Chapter 300

"Hey hey hey, can you hear me, can you hear me?"

Su Hao repeatedly tapped the death scythe, trying to contact the Night and Death Goddess through it.

Considering the divine spirit influence behind this Hell Gate, Su Hao dared not make any big moves.

After all, with his current strength, not to mention facing a divine spirit head-on, even just touching its divine power would cause irreversible consequences; if he didn't want to end up like Suolu, he had to seek external aid.

Only a divine spirit can deal with a divine spirit.

The divine spirits most closely linked to Su Hao are two in number: one is the Scarlet Lord, and a large part of Su Hao's power comes from the Scarlet Lord.

However, according to Su Hao's speculation, the Scarlet Lord has likely fallen, leaving no hope of communication.

If he could obtain more of the Scarlet Lord's residual power, perhaps he would become the next Scarlet Lord.

The other is the Night and Death Goddess; the death scythe in his hand was granted by her.

As the undead creatures in his territory continually increase, the Night and Death Goddess's awakening level is gradually rising; perhaps communication is now possible.

Even if she cannot now spare extra divine power, answering some doubts should still be no problem.

Without a doubt, the best way to obtain information about that unknown divine spirit is to ask the Night and Death Goddess.

If her awakening is sufficient, perhaps she could also lend a hand, allowing Su Hao to uncover the true secret of that building complex, which likely pertains to the fundamental cause of the Weird Descent.

But unfortunately, no matter what Su Hao says, the death scythe shows no reaction.

However, Su Hao did not give up; instead, he used a skill to summon a Hell Gate, returning to his territory. Besides entering Hell, the Hell Gate also allows free travel between Hell Gates.

With his current mental strength, maintaining the Hell Gate for ten-odd minutes is no problem; as long as he passes back through the Hell Gate before it ends, he can return to the passage.

However, ten-odd minutes is not long; Su Hao dared not waste it, striding to the edge of the Death Tombstone and continuing to disturb the Night and Death Goddess.

Su Hao had considered that contacting the Night and Death Goddess via the death scythe might be impossible.

After all, this is merely a weapon given to him by the Night and Death Goddess; they are now in a cooperative relationship, and leaving a backhand on this weapon would be somewhat underhanded.

But the Death Tombstone is different; the Night and Death Goddess has explicitly said she can draw power from this structure to further awaken.

Thus, this structure can be used to communicate with her.

Indeed, within just ten-odd seconds, Su Hao felt an overwhelming power descend; the surroundings gradually darkened, ultimately falling into endless darkness.

Next, two red lights shone in the darkness, silently gazing at him.

However, this will did not speak, nor transmit any information.

But Su Hao vaguely felt this might be because the Night and Death Goddess had only recovered part of her divine power, or because some rule restricted this communication, perhaps limiting time or amount.

Su Hao knew this feeling was not baseless; likely the facts were indeed so. After some thought, he asked bluntly:

"In Hell, there is a building complex resembling that of the giant race; my avatar, after passing through the Hell Gate and entering that complex, found it empty."

"Yet inside, traces of life remain, even the food is still hot, as if its inhabitants had vanished into thin air."

"Or perhaps, due to some reason, my avatar entered a city that had only buildings and no living beings."

"I want to know whether this is due to some divine spirit's influence, and if I continue exploring, will I attract the divine spirit's attention?"

Upon hearing Su Hao's question, the two red lights in the darkness twitched slightly, as if they hadn't expected him to ask such a question.

Subsequently, another point of red light appeared in the darkness, landing on his brow.

At the same time, the surrounding darkness vanished, and Su Hao found himself once again before the Death Tombstone.

This point of red light contained little information; it seems indeed that, due to some limitation, the Night and Death Goddess could only use this method to answer Su Hao's question.

About a minute later, Su Hao fully received the information in that point of red light; his face instantly showed an expression of sudden realization, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The information in the red light was scant but extremely important; the three most crucial points were:

First, as he had thought, due to some limitation, divine spirits cannot directly descend into this world, nor can they even communicate.

This is why, after the Night and Death Goddess descended via the Death Tombstone, she spoke not a word and gave no direct information.

The same holds in Hell: that building complex likewise contains no divine spirits, nor any residual power upon it.

This greatly relieved Su Hao; as long as it wasn't a divine spirit, perhaps there remained hope to continue exploring.

Otherwise, he could only turn back, for divine power is instant death to ordinary superhumans, leaving no room for maneuver.

Second, that building complex indeed harbors great danger; continuing to explore would likely incur significant losses, yet it also contains important secrets.

Third, the reason Su Hao's avatar experienced that after entering the building complex is that, upon an outsider's entry, the complex automatically splits into three parallel spaces.

One of these spaces contains only buildings and no living beings—this is the space Su Hao currently occupies.

Another space has buildings and beings, but few valuable supernatural items or secrets.

The final space is normal, with many beings living within, and numerous supernatural items; the secret hidden in the building complex lies in this space.

To obtain these secrets and supernatural items, one must break through layer by layer, ultimately reaching the third, which is also the most real layer.

Although the Night and Death Goddess did not explicitly say how to enter the next layer, she gave a direction: enter the church at the town's center, and upon doing so, one will know how to proceed to the next layer.

However, the moment he forms the intention to head for the church, he will be attacked by the buildings and inhabitants, and danger will arise from that moment. After a brief consideration, Su Hao decided to thoroughly explore this ruin, for two reasons.

First, he feels this ruin hides some vitally important information; if he obtains it, perhaps he can glimpse part of the true cause of the Weird Descent.

