Chapter 343: Holy Light
Bai Mo was using his remaining strength to open up the eleventh layer of the Nine Netherworlds. The ninth layer was merely the apparent end, housing a core of minor importance, meant to lull the two trapped entities into a false sense of security.
The tenth layer, on the other hand, was a feigned hidden trump card, containing an empty shell disguised as the true core. This was to deceive enemies who, after much difficulty, had finally guessed that Bai Mo still held a trump card, leading them to believe it was the real central hub.
It was only the eleventh layer that served as his true sanctuary for deep slumber and recovery. In matters such as this, one could never be too careful; using a small vault to conceal a larger one behind it was an excellent choice.
The various side effects brought on by his hasty breakthrough, combined with the backlash from his deductions and the accumulated damage from battle—the triple superposition of these injuries—led Bai Mo to estimate that he would need to fall into a deep slumber for a very long time, followed by a period of recuperation, before he could return to his peak.
Merely to adapt to his excessively powerful imagination would require him to expend a vast amount of time, ensuring he wouldn't be driven mad by the illusions it generated, transforming him into a lunatic who doubted everything.
Furthermore, during this period, he also had to dedicate most of his power to maintaining the information blockade barrier, preventing the two sealed monsters from establishing contact with the outside world.
The Nine Netherworlds was both the place of restorative slumber he had built for himself and the sealing ground for the two troublemakers who had been stirring up chaos on Earth.
After completing the step of Elementization, though their paths diverged, Bai Mo had already reached a comparable realm of existence to these two informational life forms; what he lacked was merely the accumulation of quantity. Conveniently, both of them had lost the vast majority of their original power, leaving only their realm, which gave him the opportune moment to complete the sealing in one swift move.
Gaia wanted to eliminate him precisely because one more step forward for Bai Mo would qualify him to enter their circle, transforming him from a pawn into a player.
"I don't want to die!"
"Any amount of money is fine, just pull me out!"
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A powerful suction force suddenly appeared within the pillar of light, indiscriminately seizing ordinary people from the surroundings. Gaia, unwilling to live in a living tomb, exerted herself to the utmost, breaking through layers of seals to find more burial sacrifices for this sealing.
"Agh!!!" Some cowards shrieked like slaughtered pigs the moment their bodies touched the pillar of light.
Even a common branding iron could emit a scent of seared flesh upon contact with the body, let alone the pillar of light, which clearly exhibited a far more intense high-energy reaction than any branding iron. Instinctively, they cried out in terror, some even wetting their pants.
But to their surprise, the pillar of light itself brought no pain; instead, it made them feel as light as swallows.
"Old Karl, does your back still hurt?" After being sucked into the pillar of light, the blacksmith Moorstein felt his body had never been so light before. The arthritis that had plagued him for so long had vanished, and he felt utterly unburdened.
"Not at all, it's gone! Are we being led to heaven?" Old Karl looked down and found that in the blink of an eye, he was already over ten meters above the ground. The destination they were flying towards was a world whose entrance was filled with white light, and he felt as if he were floating in an immortal's paradise.
As a devout believer of the Luminous Holy Church, he was immensely comforted by this sight, believing it to be the reward of ascending to heaven, granted after he had endured the Lord's difficult trials.
From behind the devout Old Karl, wisps of Faith Power began to emerge. These golden-yellow energies, visible under spirit energy vision, were preparing to merge with the Nine Netherworlds when an anomaly occurred!
Across the European continent, almost everyone suddenly felt an enormous entity slowly awakening. Though the ground didn't tremble, their hearts seemed to quake.
"What's going on! How could Holy Light possibly have its own will!" Pope Gang Duo, who was in Florence, discovered that his meticulously prepared plan seemed to have encountered a major problem.
"Is that our Divine Kingdom?" Countless Europeans gazed up at the sky. Under the blue skies and white clouds, a mirage-like sight utterly stunned them.
From the faintly visible illusion, people could see that this colossal entity, covering a significant portion of Europe, was filled with endless white light, instilling a feeling of deep relaxation from the depths of their hearts.
"Is this the trump card of the Luminous Holy Church?" At the European Union headquarters, Blood Battle God Xi Liu looked up at the sky once more, observing the boundless illusion. "To endure under the intangible threat of that madman, it seems every major power truly needs such an earth-shattering trump card."
Sensing its own Faith Power being stolen, the entity within the Divine Kingdom, which possessed only instinctual programming, awoke. It attempted to locate and eliminate the thief. The consequence of this was that the Divine Kingdom's existence slowly began to manifest, appearing as a projection in the high skies.
"I didn't expect these humans to reach this stage." Gaia, located in the ninth layer of the Nine Netherworlds, sensed a life form similar to herself awakening from slumber.
"What a pity, it's just an empty shell without a self. Perhaps in another hundred years, it might give birth to true self-awareness."
"Are you talking about that Concept God?" Bai Mo had already speculated about its existence previously.
Neither of them replied. They were still in a state of hostility; neither the Crimson World nor Gaia had any intention of aiding their enemy.
"No need to speak, then." With the overall situation settled, he dedicated more of his thoughts to his recovery. Bai Mo was already struggling to suppress the endless stream of illusions.
"Gang Duo is a genius; to think he actually created such a Concept Being. In that case, I won't hold back." Bai Mo suddenly uttered a sentence of unclear meaning.
Through this discovery, his estimation of the old man rose considerably. If this Lord of Holy Light possessed a self-aware personality and hostility, its destructive power against humanity could very well surpass even that of Divine Tree Ying Huo.
Because its essence was on the same level as Gaia, both were beings that were virtually unkillable by humans and possessed infinite destructive power.
By leveraging the super-formations deployed everywhere, all the Faith Power of the Luminous Holy Church would be gathered within it. In Gang Duo's vision, it would become the symbol of the Holy Light faith of the Luminous Holy Church's existence in the current world.
He simply hadn't anticipated that the thing he had secretly created would suddenly reveal itself to everyone.
"What is that now!" Following the illusion of the Divine Kingdom, filled with white light, that permeated the European sky, another world composed of red and purple light also appeared near the white Divine Kingdom.
"Do you intend to connect these two worlds?" the Disciple of the Crimson World asked.
It was currently receiving a group of people who had once belonged to the Red Radiance, simultaneously using its own power to transform their existence, enabling them to enter the Nine Netherworlds. It intended to use them as pawns to seek an opportunity to break free from the seal once Bai Mo fell into slumber.
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