Within the Blood Moon Kingdom of Heaven, the skull pyramid built from dry bones crumbled into ash and dust, the glaciers formed from the sea of blood began to thaw, and the mausoleums forged of flesh and blood collapsed in succession. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of sorcery spirits perished in vast swathes, and the Blood Moon Ancestral Court—cultivated across ten million years—was ruined in an instant!
Servants such as the Flaying Twins, Crimson Maidens, Nightshadow Priests, and Blessing Angels watched in despair as their homeland fell to ruin. Every single structure here was a wonder they had painstakingly built, and every river had nurtured thousands upon thousands of sorcery spirits!
The Flaying Twins wept aloud. "O most benevolent and gracious Lord, is this truly worth it?!"
"It is worth it."
The Supreme Lord of the Blood Moon stood atop the sacrificial altar, mobilizing wonders that the Blood Moon Kingdom of Heaven had spent countless years constructing and draining the seven world secret realms of the Blood Moon Kingdom of Heaven, essentially staking his entire realm upon the gambling table!
"A vast past, solely to connect to a vast future!" Blood-red tears streamed from the Supreme Lord of the Blood Moon's eyes, and his wolf tail bristled completely. "Fortunately, there is death, allowing for so much immortality!"
He was not the only one; the Weaver, the Lord of Joy, and the Lord of the Endless Abyss were all doing the exact same thing!
If it were merely to deal with a legendary sorcerer, such a massive mobilization would naturally never be required. But the trouble was that he was also a feeler of the Five Pillar Gods; the backlash from the Void Realm was extraordinarily fierce. More importantly, the only Supreme of Sorcery in the present world had grown furious!
The sea of stars perched high above heaven was raining down specks of starlight, like a breathtakingly resplendent shower. When the God Masters unleashed their divine miracles, their kingdoms of heaven had to reveal themselves within heaven. As this shower of stars fell upon their kingdoms of heaven, it was as if star after star was crashing down upon their lands!
In just a few short hours, All Stars had already gained preliminary control over the Supreme's scepter!
Therefore, only a tiny portion of the God Masters' might descended upon Ruby Mountain; the vast majority was consumed resisting the Void Realm's backlash and the Supreme's fury!
Yet they had to seize this opportunity. Compared to Hell, ascending to demigod was Yaxiu Heath's greatest crisis! If they did not snatch away the Supreme's prey, then sooner or later, they would become the Supreme's sacrificial offerings!
So, for the path to the Supreme—
Please descend into Hell, Yaxiu Heath.
The Supreme Lord of the Blood Moon and the others gazed toward Ruby Mountain with anticipation, only to see yet another figure appear beneath Hell.
*
Was it All Stars who wanted to kill me?
Impossible. Yaxiu dismissed the possibility in an instant. If All Stars killed him, then others would be able to seize the Supreme's authority; All Stars would not only face more challenges, but the difficulty of reclaiming that Supreme authority would multiply several times over.
It could only be the four God Masters. Their divine miracles had penetrated the Starry Canopy, making it possible for them to unleash the mysterious chains once again.
I possess the largest share of the Supreme's power, yet I am not even a demigod. Only when I die will they have a greater chance of stepping across the Supreme threshold.
*Yet to go through all this trouble just to break my void wings... I thought they would directly drop a divine miracle to crush me to death... It's probably because sorcerers are protected by the Void Realm when ascending to demigod, isn't it?*
Yaxiu looked up at Hell. Compared to the eternal, ever-present Hell, he was nothing more than an insignificant speck of dust.
So this was the pressure Rajesh faced back then.
He let his thoughts wander as much as possible to keep from feeling afraid, but he couldn't do it. The excruciating agony in his soul reminded him every second of the fact that his void wings had been shattered. He no longer had wings to shoulder the fourfold Hell; he was going to be crushed to death by it.
The God Masters' judgment had been correct. Hell demigods might not be able to deal with a demigod possessing Supreme tail feathers, but Hell could undoubtedly suppress a sorcerer who possessed only Supreme tail feathers.
Yaxiu didn't even bother trying to think of a way out. The prerequisite to finding a way out was that the God Masters were willing to play a game with rules. Right now, the God Masters were simply flipping the table and jumping into the fray to screw him over—just like an adult walking into a pen with a submachine gun to mow down Lalafells. How could a Lalafell resist such unreasonable bullying?
Yet when he heard the footsteps behind him, Yaxiu's heart shuddered.
He turned his head and saw the Sword Princess standing beside him. The red-haired girl with a single ponytail raised her head to look at Hell, the four void wings behind her fluttering with dazzling brilliance. She sighed softly, "Turns out we really are angels."
"You..."
"Your void wings are broken. While I don't know what happened, I do know you're dead for sure." Sonia tilted her head. "You wouldn't want me to live with regret for the rest of my life, would you?"
"I'm coming too!"
Diya came running over, her calves trembling constantly. "If the Sword Princess went, then I want to go to Hell with Yaxiu too! It's just Hell. Even Lisi isn't afraid of it, so naturally I'm not either!"
"What do you think this is, a honeymoon?" Yaxiu didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"If I'm with you, doesn't it count as one?" Diya shot back.
"Then let me help as well." Weise approached them holding her silver lantern, smiling. "I hope the Void Realm treats me as a god and doesn't increase the difficulty of your ascension."
