Versatile Mage: Angel of Time, but Emperor of Every Moment

Chapter 228 The Mysterious Altar, the Undying Object

The city of terror was in ruins, the streets filled with the smell of decaying corpses and blood everywhere. It was hard to imagine that this was a city within the safe zone.

An Jing witnessed this scene and couldn't help but feel a surge of anger within him.

Anjing's boots crushed a pool of undried blood, the dark red liquid sizzling under the burning Chaos Flame. The flame in his right eye suddenly flared, reflecting the entire street scene into the void.

A child's severed arm hangs from a broken shop window, and a magic lamppost is entwined with "decorations" woven from intestines.

Even the emblem at the top of the church had been replaced with a bizarre totem pieced together from ribs. Even more disgusting was that the corpses, which should have been rotting, were all covered with a layer of wriggling purple fungus.

"What a wonderful thing from beyond this world."

The Chaos Trident suddenly emitted a teeth-grinding hum.

The shadow at An Jing's feet began to twist and stretch, and the phantom of twelve fallen angel wings slowly unfolded behind him. When the first black feather touched the ground, the corpses throughout the city suddenly convulsed at the same time!
"My Lord!!" Yuri hurriedly pressed down on the suddenly overheated Undead Star Palace. "These corpses have been corrupted by Chaos. If we try to purify them directly, it might cause problems."

"Snapped."

An Jing raised his hand and snapped his fingers.

Suddenly, the phantom of Emperor Keke enveloped the entire city, and all the rotting corpses instantly solidified into amber. Immediately afterward, Emperor Kuangkuang's star-track chains burst forth from the ground, forcibly pulling the purple mycelium out of the corpses!
"Look carefully." An Jing's icy voice echoed through every street. "This is not purification."

"It is a trial!"

The chains suddenly snapped, and tens of thousands of mycelia intertwined in the air to form a giant face, which even revealed a sinister smile.
"I know what you're trying to say, but leaving these corpses here is a hidden danger. The aura of these extraterrestrial beings is within the corpses, and they will emerge directly from them at night."
"Then start the destruction!" An Jing said.

"I've never seen such a vile creature in all my years of life," Nan said with great disgust, even though it hunted its own kind quite often.

However, as an emperor, it would never harm those servants or warriors.

These creatures not only maliciously slaughtered defenseless mortals, but also destroyed their corpses.
"I'll go see if there are any survivors." Yuri turned around and searched house to house for survivors, but without exception, every place he went was a scene of devastation.
Corpses littered the ground
An Jing's fingertips ignited a cluster of chaotic fire, and under its light, the corpses on both sides of the street suddenly began to twitch eerily.

The corpses parasitized by purple mycelium were trying to rise in contorted positions, their empty eye sockets gleaming with a dark light unique to extraterrestrial creatures.

"No need to look for it."

His voice was soft, yet it froze all the corpses in the city at once.

The Chaos Trident gently slammed to the ground, and the golden clock of the Emperor of Time instantly covered the entire city. All the mutating corpses were frozen in the amber of time and space, and even the ripples of the wriggling mycelium were clearly visible.

Yuri's undead staff clattered to the ground.

In the bakery she had just opened, a little girl's corpse was clutching half a moldy loaf of bread, purple mycelium sprouting from the corner of her mouth, weaving into the shape of a smile.

Even more horrifying, the corpses behind the counter were all in a posture of protecting the child.

"They're not killing." Nan suddenly used the tip of his tail to flick up a clump of mycelium, his dark golden vertical pupils contracting sharply. "They're performing some kind of... sacrifice!"

Anjing's cloak moved without wind.

Emperor Keke quickly activated his power, his fifteenth-level spiritual energy transforming into strands of silver threads that burrowed into the brows of the frozen corpses, beginning to steal their memories from their lives. Soon, countless memories flashed through An Jing's mind, and all the corpses displayed the same fragments of memory.

On a night with a blood moon overhead, the residents, as if in a dream, walked towards the ruins, embedding black crystals into their chests with their own hands. And at the end of their memories, a faceless monster sat upon a bizarre throne.
"I see." An Jing suddenly sneered, the Chaos Trident piercing the ground. The surface of the entire city of terror shattered like an eggshell, revealing a depth of a thousand meters below.
A bizarre altar built from piles of corpses!

Yuri's pupils contracted sharply, his icy blue eyes reflecting the massive altar constructed from countless corpses. Black haze moved across the altar's surface like a living thing, sometimes coalescing into twisted human figures, sometimes scattering into ashes that drifted across the sky.

"This is."

Her voice trembled slightly, and she unconsciously tightened her grip on the necromancer's staff. Whispers faintly echoed from within the black mist, as if countless souls were murmuring in her ear, their voices filled with pain and madness.

"You can think of these extraterrestrial beings as their branch strongholds. As long as they keep throwing living creatures into the altar, they will have a continuous source of power."

The words fell.

Anjing's Chaos Trident suddenly pierced the center of the altar, and the eerie blue arcs of electricity emanating from the trident instantly spread across the entire skeletal altar like a spider web.

The space behind him shattered like a broken mirror, and twelve deep-sea dragons, each over a hundred meters long, burst forth from the sky—

"Roar--!"

These colossal beasts, covered entirely in dark gold scales, had chaotic runes of the same origin as the trident dancing on each scale.

They coiled around the skeletal pillars of the altar, savagely strangling them. The black mist that tried to resist was instantly vaporized into pungent blue smoke upon contact with the dragon scales.

“Sizzle, sizzle—!!!”

The ear-piercing sound of burning echoed throughout the entire city of terror!
The black haze overflowing from the shattered altar twisted violently in the sunlight, churning wildly like a creature doused in strong acid. Countless contorted faces emerged from the haze, emitting inhuman screams.

An Jing watched this scene with cold eyes, his Chaos Trident pointing diagonally at the ground.

The moment the dark golden blood dripping from the halberd tip touched the sunlight, it transformed into a torrent of golden fire! Each drop of fire precisely pierced through a struggling mass of black mist, pinning it to the scorched ground.

Is this the end?

Yuri stared blankly at the scene. The black smog that was so troublesome to her was like air to An Jing.

With a casual wave of his hand, it dispersed.

The ease is visible to the naked eye.

“As long as the source is still there, they can regenerate endlessly. This method only treats the symptoms, not the root cause.” Nan saw through the reason at a glance.

These black smog swirls are strikingly similar to the eerie eyes of its younger brother.

Both were incredibly supermodels, but unfortunately, they ran into someone even more supermodel-like.
P.S.: Chapter Two is here!! Thank you everyone for your votes!!!

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