Chapter 338: Slay Gods, Destroy Worlds

The fallen fragments of the divine realm were like chunks of meteorites.

They smashed onto the ground, kicking up waves of impact.

Beastmen who couldn't dodge were struck by the meteorites, turning into minced meat without any ability to resist.

This made many beastman deities truly anxious.

No matter how transcendent the deities are, they ultimately rely on faith.

Although nominally above the material world, the source of their existence and growth is the vast multitude of living beings that depend on the material world to survive.

It is like the relationship between cattle and sheep and the grassland.

The grass on the grassland is so fragile that a gust of wind can break it, and even when harvested it regrows again and again, providing nutrients for the cattle and sheep to grow.

Under this pattern, the cattle and sheep will grow fat and strong.

But when the grass on the grassland is destroyed, its quantity diminishes, its quality deteriorates, and it may even cease to exist.

As the deities of cattle and sheep, they too will become rootless duckweed, gradually turning from gods into lonely spirits and wild ghosts.

This is also why the Supreme Beast God of the beastman pantheon set a rule, forbidding beastman deities from descending to the material world in their true forms.

It is because the deities' power is too great, causing irreversible damage to the material world.

The material world is the foundation for the deities' survival; any act that damages the material world is a challenge to all deities.

Now Huo Qubing has sliced the divine realm with his sword, drawing a meteor shower that inflicts irreparable loss on the material world's ecology, naturally causing many beastman deities to unite against a common enemy.

As for those deities whose divine realms were chopped apart, they hated Huo Qubing so much they wished to devour him alive, eyes red, mustering their strength to charge at him.

Beastman deities mostly hold composite divine offices; previously they checked each other, unable to fully exert their divine offices, only achieving favorable weather and rain within their own limited plots.

At this moment, many beastman deities joined forces to activate their authority.

The heavens and earth controlled by the beastman deities naturally began to press down on Huo Qubing under the drive of that authority.

Countless stars emitted countless arrow-like beams of light that shot straight at Huo Qubing, firmly locking onto the position of his camp.

Restricting Huo Qubing's movements, many deities displayed their signature abilities, using their own powers to stir up heavenly-disaster-like attacks in the void.

These attacks, upon landing on the continent, would instantly cause mountains to shatter, rivers to dry up, and all things to wither.

And as the focal point of the attacks, Huo Qubing received special attention from all the deities.

Seeing the camp about to be drowned by the attacks and reduced to ashes.

The next moment, a burst of ten-thousand-zhang light erupted from within the camp.

In the light's glow, Huo Qubing's mortal-like body swiftly rose, and in the blink of an eye became a towering figure that blotted out the sky.

Mu Yi took a close look and saw that Huo Qubing had not turned into a giant; rather, the cloud energy rising from the camp formed a cloud-energy manifestation as huge as a ten-thousand-zhang giant.

With a furious shout, Huo Qubing's ten-thousand-zhang manifestation lifted its long sword and swept horizontally across the starry sky.

A frenzied force spread out, tearing even the heavenly canopy that separates the material world from the starry divine realm above.

From the torn rift burst a terrifying storm, the aftermath of the battle between the deities and the manifestation, falling onto the material world and stirring up a disaster akin to a heavenly calamity.

The aftermath of the starry melee fell upon the earth, becoming a disaster that no living being could endure; creatures on the earth scattered and fled in panic, unable to find peace all day.

"Again, again!"

Huo Qubing's manic laughter echoed within the starry expanse, his ten-thousand-zhang manifestation waving its weapon, madly destroying everything around and slaughtering the deities within sight.

The terrifying attack was unbearable agony for the servant deities; many deities instantly turned into a cloud of blood upon collision, then clung to the sword of the ten-thousand-zhang manifestation, taking on a scarlet hue.

"Boom—!"

The blood-stained weapon, without missing a beat, cleaved directly onto a great divine realm.

Accompanied by the burst of dazzling light, a violent roar suddenly exploded in the heavens!

After a brief obstruction, the sword body radiating brilliant light pierced through the divine realm and also severed the body of a medium-power deity within it.

As a shower of golden blood rained down in the air, the whole heaven and earth manifested a blood-colored omen.

The beastmen not yet affected by the divine war, whether ignorant tribesmen living in village settlements, beastman nobles in the capital cities, or beastman tribes in the wilderness,

all beastmen stared in horror at the omen in the sky; countless priests and divine attendants knelt on the ground, desperately pleading, yet receiving no reply at all.

