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"As a swordsman, effectively utilizing rage can grant him greater power, but if rage controls his mind..."

"A sword like this, imbued only with anger, cannot strike me."

Luo Feng's voice came from beside Hades again, but to his surprise, the voice came from the direction where he had just swept the Hades Sword.

why?

Why didn't my sword hit him?

A huge question mark instantly appeared in Hades' mind. He couldn't understand why the battle between the two of them was so one-sided, when their power levels were almost the same, and he was even slightly stronger in terms of pure strength.

Just because of that utterly nonsensical swordsmanship?

Hades' mentality was already on the verge of collapse. He had never been in such a sorry state since the disappearance of his brother Zeus, the king of the gods. Even when he was defeated in previous holy wars, he had never been forced into such a desperate situation.

Hades's mind raced as his thoughts raced the instant Luo Feng finished speaking.

It must be said that Hades is really not a qualified warrior. Even Luo Feng, a twenty-nine... thirty-year-old office worker, understands the principle of not being distracted in battle. This god who has lived for countless years has truly lived in vain.

In the instant he was distracted, a simple, unadorned slash, devoid of any fuss, cleanly severed his head.

Looking at Hades, who was rolling on the ground with wide eyes, seemingly unable to believe that he had died from such an ordinary sword strike, Luo Feng simply wiped the blood off the Thunder Emperor's sword and said in a calm tone.

"Oh, sorry, I forgot you're not a swordsman."

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PS.1. Emmmmm, I want to finish writing the entire final chapter tomorrow, so there will only be one update today.

PS.2. I'd like to recommend a friend's book; the title is here ↓↓↓↓↓

"JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Top Ten Gentlemen from the Joestars at the Start"

Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas, Volume 8: Chapter 849 The Endless Journey (Grand Finale)

Swordsmen's battles are simple, unadorned, and monotonous.

As an aggressive reincarnator, once he finds an opening, the battle can end in an instant.

As Hades breathed his last, the notification from the Supreme God rang precisely in Luo Feng's mind.

[Defeat the extraordinary creature Hades, the King of the Underworld, and receive 3 S-rank side quests and 50000 reward points.]

High risk means high reward. When the notification from the main god sounded in Luo Feng's mind, Luo Feng immediately exclaimed, "Holy crap, good heavens!"

Three S-rank side quests! This is the highest reward he has ever received for killing a single target since becoming a Reincarnator.

However, Luo Feng quickly suppressed his excitement.

Hades's soul didn't need to be actively absorbed, and Gaia and Eros, those two little guys, wouldn't let such a great supplement go to waste. He was somewhat surprised that, as a member of Athena's camp, after killing the enemy BOSS Hades and ending this holy war, his legendary-level advancement assessment should have ended ahead of schedule.

After all, he had already defeated the final boss of the opposing faction, so he had nowhere else to farm contribution points, right?

However, apart from the countdown of 91 days, 11 hours, 47 minutes, and 32 seconds, he received no other notifications about ending the cycle of reincarnation early, which was what puzzled him greatly.

[A hundred-day trial... Does this mean I really have to stay for a hundred days before I can leave?]

Fortunately, after defeating Hades, there was no one else in the Lost Canvas world that could threaten Luo Feng except for the omnipresent but formless god of time and space, Chronos.

Instead of ending this cycle of reincarnation immediately, it gave him ample time to continue exploring the world. He was still worried about not having a chance to go to Brugland and seize the legacy of Poseidon, the Sea God—Orichalcum Steel.

However, just as Luo Feng was about to use the power of [Slaying Heaven and Exorcising Evil] to tear through space and return to the main world, a strange tremor rose in his heart.

"This feeling is..."

The familiar yet unfamiliar feeling caused Luo Feng's brows to furrow suddenly, and his gaze immediately turned towards a certain direction of the Pure Land of Bliss.

Elysium is a paradise created by Hades. Apart from him, the ruler of the underworld, the only ones qualified to build their own abode on this land are his twin gods, who are his right and left arms.

At this moment, Luo Feng's gaze was fixed on the location of the Twin Gods' temple.

