Chapter 1 Setting Up

The Dawn Mercenaries were busy setting up the super-large alchemical array. About an hour later, the sky had already darkened.

With Hei Xiansheng directing the layout, no one else needed to worry.

After all, Suren and Jing Xiansheng had also spent a lot of energy today, so they sat cross-legged to meditate.

Before they knew it, night fell. The sky above the Silent Forest was a dazzling Milky Way, with a fascinating depth.

Just then, Lolota suddenly jumped down from the treetop and reported, "Leader, Mr. Suren, it's all set up!"

Hearing this, Suren and Jing Xiansheng opened their eyes from their meditation. "Everyone, prepare to move."

A response came immediately from the communicator, "Yes!"

Before long, tens of thousands of Dawn Mercenaries gathered in the open space, and the green glow of the alchemical array gradually lit up around them.

Looking down from the sky, you could see a nine-pointed star array with a diameter of more than ten kilometers slowly lighting up near the base of a giant tree.

This was the ancient sealing technique [Advent of Light], a divine art-level large-scale sealing restriction of the same specifications as the Dalu tribe's [Burial of the Gods].

...

Having prepared everything, Suren looked at Yuta beside him and said in a deep voice, "Open the seal."

Yuta nodded solemnly, "Mm."

After she finished speaking, she began to chant a spell, "Great God of Nature, please listen to the sincere prayers of your faithful..."

The melodious chanting reached their ears. The two Dalu tribal artifacts, the [Holy Grail of Far] and [Dagda's Magic Cauldron], floated in the air beside Yuta, and a majestic natural force surged out.

This was a secret technique that only a Grand Druid could perform, which could protect people from being polluted by negative energy. It was a very gentle energy, giving people a refreshing feeling as if their souls had been cleansed.

Suddenly, a dazzling divine light emerged from Yuta. She piously put her hands together, and the towering giant tree behind everyone seemed to have its vitality stripped away, and its lush branches and leaves slowly withered in an instant.

As the giant tree withered, the power of nature gradually dissipated. What replaced it was a heart-palpitating evil energy that gushed out from the ground. That energy turned into strands of black gas visible to the naked eye, steaming out.

Everyone held their breath.

Because they knew that they were about to witness some kind of "secret" that exceeded their understanding.

Suren's eyes reflected Yuta's figure. In the All-Knowing Eye, he saw strands of the threads of rules, which were the power of the gods.

And those steaming black gases were also strands of incomplete threads of rules.

Seeing this, Suren's pupils shrank slightly, and he murmured in his heart, "As expected, there are a large number of rule threads remaining in this Burial Ground of the Gods."

Although the threads of rules overflowing from the ground were still extremely thin and incomplete,

this was only because the seal had just been opened. It was not difficult to infer that there must be more underground.

This was also the most important purpose of their coming here.

Only when there were enough threads of rules could he refine the [Cosmic Origin Substance]!

...

Yuta manipulated the two Dalu tribal artifacts to quickly extract the power of the seal from the giant tree.

Before long, the seal barrier of that towering giant tree was finally destroyed.

Rolling black gas spewed out from the ground, like black flames, "burning" the entire tree.

At the same time, on the island-like canopy, one mutated monster after another rushed out in shock, densely packed like locusts crossing the border.

If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, no one would have thought that there would be so many monsters on a tree.

However, before the monsters had time to escape, the massive miasma that erupted from the ground like a volcanic eruption instantly enveloped the mutated monsters. Even though the monsters on the canopy were not strong, mostly Tier 1, 2, and 3, and the strongest lord was only Tier 7,

the black gas contained various terrifying super-order laws and dark attribute energy. In the blink of an eye, those monsters that inhaled the black gas died because they couldn't withstand the erosion of the black gas, or they turned into even more terrifying mutated monsters.

Seeing this scene, the Dawn Mercenaries all looked solemn.

Even Jing Xiansheng frowned slightly, her face full of gravity.

No one had ever seen what the place where a god had fallen would look like, but obviously, this black gas made her unable to understand it.

However, this was just the beginning.

