Chapter 263 [Bonus Update]

Chapter 263: "Additional Update"

Lin frowned slightly in the mirror.

The King of Mushrooms was already closer to the side of corruption. Honestly, Lin didn't understand whether He followed Moses, Hui Cui, and Snow Claws into the Silver Moon Maiden's divine realm to save people or couldn't resist the urge to devour the Silver Moon Maiden, acting on impulse.

Wait, the King of Mushrooms doesn't have a forehead?

Anyway, that's what it means.

The pollution sprayed by the moon quickly broke the fragile balance maintained by the King of Mushrooms. It was only thanks to the wave of faith Lin had given Him earlier that He regained His sanity. After a brief struggle, He once again fell into corruption.

The mycelium released its grip on the flowers and trees in the forest, instead growing towards the sky. When it reached a certain height, His cap opened and curled upwards. A breeze blew, and the gills released spores like smoke, drifting towards the moon.

These spores fell into the blood sea; some were directly eroded by the blood sea, while others began to absorb water and nutrients, growing within the blood sea.

The silver light flickering amidst the water columns could only slow down the King of Mushrooms' actions a little. In a sense, He was very determined in His corruption, determined to kill everything.

Oh, except for the other source of corruption present.

Lin could only help stabilize the Mother of Sourceblood, who was also affected, turning a three-on-one situation into a two-on-two.

The Silver Moon Maiden seized this opportunity, restoring her clear thinking. She did not stop the eruption of pollution but also brought the previously overlooked star—the sun—from the trinary system in Her divine realm to erupt together. The distant, dark red, and filthy-looking sun shot out extremely intense beams of polluted light in all directions.

The reflected light from the moon's surface immediately intensified. Moses gasped and covered his eyes, tears streaming down as he entered meditation to stabilize his will. Snow Claws once again picked up the ermine from among the wolf pups, biting him and shaking his head vigorously, shaking away the dark thoughts that had crept into the ermine's mind.

The other wolf pups hid in Snow Claws' fur, closing their eyes in fear. Only Hui Cui did not close his eyes or hide; he slowly raised his sniper rifle.

He aimed but did not fire immediately.

A silver eye blinked in the sniper scope. The Mother of Sourceblood, realizing the vastness of the blood sea made Her more susceptible to the influence of the polluted light, had no choice but to condense Her body from the blood sea.

The crimson in the ocean receded, all of it extracted and integrated into the Mother of Sourceblood's blood-red hair and the long sword in Her hand.

She looked at the blade, and Her silver eyes met Her own gaze through the sword.

The Mother of Sourceblood could feel that Her movements were no longer hesitant, as they had been in countless battles with the Silver Moon Maiden over thousands of years. In this tense situation, She smiled faintly and dashed towards the nearest crack on the moon's surface.

With each step forward, Her body grew larger. After a few steps, standing on the moon like a human on a round table, the Mother of Sourceblood plunged the nearly hundred-kilometer-long blade into the crack.

Ignoring the pollution, She pushed hard.

Rumble, rumble, rumble—

The crack widened, crackling and extending to the moon's North Pole.

This tactic was something the Silver Moon Maiden, who had fought the Mother of Sourceblood countless times in the past, had never seen. Not wanting to appear shocked, She gritted her teeth and laughed, "Hehe, Hilda, with the help of the Mirror-Eyed Pupil, you're not afraid of pollution anymore?"

The Mother of Sourceblood's eyes, half-hidden by Her hair, glanced into the depths of the crack.

She said nothing but seemed to be praying in Her heart.

It has been almost a thousand years.

Building the dome to protect and nurture humanity has been almost a thousand years.

Compared to a thousand years ago, the number of humans has greatly increased. Their faith in Her, whether strong or weak, has never been absent.

They say:

Mother of Sourceblood! You are the nurturer of life!

Let us praise you when we pass by the riverside; let us praise you when we drink clean water! Let us praise you when we open our eyes on sickbeds; let us praise you when we receive continuation from the Red Robes!

Praise the proliferation of life, praise the kindness of the mother.

Praise you, Mother of Sourceblood!

Millions of praises were blocked outside the Silver Moon Maiden's divine realm, but the Mother of Sourceblood felt she could still hear the voices of Her believers.

"It's not the same as before..." She whispered.

Persisting for nearly a thousand years was for this moment.

To kill the Silver Moon Maiden, one must face Her pollution. In the past, She could not resist, but now She could give it a try.

