Chapter 134 What an exemplary follower indeed

"Commander-in-Chief!" Mo Buzhi, the only one remaining, let out a furious roar as he witnessed the scene.

In this moment, even this Confucian scholar, who had always preferred quiet reading, had his eyes turn completely red!

Of the God-Slaying Squad, he was the only one left still capable of battle!

"I'll fight you to the death!" Mo Buzhi looked like a madman, his scholar's aura bursting forth into the open, his long hair flying in the wind as he shouted aloud, "Looking up, I feel no shame before the heavens; looking down, I feel no guilt before men!"

His voice shook the heavens and the earth!

An overwhelming, righteous aura of heaven and earth surged with him as he charged toward the goddess.

Yet the Goddess of the Ocean merely glanced at him and gave a casual wave.

"Boom!"

The sea surface burst apart, and a massive palm condensed from seawater violently slapped onto Mo Buzhi, swatting him away as easily as if he were a fly!

"Bang!"

Mo Buzhi plunged directly into the ocean, vanishing without a trace amid the rolling waves.

The goddess stepped forward, marching step by step toward Great Xia.

On the Great Steel Wall.

That figure swayed as he staggered to his feet, coughing up a mouthful of blood. He tried to pick up his blade with both hands, but the piercing pain radiating from his shattered arms brought no response at all.

He bent down, kneeling on the ground, and bit onto the hilt of the saber with his teeth.

The Azure Dragon Blade, which had always flashed with a razor-sharp gleam, was now dull and dim. Its matchlessly sharp edge was chipped at this very moment.

He was already at the end of his rope, his oil nearly spent.

Yet even so, that figure still staggered into the air, biting the broken Azure Dragon Blade as he charged toward the goddess who was approaching step by step!

"Still want to fight?"

"Bang!"

The goddess watched him charge with a completely expressionless face.

Lin Fan did not answer her; instead, gripping the blade with his teeth, he dashed forward with his final remaining strength!

The goddess looked at this ant with a face ready to die, her gaze devoid of any fluctuation.

To her, this tragic and fierce scene was utterly laughable.

"Being an ant, you should have the awareness of an ant."

She quietly watched as Lin Fan rushed to her side.

His face covered in blood, Lin Fan looked like a raving demon, his bloodshot eyes staring fixedly at the goddess before him. Muffled and furious roars escaped his blade-gripping mouth: "Ahead lies Great Xia, forbidden to gods—"

The blade radiance slashed down fiercely!

"Pass!"

"Bang!"

The goddess threw a casual punch, yet it was as fast as lightning, smashing viciously into Lin Fan's chest!

"Crack!"

Under this single blow, Lin Fan's chest seemed to instantly cave inward, and his entire body was knocked straight back from the sea surface onto a jagged cliff outside the Great Steel Wall.

He lay there sprawled out like a dead dog, covered in blood and completely limp.

Yet immediately after, that figure began to wriggle once more, as if trying to crawl back up!

"You can still move?" The goddess blinked in mild surprise, then stepped forward once more.

"Damn it!" Old Jin's eyes turned red as he watched Lin Fan collapse beneath the ramparts, and he aimed directly at the goddess walking toward Lin Fan from the sea: "Die, damn you!!!"

"Boom, boom, boom!"

A portion of the heavy artillery was also diverted from the sea beast battlefield, training its sights on the advancing goddess!

"Damn it, blast her to pieces!"

"Stop her in her tracks!"

The soldiers' eyes were also bloodshot, and amid the deafening explosions, a continuous barrage of shells rained down upon the goddess!

Yet, every single one of them detonated a hundred meters away from the goddess, as if an immense, majestic force was blocking the shells.

Through the blazing fire, the goddess continued her steady advance, completely unfazed.

"Old Jin!" Chen Yan's roar echoed through the walkie-talkie. "Turn the cannons back immediately! All firepower must be concentrated on suppressing the sea beasts!"

"With you pulling this stunt, our suppression fire is insufficient, and the pressure on the sect disciples and God-Slaying Squad members has multiplied. A thousand of them are already dead or wounded!"

