Chapter 3514: The Answer
Chapter 3514: The Answer
Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
He turned his head to look and saw several members of the God Clan darting over from the side, their gazes locked tightly on the old man.
They seemed to be exchanging words with one another.
After taking the impact, the old man’s expression looked rather grim. After launching a desperate strike, he fled rapidly under the pursuit of the God Clan members, while the Hell Orb radiated a terrifying power of hell.
The illusory scene before his eyes gradually dimmed.
Fang Heng suddenly opened his eyes and instinctively lifted his head to look toward the vortex high above.
It was different from what he had seen earlier in the illusion.
Even though it had been an illusion, he had still been able to faintly sense an extremely terrifying and powerful coercion emanating from within the vortex. However, the intensity of the coercion released by the vortex before his eyes was far weaker than that in the illusion.
Because the power of the vortex had been greatly weakened.
Moreover, at this moment, there was no soul body emerging from within the vortex.
Fang Heng narrowed his eyes, recalling the Netherworld he had once visited, and his thoughts gradually became clear.
It was probably because the vortex passage on the other end of the Netherworld had been sealed by the God Clan, causing the hell vortex to be unable to operate normally.
This, in turn, caused the power of the Source of Hell to be unable to receive replenishment, even dwindling further and further.
Thus, all his previous doubts now had an answer.
He had previously found it strange. Since the Holy Realm had achieved victory in the last holy war, why had they not returned to hell after so long to completely eradicate the trouble?
Because there was no need.
The God Clan had already completely sealed the Netherworld, the source from which the world’s power circulated.
As time passed, the power of the Hell Origin, lacking the effect of the Netherworld passage, would only continue to diminish, becoming less and less threatening.
As he pondered, a game hint appeared once again.
[Hint: You have sensed the power of the Hell Origin.]
[Hint: The player’s current mission-Indestructible Fire*Lord of Hell has triggered the next stage (Tier 1) mission.]
Mission description: You saw inherited ancient memories from the illusion. Please complete the construction of the hell altar and condense the hell passage.
Mission requirements: Hell altar construction (0/1), establish hell passage (0/1).
Mission reward: Skill advancement.
[Hint: The player has obtained the hell altar construction skill book.]
Fang Heng reviewed the game hints. Corresponding to the illusion he had seen earlier, he replayed it frame by frame in his mind, not missing a single detail.
"That’s right. This is the hell passage."
Fang Heng raised his head, looking at the red vortex high above, and muttered to himself, "Sinful souls fall into hell, while pure souls enter the Holy Realm after death."
"Hey, Brother Fang Heng, what are you muttering about, sounding all god-this god-that?" Zane said.
"It’s nothing. I saw some things in the illusion. If my guess is correct, the other end of the vortex passage above connects to the Netherworld."
"Huh?"
Zane also looked up at the vortex in the sky and asked in confusion, "So?"
"The Netherworld passage has been cut off. I think it’s related to the Netherworld being completely sealed."
Zane still looked puzzled. "Uh, and then?"
"The power of the Source of Hell cannot be replenished. Hell is gradually weakening." Fang Heng said as he gazed toward Ignis beside him. "Is that right?"
Ignis froze for a moment, then hurriedly nodded.
The strength of hell creatures had indeed been gradually weakening over time.
The best example was the hell demonic seeds.
As the seven great demonic seeds of hell, their power had weakened to their current state after so many ages.
Demonic seeds drew their strength from the Hell Origin.
As the power of the Source of Hell weakened, the demonic seeds also became increasingly frail. Coupled with internal strife among themselves, it was only natural that they declined day by day.
Fang Heng finally sorted out his thoughts through this.
Through the game, Ymir simulated the operating rules of the entire world.
Under normal circumstances, souls would first enter the Netherworld after death, and then be sent to the divine realm, hell, or re-enter reincarnation.
However, the real world had deviated.
The Netherworld had been sealed, and dead souls had nowhere to return.
The passages between hell and the Netherworld had also completely failed, causing the Source of Hell to be unable to obtain power from reincarnation and gradually decline.
To simulate the operation of the world, Ymir had refined seven different orbs.
In the simulated world, when Ymir was about to complete the hell simulation, he encountered the God Clan, and the simulation was interrupted. The Hell Orb was thus left behind in hell.
At his current level of strength, Fang Heng was unable to directly activate the orb like Ymir had. He still needed the cooperation of an altar.
So the next step was to build an altar and complete the linkage between the death realm vortex and the hell vortex.
"Mm, it matches the mission objective."
A trace of excitement flashed through Fang Heng’s eyes as he opened the game hints again to check.
Constructing the hell altar also required extracting a small portion of the power of the Hell Origin.
Fortunately, he had participated in the mission early. Otherwise, if the God Clan had sealed the Source of Hell ahead of time, even building the altar would have been troublesome.
Fang Heng raised his head once more, staring at the scorching lava slowly flowing down from above.
Then all he needed to do was obtain the power of the Hell Origin.
Begin!
Before the God Clan arrived, extract the power of the Hell Origin.
The more, the better!
Recalling the method the old man had used in his memories to obtain hell power, Fang Heng slowly extended his hand toward the Source of Hell.
"Chi, chi chi chi..."
The lava slowly drew toward Fang Heng’s palm.
"Huh?"
Fang Heng let out a soft sound of surprise, finding it strange.
The power of hell did not display the extreme uncontrollable state shown in the illusion.
Although it was difficult to control, under the activation of his mental strength, it still slowly flowed into his palm.
Strange.
At their peak, even the seven great demonic seeds and the Demon Lord had found it difficult to obtain the power of the Source of Hell. The old man in the illusion had also needed to simultaneously use death power and divine holy power just to barely control the power of hell. Why was the pressure on him not nearly as great?
The weakening of the Source of Hell was a major reason, but it seemed to have weakened far too much.
Right!
The Eyes of Hell!
Fang Heng suddenly realized.
Neither the seven great demonic seeds, nor the Demon Lord Exillion, nor even the old man in the illusion had fused with the Eyes of Hell.
And the Eyes of Hell themselves already contained a portion of the Source of Hell’s power, allowing partial fusion between them.
"Whoosh!"
The hell pupils in Fang Heng’s eyes began to rotate rapidly.
Beside him, Ignis and Zane discovered in astonishment that the scorching lava slowly flowing down from above was actually being gradually absorbed by Fang Heng’s outstretched right hand.
The two exchanged cautious glances.
The shock in Ignis’s eyes was beyond measure.
He wondered if he was seeing things.
The power within the Source of Hell was being absorbed by Fang Heng bit by bit!
Game hints slowly appeared on Fang Heng’s retina, and the Eyes of Hell immediately transmitted a burning, piercing pain.
[Hint: You have obtained the Source of Hell. By absorbing and fusing the power of the Source of Hell, the strength of your Eyes of Hell will be enhanced.]
[Hint: Current tempering progress: 5%...]
The number began to rise slowly.
Oh? The Eyes of Hell still had room for improvement? Could they be tempered again?
Very well! Then he would temper them once more while he was at it!