Although the Dawn Mercenaries had been prepared for unsealing, no one had expected that this Burial Ground of the Gods, after being sealed for hundreds of years, would give them such a big greeting gift.

Suren sensed that powerful soul fluctuation, his face changed slightly, and he thought: Pseudo-god?!

He wasn't surprised that some pseudo-gods would be born in this Burial Ground of the Gods over the long years. But he didn't expect to encounter such a tricky existence as soon as they arrived.

Hei Xiansheng, who was beside him, also sensed something a moment later and shouted, "Everyone, get ready!"

"Yes!"

The ten-thousand-man sorcerer group beside him had been prepared for a long time, and they all uttered a low dragon language. In an instant, the super-large nine-pointed star alchemical array shone brightly.

Almost at the same time, the ground suddenly cracked open, and "crashing" gravel rolled down. A large hand more than a hundred meters long broke through the ground. It was as if the corpse buried underground had been resurrected, and it wanted to struggle out of the soil. That big hand tore apart the dry tree trunk and revealed half of its shoulder.

This was a semi-transparent giant spirit body like black jelly.

Suren took a closer look, and the name identified was [Pseudo-god · Titan Heroic Spirit Corrupted Thing (Tier 9)].

This was a pseudo-god born from the corpse of a god after the power of faith collapsed.

The Dawn Mercenaries were no strangers to this kind of opponent, after all, they had fought many times.

"Move!"

Hei Xiansheng gave an order, and the ten-thousand-man sorcerer group exerted their strength at the same time. Before the giant could stand up, the chains of laws in the alchemical array had already tied it up tightly.

Originally, a Tier 9 pseudo-god could be considered a top existence anywhere, but in the eyes of the current Dawn Mercenaries, it was not too much of a threat.

Everyone cooperated tacitly. While controlling the monster, nine holy light-based [Spears of Divine Punishment] had already pierced through various parts of the pseudo-god's body, wrist, neck, chest... firmly nailing it to the ground. Even the wailing sound that could make people feel mentally dazed was blocked by the pre-arranged restrictions, and it didn't cause any impact on the ten-thousand-man sorcerer group at all.

The sorcerer group took action and controlled the situation, so naturally, the high-level combatants didn't need to intervene, and they watched from the sidelines.

Jing Xiansheng said lightly, "This pressure far exceeds that of ordinary pseudo-gods... It seems that the god who fell here is a bit high-level."

Suren also saw some other things and said, "The faith is also very mixed. Not just one, but many gods are buried here."

Old Swordsman Bartolo: "To send us such a 'greeting gift' as soon as we arrive, it seems that the underground is even more dangerous..."

Barrett: "Yes."

Everyone expressed their opinions, but no one showed any fear on their faces, only exploration of the unknown and a vague expectation.

The Dawn Mercenaries had come all the way, experiencing so many dangerous places, and their current cohesion was already unbreakable. Everyone had a strange belief in their hearts that no matter what difficulties they encountered, they, the Dawn Mercenaries, would definitely be able to deal with it successfully!

Although the monster in front of them was very powerful, since it didn't pose a threat to the Dawn Mercenaries, then it was a material.

Pandora liked pseudo-gods the most.

Because she had the ability to steal faith.

Before, she had descended on the four countries of North Continent and the sea area of the Dragon Kingdom to absorb faith. Listening to Suren and their plans, her divine power also returned to her main body.

When she saw that giant, her eyes were already a strange blood red. "I'm going."

As soon as she finished speaking, her whole body turned into strands of red light, and an eerie feeling instantly swept through the entire space.

Looking at the moon in the sky, it was already a scarlet red.

Suren wasn't idle either. He watched Pandora leave and said, "This pseudo-god contains a very strong rule thread, I'll go try it too."

Jing Xiansheng nodded.

Yuta still

didn't know Suren's current combat power and said, "Be careful."

Suren smiled slightly, "Mm."

...

With Hei Xiansheng's ten-thousand-man sorcerer group controlling the giant monster, Pandora's Moon-Reading Divine Power turned into strands of red thread, constantly extracting the giant's power of faith, and was hardly hindered at all.

