Chapter 398: Toad God: You Shall Surely Ascend to Spirit Venerable

Analyzing the secrets transmitted by the Toad God, Li Yu’s eyes reflected the appearance of the "main target."

Even with his sharp, ruthless discernment, he could not accurately describe what kind of existence it was at first glance.

A gargantuan, rotting head?

No, it was more like a vile mass piled together from an unknown number of rotting heads, both large and small.

Seen from afar, it looked like a giant cluster of fleshy grapes, rotting to the extreme and constantly dripping pus onto the earth below; each grape was a head.

All were in a state of decay and oozing pus, with varying expressions, yet all were twisted.

It hung in the void above Wanfu City, and the area it occupied was more terrifying than purgatory.

The citizens trapped within, whether mortal or transcendent, were suffering unimaginable torture; both body and soul were decaying amidst their struggle.

Even an unfortunate Boundless prodigy had been caught inside, and not knowing what they had encountered, they were letting out constant, painful howls.

Externally, this prodigy appeared to be a powerful chaotic knight under the "Blood God," who should have had high resistance to most evil god methods, yet in that rotting purgatory, they were like a bullied and ravaged child, weeping and wailing incessantly.

Li Yu watched from afar, his brows gradually furrowing, his face full of wariness.

Even as he was now, he felt an extremely terrifying threat from this vile thing.

An instinctive judgment arose:

"As a fellow demigod, the strength of this [First Rot-Head] is perhaps even more terrifying than that Undying Blade."

"The authority it controls seems related to rot and torture."

"If one comes into conflict with it, one must never be controlled by it, otherwise, it would be a fate worse than death."

Li Yu’s thoughts were quickly confirmed by the Toad God.

As powerful as He was, He actually regarded this demigod with special attention.

"Among the pile of divine envoys under the Rotting Father God, this group of [Rot-Heads] is the most brutal."

"And this First Rot-Head is composed of ninety-nine of the world's most brutal, vicious, and miserable rotting heads."

"Its hobby is to torture others and induce them to fall, eventually sinking into endless madness."

"It considers this a process of decay, an art that can be called perfect."

"If it finds a suitable opportunity, even a weak god could fall into its trap... and in its record of achievements, there are indeed more than one weak god."

"Among these Children of the World this time, this thing is the hardest to deal with."

"Even with My luck blessing, you may not necessarily succeed."

"And once you fail, you might have a chance to escape, but a period of painful torture will likely be unavoidable."

This was the first time the Toad God had issued a warning to Li Yu.

Previously, when Li Yu took action against Morning Star and the Undying Blade, the Toad God had firmly believed that Li Yu would succeed.

Now, however, He was wavering.

Moreover, regarding the provision of precise bait, the Toad God was also somewhat hesitant:

"For some reason, the Rotting Father God’s faction is extremely disgusted by those existences that are beautiful, powerful, possess strong emotions, are pure, and so on, whether they are living beings or dead objects."

"At the same time, they are also incomparably eager to corrode these existences, sparing no cost to do so."

"When other methods are ineffective, they will swallow them into their bodies, using the purest and most concentrated rotting divinity to pollute and corrode them."

"It is just that, although there are many such existences in My treasury,"

"there are not many that reach the level required to be swallowed by the [First Rot-Head]."

"I possess a fragment of the 'Thorn of Truth,' a divine object left over from the previous destroyed Boundless universe, which is enough to make the entire Rotting Father God faction go mad for it; but if it were truly sent over, that Thorn of Truth could purify the First Rot-Head in an instant."

"Although the White Jade Toads of My kin are also quite suitable, they are not resistant to corrosion."

"Let Me continue to select..."

Just as the Toad God was flipping through the catalog of His boundless treasury,

Li Yu suddenly had an inspiration.

Although most of the resources and treasures he had collected over his many years of wandering had been invested into his own cultivation,

he had, after all, saved some.

Now, hearing the Toad God’s description, he immediately thought of one of them and asked at once:

"Speaking of beauty, I wonder if the [Beauty God] meets the requirements?"

Amidst the flickering of spiritual resonance,

Li Yu took out a strange object that had been gathering dust for a long time from his treasure pouch.

It was precisely the [Beauty God Statue] he had obtained in the Heaven-Reaching Tower when he was selecting the pioneer team for the God-Chosen at the City Lord's Mansion; that was also the moment Li Yu first met the Toad God and received a reward.

Almost immediately, the Beauty God Statue Li Yu took out received the Toad God’s strong affirmation, accompanied by a piece of gossip:

"Suitable!"

"Simply too suitable."

"This thing, the Beauty God, has always been coveted by evil gods in various multiverses; although He is a male deity Himself, countless ugly creatures and evil gods with corresponding fetishes want to take Him down and enjoy Him properly... this indeed includes the [Rotting Father God], and He is perhaps the most fanatical one."

"The Beauty God has not dared to leave His divine kingdom for many years, most afraid of the Rotting Father God, and once swore a true divine oath: He would rather perish than let the Rotting Father God succeed."

"The latter responded: even if the Beauty God dies, He will snatch His corpse and bring it back to the Rotting Universe to slowly savor the decay."

