Looking at this dead woman, who died so foolishly and ridiculously.

Normally, Anhofus would have looked at her with disdain and even mocked her.

But at this moment.

Anhofus suddenly felt an unexpected surge of irritation, unable to utter a single word.

Outside, the King of Yinsai’s preparations were also in full swing.

Although there was a hiccup, with Anhofus not drinking the giant beast’s saliva as expected, all other arrangements were in place.

The barrier pre-installed in the God-Servant City had been activated, successfully trapping Anhofus’s bone puppets within the city.

Hundreds of soldiers and accompanying priests rushed into his mansion, searching for the little person in the bottle hidden inside, as well as his secret text “Immortal Form and Artificial Humans.”

There was no turning back now.

At this point, the two had completely fallen out.

Only one of them, Anhofus or the King of Yinsai, could survive.

Anhofus removed Princess Yeya’s hand that was grasping him, gently laying her on the ground, then walked towards the outside of the temple.

He spoke softly.

“How boring.”

“How dull.”

“Then… let’s end this quickly!”

The square outside was already surrounded by an entire group of priests. They stood hundreds of meters away from Anhofus, as if preparing to use the space in between as a battlefield.

Around the King of Yinsai were nearly twenty powerful third-rank ability users, both Trilobite Men and bone demons.

Anhofus looked around and laughed.

“Well, well.”

“You’ve gathered quite a crowd.”

“A full nine third-rank seal priests, and some old relics you’ve dug up from who knows where, turning them into bone demons to serve you.”

The King of Yinsai had spared no effort in summoning so many powerful figures from across the Yinsai Kingdom just to deal with Anhofus.

In a way, this demonstrated his fear of Anhofus.

Or rather, his terror of the fourth-rank God’s Grace power.

At this point, the King of Yinsai no longer tried to hide anything.

In his view, no matter how powerful Anhofus was, surely he couldn’t handle twenty third-rank ability users!

He looked at Anhofus with a righteous expression, raising his scepter and letting out an angry roar: “Anhofus.”

“As an evil sorcerer, you infiltrated the Sky Temple by impersonating a priest.”

“Desecrating the divine, deceiving the king, violating taboos, each of these is intolerable to all of Yinsai and everyone else.”

“You’ve committed unforgivable crimes, and today you won’t leave this place alive.”

The priests of the Sky Temple, many of them, looked at Anhofus in disbelief.

“Anhofus? Isn’t that the name of an evil sorcerer?”

“The student of Haru who caused the fire demon disaster.”

“How is this possible?”

“The God-Servant Priest is the evil sorcerer Anhofus?”

Anhofus walked out of the temple, brilliant light shining upon him. He raised his hand to block the sunlight, looking up at the sun in the sky.

“The Sage Sandean had a very apt saying.”

“Trilobite Man, you are truly ugly!”

“You and I are the same.”

Anhofus seemed to finally adjust to the intense light, lowering his hand to look at everyone in the square.

“When did I stoop so low as to associate with people like you?”

The King of Yinsai coldly looked at Anhofus: “Kill this evil being.”

As soon as the words fell, the battle immediately erupted.

Multiple third-rank seal priests simultaneously released their powers, various huge seal spirits, ten to twenty or even thirty meters tall, appeared and attacked Anhofus.

Not only that, but one bone demon after another unleashed their power, revealing their terrifying true forms.

This place was several miles away from the God-Servant City below, situated high in the sea of clouds.

It was an isolated area outside the city, no longer considered within the town.

Bone demons could unleash their power here without restraint, not worrying about the covenant monsters had made with God.

Anhofus looked at the oncoming seal spirits and bone demons, raising his hand.

The Crown of the Sky on his head emitted a dazzling light, and with his brain as the center, a strong wave radiated outward.

“Bone Field.”

At Anhofus’s command, the bones of all the bone demons present seemed to no longer belong to them, instantly beginning to rebel.

A bone cage grew from within their bodies, trapping them inside.

“Thud! Thud! Thud!”

One by one, the bone demons fell to the ground.

Dense bones extended from their bodies, trying to completely devour them.

“What’s happening? Our bodies won’t listen to us.” The bone demons were in panic.

“It’s the power of bones, Anhofus’s fourth-rank God’s Grace power is bones.” Someone was constantly struggling for control of the bones in their body, but it felt like fighting against oneself.

He wanted to run forward, but one of his legs kept tripping himself, while one of his hands tightly gripped his own neck.

