Transcending Godhood: I Extract Keywords and Crush the Gods

Deep within an abandoned underground psionic nuclear reactor on the far northern edge of the Divine Realm.

The demonic energy here is thin.

The walls on all sides are made of spirit-proof lead plates and radiation-proof steel plates, which can block most of the detection of spiritual power.

Beside the cooling pool at the bottom of the reactor, in front of an altar, blood-red light swirled.

A blood-red crystal covered in cracks floated in mid-air; it was the severely damaged prototype of Blood Raven's divine essence.

Beneath the nascent divine form, a clump of viscous blood essence struggled to move.

Accompanied by the cracking sound of bones growing, essence and blood slowly condensed into a withered and thin humanoid body.

Blood Raven, leaning against the edge of the altar, coughed violently, large mouthfuls of black blood spilling from the corners of its mouth.

He managed to rebuild his physical body.

But his current state is extremely miserable.

The formidable divine might of the seventh-level demigod has vanished, and the divine fire within his body has withered like a flickering candle that could be extinguished at any moment.

The nascent divine form, having overdrawn its source, continuously radiated the light of the laws outward.

Demigod level six... Demigod level five...

Blood Raven stared in horror at his hands.

The hands that were once as tough as iron are now as withered as tree bark.

The level of divine power within his body is declining at an irreversible rate!

"Stop! Stop right now!"

Blood Raven let out a beastly growl, pressing its hands tightly against the nascent divine form on its chest, attempting to seal the cracks with its remaining divine soul.

like water off a duck's back.

The divine essence is deeply bound to the origin of the divine realm.

At this moment, in his perception, his divine realm was dying off on a large scale at a devastating rate.

In the eastern region, 300 million people are disconnected...

In the southern industrial region, 500 million family members have lost their lives...

The Tian Sha Blood Industry Group was destroyed, the Blackwater Security Company was razed to the ground, and the Gene Research Institute was reduced to ruins...

In just half a day, he had painstakingly built up his vast divine realm over hundreds of years, which boasted a population of five billion and countless modern cities.

More than 60% of the area has become a dead zone!

Every time a city is flattened, every time tens of millions of its inhabitants are devoured, a corner of the divine realm's primordial crystal wall crumbles.

Each time the origin shatters, it transforms into an invisible backlash hammer, crashing heavily onto the Blood Raven's nascent divine form!

puff!

Blood Raven spat out another mouthful of primordial divine blood mixed with fragments of internal organs, and collapsed beside the cooling pool.

Boundless fear and despair finally surfaced in his eyes.

He's about to fall from grace.

At this rate of destruction, it will take at most another hour for the last building in his divine realm to be razed to the ground.

When the last life is completely consumed, his divine realm will be utterly reduced to nothingness.

Having lost the support of the divine realm and with his divine essence completely shattered, he will die without a burial place!

"Why did it turn out like this...?"

Blood Raven huddled on the dark, cold floor, trembling uncontrollably.

Extreme regret is like a venomous snake, gnawing at the heart.

If he hadn't been blinded by that million cubic meters of pure divine power crystals and divine magic inheritance when that old man contacted him through the Soul Summoning Platform...

If he had been more careful and had simply refused the deal...

If he had immediately severed the spatial passage and retreated the moment he first stepped into the Wasteland God Realm and sensed its strangeness...

If he had been on his home turf and hadn't impulsively retaliated, but instead commanded his divine retinue to use the advantages of timing and location to resist...

Countless thoughts flashed through Blood Raven's mind.

Reality does not allow for assumptions.

During his ten years on the run, he prided himself on being cautious and cunning, managing to escape death several times during raids by federal law enforcement.

This time, simply because of one greedy order, he kicked the hardest part of the iron plate.

He lost everything he had accumulated over the years, his modern divine realm, and even his entire cultivation!

"You old dogs...you two damned old dogs!"

……

More and more cities have fallen, and the territory of the Blood Raven is undergoing an irreversible physical collapse.

After the insect swarm devoured the reinforced concrete on the surface, it began to dig deeper underground.

The liquid gold crab's giant pincers cut through the earth's crust, and the Nether Uranium Heavy Beetle devoured the mineral vein.

Layers of rock, tens of millions of meters deep, were peeled away.

The army of fire spirits in the sky scorched the clouds crimson, and the extremely cold poisonous mist turned into icy rain, throwing the entire divine realm's weather system into chaos.

The underground psionic nuclear reactor on the far northern edge is located in the most secret corner of the divine realm.

The outer layer of radiation-proof steel plate and spirit-proof lead plate, which were hundreds of meters thick, softened and collapsed rapidly under the alternating erosion of the karmic fire and toxic fog of the phaseless source insects.

