Chapter 1299: Chapter 1047: False God and False God?
"Wait a moment." A voice, filled with divine power, rang out, and the Emperor immediately turned around and prostrated himself on the ground. Indeed, under such oppressive power, he could not possibly kneel; he could only prostrate.
"Yes, Great God!" the Emperor said loudly.
"I can sense the presence of a false god among them! You must be careful in your speech this time, and show no flaws!"
"A false god? What is that?" It was the first time the Emperor had heard this term.
"Originally mere mortals who steal divine power and then presume to be gods themselves! That is a false god, the most evil and despicable of beings!"
"Yes, Great God, I understand! I will handle it carefully!" the Emperor quickly responded.
"Good to know! Go then!"
The oppressive power gradually receded, and Hong En Emperor could not lift his head from beginning to end. He did not even know what the god actually looked like; he only knew that if he dared to look at the god, he would surely die.
A false god? A mortal who steals divine power? Can that really be? If divine power can be stolen, are the gods not too foolish?
As Hong En Emperor walked toward his study, all kinds of wild thoughts flickered through his mind. When the guard opened the door for him, he was immediately stunned. In his own study, a man was holding Isrile by the waist with one hand and had his other arm around Ruosha’s shoulder, talking about something.
Is that even possible?
In the mind of Hong En Emperor and most people of this plane, the Dragon Hunting Spider Isrile and the Nightmare Knight Ruosha were absolutely incompatible. Their stories were almost universally known across the plane, and as the top combatants of this plane, barely anyone could rival them. Not long ago, they had jointly solved the plane’s greatest challenge, the Black Iron Fleet issue, successfully averting a crisis that almost swept across the entire plane—even the gods thought it would be a troublesome crisis.
And now, these two powerful individuals were both snuggled up to a man like little women? Who exactly was this man?
On their way here, Isrile and Ruosha had boasted about their achievements to Long Yi like presenting treasures. They also showed Long Yi the treasures Ruosha had obtained: those small Star Devourers.
At this moment, the large Star Devourer cores had already been sent back to the rift through the Golden Order to rejoin their counterparts. The immense Star Devourers immediately lost interest in the rift and no longer eyed this place covetously. However, the two small Star Devourer cores that initially followed Ruosha were still with her. Ruosha had used the two damaged mature Star Devourer cores to reassemble them, making them even more powerful.
However, when Long Yi saw the two Star Devourer cores, he suddenly started scratching his head, just as Isrile and Ruosha had predicted.
It’s another one of those Eternals.
Long Yi had even revisited the Giant’s tablet specifically about these Eternals. The Giants had not considered it an important invention, more often using it as a food preservation box. However, when Long Yi searched the index for information about Eternals, another record appeared:
’What we cannot understand is that the god seemed to show special interest in these Eternals. She asked us in detail about the spatial structure of the Eternals, their magical composition, and the rules of magical variants, which surprised us greatly, knowing that she had not appeared before us for hundreds of years.’
However, at this moment, Long Yi strongly suspected that what was actually interested in these Eternals was not the god, but perhaps the Divine Worm.
Then, at this time, Hong En Emperor just walked in. Long Yi then realized that at some point, he had put his arm around one of them. Realizing this posture was inappropriate, Long Yi let go and approached the Emperor.
"Greetings, esteemed Emperor, my name is Long Yi," Long Yi said.
The Emperor nodded at Long Yi, saying, "Greetings, Mr. Long Yi."
Though puzzled about the origins of Long Yi, the fact that he could simultaneously hold both Isrile and Ruosha meant his strength was undoubtedly formidable.
Long Yi stared at Hong En Emperor for a few moments, then exchanged glances with Isrile and Ruosha, saying, "Actually, we came here because we have some very important matters to discuss with you, but upon seeing you, I feel I already have a satisfying answer."
Hong En Emperor felt very confused. He did not understand what Long Yi was talking about.
"You’ve encountered a god," Long Yi said with a smile.
Just this gentle statement made Hong En Emperor feel as if his hair was about to stand on end.
"Ahem, what do you mean by that? I don’t quite understand?" At this moment, the Emperor still tried to maintain his composure, but his voice was already trembling a bit.
"I mean, you must know someone like this." Saying this, Long Yi displayed his Divine Status.
Divine power instantly splashed out, and, feeling Long Yi’s divine power, the Emperor thought he would again prostrate himself on the ground. But this time, it did not happen; this divine power did not make him feel sad or breathless. On the contrary, he felt very warm and comfortable. He lifted his head, trying to take a peek at Long Yi. In his eyes, Long Yi was a man dressed in a white robe, but under the white hood was a black shadow completely obscuring his face, with immense Divine Text continuously rising behind him.
