Chapter 876
Chapter 876. Alright, I, Xia Feng, am the Abyssal Saint!
To Xia Feng’s surprise, there was a response. The woman’s faint voice echoed, “Ms. Mi used the Life Star God’s [Fate Lamp] to block our perception of information regarding the [Life Star God]. If you think carefully, you should remember now.”
Life Star God, Fate Lamp.
The Ghost Bride was indeed holding an ancient, chilling lantern.
As he thought of this, Xia Feng’s memories of the Life Star God fully resurfaced.
When he first encountered the Sumeru Throne, it was through a spirit artifact called the [Forest Scepter]. The spirit artifact had a serial number marking for entering the Life Roulette space.
During the competition for the ninth seat in the Life Roulette, there were quite a few sacrificial rituals. The garden in Area 51 and the hundred thousand wronged souls of White Emperor City, led by Ye Li Dongjun, were all part of these sacrificial rituals.
Because of this, Xia Feng’s guess about the Sumeru Throne was that the Life Star God used the throne as bait to tempt participants into actively offering large amounts of life.
But at some point, Xia Feng completely forgot about the Life Star God.
He also forgot about anything related to the Sumeru Throne and the Life Star God.
Now that he recalled it, Xia Feng roughly understood why the Heavenly God Gu Yi, despite being a righteous being, had formulated such wicked rules during the Sumeru Throne seat competition. The various sacrificial rituals were akin to those of evil gods.
This was because the Life Star God was behind it all.
“That is to say, the Sumeru Throne was actually obtained by the Life Star God long ago?” Xia Feng asked doubtfully, “And now it’s just being used as bait?”
“Wrong. The Life Star God is not as omnipotent as you think.”
The woman continued in a faint voice, “The inheritance rules of the Sumeru Throne have already been set by the Heavenly God Gu Yi and cannot be changed. They will only automatically follow Gu Yi’s will, selecting talented individuals in the empire who pass the assessment.”
“However, although the Life Star God cannot stop the Sumeru Throne’s autonomous inheritance rules, He can make minor changes or even add some rules. For example, some of the rituals during the seat competition phase, or, like now, you have clearly met the victory conditions, but the game end has been delayed. This is because the Life Star God has added a hidden rule.”
Listening to Huang Zhaoyue’s mental transmission, Xia Feng pondered, and then asked in confusion, “How do you know all this?”
“Ms. Mi is introducing us—or rather, boasting about the Life Star God’s grand plan.” Huang Zhaoyue said coldly, “The Yama Legion has also been heavily infiltrated, allowing a believer of an evil god to reach a high position and even obtain a Sumeru seat.”
“…”
“Enough, Ghost Bride. I have no mood to listen to you praise that ridiculous heretical evil god. Jin Yangtian’s gaze was cold. “You remnants of life, what exactly do you want to do? Just say it.”
“Heh heh~” The Ghost Bride pursed her red lips and gave a faint, ethereal laugh.
“Everyone, please be patient. I, this humble servant, have no ill intentions towards any of you esteemed lords. I just want to invite you to watch a play.”
As soon as she finished speaking, the spirit light on the central high platform flickered, and new images appeared. It was a vast perspective overlooking the land from the clouds.
The crimson land seemed to be faintly pulsating.
The scorched, brownish rock layers were folded like contracting cardiac muscles, and every crevice expanded and contracted with an ancient rhythm. The giant central rift resembled an open ventricle, with boiling golden-red magma surging along vein-like dark rivers.
The rock texture of the land was scarlet. If one looked closely, they would realize it was a giant heart.
The Spade Person’s figure appeared directly above the heart-like land.
[Hidden Rule Announcement – Final Decisive Battle]
[Black/Red King completes the victory conditions and, after eliminating everyone else, can enter the final decisive battle stage to challenge two divine-level guardians.
If the challenge is successful, the final decisive battle will be won, the Sumeru War will end, and the inheritance of the Sumeru Throne will be obtained.
If the challenge fails and one dies at the hands of the guardians, the Sumeru War will restart, all surviving seated players will be re-matched into the Sumeru War, and everything will return to the beginning.]
Xia Feng: “…”
No way, man. It can be played like this?
Divine-level guardians? And two of them?
This is purely to prevent anyone from obtaining the Sumeru Throne!
With two divine-level existences as the final hurdle, who could possibly win?
Or rather, players who did not cooperate with the Life Star God would absolutely not be able to obtain the Sumeru Throne.
Xia Feng’s eyes twitched, and he felt like cursing.
But in the next instant, he seemed to think of something and asked in slight doubt, drawing in a sharp breath.
Hmm? Wait, could these two divine-level guardians be…?
[Guardian 1: Innate God · Nine-Tails]
[Guardian 2: Innate God · Evil Crow]
Ah, ah, this?
Xia Feng fell into contemplation. He had always wondered why the fox had said it would wait for him in the Sumeru Realm, yet it didn’t appear even after everything ended. So, this was where it was waiting.
In that case, this was getting quite interesting.
[Preparing—]
[Player 9, as the sole victor, has ten minutes of rest time. After ten minutes, the Innate Gods will descend—]
As he pondered, the surrounding scenery seemed to reverse in time, rapidly shuttling. Xia Feng found himself above the clouds, looking down. Below was a giant continent with heart-like textures.
The low-hanging leaden clouds in the sky also pulsated in sync with the earth. Although it was very subtle, Xia Feng still perceived it acutely, as if a faint heartbeat was coming from the depths of the earth’s veins.
The Heavenly God is doing the dirty work!
“Your Excellency Spade, or perhaps, I should call you Abyssal Saint?”
At the same time, Ms. Mi’s soft and charming laughter rang through the Red King channel, “Your Excellency must understand your current predicament, right? Do you have a plan to deal with it?”
Abyssal Saint?
What nonsense is that?
I, the most loyal and sole believer of the dignified Pale Di Si, am being insulted as a running dog of the Abyss? You nasty woman, you really know how to insult people without using swear words!
Well, but…
Since I’ve been mistaken for a believer of the Abyss, that’s perfect. It can be used to conceal my true identity.
Xia Feng stood in the clouds, looking down at the heart-like land, his black eyes narrowed slightly. “If you have something to say, spit it out.”
“Heh heh~” Ms. Mi was not offended and covered her mouth with a light laugh. “The Saint should understand the strength of two Innate Gods. Even if Your Excellency the Saint has the protection of the Abyss, with your means of granting authority exhausted, in this situation, facing the overpowering pressure of two Innate Gods, let alone winning, merely surviving would be a problem.”
“Therefore, why not cooperate with me and help me complete the ‘Heavenly God’s Grand Plan’!”
Ms. Mi said with a smile, “As long as the Saint agrees, I have a way to make those two Innate Gods abandon following the Sumeru rules and voluntarily let you pass, obtaining the Sumeru Throne.”
Xia Feng: “…”
Xia Feng mostly understood. Ms. Mi, or rather, the Life Star God behind her, wanted to complete a certain plan, and this plan required the help of the Sumeru Throne.
However, the Life Star God could not obtain the Sumeru Throne, so she sought a collaborator.
And the Black Moon Pope was this collaborator before.
