Chapter 3504: The Whole Story
Chapter 3504: The Whole Story
Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The holy power was terrifyingly strong.
Fang Heng was secretly alarmed. He stopped far in front of the lava sea, hid behind a piece of cover, and the God’s Eye in his right eye spun rapidly.
His vision instantly pulled farther away.
What was that?
The Door of Heaven?
Fang Heng saw that near the location where the Hell Orb had existed not long ago, a dark-golden holy gate had appeared in midair.
It was somewhat similar to the Door of Heaven once used by the God King, but the strength of this teleportation passage was clearly far more condensed. Waves of energy aura continuously spilled out from it, slowly assimilating the surrounding area and forming a spatial domain filled with holy power.
The members of the God Clan gathered around the Door of Heaven.
A God Clan member skilled in perception tried sensing for a moment. After opening his eyes again, he gently shook his head and said, "I can’t perceive Fang Heng’s whereabouts."
"The interference from the hell environment is extremely strong. It’s normal not to be able to sense him."
Elder Patrick spoke as he swept his gaze around the surroundings, secretly shook his head, and continued, "The Hell Orb is gone."
Xius said resentfully, "Elder, the Hell Orb must have been taken by Fang Heng."
"Forget Fang Heng for now." Another Third Elder, Elder Midar, said in a deep voice, "Everyone, let’s follow the Judgment Court’s plan. Seal hell first. Each group, act according to plan."
"Yes!"
The God Clan members nodded in unison and split into multiple groups, dispersing outward.
At the same time, several God Clan members spread out around the holy gate and rapidly condensed imprints in front of them, activating the Holy Door.
A phantom of a magic array flickered beneath the Holy Door.
As mental strength was injected, surging holy power continuously poured out from the Holy Door.
Zane, watching from afar without seeing clearly, frowned and asked, "Hey, Brother Fang Heng, what’s going on? What are they doing?"
"Not sure. It looks like some kind of magic array. Let’s observe a bit more."
As he spoke, chains condensed from high-concentration holy power rapidly extended from the Door of Heaven and viciously stabbed downward toward the lava sea!
"Chi! Chi chi chi chi!!!!"
The holy chains pierced into the lava sea, instantly triggering streams of crimson smoke.
Dense dark-golden chains surfaced across the lava sea and rapidly spread outward toward the periphery.
More holy chains stabbed out from the Door of Heaven, piercing into the rock walls and the ceiling of the grotto. In the blink of an eye, layers upon layers of holy chain seals were stacked over the outer surfaces of the rock walls.
Under the effect of the chain seals, the hell aura rapidly receded.
Staring at the fast-spreading holy chains, Fang Heng immediately recalled the layers of chain seals that had once blanketed the middle layer of the sky in the death realm. His brows knitted tightly as he said in a deep voice, "This is bad. They want to seal hell."
"What? Seal hell? That’s even possible?"
Zane was stunned just hearing it.
Fang Heng’s expression turned grave. He controlled more than a dozen Lickers to rapidly gather, climb along the rock walls, and swiftly rush toward the direction of the Holy Door.
"Hmph!"
Several God Clan members guarding beside the Holy Door saw the Lickers approaching from afar. They snorted coldly and raised their hands.
"Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh whoosh!!"
Several holy chains immediately split apart, forming a dense net that covered and pierced toward the Lickers, almost instantly stabbing into their bodies.
The Lickers stiffened.
The chains rapidly retracted, dragging the Lickers into the Holy Door, where they were completely swallowed.
[Hint: Your zombie clone (Licker form) has been annihilated and will be reborn in 1 hour and 20 minutes.]
"Something’s not right." Fang Heng observed the state of several God Clan members, then glanced at the game hint and said, "The Door of Heaven summoned by the God Clan has offensive capability, and it seems the God Clan can maintain peak combat strength within the Door of Heaven’s environment."
Zane couldn’t help but shiver.
After leaving the divine realm, the God Clan would be suppressed.
It was merely a matter of how severe the suppression was.
In hell and the Netherworld, the suppression was even stronger.
If they could break free from suppression and unleash their combat strength, they would become extremely terrifying.
"Then what should we do?"
"Chi! Chi chi chi chi!"
As they spoke, several God Clan members advanced at the front, clearing out an area, while dozens of chains rapidly spread and expanded from behind them.
As the region sealed by holy chains grew wider and wider, the power of hell rapidly dissipated, while a faint ripple of holy power spread over it.
Hellfire quickly dimmed.
Standing beside Elder Patrick, Xius asked in a low voice, "Elder, hell has always been a thorn in our side. Why didn’t we completely seal it in the past, like we did with the death realm?"
"This is a long story. Back then, the Elders Council did indeed consider completely sealing hell and even attempted it, but at that time we encountered intense resistance from hell."
Patrick gently shook his head and continued, "Hell is different from the Netherworld. The creatures here possess far greater intelligence. When faced with external enemies and survival crises, they chose to unite and forcibly attack the Holy Realm, causing us heavy casualties. So we chose to retreat."
Xius was somewhat surprised. "Intelligent creatures? Are you referring to the seven demonic seeds of hell?"
"That’s right, the seven demonic seeds of hell." Patrick’s expression turned grave as he said, "At that time, their strength was far greater than it is now. Not only were they indestructible, they also controlled most of hell’s power, which made us extremely wary."
"The Elders Council believed then that if we left hell alone, its impact on our rule would be limited. Moreover, the seven demonic seeds would fight among themselves first, and no one would be able to deal with the others. But if we forcibly attacked hell, the divine realm would suffer tremendous losses as well, so the matter was temporarily shelved."
"After that, the incident of Exillion defecting from the divine realm occurred. The divine realm’s strength was damaged, hell’s origin power was greatly depleted, and the strength of the seven demonic seeds of hell was heavily weakened. Hell as a whole was significantly reduced."
"In addition, that fellow Ymir stole part of hell’s power to create the Hell Orb and set all upper exits of hell within his game. This actually allowed us not to worry about hell passages appearing all over the world."
"With the Eyes of Hell in hand, we believed hell’s power had already been greatly weakened. Coupled with the fact that hell had been calm for far too long, we had tacitly assumed that nothing major would happen in hell in the short term, and planned to completely cleanse hell after accumulating more strength."
Patrick let out a heavy sigh in his heart.
After that holy war, at first they were too severely weakened to re-enter hell. When the God Clan had finally begun to slowly recover, chaos suddenly erupted in the Netherworld.
"And then, the Netherworld war broke out."
"The Great Elder forcibly sealed the Netherworld despite opposition. Although it cost an enormous price, it ultimately succeeded, and in doing so cut off the source of hell’s origin energy."
Patrick paused and said in a deep voice, "At that time, the divine realm’s strength had fallen to rock bottom. Naturally, there were no more voices calling for the continued sealing of hell."