The job change is a bizarre and calamity; the nation begs me to tone it down.

Visibly, the entire wall was torn to shreds like paper by the aftershocks of the sword energy.

Stones, dust, and rune fragments flew wildly through the air.

It's important to understand that this is just the aftermath.

It's not the full power of a direct hit, just the aftershock of a glancing blow.

They then cut a gaping hole, over a thousand meters long, in the temple wall.

If this sword strikes head-on—for example, if it hits a normal expeditionary force—then it's probably not just a matter of "opening a gap."

It's likely that the entire team, along with their equipment, was cut to ashes and scattered.

Gu Xu glanced at the shocking crack on the side wall, then at the Great God Huang Quanjin standing on the stone steps opposite him, his expression subtle.

"The aftershock of just one sword strike can demolish a wall?"

"If you were to handle the demolition, those holdout residents would probably be crying in their sleep."

The Great God Huang Quanjin did not respond to his words.

Her gaze fell on the surface of the Calamity Domain—or more precisely, on the spot where her sword had been devoured—and a very subtle fluctuation flickered in her phoenix eyes.

It wasn't shocking.

It's more like "I knew it."

That sword strike she just made wasn't a random swipe.

That was a test.

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The result of the test was clear—the rules of the Calamity Realm were as hard as she had expected.

It was even harder than she had expected.

But there was no sign of panic on Huang Quanjin's face.

It was as if she knew from the beginning that the sword strike would be useless.

It's just a test, and you don't expect to achieve anything from a test anyway.

The purpose of probing is to get a sense of the situation.

We've found the bottom.

The main course is coming up next.

Meanwhile, Gu Xu's attention was no longer on the great god Huang Quanjin.

He was looking at the crack.

To be precise, it was looking at what was behind the crack.

Because after the side wall of the temple was torn open, what was revealed was not the eerie city of the underworld outside.

It's not the same dreamlike mountain and hot spring scenery as before.

It's bone, white bone.

It's not just a few bones.

It's not a pile of bones.

It was a boundless, overwhelming, and densely packed sea of ​​bones that made one's scalp tingle.

The bones piled up into hills.

One after another, they stretched from the crack to the end of the line of sight.

The bones were of all kinds—some were human, some were animal, and some had shapes that did not belong to any known creature.

Some skeletons still retain their complete shape, while others have been shattered into dust.

A gust of wind would blow up a cloud of grayish-white dust.

Above the sea of ​​bones, the sky was dark red.

That kind of red isn't the red of a sunset.

The red of the setting sun is warm, carrying a sense of melancholy as it draws to a close.

This red is cold and gloomy, as if the entire sky has been soaked in a vat of blood, and then most of it has been wrung out.

The remaining color seeped into the clouds.

It dyed the sky a disgusting hue, somewhere between liver and dark red.

This is the true face of the Land of the Dead.

The previous mountain scenery, hot spring baths, and pink flower fields—all of them were fake.

phantom.

A layer of carefully wrapped wallpaper.

After peeling off the wallpaper, this is what's inside.

An endless wasteland of corpses.

Gu Xu peered through the gap in the sedan curtain at the sea of ​​bones and raised an eyebrow.

"have to."

He muttered to himself, "The fully furnished apartment has turned into a bare shell."

Of course, complaints aside.

The true meaning of "all deaths return to one" becomes incredibly concrete at this moment.

Gu Xu roughly understood.

The "Number of souls consumed: Uncountable" message on the panel is not an exaggeration.

This sea of ​​bones is the evidence.

Every bone, every fragment of bone, was once a living entity.

Their power, memories, and skills were all absorbed by the woman before them.

And this is only a small part that has been revealed.

That hundred-meter-long crack is only so big; the area it can see of the sea of ​​bones is limited.

How big is the entire Land of the Dead?

How many bones are buried underneath? Who knows?

But one thing is certain—it's outrageously high.

With the side wall of the temple torn apart, the illusion of a "high-end hot spring resort" finally collapsed completely.

The dreamlike mountains and rivers shattered into countless points of light in the blink of an eye.

The sea of ​​flowers withered, and the streams evaporated.

The surface of the hot spring water churned violently twice, and then disappeared.

Not a trace of water vapor remained.

Instead, there were endless skeletons and a dark red sky.

The heatwave is over.

A chill is coming.

The chill was even more intense than when I entered the temple before.

The concept of "death" itself seems to have transformed into a gust of wind, blowing in from all directions.

After the illusion shattered, the Great God Huang Quanjin did not show any discomfort.

She simply rose slowly into the air.

There were no more stone steps underfoot.

The stone steps disappeared along with the illusion when it dissipated.

But she doesn't need the stone steps.

Instead, she floated above the sea of ​​bones, her long hair fluttering in the cold wind, and the hem of her deep purple kimono unfurling in the air like a flag.

The speed at which the dark gold runes flowed across the surface of the clothes noticeably increased.

Her gentle face remains.

The corners of his mouth even held that ambiguous smile.

But the atmosphere around her had changed.

It became very exaggerated.

Gu Xu could see the space around her body distorting visibly.

It's like the heatwave on an asphalt road in summer, only this "heatwave" is many times larger in both scope and intensity.

The air around her was distorted, the light was distorted.

Even the wind blowing in through the crack had to detour around her before it could pass through.

The dark yellow katana stood upright in front of her, the mist on its blade thickening.

The light was so intense that the outline of the entire sword became blurred, leaving only a floating, dark yellow halo.

And beneath her feet—the sea of ​​bones stirred.

The white bones that had been lying quietly on the ground began to tremble slightly.

First, it spread outwards from the area directly below the Yellow Springs God, like ripples on water.

Within seconds, the entire visible area of ​​the sea of ​​bones began to tremble.

Fine bone fragments slid down the mountain of bones, making a rustling sound.

The sounds combined were like a sandstorm without wind.

Some of the complete skeletons even began to stand up.

Skeletons struggled to crawl out of the pile of bones, their empty eye sockets glowing with dark red phosphorescence.

They raised their heads, looked at the Great God of the Underworld floating in mid-air, and then knelt down in unison.

No command is required.

You don't need to make a sound.

Ten thousand bones paid homage on their own.

To be honest, the visual impact of this scene is quite strong.

On the boundless sea of ​​bones, countless skeletons stood up on their own and then knelt down.

The dark red sky reflected the white skeletons, with a woman in a purple kimono floating in the middle.

If I had to give it a score—for its prestige, I'd give it full marks.

But appearances have never been very useful to Gu Xu.

Because his own image is also quite impressive.

"Okay, okay!"

Gu Xu clapped again, raised his head, and looked at the Great God Huang Quanjin floating above the sea of ​​bones.

"Are you done installing it? If you are—"

He raised his right hand, bringing his index and middle fingers together.

That's the action.

It was the exact same action as when he crushed Ebisu's Manyu Devourer earlier.

Simple, straightforward, and without any frills.

The realm of calamity expands.

Full power.