Chapter 310: 309 1 vs 29999

Accompanied by the scraping sound of the guillotine blade sliding down its groove, a full thirty thousand gleaming guillotine blades, in order from the bottom of the valley to the mountaintop, chopped down one after another onto the Goddess of Wealth's neck.

The guillotine positioned at the very bottom of the valley merely cut her hair, leaving only a shallow pressure mark on her skin, failing to inflict much damage.

The guillotine positioned a bit higher, after barely breaking through her skin, likewise came to an abrupt halt, but the one set up at the mountainside truly bit into flesh, seeped blood, and broke bone!

Valley, foothills, mountainside, mountain ridge… the higher the guillotine was positioned, the deeper it sank into flesh and bone after falling.

When the final guillotine set up on the mountaintop fell, successfully splitting the "condemned prisoner" — whose eyes were wide with a stare — clean in two, the remaining twenty-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine guillotine blades, as if spurred on by something, sank down once more in unison!

"Crack!"

……

"Tumble tumble tumble!"

Watching over twenty thousand "red footballs" rolling down the hillside after being lopped off, glaring in unresigned death, Hearing Li Ang, who was half-crouching near the mountaintop, couldn't help but sharply draw in a breath of cold air, feeling that his own exposed nape also felt the chill transmitted from the guillotine blade… or perhaps it wasn't just a feeling.

Stiffly turning his head back, he saw the large guillotine above his neck swaying on the verge of falling but ultimately not dropping. Hearing Li Ang, injured to the point that he couldn't even speak in complete sentences, somehow forced out a bit of strength from somewhere, and trembling, crawled up from the not-yet-formed guillotine platform beneath him.

Fortunately… fortunately Senior Auntie Ai Ma's Bloodthirsty Execution Platform】 has a maximum capture count of only thirty thousand.

After combining it with the effect of the Joint Liability Tome】 to guillotine the Goddess of Wealth a full thirty thousand times, the Bloodthirsty Execution Platform could no longer capture additional targets — otherwise he would likely have been caught up in it too, set up and chopped like that!

"Don't… don't just stand there gawking…"

Just as Hearing Li Ang climbed down from the execution platform, feeling lingering dread as he touched his own neck, the listless youth on the ground beside him groaned feebly:

"I'm almost… almost going to bleed to death… you… you could at least save me…"

"Coming."

Taking one last look at the emerald valley rolling with severed heads, Hearing Li Ang grabbed the Plague-Blooded Bandage】 that had fallen beside him, treated the wounds on his lungs and throat, then endured the lingering agony in his flesh as he stood up, and walked toward the listless youth hanging upside down on the emerald tree.

"What a dirty trick!"

After being plucked down from the emerald tree by Hearing Li Ang, the listless youth — whose bones had been bought away by more than half — grimaced and grumbled:

"A dignified true god, and yet you shamelessly launched a sneak attack on me!

Damn it! If I hadn't known for sure a true god would come, made some preparations, and you hadn't bought away my injuries, forcibly pulling off a wave, we might have fallen before even making a move!"

"……"

Although we're the ones on the same side, speaking reasonably, when she launched a sneak attack on you, you also seemed to be plotting to ambush her — in terms of moral standing alone, it looks like we're both about the same?

"It was indeed very dangerous just now, but fortunately the outcome is still not bad."

After giving a perfunctory agreement, Hearing Li Ang, while bandaging the listless youth, said with a hint of relief:

"The Goddess of Wealth has already been taken care of by Senior Auntie Ai Ma. Once Senior Auntie Ai Ma finishes dealing with her, I'll find a way to resolve the problems on her body, and we'll basically be…"

"It's not that simple."

Cutting off Hearing Li Ang's words, the listless youth sprawled on the ground sighed:

"After all, that's a true god. My ritual preparations were a bit hasty, and Auntie Ai Ma has been locked up for so long that she's not in peak condition either. Although we caught her off guard and destroyed her body, we're still far from completely taking care of her!"

As if to specifically prove the listless youth's judgment, the instant his words landed, a piercing shriek from the Goddess of Wealth suddenly rang out from the emerald valley rolling with heads.

"You… you shall die!"

As the blood net wrapped around her body was destroyed by the guillotine blade,

the Goddess of Wealth, freed from her restraints, regained her mobility. Not only did the rolling severed heads begin to howl hysterically, but the thirty thousand divine corpses lying beside the scaffolds also swayed unsteadily back to their feet!

"Lie down for me!"

As if having long anticipated this scene, Senior Auntie Ai Ma — whose entire body was covered in emerald-green wounds, with nearly half her left arm having turned into jade — directly drew out a slender silver rapier, plunged it into the chest of the divine corpse beneath her feet, and pinned her firmly to the ground.

