Chapter 1372: Listen! Revelry on the God-Blessed Mountain Peak (1)

Darkness.

Boundless darkness.

Yet within this darkness, a faint flame continues to burn.

A string of scarlet numbers hovered in the darkness, accompanied by a throbbing 'dong-dong' sound; the numbers flickered on and off behind the child's frail back. The child laughed as he ran forward, as if the ground beneath his feet were not a treacherous abyss but a smooth path to spring.

However, time is a most cruel pursuit.

As he ran, the child's silhouette began to grow; the white-haired teenager still ran, but the string of numbers behind him grew longer. He gritted his teeth, and only his heavy breathing echoed in the vast darkness.

He could not stop, and he must not stop.

He lowered his head and ran forward, but that originally weak red flame, now swelling with his increasingly hurried steps.

Bai'e lifted his head; even though his whole body was engulfed in flames, he still ran wildly through the sea of fire, heedless of everything—

"Ah——!"

He broke free of all shackles, letting out an earth-shaking roar at the darkness ahead; he finally reached the end of this journey.

That was a barren wasteland.

Here, the 'earth' and 'sky' were torn apart, riddled with holes—no grass, no trees, nothing that could be called 'vitality'; only endless black, and above it a glaring… golden yellow.

The shattered 'sky' seemed to be bleeding.

But beyond the sky loomed a colossal figure too vast to take in fully.

Scalding golden blood poured from his wounds, like molten lava spreading across the land. The supreme deity stood silently at the edge of heaven and earth, showing no expression from beginning to end, only those golden eyes indifferently gazing down upon the insignificant youth.

"Are you ready? Nanuke!"

Bai'e drew a deep breath; even with all his strength, he had to unleash the human roar he had suppressed for thirty million ages.

"I have brought you destruction!"

——

Valkyrie of the Apocalypse.

"That is Nanuke's… true form?!"

In the instant their eyes met, Nanuke's gaze, Underworld King Hadisi almost instinctively lowered his head; an extremely ominous aura seemed to hang over his head like a thousand‑ton weight, pressing down on him.

This is Nanuke……

Hadisi slammed his fist hard into his chest, then sucked in a deep breath.

The suffocating oppression…… Bai'e, he… does he merely wish to destroy that kind of existence?

How dare he swing his sword at Him?

Nanuke's gaze—those indifferent golden eyes lowering to meet his—made Hadisi understand at once. It was the sovereign looking down on ants, the heavens gazing upon weeds, the source of all things scrutinizing insignificant beings: an absolute disparity.

Of course, the gods present were not the only ones reacting so intensely—rather, he was already the most composed among them.

"Dee-dee-dee-dee……"

Not far away, Shiva trembled constantly, his teeth clacking out a strange sound. His four arms clung tightly to himself, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

"Hey, Shiva, you're supposed to be a God of Destruction—why look like this?" Shijia, gradually growing accustomed to Nanuke's oppression, turned his head and asked, "Maybe you're also somewhat tied to the path of destruction; your reaction shouldn't be so extreme."

"I don't want to either, but this is just the body's most primal reaction…" Xipo swallowed, "Nanuke… if the universe's future is to be destroyed by Him, I can understand…… there's simply no way to resist!"

"Huh… what do you mean you can't resist? Isn't Bai'e now defying Him?" The Electro Archon Suoer drew a deep breath, slowly straightened up, and began gazing anew at the deity in the heavens: "Bai'e not only faces Him, he wants to destroy Him. As gods of Earth, even if we cannot join that kind of battle, we ought at least to witness his fate."

We want to see just how far that man's fury can burn.

——

No sooner had the words fallen than the Antimatter Legion poured down like a breached flood from the edge of the 'sky', thick and black, covering the ground in an instant—Nanuke's forces became a writhing, obsidian sea.

Bai'e hesitated not; in a flash he shot like an arrow into the heart of the legion. Gripping Qinshen, he unleashed a single slash that carved a blazing arc over a hundred zhang long, sweeping aside countless legion monsters like wind scattering clouds.

Ifeelthepainandanger, wickedmonster, losin'control (Anger stems from the weak evil creature breaking free of its shackles)

I'mreadyforabattle, wakenedshadow, bloodonmysoul (Entering the smoke‑filled war, the shadow awakens, golden blood enters the soul)

Burnit, burningitall, heavens, letthemfall~Haha (Burn, burn it all, the heavenly paradise has fallen, haha)

The sword light flowed without cease; wherever it passed, golden blood gushed. Some legion monsters lunged forward, only to be cut at the waist by Bai'e's raised hand—their upper halves flew onward by inertia while their lower halves collapsed, bereft of support.

Exhilarating!

The fire in his chest had never burned so exhilaratingly!

Bai'e laughed wildly, killing deeper and deeper as if venting rage; when his ardor rose, he simply tore off his upper garment, bare‑chested, and charged into the enemy ranks—momentarily the legion monsters' golden blood spurted like springs, and he bathed in that rain of blood——

Theytasteofbitterashes, litteredplastic, crumblinaway (They gulp down bitter ashes, scattered waste, collapsing and sinking)

Theyglimpsthebrokenfaces, devilracin', searchingforfaith (They glimpse the fallen faces, devil racing, seeking faith)

Crushing, crushingitall, shadows, watchthemcrawl~Hahaha (Tearing, ripping all darkness, even kneeling before me)

Yet amidst the drifting golden blood, a figure descended into midair.

His face was concealed by white garments; the left side of his body was pure white, the right side pure black, as if the two most opposing forces in the world had been forcibly packed into him.

He gripped a sword, looking down from above upon Bai'e.

Creepin'upmybrain (Madness infects the mind)

Learnin'frommypain (Spreading through pain)