novelraw Chapter 263 Elevation to a New God
Chapter 263 Elevation to a New God
Chapter 263 Elevation to a New God
With a swift movement, Su Youli chopped the remaining mountains of corpses into ice shards.
Turning around, she intended to exchange information with Modi, but saw him adopting a thoughtful posture, as if he had some ideas.
Seeing this, she didn't disturb Mo Di, but simply stood silently beside him, waiting for him to finish thinking.
About five minutes later, Modi shook his head, snapping out of his thoughts. The last message the man had given him had truly surprised him.
"What's wrong? What were you thinking about just now?" Su Youli asked curiously.
"I'm thinking about some intelligence... Just now, in the last moments before that person died, he sent me some mental messages, which contained some unusual information."
"What information could possibly make you think for five minutes straight?"
"You know about the God of Light, right?" Mordy asked in return. Seeing her nod, he continued, "According to that man, there are also believers of the God of Light in this world we live in."
"They usually appear as chosen ones, but when the trials come, they reveal a side that no one knows... They attempt to elevate a deity of the path of light, trying to make him meet the requirements of the evolution game."
"But the result, of course, was failure, otherwise the world wouldn't be the way it is now."
As he spoke, a light shone in his eyes, a testament to his mastery of light.
"But they don't seem to have perished; instead, they seem to have migrated to another world... your home planet. The Dark Light Council's light arts may have originated from them."
After thinking for a moment, Modi added, "Perhaps they are the predecessor of the Paiguang Council. Looking at it this way, your home planet really is full of hidden talents."
Upon hearing this, Su Youli showed a headache. She would rather her home planet be ordinary than have so many unstable factors.
She still has feelings for her original world and her homeland, and she doesn't want to see Xuanxing perish because it failed the test.
After a moment's hesitation, she asked softly, "Modi, if my home planet fails the test and follows in this world's footsteps, could you accept some of the refugees and relocate them to other worlds?"
She didn't expect to move everyone; in her view, that was impossible, given there were simply too many people.
Moreover, even if the relocation is completed, it will bring enormous population pressure to Modi... She only knew of the existence of the Blood God Cult, but did not know how far it had developed.
"Well, you can rest assured. If things really develop to that point, I will open the gates for them to migrate."
Modi chuckled, patted her shoulder gently, and granted her request.
With the territory he controls, he could accommodate not only a portion of the refugees, but even if he relocated the entire population of her homeland, he could still find a place to live.
On the other side of the Ring, the inner world is empty. He, who controls the source, can make it habitable and accommodate those people without any problem.
Not to mention that he also has territory in the realm of oblivion, although that part of the territory still needs to be modified before it can be put into use.
"Don't worry, the Blood God Cult is not what it used to be. Even in the whole of Itnity, it is a major force."
As Modi spoke, a smile unconsciously appeared on his face.
According to news from Itniti, winter is approaching, and the Order should set out on another campaign.
The expedition held special significance for the Blood God Cult. The cult's warriors craved glory, while he sought to use it to further consolidate his power and advance on the path to immortality.
"Thank you." Su Youli exhaled, a slight smile curving her lips.
"Don't mention it, what's our relationship?"
Modi looked into the distance, and as far as the eye could see, there was only a gray, desolate wilderness, devoid of any life.
Recalling the intelligence he had just received, he narrowed his eyes, his gaze fixed on several buildings in the distance, while his mind wandered to something else.
He was more interested in the followers of the God of Light than in this dead world, after all, he had encountered too many things related to the God of Light along the way.
It can only be said that the God of Light is indeed a powerful demon god in the past. Even after his death and his body was broken into countless pieces, he still has such influence.
The forces under Mo are like cockroaches; although most of them have perished, they are not completely eradicated and are scattered throughout the void of various realms, so that traces of them can be found in any world.
Many people have followed in his footsteps and have claimed to be his successors since his death. A few even aspire to take his place.
Modi couldn't help but recall the ruins of the Eternal Day Court he had encountered before, wondering if those madmen had succeeded.