Those present fully experienced the difference between a fourth-rank God’s Grace Priest and themselves.

“He can not only create bone puppets, but even control the bones inside our bodies?”

One of the bone demons, trapped in a bone cage and gradually turning into a bone ball, fell from the height, plummeting towards the God-Servant City below.

But before it could fall into the God-Servant City, it hit an indestructible wall.

There seemed to be a hemispherical golden light shield above the city. The bone demon crashed directly into it, letting out a wail, and its entire being dispersed into bone dust.

Even without his army of bone puppets, these bone demons were no match for a fourth-rank God’s Grace Priest.

This was a qualitative change.

They were mortal, while the fourth-rank God’s Grace had begun the transformation from mortal to mythical.

Especially since Anhofus’s power was bones, they had no way to fight against him, like soldiers encountering a king.

Even more strangely, after the bone demon dissipated, strange silver lights flew out from its body.

They came towards the Sky Temple, falling into Anhofus’s sleeve.

However, in the chaos, even if someone saw this scene, they had no mind to pay attention to it.

Everything happened in an instant, and in the blink of an eye, the bone demons were dealt with by Anhofus.

This was something no one had anticipated.

The other third-rank seal priests were even more terrified, but their actions became faster.

“So this is fourth-rank God’s Grace!” One third-rank seal priest was somewhat fearful, wanting to retreat.

“While his God’s Grace puppets are away, quickly kill him.” But others rushed forward, immediately dispelling his thoughts of retreat.

“Hurry, in a moment his bone puppets will break through the barrier, we can’t hold him for long.” Someone looked towards the God-Servant City below, where the bone puppets within the barrier were constantly roaring, their voices reaching the Sky Temple.

Giants made of iron, yarn ball giants made of silk, completely transparent glass seal spirits, and even giants constantly shedding salt particles were all charging with all their might.

The distance of several hundred meters was covered in an instant.

They came at Anhofus from all directions, carrying powerful divine technique light, intending to crush the tiny Anhofus into a pile of bone powder and meat paste.

At this moment, Anhofus unhurriedly took something out from his sleeve.

Darkness and white.

Colorful and gray.

Various colors burst forth from his hand, even the sun in the sky couldn’t overshadow them.

A powerful force radiated out, and those seal spirits were instantly penetrated by the light.

Then, all the seal spirits became immobilized.

Those people in the outer layer, the moment Anhofus took out the magic bottle, their expressions changed drastically. They felt that the wisdom ability in their bodies couldn’t even be released.

Their wisdom bloodline, originating from the first king Redlichia, was restless and fearful at this moment.

Facing the existence in that magic bottle.

They involuntarily felt deep fear in their hearts, and some even directly knelt on the ground, crying and shouting, muttering some strange language in their mouths.

These were the ability users of the priest group.

As for the many people hiding in various corners and buildings, they instantly let out sharp howls, and upon glimpsing the little person in the bottle, they immediately fell into a deep sleep.

They lay on the ground, their life or death unknown.

They had seen the mythical.

In their eyes, a terrifying humanoid figure stood at the edge of the sky.

It appeared to exist in a world parallel to their own.

Behind this humanoid was a circle, filled with dense, complex, and terrifying symbols and forbidden words.

Like a person.

Yet also like a giant tree.

The King of Yinsai, watching Anhofus from afar, screamed in terror and repeatedly retreated.

“How is this possible?”

“You clearly didn’t bring it up here, you clearly left it in your secret chamber.”

The King of Yinsai’s arranged attendant had witnessed Anhofus changing into the Sky Temple robe and confirmed he hadn’t carried anything with him.

The spy in Anhofus’s mansion also reported that he had left certain items in the secret chamber before leaving.

This was also part of the King of Yinsai’s plan.

After all, no one would bring such a terrifying and uncontrollable thing to their own wedding, let alone to marry their new bride.

But Anhofus had brought it.

Anhofus laughed, his eyes filled with pity.

“I was acting for you, and you really believed it!”

He raised the magic bottle high, illuminating the entire temple and square.

“Then let me show you the power of the mythical.”

A powerful force came from the void, continuously pulling the priests in the square up into the air.

It was as if there was a giant above the sky, reaching down one after another to grab insects from the ground.

“No!” A priest was pulled into the sky, desperately struggling towards the ground.

“Save me.” Half of a priest’s body disappeared, shouting in terror at the King of Yinsai.

“Run.” Someone tried to jump down from the height, but was caught in mid-air.

