Chapter 284: Power
"Run!"
"I'm lost..."
"This way! If we escape the white mist, that monster won't chase us!"
...
Large groups of panicked people ran through the dense white mist, escaping from the smoke-shrouded city. The clothes they wore highlighted their unique status – they were all combat priests stationed in Maysuo City.
No matter how much Ramdo suppressed them, his contingent of priests stationed in Maysuo City still contained a large number of masters. To Ying Huo, these were simply tougher nuts to crack.
Thus, it decided to temporarily abandon its pursuit of these individuals and instead devour the defenseless common believers, which allowed them to escape with their lives.
Of course, this was also due to Ying Huo's unfamiliarity with controlling its Xuanhua; otherwise, if it had solidified the gaseous Xuanhua at the boundary into a wall several meters thick, creating a "turtle in a jar" cage, none of those panicked priests would have escaped.
"Bang!"
From time to time, muffled thuds could still be heard within the white mist. That was Hegeli Si, the demigod who stubbornly resisted inside, ceaselessly severing the roots attempting to attack him. When the Blazing Sun catastrophe descended, he, hidden deep within the temple as a defensive trump card, was also activated.
Relying on his formidable strength, he was almost invincible within the white mist. After all, he was an experimental subject created by Ramdo, at any cost, with the absolutely loyal fanatical believers' spirits as his core.
As a genius plagued by extreme paranoia, Ramdo, who didn't fully trust his subordinates, relied more heavily on these beings with almost no self-concept, as opposed to ordinary people who could rebel at any moment.
Hegeli Si, as Ramdo's artificial experimental weapon, possessed combat power that, if calculated using Huaxia's system, had already entered the Fifth Tier.
The newly born Ying Huo currently lacked experience in dealing with such a monster. It could only mobilize countless wisps of white mist, continuously hindering the opponent's destructive pace.
However, thanks to the readily available resources in Maysuo City, Ying Huo's growth rate far exceeded Hegeli Si's destruction rate. The encirclement against him was gradually tightening, and the situation was not optimistic.
Meanwhile, the two hundred thousand Imperial Guards, originally stationed at various strategic locations outside the city to defend the capital, had previously faced a series of scenes that might only appear in myths: the Blazing Sun catastrophe descending from the heavens, followed by the white mist permeating the entire city, and then the colossal hand gripping the Hui Huang Divine Court. This left the devout believers utterly stunned.
In a war of gods, was there truly a place for mortals to intervene?
Obeying the Great Prophet's command, they had been on high alert at their positions outside the city, never imagining that the enemy would descend like a meteorite.
Facing the unknown white mist, they chose to hold their ground before receiving any instructions from their superiors.
The gigantic hand, which miraculously held up the entire divine kingdom, further extinguished any courage they might have had to interfere.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
...
A few minutes later, Ramdo, who controlled the divine kingdom, finally smashed a large hole through the giant misty hand, freeing himself from its grasp. He immediately began transforming, his divine kingdom merging with his body.
The power of an entire city was superimposed upon his divine form. Facing this mortal enemy, Ramdo held nothing back. His trump cards, after all, were meant to be played when the day came.
For the first time, he used his true body, not a mere projection, to confront the enemy.
His golden, resplendent divine body caused the air to tremble with every movement, revealing a colossal strength capable of uprooting mountains and severing rivers. To say he possessed the power to "uproot mountains and sever rivers" was no exaggeration.
"Die!" Without wasting any time on superfluous words, Ramdo, upon completing his transformation, unleashed a mighty punch at Ying Huo on the ground!
When he emerged from the blockade and perceived that over a million believers in Maysuo City had died at the monster's hands in those ten-plus minutes, his primary target for annihilation became the tree demon still voraciously devouring within the city.
The raging force caused the air around his fist to heat up rapidly, instantly expanding and forming a visible shockwave.
All the surrounding white mist was blown away by the fierce wind, creating a large opening that revealed a corner of the colossal tree demon's body, which had already spread throughout the entire city.
"Bang!" The moment his fist struck the ground, the heavens and earth shook, as if a meteor had landed. Like the detonation of a fuel-air explosive, it created a momentary vacuum in the vicinity.
Innumerable roots on Ying Huo's body were annihilated by this single punch. After the dust settled, a massive crater over thirty meters in diameter appeared on the ground. All the buildings that had once stood on that land were gone, and even the original basements were buried under rolling yellow sand.
"My Lord!" Hegeli Si, who was struggling in battle, disengaged from the fight with the fastest speed upon seeing Ramdo's descent. He rushed to Ramdo's front and knelt on one knee, showing his reverence.
"Truly worthy of being a demigod crafted by my own hands, to remain unscathed under the encirclement of such a monster."
"Wherever our Lord's blade points, there our hearts shall follow!"
If there was anything Ramdo cared about most in Maysuo City, it was perhaps Hegeli Si, this super weapon he had designed and built from scratch.
Absolute loyalty, sufficient power—the only problem was the extremely high cost, making mass production entirely impossible. Perhaps if Ramdo, in control of Maysuo, had another ten years of research, he might have a chance to achieve the goal of large-scale production.
In terms of Faith Power, his research direction was precisely the opposite of Bai Mo's. He focused on developing the power of fanatically devout holy spirits, pursuing a route of high-quality masterpieces.
Bai Mo, on the other hand, researched almost entirely shallow believers, general believers, and even false believers, exploring how to utilize them to achieve the goal of apotheosis.
Of course, the fundamental reason for this difference lay in the different national conditions of the two countries.
Maysuo had long been a religiously devout nation, producing countless pious and fanatical believers. In contrast, the Huaxia Federation had very few truly devout individuals; the vast majority were shallow believers motivated by utilitarianism. This was why Bai Mo ultimately conceived the almost farcical idea of apotheosis by spending money.
This small portion of roots was merely an insignificant loss for Ying Huo, which had already grown vast enough to cover almost the entire city. In just half a minute, a fresh batch of newly grown roots was already preparing to fill the void once more. The city's human sewers were simply paradise for it.
Every minute, every second, under the guidance of Bai Mo, who was connected to Ying Huo's main body via a Spirit Hub network, it continuously integrated its incredibly bloated memories.
After merging with the thoughts of countless individuals, Ying Huo began to develop its own power at a speed incomprehensible to mortals. The terror of a parallelized thought aggregate finally became apparent.
"So it can be used like this..." Bai Mo intently read the information flow within the tree demon's body.
Currently, a large portion of the power Ying Huo could wield essentially still came from his bestowal. Or rather, "bestowal" wasn't quite fitting; it should be called a "loan."
So, in reality, this was no different from utilizing the wisdom of many individuals to collectively and deeply develop Bai Mo's own personal power.
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