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In other words, each City God can use the divine power provided by incense offerings, the magical power gained from cultivating the Ghost Immortal method, and also the righteous energy. This is the City God's trump card for dealing with demons and monsters! However, since they are deified after death, while enjoying the incense offerings, they are also subject to the impure thoughts in people's prayers. In addition, since they no longer have a physical body, their righteous energy will weaken over the years. Each time they use it, it is equivalent to the City God consuming their own essence, which is to risk their life.

If possible, this City God wouldn't mind doing so. However, facing a demon, a demon that could very well cause a tremor in the Heavenly Court in his world, hovering before him, if he didn't want to die, then he had no choice but to fight to the death.

With the City God's relentless urging, righteous energy filled every corner of the entire divine kingdom. The once desolate divine kingdom, which had been overrun by various reasons, began to materialize from the void, with mountains, rivers, sun, moon, and endless starry sky formed by the righteous energy.

"...What is this, a microwave oven?" As he watched the illusory landscapes and the sun and moon materialize, Charles noticed smoke rising from his body. The temperature around him seemed to be increasing, as if a blazing sun was descending, trying to scorch him to ashes. However, in reality, the temperature hadn't actually risen, but for some reason, Charles could feel a strange energy cleansing his body and mind.

"Suppress!" Just as Xia Er was slightly curious about the changes around him, the City God, who had opened his fist, held the City God Seal in one hand and used his other hand, with his fingers as a brush, wrote the character "Suppress" in the air. The next moment, an enormous pressure appeared and pressed directly on Xia Er's body. The huge pressure crushed the ground beneath Xia Er's feet and even pressed his two feet into the ground.

Charles looked up at the character "镇" (zhen, meaning "suppress") written with his finger as a brush, hovering above him. He felt the increasing pressure and then turned to the City God, saying, "That's it!? Well, it seems I was being paranoid..." He shrugged, picked up his flaming sword, and shattered the character "镇" above his head with a single strike, releasing the pressure of gravity.

"Cough cough...!" The character "镇" (zhen, meaning "suppress" or "control") that had been written was shattered by Xia Er. The City God coughed involuntarily, took a slight step back, and his entire body dimmed slightly. "I have not yet failed!"

"Kill!" Using righteous energy as ink and his finger as a brush, the City God once again wrote the character "Kill" in mid-air. As soon as the character "Kill" was written, the surroundings were filled with killing intent, and a dazzling blade of light crossed the void, slashing down towards Xia Er.

He slashed out with his sword, extinguishing the blade light. But at that moment, the City God wrote out one "kill" character after another, and blade light after blade light, carrying a chilling killing intent, slashed down toward Xia Er.

"Interesting! Are Confucians really this 'DIO'?" Wielding his flaming sword, shattering the incoming blades, Xia Er felt something was off about this scene. Wasn't it said that Confucians were weak and powerless? How come this City God is so 'DIO' here? Or is it because he holds the divine office of City God that he's so 'DIO'?

"Let's have some fun!" With a swing of his sword, he unleashed a hundred-foot-long streak of fire, blocking the onslaught of blades. Xia Er raised his other hand and pointed it in mid-air. Instantly, a barrage of tens of thousands of shadow arrows materialized out of thin air and rained down on the City God.

Seeing the rain of arrows raining down, the City God remained unmoved. Summoning his righteous spirit, he once again used his finger as a brush to write in the air. This time, it wasn't a single character, but a phrase composed of four characters—'A volley of arrows'! In an instant, ripples spread through the air behind the City God, like the glittering opening of the Gate of Babylon. Only, from within these ripples shot forth rapid-fire arrows.

The volley of arrows and the shadow arrow rain collided in mid-air, colliding and annihilating each other.

But a moment later, enormous fireballs rained down from the sky, a fiery rain crashing down on the City God. Facing the falling fire, the City God wrote the four characters "Invincible" in mid-air. The characters were reflected in the air, and the falling fire suddenly stopped, then vanished as if it had never existed.

"I'm starting to feel like something's off about this art style!" While complaining, Xia Er casually threw the Sacrifice and Chaos Arrow spells at the City God. The flames engulfed the City God, but were blocked by the clear light emanating from the seal. However, the Chaos Arrow that followed pierced through the clear light and blasted through the City God's body.