The swarm of insects made a crunching, gnawing sound as they swallowed the array patterns inside the special metal.

Sunlight streamed through the cracks in the earth's strata, shining directly into the bottom layer.

Blood Raven huddled beside the cooling pool, clutching the nascent divine form to its chest with both hands.

When the last underground bunker on the outer perimeter was smashed to pieces by the tyrant's punch.

The primordial crystal wall of the divine realm let out a muffled wail and shattered completely.

Blood Raven coughed up a mouthful of black blood.

The divine fire within him contracted, and the remaining aura of a sixth-level demigod plummeted once again.

Fifth turn.

Fourth turn.

Three turns.

The backlash from the drop in his cultivation level caused his newly reconstructed physical body to collapse once again.

He didn't even need Lin Yuan to actively search for him.

The lead plate overhead was ripped off by a monstrous demon, exposing the entire underground reactor to the sunlight.

Lin Yuan stepped through the void, walking step by step towards the cooling pool at the bottom.

Surrounded by a dense army of Zerg and monstrous creatures, they completely blocked the area, yet they tacitly made way for Lin Yuan.

Blood Raven was covered in blood, its shriveled body trembling uncontrollably.

He raised his head and met Lin Yuan's gaze.

A strong will to survive burned in Blood Raven's heart.

Ignoring the excruciating pain of his shattered divine essence, he crawled towards Lin Yuan on all fours, leaving a trail of blood on the ground.

"Don't kill me!"

Blood Raven cried out in a hoarse voice, "Lin Yuan! Junior! I'm your senior!"

He forced a smile that looked worse than a grimace, his withered fingers trying to grab Lin Yuan's trouser leg.

"I also graduated from Starry Sky University! We're practically family! I used to be a good person, I really was!"

Lin Yuan took a half step back, avoiding the dirty hand covered in sticky blood.

He raised an eyebrow, a half-smile playing on his lips.

"You all look exactly the same!"

Lin Yuan shook his head and sighed.

"At first, they were arrogant and domineering, shouting for violence. When they couldn't win, they started to play the victim, act pitiful, and beg for mercy."

"They don't offer any originality at all. Would it kill them to change the template? It's all the same old thing, so boring."

Lin Yuan raised his right hand, and grayish-white light swirled around his fingertips.

Seeing the light at Lin Yuan's fingertips, Blood Raven was terrified.

He knew that ordinary pleas for mercy were useless; he had to come up with something that could move the other party.

"I really have my reasons!"

Blood Raven kowtowed heavily on the ground, then quickly began to appeal to emotions.

"Lin Yuan, you and I are both from commoner backgrounds, right? You understand the pain of being exploited by the scions of powerful families!"

He raised his head, tears mixed with blood streaming down his face, his expression filled with grief and indignation.

"When I was admitted to Starry Sky University, I was full of hope that it would change my destiny."

"I trained desperately, explored the most dangerous ruins, and handed over all the resources I obtained to my mentor."

"As a result, my supervisor accepted their bribes, and they distributed all my resources to those rich young masters! They even used me as a stepping stone, as cannon fodder!"

Blood Raven became more and more agitated as he spoke, his voice stern and accusatory of past injustices.

"That time in the ruins, they sent me to probe the void rift and draw the monsters' fire!"

"They triggered an ancient restriction, yet they forced me to use my divine power to fill the core of the formation! If I hadn't resisted, I would have died inside long ago!"

"I killed them because they tried to kill me first! I had no choice but to flee!"

"For the past ten years, I've been hiding in the chaotic star field. I didn't want to become like this; the world forced me into it!"

Blood Raven finished speaking in one breath, then looked into Lin Yuan's eyes, trying to find a trace of resonance within them.

Lin Yuan stroked his chin.

"oh."

He nodded and gave a comment.

"This time, I did have some emotion, and my feelings were quite on point."

A glimmer of hope flashed in Blood Raven's eyes.

"However, it's still too generic." Lin Yuan changed the subject, and the gray-white light on his hand not only didn't dissipate, but actually became even brighter.

"I see about 800 posts a day on the StarNet forum about victims turning to the dark side and seeking revenge."

"Your plot doesn't even have a twist, making it hard for viewers to connect with the story."

Lin Yuan bent his fingers into a claw shape and reached directly for the Blood Raven's head.

The shadow of death loomed over the place.

Blood Raven watched the hand getting closer and closer, his brain racing, racking his brains for one last reason to save his life.

Just as Lin Yuan's fingers were about to touch his scalp.

