Chapter 333: God Said: Extinguish!

The massive body lost its balance, crashing to the ground with the weight of a collapsing mountain.

Seizing the moment, Su Mu struck. He shot into the sky, hovering in the void. The God's Eye on his forehead snapped open, revealing the Silver Vertical Pupil. The supreme, oppressive might of a God washed over the battlefield.

Boom!

A pillar of silver light erupted, piercing the heavens and the earth. It lightly swept across the lava giant's massive body, instantly splitting the creature cleanly in two.

The magma coursing across its body gradually dimmed. The giant stopped struggling, seemingly dead.

Staring at the godlike figure of Su Mu in the sky, Yang Dongqing was too shocked to speak. He finally understood the absolute chasm between his own strength and Su Mu's.

So, even a Gold powerhouse could be slain by a Silver.

"Phew. Finally dealt with." Su Qing flashed back to the group, the little bear printed on her shirt rising and falling as she panted.

"No, not yet," Su Mu said, his eyes narrowing at the lava giant's corpse. The magma flowing through the fissures in the earth was frantically converging toward the fallen body.

The dim red glow on the giant's body flared back to life. Magma rapidly surged to mend its severed halves.

A moment later, it stood back up.

An earth-shaking roar echoed once more, shattering the leaden clouds in the sky.

"This is trouble." Su Qing frowned slightly. "It seems it can resurrect using the magma here. Unless we destroy the entire Land of Lava, we can't kill it."

Su Mu nodded. He had naturally figured out the lava giant's resurrection mechanism as well, but destroying the entire Land of Lava would cost far too much time and energy.

"Let's go. We need to find the border of the Land of Lava first."

Just as the group prepared to leave, the sky abruptly tore apart, splitting to reveal a pitch-black rift.

Su Mu halted. Tearing through space? Had someone just torn through space to arrive here?

A moment later, a resplendent holy light burst from the rift, illuminating nearly the entire Land of Lava.

At the same time, the God's Eye on Su Mu's forehead stirred inexplicably.

For the God's Eye to react like this, he already knew who had arrived.

"Lord Divine Envoy!" Archbishop Hongye of the Primal Divine Cult called out excitedly from within the holy light.

When the holy light dispersed, the group finally saw the arrivals clearly. Several red-robed archbishops stood suspended in midair, their robes snapping wildly in the fierce wind. Leading them was an old man in white-gold robes, wearing the Gold Crown and holding a Gold Staff, his face weathered yet incredibly kind.

Strikingly, right in the center of the old man's forehead sat a Silver Vertical Pupil!

The newcomer's identity was self-evident. Within the Primal Divine Cult, only one person possessed a God's Eye... the Pope of the Primal Divine Cult!

As the Pope and his entourage appeared, the lava giant seemed to sense a fatal threat and began to roar uneasily.

The Pope didn't even spare it a glance. Instead, his gaze remained fixed firmly on Su Qing's group, a flash of excitement passing through his aged, cloudy eyes.

He smiled and nodded at Su Mu, then turned his gaze toward the restless lava giant. His eyes turned ice-cold.

"To dare offend the majesty of the Divine Envoy... I bestow death upon you."

The Pope's majestic voice resounded through the heavens and earth. He raised the Gold Scepter in his hand, his expression devout and solemn. "God said... Extinguish!"

Thrum!

An invisible fluctuation rippled out across the entire Land of Lava, spreading like ripples from a stone tossed into a calm lake.

Beneath this wave, the crimson magma covering the Land of Lava extinguished at a visible rate. It stopped flowing, solidifying into a stone-gray husk. Even the volcanic craters ceased belching thick smoke.

This invisible fluctuation quickly swept over the lava giant. It let out a terrified roar and spun around to flee, but after taking a single step, it froze completely.

The magma along its legs slowly died out, solidifying completely into grayish-white rock. Next came its waist, its chest, its arms, and finally its head.

Ultimately, the lava giant was reduced to a hundred-meter-tall humanoid mountain of rock, locked forever in place.

Lin Nanxing's jaw dropped in disbelief, staring at the scene in absolute shock. Strong! Far too strong!

A single sentence had extinguished the entire Land of Lava. Was this even a human being!?

Su Qing's gaze turned solemn, her eyes filled with wariness as she looked at the Pope. As a Gold King herself, she felt it the most profoundly. Extinguishing a thousand miles of magma with a single strike—such a feat had long since surpassed the Gold Tier.

This Pope was at least a Gold King!

At that moment, the Pope and the archbishops slowly descended, landing in front of Su Mu.

"Greetings, Divine Envoy." The Pope placed a hand over his heart and bowed slightly to Su Mu, his demeanor respectful and kind. At this moment, he looked like nothing more than a benevolent elder, entirely devoid of a powerhouse's aura.

"We pay our respects to the Lord Divine Envoy!" Archbishop Hongye and the other red-robed archbishops dropped to one knee, shouting with fanatical zeal.

Su Mu's lips curved upward. Interesting.

The Pope, who claimed to commune with the Primal Angel and who was supposedly bestowed the God's Eye by that very entity, had actually acknowledged him as the Divine Envoy.

Had the man been bluffing this entire time? Perhaps his supposed ability to commune with the Primal Angel was nothing more than a trick to fool his followers.

Perhaps the Pope possessed the God's Eye because he had also obtained the Primal Angel's Divinity, just like Su Mu had. The only difference was that the Pope was controlled by the Divinity, utterly reduced to a zealous worshiper of the Primal Angel, while Su Mu was the one controlling the Divinity.

"Rise."

"Thank you, Lord Divine Envoy." Archbishop Hongye and the rest respectfully rose to their feet, staring at Su Mu with feverish devotion.

Yang Dongqing's mind was completely numb. One Gold powerhouse, two, three, four... seven!!

Seven Gold powerhouses in total, alongside a Pope whose strength was completely unfathomable, and yet these people were treating Su Mu with such absolute reverence.

He suddenly realized that, compared to Su Mu, the Revolutionary Army seemed like nothing special at all.

A sudden thought even crossed his mind. Perhaps... it would have been better if he had just kept following Su Mu back then, instead of joining the Revolutionary Army.

"How did you find me?" Su Mu asked indifferently.

The Pope smiled slightly. "To answer the Divine Envoy, Hongye had already informed me of your previous descent into Hell. Since then, I have maintained the Insight Divine Art to keep watch. I just sensed you using the God's Eye, so we hurried over immediately.

Divine Envoy, this is no place to talk. In descending to the lower realm, you must have brought the decree of the Primal Angel. Why don't you return with me to the Primal Divine Cult first?"

"Alright." Su Mu smiled and readily agreed. There was no hiding from them anyway, and he was quite curious to see exactly what tricks the Pope had up his sleeve.

The Pope nodded. He lightly swiped the Gold Scepter through the air, instantly tearing a massive rift in the fabric of space.

"After you, Divine Envoy."

Su Mu's expression remained perfectly calm as he stepped into the black hole-like rift.

Seeing their captain step inside, Su Qing and the others naturally chose to follow him.