"This is the legendary Corrupted Breath!"
The Light God Orr was greatly shocked.
Although he was only a lower deity, he had lived for many years and mastered much knowledge, including the legends of Ragnarök.
Every endless era, there would be a Ragnarök when the astral realm would face a calamity, and countless deities would fall during it.
The signature phenomenon marking the beginning of Ragnarök was the Nameless Mist, which carried terrifying Corrupted Breath that could even cause deities to fall if entangled!
Without another word, the Light God immediately severed the connection with his avatar, cutting off all ties between them.
Above Prayer Light City, Orr's avatar that had been cold and expressionless suddenly lost its divine glow. In the next instant, Alice's drowsy consciousness cleared.
She looked around bewildered and saw the dark blade attacking her, instinctively retreating.
The blade swept past her front, the chilling law fluctuations making her heart feel as if frozen, unable to move.
She instinctively glanced around and immediately discovered four Corrupted Being demigods surrounding her!She now realized the severity of the situation—the Light God had actually abandoned his avatar and would no longer protect the people.
Although she had inherited the divine power and divinity from Orr's avatar, how could she skillfully use powers she had just inherited?
Even if she could use them skillfully, it would be useless. If even a deity personally controlling it couldn't defeat these four demigod Corrupted Beings, what could she do?
In that instant, Alice envisioned the coming outcome: she would be killed by the four demigod Corrupted Beings, Prayer Light City would fall, and the Light Empire would be reduced to ashes.
Just as the four demigod Corrupted Beings all focused their attacks on Alice.
Seven flying swords came speeding from afar!
Four of them blocked the attacks of the four demigod Corrupted Beings, while the other three locked onto one demigod Corrupted Being's head, neck, and heart, piercing through with sharp sword rays!
Clang, clang, clang, clang!
Thud, thud, thud!
Alice saw the four demigod Corrupted Beings being held back.
Three sword lights instantly penetrated one of the pegasus demigod Corrupted Beings. That demigod Corrupted Being was actually sliced into several pieces of flesh in that instant, and the black energy dispersing from the flesh was completely purified under the sword light.
Alice quickly looked toward the direction the sword lights came from.
She saw a handsome young man walking over like a deity stepping on starlight.
Countless residents and soldiers in Prayer Light City saw this scene and cheered toward the young man.
"Which expert is this, actually slaying a demigod Corrupted Being instantly!"
"There's hope! We have hope!"
The entire city was excited, even Alice was amazed.
Ye Bufan suddenly sensed strands of inexplicable power gathering toward him.
"Belief power?" Ye Bufan was startled.
But he quickly discovered that these powers were similar to belief power yet clearly different.
When these powers came into contact with the laws he mastered, they were refined into corresponding law-like powers!
Lifting his finger, a wisp of divine power appeared out of nowhere, from which Ye Bufan deduced a method to become a deity.
"So that's how it is. Is this the other path the Patriarch mentioned? Using belief power to replace the role of mental cultivation, thereby reducing mental requirements, while using this place's special rules to assist in condensing immortal-deity level energy cores to achieve immortality or divinity."
Ye Bufan actually felt somewhat disdainful about this. As a cultivator, he naturally wanted to follow the pure path of laws. Relying on belief power and external forces didn't count as true cultivation!
Thus, he directly expelled these divine powers from his body, condensing them into small divine power crystals.
These divine power crystals could be used to perform divine abilities and secret techniques, but using them as his own power source was unnecessary.
His realizations took only a moment. The three demigod Corrupted Beings, after being attacked, locked their crimson eyes on Ye Bufan.
Ye Bufan snapped back to attention and immediately activated the Seven Stars secret technique!
Instantly, starlight brightened greatly, and seven life-bound flying swords appeared around him.
"Go!"
The seven flying swords fell like shooting stars. Under the sword light, the three demigod Corrupted Beings were once again killed without any resistance!
This scene shocked all the cultivators in Prayer Light City once more, everyone marveling at Ye Bufan's power.
Ye Bufan sensed the belief power around him growing denser.
"Becoming an immortal or deity seems quite easy here!" Ye Bufan thought to himself. "The Patriarch needs reputation—could it be to absorb this belief power? But with the Patriarch's realm, he shouldn't care about this little belief power."
He had always been curious why Su Yuan needed reputation, eventually attributing it to the Patriarch's personal preference.
Ye Bufan looked toward the distant dark mass of the Corrupted Being army.
He looked up at the Big Dipper.
With solemn expression, he declared: "Big Dipper Supreme, Seven Stars lend your power, ten thousand stars fall, urgently as law commands!"
He raised the Seven Stars Sword high, and a Seven-Star Magic Altar materialized beneath his feet. Then endless radiance fell from the Big Dipper in the sky!
Globes of light resembling starbursts descended from the heavens. In an instant, the sky filled with light orbs, each one falling and killing a Corrupted Being.
The vast Corrupted Being army was completely annihilated in just a few breaths!
This magnificent feat stunned countless people!
Prayer Light City fell into complete silence, everyone staring dumbfounded at this scene.
