Chapter 407: Twilight of the Gods

When the Great Army arrived on the battlefield, two colossal beings were locked in a fierce battle.

The ground roared violently from their clash, and everywhere bore the marks left by the two colossal beings, like a swath of churned, rotten mud.

"Blood God!" Li Jing instantly recognized the evil deity's identity.

It is one of the evil deities that has opposed the Tang for the longest time, its origin tracing back to the Sui dynasty, being one of the interferences that caused the Sui emperor's failed campaign against Goguryeo.

It has been hunted ever since, and unexpectedly fled to the Western Regions.

"Annoying ants!"

The Blood God stared at the dense crowd below with a savage gaze, his face full of past slaughter.

"Boom!"

An incense clone, also enlarged to gigantic size, punched the Blood God's face, sending him sprawling to the ground.

"You bastard!"

The Blood God roared in extreme fury, revealing his true form—a patchwork monster stitched together.

Having survived to the present, these evil deities are far from their original state; instead, they have survived by devouring the corpses of other evil gods as their followers dwindled.

For example, the Blood God's left half resembles the black angel that Mu Yi previously slew; it is the corpse of an evil god that the Military Star seized after slaying that deity.

It is by this mutual devouring that they have endured until now.

"Die for me!"

The Blood God's body suddenly sprouted a twisted tendril, coiling toward Mu Yi's incense clone and dragging it to the ground, as a blood‑red light began to corrode the clone's body.

After all, the body is made of incense, and incense is equally useful to the Blood God.

"Hahaha, ants, I'll take your incense without courtesy!!"

The Blood God cackled wildly and began devouring the incense clone's body.

However, a massive legion attack instantly erased half of his body.

"You're celebrating a bit too early!"

Mu Yi sneered, raising his sword, while Li Jing coordinated with him to manipulate the Great Army's Cloud.

The dense Cloud began to suppress the Blood God's power; his originally two‑hundred‑plus zhang body started shrinking, the Great Army Cloud's assault draining his strength.

It even began to be suppressed by the incense clone in return.

"Human Realm!"

Mu Yi activated the Human Realm Barrier; the Human Realm army merged with Li Jing's forces, and the Cloud grew even larger.

"In the name of the Tang, slay the evil god!"

Li Jing's roar attracted an unseen force, and Mu Yi instantly understood: it was the Tang's national destiny, amplified by the Great Army and bestowed upon the entire force, granting them immense support.

"Kill!"

Pengbai's power descended under Mu Yi's guidance.

"Damned ants!"

The Blood God roared unwillingly, trying to flee, but the incense clone clung to him tightly, preventing his escape.

The terrifying Great Army attack fell in an instant.

A blade flash sliced the long sky.

The Blood God was instantly cut into several pieces, his body's condition perfectly embodying the notion of "shattered fragments."

But beyond the injuries visible to the naked eye, his true wound lay in his divine soul…

He is a deity, whose essence differs from all material beings.

He possesses numerous crushing advantages incomprehensible to mortals, yet when shattered by absolute force, he too will die.

Thus, the Blood God felt a long‑awaited panic,

He sensed death drawing near, yet he could not escape it at this moment.

"Save me, save me, or none of you will have a good life!"

The Blood God let out a wail, and several terrifying auras began to surface in the void; the fierce battle between the Blood God and the incense clone naturally attracted their attention.

Yet none dared to act, even though they were infinitely greedy for the Blood God's body.

They feared it was a trap, a trap the Military Star set to fish.

"Quickly save me, or don't blame me for exposing your locations; I can't survive, and you won't either!"

The Blood God's hysterical threat turned several evil deities in the void pale.

"Bastard!"

A massive hand reached out from the void, grabbing at the Blood God's corpse.

Then several other huge hands, as if prearranged, also emerged from the void.

In the blink of an eye, the Blood God's body was seized in the palms of those hands.

"Still want to leave? Stay where I put you!"

Mu Yi roared, and time and space froze at that instant; the Reincarnation Barrier shattered, and a crimson torrent formed into a massive sword, slashing toward the hands of those evil gods.

