The eighth sword light formed a warm yellow sword cage, imprisoning the Forsaken One inside! The Forsaken One tried to destroy the sword barrier, but his attacks were countered by the surging sword intent!

Middle-level wonder: sword body cage!

Round after round of dark blue ink marks spread out on the periphery and then converged in an instant. The Forsaken, who had no choice but to hold up his magical defense to resist, but each round of ink marks was equivalent to using the soul foundation of the God Lord of Ash to crush his demigod soul. After seven consecutive rounds of attacks, the Forsaken's soul completely collapsed and spontaneously combusted and extinguished in the cage.

The upper wonder: the Heart Hunter Throne!

"Sonia, this wonder makes up for your biggest shortcoming," Death Maniac said: "Although the 'Heart Hunter Throne' that the Phantom helped you build is rough and powerful, it is more suitable for large-scale wars. Enemies can easily dodge in small-scale battles. The sword body cage effectively restricts the movement of the enemy, making it easier for you to use the Heart Hunter Throne for long-distance high-frequency output."

Ash glanced at her, nodded and said, "The sword cage is indeed unexpectedly practical. To repay Sword Princess, I will hug her and kiss her madly when I get back."

The dead man's lips moved slightly, and he muttered: "We need to pay attention to the impact..."

Ash asked, "If I want to give her a surprise, when would be the right time?"

Si Kuang answered immediately: "When she has just finished training and is sweating, she will feel refreshed but a little disgusted with herself. If you hug her at that time, she will feel embarrassed to complain about you on the surface, but in her heart she will definitely like your clinginess, and also..."

Looking at the incessantly chattering Death Maniac, Ash thought that she was as easy to understand as Sword Princess. Her likes and dislikes were too obvious. If he only discussed Sword Princess with her, then Death Maniac was actually quite easy to get along with.

He said: "This is the third Forsaken Person."

"The frequency of attacks will increase." Death Maniac said, "You have been noticed by the Great Snake's stomach. When a siege team formed by three Forsaken appears, you must give up looting and try to avoid fighting and delay time. However, you only have 50 minutes left to stay, which is just enough time to leave Hell before the Forsaken increase their forces."

Until now, Ash has not been able to leave Hell freely and must stay there until the traces are exhausted. Therefore, Ash immediately went into Hell as soon as he recovered from his injuries. Otherwise, as his traces accumulated more and more and the time spent exploring Hell became longer and longer, his risk would become greater and greater.

Ash kept flying along the Golden River, and soon he saw a tall tower appearing in front of him. But strangely, the tower was not built on either side of the Golden River, but directly on the Golden River.

Ash asked curiously, "Are all the demigod strongholds in Black Hell built on rivers? Is it for easy transfer? Or are there resources in the river?"

Death Maniac said casually: "You will understand if you fly down and look at the river."

Ash flew down and hovered above the Golden River. After observing it for a moment, he asked hesitantly, "Golden River?"

He didn't think it was the Flowing Gold River at first because he didn't feel the time power of the Flowing Gold River that could dissolve everything. But after getting closer, no matter how he looked at it, this river looked like the Flowing Gold River, except...

The golden river here will not flow.

"Is a still golden river considered a golden river?" Si Kuang asked in return with a smile, "Is time that has stopped flowing considered time?"

"If you touch the river water here, you will not be washed away by time, but your consciousness will be stuck in a state of stillness for hundreds or thousands of years, depending on how many drops of river water you touch."

"This is not the Liujin River. We generally call it the Zangjin River. You can understand that this is the reservoir of the Liujin River."

Ash was startled: "Reservoir?"

"When the Flowing Gold River in the outside world overflows, water will be stored here; when the Flowing Gold River in the outside world dries up, the water here will be used." Death Maniac said, "Although the flooding and drying up of the Flowing Gold River sounds a bit unbelievable, it was a very frequent natural phenomenon during the God War. You use a Flowing Gold River and I use a Flowing Gold River, and it will soon be used up... There was once a timeline where we exhausted all the tributaries of the Flowing Gold River in the Void Realm in order to fight Ouroboros, and even this Gold River dried up. The human world and the Void Realm completely stopped, and only Hell and Heaven could still operate."

"Is it useful?"

"A world where time stops is to Ouroboros what breaded and deep-fried lard is to Uroboros. You can eat it without spitting out the bones."

Ash glanced at the endless Golden River and said, "Then the demigods of Black Hell are all proficient in the time faction? After all, the time resources here are so abundant—"

"You are wrong. There are all kinds of resources here, except time." Si Kuang shook his head: "Standing time is not time. A standing gold river will not produce time resources."

"But because a lot of time has passed since the storage, the resources here regenerate very quickly. As for what resources will be produced, it depends on the popularity of magic in the outside world. But in any case, this place is always more diverse than the Deep Blue Hell. Therefore, the Black Hell has always been the layer with the largest number of demigods and the most complex magic factions."

When Ash entered the tower, the first thing he saw was a dark purple transparent sculpture in the central hall, which looked like a human body without color.

"Higher wonder 'Exile'." Death Maniac glanced at it, paused for a long time, and then slowly said: "Exile the target into a pure soul form, unable to make any physical contact, and greatly increase all soul influences, whether good or bad, received."

Hearing that it was a soul wonder, Ash quickly put the transparent sculpture into the soul heaven. Seeing this, Death Maniac curled his lips and snorted coldly: "It's a useless rubbish wonder. It's difficult to completely banish the demigod into the soul form. At most, it can banish a part of the body..."