Then, the oddly-shaped rapier split open left and right, the fine iron chains coiled around the handle clattered down, and the two semicircular sword guards bound at the tail also automatically loosened and fell, transforming into two small trays bound by iron chains that clinked against the blade — it had clearly become a strange set of scales.

Immediately after, the chest of the divine corpse suddenly caved in, and a bleeding, frantically beating golden heart appeared in the left tray of the scales, pressing the right tray of the scales high up. A massive crocodile's phantom slowly rose from the bottom of the emerald valley, greedily staring at the golden heart atop the scales.

"The Crocodile God waits beneath the scales of judgment; thy heart is placed upon the left."

Stepping on the continuously struggling divine corpse, Senior Auntie Ai Ma, her face pale, drew out a pure white goose feather with fine down, tossed it toward the right tray of the scales, and then intoned in a deep and obscure tone:

"The swan's feather falls upon the right, to weigh the lightness and weight of sin!"

"If thy good deeds are outstanding, and thy heart is lighter than the feather, thou shalt return to heaven and receive blessings."

"If thou hast committed unforgivable sins, making thy heart heavier than the feather, then the Crocodile God's maw shall be thy final destination!"

As Senior Auntie Ai Ma's recitation ended, the swan feather, which had been slowly drifting toward the right tray, as if suddenly pulled by gravity, clattered down into the right tray with a clang, causing the left tray to jerk sharply upward.

However, as the swan feather "landed," the bleeding heart on the left also received some kind of activation — the originally bright red blood vanished, replaced by alternating streams of gold and black liquid that drip-drip-dripped onto the tray.

Every time the light, translucent golden liquid spilled out, the tray would tip up a little; when the murky, heavy black liquid gushed forth, the tray holding the heart would suddenly press down.

After roughly half a minute or so passed, the Goddess of Wealth's heart had completely caved in, and the murky black liquid mingled with a little pale gold had already filled the tray, pressing the right tray holding the feather high up.

"Hiss hiss… gurgle gurgle…"

Before Senior Auntie Ai Ma could even pronounce judgment, the crocodile phantom at the bottom of the emerald valley had already raised its head in delight, letting out a low, hoarse hiss. The ground beneath the thirty thousand divine corpses also suddenly transformed into a murky swamp, and one after another, crocodile phantoms emerged…

……

"Scram!!!"

As the dense swarm of crocodile phantoms rose to the "water

surface," preparing to begin feasting on the "sinner's" body, the heads piled in the emerald valley all shook at once, violently shaking off the thorny crowns on their heads, and glared at the open-mouthed crocodiles with a great shout:

"What do you think you are? How dare you covet my flesh and blood? Scram! Get back to the realm of the dead! This is no place for you!"

After temporarily roaring the restless Crocodile God into submission, the divine corpse pinned under Senior Auntie Ai Ma's foot actually began to struggle again. Gripping the slender sword plunged into her own chest with both hands, ignoring the flesh torn open on her palms by the blade, she relied on brute strength to desperately pull it out.

Meanwhile, the countless heads piled in the valley all turned their heads in unison, glaring at pale-faced Auntie Ai Ma from all directions, veins bulging, eyes full of vicious savagery, and roared:

"I am a true god! A true god! And you are nothing but a mortal!"

"Listen well! No matter what I have done, you have no right to judge me!"

"The only thing you can do is kneel before me! Offer up all your worth! Even your very soul! Dedicate everything you have to me!"

As the Goddess of Wealth continued to struggle, the longsword plunged into her chest was actually being pulled out bit by bit, and the countless crocodile phantoms lingering in the emerald valley also timidly shut their mouths, hesitating

itatingly backing off a little. Although they hadn't fully left yet, they seemed ready to turn tail and flee at any moment.

"We're done for. This time I probably can't even destroy her physical body."

Seeing this scene, the languid youth on the mountain peak gazed at Auntie Ai Ma's jadeified palm and couldn't help but sigh, saying with eyes full of regret:

"Auntie Ai Ma's situation is worse than I thought. I assumed at worst she just couldn't activate the Death Pivot, couldn't destroy the Goddess of Wealth's soul — I didn't expect she couldn't even hold up the Satisfying Scales."

"Senior Tang Mu!"

Watching the situation in the jade valley take a sharp turn for the worse, Hearing Li Ang couldn't help but urgently say:

"Don't just stand there talking — think of something! Like another ritual, or…"

"How? With what?"

The languid youth laboriously raised his right hand, showed Hearing Li Ang his shriveled veins, then said with some vexation:

"Just now, to trap her, I nearly bled out completely. With you wrapping that lousy bandage on me, the best you can guarantee is that I don't die of organ failure — and this blood hasn't recovered one bit.

Besides, occult rituals, when you get down to it, are just tricks for borrowing power. Whether borrowing from the world, from other true gods, or from the past and future, there has to be something for me to borrow from.

