Chapter 96: Two Updates in One "Main Quest: The Living Soul...
The war between gods has been going on for three or four years.
For ordinary people, there is not much difference between the war between gods and ordinary wars.
It was the same fight between mortals, the same attacks from all sorts of bizarre monsters. Most ordinary people could not understand the difference between the various powers, nor could they tell the difference between the various monsters. In their eyes, the world raging in flames was very dangerous, but they did not feel it was a drastic change.
Some people don't live in the midst of war. To them, the war between gods is just a novel story. Their lives are still peaceful and ordinary, filled with trivial troubles.
Until one day, the sun shattered.
On an ordinary day, shadows fell on the ground, as if dark clouds covered the sky.
Some people looked up at the sky, wondering if it was going to rain, but they saw no dark clouds.
They saw that the sun was getting dim.
The day of birth has a shadow on its surface, and the day of hope has cracks all over it, like a broken mirror.
Click.
The sun was very far away from the ground, and people on the ground should not have heard the sound of the sun shattering, but the sound seemed to ring directly in their minds, and the harsh sound became so loud as each crack increased.
Click, click, click.
There was a moment when the sun set and meteors visible to the naked eye appeared in broad daylight.
People screamed in terror, warriors clenched their weapons, and magicians stood on the top of the tower, looking at the sun worriedly.
At this moment, an earthquake occurred throughout the dream world.
Although it was just a slight tremor, everyone could clearly feel it.
Suer, who had been sleeping for a long time, woke up and walked into the courtyard.
Amuruo was standing in the courtyard looking up at the sky.
"The end of the world has come." Sur said.
Amuruo put his arm around Suer's shoulders and said, "Don't worry, we will definitely get out of the apocalypse."
Su Er forced a smile: "Yeah. I'm not worried that we can't win, it's just..."
But... in the end times, how many lives will be annihilated?
At the Sun Altar in the City of Hope, Leo and Pereira held hands and looked up at the sky.
Pereira looked sad and angry, her teeth clenched, and tears wet her face uncontrollably.
His god, the Day of Hope, is shattering.
Leo's expression was relatively calm. He consoled her, "Don't cry. Didn't we know a few years ago that Hopeful Day was seriously injured? Now it's just that his injuries can be observed. At least he realized at the last moment that he was dying, so there should be a little bit left now, so he won't die."
Pereira's sad and angry expression froze, and she glared at Leo fiercely.
Leo felt a familiar divine fluctuation above his head and shouted, "Can you save some energy? You're already on the verge of death, why are you still messing around now?!"
The divine fluctuations above his head dissipated.
Pereira couldn't cry anymore.
If your god is already on the verge of death and still insists on sending down his power to burn your friend's hair, you won't be able to cry.
The two halflings continued to communicate with the sun through the altar, using the faith of the sun believers to delay the sun's fragmentation and dimming, and whispered to each other.
"Feng and Lang have been missing for almost a year."
"It's not a disappearance, it's a trial."
"They should be back by now, right? It's the end of the world."
"have no idea."
"Oh, I miss Lang's honey cakes so much."
“A little.”
"If you just have some, give me your honey cake when Lang comes back."
"roll!"
The Sun believers knelt on the ground sadly and prayed devoutly, completely unaware that the two God-favored ones were not chanting the same prayers as they were.
In the rebuilt Temple of Poseidon, Singh is sitting under the statue of Poseidon with his eyes closed, holding a trident.
If Xia Xifeng and Qin Lang were here, they would find that his posture was exactly the same as Singer they saw in the copy.
The sea god shared the authority of the sea with Singh. Although Singh did not ignite the sacred fire, he was able to observe the sea surface for the sea god.
At an extremely ordinary time today, in just a moment, the sea was dyed black without any warning. Only the sea near the Kingdom of Atlantis and the Temple of Poseidon remained azure blue, and all the island countries farther away had lost contact.
The Temple of the Sea God, which had suffered heavy losses in the past few years and had recovered a little, sent out a fleet to wait for the fleeing compatriots at the junction of the azure sea and the dark sea. So far, no fleeing ships have been found.
Fortunately, the surface waters haven't been contaminated by the Kuroshio. Perhaps we can take a land route and inspect the Black Sea from the coast.
