The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 357 - 336: The Vastness of Divine Might_1

Chapter 357: Chapter 336: The Vastness of Divine Might_1

A deep black, elegant silhouette emerged gracefully from the chest of the Fire God Shen Yalie.

He stood above the dark red scale armor protruding from Yalie’s chest cavity, as if gazing upon the stars and worlds where his followers dwelled, from the palace of a God Spirit.

Wherever his gaze fell, all creatures should bow in worship and sing his true name in chants.

"My lord."

Fire God Yalie called out softly.

He shook his head gently.

Yalie, and all the Alien Gods from the Outer Realm, fell instantly silent.

He furrowed his brows slightly, an indifferent expression on his face, his eyes as deep as the ocean yet disturbingly calm and waveless.

He had changed out of the bright red dress he usually wore, donning a jet-black robe embroidered with intricate patterns, his allure and charming smile retracted, becoming stern and serious.

He had become, as though he was another person.

He just quietly looked at Pang Jian.

Fire God Yalie, along with the voluntarily demoted Alien Gods of the Outer Realm, all fell silent.

The Alien Tribes’ warships were also dead silent.

No one, nor any deity, dared disturb the peace he willed into existence.

Ice-thunder Fragment Land.

"Luo..."

A single word from Pang Jian was caught in his throat.

Seeing this familiar God Spirit shadow, the unfamiliar coldness on that stunning face prevented him from speaking any further.

Shock, confusion, bewilderment—various emotions flooded into his heart.

Pang Jian’s expression became complicated, his heart filled with mixed feelings, not knowing why Luo Hongyan had emerged from the chest of the resurrected God Spirit, nor what Luo Hongyan was ultimately planning to do.

Yet, the calmness of the Flame God Spirit, even the respectful demeanor, the Alien God puppets’ extreme caution, made Pang Jian realize one thing clearly.

—He was the one with complete control over the situation.

All beings who appeared from the Flame Fragment Land, regardless of their level, dared not compare themselves to Him.

They were not qualified to do so.

"I..."

Pang Jian’s mouth twitched and he said with a strained voice, "I want to..."

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"

Six warships repaired by the Ice Tribe, a gourd released by Zhao Yuanqi, and a set of golden Roc wings flew out in succession from the Ice-thunder Fragment Land.

The warships were filled with the weaker members of the Ice Tribe, the gourd carried Qi Qingsong and Zhuang Yuyan among others, and on the golden Roc wings were Lu Jie, Chen Lushi, and other people.

Many Ice Tribe warriors, riding on flying spiritual birds, flew away from the Fragment Land covered in Mysterious Fog in a majestic procession.

"Pang Jian!"

"My lord!"

"Go!"

"If we escape into the Mysterious Fog, we might still have a chance at life!"

They yelled loudly, urging him on.

Yet, they did not dare to look at Fire God Yalie again, constantly reminding Pang Jian that only by fleeing deep into the Mysterious Fog could they hope to avoid this calamity.

However...

Luo Hongyan, dressed in black, squinted towards them.

The warships suddenly halted, the wings of the spiritual birds stopped, and all arrays within the artifacts became ineffective.

The power of the Ice Tribe warriors, as well as that of Qi Qingsong and the others, was instantly sealed by Alien Power.

Everyone who had fled the Ice-thunder Fragment Land was now still, unable to move, forced to maintain their original positions.

"Luo... Luo Hongyan!"

"Luo Hongyan!"

Qi Qingsong, Zhou Qingchen, and Dong Tianze cried out in disbelief.

Although they were separated by millions of miles of the void, the black silhouette that had appeared from Fire God Yalie’s chest seemed to be magnified infinitely in their vision.

So immense that it gradually surpassed the towering Fire God Yalie, so immense that it seemed the entire world could hardly contain Him!

"He..."

The voice of the elder of the Ice Tribe trembled along with his body.

