Netherworld Retrograde

Capítulo 927: Chapter 438: Divine Chosen, Emperor’s Fall! (Part 2)

And he heard the words that completely changed him.

‘The root cause of the Calamity, the outlet for the grievances of the foolish masses. Moreover, it’s my scapegoat.’

‘Those two Rangers really helped us a great deal.’

‘Truly convenient…’

This was a Spiritual Ability User belonging to a family that once fought side by side with his parents. Also, one of the few survivors of that interception battle.

He was a genius, possessing a special power. He believed that exchanging the lives of two Rangers for his own survival was beneficial to humanity…

At that moment, He Lan finally understood the grave mistake he had made.

Wrong, everyone was wrong!

‘Convenient… My mom and dad, did they die for people like this… for people like this?’

‘Rangers, justice, fairness… is everything all for the sake of people like this?’

‘The endless conspiracies, aren’t they just to satisfy the desire for domination?’

‘Dad, Mom, we all committed a severe cognitive error!’

‘In this world, there is no justice, nor is there retribution!’

‘Rangers or Giant City, it doesn’t matter. You were all wrong!’

‘You died too unjustly!’

His mindset changed at that moment as well. From the messages left by his parents, he found an ancient relic and obtained the Heavenly Usurping Cage…

He would continuously grow stronger, devouring endlessly. For power, he would stop at nothing, this is the eternal truth!

Now, another arrogant genius has appeared. How could he die at his hands?

Good, good, Ninth Generation Champion!

Since these divine attributes cannot be reclaimed, then I’ll give them all to you!

I haven’t tried this combination before!

A gleam of madness flashed in He Lan’s eyes as he activated his ability.

His divinity was driven to the extreme.

At the same time, he performed Netherworld Path·Corpse Nuclear Explosion!

This ability, Li Ye had also seen before. When besieging the Black Umbrella, Black Umbrella used this ability to escape the encirclement.

Its effect is to inject Spiritual Energy into a corpse and trigger an explosion of the soul within.

The stronger the Spiritual Energy contained in the corpse, the greater the explosive power.

Under extreme conditions, it could also be used on oneself.

Upon one’s death, detonating one’s own flesh, perishing together with the enemy!

And the corpses He Lan wanted to control were naturally those clones with significant divinity and Spiritual Energy!

In that instant, all the clones exploded with a boom, a terrifying roar sweeping across the entire cage.

Every explosion of a clone brought forth dangerous spatial rifts. As the explosion spread, it swallowed the surroundings.

It was the ability of the Mythical Mimicry·Qilin’s Space Shock technique.

The power of combining the two abilities was so great that even He Lan himself was affected.

The terrifying impact penetrated near and far, making him cough up blood.

But he didn’t care, instead laughed as he looked at the rising mushroom cloud: “How about it, Ninth Generation Champion, this is my newly developed trump card!”

In the state of Reverse Heavenly Person, his injuries healed quickly.

At this moment, the entire cage was in ruins. If performed outside, this attack would have affected kilometers!

This is the strength of the Overlord, this is the intensity of divinity!

In such a large-scale attack, even a Sixth-sense Expert, no matter how special their ability, would find it difficult to survive.

“Don’t worry, Ninth Champion… I’ll use your power to reach the peak!”

But soon, He Lan’s smile gradually faded as he noticed the cage still existed.

This indicated that the battle was not yet over.

Within a two hundred meter radius, simultaneously attacked by corpse nuclear explosion and space shock. Could one still survive?

“Is there some powerful defense-type Secret Treasure?” He Lan frowned and then sneered: “Even so, under this kind of attack, it would suffer heavy damage.”

This was He Lan’s confidence; the power of space shock was extremely strong, capable of even shaking space.

The spatial rifts that appeared earlier were caused this way.

The only issue was the accuracy was not high.

The battle environment constantly changed, and every interference could cause space shock to deviate.

Therefore, this move was often used for close combat.

But just now, accuracy wasn’t needed. Even with a defensive trump card, it would also suffer heavy damage under this attack!

And that is enough… In the state of Reverse Heavenly Person, He Lan remains unscathed.

This is the greatest advantage!

A heavily injured Sixth-sense Expert, with nowhere to escape in the cage, can only meet his end by my blade!

