Claws exuding a deathly aura pierced deeply into the waists of the young man.
The young man gritted his teeth in pain, his body suddenly convulsed, and the phantom behind him flung both of them away.
Clutching his wound, the young man's face was extremely grim. He exclaimed in shock, "It won't heal!?"
Just then, Qin Muyu condensed a dazzling golden light on his finger and slashed fiercely at the young man.
The young man tried to dodge, but Liu Feng behind him had already extended his claws, stabbing into the young man's back.
"Ah… ah…!"
With a scream, Qin Muyu heavily cleaved into the young man's chest.
The young man, controlling his phantom, embraced Qin Muyu, "Since I'm to die, I'll take one with me!"
"Self-destruct?" Qin Muyu's expression changed. He knew this move all too well and struggled to break free, but the young man held him tightly.
Seeing this, Liu Feng behind them opened his mouth, revealing fangs, and bit into the young man's neck.
The young man's body rapidly shriveled, and his phantom grew increasingly transparent.
In a short while, the young man completely turned into a dried corpse and fell to the ground, his phantom vanishing with him.
Qin Muyu looked at the dried corpse on the ground, his brow furrowed. "Your move is quite vicious."
Liu Feng spat, "This god's blood still stinks as always."
"You should come out of his body by now," Liu Feng said, looking at Qin Muyu, who was still inside Yu Daochen's body.
A wisp of white smoke suddenly floated out from within Yu Daochen, and he then collapsed.
Liu Feng, with quick reflexes, caught the unconscious Yu Daochen.
The white smoke transformed into Qin Muyu. He looked at the dried corpse on the ground and conjured a ball of flame in his hand, throwing it.
The moment the dried corpse on the ground came into contact with the flame, it ignited.
"We don't have much time left. We need to prepare early. I wonder where the other two gods are now," Liu Feng said, watching the burning flames.
Qin Muyu nodded without speaking, but he thought the same as Liu Feng.
He hoped that by the time the seal was broken, he could grow to Xu Feng's level.
Six thirty in the evening.
The last rays of sunlight before sunset shone into the room. Yu Daochen groggily opened his eyes, shifted his body, and felt an overwhelming weakness and pain.
"You're awake." Qin Muyu stood at the doorway.
Yu Daochen felt his left eye throbbing with pain and rubbed it with his hand. "How long have I slept?"
Qin Muyu said faintly, "Two days."
Yu Daochen slowly sat up and suddenly remembered the little girl and others. He asked, "Are the little girl and Xu Yaya okay?"
Qin Muyu nodded. "They're fine, just some superficial wounds."
Yu Daochen didn't speak further, and the atmosphere fell into silence.
Yu Daochen remembered that Qin Muyu had arrived just in time to save him before he lost consciousness.
After a moment, Qin Muyu broke the silence. "Do you know why Heaven is relentlessly pursuing you at any cost?"
"I don't know." Yu Daochen shook his head.
He only knew that the gods had been hunting him for a thousand years, but he didn't know the specific reason.
Qin Muyu sighed and began to speak. "A thousand years ago…"
A thousand years ago.
Because of the perennial floods in the human world, the Heavenly Court dispatched an immortal to descend and control the waters.
At that time, the human world was rampant with monsters and littered with corpses, a truly horrific sight.
The culprit behind these floods was the result of a battle between an evil dragon that was wreaking havoc in the human world and a human evil god.
These two individuals possessed immense power and could have ascended to immortality. However, due to the saturation of personnel in the Heavenly Court, the ascension gate had long been closed, preventing beings from the lower realms from ascending.
These two, with nothing better to do, would spar year-round. Wherever they fought, floods would inevitably occur, leaving the populace in a miserable state.
When the immortal encountered them, she expected a world war. However, the immortal's cheerful disposition was similar to theirs. Not only did she not despise them, but she became their confidante.
The flood problem was thus easily resolved. Originally, the immortal could have returned to the Heavenly Court and been bestowed the title of High God. However, unable to bear the suffering of the human populace, she remained to benefit them.
For a hundred years, the immortal, accompanied by the two, traveled throughout the human world. Wherever they went, monsters vanished, crops flourished, and diseases disappeared.
Later, she was known by the world as the Exquisite Immortal.
Subsequently, the immortal discovered that the true culprit behind the monsters wreaking havoc in the human world was the closed ascension gate.
Many monsters, finding no path to ascension, ceased their cultivation. The very purpose of cultivating good karma was to achieve immortality.
But if ascension was impossible, what was the point of accumulating good karma?
Especially for these two, who could have ascended but were prevented by the closed heavenly gate.
The immortal made a decision: to open the heavenly gate and allow them to ascend.
Later, the heavenly gate was opened, and the two did indeed ascend. However, the immortal also violated heavenly laws and was imprisoned in the celestial jail, forbidden to step out ever again.
Upon learning this, the two, in their fury, did something that shocked the entire Heavenly Court.
They single-handedly fought their way to Heavenly Spirit Mountain and opened the heavenly gate, granting the human world another five hundred years of ascension opportunities.
This act thoroughly angered the Heavenly Court. Not only were the two stripped of their divine positions, but they were also to be beheaded publicly.
At that very moment, the immortal broke out of the celestial jail and, at the cost of her own existence, helped the two escape to the human world.
Because a god's soul differs from that of an ordinary person, the only way to completely destroy it is through the Heavenly Dao's Ten Generations of Reincarnation Prohibition.