Chapter 837
The Fall of a Demigod
The Eye of the Secret Realm hangs high in the sky, its vertical pupils without whites locked on Yang Fan below.
Time slipped away silently in the stillness; a few seconds felt like hours.
Yang Fan remained standing tall in the void, his face calm and composed, but his heart was pounding with anxiety.
Although there had been an agreement between the two parties, he was unsure whether the consciousness of the secret realm would go back on its word.
Two more seconds passed.
The Eye of the Secret Realm's long, scarlet pupils twitched slightly, its gaze shifting from Yang Fan to the demigod Saru, who was still trapped in the inverted funnel at the center of the Twilight Gate.
The terrifying pressure of the laws was transferred away along with it.
Yang Fan let out a long breath, his heart instantly settling back into his stomach.
He knew in his heart that this simple change of gaze meant that the consciousness of the secret realm had officially accepted this "offering".
This further means that the fate of the demigod Saru is already sealed—under the dual attack of the power of the Twilight Gate and the consciousness of the secret realm, this veteran demigod has no chance of turning the tide.
They're definitely going to die!!
Let me add a few more words.
Yang Fan's interaction with the consciousness of this secret realm had a "no fight, no friendship" feel to it.
There were many twists and turns and thrills along the way.
Since the Lost Abyss Secret Realm emerged from the Sea of Death Black Sand, its strange power of law has been constantly overflowing, affecting an ever-widening range.
The realm to which the Azure Civilization belongs, as well as several neighboring realms, has seen countless civilized worlds invaded by this force.
Countless living beings were locked in by the laws of the secret realm, and were drawn into it out of thin air, becoming victims of the secret realm's trials.
Cruel trials unfolded one after another within the secret realm, leaving behind a landscape littered with corpses and endless wails of agony.
Among them were even powerful figures at the Venerable level, who either ventured into the secret realm to search for the ancient god's remains and treasures or to decipher the laws of the secret realm.
Unfortunately, they all ultimately perished, devoured by the strange power within the secret realm. Their souls and essences were completely assimilated by the realm, eventually becoming part of the sunken abyss.
But Yang Fan not only dared to step into the secret realm, he also performed some astonishing "fancy tricks".
With his profound understanding of the remains of ancient gods and his unique advantage of controlling various top-level laws such as time and space, he frantically studied the loopholes in the laws of the Fallen Sand Abyss, and pulled off many astonishing and outrageous maneuvers.
Ignoring the solid barrier between the secret realm and the real world, he found one loophole after another, treating the barrier of the secret realm as nothing, entering and leaving as he pleased, as if this forbidden area were his own backyard, roaming freely within it.
The core reason he was able to do this was that he accidentally discovered the essential flaw in the secret realm of the Fallen Sand Abyss.
The remains of the ancient god that evolved into the hidden abyss of the sand dunes are a colossal ancient god skull.
This skull is enormous, with a diameter measured in hundreds of kilometers.
However, a huge hole with a diameter of more than ten kilometers was found to have been torn open in the central area of the skull.
This was the ancient god's fatal flaw, and the most direct cause of his fall.
An incomplete divine remains signify imperfect laws.
Incompleteness inevitably leads to flaws.
Yang Fan witnessed the skull hole firsthand and instantly understood the core flaw in the secret realm's laws—all the law disorder and weak points in the barriers revolved around this hole.
Even though the consciousness of the secret realm controls the power of the laws of the entire secret realm, it is ultimately unable to make up for this deficiency that originates from the source, and is powerless to do anything about it.
It could only watch helplessly as Yang Fan roamed freely within the secret realm, exploiting loopholes in the laws.
As Yang Fan's understanding of the laws of the secret realm deepened, he set his sights on another characteristic of the secret realm—the secret realm itself connects the spatial nodes of various world groups in the primordial world, making it a natural spatial hub.
Seizing this opportunity, Yang Fan pulled off an even more outrageous and astonishing move: he was no longer content with simply traversing the secret realm himself, but instead used this bizarre secret realm as a super bridge connecting various world groups.
Taking advantage of loopholes in the laws, Yang Fan freely traveled between different world groups, contacting those Venerables who were also threatened by the Shadow Palace.
