Chapter 205 The Fall of the Supreme God: God of Courage and Hope
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What did He say?
Those who heard it stared in disbelief at the agile, fierce, and majestic black giant wolf. Its mysterious golden eyes revealed its identity as a god they had never seen before.
But what does the Lord God call Him?
Nanmen Jue?
It's Nanmen Jue!
Wei Chongru stared blankly at the giant wolf, and for the first time let out a roar that echoed that of the supreme god: "This is impossible!"
On the giant wolf's back, Jin Jian was also stunned and speechless. He stared blankly down at the trembling fur under his palm. Each hair contained an extremely terrifying power. He had experienced this power in the main god and in that raven, but it should never have appeared in Nanmen Jue.
Because this power also contains a ruthlessness that transcends all things.
The appearance of the chief god and the raven shattered humanity's understanding of gods. It turns out that so-called gods can also be injured, die, experience joy, anger, and desire; they are nothing more than stronger beings.
But even beings that powerful... would they still possess human-like cognition and emotions?
Just minutes before, Jin Jian was fantasizing about how devout he would be if Nanmen Jue were a god. But when she actually became Him, and the giant wolf with golden eyes replaced the black-eyed phoenix-eyed person in front of him, a huge emptiness appeared in his heart. His mind was in complete chaos, and he couldn't understand many things. However, before his brain could even process it, his heart had already felt sadness.
He had a vague feeling that he had lost something important.
Jin Jian gripped the wolf fur beneath him tightly, and murmured, "Miss Nanmen."
The giant wolf's body undulated slightly, like a real wolf facing a powerful enemy.
Immediately afterwards, the giant wolf bent its front legs, shaking the people off its body.
Then He stood up again and stood in front of the crowd.
“Vipernicus.” The giant wolf spoke, and it was indeed Nanmen Jue’s voice, only deeper, with something added and something removed.
"Nanmen Jue, you've truly gone mad!" The Supreme God stared intently at Him. "And my kinsman, has He gone mad too? How dare you step into this forbidden territory!"
"What are you angry about?" Nanmen Jue asked. "Is it that insignificant humans dare to become your kind, or that the taboo between humans and gods has been broken, causing your sense of superiority to vanish?"
"You have no idea what this means!" the chief god roared. "Nanmenjue, you actually stole His divine status! Nocturnus loved you so much, how could you do this!"
“…What?” A slight fluctuation appeared in Nanmen Jue’s calm tone, but not much. “You’re saying that Nocturnus gave me his godhood?”
"Don't you know the two necessary conditions for the ascension ceremony?" The main god looked like he was about to pounce on Nanmen Jue and bite him to death.
“Noctunas told me that the necessary condition for the ritual is the power of faith,” Nanmenjue said.
"With only the power of faith, you will only become a false god. Perhaps you can possess great power, but you will never be recognized by the entire universe." The chief god's fangs hissed. "Everything has its balance. Our race is the master of the universe, but the price is the limitation of our numbers. Godhood is fixed. When one god falls, another is born... As expected of a creature from the lower realm, without the inheritance of memories, you are just a brute with empty power."
Nanmen Jue fell silent.
Was the price for His becoming a god the fall of Noctua? No, that's impossible. He promised Him that He would bring Nanmen Yu back to life.
Even if He Himself became a god, He could not do this; only the authority of Noctua could.
Moreover, He could vaguely sense that Nocturnus had not perished.
"You didn't react at all." The voice of the Supreme God was filled with an indescribable disappointment. "Nanmen Jue, I thought you were different, but it turns out that in your pursuit of power... your ambition is no different from anyone else's."
Nanmen Jue remained silent, his golden eyes gleaming with a golden light, devoid of sorrow or joy.
“Very well, very well,” said the supreme god. “You helped me kill my formidable enemy, and I should thank you, but you also killed my own kind, so I will also kill you, you despicable thief—”
"It's so noisy," Nanmen Jue said. "Have you noticed? You've always been a lot of talkers, and when you're fighting, your ability to make threats is better than your actual fighting ability."
The Supreme God was incredulous. "What did you say?"
“I’m a brute,” Nanmen Jue continued calmly. “A brute means that my fist is bigger than yours.”
Without any hesitation, Nanmen Jue launched the first attack!
The black wolf pounced on the giant snake, biting hard at its neck. The giant snake raised its head high, its long tail coiling around the black wolf's waist.
The collision of the two colossal objects caused the entire space to become unstable; if the two continued fighting like this, the entire hall would collapse.
At the critical moment, the giant wolf swung its waist, pulling the giant snake wrapped around it into the spatial rift created by the snake.
The rift closed in an instant, and no one knew where the two gods had entered or what kind of battle they would engage in.
The survivors looked at each other in bewilderment. Across the ruins, Wei Chongru and Jin Jian gazed at each other, their faces showing the same grimness and confusion.
...
The black wolf and the giant serpent fell into the endless universe.