Singh went over the plan he had sorted out countless times in his mind again and breathed a sigh of relief.
The current situation is good as expected.
He called out to the gods in his heart: [My Lord, are you okay?]
The Sea God quickly responded: "Better than that fool from the Day of Hope, hahaha! He was the one who was shattered to pieces, only a tiny bit left!"
Singh's mouth twitched.
"He is the one who is broken into pieces and only a tiny bit is left"... This sentence obviously corresponds to Xia Xifeng's muttering a few years ago.
His spirit actually remembered this sentence for several years.
But you are only a little better than the day you hoped for, are you still proud? !
Singh, who was inexplicably blamed for being the "God of the Sea" and was about to ignite the divine fire and be promoted to a demigod, was very tired.
He believed that Qin Lang and Xia Xifeng, who were being held captive in the trial ground and were completely bewildered and had their divinity stuffed into them by the God of Self, would be able to understand his feelings.
Singh: [My Lord, is the realm of the God of Myself still closed?]
Poseidon: [It's still closed, but I can sense that the Self-God has fallen. While the Self-God's godhead still exists, there's no sign of a new Self-God being born. It's strange. I really don't know what the Self-God did when he was seeking death. I'm so curious.]
Singh: [Please stop being curious.]
With the God of Self dead, Qin Lang and Xia Xifeng should have escaped the trial grounds. Just as Singh breathed a sigh of relief, he heard his spirit curious about the God of Self's suicidal plans, and his heart immediately tightened.
His spirit is already dangerous enough, he can't learn to be any worse.
The sea god felt the infuriating insult of Singer not recognizing him as the one favored by God, and even though his power was very weak, he still tried to pour a bucket of water on Singer's head.
Singh smoothed his wet hair and clenched his teeth.
Considering that my lord is seriously injured, I will endure it!
Richo, who was guarding Singh and suppressing the strange phenomenon in the sea, quietly moved into the shadows.
But he couldn't let the gods remember him. It would be better for him to be a god-favored person with no sense of existence.
In Silvermoon City, the Silvermoon Festival is being held;
In the human imperial capital, the emperor summoned the ancestral protection to possess him;
In the Elf Capital, the guardian of the World Tree is swearing revenge;
In the Dwarf Kingdom, the Dwarf King held a giant axe and stared at the boiling magma as if he was facing a great enemy;
And at the edge of the world, people saw a giant dragon soaring into the sky again after thousands of years.
Click.
The last sound.
The sun shattered like a broken mirror, leaving only a few irregular fragments hanging in the sky.
The Day of Birth is close to the Day of Hope, and its light will cover the Day of Hope, which no longer looks like the sun, as if it is protecting the Day of Hope under its wings.
Great panic surged in the hearts of the creatures on the earth, and ignorant children cried for no reason.
They knew nothing, yet a sense of despair about the bleak future surged in their hearts.
The magicians and sorcerers on the astronomical table covered their eyes, and blood oozed from between their fingers.
The stars were in chaos and they could no longer see the future, as if the future of this world had been cut off.
The strange phenomena in the sky stopped and the shaking on the ground became stronger and stronger.
The small tree that had fallen to the ground a few years ago emitted a dazzling light, and the ground near the small tree stopped shaking.
But outside the light of the small tree, mud was rolling on the ground, swallowing up grass, stones, animals... everything on the ground was covered with mud.
The shaking intensified. As time went on, the sludge lost its repulsive color and became clear and brilliant, as if someone had painted with the finest watercolors.
Strange and beautiful plants...
The ground is covered with gem-like stones...
A beautiful monster that resembles an animal...
The ordinary world becomes gorgeous and splendid.
The ugliness that once disgusted people has turned into a strange beauty.
On an abandoned high tower, Xia Xifeng sat on the edge of the tower with his legs dangling, and Qin Lang stood beside him.
Not only did they kill the God of Self, but they also bid farewell to the God of Evolution and the God of Wisdom at the last moment of the end of the world.
Just like in the copy of the parallel world, the weapons in their hands pierced through the chests of the God of Evolution and the God of Wisdom, and the Outer Gods raged helplessly on the edge of the divine realm.
