The BGM that Ye Chui was playing at this moment was a very famous song in his previous life. However, Ye Chui only knew this song because of the Thor movies. Paired with the Thunder God who embodied lightning and this BGM, it was simply perfect.
In his previous life, this song was considered extremely expensive. It was said that the movie spent four to five million dollars just on the song’s copyright. But as one of Ye Chui’s BGMs, unlocking it only cost two hundred points. Its effect was to enhance Ye Chui’s combat ability. Moreover, perhaps because Ye Chui knew this song from the Thor films, it could greatly amplify the effects of his thunder-element magic.
Lightning Body—this innate talent was actually more similar to the power of mages from the age of the gods. It did not require a spellbook. The body could continuously convert mana into various forms of lightning on its own. Combined with the Immigrant Song BGM, Ye Chui could now release one powerful thunder attack after another with a casual wave of his hand. Thunder spells had become almost effortless for him.
As he fell from the sky, lightning scattered in all directions. The believers and national guards standing nearby were instantly knocked down in droves.
Seeing Ye Chui bathed entirely in lightning, with electric arcs flowing from his eyes and mouth, the believers and national guards all showed expressions of terror.
“Kill him! He is an enemy of the empire! An enemy of the Church!” someone shouted loudly. This spurred most of them on. They began charging toward Ye Chui. Holy words attacks, sword qi, and magic rained down on him in a dazzling yet deadly display.
But Ye Chui merely waved his hand. Streaks of thunder appeared in front of him, forming a thunder wall that blocked all the attacks. From within the thunder wall extended a massive thunder hand. It grabbed the body of a greatsword warrior. The thunder hand was an extension of Ye Chui’s arm. He lifted the greatsword warrior and casually threw him away. Lightning coiled around the warrior’s body. Wherever he flew, electric arcs scattered. Thunder flashed continuously. He struck down a whole line of people, electrocuting them into unconsciousness.
Ye Chui advanced step by step. Countless enemies swarmed toward him. He fought bare-handed, yet it was as if he wielded the most powerful weapon in the world. With a wave, he condensed a thunder greatsword that could cleave through a whole row of people. With each step he took, electric snakes burst from the ground and slithered wildly among the enemies.
There were tens of thousands guarding the tunnel entrance. Ye Chui had suddenly appeared alone, catching them completely off guard. Numbers did not equal strength. Although Ye Chui was only one person, he brought an overwhelming sense of oppression to these guards.
Of course, as one of the seven great empires, the Morning Wind Empire’s commanders were no pushovers. After the initial panic, a city defence commander who had been transferred from Fearless City shouted loudly. He rallied the troops and organised them into effective attack formations.
But right at that moment, a terrifying roar echoed through the air. Longbao transformed into his true giant dragon form. His massive body cast a shadow that nearly covered everyone. Green was riding on Longbao’s back. The giant dragon spewed dragon flames. In an instant, countless believers and national guards were incinerated. Flames struck the mountain walls. Molten lava flowed down.
“It is that dragon! Sky Guard warriors, attack it quickly!” the city defence commander shouted.
They knew what kind of enemies they were facing. They knew Ye Chui’s methods—at least the ones he had revealed—so they had already prepared targeted countermeasures against the black gold flame dragon. The Sky Guard was specifically deployed to deal with Longbao.
A five-thousand-strong square formation of crossbowmen and magisters, under cover from their comrades, began continuously attacking Longbao’s massive body. Magic and arrows rained down on him nonstop. Although these attacks were negligible to Longbao, the concentrated fire from five thousand people still made him uncomfortable. He spewed terrifying dragon flames, twisted his body, and flew to the side.
“It is trying to escape! Pursue it!” the commander ordered.
At least ten thousand warriors and believers, including the Sky Guard, immediately formed a dragon-slaying squad and chased after Longbao.
Ye Chui was still rampaging through the crowd amid lightning and BGM. The remaining companions had already descended from the flying demon vehicle. Longgui set up her defensive barrier. She led everyone charging toward the tunnel gate.
“Excalibur Stick—” Debbie had already summoned Gilga. The pay-to-win female swordsman floated in mid-air. Her terrifying move was fully charged. Accompanied by her brainwashed, no-regrets shout, golden stars lit up in the morning sky. Then those stars began to fall, crashing toward the ground.
Super golden sword technique: Golden Starfall!
Boom, boom, boom!
“Heaven Descends—” A hoarse roar suddenly rang out. The voice came from Bishop Lakin. He was surrounded and protected by countless believers in the centre. His slit-like eyes stared at the sky. A ruthless expression appeared on his face. He raised both hands toward the heavens.
A holy radiance spread overhead, enveloping an area dozens of metres around him.
Heaven Descends—this was the bible’s description of the ideal kingdom in the future. Lakin used it as a spell to summon the ideal kingdom. In this world without war or chaos, all power lost its effect within the holy light!
The terrifying golden radiance of Golden Starfall touched that layer of holy light and instantly turned into golden dust floating in the air. But Heaven Descends could only protect a limited number of people. Countless believers and warriors were still instantly crushed.