At this moment, the terrifying tremors gradually subsided.

The smoke and dust in the sky dissipated, revealing to He Lan a broken military formation.

It was the Shadow Army!

Over a thousand Shadow Army Armored Soldiers, arranged in Shield Formation, transformed into Shield Mountain. The difference was, a crimson gleam flashed over the shield formation.

However, under the recent bombardment, eighty percent of the thousand Shadow Army Shield Guards were wiped out.

The entire shield formation was in shambles.

He Lan could see Li Yelai, covered in blood, struggling to stand at the center of the shield formation.

“Shadow Army… able to withstand such a powerful bombardment? Just how many living beings have you slaughtered?” He Lan frowned.

Although he did not possess the Shadow Army, as a Spiritual Ability User of the Netherworld Path, he was aware of the Shadow Army’s might.

Slay enemies, capture shadows, and convert them into the Shadow Army.

As the quantity and quality of kills increase, the number of Shadow Army conversions also steadily rises.

And with the increase in Shadow Army numbers, their attribute bonuses grow stronger.

For Li Yelai’s current Shadow Army number to break a thousand, it was testament to his continuous slaughter! Otherwise, how could the Shadow Army number be stacked so high?

Even though his heart was in awe, He Lan still smiled.

After all, at this moment, Li Yelai was indeed in a dire state.

The armor on his body had numerous terrifying cracks, his body seemed on the verge of being torn apart, his tissues were mangled and bloody, and he was a sight to behold.

The Shadow Army had apparently not completely deflected the attack; Li Yelai was left in a heavily injured state.

This is sufficient!

He Lan was delighted inside, holding a long spear, he approached Li Yelai.

On the other side, Li Yelai slowly exhaled a deep breath.

‘Had I known it would be this difficult to defend, I would have directly used the Taboo Item·Dimension Slash Blade to open a safe space rift. However, with even space rifts being blasted open, the Dimension Slash Blade might not save me.’

As Li Yelai thought, sensing danger, he immediately switched his Face.

Sealing Wolf Residence·Huo Qubing! Shadow Army, Immovable as a Mountain!

And the second Face Li Yelai chose was the Blood God Chosen Face!

Upon activating this Face, as a divine Li Yelai, he could receive the Blood God’s blessing.

One of the defensive blessings was a fifty-percent reduction in all attacks except for flame and melee damage!

The intention behind the Blood God’s blessing was evident.

It was to urge believers to withstand the firepower, close in, and start hacking away with their weapons!

And just then, the Corpse Nuclear Explosion clearly wasn’t flame damage or a melee attack. The Blood God’s blessing could be triggered!

Thus, under the buff of the Shadow Army and the blessing, Li Yelai endured the terrible bombardment.

“Surviving, what good will it do? Can your body still endure?” He Lan approached with a spear.

At this moment, he exuded an indescribable grace.

Unscathed as he was, he stood in stark contrast to the blood-soaked Li Yelai.

If this cannot secure a win, I might as well drown in a dung pit!

However, in the next second, He Lan stopped in his tracks, disbelief flashing in his eyes.

Because right under his nose, in the distance, Li Yelai switched Faces once more.

He replaced the Huo Qubing Mask with the Eternal Chosen Face!

In that instant, flesh buds grew from horrid wounds, broken bones were reset instantaneously, and inverted skin healed in a blink.

Li Yelai, right before He Lan’s eyes, recovered all his injuries in an instant.

If the crimson gleam earlier only made He Lan suspicious.

Now, Li Yelai’s recovery speed, comparable to Reverse Heavenly Person, made He Lan both cautious and shocked.

“Such a recovery speed…” He Lan’s expression darkened.

He recognized the source of that power, making him even more incredulous. Why would the Human Champion possess such power?

“Who exactly are you?”

And Li Yelai, too, approached with a spear.

He Lan was naturally unaware that he faced the acting captain of Champion Team One, the Ninth Generation Champion, Night General.

As well as the Blood God’s Blade, offspring of Father of Plague; the great Chosen of the Double Gods, Emperor’s Fall!

(Apologies for being late, I finished and saw it was already six o’clock… I’ve been in a bit of a slump lately. The next chapter will move the story to the next stage.)