Chapter 823

"Has he backed down?"

The God of Darkness wondered.

If Lin Yan didn't come down, her plan would fail.

"God of Darkness, what do we do? He hasn't moved at all."

Asur, the Furo Demon God, was only one step away from descending, but seeing no movement from Lin Yan, he had no choice but to ask the God of Darkness for advice.

"Delaying any longer will be too obvious. Descend now. Attack the Succubus. If the Flame Lord dares not descend, kill all the succubi within a minute, then destroy the Succubus Dynasty in the Mobsis Abyss—see how long he can hide."

The God of Darkness snorted.

Asur, the Furo Demon God, no longer hesitated—he stepped directly out of the passage.

With his descent, a terrifying energy tide surged through the entire Harubi Abyss.

"He really descended!"

Below, countless powerful demons sensed the Demon God's aura; each demon bowed their heads, daring only to glance upward with the corners of their eyes.

Around Asur's divine body swirled a thick veil of black mist, making him appear even more terrifying.

He was also a humanoid demon, yet possessed none of a human's organs.

His divine body was forged purely from demonic matter, reinforced with high-intensity abyssal substances.

It was a body built solely for combat.

Like a battle robot.

"Boom!"

The moment Asur descended, without a word, he launched a sudden attack on Succubus Natasha.

As a second-tier Demon God, Asur had no intention of wasting words on Natasha, a Great Demon Lord.

This time, unlike last time, he wasn't attacking across an infinite distance.

Natasha's expression changed instantly.

Even as a Great Demon Lord who mastered decent spatial laws, she couldn't block an attack from a Demon God.

Not only could she not block it—she couldn't dodge it either.

But Natasha didn't give up.

She violently summoned a massive torrent of demonic flame to clash with Asur's attack.

Yet even her summoned demonic flame couldn't stop a Demon God's assault!

Just as Natasha was about to be instantly killed by Asur, a far larger, far more terrifying demonic flame erupted before her, instantly scattering Asur's attack!

After dispersing Asur's attack, the demonic flame didn't stop—it surged back along the trajectory of the attack.

Asur snorted, grabbed with both hands, and crushed the demonic flame.

"Still not showing yourself?"

Asur growled.

Within him, divine power boiled—he prepared to strike again.

If the Flame Lord intervened to save Natasha, it meant Natasha was someone the Flame Lord cared about—and for Asur, that made things much simpler.

But before Asur could act, he saw a burst of flame suddenly appear above Natasha.

The moment the flame appeared, it vanished—then reappeared encircling Asur.

"Boom!"

The flame spread rapidly, instantly trapping Asur completely within its core.

Though Asur reacted quickly, Lin Yan's movements were faster.

In less than half a second, the flame burned onto Asur's divine body, searing him into a howling mess.

Asur tried to flee, but he instantly realized in horror that space had been sealed—there was no escape!

"What kind of flame is this? Flame Lord, dare to show yourself!"

Asur continuously channeled power to resist, screaming all the while.

The outcome of the Mobsis Abyss battle had already spread.

But the details of how it happened were not clear.

After all, the major Demon Gods fought high above in the endless sky, where terrifying energy tides raged everywhere—who knew exactly how they fought?

Even the demons who fled had seen only the moment when flames consumed a God, and witnessed only the fall of a Demon God—they knew nothing of how the Gods had truly been defeated.

Thus, the three Demon Gods' speculations about Lin Yan's form never reached the outside.

Now, Asur was being seared by Lin Yan's flames, screaming in agony, yet still didn't realize that the flame itself was the Flame Lord he had tried to lure out.

In fact, not only did he not know—it was beyond the imagination of the other eight Demon Gods nearby.

And due to the spatial lockdown, Asur's cries could not escape.

Lin Yan ignored him entirely, instantly pouring divine power into the flames, which burned with furious force—Asur could not hold out for a moment.

He was a second-tier Demon God, a simple-minded abyssal demon; even with a hardened divine body, how could he withstand Lin Yan's burning?

Lin Yan could effortlessly burn to death a third-tier God—how much less could he withstand this one?

Asur panicked instantly.

The shadow of death loomed over him.

He never imagined things would unfold like this.

He hadn't even seen the Flame Lord's form before being nearly burned to death by his flames!

Heaven!

How powerful must the Flame Lord be?

Even the God of Darkness couldn't kill him this quickly.

The Demon Lord immediately regretted it.

"Aaaah, God of Darkness, if you don't act now, I can't hold on!"

The Demon Lord screamed, but even as it vibrated space with its will, it couldn't transmit the sound outward.

"God of Darkness…"

Upon hearing just those four words, Lin Yan understood the entire sequence of events.

Yet, Lin Yan felt not the slightest ripple in his heart.

He was no longer the same as before.

He swiftly opened the divine system's pantheon panel and located the Dark Pantheon.

Lin Yan's Dark Pantheon was entirely different from the Light Pantheon.

The Light Pantheon was structured as a tree.

After learning how immensely powerful the Dark Pantheon's sigil was, Lin Yan reshaped the Dark Pantheon into concentric rings.

On the Dark Pantheon diagram, there were five concentric circles from the inside out.

Each circle enclosed the one within it.

These represented five ranks, corresponding to five levels of divine status within the pantheon.

The outermost circle was, of course, the lowest rank—the Fifth Rank.

The innermost core was Lin Yan himself.

For the Light Pantheon, Lin Yan had no intention of accepting male deities, only pure goddesses.

But there was no need for such strictness in the Dark Pantheon, as most Abyssal Demons were genderless.

Thus, Lin Yan planned to populate the outermost ring of the Dark Pantheon with numerous demon bodies forged from demonic matter—these Abyssal Demons would serve as expendable pawns of the pantheon.

The Abyss is perilous and rife with constant warfare; these outermost pawns may prove useful in the future.

For tasks too dangerous to risk higher-ranking deities, they could be deployed.

The innermost ring could be reserved for goddesses like Natasha and Princess Barbara after they ascended to divinity.

But where would these demons come from?

Abyssal Demons are all cunning beyond measure, utterly unlike the deities of Heaven.

In fact, whether Abyssal Demons even recognize pantheons at all is questionable.

Though they are divided into several tiers, their path to power advancement differs entirely from that of Heaven's deities.

Convincing them to willingly join a pantheon and submit to its constraints is exceedingly difficult.

Therefore, the Abyssal Demons in the Dark Pantheon could only be forcibly captured by Lin Yan himself!

Perfect—this Demon Lord Flo would be the first test subject for the Dark Pantheon's divine contract.

Whether Lin Yan would keep Flo after the test would depend entirely on his mood.