Chapter 138: The Path to Divinity

On the city wall!

Soldiers were dying one by one!

Sea-beast cultists roared as they slaughtered!

Torn limbs and severed arms were everywhere!

"Charge!" Situ Hong dropped her empty submachine gun, drew her military saber, and led her special operations squad in a direct charge against the sea-beast cultists!

A scene soaked in blood!

At this moment, Lin Fan's eyes lost their focus, as if he had been dragged back into that apocalypse once more.

That blood-soaked memory was so startlingly similar to the reality before him!

At this moment, both the battlefield of the gods and the battlefield of the city wall found humanity in a position of complete weakness!

Beneath the crashing waves and the onslaught of sea beasts, cracks began to spread across the Great Steel Wall, appearing on the verge of shattering!

"No..." Lin Fan muttered under his breath, "No... It shouldn't be like this!"

"What did you say?"

The goddess frowned slightly.

"It shouldn't be like this... I clearly made a change..."

"I came back, and I've worked hard to change things..."

"Daxia shouldn't be like this..."

"Daxia was never meant to fall..."

"I... I refuse to accept this..."

Lin Fan's crushed and broken hands trembled as they clenched into fists at that moment!

His blood-dripping body shook violently.

"Crack!"

A shattering sound suddenly echoed from within Lin Fan's body!

As if some ancient shackles had been broken open, a terrifying aura awakened deep inside him!

"I refuse to accept this!" Completely unaware of it, Lin Fan stared with bloodshot eyes at the blood-stained Great Steel Wall, shouting at the top of his lungs, "I refuse to accept this!"

"Can gods simply slaughter humans at a whim?"

"Can the supremely strong bully the weak as they please?"

An aura soared into the sky!

An aura that did not belong to a mortal!

The moment that aura appeared, the expression of the goddess shifted drastically. She tightened her grip around Lin Fan's neck, intending to snap it right then and there!

While she desperately wanted Lin Fan to become her devotee, she was even more terrified of him embarking down a certain path.

A path... to godhood!

For a fleeting second, fear crossed the face of the proud goddess!

Before she could snap his neck, however, that overwhelming aura erupted with explosive force, blasting the goddess away!

The blood-drenched youth stood amidst the ruins, his bone-shattered body swaying precariously, yet refusing to fall.

His bloodshot eyes were wild as a demon's, filled with a murderous intent and madness capable of striking fear into the hearts of gods, as he locked his gaze onto the goddess.

"Can the supremely strong bully the weak..."

"If that is how it is... then I shall be more malicious than the gods! Stronger than the gods!"

He muttered under his breath.

A pitch-black path suddenly materialized beneath his feet.

"Hum!"

The Green Dragon Blade, which had previously plunged into the ocean, let out a piercing hum and flew straight to the end of that path.

The blade, previously on the verge of shattering, was now wreathed in black mist, losing every trace of its pristine clarity. The dragon's head on the hilt glowed with crimson eyes, resembling a primordial, evil black dragon radiating a tyrannical and icy aura of slaughter!

"What kind of divine mandate leads to this path of godhood..." The goddess wore a look of utter horror, but she quickly snapped back to her senses.

She must not let Lin Fan complete this path!

Though she did not know what divine mandate this belonged to, that aura was... unimaginably terrifying!

Once he successfully ascended to godhood...

"Bang!"

With his entire body's bones shattered, Lin Fan slowly took a single step forward.

"Die!"

The goddess vanished and reappeared instantly in front of Lin Fan, her trident crashing down fiercely!

"Bang!"

Lin Fan slammed heavily into the ground, yet he used his hands to claw desperately at the dirt, dragging himself inch by inch toward the Green Dragon Blade!

"Die, damn you!!!"

A colossal oceanic hand smashed down from above, but still, he crawled forward, his shattered and bleeding body trembling with every agonizing inch as he inched toward the blade.

The goddess rained punches down upon him, slamming him deep into the mud, yet she suddenly realized that no matter what she did, she could not kill this ant, nor could she stop him!

