Chapter 397: Pandora's Box Opened Secretly, Myth Revives
On August 2016, 8, Jiang Mo quelled the turmoil in Kuhai Prison and conquered Taiqing Secret Realm. Under the watchful eyes of Cheng Zhen, Lu Jin and Yu Huai, he went to the ancient ruins to explore the origin of the sect.

It was also on this day that the Nine Departments learned of the demise of Taiqing Palace and took the initiative to dispatch several Class B mechas to enter the secret realm to collect the remaining resources. Except for the ruins of Taiqing Palace that were burnt to dust, most of the area was intact and contained various rare minerals and magical herbs.

Yu Huai and several other leaders of the nine departments sincerely invited Cheng Zhen to enter the secret realm together and share the cultivation resources they had found, but he declined.

After reading the complete memory of Jiang Mo's attack on Taiqing Palace, Cheng Zhen was a little worried. The master's true spirits that were often a thousand meters tall and the boundless mountain protection formations shocked him greatly.

However, there were countless otherworldly forces like this. After his uncle disappeared, even though he knew that there was a second true body sleeping in the back mountain, he still couldn't feel at ease, so he stepped up his cultivation.

On that day, Cheng Zhen said goodbye to his two junior brothers and returned to the sect. He summoned a group of disciples and told them to stay in the mountain for the next year. He also asked them to strengthen the monitoring of the area below the mountain. Any abnormal person who approached or trespassed into the inner magic circle would be killed immediately.

After making the arrangements, he went to the back mountain and observed the corpses of two extraordinary creatures. With something in mind, he roughly planned a route for cultivation. He took the flesh, blood, tendons and bones of the dragon corpses and refined them. He also followed the experience that his uncle taught him after a certain transformation, and gradually evolved his body towards the forbidden realm of extraordinary creatures.

"Boom!!!"

Dark clouds covered an area of ​​hundreds of miles, silver-white thunder danced wildly, and a hurricane roared in like an 18-force typhoon, nearly breaking the trees on the mountain. Heavy rain poured for days, and floods submerged the mountainside. The travelers and pilgrims stationed in the surrounding area had no choice but to leave one after another.

The young disciples who stayed behind in the sect were as calm as ever. They were not panicked even when they saw the natural disaster coming. They roughly judged that this was an anomaly caused by the sect leader's practice.

What's more, the Dharma body of my uncle-master is stationed in the back mountain, so the sect is undoubtedly the safest place.

Deep in the mountains.

Cheng Zhen sat cross-legged in an ancient cave. He closed his eyes and meditated, feeling the transformation of two completely different forces in his body. His expression was serene and peaceful.

The lights flickered in the dim environment, reflecting his mutated body. On one side was a flawless, otherworldly human form, while on the other side was a hideous, brutal, and murderous demon form.

Especially the right side of the body, bathed in dragon blood, its strength increased dramatically, shattering one genetic shackle after another and evolving madly.

The flesh and blood reorganized, the tendons and bones regenerated, and the body surface was covered with a layer of shiny black scales. Bone spurs grew on the shoulders, elbows, knees, palms, etc., and even the right eye turned dark red, exuding terrible majesty.

"call"

His chest rose and fell slightly, and as Cheng Zhen exhaled a breath of clear Qi and relaxed his muscles, all the violent forces were suppressed back into his body in an instant. The right side of his body accelerated its transformation, shedding the demonic energy and completely turning back into human form.

The rock beneath the seat, which was several feet in radius, was stained with black blood, like a river flowing slowly, which was extremely terrifying.

The practice has just begun, and what he wants to obtain is the power of two extraordinary creatures.

Since the demise of Taiqing Palace, Master Lingyun's only spiritual support also collapsed.

Having his cultivation abolished, he had longed for someone from the sect to rescue him. When he heard the news from the interrogators, he became even more emotional and shouted that it was impossible.

It was not until he saw the video of the ruins with his own eyes that he smiled in despair.

