vstars Chapter 666 Purifying the World
Chapter 666 Purifying the World
Earth, Asgard.
"Your Majesty, the calamity of the invasion is growing stronger. Even with the gods fighting desperately to protect us, millions of civilians have been killed or injured, and the number is still rising rapidly!"
At the top of the temple, Valkyrie, half-covered in blood and with her golden armor tattered beyond recognition, knelt on one knee before the temple, reporting in a high-pitched voice.
On her throne, Frigga frowned, her eyes seemingly entwined with threads of fate, for she had foreseen the inevitable annihilation of all the common people of Asgard.
And soon after, the [Thought] Calamity, a calamity approaching dimensional power, will control all the gods of Asgard, turning them into its puppets.
Frigga's eyes slowly returned to normal, and a look of deep conflict appeared on her face.
Her hand tapped lightly on the armrest of the throne, the sound particularly clear in the deathly silent hall.
"Your Majesty, if we do not send the Norse forces to provide support, I fear... I fear all the civilians of Asgard will perish. Please, Your Majesty, give the order..."
"Issue my command: all gods, return to your divine realm and sever the rainbow bridge between you and the mortal world!"
Frigga interrupted the Valkyrie and issued this incredibly harsh command.
The Valkyrie's pupils contracted sharply, and she looked up at Frigga on the throne with utter bewilderment. "Queen, this..."
"I cannot gamble with the gods of Asgard on this incredibly slim chance of victory. The best course of action now is to avoid this disaster!"
Frigga lifted her blue skirt, stood up from her throne, and gazed at the dark red sky filled with giant eyes.
"Our king has abandoned us; only in this way can we save ourselves!"
The Valkyrie looked at Frigga in disbelief and took two steps back.
"Frigga! How is your behavior any different from Odin's when the Old World's mist descended and he sided with Cthulhu!?"
"Those mortals have worshipped us for generations, providing the divine kingdom with ample faith and strength. But when disaster strikes, we, the gods who enjoy their faith, will... abandon them!?"
Frigga frowned, her hands clenching tightly. "You think I don't want to save them?! But my calculations show a 99% chance of total annihilation!"
"I am now the leader of Asgard. I cannot gamble the lives of the gods on that 1% chance!" she said, each word uttered with grief and indignation.
The Valkyrie clenched her fists, seeing the determination in Frigga's eyes; she knew there was no way she would change her orders.
She drew her longsword from her waist and turned around. "The Valkyrie Legion refuses orders, even if it means fighting to the last man!"
Hush
The Valkyrie whistled, and a white winged horse flew to her side from outside the temple.
She gripped the saddle, glanced back at Frigga, mounted her horse, her blood-stained battle robes billowing, and galloped across the battlefield.
"Frigga, the spirit of the Valkyrie Legion contains no word for retreat, only 'to live in the face of death'!"
hiss--!
Pegasus lifted its front hooves, its snow-white wings flapped, and it flew out of the temple in an instant.
A streak of hope flashed across the crimson, despair-shrouded sky above Asgard.
Frigga watched the streak of light fade into the distance, sighed heavily, and gave an order to Verdante to have the other gods return to their divine realm and sever the Rainbow Bridge!
……
Sun City, Egypt!
"In accordance with the decree of the Sun, all mortals of Sun City have been sacrificed, severing all ties with the mortal realm."
Within the magnificent city, Shu, the god of air and one of the nine divine pillars, bowed and reported to the central pillar representing the sun god Ra.
'Ra,' hidden in the sun's phantom, gave a soft 'hmm,' and asked, 'How is the power of faith at the source of the divine kingdom?'
"Reporting to the Venerable Sun, the power of faith generated during the sacrifice is enough for all the gods of Sun City to use for more than a hundred years, which is enough to completely avert this calamity."
Upon hearing the wind god Xiu's reply, the sun god Ra showed a melancholy expression and bowed to the sun high above Sun City.
"This action was truly unavoidable in order for Sun City to continue. May the Sun forgive us!"