In their perception, a shadow that obscured the entire void, countless times larger than all four Fragment Lands combined, gradually enveloped the space within the Mysterious Fog.

His presence was everywhere, His form filled the heavens and the earth, even extending into the endless Mysterious Fog.

"Who is He?"

"Who exactly is He?"

"How can there be such a terrifyingly powerful being between heaven and earth?"

Lu Jie, Jiang Chao, Chen Lushi, Xiao Yu, Qiao Zhen and other survivors, overwhelmed by His boundless, vast divine might, involuntarily knelt down in the void.

Kneeling spread like a contagion—members of the Ice Tribe, Wu Yuan from the Demon Sect, Zhuang Yuyan, Zhao Yuanqi, Dong Tianze!

Except for Qi Qingsong and Zhou Qingchen, those beings who had left the Ice-thunder Fragment Land were all bowing to Him in various awkward postures, in the outer space.

Including the spiritual birds!

His divine might spread out, permeating the void between heaven and earth, and all creatures touched by it, all souls that could behold Him, should bow in devout worship.

As if it were a natural law of heaven and earth, like a rule branded in the bloodlines of all creatures.

Unless, bestowed with His forgiveness, they could refrain from worship.

"I..."

"We..."

Zhou Qingchen and Qi Qingsong looked at each other, terrified and at a loss.

They noticed that even on the Alien Tribes’ warships floating above the Flame Fragment Land, those aliens from different worlds were now bowing in reverence.

The gods, too, bent their bodies to show respect.

They, along with Pang Jian, were the only three who had received the forgiveness of divine might.

"Farewell, Purgatory."

A distant and ethereal divine voice echoed from the heart of the Fragment Land, from beyond the skies, from within the depths of the Mysterious Fog.

This voice belonged to Luo Hongyan.

He nodded faintly at Pang Jian with an indifferent expression and then vanished into the body of the Fire God Shen Yalie.

The next moment, His overwhelming divine might quietly dissipated.

Gone too was the titanic flame Alien God that towered thousands of feet tall.

Shen Yalie crash-landed into the depths of the Fragment Land, mobilizing the tremendous Flame Force within all the volcanoes, steering the Fragment Land away from this place.

"Boom!"

A massive piece of the Flame Fragment Land suddenly shot towards the Mysterious Fog like a blazing Flaming Meteor from the void.

The Alien Tribes warriors, the god puppets inhabited by gods from the Outer Realm, all were taken away along with that piece of Flame Fragment Land.

Still in an awkward stance, bowing to that worshipped being, it was only now that they woke up in a profound sweat, their thoughts and consciousness finally functioning normally.

"He, He is?"

"Who was He speaking with before He left?"

"He said ’see you in Purgatory,’ is He going to Purgatory?"

"A True God, can anyone stop Him?"

"..."

Lu Jie, Jiang Chao, Chen Lushi, and the others screamed in horror.

The six elders of the Ice Tribe, wiping the sweat from their foreheads, necks, and underarms, stared fixedly at the Mysterious Fog where the Flame Fragment Land had disappeared, resolving never to set foot in Purgatory!

They had a faint feeling that the Ice Demon, whom the Ice Tribe had worshipped for generations, was at most on the same level as the resurrected Fire God.

Yet, he was far inferior to that mysterious woman in black!

"Pang, Pang Jian, was it Him?"

Zhou Qingchen asked shakily.

"If not Him, then who else?" Zhao Yuanqi took a deep breath, rubbing her stiff neck due to the awkward bowing, and said, "Isn’t that Him inside the Prayer Spirit Forbidden Land?"

"How could He become so terrifying?" Zhou Qingchen was horrified.

"I’d like to know that too," Zhao Yuanqi said with a wry smile.

"He, is He the woman you mentioned before, the one entangled in feelings with our junior brother?" Zhuang Yuyan was also wiping sweat, saying with a trembling heart, "Compared to that girl from Heaven Treasure Li Family, this one...is even more formidable. I feel that even the gods of the Outer Realm need to look up to Her."