"Fake. Fake."

“You are all lying to me.”

"It won't be long before you all die!!"

"You can detain me for a while, but can you detain me for a lifetime?"

"joke!"

Master Lingyun was crazy and refused to cooperate. The interrogators from the Nine Departments were unable to pry any useful information out of him.

All the awakened ones who were proficient in hypnosis and memory plunder, including the Lu family's soul-clearing master, became ineffective after unleashing their abilities, and some even suffered severe backlash, vomiting blood and their souls were almost torn apart.

Finally, after three days of stalemate and all kinds of torture, the Nine Departments were helpless with Ling Yun and could only hand him over to Li Qingyu, a Level 4 Awakener of the Security Council, who constructed the 'Time Amber' to seal him, suspending all cellular and subconscious activities, putting him into a state of suspended death.

At the end of August, the reconstruction plan of Kuhai Prison was implemented.

The nine departments gathered a large amount of human and material resources to determine a new framework on the ruins and rebuild a new prison that was more strict than before. There were only about a hundred guards, and most work tasks were performed by Class C mechas implanted with AI automation programs.

In September, power detection towers were set up in almost every city in the country, and the Skynet, which was used to conduct real-time data detection on 9 million awakeners, came to a successful conclusion. In addition, the R&D department is still continuously iterating and upgrading the power locks.

In the middle of the month, Lu Jin saw that the situation in Kyushu was settled, so he retired behind the scenes, resigned from his post, returned to the sect, collected blood from the corpse of a giant whale to practice, and went to North Kolai Island alone for seclusion.

Three weeks later, the second alien university 'Yuzhuo' was completed and enrolled hundreds of thousands of students. The founding ceremony was equally grand, but with fewer regrets. Despite the expectations of everyone, Jiang Mo did not attend. Instead, the chairman of the Security Council, Wei Yuanming, came to encourage the teachers and students on his behalf.

In October, unusual movements were reported from overseas. The United States gave birth to its second, third, and fourth Level 10 awakeners, who reached the top of the world and became famous throughout the world.

Japan also took the opportunity to communicate with the United States. After talks, they reached a secret cooperation, signed many treaties, and obtained the assistance of a Level 5 Awakener. They easily wiped out the rampant Awakener forces and killed more than ten Level 4 Awakeners, completely stabilizing the situation. Afterwards, they turned their spearheads on neighboring countries, using the deaths of Matsubara Shinaga and Yano Rin as an excuse to demand an explanation.

On October 10, Kalengar, a Level 12 Awakener affiliated with the United States Supernatural Bureau, and five Japanese Level 5 Awakeners crossed the sea and were intercepted by several Class B mechas stationed at the customs, and a fierce battle broke out.

At 16:28, a sword bearer from the Ninth Division and Wei Yuanming and Zhang Zhiwei from the Security Council arrived at the scene at the fastest speed, followed by more than twenty level 4 awakeners.

What came into everyone's eyes was that 7 Class B mechas were severely damaged, with parts scattered in the vast ocean, and 6 invaders were coming with great momentum, and a fight between the two sides was about to break out.

The vast ocean was subjected to the wanton bombardment of these human killing moves. Sometimes purple-brown energy beams swept across the battlefield and burned the void. Sometimes golden light flashed, thunder rolled, and waves dozens of feet high were splashed, and fierce confrontations took place.

More than an hour later.

In the evening, the sun set in the west and the battle ended.

The Level 5 Awakener, Kalengar, was killed by the R&D department, the Swordsman armed with heavy artillery, and Zhang Zhiwei, and the remaining 5 Awakeners were also killed.

That night, Japan and the United States were shocked. The prime minister, the president, and congressmen were on pins and needles. They held an emergency meeting to prepare a series of countermeasures to deal with the upcoming conflict. Before that, they chose to wait and see.

For several days, neither the nine ministries nor the Security Council made any formal condemnation, as if the incident had never happened.