But this place isn't part of our world — it's a special space built from a fragment of the Agricultural God's Paradise. I simply can't borrow power from the original world.

And the master of this place is the Goddess of Wealth herself. For other true gods' power to enter, she has to allow it. Even if I set up a ritual, I can't borrow anything! If you ask me, we'd better, while Auntie Ai Ma can still hold on, first… uh… what are you doing?"

Watching Hearing Li Ang pull bottle after bottle of liquor out of the mirror world and chug them down with both hands, the languid youth couldn't help but stare blankly, then said with a thoroughly bewildered look:

"Hey, what are you doing? This isn't the time to retreat — why are you drinking?"

"After I finish… gulp gulp… maybe… gulp gulp… I can help!"

Looking at the rapier that had already been pulled out more than halfway from Senior Auntie Ai Ma's hand, Hearing Li Ang hurriedly tore the bandage off Tang Mu, completely healed his own throat, then chugged liquor in big gulps while stumbling and staggering toward the bottom of the valley.

"Huh?"

Startled by Hearing Li Ang's brute behavior, the languid youth — sprawled on the ground unable to move — watched his back as he charged down into the valley, wishing he could jump up on the spot, beat his chest and stamp his feet, and give his past self, who had agreed to come help rescue people, a giant *middle finger*!

No way… what the hell are you going down there for? Even if you'll be a true god in the future, with your current level-three ability, going down there won't help worth a damn!

……

"Hearing Li Ang?"

Seeing Hearing Li Ang clinging to the scaffold of the execution platform, slowly making his way down toward the bottom of the valley, Auntie Ai Ma couldn't help but startle. She wanted to shout at him to go back immediately — while she could still hold on, take Tang Mu and escape; whoever could get out, get out.

However, the Goddess of Wealth, who possessed a full thirty thousand fields of vision, noticed this scene even earlier than she did.

Looking at the culprit who had somehow opened the Pale Green Dream and, together with Auntie Ai Ma, guillotined off her own head, the Goddess of Wealth couldn't help but flare up in fury. She then split off part of her consciousness, controlled a head stuck on the execution scaffold in front of Hearing Li Ang, and sneered:

"Since you've come down, don't leave! You…"

"Go to hell!"

Hearing the Goddess of Wealth's words, Hearing Li Ang — who had just finished a bottle of rum — deliberately took an extra half-step to the side, swung a bottle half a finger thick, and smashed it directly onto the Goddess of Wealth's forehead, forcibly cutting off the second half of her sentence.

"You?!"

Completely not expecting to be treated like this, the Goddess of Wealth — her head covered in glass shards — instantly flew into a rage. The body that was contesting the "rapier" with Auntie Ai Ma trembled slightly, and she deliberately let Auntie Ai Ma drive the rapier back in a bit further.

At the same time, the other twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine headless divine corpses actually used the execution platform that had guillotined off their own heads as crutches to stand up, then surged wave after wave toward Hearing Li Ang, who was making his way down the mountain.

"Don't come over here! Run!"

Seeing Hearing Li Ang in danger, Auntie Ai Ma immediately bit down hard on her lip, put all her strength into the sword hilt, trying to force the Goddess of Wealth to withdraw the power she had split off.

But by now the Goddess of Wealth had been truly enraged by that bottle-to-the-head. She stubbornly let the rapier at the lower end of the Satisfying Scales fall back, refusing to withdraw her power, and instead continued controlling the other twenty-thousand-plus headless versions of herself to swarm madly toward Hearing Li Ang.

Damn! Pulled too much aggro!

Looking at the headless divine corpses swarming toward him, Hearing Li Ang — who had only drunk seventeen or eighteen bottles so far, still far from activating the Immortal in Wine — felt his scalp go numb. He hurriedly turned around, wanting to retreat the way he came for now and come back down once he'd drunk enough.

But he had already reached the halfway point down the mountain. The only "way back" had long been blocked tight by the densely packed headless divine corpses — sealed off completely!

"……"

He could only fight it out!

A complete true god is definitely unbeatable, but one whose power has been split into thirty-thousand parts, whose soul is pinned to the bottom of the valley by Senior Auntie Ai Ma, and whose head has even been guillotined off — surely he can struggle a bit, no matter what, right?

After taking out the spiked club instrument of torture he had found in Senior Auntie Ai Ma's office, Hearing Li Ang did not activate the Executioner Set's anomalous ability. Instead, treating it as an ordinary weapon, he swung the spiked club in a full arc and charged headlong into the swarm of gods.

Immediately after, a faintly visible phantom of a ram-headed demon quietly appeared behind Hearing Li Ang. With sparks of glowing red and billowing smoke that burned the lungs and set the bowels ablaze, it once again spread out around him.

"I declare this a war!"