"Junior brother, you..."

Zhuang Yuyan shook her head, not knowing what else to say.

Finally coming to her senses, Chen Lushi from the Demon Sect said, "His last words, were they spoken to Pang Jian?"

Her enchanting body trembled uncontrollably, and she stared blankly at Pang Jian with a face of dumbstruck awe, suddenly feeling as if infinite divine light also surrounded him.

"I must condense my Spiritual Soul quickly,"

Pang Jian called out, turning his head to glance at the Ice Plain, and said, "You all can decide for yourselves whether you will enter Purgatory with me in the future, or seek survival in other worlds."

"Moreover, give those people a starship to leave on their own," he added, pointing toward Lu Jie and the others.

Having said that.

"Swoosh!"

Pang Jian, who had left the Ice-thunder Fragment Land, plummeted into it in an instant, piercing through the mountain’s icy layers and nestled beneath the ice rocks.

In the distance.

"A wail!"

The trembling Ice Armor Eel Dragon emerged from the bottom of a lake in the Absolute Sky Forbidden Land and floated into the void.

The dragon, which had been hiding at the bottom of the lake, daring not to breath since the Fire God Shen Yalie stepped out of the Fragment Land, sensing the disappearance of the Flame Fragment Land, finally dared to show its head.

"Phew!"

It flew through the void and soon arrived above the Ice-thunder Fragment Land.

A group of dazed people, unsure of where to go, looked toward it with dread and fear.

It asked Qingsong, "Tell me, what just happened?"

"You didn’t see?" Qingsong said gravely.

"It was too terrifying, I didn’t dare to look up, nor did I dare to peek," the large Ice Armor Eel Dragon, with its beastly eyes showing confusion and fear, said, "I can’t stay here any longer, this godforsaken place, wasn’t it said that no God Spirit could reach here?"

"That presence just now, it was definitely a real God Spirit!"

The Ice Armor Eel Dragon was scared to tears.

"A fallen Fire God has been resurrected. And another deity, transcending Him, appeared from His body and stepped with Him into the Purgatory World," Qingsong explained.

"What? He’s gone to Purgatory?"

The Ice Armor Eel Dragon grew even more disoriented, its huge head swaying as it flew hazily back toward the Absolute Sky Forbidden Land.

It muttered to itself as it flew and then sank back into the depths of the lake.

"I was prepared to return to Purgatory, but what to do now? With complete deities manifesting in Purgatory, how chaotic will the world be!"

"Purgatory will probably be engulfed in war. Where can I hide when I return?"

"Or maybe, again..."

It muttered all the way back and submerged into the lake.

The despondent crowd also descended from the sky above the Ice-thunder Fragment Land, none of them interested in talking anymore, nor bringing up the matter of leaving.

In everyone’s minds lingered that terrifying divine shadow, seemingly impossible to dispel for a short while.

If time could not dilute and erase it, they would not know what to do, uncertain where their future lay.

Though Luo Hongyan had left, the ripples caused by Her divine might once had a profoundly lasting influence.

Inside the glacier.

In the vast cold ice rock cave, laid various bright Spirit Stones, dazzling arrays of golden and iron artifacts, treasure crystals, minerals, and tree trunks containing Plant Spirit Energy.

The Thunder Pond left by the Thunder God was also among them.

"Should I refine my Spiritual Soul first, or should I first absorb the Thunder Pond into my dantian?"

Pang Jian’s expression was somber.

An old friend had suddenly become the leader of the Outer Realm gods, showcasing divine might that could scatter and destroy heavens, giving him a strong sense of defeat.

He distinctly felt the gap between them, like a chasm, making it difficult for him to speak with the other as equals.

This made him feel frustrated and oppressed.

"Past times, once occurred, can hardly be easily forgotten..."

"So, see you in Purgatory."

Pang Jian resolved to refine his Spiritual Soul.

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