With a muffled groan, the City God's body became ethereal, his face deathly pale. But quickly, the City God wrote the character "Peach" in mid-air. After writing the character, it transformed into a stream of light and disappeared into the blasted hole, healing it. The City God's ethereal body then solidified.

"Enjoying pleasure and forgetting home," "The army's supplies were cut off."

After writing eight characters in succession, the two words disappeared into the void. Just as Xia Er was about to unleash the Great Cataclysm, he suddenly felt two different forces appear out of nowhere, forcibly interrupting the spell that hadn't even been activated yet. At the same time the spell was interrupted, he was also forcibly frozen in place. Seeing Xia Er instantly immobilized, the City God's face lit up with joy, and he quickly continued writing. This time it was 'taking advantage of the situation.' As soon as these four characters were uttered, the flaming sword in Xia Er's hand suddenly flew out and was pulled towards the City God's side.

"Die! Demon!" Seeing the flaming sword forcibly pulled to his side, the City God laughed loudly and quickly wrote ten "kill" characters in the air. As soon as the ten "kill" characters appeared, even the City God's own body dimmed a bit. However, after the ten "kill" characters appeared in the air, the overwhelming killing intent was like a tsunami, and even gave rise to a phantom scene of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

Then, the ten "kill" characters were absorbed into the flaming sword that was being pulled away. Infused with the ten "kill" characters, the flaming sword blazed up with intense flames, and then the City God, using the technique of manipulating objects and with the "kill" characters as the medium, controlled the flaming sword to slash down towards Xia Er's head.

434. City God Bento

Carrying the City God's earnest expectations, he used his magical manipulation technique to create a flaming sword inlaid with ten "kill" characters, blazing with immense light, and slashed directly at Xia Er's head...

However, the flaming sword ultimately did not fall. What appeared before the City God was that it stopped, stopping just an inch in front of Xia Er, unable to move an inch. No matter how the City God urged it, the flaming sword simply refused to fall. At this moment, Xia Er's smiling face was also reflected in the City God's eyes, and the City God suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.

"A very interesting ability! Righteousness... I thought Confucian scholars were all weak and powerless!" Charles exclaimed, then raised his hand and grabbed the sword blade that was still in front of him.

'You, you…' The City God trembled as he watched this scene, his mind blank. He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but in the end he could only keep repeating one word.

“Don’t be surprised! There’s something you probably haven’t figured out yet!” Charles said sincerely to the City God, “When did you start to think that you could be my equal… or even that you had a chance to defeat me?” A sarcastic smile was on Charles’s face as he looked at the City God without making any move.

However, at this moment, the City God's heart sank. Xia Er's words had jolted him awake. Indeed, Xia Er had consistently dealt with the City God's attacks with a nonchalant air, even his counterattacks were casual. But why? Why did the City God suddenly harbor the thought that he could fight Xia Er to a standstill, or even defeat him?

Thinking of this, the City God's expression changed drastically, and even his own body began to dim and become illusory. At this moment, a wisp of darkness appeared directly on the City God's divine body. Not only his body, but even the magical seal he relied on, showed a stream of pitch-black light.

"When...when was I?!" the City God cried out in fear.

“From the very beginning!” Charles replied, “From the very beginning, or rather, from the moment you began your scheme, I infiltrated the mansion you created, a place that exists between reality and illusion, and left something there.”

'That's impossible!'

"Hehe! Why is it impossible?"

'That is…' He wanted to argue, but before he could speak, the black marks on the City God's body rapidly expanded and began to spread. At the same time, the dark light flowing from the seal began to erode the clear light protecting the City God. Divine power and his own magical power rapidly dissipated, while simultaneously, another malevolent energy began to corrode the City God's body. 'Impossible!' the City God cried out in disbelief, 'I am protected by the divine talisman bestowed upon me by the Heavenly Court; it's impossible that you could have tampered with me in secret!'

"Who told you that everything made in Heaven is of the highest quality, but you can't hack into it?!" Xia Er tilted his head, then dispelled the two invisible forces that were restricting his movement. He slowly walked to the City God, who had been corrupted and had lost the strength to stand, and was now collapsed on the ground. "Although it's very troublesome, and this decryption took a while... you can go and investigate!" Xia Er said, stamping his foot. "Take a look. Once you've integrated the divine rune at the core of this divine kingdom, you'll know what's going on."

