The talisman god has already perished, with only a trace of his divine consciousness remaining on the object, rendering the conjured statue utterly useless.

Wan Zhi relentlessly attacked the illusion, laughing heartily as the illusion gradually faded away.

"You once looked down on me, saying I could never become a god. And now? You're dead first. This continent of Aotian will be mine in the future. I will tear down the sacrificial temples of your five gods, and I will be the only true god in heaven and on earth!"

You can't become a god.

Just as Wan Zhi finished speaking, a voice suddenly appeared.

No, there was no sound coming from the surroundings.

It was more like a thought than a sound. It arose in everyone's mind at the same time, including Omniscience himself.

At this moment, people suddenly realized that although the illusion was fading, it always maintained a downward gaze. High above, it looked down upon all knowledge, as if mocking him for being so far from being a god.

"nonsense!"

Wan Zhi suddenly went mad, shouting, "You're already dead! You're the one who's unworthy to be a god!"

A god who has vanished—that is a complete and utter failure.

Wan Zhi attacked the statue with all his might, but before he could, the statue itself dispersed. It transformed into a beam of light, passing in front of Wan Zhi and swiftly sweeping through the Demon City towards the crowd. Ordinary demonic cultivators and martial artists, Niu Chuanchuan, Li Tuo, the unconscious Karl and Mo Hongyun, and even the Demon Prince and Demon Elder, seemed to have found nothing, finally stopping in front of Shang Yanting.

Golden light pierced through Shang Yanting's forehead and entered his sea of ​​consciousness.

Suddenly, Shang Yanting revealed a huge secret about gods: "You will never become a god."

"What?"

Wan Zhi looked at Shang Yanting, because he had just witnessed the stimulation of the God of Talismans, and his mental state was somewhat abnormal at the moment.

"To become a god, you need faith, but you have no believers."

Shang Yanting closed his eyes, quietly receiving this secret that should only be known by true gods. "Gods are the beginning of all things and the end of all life. All living beings are elevated, and Heaven and Earth bestow their destinies upon them."

But your path requires killing all living beings.

"If you don't kill, you're not qualified to become a god; if you do kill, you're even less qualified to become a god."

Shang Yanting opened his eyes and looked at him with a newfound certainty. "You were not a god before, you are not a god now, and you will never be a god in the future."

That certainty and absoluteness is so powerful that it can be described as killing someone by attacking their spirit.

"Nonsense! I'm going to kill you all!"

"You can't kill me. You should have died many years ago, but your obsession with becoming a god has kept you going until now."

Shang Yanting looked at him without joy, sorrow, fear, or anger. "Without your remains, you won't even have the chance to become human again. With the shattering of the bone china, you will disappear along with your absurd dream."

"You utterly nonsensical bastard!"

Enraged, Wan Zhi used all his strength to try and crush it.

At that very moment, Shang Yanting suddenly threw out a jade-green magic weapon. This object instantly conjured a giant lotus seedpod, completely enveloping itself within it. No matter how it was attacked, the dangerous demonic energy could not budge it in the slightest.

When did you, host, obtain such a treasure?

Just as Jia Xitong was wondering what was going on, he suddenly opened his eyes and looked directly at the hidden raccoon. "Give me the bones."

As it happened, Jia Xitong was standing right in front of the Demon Elder. The Demon Elder thought Shang Yanting was calling him, so he quickly sent over the fake bone he had been hiding.

Who knew he would be knocked away by Wan Zhi halfway there.

To prevent his possessions from being stolen, the Demon Elder forcefully threw the skeleton over, shouting, "Dean Yan, catch!"

Wan Zhi manipulated the giant hand to tightly grip the white bones, and looked at Shang Yanting, saying, "All of you will die here."

Before he finished speaking, Shang Yanting had already crushed the real bones.

Taking advantage of the moment when Wan Zhi was chasing after the Demon Elder and Senior Bai Yu, Jia Xitong directly sent Wan Zhi's real bones over. Without time to draw a concealment talisman, her figure appeared next to Shang Yanting. Upon seeing Jia Xitong and his own shattered bones, Wan Zhi roared in fury.

Suddenly, Shang Yanting gripped the emerald green lotus seedpod in front of him with such force that golden-red blood splattered onto the jade.

The jade emitted a flash of light and hurled itself at Wan Zhi's porcelain bottle.

Wan Zhi gathered a black mist to block his way, but the jade stone completely ignored it, piercing through and striking the porcelain bottle, shattering the white bones beneath him...

Shattered.

Wanzhi's body was like a domino; once one fell, the rest were all collapsing.

His body began to shatter, and his magic began to dissipate.

Even so, he still shouted defiantly, "I am God, I will not die!"

He glared venomously at Jia Xitong and Shang Yanting, determined to make them pay even if he failed!

Wan Zhi gathered his last, purest magic power and launched it at the two. The enormous cyan lotus phantom vanished as Shang Yanting threw out the jade artifact, the magic power striking directly at their vital points.

In the blink of an eye, Shang Yanting grabbed Jia Xitong and forcefully pulled her behind him.

Bang--!

The residual power of the magic sent the raccoon flying, and the remaining demonic energy clung to it like a leech, unable to be shaken off, and entered Shang Yanting's brow. At the same time, the jade lotus seedpod that had been thrown away flew back, transforming into a beam of light, and then flew into Shang Yanting's brow.

"Host, dear!"

Jia Xitong ran towards him, her heart pounding in her chest. Seeing Shang Yanting plummeting without warning, she grabbed his clothes and desperately tried to pull herself up.

Looking at the raccoon above, people suddenly realized that Wan Zhi was dead.

A large group of people rushed over to catch the man and the beast. Jia Xitong looked at the people around her and shouted Li Tuo's name.

"I'm here!" Li Tuo, who had been pushed to the side, raised his hand.

"Please save me, my host! Come quickly and take a look!"

Jia Xitong cried out loudly, then pushed aside the cultivators who were reaching out indiscriminately.

"Everyone, keep one zhang away from Fellow Daoist Yan!"

A voice finally broke the silence of the crowd. Bai Yu Zhenjun led Li Tuo into the center and checked Shang Yanting's pulse, saying, "He's fine, Doctor Li can cure him."

Bai Yu Zhenjun picked up the raccoon and gestured for the others to take Shang Yanting into the bedroom.

Not only Li Tuo, but all the highly skilled doctors in Shanghai were also summoned to treat him.

"The dean has been struck by Wan Zhi's demonic energy, which has directly entered his sea of ​​consciousness."

The martial arts practitioners had already witnessed firsthand just how powerful Wan Zhi's demonic energy was. The two Martial Saints lying on the bed were the most direct examples; even the Demon Prince and the Demon Elder were still unconscious after being treated, let alone Yan Qing, who had been enlightened by Wan Zhi.

---Aside---

Goodnight everyone!!