The Fourth Disaster: People become gods through high martial arts and gaming

Chapter 403 Beyond the World and the Secret of Azure

"Gone?"

"This is impossible! How can he be so strong?"

The people of the City of Beginning were stunned as they gazed at the vast rift valley stretching for tens of thousands of kilometers and the completely vanished female demigod. This was especially true for Bai Luosha and Lei Xiao, who had briefly clashed with the invading demigod; their shock was beyond words.

Their ability to infiltrate demigods is undeniable.

Let alone top-tier Venerables, even peak Venerables who are only one step away from becoming demigods are no match for them. They can only barely put up a fight. Whether in terms of physical attributes or the domain of laws, they are a step weaker than invading demigods.

However, this is quite normal. After all, a demigod is still a demigod. Their life level is not on the same level as that of a god in the Fusion Realm. Even if they are severely weakened by the world, they are still not comparable to a Venerable in the Fusion Realm. It is already quite good that they can put up some resistance.

Lin Qi only needed two sword strikes—one to sever a hand, and the other to eliminate the invading demigod—to defeat him. Such power was simply unbelievable.

"He annihilated the invading demigod with a single sword strike. Could he be a demigod himself?" The fleeing Crimson Dragon stared at Lin Qi, who was wielding an enormous sword, his eyes practically bulging out of their sockets.

Originally, I thought that the Obsidian Martial Arts School, which was famous in the Black Mountain Star Region, was not worth mentioning. Unexpectedly, the Obsidian Martial Arts School first sent a Venerable to seize a special-grade strange land, and then assisted White Rakshasa in taking over a special-grade strange land. Now, the master of the Obsidian Martial Arts School, Lin Qi, has even killed an invading demigod with a single sword. His strength is obviously no longer at the Venerable level.

It can be said that there is no other possibility besides a demigod.

The thought of hiring Lin Qi, a demigod, with ten Law Stones a year made the Crimson Dragon tremble all over.

Demi god!

This is an existence standing at the pinnacle of the universe. Perhaps it would be difficult to kill a Venerable, but killing a Great Power in the Fusion God Realm would be a piece of cake.

When one reaches the demigod realm in martial arts, one can mobilize the power of the world of laws. This power's attack is not just simple physical damage, but also includes an attack on the mind and will, which can destroy the enemy through mental will.

Although the Venerable One has not mastered the laws, he has already touched the threshold of the laws. Whether it is his body or his mental will, he is already much stronger than the Great Power of the Fusion God Realm. He can withstand the attack of the law world of a demigod, but it is different for the Great Power of the Fusion God Realm. The attack of a demigod mobilizing the power of the world can completely destroy the mental will of the Great Power of the Fusion God Realm in one move. Even if he retains a lot of blood, he cannot be reborn from a drop of blood.

Meanwhile, the members of the royal kingdom who assisted in the invasion of the demigod, especially Tianyan and Mingshe, looked at the destroyed invading demigod with disbelief in their eyes.

"Is he actually a demigod?" Tianyan looked at the great rift that had been cut open by a single sword strike, and then at Lin Qi in mid-air, his body trembling slightly.

As a super-life-bearing planet, the Initial Star is extremely sturdy. Even a single rock there has a hardness comparable to D-grade alloy. Therefore, even the battle commotion of a Venerable One can only affect a range of a few hundred kilometers at most.

It is precisely for this reason that the Initial Star is very suitable for Venerables and Great Powers of the Fusion God Realm to live on. Otherwise, a single battle between Venerables and Great Powers of the Fusion God Realm could very well destroy the ecology of a planet, or even destroy the entire planet.

But at this moment, Lin Qi actually cleaved a rift valley tens of thousands of kilometers long on the Initial Star with a single sword strike, which was clearly something that a Venerable could not do.

If a demigod were to join the battle now, it would be a disaster for them.

“He shouldn’t be a demigod.” The Nether Serpent shook its head as it looked at Lin Qi in the distance, saying with a mixture of certainty and apprehension, “Demigods’ attacks all involve their bodies automatically using the laws to mobilize the power of the world to fight. He didn’t just lower a world projection; he only expanded his law domain to amplify the power he mobilized. He should still be a Venerable, not a demigod. It’s just that his physical strength far surpasses that of us Venerables.”

