CHAPTER 970: CHAPTER 938: CALAMITY DESCENDS

"Who else could it be."

Huang Shifu raised his faceless head, his gentle and calm voice seemed to come from his throat, or perhaps from his abdomen,

"In the current situation of the Empire, only the Burning Heaven Temple can cause such a big stir. The Fifth District is the territory of the Golden Sparrow, but the Hua God is being held at bay by the Heavenly Burning Saint Master, probably unable to attend to it, which is why they asked the Great Sin for help."

"Knock knock—" Just as he was speaking, there was a knock on the door.

The officer who brought Huang Zhaoyue stood outside, bowing respectfully: "Lord Shifu, the fleet has successfully passed through the Space Gate and arrived at the Eternal Flow Sea at the border of the Fifth and Sixth Districts.

According to the reports from the front line, Burning Heaven indeed launched a war against the Fifth District, but there is... a bit of an accident, and now the Great Sin fleet does not dare to advance further."

"Oh? An accident?"

"Calamity..." Xue Yingjiang bowed his head and said in a deep voice, "Calamity Divine Power has sealed off the entire Fifth District!"

"Hmm?" The man in the white robe without a face was originally looking up and motionless, but now he couldn’t help but stand up and turn to look at the officer.

Huang Zhaoyue also turned around in surprise, looking outside the door.

Calamity, Nine-Eyed Great Calamity! An existence second only to the Void Emperor; logically speaking, such an existence should not break through the spatial barrier and invade the Present Realm.

If Calamity can casually enter the Empire, then it would not be far from starting another Three Realms divine war.

Xue Yingjiang continued in a deep voice: "According to the search, it was not Calamity’s true form descending, but just a wisp of Divine Power, so although it has sealed the Fifth District, the Calamity Realm Rules do not completely cover the district, only covering one planet of the Fifth District."

Of the Empire’s fifty-one districts, each district is a cosmic plane.

The closer a district is to the front, the more habitable planets it has, for instance, the top ten districts generally have at least ten habitable planets.

As for the last ten districts, each has only one habitable planet. One planet represents the entire population and territory of the whole district.

And the Fifth District, having thirteen habitable planets, is enveloped by three Constant Star Systems.

Sparrow King Star, because Sparrow God Mountain is located on this star, is thus the power core of the Fifth District.

According to what Xue Yingjiang said, Calamity’s wisp of Divine Power only covers this star.

But this alone was enough to cause the greatest turmoil in the Fifth District since the establishment of the Empire.

"What exactly is Burning Heaven trying to do?" Xia Heimao stood on Huang Zhaoyue’s shoulder, puzzled in his heart, could it be that the Heavenly Burning Saint Master had collaborated with Calamity?

"The Fifth District is protected by the Infinite Realm, if the Infinite Realm is not largely destroyed, how could the Calamity Divine Power affect the Fifth District?"

Huang Zhaoyue asked in bewilderment, "Could it be that the Fifth District, like Zone 51, has traitors who have hollowed out the Infinite Realm from within?"

Upon hearing this, Xue Yingjiang quickly stepped forward and handed two confidential files to Huang Zhaoyue and Huang Shifu.

The cover of the file was marked as confidential, Huang Zhaoyue opened the document, Xia Heimao peeked quickly with his vertical pupils, and couldn’t help but take a sharp breath in his heart.

Of course, it was not like Zone 51, where someone destroyed the Infinite Realm for personal gain and extracted the Infinite Stone.

But it was the Holy Track Ceremony!

Burning Heaven and the Holy Star Court Master Zhou Yin collaborated on the Holy Track Ceremony against the Demon God, yet there was a third-layer purpose.

Zhou Yin intended to deal with the Demon God, but due to Xia Mu’s interference, it failed.

The Heavenly Burning Saint Master aimed to open the Gate of Evil Demon and release the Dubhe Five, which succeeded.

But unexpectedly, although Xia Feng and Mu Qingtong succeeded in destroying the Holy Track Ceremonies in the Present Realm and Grey Realm, thwarting Zhou Yin’s plan, the ritual in the Star Realm remained intact, the Holy Star Strike was not completely destroyed.

