Chapter 817: The New Goddess of Death, Anya (First update!)

Snap!

The sound of Hawk's finger snap resonated with absolute clarity within the range of the World Tree.

Coming into view.

Not far from him, Mephisto, who had been maintaining a running posture with his right hand outstretched toward him, had his form instantly frozen by this snap.

And then—

Weathering.

Mephisto's demonic body, at a speed visible to the naked eye, turned into nothingness from left to right, as if it were a stone being eroded and dried out by the winds of time.

By the time the sound of Hawk's snap faded.

Mephisto had also vanished.

Completely vanished, the kind where not even a soul remained.

Originally, Hawk had intended to imprison Mephisto in the magma Underworld prison of his own Underworld.

But he changed his mind.

Mephisto, with his hideous horns, was a born traitor; keeping him was as unpredictably risky as keeping Hela.

Therefore!

To be safe, he destroyed him directly, once and for all.

It's just that…

It's a pity.

I actually really liked you.

Hawk watched Mephisto, who had completely died and disappeared from his sight, sighed in his heart, thought this, and then shook his head.

The next second.

Hawk looked up, and when he appeared again, he was already back at the top of the World Tree, where he sat cross-legged once more.

In an instant.

Clang, clang!

The phoenix comes with grace, perching only on the Wutong tree.

The phoenix cries in the nine heavens, its cry resonant and clear.

The moment Hawk closed his eyes, accompanied by the clanging sound, a phoenix bathed in golden flames replaced the golden metal phoenix formed by the Golden Cloth. After stretching its body, it then completely and wantonly spread its wings.

The phoenix wings covered the sky, shielding the World Tree, while above the wings, a universe far larger than the World Tree itself began to appear faintly under the scorching of the golden phoenix fire.

It seemed.

Beneath the Wutong World Tree, the phoenix was in the center, and Hawk's Phoenix Universe was on the phoenix's wings.

It looked exactly like a phoenix, its body covering the sky, its wings unfurled to shroud the universe, bathed in golden flames, its feet treading upon the Wutong World Tree, while its wings held up the Phoenix Universe.

And Hawk's figure, the moment the phoenix appeared, seemed to overlap perfectly with the phoenix and then merge into one.

The next moment.

A world with a round sky and square earth, which was Hawk's Underworld, was slowly sinking from above the phoenix wings, passing through them, and then landing steadily in the position where the Helheim of the Wutong World Tree had originally been.

With a thud.

The moment the Underworld connected with the Wutong World Tree, it emitted a huge tremor, and immediately after, it was no longer incomplete.

Actually, logically speaking, Hawk's small universe had not yet manifested, so everything inside the small universe should be void.

But don't forget, Hawk had once obtained the four elements of creation.

The four elements of creation were real.

Therefore, this resulted in Hawk's small universe being fake, yet all the stars and such within the small universe were real.

Naturally.

Hawk could use his own Underworld to replace the lost Helheim of the Wutong World Tree.

Anyway, Hawk was now not only the Lord of the Phoenix but also the Lord of the Wutong World Tree.

The two complemented each other.

Neither could do without the other.

Good news.

Hawk no longer needed the Reality Stone to manifest his Phoenix Universe, nor did he need to use the Reality Stone to manifest his strength in the main universe.

Who told the main universe to swallow Midgard, which once belonged to the Wutong World Tree, and turn it completely into Earth.

The main universe swallowed the assets that once belonged to the Wutong World Tree, which was equivalent to permitting the power of the Wutong World Tree to be used in the main universe.

Who told the main universe to be so shameless and just snatch it directly.

This was the price.

Originally, the main universe thought of killing and looting; it wanted the things but didn't want to pay, but Hawk violently intervened and snatched the World Tree, causing the main universe's scheme to fall through.

So…

Unless the main universe returned Earth, otherwise, Hawk's power no longer needed the Reality Stone to pass through the main universe.

But the main universe obviously couldn't return it.

After all, it had already eaten everything, even creating a new past, turning the World Tree's Midgard completely into the main universe's Earth; how could it return it.

It couldn't return it at all, and there was no way to return it.

Bad news.

Hawk had to wait until he awakened the Ninth Sense, which was the Amala Consciousness, before he could truly manifest his Phoenix Universe.

Once again.

A phoenix that lands and a phoenix that makes its home on a Wutong tree are two completely different breeds.

But there was even better news.

Hawk, who had previously only had a superficial understanding of the Eighth Sense, suddenly discovered after becoming the Lord of the Wutong World Tree that his insight into the Eighth Sense had progressed.

Although there was still a distance to go before comprehending the Eighth Sense.

But this was also a kind of progress.

Without a doubt.

At this very moment.

On the bank of the Underworld River in Hawk's Underworld.

Anya, who had just taken a nap in her flower shop at noon, walked out of the flower shop after feeling the tremor of the Underworld and was currently standing on the bank of the Underworld River.

And then…

She gazed into the distance, at a brand-new world that was constantly condensing under the action of fire, water, and wind, unfolding right before her eyes.

"This is…"

"Wutong Divine Realm."

"…"

Anya was stunned for a moment, then her eyes lit up. She turned around, looked at Hawk standing behind her, and greeted him: "Good afternoon, Hawk."

Hawk raised an eyebrow.

"The Underworld doesn't have the concept of time; what is this 'afternoon'?"

"I divided it into twenty-four hours."

"Alright."