This monster, which had been sealed for countless years, didn't even have time to wreak havoc before it was drained in a short time. Its faith collapsed, and the consciousness that had been so hard to give birth to was also wiped out. Although its body was still struggling, it was actually already dead.

Suren also teleported to the side of the giant's corpse, and the red light of the Philosopher's Stone ring inlaid on his finger shone brightly. An alchemical array instantly condensed under his feet.

He had refined it many times before, and this process was already very skilled.

In just a moment, the refining light enveloped the giant's corpse, and those strands of rule that only he could see were extracted.

Looking at the threads drawn from the giant's corpse in front of him, Suren was slightly surprised: "So much?"

Although the rules were severely flawed and the various colors of threads were mixed, the amount was considerable.

In just this moment, he had extracted far more rule threads than expected.

These threads formed clusters of amber-colored energy in the alchemical array, scattered in more than a dozen clusters.

Like about 3% of [Darkness Rule Thread], 5% of [Death Rule Thread], 1.4% of [Elemental Rule Thread], 2.6% [War Rule Thread]...

Although there wasn't much of each, they were indeed rule threads that couldn't be found anywhere else!

And when gathered together, there was more than 60%, which was a lot more than the previously harvested Tier 9 Archmage's corpse!

Before long, Pandora had finished extracting the power of faith, and Suren had also extracted all the law threads from the corpse.

The monster, which was originally condensed from energy, immediately collapsed, revealing a bottomless pit on the ground.

"Is it dead just like that?"

"Looks like it..."

The Dawn Mercenaries looked at each other, looking at the monster that suddenly collapsed.

The process was so smooth that it was a little unbelievable.

At least from the pressure that the monster had unleashed when it appeared just now, it should have been a powerful Tier 9 monster, right?

But, it was killed just like that?

The vast majority of people couldn't understand Pandora's faith-stealing methods, and they also couldn't understand what Suren's extraction of rule threads was all about. They just watched the two high-level combatants take action, and the monster disappeared in a short while.

Although the Dragon Language Sorcerer Group had trained for two years, it was the first time they faced such a powerful enemy. Because they had never encountered an enemy that could force out their limits, most of the members themselves didn't have an accurate concept of the team's combat power.

Now, watching this Tier 9 monster being killed in the blink of an eye, someone muttered, "Didn't you just say it was Tier 9? This monster... doesn't seem particularly powerful."

Someone else said uncertainly, "Could it be... that we are too powerful?"

The giant monster died, and for a time, it seemed to calm down. Everyone immediately started discussing.

Yuta, who had never seen the ten-thousand-man group, was very surprised and her crystal eyes were full of surprise and curiosity.

After all, she had unsealed it herself. She had been a little worried when she saw the terrifying monster that had made her scalp tingle,

but when she saw that the monster was destroyed before it even emerged from the ground, she instantly calmed down.

Seeing Suren come back, she also said excitedly, "Mr. Suren, so you've become so powerful."

There were only a few people present who could understand Suren's actions just now, and Yuta happened to be one of them.

Suren smiled slightly when he heard this. Of course, he knew that she was referring to his ability to extract the threads of rules, and responded, "It's not powerful. I'm just using alchemical treasures."

Yuta blinked and smiled again, "Even without treasures, it's still very powerful."

"Hehe."

The corners of Suren's mouth raised slightly, and he didn't explain much.

Turning his face, he looked at Jing Xiansheng and showed her the harvest just now, saying, "Senior Sister, it's about what I expected. There are enough rule threads in this Burial Ground of the Gods."

As he said that, he spread out his right hand, revealing the more than ten clusters of law threads he had just harvested, "If there are enough monsters like this, then we can also have enough [Cosmic Origin Substance]."

Jing Xiansheng nodded lightly, "Mm."

This was the result they had expected before.

However, the Dawn Mercenaries around them didn't know.

Batch refining Origin Substance?

Hearing this news, everyone's eyes showed a strong expectation, and even their breathing became faintly heavy.

If there were enough [Cosmic Origin Substance], the shackles for alchemists to advance to Tier 9 would be completely broken.

