The seventh year of the Holy Light, the first month.
With the concerted efforts of the two pantheons, all preparations were completed on schedule.
The instant time passed midnight.
One after another, the celestial curtains slowly unfolded from the void, and stirring war songs began to resound across the sky. The epic battle for the gods, which had attracted the attention of all realms, had finally begun.
"Knock knock...knock knock..."
The examiners from all over the world and all living beings from all realms looked up.
But then they saw the laws of the sky intertwined, and countless images gradually emerged.
It was a scene depicting the gods attacking the abyss's inner layers:
Angels, clad in golden armor and standing in neat rows, bravely fought the enemy.
Their expressions were fierce, and with every move they made, a vast holy light shone down, slaying large numbers of abyssal demons.
"Evil spirits should be purified."
The camera zooms in, showing a twelve-winged angel charging into the horde of monsters and annihilating the abyss passage along with thousands of demons with a single sword strike.
A line of text appeared simultaneously: Holy Light Pantheon, Angel of War and Punishment, Losia.
"Divine punishment."
Surrounded by three divine artifacts—a holy book, a scepter, and a longsword—an angel with eight wings coldly pointed downwards, and instantly thousands of six-pointed star arrays in the sky simultaneously poured down, annihilating hundreds of millions of demons.
The same line of text appeared: Holy Light Pantheon, Divine Angel Annalia.
“I will grant you death.”
As a black-robed skeleton carrying a scythe strolled leisurely, the surrounding monsters fell in droves like wheat being harvested.
The pantheon of the undead, the god of death.
The images flashed continuously, capturing one heroic moment after another.
The Abyss Legion, which once brought destruction and terror to all realms, is now as weak as a slime in the hands of the two pantheons, utterly vulnerable.
"So the various pantheons are that powerful! My god, those are high-ranking demon gods, any one of them could flatten our entire plane!"
"It's just that the Holy Light and the Undead pantheon are strong. It's said that the other pantheons combined have destroyed less than one-tenth of the abyss passages they have."
"This feels like the most promising era in all realms in countless years!"
Looking at the images in the sky, the morale of the natives of various worlds, as well as the lords and professionals of the real world, was greatly boosted.
We have gained a new understanding of the strength of the Holy Light and the Undead pantheon, which rank first and second in the hierarchy.
"We absolutely must join these two pantheons!"
Just as everyone was pondering this, the scene in the sky changed again, and the background music became even more exciting.
A creature shrouded in a light black mist, its face obscured, emerged, with deep, icy abyssal demonic energy prostrate at its feet. Even the mere image seemed to emanate a terrifying pressure that shook the soul, bringing profound despair.
A line of text appeared: Abyss Demon Emperor.
Opposite it, a man holding a dark jade staff and surrounded by a golden scripture slowly walked out of the divine kingdom through the void.
As if encountering its natural enemy, the Abyss Demon Emperor began a frenzied attack.
It conjured a gigantic maw that could devour the heavens, but was instead swallowed up.
It condensed into countless sharp spear shadows, but was directly shattered by the man's vast divine power.
"Today I will destroy this incarnation of yours, sever all the passages to the abyss, and imprison you for a hundred years, preventing you from ever being born again."
The man pointed, and the figure of the Abyss Demon Emperor disintegrated in the air, destroying tens of thousands of abyss passages.
A line of introduction appeared at the opportune moment: Jiang Yan, Lord of the Holy Light and the Undead Pantheon.
He seemed to have done something insignificant, then turned and looked down, his gaze seemingly transcending time and space to converse with all living beings in the universe:
"I await the day when you stand shoulder to shoulder with me."
The image froze for a full ten seconds, then gradually blurred, evolving into a line of large golden text:
The battle for godhood has officially begun; you could be the next hero.
At the same time, the spells on countless examinees who had previously registered were activated, and countless teleportation arrays lit up, transforming into billions of streams of light that surged toward the examination site.
"The editing is good."
Seeing this scene, Jiang Yan, who was in the Holy Realm, couldn't help but praise it.
The cutscenes from when the gods appeared in the world before were quite good, so this time he spent a huge amount of soul crystals to have the worlds do a full-plane live stream and opening sequence.
Of course, some minor artistic embellishments and post-recording were done, but it is basically the same as the truth.
The purpose, of course, was to further proclaim the power of the two pantheons and to tell all the living beings that the abyss had retreated thanks to the efforts of the two pantheons.
After all, if you do something good, you should let people know, right?
......
At this moment, in the underworld.
"The first round of the combat power group selection competition has begun."
"Please kill as many alien beasts as possible along the marked route and bring their corpses back intact. The top 1 trillion creatures in terms of the final kill count will advance to the next round."
"Special reminder: Please do not worry about dying. The Holy Light and the Undead pantheon have a complete resurrection system. Even if you are reduced to ashes, you can be restored."
Under the control of the will of the underworld and the mechanical overlord in Jiang Yan's divine kingdom, each examinee was precisely deployed to various planets.
This assessment was also the product of Jiang Yan's careful consideration.
The entire underworld is home to more than 10,000 powerful beings. If he were to rely solely on his existing forces to cleanse it, it would take at least ten years to achieve complete unification.
However, there are now nearly 10,000 powerful examiners from all walks of life, and on average, each person only needs to kill one strange beast to completely wipe out the underworld.
This measure, besides replenishing a massive number of undead troops and applying for the next great world from various realms, is also quite fair and effective for these examinees.
It's a win-win-win situation; everyone's won so much they're practically exhausted!
At this moment, on a planet in the underworld.
"Advancing from the previous trillion... is it one in a billion? Interesting."
A gaunt old man listened to the assessment instructions in his ear and revealed a bloodthirsty smile.
As a powerful high god who has lived for countless years, although these strange beasts are not weak, they are nothing more than things he can destroy with a wave of his hand.
"Hmm... there are only a few, let's start from the left."
He locked onto his target with his divine sense, and his divine power condensed into countless small, blood-red arrows, which suddenly pierced through the air and flew away.
Whoosh whoosh!
Faced with such a vast disparity in strength, these native beasts of the underworld were utterly powerless to resist and were instantly slaughtered; in no time, tens of thousands of them were wiped out.
The old man collected the corpses one by one and prepared to travel to the next planet.
At that moment, a peculiar fluctuation occurred.
"Respected expert, as one of the top 100 examinees who have slain over 10,000 beasts, you have earned the favor of the Underworld's will. Do you wish to load the auxiliary system to view the kill counts of other examinees in real time and receive optimal route planning guidance...?"
"I refuse."
The old man frowned as he sensed the strange fluctuations emanating from his mind, and then spoke without hesitation.
He has always been cautious by nature; how could he possibly integrate something of unknown origin?
That's such a pity. I wish you all the best.
After a three-second pause, the fluctuation quickly subsided, leaving behind a single sentence.
"What a strange thing... But this is the testing ground overseen by the Holy Light and the Necromancer pantheon, so it's unlikely that anything harmful would have gotten in..."
The old man shook his head, didn't think any further, and flew straight towards a nearby planet.
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