122: Welcome the gods together with the attitude of a god-slayer!
With a single command, five hundred volunteers swiftly divided into fifty teams, each boarding their respective spacecraft.
These spacecraft had sleek designs, their surfaces gleaming with a cold luster like liquid metal.
As the hatch doors silently closed, the engine nozzles instantly burst forth with dazzling blue light.
"Good luck to you all," Su Yi murmured.
Immediately after, fifty dazzling blue lights shot through the sky, leaping through the atmosphere near the terminator line, leaving fifty gradually dissipating plasma trails.
The giant holographic projection on the observation deck immediately began displaying real-time data and external views of each spacecraft.
After watching them depart, Su Yi turned to Flowing Light and asked,
"How much longer until the Life detection device is complete?"
Flowing Light sighed slightly upon hearing this, replying,
"The scope of this exploration is simply too vast, and rapidly searching the entire universe is quite challenging."
"Currently, I can only design a device that can quickly scan for Life within the Milky Way galaxy."
"It should be ready by tomorrow at twelve twenty-seven minutes and fifty-six seconds."
Su Yi nodded after hearing this.
...
Meanwhile, in a corner of Hokkaido, Storm Empress was staring helplessly at the children's introductory textbook in front of her.
These past few days, she had figured out that these were Chinese characters with Pinyin, but her problem was—although she could speak Chinese, she had never learned Pinyin!
With her abilities, if she had a teacher's guidance or a mobile phone to assist her, she would quickly master it, but currently, there was neither a teacher nor a phone here; her only companion was an Ice Golems even more illiterate than her.
What bothered her even more was that this seemingly petite and adorable little girl not only far surpassed her in strength but also perfectly countered her abilities.
Not to mention there were millions of Ice Golemss outside, each of which had previously taken her considerable effort to deal with!
Just then, a deafening roar suddenly echoed from afar.
A massive sword light streaked across the sky, coming into view.
When Storm Empress, who had been trapped for days, saw this sword light, her previously dim eyes instantly brightened.
On the other side, the Ice Golems looked at the clumsy, large-chested woman in front of her, feeling a bit bored.
"What a terrible toy," she thought, "she can't do anything, not fun at all."
Boom! ! !
Accompanying the loud noise, Storm Empress immediately recognized the aura of North Cold Great Emperor.
He's finally here!
For eight whole days, she had been trapped in this wretched place.
Every day, she not only had to face the siege of countless monsters but also endure the Ice Golems who constantly mocked her intelligence.
Storm Empress felt like she was going crazy.
But now, the Great Emperor had come to save her!
She could finally escape!
As for whether the Great Emperor could defeat those monsters?
Storm Empress had no doubt about it—she completely trusted the Great Emperor's strength.
On the other side, the Ice Golems suddenly tossed aside the flashcards in her hand, a hint of confusion flashing in her eyes.
She looked up, gazing into the distance.
At this moment, a figure slowly emerged from the peak of the snowy mountain; it was North Cold Great Emperor.
The Great Emperor, believing he had dealt with the strongest monster in this area, had come to this snowy mountain.
However, when he looked down, he was immediately stunned—there were millions of Ice Golemss!
His expression instantly froze.
"Great Emperor! Great Emperor!"
At the same time, Storm Empress, seeing who had arrived, excitedly shouted.
The Ice Golems, however, seemed even more excited, as there was another "new toy."
She even secretly hoped in her heart: I hope this new toy isn't too clumsy.
However, North Cold Great Emperor in the distance, after a brief hesitation, turned around without hesitation and fled the scene at an even faster speed.
"Gre..."
Storm Empress originally wanted to continue shouting, but seeing this scene, her entire expression instantly froze.
The Ice Golems tilted her head, looking at Storm Empress, a naive smile on her face.
Her face was full of confusion; although she didn't speak, Storm Empress understood the meaning: "Didn't this person come to save you? Why did he leave?"
At this moment, Storm Empress felt as if her beliefs had utterly collapsed.
...
On the other side, North Cold Great Emperor was rapidly retreating.
It wasn't that he didn't want to save her, but that he simply couldn't.
It took him two minutes to deal with one strange Ice Golems;
But the problem was, there were at least a million Ice Golemss on the entire mountain!
Even if each only took one minute, that would still be a million minutes!
Converted, that's nearly seven hundred days, almost two years!
By the time he finished fighting these Ice Golemss, his country would probably be long gone...
Not to mention whether these Ice Golemss would respawn was another question.
So, considering everything, whether Storm Empress was saved or not didn't really matter.
After all, she could at least still breathe and speak, and didn't seem to have suffered any torture; she was probably just temporarily imprisoned.
As long as she was still alive, then he could wait; it wouldn't be too late to act after his realm broke through.
...
Three days later.
When the last Doomsday-level Critical Point was opened, the Five Great Monarchs hovered above the forbidden area of gods and demons in the Northern Han Empire.
Lord of the Underworld asked in confusion, "Strange, ever since that God's Domain opened, the remaining Doomsday-level Critical Points... why do they feel so easy to open?"
"It's as if there's no obstruction at all."
"Perhaps they haven't given up resisting, but are waiting for the thing in the sky to fully activate," Lord of Deception shook his head, a thoughtful tone in his voice.
Lord of Corruption looked up, squinting at the sky, her brows tightly furrowed:
"That thing up there looks like it will be completed in a few more minutes."
At this moment, Lord of Sin couldn't help but ask,
"King, have you told us what to do next?"
Before he finished speaking, a spatial rift as black as ink suddenly opened before the Five Great Monarchs.
The figure of Disaster King slowly walked out of it, his robes fluttering without wind, exuding a suffocatingly powerful pressure around him.
He looked up at the gradually forming golden halo, a dangerous smile curving at the corner of his mouth:
"We are about to welcome the descent of gods..."
"However, we will greet these gods as god-slayers."
However, the instant he finished speaking, the earth suddenly trembled violently.
Countless cracks spread from the ground, and ancient, mysterious divine runes emerged from deep within the earth, weaving into a massive golden net in mid-air.
The Five Great Monarchs simultaneously realized that their internal power had been suppressed by at least thirty percent.
"This is... a Divine Restriction?"
"It directly covers the entire Blue Star?"
Lord of the Underworld stared at his translucent hand, his voice filled with disbelief.
At the same time, Lord of Deception tried to forcefully resist but let out a muffled groan of pain.
A faint crack appeared on his face, revealing the twisted, dark true countenance beneath:
"Damn it! These runes are plundering our origin!"