The First Immortal of Destiny

The Multi-winged God-Man’s wings were severed, his head hung lifelessly to the side, and the wounds on his throat and chest bled profusely; the Profound Water God clutched his broken trident tightly, his powerfully protected body with Scale Armor mostly obliterated, organs spilling out with the mercury-like blood pooling all around; the flames on the red-clad Fairy were reduced to embers, her appearance seemingly intact, yet the mysterious Dao runes within had all shattered; the Beast-head Evil God’s body could no longer be recognized, cut into hundreds of pieces scattered everywhere…

Among the hundred fake gods that orchestrated an ambush on Shen Mo and the Long Eared God, only a mere dozen saw things turning sour and fled the battlefield with their disciples early on, while the rest perished at Shen Mo’s hands, their divine Dao runes constantly disintegrating and their origin power rapidly dissipating.

As for the over five hundred disciples of the fake gods who sacrificed themselves, aside from a few dozen taken away by Blood Sun God and others, the rest also died in the war, including their commander Li Huaihai who was crushed into pulp by the Beast-head Evil God, leaving no trace of his corpse.

All of the obliterated fake gods’ bodies crumbled and disintegrated like statues eroded by the power of time over an eternity.

Before long, fragments of Immortal Corpse from the Empyrean Fairy fell out from the remains of these fake gods, the largest piece being the left ear left after the Ear Wisdom God’s demise, almost fully formed.

If these Immortal Corpse fragments are ignored, after thousands of years harnessing “Divine Nature,” powerful fake gods would be reborn here!

The boundless primal source power, free from the constraints of Divine Runes, swept and surged like thick smoke, dyeing this seemingly God Realm small world scarlet and even started to spread and erode outward, yet soon after fiercely billowing, it concentrated at one place where the shade of Death Jaw slowly manifested.

Guan Ling, leveraging the dissipating primal Essence and Qi and Shen Mo as an anchor point, projected her body’s power into the cultivation world, stepping out from the gap.

She looked at Shen Mo with a gaze full of appreciation, then reached out her hand, drawing colorful lights from the gap’s depths to collect all the Immortal Corpse fragments.

“Fellow Daoist Guan, please leave Senior Yang’s left ear behind…”

During this battle, Shen Mo also incurred significant loss, faced with an endless array of bizarre and unpredictable methods of the God Path, both his physical body and soul suffered numerous adverse effects, though most dissipated after many fake gods’ downfall, but various hidden and dark injuries still required careful recuperation for full recovery.

And to expand the Long Eared God’s “Divine Nature” and “Authority,” crucial for his future plans, so he pushed himself to make the request to Guan Ling.

After hearing Shen Mo out, Guan Ling hesitated briefly, then agreed, as the translucent jade-like left ear slowly flew back into Shen Mo’s hand.

Shen Mo didn’t delay, holding the left ear, approached the Long Eared God, and placed it at the heart’s location…

In an instant, the Long Eared God’s momentum surged, its Divine Nature grew more profound, appearing increasingly mysterious and unpredictable, with a faint tendency to break free of Self God control; had it been this strong earlier, Shen Mo would have struggled to seize its authority, but now Self God and it were almost one, so even the merged Divine Nature and authority were beyond resistance.

At the same time, Shen Mo also mastered plenty of God Path methods originally belonging to the Ear Wisdom God through the Long Eared God’s “growth”!

“I notice your physical body and soul are injured, would you like to come back to my hut for some recuperation?” Guan Ling asked.

After the Ear Wisdom God and other powerful fake gods’ demise, a large amount of primal source power remained, Guan Ling’s simple grass hut could maintain for a long period, where Shen Mo could consume Elixirs and circulate cultivation methods to heal soul body injuries.

“That would be good. But before that, I need to handle some matters.”

Shen Mo said, as divine power began to circulate within him, and using the newly acquired God Path methods, he imparted a “Divine Decree” to Chen Mengze, Jiang Yingying, and Wang Tie!

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The demise of numerous fake gods caused over seventy percent of the military to instantly lose divine power, driving the army in the wilderness forest into extreme panic and chaos.

As the “God Realm” faded, Li Huaihai, Xiang Ying, and others’ corpses were exposed like rocks after a tide withdrew, surprising the tens of thousands of soldiers originally holding a slight hope, who then dispersed like fish or birds, fleeing along the carved Great Path out of the woods!

But they were quickly intercepted by the Swallow Village folks who rushed upon hearing the news, with only a few belonging to gods yet to fall and possessing divine power spared from capture, while the rest became prisoners.

Some obstinately chose to continue resisting and were all killed by Chen Mengze and the others.

Along with Chen and Jiang, there were many fresh faces, remarkably skilled and ruthless, who played a vital role in killing resisting defeated soldiers when Swallow Village was short on manpower.

These fresh faces were not natives of the cultivation world but cultivators who signed contracts with Guan Ling, captured when they initially targeted Swallow Village, they had no other choice but to attach themselves to Shen Mo and become disciples of the Long Eared God; their strong physical vitality combined with God Path methods immediately making them mainstays of the Long Eared God camp!

Besides capturing tens of thousands, Chen Mengze and the others seized numerous swords, armor, Flood Horses, and provisions.

The original camp was transformed into a prison camp, where Wang Tie and other Senior Disciples as well as many newly-promoted Elite Disciples gleefully moved in, responsible for persuading these Qing Country soldiers who lost divine power to switch allegiance to the Long Eared God.

The military mid-high level commanders and those steadfast in blind belief largely perished; the remaining soldiers after the shock of deity demise and vanishing divine power had lost heart and mind, with soon over a thousand cultivating the “Long Eared God Praying Scripture,” having once possessed divine power, they didn’t even need worship rituals, and simply reciting the scripture allowed them to sacrifice themselves to the Long Eared God establishing a connection!

When they discovered the prayed-for divine power was several times what it used to be, they immediately firmed their resolve to worship the Long Eared God.

As time passed, most of the captured soldiers grasped the situation, realizing Qing Country would undergo a significant change, bolstered by the testimony of the prior thousand, increasingly more soldiers switched to the Long Eared God’s camp, experiencing firsthand the benefits of worshiping the Long Eared God.

While Swallow Village was busy beyond measure, Qing Country as a whole, from nobility to peasantry, was convulsed with immense shock!

If only tens of thousands of soldiers captured or killed, for such a vast Qing Country, it would not yet be catastrophic.

But when seven of the Nine Great True Gods perished, and nearly a hundred other deities fell, causing six to seven out of ten god disciples in Qing Country to lose divine power, rendering the situation worse than three hundred years ago during the Catastrophe of Godfall when Martial Might God and three other True Gods fell.

Meanwhile, more than thirty thousand worshipers of the Long Eared God scattered within Qing Country, including twenty thousand Ordinary Disciples and a thousand Elite Disciples became as if invigorated, seizing the moment when many fake god disciples lost divine power, began vigorously spreading the “Long Eared God Praying Scripture.”

The expansion of the Long Eared God’s force, became immediately unstoppable like a Wildland Fire!