Chapter 393: Sustaining Heavy Damage

The so-called apostles are preachers, they are spreaders!

Selected or created by those on a higher level, they are endowed with extraordinary missions to transmit and propagate their intentions, thereby changing the appearance and state of the world!

Using the unqualified to nurture the qualified, to forge the final and most mature and successful one, and ultimately, to let the world truly undergo the changes they expect...

Facing this kind of scheme from True Monarch Buyi, Du En's Divine Palace immediately separated from the main body of the Qingjiang Palace; this natal dharma treasure did not hesitate at all and detonated on the spot! Pop...

There was no extra sound, because even the sound was destroyed.

The impact did not spread out either, because it was completely concentrated at one point, as if forming a zero-nothingness.

The Seed of Imperishability shattered quietly, and Du En shattered along with it.

Then, clusters of green trees grew all over the altar boat, lifting this piece of land—which was actually not small, several thousand zhang in size—directly back to the surface space.

"Child..."

The Holy God was caught off guard here, speaking nervously, eyes wandering everywhere, then following back to the surface side.

The bulging vesicle had already been suppressed by the Domain of Green Wood; Du En was temporarily constructing a body of wood, holding the entrance to the Kongsang Mountain in his hand, and the Wicked Dragon Robe fluttered as it returned, covering his body.

The Holy God's Hanging Lamp detached from the land and hurriedly flew over to illuminate him; after a brief observation, she let out a heavy sigh of relief: "How are you? Are you alright?"

He just shook his head calmly, very stiffly.

Not very well.

Although by relying on the self-detonation of the Qingjiang Palace, he had directly blown away all external objects, leaving only two high-grade items: the blessed land of Kongsang Mountain and the immortal Wicked Dragon Robe.

It was fortunate that things like the storage bag were left in Kongsang Mountain, otherwise he would have lost quite a lot of his net worth.

However, True Monarch Buyi was clearly not a person who blindly obsessed over perfection; since Du En did not want to follow his path, he also had left room for maneuver while waiting here.

—Only the intensity of detonating a natal dharma treasure could shatter that Seed of Imperishability and break free from its entanglement; in this way, Du En would only have his primordial spirit or a remnant body left, relying on the remaining part of his spiritual body's origin to restore his physical body.

He possessed the prototype of true imperishability, so doing this was not difficult.

But in this way, the spiritual body's origin, having received such severe stimulation, would grow at an unimaginable speed, vastly different from normal circumstances!

After experiencing wind and rain, it would grow into a towering tree! A normal person naturally could not do this; they would only grow distorted and collapse, leaving behind a pile of hidden injuries or root causes of illness! But for Du En, that True Monarch felt it could be done; and if it couldn't be done, well, it was just that—like Jiang Ying, if expectations weren't met, just replace them with another!

The living beings in the world are uncountable, and people are also uncountable; among those billions upon billions of people, one can always find a replacement, one can always find a replacement.

If that really doesn't work, once his cultivation level is raised, he will go and capture True Monarchs and True Immortals from other immortal sects... Du En believed that the unmoving and unchanging True Monarch, as long as the conditions were generally met, would definitely do so and would not care about so many rules and regulations at all.

A very thorny and difficult guy!

Du En confirmed this once again.

Compared to True Monarch Huiqing, who was like someone possessed by inner demons, overly calculating about perfection, and in reality, too demanding to the point of being counterproductive, an enemy like True Monarch Buyi was harder to deal with, because he didn't care about temporary victory or defeat at all, would not change his pace due to external factors, and simply formulated a broad path and started walking straight down it.

To defeat him, unless one possessed completely overwhelming strength to directly erase the person, otherwise, no situation could stop his advance; even if turmoil occurred, it would not make him deviate from his path! Thoughts turned, body repaired.

Phoenix Yuhen did not have problems due to the self-detonation of the Qingjiang Palace main body; it was a change brought about by a breakthrough in cultivation technique and the shedding of the spiritual body. The current recovery was also like that: flowing out from the Light of Imprisoned Fire, radiating from the primordial spirit, the body replaced the wood from the head down, and the Qingjiang Dharma Robe grew back along with it.

There was no need to use the full-recovery divine ability; he had already grown himself back.

"It looks like the recovery is not bad."

The Holy God was very concerned.

But in reality, it was not very good; he was in a period of considerable weakness.

To put it intuitively, originally he only needed seventy percent of his magic power to resist the infection of the external pathological spiritual Qi, but now he needed over ninety percent; it was a situation of obvious increase in difficulty and obvious weakening of himself.

