Soul Town: Claiming the throne? You've asked my Tian Ce Army, haven't you?

"Fuck you, I'm leaving!"

Heris had no intention of staying any longer; lingering would only expose his purpose. His only option was to retreat now and return later…

While the Frost Giant was holding off the four Divine Beasts, he recalled his Guardian and Cerberus, and transformed into a black shadow to escape.

As soon as Rock saw him leave, he turned into black smoke and disappeared, then reappeared in the shadows, now resembling Heris.

"Loki, are you interested in helping with this?"

"Of course, I'd be happy to muddy the waters..."

Hades' figure also appeared behind Rock, but it was clearly Loki, his guardian deity, in disguise...

On the other side, Heris was also unlucky; the direction he ran in was exactly the same as the direction where Mu Bing and Yang Che were.

"Did that guy spot us?"

As Heris's presence drew closer, Yang Che was somewhat surprised. "His divine sense can actually detect us... Should we fight?"

The soldier didn't answer. Instead, he took the giant axe Flame Demon from his back and slashed it down fiercely towards Heris, shouting, "Blazing Wolf Devour!"

A burst of flame shot out from the fire demon, transforming into a giant wolf that opened its blood-red maw and bit down at Heris. Heris was stunned; how could they have arrived so quickly?

Hades, the guardian god, appeared just in time to block the flames with his hellish wings, and then cleaved him in two with a single halberd strike.

"The girl tried to talk to the burly man, but after striking the bad guy with an axe, the man left, leaving the poor girl alone in front of him..."

As the flames subsided, Heris looked up and saw Yang Che sitting on the cliff, one hand supporting his head, talking to himself.

"Neuropathy!"

Heris cursed and prepared to continue running away when suddenly a sense of danger came from behind him. Mu Bing had switched to another weapon—a giant hammer troll—and smashed it down on him.

The gates of hell rose up beside them, and Cerberus pounced on Mu Bing. Mu Bing had anticipated this and turned his hammer to smash it down.

At the same time, the guardian deity, Mighty Priest, appeared and fired an arrow at Heris with his divine bow...

"The Veil of Hades!"

Hades raised a hand, and a semi-transparent dark purple curtain appeared behind Heris, from which countless tiny, wailing undead faces emerged.

"The girl was insulted by a bad guy, and in her anger, she decided to use blazing flames to purify his filthy soul..."

The figure of the guardian goddess Nüba appeared behind the sun-shaped vehicle. Nüba raised her hands, seemingly summoning something, "Ultimate Technique: Summon the Sun!"

Heris looked up and saw a gigantic sun rapidly approaching him. Who were these people? How could they possibly throw a sun at someone?

On the other side, Bai Shui'er breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Herris and Rock had left. She got up from her hiding place, but suddenly alarm bells went off in her mind, and a sense of impending death rushed into her heart...

Without thinking twice, she instinctively summoned the Crimson Flame Red Tassel Spear, but now that her guardian deity was gone, the Crimson Flame Red Tassel Spear could not be summoned.

Bai Shui'er could only use her divine power to urgently transform into a crimson flame spear, gripping the shaft with both hands to block the double trident that "Heris" was thrusting at her.

"Shui'er!"

Noticing the commotion, Diao Lingyun's face paled in surprise. "Lu Bu, quick!"

At such close range, fearing he might accidentally hurt Bai Shui'er, Lü Bu didn't use his instant kill technique. Instead, he charged forward at top speed with his Red Hare and his halberd.

"Hades, stop them!"

"Dark Harvest!"

Hades suddenly appeared, wielding his double trident and slashing fiercely at Lü Bu. Despite the vast difference in their strength, Hades managed to force Lü Bu back.

"Gao Shun, hurry and help!"

"Mu Guiying, quickly save Shui'er!"

As they spoke, Lü Xiangong and Yang Qianhong each drew their guns and charged towards Bai Shui'er's direction...

"Heris" gripped the gun barrel with his other hand, and a surge of black divine power began to erode the gun barrel from the tip. A faint smile played on his lips.

"Remember this, I am Hades, the god of the underworld of Olympus. You're unlucky to have run into me..."

As soon as she finished speaking, the spear formed from divine power in Bai Shui'er's hand shattered instantly, and the main tip of the double trident pierced into her chest, black blood flowing from the corner of her mouth.

The purple jade pendant hanging from her waist flashed with a purple light, attracting the attention of "Heris"...

This pattern... it looks kind of familiar...

"Heris" couldn't remember for the moment, so he simply stopped thinking about it, let go of his hand, and the double trident transformed into a black aura that instantly flowed into Bai Shui'er's body through the wound.

"This is called Divine Mourning. Even gods won't live long after being poisoned by this, and those born under the divine will die even faster..."

"Heris" made a gesture of adjusting his gloves, looking at Bai Shui'er lying on the ground vomiting black blood, and was very satisfied.

"Goodbye... no, farewell forever!"

"Heris" turned around and only then noticed the huge sun in the sky. He shook his head, noting that it was making a bigger commotion than he was.

Bai Shui'er watched as "Heris" slowly turned into black smoke and dissipated. Then, everything went black, and the whole world was plunged into darkness...

"Instant Kill Technique!"

With a single halberd strike, Lü Bu cleaved Hades from his horse, and Hades vanished, clearly having departed...