"However, although you have the [Beauty God Statue], with your current alternative identity as a Child of the Vortex God, if you pray and summon, you can indeed call over a Beauty God projection of sufficient weight."

"But once He senses a divine envoy of the Rotting Father God in the area, He will likely flee back instantly, and you won't be able to keep Him..."

The Toad God hadn't finished speaking when He saw Li Yu take further action.

Another strange object: a piece of Vast Heaven Divine Radiance that Li Yu had polished into a needle shape was taken out. He immediately spoke, uttering a rather twisted and whimsical idea:

"Adding this object will make it possible to keep Him."

"I will use the temptation of the Child of the Vortex God to summon a Beauty God projection of sufficient weight, then take the opportunity to pin Him down with this [Vast Heaven Divine Needle]."

"Afterward, I will fabricate a highly logical story to lure the First Rot-Head over using narrative authority."

"Would it be willing to swallow the Beauty God Statue pinned by the Vast Heaven Divine Needle?"

"..."

An extremely rare scene occurred at this moment.

After Li Yu finished speaking, the Toad God actually fell into silence.

After a second or two, a spiritual resonance echoed in Li Yu’s mind.

The toad croaking sounded like a human clicking their tongue, but it was actually full of admiration.

"Shameless, and cunning."

"Kid, as long as you don't die halfway, sooner or later, you will ascend to become a new Spirit Venerable."

"I have high hopes for you!"

Hearing the Toad God’s words of apparent criticism but hidden praise, Li Yu had no more doubts about whether this bait he had coincidentally put together would work.

Without the slightest delay, he began to set the stage.

The Beauty God!

A male deity who was beautiful to the extreme and narcissistic to the extreme; unfortunately, He was a thoroughly weak god.

When Li Yu was still weak, he truly didn't dare to summon His projection, lest something go wrong.

But now, Li Yu was unscrupulous.

He directly prayed and summoned using the invincible, charming Qi of the "Child of the Vortex God." Once the scripture was chanted, with almost no delay, a heavyweight Beauty God projection descended upon Wanfu City using the statue as a medium.

And before He could do anything, a Vast Heaven Divine Needle pierced over, pinning Him dead within the statue.

It was fortunate that although the Beauty God was also an evil god, He was not a hopelessly filthy and fallen god; otherwise, this strike would have severely injured His projection.

Of course, no matter how much of a fuss was made, His true body was fine; He was just raging impotently in His divine kingdom on a distant plane.

Until the following turn of events occurred!

His impotent rage turned into terror and disgust.

But He could not stop it at all, because the story Li Yu wrote was too perfect, and logically impeccable:

"On this day, a group of evil god believers in Wanfu City accidentally obtained a strange object, the [Beauty God Statue]."

"The evil god believers pursued sensory stimulation and the ultimate enjoyment of pleasure; they were so bold that they had a sudden whim and chanted scriptures to summon a projection of the Beauty God."

"Their goal was to use another special strange object obtained from the righteous god faction, the Vast Heaven Divine Needle, to pin down the Beauty God Statue that had come to life due to the Beauty God's projection."

"Afterward, they would desecrate and play with the Beauty God."

"This achievement made the evil god believers feel pleasure before they had even done it."

"They were also convinced that this action could please the great Evil God."

"Unfortunately!"

"An accident occurred."

"The combination of the Beauty God and the Vast Heaven Divine Needle unexpectedly attracted the [First Rot-Head] nearby."

"The latter knew deeply how much its great main god longed to obtain the Beauty God, and that Vast Heaven Divine Needle was an even more powerful and clean divine strange object; if it could be corroded, it could also please the great Father God, even though this would bring very intense and long-lasting pain."

"The First Rot-Head killed these evil god believers on the spot and swallowed the Beauty God Statue into its body."

Perhaps because the story was very logical, coupled with the Toad God’s luck blessing.

Until that cluster of fleshy grapes piled from countless rotting heads left, wailing incessantly because it had swallowed the Vast Heaven Divine Needle,

throughout the whole process, no accidents occurred.

Li Yu, hiding in a void rift, could also clearly feel his bait threads, bit by bit, braving the unimaginably concentrated rotting divinity inside the "First Rot-Head," parasitizing it.

The progress was slow, but it was already done.

Every bait thread was a seed; once parasitized, it could not escape Li Yu’s clutches.

It is merely a question of how fast or slow the time will be.

In the void above Li Yu’s head, the faint sound of a toad croaking could be heard.

Clearly!

The Toad God had also had its fill of fun and was currently very pleased.

Although it had missed the fishing scenes Li Yu had earlier, by comparison, those had indeed all been small fish.

And as for Morning Star, Undying Blade, and First Rot-Head... which one of them was not a heavyweight?

Li Yu himself had to admit that the main credit for hooking these three super-sized fish belonged to the Toad God.

Even if the precisely matched bait for the final one, First Rot-Head, had been pieced together by Li Yu himself.

The crucial gossip and secrets, however, were still provided by the Toad God.

PS: There is more to come.

(End of this chapter)