They could not imagine what kind of disaster could cause the deities to fall and the divine realms to collapse.

Unknowable, unimaginable.

All they could do was, like a kowtowing bug, incessantly kneel, pray, and hope that some merciful deity would give them a reassuring answer.

However, the beastman deities at this moment had no time; they faced Huo Qubing's attack with trepidation, joining hands to restrict his movements.

Not only the deities with feeble and weak divine power took action, but even those high-and-mighty medium-power deities began to act frenziedly.

Already one medium-power deity had been slain by Huo Qubing; if they did not fight desperately, the next to die would be them.

"No wonder General Wei laid plans in advance; these beastman deities are really troublesome..."

Watching the many beastman deities locked in fierce combat with the ten-thousand-zhang manifestation, Mu Yi sighed in awe; this was already a war completely beyond imagination.

In the Champion Marquis's fall, over ten deities have fallen, and their number keeps growing; the ten-thousand-zhang manifestation also began to be shattered into a tattered state, the intensity of the battle making Mu Yi's brow jump.

Even the weak-power deities and demigods that the Champion Marquis easily wiped out possessed power far surpassing that of their former divine-power avatars.

But now they are like ants, easily dying.

"Just a mere frontier battle is this terrifying; imagine how horrifying the real decisive battle would be..."

Mu Yi could not have imagined that this was merely a branch of an entire pantheon; the true decisive battle has not yet begun, and in that vast great world there exist even more deities.

And that is the ultimate operational goal of this united Military Strategist.

But what makes Mu Yi curious is why General Wei has not yet made a move—is he waiting for the Supreme Beast God of the beastman pantheon, who has not yet appeared, to show up?

Just as Mu Yi was speculating, the heavens and earth underwent a tremendous change.

In the next instant, the entire world seemed to come alive.

In the starry sky, the brilliant sea of stars suddenly vanished, replaced by endless darkness, within which a pair of icy, holy eyes opened.

That was an indescribable mighty power; merely seeing the other's eyes made Mu Yi feel an immense weight of pressure, even causing him unconsciously to develop a sense of fear.

The brutal murderous intent and savage force burst forth from the eyes, as if the next moment they would strike at Huo Qubing.

But at that very moment, Wei Qing made his move.

He raised the long sword he held aloft and brought it down, and suddenly countless light pillars rose up from the entire material realm.

Mu Yi only then realized that they had been concealed all along by a Military Strategist's sea‑covering divine art.

"That is…" The light pillars soaring skyward caught Mu Yi's attention.

He keenly sensed that the places where these light pillars rose were all spots where secret technique stakes had once been driven.

And at this moment the light pillars seemed to combine into a mysterious formation.

"Formation, arise!"

Wei Qing's cold voice echoed throughout the world.

In the next instant, all the deities in the starry sky were thrown into panic.

The divine kingdoms floating in the starry sky suddenly seemed to lose their sustaining power and all plummeted at once.

A staggering pulling force emanated from the ground of the material world.

In but a moment, those divine kingdoms fell from the starry sky onto the celestial canopy, and an invisible barrier halted all of them.

"Stabilize!"

Under Wei Qing's icy command, the light pillars on the ground shot skyward, converging to shine upon the invisible barrier.

The sky emitted a crisp sound like shattering glass, and the invisible barrier instantly shattered.

Countless beings living on the earth witnessed a spectacular sight tonight.

Streaks of brilliant flowing light broke free from the stars, bearing dazzling tail flames as they fell from the heavens to strike the ground.

"No!" A mournful breath rose from the starry sky.

All the deities understood that the fall of those divine kingdoms onto the material earth could unleash terrifying calamities, shatter the material realm, and potentially bring about the world's destruction.

Even the most savage Beast‑type deity could not imagine such an enemy rushing straight toward world annihilation.

Jiuzhou has an old saying: "My hero, his enemy!"

At this moment, in their eyes, Wei Qing and Huo Qubing were as terrifying as demons crawling out of the abyss to claim lives.

When the Champion Marquis enfeoffed Langjuxu, he paid no heed to the Xiongnu's sorrow; during the Five Barbarians' chaos, the Hu peoples cared little for the suffering of Jiuzhou's children.

Wei Qing and Huo Qubing showed no expression on their faces.

