45: Chapter 45

The patrolling five-winged angels had long known that the Red Dragon Emperor was coming, so no one stopped him; they automatically cleared a path straight to the main gate.

Only after Luo Yu's figure completely disappeared into the temple did the angels resume their patrol.

Dulio Gesualdo stood in place, gazing at the white temple with a complex expression. "Master, do you truly wish to leave a way out for the Heaven, or do you want to recast the entire Heaven?"

He whispered to himself, his voice quickly swallowed by the wind.

There was no light inside the temple; it was pitch black, and one could not even see their own hand.

Then—the surroundings suddenly changed.

Luo Yu found himself standing in the midst of a vast, desolate world. The ground beneath his feet was cracked, with dried-up riverbeds everywhere. Countless human kingdoms were situated on the land, and one could see devils, Fallen Angels, and magical beasts hidden within them. Some even revealed their true forms, enjoying the fear or worship of mortals.

The sky was much higher than it is now, and from time to time, giant dragons would soar through the clouds. "Is this... a scene from the ancient era?"

Luo Yu realized that everything before him must be someone's memory. Since Michael had invited him, this memory was most likely Michael's own.

He did not know why Michael wanted to show him this ancient scene, but he did not shatter it directly. Given his current strength, collapsing this illusion would be easy, but he did not do so.

Just then, an anomaly occurred on the ground beneath his feet. A massive magical beast emerged.

The thing had ten heads—dragon heads, tiger heads, snake heads, leopard heads, various animal heads pieced together. Its body was the same, as if it had been forcibly stitched together from countless different animal corpses.

All ten heads roared wildly at the sky simultaneously. The sky shattered. Heaven was actually faintly visible through it.

The baleful aura on the magical beast exploded, and countless human kingdoms instantly turned into dead zones. Whether they were humans, devils, magical beasts, angels, Fallen Angels, or even gods, in the face of death, there was no difference.

The Human World shook violently. The various pantheons attached to the Human World were all shaken out; divine realms emerged in the mortal world, and divine light illuminated the mountains and rivers for ten thousand miles.

Luo Yu was completely stunned. He could not believe that such a terrifying thing existed in this world; it was simply a living nightmare.

A name vaguely surfaced in his mind—the Beast Emperor.

Luo Yu watched with wide eyes. Wherever that massive body passed, human nations were turned directly into ruins, countless aggrieved souls floated in the air, and the ground was covered in corpses.

When it passed through divine realms, gods fell one after another, and blood stained the entire sky red.

In the span of a few breaths, an entire divine realm turned into a dead zone, and all living things inside perished.

Slaughter. Death. Darkness. Fear. These things were playing out everywhere under the heavens.

The Beast Emperor was like death itself; the places it walked were roads leading to hell.

For the first time, Luo Yu witnessed this terror that surpassed a Super Devil.

Just from what he saw, the number of Super Devils who died at the hands of the Beast Emperor already exceeded five, and the pantheons they belonged to had completely vanished from history along with their deaths.

At this moment, Heaven suddenly erupted with dazzling light. A holy and massive figure descended. This was the God of Light.

Its light shone across the entire Human World, as if bringing a glimmer of hope to this world that was about to be swallowed by darkness.

At the same time, from the various pantheons still remaining in the Human World, over a dozen figures flew out. They were all Super Devils, Super Devils from various pantheons.

Together with the God of Light, their target was that monster creating slaughter and death. The Beast Emperor.

The God of Light and a dozen Super Devils. This scene was completely different from what Luo Yu understood.

In the records left by the various pantheons, it was written that the God of Light alone exhausted all power to seal the Beast Emperor, thereby saving the Human World.

Later, the Underworld and Grigori took advantage of the situation to incite the final decisive battle of The Great War, eventually leading to mutual destruction.

From beginning to end, there was no mention of those dozen or so Super Devils. Could it be that because they all died, this part of the record was lost?

Or perhaps, Michael, as the most loyal subordinate of the God of Light, deliberately hid these events to boast about his master's achievements?

Luo Yu quickly overturned this thought. Because among those dozen or so Super Devils, he saw a familiar figure.

That person was wrapped in death energy, extremely sinister.

Luo Yu recognized that face. Although that face was so ugly that one wouldn't want to look at it a second time, he was still certain—that guy who kept releasing death energy to harass the Beast Emperor and create attack opportunities for that deity was none other than Hades, God of the Underworld.

Among the remaining dozen or so Super Devils, there were unfamiliar faces, as well as deities he was intimately familiar with. For instance, the three supreme gods of the Hindu Pantheon were all present, not one missing.

Seeing this, a thought popped into Luo Yu's mind. If Michael really wanted to steal the credit of these Super Devils after that deity fell, that would be nothing but a pipe dream.

But the question now was—what exactly did Michael want to say by letting him see this ancient great battle?

Luo Yu did not see any obvious clues. But the chill in his heart grew heavier and heavier. Once that thought emerged, it could no longer be suppressed.

"...If that is really the case, it is too chilling."

Luo Yu stared at the scene before him, watching this unprecedented great battle bit by bit, waiting for the final outcome. He did not know what he would see. But he knew that the answer must be very terrifying.