The dreadful golden sword qi struck the mountain cliffs. It carved deep cracks into the rock walls that had endured countless years of wind and rain. Boulders tumbled down and crashed to the ground.
From the moment the flying demon vehicle appeared above the believers and warriors until now, only a few short minutes had passed. Yet their ferocious assault had already reduced the combined force of tens of thousands by half. The commander from Fearless City had originally felt that deploying so many people to capture one magic guild was overkill. Now he realised his preparations had been far from enough. He should have issued the city lord’s command and mobilised every magic guild and mercenary group in the city to join the battle!
“Ye Chui—” Lakin shoved aside several believers blocking his view. He glared at Ye Chui, who was gleefully discharging electricity in the crowd. Furious, he prepared to attack Ye Chui.
But suddenly a young girl stepped in front of him. It was Lisa, holding the Sacred Holy Bible in her hands.
Having comprehended the true essence of faith, she wanted to test her current power.
“Heresy believer!” Seeing Lisa, Lakin seemed even angrier than when he saw Ye Chui. Yesterday, when he had possessed Alba and summoned the hell gate, Lisa had closed it effortlessly. What Lisa used was the faith of the gods—and she had already reached an extremely high level. This was something the Church’s believers could not tolerate. Furious, he swung his arm toward Lisa. The floating bible rustled loudly. “God punishes the sinful. Blazing fire incinerates the body!”
Accompanied by his holy word spell, raging flames instantly appeared around Lisa. This was divine wrath. Some believers and warriors standing too close were caught in the aftermath. They screamed as they turned to ashes in an instant.
However, a layer of holy light enveloped Lisa’s body. It blocked the flames from harming her. She took a deep breath—
Holy Word: Extinguish!
The flames were immediately snuffed out, as if cold water had been poured on them.
Lakin’s expression changed slightly. The bible continued to rustle. He roared again, “God punishes the sinful. Eternal fall into the abyss of darkness!”
The ground rumbled. A terrifying fissure appeared and spread toward Lisa’s feet. Beneath the fissure lay an endless dark abyss.
Holy Word: Close!
Yet with Lisa’s holy word, that dreadful fissure instantly sealed itself, leaving no trace behind.
This time Lakin was truly shocked. His power combined believer and magister abilities. He could use every word in the bible as a spell, giving him countless attack methods. But Lisa seemed to play by completely different rules. A casual phrase from her produced such massive effects. It was almost like the “words become reality” of a cardinal archbishop!
But Lakin knew this power had not yet reached true words-become-reality. Still, it was enough to astonish him.
“This heretical believer is even more dangerous than Ye Chui. We must eliminate her here!” Lakin immediately resolved. The bible rustled loudly. “The world is unclean. God punishes the world. The end of the world. Doomsday descends…”
Boom. Cracks suddenly appeared around Bishop Lakin. Whoosh. Chains made of human bones, blood-red in colour, burst out from the void. Like tentacles, they rushed toward Lisa.
This was Lakin’s most powerful technique—more terrifying than Hell Gate Opens, Hundred Ghosts Walk the Night. It directly dragged people into hell.
Those bone chains moved like living things. In an instant, they appeared before Lisa.
Lisa’s face showed some tension. Sweat beaded on her forehead. She took a slight breath—
Holy Word: Refuse!
Bang!
The bone chains seemed to hit an invisible wall. They all stopped. Clanging sounds rang out.
But they could not attack from the front. They quickly shifted to the sides and surrounded Lisa completely. Some believers and warriors accidentally touched the chains. In screams, their blood evaporated and they turned to withered bones. Then those bones fused into the bone chains.
The chains continued contracting. They were about to touch Lisa’s body.
Ye Chui swept lightning to clear enemies around him. He happened to see the crisis on Lisa’s side. He immediately leaped into the air. Lightning trailed behind him. The dynamic BGM had just reached that highly infectious roar. Boom. He smashed down like a falling thunderbolt onto Lakin.
At the same time, Lisa gathered all her strength and unleashed one final holy word—
Holy Word: Get the hell out of here!
Boom!
The bone chains instantly shattered and scattered outward, then dissipated into nothing. Ye Chui’s thunder also struck Lakin fully. His arm transformed into a thunder palm. He grabbed Lakin’s body and hurled him forcefully toward the tunnel’s iron gate.
“AIPAID!”
“Understood. Big scene incoming!”
The flying demon vehicle circling in the air now began diving downward at extreme speed. In mid-air, bang bang bang. Several figures were ejected from the vehicle—the guild and mercenary powerhouses who had been imprisoned as mana batteries. Ye Chui wanted a grand spectacle. There was no need to let these people die with them.
Ye Chui appeared beside the somewhat exhausted Lisa. He held her waist and teleported them both into Longgui’s protective barrier.
At the same time, he sent a mental message to Longbao and Green: “Stop messing around. Hurry back and watch the explosion—”
Almost the instant Ye Chui’s mental message was delivered, the flying demon vehicle came hurtling down with terrifying momentum. The sonic boom was deafening. The noise was no less than a meteor strike. Then came an earth-shattering explosion. If viewed from high above the Castro continent, one could even see the entire Doomsday Mountains tremble slightly.
