CHAPTER 726: THE DOOMSDAY OF SENLO, DESCENDS

The Lord of Wind, Rain, and Snow is definitely not a good trading partner.

Known as the ‘Devious Chancellor,’ he never breaches any transaction, yet the end result always leaves the trading partner feeling utterly disgusted. But when seeking reliable trading partners on a scale of millennia or even tens of thousands of years, Vichy can only turn to the Four Pillars, for even a Divine Sovereign can fall.

After completing a transaction from thousands of years ago, the Lord of Wind, Rain, and Snow recommended the Kingdom of Senlo to him, assuring that he would surely reap great rewards there.

Upon arrival, Vichy found himself in the Four Pillars Cult and quickly realized the immense value of the Kingdom of Senlo.

Undoubtedly, all Divine Sovereigns are aware of the situation in the Kingdom of Senlo.

Thus, everyone is actually waiting for the death of the Chasm Sovereign of Senlo.

The most valuable aspect is undoubtedly His Divine Kingdom and the World Secret Domain within it. But not even the Specter Seer at his peak would dare to compete with a Divine Sovereign for heritage.

However, Vichy can seize the most important heritage beneath the Secret Domain-

Deities!

When he saw through a Prophetic Dream that three deities had left the Divine Kingdom and entered Senlo, he was filled with unexpected joy-having been a god for a thousand years, he had never seen such a great opportunity running amok!

Although deities possess the ability to act independently, almost no sorcerer would let them act alone. Divine Sovereigns with a Celestium treat deities like Canaries, keeping them in the Celestium, with many deities never leaving since their creation, making it impossible to see them outside!

Moreover, the Chasm Sovereign is already so injured that he cannot control the deities, meaning that with a little maneuvering, Vichy could very likely snatch them away!

At any other time, such an opportunity would never arise. Even if a Divine Sovereign is dying, his deities would only accompany him in death, never leaving the Divine Kingdom. Under normal circumstances, the only way to seize a deity is to kill its master!

Only the Chasm Sovereign of Senlo, only these three deities, only at this time, would such a gap appear!

Vichy’s desire for deities has almost reached an obsessive level; he has never owned a deity in his life, only surviving in the Dreaming Celestium. And now, not only have three deities appeared, but they are composite law deities he never dared to dream of. The fact that he hasn’t rushed to embrace them is a testament to a millennium of restraint.

Though deities are inherently precious, there is still a hierarchy among them. Vichy, despite not owning a single deity, is a theoretical master at judging their value.

Firstly, deities from the prophecy, fate, and truth sects still hold top-tier status, worth altering one’s primary spellcasting for; composite deities with multiple laws belong to the second tier, worth at least a secondary focus; as for single-law ordinary deities, if you can’t use them, you might as well trade them for a deity that matches your primary spellcasting.

Dagger Qing Ji is a deity of both physical and mental laws, already highly valuable, worth exchanging the Dreaming Celestium for; but Knowing Guard Fire is a composite deity of prophecy, truth, and fire laws, and Vichy would have sold his soul to obtain it in a past life!

However, the most precious is the Wish-Granting Deity!

Don’t be fooled by her current lack of utility; the strength of auxiliary deities lies in their ability to elevate miracles to the level of divine intervention!

The Wish-Granting Deity can manifest different effects based on the sorcerer’s intentions, essentially serving as an auxiliary deity for all sects and miracles. If Vichy had possessed the Wish-Granting Deity in a past life, he would have dared to challenge the Six-Wings Divine Sovereign!

Chasm Sovereign of Senlo, what merit do you have?

You truly deserve to die, quickly, die faster!

Vichy was twisted with jealousy, but before seizing the deities, he had to suppress them first; otherwise, no matter how many methods he had, he couldn’t use them. So he could only assist Ashe and Silver Lantern in combating the deities, since he couldn’t handle all three deities himself, better to use Ashe, who had a taunting presence, to hold them off.

As for the ‘patricidal’ nature of these deities, Vichy didn’t care at all. As long as he lived, the deities naturally wouldn’t betray him, just like before the Chasm Sovereign was gravely injured, these three deities surely found no opportunity to betray.

Thinking of this, Vichy was moved and asked, “What about the Chasm Sovereign’s other deities?”

Boom!

