Chapter 113: Black Halloween

  In the year 720, this was an era of crazy development for two different ethnic groups! On July 7th of that year, at dawn, it was named - Black Valentine's Day! This festival, which originated from the Han Dynasty and has been passed down, is the most romantic day in Huaxia, also known as Girls' Festival, or what later became the traditional Valentine's Day in Huaxia.

  This day people fell into a great panic, which originated from the strange phenomenon in the sky! And this day officially kicked off the war between humanity and the Alliance...

  In this day, ten legendary masters of the Great Tang successfully broke through into the Demon God Realm. What's more, they were all in different locations within the Great Tang and yet they broke through at the same time. The heavenly phenomenon that occurred when they broke through actually caused a resonance effect, forming a magnificent landscape painting within the Great Tang! The vast plains and undulating mountains crisscrossed, with mighty rivers rushing through them. This enormous illusion in the sky slowly absorbed the power of heaven and earth during the resonance, forming an unparalleled painting that made people feel as if they had entered a fairyland when standing amidst it.

  Just over ten minutes later, when the illusion was about to dissipate, a huge black fog suddenly appeared in the distance, covering the illusory paradise with brutal dark power, presenting an apocalyptic scene like hell to the world! Broken limbs and blood flowing into rivers, among the giant mountains formed by skeletons were a group of monstrous creatures with strange shapes and appearances.

  The technicians inside Datang were operating nervously with various complex instruments flashing before their eyes. A huge screen in the distance displayed an image that caused great panic! This was a signal transmitted by satellite, and after processing, the signal was converted into an image.

  There is not a single normal landscape in the picture, all of which are filled with that hellish illusion! After calculation by technological elites, the center of this picture turned out to be half of the African continent, which already belongs to the earthly hell!

  "According to my experiments, I have found out why the top masters of our alliance's Magic God Realm can't compare to humans of the same level! The medicine we developed has no problems, but it can't get the recognition of heaven and earth because you people lack a complex energy in your bodies. According to my calculations, only the birthplace of these alien beasts has the energy you need, that is, the Human Hell with the reputation of Life Forbidden Zone!" Shangguan Yan pointed at the huge map of half of Africa, and continued: "We already know that these alien beasts are produced in this place, but when extracting their essence, the complex energy they carry is severely wasted, causing your own energy to be unable to truly break through to the Magic God Realm! This complex energy can only be actively absorbed by you people who are stuck between two realms, and it belongs to the forbidden life of death power! If you want to truly break through to the Magic God Realm, there is only one way: enter that place, sleep, and passively absorb the energy here to accept transformation. This is your only way to truly break through!"

  "Huh? Can we really enter that place? Is there any danger? And another thing, why can we only passively absorb the energy there by sleeping, wouldn't actively absorbing it be more efficient?" Li Shimin looked around at the other puzzled high-ranking officials of the alliance and was the first to come back to his senses and ask.

  "Because you are all transformed by the essence of the alien beasts from there, in theory, you can survive inside! But... I'll just say it straight out, how severe the danger is inside, I really don't know, but the energy there is too violent! If you actively absorb it, I can responsibly say - you will definitely die! This can be seen from the fact that these alien beasts are fleeing from that place, their internal energy has reached its limit! The reason why their strength is weaker than ours is only because they rely on instinct and cannot effectively utilize the massive energy inside them! What you are doing now is accumulating internal energy, of course, if any of you want to actively absorb those energies, I'd be delighted to see it, after all, this is a great opportunity for experimentation! However, I must remind you that absorbing such energy may result in partial or full-body mutations within yourselves, this is no joke! Now you can decide whether to accept my proposal, our alliance urgently needs to enhance its military strength, once humans make a large-scale breakthrough into the Demon God Realm, the situation will be self-evident..."

  "Why doesn't Lord Shang accept the injection of biological agents? With her current strength, if she accepts it once, maybe she can break through the Demon God Realm and enter a new realm. Isn't this a better way to improve our alliance's strength?" A newly promoted demon god with skin and hair color constantly changing asked curiously.

  Other senior Mo Shen realm also shook their heads. They had asked the same question before, but the answer they got left them speechless: "I am a researcher, not a research subject!"

  Li Shimin also made a proposal to Shangguan Wan'er in private, but she refused without any expression. Her words almost drove Li Shimin crazy: "First of all, I am a person, including my soul! Humans are a very complex creature with infinite possibilities. From you, I got an epiphany that external forces are ultimately external forces! When external forces become a necessity, I don't want to lose myself in the bodies of other disgusting creatures! I can imagine that behind your human-like appearance is the existence of a mutated monster. I think suicide is my only ideal solution! I won't suffer for the rest of my life like you!"

  These few words caused Li Shimin's face to contort with excitement, and his hands faintly showed the marks of turtle feet! Li Shimin had recklessly injected a biological agent that altered human genes, although it was said to have very small side effects, but in order to obtain power that didn't belong to him, he had to pay the price! A long horn protruded from his forehead, and a pair of controllable turtle feet...

  These two points have already pushed Li Shimin to the opposite side of humanity, and this is also the biggest obstacle for Li Shimin not wanting to have any more children. He doesn't want his own children to abandon humanity's foundation from birth! Moreover, how he will face the ancestors of the Li family after a hundred years is also a major illness in his heart...

  From that day on, Li Shimin never mentioned this matter again. Even when Shangguan Wanru broke through to the Demon God Realm and encountered the alliance's greatest enemy, Li Yuanba, Li Shimin didn't say a word! He wouldn't say any more grand theories because he already knew that the path was one that had to be walked by oneself, even heaven couldn't intervene!

  Heavenly retribution can be survived, but self-inflicted retribution cannot!

  After making all the arrangements, Li Shimin took a total of 46 Mo Shen realm masters under the cover of Shangguan Yanru and evaded the Great Tang satellite in the sky to enter that year-round howling human hell and fall asleep! This land is a forbidden zone for life and also the best place to avoid the surveillance of the Great Tang technology.

  After parting ways with Shangguan Wan, the 46 demon gods mustered their strength and rushed to the center of this dead land at the fastest speed. They finally couldn't resist the sudden drowsiness and fell into a deep sleep! A year later, ten of the 46 demon gods died without any signs of life!

  The rest of the scene showed no signs of human presence, and if someone were to enter this place, they would surely cry out in surprise, thinking they had seen a mythical monster! The thirty-six creatures from the myths of all directions, arranged haphazardly in an irregular circle, emitted an endless aura of spiritual pressure that enveloped the surrounding hundred miles.

  Two years later, they opened their eyes together with the restored normal human body! The moment they opened their eyes, a substantial black light burst out and rushed into the sky! When they sat up, they felt something in their hearts and looked up at the sky together, releasing their strong aura freely!

  In the midst of a deafening roar, the soaring black light exploded and rapidly expanded to form a picture of a group of demons dancing wildly in an intense extension - the Demon God Realm has been fully established!