Chapter 75: Sacrifices Birthing a G.o.d

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If Qing Han had said this, Lu Yun would only think it was the influence of whatever had a hold on him .  

However, Mo Yi was an august immortal . She was channeling her full power, seven stars forming the Big Dipper around her and releasing terrifying force . More importantly, her eyes were clear and her thoughts cogent .

“The river G.o.d . Where is he?” Lu Yun furrowed his brows, as he couldn’t see anything .

Mo Yi offered no reply . She was completely ready to fight, her gleaming sword drawn and form hovering in the air .

“August immortal… the Truewater city lord is an august immortal?!” Qi Shenghui and the others goggled at Mo Yi with shock . She wasn’t the typical august immortal, either . The eunuch felt that even the three of them working in tandem wouldn’t be able to defeat her .

“She’s hidden a lot from the outside world . ” Qin Xianhuo’s eyes gleamed with insight . “Her original cultivation must’ve been even higher still… she ruined her own cultivation to descend to this level!”

“Ruined her own cultivation!” The others looked at Mo Yi with disbelief . All immortals sought the heavenly dao to attain ever-greater heights . To voluntarily nullify one’s level required incredible courage and resolve .

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“Do not attack,” the zombie king instantly said when she saw that Mo Yi was poised for battle . “The tomb for the living bars its pa.s.sage . ”

When the tomb returned to the abyss, it had erected a barrier . It wasn’t to keep Lu Yun and the others in, but to keep the horrors below the abyss out .

At the zombie girl’s warning, Mo Yi returned to the ground, retracting the crown of stars above her head as she did so . However, her brilliant sword was still bared and remained at the ready .

“The barrier around the tomb will prevent the creatures in the darkness from coming in . We are safe here, as long as the barrier isn’t disrupted,” the zombie king explained, still concerned about Mo Yi’s aggressive stance .

She’d remained in this tomb for who knew how long . A tomb for the living was a special place of existence that converted the energies of the dead into life essence, continually nurturing the girl that had been buried within . Any living creature that dared invade would be devoured by the tomb and processed for fuel .

Back then, the zombie girl had largely been an insensate zombie . Someone had placed her soulless body here, and she’d pa.s.sively kept a memory of all the goings-on since then .

The barrier outside was strong enough to resist the combined might of multiple august immortals .

In here, innumerable monsters lurked in the darkness, looking for an opportunity to strike . s.p.a.ce itself continuously pressed down on the barrier around the tomb . If a fight took place in addition to that, the stressed walls might very well crumble . The monsters in the darkness would then kill all of them .

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Qi Shenghui, Situ Yun, and Qin Xianhuo all hurriedly dismissed their gathered power, fearing for their own safety . At the same time, they also breathed a collective sigh of relief; they were safe for now . Otherwise, either Mo Yi or the zombie king could slay them as easily as snapping their fingers .

Mo Yi nodded and put away her sword . Her eyes remained fixated upon the darkness outside .

“The Dusk River G.o.d is here . ” Lu Yun suddenly paled . His eyes gla.s.sed over and he moved toward the outside, step by gradual step .  

“Do not go out there!” The zombie girl was thrown into disarray . If he broke the barrier on his way out, they’d all be doomed!

“Be quiet and let me go,” the young man suddenly interjected . “Open a corner of the barrier . My cultivation is weak enough not to disturb it . ”

“You…” Mo Yi and the zombie king were both taken aback . Clearly, Lu Yun was only pretending to be entranced . He was playing along with whatever was trying to lead him out of the tomb .

“Careful,” Qing Han offered weakly . “The river G.o.d is no ordinary spirit . He’s more dangerous than any of his predecessors . ”

“Do you know what the river G.o.d is?” The zombie girl glanced at Qing Han with some surprise .

“Yes,” nodded Qing Han . “The original Dusk River G.o.d is dead, but the river above us has birthed a new deity out of a thousand years of sacrifices . It’s that thing in the darkness . ”

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G.o.ds hadn’t originally existed in the world . They were creations of belief and an abundance of wors.h.i.+p . Sacrifices were made in exchange for great power, becoming the focus of myriad thoughts that then coalesced into divine beings .

Thus, the first G.o.ds were born out of humanity’s sacrifices . Those G.o.ds were a simpleminded lot, protecting the people whose minds they’d sprung out of against the predations of nature and the other races .

When they obtained wisdom and enlightenment from humans and grasped the law of sacrifice, they slowly broke free from human control and became their own race—the divines . They gradually grew to become one of the strongest among all the rest, founding their own nation and pressing the other races into servitude .

After the great war a hundred thousand years ago, they peaked and became the rulers of the world .

The river G.o.d currently in the darkness was a divine born from the Dusk River Sacrament over the past thousand years . Because of the spatial chaos beneath the river, the G.o.d that should’ve come to life there was instead ensnared in this abyss .

Qing Han didn’t know how he knew all of this . It was like a painting scroll had surfaced in his mind to ill.u.s.trate the process of the river G.o.d’s birth . He’d wanted to head outside, not because of being bespelled, but because of the compulsion from some force inside him .

“I’ll go with you!” Qing Han shouted with sudden realization . “I can deal with that river G.o.d!”

Lu Yun turned back with some confusion .

“Trust me, I really can!” Qing Han stood up shakily, but strode surely and resolutely to his friend .

“Alright then . ” Lu Yun nodded with tacit understanding .

“Allowing two cultivators to pa.s.s is the most the barrier can bear . If any of you immortals wish to leave, do not blame me for what happens next . ” Bloodthirst flared in the zombie girl’s eyes, making Feinie’s eager footsteps come to a skidding halt . The zombie king had locked on to her .

“Stay here, Feinie . You won’t be able to help anyway,” said Lu Yun . The wistful envoy inclined her head in acknowledgment .

The zombie girl opened the barrier just a little bit, marked by a watery ripple dancing across it . Lu Yun and Qing Han cautiously ventured out of the tomb, hand in hand .

A sinister wind immediately began blowing in the previously quiet darkness as spectral wails beat upon their eardrums . Qing Han s.h.i.+vered involuntarily .

The palace of the river G.o.d emitted a phosph.o.r.escent light that clashed against the shadows everywhere else, illuminating a gigantic corpsefish that was nailed to one of its walls by a bra.s.s spear .

“That’s the previous Dusk River G.o.d . He—she’s a corpsefis.h.!.+” Qing Han murmured upon discovering the desiccated corpse .

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