If they were to create a new God of Light, no, even if it were merely a pseudo-god, it would surely hinder his path.
He hadn't forgotten that he also possessed fragments of the God of Light, and those who followed the path of light would mostly see him as an enemy, even trying to seize his bud of the soul.
"Luckily, I took my own Styx Path, so I didn't need to deliberately collect fragments of the God of Light, otherwise I would have had to fight those people again..."
Speaking of which, why are the followers of the God of Light here? Is the Evolution Game related to the God of Light's forces?
After pondering for a moment, Mo Di turned to Su Youli and said, "Let's take a look around this world and see if we can find anything of value."
Su Youli nodded and held his hand tightly.
The dark rift opened silently, swallowed the two of them, and then quietly disappeared.
The station fell silent once more, with only a few lifeless corpses standing in place, silently watching over the gray wasteland outside.
The train to the underworld did not depart immediately but remained at the station, seemingly replenishing its energy and waiting for its next departure.
Ding.
The game's notification sound rang out, startling the three chosen ones from their dreamlike reverie in the car.
"Phew, how long have we been sleeping? My neck feels like it's rusted."
The burly man stiffly got up from his seat, stretched his limbs, and his body crackled like popping beans.
The boy conjured a mirror of light, reflecting his face. After confirming that his appearance hadn't changed much, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"The train has reached its final stop. More than ten years have passed. It seems he wasn't lying to us. Our lifespans on the train don't end."
They all breathed a sigh of relief, thankful that they hadn't encountered the worst-case scenario, since they didn't want to wake up to find themselves as old men.
Although this is practically impossible given their lifespan as superhumans.
"Hey, the panel shows our mission is complete." The burly man was initially surprised, then his face lit up with joy. "We can choose to leave the instance and return to reality at any time."
"How come the mission is suddenly complete? If I remember correctly, we should be at the final station by now. Does this count as escaping the train?"
The female office worker was puzzled. She couldn't help but walk to the car window and look outside, and was immediately taken aback.
...This is the final stop? No wonder the train is called "Yellow Springs" (the underworld); is this truly the world of the dead?
The burly man and the female office worker looked out the window, both filled with doubt and uncertainty. Only the young man silently took a step back, a complex expression flashing in his eyes.
The contents of those ancient texts in the council are correct. If the goals of the evolution game aren't achieved, Xuanxing might very well end up like this.
Thinking of this, a sense of urgency welled up in his heart.
The council recently launched a project to create artificial gods and is selecting suitable chosen ones. The list is not yet finalized. Perhaps I can join them. In the ruined city, atop a high-rise building, two figures look down at the vast land below.
"It's so quiet. Even up here in this building, there's not a breath of wind... It's like the world's atmospheric circulation has gone wrong."
Modi sensed the oppressive atmosphere around him and expanded his spiritual senses far into the distance, taking in the entire city's situation.
Before long, he was certain that there were no other living beings in the city besides them.
"What that person said must be true; there may really be no survivors left in this world," he said.
Su Youli and he held hands tightly, looking down at the desolate city streets, their expressions becoming somewhat somber.
She was somewhat worried about her hometown, fearing that it might also become so lifeless.
In the entire ruined city, there was almost no color other than gray, except for her and Mordy.
Apart from the two of them, everything else was a hazy gray, like a photograph taken with an old-fashioned camera, where things were distinguished solely by their different grayscale values.
The city, and even the entire world, was stripped of all color, completely vanished by the calamity of death.
Modi glanced at the person beside him out of the corner of his eye, immediately understanding what she was thinking, and comforted her, "Don't worry, even if we can't pass the test of the Evolution Game, we can always hide, right? At worst, we can move to Itnity and the Forgotten Realm. I want to see if the Evolution Game can destroy these two 'land protected by the demon god'."
The world of Itnity has an extremely high energy level. Although the demons have distanced themselves from the mortal realm of Itnity, this does not mean that they have abandoned it.
As Ethereum continues its revival, they will once again turn their attention to it.