Dove suddenly raised his staff and pointed at Vichy from afar, a spiral storm tearing through the air, shredding the canopy in an instant, but Vichy had already flown away before he raised his hand. Vichy’s eyes flashed coldly, an invisible mental storm crushing forward, but it only stirred faint ripples on Bluebird and Dove, several spirits dissipating into light.

Though Dove and Bluebird could be harmed by mental attacks, they were also learning instinctively. As the number of injuries increased, they began consciously defending against mental assaults, like Fire Cat avoiding water.

“I know!” Fire Cat raised her hand high: “They’re all dead! Now in Myriad Manifestations Heaven, only the three of us are left!”

“How did they die?” Ashe recalled something: “Starved to death?”

“Yes, yes.” Fire Cat was quite surprised: “How did you know?”

Ashe said, “The Chasm Sovereign was gravely injured and dying, naturally unable to care for the Celestium. Then the Celestium’s curse collapsed, destroying internal resources, causing the deities to starve, right?”

Vichy squinted at Ashe, a thought crossing his mind: Such insight, even a Demigod might not be able to articulate… has he entered some Celestium?…

“Nope!” Fire Cat laughed heartily: “It wasn’t the curse that destroyed them!”

“It was us!”

Ashe, Vesser, and Vichy were all taken aback.

“Why?” Vesser asked directly: “Didn’t you only want the Chasm Sovereign dead? Why destroy the resources of other deities?”

“Because they were helping the Chasm Sovereign manage the Secret Domain, maintaining the stability of the Celestium, effectively prolonging the Chasm Sovereign’s life,” Dove explained. “But the Chasm Sovereign decreed that deities couldn’t fight among themselves, so we could only destroy their resources, starving them to death.”

“You destroyed the resources only after the Chasm Sovereign had an accident?” Ashe asked curiously. “So clever?”

“Nope, we destroy resources whenever we have free time, but we’ve just been too busy,” Fire Cat shrugged. “It wasn’t until the order to manage the secret domain ended that we finally had the chance to destroy the resources.”

“Didn’t the other deities do anything? Didn’t they oppose or attack you?”

“No, they just watched.”

A sense of absurdity grew in the hearts of Ashe and the others-the relationships between the deities were even more naive than a kindergarten class. The other deities had no idea what the dove and his group were doing, foolishly watching them destroy their own food, and then foolishly starving to death. Compared to the deities, the dove and his group only had a bit more initiative.

“That can’t be right,” Vichy suddenly said. “Doesn’t Myriad Manifestations Heaven have Six Wings deities? When the Chasm Sovereign isn’t around, shouldn’t a Six Wings deity be managing everything?”

“Are you talking about Weather?” Fire Cat said. “He died 231 years ago!”

The Six Wings deity of the Chasm Sovereign of Senlo, dead?

Ashe and Vesser both recalled the cataclysm that wiped out the Gray Fox people overnight two hundred years ago.

“Alas, after Weather died, his Myriad Manifestations group disappeared too. The Gray Fox didn’t ascend, so now in Celestium, I’m the only one running on the ground, while they’re all flying in the sky…” Fire Cat seemed a bit downcast. At this moment, Vichy took the opportunity to launch a water spell Miracle at her, but Fire Cat casually swung a fire whip, striking Vichy hard. If he hadn’t immediately unfolded his Sanctuary, he might have been obliterated.

Even so, he was flung nearly a hundred meters away, crashing into numerous trees. The dove seized the chance to point at him, and an invisible spiral storm swept over. If Vichy hadn’t quickly ascended, he might have been pulverized by this combo.

Fire Cat looked at the fire whip in her hand, then at Ashe hiding behind Vesser, and a look of realization dawned on her face.

Snap! Snap! Snap!

With each crisp crack of the fire whip in the air, it struck the Sanctuary behind Ashe. Although the damage was absorbed by the Sanctuary, Fire Cat, who had hardly moved before, now joined the attack sequence, rapidly depleting Vesser’s spellforce!

“Is this also the effect of Knowing Guard Fire?” Ashe’s mouth twitched as he tried to disrupt the dove. “Isn’t this too capricious!?”

“It has nothing to do with Knowing Guard Fire; it’s just her unconsciously using spirits to launch attacks,” Vichy said from another tree.

“Spirits? Can deities use spirits too?”