"Shui'er!!!"

Diao Lingyun ran to Bai Shui'er, threw the dragon tooth aside, and hurriedly helped her up, "Shui'er, wake up!"

Despite her desperate calls, Bai Shui'er had already been poisoned to the core, and had lost all vitality...

"Water, water..."

Lu Xiangong and Yang Qianhong collapsed to the ground, tears streaming down their faces. They couldn't believe what they were seeing. Shui'er... she was dead just like that?

[Don't rush, there's foreshadowing.]

Chapter 324: The Girl Frozen in Ice

As the three were grieving, "Bai Shui'er's" body suddenly began to slowly dissipate...

"This is……"

Yang Qianhong thought it was caused by the remaining Samadhi True Fire in the forest, so she hurriedly reached out and grabbed "Bai Shui'er's" wrist, trying to use her divine power to protect "her" body.

She remembered that Li Moxuan could turn back time and bring the dead back to life. Although she didn't know if it would work in the Great Thousand God Realm, at least there was still hope!

But the divine power simply couldn't be transmitted; it was like an electric current encountering an insulator...

"How could this be?"

Seeing that nothing was working, Lü Xiangong knelt down in front of "Bai Shui'er" and grabbed "her" other hand, but the result was still the same, and the two couldn't help but feel a little desperate...

Diao Lingyun, who was standing to the side, stared blankly at the gradually dissipating "Bai Shui'er" for a moment. Memories of the Demon Forest they went to together in the Underworld flashed through her mind.

On the eve of entering the Demon Forest, Li Moxuan had integrated two talismans into her and Bai Shui'er's bodies respectively.

"This is a substitute puppet. When you are in mortal danger, this thing will automatically activate, leaving behind a lifelike puppet in place to help you escape..."

Thinking of this, Diao Lingyun breathed a sigh of relief, her heart finally at ease. "Qian Hong, the Immortal Palace, Shui'er should be alright..."

Is everything alright?

Yang Qianhong and Lü Xiangong glanced at "Bai Shui'er," who was almost completely dissipated. You call this nothing?

Seeing their puzzled expressions, Diao Lingyun then explained the matter of the substitute puppet to them.

"Shui'er must have been teleported to some nearby place; this is just a fake puppet..."

Yang Qianhong and Lü Xiangong exchanged a glance. Although they were still a little worried, they could only place their hopes on this substitute puppet.

Lu Xiangong got up from the ground. "This place is so big, how are we going to find her?"

"Let it help, that should be enough..."

Yang Qianhong's gaze fell upon the fire phoenix in the sky. "It is Shui'er's guardian beast, so it should be able to find Shui'er more easily than we are!"

Bai Shui'er was indeed unharmed at this moment. She woke up in a cave and was stunned for a moment after seeing that she was safe and sound. Then she remembered the matter of the substitute puppet.

It seems that the thing must have worked...

"Shui'er..."

A familiar voice rang out, and Bai Shui'er's heart leaped with joy, "Nezha, you're back?"

"Um……"

Nezha appeared behind her. At this moment, Nezha was more divine than before. He was naked from the waist up and only wore a dark red short garment with the edges of which looked like flames.

The Hun Tian Ling transformed into several red ribbons that fluttered and wrapped around Nezha's waist and shoulders. Nezha was barefoot, and on his right wrist was a thin golden bracelet that had been transformed from the Qiankun Ring.

He crossed his arms, walked over to Bai Shui'er, and surveyed the surroundings. "What are you doing here?"

"Nezha, do you know where this is?"

"Yes, this is the very center of the entire forest. Ordinary spirit beings who walk here will have their divine power burned away by the divine fire and turn into ashes!"

"Even the most powerful deities wouldn't dare approach this place so casually. It's only because you few possess the True Fire Seal that your divine power would be ignited..."

As he was speaking, Nezha suddenly paused, looked into the depths of the cave, frowned, and stretched out his right hand, revealing the Fire-Tipped Spear with Samadhi True Fire burning at its tip.

Seeing his expression, Bai Shui'er also used her divine sense to explore the cave, and was immediately taken aback, "There seems to be someone inside..."

Moreover, judging from the marks around the area, that person seemed to have been here for quite some time...

"To be able to stay here for so long without being burned by the divine fire, I'd like to see what kind of deity this is!"

With a burst of flames, Nezha, riding on his Wind Fire Wheels, instantly transformed into a fiery afterimage and rushed forward, igniting raging flames on the surrounding walls.

"Nezha, wait..."

Bai Shui'er could feel that her power had increased, but her understanding of the Great Thousand God Realm was limited, and she did not know the division of realms, so she simply assumed that she had stepped into the Infinite Realm.

She quickly caught up with Nezha, who was stopped in front of an ice wall. Why was there an ice wall here?

Bai Shui'er stepped forward and discovered that there seemed to be a girl sleeping inside the ice block.

Not far in front of the girl was a sword frozen in ice, its blade engraved with patterns of the sun, moon, and stars...

Bai Shui'er didn't recognize what kind of sword it was, and asked curiously, "Nezha, why is there a girl frozen here? Could it be something you did during the great battle?"

"It has nothing to do with me!"

Nezha immediately denied it, saying, "Someone froze her here. The fact that this ice has remained frozen for so long shows that this sword is no ordinary weapon..."