Chapter 1393

In this city, hundreds of thousands of civilians were filled with despair and fear.

If they were in the Abyss, these hundreds of thousands would become warriors, but on the Continent of Gods, they were non-combatants and had virtually no fighting power.

"Too many—can we hold it?"

On the city wall, a soldier trembled as he asked.

"Boom!"

At that moment, a radiant channel opened in the sky, and immediately, a holy spirit descended.

"God! Our god has come to save us!"

Seeing the holy spirit descend, the civilians and soldiers of the city believed it to be a deity and erupted in joy.

"All soldiers, repeat after me."

The holy spirit's commanding voice rang out across the entire city.

All civilians and soldiers perked up—no one dared ignore the words of a god.

"Great Lord of Flame, I, pious follower of Star God Hethobar, now willingly become your most devoted follower, seeking power from you..."

The holy spirit began to chant.

The soldiers below did not fully understand the meaning of the words, but they obediently repeated them.

"Boom!"

As the soldiers spoke, flames suddenly erupted on their weapons.

"Attack!"

The holy spirit said.

"Roar!"

At that moment, the Abyss creatures had already surged forward.

The front-line Abyss creatures, sprinting at full speed, leaped high—over ten meters—and aimed to scale the wall directly!

This small kingdom's wall was nowhere near as tall or sturdy as those of the Flame Empire.

"Kill!"

A soldier swung his sword, now wreathed in flame, at an Abyss creature.

"Boom!"

With one slash, the flame on the blade surged outward, transforming into a blade of fire that cleaved the Abyss creature cleanly in two.

As the corpse fell from midair, it continued to melt!

"Boom!"

The flame spread further, surging into the mass of Abyss creatures and ravaging through them!

Under the raging flames, Abyss creatures were burned in droves.

"Is this... the power of a god?"

The soldier who had swung that blade was stunned.

At that moment, he remembered the words he had just recited.

This god was not the one he had worshipped before.

It was... the Great Lord of Flame!

He had never heard of the Lord of Flame.

On the Continent of Gods, ordinary warriors had no way of knowing the supreme deity who reigned above all in the Heavenly Realm.

But at this moment, this warrior had witnessed the Lord of Flame's might firsthand.

It was a being so mighty—even their own gods had to beg it for power!

That night, this scene unfolded everywhere across this tiny kingdom.

No—not just this kingdom.

Across the entire Continent of Gods, in every nation unable to withstand the Abyss creatures' assault, it was happening!

All the gods of the Heavenly Realm, without prior coordination, beseeched the Lord of Flame for power to preserve their realms!

In doing so, they could conserve more strength for the war in the Heavenly Realm.

After all, channeling power down from the Heavenly Realm consumed them greatly.

Unlike Lin Yan, who suffered no cost whatsoever!

Thus, flames blazed across the Continent of Gods.

Like flowers blooming one after another, they spread endlessly across the Continent of Gods.

If one looked down from the Heavenly Realm, one would see countless specks of flame dotting the Continent of Gods—these flames merged into vast sheets, illuminating nearly half the land!

The sight was magnificent.

Because of these flames, the Continent of Gods suffered the fewest losses in all its history of Abyss invasions.

In past Abyss and Heavenly Realm wars, at least half the population of the Continent of Gods perished in a single conflict.

In the Heavenly Realm, atop the Stone Bastion, Lin Yan still sat upon the Wang Zuo, with the Will of the Goddess of Life and the Will of the Goddess of the Sea each occupying a side, surrounding him.

If any deity could witness this, they would feel as though the Goddess of Life and the Goddess of the Sea were guarding Lin Yan.

At this moment, Lin Yan, purely by his aura, truly resembled the King of All Gods.

On Lin Yan's panel, his energy points continuously changed.

They did not decrease.

Instead, they kept increasing.

This transaction, for Lin Yan, was not really a transaction at all.

To ordinary gods, it was an exchange.

But Lin Yan suffered no loss at all; instead, he gained much.

Because when Lin Yan summoned flames to burn the Abyssal creatures, he also earned energy points and evolution points.

The scale of this war was unprecedented.

The Abyssal Primordial God had sent over half of the Abyssal creatures here to die.

At Lin Yan's current level, each Abyssal creature contributed very few evolution points—but there were simply too many of them.

Lin Yan naturally would not let this opportunity slip away.

But he was a Primordial God; if he openly intervened in the war, it would be illogical.

Moreover, once he intervened, he would face other Primordial Gods.

King against king—the Abyssal Primordial God would not give Lin Yan the chance to strike at ordinary Demon Gods.

But…

By borrowing power, Lin Yan could skillfully harvest all the spoils of this war!

Borrowing power was not easy for other gods.

When the number of gods reached half of Heaven's total, even other Primordial Gods would not dare boast as Lin Yan did, asking every Stone Fortress god for power.

Although Lin Yan's move angered many.

But other Heaven Primordial Gods—especially those hostile to Lin Yan, who longed for his downfall—might actually wish he borrowed even more power.

Perhaps, in the eyes of other Heaven Primordial Gods, Lin Yan was still a newly ascended Primordial God with limited accumulation; now, borrowing so much power, what would he have to fight with when the Primordial God war began?

Little did they know, the power Lin Yan borrowed did not deplete him—it kept growing and strengthening!

This was precisely the cleverness behind Lin Yan's move!

It seemed reckless, it seemed to incite universal wrath—but he skillfully exploited other Primordial Gods' ignorance of his flame form, so even if they were furious, they could only suppress their anger with cold smirks.

Every step Lin Yan took had to be meticulously calculated.

When he was weak, he never acted rashly.

Now that he had grown strong, he would never act rashly!

Especially since his enemies now were Primordial Gods—beings of both power and wisdom!

Even though Lin Yan possessed the ability to break the deadlock, he remained extremely cautious.

When planning, he was cautious.

But once he acted, Lin Yan never hesitated—he moved with lightning speed and never stopped until his goal was achieved!

This was Lin Yan!

As flames blazed across the Continent of Gods, the war in Heaven grew fiercer.

The demonic armies were endless.

These demonic armies continuously assaulted the Stone Fortresses; for a full half-month, countless demonic troops still crossed the Heaven's Chasm every single day.