Chapter 275: The True Objective

Really troublesome!

Mu Yi watched his severed tentacles regrow from the evil god's body, and a feeling of helplessness welled up in him.

When the chaos surrounding the evil god was completely suppressed by death, they still could not inflict significant harm on it, and the powers of the two sides were entirely on different levels.

The opponent's body and divine soul carry too many divine-level effects; even just a portion of its prime is an overwhelming level for Mu Yi and them.

Shall we use this?

Mu Yi involuntarily touched the token again; he didn't know why he himself was so averse to using this token.

Perhaps it's the arrogance from constantly overcoming challenges, or perhaps his own conceit; although his mission is to use this token upon seeing the evil god, he still cannot make up his mind.

He doesn't know what he's waiting for, but he knows this is a choice made by his intuition.

In the end, Mu Yi chose to trust his intuition, to trust his greatest reliance.

Moreover, the situation hasn't deteriorated to the final step; as a commanding officer, strategic composure and timing judgment are also important abilities.

Mu Yi widened his eyes, activating the Thousand-mile Eye to the utmost, deliberately avoiding the evil god's body, hoping to find clues on the battlefield to make the most appropriate judgment.

Die!

Shentu brandished a golden halberd, raising it and striking down violently; the ferocious force directly cleared the surrounding seawater, and in the deep-sea region, a piece of land suddenly appeared.

The evil god's body was instantly torn open with a large hole, and an intangible surge surged from the damaged body.

Curses, fear, and even the distorting forces targeting flesh and true spirit enveloped Shentu, but the moment they touched, the power of death killed everything.

That indescribable force also entered extinction in the face of death.

Pah, untouched by karma, unafraid of death—where on earth did this monster come from!

Shentu spat, looking gloomily at the evil god restored to its original state before him; he truly had given his all.

The opponent is a celestial deity manifest in the mortal realm; their avatar still falls far short, unable to inflict a fatal blow.

Although two against one barely gives them an edge, this advantage is meaningless; wars between celestials can last days or years, and since the opponent is their true form, it is definitely their avatars that will collapse first.

They couldn't possibly, just to slay that bastard, abandon their duty to guard the Ghost Gate Pass and come down from the Underworld by cutting themselves off.

Among the demons and evil spirits suppressed in the Underworld, some are no less than these evil gods before you; do you really think throwing two god-level ghost emperors to guard the Ghost Gate Pass is overkill?

If no one guards it, who knows how many things will sneak out; the Underworld of Jiuzhou is truly vast, connecting all the underworlds of the world, and it holds far too many demons and evil spirits.

Once they reach a certain point, it becomes hard to kill them directly; one can only gradually wear down their existence through sealing and guarding.

Moreover, there are too many ghostly beings that can be reborn simply by having their name called after death; rather than let them wreak havoc on humanity again, it's more reliable to seal them away.

Moreover, the Underworld also has reincarnation, which wears down will across lifetimes—the best method to wear the opponent to death without letting them threaten Jiuzhou again.

Thus, the Heavenly Court also likes to shove difficult-to-handle things onto the Underworld, letting it lock them up.

For this purpose, the Underworld specially created a non-existent nineteen-layer hell—the Avici Hell—to suppress these demons and evil spirits.

They will be worn down by reincarnation over and over in the Avici Hell, continually slain within it, and finally erased from all aspects by the pure death imposed by the will of countless beings.

Thus, even if someone calls them in the future, they cannot be reborn, because their future has been anchored by death.

Unless the entirety of Jiuzhou is overturned, the death anchored by Jiuzhou will never be altered.

It's like this thing before us; frankly, if they could capture the opponent, the only option would be to imprison it in the Underworld.

Such a high-ranking deity is truly too hard to kill.

Now they feel quite vexed; their true forms are already on the way, but the problem is there are still many troubles beyond the world that can't help them—at most they can drop weapons for them.

"There's nothing good to do, just keep suppressing this thing; I have a bad feeling!" Yu Lei's expression grew increasingly solemn.