"Are demigods really that strong? Just how high is the life level of the human race? It feels like their bodies are far superior to those of the dragon race. That god general who raised the human race in the Goddess Star System deserves to die for not reporting anything!" Tianyan looked at Lin Qi and the many disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, and thought of the god general who raised the human race. He felt both envious and angry.

If he could parasitize a race even more powerful than the dragons, his strength would be far greater than it is now. And such a great opportunity has been held by a mere two-star god general all along. It's simply outrageous.

"Now is not the time to assign blame. We should hurry up and help those demigods restore their bodies. If we wait for that primordial demigod to make a move, none of these demigods and Venerables will be able to stay in this world," the Nether Serpent warned, looking at the furious Sky Flame.

The Imperial Kingdom's plan is to attract a large number of Venerables to the City of Beginning by competing for the Special Grade Wonder Land, so that the demigods and Venerables who have invaded this world can seize the bodies of these Venerables as soon as possible, become the life of this world, and no longer be suppressed by this world.

At that time, there will be a large number of demigods and venerables who are not subject to the world's suppression. Even if the world passage is guarded by the high-level demigod, the Initial Demigod, it will be impossible to hold it back.

Once the world passage is fully opened, the entire world will belong to their kingdom and organization. Her Majesty the Princess can even use her achievements to quickly become a true high-level demigod and a lord of the outside world.

If Her Majesty the Princess becomes a lord, the chances of these Venerables becoming demigods in the future will greatly increase, instead of fighting tooth and nail for a special-grade exotic land like they are now.

Immediately, the Venerables, including Tianyan, also sped up their actions to help the invading demigods and Venerables suppress the Venerables and powerful beings of the City of Beginnings, making it easier for the invading demigods and Venerables to seize bodies.

However, thanks to Lin Qi's participation, one invading demigod after another was eliminated on the battlefield. In just two or three seconds, more than ten invading demigods disappeared from this world. The players who also participated in the battle were also fighting back and forth with the invading demigods and Venerables.

Especially those like Luo Wushang who have entered the Fusion God Realm, with their semi-high-dimensional energy bodies, are a nightmare for even invading demigods. Their physical attributes are in no way inferior to those of the invading demigods. Although they can severely injure them, they can instantly recover to their original state, which is even more exaggerated than those of the demigods. Moreover, their mental will is terrifyingly strong. Even demigods cannot seize their bodies. Instead, they will exhaust their mental will in the struggle, leading to a backlash and true death. This has greatly reduced the efficiency of invading demigods and Venerables in occupying bodies.

Meanwhile, in the sky, Princess Rifana and the Primordial Demigod, who had been locked in a standoff, soon noticed the situation in the Primordial City. However, both of them were preoccupied with vying for space in the world projection and had no time to pay attention to anything else.

"Where did these races come from? They all look like monsters!" Princess Rifana frowned as she looked at them.

Currently, she is desperately resisting the world projection of the Primordial Demigod, and can only barely maintain the area within a radius of a thousand kilometers. The surrounding area of ​​more than 200,000 kilometers is under the protection of the Primordial Demigod's world projection. Once the Primordial City is no longer protected by her world projection, all the invading demigods and Venerables will be instantly reduced to ashes under the Primordial Demigod's world projection.

"It seems your plan won't be able to be implemented well." The initial demigod glanced at Lin Qi, who was eliminating the invading demigod, and a large number of players engaged in battle, and couldn't help but smile.

The fall of six demigods greatly weakened the defenses of the Initial Star, leaving her as the only one left to guard it.

Five seconds is a lot that the invading demigods and venerables can do. Once a large number of demigods and venerables obtain the bodies of the world's inhabitants, they will gain the world's recognition. Although these demigods and venerables cannot grow any stronger in a short time, they will regain all their power in this world.

A dozen or so low-level demigods are manageable, but if she were to face hundreds of low-level demigods at once, especially with Rifana who has mastered higher laws, she wouldn't be able to defend herself.

However, with Lin Qi and others quickly eliminating and resisting the invading demigods and venerables in the City of Beginning, as long as they can hold out for a while longer and completely suppress Princess Rifana's world projection, she can instantly annihilate all the invaders.

"There's no other way." Princess Rifana gritted her teeth and crushed a crystal that was radiating golden light.

