Chapter 137: Those Who Believe in You

"But..."
"We are still a hair's breadth away from slaying a god..."
She let out an enraged, roaring growl!
At the same time, the flesh and blood on her body began to writhe. Her blood flowed back into her body, shattered muscles regenerated, and torn skin rapidly healed!
The aura that had just been waning suddenly surged and climbed back up at this moment!
The shattered trident in her hand also restored itself completely to its original state!
"A divine body is indeed powerful, but for a god, the most important thing is the divine soul." She expressionlessly pointed at her own head. "He should have cut off my head."
A god.
As long as the divine soul is undying, even if a divine body has its heart pierced, it can fully recover!
She slowly walked toward Lin Fan, but the very next moment, she abruptly stopped in her tracks.
She turned her gaze toward the Great Steel Wall.
On the Great Steel Wall,
"Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat!"
Light and heavy machine guns fired in a wild, frantic barrage. Dense streams of spinning bullets tore those roaring, charging sea beasts into shreds of bloody meat that drifted across the surface of the ocean, dyeing the entire sea crimson!
Yet, even more sea beasts surged forward.
Meanwhile, those sea beast zealots who had already breached the Great Steel Wall were engaged in brutal, hand-to-hand combat with members of the God-Slaying Army and various martial disciples.
This was a logical tactic.
However, those sea beast zealots were not only thick-skinned; they also possessed coordinated tactical formations.
Five sea beasts operated as a tactical unit. The thick-skinned Giant Whale clan charged at the very forefront, taking the brunt of the machine gun fire head-on. Behind them, the Octopus-tentacle warriors spun their appendages to swat away ricocheting bullets, and trailing closely behind them were the Swordfish warriors, Mermaid warriors, and Shark warriors!
At this moment, neither machine guns nor heavy firepower could halt their advance!
If not for the Great Steel Wall acting as the final barrier, these sea beasts would have already breached and flooded into the land of Great Xia!
"Die!!"
"Brothers, we cannot fall back! Behind us lies Great Xia!"
"Fight to the death!!"
Soldiers stood up one after another with roaring battle cries, refusing to take a single step back even as the Swordfish warriors lunged at them, firing their light and heavy machine guns in a desperate, frenzied storm of lead.
The machine guns roared, pouring out Great Xia's wrath encapsulated in torrents of bullets!
Yet the next moment, a Swordfish warrior charged forward. Half of its torso had been chewed to pieces by gunfire, but its razor-sharp rostrum pierced directly through a soldier's body!
Even more Octopus warriors rushed forward with spinning tentacles. Those terrifying appendages whirled like razor-sharp blades, lashing about with the ferocious force of iron whips.
"Fall back, leave this to me!"
An ice-attribute superhuman from the God-Slaying Army rushed forward, desperately trying to conjure an ice wall, only to have it smashed to pieces by the flailing tentacles. Instantly, multiple tentacles tightly bound and sucked onto him, while another swept down like a descending blade!
"Whoosh!"
A head flew high into the air.
A Giant Whale warrior surged onto the ramparts, and disciples from the Mo Sect drove mechanical iron rhinos forward to ram it head-on!
"BOOM!!!"
The terrifying sound of impact actually drowned out the gunfire and artillery.
Yet, after being pushed back more than ten meters, that Giant Whale warrior managed to halt its retreat right at the edge of the ramparts.
"ROAR!!!!"
Its maw, gaping like an abyss, opened wide and emitted a thunderous roar.
Its dozen-meter-long whale body, resembling a small mountain, radiated a crushing pressure that made one feel utterly insignificant.
"SNAP!!"
Powerful hands grabbed the two iron rhinos that were holding it back. Veins bulged across its entire body as muscles clenched, and with a mighty heave, it actually flipped the multi-ton iron rhinos right off the wall.
"Splash!"
The iron rhinos plunged into the ocean below, kicking up towering waves of foam. The Giant Whale warrior then straightened its torso and stepped forward toward the soldiers.
"Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat..."
The soldiers frantically squeezed their triggers, but the thick hide of the Tier 6 Giant Whale warrior was simply impervious to bullets. Countless warheads struck its body, leaving nothing more than faint white marks without penetrating at all!
"Roar!"
The ferocious beast slaughtered its way across the ramparts.
Even though Lin Fan had previously inoculated the soldiers with extracts from the Tianshan snow lotus—enhancing their reaction speeds and muscle strength—
At the end of the day, the time had been far too short, and they had barely spent any time practicing the God-Slaying Demon-Purging Arts.
The power possessed by those sea beasts was simply not something ordinary soldiers could contend with. Even those martial disciples who had reached the third or fourth, or fourth or fifth ranks, still found it impossible to fight these inhuman sea beast bodies head-on!
Only members of the God-Slaying Army could effectively check them.
And how many members were there in the God-Slaying Army?
Only one hundred and thirty-two!
Furthermore, the First Squad of the God-Slaying Army was currently engaged with a deity and unable to reinforce the battlefield on the Great Steel Wall.
The remaining members of the God-Slaying Army had to operate in thirty-two small squads; otherwise, if any of them acted alone, they would easily be picked off and destroyed one by one.
They were utterly incapable of fully protecting the four-thousand-li Great Steel Wall. Every single person was fighting in a bloody battle, yet ultimately, they could not hold the line everywhere!
Though the martial disciples were formidable, they lacked formal military training, and their mastery of the God-Slaying Demon-Purging Arts was far from profound.
Right now, the Great Steel Wall had plunged into a state of extreme crisis!
One by one, sea beast zealots braved the artillery fire to breach the Great Steel Wall, tearing apart the bodies of brave soldiers. Across the four-thousand-li wall, severed torsos and shattered limbs appeared with alarming frequency.
"Hold the line!" Crimson Sparrow, covered in blood, led the Second Squad as they burned two Giant Whale warriors to ashes with roaring flames, then roared as they charged toward three Swordfish warriors that had just breached the ramparts.
Yet, no matter how desperately everyone fought and killed, it felt as though the enemy were endless!
"We must find the locations of those five divine chosen ones as quickly as possible!" Elder Jin shouted at the top of his lungs while operating a heavy artillery piece, "Chen Yan, hurry up! Otherwise, the Great Steel Wall is going to collapse!"
Meanwhile, on the other side.
The goddess slowly walked up to Lin Fan.
"Do you realize the gap between us now?" She grabbed Lin Fan by the neck, lifting him effortlessly into the air, and said softly, "But you are quite lucky. I still very much hope you will become my believer."
"Therefore, I am giving you a chance."
Before Lin Fan could speak, she continued, "To destroy a person's faith is to make them witness the collapse of that very faith."
"This wall must be the thing you are trying so hard to protect."
She turned Lin Fan's head forcibly toward the Great Steel Wall, whispering, "I want you to watch its collapse with your own eyes, to watch the ramparts you died to protect shatter into pieces, and to watch the people you protect die miserably."
"To witness how the Great Xia you believe in is washed away by the ocean and slaughtered by sea beasts."
"When that time comes, your faith will vanish as well."
"You will become a walking corpse, willingly and gladly believing in me... And those humans who took you as their beacon of faith, when they see that even you have become my follower, what will they..."
She pressed down hard on Lin Fan's head and smiled, "Look closely! Look at those severed limbs and broken bones! Look at how the people you fought for, the people who trusted you, die!"
She waved her hand, and towering waves surged, sending even more sea beast zealots flooding onto the Great Steel Wall!