At their level, any whimsical talk is entirely a warning from the future.

As Yu Lei's words fell, a mighty force from beyond the world suddenly twisted spacetime, and chaotic, distorting power began to pour in from outside the world.

The ocean suddenly became deep and vast, filled with bizarre, twisting tentacles that began to spread from within it.

Black goat kids rose from the sea surface, opening their mouths to emit a silent howl at Shentu and Yu Lei.

"They've come! They actually think highly of us two brothers!"

Shentu darkened his face; these outside-world evil gods are starting to play favorites, injecting a huge amount of distorting divine power all at once—likely it will affect them too.

This shows they are determined to collapse this world; what is so special about this world that these evil gods would spare no expense, even sacrificing their own power to reinforce it?

Given the opponent's extreme-point chaotic, distorting force, it certainly isn't the kind of divine system capable of uniting everyone.

"Mu kid, the situation isn't right! There might be a secret under the sea; we'll do our best to restrain this guy—over there is up to you!" Shentu sent a mental message to Mu Yi.

"Got it!" Mu Yi finally realized where his uneasy intuition had been coming from all along.

Turns out even this genuine evil god before us is just a pawn the other side put forward as a shield?

"Follow me!"

Mu Yi dared not reveal the secret, directly summoning Ao Mo and the North Sea Dragon King to dive into the deep sea.

Zheng He and his comrades have strong combat power, but they cannot survive freely in the sea; summoning them might instead become a burden.

"Do you still remember where we went before?" Mu Yi asked the North Sea Dragon King somewhat solemnly.

"I only know the general direction……"

The North Sea Dragon King's face turned grim; it realized it had been drawn into a massive vortex, and this vortex had already exacted the price of a miserable death once.

"Lead the way; no matter where it is, we can only go and have a look!"

"Come with me!"

Silently, the North Sea Dragon King led Mu Yi and Ao Mo swimming in a direction.

After the transformation, the ocean constantly had monsters swarming toward them, with deep divers and black goat kids launching suicidal attacks.

However, the combat power of the two dragon kings in the ocean far exceeds that of same-level Legends; the seawater was like a hammer, smashing the successive monsters into fragments.

More and more monsters!

The North Sea Dragon King's face grew uglier and uglier; even though it had lost that part of its memory, it could still feel the great terror contained in its soul.

"Then it shows we've come to the right place!"

Mu Yi closed his eyes; his eyes had already been dazzled blind when he peered into the deep sea.

But this also confirmed one thing: that the deep sea hides something even more evil than the surface evil god.

Chaos is coalescing!

Mu Yi's perception clearly told him this.

Just as dirty water flows into an abyss, all chaos and disorder are actually converging toward the same direction.

All their previous deductions were overturned; the opponent doesn't care about destroying the world, nor even deliberately spreads chaos or seriously erodes the world.

Everything is merely a ripple caused by the opponent's attempt to revive something.

The opponent injects chaos from beyond the world into the deep sea solely to awaken that thing within the deep sea.

When they reached the deep sea, the original reef sand had turned into rotten, soft black soil, filled with grotesque tentacles that twisted and swayed on the soil, launching attacks at them.

"Roar!"

A massive deep diver, larger than a black goat kid, blocked Mu Yi and his companions, emitting a soul‑piercing howl.

"It seems we've arrived at the place!"

Feeling the twisted absurdity radiating from the monster before them, Mu Yi knew they had indeed reached the place.

"North Sea Dragon King, this is yours!"

Knowing how to allocate power is a basic quality of an officer; the North Sea Dragon King was full of resistance to pushing deeper, so rather than forcibly dragging the opponent into more trouble, he let the opponent expend its residual heat to intercept a few enemies.

Mu Yi skirted the monster and pressed deeper, while the North Sea Dragon King breathed a sigh of relief, gratefully manipulating the ocean to restrain the giant deep diver.

When Mu Yi crossed a certain line, the force of chaos surged at him, as if to drown him outright.

