The Era of Gods - Chapter 65:

Chapter 65: Chapter 65: The Awakening of the Snake People Demigod Gras

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In just an hour and a half, nearly six thousand Frog People were slaughtered to the point of extinction, their bodies piling up like mountains.

Lin Xiao ordered his troops to immediately retreat to the border of the swamp and the shallow sea, incidentally taking The Naga God Statue with them. It wasn’t until he returned to the border of the swamp and the shallow sea that he gathered the accumulated faith value from the statue.

The moment he harvested it, the faint halo of faith on the surface of The Naga God Statue disappeared. The statue, as if stripped of its color and turned to gray, shattered into pieces right before his eyes.

“Who is it!”

An all too familiar voice roared in wrath beside Lin Xiao’s ear, petrifying, forcing even one with his will to involuntarily feel a tinge of fear. The Fishmen around him all showed panic-stricken expressions, some screaming out loud in terror.

But the voice came as swiftly as it left, dissipating in an instant as it found no vessel to cling to, and the fearful Fishmen recovered.

Lin Xiao looked up towards the depths of the swamp, his potent senses allowing him to feel that, in those depths, a vast consciousness was slowly awakening.

Whether it was an illusion or not, in the direction where the massive consciousness was awakening, the void seemed to distort, as though a round distortion was slowly rising, and a faint oppressive force was gradually intensifying.

The creatures of the swamp, influenced by this, hid themselves in the black silt and no longer moved; invisible ripples spread slowly from the depths of the swamp. In Lin Xiao’s vision, those ripples, tangible as distortions, grew larger and stronger with the gradual awakening of the consciousness, turning substantial.

His eyes narrowed as he gazed at the depths of the swamp for a long while, then he extended his right hand with a light wave, and the troops turned to dive into the sea.

The Snake People Demigod was even stronger than he had imagined. Merely a precursor to its awakening held such influence; he could not fathom the might it would possess once it fully awoke.

“Too difficult!”

Lin Xiao exclaimed along the way; although Demigods and Divine Beings were only separated by one level, the gulf in strength between them was like that from heaven to earth. To think he, merely an Incarnation Body of Saint Descend, had planned to tackle a Demigod, was audaciously foolhardy.

However, fortune favors the bold, and to grow rapidly one must take risks.

He did not head straight back to the tribe but made his way directly to Yuyuan City. He was not certain if the Snake People Demigod had detected him, so venturing to Yuyuan City first was best; if he was unnoticed, it would be ideal, but if he was discovered, he could at least deflect the disaster elsewhere.

But he did not enter the inner parts of Yuyuan City, not only because bringing so many subordinates made it impossible to enter, but also because he himself did not wish to.

Yuyuan City is an important city within the Merfolk Empire and also a crucial support point for the faith in the Sea God. There is The Sea God Temple and a group of Priests.

This Incarnation Body of Saint Descend dared not flaunt itself in front of the Sea God’s Priests. With his True Body’s current strength, the likelihood of being discovered was high, which is why when he previously submitted to Yuyuan City, he only sent envoys instead of visiting the city personally.

Two months later, feeling that the surrounding marine regions were calm, Lin Xiao led his subordinates away from Yuyuan City and returned home. It seemed that the Snake People Demigod had not detected the instigator.

A few sea miles away from Yuyuan City, he looked back at the Mermaid City built atop a vast stretch of underwater reefs; his fierce Naga facade growing more menacing, he had a better idea in mind.

Another half a year passed, and just as the heat of the situation seemed to be subsiding, Lin Xiao once more led his troops to the Black Water Swamp.

This time, he directly raided the Frogman Tribe located near the mouth of the Blackwater River, methodically slaughtering every frog person. He piled their corpses into a mountain and once again approached the Naga God Statue at the center of the tribe. As he reached out to touch the statue, the faith light that had gathered on the statue suddenly flared up, transforming into a tall Naga covered in gleaming golden scales. A golden scale branded with mysterious patterns was embedded in its forehead, and its pupils emitted a faint golden light as it swept across Lin Xiao, speaking with a regal and exalted tone,

“Shameful thief, Lars has seen you.”

As soon as the voice fell, Lin Xiao hadn’t had the chance to react when the Snake People Demigod’s expression suddenly changed, and with a murderous intent, he said,

“It’s you, you dare to appear before Lars again.”

“Damn it!”

Lin Xiao, who had initially been confused, instantly recognized the Snake People Demigod as an old acquaintance. It was the very Half-God Lars that he had been challenged by during the extra test given by his teacher last time, the one who had fancifully tried to cross over and devour him.

He had never imagined that the Demigod would actually be one from this plane of existence, and clearly, the snake person the teacher had sent out had come from the Snake Tribe in the Black Water Swamp.

With new grudges adding to old, Lin Xiao could already foresee what he was about to encounter.

Without hesitation, he turned and ran, abandoning the spoils of war and his subordinates, fully retreating from the Black Water Swamp.

“Boom!”

A thunderous explosion that threatened to rupture eardrums emanated from the depths of the swamp. He looked back to see a massive beam of blood-red light soaring into the sky from the depths of the swamp and exploding at the Vault of Heaven, turning into a dense cloud of blood that spread out in waves, reaching miles away and still expanding.

An oppressive and frightening aura exploded out like lightning from the center of the blood column, and in the corner of his eye, Lin Xiao saw the leaves of small plants on the swamp mounds tremble violently as this invisible pressure swept over them, causing the leaves to curl up slowly.

The might of Deities, as deep as the abyss, as unyielding as a prison, compelled every living being to bow their heads.

At that moment, Lin Xiao had no concern for his demeanor; he scrambled through the swamp and plunged into the sea, racing at maximum speed straight towards Yuyuan City. It was the only place nearby that could save him now.

By then, the roiling blood cloud in the Vault of Heaven had spread over tens of miles, and with a muffled thunderclap, a golden light burst from the blood column, surging towards the sky. In the next second, the entire blood cloud reversed at an incredibly fast speed, turning into a gigantic blood vortex, with golden lightning bolts periodically exploding within it.

Half a minute later, the vortex rapidly shrank to a radius of several hundred miles. A great inhalation noise was heard as the vortex suddenly collapsed inward, forming a human outline roughly tens of meters tall. Golden limbs slowly emerged and solidified into a figure with the head of a human and the serpentine body, the combined length of the body and tail exceeding twenty meters, its scales glinting like individual pieces of gold, and vertical pupils shining like golden crystal glass.

The Snake People Demigod took a deep breath, swallowing the last traces of the blood light. The golden visage slowly turned towards the direction of the ocean, a trace of coldness appearing in its golden crystalline eyes. Without any visible movement, it disappeared into thin air.

Having already crossed a sea spanning twenty to thirty kilometers, Lin Xiao suddenly felt a chill at the back of his head, shivering uncontrollably. Without a second word, he ordered his troops to split into two groups: the Naga and Grey Mist Fish People, including himself, dived towards the seabed and swam in the northeast direction; a few kilometers away lay Yuyuan City.

The rest of the squad swam towards the southeast but didn’t dive in, remaining afloat on the ocean’s surface.

“I hope this buys us some time!”