Chapter 288: Killing the Bishop

The next moment, a terrifying spectacle unfolded.

Rumble!

The terrifying clap of thunder roared like a stampeding army, utterly deafening! The entire city trembled beneath it.

A bolt of lightning cleaved the sky like a divine sword before scattering. Countless tiny silver snakes darted across the expanse, as if a giant silver tree had suddenly sprouted in the heavens.

The branches of lightning extended in all directions, flashing with blinding light like silver veins weaving a breathtaking tapestry across the heavens.

Amid this spectacle, the completely charred bishop plummeted from the sky, black smoke billowing from his body.

Su Mu's eyes flickered, and he sprinted toward the bishop like a ghost.

Naturally, the seven Temple Knights and the crowd of Twisted Divine Cult believers would not allow this, swarming to block him with surging killing intent.

"Captain! Leave this to us!" Lin Nanxing shouted fiercely, drawing his bow and notching an arrow, veins bulging on his arms.

Su Qing climbed to her feet. Blood slid silently down her twisted arm, but her eyes were exceptionally cold and brimming with killing intent, her silhouette already revealing a trace of King Chi's shadow.

Brilliant golden flames ignited beneath her feet again, surging over her entire body in an instant.

Dragging her heavily injured body, she charged into the crowd.

"Wall of Ice!" Wen Xuan slapped both hands against the ground. Bone-chilling air radiated from his arms as ice emerged, spreading madly across the dirt before surging upward a hundred meters away. It transformed into a hundred-meter-tall ice wall that resembled a heavenly curtain, firmly blocking Su Mu's pursuers.

"Your opponent is me!" Yan Wu locked onto a Temple Knight and activated the Life and Death Arena. A translucent octagonal cage rose around the two, isolating all the Twisted Ones on the outside.

"It's been a long time since I've collected such abundant resentment!" Lan He revealed a sick smile on his pale face, his entire body wrapped in the Power of Curse and Resentment. Looking like an evil ghost straight out of Hell, his hands danced like a pianist's as he scattered countless Cursed Seeds. They landed on the surrounding Twisted Ones, blooming into flowers of curse and resentment.

Su Mu's speed was already incredible. With his teammates' help, he pierced through the crowd and rushed to the bishop's side.

Looking thoroughly battered, the bishop propped himself up with the Bone Scepter in a furious rage. "Heretic! You deserve death!"

He raised his deformed left hand, and an invisible distortion force enveloped Su Mu like a vortex.

Crack, crack...

Subjected to a terrifying, massive force, the incomparably hard Mithril Body was twisted inch by inch.

Splash!

Su Mu's body dissolved into a puddle of seawater.

The bishop was taken aback. Before he could react, the seawater surged, and Su Mu re-formed.

Shing!

The Demonic Sword: Void Devourer was unsheathed, flashing with an astonishing dark gleam.

The bishop's face turned cold. He immediately tried to swing the Bone Scepter, only to find he couldn't move it. Glancing out of the corner of his eye, he saw a giant shadow monster gripping the scepter tightly.

"Get lost!"

Bang!

The distortion force struck Bubai, instantly shredding it. It burst into a spray of shadows that scattered across the ground.

Buzz!

Endless Demonic Sound activated. The bizarre ravings of a god rang out, causing the bishop's face to become even more twisted and ferocious as his head throbbed with splitting pain.

Seizing this opening, the longsword pierced the air. The Demonic Sword: Void Devourer stabbed straight into the bishop's heart. The massive spiritual power contained within it erupted violently, transforming into countless brilliant rays of sword light.

With the hundred-meter ice wall blocking everyone's line of sight, Su Mu was free to utilize the Demonic Sword: Void Devourer.

"Ah!!"

The bishop let out a shrill scream that set one's teeth on edge. Rays of brilliant sword light suddenly burst from his twisted, deformed body. These lights crisscrossed, covering him completely.

When the final ray of sword light connected, bang!

The bishop's scream came to an abrupt halt as the sword light completely erupted. His body was like perfectly assembled building blocks that had suddenly lost their balance, shattering into countless pieces that scattered all over the ground.

"Is it over?" Su Mu held Void Devourer, calmly watching the bishop who had been reduced to minced meat. Normally, even a Gold tier powerhouse wouldn't survive being shattered into over a hundred pieces.

However, for a believer of the Twisted God, that wasn't necessarily the case.

Just as he prepared to use Divine Touch to extract the bishop's soul, the unexpected happened, right on cue. The Twisted Divine Statue atop the mountain peak abruptly opened its eyes, staring straight toward this area.

Under the statue's gaze, the minced meat on the ground squirmed constantly, seemingly trying to stitch itself back together.

Naturally, Su Mu wouldn't stand there foolishly waiting for someone to resurrect. Since the divine statue had struck first, it couldn't blame him for also using the power of a god.

The silver mark on his forehead erupted with intense light, and God's Eye suddenly opened.

Having opened God's Eye, Su Mu radiated a crystal-clear holy light, resembling a deity descending to the mortal realm. The eye on his forehead exuded a terrifying pressure that seemed to originate from a higher dimension.

The Twisted Divine Statue seemed provoked, casting its gaze directly at Su Mu.

For a moment, God's Eye clashed against the Twisted Divine Statue!

Holy light shot out like a silver torrent piercing through the void, ruthlessly striking the divine statue.

A large hole was immediately blown through the statue's head. But in the next second, Su Mu's body was sent flying backward, twisting and shattering in mid-air to become a puddle of seawater.

This time, however, he did not immediately resurrect.

Because that twisted divine power had also attacked his soul.

His soul began to twist madly. The Divinity of the Three Gods took effect at this moment; three divine lights of different colors surged out from the depths of his soul, and endless ravings echoed.

Both sides fell into a stalemate.

Enduring the tearing pain in his soul, Su Mu kept his wits about him. Sure enough, the biggest trouble had never been the bishop, but the divine statue.

Perhaps because it was close to the Middle Hell, coupled with the devout day-and-night prayers of a hundred thousand believers, the Twisted Divine Statue contained an immense amount of Divinity!

At the very least, it held much more than the Primal Angel Divine Statue or the Divine Statue of the Celestial Sovereign of Longevity.

The Primal Angel Divine Statue had been formed by accident and subsequently lost in the Present World for who knew how long.

The Divine Statue of the Celestial Sovereign of Longevity was even less worth mentioning. Over several decades, it only had one and a half believers. Taoist Priest Xuanqing counted as one, and Jun Wushang counted as a half.

As for the Sea God, he didn't even have a divine statue.

About a minute later, the Divinity of the Three Gods gained the upper hand and completely neutralized the twisted divine power. Su Mu also resurrected once again.

Only, the bishop of the Twisted Divine Cult had resurrected at exactly the same time.

The bishop's expression was utterly crazed. Trembling all over, he stared at the divine statue that had a hole blown through its head, already enraged to the absolute limit.

"You all... deserve death!!"

He roared at the sky, and the distortion force erupted violently. It was as if a long-dormant supernova had suddenly exploded. A powerful shockwave spread out with him at the center, rushing outward with an irresistible destructive force. That hundred-meter ice wall was instantly reduced to fine powder.

The ground beneath his feet cracked inch by inch, continuously twisting to form a vortex.

Holding the Bone Scepter, the bishop walked toward the crowd step by step, like a demon god awakening from a deep slumber. Behind him, the Twisted Divine Statue seemed to grow infinitely large, blotting out the sky and sun as it watched him.