Before Qin Lang embraced Xia Xifeng and left the collapsed divine realm, Xia Xifeng gave the outer gods a middle finger.
I know you have seen me. If you have the guts, come down to the ground and find me, your grandpa!
Haha, I know you can’t come down.
"The transformation of ugliness into beauty is proof that the rules of the Outer Gods have invaded the dream world, proving that the rules of the dream world are being overturned." Xia Xifeng's eyes turned pure gold, his pupils invisible. "However, the rules haven't completely collapsed yet. Outer Gods still can't descend directly into the world, and the gods' battlefield remains in the divine realm. Only pseudo-gods like us, who treat our godhood as external equipment, can wield its power on earth. No demigods have been observed on the ground."
Qin Lang asked, "Teacher Amuruo also went to the Divine Realm?"
Xia Xifeng nodded. "All demigods should have joined the war in the Divine Realm. But considering Teacher Amuruo's personality, he must have left a clone in Green Sand City."
Qin Lang said: "Now is the time for the server to be launched. There is still a month before the Outer God drives away the monsters and attacks Green Sand City."
Xia Xifeng closed his eyes for a while, and when he opened them again, the whites of his eyes and pupils had returned to their normal color.
He was about to rub his eyes when Qin Lang stopped him.
Qin Lang bent down and put eye drops into Xia Xifeng's eyes.
Among Xia Xifeng’s life skills, there is a skill called “Identification”, which is a must-have skill for life players.
Now this "identification technique" can observe the entire world and has become the "divine art" of Xia Xifeng, the demigod.
It's just a strain on the eyes.
The first god-level medicine Xia Xifeng created was his own eye drops.
After Xia Xifeng's eyes felt better, he supported Qin Lang's arm and stood up. "How I wish the system would say 'The game public beta has been launched' and then the fourth disaster would come."
Qin Lang remained silent.
"Alas, there is no more fourth disaster, so we two have to be the fourth disaster." Xia Xifeng cleaned his backpack.
There are three more warehouses in his backpack, namely "The Treasury of the God of Self", "The Treasury of the God of Wisdom" and "The Treasury of the God of Evolution".
The godheads of the God of Wisdom and the God of Evolution are also in the backpack and are special items that cannot be worn.
The item description explained that the Godhead was merely hidden in Xia Xifeng and Qin Lang's backpacks to prevent it from being completely consumed by the Outer Gods. Once the world escaped the apocalypse, the Godhead would return to its normal course, awaiting the demigods who ignited the divine fire.
The outer gods were furious outside the barrier of the divine realm because they discovered that although the God of Evolution and the God of Wisdom were polluted, their godhead was still pure, and the meat that was about to reach their mouths was snatched away by others.
Although they could not wear the divine nature of the God of Evolution and the God of Wisdom, many of the treasures accumulated by the two gods belonged to Xia Xifeng and Qin Lang.
Originally, in the struggle for godhood, if the old god was replaced by the new god, the new god could seize the old god's legacy.
Poor future God of Wisdom and God of Evolution, they have to start from scratch to build up their own wealth.
"Let's go and get ready to go home!" Xia Xifeng jumped and hung on Qin Lang's back.
Qin Lang carried Xia Xifeng on his back and his figure suddenly disappeared.
…
Xia Xifeng never expected that this trial would last so long.
It seemed that after lighting the divine fire, his concept of time suddenly became different from before.
Every day he rubbed props, practiced skills, learned the knowledge displayed by the system, felt the changes in his body and soul, and glanced at Qin Lang's condition. He didn't know whether he was hungry or tired. If it weren't for the doomsday countdown on the system panel, he wouldn't have felt the passage of time.
Xia Xifeng would occasionally take out the magic car, and even though he was not sleepy, he would get in and take a nap, pretending that he was still a mortal.
Qin Lang was a beast. Even in such a high-intensity battle, he wouldn't stop until the God of Self called for a halt.
After the God of Self stripped away his godhead, he had to rest after fighting for a while and let the God of Death replenish his divinity so that he could continue to guide Qin Lang.
If Qin Lang had continued to fight him, they would have come out of the trial field long ago.
But there's no opponent more formidable than a god. What Qin Lang lacks is the experience of actually battling a cunning and powerful opponent. With the end near, Qin Lang and Xia Xifeng both decide to exploit their own gods until the very end.