In just a few months, he contacted as many as a thousand venerable ones.
The consciousness of the secret realm detected the clues, but it was unable to plug the fundamental loophole, nor could it stop Yang Fan from using the spatial nodes to contact the various Venerables.
Then.
Yang Fan then persuaded a large number of Venerables to join forces and build a super portal that would allow free entry and exit from the secret realm and also draw upon the power of the divine remains of the secret realm, taking advantage of a key loophole in the laws of the secret realm.
That is, the Heavenly Gate at Dusk.
At this point, the consciousness of the secret realm could no longer remain seated.
To it, Yang Fan's exploitation of loopholes in the rules and his contact with the Venerable One were still considered "harmless" provocations.
While it can build the Twilight Gate, it's a blatant act of "overpowering" the enemy.
Once this Heavenly Gate is completed, it will mean that the secret realm will become an undefended area.
Unfortunately, due to its incomplete origin, it was unable to completely stop Yang Fan and thousands of Venerables from jointly building the Heavenly Gate.
then.
The consciousness of the secret realm did something unbelievable to everyone—it actually contacted Yang Fan and proposed to have a face-to-face negotiation with him.
By single-handedly forcing the mysterious and unpredictable consciousness of the secret realm to the negotiating table, Yang Fan undoubtedly accomplished an unprecedented and astonishing feat.
finally.
The two sides reached a consensus and made a strange agreement: Yang Fan would sacrifice a demigod in exchange for the consciousness of the secret realm agreeing to let him build the Twilight Gate.
At the same time, the consciousness of the secret realm will fully cooperate with Yang Fan, using its own power of laws to suppress the demigod being sacrificed, ensuring the success of the sacrifice.
At this moment.
The demigod Saru, who was sent into the Twilight Gate by hyperspace jump, was the "sacrifice" that Yang Fan prepared for the consciousness of the secret realm.
This decisive battle against the Shadow Temple has now entered its final stage.
"Boom—!"
A thunderclap, even more violent than before, exploded.
The inverted "funnel" that trapped Saru suddenly shattered, sending countless dark spatial fragments flying.
A tall figure shrouded in thick black mist forcefully broke through the shackles of the Time Ring space—it was the avatar of the demigod Saru.
The black mist surrounding him was dim and chaotic, and his body was covered with fine wounds, clearly caused by his forceful breaking of space after withstanding a blow from Mika's world will. His aura had weakened considerably.
The ancient god's soul, which controlled the Ring of Time, instantly sensed the extreme tension in the surrounding air. Without the slightest hesitation, it activated the Law of Time and quietly teleported to the past.
This method of evasion, which relies on the laws of time, is so powerful that even the Eye of the Secret Realm or the demigod Saru cannot detect its trajectory or stop it.
The demigod Saru steadied himself, raised his head which was covered in black mist, and his dark eyes were filled with endless resentment as he locked his gaze on Yang Fan above the Twilight Gate.
If resentment and venom were truly lethal, this single glance would be enough to instantly tear Yang Fan's soul apart and reduce him to ashes.
But this was the only way this high and mighty demigod could express his emotions at this moment.
He clearly sensed that the Eye of the Secret Realm above the sky had locked onto him, and that if he dared to make the slightest move, he would be struck by lightning.
Saru's gaze shifted to the Eye of the Secret Realm, and he roared, "I have no grudge against you, we are not enemies! Why would you join forces with this ant to kill me?!"
The Eye of the Secret Realm remained unmoved, its massive, pitch-black body, spanning hundreds of kilometers, motionless.
A pair of long, vertical, scarlet pupils stared intently at Saru, their gaze cold and greedy, as if they were eyeing a tempting piece of food within easy reach.
Yang Fan sneered.
Are there no grudges?
The Shadow Temple forces represented by Saru and the consciousness of the Fallen Sand Abyss are fundamentally locked in an irreconcilable conflict, with no room for compromise between them, only a fight to the death.
It's just that Saru didn't have a deep understanding of the secret realm's past, which is why he said such naive and laughable things.
Time passed silently in an eerie stillness, and those few breaths felt like an eternity to Saru.
at last.