For someone like Old Swordsman Bartolo, who was at the peak of Tier 8, a Cosmic Origin Substance could directly raise him by a large rank, which would definitely be a qualitative improvement in combat power!

However, just as everyone hadn't had time to breathe, the observer suddenly shouted, "Be careful, more monsters are coming out of that pit! A lot!"

Everyone turned their heads to look, and a tide of monsters poured out like a volcanic eruption.

Everyone took a closer look, and they were human-shaped monsters with fleshy wings.

Different from the Blood Clan's demon transformation, these monsters had no hair and were morbidly pale all over. Their heads were bulging fleshy tumors without eyes, and they had a pair of terrifying fleshy wings like human hands on their backs.

Suren identified them and the display was [Fleshy Winged Aberration (Gold-Level Weird)].

A single one was only Tier 5 or 6, but there were a lot of them!

Moreover, each one was a Weird-level Boss. As soon as they came out, a terrifying cold aura instantly swept over.

In other words, their own combat power would be several times that of monsters of the same tier.

This was the Burial Ground of the Gods. Originally, Suren felt that he shouldn't be surprised by any level of monsters he saw.

But after he used the Two-Resolution All-Knowing Eye, he was surprised to find that these low-level monsters also had rule threads.

Each one had about 0.001, and it was still very incomplete, but it really existed!

This was a situation that could not be seen in any other monsters outside.

"Low-level monsters actually have rule threads?"

Suren was very surprised.

Obviously, these monsters were born from the corpses of gods, and they themselves couldn't be viewed with common sense.

But he also immediately thought of something and said urgently in the communicator, "Be careful, these monsters are very special. They can only be killed by burning them with fire-based spells!"

Hearing Suren's timely information, Hei Xiansheng also immediately reacted.

The alchemical array under the feet of the ten-thousand-man sorcerer group suddenly lit up with red light. Everyone pinched the sorcerer's seal at the same time, and a rich fire element gathered in the alchemical array.

Those monsters could fly, and they were not slow. They rushed out of the underground pit, some scattered in all directions towards the sky, and others rushed towards the Dawn Mercenaries.

But before they got close, Hei Xiansheng shouted sharply, "Dragon Breath!"

In an instant, the sorcerer group pinched the sorcerer's seal at the same time, and the rich fire element in the alchemical array condensed into nine ferocious fire dragons hundreds of meters long, rushing towards the monster swarm in the sky.

The scorching high temperature turned white in the red, rushing straight towards the monster swarm.

It was almost exactly the same as the dragon's breath!

Whether it was the law level or the power!

The power of a ten-thousand-man group using ordinary spells was comparable to Tier 9, let alone dragon language spells? Even if these monsters were very special, they were instantly turned into ashes under the strangulation of the extreme high temperature and fire element laws.

But there were just too many monsters.

Even if that move [Eight Gods Flame Dragon Breath] had burned to death two or three thousand monsters, there were still monsters pouring out of that cave.

They rushed towards the Dawn Mercenaries, who had a rich aura of living people, like moths flying into a flame.

Hei Xiansheng didn't idle either, controlling the nine fire dragons to burn wildly in the monster swarm, and those fleshy winged monsters fell like raindrops.

However, there were still more that flew randomly towards the sky, probably wanting to rush to other places.

Unfortunately, because the Dawn Mercenaries had set up a defensive barrier in advance, a huge golden rune hood immediately enveloped the entire giant tree space when these monsters rushed into the sky.

The defensive barrier also had a perception confusion setting, which could interfere with the spatial perception ability of approaching targets.

Those monsters immediately lost their direction when they rushed over, scurrying around like headless flies.

However, the barrier effect was good, but because there were too many monsters, they flew around in all directions, and some of them touched the edge of the barrier and began to attack.

Hei Xiansheng discovered this and shouted sharply, "Quickly solve the source, these monsters are attacking the restriction very fast!"

In just a blink of an eye, hundreds of thousands of monsters had rushed out, and the entire barrier space was filled with the figures of those white-skinned monsters.

