The force behind the Church of Pain actually turned out to be the Demon King of Pain, one of the legendary Seven Demon Kings of Hell.
Once this news broke, it immediately sparked another massive uproar.
【Please Call Me Top Scholar: Is this for real?】
【Black Magic Master: A Hell Demon King? Why would an existence like that even need to create a cult? Do they want to steal Heaven's believers?】
【AAA Top-tier Staff Customization: Realer than my gold teeth. Our group's Guardian Army suffered devastating losses. That Demon King of Pain just blew a gentle breath, and the brothers under my command immediately fell and mutated into demons.】
【Young God of Magic: Uh, that's some heavy breath.】
【Please Call Me Top Scholar: What do we do now? Is the event still going to continue? A Hell Demon King is not an existence that little ants like us can mess with.】
【Black Magic Master: Let's wait and see. We can only look to the supreme being behind the mage tower to see if He will take action.】
Just as these transcendents thought, Chen Xu, the Lord of the Undead, immediately turned his gaze toward the scene upon discovering the appearance of the Demon King of Pain.
Through the Necrotic Archmage Tower's projection, Chen Xu saw the full appearance of this Demon King of Pain.
“This appearance... she actually looks so much like the Mother of Hell. As expected of something born from Severing the Three Corpses.”
After expressing a brief sigh of admiration, Chen Xu did not take action against this Demon King of Pain. His attention was instead drawn to the world invaded by the Church of Pain.
After merging the authority of the Elemental Spirit Realm, Chen Xu's comprehension of the 【World Dao】 had progressed by leaps and bounds. At this moment, he no longer needed to rely on the Truth Monocle to perceive the state of a world.
Taking a step forward, Chen Xu entered the world's Dao layer. Amidst the normal world Dao principles, a highly conspicuous anomaly had slipped in—a divine Dao principle carrying a red halo.
The divine Dao principle was intertwined with Hell's Corruption Dao principles, forcefully invading the world.
These scarlet tentacles continuously searched within the world's Dao layer, clearly targeting several Dao principles that represented the transcendent civilization of mages—which was the concept of the “Shamanic.”
He had not expected that, in such a short time, the Mother of Hell's methods of corrupting transcendent systems would have already upgraded.
Previously, when plotting to ambush the Martial Dao, she had to make a massive fuss, sending out countless cannon-fodder demons to breed Blood Demons to pollute the world and link up with the destiny of the Martial Dao.
Yet now, she could easily control it through a single evil cult.
This rate of upgrade and evolution made Chen Xu slightly alarmed.
Chen Xu then traveled in succession to several other worlds occupied by the Church of Pain, as well as those where the challengers and elements had already driven the Church of Pain out.
Soon, Chen Xu realized that he was overthinking things.
This method of invading through divine faith was highly fragile. Once the faith was expelled, the entanglement at the Dao principle level would also shatter, being instantly crushed and devoured by the world, turning into nourishment for the world's growth.
Moreover, if the world itself was large enough and its own Dao principles were sufficiently complete, it would possess a certain level of resistance against these invasions.
Therefore, this method could only be used on weaker civilizations and was naturally inapplicable against those top-tier Martial Dao civilizations of the myriad worlds.
Upon discovering Chen Xu entering the fray, the Demon King of Pain was also highly decisive, immediately retreating back to Hell and abandoning her believers.
Regardless, her objective had been achieved; there were already enough Shamanic and Divine systems linked to Hell's destiny.
The Church of Pain was no longer of any use. Among the Martial, Immortal, Divine, Shamanic, Yokai, three of the five paths were now entangled by Hell. If she could scheme against two more, perhaps the Mother of Hell would be able to initiate her ultimate goal.
Seeing the Demon King of Pain depart, Chen Xu revealed a strange smile.
“Fate cannot be expelled, but it can be plundered.”
Chen Xu activated the World Dao, radiating his power through the projections of the Necrotic Archmage Tower in various worlds.
His unique-tier power effortlessly tore through the Dao layers of the various worlds. Thick and powerful necrotic Dao principles stretched out from the Undead Dao Court, forcefully inserting themselves into the Dao layers of each world through the mage tower projections.
This action triggered a violent backlash from the worlds. Instantly, the sky and earth changed color, thunder rumbled, lightning flashed, and the earth shook as if the end of the world had arrived.
The transcendents who were still within these worlds and had not yet retreated were scared out of their wits, desperately throwing out all kinds of defensive measures.
Fortunately, Chen Xu acted very quickly. The resistance of those worlds did not last long before the necrotic Dao principles completed their transformation.
The Hell marks within the worlds were also forcefully altered into necrotic marks.
Sensing her marks rapidly disappearing, the Mother of Hell sat up from the Original Blood Sea of Hell, staring in Chen Xu's direction with a ferocious glare.
Chen Xu also sensed this gaze in the dark. He turned his head toward Hell and returned a warm, friendly smile.
Then, with a clench of his large hand, a special ripple spread out from the Necrotic Archmage Tower and its various projections, forming a unique barrier that cut off the Mother of Hell's vision.
A moment later, an earth-shaking roar resounded through Hell. Under the influence of this roar, lava erupted, the earth split open, and countless demons trembled in fear.
