Xi Zhou.

City of Light.

The Holy Mountain soars, said to be the land where the sun sets. Boundless incandescent light rises in the east and sets in the west, ultimately returning to the City of Light. The day will always fade away, but only here is there eternal light.

Red clouds envelop it, and the lake at the foot of the Holy Mountain is rendered like red crystal, reflecting shimmering light.

In the distance, an elderly servant bows towards the lake.

"Lord, the Goddess has escaped, and the Holy Arbiters are ready..."

His voice slowly faded away.

A slender figure wearing red armor sits cross-legged in the center of the red lake, more red and vibrant than the sky and the lake.

A breeze rises, but the water remains calm.

Under the blowing of the wind from all directions, the lake stirred up bursts of ripples, but around him, there was no ripple. The water waves seemed to be blocked by an invisible wall—

In the eye sockets of that ancient armor, a blazing light slowly lit up.

Jia Wei, the Great Knight of the City of Light, opened his eyes. He spoke slowly, his voice unexpectedly young and magnetic.

"Wait a little longer."

He had been sitting on the Red Lake for several days.

During these days, Jia Wei did a very simple thing, which was to wait.

He was waiting for the Central City's reply to him, waiting for Zhu Xue's reply... and the Empress's attitude.

The Goddess had made a mistake and was ordered by the God Seat to be confined in the city. This escape was not only a provocation of divine might, but more importantly... this was the Divine Realm. Jia Wei really couldn't understand how Meng Xizhou managed to escape from the hands of the God Seat.

Was it the [Door]?

During this period, the Holy Arbiters had searched the entire City of Light, but had not found any object suspected of being a [Door], let alone any suspicious extraordinary aura fluctuations.

The last place Meng Xizhou appeared was this lake.

And he had been sitting here for several days without any gains.

For him, the most important thing, besides bringing the Goddess back, was to figure out... how she left.

Otherwise, there would be a second time after the first.

Jia Wei lowered his head and calmly looked at the red lake beneath him... The reason why the lake water was so bright was because it was too clear, carrying countless pure light, so it completely reflected the crimson sky at this moment.

It also reflected a helmet of rusted steel.

He stretched out his steel palm and touched the lake water. This time, ripples appeared on the smooth, mirror-like lake surface, and the "himself" on the other side of the lake also stretched out his palm and silently pressed it together.

The waves gradually diminished.

Until they were about to die out.

"Lord Jia Wei, there is another piece of news..."

After a brief moment of silence, the old servant said in a low voice, "We have lost the 'spiritual link' of the Blessed Child. He has completely disappeared from the City of Light's senses. This is unprecedented."

The water ripples that had almost converged to zero were re-disrupted at this moment.

Jia Wei raised his head.

The heavy armor covered his face, but the astonishment in his pupils was clearly visible.

Under the heavens, all is the light.

A person who possesses the "Blessing," no matter where he goes, unless he crosses the Great Wall Fortress and goes to the unknown, mist-filled [Old World]... otherwise, how could he lose his senses?

"The Blessed Child has gone to the Dolu River Disaster Zone."

The old servant slowly said, "There, it is said to be the old land where the King of the Underworld once set foot..."

King of the Underworld.

After hearing these two words.

Jia Wei was slightly lost in thought, and then a sharp killing intent flashed in his eyes!

The City of Light is synonymous with holiness and purity, the Holy Arbiters are messengers of justice and light, and as the Great Knight of the City of Light, the leader of the Holy Arbitration Corps... what he hates most is darkness, coldness, weirdness, and ominousness.

The King of the Underworld embodies all these negative words.

Twenty years ago, the City of Light had a war with that King of the Underworld.

Jia Wei still remembers the scene on that battlefield...

Broken limbs.

Blood splattering.

Those who fell stood up again.

The extraordinary beings who were once comrades slashed at themselves.

And the person who did this, violating the iron rules of the extraordinary world, was the King of the Underworld. He used the "power of the Fire Seed" to break through the taboo of life and death, and frantically manipulated the life and death of the extraordinary beings, pulling all the Holy Arbiter expeditionary forces sent by the City of Light into his spiritual domain.

It was less a war than... a massacre.

All the Holy Arbiters of that year fell into purgatory. Although they were eventually rescued by the Light God Seat... every one of those who had fallen suffered a huge blow. Those who died in the hands of the King of the Underworld were instead considered a kind of liberation.

Because those survivors who truly lived, after returning to reality, slowly understood that "living" was the real torture.

That war turned into a nightmare.

It was staged in his mind all the time.

Even though the Light God Seat used a lot of power to remove these nightmares... what was eliminated was only the spiritual toxin of the Underworld King's Fire Seed. Those images were deeply rooted in the sea of spirits, and it seemed that only death could bring relief.

After the war, it took Jia Wei a long time to get out of the shadows under the healing of the light.

And later he learned that the long massacre that the Holy Arbiters of that year encountered in the spiritual domain of the Underworld King... was only a moment in the real world.

The Light God Seat had acted quickly.

But in that instant.

That massacre seemed to have lasted for a hundred years.

That battle left irreparable sequelae.