The Eye of the Secret Realm was the first to take action.
The eyeball suddenly blurred slightly, and the viscous black mist around it churned violently. Four pitch-black shadows flashed out from inside the eyeball, transforming into four pitch-black eyeballs that were exactly the same as the original.
In an instant, five Eyes of the Mystic Realm hovered in the sky, arranged in a ring, their crimson vertical pupils simultaneously locking onto the demigod Saru below. Saru's pupils contracted sharply; he finally understood that the Eyes of the Mystic Realm had deliberately delayed their attack not out of fear of his strength.
Instead, he secretly manipulated the laws of the secret realm, condensed a clone, and accumulated power!
He instantly realized that the longer it dragged on, the stronger the opponent would become.
Under the blessing of the laws of the secret realm, one's own power of resistance will only continue to weaken. At that time, one will completely lose the power of resistance and become a sacrifice to the other party.
"can not wait!"
Saru made a decision immediately.
He roared, and his domain of laws erupted instantly.
Countless thin black threads burst forth from His body, the threads fine and sharp, rapidly weaving and coalescing in the air.
In the blink of an eye, the black threads condensed into a gigantic spear.
This is precisely the manifestation of Saru's divine palace, or rather—a divine artifact.
This item is called the Saru Soul-Slaying Spear.
Naming artifacts after one's own name is a common practice among almost all demigods.
The most terrifying aspect of the Saru Soul-Slaying Spear is not its powerful physical attack, but its bizarre soul attack—its attack can directly penetrate the physical body and target the soul's essence.
Ignore all physical defenses and ordinary law defenses.
It is important to understand that the origin of the soul is a being that exists at a deeper level than the soul itself.
Even if the soul is damaged, it can still slowly recover with the help of the power of the source;
However, if the essence of the soul is damaged, the difficulty of recovery becomes extremely high. Unless a demigod-level expert intervenes and a large amount of divine power and rare treasures are consumed, there is no possibility of recovery.
This is the fundamental reason why Saru has regarded beings below the level of demigod as "ants" for so many years.
Under the attack of the Soul-Slaying Spear, anything below the level of demigod is nothing more than lambs to the slaughter.
All living beings are like ants; no one is an exception.
Previously, when Yang Fan was fighting against Saru's clone in the Mega World, Saru realized that he had been tricked by Yang Fan and intended to use his divine artifact to kill Yang Fan.
But Yang Fan ran too fast and managed to dodge the fatal blow.
Although the Eye of the Secret Realm is not a living being and does not possess a soul origin, the attack of the Saru Soul-Slaying Spear can penetrate the soul level and reach the core of powerful laws.
Even if the opponent is a consciousness manifested by a strong law, it can still cause fatal damage to its core law, and can also severely damage or even destroy the Eye of the Secret Realm.
"Die!"
Saru roared and raised the giant spear high with both hands.
The next moment, the Saru Soul-Slaying Spear suddenly split apart silently, instantly turning into five identical, jet-black Soul-Slaying Spears.
Five spears flashed through the air simultaneously, their speed so fast that they broke through the constraints of time and space, leaving only five dark afterimages, and instantly arrived in front of the five Secret Realm Eyes.
This terrifying speed alone is enough to prove how terrifying this divine weapon is.
And then.
Without any hindrance, the five Saru Soul-Slaying Spears pierced through the five Eyes of the Mystic Realm as easily as piercing paper.
Saru looked slightly surprised.
He could clearly sense that the attack had indeed hit the target squarely, and was not an illusion or a spatial phantom.
The feedback from the gun proved that the core laws of the Eye of the Secret Realm were being eroded and destroyed by the power of the Soul Slaughter.
But doubts also arose – the Eye of the Secret Realm was also a powerful law-level existence. Even if he used a divine artifact, it shouldn't have been so easily penetrated without any effective resistance.
Before Saludo could think, He immediately saw countless thin black chains suddenly extending from the shafts of the five Soul-Slaying Spears, piercing through the Eye of the Secret Realm and wrapping the five eyeballs in layers.
The pitch-black chains contracted continuously, frantically devouring the power of the laws of the Eye of the Secret Realm, pouring it into Saru's body in an attempt to restore his original nature.
