Ji Xun Is Dead

Dead Dragon Malodis had defeated Konabos, king of the Hero Kingdom, with an invincible bearing.

The human nation backed by Lord of Disaster Monliod was thus declared destroyed.

Ji Xun had originally thought it would be somewhat troublesome to find the unsealed Seven Monarchs of Cataclysm. After all, the Southern Continent was so vast.

Yet unexpectedly, he encountered Dashi, a Light Chaser, in Saint Lance City.

The Illuminated Hermitage had its own distinctive intelligence network. During the twenty years Ji Xun had been gone, Dashi had prepared for the worst and secretly made arrangements to seal the seven Outer Gods.

Thus, Dashi was almost completely aware of the Seven Monarchs of Cataclysm's movements.

With the Illuminated Society's current strength alone, sealing the Outer Gods would have been tremendously risky.

Even if they succeeded, it would likely end in mutual destruction, much like when Jia Yu had sealed the Scarlet Lord in Sinless City.

That was why they had come to Saint Lance City in the first place: to find an opportunity to assassinate Konabos and see whether they could weaken Lord of Disaster Monliod's Plane Fortune and source of faith.

Fortunately, Ji Xun and the others had returned.

And they had brought back an ally invincible within the plane.

With the precise intelligence Dashi provided, Ji Xun and Malodis killed Konabos, then immediately launched Surprise Attacks on several secret war temples hidden within the Black Dragon Kingdom.

Outer Gods needed vessels through which to gather faith. Those temples were where Lord of Disaster Monliod stored its divine power.

Even more coincidentally, Ji Xun and the others caught the Outer God's main body red-handed in an underground temple within the Vatra Mountains.

Over the years, Monliod had gathered endless Power of Calamity and recovered divine power infinitely close to that of