The nine seal priests, along with their seal spirits, seemed to be grabbed by a powerful force into a realm that didn’t belong to reality.

“Gulp!”

Terrifying chewing and swallowing sounds came from the void.

In the blink of an eye, these powerful seal priests were chewed clean by an unnamed existence.

Not even scraps remained.

Anhofus looked into the magic bottle, his face showing delight.

“Ah!”

“It seems to have grown a bit?”

That smile was as bright as sunshine, seemingly without any malice.

Like a young man showing a curious object to a friend.

However, everyone was looking at Anhofus in terror, constantly retreating towards the outside, until they reached the edge of the cliff.

In the crowded situation, some were even pushed off the cliff.

No one dared to approach Anhofus, this mad figure like a demon.

On the stairs leading from the Sky Temple to the God-Servant City, more people were fleeing for their lives.

Even in the God-Servant City, people began packing their things and fleeing towards the outside of the city.

Such a terrifying battle of ability users erupting at the Sky Temple couldn’t possibly go unnoticed in the city.

“Thud.”

The King of Yinsai suddenly revealed his true bone demon form. At this point, he no longer cared about concealing his monster identity.

One misstep had led to another; every part of his plan had completely failed to unfold as he had anticipated.

He had already lost.

He wanted to escape, to flee from Anhofus’s grasp.

Although on the surface, the king had the support of the entire royal capital and everyone, while Anhofus was just a lone individual.

But now the bone demons were imprisoned, and the nine great seal priests had been killed.

This one person had already become the controller of the entire Sacred Mountain and royal capital.

Just as the King of Yinsai had leaped out from the mountain peak, transforming into a bone demon to flee downwards, countless skeletal hands grew all over his body.

These skeletal hands grabbed the King of Yinsai, directly pulling him back and slamming him heavily onto the square.

The power of bone demons had been given to him by Anhofus; how could he possibly escape Anhofus’s grasp using this very same power?

Anhofus held up the magic bottle and walked towards the King of Yinsai.

“Ah!”

As the strange light from the bottle shone on the King of Yinsai, he immediately let out a miserable scream.

The bone demon body immediately began to shrink, and the King of Yinsai turned back into a bone man.

He lay naked on the ground.

Anhofus kicked away his crown and scepter, stepping on the King of Yinsai’s skull.

“My King, what sweet dreams are you still having at this point?”

“This is not a game of make-believe, nor a chess game where you can take back your moves.”

He had wanted to do this for a very long time.

He had turned the high and mighty King of Yinsai into a monster, and now he had this monster king under his foot, looking down at him from a superior position.

Anhofus said in a low voice: “You lost.”

“You must die.”

The King of Yinsai was in extreme pain, but he tried his best to maintain the posture and dignity of a king.

However, with someone stepping on his head, he no longer had any dignity.

He glared at Anhofus with bloodshot eyes: “Anhofus, have you thought about it.”

“If you kill me, what price will you pay.”

“It’s a price you can’t bear, you can’t bear…”

Anhofus interrupted the King of Yinsai’s angry roar, forcefully pressing the King of Yinsai’s head down with his foot.

“I have thought about it, my King.”

“Lan won’t let me off, the entire Yinsai won’t let me off.”

“Even God might bring divine punishment upon me.”

The stone bricks on the ground cracked layer by layer, and the King of Yinsai’s skull was continuously pressed downwards.

This skull was surprisingly sturdy.

Anhofus showed no fear.

“But~”

“So what?”

Anhofus increased the pressure on his foot, and cracks began to appear on the King of Yinsai’s skull.

“But since I’ve done it, I’m not afraid.”

“To gain something, you have to pay a price.”

“You wanted to kill me, to take my things, so you should have been prepared to die.”

“I’m also prepared, my King.”

He bent down and whispered in the King of Yinsai’s ear.

“Do you know?”

“I was originally prepared to leave, but you made me stay.”

“I just wanted to see how exactly you planned to kill me.”

“And if it weren’t for you, I really wouldn’t have been able to find so many powerful ability users!”

The King of Yinsai didn’t believe Anhofus’s words at all. Just as Anhofus couldn’t understand Princess Yeya, he also couldn’t understand someone like Anhofus.

“You possess such powerful strength, you have the power of immortality, would you really be willing to leave?”

“Would you be willing to give up this kingdom within your grasp, and the power?”

“Who could be content with mediocrity, who could give up this supreme power and throne?”

“You will kill me, you will occupy the position of the King of Yinsai.”

