Chapter 1 Catastrophe
The sudden disappearance of Emperor Lai during a tour of the back mountain caused panic in Kunlun. Almost as the disciples reported, the seven sons of Kunlun joined forces to use spells to lift the nearby mountains, but they did not find the whereabouts of the young emperor. The elders of Penglai who were left in the mortal world returned to Penglai in a furious manner and mobilized all the four gods to search and even the nine-tailed heavenly fox in charge of the Xuanyuan Divine Sword and the Shaodi Palace were alarmed by it. Seeing the mighty army of divine land was about to travel to the mortal world, a messenger from hell brought the young emperor's letter at the last moment.
Obviously Yihao is not in hell at the moment because the so-called letter is actually just a ghostwriter of the hell demon king Satan. The letter briefly explains that in order to investigate the root cause of the change, he is currently on the way to the world and then explains that Shenzhou will continue to operate according to the current situation. Penglai must also make a ready support at any time. Finally, it is attached with the imprint of the Chaos Demon Eye exclusive to the demon Dachris.
Since there was the mark of the young emperor, everyone would not doubt the authenticity of the letter. However, the young emperor would suddenly leave Kunlun and go on a tour of various places. The reason was quite intriguing. When asked about this, the hesitant look of the messenger in hell also strongly aroused everyone's suspicion. Just as the elders began to consider whether to use punishment, the messenger who could not resist the divine power around him finally revealed the truth...
As a result, several Phoenix Elders could not help but rush to hell to ask Satan for guilt. Although the nine-tailed Heavenly Fox once showed a look of wanting to sacrifice the Xuanyuan Sword, he finally reluctantly persuaded several elders.
"Anyway, we have already understood the matter. Since Zijun has forgiven you, then forget it..." Jingyu stared at the unlucky messenger, the heavenly fox and earth demonic aura mixed with the Xuanyuan Sword, forming a strange pressure. The people of Penglai around him subconsciously stepped back several steps. "Go back and tell your master! Let him take care of his ignorant daughter! If there is a similar incident, Penglai would never give up!"
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"I said, haven't you ever thought of tieing me up like this. Maybe it will lead to the war between Hell and Penglai?"
In Gram's lounge, Yihao stared at the demon king next to him in distress. He was suddenly pulled to the Chaos Plane by Aso while he was on the back mountain of Kunlun. When he reacted, he was already in a magic warship. What was even more speechless was that the magic warship of Gao Nai had taken him to the sky above the Pacific Ocean. Although Yihao immediately contacted Satan and asked him to write a letter to send it back to Penglai to comfort everyone, when the Penglai people knew that the young emperor was actually kidnapped, would there be any extreme reaction, but he was completely unexpected.
"What's the matter? Hell and Penglai are impossible to fight."
Asola lazily climbed on the sand and looked at the magazine in front of her with concentration. The answer was absent-minded.
"How do you know that Hell and Penglai can't fight?" Yihao looked at Asola with a wonderful look.
"Think about it, if Penglai really called him..." Asola seemed to be interested in talking about the topic of interest, sitting down with Yihao and discussing it seriously.
"If Penglai really hit him?"
"He must have said, 'No chance of winning, just surrender', and took the opportunity to hand over the throne of hell and ran to the free land of Fanshi by himself."
Asola without hesitation denies his father's character as a ruler.
“…You are right.”
Yihao had difficulty admitting that Asola was right.
"That's right? He has fought a war with the heavens for thousands of years. He has long been tired of managing hell. I heard him complain that you died too early or you could hand over the throne of hell to you. Ah. If you are interesting now, Satan can hand over the demon legion to you at any time! Or take this opportunity to unite Penglai to fight into the heavens, right?"
Speaking of this, Asola's eyes flashed with a light that was about to move.
"...Anyway, let Satan's affairs be put aside first." Yihao rubbed his forehead with a headache. "The question now is what do you want to do when you brought me here?"
"Because Penglai is very boring!" Asola lay down on the sand again, and put on the back of the "big" shape, although it was a childish movement, the little pure white exposed between the two legs intertwined against the black tight leather skirt was particularly charming. Of course, Asola did not notice this and complained to Yihao. "Just staying there makes people unable to calm down and cannot play with women and cannot destroy... Ahhh, if I had known this, I should have stayed in hell!"
For the witch who is used to the noisy killing, Penglai's peaceful atmosphere should be like a poison? It is difficult for her to do anything reckless under the supervision of the Phoenix clan. In addition, the passage to return to hell must be maintained through the divine wood. No wonder she sneaked down to earth and storm... Yihao looked at Asola, who was too casual in the girl's posture and shook her head and smiled bitterly.