"Don't you want to know who wants to kill you?!"

Blood Raven let out a piercing scream, curling itself into a ball.

Lin Yuan's movements froze in mid-air.

Blood Raven gasped for breath, thinking he had finally grasped a lifeline.

He quickly seized the opportunity to portray himself as a complete victim.

"I don't know you at all, why would I be causing you trouble for no reason! I'm being threatened!"

"Those guys found my divine domain coordinates. If I don't take this job, they'll sell my location to the Federal military!"

"I had no choice! I beg you, Lin Yuan, let me go!"

Blood Raven's tone was so humble it was almost like dirt.

"I'll tell you everything I know!"

"Their identities, their contact information—I have plenty of hidden resources in my divine realm. Whatever you need, I'll give you!"

"Just spare my life, and I'll be your slave!"

Blood Raven stared longingly at Lin Yuan, waiting for him to withdraw his deadly hand.

If Lin Yuan wants to know who's behind this, he must be kept alive.

As long as we survive, as long as the divine realm still exists.

Even if he loses all his cultivation, he still has a way to make a comeback.

Lin Yuan looked at Blood Raven's fawning face without any reaction.

"You talk too much nonsense."

Snapped!

Lin Yuan slapped Blood Raven on the top of his head.

The gray-white Law of the End sealed off the space around Blood Raven, completely freezing his remaining divine power.

Blood Raven's eyes widened, his face filled with disbelief.

"you……"

He only had time to utter a single word before Lin Yuan's spiritual power pierced into his sea of ​​consciousness.

Soul Search.

Lin Yuan had recently taken advanced courses in this skill at a special learning facility at Starry Sky University, where he had earned credits.

Although he was not a deity who specialized in cultivating the soul, his methods were somewhat clumsy.

But it's more than enough to deal with a cripple whose realm has fallen to the third level, whose nascent divine form has shattered, and whose physical body is broken.

At this moment, Blood Raven was less than an ant in Lin Yuan's hands, and could not organize any effective mental defense at all.

Lin Yuan closed his eyes, his consciousness sinking into the ocean of Blood Raven's memories.

A jumble of chaotic, bloody, and brutal fragments of memories rushed towards me.

Lin Yuan frowned.

He dared not use too much force.

Blood Raven's soul is now riddled with cracks; if you apply too much force, it will be crushed, and you won't be able to get any clues.

Lin Yuan patiently controlled his mental energy to navigate through those fragments of memory.

Most of the footage shows Blood Raven fleeing, killing, and plundering in the Chaotic Starfield over the past decade.

He devoured all life on the planet in order to cultivate demonic powers.

To evade capture, he pushed his trusted subordinates out as scapegoats; to seize resources, he slaughtered the gathering places of other wandering deities.

It also includes numerous scenes of refining human deities into blood pills and throwing infants into formations to extract their innate energy.

Lin Yuan filtered out these useless memories and narrowed down the search to the most recent month.

Soon, Lin Yuan accurately extracted a fragment of memory.

It is a black altar.

In the memory, the phantom of Blood Raven's soul floated above the altar.

At the other end of the altar stood an old man with a gaunt face and sinister eyes.

Lin Yuan focused his mental energy on the old man.

Blood Raven's memories immediately surfaced with information about this person.

Chen Fu.

Lin Yuan continued to investigate along this lead.

Blood Raven and this Chen Fu were actually old acquaintances.

More than ten years ago, when Blood Raven was still studying at Starry Sky University, he was framed and double-crossed during a black market transaction.

The person who saved him and helped him kill his enemies was Chen Fu.

In Blood Raven's memory, Chen Fu was ruthless and would betray his companions for a few pieces of divine power crystals.

The two met through this, and had several brief collaborations in the underworld.

Later, Blood Raven defected and fled to the Chaotic Starfield, where all contact was completely severed.

In Blood Raven's mind, Chen Fu, a fugitive who had spent years on the fringes of the black market, should have died long ago in some kind of shootout or double-cross.

Until a few days ago, this special altar, called the Soul Summoning Altar, suddenly lit up.

Chen Fu's old face reappeared before Blood Raven, and he unleashed a million cubic meters of pure divine power crystals.

The inheritance of divine arts and the exorbitant price of a life-bearing planet are used to buy Lin Yuan's life.

Lin Yuan carefully examined this memory.

Blood Raven had no idea who Chen Fu was working for.

In the memory, Chen Fu only mentioned "my master" and did not reveal any specific information about the employer's identity.

Blood Raven didn't care much about who his employer was; he only cared about the resources that would allow him to break through to the eighth level of demigodhood.

"Chen Fu..."