The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 715 - 677: Helpless_1

Chapter 715: Chapter 677: Helpless_1

Luo Hongyan made her move.

She had not revealed her true form, but all the Human True Gods who had descended knew that the earth-shattering changes in the Fifth Realm were triggered by her display of divine miracles.

Seven artifacts, serving as the Array Eyes, returned successively to the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar from the First Realm of Purgatory, from Pang Jian’s body.

The seven Heavenly Tribulation Pillars, painstakingly forged by generations of Human True Gods following the guidance of the elders from beyond, were now thoroughly understood by Her and had become Her formidable weapons to deter all sides.

And pervasive intent of death was the embodiment of Her power!

She wielded Bright and Darkness, She dominated death and life, She harmonized flame and Cold Ice.

She merged the truths of six Divine Tao into one, and Her being possessed six grand God Statuses.

In Purgatory, She used the Death Force to draw upon a strand of Fate and successfully forged a tangible God Status.

Apart from Her, no one else could spread the intent of death throughout the entire Fifth Realm!

"Whoosh!"

A dazzling turquoise brilliance burst from the center of the Continent where Tian Du San Ren had made his impact.

That radiance came from a Divine Sword!

The Divine Sword, serving as the Array Eye, bore the true name "Godslayer."

It gathered power from the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar below it, and after concentrating it within the sword’s body, it immediately shot out this radiance.

Tian Du San Ren, whose Divine Dharma Aspect was collapsing, shuddered at the sight of this divine sword’s brilliance approaching.

This sword light was more resplendent and significantly broader than Pu Zhaotian’s, embedding the wisdom of ancient True Gods, encompassing stars, sun and moon, the myriad images of heaven and earth, and the myriad forms of living beings.

It was an unavoidable sword light for Tian Du San Ren, who had no way to defend against it.

The sword light directly covered the area where Tian Du San Ren was located.

Thousands of dim lights suddenly exploded!

Using a branch of soul secret skill, barely ascending to a True God, Tian Du San Ren was annihilated by that turquoise brilliance.

His thousands of dim soul lights faintly coalesced into a deep turquoise mountain—this peak was the Tian Du Mountain, his homeland, and also the place where he had attained the Tao.

"Bang!"

The Tian Du Mountain, the final convergence of soul and Fate, also crumbled under the encirclement of turquoise sword light.

A burst of cloud and tapestry split off from the fall of Tian Du San Ren, hovering in the void of the Fifth Realm.

Fate, as if with its own will, attempted to return to the "Heaven Forbidden" of the Upper Realm, yet it could not break through the celestial dome of the Fifth Realm.

And then.

"Whoosh!"

Another turquoise brilliance bloomed from the summit of the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar atop another land.

Li Yuanli, who was still striving to break through the Demon Element Power seal in hopes of returning to the Fourth Realm, was targeted by this light.

Li Yuanli saw a vast Long Blade, hanging high atop the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar, emitting terrifying murderous aura.

The "Soulslaughter" blade, not a Divine Artifact by itself, but with the enhancement from the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar, the turquoise brilliance it induced was imbued with infinite spirituality.

And infinite Divine Power.

Li Yuanli’s expression changed, and in a hurry, he shook loose several hundred Array Plates from his sleeves and Storage Ring.

Array Plates spread out in the void, turning into grand mountains and rivers, into canyons and basins, into forests and oceans, becoming meteors and rain of fire.

The many beautiful scenes that truly existed in the world, not limited to Purgatory, were brought to life by those hundreds of Array Plates.

All scattered in the void around Li Yuanli.

This deity of array formations, having observed a land, could imprint it within the Array Plate; often gazing at the Star River, he had included the Star River into his array layout.

He took mountains as he saw them, collected waters as he encountered them; he merged the natural Tao into his arrays, he had his own free-spirited grandeur.

However, by offering all the Array Plates and presenting his painstakingly crafted landscapes for defense, it also meant he was driven to a dead end.