"That Lin Fan..." Old Jin gritted his teeth in agony.

Old Chen fell silent for a moment before saying in a low voice, "I trust him."

Old Jin looked at the sect disciples and God-Slaying Squad members fighting a bloody battle against the sea beasts beneath the ramparts—those who would rather be dragged into the sea themselves than let the beasts breach the walls—and his eyes grew burning red.

"All firepower, suppress the sea beasts! Aim for the surface of the sea!"

"What about Lin Fan?!" Situ Hong asked loudly.

"I trust him... Artillery fire is useless against the goddess... This is the only thing we can do..." Old Jin answered, his voice trembling.

Silence, absolute silence.

Along the four-thousand-li wall, among the fifty million soldiers, not a single person spoke.

They silently adjusted the muzzle of their cannons, unleashing every single shell—and every ounce of hatred—upon the sea beasts!

"Old Jin," Old Chen's voice sounded through the walkie-talkie, "the analysis department has discovered that many sea beasts are swarming beneath the surface around a few specific targets, as if protecting them."

"Our preliminary assessment is that those sea beasts are the God's Chosen Ones Lin Fan mentioned."

"If we can kill them, these sea beasts will no longer be able to appear here, and we can muster our full strength to fight the gods... If worse comes to worst... we can resort to nuclear weapons..."

When Old Chen spoke those last words, his voice trembled.

Nuclear weapons!

This was a weapon of immense might; according to Lin Fan's words, it would be enough to slay this Ocean Goddess, who was only at the third tier!

However... no one wanted to use nuclear weapons on their own soil!

Once nuclear weapons were used, at least half of the fifty million soldiers stationed along the four-thousand-li wall would be killed or wounded!

The losses for Great Xia would be immeasurable... One could say that the entire Luzhou coastline would be reduced to a wasteland because of the deployment of nuclear weapons!

It was a sword capable of slaying gods, but it was also a double-edged sword!

"I have sent the precise coordinates of those sea beasts to your communicator. You know what to do," Old Chen said softly.

With bloodshot eyes, Old Jin roared at the top of his lungs, "Lads! The coordinates are displayed on your communicators! Aim at those spots and blast them to hell!!"

"Kill every single one of these God's Chosen!"

"Send them crawling back to the Divine Realm!"

Hearing this, the soldiers, whose eyes had long since turned blood red, immediately threw caution to the wind, pouring full firepower to blanket those designated coordinates!

Meanwhile.

The goddess arrived before Lin Fan. She looked down at him as he squirmed on the ground, trying desperately to crawl upward, then raised her head to glance at the massive Great Steel Wall where artillery thundered yet no longer attacked her. She calmly remarked, "It seems they have abandoned you."

"And yet you still bleed your life out for them."

"Is it worth it?"

Looking at the ant before her, possessing matchless courage and formidable strength, she said softly, "Why not pledge your faith to me instead?"

A blood-stained face lifted from the dirt. Gazing at the glowing deity before him, Lin Fan coughed up a mouthful of blood and smiled.

"You're wrong. They aren't attacking you not because they've abandoned me, but because... they trust me..."

"As for pledging my faith to you..."

"What?" the goddess said calmly. "Could it be that you have no faith?"

"Before the war, I truly didn't know I had faith, and many people in Great Xia didn't know they had faith either," Lin Fan said weakly. "But the moment you marched toward Great Xia, the moment we built the Great Steel Wall under the scorching sun, the moment the recruitment drives overflowed with oceans of people... we all knew we still had faith."

"Since you have faith, why can't it be placed in me?" the goddess asked softly.

Lin Fan flashed a bloody smile. "I wish I could place my faith in you too, but... my life is far too short, and I only have room for one faith... So, it can only be Great Xia."

The goddess silently watched the powerful ant before her.

Curiously, Lin Fan's words did not enrage her; instead, they brought a look of satisfaction to her eyes.

What a truly exceptional believer.

If only he could be reined in for her own use, how wonderful that would be?