Chapter 1042

They looked up and saw powerful gods continuously descending from the heavens!

These gods were all divine lords who had come to watch the spectacle.

Lin Yan had been burning the divine realm of the Demon Soul Zunzhu for some time; they had paid a price and finally arrived!

Soon after, some divine lords summoned their holy spirits and began doing business with other divine lords.

Just like Lanxu Zunzhu.

The number of divine lords descending here suddenly increased.

"So many gods—their aura is terrifying. Let's go down."

A new god trembled in fear.

Although those divine lords had restrained their divine power, to the new god's perception, the faint aura emanating from them was still terrifying.

It was far beyond their own level.

"What happened? So many powerful gods have descended."

Another new god was also stunned.

They quickly flew downward a bit and saw the massive fourth-tier divine realm burning more fiercely!

Flames raged wildly within!

A fourth-tier god whose divine realm was being burned—what did this mean?

These two new gods couldn't even imagine it!

To them, newcomers to the Heavenly Realm, this was utterly terrifying.

In fact, within the divine domain where the Demon Soul Zunzhu's realm lay, a few low-tier gods and holy spirits still remained.

These gods and holy spirits were all terrified!

"It looks like the Demon Soul Zunzhu didn't escape!"

At that moment, a divine lord in the sky said gravely.

His voice still carried traces of shock.

This revealed his inner turmoil.

A fourth-tier god!

In the Heavenly Realm, a fourth-tier god might not appear in ten thousand years.

But today, one had perished!

"I wonder if the Demon Soul Zunzhu's divine core escaped."

Another divine lord said.

"Even if the divine core escaped with much divine power, how difficult would it be to return to peak strength? Moreover, if I'm right, within a few days, gods will scour the entire realm searching for the Demon Soul Zunzhu's divine core?"

Another divine lord said.

A fourth-tier divine core was an immense temptation.

At the critical moment, the Demon Soul Zunzhu sacrificed his body and divine realm to secure the escape of his divine core.

After bursting through the faith channel, the divine core appeared in a location even the Demon Soul Zunzhu himself didn't know—its chance of escape was fairly high, but even if it escaped, it would suffer catastrophic losses; returning to peak strength would be extraordinarily difficult.

As the Demon Soul Zunzhu was a fourth-tier god, his divine core was a Level 17 divine core; under these circumstances, any third-tier god would likely be tempted by it.

After all, whoever obtained his divine core and defeated the Demon Soul Zunzhu's will within it would achieve instant ascension!

Even some divine lords might be tempted!

"Such a thing hasn't happened in the Heavenly Realm for a long time!"

A divine lord sighed.

"Yes, this event alone will shake the entire Heavenly Realm!"

Another divine lord said.

Around them, divine lords continued to descend.

Among these divine lords, those who had attacked the Eternal Night Empire stared at the burning divine realm, their faces grim and emotions complex.

After the flames had burned for some time, within the star map, the star representing the Demon Soul Zunzhu's divine realm went dark!

"Look! Look! The Demon Soul Zunzhu's divine star has gone out!"

At that moment, in the Elf Divine Domain, a god cried out.

Other gods immediately opened their star maps—and indeed, one exceptionally bright star had gone dark!

"Could the Demon Soul Zunzhu have sealed his divine realm and fled?"

A god asked.

"Look at the surrounding stars."

Another god said.

The other gods looked again.

They saw that around the Demon Soul Zunzhu's star, countless other stars had once orbited.

There were many of them—over twenty stars formed a distinct pattern.

Surrounding those twenty stars was another ring of dimmer but numerous stars.

Yet now, all these stars had shifted position.

It looked as if their masters were commanding them to flee from the Demon Soul Pantheon!

In a short time, the area became a blank void.

A dark void.

Not a single speck of starlight remained!

This meant the other gods of the Demon Soul Pantheon had all commanded their divine realms to flee swiftly.

You should know that the Demon Soul Pantheon has existed for well over tens of thousands of years.

For tens of thousands of years, every star in the Demon Soul Pantheon remained perfectly still, never once shifting.

In the Celestial Realm, unless there were special circumstances, no god would bother moving their divine kingdom around.

Moving a divine kingdom requires an enormous expenditure of energy.

The gods within a pantheon certainly wouldn't move their divine kingdoms without good reason.

A god's position is carefully chosen; once arranged, all the gods and divine kingdoms of the pantheon form a fixed pattern, which greatly benefits the stability of the pantheon's covenant.

Moreover, once the positions are set, the people of the nations belonging to this pantheon on the Gods' Continent can also see their stars in the star chart.

In some nations, children's education includes a lesson from a young age: learning to recognize the stars representing their gods.

This helps strengthen the faith of the entire nation's people.

And the faith boosted through this method is considerable.

After all, it's an impression cultivated from childhood.

But now.

The gods of the Demon Soul Pantheon had, at the very same moment, driven their divine kingdoms to flee from there.

Like they were fleeing for their lives, scattering in all directions!

The implications of this, the gods could naturally guess!

Namely, that the Lord of the Demon Soul Pantheon had most likely fallen!

"My heavens!"

A god couldn't help but cry out!