Her believers were protecting Her.

The pollution erupting from the cracks on the moon's surface was terrifying, but the Silver Moon Maiden dared not keep them open, fearing Her body would shatter.

Ignoring the surging lava, the Mother of Sourceblood pressed Her entire body against the crack, making it deeper and wider.

While the Mirror-Eyed Pupil stabilized Her state, it also interfered with the Silver Moon Maiden again.

But the spore smoke from the King of Mushrooms also drifted here, and at this moment—

Hui Cui fired.

Not at the Silver Moon Maiden, nor at the King of Mushrooms.

The anti-material yellow diamond bullet, with a caliber like a cannonball, encircled by glowing scriptures, left the barrel and traveled the distance light takes eight minutes to cover, striking the turbid, rust-red sun.

Yellow diamond is a gemstone pointing to the Dragon of Light.

A bright yellow purifying force erupted from the sun, weakening the polluted light it emitted. The Silver Moon Maiden's divine realm, which had been colliding with the other three divine realms, finally emitted a massive cracking sound due to this last straw.

The Silver Moon Maiden's divine realm was cracking!

Lin heard the endless curses in the Silver Moon Maiden's heart. Although She had boasted about eating two portions, She knew this divine war would be difficult to win against the Mother of Sourceblood. She couldn't find the Mirror-Eyed Pupil, whom She could have taken, and seeing the King of Mushrooms fall back into corruption, She thought at least She could eat this fool who dared to offer himself.

But the divine realm was torn, and He had not suffered such severe wounds in thousands of years. If He did not withdraw from battle quickly, He might really die today!

First, drive these invaders out!

Even as the foundation of the divine realm trembled, the Silver Moon Maiden still held supreme control over this place, casting moonlight upon Earth.

With the moonlight as waves, He pushed away the Mother of Sourceblood, who clung tightly to her longsword, unwilling to withdraw; He pushed away the Fungus King attacking Hui Cui and the others; He pushed away Hui Cui and the rest, who were riding on the back of a silver wolf to evade attacks.

In the real world, the Earth overlapped with the Earth in the divine realm, beneath a moon nearly split in two by a crack, lay a planet whose entire surface was covered in blood seas and glowing lava.

"Damn!" Moses said anxiously, "If we let the Silver Moon escape this time, it will be much harder to find another opportunity!"

Hearing this, Snow Claws desperately turned around, trying to move against the moonlight, but despite her efforts, she remained rooted to the spot.

Beside them, the Fungus King had also stopped his attack, its mycelium straining to grow upward, hooking onto the red hair of the Mother of Sourceblood as she flew.

Hui Cui gritted her teeth against the force, raising her gun toward the Fungus King, who seemed intent on attacking the Mother of Sourceblood, only to hear the giant mushroom emit a howl, shouting, "Hilda—!!"

He regained his sanity? When?

Hui Cui hesitated for a moment, recalling that after hitting the sun, the Fungus King's movements had gradually slowed down.

Until now, the Fungus King's actions quickened again, just as the Mother of Sourceblood clung tenaciously to the edge of the crack on the moon, he pressed himself against her.

What is he doing! Why must you, a minor evil deity, involve yourself in the battlefield of a Great Evil Deity and a Pillar God?!

Moses, well-versed in the self-preserving ways of minor evil deities, could not understand the Fungus King's current thoughts. He looked up and saw a drop of water slide off the edge of the Fungus King's cap.

Moses jumped back in surprise, more droplets seeping from the Fungus King's cap, dripping down.

The Fungus King was shrinking.

The Fungus King was losing water.

Essentially, He was releasing His magic without regard for life or death, just like Maridis, the Conch Blower, had done before her death.

Realizing something, Moses widened his eyes.

Why release an avatar to wander the continent when you were sleeping soundly?

Knowing that the Dark Sea Cave was the territory of the three great evil deities, why enter it despite the danger?

"The Dark Sea Cave, isolated overseas, is said to be to avoid the search and attacks of the Inquisition, but it is actually a trap set for the Pillar Gods," the Fungus King said, "because the Pillar Gods try not to fight where there are people, if such a suitable venue is created, the next divine war will inevitably begin there..."

The ritual in the Dark Sea Cave that causes divine avatars to fall was not originally intended for the Fungus King.

Stepping into that pit, the Fungus King fell silent for a moment before continuing, "I searched the entire continent to safely deliver something to you, Hilda."

He said, "Now is the perfect time, please, take my authority."