"Forget it, the affairs in China have come to an end anyway. I just plan to go to the world, but I can't..."
Yihao looked at the overly luxurious style around the lounge, which was not unfamiliar to him. When he handed Gram to Erica, he guessed that the lady would have some trouble. Even so, he couldn't help but sigh.
"How much effort did she take..."
Surprisingly Erica was not on Gram
Hao learned from Camilla that the empress who ruled Europe was also in exchange for the time being. The catastrophe caused by the silver mask caused the European countries to fall into chaos one after another. Thanks to Yihao's precautions for preparing the Magic Furnace, the Dark Union barely maintained normal. Although Erica tried to integrate the chaos of the European countries with the Dark Union as the center, it could not be compared with the Shenzhou, which had a deep divine connotation. Therefore, things were progressing quite difficult so that the young lady had no time to take advantage of Gram.
"Thank you so hard..." Seeing the dark circles appearing on the screen, Erica Yihao subconsciously touched her chin's beard while greeting her in a sincere tone.
"What are you talking about? Father!" Erica on the other side seemed to have exhausted her patience. The image generated by the magic circuit exaggeratedly enlarged the empress's bloodshot pupils to Yihao's eyes. "The whole Europe is already in chaos. The Dark Union is about to explode. You are still free and easy over there! Father, I specially sent Camilla to pick you up. Why don't you come back soon!"
"Even if I come back, I can't help. Hasn't the Dark Union all handed over to you to manage?" Yihao couldn't help but repent in his heart that he just despised Satan.
"What are you talking about? Father! The Dark Union was originally the organization you created. Do you want to stay out of this when you need help the most?" Of course Erica did not accept his reason.
"But in fact, I don't know the situation of the Dark Union at all. If I command it casually, it might be more chaotic than it is now?" Yihao enthusiastically persuaded Erica. "And don't you think it's more important to find out the root of the world's changes as soon as possible? As long as the laws of the world can be restored to their original appearance, the chaos will be calmed down, right?"
"...Is it really that simple?" Erica looked at him with obvious suspicion.
"Well! If you don't try it, who knows? Anyway, I'm definitely not idle here." Yihao touched his chin as if he wanted to emphasize something. "You should be able to accept it if you say so, Erica? In short, I'm not at the time of going to the Demon Hunting Association, please tell me what the Dark Union is currently in control!"
"Master the situation? Apart from the chaos everywhere, I can't think of anything else to pay attention to..." Erica stared at Yihao for a few seconds before slowly breathing out. "Well, although I want to say that, in fact, the most chaotic places are Europe and North America... that is, the more advanced areas in the world. As for South America, Africa and other unreachable areas, the chaos... can only be said to have not spread to an uncontrollable level."
"This is really good news..." Yihao finally breathed out after hearing this. "There are dark labor unions in Europe and North America. There are also ags in management. In terms of management, it seems that the problem is not as big as expected..."
"It's better not to be too optimistic about this." Erica interrupted Yihao's longing. "The ags you are looking forward to are no longer here."
"Not here? What does it mean to be nowhere?" Yihao immediately widened his eyes.
"It's gone, it's gone, as if it's literally means, the entire ags organization disappeared like steam... I sent someone to contact you, but there was only an empty base. Ags~.: Do you want to say it? "And it's said that North America has fallen into an anarchy state. Several branches of the Dark Union in the United States have also lost their functions one by one. Now that the Big 6 has been isolated from the world... Maybe it's not right to say that while the electricity is lost, the human world has been divided into countless pieces. Now that we can contact our father in this way depends entirely on the operation of the magic mechanism."
"I understand." Yihao nodded with a solemn expression. "Erika Europe is here to you. In short, consider cooperating with the Demon Hunting Association first! If necessary, it is okay to ask Penglai for assistance. The Shenmu clan helps to open the door to the world. If hell is behind the support, the Dark Union will be much easier..."
"Where are you, Father?" Erica did not relax because of Yihao's promise but stared at him more nervously.
"Of course I'm going to North America." Yihao didn't mean to hide it. "I care very much about what happened there. Now the world is so chaotic. If something happens again, it will be really over... By the way, Camilla and Gram lend me a little while. As for Asola..." Yihao looked back at the killing witch and saw that the latter was looking eager to try, so he could only sigh. "I'll take it there too, even if she stayed in the Dark Union, it will only add trouble to you."
"But over there..." Erica clearly showed a worried look.
"Don't worry, you're not sure that the Silver Mask is making trouble on the ags side, and even if the Silver Mask is really planning something there..." Speaking of this, Yihao narrowed his eyes slightly. "That's something that I can't ask for."