"Hey, can that wonder Sword Girl be used?" Ash pretended to be curious and asked, pointing to another dark green sculpture wonder in the tower.

The Death Maniac stared at him suspiciously, and Ash blinked with a sincere look.

"...That's the poison magic wonder "Toxic Guard". It can't be activated instantly. It takes ten seconds to cast it." Death Maniac introduced reluctantly: "This is not for personal use. When the base is invaded, everyone can borrow it together to temporarily build a poisonous guard line of defense. Except for the witch who can use her sister's clone to cast the spell, no one else is suitable for this wonder."

"Go back and ask the witch if she wants it."

Ash continued to loot the supplies in the tower and found that only a small part of them had been taken away. It was obvious that the magicians in the tower fled in a hurry and did not even have time to pack their luggage. It seemed that they were attacked by the Forsaken.

As they flew along the Zangjin River, Death Maniac suddenly said, "Are you really that..."

"Um?"

"Never mind. It's nothing."

Ash glanced at her, thought for a moment and said, "I know you are not actually dissatisfied with me allocating resources to Vichy. Last time when I found the Soul Wonder in the Desolate Hell, you didn't care that I allocated the wonder to Vichy."

"The person you are dissatisfied with is not Vichy, but me."

"So if you have any opinions, just say it to me. At least I won't have any opinions."

Si Kuang took a cigarette out of the cigarette box, put it between his lips and said: "Is that kind of person worthy of your protection?"

Ash snapped his fingers, a cluster of flames popped out from his fingertips, and he took the initiative to light a cigarette for his sister.

"I know who she is," he said quietly, "but now she's mine."

At this time, the next water palace had appeared in front of them. Ash landed and asked, "You haven't answered why these demigod settlements are all on the water. Is it because it is convenient for plundering resources?"

Si Kuang sat on the railing with his legs crossed, smoking with a melancholy expression. After a while, he said, "No, it's to stop the flood."

Ash: "The Great Flood?"

"The Hidden Gold River is still most of the time, but once it starts moving, it will be a devastating flood until it submerges the Black Hell." Death Maniac said, "No prophet can accurately predict when the flood will break out. Two floods may be separated by a hundred years or three days. So a long time ago, the Black Hell Demigod artificially controlled the floods, releasing them about once every five hundred years. At that time, all the Demigods would evacuate to the upper and lower levels, and the rest of the time, they would rely on the Demigod Resident to suppress the Hidden Gold River."

"The Black Hell is the most unfriendly place for lone wolves. All resources here are monopolized by demigod forces. If a lone wolf takes a bite, he will be surrounded and annihilated. This is because in order to suppress the Flowing Gold River, the Black Demigods must guard and reinforce the nodes of the Hidden Gold River day and night. If they are not careful, a disaster will overturn. It also wastes their time and energy. The risk is extremely high and the cost is not small. If there is no corresponding benefit, no one is willing to do it."

Ash nodded: "That's right. In order to fight against the natural disaster, everyone must make sacrifices and unite. Unity means organization, and organization means rules. Lone wolves who refuse to abide by the rules will inevitably infringe on the rights of others who are willing to sacrifice... Since the flood is released every five hundred years, there should be a decision-making body in Black Hell?"

"The Black Council," said Death Maniac. "It's a very boring organization, with a bunch of demigods running around in it... It's worth mentioning that many people you know have served as chairpersons of the Black Council."

"A lot of people I know?"

"Stars, Omniscience, Infinity, Fantasy, Blood Moon... Senluo has never been one of them, because she is in the same period as Omniscience, and she cannot compete with the prophecy demigod Omniscience." Death Maniac sneered: "As the largest demigod ally in hell, which ambitious person can resist getting involved?"

Ash suddenly found it quite interesting. He knew that these gods had served as presidents of the Black Council thousands of years ago, and there must have been hundreds or thousands of years between them. But when he thought that they had all served in the same position, Ash had a sense of déjà vu that "famous alumni such as Fanxing had served as president of the Student Union."

He suddenly realized something: "What about you guys?"

Death Maniac exhaled a round of smoke rings and said unhappily: "The Viewer was also the Speaker, but his term was only a few months because he swept away half of the Black Drop's resources and ran away."

"Well, then—"

"Don't ask. I'm not interested in talking to you about his great achievements!"

"No," Ash pointed to the back and said, "I want to ask if today happens to be a day that only happens once every five hundred years?"

Death Maniac turned his head and saw a golden torrent sweeping over from far away, completely filling up the huge cave world. What was even more amazing was that although there was a raging flood in the distance, the Golden River next to Death Maniac Ash was still as still as a mirror, without any ripples!

An hour after arriving at the third level of hell, they saw the Black Fall flood that occurs once every five hundred years. It was well worth the price of admission.

"Impossible!" Si Kuang shook his head and muttered, "You are still far away from the flood at this time, how is it possible?"

"That's the sudden outburst?"

"Impossible. If it erupted suddenly, the whole river would boil. It wouldn't be like this... I understand!"

Death Maniac soared into the air, but she did not look at the direction of the flood, but looked at the other end of the Hidden Gold River: "This is the Black Drop Council unlocking the nodes of the Hidden Gold River one by one, actively causing a flood. There is only one reason - they want to use the flood to wipe out the Forgotten Legion! No one can survive a flood, and the Forgotten are no exception!"

"This is the front line between Ouroboros and the Six Hells. The Black Demigod is fighting right in front!"

"The third level of hell has not fallen yet!"