The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 673 - 635 Bronze-faced God_1

Chapter 673: Chapter 635 Bronze-faced God_1

The Heart of the Stars contained an interior hollow space.

The nine segments of the Star Devourer, like nine serpentine dragons sprawled on the ground, were laid out in this subterranean space.

This Earth Heart Space was like an immensely spacious cavern.

The Youkui, not wearing a cloak and not hunched over its divine body, revealed a pale and handsome face.

At that time, He was sitting on a stone platform, speaking to someone.

That person existed as an ethereal image in the center of the octagonal Teleportation Array in front of Youkui.

Dressed in a loose black Magical Robe, the whole face covered by a bronze mask, the person whose real body was hidden in some Star River said to Youkui, "Every three days, you must inject the Fine Gold I send you into different limbs of the Star Devourer."

As this person spoke, nine white jade bowls placed on the Teleportation Array continuously produced gold stones, sand, iron chunks, copper essence, silver, and the like.

The cold Youkui nodded while drawing those various types of metals to him.

He slashed with a sharp blade.

"Hiss! Hiss Hiss!"

The Star Devourer’s segments, like long dragons, suddenly bore deep scars as if they were ravines.

The gold stones, pure gold, copper essence, and silver that appeared in the giant bowls fell into the wounds of different limbs of the Star Devourer under the pull of Youkui’s Divine Power.

Most of the wounds on the nine segments, after "swallowing" the Fine Gold, were slowly healing.

They became increasingly tough and sharp.

The unrelated powers that originally existed inside the limbs were gradually washed away by the Fine Gold, leaving only the essence of metals behind.

When the newly injected Fine Gold was refined by the Star Devourer’s instincts time and time again, those limbs might eventually become the main materials for forging Divine Weapon Sharp Blades.

This type of material, into which the Alien Gods from Outer Space could infuse Divine Aura and blood force, could be used to create Divine Artifacts of different tiers.

In a more distant area of the "cavern," in a corner, there lay a dozen more of the Star Devourer’s segments carelessly discarded.

These segments also bore frightening cracks, but were not capable of healing or restoring, as their various essential energies had long been excavated clean by Youkui.

They were considered scrap in the eyes of Youkui.

"I don’t know how many of these nine will ultimately succeed," Youkui suddenly lamented.

"Well, the Star Devourer is in your hands, and It has many limbs. The Fine Gold that helps Its limbs to transform is also provided by me; you don’t need to pay anything. But if even one segment is successful, I’ll pay you the value of one segment," said the person with the bronze mask indifferently.

Youkui laughed and nodded, "The reason I’m holed up here, away from those God Spirits, is that I want to cooperate with you properly."

He only knew the other as the Bronze-faced God but was unclear about the exact origins and background.

Nobody knew which Star Domain the Bronze-faced God was hiding in, only that He was adept at forging Divine Artifacts.

As long as one communicated with Him in the method He distributed externally to indicate what kind of Divine Artifact they wanted to forge, after He pondered and felt the materials at hand were sufficient for refinement, He would quote a suitable price.

Several thousand, tens of thousands, or millions of Divine Crystals varied.

If the price seemed reasonable, once half the deposit was given, He would commence the refinement.

When the Divine Artifact was forged, an Array that could transmit to Him would be set up according to His method, and the trade would proceed with the other half of the Divine Crystals.

Ever since the Bronze-faced God started appearing in the Star River, those God Spirits who had previously agreed on a price and ultimately completed the transaction with Him were all satisfied with His crafted artifacts.

Youkui originally wanted His help in forging a Divine Artifact. When Youkui stated his general requirements and heard His quotation, Youkui gave up.

This Ghost Clan’s Middle-level God was actually quite poor.

It was precisely because He was so poor that He came here, crossing multiple Star Rivers at Zimo’s summoning.

He came to make a fortune.

The Star Devourer He intercepted from Han Yi and Ying Yue was the "fortune" He had gotten his hands on. When He got in touch with the Bronze-faced God again and expressed His desire for that Divine Artifact, He mentioned the Star Devourer in passing.

The Bronze-faced God showed interest and asked Him to bring the Star Devourer here.

Then, He was led by the nose by the Bronze-faced God.

Under the Bronze-faced God’s instructions, He dragged the vibrantly living limbs of the Star Devourer, one by one, to this Earth Heart Cave.

He "force-fed" the Star Devourer with materials provided by the Bronze-faced God, allowing the Star Devourer’s limbs to evolve entirely in the form devised by the Bronze-faced God.

To evolve into the main materials suitable for the Bronze-faced God to forge Divine Weapons Sharp Blades.

The image of the Bronze-faced God became increasingly ethereal, a sign that he was about to depart.

At that moment, He casually asked, "How far have you progressed in Purgatory?"

"Not very smoothly,"

Youkui mechanically drew out the Fine Gold and forcefully stuffed it toward the wounded limbs of the Star Devourer.

Another segment’s previously slashed wound stopped healing itself.

He angrily utilized his Divine Power, causing a pale blue light to flash, and the lifeless segment was furiously cleaved in two by Him.

He faintly heard the pitiful soul cry of the Star Devourer once more.

He turned a deaf ear and stretched his hand towards the far-off cave.

