Chapter 136: Death

At the time point when Solomon entered the mausoleum to begin the ritual to become a god, Chumen arrived at the Abyss of Storms, and the God of War charged toward the Dark Kingdom, other events capable of influencing the world's trajectory also occurred.

The Southern Continent.

Compared to the Northern Continent, which could be called the center of the world, the development of human civilization on the Southern Continent lagged far behind.

Here, jungles were dense and poisonous insects were everywhere; it was not suitable for large-scale human reclamation or logging, and human settlements were mostly tribes.

Of course, during that migration from the Eastern Continent, the Southern Continent also welcomed enough immigrants, and civilization achieved great development.

And in this land that remained detached from the struggles, the most prosperous faiths were those of the Death Sect and the Doomsday.

They belonged respectively to the Doomsday Witch and Salinger, who had already proclaimed himself the Death Sect.

Of course, in the marginal areas that few paid attention to, legends of the God of Spirit Objects were also circulating.

The Death Sect centered on the legends of the Underworld, claiming that death allowed one to enter the Underworld to begin a new life, blurring the boundary between life and death, which greatly reduced people's fear of death and allowed the Death Sect to gain a large number of believers.

In that true Underworld, Salinger used his authority over the Underworld to peer into the gradually intensifying God War on the Northern Continent, knowing that the opportunity he had been waiting for had finally arrived.

"I need a death that is sufficiently resolute and grand."

This was the ritual for the Death Sect to become a god.

The Death Sect Pathway begins with collecting corpses, digging graves, and communicating with spirits, gradually progressing to managing the deceased and spirits, eventually becoming the Emperor of death.

But in the end, the Death Sect must also die once; only in this way can one truly merge with the concept of "death" and become the Death Sect.

Such a ritual to become a god is simple, but it is too dangerous; if one is not careful, one will truly die, and the requirements for the malice and power needed to kill oneself are extremely high.

If it were truly such an enemy, after killing Him, they would only add another strike to ensure He perished forever.

Salinger had finished collecting the materials many years ago, but he still waited until now before he dared to attempt it.

And in this ritual, the person Salinger chose to kill him was the Doomsday Witch, Cheek.

Naturally, he could not fully trust Cheek; he dared to let Cheek kill him only because he could help Cheek truly become the Original Witch.

Salinger walked through the Southern Continent, while the Doomsday Witch, Cheek, descended with malice, bringing down the doomsday punishment.

Cheek opened her eyes, her pupils a deep black; her hair floated up, all becoming as thick as small snakes, the outer layer slick and evil, the surface covered in mysterious patterns.

At the tips of these hairs, some were embedded with black-and-white eyeballs, while others grew heads like poisonous snakes, mouths slightly agape, flicking their tongues.

This was Cheek's semi-out-of-control state, already approaching the true Original Witch.

Cheek looked at Salinger, her intense desire for Destruction wanting only to destroy everything before her.

Salinger's expression became extremely ugly; even though he knew it was necessary for the ritual, this would really kill him!

The world where Cheek's gaze fell began to be stained gray-white; this gray-white color seemed to have vitality as it spread in all directions, turning the world within sight gray-white.

"Die!" The earth began to shake violently, and muffled sounds came from the depths; this was an earthquake aimed at Salinger, and the power of this continent acted upon him.

Red meteors appeared in the sky, dragging flame tails, accelerating crazily, falling toward that small figure.

But the coming Disaster was far more than just this; blizzards, Tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and other natural disasters erupted simultaneously, and the world seemed to be on the verge of Destruction.

These disasters only erupted in the area where Salinger was located, because of the deterrence of a certain existence with extremely high humanity; Salinger did not even dare to take too many burial objects with him in this death.

Of course, one important reason was that Salinger also needed these believers to anchor his own will.

To become the Death Sect, the requirements regarding believers could not just be the deceased and spirits; the faith of the living was equally important to the Death Sect.

After all, the Death Sect himself is a living being wielding "death," and the faith of the living can better allow him to anchor himself.

The Disaster only happened in one place, but even so, the commotion here stirred up a panic across the entire Southern Continent.

"Is this the 'Doomsday' preached by the gods?!"

Under the "Doomsday," almost all humans fell into chaos.

This was also the reason why the Death Sect chose to hold the ritual at this time; at this moment, the gods and Angels of the Northern Continent were deeply embroiled in war and could not attend to this side for a short time.

Otherwise, such a commotion would definitely not be hidden, and the God of War and the Goddess would certainly come to stop it.

Salinger, who had absolutely no resistance, also began to be stained gray-white, his reason and cognition being destroyed by the power of "Doomsday."

In the ritual for the Death Sect to become a god, what the Death Sect must first resist is his own instinct as a living being.

Ssh!

In the blizzard, Cheek looked coldly at Salinger, who was stained gray-white; the hair flying behind her seemed to turn into spears, piercing fiercely into his body.

These hairs themselves brought a Destruction like the collapse of all things; the entire world stained gray-white was collapsing, shattering, and vanishing!

Salinger's body suddenly turned gray-white, as if he had become a stone statue; the power of all things collapsing followed all the hair piercing the stone statue, completely destroying it.

Boom!

Salinger truly fell, entering a state of death.

The entire continent also shook violently at this moment, and the deaths caused were definitely not few.

These creatures that died almost at the same time as Salinger all became his burial objects, which would gradually shape Salinger's preliminary cognition of the concept of death.

And in that deeper death, the last trace of self-cognition that Salinger had protected with the ritual to become a god pierced through an invisible Barrier and fell into a rushing long river.

"River of Eternal Darkness?!" Salinger woke up immediately based on his own in-depth research into the River of Eternal Darkness, discovering that he was in that gloomy river.

Salinger deduced his situation in the shortest possible time, "Merging with the concept of 'death' brings one close to this long river that symbolizes the end of death?"

"Screech!" Salinger's self-cognition tried to escape, but when he turned his head, he saw a massive Shadow in front of the swaying, illusory river water.

That was a giant bird with its feet already trapped in the river water.

The giant bird's body was covered in feathers woven from pale flames and mysterious patterns, but it was no longer complete; its body had begun to rot, oozing yellowish pus.

"Screech!" The giant bird suddenly opened its eyes, which seemed to be cast from bronze; hidden within its eyes were countless layers of illusory doors.

Bronze-colored light burst forth, enveloping Salinger, intending to drag him into the river water.

Even if a god who wields "death" dies, He will definitely leave behind sufficient contingencies!