu Chi, the Wu Chi can't influence the outcome of the battle between the two worlds. To drive those guys back, at least a Saint Realm is needed."

"Even if it's the Holy Realm, our hope is extremely slim. You have to know that the Lord of the Underworld was almost able to touch the threshold of the Heavenly Dao back then, which is how he managed to keep all those guys behind the door."

"And the price is the entire underworld!"

Flames seemed to flicker in Shenhou's pupils, and his violent aura surged.

"Being merely a human immortal is far from enough!"

"quiet!!"

Suddenly, Wei Yang gently raised the wooden staff in his hand, and a melodious bell rang out, immediately silencing Shen Hou.

"Ling Shu, you have entered the void!"

"Feel sorry!"

Shenhou took a deep breath, and his eyes regained their clarity.

“It’s because of that door.” Wei Yang pointed to the Divine Abyss Gate and said, “You’ve been guarding this gate for too long, and your spirit has been affected by it without you even realizing it.”

Upon hearing this, Shenhou reacted, and flames suddenly burst into flames on his body. He closed his eyes, completely enveloping himself in the flames.

After a while, as Shenhou slowly opened his eyes, the flames on his body disappeared.

A wisp of black smoke rose into the sky from between his eyebrows, only to be dispersed by Wei Yang's wave of his hand.

"I was extremely careful, but I still got caught!" Shenhou said with a grave expression.

“No matter who is guarding this door, they will be affected without even realizing it. It’s not your fault,” Wei Yang comforted her.

She looked at the Divine Abyss Gate and saw that the seal she had just placed on the gate had changed at some point; the originally emerald green vines had turned black near the gate.

……

Meanwhile, inside the Luo Zhou City Lord's Mansion, Fox Spirit God was processing intelligence reports from the Northern Underworld Army in various locations.

Beside her, Hu Miao, as her assistant, sat next to the fox spirit, intently reviewing the information that the fox spirit had hastily processed.

"The remains of the bronze gate in Luozhou were successfully intercepted by our army."

"The remains of the bronze gate in Xuanzhou were successfully intercepted by our army."

"The remains of the bronze gate at Liangzhou were successfully intercepted by our army."

……

Fox Spirit God suddenly stopped writing, turned his head and asked, "What about the dozen or so golden doors?"

Hu Miao quickly said, "Five of the eleven golden doors opened, and Wu Chi walked out from each one."

"How is the defense of the Golden Gate line doing?"

"Everyone got through it safely, and our casualties were not serious."

"??" The Fox Spirit God frowned.

This result was beyond her expectations.

Knowing that the Wu Chi who emerged from behind the Golden Gate possessed strength comparable to a great mortal god, she essentially dispatched a large number of mortal gods and immortals from the Beiming Army to the Golden Gate defense line, and was prepared to sacrifice many soldiers.

However, the result was unexpected. Only two mortal gods perished, and the soldiers of the Northern Underworld Army retained a significant fighting strength.

Seeing the look of confusion on the Fox Spirit God's face, Hu Miao explained, "It's mainly because a powerful deity suddenly came to our aid on the front lines."

"Could it be Kang Xingshen?" Fox Spirit God's eyes lit up, but then she shook her head: "No, Kang Xingshen was seriously injured in the last battle in Xuanzhou, it's impossible for him to have recovered so quickly."

Hu Miao continued, "It wasn't Kangxing God, but some other great mortal god. In the end, a mortal master intervened and completely destroyed Wu Chi. Moreover, it seems that it wasn't just us; mortal masters from different dynasties also appeared and suppressed Wu Chi."

"Lord...did the Lord awaken them all?" the Fox Spirit God murmured.

She was one of the few people who knew Lin Beixuan's whereabouts. When he left, he told her that he was going to awaken the sleeping gods and mortals.

"But if he has been awakened, why hasn't the Lord of the Underworld returned yet?"

As the Fox Spirit God pondered this, he raised his hand to continue processing intelligence from various locations.

However, to everyone's surprise, Lin Beixuan, whom they had been talking about all along, was not on the land of China, but standing on a vast and boundless sea, looking down at the dark abyss below.

(End of this chapter)