Chapter 588: Final Battle I
[Before that glaring scarlet light can touch the Holy Mountain, you fly fearlessly into the night sky and actively meet that former Solar Hero, Corrupting Blood Sun’s Judge, King’s Sword Itan!]
[After the passage of long years, Itan’s image is still engraved deep within your memory. The body covered beneath heavy metal armor, and the only exposed pair of scarlet eyes, remain deeply memorable and chilling.]
[Now, the only difference is that the weapon in His hand has been changed to a brand-new broad-bladed greatsword, upon which surging corrupting divine power flows and roars…]
[His face is hidden beneath heavy armor, but the vast divine power surging from within Him can still be clearly sensed by you even from a great distance.]
[Itan stands within the night sky, like a blood-red sun. His divine power is so powerful that it is enough to make the hearts of those who witness Him surge, their reason totters on the brink of collapse, almost losing themselves in that despair and letting out hysterical screams.]
[That is the twisted Authority of corruption and aberration. That is the evil Dominion of madness and depravity…]
[King’s Sword Itan has actually grasped the Dominion power originating from Corrupting Blood Sun!]
[Itan’s scarlet eyes are like two clusters of never-extinguishing flames of wrath, taking in all the turmoil beneath the Holy Mountain from above. The anger within that gaze boils like volcanic magma, as if it is about to devour all defiance and disrespect.]
[As He stops, the scarlet greatsword that symbolizes absolute power reveals its sharp edge, pointing straight at you.]
[A dull and hoarse judgment rolls out from beneath the heavy scarlet armor, echoing among the continuous mountain peaks, deafening.]
[King’s Sword pronounces judgment here and now!]
[Heretic who blasphemes the majesty of the Lord, you… have committed an unforgivable sin!]
[In an instant, that scarlet greatsword seems to become the incarnation of another Blood Sun. Even in the deep night when moonlight is like white silk, it forcibly tears open a blood-colored space, and corrupting sunlight pours down, dyeing everything around it with an ominous red.]
[This divine power of Corruption Authority originating from the Blood Sun is like an invisible tide, surging and roaring as it impacts your perception.]
[Your mind is filled with strange and chaotic whispers. They are like venomous snakes, coiling around the vines of reason, attempting to drag you into an endless abyss of madness.]
[A mad will invades your reason and occupies your mind, while the divine power of corruption and aberration affects your flesh.]
[Under the illumination of that scarlet light, your flesh senses unprecedented heat and unease, as if a beast hidden within your body is stirring restlessly. The outlines of your limbs begin to twist at the edge of your vision, heralding the beginning of aberration.]
[You can sense with incomparable clarity that King’s Sword Itan, who controls Corruption Authority, is a powerful existence who stands above many Eternal gods.]
[But the current you are no longer that humble and tiny existence, no longer that weak Apostle who could only drift with the current in the torrents of fate and dreams, helplessly watching the former Titan Giant Dan fall while being powerless to reverse it.]
[You have long since possessed the powerful strength to oppose King’s Sword, and even kill King’s Sword!]
[In the depths of your soul, Purification Dominion ignites vast pale and pure flames, sweeping through every inch of consciousness and spirit, cutting off those murmurs that attempt to corrode your mind and burning away all impurity and madness!]
[At the same time, Flesh Authority fully releases under the drive of your will, like an impassable towering mountain range, firmly suppressing that restlessness and aberration originating from Corruption Authority, strangling any aberration that attempts to alter your body into formlessness!]
[The malice of revenge that has accumulated within you for a long time bursts forth, smelting into long swords of Extreme Evil that flicker with gloomy light. They float behind you, their sharp edges pointed straight at that once overweening King’s Sword Itan.]
[You stare directly into Itan’s grave scarlet eyes and speak to the firm vow you once made, Itan… the hatred and blood debt of the past will be thoroughly settled today!]
[Extreme Evil Dominion releases at full power without the slightest reservation, like negative energy gushing out from a rift in the Abyss, pouring into the countless floating long swords of malice behind you…]
[These sword blades instantly become even sharper. The Extreme Evil thoughts flowing through the sword bodies seem capable of cutting through space and time, containing terrifying power enough to destroy the world.]
[Cold killing intent fills the Holy Mountain. As North Pole Dark Heaven Final Kalpa Demon-Sweeping Sword Technique is driven, countless long swords of malice blast outward!]
[Surging sword light erupts, and resplendent sword intent sweeps across the Holy Mountain!]
[Many long swords containing your vengeful malice tear through the night sky like black meteors occupying the night, carrying a determination to end everything as they crash down toward Itan!]
