Doomsday Embers

The pale golden spirit separated from the broken body and leaped into the sky.

This is "Visas's Phantom," which, at the cost of the rule of sealing away body parts, allows Bai Wei to break free from the limitations of the body and fight as a phantom.

Although it cannot compare to the Second Order Descent that comes at the cost of burning the host's soul and life, it is indeed the power of Visas.

Wildfire felt this even more clearly.

If the previous Bai Wei only made Wildfire wary, the current Bai Wei makes Him feel that the nightmare from a thousand years ago has returned.

"Boom!"

The earth roared, and the ground beneath the Wildfire trembled violently, cracking into pieces. Several huge black shadows emerged from the cracks, like a giant hand.

Wildfire instinctively tried to escape, but the hundreds of Blood Guiding Fire on its body were causing it unbearable pain, so much so that it was slow to react and was held in the giant hand like a migratory bird with broken wings.

Then came a series of loud "crack" sounds as Wildfire's limbs shattered inch by inch as the giant hand closed in.

He let out a piercing cry.

This enormous hand is none other than the [Magic Chains] learned from Ulu, but the number of chains is enormous. Each "finger" contains tens of thousands of chains, and under the enhancement of [Overload], each one is sharp enough to cut through stone.

However, even if it were only this way, it still wouldn't be able to harm Wildfire's divine body, because gods are not affected by any means in the mortal world. This is a matter of mechanism, and neither quantity nor quality can make up for it, even if it is used by Bai Wei.

But that's only under normal circumstances; in Phantom Form, it's completely different.

Ultimately, aside from its own rules, whether it's a first-order or Second Order Descent, it's essentially using someone else's body. Even if a mortal's body is elevated to its limit in a descent state, it's still a mortal body, and a mortal body cannot harm a god.

But the Phantom Stance is a power that belongs entirely to Visas.

In other words, any power that Bai Wei uses in his phantom form, whether it is magic or technique, will be given the most important characteristic of Visas —godslaying.

That's why the Wildfire bled, broke bones, and wailed under the mortal spell of the [Magic Chains].

He truly felt the pain.

The Blood Guiding Fire from within and the Magic Chains from without completely stripped the Wildfire of its divine aura, making it resemble a wretched and miserable migratory bird captured by humans.

However, He is still a god, even if He is not mentally sound. A god will never obediently wait to die.

The wailing turned into a roar, and Wildfire used its four arms on its back to grab the nearest Magic Chains, then quickly exerted its strength to pry the chains outward little by little.

There was another series of cracking sounds, but this time it wasn't the Wildfire's bones that broke, but the Magic Chains.

Wildfire was like a finger trying to break off its grip on something, and even under the massive debuff of Blood Guiding Fire, it was still slowly getting up, raising its head, and glaring angrily at Bai Wei, who was floating in mid-air, with flames burning in its eyes.

Bai Wei clicked his tongue softly.

He was indeed a god, and even though he had drained so much of this guy's blood before the fight officially began, he was still not easy to deal with.

"Awooo!!!"

Wildfire roared once more, its four "fingers" snapped off by its four arms, instantly freeing itself. Then, it stood upright, reaching the same height as Bai Wei was floating in mid-air.

His two front paws also unconsciously began to resemble human arms.

In an instant, Wildfire transformed from a deformed, vicious dog with human arms into a six-armed demon capable of walking upright, a six-armed demon engulfed in karmic flames!

"Visas!" He roared, "I have finally found you!"

His words were full of anger and... excitement?

Yes, Bai Wei could hear the excitement in Wildfire's tone.

He immediately understood.

That excitement didn't come from the Wildfire, but from the very depths of the universe!

But Bai Wei knew that this was not the resurrection of the Senro God, but rather that Wildfire had used too much of the power of the God of the Forest before his understanding was complete, so that he was unknowingly influenced by the God of the Forest's mind, and even his form changed from a wolf to Hunter.

"I've been waiting for you for so long!" He once again drew lightning from the clouds and hurled it at Bai Wei. "Finally, I can... kill you with my own hands!"

