Chapter 446: The Gods Descend

Inside the Demon King's Castle.

The hero squad and the Demon King are facing each other, but neither side is interested in fighting at the moment.

They both stare in horror at the distant heavens, their eyes filled with disbelief.

"The goddess actually descended in person!" the blue-haired hero exclaims, momentarily dazed; if the goddess can descend, why let the Demon King exist.

"Hehehe, Gu Lan, did you spot a problem?" the Demon King says cheerfully to the blue-haired hero.

"Do you really think the goddess must be pure and great? You're merely a pawn controlled by others; all the calamities of your past weren't caused by demons but by the goddess you worship!"

"Do you truly believe demons are all idiots, allowing you to grow smoothly to this point?"

"To tell you honestly, for a hundred years the demons of the Demon King's Castle have not set foot beyond demon lands."

"The demons you see are nothing but pitiful insects punished by the gods."

"My ideal is to devour all the gods and give the demons a future! You've surely seen plenty, the human race's internal corruption scapegoated onto the demons!"

The Demon King's words pierce the blue-haired hero's heart like a sharp sword.

When the goddess descended, everything turned into a lie; he is a clever person, and when he reversed the reasoning, many inconsistencies surfaced.

"The so-called goddess only wants to use you as a pawn to perish together with me!" the Demon King sneers at the hero.

Earlier, he knew the hero would never believe him, but after the goddess personally descended and shattered the lie that gods cannot descend, everything changed.

"Damn, what's this development?"

The Holy Knight who launched the Dungeon wears a grimace; he sees the hero's wavering, and without the hero how could they deal with the Demon King.

This Demon King is a mechanistic monster; aside from the hero, no one else can kill him.

"Zongwang Prompt: Trigger Special Event, launch a rebellion against Heaven!"

Special Event: Launch a rebellion against Heaven

Event Requirement: Kill the Radiant Goddess

Event Description: A powerful deity threatened the Radiant Goddess, harming her original interests; to restore order, the Radiant Goddess personally descended onto the material Plane.

Now, faced with the truth hidden behind the time‑space fragments, you must choose.

Obey the gods' command and kill the Demon King, or rebel with the Demon King against the goddess, freeing the material realm from divine control.

Warning: This choice will anger multiple deities.

"Warning: Player—Mu Yi, chose to fight the Radiant Goddess; current quest forcibly changed to Kill the Goddess!"

"Warning: Team quest difficulty increased, please check!"

"Mu... Yi... what kind of holy being is this!" the Holy Knight exclaims, somewhat collapsing.

A proper god‑slaying quest, why did the difficulty suddenly rise so much?

The Demon King alone is hard enough; they've been wiped out several times. Now a stronger goddess appears—this is a death sentence.

"Mad, let's go!"

The Holy Knight curses, realizing there is no choice now, abandons the hero squad and the Demon King, and moves toward Mu Yi.

Although their strength makes forced god‑slaying difficult, they set out to slay gods and have prepared many god‑killing tools.

In the Demon King's Hall, only the Demon King remains, beginning to reveal past facts to the hero squad.

On the chaotic battlefield, Mu Yi and the Radiant Goddess clash; the Demon King's army on the ground scatters, and this is no longer a war they can intervene in, especially as the Demon King has ordered a retreat.

Yet at this moment no one cares about them; over a dozen deities standing on the firmament watch the scene below in stunned amazement, their eyes also filled with disbelief.

Know that the Radiant Goddess is the strongest among them.

She also leads this ascension battle as a deity.

Know that the Radiant Goddess has another name: the God of War, monopolizing both radiance and war's authority!

After all, only the victor in war sees victorious radiance, having defeated other contenders, a single god occupying multiple divine seats.

She is the deity among the gods most skilled at fierce combat.

Now she is at her peak, with no power diminished, and within the material realm they control—a stage second only to the divine kingdom.

