208: Chapter 208 One After Another, Evolving Towards Demigod
As the sword light slashed through, Izanami's body, composed of countless mournful and beautiful petals, showed signs of dissipating.
Rustle, rustle, rustle...
A large number of gray, withered petals fell from her body.
The wilting of every petal was accompanied by the ear-piercing sound of Taboo Rules shattering.
This single strike seemed intent on completely dismantling her into the most primitive fragments of Law!
"Blood-colored Buddha Land."
Lin Chuan moved again as well.
His massive evil buddha golden body radiated intense purple light; seizing this fleeting opportunity, the Rule Power around him poured out.
Boom!
A boundless pure land of the Buddha kingdom, flowing with purple-black blood, suddenly descended!!
Within the Blood-colored Buddha Land, billions of hideous Arhat Ghost Shadows stretched out their twisted arms, firmly grasping Izanami's body.
Lin Chuan attempted to use this rule space, amplified a hundredfold, to completely restrict, erode, and convert the target!
But... it still wasn't enough!
On Izanami's beautiful face, abyss-like darkness swirled frantically.
"Life... Death..."
Twisted, surging murmurs rippled from Izanami's mouth, continuously transforming into terrifying demigod Laws.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Within the Blood-colored Buddha Land, large swathes of the Void Realm began to collapse.
Those Arhat Ghost Shadows grasping Izanami were instantly corroded into nothingness by the pink Laws.
Even with Lin Chuan going all out, even with Daoist Tianji fighting with his life on the line...
They still could not completely suppress this demigod's yin-side!
And at this moment, Daoist Tianji's lamp had run out of oil.
Both of his hands, which held the ancient human emperor sword, had completely turned to ashes.
His shriveled, stick-like body gradually withered.
Like a piece of burnt-out dead wood, he fell straight down from the high sky, plunging into the cold sea.
"Daoist Venerable Tianji!!!"
Inside the command hall of Bureau 749 in the Yanlong Empire.
Watching the elderly figure falling like a meteor on the screen, countless people's eyes turned red.
Numerous Taboo Masters, Ghost Controllers, and ordinary people... all wept bitterly at this moment, their vision blurred by tears.
The desolate atmosphere was like a dense, airtight net, tightly strangling everyone's heart.
Even Xia Xuanyuan's hands were trembling violently.
After a long time, he slowly took off his hat, straightened his back, and his voice was hoarse to the extreme: "Tianji died for the country; the whole nation should... mourn..."
Just as everyone was grieving.
Izanami's Laws erupted once more, attempting to completely tear apart Lin Chuan's [Blood-colored Buddha Land] rules.
At this critical juncture.
In the command hall of Bureau 749, another pillar stood up!
This was an elegant youth, wearing a cyan robe and carrying an old, worn-out zither on his back.
The youth was named Gu Qingping, and he was already an SS-Rank Taboo Master!
With a determined gaze, he took a step forward, his internal rules activating, and descended directly into the shattered Void Realm above the East Sea.
"Death comes to all men..."
Looking towards where Daoist Tianji had fallen, and then at the human emperor sword suspended in mid-air.
Gu Qingping chanted softly, his voice like a spring breeze brushing past willows, yet carrying a resolve for death.
"My name is Gu Qingping, I request the aid of the human emperor sword!!!"
He stretched out his fair, slender hands—hands that had played the zither for years—and gripped the bronze hilt!
Boom!
The moment he grasped the sword, the human emperor sword once again erupted with a brilliant dark-gold divine light.
However, his life was also instantly drained away!
His head of black hair rapidly turned snowy white!
"Slash!"
Using his life as a sacrifice, Gu Qingping once again unleashed an earth-shattering, magnificent Sword Qi!
The sword light pierced through heaven and earth, heavily slashing onto Izanami's yin-side afterimage.
Izanami's body shook violently again, a large number of petals withered, and a moment of stagnation appeared in the pink Laws.
And Gu Qingping also died.
His body turned into a rain of light in the gale, leaving not even a complete corpse behind.
"Qingping!!!"
In the command hall, heart-wrenching cries rang out.
Several of Gu Qingping's close friends were filled with pain.
But soon, someone else stood out, just like Daoist Tianji and Gu Qingping... and grasped the human emperor sword once more!
"My name is Yue Hai, I request the aid of the human emperor sword!"
Another SS-Rank Taboo Master descended upon the sea and gripped the human emperor sword.
With one slash, the wielder... instantly perished!
"My name is Chumad, I request the aid of the human emperor sword!"
"My name is..."
One by one, the pillars of Bureau 749 walked out, following one after another.
They were like moths to a flame, using their own lives to continuously draw and strike with the sword!
But every slash meant the complete demise of a top-tier Taboo Master!
In the end, including Daoist Tianji, all six pillars of Bureau 749 had died.
"The pillars are gone, but we are still here!"
"The galaxy is brilliant!!"
Along the coastline, countless Ghost Controllers and Taboo Masters... continuously stepped forward!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Under the sacrifices of countless Ghost Controllers and Taboo Masters, sword after sword carved through the sky and shattered the darkness...
In the Void Realm.
Lin Chuan silently watched all of this.
Under the influence of the human emperor sword's rules, Izanami's yin-side had already reached the brink of dissipation.
"amitabha buddha."
The cold Buddhist chant echoed across the sea.
Lin Chuan's evil buddha golden body erupted with an unprecedented black light.
He raised his Buddha Hand and brought it down, carrying waves of Rule Power as it crashed towards Izanami!
Crack!
The Buddha Hand tightly squeezed Izanami's yin-side.
"Devour!"
With a thought from Lin Chuan, black vortexes appeared in the palm of the Buddha Hand!
The black vortexes, carrying terrifying Rule Power, continuously dismantled and devoured Izanami's body.
Countless pink demigod Law fragments were forcibly extracted.
[Devouring Izanami's Yin-side (Demigod)! taboo value +70,000!]
[Devouring Izanami's Yin-side (Demigod)! taboo value +50,000!]
[Devouring Izanami's Yin-side (Demigod)! taboo value +60,000!]
[...]
[Ding!]
[Current taboo value has reached one million points!]
[Evolution conditions met!]
[Great and noble, immortal and honorable Master, would you like to consume 1,000,000 taboo value to begin evolution immediately?]
[The gate to godhood has opened for you...]
In the depths of Lin Chuan's consciousness, nearly fawning prompts appeared on the panel.
"Evolve!!"
Looking at the panel prompts, Lin Chuan did not hesitate.
As his thought fell, one million evolution points were instantly deducted.
At the same time, Lin Chuan's evil buddha golden body underwent an unprecedented transformation!
He clearly felt that the various Taboo Rules he mastered were like certain chains, snapping inch by inch at this moment and then rapidly reorganizing!
Then, they transformed into faint, dark-gold Law threads that seemed to construct the very foundation of the world!
[Congratulations, Master! Your Terror Level has broken through its shackles!]
[Current Rank: demigod (low-tier)!]
[Your 'Ego Godhead' has condensed to 40%, successfully igniting a trace of Chaos Divine Fire!]
Feeling the earth-shaking changes within himself, Lin Chuan felt very pleased.
At this moment, prompts were still popping up on the panel:
[Next Stage: demigod (mid-tier)!]
[Required taboo value: 1,000,000 points!]
"Evolution is becoming more and more difficult..."
Lin Chuan looked at the panel and sighed softly in his heart.