Female Protagonist Assistance System

Chapter 114 : . Pacifying the World

"Hun... Hun Jin?"

Hearing this voice, Gu Xun'er inwardly thought, "This is bad." She turned her head and, as expected, saw Xiao Mei with a face full of disbelief.

Xiao Han had already told Gu Xun'er about Hun Jin and Xiao Mei's situation. Gu Xun'er had once sighed over this couple, knowing that with Hun Jin's soul tablet shattered, he must be dead. However, since Xiao Han had fabricated a lie to deceive Xiao Mei, saying Hun Jin was fine, Gu Xun'er naturally wouldn't deliberately expose her Senior Sister's deception.

Who would have thought the Soul Clan would be so ruthless, not even sparing the bodies of their own clan members? And Hun Jin was said to be the granddaughter of a Soul Clan elder...

In a certain part of the Central Plains, a city stood on the plains.

"Boom!"

As the ground began to shake, a huge crack suddenly spread from within the city. Immediately, many experts rose into the air in shock. However, before they could react, a black pillar of light suddenly burst from the ground, enveloping the entire city.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Under the cover of the black light pillar, within the city, bodies suddenly exploded one after another, blood mist and shattered flesh bursting outward.

This sudden turn of events left everyone stunned. Looking at the figures that had exploded into blood mist right beside them, a deep fear and shock rapidly surged from their hearts like a tidal wave.

Amidst the fear, the city fell into chaos. Everyone frantically fled towards the city gates, with some of the stronger individuals soaring into the air. But before they could escape to the city gates, the threat of self-destruction rapidly spread. In an instant, the city was enveloped in blood mist, with viscous blood and shattered flesh submerging more than half of the city.

The black light pillar covered the city's sea of blood, and streams of blood-colored energy slowly rose, eventually transforming into blood-colored light pillars that shot into the sky, entering the huge formation that covered the Central Plains.

"Damn it!" Gu Xun'er roared angrily. If they allowed the Soul Hall to continue their rampage, forget about resistance, the entire Central Plains would become nourishment for their advancement to Dou God!

She quickly formed hand seals, and golden spiritual energy slowly emerged. As she completed the hand seals, the golden spiritual energy suddenly spread outward from her center, forming a huge barrier that enveloped the entire Central Plains.

The moment the barrier formed, blood-colored light pillars suddenly shot into the sky from various places in the Central Plains without warning. Each of these blood-colored light pillars was filled with overwhelming killing intent, which even materialized into tangible forms that spread out menacingly.

The blood-colored light pillars effortlessly broke through the barrier Gu Xun'er had set up. Even when encountering this killing intent, the golden spiritual energy began to show signs of dissolution.

Gu Xun'er's expression changed, and her heart sank completely.

What was this thing? Why could it dissolve her spiritual energy?

It should be noted that Gu Xun'er was currently the only Dou God on the continent, known as the Spirit Emperor. She was supposed to be invincible, yet these blood-colored light pillars that appeared out of nowhere could break through her barrier?!

In the blood pool, Xiao Yan, bathed in thick blood, revealed a meaningful smile.

In terms of pure strength, he naturally couldn't contend with Gu Xun'er, who had advanced to Dou God. But this didn't mean he had no means at his disposal.

These blood-colored light pillars were naturally the work of the "Heaven's Path" within him, designed to prevent Gu Xun'er from saving people. This wasn't his own power; he couldn't control it and could only use it once. But that didn't matter. As long as it could restrain Gu Xun'er's actions until the Emperor Pill was successfully refined, this world would be under his dominion!

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"What's going on?" Looking at this scene, the Alliance's high-level members also drew in a cold breath.

Gu Yuan, with an iron-gray face, waved his sleeve, forcibly opening the crack in the city and dispersing the sea of blood.

As the crack spread open, a blood-colored formation appeared underground, filled with stark white bones. A sinister aura shot into the sky.

"Soul-Devouring Life-Ending Formation." Looking at the formation hidden underground, everyone's faces were filled with shock as they exclaimed.

"Such a vicious method..." Gu Yuan said through gritted teeth.