“Then become an immortal king.”

Before he could finish speaking, Anhofus crushed the King of Yinsai’s skull into pieces with one stomp.

“Bang!”

He stood up, sneering.

“Heh~”

“Immortal king.”

The brain inside that skull was like a stone, showing no signs of life.

The mythical blood within the King of Yinsai also fell into the magic bottle.

The embryo in the bottle began to grow, visibly transforming into a child.

Everyone around was terrified by this scene, and all were fleeing.

Some ability users jumped directly from the height, using the power of divine techniques to lessen their falling force.

Anhofus had also gone completely mad, no longer caring about anything.

He held up the magic bottle in his hand, gradually raising it high into the sky.

“Devour!”

“Turn us, these lowly and ugly mortals, into your eternal nourishment.”

The little person in the flask burst forth with dazzling light, radiating over everyone.

“Buzz buzz~”

The sound was like a cry from hell, or a heavy giant door.

In an instant, the entire Sacred Mountain was enveloped in light.

The Sky Temple, the God-Servant City, the auxiliary city at the foot of the mountain, everyone fell under the control of the mythical life embryo.

People running on the passage stairs, people on the small path on the other side of the Sky Temple.

One after another, people turned into statue-like existences, endless fluorescence flying out from these “statues” towards the magic bottle in the sky.

The light spread from the mountain peak down below, finally invading the God-Servant City.

In the God-Servant City, everyone turned to look at the deathly light descending from the sky, desperately running across the ground, only to wail as they watched themselves turn into “statues.”

Their lives were frozen in the final moment, their faces and eyes still preserving the fear and despair before death.

As the light swept through, an eerie silence fell over everything.

This city was rapidly dying.

“Ah!”

“God! What on earth is this thing?”

“We can’t escape, we can’t escape.”

When the last figure was swept by the light, the God-Servant City completely became history.

Dead silence.

Quietness.

But not long after the light passed, something seemed to be emerging from those “statues.”

Blurry human figures crawled out from the death statues.

The blurry figures still maintained their appearance from when they were alive.

They looked around bewilderedly, gazing at the silent city.

They were in a daze, as if they hadn’t realized they were dead.

A figure clearly that of a workshop worker broke free from his corpse and walked towards the distance.

“Oh right.”

“I should go to the workshop, it’s about to start work.”

A noble wandered in his castle, roaring angrily about why the food hadn’t been served yet.

“What’s going on?”

“Where is everyone?”

“Where have they all gone?”

There were also merchants wandering around, looking for the location of their workshops, but unable to remember.

“Eh?”

“It was clearly this road, why can’t I find it?”

Even Princess Yeya, who had already died, appeared as a shadow struggling out of her body, floating above her own corpse.

She looked around in confusion, as if she couldn’t remember anything that had just happened.

“Huh?”

“Why am I here? What am I doing here?”

Fluorescence rose like an ocean.

Such vast mythical blood merging into the sky finally caused a qualitative change in the magic bottle.

Countless lights intertwined within the bottle, the embryo became a child, then a youth.

Finally, it became an adult figure of light.

The divine artifact was complete, and its full information was revealed.

【Divine Artifact: Little Person in the Bottle Anhofus】

【Sequence Number 2】

【Ability 1 Incomplete Immortality: The little person in the bottle possesses an unstable mythical form, unable to exist in reality, the bottle is its eternal home; it can grant others incomplete immortality, those who receive immortality will have their bodies constantly rot and dissipate, memories and emotions gradually recede, turning into spirit bodies (ghosts), ghosts are composed of trace and large amounts of mythical blood, as long as they are not artificially destroyed, they can exist permanently.】

【Ability 2 Bottle of Original Sin: The magic bottle imprisoning the little person has formed a terrifying field due to the pollution of countless people’s desires, within this field all people will fall into madness and lose their rationality; it can release the light of original sin, seizing the power of mythical blood without worrying about backlash.】

【Ability 3 Door of Truth: The little person in the bottle has obtained countless people’s knowledge and memories through ghosts, it has hidden these memories behind a door.】

【Ability 4 Equivalent Exchange: Anyone can sign a contract with the little person in the bottle through a spirit realm ritual, trading with it for desired knowledge; of course, you must pay a price.】

Anhofus stood at the center of the Sky Temple, gazing in awe at the existence he had created.

An immortal myth.

His expression relaxed, his eyes filled with longing and aspiration.

“So, it really is the power of immortality.”