Later, Xia Xifeng also wanted to practice fighting, so the God of Death, who had been standing on the edge of the battlefield like a stone statue, came to be his opponent and summoned countless undead to hone Xia Xifeng.
After several months of training in the trial field, the relationship between the two gods eased a lot.
Qin Lang and Xia Xifeng stopped training. After training for a while, they stopped to chat with the God of Self and the God of Death to discuss their gains.
The God of Self and the God of Death lived for many years and were very good teachers.
All living beings who have not ascended to godhood will return to the embrace of death after death. The books stored in the domain of the God of Death are as numerous as the stars. His knowledge is profound, second only to the God of Wisdom.
The difference between the God of Death and the God of Wisdom is that He only reads books and does not study them in detail.
Xia Xifeng never thought that he could endure loneliness so well - he didn't even feel lonely.
Several months passed while I was doing things, several months passed while I was reading books, and several months passed while I closed my eyes and thought about my recent gains.
He finally understood why the Sea God was so upset about a thousand years of humiliation. For a god, a thousand years, even if it couldn't be the blink of an eye, was certainly not a long time.
If there was anything that had truly changed in the past decade, it might be the relationship between him and Qin Lang.
The two of them had been drawn into a conspiracy by the God of Self, and immediately went out to poke the God, leaving them no time to sort out this drastic change in their relationship. If this were in the outside world, Xia Xifeng wouldn't know what Qin Lang was thinking, and he'd definitely still be troubled.
But in this trial ground, there were only him and Qin Lang. Even if they didn't actively get close, time would fly by as they chatted about their new discoveries about the system, their recent learning achievements, and their own changes.
When in the trial ground, Xia Xifeng sometimes dreamed of the summer of elementary school.
The weather was very hot and his friends didn't want to go out to play, so he didn't want to go out either.
There was no air conditioning back then. He and Qin Lang lay on a mat spread on the ground, the electric fan whirring. On the small table next to the mat was half a watermelon with two metal spoons stuck in it.
His parents were both at work, his grandparents were away for the summer, and only he and Qin Lang were at home.
Qin Lang was lying on the mat reading a book, and he rolled slowly back and forth beside Qin Lang.
“It’s so hot.”
"You won't feel hot if you don't move around."
Summer vacation passes in the blink of an eye for children, but every hot summer day waiting for their parents to come home feels very long.
Just like now.
Time passed quickly in the trial ground, and only when he and Qin Lang were alone did time return to normal.
In such a normal daily life, no matter how awkward and uncomfortable things are, they will be smoothed out over time.
After a while, the two of them rolled around again, and then even rolling around in bed became a habit for them.
They'd already been together day and night for over a decade, and only been apart for two years since going to college. In this world, they'd been together day and night for over a decade. If they'd been together for half their lives in their original world, it would have been hard to feel shy or avoid each other.
However, the two of them have never told each other that they like each other or love each other.
Xia Xifeng insisted that if he admitted that he liked Qin Lang, it would make him look bad.
What a coincidence, Qin Lang thought the same thing after hearing what Xia Xifeng said.
They don't care about appearance, their personalities are indeed incompatible, and even their values are different. They talk about love, but I really don't know how they fell in love.
In short, you cannot admit that you have poor vision and poor aesthetic taste.
Anyway, the two of them just get along like this, wasting time, who knows what the future will be like.
The end of the world has arrived, and they probably don’t have the mood to bother with this for the time being.
The soul of the God of Self dissipated, and the God of Death left with a handful of ashes left by the God of Self, burying the ashes of nothingness in the Garden of Death.
There is no tomb, no epitaph. The memory of the gods is the epitaph on their tomb. The tomb and epitaph will last as long as the memory of the gods lasts.
After bidding farewell to the God of Wisdom and the God of Evolution, Xia Xifeng and Qin Lang also sent their burnt ashes to the realm of death, becoming neighbors with the God of Self, pretending that the gods would burn themselves out and have an afterlife after turning to ashes.
The God of Wisdom, the God of Evolution, and the God of Self were all the original gods born with the Godhead. Many lesser gods have come and gone, but these gods have never been replaced. They are the most "basic" gods since the birth of life.