“Well, maybe the word ‘use’ misled you,” Vichy glanced at them. “Deities naturally can’t command spirits since they don’t have spellforce. But commanding spirits doesn’t necessarily require spellforce; even we sorcerers can do it.”

“Spirit resonance?” Ashe immediately caught on. Sorcerers only need a good Spirit Relationship with spirits, and the spirits will voluntarily work overtime, like how he used spirit resonance to perform the Slash Me Miracle in prison.

“Sorcerers need resonance with spirits, but the relationship between deities and spirits is more akin to that between a god and a disciple. The original meaning of the word deity specifically refers to them being the gods of spirits.”

“Think about it, when a god reveals some intention, what would a disciple do?”

Ashe: “Proactively cater?”

“It’s proactive sacrifice,” Vichy said. “Their attacks are actually consuming spirits to launch, not their own abilities. They naturally connect to the Virtual Realm, where countless spirits await their call. As long as they have any thought, the spirits will use themselves as fuel, sparing no effort to meet their needs.”

“If they used their own abilities, we’d be dead by now. But as beings of rules, they also preserve their lives. Without a sorcerer providing energy, every activation equals consuming their own life… Look, Fire Cat has shrunk again.”

Ashe looked closely and noticed that Fire Cat seemed to have regressed by about a year in age, almost as tall as Lise now. The other deities hadn’t changed, clearly because Fire Cat had been continuously using Knowing Guard Fire.

A thought struck him: “Wait, if we hold out until Fire Cat exhausts her life, won’t we be able to…”

Boom!

A spiral storm swept over, forcing Vichy further back. He said, “There’s no chance.”

The dove and Fire Cat spread out further, making it almost impossible for Ashe to hide behind Vesser. Their attacks on Ashe became more fierce. Although the Sanctuary blocked them, the deities had endless fuel for casting, while their spellforce was limited!

Worse, they found that their attacks not only couldn’t harm the deities but were increasingly difficult to even hinder them. The dove took out a second staff, specifically to block Ashe’s Heart Sword attacks; Fire Cat’s flame domain expanded to five meters, incinerating and withering nearby trees, rendering Vesser’s water spell attacks ineffective!

As time passed, Ashe and Vesser gradually realized a terrifying possibility.

“They’re learning.”

Vichy said, “Deities also have the ability to learn, but most don’t need to act alone, so they don’t know how to attack, cooperate, or strategize. If you can’t destroy them in the first strike, as the battle drags on, they’ll quickly grasp combat skills-especially since these three seemed to be sorcerers in life, their learning ability likely surpasses ordinary deities.”

Indeed.

After taking out the second staff, the dove gradually incorporated it into the battle sequence, even using the spiral storm to dispel the Heart Sword. He seemed to realize he could dual-wield, doubling his attack frequency!

Seeing this, Fire Cat also thoughtfully took out a second fire whip, laughing and swinging it like a storm at the Sanctuary behind Ashe.

As a result, Vesser’s spellforce depleted faster. Ashe had no choice but to unfold his own Sanctuary to withstand it. But this only made the dove and Fire Cat’s attacks more relentless-previously, they had to consider Silver Lantern, but now they were going all out!

If there is anything more terrifying than facing an unbeatable enemy, it is facing an enemy that explosively enhances in power-they missed the initial opportunity to kill the deity, and now the deity’s combat strength has swollen to a level they cannot handle!

Ashe and Vesser were at a loss. They suddenly canceled the Sanctuary, causing dove and Fire Cat to halt their attacks instantly to avoid hitting the successor, Silver Lantern. When they locked onto Ashe to launch a second wave of attacks, Vesser suddenly expanded the Sanctuary, swapped positions with Ashe, and then canceled the Sanctuary again, once more making dove and Fire Cat hesitate.

This was undoubtedly a risky move, but if they kept the Sanctuary active, both of them would be captured due to exhausting their spellforce!

However, playing with fire always risks getting burned. After canceling the Sanctuary once more, Fire Cat did not stop her offensive, and the fire whip accurately struck Ashe’s shoulder, deep enough to reveal bone, yet not a drop of blood was seen-the flames directly scorched his flesh!

“Quick, use the Round Cicada-“

“No need!”

Ashe used the Joy Sword to heal himself, gritting his teeth in pain, but his eyes still glimmered with light: “Save it for when we need to rescue someone.”