They were busy developing the Taiqing Secret Realm, and using the metal resources obtained from the countries that signed the cooperation treaty to refine and manufacture large batches of Class A and Class B mechas. At the same time, they had to constantly guard against the extraordinary creatures that were about to awaken in the territory and the secular sects that were ready to make a move. They simply had no extra time to deal with the troubles created by Japan and the United States.

In addition, the bodies of the six invaders were also recovered and studied by them to explore the mysteries of life evolution.

This matter seemed to be turbulent, but it remained calm throughout and came to an end in less than two weeks.

The three parties maintained a strange tacit understanding, and all of them kept this account in private, preparing to launch a fierce counterattack when the time was right.

At the end of the year, Level 5 Awakeners were born in many countries around the world, and the British Empire was the first to encounter a crisis. The first Level 5 Awakener in the country came from a hostile separatist force, so they immediately called the Security Council to inform them of the situation.

On December 12, the contract came into effect.

A fully armed Class A mecha that is more than 200 meters tall has been fully charged.

It left the core base of the Nine Departments, broke through the air, and at a terrifying speed of 50 Mach, pointed its sword at the European continent, swept across the sky, bringing a deafening engine roar, symbolizing the countdown to destruction.

In just 9 minutes, the mecha code-named "Candle Shadow" scanned many areas through the power detector it was equipped with, captured the abnormal numerical fluctuations belonging to the Level 5 awakeners, and immediately launched a bombardment at the border and fired artillery.

In about half an hour, the area within a radius of 20 kilometers was turned into scorched earth, and the level 5 awakener who had just broken through was hunted down.

After this battle, the whole world was shocked. No one could have imagined that China's mechas could be so terrifying.

Although they had predicted it, they were still shocked when they received the news from the front line. They couldn't help but be apprehensive. How many weapons of this level did China have? !
On the last day of 2016, a Level 4 awakener belonging to the Security Council broke through the bottleneck and reached a new height of Level 5, causing a sensation across the country.

In the blink of an eye, a few months passed, and the number of Level 5 awakeners in overseas countries gradually soared to the digits, and they no longer relied on China's Class A mecha.

On April 2017, 4, hundreds of thousands of awakened people at the British border were sacrificed and died suddenly overnight. Several level 9 awakened leaders realized their ambitious desires and opened Pandora's box with their own hands.

The next day, signs of a revival of mythology appeared in many parts of the world, including Norse mythology, Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology, Mayan mythology, Indian mythology, Takamagahara mythology, and so on.

Those gods believed and worshipped by ancient humans have all returned from the long river of history in alternative forms.

However, they are not true gods.

The gods praised and believed in by mankind originally had human prototypes, but they have long since turned into dust and passed away in the passage of time.

These resurrected gods are a mixture of the beliefs of the awakened believers and the resurrected dark desires. They possess unimaginable power, comparable to that of a level 5 awakener, or even more.

They perform miracles, their eyes sweep across the vast world, wanting to build temples, harvest the world's faith, completely break free from the constraints of mankind on themselves, truly resurrect, and constantly absorb the faith of every corner of the world. All humans who know their names are being plundered silently.

From the day they arrived, the catastrophe that swept across human civilization officially began.

The awakened people standing at the top of each country do not believe in these corrupt monsters. They have climbed up step by step from the bottom of the food chain, and they hate submission the most, especially the so-called gods. Why are they above humans?
Living in the same era, how can you know who is strong and who is weak without killing each other? Not to mention that they are just a group of monsters wearing the name of "God".

On April 4, the American Level 13 Awakener, Elvis, the world's first Level 5 Awakener, took the lead in swinging his sword at God, and a war broke out.

The two sides destroyed a city, leaving ruins wherever they went, and a large number of refugees died every day.

No matter whether it is an ordinary human or a low-level awakener, once they are involved in the war between a Level 5 awakener and a god, they are doomed to die.

(End of this chapter)