It merely lost the ability to track and kill the Demon God.

The Heavenly Burning Saint Master used the unformed Holy Star Strike to forcefully blow a hole in the Infinite Realm of the Fifth District, allowing Calamity Divine Power to enter.

Descending upon the Fifth District, Sparrow King Star.

It seems that this was the Heavenly Burning Saint Master’s true aim, Zhou Yin, that foolish Holy Star Court Master, was wholly used by Burning Heaven.

Thinking of this, Xia Feng was still puzzled, and he asked in his heart: "Calamity, although a Nine-Eyed God and comparable to Huang Ye, is ultimately not the true form’s arrival, only a wisp of Divine Power, so it shouldn’t be difficult for the Great Sin Army and Golden Sparrow to deal with, right?"

Huang Zhaoyue shook her head: "A single Calamity Divine Power indeed isn’t difficult, but if you add Burning Heaven’s Heavenly Gifted Disaster to it... for any planet, any district, it’s an apocalyptic disaster."

Upon hearing this, Xia Feng was more puzzled, he knew the ability of the Heavenly Gifted Disaster, any Spirit Master infected with the ’Artifact Disaster Poison’, if they possessed a Spiritual Artifact, the Spiritual Artifact would give birth to self-consciousness, transforming into a living being, possibly backfiring on its owner.

As for Calamity, the top existence of calamity and disaster, what are the rules of its Calamity Realm? Just a wisp of Divine Power keeping the Great Sin Army from approaching?

"Calamity, its Calamity Realm is called the ’Game of Life World’. It can ’Game-of-Life-ize’ any area, to put it simply—turn it into a game."

Huang Zhaoyue explained mindfully, seeing Xia Feng’s confusion,

"The difficulty of the Game of Life World constructed by different amounts of Divine Power is different, but no matter what difficulty level the Game of Life World is, its core rule is the same—

The more you kill, the closer your relationship with the people you kill, the better and rarer the settlement rewards you receive when the Calamity Realm ends, that is, when the game is over.

And even if you kill just one person, the rarity of the reward is beyond imagination."

"It is precisely because of this that, before the Empire was established, wherever Calamity’s Calamity Realm descended, all creatures were wiped out, with only a few or even one person surviving to walk out of the Calamity Realm."

"....."

After hearing Huang Zhaoyue’s brief introduction to the Calamity Realm, Xia Feng’s cat eyes directly contracted, what kind of massive-scale battle royale is this?

The more you kill, the closer the relationships, the better the rewards at settlement... the core rules are indeed straightforward and crude, but they challenge human nature the most.

"But then, why is the Great Sin Army afraid of Calamity?" Xia Feng wondered, "Shouldn’t everyone be afraid?"

"Naturally because of the Heavenly Gift."

A hint of mocking light seemed to flash at the base of Huang Zhaoyue’s fox-grey eyes, "The Tree of Sin is indeed a Divine Object for developing army strength. But unfortunately, this Divine Object is restrained by the Heavenly Gifted Disaster."

"?" Xia Feng was slightly surprised, "You mean, the Artifact Disaster Poison of the Heavenly Gift will also infect the Sin Shadow and Sin Leaf? Producing a self-consciousness? But isn’t the Sin Shadow already self-conscious?"

"Wrong." Huang Zhaoyue shook her head, "The ability of the Heavenly Gifted Poison is to produce a self-consciousness with rebellious will, and the creation principle of the Shadow of Great Sin is similar to that of a Spiritual Artifact, so it is equally not immune."

"If it’s the usual case of generating rebellious consciousness, it’s fine, a Shadow Master can voluntarily release the Sin Shadow, but if they are in the Game of Life World, these self-consciousnesses will be given ’game identities’ by the Calamity Rules, forming independent entities that cannot be released or dissipated.

In such a case, the owner of these Sin Shadows is at risk, because these owners are the Sin Shadows’ closest, indeed their only ’kin’. To kill a kin of such level surely gets you the top-tier rich rewards, for instance, becoming a true independent entity after the game ends."