Second, Su Hao clearly senses that, although he found the building complex quickly, the Night and Death Goddess is surprised by it, yet she still hopes he will continue exploring this ruin.

He and the Night and Death Goddess are now like grasshoppers on the same rope; without his help, the undead numbers in his territory would not increase, and the goddess's divine power could not continue to recover.

Before long, he would likely fall into eternal slumber under the assault of death-aspect divine spirits.

Unless the Night and Death Goddess herself no longer wishes to live, he will absolutely not let Su Hao fall into a deadly situation.

This confirms one thing: continuing to explore that building complex will indeed be dangerous, but it will not be fatal; knowing this is enough.

Having made his decision, Su Hao hesitated no longer; he returned via the Hell Gate to that passage, looked toward the Hell Gate at its end, and pushed it open to enter.

Since he won't die, there's no need to hide afterward.

That building complex, after all, consists of three distinct spaces; if they wait for the Three-Tailed Molten Weng Dragon avatars to enter the second layer, Su Hao, even if he later enters, would likely end up in the first layer, which is unfavorable for joint action.

This is Su Hao's first time entering Hell with his true body; as he passes through the Hell Gate, the surroundings seem distorted, undergoing severe deformation.

Once he can see his surroundings clearly again, he has already entered Hell, appearing upon that massive altar.

Su Hao bent his knees slightly, pushed off the ground hard and sprang up, leapt down from the altar hundreds of meters high, came down heavily smashing into the ground, and appeared before the three-tailed molten-worm dragon and them.

Afterwards he rode on the head of the three-tailed molten-worm dragon and walked toward the church at the center of the buildings.

Boom—! At the moment he had that thought, the massive building complex suddenly underwent violent shaking.

The buildings seemed to come alive, surrounding houses collapsing with a roar, trying to bury Su Hao and them in the rubble; the ground also shook violently at that moment, attempting to disrupt their steps and stop him from moving forward.

"Tsk tsk, I thought you guys would transform like Transformers, but I didn't expect it to be this low-level."

The surrounding buildings hundreds of meters high collapsed with a roar, turning into huge boulders that fell toward Su Hao, yet it didn't make him panic in the slightest, nor did he feel any fear.

He calmly took out the Blast Heavy Axe, unleashed a gravity field; his mental power had now reached Supernatural Fifth Rank, several times stronger than when he last used the Blast Heavy Axe.

The coverage and effect of the gravity field are crucially linked to the user's mental power; the stronger the mental power, the naturally larger the coverage.

With Su Hao's current mental power, the gravity field can easily cover a range of several kilometers.

At the moment Su Hao deployed the gravity field, the surrounding buildings that had collapsed with a roar seemed to be in space, all suspended in midair, unable to continue falling.

The constantly trembling ground, however, seemed to be pressed by an invisible gravity, calming them instantly.

Su Hao simply rode on the back of the three-tailed molten-worm dragon, proceeding at a steady pace toward the center of the buildings.

Only after he left did the buildings in the air continue to fall downward, and the ground resumed its trembling at that moment.

With his current mental power, let alone a few hundred-meter-high buildings, even a small hill he could easily uproot.

Thus, the entire ruins' buildings were collapsing and crashing down, yet they could not affect Su Hao in any way.

Wherever he passed, the surroundings seemed to freeze—boulders stopped falling, the ground stopped trembling, and he advanced unimpeded all the way.

These attacks, which would require a Supernatural Fourth Rank to take seriously, posed no threat before Su Hao.

But just as Su Hao approached within less than five kilometers of that church, another anomaly suddenly arose.

Nearby buildings began to converge toward that church, enveloping it, ultimately forming a kilometer-tall giant composed of various structures, which raised its massive hand and slammed it down toward Su Hao.

"Tsk tsk, it really can transform, too bad its strength is still a bit lacking."

Su Hao gave a slight smile, lightly tapped the axe handle, and poured his mental power frenziedly into the Blast Heavy Axe, releasing the gravity field to its maximum extent, enveloping even the building giant several kilometers away.

The next moment, that formidable, awe-inspiring giant stood frozen as if bound by a paralysis spell, no matter how hard he tried, he could hardly bring down his raised massive hand.

After all, that kilometer-tall building giant's strength was merely equivalent to a Supernatural Fourth Rank; under Su Hao's full power, without Supernatural Fifth Rank strength, it was impossible to break free from the gravity field's restraint.

Subsequently, Su Hao lightly moved his finger; the church at the giant's chest center, heavily protected by a mass of buildings, suddenly shook violently, gradually squeezing open the surrounding structures.

Boom—! At the moment the church was affected by Su Hao's power, the entire building complex shook even more violently, transmitting an extremely angry feeling.

Although buildings cannot speak, Su Hao could clearly sense that this place was warning him to leave quickly.

However, Su Hao merely smiled faintly, yet remained unmoved, instead increasing his force a bit more.

Finally, only a "bang" was heard; a loud boom came from the giant's chest, and under his control, the church was shoved out of the other buildings, flying from the giant's chest and landing slowly before him.

Boom—! It seemed as if realizing that entering the church meant leaving this place for the next layer of space, the entire building complex collapsed completely.

A large amount of buildings surged toward Su Hao's position as the center, attempting to bury him with these structures to prevent him from entering the church and leaving this space.

However, it was all in vain; once the buildings flew into the gravity field, they all hovered in midair, unable to continue falling.

But after all, this is a giant's city; all the buildings are extremely huge and numerous, so even with Supernatural Fifth Rank mental power, he could not truly withstand the buildings of an entire city.

He hurriedly brought the three-tailed molten-worm dragon's clone and others, pushed open the church doors, and went inside.

(End of chapter)