After becoming Hunter, Wildfire's movements became even faster and smoother. Bai Wei only saw a flash of lightning before the lightning spear, which was even more powerful than before, turned the entire night sky into daylight with a huge explosion, and the enormous energy distorted the air.

However, after the lightning disappeared, Wildfire saw that Bai Wei was still floating in the same spot, unharmed.

Because he is a phantom form that exists between reality and illusion, like Wildfire's projection in the mortal realm before he came out of the Divine Kingdom Senluo, attacks on the real world cannot affect the projection.

Wildfire seemed unconvinced, and continued to hurl its thunder spears at Bai Wei.

But the lightning spear, powerful enough to destroy the heavens and the earth, could not touch Bai Wei's phantom, except for lighting up the night sky time and time again. This made Wildfire increasingly angry and impatient.

There are actually three ways to harm the phantom.

One option is to wait for the physical entity to come into reality, just as Bai Wei did before; the other is to enter the other party's Divine Kingdom.

Bai Wei's Divine Kingdom is naturally Peach Blossom Paradise, a place that Wildfire could never find now.

Therefore, the only option for Wildfire is the third method.

If He truly devoured the Senro God completely, He must have known this method, and that was the only possibility for Bai Wei to defeat Him.

Bai Wei stared intently at the Wildfire.

Finally, realizing that his attacks were ineffective, Wildfire had an idea, and a mad glint of wanting to destroy everything flashed in his eyes.

So He stopped attacking and adopted a strange posture, as if in prayer.

The world fell silent at that moment.

But the silence lasted only a brief moment, and then with a "crack," the sky was torn apart by lightning.

But the lightning did not disappear; instead, it remained there like a spider web. Then came a second and a third bolt, and the whole world was being cut into pieces by these purple-gold lightning bolts.

It's coming!

Bai Wei was ready.

The third method Wildfire planned to use, which was also the simplest and most brutal, was to launch an indiscriminate attack, destroying everything within a certain range, including even Divine Kingdom that did not exist in the real world.

[Divine Art: Doomsday Embers]

The unquenchable lightning grew rapidly from the Wildfire as its center, as if turning the entire world into a solid block of ice. Cracks appeared in the very center of the ice, starting with just one or two, but soon they began to spread rapidly.

When the cracks spread to a certain extent, the ice will shatter.

Correspondingly, the world will collapse.

Yes, this is a world-destroying divine spell unleashed by a god.

When its prelude appeared, Bai Wei realized that Wildfire had been deeply influenced by Senluo's thinking.

Wildfire didn't want to destroy this land; it only wanted to become the god of this land. Only Senro didn't care about any of that. That mad god's greatest wish was to kill Visas. For that, destroying this land, destroying the entire world, and dragging Gods down with him was of no concern to him.

Now, Wildfire has also been influenced by this consciousness, and it has decided to kill Bai Wei at all costs.

But this is also Bai Wei's opportunity.

He looked at the Wildfire standing like a sculpture and slowly raised his hand.

The Magic Chains began to surge again, like lurking venomous snakes, their eyes fixed on the Wildfire at the very center.

While casting the world-destroying divine spell, Wildfire could do nothing else but wait for it to complete.

It may seem like a foolish act, but He is a god, and how many people can interrupt a god's spell incantation?

Even Bai Wei in his current form is no match. In his phantom form, Bai Wei cannot use the rules, and other spells have very limited effect on gods. After all, aside from the characteristic of killing gods, the phantom form only has one-tenth of the power of Second Order Descent. Even Second Order Descent with four pieces of corpse cannot directly confront a true god.

But...

Bai Wei has grasped the only possibility.

At the foot of the Wildfire, the creeping Magic Chains unearthed a lifeless chunk of flesh from the ground—the remains of a dead devourer. The Magic Chains then separated the devourer's flesh, extracting a small—tooth.

During this time, the Wildfire had accumulated enough lightning.

The whole world is like a block of ice that has been filled with cracks, and just by looking at it, you can almost hear the "crack" sound of it about to collapse.

It's time!

Bai Wei controlled the Magic Chains that had found the teeth and suddenly moved closer to Wildfire's body.

