Defiled earth spread as countless pale bone arms reached out from within the gray soil. They seemed to be struggling yet cheering, densely packed and covering the entire ground.
The bone hands reached toward the immobilized Judge.
"What are these things?!"
The Judge desperately surged his godhead, attempting to break free from the shackles, but the power within his body drained faster and faster.
The supply from the black spots was also cut off. The black spots in the Eastern and Western Regions seemed suppressed by some force, completely failing to respond to his summons.
The source of the power devouring him became increasingly clear.
The Judge could feel it—a pair of hollow eye sockets, overflowing with fresh blood.
"I am a true god, a creation of the Vermilion Judgment! You ants, how dare you..."
The Judge roared in refusal, but his voice was soon drowned out by the sound of bone hands grabbing him.
Countless bone hands seized his body, his limbs, and the massive eyeball on his neck.
The bone hands were cold and hard, pinning him firmly in place like shackles.
At the same time, the jade pendant at Chen Zhou's waist suddenly flashed with a brilliant golden light.
A black carp swam out from the pendant, rapidly expanding and transforming in the air.
It flicked its tail in the sky, casting a spirited glance at the battlefield below before looking toward the direction of Gloomlight Province.
At this moment, the northern, southern, eastern, and western regions of Gloomlight Province all turned their hearts toward Chen Zhou.
Golden scales reflecting the sun, a vermilion crown upon its forehead; the Heavenly Luck Dragon Carp brings blessings for ten thousand miles.
As an auspicious one blessed by heaven, it had accompanied Chen Zhou throughout his journey, and now its merit was complete, earning it the right to transform into a dragon.
Now was the moment of its metamorphosis.
A phantom portal slowly condensed in the sky.
The portal was formed from auspicious clouds, standing a thousand feet tall, with the sun, moon, stars, mountains, and rivers carved upon its lintel.
The dragon carp let out a long cry toward the heavens, its body swaying as it shed the concealment of Cloud Sea Resplendence. Bathed in brilliant golden light, it charged toward the Dragon Gate.
Illuminated by the pale light of the bone moon and amidst the drifting ash of the defiled earth, that golden figure appeared exceptionally dazzling.
It swam against the paper snow and faced the death qi, crashing into the Dragon Gate without a hint of hesitation.
Boom!
The golden light exploded.
The dragon carp's body began its metamorphosis the moment it struck the Dragon Gate.
Scales fell away, turning into bits of starlight; flesh and blood dissolved, reorganizing into a more perfect form; bones extended, letting out crisp explosive pops.
When the golden light dissipated, a true five-clawed golden dragon circled in the sky.
It was three hundred zhang long, entirely golden, with towering horns and fluttering whiskers, its eyes filled with a wrathful majesty.
Golden light of merit cascaded from its body like a waterfall.
Roar!
The Golden Dragon of Merit let out a long cry and dove down, pouncing straight toward the sinful corpse dragon in the pit.
The golden dragon tore and devoured the corpse dragon's rotten flesh. With every bite, the corpse dragon's aura weakened, while the golden light on the golden dragon grew even more intense.
This was the judgment of merit against sin, the purification of the auspicious against the filth!
Chen Zhou watched this scene as the brush in his hand slowly dissipated, and countless bone spears condensed from the void.
He looked at the Judge, his gaze as cold as a blade.
"The time for execution has arrived."
Countless bone spears hovered in mid-air, their tips flickering with ghostly green venomous light and black flames, aimed directly at the Judge in the center.
"This is impossible..."
The Judge was still struggling violently, the massive eyeball on his neck spinning crazily as he tried to mobilize his internal power for a counterattack.
But he could not understand.
What exactly was draining his power?
What could possibly exist in heaven and earth that could steal the power of a true god?
That feeling of weakness made it seem as if something inside him had betrayed him, continuously funneling the power that belonged to him into someone else.
The Judge had no time for further thought.
The sky full of bone spears poured down like a torrential rain, accompanied by the whistling sound of tearing air, instantly submerging the Judge.
Psh! Psh! Psh!
The sound of bone spears piercing through flesh rang out.
Hate Prison activated, and the bone spears easily locked onto the Judge's body, pinning him firmly to the ground.
Following that, Hatred Fire ignited his body.
As he burned, Withering Venom was applied repeatedly, causing his flesh to shrivel and rot.
The black light protecting the Judge also retracted completely into his body.
The Judge was startled; the burning of the Hatred Fire was agonizing, and the venom made him weaker, but to him, these were not fatal wounds.
What truly terrified him was the gray-white defiled earth covering the surrounding ground.
The Judge's intuition told him this thing posed a genuine threat to him.
He was confused once again.
A true god was immortal; he was a creation of the Vermilion Judgment. All means capable of killing a true god had long been sealed away by the Sky-Monitoring organization. There should not exist any power in the world capable of thoroughly annihilating him.
How could a mere Gloomlight Province and a false god without even a godhead possess something that made him feel a deathly threat?
The Judge desperately called upon his godhead, attempting to draw upon his status to disperse this eerie defiled earth.
How could an inadequate false god have the right to judge a true god like him!
But he soon discovered that all his karmic sin and black light were now hidden within his body, completely beyond his control.
His godhead did not respond to him.
Instead, he heard a cold female voice ring out in his mind.
"You are not worthy of using my things."
As the voice faded, the godhead fell into total silence.
"Who... who are you?!"
"No, it shouldn't be like this."
"I am a true god! I represent the will of heaven and earth! I deserve to stand above you ants!"
The Judge was dazed and confused, growing increasingly weak as the Hatred Fire climbed onto his eyeball.
"A true god?"
Chen Zhou spoke flatly:
"Are you even worthy?"
As the words fell, Chen Zhou detonated the stacked Withering Venom.
Bang!
The eyeball exploded instantly, spraying blood and ocular fluid that splashed onto the defiled earth.
The Judge's body twitched violently before going completely limp.
The surrounding bone arms swarmed forward, crazily tearing at his mangled remains.
【Domain of Defiled Earth: All who die within this domain shall find no reincarnation; their souls belong to you.】
The Judge's soul was dragged out of his broken husk by countless bone hands.
His final consciousness was of endless darkness devouring his sight and defiled soil burying his body.
He was dead.
A true god had fallen.
His corpse soon vanished, turning to ash under the effect of the Hatred Fire.
As the ashes scattered, only two deformed eyeballs remained on the ground.
Two spheres of light drifted out from the eyeballs, hovering in the air.
Chen Zhou stepped forward and reached out to grasp the two spheres of light.
【You have obtained a complete divinity — sin】
【You have obtained a godhead of the Oasis Goddess (Inner)】
The system's notification sound was pleasant to the ears.
However, Chen Zhou did not feel much joy.
The battlefield suddenly fell silent.
The phantom of the black spot Judge dissipated under the golden dragon's attack. The corpse dragon was torn to shreds by Huo Dou and the golden dragon. The black spot giants were also defeated by Jian Huaishuang and Zen Master Wu Hai. Only the black-spot monsters remained scattered across the ground.
The gray snow in the sky gradually ceased, the bone moon slowly faded, and the defiled earth began to recede.
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