Chapter 78: Funeral

That eyeball, which seemed to represent the extinction of all things, successfully entered that sacrificial light gate under the influence of Hidden power.

And the destination of the sacrificial light gate was the altar on the "River of Eternal Darkness" where the Phoenix resided.

That was a place only He could reach.

"Salinger!" The Phoenix was an Ancient God after all; these methods could not affect Him. He sensed the danger and terminated His intake of the sacrificial offerings.

His gaze instantly turned cold, pressing down on Salinger through the sacrificial gate with the status of an Ancient God.

The high Sequence of the "Death" Pathway exerts absolute suppression over low Sequences!

This was also the influence the Phoenix exerted on the "Death" Pathway!

In other words, this look alone was enough to make Salinger commit suicide!

Salinger's own mental state instantly slid toward loss of control, and His entire body's feathers were stained black and white, about to turn into ashes.

Just at this moment, the power that had hidden the strange eyeball vanished instantly, and the strange eyeball appeared on that altar.

Perhaps... Salinger had never thought that He could make the Phoenix accept this strange eyeball through sacrifice alone.

His purpose in using a Hidden Charm to hide this strange eyeball was merely to allow the eyeball to pass through that sacrificial light gate without being immediately exiled by the Phoenix Ancestor.

As long as these two points were completed, Salinger's goal had already been achieved.

Before Salinger was "stared" to death by the Phoenix, the Hidden power of the eyeball vanished, intersecting with the outside world.

At the same moment, the tributary of the "River of Eternal Darkness" filled with gray-white mist erupted instantly!

A certain force of convergence was at work; the strange eyeball that was almost eroding Salinger seemed to be in fear.

And the "River of Eternal Darkness" saw its dark currents surge, almost spreading to the altar where the Phoenix resided!

"Screech!" Something within the Phoenix Ancestor's body that had not yet been suppressed surged out again; it was the force of convergence from the "River of Eternal Darkness."

"How is this possible!?" The Phoenix Ancestor could not even spare the effort to stare Salinger to death, turning instead to urgently maintain His own state, otherwise He Himself would be drowned by the "River of Eternal Darkness"!

Salinger had never thought that He, a Sequence 2, could make a move against the Phoenix Ancestor; He had merely completely broken the balance that the Phoenix Ancestor had been struggling to maintain within His body.

For an Ancient God with an extremely poor mental state and unstable Characteristics, this was also fatal.

"Damn it!" The Phoenix Ancestor could only hurriedly stabilize the state of His Characteristics. When the "River of Eternal Darkness" erupted, the "Death" Pathway Characteristic and the "Door" Pathway Characteristic within His body even showed signs of disintegration and separation!

Ssh!

A soft friction sound rang out, and a figure covered in Dream Phosphor appeared behind the Phoenix Ancestor.

It was Amanises. At this moment, She had manifested into the form of a magic wolf, with two of Her wolf claws holding up a Hidden ball of light.

Within the ball of light, dark power seemed to be surging; it was fear, it was peace, and it was misfortune, but as the mist permeated, everything was obscured.

This was the manifestation of the "Night" Authority.

Amanises gently pressed the intangible ball of Authority in Her hand into the Phoenix Ancestor's body.

The entry of this power caused the power within the Phoenix Ancestor's body to become completely unbalanced.

But all of this was not over yet.

Amanises threw a phantom Dream Symbol from one of Her wolf claws.

After this symbol approached the Phoenix Ancestor's body, it suddenly changed, becoming a storm composed of lightning!

A True God-level "Lightning Storm"!

That was the "Myriad Phenomena" symbol, directly connecting to the Dream Book, capable of borrowing the abilities mastered by Chumen from it.

This was the purpose of the Dream Symbol Chumen had left behind earlier; he also had some sense of participation here, having enough qualifications to take that share of the spoils.

Boom!

The Lightning Storm covered everything, like a furious strike from the Elf King; it became the final attack that crushed the Phoenix Ancestor.

"Screech!" The pale flames on the Phoenix's body exploded violently, and His body was riddled with holes by the "Lightning Storm."

But the most fatal thing was that the Lightning Storm completely cut off the Phoenix Ancestor's only chance to suppress the erupting Characteristics within His body!

Crack!

A terrifying crack in Space appeared throughout the Underworld, and pale flames surged from the ground, killing the undead indiscriminately.

"Ah!" In just an instant, the entire Underworld seemed to be collapsing, and the whole world was being shrouded in death flames.

A death storm that destroyed everything also stirred in the Spirit World outside the Underworld.

Likewise, the Real World opposite the Spirit World was also undergoing some shocking changes; the power of death seeped into the Real World, about to trigger a terrifying catastrophe.

The Death God's funeral will surely leave the fields filled with white bones and the people plunged into misery and suffering!

"Dissipate." The Ancient Sun God, who had never left the Spirit World, looked at those city-states that had connections to the Underworld, and the power of the Sun dispelled the death.

His gaze looked through the crack in the Underworld toward the deepest part, seeing the Phoenix, and also seeing Amanises.

"Salinger?" The Ancient Sun God looked at Salinger, who had entered the altar, and nodded slightly.

Then He looked at that strange eyeball.

"The 'Witch' Pathway Unique..." The Ancient Sun God was slightly astonished.

Salinger had actually obtained this thing and even used it to cause the turmoil of the "River of Eternal Darkness," destroying the Phoenix Ancestor's balanced state.

"'Night', 'Twilight', 'Death', these three major Pathways and the 'Red Priest' and 'Witch' seem to have some very subtle connection between them..."

"They seem to have a unique force of convergence between them..."

The Ancient Sun God, who had already recovered all Characteristics and was only one step away from the "Omniscient and Omnipotent" Authority, thought of the Giant King's great sword and this strange eyeball now.

These were all things capable of triggering the "River of Eternal Darkness."

"Only after initially mastering the 'Omniscient and Omnipotent' Authority will it be the time to truly calculate this knowledge..."

The Ancient Sun God's eyes returned to a clear and clean state, watching the occurrence of events that changed the world and history from the Spirit World.

"Screech..." The Phoenix's final mournful cry resounded in the dark space at the deepest part of the Underworld, and His body fell completely onto the Bone Altar.

In the face of true death, the Death God seemed to be no different.

Bang!

The non-adjacent Characteristics within the Ancient God's body erupted with terrifying power at this moment, directly disintegrating the Ancient God's body and bursting forth with Characteristics that filled the sky.

The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became strange and silent.

Standing on the Bone Altar, Salinger did not need to worry about the Corruption of the "River of Eternal Darkness" for the time being; holding that strange eyeball and that illusory portal in his hands, he watched his former colleagues, all of whom had fallen silent.

Amanises and Salinger stared at each other in silence, forming a soundless standoff.

After a while, sensing that the Corruption of the "River of Eternal Darkness" was about to seep up, Salinger was the first to make a decision.