For the moment those Heavenly Tribulation Pillars locked onto him, he knew he could not escape.

No matter how he tried to dodge, to flee swiftly, the turquoise brilliance stirred by the "Soulslaughter" blade would ultimately catch up and descend upon him.

And during the escape, the pervasive stillness of death that had spread across the Fifth Realm was still poisoning and nibbling at his vitality.

Constantly avoiding, endlessly depleting, was not a sound strategy.

His only option was to fight to the death!

The turquoise brilliance arrived, engulfing the mountains and rivers, the heavens and earth crafted by Li Yuanli with his Array Plates, in a sea of light.

"Crack! Crack! Boom!"

Mountains collapsed, rivers fractured, forests turned to dust, oceans popped like bubbles into nothingness.

Star Rivers, meteors, flames, and shooting stars, under that vast supreme power, were crushed one by one.

Including Li Yuanli’s body, soul, and Spiritual Power.

Only another burst of cloud and tapestry remained, defiantly existing under the turquoise brilliance even after Li Yuanli had died a soulless death.

Like that which came from Tian Du San Ren, it too aimed for the celestial dome of the Fifth Realm, was also intercepted, and was similarly trapped within the Fifth Realm.

Tian Du San Ren, Li Yuanli—two Human True Gods perished swiftly.

One attempting to assault the Continent, the other attempting to break through the celestial dome of the Fifth Realm, both were killed by the Array Eye weapons connected to the stalwart Heavenly Tribulation Pillars, leaving behind the radiant hues of their Fate after death.

Pu Zhaotian and Yin Ji, at the moment the tumultuous upheaval erupted, both vanished into the Mysterious Fog.

Zhu Ji, Ghost Mother, Su Wenrou, and the top-ranked battle powers of the Human True Gods were now gathered by Li Wang’s side, in the depths of a brilliantly shining Star River.

The Star River carved out by Li Wang could not stop the infiltration of the Death Force.

Everyone offered up a spiritual power light screen and had already tried various methods, but still, they could not halt the loss of life force.

"What should we do?"

Ghost Mother asked in an indifferent tone.

The death of Tian Du San Ren and the fall of Li Yuanli, the precarious spiraling of their fate, had not affected her mood.

She remained composed and calm, as if even the collapse of Purgatory and the extinction of the Human Race couldn’t truly make her panic.

Even if her own soul perished, she felt it wouldn’t be a big deal.

"The Sovereign is not just strangling us," Su Wenrou’s beautiful brows furrowed slightly, somewhat incomprehensible as she said, "Aside from the seven continents, there are also Ferocious Beasts and weaker Alien Tribes living in those Fragment Lands. His spread of the Death Force covers those Fragment Lands, leading to the extinction of countless creatures."

She held the title of "Medicine and Poison Dual Deficiency," and her study of the Tao of Healing involved life, giving her a deep feeling of the silence of death.

Like her, like Zhu Ji, Ghost Mother, and Li Wang, powerful individuals in a world overflowing with Death Force could still hold on, could continue depleting themselves.

Because their life force was vast and majestic.

And the tribes left in the Fifth Realm, not qualified to enter the seven continents, were all Alien Tribes of weaker bloodlines.

Under such an intense sweep of the Death Force, those people had long since turned into corpses, almost numbering in the tens of millions, which Su Wenrou couldn’t comprehend.

After all, that Sovereign was nominally the leader of the Fifth Realm’s Alien Tribes, carrying the heavy responsibility of helping many tribes ascend.

His indiscriminate offensive wave, firstly causing his own people to suffer casualties, not only harmed the heavens but also went against His prestige.

Ghost Mother interjected, "He doesn’t care about that."

"Mm, I feel that He doesn’t even really care whether the Human Race will go extinct or not. He’s different from He Motian and that Zimo; He has other designs for Purgatory," Li Wang nodded.