[Every sword carries vast divine power enough to cleanse all filth. Wherever the sword light passes, even the eternally existing Holy Mountain collapses and falls, one peak after another turning into rubble and powder, crashing down into the human realm.]
[Above the Holy Mountain, sword light shines brilliantly. Every Extreme Evil sword ray is like the announcement of the apocalypse. Even the full moon hanging high in the night sky loses its vast radiance beneath the reflection of this resplendent sword intent and appears dim by comparison.]
[Itan resists with all His strength, but facing this overwhelming and all-pervasive sword rain, His defense gradually collapses, and cracks begin appearing one after another on that scarlet armor…]
[…]
[Finally, amid the most dazzling and brilliant sword light, King’s Sword Itan’s figure collapses with a crash, falling toward the Sun Radiance peaks He once ruled…]
[You leap forward and arrive at the valley between the peaks, the place where King’s Sword Itan fell…]
[His scarlet heavy armor is shattered all over His body, and the blood-colored greatsword that never left His hand is also scattered beside Him. He lies paralyzed within the deep pit, His powerless gaze looking up at the full moon in the night sky. That full moon seems to transform in His eyes into the most exalted sun.]
[Itan laboriously stretches out His palm, seeming to want to grasp the faith He has firmly upheld, seeming to want to look at the Lord one more time before death.]
[His faith in the Lord has never wavered. Even when the Lord fell and became an evil god, He still followed the Lord and fell together into the Abyss of corruption.]
[You understand that Itan and Dan are the two gods most loyal to Golden Blazing Sun. Their faith and loyalty have never changed. It is only that the paths the two pursued are different.]
[You pick up Itan’s scarlet greatsword, come before Him, and slowly say…]
[My fire of vengeance is far from something Your death alone can calm. The Corrupting Blood Sun hidden behind the shadows, the one that polluted You and polluted the entire world, likewise cannot escape final judgment!]
[You recall all the past events, take a deep breath, lean on the greatsword, and suddenly thrust the sword edge into His chest!]
[Just as He did to Titan Giant Dan in the past!]
[The greatsword pierces through Itan’s chest, completely erasing His last trace of life…]
[The hand Itan stretches out ultimately fails to grasp anything, and falls powerlessly…]
[You have defeated Corrupting Blood Sun’s Judge – King’s Sword Itan…]
[…]
[You have obtained Blood Sacrifice Light (key)!]
[…]
[You put away Itan’s corpse, raise your head to gaze at Sun Radiance Altar atop the sacred peak, and fly toward the summit with the key required to have an audience with the Blood Sun.]
[Before the altar, you close your eyes, unfold the web of consciousness, and use Extreme Evil Dominion to call another powerful existence…]
[…]
[Surging and vast malice comes from the south, gathering mightily into black mist of malice that covers the sky and blocks the moon.]
[A throbbing from the depths of the soul arises without cause. Boundless negative malice rushes into your heart, and all kinds of negative emotions such as slaughter, jealousy, greed, hatred, betrayal, lust, and so on occupy all inner thoughts…]
[Within the boundless black mist, a huge strange face that covers the entire firmament suddenly appears!]
[The giant face’s expression is extremely twisted and ferocious. The corners of its mouth extend upward strangely, and its exaggerated smile almost splits to its ears, as if mocking the smallness and powerlessness of the living beings of this world.]
[Vast moonlight suddenly pierces through the obstruction of the malice clouds, and pure radiance spreads across the peaks and the earth.]
[In the end, it condenses into a beam of dazzling sacred light, transforming into an incomparably beautiful woman dressed in hazy white gauze and wearing a resplendent moon crown.]
[You take a deep breath and raise the audience key in your hand. Blood-colored sunlight erupts and blooms from the altar…]
[Without the need for many words, you step resolutely into the altar, and your figure sinks into the scarlet light…]
[The huge strange face transforms into vast black qi, tears open the barrier of the hidden plane, and throws itself into it, following you to participate in the final decisive battle.]
[Radiant Full Moon likewise follows closely behind and steps into Sun Radiance Altar…]
[…]
[…]
[At the same time, northwest of Cold Moon Forest, atop the peak of the snow-covered mountain range…]
[The Mountain Nymph, who is feeding green grass to the Golden-Horned Deer and gently stroking its antlers, suddenly freezes in Her movements.]
[She seems to sense something and abruptly raises Her head, looking toward the direction of Evernight Valley…]
[Boundless dark clouds roll in, covering the clear moonlight and plunging the world into an extremely oppressive darkness.]