Even if the Demon King's land in the Demon King's Castle bears a prototype of the divine kingdom that can interfere with their blessings, Mu Yi is not a demon, so why would he enjoy native bonuses.

Impossible!

Absolutely impossible!

Something they don't understand must have happened!

In fact, Mu Yi's use of the Reincarnation Barrier to seize the Demon King's land is something these fictitious deities cannot comprehend.

Their strength has not yet reached that level; this technique is a power summarized by the various emperors within Jiuzhou, akin to forcibly snatching something from others without justification.

Prompt messages continuously flash on Mu Yi's retina.

But Mu Yi doesn't care; he ignores the prompts and throws himself wholly into the battle.

The Radiant Goddess's combat skills are formidable, but after witnessing Chi You's divine might, she appears no different in his eyes.

Even among war deities there is a gap.

The Radiant Goddess fights painfully; after diving from the firmament, she feels the world's suppression, her holy aura and soaring battle spirit flicker like a candle in the wind.

It seems the battlefield is not the material realm but akin to another deity's divine kingdom.

The Radiant Goddess doesn't understand how Mu Yi did it; even with the Demon King present, the deities cannot forcibly take territory from him.

Yet Mu Yi succeeded; standing on this land, he is almost constantly suppressed, perpetually in a weakened state.

This fatigue is like working all night; the next morning he can still stand, yet exudes a sense of dwindling stamina from within.

Sensing his condition faltering, the Radiant Goddess quickly adjusts strategy, not persisting in a head‑on clash with Mu Yi.

She has seized the authority of war, which does not make her a brute.

On the contrary, war is an authority that requires great wisdom.

But she wants to flee, and must ask Mu Yi whether he agrees.

Mu Yi wildly swings the Great Summer Dragon Sparrow Blade, forcing the Radiant Goddess's retreat to be abruptly halted.

"Hahaha, trying to escape? Stay right where you are!"

Amid Mu Yi's Frenzy, his otherwise ordinary body rockets upward in an instant, becoming a towering silhouette that blocks the sky.

Then the Great Summer Dragon Sparrow Blade comes down with massive force; its colossal size makes the power of this single slash reach a terrifying level.

The Radiant Goddess, whose will is completely locked, cannot dodge this strike at all.

She can only grit her teeth, use the weapon in her hand, unleash divine power, and block this dreadful attack, but under that overwhelming force she is still flung a great distance away.

"Puff~"

Even after blocking, the Radiant Goddess still sustains injury.

Mu Yi's attack, mingled with the divine power of reincarnation, causes the Radiant Goddess's internal energy to continuously drain and further disrupts her performance.

Using divine power to suppress the wound, the Radiant Goddess looks at her own weapon in disbelief.

This weapon, which has accompanied her in achieving divinity and has fought through countless ages, now shows a tiny crack.

The opponent's weapon mass is somehow still greater than hers—how could that be?

No, it's not the opponent's weapon; it's the opponent's power that's strange.

Mu Yi's size shrinks dramatically; he hasn't yet adapted to combat at such a massive scale, and occasionally using it to boost attack power is fine, but staying in that state will likely make him a target.

Sensing the Radiant Goddess's astonishment, Mu Yi flashes a smile.

Metallurgical divine ability can forge weapons, and it can also destroy them; the Great Summer Dragon Sparrow Blade itself is only comparable to the opponent's artifact, perhaps even slightly inferior.

Yet under the aid of divine ability, it precisely hit the most vulnerable point during the opponent's artifact's power phase, successfully inflicting damage.

When the Radiant Goddess looks up at Mu Yi again, her gaze has already changed.

"Still not attacking! Let's seize this thief; he holds a great secret!"

The Radiant Goddess shouts toward the heavens.

However, without giving it more time to rally, in the next instant the Great Summer Dragon Sparrow Blade howls and strikes again!

Again and again.

In the swinging motion, a certain rhythm is interwoven, making what should be heavy and clumsy become agile and swift.