The Soul-Devouring Life-Ending Formation was an extremely vicious formation from ancient times. This formation could turn all living beings within its range into blood foam and forcibly extract energy from that blood. Due to its extreme viciousness, it had long been destroyed. Who would have thought the Soul Hall still retained this formation?

"This isn't the Soul-Devouring Life-Ending Formation," Gu Xun'er said with a grim expression. "Or rather, it's not the Soul-Devouring Life-Ending Formation as we know it... This formation is even more vicious than that, and... it seems that once activated, it cannot be stopped."

Hearing this, Gu Yuan looked at Gu Xun'er in shock and couldn't help but ask, "Even you can't stop it?"

Gu Xun'er pressed her lips together and looked at the sky-piercing blood light, shaking her head with a bitter smile: "That blood-colored light pillar is suppressing my power... I can feel that this is not a power the Soul Hall can master. They must have done something, borrowing this vicious power from somewhere... Although the time shouldn't be long, even so, by the time this blood light fades, we will have missed the best opportunity."

Just as she was speaking, the puppets that blotted out the sky suddenly moved, sweeping towards the Alliance like a plague of locusts.

"This is bad!" Gu Yuan and the others thought inwardly. Faced with this formation similar to the Soul-Devouring Life-Ending Formation, most people were already struggling to protect themselves. Add to that these puppets, each with strength reaching the Dou Sheng level...

Gu Xun'er clenched her fists tightly. If they were only facing a group of Dou Sheng level enemies, the Alliance wouldn't find it too troublesome. But these puppets were all corpses of familiar people that almost all Alliance members knew. When facing former close friends and family members, how many could truly bring themselves to strike?

War was on the verge of breaking out.

Just as Gu Xun'er had feared, when facing these familiar faces, few could truly deliver a fatal blow. Even knowing that the opponents were enemies and not the familiar people they once knew, they still couldn't bring themselves to strike during battle.

Moreover, whether Xiao Yan had calculated this in advance or not, each puppet sought out people they were familiar with in life to engage in combat. This effectively eliminated Gu Xun'er's idea of ordering Alliance members to fight puppets they didn't recognize.

"Bang—"

Xiao Mei narrowly dodged Hun Jin's attack but was still carelessly injured on her arm. Although she had decent talent, she wasn't as monstrous as Gu Xun'er and Xiao Han. Currently, she had barely reached the level of a high-rank Dou Huang. How could she possibly have any chance against Hun Jin, who was at the Dou Sheng level? If it weren't for the assistance of Xiao Yu, Hu Jia, Han Yue, and others, she might have been killed by Hun Jin long ago.

Moreover, whether due to the forceful increase in strength or not, Hun Jin's displayed power hadn't reached the Dou Sheng level, which gave Xiao Mei and the others a slight chance to breathe.

Xiao Mei bit her lower lip hard, her eyes reddening as she looked at the expressionless Hun Jin, who had no self-awareness. Tears involuntarily welled up in her eyes.

Not only had she died, but she had been turned into a puppet, neither human nor ghost.

Years ago, when Hun Jin's soul tablet shattered, Xiao Han had comforted her, saying Hun Jin might not be dead. At that time, she was overwhelmed with grief and anger and couldn't help but believe it. Afterward, she trained desperately, often recalling her times with Hun Jin. Gradually, she began to understand that Hun Jin might truly be dead.

Even though she had mentally prepared herself, when she actually saw Hun Jin's corpse, she still felt suffocated.

How could she just die...

"Mei'er, be careful!"

Seeing Hun Jin charge towards Xiao Mei, who stood frozen in place without any reaction, Xiao Yu instinctively shouted, her whip lashing out towards Hun Jin.

Hun Jin didn't even glance at the whip, dark light surging around her body. In an instant, she shook off Xiao Yu's whip, her hand transforming into a claw as she reached for Xiao Mei's chest, seemingly intending to rip out Xiao Mei's heart directly.

Watching Hun Jin draw closer, Xiao Mei suddenly felt as if all strength had been drained from her body. She couldn't muster even the slightest will to resist. She even slowly closed her eyes, a bitter smile tugging at the corners of her lips.