At first glance, it seemed like a crushing victory, with triumph seemingly within reach.
But the more this happened, the stronger Saru's unease became.
It went too smoothly, so smoothly that it was abnormal, so abnormal that it terrified him.
"Bam—!"
A strange and muffled sound rang out.
The core laws of the first Eye of the Secret Realm completely collapsed under the erosion of the Soul-Slaying Power. Cracks began to appear on the dark eyeball, like shattered glass, about to disintegrate completely.
Logically, the demigod Saru should have been overjoyed.
But on His face, an intense, extreme fear instantly appeared.
He was astonished to see an invisible link, indescribable in words, extending from the core of the soon-to-disintegrate Eye of the Secret Realm, traversing the void, and connecting to the Twilight Gate below.
Subsequently, the link extended along the power of the Heavenly Gate's laws to the far reaches beyond the secret realm.
And from that far away, the aura that emanated from the other end sent a chill down Saru's spine—it was His true form!
It is the true form of Saru, residing in the Shadow Palace!
At this moment, this veteran demigod, who had lived for countless years, finally realized why the Eye of the Secret Realm was willing to "go to its death".
Why was my attack so successful? It wasn't a crushing victory at all; it was a trap!
A trap that was laid long ago, targeting His true form!
The enemy clearly used this method, relying on the law link of the Soul-Slaying Spear and the primal power of the Eye of the Secret Realm, to establish a peculiar cross-space law link.
Then, His true form, which was far outside the secret realm, was forcibly captured and brought into this sinking sand abyss secret realm!
This is a powerful law of capture that ignores space and distance.
With the support of the ancient god's remains and the laws of the secret realm, even though He was a demigod, He was completely unable to resist this power!
Unfortunately, it's too late to realize this now.
"Boom—!"
Another deafening thunderclap shook the universe, and an extremely bizarre spatial distortion occurred in the central area of the Twilight Heavenly Gate, the place where the invisible law link pierced through.
Light and shadow distorted, the void cracked, and countless violent spatial turbulence surged forth. An even more terrifying pressure than the Eye of the Secret Realm slowly spread out from the distorted space.
"Do not--!"
A roar filled with anger, resentment, and fear suddenly erupted from the distorted space.
It was the roar of Saru in his true form.
It was filled with unbelievable despair—He had no idea why he had been forcibly dragged into this strange and mysterious place.
next second.
A colossal black shadow slowly emerged from the distorted space.
The shadowy figure was over two kilometers tall, its entire body enveloped in dense black mist, surrounded by a law domain several times stronger than its clone, and its body was covered with hard black scales.
His dark eyes were filled with confusion.
Because the main body and the clone could not communicate effectively, the main body remained in a daze until it was forcibly pulled into the secret realm, and had no idea what was happening.
Despite Saru's desperate struggle to break free from the invisible law link and the pull of the gray law threads, it was all in vain.
These gray threads of law are a binding force jointly laid down by the Twilight Gate and the Eye of the Secret Realm, relying on the power of the ancient god's origin to firmly lock onto His true form.
No matter how much it erupted, it could not be shaken in the slightest; it could only be gradually pulled away, completely exposed to the sight of the Twilight Gate and the Eye of the Secret Realm.
Standing atop the Dusk Heavenly Gate, Yang Fan watched this scene and couldn't help but burst into laughter.
After months of planning, a deadly scheme spanning several worlds has finally taken shape.
With Saru's true form captured, this demigod has no chance of turning the tables.
Yang Fan did not wait long before his figure quickly blurred.
He was preparing to leave.
He knew perfectly well that a massive soul storm was about to erupt in the Lost Abyss Secret Realm.
This soul storm has an extremely terrifying characteristic—anyone within the storm's range will have their soul power uncontrollably dissipate outwards.
Regardless of strength, none can escape it.
Even someone as powerful as Saru in his true form could only withstand the erosion of this soul storm for a maximum of half a month.
At that time, His soul power will be completely exhausted, His soul and spirit will be annihilated, He will perish completely, and He will never have the chance to be resurrected. (End of this chapter)