Chapter 1 Wan Jia Xiong Meng

The atmosphere in the room became serious. Michael strode forward, his calm gaze sweeping over everyone present. A slightly echoing, ethereal voice came from beneath his silver helmet, "Is everyone here?"

"Not yet."

Nebula, who also belonged to the Global Supernatural Alliance, stood up and reported, "The Voodoo Black Witch Clan and the Chicago Specters are still on their way. They're having some problems with their teleportation array technology."

"The situation is urgent. We can't wait."

Michael shook his head and said to the others, "King Shipi's strength is above that of the fully-formed Desolate Lion. There's still time to back out now."

...Trying to demoralize us right off the bat, huh?

The expressions of those present were a little strange. They had been there at the time.

Back in the Lost World, they had swarmed the Desolate Lion, and were initially suppressed and forced to retreat. If it hadn't been for the problem with the Mutant Starfish, they might all have died there.

Although several months had passed since the Lost World, and everyone had improved, the fully-formed Desolate Lion was still one of the pinnacles of power in the Killing Game.

"Ahem,"

Hohenheim coughed lightly and asked Michael, "We've already come this far. We can't just run away without even seeing King Shipi.

Why don't you tell us about the situation inside the Buddha Country first?"

"Alright."

Michael nodded calmly and began his account.

The Buddha Country possessed almost all the characteristics of a divine kingdom in mystical concepts—ubiquitous divine power, soil assimilated by the essence of the gods, and a large number of pious believers who constantly produced the power of faith.

A deity within his divine kingdom is almost invincible. Because of the existence of the believers, divine power is constantly replenished.

Ordinary transcendents or other deities, upon entering the divine kingdom, would be suppressed in all aspects,

as if they were rejected by the whole world,

unable to obtain external energy replenishment,

and every move they made was under surveillance.

Fortunately, the Buddha Country was not a complete divine kingdom.

The Buddha Country still used temples and buildings around the world as its material foundation and had not separated from the real world, completely entering the alien dimension.

Moreover, there were no large numbers of freely moving divine emissaries, or apostles, in the Buddha Country—

Divine emissaries were also pious believers who ascended to the divine kingdom after death,

but they were different from the believers. In addition to providing the power of faith, they could also move freely in the divine kingdom and possessed a higher degree of free thought.

Like the Valkyries who guided the fallen warriors to Valhalla,

divine emissaries were responsible for managing the divine kingdom for the deities, handling various daily affairs, and monitoring the borders of the divine kingdom to prevent foreign enemies from invading.

Some divine emissaries who were highly valued would have the opportunity to temporarily leave the divine kingdom and descend to the real world as the deity's spokesperson in the human world,

or even directly receive the deity's infusion of divine power and become the deity's incarnation.

The combat effectiveness of divine emissaries depended on their personal experiences before death, with a wide range of possibilities.

They could be at the level of ordinary transcendents,

or they could be demigods second only to the deities.

Michael had not seen a large number of divine emissaries on the periphery of the Buddha Country, which was undoubtedly encouraging news. At least there was no immediate danger to life when entering the periphery of the Buddha Country.

However, according to Michael, the Buddha Country was constantly absorbing the power of faith produced by mortal believers, that is, those ordinary people who had been coerced into the Buddha Country.

It was becoming more complete and perfect every moment.

As time went on, the functions of the Buddha Country might become more comprehensive and dangerous.

The last time Michael entered the Buddha Country alone, he used his own power to resist the surrounding Buddhist light erosion and flew all the way to the Ajanta Caves.

After entering the caves, he discovered that the caves themselves were constantly changing shape and path like an active maze.

The caves themselves were deeply infiltrated by the Buddhist light, indestructible, constantly regenerating,

and would even evolve in response to Michael, as if possessing self-awareness—for example, by making the cave rock layers resistant to high temperatures and pressures, weakening the destructive power of the Flame Sword.

"I understand,"

David said after listening to Michael's account, "If we want to destroy the divine kingdom, rescue all the coerced civilians, and stop the spread of the mutation in the real world,

there are only two ways.

First, cut off the power of faith of the Buddha Country so that the Buddha Country can no longer evolve.

Second, pass through the maze, find King Shipi's true form, and eliminate him, thereby dissolving the Buddha Country at its source."

Michael nodded calmly, "That's right."

"Then, is it possible to directly kill the missing people inside the Buddha Country?"

The Truth-seeker, whose whole body was hidden in a yellow robe, said quietly, "If we eliminate all those missing people,

or stop their thoughts,

then it would be possible to cut off the channel of faith, right?"

"What?!"

Wang Bu Liu Xing was shocked and bewildered, and raised his voice subconsciously, "The total number of missing people is now over a million!

How dare you..."

"It's only a million,"

The Truth-seeker said calmly, "There are still over seven billion other people on Earth.

To protect over seven billion, sacrificing a million Indians and a few hundred thousand civilians from other countries is a worthwhile trade."

The Truth-seeker deliberately emphasized the word "Indians."

The expressions on the faces of those present changed slightly, while the expressions of those with dark skin, who were obviously representatives of the Indian team, became extremely ugly,

and they almost stepped forward to reprimand the Truth-seeker for being bloody and cruel.

"Impossible."

Wang Bu Liu Xing shook his head and said, "The Global Supernatural Alliance will not allow you to do this, and other organizations will not allow you to do this.

And neither will I..."

"Really?"

The Truth-seeker said hoarsely, "Have you noticed that there are several aircraft carrier warships parked in the ocean port next to this base building?

They are equipped with missile launch bays?

The weapons of mortals are useless to deities, but they are extremely effective against ordinary people who are also mortals.

Guess what those missiles are for?"

After the Truth-seeker finished speaking, the atmosphere in the room became strange again.

The expressions of the Indian representatives changed again and again,

and the representatives of the Global Supernatural Alliance also collectively fell silent.

"The missing people inside the Buddha Country are now bound to the Buddha Country. Previous experiments have proven that if the divine power link is not severed before removing them from the divine kingdom, it will cause the victims' brains to collapse—

The victims' souls will also be extracted all at once and transformed into a large amount of the power of faith, which will be injected into the Buddha Country.

On the contrary, it will further increase the completion of the Buddha Country and increase the variables.

Moreover, only a portion of the missing people are within the Ajanta Caves.

There are still many missing people who have not been found.

Even if we carry out bombing, it may not be effective, and it may even backfire."

Nebula took a deep breath and said, "Therefore, taking the missing people out of the Buddha Country collectively,

or carpet bombing with missiles, is the last resort.

Before that, our best option is still to resolve King Shipi's true form."