Chapter 148: Vishnu is Fleeing, Chu He is Chasing
"Can Chu He actually win?"
"Is he really going to slay a god today?"
"We can’t even be sure if this Vishnu is the same one from the myths. How can you talk about ’god-slaying’?"
"Oh my god, is this even a fight a human is capable of?"
In the live stream, many viewers had already used their search engines to look up exactly what Vishnu represented.
Moreover, Vishnu’s incredibly oppressive yet magnificent entrance had subconsciously convinced many viewers that he might truly be one of the Trimurti from the White Elephant Empire’s mythology.
However, many other viewers remained skeptical, because they believed Deities simply didn’t exist in this world.
If Deities truly existed, how could Evil Spirits have invaded this world?
"Have you ever considered why Deities would even protect humanity?
Why do you assume that if Deities existed, Evil Spirits wouldn’t invade this world?"
This comment, which soon appeared in the live stream, sent many people into a deep contemplation.
Many people realized the flaw in their own thinking.
That’s right.
The premise that the world would be free from Evil Spirit invasions if Deities existed was based on a precondition: that the Deities were on humanity’s side. Almost every human on Blue Star subconsciously believed this.
But now, prompted by that comment, many people discovered a problem with this assumption: why did everyone default to thinking that Deities would be on humanity’s side?
However, the user of that account, not one to stop making shocking statements,
posted another comment: "Are Deities really... divine?
Are they truly as they are described in books?
Perhaps these Evil Spirits causing chaos everywhere are the Deities of old.
I’m sure some of the more well-informed people in this stream already know that certain individuals and factions have begun to worship high-level Evil Spirits."
"Evil Spirits kill humans on sight. How could anyone worship them? What you’re saying is absurd," someone immediately retorted.
"That’s because you’re too ignorant."
Before the person who sent the earlier comment could reply, someone else responded to the retort.
"We live in a village deep in the mountains, and our village worships an Evil Spirit.
But we don’t call this being an Evil Spirit, because that would be disrespectful.
Every month, we offer it large quantities of chickens, ducks, fish, geese, pigs, and sheep.
In return, this being provides our village with its protection.
Many years have passed now, and our village has never encountered any other Evil Spirits.
I believe this kind of thing is definitely not just happening in our village.
The people of my village don’t think we’re the only lucky ones."
After seeing this person’s account, many viewers in the live stream erupted into a frenzy.
They vaguely felt as if they had just stumbled upon a whole new, incredible world.
The first person was right. Who decreed that Deities couldn’t be Evil Spirits?
Who decreed that Deities had to be divine?
Who decreed that Deities had to be on humanity’s side?
Once they overturned their old, fixed ways of thinking, they suddenly found that the world had become something they could no longer fully comprehend.
"Regardless of whether Deities are Evil Spirits, regardless of whether Deities even exist,
and regardless of whether Deities are on humanity’s side,
there is one obvious truth right now: Chu He is purely human.
He practices pure human Martial Arts, yet he has raised his strength to the absolute peak.
That Vishnu, whom the White Elephant Empire calls one of the Trimurti, looks like nothing special in front of Chu He."
Someone said, "Perhaps Chu He is the true hope for humanity."
The viewers in the live stream were suddenly snapped back to reality.
They were still watching the intense clash between Chu He and the so-called deity Vishnu of the White Elephant Empire.
「Inside the live stream,」
Under the gaze of countless eyes, Chu He’s figure was no longer simply human. He had transformed into an incomparably sharp streak of light between heaven and earth, an unstoppable force that tore through the sky.
This streak of light was shrouded in a dense, vigorous black aura. Like living Dark Night Elves, the tendrils of this aura writhed wantonly, greedily devouring the energy in every inch of the surrounding space,
It plunged the entire area into a strange and oppressive atmosphere.
Within that black aura was a bottomless, devouring power that inspired fear in all who witnessed it.
Meanwhile, the great serpent beneath the White Elephant Empire’s deity, Vishnu, was now revealing its terrifying nature.
Its densely packed heads were like the guardians of the Gate of Hell,
ceaselessly spewing an incredibly potent venom, attempting to obliterate any living thing that drew near.
However, as if ignoring this mortal threat, the brilliant light that was Chu He
plunged fearlessly into the great serpent’s seemingly all-devouring maw, right before the astonished eyes of the crowd.
For a moment, time seemed to freeze.
But in the next instant, Chu He burst forth from the depths of the beast’s throat,
like a War God returning from another world, radiating an invincible majesty and power.
His Sword Qi was peerless and sharp. Wherever it passed, the great serpent’s scales flew off like withered leaves.
Every crisp clatter as they hit the ground sounded like the whisper of the Death God, heralding the end of a life.
Blood gushed from the great serpent’s wounds like a fountain, dyeing the earth red and staining the eyes of everyone in the live stream.
The great serpent’s roars were full of pain and despair as its body contorted in agony.
Chu He’s assault did not slow in the slightest.
The Sword Qi in his hand, like the Sword of Death itself, continued to surge with astonishing speed and power, stabbing fiercely toward Vishnu, who was seated atop the serpent.
Although Vishnu was a deity, he had no choice but to dodge this sword strike.
Even so, one of his arms could not escape.
It was cleanly severed by Chu He’s Sword Qi, as if sliced off by an invisible blade.
From the stump of the severed arm, a tide of black aura surged out, swiftly devouring the lifeless limb until not even a trace of its existence remained.
Meanwhile, within Chu He’s Dantian, the originally tiny black seed was now receiving some form of nourishment.
It began to grow vigorously once more, its volume rapidly expanding until it was the size of a fist.
Even more bizarrely, from this seed,
a fluctuation rippled out, one completely different from the True Qi inside Chu He’s body. This fluctuation contained an ancient and mysterious power, one that was impossible to look at directly, let alone fathom its true strength.
"Our White Elephant Empire’s god was defeated? How is that possible? Chu He is just a human!"
"Not only was he defeated, Vishnu is fleeing, and Chu He is chasing him!"
"Did the great serpent just die like that?"
The few surviving Martial Artists from the White Elephant Empire’s army
watched the scene in the sky in terror, their hearts trembling at the sight.
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