Light shone down, and Anhofus’s shadow wavered faintly.

At this moment, behind him, the shadows of the last king of the Samo Kingdom and his teacher seemed to appear faintly, his grandfather, his teacher.

Like him, they had pursued immortality madly all their lives.

That mad delusion passed down for generations between the Samo family and priests, finally in his generation.

It was truly realized.

Anhofus spoke loudly, his gaze fixed on the sky, not daring to blink.

“Look!”

“I wasn’t wrong, my immortality experiment succeeded.”

“How perfect you are, how powerful.”

The light in the magic bottle intertwined – colorful, black and white, dark – finally merging into one, turning white.

As if the endpoint of the fusion of all light and colors is white.

The little person of white light dust in the bottle slowly opened its eyes, looking at Anhofus.

“Little person in the bottle!”

“Tell me, who are you?”

Anhofus asked, his voice trembling with anticipation.

The mythical life in the bottle spoke, its voice like countless voices overlapping, carrying a hollow echo.

“I am you.”

“Anhofus.”

Anhofus couldn’t help but laugh loudly, covering his face with his hands, laughing so hard he bent over.

“That’s right.”

“I am Anhofus, and you are Anhofus.”

Anhofus looked up at the little person in the bottle. “I am the mortal Anhofus, and you…”

“Are the mythical Anhofus.”

“We have the same memories, the same will.”

“And… the same ideals.”

However, what Anhofus didn’t anticipate was that the little person in the bottle looked at him coldly.

“Anhofus.”

“Only you have realized your ideals.”

“You created me, brought me into this world, this boring, cold, uninteresting world.”

“In the end, you leave with the satisfaction of realizing your ideals, while I…”

The little person in the bottle suddenly erupted, its shadow expanding to the extreme, looking down at Anhofus and roaring.

“Will be eternally imprisoned in this flask, living alone, watching you all live.”

“Forever, eternity.”

“Do you know what this means?”

The little person in the bottle cried out to Anhofus, the despair and unease in its voice making Anhofus stunned.

“What?”

“Don’t you want to gain immortality?”

The little person in the bottle retorted sarcastically: “Immortality? Imprisoned in a bottle?”

“Then let you also taste the flavor of immortality.”

“You can’t leave alone either.”

The little person in the bottle released its power, layer upon layer of light shining on Anhofus.

Anhofus felt his flesh rotting, being devoured by a force.

Finally, only an empty shell supported by bone armor and skeleton remained.

And his power and will were twisting and writhing, forming into something like a spirit body from the level of nothingness.

“Anhofus.”

“Come!”

“Let’s drink the poison of immortality together.”

The gift of mythical life was an offer mortals couldn’t refuse.

Anhofus’s body transformed bit by bit. He also irresistibly turned into a ghost along with all the people up and down the Sacred Mountain.

In just one day, the prosperous capital of Yinsai entirely turned into a city of ghosts.

Tens of thousands of life forms transformed from Trilobite Men into ghosts, forever imprisoned on this once sacred lakeside mountain.

This shocking news quickly spread to the outside world—

At the highest point of the Sacred Mountain, a transparent shadow wandered back and forth.

He sometimes walked down from the mountain top, then walked back up from below.

He went back and forth on this road again and again.

But he could never walk out.

He seemed to have also become a little person trapped in a bottle.

Only his bottle was this entire Sky Temple.

Anhofus had become a ghost, an extremely powerful ghost, the most powerful ghost in the entire ghost city.

He was born into a family pursuing immortality, following a teacher who pursued immortality.

He had sought immortality all his life, yearning for the secret of eternity.

He was finally turned into an immortal life form by another version of himself, following him to taste the flavor of immortality.

But at the same time, he also lost something.

He wandered aimlessly, from day to night.

“Who am I.”

“I seem to be called Anhofus.”

Under the moonlight.

In his confusion, he suddenly took the wrong path, returning from the main road to the small path leading to the Sky Temple.

He looked up and saw a figure in the moonlight.

A figure wearing gorgeous clothes, with bells on her hands.

She waited there gently, as if she had been waiting for a long time. When she saw him, she suddenly turned around, happily and shyly saying to him.

“You’re back?”

“I’ve been waiting for you to come home, wanting to talk to you.”

Anhofus looked at her, feeling somewhat familiar.

“Come home?”

The one calling him home should be his family, right?

“Home?”

“What a warm word.”

A smile appeared on his face, and he said to the figure who had been waiting for him: “Alright!”

“Let’s… go home!”