She grabbed Lin Fan by the back, attempting to lift him up, only to find his body immensely heavy at that moment, held down by a force that resisted her efforts to raise him!

"Die for me!!"

In a frenzy, the goddess pummeled Lin Fan's mangled flesh, yet that bloodied, battered form—one that should have already perished—stubbornly dragged itself inch by inch toward the Green Dragon Blade.

Along that dark path, his figure grew progressively deeper in darkness, exuding an icy and brutal aura of slaughter.

Like an ant ignorant of death.

No one knew how he managed it, or how his broken body sustained life up to this point.

Lin Fan's eyes had grown vacant, his mind nearly stripped of the capacity to think, yet he continued to crawl forward purely on instinct.

He muttered softly, "Daxia..."

Meanwhile, on another front.

Situ Hong and three hundred special operations soldiers surrounded a giant whale warrior, locked in a frantic, desperate battle.

Their strength was by no means formidable; even with her mastery of the God-Slaying and Demon-Slaughtering Art, Situ Hong was only at the sixth rank.

Yet the giant whale warrior before her stood firmly at the eighth rank!

Despite this, the special operations soldiers charged forward without hesitation, clutching their daggers, willing to be crushed to paste one by one without taking a single step back!

It was nothing short of a suicidal charge!

"We cannot retreat!" shouted a special operations soldier, "Behind us lies Daxia!"

"Never, ever retreat!!"

Brandishing his dagger, he hurled himself at the colossal giant whale warrior, but before he could even close the distance—

"Bang!"

A dull thud echoed. A massive palm swept across, and a corpse—flattened like a pancake and oozing blood—plummeted to the ground.

"Humans, can you not simply step aside?" The giant whale warrior stared expressionlessly at the human soldiers.

These weak lives hurling themselves forward endlessly were truly an annoyance.

Every time, he had to extend a paw to swat them dead.

Yet these fools acted as if they didn't fear death, coming one after another like moths to a flame!

Trembling all over, Situ Hong watched her soldiers die one by one. The scene mirrored the exact nightmare Jiang Chen had once inflicted upon her!

"I'll fight you... to the death!!" Situ Hong charged at the giant whale warrior, saber in hand.

Yet—

"Bang!"

Situ Hong was swatted violently to the ground, and in the next instant, a massive foot descended from above, enveloping her in shadow!

That colossal foot, heavy as Mount Tai, threatened to crush her into oblivion!

This was identical to the terror of Jiang Chen from days past.

At the very final moment, Situ Hong turned her head to look into the distance of the Great Steel Wall. Blood was splattering across the entire rampart, and giant beasts wreaked havoc everywhere!

She whispered softly, "Is Daxia still going to..."

"Boom!"

The foot came down.

"Humph." The giant whale warrior let out an expressionless, cold snort and looked up toward the soldiers charging forward once more. But in the next second, he froze in astonishment.

His descending foot seemed to have failed to hit the ground?

Beneath his sole—

A single hand was holding up that massive foot.

A formidable aura began to awaken from within Situ Hong, and that aura belonged to a deity!

"Boom!"

A bizarre divine power soared into the sky, and under the sweeping force of that divine energy, the giant whale warrior exploded into pieces!

Situ Hong slowly stood up.

Her eyes gleamed with a tyrannical red light, and the explosive, immense aura she emitted plunged the surrounding heaven and earth into absolute silence, causing the oceanic giant beasts rampaging on the wall to instinctively turn their heads toward her.

A single, blood-red character slowly rose from behind her:

"Military"!

The God of War!

Situ Hong had embarked on the path of godhood long ago!

And just now, she had walked the final step!

Situ Hong picked up a blood-stained rifle, her calm voice masking a suppressed murderous intent: "Anyone who steps one foot into Daxia, dies."

Meanwhile, on the other side, Lin Fan had crawled to the end of the path.

With a trembling finger, he reached out and touched the Green Dragon Blade.

"Boom!"

A black dragon lunged out from the blade, letting out a roar that shook the heavens!

Wreathed in ominous black mist, it plunged straight into Lin Fan's body!

His path to godhood reached its completion at this very moment!