He just shook his head slightly again, and after finishing the general recovery, he dispelled the wood-domain Dao technique that consumed a lot of magic power.

Looking up, it was a void.

Observing further away, the nearby buildings and the pathological ones had already been cleared.

But in the more distant places, the countless pathological ones in the vast Holy Capital were all stimulated by the commotion here and were instinctively surging and gathering over.

"Rest in peace, my apostle."

The Holy God looked at that void, mourning the fall of the apostle Su, and then gritted her teeth, "This kind of hatred, I will definitely not forget; I will surely correct everything and return to the right track!"

She made a vow, containing a sense of revenge.

Du En looked over silently.

"It is like this: before the Ying Stone disease broke out, in this world, there existed two gods and two kingdoms, myself and the Dark God; because he had already walked onto an evil path, and was inherently an evil path, it was inevitable to exterminate him and his Dark Kingdom!"

"War, although one does not wish to see it, is inevitably going to happen. Just when the Holy Kingdom, through the united efforts of the masses, was about to achieve victory, he released the Ying Stone disease, letting it crazily infect the world and defile the source of life."

Speaking of this, the Holy God's voice became gloomy, containing very complex emotions; it seemed that even now she could not believe that the Dark God would release the Ying Stone disease, causing this world to become what it was now.

However, to be fair, if it was really as she said, then the decline of the Dark God's side in that war was indeed reversed; after all, on the Holy God's side, even the Holy Capital, the base camp, had fallen to this state, and even the dead in the Holy Mausoleum had their rest disturbed.

It was no wonder that there were so many recently deceased in the Holy Mausoleum before.

The role True Monarch Buyi played in this was not yet very clear; one could only say that the outbreak of the Ying Stone disease was inevitable, and perhaps even long-gestating.

That Dark God might have just opened the main valve by mistake.

To know the specific situation, one still needed to find that counterpart god!

"Let's go! Let us go to the Dark Kingdom of that Dark God, eliminate him, and let the world return to the right track!"

The Holy God issued such a resolute declaration, looking as if she was going all out.

The last apostle summoned back from the Underworld, plus the so-called god who now only had the appearance of a hanging lamp and whose main body was unknown, were going to challenge the Dark God's side that released the Ying Stone disease.

This indeed appeared to be a state of going all out.

However, the most urgent matter now was how to avoid the surging pathological ones of the Holy Capital.

Although Du En was very capable in a fight, he was in a poor state after all; his body had just grown back, and if he were to be besieged by so many, he would definitely not fare well, even with the secret technique of the Unchanging Ice Soul, it might fail due to that True Monarch's arrangements...

"Follow me, there is a secret passage that can leave this place."

The Holy God said so.

The Holy Capital had a secret passage.

In other words, did she consider failure from the very beginning?

Then how could she still be like a hot knife through butter in the war and about to achieve victory?

"I prepared for five hundred years, enduring again and again, only to suddenly launch a campaign to take the An Kingdom during a time when they were settled in indulgence. Actually, I didn't expect it to go so smoothly; after all, the An God is in no way weaker than me in any aspect, a counterpart that can be described as having day where there is night." The Holy God sensed the confusion here and spoke to explain, with a hint of disbelief in the words, not expecting the previous war to have progressed so smoothly.

Du En looked again at the distant buildings devoid of luxury and the mutated ones; those mutated ones generally had Nascent Soul stage strength, and the soldiers were even more exaggerated, with Transformation Divinity combat power everywhere, and suddenly felt it seemed quite normal.

The Holy Kingdom side had indeed exerted all their strength, with those above and below united, constantly excavating the planted Seed of Spirit Body, thereby creating in a few hundred years a military force sufficient to win a war of national extermination.

It is a pity that a destined Fluorspar Disease directly ruined all of this.

The Holy God thought of the glory from not long ago, then looked at the current diseased, deformed, and fallen state, and could not help but feel very depressed, and the hatred for the An God grew even deeper.

Following her lead and guidance, they soon arrived at the entrance of the secret passage.

The hanging lamp was lit, a few bronze lamps lit up with points of light, and a light gate suddenly appeared.

After stepping inside, it went 'whoosh' and closed, disappearing.

The next moment, those strongest and furthest, the military elites who had previously been patrolling on the city walls, had already landed here with a boom, directly turning the nearby streets into powder, various great powers constantly ravaging, and even other mutated ones who squeezed over were affected, instantly suffering heavy casualties.

The secret passage formed by drilling holes in space also vibrated continuously because of this; listening carefully, one could still hear fighting erupting outside.