As the crystal shattered, a wave of will and law reverberated within it, directly merging into Princess Rifana's world projection. This not only made Princess Rifana's world projection suddenly clearer but also expanded it from its original compressed area of ​​a thousand kilometers to tens of thousands of kilometers. "A world crystal made by a peak high-level demigod?" The primordial demigod's expression instantly darkened as he looked at the expanded world projection.

World Crystals are something that only high-level demigods can create. They can project one's own world for a short time. However, this not only consumes a lot of one's mental energy and materials, but the effect of the projected world is also much weaker, making it unsuitable for fighting opponents of the same level. Moreover, each one requires hundreds or thousands of years of rest to recover one's mental energy. Therefore, very few high-level demigods are willing to create World Crystals.

The world projection that the World Crystal is currently displaying, although it is not as good as her double world projection, is not much weaker. Only a peak high-level demigod who has mastered three high-level laws can create such a World Crystal.

“That’s right, this was a precautionary measure taken by that lord just in case.” Princess Rifana said with great heartache, “I really didn’t expect that lord to guess correctly. Your strength is not that of an ordinary high-level demigod, but a top-level high-level demigod who has mastered two high-level laws. But all of this is over!”

As she spoke, Princess Rifana diverted a sliver of her attention and mobilized a wisp of world power to suppress everyone within the world projection, except for those from the Empire and the invaders, making it difficult for them to even move.

"Damn it!"

Upon witnessing this scene, the initial demigod became even more frantic, pressing down on Princess Rifane's world projection in an attempt to prevent her from being distracted by the others within the projection.

However, Lyfana ultimately possessed the World Crystal and had no intention of competing with the initial demigods. She was merely buying time, and even if she had to spare a sliver of her attention to mobilize the power of the world, she would not allow the world projection to be suppressed and collapse.

In an instant, apart from the people of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, one by one, the Venerables and Fusion God Realm experts had their bodies seized. Only the people of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy who had reached the Fusion God Realm and a very few Venerables with strong bodies were able to move and resist, but they could not change the overall situation.

It took three or four seconds for the projection of Rifana's world to be completely suppressed, but more than a hundred invading demigods had already successfully possessed the body, and as for the invading Venerables, there were more than five or six thousand. They all destroyed their own bodies, giving the original demigods no chance to make a move, and were reborn by dripping blood in the places where the original body owners had preserved their blood.

As for Princess Rifana, she did not engage in any further conflict with the Primordial Demigod. At the critical moment, she annihilated herself, not giving the Primordial Demigod a chance to imprison her. She was reborn directly in the capital city of the Empire, bringing the turmoil of the Primordial Star to a complete end.

"Did they still succeed?" The primordial demigod looked at the self-destructed Rifane, his expression becoming more solemn. Then, his gaze swept over the bewildered crowd in the City of Beginnings, and he said, "You should all know a little about the current situation, so I won't hide it anymore. The entire Empire has betrayed our world. In the near future, Rifane will lead those reincarnated demigods and Venerables to attack again, completely opening the world passage so that outsiders can come in in large numbers without any hindrance and seize everything in our world."

"Now, in the name of the Primordial Star Lord, I command you to spread this message throughout the universe, so that all the major powers and powerful races of the universe may gather here, form an alliance, and jointly punish the Imperial Kingdom and those invaders!"

As soon as the demigod finished speaking, the entire City of Beginning, and even everyone on the entire Star of Beginning watching the live broadcast, was in an uproar. They never expected that the already unstable universe would now be on the verge of destruction. They were even more surprised that there were other worlds outside their universe.

The surviving players were also excited upon hearing these words.

"Holy crap! This event is actually a preview for the new expansion!"

"This 'High Martial Arts Descends' is too awesome! I thought it was already amazing that this game created a planet, but then it created a universe, and now it's telling me that there are worlds beyond the universe. This game could keep me running around for hundreds of years."

"No wonder they use game acceleration technology. This game is the future of humanity. What are real-world space explorer qualifications? They're utterly pathetic."

"Who says otherwise? Reaching the Celestial Realm in this game grants a lifespan comparable to obtaining longevity treasures in reality. I've heard that those powerful figures at the Divine Fusion Realm can modify parts of their genes, extending their lifespan to three hundred years without a problem. Some world-class research institutions have even partnered with them to jointly study human evolution and breakthroughs, preparing to improve the training methods in High Martial Arts Descent to see if they can use plants and animals from other planets in the universe to replace the energy ores in the game. Anyone who doesn't play this game is a fool."