Hearing this, everyone in the Dawn Mercenaries except the ten-thousand-man sorcerer group joined the battlefield, as well as Old Swordsman Bartolo and a group of high-level combatants.

However, their combat power was indeed unparalleled, but under the endless number of monsters, it seemed to be still somewhat insufficient. In just this moment, the more they killed, the more monsters there were.

Seeing this, everyone also learned about the power of this Burial Ground of the Gods.

It had only just begun, and a Tier 9 monster had come, and then countless monsters had come.

Although their own safety was not affected for the time being, everyone was slightly worried.

If they couldn't deal with these flying aberrations that sprayed cold air, and if some other monsters emerged from that sealed cave, this defensive restriction might not be able to completely limit them.

If these monsters rushed out, it would have a disastrous impact on the Dalu tribe in the Silent Forest, and even on the entire Alchemy Plane.

However, even at such a critical moment, Jing Xiansheng, the leader of the Dawn Mercenaries, didn't change her expression at all.

She didn't mean to take action either, and just stood there quietly.

Because only she knew Suren's methods.

Sure enough, at this time, Suren took action.

In the eyes of others, these endless monsters were a threat, but in his eyes, these monsters were hard-to-come-by materials.

A 0.001% rule thread, then a thousand would have 1%, and ten thousand would have 10%...

Theoretically speaking, killing all of them, a hundred thousand would almost be a complete [Cosmic Origin Substance].

Although this thing was difficult to kill, compared to Tier 9, it was much easier to kill.

The key was that there seemed to be an endless number of these monsters here. It was estimated that there were hundreds of thousands of them.

Monsters would die, but the "rule thread" wouldn't disappear immediately. As long as it was refined in time, it could be perfectly preserved.

Moreover, when it came to quantity, Suren wasn't afraid.

The situation was urgent, so he didn't delay at all. He pinched the sorcerer's seal and shouted, "Arcane Grand Puppet Theater!"

With the assistance of the Philosopher's Stone, Suren almost instantly condensed the puppet theater.

Before long, a huge cross appeared in the sky. As dark spiritual power poured into it, it continued to expand, but in the blink of an eye, it was more than a thousand meters wide, covering a large area of the restricted space.

However, Suren didn't idle. He pulled out five space scrolls and spread them out in the air.

At the same time, he concluded the seal and shouted, "Release!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"..."

The space scrolls burst open, and when they looked again, more than thirty thousand gargoyles densely packed appeared around Suren!

These gargoyles, whose bodies were overflowing with cold light, were extremely oppressive. As soon as they appeared, they immediately gave people the feeling of seeing a steel torrent.

...

Just as the gargoyle legion appeared, the Dawn Mercenaries caught a glimpse of it and immediately became excited.

"Mr. Suren has taken action!"

"Hahaha, has it finally appeared, the puppet legion!"

"No matter how many times I see it, I will be shocked. Mr. Suren's one-man army is really too exciting."

"Yes."

"..."

Although the Dawn Mercenaries had seen Suren take action many times, everyone was excited when they saw the puppet legion appear.

Moreover, everyone also discovered that two years ago, he seemed to be able to control only ten thousand puppets.

Now there were actually thirty thousand?

Not only had the number skyrocketed, but it seemed... that those gargoyles were also different.

The low-level members couldn't understand Suren's changes, but the top combatants of the Dawn Mercenaries could see it.

Old Swordsman Bartolo, who was charging and killing among the monsters, murmured with relief, "Suren has become stronger again."

Barrett was shocked and said, "If I hadn't advanced to Tier 8, I wouldn't understand the power of this puppet legion. It's really too exaggerated. Being surrounded and suppressed by the legion, I'm afraid even a Tier 9 would have no way back..."

Hei Xiansheng's wise eyes flashed, "It's been two years, and he's actually become so strong..."

Nineteen smiled slightly, "He really has exaggerated changes..."

Kite screamed, "Ah... How did Suren cultivate? Every time I see him, this guy's strength will skyrocket. Oh, what a monster..."

Yuta looked at him, with a bright smile on her face, "As expected, he's very powerful."