With a thought, Fang Xiu unleashed a water-like shadow from within his body, covering his entire form. After a moment, the shadow slowly receded, revealing a blonde, blue-eyed, snow-white-skinned female angel with dark purple shadows around her eyes and wearing chains.
It was the Shadow Angel.
Having successfully refined it, he can now transform into the appearance of the Shadow Angel with ease, looking even more lifelike than a real person.
With a slight flap of his enormous black wings, Fang Xiu soared into the air, his terrifying pressure spreading out like a tornado across the entire Shadow Demon Realm, causing the hills and land formed by shadows to ripple in layers.
It was as if a king was on a royal procession, so oppressive that the entire land could not lift its head.
Following the Shadow Angel's instructions, he arrived at Shadow City, the center of the Shadow Demon Realm. It was a city made of shadows, inhabited by more than five million souls, all of whom were selected by the Blood Angel from the Xuanming Realm and given to the Shadow Angel.
In the very center of Shadow City stands a statue of a shadow angel, taller than the city gates, surrounded by people kneeling in worship, and churches dot the streets and alleys.
These five million people must worship the Shadow Angels to live in Shadow City, or they will be eaten.
The moment Fang Xiu appeared in the form of the Shadow Angel, the entire city erupted in cheers. More than five million believers, whether they were believers or not, began to kneel and worship, chanting hymns and praising the Shadow Angel.
"It's done?" Fang Xiu's eyes flickered slightly. Unseen by everyone, wisps of ethereal faith power burst forth from these people, some thick and some thin, frantically converging towards him.
As expected, after he refined the Shadow Angel, these believers became his followers, and he could absorb their faith power in place of the Shadow Angel.
However, the faith provided by these five million believers is weak and of poor quality. If five million people were randomly selected from the Xia Kingdom, they would provide far more faith than these people.
This is unavoidable; the two sides' beliefs are not on the same level at all. The Shadow Angels only forced people to believe through power and coercion, and their endless demands have brought these five million people to the brink of exhaustion.
After a moment's thought, Fang Xiu decided to put all five million souls into the divine kingdom; even a mosquito's leg is meat.
With a thought, unimaginable changes began to occur within the divine kingdom. Beneath the earth, relying on the broken land of reincarnation, a special space resembling the underworld was slowly taking shape.
He wants to establish the underworld within the realm of God.
Establishing the Underworld was easy, because he had absolute control over the Divine Kingdom. It was just a matter of freeing up a space and expending some power. However, building a complete Six Paths of Reincarnation was very difficult. He had already tried before, but with his own path of reincarnation and the broken land of reincarnation, he was simply unable to build the Six Paths of Reincarnation. It was merely a shell.
The existence of the Six Paths of Reincarnation is essential, allowing the divine kingdom to grow into a flawless little world.
The divine kingdom is constantly losing power. Its people die and their souls dissipate. But when these dissipated souls return to heaven and earth, they are not completely absorbed. In the process of energy transformation, there will inevitably be losses.
The birth of a newborn consumes the divine kingdom's essence, and new souls are formed. This process also involves losses. In other words, the life and death of the divine kingdom's people consumes the divine kingdom's essence, resulting in a situation where income cannot cover expenditure.
However, the people are relatively small compared to the size of the divine kingdom, so this consumption is not obvious. Only over a long period of time will it become alarming.
If there is the Six Paths of Reincarnation, then when the people of the divine kingdom die, their souls will not dissipate between heaven and earth, but will go to the underworld to be reborn. The divine kingdom will not need to consume its own resources to condense new souls for newborns, forming a perfect cycle without causing any waste.
Most importantly, the potential of these five million souls is almost exhausted, and only by experiencing reincarnation and being reborn can they gain new vitality.
Soon, under Fang Xiu's control, a special space similar to the underworld was formed beneath the divine kingdom. He directly threw all five million souls into the divine kingdom's underworld, attempting to reincarnate using the damaged land of reincarnation.
The result, unsurprisingly, was failure.
Unfortunately, they had no choice but to find another way.
He returned to the inner world and summoned the Shadow Angel.
"Lord Fang Xiu, are you satisfied with those five million souls?" The Shadow Angel smiled alluringly, a hint of flattery in her smile.
"Not satisfied."
Thump!
The Shadow Angel knelt on the ground as if she had lost her parents, her delicate body trembling uncontrollably: "Please punish me, Lord Fang Xiu!"
Are there any other places around here where I can receive offerings and prayers?
"Only the Xuanming Domain remains. It contains billions of souls and can certainly meet your needs, my lord."
Fang Xiu didn't respond. He had already used up all the Domain Lord's Tokens in the Xuanming Domain, and it wouldn't be able to replenish them in a short time. Moreover, after this incident, the Blood Angel would definitely not use the Domain Lord's Tokens to collect incense offerings and prayers anymore.
To obtain the incense offerings and prayers of the Xuanming Domain, he first needed to defeat the Blood Angel. He assessed his own strength and realized that even after refining the sixth-grade Shadow Angel, it would still be difficult to fight against the Blood Angel, since the latter was only a fifth-grade being.
The difference between grades increases as you go down.
This made him set his sights on the aging witch.
Do you know anything about the Aging Witch?
Upon hearing this, the Shadow Angel hurriedly said, "Lord Fang Xiu, that Aging Witch is about as strong as me, but she possesses the power to make people age. Even if we Heavenly Demon Gods are affected, we cannot get rid of the aging form in a short time."
Even after Kimir's breakthrough, he dared not provoke her, because the Aging Witch would turn him into an old man, greatly weakening his power.
Fang Xiu frowned slightly. The Aging Witch and the Shadow Angel were at the same level, both at the sixth rank, but she possessed a power that made the fifth-rank Kimir wary. If a sixth-rank being could make a fifth-rank being wary, then the Aging Witch's past life was probably not simple.
Who are the gods in the West who control the power of aging?
He was unfamiliar with Western mythology, and the real history was not entirely the same as the myths. He would have to wait until he met the Witch of Aging before making any specific plans.
"You said before that the three of you joined forces to attack the Xuanming Domain, and then Kimir and the Aging Witch betrayed you? Why is the Aging Witch so obedient to Kimir's arrangements? It seems that Kimir did not give her any part of the Xuanming Domain."
This is also a question that Fang Xiu can't understand. It is obvious that in the end, Kimir alone occupied the Xuanming Domain, which means that the Shadow Angel and the Aging Witch did not gain any benefits. However, the two did not join forces to deal with Kimir, but instead allowed him to break through to the fifth rank.
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