Subconsciously, the City God extended his divine sense, beginning to sense the divine talisman integrated into the core of this divine kingdom. Then, his face turned pale. What he saw was a divine talisman that was two-thirds tainted by an ominous, black, sludge-like substance. From the very beginning, he was destined to fail. During the time he fought with Xia Er, the City God talisman, representing his status, had been corrupted and infected by Xia Er, fundamentally severing his foundation.

"How could this be? I... I am not reconciled!" The City God cried out in grief, but in response, Xia Er pierced his chest with a flaming sword.

Reaching out, he snatched the City God's seal. At this moment, the jet-black light that had previously enveloped the seal had largely eroded its original clarity. The once pristine white seal was now speckled with black spots. Holding the seal, Xia Er glanced at the City God pinned to the ground by the flaming sword, shrugged, and rapidly expanded the black spots on the seal, completely staining the once white seal black.

With a forceful squeeze of his five fingers, the entire seal shattered into four pieces, turning into a pile of broken black charcoal fragments that then fell to the ground.

"Pfft!" Seeing this scene, the City God spat out a mouthful of blood that looked like an illusion, and lay on the ground in despair.

Without the seal, the City God is now completely unable to exert his divine power and authority. Furthermore, being corrupted, he is now nothing more than a lamb to the slaughter.

"goodbye!"

He waved his hand at the City God beneath his feet, and a dark shadow appeared directly beneath Xia Er's feet. Within the shadow, pitch-black mist and silt churned and churned, giving rise to arms of varying sizes that grabbed the immobilized and desperate City God and slowly pulled him into the shadow.

'I...I'm not reconciled!'

The great calamity of heaven and earth... did not take me away!

'But I've been trapped here...'

'I'm not reconciled!!!'

Amidst the mournful cries, the City God, who had once escaped the great calamity of his world with the help of reincarnators, and who had secretly orchestrated and planned to rise to power in this world with the help of reincarnators, was thus humiliatingly dragged into the dark abyss.

He plunged into the abyss, where countless corrosive forces began to disintegrate the City God's divine body, sever his soul, and obliterate his consciousness and everything else. Finally, as his last thought was swallowed by the darkness of the abyss, he perished completely.

"Tsk tsk tsk... It really was just a snack!" After completely eliminating this unlucky and tragic City God who had encountered him, Xia Er clicked his tongue and said, "Unlike the Primordial Heavenly Demon, who could drop equipment, skill trees, and a huge amount of experience and achievements..."

"The level difference is just too big. This is only a little experience. Tsk, so much time wasted, and this isn't even enough to fill my stomach!"

He gripped the flaming sword again, and with a single, thunderous strike, cleaved the entire land of the divine kingdom in two, creating a canyon that stretched across the entire realm. The core of the kingdom was deeply exposed, and there, the City God's talisman was completely stained black. Reaching out the talisman, Xia Er sheathed it and then threw the sword into the cleaved canyon. Instantly, endless flames surged forth from below, bursting forth from the canyon and from every corner of the divine kingdom, transforming it into a sea of ​​fire. At that very moment, outside the divine kingdom, a colossal, pitch-black sun descended, approaching and engulfing it entirely.

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Watching the flames descend from the sky, watching the colossus destroy the entire capital within the flames, Father Brown trembled as he gazed at it all from afar. There was nothing he could do. Even now, the strange power that had restricted supernatural abilities had subsided, but faced with the overwhelming rain of fire and the giants hundreds of meters tall, humanity seemed so insignificant.

They don't even have the qualifications to enter the battlefield, so what right do they have to deal with these 'natural disasters'?!

"That...that...is that really the Lord?" Looking at the hundreds-of-meters-tall giant who appeared utterly tyrannical and devoid of any sublime glory, Father Brown felt a deep, bone-chilling fear. This was not a natural disaster that humanity could contend with. If this truly was the one and only Lord the Church had always proclaimed, then at least in terms of power, he lived up to the name. Unfortunately, the way this one and only Lord descended was far from pleasant. Not only was he slapped down by a golden hand, but the first thing he did after his arrival was to completely raze the entire capital city to the ground.

Now, even without thinking, Father Brown knew that there was no one left in the capital; not a single living being had been utterly wiped out. And the one who did it was none other than that radiant giant.

Soon, as the dark clouds in the sky were shaken apart, the roaring giant turned around for the first time. Even this giant was in a sorry state under the rain of fire, but he did not die. Instead, he struggled to survive in the fire rain.