"Ah!"

The huge hands snapped off in response, looking in disbelief at Mu Yi, whom they had never regarded, while Mu Yi was already gone mad.

The incense clones transformed into countless incense flames converging toward the Great Army, their form, condensed from the Great Army Cloud, expanding wildly.

In barely a moment, a giant hundreds of zhang tall, like a small mountain, appeared between heaven and earth, its mighty arms reaching for the void.

Reincarnation aura drifted through space; the space, reversed by the Reincarnation power to the moment the huge hand emerged, was seized by the massive palm, which suddenly exerted force—ripping!

Accompanied by a clear sound, the void was torn apart by the Reincarnation power.

Dozens of vague figures hiding in the void wore faces full of panicked, bewildered expressions.

"Madman, madman, that incense was enough to become a god, and you just discarded it!"

Damned lunatic, kill him, kill him quickly!

At this moment, a dozen or so evil gods of varied forms were filled with panic; they did not understand why anyone would abandon the power of divinity to target them.

But they all knew clearly that the instant they were exposed, a terrifying presence had already set its eyes on them.

"Kick him out quickly!"

After a brief chaos, the evil gods in the void erupted in a series of roars, and at this moment they rarefiedly achieved a united resolve.

Terrifying divine power surged wildly, yet the Martial Star moved even faster than their strength.

A massive force rose skyward from the direction of Yumen Pass, and the Martial Star above the heavens began to blaze brilliantly.

A beam of Starlight followed the rift Mu Yi tore open and shone directly in, filling the void with Starlight.

Then an equally massive momentum arrived from the Great Tang direction, and another star shone brightly across the heavens.

Even though the great sun was high in the sky, the Literary Star and the Martial Star radiated a brilliance even more dazzling than the sun.

Starlight fell from the sky, and a figure ten thousand zhang tall was rapidly coalescing; though not yet formed, the pervasive Starlight power made Mu Yi's hair stand on end.

He was merely affected by the residual force.

The evil gods that had originally united to shatter Mu Yi suddenly fell into chaos; Mu Yi, merely bearing the aftershock, felt a chilling dread, and those evil gods confronting divine might collapsed even further.

The terrifying power formed into a Starlight Spear pointing directly at them.

Countless intense malice burst instantly from the evil gods' hands; they were unwilling to sit and await death.

Pitch‑black shadows wound around the ten‑thousand‑zhang giant god, bringing with them various poisonous spells, curses, foul stench…

Various unsettling forces that made one feel uneasy at a glance coiled toward the Martial Star.

Heterodox Paths!

The Martial Star sneered disdainfully, and the Starlight Spear thrust out heavily.

All attacks shattered before the Star Officer, and the entire space emitted the sound of overwhelming fracture.

Cracks spreading across the sky blossomed open.

Evil scoundrels, submit to execution!

The Martial Star's roar rang through heaven and earth.

In an instant, the whole world fell silent.

Mu Yi felt that the entire world seemed to gather around the Martial Star, and then a tsunami‑like massive force burst forth from the Starlight Spear.

All the defiant evil gods, under this overwhelming force, could not mount any effective resistance; a single glance and they were all destroyed.

Mu Yi opened a barrier, gathering all the still‑intact souls of those evil gods into the barrier.

Yet after only a moment, the Ghost Gate trembled violently.

These evil gods destroyed because of Mu Yi harbored sky‑piercing resentment toward him, and could not simply surrender.

"Evil god" is the Great Tang's contemptuous term for these deities, but setting aside their power attributes, they are all ruling deities of a region; though their methods are terrifying, under differing moral views, the existence of deities inevitably has a foundational basis.

Either authority or faith.

But regardless of which, there is no doubt that these evil gods all possess great power.

Even though they are now dead, their divine souls gathered together make it quite difficult for Mu Yi to suppress them.

Just as Mu Yi was puzzling over what to do, two beams of Starlight descended, covering the Ghost Gate, and the fiercely struggling evil gods were instantly suppressed.

The Martial Star's gaze swept the void, and the eyes that had been spying from the shadows fled without looking back.