——The mutated ones no longer had a unified goal, and having gathered together like this and caused pain, they immediately went into a frenzy and naturally began to kill each other.

If there are no accidents, this mutual slaughter here will also breed individuals stronger than Apostle Su, silently waiting for when Du En returns again! The situation is truly not optimistic.

Originally, those mutated ones who had deformed to a certain degree were already very formidable, and after winning, it would also cause that Undying Seed to mature, which is extremely tricky and difficult to clear!

Even for Du En's side, he felt obvious pressure.

"Something is not right..."

The Holy God suddenly spoke.

Du En, dragged down by his condition and with his senses slightly affected, only then realized the clues belatedly.

This secret passage created by space drilling was like an underground palace tomb, originally pitch-black, but as the Holy God's hanging lamp appeared, it brightened one by one as the lamps were lit.

At first glance it was normal, but observing carefully, the lamp lights in the distance seemed not quite right...

As if knowing that it had already been discovered, the hidden crisis no longer concealed itself.

"Hehehe..."

A gloomy, strange laughter rang out, and lamp after lamp left its original position, pouncing toward Du En's side.

Those were humanoid figures holding candles, originally transparent, now revealing their traces, their whole bodies bronze-colored, covered in rust, with deep purple fluorescence faintly flashing.

"The Fluorspar Disease has actually spread here?!"

The Holy God looked closely and could not help but be greatly shocked.

Then.

Rumble, rumble, rumble...

This secret passage suddenly vibrated, and the interior, like an underground palace corridor, began to undergo drastic changes and distortions, as if it were a living thing, making one think of a terrifying possibility.

It was not that the Fluorspar Disease had spread in and infected people who knew about this place and chose to hide inside, but that it had infected the entire secret passage, and then used this place as a hotbed to steal the residual Holy God power within, thereby breeding the candle-holding people.

That is why they would emit ghostly laughter, why they would hide and conceal themselves, which is clearly different from the mutated ones who are tortured by disease and driven mad! These candle-holding people are not strong, just at the level of individual genius Nascent Souls.

Du En waved his hand, and one by one, standard magical artifacts were taken out from Kongsang Mountain.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! At this time, using artifact control is a fairly good combat tactic.

Although it would make the already tight magic power even more stretched, when facing a mutated secret passage where the situation is unknown, one could have more leeway.

Otherwise, if this secret passage was actually mutated because it was parasitized by the Undying Seed, then it would be truly terrible; if he accidentally "killed" it, Du En could not afford that now.

The Holy God also sensed this possibility; from her perspective, it was the Sea of Disease in the interlayer of the surface space that bred that terrifying Seed of Fluorspar Disease, which could even parasitize and infect her own Apostle Su, so now applying parasitic infection to this secret passage, which was just opened by drilling holes in space, and making dead objects come alive, seemed well-founded and logical.

She immediately became nervous, trying her best to emit light to stabilize the distortion of the secret passage, attempting to regain control over it, and trying to suppress the worst possible outcome.

"Hehehehe..."

The candle-holding people flew in, bringing the distortion with them, forcing the Holy God's light to retreat constantly.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...

Magical artifacts surged, erupting with fifth-rank power, directly shredding these candle-holding people.

Thus, the Holy God's light was able to expand again.

However, very soon, from all directions, dense crowds of candle-holding people appeared again.

Fortunately, Du En's reserve of magical artifacts was large enough, and the fifth-rank power was one major realm stronger than these candle-holding people, so there was no need for precise, magic-consuming control; he only needed to drive them in a simple, magic-saving way to constantly match quantity with quantity.

Both sides went back and forth, both using creations to attack each other.

Looking closer, Du En is now also positioned as a creation of the Holy God, and the mutated secret passage can likewise be said to be similar.

That is to say, the Holy God is leading Du En to use artifacts to attack an enemy in the same situation.

Thus, the problem arises!

Who is the person guiding and controlling the mutated secret passage?

True Monarch Bu Yi should not be intervening too much right now, letting the situation evolve under the participation of the newly entered trial-takers, only ensuring that they cannot blindly avoid battle.

So, is there someone else behind the scenes controlling the Sea of Disease?

"An God, is it you?!"

The Holy God was clearly furious, and that hanging lamp became even brighter, like a small sun.

At the same time, somewhere in the deep layers of space, something seemed to open its eyes.

Her true body?

Du En felt something, and the next moment he saw the Sea of Disease being pierced through, with intense holy radiance purifying and driving away the disease, shrouding the entire secret passage area.

(End of chapter)