Chapter 883: Ultimate Mission
Ten days later, Li Muyang awaited the arrival of the Puppet Master army to the mortal realm.
Calling it an army is actually not appropriate.
This time, the Puppet Masters entering the mortal realm numbered only just over three hundred.
Yet, they were the pinnacle figures among the Puppet Masters of the Ancient Resentment Well. Despite their mortal bodies, the combat power of the puppets they controlled was above the Heavenly Eternal Realm.
More than fifty of them were of the Primordial Realm level.
This was already all the high-end combat power that could be gathered from the Ancient Resentment Well.
Against powerful beings like the Holy Spirit of the Netherworld or the Otherworldly Demon God, low-level combat power held little value.
Among these Puppet Masters were even old acquaintances of Li Muyang, the Puppet Masters from Black Feather Pavilion who had once hunted him down.
But with Jie Zijiu dead, these Puppet Masters from Black Feather Pavilion seemed unaware that the person before them was the same Jude they once held a grudge against.
As everyone gathered, Li Muyang headed north to meet the Dragon Girl.
He intended to ask the Dragon Girl to leave the Northern Lands, cross the Misty Sea, and head to the neighboring Cultivation World to participate in the ultimate battle.
When he saw the Dragon Girl, she was sitting in meditation at the Underwater Dragon Palace, busy responding to the prayers of believers from all the Dragon Goddess Temples across the Northern Lands.
She looked more haggard than before, her energy depleted, clearly indicating the immense toll responding to such prayers took on her over these days.
Seeing Li Muyang appear, the Dragon Girl brightened a bit, feeling somewhat delighted.
"Li Muyang, you've arrived," the Dragon Girl said, smiling happily, but she did not rise, continuing with her responses to her followers.
Even as the highest deity in the Northern Lands, she carried no burden of being an idol in front of Li Muyang, still resembling that little snake from before, completely unconcerned with formalities.
Curiously and expectantly, she looked at Li Muyang and asked, "Have you finished your affairs?"
Li Muyang looked at her haggard expression, sighed, and said, "Not yet, there's still one last step."
"I've mobilized all the forces I could gather, about to unite them to slay the formidable enemies."
"The Holy Spirit of the Netherworld over the Misty Sea, the Otherworldly Demon God in the Deep Space Temple, only by removing these two great evils can we restore peace to the mortal realm."
Li Muyang said, "I will next send the Puppet Masters from the Ancient Resentment Well to the neighboring continent, and then I'll come to the Northern Lands and take you away with me."
"In the meantime, can you halt your protection over the believers?"
"I need your combat strength. You're too weak now, you need to recuperate to your peak state. Just the time it takes for me to go back and forth, take the opportunity to rest well."
Li Muyang's words left the Dragon Girl surprised, her eyes widened.
"Stop? But if I stop, many of them will starve to death."
The Dragon Girl felt hesitant.
Li Muyang helplessly shook his head: "If you stop now, only some will starve to death."
"But if we ultimately lose and let the Otherworldly Demon God or the Nether Realm dominate this world, then it won't be just a small section of people dying, but everyone."
"Not just you stopping, but the Demon Suppression Magus and Cultivators of the Tianyuan Continent will also cease their resistance against the Evil Gods, and join me on the path to leave."
"In the upcoming period, the Tianyuan Continent will descend into chaos, with Evil Gods from the Ancient Resentment Well coming undefended, ravaging the mortal world, causing many deaths as well."
"But we have no choice; we must harden our hearts and accept partial sacrifices."
Li Muyang's expression was grave.
The power in the mortal realm was too weak. Even after gathering all forces, Li Muyang couldn't confidently claim victory.
Given the vast disparity between enemy and ally, achieving a flawless plan was utterly impossible.
After Li Muyang concluded his analysis of the situation, the Dragon Girl stayed silent for a moment.
Then she slowly nodded and said, "I will heed your advice, cease responding to the believers, and issue orders to inform them to wait."
"But even if we gather together, we might be able to kill the Holy Spirit of the Netherworld."
"Yet if we were to go beyond the nine heavens..."
The Dragon Girl confusedly asked, "In the Deep Space Temple, aren't they unrestricted by the laws of heaven and earth? Within the temple reside Otherworldly Demon Gods with True Immortal powers. Even if we amass more people against them, it would merely be a futile sacrifice, wouldn't it?"
The Dragon Girl's query made Li Muyang shake his head.
"Rest assured, I have a plan to break that stalemate."
He lifted his head, squinted, and looked towards the sky: "The Deep Space Temple floats in the starry sky, on the border of the Heaven and Earth Seal, hence it's not bound by it."
"But I know of a way to make them come down obediently and refrain from staying above the nine heavens!"
"Once they leave the Deep Space Temple and enter the mortal realm, they will face the combined might of our realm's living beings!"
This was Li Muyang's plan.
He never intended to go beyond the mortal realm and engage in a battle to the death with the Demon Gods. In the outer realms, just one True Immortal level Demon God could suppress all their mortal forces.
Thus, the only way was to force those Otherworldly Demon Gods down, compelling them to leave the temple and enter the mortal realm.
Listening to Li Muyang, the Dragon Girl's eyes widened in astonishment.
"How will you make them come down? Will they heed you?"
In a state of multitasking, Li Muyang controlled a mud puppet half-evil dragon within the game, wandering the central region of the Outer Realm Island amidst the blood mist, ignoring the nearby threat of divine beasts.
He looked at the prey of the half-evil dragon and said, "In the nine heavens above, there's an Outer Realm Island. On this island, those captured and tormented are divine beasts that the Otherworldly Demon Gods captured over ten thousand years ago."
"Those divine beasts have suffered atrocities at the hands of the Otherworldly Demon Gods and harbor tremendous hatred against them."
"So much so that after the Outer Realm Island went out of control, the Otherworldly Demon Gods dared not set foot on that island again, resorting to sealing it with an array, locking the divine beasts inside."
"Among those divine beasts, True Immortal level creatures were not few. Should they be released from the Outer Realm Island, the Deep Space Temple where the Otherworldly Demon Gods reside is not far away…"
Li Muyang's storytelling widened the Dragon Girl's eyes even more.
"You have a way to release those divine beasts?" The Dragon Girl found it unbelievable.
Li Muyang, while multitasking, focused on both controlling the mud puppet half-evil dragon towards a divine beast in the blood mist and responding to the Dragon Girl's inquiry.
He chuckled and said, "It's almost done!"
On the game interface, the attribute panel of the half-evil dragon showed a health bar of LV99 and an experience bar at 99%.
Just one last prey remained. Once this divine beast was defeated, the last divine beast's shadow would be acquired, leveling up to LV100.
And the game's final quest had unlocked the moment Li Muyang first won against a divine beast, clearly visible in the task pane.
[Defeat the strongest divine beast on the Outer Realm Island and release all the divine beasts to freedom!]
The ultimate goal of this game was to unleash the divine beasts on the Outer Realm Island!
The game system, formed of Heavenly Dao Power, besides boosting the Ascendant's abilities, naturally also paved the way for them.
This was Li Muyang's final plan, the last hope for the realm's beings.
Release the divine beasts from the Outer Realm Island, forcing the Otherworldly Demon Gods down into the mortal realm!