Chapter 1 The Spiderweb and the Hungry Wolf

If the New Dawn Society, with its unknown personnel, unknown strength, and destructive power akin to a natural disaster, is a mysterious ghost wandering the world, randomly creating chaos and destruction,

Then the Holy Serpent Litany is a spider rooted in the upper and middle echelons of various countries, using rare commodities such as 'transcendent knowledge' and 'longevity' as bait to hide its existence in the shadows and secretly weave its web.

The organizational structure of the Litany is actually extremely decentralized. Aside from the leader holding the 'Litany Book' as the host of each void ritual, and the area where the leader is located as the 'headquarters,' each region has its corresponding local leader.

Even the local leaders cannot fully grasp the identities of all the members in their region. Members rarely gather except for sacrifices, which greatly reduces the risk of exposure.

These two mysterious organizations are truly mysterious. Ordinary people, even ordinary transcendents, may never have heard of their names and may never have the opportunity to come into contact with them in their lifetime.

But the Heavenly Gods Descending Society is different. Any transcendent has definitely heard of the various acts of destruction and tragedies they have caused. Even ordinary people are likely to learn about them through some channels, and even the areas where they live may be under the rule of the Heavenly Gods Descending Society.

The Descending Society is like a ravenous beast that lives in remote areas but occasionally invades villages and cities, causing death and injury.

Su Zhou stared at his computer screen, his face expressionless, at the circles of blue and red areas on the world map.

Blue represents the Litany, and red represents the Descending Society.

The potential sphere of influence of the Litany is mainly concentrated in the coastal areas of Zheng Country, Yingzhou, the Mediterranean coast of Europa, and the east and west coasts of the American Federation. The more affluent and developed the area, the more active they are, because there are plenty of wealthy people who can be tempted by 'transcendent knowledge' and 'longevity.' They take the upper-class route.

The potential sphere of influence of the Descending Society is mainly concentrated in Southeast Asia, Central and West Asia, Africa, and Central and South America. The weaker the regime and the less control the national official forces have, the more powerful the Descending Society is, and the more impoverished and insane ordinary people are willing to join it for a chance to change their fate and become nourishment. They take the middle and lower-class route.

Even after the spiritual energy revival era, in some ungoverned areas, the Descending Society has even become the actual ruler of the area.

Moreover, it is starting to carry out various actions around the world with an almost insane momentum.

Even if Su Zhou did not use the official intelligence network of Zheng Country, he could see from the news and netizens' comments circulating on the Internet that the Descending Society was behind many major events.

"Some time ago, the officials of a southern city in Moxige were massacred by mysterious people. It is said that a transcendent-level cultivator took action. The official explanation is that local drug dealers retaliated against the recent anti-drug operations. I don't find this reason strange, but when did those drug dealers have such strong strength?"

This is a comment from a netizen under a Moxige news report. The Moxige local resident's sentence is full of confusion: "Now everyone is living in fear, but the official rescue has not yet arrived. Maybe in a few days, those 'drug dealers' will really occupy the city!"

"Our company was doing highway infrastructure in the eastern region of Africa some time ago, and accidentally saw two troops and transcendents fighting in the distance... Although we didn't dare to continue watching and immediately withdrew, I vaguely saw that the transcendents belonging to the local officials were defeated, and the army also collapsed..."

This is a comment from a friend from Zheng Country who went to Africa for infrastructure construction and has now returned to the country. He seemed to have lingering fears: "The company arranged for us to take a flight back home that day. I really don't know what would have happened if we had stayed there!"

Various revelations from foreign netizens on foreign language forums are also quite sensational. Some people live in places where there are continuous missing persons cases, and when the authorities find the suspect's address, they can only see the remains of corpses that have been gnawed clean and whose bone marrow has been sucked dry.

There are also villages in some remote areas of Southeast Asia that are completely shrouded in mist and then disappear completely. When the mist dissipates and the villages reappear, all the people inside have disappeared and are never seen again.

Many events that sounded like strange tales and rumors in the past have become like they are happening around everyone in the spiritual energy revival era, which is chilling.

The various news reports, if only glanced at roughly, are nothing more than 'the country is singing and dancing, and foreign countries are in dire straits,' or 'happy gunfights every day,' which everyone has long been accustomed to.

But Su Zhou could see very clearly which Heavenly God's family's power was being exerted behind these events.

Especially the case that occurred in Southern Europa was particularly familiar to Su Zhou.

That was a quiet border town, with no tourists or other outsiders on weekdays. The entire city had only about 30,000 residents.

However, starting on a certain day three months ago, people in this city would often disappear for no reason. Even stranger, after a few days of being missing, the person would return home again, but when asked where they had gone at that time, they could not be asked at all, as if that period of time had been deleted.

At first, there were only seven or eight people who had disappeared, but as time went by, in the later stages, dozens of people would disappear each time, and even entire streets of people would suddenly disappear.