Just then, the battle reached a white-hot intensity. The Beast Emperor's violent power smashed down overwhelmingly, and four Super Devils could no longer hold on and fell on the spot.

Luo Yu felt his heart tighten as he watched. The sky collapsed and the earth cracked. The light was so blinding that one could not open their eyes.

The earth was shaken out of its original position, great mountains turned into bottomless chasms, and the oceans were evaporated in just a few breaths, turning into scorched earth.

The entire Human World was shaking, as if it would shatter at any moment.

The Beast Emperor roared frantically. Its dragon head and tiger head had already been severed by that deity. But this thing simply could not be killed.

Not long after, new heads grew back, as if those wounds had never existed in the first place.

The Beast Emperor's attack target was always that deity. The remaining nine Super Devils fought desperately to harass it, creating opportunities for that deity to strike.

They tried their best to intercept the Beast Emperor's attacks, using their own bodies to block those lethal moves. But their condition was extremely poor; their bodies were covered in wounds, with almost no patch of uninjured flesh.

Just by watching, Luo Yu could feel the despair-inducing terror of the Beast Emperor.

Just then, that deity suddenly shouted. "Eternal Paradise!"

He clearly understood that if they continued to fight like this, even if they fought until the heavens overturned and the sun and moon lost their light, they would not be able to kill this monster that knew no fatigue, possessed endless power, and simply would not die. The only way was to seal it completely.

Luo Yu widened his eyes. He saw a scene that he would never forget in his life.

The Eternal Paradise summoned by that deity spanned the entire sky of the Human World, as if two worlds were directly superimposed on each other.

It was a complete world, like the Underworld, like Heaven, and not the illusory projection that Luo Yu had once cast. It was materialized.

The saints and angels on it were alive and had their own life essence. In that instant, that deity forcibly created a plane. It was like creating a Heaven out of thin air.

Luo Yu stood in place, completely stunned. Such a method was simply shocking to the extreme.

It was chaos. Everything was in chaos.

At this moment, that materialized [Eternal Paradise] suddenly erupted with astonishing suction, and countless thick chains, as if coming to life, frantically entangled the [Beast Emperor], wanting to seal it inside completely.

But how would the Beast Emperor submit obediently? It struggled desperately, biting and attacking everything around it frantically.

In this short instant, another three Super Devils fell on the spot. Chains broke one after another, and it looked like the [Beast Emperor] was about to break free from the restraints.

At this time, a huge chasm suddenly split open on the ground, and terrifying magic power turned into a beam of light that shot into the sky, directly knocking the [Beast Emperor] into mid-air. Immediately after, a filthy power of light surged from the horizon and gave it a fierce push, blasting the [Beast Emperor] entirely into the [Eternal Paradise].

Luo Yu saw this scene and understood. "So in this world-destroying war, the people of the Underworld and Grigori also played such a huge role."

He could feel that those who acted from the Underworld side were likely the First Generation Four Great Demon Kings working together. On the side of Grigori, it was almost all the Fallen Angel cadres working together.

After the [Beast Emperor] was blasted into the [Eternal Paradise], that kingdom began to operate frantically, mobilizing the power of an entire plane to press down firmly on the Beast Emperor, finally sealing it inside the ninth level of Heaven. After doing all this, the [Eternal Paradise] slowly disappeared into the void.

No one knew where the [Beast Emperor] was sealed. ... This world-destroying war seemed to have ended just like that.

But Luo Yu knew clearly that the key point Michael wanted him to see should have just begun.

Sure enough—the remaining six Super Devils suddenly turned hostile.

They aimed their attacks at that deity who had just saved the world and whose power was now almost exhausted.

Hades was the first to strike, using death energy to disrupt all perception in this heaven and earth, making it impossible for outsiders to see clearly what was happening inside.

However, that Luo Yu could see this memory scene showed that the opponent's shielding method was not thorough enough.

That deity had just exhausted their power and never expected that these people would dare to sneak attack when they were at their weakest.

Caught off guard, their body was directly pierced through by a pair of fists.

That was the God of Destruction of the Hindu Pantheon, Shiva, who pinned them firmly to the sky.

Immediately following that, Hades and the remaining five people struck together, fiercely blasting the extremely weakened deity, directly shattering their body.

Even their divine soul was ground away bit by bit in the endless death energy. That deity fell just like that.

...Luo Yu's head completely exploded. All his thoughts were churned into a mess, impossible to sort out.

The matter of sealing the Beast Emperor was not accomplished by the God of Light alone; this point he could still understand.

After all, at that time the Beast Emperor was ravaging the Human World, and the whole world was almost beaten to collapse. Which of those pantheons and divine realms that lived off the Human World were not scared out of their wits? If they didn't stand up and join forces, they would all be finished. The pantheons that had been wiped out by the Beast Emperor before were the outcome; they turned into dead zones entirely, even Ragnarok was not this miserable.

This concerned their lifeline, who wouldn't risk their lives?

But the problem was—the God of Light had fallen! It was not the death that all those gods in the Three Realms knew about, not dying together with the First Generation Four Great Demon Kings of the Underworld in The Great War.