His hand suddenly enlarged a million times and grabbed another segment of the Star Devourer, forcibly throwing it onto the ground of the subterranean space, carelessly severing the connection between this segment and the Star Devourer.

"The Sword Tower of Purgatory, the path pursued by this generation’s Tower Master, has actually become a Heaven Forbidden that separates the inside from the outside world."

"After his successful advancement to True God, an anomaly occurred in the Purgatory Heaven Forbidden, and we were unable to continue communicating with Purgatory through the Altar of Praying to God, through believers and special puppet bodies."

"Our Supreme God Zimo and He Motian, after much difficulty, created demigod bodies that were also destroyed one after another."

"At the moment, we are unclear about the current situation in Purgatory. Fortunately, that Sovereign and one of His Fire Gods are still there, otherwise we would feel completely defeated."

Youkui sliced the new limb with a sharp blade, taking out various Fine Gold and forcibly stuffing it into the wound.

He paused for a moment, and just when He was about to say a few more words, He noticed that the Bronze-faced God had already disappeared.

That mysterious stranger Deity seemed to only mention it in passing, not really caring much about the situation in Purgatory World, and hence, didn’t inquire further.

Youkui didn’t think much of it and said coldly, "You are my treasure; I will make full use of every part of your limbs. The Bronze-faced God promised me that as long as one limb successfully completes its transformation, He would give me the price of a main material."

"Heh! You have so many limbs, I can slowly torment you, using them to exchange for tens of millions of Divine Crystals from Him."

"With you, I should be able to gather everything I need for the Divine Artifact I desire, including what my son will need to become a God in the future!"

...

Unknown starry sky, unknown stars, unknown realms.

Gold, iron, copper, silver, lead—metals mined from the secret places of the Outer Star River were forged into a furnace.

At this time, the furnace was not lit and was still covered with a lid.

In the heart of the same secretive star, the Bronze-faced God sat atop the lid, removing His bronze mask to reveal a Human Race face with black hair and black eyes.

Rubbing His somewhat stiff cheeks to make the skin more pliable, He managed to squeeze out a rare smile.

His smile seemed awkward, as if He had forgotten how to smile after such a long time without doing so.

"Sword Tower, it still has to be Sword Tower. After leaving for so long, we Sword Cultivators are still the most reliable when it matters."

He began smiling happily.

"Swoosh!"

A small wooden sword, only half the length of His arm and resembling a child’s toy, spun around Him in the air, and the Sword Spirit inside it also emitted a childlike "giggle" of joy.

"Good that it’s sealed, completely sealed is even better!"

"Those annoying bastards, dreaming of exterminating the foundation of the Human Race, what pipe dreams they have!"

"This generation’s Tower Master of the Sword Tower is quite interesting; is He truly Integration Heaven Forbidden? Creative, I like it! Speaking of which... why didn’t you think of it back then?"

The Sword Spirit asked with a clear laugh.

"Back then, everyone was focused on getting out, and the Alien Gods weren’t guarding against us everywhere, so why create a Unity Heaven Forbidden?" The Bronze-faced God grinned, chiding seriously, "If I had merged with the Heaven Forbidden back then, could you and I have freely roamed the endless Star River, galloping through the outer void?"

"That’s true, you’re right, you’re always right." The Sword Spirit laughed merrily, then said, "Ah, after being away for so long, I kind of miss those guys at the bottom of the Tower."

The Bronze-faced God’s expression darkened, "Unfortunately, it’s hard for us to go back."

After a pause, He added, "Outer space is too difficult; I actually hope they don’t come out."

...

"Wuu wuu!"

"If I can survive, I will make all the deities of the Ghost Clan, and the entire Ghost Clan itself, pay the price!"

"I will go to the Star River governed by the Ghost Clan, devouring the stars there for sustenance! I want to consume the living souls of the Ghost Clan, transforming the lands of the Ghost Clan into realms of death!"

"Youkui! I want Him dead!"

The dismal howls of the Star Devourer rose within Pang Jian’s body.

But they were confined to Pang Jian’s body.

Despite being within the stars, despite His body’s webbed form entwined inside the star’s interior, despite being able to communicate directly with Youkui, He dared not make a sound or utter a word.

His endless hatred, His infinite grievances, could only be confided to Pang Jian.

Guided by Him, Pang Jian, who was hiding his presence while navigating the Earth Heart Space, frowned and said, "I’m not interested in knowing how many of your limbs have been severed, how much essence of gold and iron has been infused into them, or how many pieces have been refined to death."

"What good are you anyway?"

"All beings in the Dark Prison kept and consumed souls by you—are the powerful ones of level nine not enough?"

"An entire world lives under your shadow, controlled by you holding the power over life and death. When you left the Dark Prison for the broader starry seas and ended up in Youkui’s grasp for slaughter, you deserved it."

"Swoosh!"

He suddenly appeared in the Earth Heart Cave.

The Bronze-faced God had just left, and Youkui, who had been intently "feeding" the Star Devourer’s limbs, froze with the blade in His hand.

"Pang Jian?"

Youkui was overtaken by a surreal feeling.

He hid Himself in a neglected star that even the gods did not pay attention to, deep within the heart of the earth.

How could a True God of the Human Race suddenly appear there?

"Han Yi, Ying Yue, these two treacherous wretches!"

He immediately realized who had betrayed Him.

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