In the Nine Provinces of the Mortal World, throughout the lands in all directions, the Death Knell rang without cease. The day of reckoning had come for the illusory false gods. They had been born in the hearts of the people; if they did not repay the karma they owed, they would ultimately vanish into nothingness.
The worlds in all four directions were collapsing, Eternal Life Realm included. The illusory would ultimately be destroyed. Endless ages ago, the illusory worlds had expanded while the real world was badly damaged. Many mountains and rivers of the Nine Provinces had been seized and brought into the four-directional worlds, along with countless people of the Mortal World who had entered foreign lands.
Now, reality and illusion had reversed. As the Eternal Life Realm, the cultivation world, and the other worlds in all directions crumbled, everything returned to the Human Realm. Thus, those "deities" born from faith had reached the moment when they had to make their choice.
Within the Dead City, one hundred thousand dead soldiers waved their banners as Black Mist surged into the sky. It flooded the area around the Demonic Well, separating and encircling the many Half-Ancestors. Powerful battle souls no weaker than Half-Ancestors tore apart heaven and earth, their roars shaking the nine heavens as war erupted.
The combat strength of these armies of death never diminished. Even when smashed to pieces, they would instantly reform within the Dead City and rise into the sky once more. They existed alongside the Dead City.
Boom!
A palm that blotted out the sun descended, flickering with hazy Chaos Light. It slammed down with unstoppable force, instantly reducing an entire contingent of dead soldiers to ashes. To everyone's shock, those dead soldiers truly turned into flying ash and never reformed.
This was