The spell's range covers the entire territory of China? Hand it over to the state.

Silence reigned in the highest command hall of the capital.

The giant screen displayed victory reports from all over the world. A continuous line of green safety lights finally replaced the tense, blood-red doomsday warnings. The Anubis statue turned to ashes, the phantom of Amaterasu shattered, the undead army was annihilated, and reports of victories poured in from every front. All of this proclaimed only one fact.

Those lofty Western gods have been brought down by mortals.

Su Yun sat in a swivel chair, toying with a dusty, multifaceted crystal in his hand. It was the newly extracted Death God's essence, its surface shrouded in a faint aura of death. It felt a bit rough to the touch, far less smooth and round than the walnuts that old men had polished for two years.

"Elder Long, can I borrow a ride?" Su Yun casually stuffed the divine essence into the pocket of his down jacket and turned around, breaking the silence in the command hall.

Long Yi was taken aback upon hearing this, looked away from the big screen, and asked him where he was going.

"Kunlun Mountain." Su Yun screwed on the lid of his thermos, his tone casual. "The system just issued an advanced quest. It tells me to build a house there. In other words, our own Eastern Pantheon."

A collective gasp filled the command hall. Qin Shuangyue opened her mouth, but didn't know what to say. Establish an Eastern Pantheon? Individually, everyone recognized the words, but when put together, the weight they carried—the potential to reshape the world order—was enough to leave anyone speechless.

Without saying a word, Long Yi turned around and grabbed the red secure phone.

"Sound the highest level airspace clearance alarm. Deploy the highest-level Xuan Bird fighter jets. The pilots must be the most stable." Long Yi issued the orders in a very fast voice. After hanging up the phone, he turned to Su Yun, "The fighter jets will be in position on the rooftop helipad in three minutes."

"Okay." Su Yun nodded.

……

Half an hour later.

Above the Kunlun Mountains, known as the ancestral home of all mountains, the clouds were violently torn apart. A jet-black Xuan Bird fighter jet hovered above the main peak, creating a deafening sonic boom.

The hatch opened. A biting wind of minus forty degrees Celsius, mixed with ice crystals, rushed in.

Su Yun didn't bring a parachute and jumped out of the plane. The wind parted automatically around him, and he landed steadily on a snow-covered cliff.

It's a mess here. Zeus once haphazardly altered the landscape, and later, Longxia's firepower ravaged it. Rocks and ice are mixed together, and there are scorch marks everywhere from the war.

Su Yun kicked aside a stray rock blocking her path and found a relatively flat patch of snow.

He reached into his pocket and rummaged around.

A few crisp clinking sounds rang out.

Zeus's thunderous divine essence flashed with blinding lightning; Anubis's deathly divine essence emitted a deathly aura; Ra's sun divine essence radiated a scorching red light. Finally, Su Yun threw out a pile of fragments of rules he had pried off from the main hall of the Western Pantheon.

These treasures, which would trigger Ragnarok in the West and cause countless clans to kowtow and fight tooth and nail for, were now casually tossed aside by Su Yun in the snowdrifts of Kunlun Mountain, as if they were just being sold at a street stall.

Su Yun looked around at the surroundings and nodded in satisfaction.

Although this place is somewhat dilapidated, it is just right to serve as the cornerstone for a complete transformation of the new era.

"Let's begin." Su Yun thought to herself.

boom!

This low tremor did not trigger an avalanche, but instead spread downwards along the massive mountain, like the meridians of the human body, directly connecting to the vast earth veins of Longxia's 9.6 million square kilometers.

Mountains, rivers, plains, and basins—a vast territory of 9.6 million square kilometers—have at this moment transformed into a perfectly formed and incredibly massive natural array.

Having an array plate alone is not enough; it also needs fire to temper it.

Since the apocalyptic catastrophe, the 1.4 billion people of Longxia have experienced too much. There are the roars of frontline warriors who dared not retreat an inch when facing aliens, the metallic roar of metal hammering away day and night in factory workshops, the curses of ordinary people gritting their teeth and enduring in shelters, and countless people's deep and unwavering love for this land.

These emotions and aspirations, usually scattered among the people, are invisible and intangible. But at this moment, they are all drawn together by the Kunlun Mountains.