Fighting poison with poison, using offense as defense—this was the brand-new realm Chen Xu had comprehended after merging with the Element Core of the Elemental Spirit Realm.
The ultimate Dao principles of a special world were far too overbearing. To expel them, one had to use the equally overbearing Dao principles of another special world to fight poison with poison.
Between the various ultimate Dao principles, it was inherently a zero-sum relationship.
Therefore, Chen Xu directly mobilized the necrotic Dao principles of the Undead Dao Court to invade these worlds polluted by the Church of Pain, expelling everything related to Hell.
Even the challengers who had been affected by the Witch of Pain and unfortunately fallen into demons obtained salvation at this moment, shedding their demonic bodies under the baptism of the necrotic Dao principles.
However, before they could celebrate for long, their physical bodies rapidly collapsed. Their flesh withered, exposing grim white bones as they turned into skeletons. Some did not even have bones left, transforming into ghosts.
There was no helping it. The way the undead expelled corruption was by replacing the position of corruption, so it would inevitably turn the fallen into undead creatures. Even Chen Xu had no way around this.
Wait, it seemed there was a way after all.
Chen Xu suddenly remembered one of his skills, which should be able to turn these undead creatures back into humans, though with a slight side effect.
【Reincarnation of the Dead (Exclusive): The Lord of the Undead is a supreme being who toys with life and death. He can resurrect creatures of a lower rank than himself, but the resurrected creatures can no longer increase their strength.】
The side effect of no longer being able to increase one's strength was absolutely unacceptable to some. If they could not grow stronger, they might as well be dead.
Therefore, Chen Xu did not take action directly. Instead, he had Huangjinwu and Yan Ruyu broadcast the information, leaving the choice to the transcendents themselves.
As for himself, he returned to the Undead Dao Court, immersing himself in the comprehension of the Dao principles.
Because Chen Xu's recent actions were not concealed in the slightest, the Undead Network was ignited once again.
【AAA Top-tier Staff Customization: Breaking news! It seems that supreme being has taken action. What a terrifying aura.】
【Please Call Me Top Scholar: Yes, very terrifying and overbearing. Although I don't understand what happened, it seems that supreme being forcefully inserted something into our world?】
【Black Magic Master: A Dao principle invasion. That supreme being has inserted necrotic Dao principles into our world.】
【Please Call Me Top Scholar: Holy crap, Boss Black Magic, you aren't at the eternal-tier, are you? To think you can actually understand that supreme being's actions!】
【Black Magic Master: No, I am but a mere mythic-tier.】
【Please Call Me Top Scholar: Then how do you know it's a Dao principle invasion?】
【Black Magic Master: Because the long-dead materials on the dissection table in my laboratory have all come back to life now, turning into undead creatures.】
【Please Call Me Top Scholar: What! Oh no, my laboratory!】
【AAA Top-tier Staff Customization: The corrupted brothers under my command have also turned into undead creatures now.】
【Young God of Magic: Turning into undead creatures? Doesn't that mean they've become skeletons? Uh, how disgusting.】
【AAA Top-tier Staff Customization: Turning into skeletons is indeed disgusting, but turning into ghosts isn't. Those are pure spiritual bodies of mental strength! Holy shit, their mental strength skyrocketed instantly, and they directly broke through their realms.】
【Black Magic Master: In that case, can we try transforming into liches?】
While everyone was discussing, a brand-new announcement had already been drafted and released.
【The event has been updated once again. The evil Demon King of Pain has been driven away by the great and supreme Lord of the Undead, and Hell's corruption has also been expelled.
However, battles between Dao Lords inevitably affect innocent bystanders. The Lord of the Undead is merciful and cannot bear to see living beings weep or be separated from their loved ones. Therefore, the Transformation feature has been released. Transcendents who wish to turn back into normal creatures from the undead can come to the Necrotic Archmage Tower to undergo transformation.】
After the announcement was issued, the two artifact spirits immediately reported to Chen Xu.
Originally, Chen Xu thought someone would quickly come to undergo transformation, but after waiting for a long time, still no one arrived.
Instead, in his perception, within the worlds invaded by the necrotic Dao principles, more and more normal creatures were attempting to turn into the undead. Among them, the greatest number were transforming into special creatures like liches.
Feeling somewhat puzzled, Chen Xu opened the online forum and browsed through the recent trending posts, instantly realizing the reason.
After transforming into the undead, the transcendents no longer had to worry about their lifespan. This largest hurdle on the path of transcendence was directly resolved once and for all.
Secondly, in these worlds, mage civilizations were the majority. The mental strength of undead creatures like liches was extremely powerful. For transcendents of the mage system, this was simply an excellent transformative solution, resolving both lifespan and mental strength issues in one go.
Chen Xu did not know whether to laugh or cry. Suddenly, the post he was browsing turned into a jumble of gibberish, and his network connection was cut off.
Turning his head, he discovered that Miracle, the little fellow, had actually begun to advance.
With a single thought, Chen Xu arrived directly within the Dao layer.
There, Miracle was cradling that beating Exquisite Heart, a light that seemed to pierce through all things shining in its eyes.
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