Ah Jin, it's painful being alone, isn't it?

It's alright, I'll be joining you soon.

Just as Hun Jin's fingers were about to touch Xiao Mei's chest, Xiao Mei suddenly trembled all over, an extremely terrifying power erupting from within her body. This power, in just a brief moment, surpassed Hun Jin!

The terrifying power burst forth instantly, sending Hun Jin flying!

"Bang! Bang!"

In the instant Xiao Mei's aura suddenly surged, the auras of nearby Xiao Yu, Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and others also began to increase frantically!

Gu Yuan was stunned for a moment, then burst into wild joy: "It's the power of bloodline! They've activated the Dou God bloodline within them!"

Gu Xun'er also widened her eyes slightly. She instinctively looked towards the direction of the Tageer Desert. The next second, countless terrifyingly extreme blood-colored lightning bolts struck down towards the Tageer Desert. Almost instantly, the Tageer Desert was transformed into a hell of blood and lightning!

Gu Yuan and the others could only feel that the energy in the air seemed to have become much more violent, while Gu Xun'er, who had broken through to Dou God and vaguely grasped some rules, could faintly sense that the moment the blood lightning struck, something about this world seemed different.

It was as if something that should have existed but had disappeared for some reason had reappeared, and the trajectory of the world seemed to have been put back on track.

"This is... Senior Sister?" Gu Xun'er murmured.

The terrifying blood lightning directly destroyed the entire earth's core cave. In the midst of this blood-colored hell, a woman in a crimson-patterned silver robe, her black hair disheveled, slowly opened her eyes. In her silver eyes, countless symbols seemed to flash by.

She slowly raised her hand, and the moment she did so, a fierce wind suddenly arose.

She extended her index finger, slowly and gently pointing down at empty space. The force seemed light, but the instant she pointed, an invisible wave violently rippled outward, and the fierce wind abruptly ceased.

The woman's slightly pale thin lips parted, slowly uttering three words:

"Pacify the world."

As soon as the words fell, the black light pillars and blood-colored light pillars that had been covering the Central Plains suddenly shook. The next second, they shattered into points of starlight, silently dissipating into the air.

Amidst the deafening thunder, a mechanical voice suddenly sounded.

[Congratulations on your return, Lord Heavenly Punishment.]

Hearing this familiar voice, Xiao Han slightly raised her silver eyes, piercing as if able to see through all the hidden sins of the world.

"Thank you for your hard work," Xiao Han said slowly.

She had awakened to her identity and all her memories. Now, she was no longer human, but the Heavenly Punishment in charge of order and punishment.

The human body she originally possessed had disintegrated during the awakening process. However, considering the current special circumstances and the Alliance's need for strong combat power, she had extracted the bloodline of the body that had become a Dou God and preserved it in the earth's core. As long as this bloodline didn't perish, the Dou God bloodline of the Xiao family awakened because of her would not be extinguished.

Xiao Han also learned the cause and effect of everything that had happened. The events in the Realm of Chaos were not much different from what Wei Yiling had said. However, Wei Yiling, as a rule, was the first to fall, so she didn't know what happened afterward.

After the rules fell, the Three Paths were targeted one by one until they fell. The Sha Qi didn't dare to kill them but feared their awakening and return, so it set up one obstacle after another after the Three Paths reincarnated, attempting to trap them in the cycle of reincarnation. Xiao Han recalled how in the previous era of declining laws, she had seemed to lose her mind and loved Shen Ye. This might not have been without the Sha Qi's machinations.

However, for all its calculations, the Sha Qi hadn't anticipated that the rules would awaken first, guiding her into this world of the Dou Qi Continent, and even creating the so-called "system" to help her and guide her awakening.

Xiao Han slightly narrowed her eyes, looking towards the direction of the Central Plains. She took a step forward, and her entire being instantly vanished from the spot.

Now that she had awakened, and this world had the guidance of rules and Heavenly Punishment, it had more or less returned to the right path.

Everything should come to an end now.