"By the way, although I devoured Hypnos's soul, that was only ninety percent of his power as bait. He still has a wisp of his soul left behind. He must have already escaped back to the temple in Elysium and fallen into a deep sleep."

"Perfect timing, before leaving here, let's seize the complete power of sleep."

With this thought in mind, Luo Feng didn't delay any longer. According to the records in the Hypnos soul, the distant Hypnos temple was almost within his reach in an instant.

"This must be the place, the temple of Hypnos, the god of sleep."

Hypnos's temple looked no different from the one where Hades had fought earlier. In fact, having sensed Hades's fall, the maids who were supposed to serve Hypnos in the temple had already fled and hidden themselves at the edge of Elysium.

Luo Feng had no interest in these maids who had little fighting ability. He simply stared calmly at the statue of Hypnos that stood in the temple.

That statue is where Hypnos's soul slumbers and is nurtured.

It seemed that Luo Feng's appearance made Hypnos, who was still asleep, sense the danger. Even though he hadn't been awakened by Luo Feng's battle with Hades, he was instantly jolted awake.

"You...you actually managed to reach the Pure Land of Bliss?"

impossible!

How could mere humans possibly escape the land where the gods slumber?!

Where is Lord Hades?

They actually allowed foreign enemies to invade Gokurakujō...

Hypnos, the elegant and composed god of sleep who seemed capable of handling any difficulty with ease, felt a sudden surge of panic upon seeing Luo Feng's familiar armor, which he would never forget.

He wasn't panicking about his impending demise; rather, he understood the significance of Luo Feng's presence in his temple.

A wave of sorrow washed over him. As if resigned to his fate, Hypnos gave up resistance and allowed Luo Feng to devour his remaining wisp of soul, which was no longer capable of fighting.

However, after Luo Feng devoured Hypnos's remnant soul, he ignored Gaia and Eros's somewhat unsatisfied "emotions" and a look of doubt appeared on his face.

"That feeling that made me tremble just now, it wasn't Hypnos."

Raising an eyebrow, Luo Feng looked again in the direction that had stirred his heart—the temple of Thanatos, the god of death.

Previously, because the Temple of Hades, the Temple of Hypnos, and the Temple of Death were located in a straight line, he couldn't distinguish the distance for a moment and subconsciously mistook that familiar yet strange feeling for the remnant soul of Hypnos. It wasn't until he devoured Hypnos that he realized the difference.

It must be said that curiosity is indeed a huge driving force for human progress. Driven by curiosity, Luo Feng used teleportation to arrive at the temple of Thanatos almost without thinking.

However, when Luo Feng appeared in the Temple of Death, the scene before him shocked even this man who could be considered well-informed.

"Calling this a temple is less accurate than calling it hell..."

What came into Luo Feng's view were countless spirits, the kind of spirits that he had been driven by Thanatos during his battle, spirits that were even lower than the dead.

Countless spirits silently lingered in the deepest part of the Temple of Death, their distorted faces seemingly telling of the pain from the depths of their souls.

When Luo Feng appeared, these almost consciousnessless undead instinctively tried to rush forward and devour Luo Feng's body and soul when they sensed the presence of a living person.

However, as soon as they approached within ten meters of [Zhu Tian Que Xie], they seemed to see something that terrified them from the depths of their souls. They let out a series of silent screams and scurried to a corner of the temple, staring in fear at Luo Feng, who was not paying any attention to them.

Ignoring these low-level undead who were merely acting on instinct, Luo Feng's gaze was completely drawn to the dark and deep passage before him.

Tartarus...

A call from the abyss...?

He almost subconsciously uttered the name of the destination that the passage in front of him would lead to.

According to the official Saint Seiya guidebook, Thanatos's "Abyss Fear" is a terrifying attack that uses the souls of the dead who forever wander in agony within Tartarus's abyss to attack the enemy. Therefore, the passage before us is undoubtedly a passage leading to the abyss.

Legend has it that Tartarus is both a personified god and represents one of the fundamental elements of the universe—the abyss.

After obtaining "Gaia" and "Eros", Luo Feng naturally conducted in-depth research on his two major cheat codes. After all, these two "wills" with the same names as the Earth Mother Goddess and the God of Love in mythology were the only clues he could grasp.