Meanwhile, Wildfire's indestructible divine body was already covered with countless wounds torn open by A De with his life. Although most of them had healed, a very small number of them had not healed because of the sporadic Blood Guiding Fire, and were still bleeding.

Bai Wei's target is such a wound.

"Awooooo!"

The Wildfire, which had been stagnant for so long, finally stirred. It let out a majestic roar, and the frozen thunder began to tremble.

The ice was about to break, and the world was shaking.

But with a "whoosh".

The chain had reached the wound in the Wildfire, like a deadly venomous snake, and bit down hard.

He shoved that tooth into the flesh and blood of the Wildfire.

"Boom"!

The world began to crumble.

But Bai Wei snapped his fingers at the same time.

The collapse ceased, and the world shifted.

In that instant, Wildfire felt all the power in his body vanish, and even the world seemed to have changed drastically.

He came to a strange place.

There is no rage, no desolation, no madness here.

There is only tranquility, the tranquility of a gentle breeze blowing through the branches of an old tree.

He was sitting under the old tree, staring blankly at the new buds sprouting from the withered branches above.

A snap of his fingers drew His attention back.

He lowered his head and saw a phantom figure sitting in front of him, with a stone table between them.

"That was close!" Bai Wei said with a smile. "Luckily, we made it in time. Hmm... what should I call you? Wildfire? Senluo? Or..."

Bai Wei paused.

"Front Tooth?"

Wildfire's eyes widened little by little as it gradually recalled everything.

"Visas!!!" He roared at Bai Wei.

"Yes, I heard you," Bai Wei said with a light laugh. "Welcome to my Peach Blossom Paradise."

"Mr. Wildfire took my teeth."

"Bang."

The screen malfunctioned.

Wildfire's consciousness returned to its divine body.

After all, He is a god. If His soul and consciousness had not been torn apart by A De, Bai Wei would not have been able to pull Him to Peach Blossom Paradise in this way. And even if He had been pulled to Peach Blossom Paradise, it would not have lasted for long.

Therefore, it only took a few seconds for Wildfire to go from losing consciousness to regaining it.

But those few seconds were the most critical.

The Divine Spell "Doomsday Embers" failed to be cast at the last moment, but the spell's energy had already been fully accumulated.

Naturally, Wildfire suffered a backlash from its own world-destroying divine magic. The energy that was meant to destroy the world flowed back into its divine body, turning it into a block of cracked ice.

Then there was a "click".

The Wildfire's body then cracked open like solid ice.

He immediately let out an even more mournful cry, and in this cry was... fear.

Because He smelled the scent of death, the very scent of death, just as it had a thousand years ago.

So He began His final struggle, trying to reassemble His body in the enormous pit.

But Bai Wei wouldn't give Him that chance again. One Magic Chains after another emerged from the ground, tearing at pieces of His body and dragging Him down into the boiling magma.

No! No!

He roared, trying to stop it all, because He was not Visas, and without the blessing of divine power, His body could be destroyed.

And now He can no longer return to the Divine Kingdom; once His physical body dies, He is truly dead.

But He was powerless to stop these chains that stretched out from all directions. At this moment, they were not chains, but ouroboros, symbols of death, slowly annihilating the god's body.

Soon, only the head of the Wildfire remained, a slightly larger part that hadn't been dragged underground.

The rest of the body was annihilated in the flames.

The Wildfire God will perish in the flames.

Realizing that the outcome was inevitable, the Wildfire finally stopped struggling in despair.

He struggled to raise his head and looked at Bai Wei, who had come before him.

"You have won," He said in a low voice. "I have been hiding from you for a thousand years, but I still... could not escape you."

Bai Wei laughed, "Wasn't it better not to hide in the first place?"

Wildfire did not answer the question, but slowly closed its eyes.

"Do it," He said. "After all, I died as a god."

Bai Wei, however, did not make a move for a long time.

Wildfire opened its eyes and saw Bai Wei placing his hand on its head, as if stroking it.

This action evoked an indescribable sense of familiarity... and sadness in Wildfire.

"Let me see that child again," Bai Wei said softly.