[After being born, living things began to evolve. After evolving, they developed a self, and the self began to generate wisdom.]
[The first god of living things, gave his life for living things.]
【Bless my people, there will be a future. 】
[The main quest "Blessing of the God of Living Beings" has ended. Rewards are being calculated and will be distributed soon.]
Xia Xifeng lay on Qin Lang's back and glanced at the system reminder: "Before we go back, let's go to the abyss again."
Qin Lang: "How many gods favored ones should we exchange for?"
Xia Xifeng said, "Let's see how the Abyss's God-Favored Ones are doing. If they're not doing well, we'll replace them. If they're doing well, we'll add a few more. Speaking of which, I forgot to give the new Blood Clan True Ancestor the status of a God-Favored One."
Qin Lang: "It doesn't matter."
Qin Lang forgave Xia Xifeng on behalf of the vampires.
The two of them quietly slipped into the abyss. After donning the godhood of the self-god, no one noticed their presence.
The last time Xia Xifeng used the Self-God Godhead in the Abyss, there were no restrictions. This time, when they wore the amplifier transformed from the Self-Godhead, the Godhead unexpectedly became a physical piece of equipment, automatically returning to the backpack after half an hour and requiring a seven-day cooldown before it could be used again.
The two looked at the new description of the equipment. The divine amplifier has greater limitations on the ground. It can only be used for ten minutes and can only be used again after a seven-day cooldown.
This is also proof that the rules of the outer gods have invaded.
When Xia Xifeng first wore the Godhead Amplifier, the rules of the world hadn't been broken yet. The Abyss was the Abyss of the Abyss Lord, and his own Godhead was naturally invincible. Now, let alone the Abyss, half of the world has been taken away by the Outer Gods, and his own Godhead has become limited.
The God of Self anticipated this when he used the divinity of the outer gods to transform his own godhood.
The divine power amplifier contains the rules of the outer gods, which allows the power amplifier to continue to be used after the end of the world.
Although there is a time limit, the gods on the earth do not descend to the earth and are fighting in the divine realm. The "descending of the gods" once every seven days is enough to change many things.
Furthermore, even without the divine amplification device, Qin Lang and Xia Xifeng were still demigods. After nearly a decade of training, they had essentially mastered the power of demigods. Without entering the divine realm, they would be virtually unbeatable in a one-on-one fight.
However, the Outer Gods have always been shameless. If their traces are discovered, it will be impossible to fight them one-on-one.
"Now we have to move to another place after each shot."
"Um."
"Shall we start with the beginner missions?"
"No."
“It’s a bit of a ritual!”
"No."
"No, there has to be a sense of ceremony. Let's go back and find Sister Chengwei to take on the Novice Village mission."
"Try calling her Big Sister to her face."
"No."
Xia Xifeng quietly cast a halo of God's Favor on the vampire ancestor Rousa, which scared Rousa so much that she jumped up from the throne.
His brother, who was standing next to him as a guard, pushed him back.
Xia Xifeng gave his brother the halo of a god's favorite.
Now the two brothers were unable to hold a proper meeting and looked around for their god.
Xia Xifeng smiled slyly, patted Qin Lang on the back of his head, and let Qin Lang run away.
The sun casts a shadow in the abyss, and the demons of the abyss are aware of the coming of the apocalypse. They finally realize that the evil gods are not native deities, but outsiders. When the foreign gods completely take over the dream world, they will all be doomed, transformed from soul to body into a completely new species, and their selves will naturally cease to exist.
The Abyss Demons are the most self-centered race. How could they tolerate this? Not at all.
I can tolerate cooperating with those unpleasant creatures on the ground.
Qin Lang carried Xia Xifeng on his back and walked around the abyss, but he didn't take back any of his qualifications as a God-favored One.
Xia Xifeng almost laughed out loud when he saw the Demon Kings of the Abyss wiping their tears while reading "Biography of the God of Self (Written by Xia Xifeng)".
When Xia Xifeng laughed out loud and exposed his hiding place, Qin Lang ran away with Xia Xifeng on his back.
"All done, time to go home."
The end of the world is coming, let’s go back to the novice village and start the game from the beginning.
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