Transmigrating over ten thousand years late, I was forced to become a mighty presence

Noro Mai stood utterly still, her gaze clearly reflecting the scenes from the other end of those space portals.

The battlefield turned into ruins under the colossal hand that blocked out the sky, the Void Refining spirits and demons howling as their spirit souls were scattered, even the projections of Hell's tributary were easily crushed.

Under that palm, there was no difference between the Spirit Refining Ghost King, the Return-to-Void Great Ghost King, and the Void Refining spirits and demons.

Strictly speaking, the intensity of the battlefields opened up by the projections of Hell's tributary was not high, and most battlefields were only overseen by Ghost Kings at the Spirit Refining Stage, which is why the Human Clan was still able to barely hold on.

Within the Sky High Plateau, the numbers of real top-tier local deities were scarce, but there were not a few deities comparable to those at Return-to-Void and Void Refinement Realm, and the Sky High Plateau certainly had the opportunity to dispatch powerful deities to exterminate these projections of Hell's tributary.

In fact, Sky High Plateau did indeed try this. Before the world had recovered enough to accommodate beings at the Void Refining Stage, Amaterasu Omikami had sent more than ten deities at the Return-to-Void Stage to various battlefields in secret, to sever the projections of Hell's tributary.

The initial few surprise attacks went smoothly, as the Ghost Kings at Spirit Refining Stage sitting on the battlefields simply could not withstand the onslaught of the deities at Return-to-Void Stage. The projections of Hell's tributary were severed, quelling the chaos of the Hell specters in several places.

However, as the Hell specters began to react, accidents started to occur.

In subsequent attacks, whenever a deity at Return-to-Void Stage appeared on the battlefield, there would be several times more Great Ghost Kings to support the battlefield and encircle and slaughter the deities of Sky High Plateau.

After several consecutive failures, the dispatched deities of Sky High Plateau suffered heavy casualties.

And the reason for all this was that the projections of Hell's tributary could, to a certain extent, connect to Hell's tributary itself. Once a deity descended on the battlefield, Hell's tributary could mobilize powerful experts to step into the battlefield and hunt the deities of Sky High Plateau at the first opportunity.

In such encirclements, even great deities at the Void Refining Stage had fallen.

Facing such a situation, the only way to break through was to mobilize true top-level experts to instantaneously destroy the projections of Hell's tributary before the powerful ghosts and supernatural beings had the chance to provide support.

Within the entire Ying Island, only Amaterasu Omikami and four High Gods from Great Xia had this capability.

But these few were stationed in Pingan Capital, their every move closely monitored by the Hell specters, making it difficult to leave Pingan Capital to resolve other battlefields.

Moreover, with the battlefields spanning tens of thousands of miles, even if one could avoid the gaze of the Hell specters, opening space portals to various places would consume a significant amount of time.

After resolving several projections of Hell's tributary, the remaining time was enough to raise the vigilance of the Hell specters.

At that point, if they were to act again, it could very likely bring about disastrous consequences, drawing the encirclement of powerful experts from the kingdom of Hell.

The risks and benefits were completely disproportioned. Realizing the danger of the battlefields of Hell's tributary, Sky High Plateau gave up the idea of dispatching powerful experts to resolve the projections of Hell's tributary. They could only rely on miko and shrines across the lands to bring down part of their power, barely resisting the offensive of the Hell specters.

Although this was only a temporary solution and not a cure, it was the only thing they could do, as true high-end combat power could not be wasted frivolously on low-level battlefields outside Pingan Capital.

This situation continued for several years, until Shen Yuan's arrival broke the deadlock.

Shen Yuan's Pot's Heaven Divine Power, close to the fifth stage, was able to open space portals at will, completely free from the restrictions of other powerful experts.

His formidable strength was more than capable of sweeping the current world, easily suppressing the Void Refining spirits and demons.

Combined, they were enough to sever all projections of Hell's tributary before the Hell specters could react.

As those hundreds of space portals slowly closed, with the shattering of a large number of projections of Hell's tributary, the situation in Ying Island was finally shaken.

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Especially in the outer regions of Ying Island, many projections of Hell's tributary were severed, giving the land that had been deeply eroded by ghost energy a trace of reviving vitality.

In Ying Island, below Pingan Capital, there was a gray and dreary world inverted from the present world.

In that gray world, massive amounts of ghost objects gathered within a surging yellow river.

Beneath the churning waves, countless evil demons surged and floated, their earth-shaking howls reverberating through the inverted world.

"One hundred twenty-seven projections of Hell have been severed, how is this possible!"

"Did Amaterasu Omikami take action? She's not suppressing the Divine Tree, yet she still has the power to cleanse the projections of Hell?"

"One hundred eighteen projections of Hell were severed in an instant, even Amaterasu doesn't have such power."

"It had to be premeditated! Humans must have planned this in advance!"

"Attack Pingan Capital! Exterminate the entire Sky High Plateau!"

Amidst the earth-shattering roars of anger, terrifying ghost energy swept across the entire world.

"Silence!"

An authoritative voice resounded in this inverted world, and in an instant, the countless howls of rage ceased, and the whole land fell into a silence as still as death.

All the Hell specters looked up, toward the source of the surging yellow river.

It was a fragmented space, where giant fissures seemed to tear through the barrier between reality and illusion, and through this barrier, a yellow river extended from another world into this one.

That was a tributary from the kingdom of Hell, which also created this world of Yomotsu Hirasaka, the cause of all things.

Countless supernatural beings escaped from the Netherworld through the tributary of Hell, smuggled themselves into Yomotsu Hirasaka, and used this world where reality and illusion alternated as a medium to enter the Primal Chaos Realm.