The other nine pillar gods also bowed and prayed to the sun.
May the sun forgive!
Earth, the mortal realm protected by the City of the Sun.
Under a dark red sky, a putrid stench, like thick miasma, enveloped the once-prosperous city.
There was no trace of fighting in the city; the advertising screens on the walls were still playing audio, and the towering buildings stood intact.
But on the ground... the bodies of the dead appeared in various parts of the city in a praying posture with their knees on the ground and their hands clasped together.
Their souls had long been ripped out; their eyes were empty, and they knelt stiffly on the street.
A flock of crows, their scarlet eyes gleaming, pecked at the flesh and blood of the corpse with their sharp beaks, making a sickening tearing sound.
The various calamities that crawled out of the ground looked at the corpses and excitedly grabbed them and stuffed them into their mouths.
Those sharp teeth chewed on flesh and blood, and bright red blood dripped continuously from the corners of their mouths.
The entire city was filled with the aura of death!
Like Asgard, the Indian temples of Olympus and Olympus, though not sacrificing all mortals, also separated the divine realm from the rest of the world in order to preserve the continuation of the gods.
As for Takamagahara, with the support of the Eno Contract, they chose to hold their ground!
……
The border of the Great Xia Dynasty, the East China Sea!
A bone dragon, its body wreathed in eerie blue flames and blotting out the sky, finally halted its advance under the siege of heavenly soldiers and generals, the Primordial Celestial Venerable, and the Moral Celestial Venerable.
Above the celestial clouds surrounding the bone dragon, heavenly soldiers and generals transformed their divine power into golden chains, which flew out from their palms and wrapped around the body of the enormous bone dragon, [Breath] Calamity.
Roar!
[Xi] Zai roared to the sky, flapping its wings in an attempt to break free of its restraints. However, the simultaneous attack of 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals, along with the increasing number of chains binding its body, eventually made the bone dragon's struggles increasingly futile.
The Celestial Venerable of Morality waved his whisk and took out the Golden Rope from his waist. The pale golden rope, like a ten-thousand-meter-long serpent, wrapped around the massive body of the bone dragon, which was covered in fleshy tumors.
The more the bone dragon struggled, the tighter the ropes tightened, eventually squeezing out the eyeballs growing on its body.
Roar!
[Xi] The disaster let out bursts of angry roars.
Yuanshi Tianzun and Daode Tianzun could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
It took two supreme beings and 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals to barely control the near-dimensional [Breath] Calamity. Cthulhu's power is truly terrifying.
“Li Jing, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, you lead the Four Heavenly Kings… to support His Majesty and Lingbao. I will leave this place to you.”
Yuanshi Tianzun transmitted his voice to Commander Li Jing, who then accepted the pagoda and, without any hesitation, flew with the Four Heavenly Kings and others to the sea ahead.
The dark, monstrous mass of calamities in the sea ahead was blocked by the illusory Tai Chi symbol floating in the air.
"Your Majesty!" Li Jing and the others bowed to the Jade Emperor.
The latter waved his hand, "No need for formalities. Although the situation has stabilized for the time being, we cannot hold out for long as the number of disasters increases."
"Li Jing, what's the situation inside the Great Xia?"
Li Jing bowed slightly and reported, "Disasters have occurred in many places. The strength has reached the god level. The Great Xia Night Watchmen are fighting desperately to deal with it."
The Jade Emperor, dressed in a white robe with patterns, frowned and looked at Lingbao to his side.
"Lingbao, there is only one way left to protect the people of Great Xia."
Upon hearing this, Lingbao Tianzun lowered his eyes slightly and did not respond.
On the contrary, Li Jing and the others looked on with curiosity.
"Is it the shattered origin of the Heavenly Court, transformed into a stele forming an array!?" Lin Qiye suddenly said.
The Jade Emperor and Lingbao Tianzun nodded slightly.
Li Jing and the others' pupils contracted slightly, but they also showed expressions of understanding. Only in this way could they protect the hundreds of millions of people of Great Xia.