Weixi had initially felt a moment of pity when she saw Yaxiu's wings break, but when she saw the Sword Princess and the others charging into the Hell trial one after another, her expression froze as if she had just watched a Lalafell become the Supreme of Sorcery.
"...Do you even know what you're doing?!"
Weixi's voice cracked. She was practically going insane. "Several of you participating in the Hell trial together—do you have any idea how absurdly the difficulty will scale?!"
"I only know that if we don't help, Yaxiu will die," Sonia stated calmly.
Weixi said, "Yes, but only he would die! When the time comes and you become demigods, can't you just go down into Hell and drag him out?!"
Everyone blinked. That did seem plausible, but Diya shook her head soon after. "We can't just stand by and watch Yaxiu die before our eyes."
"Then you should hurry up and exit the Void Realm! If you don't look, won't that fix it..."
Weise suddenly asked, "Are there too many of us? How many people does Yaxiu need to help him?"
"No, Yaxiu had four void wings broken, so not only are there not too many of you, there's even..." Weixi shook her head, suddenly realizing something, and stared intently at Yaxiu.
Yet Yaxiu didn't look at her. He tilted his head up toward the churning, fissuring Hell, looking as calm as though he were merely a bystander.
"Yaxiu."
Weixi asked, "Don't you have anything to say to me?"
"Say what?"
"I'm waiting for your orders," Weixi said. "Didn't you say that even if you died, you'd drag me down to Hell with you?"
Yaxiu finally turned his head to glance at her, letting out a helpless sigh.
"Help me, Weixi."
This wasn't an order; it was a request.
Weixi patted her cheeks, took a deep breath, and stamped her foot in vexation, walking to Yaxiu's side with utmost reluctance.
"My baseline commands still include protecting you," the Spectre Prophet snapped tersely. "As long as I realize you're in danger, I have to help you. It makes no difference whether you order me or not!"
"Thank you."
Now that things had come to this, Yaxiu could only accept reality. Not only were they heading into Hell together, but they also had to take on an unprecedented multi-person ascension. And as the strongest among them, Yaxiu was left with only his final tail feather.
*The situation really is terrible,* he thought.
Yet there was very little fear in Yaxiu's heart. It felt as if as long as he stood together with them, wherever they were was the heaven of his dreams.
Standing towering atop Ruby Mountain, they were destined to become angels shouldering Hell.
"I haven't heard of a multi-person ascension either," Weixi said, a little nervous. "But theoretically, the fivefold Hell will descend step by step. We'll bear the first layer together, then leave one person behind while the remaining four bear the second layer together, then leave another person behind, and so on and so forth—"
Weixi stopped halfway through her sentence.
Because they no longer had any need to consider the order of shouldering Hell.
The churning darkness suddenly split into five parts, each piece vaster than before, each piece heavier than before. Countless howls echoed out from within. The Hell demigods had also realized that arrogant sorcerers were challenging an unprecedented multi-person ascension; following the birth of the Supreme of Sorcery, they were about to welcome another revelry!
"...The Void Realm truly won't let us exploit any loopholes." Weixi's voice was as bitter as a maid watching her master cause catastrophe.
Hell had split into five, testing all five of them simultaneously. Not only did everyone's difficulty skyrocket, but more importantly, this meant they could no longer help one another.
They couldn't shoulder Hell for Yaxiu at all.
Those who were doomed to die would still die.
The four God Masters of the heavens breathed a sigh of relief. Never mind the Spectre Prophet; even they had never seen recklessness as idiotic as a multi-person ascension.
"At least," Sonia squeezed Yaxiu's hand tightly, "we'll be together until the very last moment."
Yaxiu stared blankly at the girl before him. He raised his hand, lowered it, and in the end raised it again to stroke her lovely face. Sonia flushed all the way to her ears, the two of them looking as bashful as if they had only just met.
[...Dead Frenzy, what are you doing?!]
[Perhaps there's another way—]
[If you do this, all our efforts will be in vain! You're crazy, completely crazy!]
[Those who ought to live will surely survive.]
Yaxiu shook his head and looked at the others with suspicion, but at this moment, everyone was gazing up at Hell. Weixi wore a face of despair, Weise showed an expression of relief, and Diya, conversely, was no longer afraid.
Yet he felt as if he had heard them speaking just now.
*It must be an auditory hallucination brought on by fear...*
However, when Yaxiu looked at Sonia again, he saw that her gently fluttering void wings were radiating a peculiar misty light, pouring into Yaxiu's soul alongside her gaze. At the same time, his Supreme void wings also stirred with a peculiar radiance, harmonizing and flowing into Sonia's soul.
"Yaxiu," Weixi was the first to notice the abnormality, "your void wings..."
Under everyone's watchful eyes, right where Yaxiu should have grown Silver Wings, a void wing of purplish-red sword-light began to condense bit by bit!
[Detected that operators are jointly undertaking an ultra-high difficulty desperate mission. Consuming 40 source crystals to temporarily increase bond level to adjust difficulty.]
[Prompt: "Dead Frenzy Sword Princess" bond level temporarily increased to Level 5.]
[Prompt: "Dead Frenzy Sword Princess" bond level temporarily increased to Level 6.]
[Bond Level: 6 (100% EXP sharing)]
[Level 5 Special Effect: Void Wing Sharing. Your void wings permeate and share with each other; you will become their plumage, and they will become your wings.]
[Level 6 Special Effect: Dead Frenzy. Whenever encountering a perilous dead end, your sorcery realm will temporarily increase, with no upper limit.]
Chapter 1005