As all the breath in the void vanished, the Martial Star nodded at Mu Yi, and its ten‑thousand‑zhang body gradually faded into the heavens and earth.

Zongwang Prompt: Assisting the Martial Star in exterminating numerous evil gods raises your reputation with the Great Tang Empire faction to Supreme Respect.

Zongwang Prompt: Assisting the Martial Star in exterminating numerous evil gods greatly increases your faction contribution, granting you qualification to exchange treasures from the Great Tang Treasury.

Seeing the Zongwang Prompt, Mu Yi let out a sigh.

Looking at the incense‑fire avatar in his hand, now so faint it was invisible to the naked eye, he shook his head regretfully.

The price was indeed steep; the incense fire capable of achieving divinity had been squandered, but fortunately the outcome was not bad—numerous evil gods perished, and the Great Tang took a great step toward victory.

But the more important matter now is to enjoy the fruits of victory.

Li Jing clearly understood the principle of falling into the lower stone.

After the army rested, it immediately launched a general assault on the other two cities.

After the mass extermination of evil gods, the remaining ones seemed frightened, daring not to impede the Great Tang army's campaign.

The Great Tang army, with a crushing manner, shattered the resistance of the Western Regions' nations, then expanded Great Tang's territory in one breath to the edge of the ocean.

At this moment, the authority wielded by the First Day had already completely surpassed the scope ordinary deities should possess.

As the protective deity of the Great Tang army, Mu Yi's divine name resonated across the Western Regions, even though the Great Tang troops recognized that the Literary Star and Martial Star were stronger.

However, for the conquered Western Regions, Mu Yi, who personally displayed divine might, was far stronger than the Literary Star and Martial Star.

A great number of Western Region citizens began to worship Mu Yi, and the incense fire he had lost was recovering at a terrifying rate.

Nevertheless, Mu Yi still did not use the incense fire to become a deity directly.

He left the incense fire in the Western Regions, allowing his incense‑fire avatar to fulfill divine duties according to heavenly law.

The divine duties of edification and vengeance coincidentally overlapped with those of the Literary Star and Martial Star in certain aspects.

To avoid suspicion, after the Great Tang army breached the last coastal city, Mu Yi planned to leave, returning the faith to the Literary Star and Martial Star.

As for the evolution of faith, that is not Mu Yi's business; it is a problem for the subordinates of the Literary Star and Martial Star to worry about, and also for Great Tang officials to consider.

Mu Yi, upon returning to the main world, was not empty‑handed; the numerous divine souls were his best gain.

Zongwang Prompt: You suppressed the evil god – Ancestor Spirit (soul form), gaining massive special profession experience and a small amount of divinity.

Zongwang Prompt: You suppressed the evil god – Blood God (soul form), gaining massive special profession experience and a small amount of divinity.

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You killed a deity; your achievement: the God‑slayer gains an update!

You have obtained a new directional unlock title: Twilight of the Gods.

Twilight of the Gods:

Type: Special Title

Acquisition Condition:

Kill ten deities (10/10)

Description:

It is hard for mortal words to convey the greatness and terror of this act; before the dead divine corpse, all tangible language is pale and powerless.

For the overwhelming majority of mortals, this is an unimaginable great achievement in their lifetime:

Yet with a mortal body, to slaughter deities!

This is what some call the pinnacle or apex, but isn't it your endpoint?

All deities will become your prey.

Title Attributes:

You gain a constant additional 20 points of holy deterrence against units related to divine beings or divine professions, and you obtain great immunity to any divine edicts, deterrent‑related spells, or spell‑like effects that are not directed at deities.

ps: Deities are lofty, but if they harm the masses, there should be an end—Twilight of the Gods·Kui Sito

Watching the refreshed prompt on his retina, Mu Yi could feel a new, unfamiliar force appearing within his perception field.

This force is the opposite of divine power, containing a peculiar, annihilating energy, granting him deeper insight into the aspect of death within the cycle of reincarnation.

That force could be called the God‑slaying Power; even a mortal who obtains it can wound deities.