That soul‑shattering chaos was more terrifying than the corporeal evil god outside; Mu Yi instantly realized he had found the true objective of his mission.

Without any hesitation, Mu Yi crushed the token in his hand.

He had already done his utmost in finding him; the rest depends on what kind of force the Underworld will send.

"Boom!"

The entire deep‑sea environment began to change as if an evil god had poured power into it, instantly plunging from twisted disorder into the nether.

It was as if the whole world were drawn into the nether; Mu Yi, who had been battling the twisted chaos, suddenly cleared his mind, and the nether's power began to continuously nourish his body.

The Ghost Gate appeared behind him at an unknown moment, and elite ghost soldiers he had once seen outside the Ghost Gate rushed outward as if they were free.

As the ghost soldiers multiplied, the nether's aura grew denser, even completely obscuring the twisted chaotic force.

There were not only ghost soldiers but also powerful Yin spirits.

Numerous familiar Yin spirits descended vertically beside Mu Yi.

No extensive introduction was needed; Mu Yi instantly recognized their identities.

Black and White Impermanence, Ox‑Head and Horse‑Face.

What puzzled Mu Yi was that dozens of Black and White Impermanence and Ox‑Head and Horse‑Face stood before him, each bearing the rank of Seventh‑rank Yin Commander.

"Mu Yin Commander, Seventh and Eighth Elders still have heavy duties and have not come here!"

Someone seemed to notice Mu Yi's confusion and casually explained to him.

Mu Yi blinked; it seemed that even among Yin Commanders there were hierarchies of three, six, nine, and so on.

A uniquely‑featured One‑Horned Ghost King descended holding a token, loudly proclaiming the command transmitted from the Imperial Palace.

"Mu Yin Commander, the Great Emperor of Fengdu has issued an order; you are to command this expedition, please give the orders!"

"Me?" Mu Yi was stunned; he thought his mission was over, but unexpectedly there was still something for him.

There are so many Legends here, and they actually let him command.

"Mu Yin Commander, receive the order!" the One‑Horned Ghost King shouted.

"Here you go!"

Although a bit muddled, Mu Yi, as a Military Strategist, still understood the weight of a command.

When he received the token, a message popped up before Mu Yi.

"Zongwang Prompt: Obtained Yama Emperor's Token, hidden quest triggered, slay the evil god."

He didn't have time to read the rest, but Mu Yi was shocked by the information contained in the Yama Emperor's Token.

At this moment, the ghost soldiers appearing in this world numbered not thousands or tens of thousands, but a full one million, not the uneven ranks Mu Yi once led, but the Underworld's regular army, each truly elite.

"Formation, meet the enemy!"

Mu Yi conveyed the order to the million ghost soldiers via the Yama Emperor's Token.

"Deploy, Six‑Directions Formation— inscrutable as Yin!"

The Yin troops instantly altered their formation; the Yama Emperor's Token carried the true spirits of these ghost soldiers, allowing them to instantly grasp Mu Yi's intent and immediately reorganize according to his layout.

The over‑million ghost soldiers displayed outstanding military competence, assembling the formation in a very short time, and the dense Yin aura instantly enveloped an area dozens of li around.

The entire area was permeated by the Elite Talent of the ghost soldiers; the deep‑sea environment instantly became netherland.

Mu Yi leveraged this Yin aura to expand his independent belief zone, creating a complete home‑field advantage.

Black mist spread from the center, and silhouettes emerged from the darkness; Mu Yi sensed they were forces from beyond the world, as the evil gods sent down their avatars.

The appearance of several silhouettes demonstrated their resolve to protect the deep‑sea existence at any cost.

One by one, bizarre, nameless entities wobbled into the black mist, opening huge mouths to roar at the ghost soldiers.

Head after head, nameless evil‑god avatars appeared in the black mist, each unlike any before.

This time, even though several nameless evil gods emerged, the surroundings remained netherland, unaffected by twisted chaos.

"Kill!"

Mu Yi shouted loudly, issuing a command to annihilate everything.