Lin Qi was speechless at the excitement and exhilaration displayed by the players.

On the surface, the game adds a large map outside the existing world, but in reality, the situation is undoubtedly terrible.

Hundreds of invading demigods and thousands of invading venerables have already been reborn in another body. It is estimated that it will not be long before these invading demigods and venerables regain their true strength.

Those invading Venerables are one thing, but those invading Demigods are a big problem.

He had never seen a demigod before and did not know how powerful they were, but after truly experiencing the world projections that demigods descended, he realized how vast the difference was; they were practically different kinds of life.

Princess Rifana was able to suppress his strength to less than one-tenth by merely mobilizing a trace of the world's power. It's not hard to imagine that if a demigod wanted to, he could easily kill him with just a world projection. Facing him head-on, he would have absolutely no chance of winning.

The projection of the world, covering an area of ​​hundreds of thousands of kilometers, is no different from a star hitting you once it takes effect on you. How can you fight against it?
Facing these demigods, it would be alright if only the body was killed, but if he was imprisoned and unable to regenerate from his blood, then he would be doomed. After all, under the suppression of that world projection, even if he wanted to self-destruct, it would be very difficult.

Just as Lin Qi was racking his brains over this, a figure suddenly appeared in front of him.

The figure was dressed in a strange, snow-white outfit, had four arms, was over two meters tall, and had a perfect, almost human-like appearance; it was none other than the Primordial Demigod.

"Come with me." The initial demigod looked at Lin Qi, his voice gentle and calm, making people feel an involuntary sense of intimacy.

Lin Qi did not refuse, or rather, he had no right to refuse.

Of course, he himself was also full of curiosity about the primordial demigod in front of him. After all, the primordial demigod in front of him was very similar to the giant woman in the underground of the Azure Star Martial Arts Hall, except that her face was different and she was a few sizes smaller.

Immediately, Lin Qi followed behind the initial demigod and flew towards the damaged pavilion in the center of the city. This left Bai Luosha, Lei Xiao, and the others who were not far away dumbfounded. They never expected that Lin Qi, the master of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, would be able to talk to the initial demigod. Usually, only demigods would have this qualification.

Deep beneath the steel tower lies a vast, secluded space, like a paradise. A massive door, several kilometers high, is tightly shut. This door, exuding an ancient and majestic aura, is enough to make even a powerful expert at the Fusion God Realm kneel and be unable to move, even within a radius of tens of kilometers.

At this moment, the ancient and massive door had dozens of damaged spots, clearly indicating that it had been attacked by someone.

"This is the real passage to the outside world, but it was blasted open by Leafane just now. Although I tried my best to repair it, the barrier of the outside world still cracked a little, allowing some people to break in." The demigod of the beginning came to the huge door, pointed to the damaged part of the door, and there was a hint of anger in his eyes.

"Lord Initial God, may I ask what brings you here?" Lin Qi asked the Initial God, whose purpose was unclear.

"I summoned you here simply because you come from Azure Star, and you have also cultivated the Star Energy Construct Secret Technique of the Star Energy Civilization." The Primordial Demigod glanced at Lin Qi and said with a smile, "I really didn't expect that someone could actually cultivate this secret technique, and even reach such a level. It can be considered that the Goddess has favored us, giving our world a chance to truly open the door and not become a slave to those forces and civilizations outside the world."

"Lord Initiality, do you know about the Star Energy Civilization and the secret techniques of this Star Energy Construct?" Lin Qi asked in surprise.

He carefully examined all the information about the Starry Sky Chamber of Commerce, but found no information about the Star Energy Civilization. This puzzled him, since the Star Energy Civilization claimed to be a civilization that had given birth to demigods. In any era, it would be a top power in this universe, and there would be no record of it.

"Of course I know. You haven't found any information about the Star Energy Civilization yet. Isn't that strange?" The Primordial Demigod looked at the surprised Lin Qi and chuckled. "It's normal that you can't find anything. After all, the Star Energy Civilization is not a civilization in our universe. Even Azure Star is not from our universe. It came from outside the world and was placed in our universe by the Goddess."

(End of this chapter)