Once upon a time there was a greedy snake.

Chapter 214 The Departed Grim Reaper

According to the mechanisms of the underworld, or rather, the rules of the underworld, when the souls of sinners are judged, monsters with crocodile heads will emerge from the ground and swallow the sinful souls. After that, the monsters with crocodile heads will quickly retreat back into the ground, and the cracked earth will close up.

However, just before that, the monster that should have retreated into the ground was cleaved in two by the Chosen Champion Elias with his rune sword, which caused a problem with the operation of this mechanism.

The earth did not close up again; the dark cracks lay across the ground, the entrance to the depths of the underworld completely open.

However, this does not mean that going to the depths of the underworld is such an easy thing. After all, the darkness in the crack is not just because of some kind of darkness—the darkness hidden underground is clearly the same kind of mist as the dark clouds just now. If you get trapped in it, you will probably fall into eternal slumber on the spot.

Even the sun god Ujat himself needed to rely on the crocodile-headed monster to enter; with that monster clearing the way, the pressure was naturally greatly reduced.

However, for Du Yi, it doesn't require such trouble.

As he let his body fall, Du Yi opened his mouth and swallowed all the dark clouds that would plunge the soul into eternal slumber.

This also meant that the seemingly boundless darkness ended almost instantly.

In Du Yi's vision, a kind of light that could be called eternal appeared.

That warm light, gentler than sunlight, could bring peace even to the destitute dead.

If it were the sun god Ujat who came, his gaze would probably only be fixed on those obelisks under the light, after all, the inscriptions on those obelisks, those epitaphs that annihilated the gods, are so awe-inspiring.

However, Du Yi, who had absorbed the dark clouds, fixed his gaze on the light that was not at all dazzling.

Du Yi could sense that, like the black mist, this light was also one of the gifts left behind by the god of death.

If those dark clouds bring long periods of peaceful sleep, then these soft lights bring eternal tranquility.

"This is truly... an extraordinary thing."

At that moment, Elias, the chosen champion carrying the sun god Ujat, also landed beside Du Yi.

“I can sense that these rays of light can even heal injuries at the soul level… Even in the Star Sea, such methods are not common.”

It's not just an uncommon problem; once it appears, all beings will scramble to have it, since injuries to the soul are notoriously difficult to heal. Even those races and forces that have mastered how to attack the soul may not necessarily be very good at treating it.

After all, compared to destruction, construction is often much more difficult. A single act of cognitive destruction or damage to the soul often requires hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of times more time to repair.

"This is not a method that can appear on this planet."

If the black mist just now only shocked Elias with the grandeur of the creator of this warp, then this light that can even heal the soul now made Elias truly realize that this warp is far more complex than he thought.

"Even the planet itself... what exactly is the origin of this planet?"

Elias was increasingly puzzled. To have studied the soul to such a profound degree, to the point of being able to influence things subtly and imperceptibly, was enough to qualify one as a top-tier powerhouse. Such an existence could not only occupy a planet, but even a star system as its home, which would be considered an extremely simple form of seclusion.

However, even an existence of this caliber only managed to carve out a subspace on this planet.

It's like a king who is incredibly wealthy leaving his magnificent palace behind and choosing to go to the mountains and sleep in a tree hollow.

It was incomprehensible and incomprehensible to Elias; no matter how much he pondered it, he could not figure out the reason.

"Perhaps... this is the difference between me and these great beings." A deep sense of defeat welled up in Elias's heart once again.

This time, however, Elias didn't even need to muster the courage to actively resist; the gentle light that fell upon him had already dispelled the shadows in his heart.

Only a sense of calm and tranquility remained in Elias's heart.

"This is really..."

Elias sighed; at that moment, all he could do was sigh.

After all, this wasn't even the great power's personal action; it was merely a ray of light left behind by that great power.

"The god of death...?"

Elias secretly memorized the name.

This name is actually quite common, after all, death is an extremely common thing. Looking across the entire starry sea, there are countless self-proclaimed gods of death; Elias himself knew five, and had even killed two of them.

But for this god of death right now, Elias genuinely acknowledged that the other's name was truly authentic.

To have mastered the soul to such an extent, calling him a god of death is truly not an exaggeration.

However, that's where the problem lies.

If he remembered correctly... no, he couldn't possibly be wrong, the ancient serpent had indeed said that this was the graveyard the God of Death had created for himself.

"The god of death, can he really die?"

This was even more incomprehensible to Elias than the methods and choices of the God of Death—after all, to study the soul to such an extent meant that one could truly achieve so-called immortality.

Even if the physical body, which serves as a vessel, perishes over time, such an existence should be able to easily maintain the shape of its soul, thereby continuing to sustain the power of consciousness. As for the physical body itself, its existence or non-existence is even less important. For such a powerful soul, it is entirely irrelevant whether it exists merely as a consciousness entity.

But this subspace is clearly a no-man's land. All that remains here are the automatic operating mechanisms, like the dark clouds before or the soft white light now.

This means that the god of death is probably indeed dead.

"Can the God of Death really die?"

Elias couldn't help but mutter to himself.

Du Yi, standing to the side, also nodded slowly.

"It will."

As he went through the flood of information in his mind, Du Yi felt a pang of emotion.

"When everyone forgets him, the so-called god of death will truly die."

(End of this chapter)