“Sorry,” Vesser suddenly said.

“Interesting, Silver Lantern actually apologizes. I thought you had long lost the ability to express that,” Ashe said. “But I also anticipated that meeting you means having one foot in the eternal Virtual Realm… We’ve only met a few times, yet every time you encounter trouble, it involves me? I suspect that next time you get struck by lightning, it’ll affect me too.”

Vesser’s face stiffened, and she said angrily, “Seems like you’re the one always causing me trouble?”

“You almost sucked us dry, what’s wrong with us giving you a bit of trouble? You’re an Evil Sorcerer, everyone wants to eliminate you. Don’t think that inheriting the will of the Gray Fox sorcerer allows you to do as you please. At most, you can escape the death penalty but not the living punishment. Once I get out, I’ll find a Pact for you, punish you to rebuild Senlo for life, doing voluntary labor until you die…”

“Catch me first before you say that.”

At this moment, Fire Cat almost struck Ashe again, but fortunately, Vesser timely expanded the Sanctuary. However, on the other side, dove had learned a new trick; he directly attacked the ground, causing the two to almost fall flat on their faces. Luckily, they both mastered the technique of flipping with virtual wings, directly leaping over.

The two narrowly escaped, looking at each other with dirt-covered faces. Ashe gritted his teeth and said, “I can’t die here!”

Vesser’s eyes were fierce: “How can we lose to a few dim-witted deities!?”

But despite racking their brains, they couldn’t think of a way to break the situation. Ashe could only look towards Vichy in the distance: “Mr. Vichy, do you have a solution!?”

At this time, Vichy was also extremely disheveled, with Fire Cat and dove occasionally focusing on him. He didn’t have a shield like Vesser, and previously could rely on the Movement Miracle to dodge, but now he was almost taking the full brunt of the damage, so disheveled that he had lost his hat.

But upon hearing Ashe’s question, Vichy adjusted his glasses, “I do.”

“Then hurry up and use it!” Ashe was overjoyed, “Otherwise, none of us will escape!”

Vichy hummed, nodding: “I originally thought I didn’t need to intervene… It seems some things still require my push. However, this consumes me quite a bit, as my Source Crystal is already running low…”

“By the way,” he asked, “have you ever had a daydream?”

Ashe and Vesser were taken aback, instinctively looking at Vichy. At this moment, Vichy’s eyes were a pitch-black chaos, polluting their optic nerves along the line of sight, infiltrating their central brain, affecting their souls!

In a daze, Vesser saw herself drawing a triangular Ritual Track on the ground, then kneeling inside it, her fingertips bleeding, the droplets floating upward, reversing flow all the way to the sky, polluting the azure sky.

Throughout the process, Ashe kept the Sanctuary active to protect her, enduring the deities’ attacks alone. Even when the Sanctuary shattered, Ashe still shielded her with his body, allowing her to complete the Ritual without interference from the deities.

Until Vesser came to her senses, she found Ashe lying in her arms, his entire back devoid of intact flesh, breathing weakly, the healing power of the Joy Sword slowly taking effect. If not for the deities’ concern that he was holding Vesser, fearing that too much force would harm the successor, Ashe would have already died.

She hurriedly used Hydrotherapy spirit to heal Ashe, gradually realizing what had just happened-Vichy had dominated them both, forcing her to initiate the Ritual, forcing Ashe to protect her until death!

But how could this be possible!

She and Ashe were already legendary sorcerers! And they had just activated the Sanctuary, yet they had no resistance at all! Unless it was a divine intervention, it couldn’t be possible-

Vesser’s eyes sharpened, she turned to look at Vichy, only to find him gazing at the sky.

Not only Vichy, but the three deities also stopped their steps, halted their attacks, and raised their heads to stare blankly at the sky.

She looked up and saw the sky had turned blood-red, with a massive crack appearing in the middle, resembling, resembling…

A scar.

Vesser was stunned, she had been so focused on Ashe’s injuries that she forgot something extremely important.

The Ritual she had just initiated seemed to be…

“Vichy,” her lips dry, she asked tremblingly, “what did you do?”

“I merely recreated the scene from the dream.”

Vichy took out a notebook from somewhere, speaking while writing:

“History will remember this moment: New Era, October 5, 1668, at 3:32 PM.”

“Senlo Doomsday, descends.”