At that moment, he suddenly understood what that feeling of both familiarity and strangeness was all about.

That was the resonance between "Gaia" and "Eros" and the "Abyss," which is one of the fundamental elements constituting the universe.

Just like his thirst for "Eros," having experienced how powerful cheat codes are, especially after the Thunder Emperor personally vouched for him and confirmed that "Gaia" and "Eros" would not do anything to harm him, Luo Feng found it hard to resist the temptation before him.

At the very least, he would give it a try and see if he could get anything from Tartarus.

With that thought in mind, Luo Feng resolutely stepped into the dark and deep passage.

......

Time flies, and a man with delicate features but a full beard sat cross-legged on a stone platform with his eyes closed. Even though the surrounding area was filled with scorching lava, he seemed to be asleep, his chest rising and falling with his breath.

This is the ninety-first day that Luo Feng has been in Tartarus. In this abyss, which is not even described much in the official Saint Seiya guidebook, he has not encountered any attacks. The entire abyss seems to be a whole, with its own set of operating rules, which outsiders cannot interfere with.

When he first entered the abyss, he tried to cause destruction and also tried to use the characteristics of [Slaying Heaven and Exorcising Evil] to attack the sinners who were suffering in the abyss. However, without exception, no matter what he did, Tartarus was like a salted fish that had lost all hope in life and just wanted to lie down and let himself be. Even when Luo Feng wanted to cut a spatial rift in its body to leave this place, it did not show any intention of stopping him.

To be honest, Luo Feng is not afraid of encountering enemies who are hostile to him. As long as they are opponents, no matter how strong they are, he always has a way to deal with them.

But what he feared most was this situation where there were no clues and he could only rely on subtle clues to figure things out. For someone who wasn't good at thinking, this was undoubtedly a great torment.

Fortunately, he was never fighting alone.

Just when he was racking his brains but couldn't find a solution, the Thunder Emperor, the "true ruler" of the divine kingdom within his body, once again pulled him, the "false ruler," into the divine kingdom within his body.

With Lei Di's guidance, even though it was just a simple "feel it with your heart," Luo Feng had a direction to "move forward."

After his consciousness left the divine kingdom within his body, he immediately released the [Slaying Heaven and Exorcising Evil] technique, casually found a high platform, sat cross-legged, placed the Thunder Emperor between his knees, and then opened his mind, letting his senses wander through every corner of Tartarus, feeling the changes in all things, understanding the operating rules of Tartarus, and completely integrating himself into this "world".

Heaven and man are one.

In the instant he merged with Tartarus, Luo Feng saw the origin of this world once again!

Hard work pays off. Although he spent almost all of the remaining time in the "Hundred-Day Trial," Luo Feng's gains were gratifying.

Just as the countdown of the main god in his mind entered its final minute, he finally grasped the "truth" of this world.

"Boom boom boom boom boom!!!"

At this moment, even Tartarus, who was lying down and letting others do as they pleased, was starting to feel the pressure. He could allow outsiders to enter and move freely in the abyss, but he also had his bottom line that could not be shaken.

When Luo Feng began to provoke His essence, He revolted!

The earth trembled violently, the howling winds seemed to tear flesh and bone from people, and thunderous roars exploded in the air. The surging lava erupted suddenly like a volcano that had been dormant for tens of thousands of years. Countless undead broke free from the shackles of the "rules" and attacked the targets closest to them.

However, even so, the figure sitting on the stone platform, who looked somewhat disheveled, remained as firm as a rock.

Even as endless lava poured down upon his body; even as thunderbolts struck down from the sky like a calamity; even as fierce winds tried to tear away his flesh and gouge out his bones; even as countless wandering souls wished they could devour him whole, he merely opened his eyes, which had remained closed for ninety-one days and were as bright as the Milky Way, and murmured a soft verse.

"Bankai: Slay the Heavens and Exorcise Evil".

The magnificent armor instantly covered his body, causing all evil spirits to retreat and all ghosts to give way. His twelve silver-white wings were like "stabilizing needles" that suppressed the heavens and the earth, and no matter how thunder fell, lava poured on him, or how strong the wind scraped his bones, they could not harm him in the slightest.