[The Nymph only feels an inexplicable restlessness spreading through the air. Her skin faintly stings and goes numb all over, and even the tips of Her hair float and stand upright.]
[Dull thunder roars and explodes, while surging golden lightning churns and roars endlessly!]
[Suddenly, a bolt of destructive thunder like divine punishment descends from the sky!]
[Even from far away, the Nymph can clearly sense that extremely terrifying divine power fluctuation!]
[The divine punishment thunder falls before Evernight Valley, destroying the valley and fortress. Even Cold Moon Forest in the distance is also affected, and countless trees turn to charcoal and ash, uprooted and sent flying backward.]
[The earth trembles violently, just like an earthquake from a natural disaster.]
[The terrifying lightning extinguishes, and a majestic old man draped in a strange white half-robe appears. He has a strong, bare chest, holds a long spear forged from golden lightning, and His eyes are filled with surging lightning.]
[Boundless fear arises in the Nymph’s heart, yet She cannot care about being afraid. Remembering someone’s instructions, She hurriedly transmits what She sees through the web of consciousness to the higher existence at the top of the web of consciousness.]
[The old man who controls lightning suddenly turns His head, His gaze crossing the distant space and focusing on Her.]
[With just this one glance, the Nymph’s hands and feet stiffen and go numb, as if She is wrapped and controlled by endless lightning, unable to even do the simplest action of lifting a hand.]
[The old man looks at Her with deep meaning in His gaze, then moves His gaze away and stands where He is, seeming to wait for something.]
[The Nymph is startled, not daring to remain on the peak any longer. She hurriedly brings the Golden-Horned Deer back to the cave halfway up the mountain.]
[That glance from the old man just now seemed to be admiring some beautiful thing, and also seemed to strip off Her yellow dress, leaving Her standing bare naked in place.]
[The Nymph understands incomparably clearly in Her heart that this is a legendary god beyond the heavens. That kind of terrifying existence is not something She can deal with…]
[The terrifying celestial phenomenon over Evernight Valley does not stop because of the old man’s arrival. The Nymph covers Her ears, but those rumbling roars and those terrifying divine power fluctuations continue arriving one after another!]
[One… two… three…]
[The Nymph silently counts in Her heart, using the web of consciousness to tell the higher consciousness about all the terrifying enemies that have descended upon this world…]
[Her heart is incomparably despairing. The Nymph does not know how that person can resist these terrifying enemies to the extreme.]
[Just looking at Them once causes Her to lose all courage to resist. She can only shrink inside the cave like an ostrich burying its head.]
[Even the omnipotent Moon Goddess would likely only be able to submit to such powerful enemies…]
[…]
[Finally, the endless earthquakes subside, and the deafening sounds finally stop.]
[The Nymph’s lips tremble slightly. She closes Her eyes, tightly clenches Her pale fingertips, and despairingly recites a number in Her heart…]
[Thirteen…]
[…]
[On the dry and withered earth, as far as the eye can see, there is only continuous cracked scorched ground. It is like the scars of the earth exposed to the outside, recording endless corruption and madness.]
[At the center of this withered earth stands a solitary peak.]
[At the summit hangs a sun, not a golden sun disk that gives warmth and hope to all things, but a blood-red sun that chills the heart and inspires dread!]
[He emits ominous red light, dyeing the sky and earth into the same terrifying scarlet.]
[The top of the solitary peak seems to have been forcibly cut off by some kind of great power, and upon it sits the most magnificent and majestic Divine Palace in the world.]
[The master of the palace is that supreme existence who controls life and death in the world and rules over all things, Corrupting Blood Sun.]
[He is both the ruler of this desolate world and the originator of all suffering and corruption.]
[With the reckless audience of unfamiliar gods, the long-silent withered earth seems to awaken endless anger and madness, beginning to tremble violently!]
[At the same time, the blood-red sun hanging high at the top of the solitary peak, that supreme celestial-body image, strangely breaks free from the restraints of the firmament, passes through the obstruction of the solitary peak and Divine Palace, and casts His terrifying shadow straight down upon the earth.]
[At that moment, the outline of the blood-red sun becomes blurry, as if twisted by some indescribable power. From the edge of that blazing sun disk, countless twisted and deformed tentacles extend outward.]
[They dance wantonly in the air like aberrated feelers from the Abyss. Every tentacle contains terrifying power enough to destroy the world…]
[You slowly open your eyes and personally witness this incomparably frenzied scene, enough to drive one insane…]