But while the giants survived, the others might not. The pacification army, already being chased and slaughtered by a large horde of ghostly soldiers, suffered even greater losses under the rain of fire. These losses completely shattered the army's morale; the commanders, let alone being able to control their troops in this situation, were the first to turn tail and run.

What else could they do but run? When the fire rained down, they were lambs to the slaughter, and the giant, who should only exist in mythology, left them utterly helpless. The technological level of this world was only close to that of World War I. Although the intervention of the almost completely wiped-out reincarnated beings had given this era a significant boost in advanced technology, the most powerful land weapon in this world was merely a cannon.

Normally, these cannons would be powerful tools for conquering cities and seizing territory in this era, but with the target being this giant before them, how could they possibly fire something that wasn't even a firecracker?!

And now, this giant has moved again.

This time, he targeted the fleeing remnants of the counter-insurgency army...

"This, this is!" Father Brown stared in horror at the scene before him. The giant, now fully mobile, charged directly toward the fleeing remnants of the army. Although it still shone with holy light, even from a distance, Father Brown could sense that the giant was now exuding an aura of madness, rage, and fury.

As expected, the giant took two steps and swung his greatsword directly at the remaining troops who were desperately trying to escape.

Immediately, above the fleeing remnants of the army, countless streams of light converged, forming a gigantic holy light hammer that crashed down. Even as it fell, the earth beneath the hammer was crushed and shattered by its immense weight. When the hammer slammed into the ground, it dented the earth, triggering a violent earthquake.

That wasn't all. The giant quickened his pace, his massive body shattering the earth beneath his feet. Wherever he passed, pure white flames roared. It was holy flame, which Father Brown recognized and knew how to use. However, compared to the holy flame wielded by the giant, Father Brown's version seemed like a joke.

The giant shattered the earth, and the raging holy flames turned everything in its path into scorched earth, burning it into a barren wasteland.

No one was spared; in terms of both size and strength, the giant was an overwhelming force. It was as if, before him, humanity could only pray, hoping he would quell their rage. If the power of life and death was that of a god, then this giant undoubtedly possessed divine power.

"Lord!" Upon witnessing this scene, Father Brown questioned his faith for the first time in his life. Was it possible that God was not truly radiant and just, but rather a being far more powerful than humanity could ever hope to attain?

“That’s not a god!” Just then, Iris’s voice rang out. Father Brown turned around at the sound and saw Iris strolling over, her gaze also fixed on the raging giant in the distance. “…A god wouldn’t be like this, knocked down into the dust and then venting his anger on mortals… This isn’t a god at all, just a seemingly glorious and beautiful devil!”

"Knight Galgwin..."

“No need to be confused, Father!” At this moment, Father Brown realized that this young knight commander before him seemed to possess a unique aura—an aura of superiority, transcendence, and distinctiveness. It was as if, merely by looking at her figure, one could see a distant being, a sun rising high above a dark sky.

"That's not God?" Iris said in a strange tone, as if she were praying or chanting, "God exists, but not that monster... but something else, beyond this world, an indescribable reality and phenomenon." As she spoke, she raised her head and looked towards the sky with sincere and fervent eyes.

"Even natural disasters, monsters, or a 'devil' beyond the capabilities of mortals... to the gods, they are merely things that are equal to mortals."

"Because those who are high above are gods, while those who have fallen from the clouds are merely devils!"

Instinctively, Father Brown followed Iris's gaze to the horizon, and there he saw the most magnificent sight of his life. Whether God exists or not, Father Brown could no longer answer, but the existence of unimaginable phenomena in this world was undeniably confirmed by the scene before him.

Just as the giants raged, spreading their destructive glory across the land, above the very spot where they had fallen, beams of light, like the twilight itself, tore through the sky. A veil of eternal night instantly replaced the entire world and expanded infinitely. If someone were to look down from a very, very high altitude at that moment, they would see that a pitch-black curtain was shrouding the world below.

Similarly, a bright sun is constantly expanding and heading towards this world.

On the outskirts of the world, a jet-black sun with golden edges was expanding ever larger, along with a black veil that enveloped the entire world. At this moment, in every corner of this world, in every kind of life, everyone could see the anomaly in the sky—an anomaly that enveloped the entire world.

