Chapter 23: Backup Plan

"Let there be light!" A gentle and mellow voice resounded throughout the entire Real World; the Astral World and the Spirit World both lit up.

Endless, warm sunlight came from that distant Astral World, and a deity cast a compassionate gaze from the Astral World, looking down at this land ravaged by the God War.

Under the illumination of that intense sunlight, the very center of the Ancient God battle began to heal; He was mending the entire world.

The storms and tsunamis stirred up by the earthquake ceased, the chaos in the Spirit World and Astral World was sorted out, and the whole world was returning to its previous state.

His sunlight also fell upon countless humans who were terrified because of the God War, pacifying their hearts and even changing their faith, making them pray from the heart and bow down to the great power of the God.

"Praise the Sun!"

Many pagans began to praise the Sun.

Today was the day the Ancient Sun God truly stepped onto the stage of history, with no more concealment.

After this, in all records concerning the Second Epoch, this day could not be ignored.

The Ancient Gods fought and slaughtered for the sake of pride, triggering a disaster that destroyed the world, and the Creator, unwilling to see all living things trapped in disaster, awoke from His slumber.

He opened His eyes to see the entire world, feeling compassion for everything He had once created, and also feeling angry at those Ancient Gods who brought destruction and harm.

He loved His people and once again sprinkled sunlight and warmth over the entire world.

The above will be recorded in the Scripture of the Creator.

And at this moment, all the Ancient Gods could only watch the sunlight shine upon the world, powerless to stop it.

Even the states of those few Ancient Gods who had fled before the explosion were no better; they needed time to stabilize themselves.

Moreover, when Lilith shouted out her betrayal, the so-called alliance between the Ancient Gods had already broken.

Today, nearly half of the eight great Ancient Gods died; this was something that had not happened in nearly a thousand years of fighting.

From now on, the Ancient Gods would no longer trust the other mad Ancient Gods.

Who could guarantee that they would not be the next Lilith?

The Sun God choosing to step onto the stage of history at this time naturally meant He had already seen everything in some future possibility.

That terrifying storm completely dissipated, and the cracks in the world were also mending.

Clusters of residual divine power and Beyonder Characteristics pierced through the constraints of space; some fell to the ground, turning into forbidden lands of life, while others fell into the embrace of certain Demigods and Angels of the same Pathway.

It was just that two mysterious existences seemed to have anticipated this scene long ago, flashing countless times and intercepting many Beyonder Characteristics amidst the storm.

They were precisely Chumen and Sasriel.

After the Mysteries Will was suppressed and perished, Chumen returned to this Ancient God battlefield, and furthermore, he and Sasriel rushed out simultaneously, heading toward the characteristics filling the sky!

He held many characteristics of the Mother Path and Moon Pathway in his hands; these were all to be returned to that person.

Of course, he also harvested many characteristics of the Prisoner Pathway and Hunter Pathway, and naturally, even more of other messy, non-formable divine items.

Sasriel also had many gains, and the Beauty Goddess, who had obtained all the characteristics of the Night and nearly half of the Fool's, also made a move, obtaining a Red Moon.

Seeing this scene, many Angels and subordinate gods were also awakened and began to take the initiative to seize those residual divine powers and Beyonder Characteristics.

The subordinate gods of those dead Ancient Gods were terrified beyond words; they did not even dare to take the characteristics flying in front of them and fled directly.

This was a feast; the biggest Cake was seized by those three, but there were still many characteristics that fell into the hands of various Angels and subordinate gods—after all, you can never predict how many Beyonder Characteristics a mad Ancient God has eaten.

Once an Ancient God died, these Beyonder Characteristics would all burst out.

After collecting most of the characteristics above the Demigod level, Chumen nodded lightly to the Goddess and Sasriel, then Roaming away.

He returned directly to the Deep Darkness City, this city that had been Hidden.

Come to think of it, he was still the first-generation Pope of the Night.

Chumen returned to his residence, cautiously activated the Hidden divine power on the Divinity Badge, and then sealed the entire house with Dream Phosphor.

Finally, he opened the Dream Book and pulled out a coffin made of flowers and trees containing endless vitality.

The coffin was not large; at most, it could only hold a teenager.

"Hiss!" Chumen opened the coffin and gasped, "Did you leave behind a 'Beauty Goddess' characteristic?"

The young girl before his eyes looked exactly like that Ancient God Lilith, beautiful beyond words; she was the feigning-death Lilith, and this body was her backup plan for resurrection.

This body was crafted by two deities, Lilith and the Ancient Sun God, and most of the Beyonder Characteristics had already been extracted.

"I am currently probably only equivalent to a Sequence 7 of the Moon Pathway." The girl suddenly opened her eyes, her pupils blood-red, still carrying the coldness unique to an Ancient God.

This was not caused by the inherent madness of Beyonder Characteristics, but because she lacked humanity.

Literally, after losing everything of an Ancient God, her state was only coldness.

"My state has never been this good..." This was even better than when she was in the Dream Book.

At that time, Lilith was an Ancient God; at this moment, Lilith was just a Sequence 7 Vampire, and the neutralizing effect of the Dream Book on madness was particularly prominent at this time.

She waved her hand gently, and the coffin turned into a beautiful wreath that fell onto her head.

This coffin was even a Sequence 2 characteristic of the Mother Path, "Desolate Matriarch."

"Why did you choose to fall to Sequence 7?" Chumen looked her over.

This sequence was too low, so low that if the three of them—Chumen, the Goddess, and Sasriel—had any malicious intentions, Lilith would truly become history.

"I trust you." Lilith looked at Chumen with a tone devoid of any fluctuation.

Chumen twitched the corner of his mouth and shook his head with a laugh, "Very good, you have learned a skill that humans must master: lying."

Naturally, he would not easily believe Lilith's words; a Lilith without humanity could not even understand the word "trust."

Her reliance was probably still that wreath on her head; if needed, she might be able to leap to become the "Desolate Matriarch," right?

"Returning these to you." Chumen returned the many characteristics of the Mother Path and Moon Pathway to Lilith.

After obtaining these characteristics, the coldness on Lilith's face seemed to fade a little.

"By walking up from the sequence pathway, I can retain the most stable humanity after ascending to the divine throne, and only then can I truly contend with..." Lilith still explained to her collaborator, "This was also that person's suggestion."

As she spoke, Lilith felt a bit of trepidation; the one referred to here was naturally the Ancient Sun God. Only after truly witnessing the Ancient Sun God did she truly know what a True God was.

Ancient Gods? They were just slightly stronger madmen.

"What about the Red Moon?" Lilith asked after finishing checking the characteristics.

"It was taken by the Goddess," Chumen replied, staring at Lilith, who merely nodded gently, as if she had already anticipated it.

These two goddesses had already planned it out during the last Dream Conference.

The Red Moon was likely one of the terms of the transaction.