When the Europa Concordance Bureau intervened, they were shocked to find that all the people who had disappeared had essentially become extremely strange and evil monsters! They resided in the soul, usually wearing the skin of the host and living with the memory of the host, but in fact, the soul of the host had long been devoured by it, or rather, transformed into some kind of strange and twisted monster.

The Europa Concordance Bureau mobilized three transcendent high-level cultivators, one of whom was an acquaintance of Su Zhou, Seros's elder, the sealer Raphael. He was also seriously injured in that battle because everyone did not expect that most of the transcendents in the town had become those strange monsters.

When the Concordance Bureau's transcendents arrived by plane, those monsters directly launched surface-to-air missiles from nowhere, shot down the plane, and launched an attack on the Concordance Bureau's transcendents with a numbers game... Fortunately, they underestimated the vitality of the transcendents, and were eventually crushed into pieces by the angry high-level cultivators.

When counting the losses afterward, everyone even found that in many local families with children, their parents had been eroded into monsters, and perhaps because the souls of the children were not mature enough, they were not attacked, but simply lived with the monsters for a few months.

It is hard to imagine what kind of shadow this kind of thing, and the loss of their parents, would cast on these children.

"It's the Twilight True Devils."

Staring at this secret information that only high-level transcendents could see, Su Zhou muttered to himself in a low voice: "The Heavenly Gods Descending Society actually summoned so many Twilight True Devils... Even, looking at this scale and level, one of their leaders even cultivates the inheritance of Twilight!"

"It's hard to imagine that a living person would take the initiative to choose to accept the power of 'Twilight'."

Even Yala was amazed at this time: "It's like eating cefpodoxime and drinking alcohol. Anyone who knows a little bit about the essence of Twilight, even a madman, wouldn't choose this path."

"Yala, although you have said the essence of Twilight before, it is very vague."

Lowering his head, Su Zhou took off Yala, who had transformed into a hat, and then let the other party transform into a snake form again, wrapping around his hand, he asked with some doubt: "Does this 'Great Existence' also have a family?"

"Yes, but very few."

Unlike the excitement when talking about old friends, the momentum seemed to be holding back to point fingers, Yala's face was full of disgust, just like a social animal who was notified by the boss to work overtime on a holiday, and knew very well that there would be no overtime pay.

Its body twisted around Su Zhou's wrist, its tone was unhappy: "Twilight, this thing, originates from pure 'negation' and 'nothingness'... Its meaning is to make everything 'meaningless'."

"Like us, in many myths and legends, Twilight also has its own projection—it is Ragnarok, the destiny destined to lead to the end, it is the Apocalypse, the fiery rain of the final judgment, it is still the essence of the Five Signs of Decay of Heaven and Man, and the source of the disasters of immortals and gods... It is such a boring thing, and there is no wisdom to speak of, and we never think that it is our kind."

"Its family is almost the Twilight True Devils, the Doomsday Dragons, and various unwise and twisted monsters... Choosing this guy's inheritance, even if you can maintain your temporary self-will, but one day, as time goes by, the cultivator is destined to become a pure avatar of destruction."

When talking about the Twin God Trees, Yala's tone was like meeting an old friend for many years, and when talking about the Lonely Master in the past, Yala was like discussing an acquaintance who had a good relationship but had some prejudices.

But when talking about Twilight, Yala's tone was pure hostility and disgust—it was also an extremely rare moment when Su Zhou could sense that Yala had a sense of hatred.

Coincidentally, he also hates the Twilight True Devils very much.

"During this period of time, the Descending Society is taking advantage of the fact that all the major powers are focused on the Beast God Realm, desperately creating chaos everywhere, wanting to open up the situation and find an opportunity to go to another world."

The reason why Su Zhou has been focusing on information related to the Descending Society and the Litany recently is because the officials of countries all over the world have freed their hands from the Beast God Realm and are preparing to clean up and suppress these remnants parasitizing on Earth's civilization.

Originally, if the Descending Society had been a little more peaceful during this period of time, then maybe the officials of various countries would have turned a blind eye, because the areas other than the three central areas are originally poor and without much profit... Although it sounds very selfish, that's how countries are, anyway, it's not them who are suffering losses, so why bother spending effort to clean up garbage abroad.

When they encounter some hostile civilizations in another world, they even plan to let the Descending Society go over, like releasing a mad dog, to test the strength of the enemy with their own garbage.

But now, I don't know if the Descending Society has noticed the crisis, or if they simply have some plans in the dark and want to make a big news, they have been a little too active recently, so that everyone can no longer tolerate it.

"Before the end of 2016, the Heavenly Gods Descending Society must disappear from the Earth—official from multiple countries will hold a joint encirclement and suppression to completely wipe out this malignant tumor parasitizing on human civilization."

Reciting in his heart the decision made jointly by major forces around the world when they met in Tiandu some time ago, Su Zhou's eyes were firm.

He had made a vow in the past—he would hunt all the Twilight True Devils until the end of the devils.

And now is the time to act.