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Gram, who crossed the vast Pacific Ark, initially arrived in Los Angeles on the west coast of the United States, although he learned from Erica that there was anarchy and chaos, the scene before him still shocked him.
There is no complete ship in the entire port of Los Angeles Port, but the sea is filled with debris of ships.
Traces of twisted and damaged buildings can be seen everywhere. A tall building with dozens of stories is unknown.
The upper half of the collapsed ground crushed the large area of the house below. The steel bars and stones fell from above, but there were more cracks and sunkens from unknown sources. You can see the police car buried half by stones by the roadside. There are even wreckage of plane wings in the distance. Seeing the darkness of the remaining ground on the ruins, it is easy to imagine what a desperate situation was at that time.
The whole city has turned into ruins, and Yihao is standing in the middle of the ruins and is so numb that he cannot feel anger and sadness.
"Yo, it's such a miserable scenery. That person called Silver Mask is really doing something amazing..."
Behind him, Asola's cold-blooded voice came. The killing witch looked left and right with a slightly excited look. Although this was not something that needed to be blamed for the demon, Yihao couldn't help but feel full of anger when he heard this. However, just as he was about to vent his anger into eloquent preaching, Asola's voice suddenly changed tone.
"Huh? It's strange..." Asola looked around.
"What's strange?" Yihao temporarily suppressed his anger but his voice seemed stiff.
"Don't you realize it? Logically speaking, the city has become ruins but can't even see half of the corpse and..." Asola shrugged his nose. "Don't talk about the smell of corpse. There is no smell of blood in the air..."
"...Indeed." Yihao, who was dazed by anger, took back his calmness in an instant and looked left and right. His face suddenly became solemn. "It's really strange. It's only been a week since the loss of electricity and it's not as chaotic as it is, it's not as good as the residents' escape, right? But now this city is simply uninhabited... Are there survivors in Camilla?"
Yihao confirmed to Camilla on Gram, but the negative answer was passed back, which made his brows frown even tighter. At the same time, a strong ominous premonition appeared in his heart.
"Hey! Come here!"
Asola next to him seemed to have something appeared and greeted him loudly.
"What?"
Yihao walked over and saw Asola pointing at a collapsed wall. There were three wonderful traces left on the wall. The length was about half a meter and the depth was at least ten centimeters. It made people wonder if it was a scratch from some kind of large carnivore. The force of blowing the entire wall with one blow completely denied the possibility that the other party was a mortal creature.
"But I didn't feel any special demonic energy around me..."
Asola next to him expressed Yihao's doubts. He was able to confirm that the ruins of the city were the result of the rampant monsters. But since there were such fierce monsters rampant here, there should be a little trace left no matter how hard it was. However, Yihao could not feel any strange flow of spiritual energy around him, and it could not even be said that he could not even feel the spiritual energy at all!
The ruins of the city and the vacuum of spiritual energy are like abandoned by the world, which makes people feel chilled.
"Hey, this place is very strange! It's so ruined but I haven't even seen a dead person, so let's leave early..." Even Asola began to urge Yihao to leave.
"...Ah, okay." Yihao was silent for several minutes before nodding heavily. "Shang Gram and continue to move inward 6, and find at least one survivor..."
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Entering from Los Angeles, the United States, Gram moved along the highway towards the east. At Yihao's order, the spiritual detector equipped with the ship was raised to a maximum power of 200 kilometers. Any spiritual fluctuations in the radius of 200 kilometers could not escape Camilla's eyes, but this also caused Gram to have to move forward slowly. By the fifth day when the sun was about to set, Gram had already searched the vast land west of Los Angeles, but did not capture any traces of spiritual waves.
This also means that the millions of residents who once lived in this area have disappeared.
Yihao has been standing on the ship deck since the morning, leaving the scorching sun unmoved, but his eyes stared at the land moving below as if he wanted to see through some kind of darkness hidden in the ruins. The light of the sunset dyed a corner of the sky blood red. The originally desolate western wilderness seemed even more mysterious at this time. Thinking that today's search ended in failure, Yihao couldn't suppress his fists and clenched his fists angrily.
(It's better to mobilize the combat power of Penglai and Hell to level the heavens first...) Anger and leaky points captured Yihao's heart. Such thoughts came to mind, but they were denied rationally. (Not using the heavens to the silver mask is just a tool that can be discarded at any time, even if it is destroyed, it will not cause any blow to him... Damn it! Can you only watch the world collapse like this?)
Although I had already realized that this would be an extremely long war, Yihao still couldn't help but curse the situation in front of me, and at that moment, there were gentle footsteps behind me.
Chapter completed!