After hearing the Kappa's words, Chen Cheng finally understood what this God-Calling was.
Though this Ratman possessed Epic Rank strength, its timid nature had kept it living in tunnels beneath these ruins.
Over the years, this Ratman and the other members of the Ratman race had long since dug out an entire Ratman city beneath the ruins.
The tunnels beneath these ruins crisscrossed in all directions, which was why the Ratman had escaped disaster and witnessed that terrifying God-Calling ritual.
The Church had arrived here several years ago, but at the time, its members had merely passed through in haste and had never intended to linger.
It was not until more than half a year ago that the Church's numbers suddenly increased, with no fewer than ten Legendary supreme elders arriving all at once.
Those Church supreme elders joined forces and directly drove away the kings who had been capturing the Divine Essence Tide near the Sin Abyss.
Even the usually lofty Bull Devil King had one of his horns broken during the conflict.
Though it was the non-Legendary ones like them who suffered whenever Legendary beings clashed, fortunately, the Church had not intended to destroy these ruins, so the ruins remained intact.
Just as the Ratmen believed this was merely another ordinary conflict over Divine Essence, something horrifying happened.
After driving away those kings, the Church began capturing every living being within tens of thousands of li around the ruins.
Even Ratmen like them, timid creatures who only hid underground, were not spared.
Every day was when Church members captured living beings. Then, as nightfall sank in the west, the Church would hang those captured creatures upside down in midair and slit their throats and carotid arteries as though killing chickens. Blood poured down in torrents, swiftly converging into