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

The timeline has been moved slightly forward.

Yunban City, deep within the Izumo Secret Realm.

The Land of the Dead.

If you had to describe the current situation of this area in one sentence, it would probably be, "The demolition office has been here."

Moreover, it was the kind of demolition office that would come to your door in the middle of the night with bulldozers without warning, without issuing notices, without following any procedures.

Because the former Temple of the Underworld is gone.

Those magnificent columns, exquisite carvings, and ancient stone steps—all gone.

The once-vast sea of ​​bones is now in ruins.

What was once a boundless wasteland of bones has now been plowed countless times by two forces.

The bones were shattered into pieces finer than sand, a white cloud billowing into the air, choking people and making their lungs ache.

The dark red sky was covered with cracks.

The edges of each crack were emitting a blinding white light, as if someone had slashed countless holes in the sky.

It revealed everything that was under the canopy.

The black mist of the Calamity Domain and the dark yellow energy of the Underworld Power intertwined, collided, devoured, and disintegrated wildly across the entire battlefield.

In the area where the two forces are clashing, the spatial structure has been completely destroyed.

Those places were neither black nor dark yellow, but a distorted gray-white.

It's like two colors of paint being mixed together, creating a blob that's hard to describe.

And right in the center of these ruins.

The two were still fighting.

The fight was very intense.

But if you look closely, you'll find a very obvious fact—

The situation is no longer unequal.

The condition of Huang Quanjin is much worse than when he first started.

The woman who was so composed and elegant just now, who could tear open the side wall of the temple with a single sword strike, is now—well, how should I put it.

The dark purple kimono she was wearing could no longer be called "clothes".

It looks more like a rag that a dog has chewed on.

The right sleeve was missing more than half, revealing the pale, jade-like arm underneath.

A tear was made at the neckline, and dark gold runes flashed wildly at the edge of the tear, as if making a final repair.

However, the repair speed is clearly not keeping up with the damage speed.

The left shoulder area was directly grazed by the disintegrating ray of the Eye of the Ancients, and the entire piece of fabric, along with the underlying layer of defense, was disintegrated.

A wound was visible, running from his shoulder down to his collarbone.

It's not just about clothes.

She had several new wounds on her body.

My right side was covered with a dense patch of shallow wounds from being pecked by a flock of ravens.

But each one is continuously losing dark yellow energy.

There is a burn mark the size of a fist on the left side of the chest.

The most striking thing was her face.

On that beautiful face that always wore a gentle smile, there was now a thin, long wound that cut diagonally from her right cheek to her chin.

The wound wasn't large, but given her defense level...

The fact that scars can be left on the face is enough to tell a story.

And her health points on the panel—

170 million.

It's less than half of 35 billion.

More than half of it has fallen.

This number is, of course, still an astronomical figure for ordinary people.

With 170 billion HP, that's enough to keep a thousand-strong expeditionary force busy for three days and three nights.

But the problem is-

Her opponent was not a punitive expedition.

Her opponent is Gu Xu.

What's even more critical is that her health wasn't decreasing at a "steady rate." Instead, it was dropping faster and faster.

The flock of ravens has been pecking at her divinity and personhood.

As her rank is continuously weakened, the effect of her "Eternal Life in the Underworld" attribute also continues to diminish.

It has the ability to fully recover in the first 0.5 seconds.

It's now been pushed back so much that it takes almost ten seconds for a small portion of the pressure to recover.

But during those ten seconds, the servants of calamity attacked constantly.

What came back was far from enough to fill the hole.

It's a dead end.

Just a matter of time.

Gu Xu was sitting in the Styx Ghost Carriage.

I can see that too.

He tilted his head and leaned against the back of the sedan chair.

He rested his chin on his hand, looking at the great god Huang Quanjin in mid-air, who was covered in wounds and whose aura had obviously weakened considerably.

To be honest, I'm a little disappointed.

I'm not kidding, I'm genuinely a little disappointed.

In the brief stalemate caused by the direct collision of the two forces, Gu Xu did feel a long-lost sense of urgency.

That feeling is rare.

Since his Domain of Calamity has grown to this stage, there are no opponents who can make him feel a sense of urgency.

There are fewer and fewer of them now.

When the Great God Huang Quanjin offered the entire Kingdom of the Underworld as a battery in exchange for his power, he did think—hmm, this is interesting, this time I might have to get serious.

The Emperor Engine needs to be turned on.

And the result? Nothing special.

The energy reserves are deep, but the rules are not rigid enough.

The overwhelming power of the Domain of Calamity was right there.

No matter how much quantity you pile up, you can't bridge the gap in quality.

Moreover, Gu Xu also had five servants of calamity present.

Five conceptual-level monsters are exerting pressure from five directions simultaneously.

Each of them alone is a force to be reckoned with, capable of giving opponents of the same level a real headache.

All five of them at once?

That's not called fighting, that's called bullying.

Gu Xu shook his head.

His movements were casual, as if he were watching a show that he thought would be very exciting.

But in reality, the matches were rather lackluster.

"I was thinking you'd let me use some of your special moves." Thinking this, Gu Xu couldn't help but complain to the great Huang Quanjin, "But in the end..."

"this one?"

The last two words, falling into the ears of the Great God Huang Quanjin, were more piercing than any disintegration ray.

She is the Great Goddess of the Underworld, the Lord of the Underworld who returns to oneness after countless deaths.

It devoured countless souls.

It has accumulated strength over countless years.

In this young man's mouth—that's it?

Visibly, the beautiful face of the goddess Huang Quanjin twisted slightly at this moment.

It's not because of pain.

Rather, it was because their pride had been trampled upon.

She had waited for far too long in this land of the dead.

So long that she herself forgot exactly how many years she had waited.

Over the long years, she devoured everything, accumulated everything, and honed herself into a knife that she believed was capable of cutting through any obstacle.

As a result, the knife struck Gu Xu.

It can't be cut.

It's not the kind of cut that's almost impossible to make.

It's a whole level below, so you can't cut it.

She used every means at her disposal.

The foul rain of the underworld. The corridors of the underworld.

He poured all his strength into it.

What was the result?

It was the other party's contempt and mockery!

This disparity is, frankly, quite hurtful to the pride of someone who has accumulated power over countless years.

The great god Huang Quanjin took a deep breath.

After she inhaled that breath, a faint yellow light seeped from the edge of the wound on her right cheek.

It's not about repairing, it's about uniting.

Her aura changed at that moment.

Unlike the overwhelming sense of oppression before.

This change is subtle.

It was as if something inside her had awakened.

"You former ruler, do you really think...?"

The voice of the great god Huang Quanjin came through, its tone still gentle, yet it sent chills down one's spine: "Have you driven me into a corner?"