Like the most primitive battle between beasts, both sides were determined to inflict damage on each other with their claws and teeth. The surrounding space fluctuated, and a huge suction force like a black hole was generated during the fall. The surrounding planets and meteorites were all agitated and gradually approached the two.
Nanmen Jue is currently in a very mysterious state.
He still remembered everything that happened when He was a human, but it was like watching a movie. He sat in an empty movie theater and watched a long and boring movie.
He had witnessed the unforgivable despair and loneliness, the love and resentment tinged with guilt, but all of that was far removed from Him. He could recall more than the human Nanmen Jue, yet He could no longer feel the intense emotions of the human Nanmen Jue.
The gods are such a cold race. Life becomes an endless river, and time becomes points and lines that can be manipulated at will. So many planets, so much life—Nanmen Jue felt he could destroy them all with the slightest gesture.
In the game of the gods, the loss of life and the destruction of civilization are merely the most insignificant costs.
He could do it too, He could do it, but in the endless fall, Nanmenjue still subconsciously avoided all planets where life existed.
Why did he do that? Nanmen Jue couldn't explain it. He no longer felt sadness or anger over the passing of life, but just like in the spatial hall, he did it subconsciously.
He didn't even notice who he saved, or whether he knew any of them.
So what if we know each other? So what if we don't? His only target right now is Vipernix, and his goal is to kill him.
"This is impossible!" Vipernix cried out again, but compared to the shock and anger he felt when he first met Nanmenjue, he was now filled with fear. "How could you be so strong so soon after your birth... What else have you done!"
"I did nothing."
Nanmenjue said before biting off the snake's neck.
“Vipernix, for your own purposes, you have dragged so many worlds into hell. The hatred and resentment of those people have all turned into hope and gathered on me. Do you know how terrible that power of will is?”
The black wolf's sharp teeth pierced deep into the snake's scales. The struggling consciousness in its mind slowly faded and disappeared. It fiercely raised its head and tore the entire snake's head off.
“I am not just myself, but the embodiment of all the humans who died by your hand, the god of courage and hope, Nanmen Jue.”
Vepernix, the god of despair and fear, has fallen.
Nanmen Jue regained her human form and stood quietly in the universe. A shimmering golden light emerged from the snake's head and slowly fell into her hand.
This is the divine nature of Vipernicus.
Remembering what Vipernicus had said before, about Nocturnus sacrificing his own godhood to bring about His rebirth, Nanmen Jue clenched his fists, wanting to return to the space hall immediately, but found himself being stopped.
Vipernicus has fallen, and everything He owned belongs to Nanmenjue, including... the right to use the Reincarnation Space.
The supreme god did not die; He became the new supreme god.
With a thought, Nanmen Jue instantly displayed the entire cycle of reincarnation in his vast sea of consciousness, including all the reincarnation worlds and the world that was being transformed into the apocalypse.
Nanmen Jue then realized just how many worlds Vipernicus had destroyed.
No wonder that reincarnators keep a record of the reincarnation worlds they have entered, yet they still rarely manage to enter the same world again.
Nanmen Jue remained silent for a moment. Vipernicus could not enter the reincarnation space at will before, and he cannot enter it at will now, unless he violently broke through the space like that, which was not worth it.
Since He couldn't think of a way to go back, He simply started sorting out the remaining cycles of reincarnation.
Anchor points in worlds that haven't completely turned into apocalypse have been removed, halting the transformation. Worlds that aren't severely affected will enter a self-cleaning mode and quickly return to normal. As for worlds that have already turned into apocalypse, Nanmen Jue has returned to his old ways.
—Destroy all anchor points with a single click.
Nocturnus's contract still applies to Him, which is why He believes He is not dead.
After transferring everyone to Nocturnus's space, Nanmenjue waved his hand and began to mold the world with his bare hands.
This is the authority of "hope." Although it cannot be as fast as the God who created authority, as long as He has "hope," He can do things that He might not have been able to do otherwise.
At the same time, because of Nanmen Jue's actions, all the reincarnation worlds were destroyed.
All the reincarnators who were originally doing tasks inside were instantly thrown back into the space hall.
Seeing the mess in the hall that served as the safe house, everyone was stunned and rushed to find out what had happened. Even after hearing the truth, they still couldn't believe it.
"That's impossible!"
Almost everyone connected to Nanmen Jue, upon hearing what had happened, uttered this same angry roar as their first outburst.
Mo Gui and Mo Heng had returned to the real world, and they came back as soon as the spatial restrictions were lifted. Upon hearing this news, Mo Gui gritted his teeth and stood up.
"Where are you going?" Terra asked, having returned from the cycle of reincarnation.
"I'm going to find Sister Jue."
"but……"
Amidst the chaos, yet another person fell back from the cycle of reincarnation.
Ying Yao looked around, didn't ask anyone, roughly pushed through the crowd, and rushed to room 404 on the fourth floor.
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