Even now, his mind is still haunted by the "images" left behind by the Underworld King's massacre. Only by being wrapped in this cold armor and bathed in the light can he feel some reassuring warmth...

He is in the light, but his heart is in hell.

These years, every moment is torture.

Fortunately, not long after that battle, the King of the Underworld disappeared.

All parties in the Five Continents, and even the highest seat of the Council, defaulted on the fall of this God Seat.

Jia Wei constantly comforted himself that the Holy Arbiters' efforts back then were not in vain, and that the Light God Seat ultimately severely damaged that evil and dark being... Being able to eradicate this darkness, then no matter how much sacrifice, it would be worth it.

It's a pity.

The "Underworld King Fire Seed" has always been lost outside.

Back then, when searching for the Fire Seed in the [Old World], the Holy Arbiters he led were the most vigorous.

After suffering heavy damage, the biggest motivation that supported Jia Wei was to combat the darkness... Finding the "Underworld King Fire Seed", bringing it back to the City of Light, and letting the God Seat destroy it, was his greatest wish.

But he never expected.

The darkness was never extinguished.

Twenty years later, that King of the Underworld actually reappeared...

Although Changye sent news that the King of the Underworld and Gu Changzhi had joined forces to kill the Wine God Seat, Jia Wei was certain that the King of the Underworld was definitely not as powerful as he was back then. Twenty years ago, he had seen the scene of the King of the Underworld being severely injured by the Light God Seat very clearly.

In that battle, the King of the Underworld's spirit almost collapsed, and the Fire Seed was almost detached from his body!

Physical injuries are easy to repair, but spiritual injuries are difficult to heal.

Even a "God," even after recuperating for twenty years, may not be able to heal that spiritual trauma!

And after the Mausoleum Incident, Dong Zhou very decisively handed over the "Wine God Fire Seed," which further confirmed Jia Wei's conjecture... He believed that the King of the Underworld's actions were likely to have exhausted his last reserves.

The newly promoted God Seat Bai Zhu, and a King of the Underworld who was close to withering, even if they joined forces, might not be able to contend against the Sky God Seat, the most unfathomable of the Seven Gods.

So they handed over the Fire Seed and took a step back.

And after Dong Zhou fell into peace, the King of the Underworld would naturally go into seclusion to prevent the outside world from tracking him down, and even more to prevent the Light God Seat from chasing him again. His choice was very right, and his methods were very clever.

These days, the Holy Arbiters of the City of Light have tried all kinds of methods, but they have not been able to find the specific location of the King of the Underworld.

Nor have they found the existence of the "Apostle" who had received the King of the Underworld's gift.

The King of the Underworld, who had disappeared for twenty years.

Only appeared once, and then disappeared again.

This brief moment, like a flash in the pan... even made people wonder, is the King of the Underworld really still alive?

It wasn't until the intelligence from Dolu River was transmitted to the City of Light that the Holy Arbiters were convinced that this sinister God Seat was not so traceless.

They discovered, through hypnotizing the extraordinary beings related to the mission of leaving the Disaster Zone, that the Dolu River was highly similar to the "Underworld River" that was rumored to have been refined by the King of the Underworld twenty years ago.

In twenty years, many people have aged, and more have died.

Many people no longer know what the "Underworld River" is.

But Jia Wei not only knew, but also remembered it very clearly... The Holy Arbiters of that year had gathered to die because of the "Underworld River."

This is a forbidden object that transcends the definition of "sealed object."

In the records of the City of Light's past dynasties, the Gospel Box split into seven Fire Seeds, bringing light, warmth, and hope to the Five Continents, but only the seventh, as a product of balancing the scales of fate, absorbed ominousness, disaster, and curses.

That seventh Fire Seed was the Underworld King Fire Seed.

Due to the special nature of the Underworld King Fire Seed, all past Underworld Kings will be jointly supervised by the highest seat. He has no fiefdom, and no "Divine Realm." All he owns is a Fire Seed. As the one among the Seven Gods who is most prone to mental problems, he is the leader in the darkness, and the only great existence who can perform miracles such as resurrecting the dead.

In the past years, there have been "Underworld Kings" who were admired and worshiped, who blocked super-S-class source matter storms alone, and ultimately sacrificed themselves outside the Great Wall.

But more often, this Fire Seed is vacant and no one inherits it.

The reason is very simple...

The weight of this Fire Seed is too heavy. The masters of the past generations have all suffered the curse of fate.

None of them died well.

And all along, the existence of the City of Light has been on the side that sanctions the "Underworld King."

Light and darkness are inherently destined to complement and destroy each other... The holders of these two Fire Seeds will have a vague connection in their spirits.

Once the King of the Underworld's spiritual condition has a problem, the Light God Seat will definitely be the first to know.

Twenty years ago.

The King of the Underworld decided to refine the "Underworld River" to achieve the eternal life of the dead... This was originally a "seamless" action.

Unfortunately, due to the special spiritual connection between the two Fire Seeds, the King of the Underworld's crazy thoughts ultimately descended into the Light God Seat's sea of spirits through an unknown dream!

After the Holy Judgment.

Light crumbled, and darkness withered.

And that Underworld River was completely shattered and submerged in the dust of unknown history.

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