853: Thousands of years ago

Zoltan's immediate surrender clearly showed his wavering will.

Soon after, under the torture of Xuanqing Snake King, Zoltan revealed all the arrangements of Blade City and also disclosed a lot of information about the Holy City of the Dead Spirit Race.

"The Mother Goddess of the Undead of the Dead Spirit Race wasn't completely annihilated, her Divine Soul destroyed?"

"Instead, her body was preserved from the great war a thousand years ago, and for a thousand years, the blood sacrifices performed annually by the Dead Spirit Race have been to strengthen the trace of consciousness born within this residual body?"

Wang Chen was somewhat surprised to hear the report from Xuanqing Snake King.

According to the information extracted by Xuanqing Snake King, the annual grand sacrifice of the Dead Spirit Race is to reawaken the Mother Goddess. As for whether the awakened one is the original Mother Goddess, they don't care at all.

What they need is a belief, or rather, a "secret weapon" with the strength of a Rank Ten Great Emperor.

And now, the Dead Spirit Race is close to success.

The increasing number of boons bestowed during the annual grand sacrifices indicates that the consciousness born within the body is gaining stronger control over it.

Perhaps it won't be long before the Mother Goddess of the Dead Spirit Race reappears. At that time, the balance between the Human Race and the Dead Spirit Race will inevitably be broken.

Moreover, the Dead Spirit Race, having prepared for a thousand years and unified into a single force, coupled with the resurrected Mother Goddess as an overwhelming combat power, will undoubtedly possess an absolute advantage against the Human Race of the Netherworld.

Once the great war between the two races begins, it will likely lead to rivers of blood.

"Hahahahaha!"

"Damned Human Race, it won't be long before the Mother Goddess descends upon the entire Netherworld. At that time, you and everyone connected to you will die without a burial place!"

Zoltan's body was a bloody mess, his eyes filled with resentment, staring intently at Wang Chen:

"I'll be waiting for you down below then."

"Noisy!"

Wang Chen merely curled his lip in disdain at Zoltan's words.

"It's fine if your Mother Goddess doesn't appear, but if she does, she'll only be my prey."

"I'm very curious to know how much gain your Mother Goddess can bring me."

"Hahahahaha!"

Zoltan laughed malevolently, his face full of madness and cruelty.

"Boasting shamelessly! Despair will someday envelop you."

"Unfortunately, you won't live to see it!"

Wang Chen waved his hand, and a surge of Qi shot out, directly severing Zoltan's head.

Instantly, a massive amount of experience points surged into his body.

Wang Chen carefully savored it for a moment, finding that the experience points provided by Zoltan, a Rank Nine Early Stage cultivator, were almost equivalent to the three Dead Spirit strongholds he had recently destroyed, pushing his newly advanced Rank's progress bar directly past two-thirds.

"Is the experience from the Rank Nine Early Stage so abundant?"

"It seems that after annihilating Blade City, the experience points I gain will likely be even more than anticipated."

Wang Chen pondered silently, then suddenly noticed the Xuanqing Snake King beside him looking somewhat dazed.

"What's wrong? You weren't scared by what he said, were you?"

Wang Chen asked with a playful tone, looking at Xuanqing Snake King.

"My Lord."

Xuanqing Snake King was silent for a moment, then slowly spoke:

"The Mother Goddess of the Dead Spirit Race is equivalent to a Rank Ten Great Emperor, and among Great Emperors, she is a remarkably formidable existence."

In Xuanqing Snake King's awakened Bloodline memories, there was a great deal of information about the Mother Goddess of the Dead Spirit Race.

The vast majority of it concerned her strength.

A thousand years ago, when the Great Emperor-level powerhouses of the Xuantian Holy Land tore open the world barrier, intending to take the entire Netherworld to conquer other worlds and ascend to a higher Rank.

The strength of the Netherworld was at an unprecedented Peak for hundreds of thousands of years.

At that time, the Human Race had Profound Heaven Great Emperor, Four Symbols Great Emperor, and Moon Shadow Great Emperor, three Great Emperor-level powerhouses coexisting, while the Yao Race also had Devouring Heaven Yao Emperor and Candle Sun Yao Emperor.

Five Great Emperor-level powerhouses, such a golden age had never been seen in the Netherworld for hundreds of thousands of years.

In the past, if multiple Great Emperors appeared among the Human Race and Yao Race, a great war between the two races would inevitably erupt.

After all, the stronger a cultivator, the higher their share of the world's resources, which would squeeze out the shares of other living beings. In such circumstances, to seek progress in strength and for the survival space of their race, they would seize from other races.

However, a thousand years ago, when five Great Emperors coexisted, the great war between the Human Race and Yao Race, which had almost been a Reincarnation for hundreds of thousands of years, did not erupt.

On the contrary, the two races worked together in harmony, achieving an unprecedented peace.

All of this was ultimately due to Profound Heaven Great Emperor.

Speaking of Profound Heaven Great Emperor, his life was grand and magnificent, and his rise was astonishingly swift, unparalleled among Great Emperors throughout history, almost like cheating!

Under the unification of Profound Heaven Great Emperor, the Human Race and Yao Race allied, their gaze no longer fixed on the Netherworld, but on the mysterious Limitless Void.

Profound Heaven Great Emperor claimed that on the day he became a Great Emperor, his Divine Soul had wandered the Limitless Void, where he witnessed countless worlds. Worlds like the Netherworld were as numerous as stars in the entire Limitless Void, and worlds more powerful than the Netherworld were also countless.

Profound Heaven Great Emperor proposed that focusing on the Netherworld would only lead to stagnation with no possibility of progress. Instead, it would be better for the two races to combine their strength and venture out to witness the vast world outside, using myriad worlds as nourishment to make the Netherworld even stronger.

At the same time, they could also glimpse the Dao above Rank Ten.

Thus, the entire power of the Netherworld was completely unified, and a thousand years ago, they grandly embarked on a journey to conquer the Limitless Void.

However, in the very first step of this journey, the Netherworld suffered heavy losses.

Beyond the world barrier, there were not only chaotic and destructive Void Realm currents but also terrifying enemies that regarded worlds as food.

After the five Great Emperors jointly opened the world barrier, the first thing they saw was a terrifying powerhouse, ten thousand zhang tall, with a human head and an insect body.

This powerhouse was precisely the Mother Goddess worshipped by the Dead Spirit Race today.

Although her strength was still at Rank Ten, the power she possessed completely exceeded the understanding of the five Great Emperors.

Even with their combined efforts, the five of them could barely contend with this Mother Goddess of the Dead Spirit Race.

Ultimately, after a terrifying great war, the five Great Emperors annihilated the Mother Goddess of the Dead Spirit's Divine Soul, and as their life force was nearly depleted, they sealed the rift between the Netherworld and the Limitless Void.

But that great war was too terrifying, and its lingering effects still persist to this day.

Moreover, when the Mother Goddess of the Dead Spirit's Divine Soul was annihilated, she severed half of her body to create the Dead Spirit Race.

And with the last remaining trace of her consciousness, she eroded the Origin of the Netherworld's world, creating the current situation of day and night separation.