Earth fire erupted.

It was not a fire in the physical sense, but a raging inferno born from the indomitable will of 1.4 billion people united in their hatred of the enemy. This fire converged from all directions to the summit of Kunlun Mountain, instantly engulfing the few spoils of war on the ground.

"Sizzle sizzle..."

From the thunder god's aura came the lingering, resentful roar of Zeus, the deathly aura mingled with Anubis's chilling curse, and the fragments of the sun still held Ra's haughty arrogance. These selfish desires and impurities left in the divine aura of the Western gods appeared utterly laughable before this immense force of human will.

The backbone of 1.4 billion people is so strong that even gods don't worship them, how could we possibly tolerate such scum as you?

In less than ten seconds, all arrogance was burned away.

The three divine essences completely melted, transforming into the purest liquid state of nature. Zeus's thunderbolts became the most primal destruction and annihilation; Ra's sun became the life force that nurtures all things; and Anubis's death completed the conservation of energy at the end of all things.

Destruction, life, energy.

The three most perfect foundation stones crashed into the Kunlun Mountains.

In an instant, a vast expanse of purple mist surged up on the eastern horizon. This purple mist stretched for 30,000 miles, obscuring the sky and the sun, and illuminating the perpetually snow-covered Kunlun Mountains with a radiant glow.

Amidst the tremors of the earthquake, an incomparably magnificent architectural complex rose from the ground amidst the wind and snow. There were no Gothic spires, no pale Greek marble columns, and no winged bird-man statues.

Red walls and yellow tiles, a double-eaved hip roof, and sturdy nanmu pillars supporting a sky-covering dome. Huge bronze wind chimes hang from the eaves, moving automatically even without wind, emitting a deep and resonant sound. In the square in front of the hall, bluestone slabs are laid out seamlessly, with two huge white marble lions standing on the left and right, glaring angrily at the sky.

It is ancient and dignified, without any sense of oppressive divine authority. Instead, it is filled with the humanistic dignity unique to Chinese civilization. This dignity is so profound that even the chaotic energy of Earth's veins, stirred up by catastrophe, is instantly suppressed and subdued.

The moment the huge, blank black plaque with gold lettering was hung above the main hall, Su Yun heard a crisp system notification.

Crackling sound—

That was the sound of some kind of constraint being broken.

The system panel popped up automatically. The text box that originally represented "National Guardian Shaman" burst into flames, and after the flames subsided, a line of dazzling dark gold characters was reassembled.

The only hidden class: [Mythical Shaman]!

Advanced level complete.

Before Su Yun could even check the attribute changes on the panel, the system popped up a bright red notification.

[Congratulations, host, on completing the ultimate advancement.]

[Gain the unique passive skill for the God rank: Ascension.]

[Skill Effect: Transformation. The host's life form will undergo a forced leap, completely shedding the mortal body and condensing into an indestructible divine body. No cultivation process is required; this passive skill takes effect immediately.]

Golden light of creation poured down from the heavens, striking precisely Su Yun who stood before the hall. This was an elevation of life's dimension, a baptism that traversed the chasm between gods and mortals. As long as one was bathed in this light, every cell of the body would recombine into a combination of dark matter and energy, thus achieving immortality with heaven and earth, and being able to unleash a tsunami of rules with a mere wave of the hand.

But it wasn't over yet. Just as the golden light was about to touch Su Yun's head, the talent deep within Su Yun's soul, which had been passively triggered—[Territory as Territory]—suddenly emitted a violent roar!

A completely new information stream forcibly overwrote the system's original settings.

[A fundamental leap in life level has been detected, and the unique passive skill "Ascension" is being granted to the divine rank...]

[Judging in progress... The talent "Territory is Territory" has intervened.]

[Judgment passed. Current judgment logic: "All land under heaven belongs to the king; the king's ascension is the ascension of the nation!"]

[Current coverage area: 9.6 million square kilometers of territory and 1.4 billion people of Longxia bloodline.]

[Detected that the concept of "single ascension" cannot match the scale of "nationwide"... Extracting the purple energy of the Kunlun ancestral vein... Using this as a catalyst to ignite the indomitable flame of 1.4 billion lives... Reshaping the concept of the dimension of life...]

[Skill mutation complete.]