He thought to himself, "You might not even care about the survival of the Human Race, so how could that Sovereign, who has been Divine for who knows how many tens of thousands of years, truly care?"

"Fate, it can’t return to Heaven Forbidden," Zhu Ji said.

Li Wang was startled and asked, "Do you have some insight?"

"I think what He wants is for the True Gods to fall, for the Spiritual Souls to shatter, and then to seize the fate that reemerges," Zhu Ji explained blandly.

Su Wenrou and Ghost Mother were shocked.

"Confining us here, beginning to strike us down, forcing the fate to emerge, it seems it’s all for seizing that fate," Zhu Ji said shockingly, "Life and death, brightness and darkness, flame and Cold Ice, we have felt these forces before, inside those six artifacts."

"The force of death is the most concentrated because He used a woman in Hongdu City to attract a strand of fate for refinement."

"He has six great God Statuses, currently only forming one in Purgatory, so He is still missing five."

"Which means, He’s lacking at least five strands of fate."

Zhu Ji’s gaze landed on Li Wang, Ghost Mother, and Su Wenrou.

The three shuddered.

The fates of Tian Du San Ren and Li Yuanli, after momentarily appearing in the void following their deaths, hovered below the dome of the Fifth Realm.

If Zhu Ji’s words held true, then there were still three strands of fate missing at the moment.

Pu Zhaotian, seeing the situation was grim, immediately pulled Yin Ji with him and vanished into the depths of the Mysterious Fog, far from the seven continents, outside the range of that Sovereign’s attack.

Of the remaining four individuals, Zhu Ji was the strongest and obviously the toughest to overcome.

"Zhu Ji, don’t joke around," Li Wang said with a strained voice.

"Alright, let’s think about how to break this situation," Zhu Ji responded.

"Whoosh!"

The swath of Darkness that enveloped the Black Dragon King suddenly sank at this moment, like Yan Lie and those Level 10 powerhouses, entering the Sixth Realm from the void of the Fifth Realm.

It seemed as if the Black Dragon King was telling them in this way that entering the Sixth Realm was the wise course of action.

"Not even a word of greeting and he’s dived into the Sixth Realm." Li Wang’s face was bitter, and after thinking, he said, "We managed to come out because Pang Jian carried the Universe Box, but now the box is gone."

"Returning to the Sixth Realm, we might temporarily avoid the terrible corruption of the Death Force, but what about after that?"

"If we can’t get out, we’ll be eroded by the Filth Alien Power of the Sixth Realm, and aside from Zhu Ji, our three fates would be the same as before."

"In the Fifth Realm, we would be killed by the Death Force and the artifacts above the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar; in the Sixth Realm, it would be the same."

Li Wang wracked his brains to think, but he couldn’t find a solution.

"Whoosh!"

Pu Zhaotian and Yin Ji suddenly emerged from the Mysterious Fog.

Under the gaze of Li Wang and the others, Pu Zhaotian shook his head and said, "The Mysterious Fog is also filled with the Death Force; the heavens above are likewise blocked by the spread of the Demon Element Power. Eh, Tian Du, Li Yuanli!"

"They died not long after you entered," Su Wenrou sighed.

Pu Zhaotian’s face turned cold, he took a deep breath to adjust his emotions, and shouted, "He has sealed off all directions, preventing us from leaving the Fifth Realm, then slowly poisons us with the force of death. The longer time drags on, the worse it is for us!"

"Do you have any brilliant ideas?" Li Wang asked.

"Black Dragon King, Hei!" Pu Zhaotian called out, intending to communicate with the Demon God and Pang Jian through this figure, but he did not see the thick Darkness, so he exclaimed, "Where is that Demon God?"

"He’s entered the Sixth Realm," Su Wenrou said.

"Then we’ll go down to the Sixth Realm, then the Seventh Realm! Wherever Yan Lie and the others are, that’s where we’ll go!"