Stronger with Crimson Modifier

Chapter 454: Chapter 361: One Arrow Fells the Desolate God

If he had failed, he would have simply turned and left.

Fortunately, he succeeded.

The Golden Armor Illusion said nothing about the reactions of the crowd below.

After glancing toward Hu Qi, it cast its gaze to the enormous pillar of wind in the distance, which connected the heavens and the earth.

On the land shrouded by haze and a frenzied aura, everything between heaven and earth was chaos.

The tornado, stretching from the earth to the sky, resembled a terrifying black giant dragon.

It twisted its body madly, and everything in its path was mercilessly sucked into the dark vortex, as if it intended to devour the entire world.

Seeing this, the Golden Armor Illusion—the Sun God’s Divine Avatar—reached out and took the Sun-Shooting Bow from its back.

The bow’s body seemed forged from dark-gold divine iron, with intricate and mysterious light flowing across its surface.

At either end of the bow hovered two miniature suns, each emitting an eternal golden flame.

The bowstring was woven from strands of light silk, finer than a spider’s thread yet unbelievably strong.

He looked up, staring at the approaching black tornado.

He held the bow steady with one hand and, with the other, gripped the string and began to draw it back.

As he moved, the muscles in his arm tensed.

As the bowstring was drawn, it let out a low, sharp thrum that sounded like a battle hymn from a bygone era.

At the same time, endless rays of light, as if answering a summons, converged upon him like a tidal wave.

On the once-empty bow, an arrow of pure, condensed golden light swiftly materialized.

The golden arrow radiated a blinding light.

The surrounding air, compressed by its immense power, formed visible ripples that rapidly expanded in all directions.

At that very moment, the Tier Five Desolate God Loudra, inside the black tornado, seemed to sense the mortal danger.

It flapped its wings violently and let out a deafening roar that shook the heavens.

Following its roar, the already massive pillar of wind swelled, and an even more ferocious power churned within.

Then, a blast of black, destructive wind erupted from its mouth.

It lunged toward the Pan Mountain Gathering Place like a vicious black dragon.

FWIP!

The Sun God’s Divine Avatar released the half-moon-drawn bowstring without hesitation.

In an instant, the golden arrow shot forward like a falling star, tracing a brilliant arc through the air at an impossible speed.

Space itself seemed unable to withstand its power, tearing open a black rift in the arrow’s wake.

The next moment, the blast of wind and the golden arrow collided.

However, contrary to everyone’s expectations, there was no earth-shattering boom or violent explosion.

The moment they made contact, the terrifying tornado was torn apart as easily as a sheet of paper.

The golden arrow’s momentum was unstoppable; it pierced straight through the sky-rending tornado.

"ROAR!"

A bloodcurdling shriek suddenly rang out.

In that instant, the massive black pillar of wind seemed to lose all its power and simply dissipated.

Then, a massive, hundred-meter-long creature plummeted from the sky, crashing heavily to the ground and kicking up an enormous cloud of dust.

As the Desolate God fell, the dark clouds in the sky began to rapidly disperse.

Golden sunlight poured down unimpeded, illuminating the entire land.

Having done all this, the Sun Deity’s figure gradually faded, eventually disappearing from the sky above the Pan Mountain Gathering Place.

Only then did the crowd, still reeling from shock, come back to their senses.

They fell to their knees in reverence. Some kissed the ground.

Others embraced, their faces filled with the joyful relief of having survived a catastrophe.

Even some Evolvers who had harbored doubts now knelt involuntarily, their eyes filled with awe and shock.

’If they hadn’t seen it with their own eyes, they would never have believed it.’

’That was a Tier Five Desolate God, yet it was slain with a single arrow.’

The faces of some of the Tier Three leaders from the Pan Mountain Gathering Place were twisted in horror.

They knew that even a Tier Five Human War God facing the same situation might have been able to repel or injure the Desolate God, but never could they have instantly killed a Tier Five Desolate God with a single move like the Sun God just did.

Of course, they didn’t know that the power of Hu Qi’s Sun God Divine Avatar had already reached the Late Stage Apostle Level.

According to this world’s Evolver system, the power of a Middle Stage Apostle was equivalent to the peak of Tier Five.

And the Sun God’s power far surpassed that limit.

For the Sun God, killing a Tier Five Desolate God with a single arrow was hardly a difficult task.

If not for the Rune within its body, a single arrow would have left not even a corpse behind.

Hu Qi paid little attention to the crowd’s shock.

He simply gave a few instructions to the people beside him, tasking them with managing the gathering place’s affairs.

Then, he took a step forward and shot into the air, becoming a streak of brilliant, flowing light that flew into the distance at extreme speed.

In the blink of an eye, he landed on the ground more than ten kilometers away.

Before him, a massive beast lay on the ground.

This Tier Five Desolate God looked like a winged liger, magnified countless times over.

At this moment, its massive body lay facing the sky, like a small, imposing hill, creating a powerful visual impact.

The light in its eyes was gone, leaving only a dead, gray stillness, devoid of any vitality.

A huge, gruesome hole pierced its forehead, which was covered in strange patterns.

Hu Qi gazed at the dead Desolate God, his expression unreadable.

Then, he thrust out his arm like an unbreakable sword, plunging it deep into the Desolate God’s massive corpse.

Instantly, a strange power surged. The Desolate God’s mountain-sized body began to wither at a visible rate.

At the same time, the terrifying Essence and Qi and vitality contained within the Desolate God’s body surged into Hu Qi like a tidal wave, continuously devoured and absorbed.

As this powerful energy flooded into him, a blinding red light emanated from Hu Qi’s body, as if he had been set ablaze.

After a few moments, the dazzling red light gradually subsided.

Hu Qi let out a breath and burped.

Even with his Tier Four Peak strength, devouring a Tier Five Desolate God made him feel distinctly bloated.

Fortunately, he had the Spirit Devouring Talent. Completely digesting it was only a matter of time.

In its place, where the Tier Five Desolate God’s corpse had just lain, there was now nothing.

Only a patch of fine ashes remained, scattering gently in the breeze.

In addition, a three-to-four-meter-tall black bone stood silently in its place.

Silver light flowed over the bone, which was densely covered with extremely complex runes that shimmered with a faint luster.

Hu Qi’s gaze flickered as he looked at the wall-sized black bone.

’A Tier Five Rune should be enough to push that unknown Talisman’s completion rate past ten percent.’

With this in mind, he no longer hesitated.

He sat cross-legged on the ground and began to intently study and construct the Rune.

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At the same time Hu Qi manifested his Sun God Divine Avatar in this world and slew the Tier Five Desolate God with a single arrow...

「On the Desolate Star.」

Whether it was the few mighty beings who had reached the level of a Human War God or the Desolate Gods who had entered Tier Five, all of them simultaneously felt a violent palpitation, as if an invisible hand were squeezing their hearts.

Without exception, every one of these beings subconsciously looked up.

Their gazes followed the trail of the aura toward a specific location.

However, before they could react, the terrifying aura vanished.

It was as if it had never been there at all.

At this discovery, these beings fell into a dead silence.

They were not unfamiliar with situations like this one.

Because just a few days ago, they had felt something similar.

The only difference was that back then, the aura had come from the direction of the Western Theater Command.

An investigation into the aftermath revealed that the headquarters of the Western Theater Command, the Steel City, had been destroyed, and its leader, a Human War God, was thought to have been severely wounded.