Grave, but certainly not oppressive, it invoked an involuntary submission in those who experienced it.
Soon, Long Yi retracted his Divine Status and Divine Power, then looked at the Emperor with a smile.
"Yes, I once encountered a god," the Emperor sighed as he spoke. His gaze flickered uncertainly because the foundations that had been laid in his heart seemed to be collapsing, a result of what Long Yi had just done.
When Long Yi first saw the Emperor, he knew that the Emperor must have been tainted by Divine Power. That was why he decisively used his own Divine Status and Power, not to intimidate the Emperor but to drive out the Divine Power that had contaminated him. Clearly, the false god who had tainted the Emperor with its power was far inferior to Long Yi, and the contamination was easily expelled by Long Yi, allowing the Emperor’s condition to gradually return to normal.
"But that god, she was nowhere near as grand as you appear to be; she only invoked fear in me," the Emperor continued. "In fact, that god has been hidden within my nation for a hundred years. Since my grandfather’s time, she has been concealed within this planet, transforming it with her Divine Power, while we continually created various machines at her command. Like my grandfather and father, we were all addicted to her Divine Power, dreaming that it would bring us eternal strength and wealth. However, as my father died, I realized that she didn’t bring eternity to my grandfather or to my father; nor could she bring it to me either. I began to doubt her purposes and meanings, but it was too late to turn back; I had to continue."
"Wait, did you say that this god is hidden beneath this planet?" Long Yi interrupted the Emperor.
"Yes, exactly," said the Emperor.
"That’s careless of me!"
Long Yi had thought that the Divine Worm might be hiding somewhere else, but he hadn’t expected it to be here. His use of Divine Status and Power must have been detected by the adversary already!
Boom!
A slight tremor suddenly emanated from the ground!
"Alert, detection of a large-scale spatial disturbance, massive change in planetary mass, spatial collapse is about to begin!"
Suolin’s voice came through, as she was on board the Grand Explorer orbiting above. The Grand Explorer had just detected a shocking spatial fluctuation, and the mass of the planet below had been halved almost instantaneously, enough to trigger gravitational changes!
"Let’s see!"
Long Yi, no longer caring for the consequences, stomped heavily on the ground, injecting his Divine Power directly beneath.
"The subsurface is completely hollow! That bastard has hollowed out this place!" The speed of Divine Power was extremely fast, and Long Yi immediately identified the problem.
"This planet is beginning to collapse!" Suolin’s voice came again.
"It won’t!" shouted Ruosha.
At her direct command, Whitestar appeared immediately inside the planet. The nearly pure metal Whitesatr, far heavier than the lost mass, raised its shield, propping up the inner walls, and the planet’s collapse was immediately halted.
"How long can it last?" Long Yi asked Ruosha.
"Long enough for you to leave this plane," Ruosha said with a smirk. "Originally, Whitestar’s Power Core was very strong. After collaborating with the Balance Church, I even managed to acquire quite a few Giant Power Cores from them."
"Wait a moment!" Isrile suddenly interrupted Ruosha. Ruosha paused for a moment, then her eyes widened. She pulled out a golden Eternal Solid from her personal space.
"This was... obtained from a warship of the Balance Church..." Ruosha said, somewhat sheepishly.
Long Yi also realized something, he immediately took out the Giant Tablet and searched for the Balance Church, but no such organization existed. He searched for the Golden Warship; although such things existed, the Giants had not left them to an organization called the Balance Church, but instead had discarded this flashy but impractical spaceship in some corner of the universe — after all, dismantling it was too troublesome; it was easier to just throw it away.
"These bastards... are Divine Worms!" Ruosha concluded through gritted teeth.
"But this doesn’t make sense, if they are all Divine Worms, why would they fight each other?" Ruosha asked, puzzled.
"Because they all want to be the main consciousness, not the one that’s devoured," Long Yi said.
It turned out, everything happening on this plane was shadowed by Divine Worms! Whether it was the Balance Church, the previous Star Devourers, or the current Giant Monsters! Unlike the Lower Plane, in this Middle Plane, the Divine Worms even occupied such high-end positions!
But what could be guessed for now was that the Balance Church, the Star Devourers, and the Giant Monsters’ Divine Worms were not allies, and were even enemies of each other. The Star Devourers had already been eliminated by Isrile and Ruosha, leaving only the Balance Church and the Giant Monsters’ Divine Worms to act. How would they proceed?
As for this matter, Long Yi couldn’t just make any random guesses. (To be continued. If you like this work, feel free to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets on Qidian. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to continue reading.)