After each impact separates, the Great Summer Dragon Sparrow Blade can rush forward again at a terrifying speed.

Often the Radiant Goddess hasn't recovered from the previous blow before facing the next attack, and each strike further weakens her own power.

She sensed this from the first attack, but did not expect Mu Yi to be so overwhelmingly strong, reducing her to such a disadvantage.

Even from the start, she had a slight premonition in her heart.

Yet when it actually happened, she still found it unbelievable.

The superb combat techniques of various heroes she had absorbed over countless years were nearly powerless before Mu Yi.

Even if she descended in full splendor, wielding an artifact, her true power was no less than that within the Divine Realm.

But the fact is, she is being crushed by Mu Yi's Frenzy.

Facing Mu Yi's Frenzy, the Radiant Goddess feels restrained, powerful yet unable to use her strength.

The weakening of authority is only one of the reasons.

What pains her most is Mu Yi's bizarre yet extremely overbearing fighting style.

Almost every strike hits her vital points, preventing her from fully unleashing her power, leaving her to watch Mu Yi suppress her.

In the end, the Radiant Goddess abandons her composure and seeks aid.

For a moment, the sky roils with wind and clouds, lightning flashes, and the already battered earth endures another round of assault.

Watching the flood and flames pouring from the rift in the heavens, and the occasional light pillars that sweep the ground, carving deep ravines, Mu Yi furrows his brow.

These guys really have no sense of martial etiquette.

Though the gods do not understand how Mu Yi seized the territory, they know how to destroy this home‑field advantage.

Just destroy the home ground with an attack.

The Radiant Goddess cannot do it because she is completely suppressed by Mu Yi; not to mention destroying, even a slight division of divine power would be cut down by Mu Yi with a ruthless slash.

But now it is different.

The gods begin to descend; with a single combined strike they ruin most of Mu Yi's ground, causing the earth to collapse massively.

Above the heavens, several meteors begin to fall.

Numerous deities surround Mu Yi.

The Radiant Goddess withdraws, begins to adjust her state, and vows that today she will make that bastard Mu Yi die.

"Hahaha, come on!"

Mu Yi laughs loudly, transforms, and unleashes a three‑headed six‑armed divine ability; the Asura Form adheres to his body like armor.

He reacts to attacks coming from all directions.

If they were as powerful as the Radiant Goddess, he might find them even more troublesome.

But these deities are nothing like combat‑oriented deities.

They only launch brute attacks with divine power, showing no skill at all.

"Boom!"

Brilliant, dazzling rays of light rise up from the earth.

Mu Yi meets the gods' attacks, swings his weapon, and chops at these deities again and again.

The gods' blood splashes onto the earth, causing waves of divine anomalies.

"Madman, this madman!"

The gods never imagined they would face such an opponent, exchanging blows with him.

Yet as Mu Yi wreaks havoc, the Radiant Goddess finally readjusts, drawing down the power of the Divine Realm.

He merely extended his arm, and holy radiance burst forth from the weapon's wound; the vast majority was blocked by the barrier, but one beam struck Mu Yi's shoulder, punching a huge hole.

"I really underestimated you!"

Mu Yi's brows twitched slightly; these deities didn't look very clever, but when they swarmed him, he found it rather hard.

Puff!

At the moment Mu Yi was distracted, a surging force pierced all defenses and slammed into his body.

It felt like a heavy hammer striking his chest, and he even coughed up a large mouthful of blood.

"What's the point of the many bullying the few? Let's play hide‑and‑seek!"

But the blood‑spitting Mu Yi grew even more ferocious, the surging mist expanding from his body; Mu Yi grasped the Great Summer Dragon Sparrow and cleaved straight down at the weakest deity.

There were no extra effects, just a swing that united essence, qi, and spirit, and the surrounding space emitted strained sounds.

The deity shrouded by the mist didn't notice the attack coming at all.

In the next instant, it was already too late to react.

The blade tore through its body.

The first deity began to fall.