Su Youli rolled her eyes at him and said irritably, "You seem to have no confidence in Xuanxing's future. Is that how you comfort someone?"
"I just want you to understand that at least I'm always behind you, and you still have me as a backup plan."
Modi smiled but did not reveal the probability he had calculated.
In fact, according to his calculations, the probability of Xuanxing successfully passing the test was less than five percent.
This probability was calculated by him based on data he gathered from the forum and intelligence he acquired in this world.
Judging from the manifestation of the Deathly Silence Disaster alone, if a disaster of similar energy level were to occur on Xuanxing, the various regimes and forces on Xuanxing would probably be powerless to stop it.
This kind of disaster, deeply rooted in the rules, cannot be resolved even if he devotes all his power to it, unless he can take another step forward and enter the ranks of the immortals.
After he finished speaking, Su Youli didn't say a word, but quietly tightened her grip on his hand.
Their hands were clasped tightly together, the warmth of their palms passing between them.
After gazing into the distance from the high-rise building for a while, Su Youli suddenly spoke up: "What are your plans next? The teleportation time shown on the panel is getting closer and closer. Soon, we will be teleported back to Xuanxing."
Shortly after they stepped out of the carriage, their mission to escape the train to the underworld was completed, and the teleportation countdown began to appear, as if the evolution game did not want them to stay there for long.
"I'm looking for someone... To be precise, I'm not even sure if he's still alive, or if he's even still around."
Modi scratched his head, and his extended spiritual sense began to explore downwards, searching the entire city's land inch by inch.
"What is it that you care about so much?" Su Youli asked curiously.
"What else could it be but the god of the path of light? The last information sent out by the person who performed the carnival happened to include the location where He last appeared. Although His ascension failed, He was still a powerful god, and might not be completely dead yet."
Let's not mince words. Modi admitted that he was simply lusting after that god's body.
If we could turn Him into fertilizer and nourish the sprouts of the soul, that would be even better.
His spiritual senses swept across every corner of the city without restraint, and soon Modi detected a familiar aura.
"Found it, the residual effects left by the path of light."
His spiritual sense transmitted the information about the abnormal area back to his mind, and thus, he saw the target.
It was a square in a ruined city, its bright colors standing out from the surrounding city buildings.
In the center of the square stands a stone statue of an angel, with its wings spread, hands clasped to its chest, head bowed, and eyes closed, in a gesture of prayer.
The entire square has only one stone statue, and it is also the only one that is gray, as if it has selflessly shared its color to maintain the vitality of the square.
Modi's spiritual sense landed on the stone statue, and his intuition told him that this was the target he was looking for.
"This was once the deity of the path of light, now... a stone statue of an angel?"
His expression was strange, and his spiritual senses fell on the stone statue. For some reason, he felt that the stone statue was watching him.
"The fact that this statue gives me this feeling suggests it's not dead."
Without hesitation, he tore open a gap, carrying Su Youli across most of the city, and landed on the square.
As soon as he arrived, he sensed something was amiss.
"Was that stone statue moved?"
With his eyes fixed on the angel statue in the center of the square, Modi narrowed his eyes and extended his spiritual sense to compare the statue's current position with his memory with extremely high precision.
A moment later, he concluded that the statue had indeed moved in the short time he had been there.
Even though it only moved less than ten centimeters, he still noticed the tiny difference.
Just as Mo Di was about to investigate what was going on, Su Youli exclaimed, "Such vibrant colors! It feels like it could get on you at any moment!"
He looked down and saw that it was true; the surrounding colors had already stained his trouser legs.
With each step they took, the colors around them faded a little, and the faded colors transferred to them, making them even more vibrant.
"It has a fairytale-like dreamlike quality," Su Youli said.
"Yes, but what I feel is more emptiness." Modi shook his head slightly, then looked up at the angel statue again, his pupils suddenly dilating.
At some point, the angel statue moved again, moving from the center of the square to his side.
At this moment, the stone statue was less than ten meters away from him.