Alice came to her senses and said excitedly: "Thank you for your help, hero! You saved the empire from disaster! On behalf of everyone in Prayer Light City, I offer you our most sincere gratitude!"
Ye Bufan knew this was a good time to spread his reputation.
So Ye Bufan proclaimed: "I am the Seven Stars Emissary, disciple of the Big Dipper School! Today I happened to be traveling here and couldn't bear to see living beings suffer, so I intervened. If you wish to give thanks, thank the Big Dipper Supreme, the Seven Stars Dao Sovereign!!"
Ye Bufan looked at the seven stars in the sky, his eyes filled with devout faith.
Suddenly, Ye Bufan discovered that the belief power he himself released merged with the surrounding belief power, all flowing into his sea of consciousness.
When he looked inward, he immediately found that where the belief power disappeared, strands of stellar law divine power countless times purer than before emerged and naturally integrated into his Nascent Soul.
He felt comprehension of stellar laws appearing in his mind out of nowhere, and his magical power cultivation also increased somewhat.
This was completely different from the divine power he had condensed before. This divine power seemed to automatically recognize his cultivation system, directly transforming into the power he needed most and integrating into himself without any side effects.
In that instant, he understood—this was the Patriarch's gift!
Belief power transformed by his own laws generated divine power that was naturally useless to him. But if belief power was transformed by the Patriarch's laws, that kind of divine power would be a guiding light for him!
He instantly became excited—this was the benefit the Patriarch was giving him!
The wider he spread the reputation, the greater the benefits he would receive!
"Hero, having killed so many Corrupted Beings, you must have been contaminated with Corrupted Breath. Please come to the city lord's mansion—I will personally help suppress the Corrupted Breath with all my strength!" Alice said at this moment.
Corrupted Breath?
Ye Bufan sensed himself in confusion, then shook his head: "I don't sense any Corrupted Breath you mentioned. What is it?"
Alice was taken aback: "You don't have those black energy strands in your body?"
Alice raised her finger, showing wisps of black energy moving through her flesh, bringing with them ominous corrupting aura.
Ye Bufan frowned: "This thing?"
He seemed to have seen Corrupted Breath approaching earlier, but when it got close to his body, it was blocked by his magical power!
Ye Bufan sent a strand of magical power into Alice's body.
Alice watched in astonishment as the Corrupted Breath in her body was gradually forced out, then flew into the sky, merging into the Nameless Mist.
She said in shock: "What kind of power is this? Even divine power can't completely eliminate it! You can actually expel Corrupted Breath!"
Ye Bufan said surprised: "Divine power can't expel it?"
He looked up at the sky.
And in the sky, within the Nameless Mist, Little Cai was looking down at Ye Bufan, though Ye Bufan couldn't see her.
Little Cai curled her lips—she had done it on purpose. Ye Bufan's magical power naturally couldn't expel Corrupted Breath evolved from calamity energy, but when she sensed the familiar fluctuations of the Seven Stars Sect's techniques, she actively withdrew the Corrupted Breath back into the Nameless Mist.
Ye Bufan sensed himself in confusion, then shook his head: "I don't sense any Corrupted Breath you mentioned. What is it?"
She excitedly murmured: "Finally have a chance to help Master! Master needs reputation most of all. From now on, only Master's power can dispel my power, so Master's reputation can spread easily!"
Alice raised her finger, showing wisps of black energy moving through her flesh, bringing with them ominous corrupting aura.
"Hmm, the slaughter of living beings has reached the standard. I can initiate a world calamity in another plane! The faster I expand, the faster Master's reputation will spread!"
Little Cai's eyes brightened, and she immediately expanded the Nameless Mist, extending it to a nearby plane.
She couldn't resist the arrangements of the Nine Nether Realm, but making small changes was completely fine.
Ye Bufan seemed to sense something in the black mist looking at him, but he couldn't detect any traces.
Then he looked at the excited Alice.
Alice said excitedly: "Can you help the people of Prayer Light City expel the Corrupted Breath? I'm willing to pay the price!"
Ye Bufan shook his head.
Alice's expression dimmed.
"I'm just passing through and can't stay. But I can leave behind cultivation methods. If you're willing, you can practice these methods. The power cultivated should be able to expel Corrupted Breath!"
Little Cai curled her lips—she had done it on purpose. Ye Bufan's magical power naturally couldn't expel Corrupted Breath evolved from calamity energy, but when she sensed the familiar fluctuations of the Seven Stars Sect's techniques, she actively withdrew the Corrupted Breath back into the Nameless Mist.
"Naturally!" Ye Bufan affirmed.
She excitedly murmured: "Finally have a chance to help Master! Master needs reputation most of all. From now on, only Master's power can dispel my power, so Master's reputation can spread easily!"
She had already guessed this outcome earlier, knowing the Light God had abandoned them. At this moment, her faith in the Light God collapsed.
"Hmm, the slaughter of living beings has reached the standard. I can initiate a world calamity in another plane! The faster I expand, the faster Master's reputation will spread!"
Ye Bufan waved his hand, countless spiritual lights of cultivation methods entering all living beings. Then he directly left, continuing to spread the name of the Seven Stars to the next place.