"Your Majesty, has it truly come to this?" asked the Heavenly King Dhritarashtra, Mo Lihai, in a solemn tone.
The Jade Emperor gazed at the Great Xia territory behind him and said, "We are the gods of Great Xia, enjoying the incense offerings of countless mortals. We should naturally do something."
"As Lingbao said, the old world is shrouded in mist, and so is the Heavenly Court!"
Upon hearing this, the Four Heavenly Kings remained silent for a moment, then nodded.
"Lingbao, you announce it. This is the responsibility of all the gods in Heaven!"
Lingbao slightly raised his eyes, took a deep breath, and his gaze swept over the increasing calamities on the sea surface as he clenched his fists.
Is history really about to repeat itself?
Lingbao glanced at Lin Qiye and said, "Qiye, let's go back to Daxia first. You can't afford to get hurt, or Brother Jiang Ye won't forgive me."
"No need. I am not the will of the universe now, but the Night Watchman of Great Xia." Lin Qiye shook his head with a smile. "We should also stand before millions of people."
Seeing this, Lingbao Tianzun stopped trying to dissuade him and looked up at the Heavenly Court, which was radiating golden light in the sky.
His figure flickered and appeared in the heavenly court, looking down at the magnificent palaces below.
Throughout countless reincarnations in the old world, he witnessed the heavenly gods sacrificing themselves to become monuments, protecting the Great Xia Dynasty for eternity.
However, Jiang Ye and Azathoth's dream cycle can only happen once. If they do this, it is uncertain whether the gods of Heaven can enter the cycle.
Lingbao Tianzun hesitated for a moment, then his eyes gradually hardened, and he spoke loudly, his voice resounding throughout the heavens!
"A great calamity has arrived, and all living beings are suffering! We, the gods of the Great Xia Dynasty, have received offerings from the mortal realm for thousands of years, and it is time for us to take action..."
The sound spread throughout the East Sea. The heavenly soldiers and generals who were besieging the [Xi] disaster, as well as the two heavenly venerables, were all stunned and looked up at the Heavenly Court floating in the sky.
“Lingbao…” The Heavenly Venerable of Morality’s eyes widened slightly.
"This is the only way now, and it is also our duty!" said Yuanshi Tianzun slowly.
"Ten breaths later, the Heavenly Court will shatter its own origin and transform into the base of nine divine steles to guard the border."
The voice continued to resound in the ears of the gods in Heaven.
"All the gods of my Great Xia who voluntarily...sacrifice themselves, using their divine bodies and divine power to forge the national guardian stele..."
Lingbao Tianzun paused for a moment, then slowly extended his palm, which gathered into a huge golden handprint above the Heavenly Court, preparing to fall and shatter the Heavenly Court's origin.
"From this day forward, our souls will enter the cycle of reincarnation once more, to endure tribulations once more. But one day, when the Heavenly Court is rebuilt, we will finally return!"
"Fellow immortals, we... shall meet again in the next life!"
After he finished speaking, the gods fell silent, but none of them objected. Instead, they mobilized all their divine power, preparing to sacrifice themselves to cast the divine monument.
Lingbao Tianzun's palm slowly descended, and just as it was about to shatter the Heavenly Court's origin, the sky suddenly changed color.
Ahhhhh!
The giant eye in the sky opened as if attacked by some force, instantly turning into dust and scattering with the wind.
The dark red light disappeared, leaving only wisps of pale white mist that descended from the sky to purify all living things.
When Lingbao Tianzun saw the white purifying energy, his eyes widened and he quickly raised his palm.
He looked towards the Heavenly Court and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Thankfully, the palm strike was successfully withdrawn in time.
"What was that white mist? It turned to dust the moment the giant eye made contact with it!"
"I sensed it, and the pale white mist contains a powerful purifying force; it's purifying the Cthulhu contamination!"
"What! He can purify the Cthulhu contamination? Could it be him?!"