Soon, all the sunlight in the world, whether on the old roads or the new continents, whether on land or sea, vanished, and night enveloped the entire world. The only light that remained in the world was that of a dark, golden-edged sun, like a total solar eclipse, but one that covered every corner of the world.

And as time passed, the sun, resembling an eclipse, continued to grow larger and larger, until it became incredibly enormous, visible from every corner of the world.

Chaos, fear... The world's order completely vanished at this moment. Whether it was human society or the wilderness, whether it was cities on land or life in the ocean, everyone panicked.

On the battlefield of the Ruman Empire's civil war, a battlefield that had witnessed the intervention of reincarnators, the intervention of a city god from another world, and the rampage caused by the descent of this world's native deities, had now fallen silent. The giant god, who had been wreaking havoc, seemed like a domesticated monster causing destruction, suddenly sensing the arrival of a wild Ultraman, stopping its actions and looking up at the sky.

The Holy Temple's punitive expedition, which had remained on the periphery of the battlefield, also witnessed this scene. The sight before them completely stunned the members of the Holy Temple, and Father Brown, too, looked up in disbelief at the earth-shattering changes.

"What...what is this?" he muttered to himself. "What on earth happened?"

"This is God!" Iris, witnessing the same scene, spoke solemnly, then, like a fanatical believer, she knelt down before the dark sun in the sky. "The true God..."

Trembling as he watched the scene unfold before him, Father Brown staggered back a few steps, his expression contorted in rage. Something was surging into his mind, something was tearing his consciousness apart. Soon, the grotesque Father Brown could no longer bear the incessant whispers. He let out a wild scream and turned to run away in a frantic, disheveled manner.

"But Father, you cannot feel the true Lord!" Sensing Father Brown's frantic escape, Elise prayed softly, her clothes instantly transforming into a nun's robe, and her hair turning silver.

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After the black sun had completely devoured the still-ruined divine kingdom, Charles stepped directly out of that overlapping spacetime. Then, in the main world, for the first time, he unleashed his full power, extending his authority directly over the entire world. Instantly, day was replaced by night, the sun by black, and the intersection of reality and illusion blurred.

Xia Er hovered below, holding a token that had been stained black in one hand. This was the last legacy of the unfortunate City God, who had completely perished and turned to ashes, leaving behind only this divine token.

"This really is an official, standard-issue thing!" Examining the device in his hand, the one whose 'program' he'd hacked, Xia Er realized for the first time how ingenious the gods in fantasy worlds were. This thing, once bound and blessed with faith, could create a city god even for a fool. Moreover, it was extremely simple to manufacture; while the craftsmanship was excellent, the materials were clearly not top-notch, and it contained a series of backdoors and vulnerabilities.

He was able to hack into that unfortunate City God by secretly infiltrating a portion of his power into the divine talisman. He then gradually cracked the talisman's encryption program, bypassing the backdoor and dismantling it. After cracking it, Xia Er's first gain was information about the world the City God came from, which could be used as coordinates.

However, Xia Er felt that if he were to foolishly run over there, he would likely be surrounded by 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals. Not to mention that in the memories of the City God's primordial spirit, that world was undergoing a great calamity and the connection between heaven and earth had been severed.

However, both the Heavenly Court and the Underworld exist, as does Mount Ling. Although there are no so-called primordial saints, there is a Heavenly Emperor called the Jade Emperor.

Well, not that one in the prehistoric fantasy genre who's all figurehead and has no real power. It's the guy whose full title is 'Supreme Heavenly Creator, Holding the Talisman, Governing the Calendar, Embracing Truth, Embracing the Dao, Golden Palace Cloud Palace, Nine Vaults, Governing Ten Thousand Paths, Unfettered and Illuminated Great Hall, Jade Emperor, Great Heavenly Venerable, Mysterious Vault High God,' also known as the Heavenly Lord.

In addition, Taoism is one of the orthodox religions of the Heavenly Court, and even Buddhism has to be instilled with the concept that Buddha is originally Tao. Moreover, the supreme being of Taoism is not Laozi in the prehistoric era or Hongjun, but the one who is called "Taishang Pangu Shi Tiandao Yuanshi Tianzun" or "Yuanshi Tianwang".

Even the leader of Buddhism is not Jieyin or Zhunti, but Shakyamuni Buddha, a Buddha who is very likely more powerful than reason and is well-versed in Buddhism and scriptures.