Jiuzhou's Military Strategist War God, of course, would not mind the suffering of another world.

Moreover, this is the standard procedure of Jiuzhou's conquest.

Shatter heaven and earth, returning everything to chaos.

Then deity‑ranked divine beings intervened, reopening chaos and reshaping heaven and earth.

This explains why, in Jiuzhou mythology, almost every top figure has a record of opening heaven and earth: they truly possess that power, though each creates a different realm.

Even in a world not considered a great world, merely invoking a ritual to invite an avatar of a deity suffices to accomplish the task of opening the heavens.

Under the bombardment of numerous divine kingdoms, the material realm began to collapse, and the followers of the Beast‑type deities suffered mass deaths.

As the supreme deity of the Beast‑type pantheon, the Beast God was almost the first to be back‑fired upon,

"Hehehe, this is the drawback of walking the pure faith path!"

Wei Qing sneered at the Beast God; with intelligence supplied by Bai Ze, they had naturally prepared a killing move for the mighty deity.

Cutting off its logistics—this strategy remains effective even when elevated to the level of divine war.

Under multi‑layered back‑fire, the Beast God's aura steadily waned, yet centuries of accumulation kept its stature from dropping to a mid‑level divine power.

Wei Qing did not expect to make the Beast God fall with this move; once he confirmed the Beast God's reserves were exhausted, he directly linked the army's will, manifesting a Ten‑Thousand‑Fathom Dharma Image from the camp's Cloud Energy—much like a divine kingdom—and hurled it at the Beast God.

However, Wei Qing's Ten‑Thousand‑Fathom Dharma Image was not a personal manifestation like Huo Qubing's, but the spirit of the White Tiger.

At this moment Mu Yi stood within the formation, fully sensing the circulation of qi inside; especially after confirming that Wei Qing also employed the Six Directions Formation, he absorbed the formation's flowing Cloud Energy knowledge like a thirsty sponge.

Just as he once watched Guan Sheng Dijun's blade with his own eyes, Wei Qing now laid bare all his knowledge of formations and warfare before Mu Yi.

In the simplest way, he pointed Mu Yi toward the path he should follow.

The great battle raged for three days and three nights, ending with the Beast God being cleaved to pieces by Huo Qubing's sword.

The Beast God was indeed a powerful deity, but first Bai Ze uncovered its secrets, and later Wei Qing preemptively schemed during its seclusion.

Having lost its followers and divine kingdom, its way forward was cut off.

Yet even so, it could still press against Wei Qing's Ten‑Thousand‑Fathom Dharma Image.

Unfortunately, while Wei Qing directly held the Beast God, the deities under the Beast God could not withstand the Champion Marquis's unparalleled brilliance.

When Huo Qubing, bearing the aura of weapons, battered the Beast God's body, the Beast God, blinded by fury, realized that its subordinate deities were either dead or fled.

Sensing danger, the Beast God, under the double onslaught of Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, struggled bitterly for a time, like the ancient Xiongnu.

In the end it could not escape the war disaster; its corpse fell to the material realm, scattering among other deities and emitting ominous aura.

If left unchecked, there might truly be a chance for it to rise again in the future.

But since Wei Qing had already prepared, he would not allow them to resurrect.

"Annihilate!"

Wei Qing and Huo Qubing infused Cloud Energy into the material realm's formation; those secret stakes anchored space and did not collapse with the material world.

At this moment, the light pillars, powered by Cloud Energy, transformed into a massive Light Dome that enveloped the entire world.

It was the penultimate step of world conquest, returning the destroyed world to chaos.

When the Light Dome completely shrouded the world, Wei Qing summoned Mu Yi.

Even in the guise of a War God, fatigue lingered in his brows at this moment.

"By breaking through this heaven and earth, you have achieved great merit; later the Military Strategist and the Heavenly Court will reference your attack and grant rewards. Yet a day in the heavens equals a year on earth, and the time‑flow disparity is huge, so I suppose you're impatient as well."

"These items may not be publicly acknowledged, but they are valuable, and they should suit you perfectly now. Take them for the time being; with me and Qubing, no one will object."

Having said that, Wei Qing waved his hand, and a pile of items was placed in front of Mu Yi.

"Go then, the remaining matters in this realm are not yours to be involved in; go attend to your own affairs."

Wei Qing paused as he spoke.

"I hope that one day you and I can fight side by side!"

(End of chapter)