As the celestial gods watched the gradually spreading aura of pure white purification, they immediately realized who was responsible.
Yuanshi and Daode Tianzun exchanged a glance, and as the white mist fell, the progress of the fusion of the three realms was also paused.
"It seems that Azathoth's power is no longer comparable to that of his predecessor."
Yuanshi Tianzun nodded.
As the pale white mist enveloped the entire East China Sea, the calamities corrupted by Cthulhu let out cries of agony the moment they came into contact with the purifying energy.
The eyeballs and tumors on his body turned to dust in an instant, and the power of the calamity returned to its original state.
The [Breath] Calamity, which had approached dimensional ascension by relying on the power of Azathoth, suddenly lost its strength and became a world-destroying calamity with the power of a demigod.
The dark red sky disappeared, and sunlight returned to the world.
Under the dense, white mist, everything in the world is being purified!
"Jiang Ye!" Lin Qiye reached out and touched the purifying energy, looked up at the sky, and his eyes glistened with tears.
His six wings spread out behind him like a pillar of light shooting into the sky and into the universe.
……
Asgard, the battlefield of the mortal realm!
Thick black smoke obscured the sky, and shattered fragments of the Rainbow Bridge lay askew on the scorched earth.
"Mick, report on the legion's situation and the personnel evacuation!"
The Valkyrie crouched on the scorched earth of war, reaching out to stroke the fallen Pegasus, her longsword planted in the ground to support her weary body.
"Lord Martial God, the Pegasus army has less than a hundred men remaining; the rest have all perished in battle!"
Beside her, Mick, a female warrior whose right arm had been bitten off by the calamity and who was wearing armor, reported in a solemn tone.
"However, the civilians have already been evacuated from the disaster-stricken area, and Slud led a portion of the army to escort them. The casualties are within a controllable range."
The Valkyrie nodded slightly, glancing reluctantly at the Pegasus that had fought alongside her for many years.
Then, she stood up, drew her longsword from the ground, and asked, "How far is the next wave of calamity from the battlefield?"
"10 li."
The Valkyrie frowned slightly, turned to look at the dark mass of calamities in the distance, and solemnly said, "Gather the remaining Valkyries and prepare for battle!"
"Lord Martial God, is it...?"
"No buts, go and inform them!"
"Yes... Lord Martial God!"
Mick ran to the soldiers who were resting against the ruins not far away, gathered them together, and prepared them for battle.
The Valkyrie gazed at the smoke-filled sky, obscuring its original dark red light.
She held her longsword before her, her eyes filled with a death wish.
"Charge with me! Let these calamities hear that the roar of the Valkyrie Legion will never cease!"
"From this day forward, only glory shall endure!"
The Valkyrie stomped on the ground, her figure hovering in mid-air, while behind her, exhausted female warriors gritted their teeth and formed ranks.
The Pegasus, lying on the ground, raised its blood-stained head and let out a series of neighs!
It is a refusal to accept defeat! It is a will to never bow down to the enemy.
The Valkyrie's longsword gleamed with golden light as she aimed it at the impending calamity, charging up her final, powerful attack.
hum!
Suddenly, a spatial fluctuation came, and she found that her body was starting to go out of control.
The golden light on the longsword disappeared, and her soul was being invaded by something.
not good!
It's a mental disaster! Extremely skilled in mind control and spatial teleportation!
The Valkyrie's divine power converges in her brain to resist the invasion of the "Thought" disaster.
The army of less than a hundred men on the ground instantly became puppets of the disaster.
She had already been drained of energy by the battle just now, and her consciousness seemed to be submerged by the sea, gradually sinking to the bottom.
Just as she was about to lose consciousness, a thick white mist suddenly fell from the sky, enveloping her.
Ah!
A piercing scream jolted the Valkyrie awake.
She stared in amazement at the pure white mist before her, which seemed to possess purifying power, her eyes gleaming with joy.
The Valkyrie gazed at the sky and shouted excitedly!
"It's the king! The king hasn't abandoned us!"