Xin Xichen smiled slightly:

"The unlucky events don’t just end here, haven’t you guys noticed?"

"Those thirty-odd Masked Emperors are copying the Mother of Non-Life next door, treating themselves as the mother and other emperors from history as infants."

"Before long, those scattered emperors will be out to battle, with each being taken by parents along with nine infants!"

"The Mother-Child Linked Array looks truly terrifying at first sight."

"Not only that, the emperors from the Chaotic Body Era are forming a Chaotic Body Fusion Array under that mysterious black-clad physician, a bunch of Chaotic Body Emperors gathering together."

"Each era merges, their combat power changes dramatically, how can we possibly fight them?"

Hit after despairing hit kept appearing, causing everyone’s hearts to sink uncontrollably.

Currently, the only major reason they could hold on was because that immortal Night Emperor who descended from the Otherworld was still within their camp.

Evidently, an immortal isn’t that easy to draw.

They could even consider that there’s no way the artist could draw an immortal.

Therefore, that fake Night Emperor hadn’t been updated with data, leaving this powerful immortal Night Emperor able to take the main position by fighting downwards against a group of those in the Self-Transformation Realm.

However...

At this moment, the Night Emperor had a pain he couldn’t express:

"I just broke through to immortal status, my Realm hasn’t even fully opened up, had I known their level was like this, I would have cultivated more cautiously before coming."

The newly-broken-through immortal was still in the phase of explosively increasing combat power.

If his current combat power was compared to one hundred million, a little training could quickly see him reaching one hundred fifty million, two hundred million, three hundred million.

But.

He was merely speaking hypothetically.

He deliberately returned early to visit and test out this one’s true capabilities.

After all, with the Manor Master backing him, what did he have to fear?

At this moment.

Xin Xichen, even in the face of such despair-inducing enemies, still had a plan:

"Our best strategy now is to sever their means of resurrection and find a way to cut them off from the Earth Vein."

The reason Earth-bound Spirits can resurrect is because they take root in the Earth Vein.

Opposing side’s roots link with the Earth Vein of a private nature—the Chronicles of Time.

And removing an Earth-bound Spirit takes a lot of time and mana, which is extremely hard to do in combat.

However, there was a twist.

By chance, Xin Xichen’s database had a seemingly worthless Divine Technique to directly sever such Earth-bound Spirits.

Yet, no Divine Technique is truly worthless, only mistimed.

"Now this Divine Technique is actually our survival method, the Spirit-Slaying Saber!"

He reached out to grab, the Spiritual Root of Sun Moon constantly shifting, transforming into a long saber, "Let me cut you into wandering souls, then destroy you!"

A single slash exploded with radiant spiritual light, slicing down upon their vague root sections.

But in the next second, the connecting roots of the Earth-bound Spirits started moving like strings, dodging the blade’s light.

This eerie scene shocked everyone immensely.

The roots connected beneath the Earth-bound Spirits actually dodged?

"It’s the Human God at work."

Xin Xichen observed an ancient hero, that pseudo-Human God, "Human God is the King of the Pseudo-human Three Flowers, and the Earth Veins were forged by the Human God’s Three Flowers."

"Naturally, the Human God has the ability to control the Earth Veins, and those threads of the Earth-bound Spirits could very well be a Puppet Thread Divine Technique."

From a distance.

"Xin Xichen, you do have some ability and intelligence."

The Human God manipulated the threads in his hands, his voice like an ancient iceberg echoing in everyone’s ears, "The first Earth-bound Spirit between Heaven and Earth was created by me."

"I buried the brain flowers of my clan underground as Earth Veins, forming a puppet network vision... The so-called Earth-bound Spirits are essentially just wandering souls connected by puppet threads."

The Human God initiated the Rongtian Era, threads extending and permeating the sky.

Evidently, his threads not only covered the sky but also the depths of the earth, like cables buried underground, forming an all-encompassing puppet thread network, ruling the world.

It was a rather terrifying and magnificent mythical era.

In the most ancient history, he personally created the world’s first Earth Vein and Earth-bound Spirit.

Subsequent generations’ Earth Vein construction techniques all originated from this Human God.

"This guy..."

"Human God, indeed, how are these Earth Veins not puppet threads?"

"The Human God buried puppet threads in our descendants’ bodies, so why couldn’t he also bury them in the earth?"

The realization of this astonishing ancient truth left everyone shocked.

The Human God’s influence on history was too great, too profound.

And today, they were faced with this truly ancient ancestral hero.

"One must change the Spirit-Slaying Saber to cut through these moving puppet threads of the Earth-bound Spirits."

Xin Xichen’s face turned stern, his gaze deepening as he continued adjusting his body, focusing on problem-solving.

Boom!

They began their second battle with the Human God.

As the God of Puppet Dolls, he had lost the prior battle to Xirong Manor Master because he was then completely unprepared.

What’s a puppet master without prepared puppets?

But now each connected thread Earth-bound Spirit and ancient hero was his true puppet.

"Kill!"

Instantly, countless Earth-bound Spirits leaped up, launching attacks from the exclusive Earth Vein connections of the Chronicles of Time towards the enemy forces.

And the pressure on Cursed, Xin Xichen, and others instantly intensified, forcing their Self-Transformation Realm experts to engage, aiding in combat.

Their initial plan to single-handedly sweep through the enemy forces, avoiding involving their subordinates, inevitably led to casualties when they engaged.

But now, they couldn’t care about that anymore.

"Boom!"

The two sides clashed once more.

Quickly, various races’ Self-Transformation Realm individuals collapsed and perished.

Yet, Phoenix Yi had retreated to the rear, plucking Phoenix feathers to resurrect the others.

In that instant, both sides formed armies that continually revived, repeatedly engaging in battle.

...

In the shadows.

Ning Zheng preferred watching the show to engage in combat, sitting ashore watching the fire, as he was disinterested in the Immortal Fate, letting them fight it out themselves!

He leisurely watched this earth-shattering century battle, his face peculiar:

"Good, good! Nine-State developed to such a point, indeed evolving into this sort of eerie battle style."

On one side was the physician resurrecting ancestral tombs to fight.

On the other was Phoenix Yi resurrecting the living to fight.

Indeed, our Nine-State was full of sticky undying beings, quite absurd.

"That physician... as the ruler of the Chaotic Body Era, her Spiritual Root sure is a treasure."

Ning Zheng felt eye-opening, for the artist indeed hid a gem:

"Able to shorten the resurrection cooldown, wouldn’t the neighboring hell become even more lucrative?"

His eyes glowed snowy bright.

In the neighboring Eighteen Layers of Hell, each time a convict is resurrected, Destiny is harvested, tortured brutally once, murders and debts settled.

But due to the Earth-bound Spirit’s resurrection cycle, harvesting was quite limited.

Now solved!

Accelerate the resurrection cooldown.

Rapid resurrection, rapid killing; the rice field could now reap every few days instead of four times a year, production skyrocketing. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

Rapid resurrection, rapid killing; this frequent rate was the true meaning of torture, was the true Infinite Hell, suffering without end.