The violent explosion deafened countless people nearby instantly. Even with Longgui’s barrier isolating sound, Ye Chui, Debbie, and the others felt their eardrums go numb. The shockwave from the blast spread outward. Trees toppled. Boulders flew. The nearby Morning Wind Empire military camp was flipped over by half.
Even on the other side of the Doomsday Mountains, the Star Empire guards at the tunnel’s opposite end were alarmed. They thought the Church’s forces had broken through the tunnel and attacked…
Dust and smoke rose. Flames burned. The scene was utter devastation!
Ye Chui rubbed his ears and looked at the spectacular scene with satisfaction. He was about to enter the God Crime Continent. He did not know how long he would be gone this time. Consider this a farewell gift to the enemies on the continent during his absence.
The Doomsday Tunnel was crucial both economically and strategically. That iron gate was not just an ordinary door. It bore the Church’s blessings and defensive arrays laid down by countless great magisters. But none of that could withstand the flying demon vehicle’s meteor-like impact. The gate was instantly breached. The tunnel entrance was even widened by several times.
Ye Chui waved his hand and stored away the damaged flying demon vehicle. Green had already teleported back with Longbao.
“Let us go!”
Ye Chui took the lead. He brought his companions and quickly charged into the tunnel. With a wave of his hand, light magic illuminated the pitch-black tunnel as bright as day.
Whoosh. At that moment, the rubble outside the tunnel was suddenly pushed aside. Lakin, dishevelled, covered in blood, and looking utterly wretched, crawled out from within. He had been thrown toward the iron gate by Ye Chui. Although he had dodged at the moment of the flying demon vehicle’s impact, he had still suffered massive damage. He could feel his life slipping away.
Ye Chui had once used a flying demon vehicle to ram Cardinal Archbishop Eliza. But that collision had only knocked Eliza into the undead realm without harming her life. The current flying demon vehicle was Kun-style—far more powerful and destructive. Even though Lakin now possessed strength comparable to a cardinal archbishop, such an impact had still gravely wounded him.
Right now he did not even have the strength to stand. Yet he was unwilling.
“They cannot be allowed to enter the God Crime Continent just like this…” he roared. Holy light surged from his body. A young girl’s figure quickly rushed over from the side. It was one of Lakin’s personal nuns—also one of his faith seeds. Just like with Alba, as long as she received Lakin’s baptism, Lakin could descend his will into the faith seed. This was an extremely evil ability.
The faith seed’s combat power was comparable to Lakin’s. But such a battle would consume the faith seed’s life—just as Alba had eventually turned to white bone dust.
Lakin used his final strength to possess this faith seed’s body. He plunged into the tunnel!
He was already at his limit. His life could end at any moment. But in this final moment, he had to do something…
Inside the tunnel, Ye Chui was admiring the towering and profound caves, marvelling at the dwarves’ great works. Suddenly he paused. He looked behind him. “Someone is chasing us!”
“It is Lakin. He is actually still alive?” Lisa said somewhat surprised and somewhat dejected. It seemed that even after comprehending the true essence of faith, she still had a huge gap compared to a believer on the level of a cardinal archbishop.
“It is a young girl… just like Alba,” Green had already clearly seen the pursuer’s appearance. He shouted loudly—during the earlier massive explosion, he and Longbao had not managed to teleport back into Longgui’s barrier in time, so his ears were still somewhat deaf. His voice was incredibly loud.
“Take him out.” Ye Chui decided immediately. Weapons from the King’s Armoury appeared around him. He prepared an indiscriminate bombardment.
But right at that moment, he suddenly sensed something wrong.
The running nun possessed by Lakin suddenly began to glow. Her body started to disintegrate. A terrifying black hole that seemed capable of devouring everything emerged from within her body.
The black hole followed the nun’s speed and rapidly rushed toward Ye Chui and the others.
“What the hell is she doing?” Ye Chui was momentarily stunned. Looking at the approaching black hole, the King’s Armoury seemed to have no use at all!
“In the Church, I am one of the few believers qualified to join the Divine Punishment Division. In other words, I possess the power to exile people to the God Crime Continent!” Lakin’s frenzied voice echoed through the dark tunnel. “You want to go to the God Crime Continent to save your companion? Then let me send you on your way—by exile!”
Voluntarily entering the God Crime Continent and being exiled were two completely different things.
Voluntary entry was like charging straight into prison to rescue someone. But exile came with shackles. Those exiled to the God Crime Continent would be bound and restricted by certain rules!
Ye Chui had gone to such great lengths to enter the haunted mine and become a Tomb Guardian precisely so he could enter the God Crime Continent without restrictions. Yet Lakin’s final act of madness was to forcibly exile them into it.
“Run—” Ye Chui shouted loudly.
However, the black hole formed by the nun’s self-destruction was incredibly terrifying. It expanded instantly. It possessed endless pulling force. Ye Chui immediately grabbed Debbie’s arm and performed several teleports, yet he still could not escape the black hole’s suction.
In almost the blink of an eye, the profound tunnel returned to calm. Only specks of light fell. The figures of Ye Chui and the others…
