# Chapter 5: Sun Holy Sword (600 Blazing Sun Fury·Apollo + Fission Solution + Special Glass Column Container + Large Amount of Concentrated Faith Power·Sun + Sunlight Amplification)
What Caesar was currently doing was enhancing this Blazing Sun Fury·Apollo into a "Sun Holy Sword." More precisely, he was amplifying this Apollo's detonation aura to the "Sun Holy Sword" level. Caesar was very confident about this—he had personally witnessed the explosion of a "Sun Holy Sword" three times.
Although this Apollo possessed the aura of a "Sun Holy Sword" when detonated, the reality was that this thing only had the detonation aura. Its actual explosive power might not even match a large firecracker. This extreme combination of strength and weakness was very much in the style of Caesar and the Abyssal Jar.
The aura of the detonated "Sun Holy Sword" instantly enveloped the Gloomy Grand Cathedral. More precisely, within a short time, it covered the entire Ghost Soul City and continued spreading outward.
In front of the Gloomy Grand Cathedral, just as Su Xiao had asked the Ghost Priest earlier—whether it could run fast—the Ghost Priest now answered Su Xiao with its actions. Not only could it run fast, it could also fly very quickly.
With a muffled boom, wherever the Ghost Priest passed, spatial ripples swept outward. It did not hesitate to burn its life soul, unleashing beyond-limit speed to flee far from the Gloomy Grand Cathedral.
It wasn't just the Ghost Priest. The Dark Cult members who had been staring at Su Xiao menacingly in front of the Gloomy Grand Cathedral were now using all means to desperately escape into the distance. Some, while fleeing, let out hysterical roars—this was the despair and madness that came from being enveloped by the "Sun Holy Sword's" aura.
The entire Gloomy Grand Cathedral was like a hornet's nest that had been violently poked. Most of the Dark God Cult members inside rushed out through various windows. One Dark Cult member even ran out naked, taking large strides with an expression that was both ferocious and desperate.
In a very short time, the members inside the Gloomy Grand Cathedral were cleared out. Su Xiao leaped down from the dragon's back and landed before the main entrance of the Gloomy Grand Cathedral. He walked openly through the front door into the cathedral, first entering the spacious hall, then following the inner stairs downward to a grand corridor over ten meters wide.
The ceiling of the corridor was covered with crystals that emitted light, illuminating the area. Su Xiao walked along the corridor until he passed a corner and saw that the corridor ahead, dozens of meters long, was filled with church knights.
Barbed, wide hook blades were drawn, and spiked heavy hammers scraped against the walls, sending sparks flying while producing piercing screeches.
In total, over a hundred church knights, all wearing full-body heavy armor two fingers thick and wielding various types of heavy melee weapons, had the scarlet runes on their chest armor activated. This caused their eyes to turn into dark-bottomed, brown-yellow vertical pupils—cruel and difficult to kill.
Meanwhile, at the main entrance of the Gloomy Grand Cathedral.
"Don't worry about anyone else. Advance to the underground palace at maximum speed."
Tessa spoke loudly with sharp eyes. Hunter unit members rushed past her on both sides into the cathedral. Although Tessa tried to suppress it, her accelerating heartbeat revealed how excited she was to attack the Dark God Cult's headquarters. Over the years, she had lost count of how many subordinates, as well as young people who had just joined the Hunter unit, had died at the hands of these Dark Cult members.
Su Xiao's plan was both simple and direct: first, use the fake "Sun Holy Sword" to clear the area, then have the Hunter unit charge into the Gloomy Grand Cathedral, set up defenses there, and block the Dark Cult members who discovered the "Sun Holy Sword" was fake and tried to return to the cathedral.
Not only that, Su Xiao had also arranged for the High Priest, Dray, Silver Face, and Veronica to intercept Bishop·Black Bug·Ernod and Bishop·Blood Fiend, who were rushing back from the high walls.
Additionally, Amu, who had entered a detached state, was responsible for dealing with the small factions in the city that came to reinforce the cathedral. These lackeys of the Dark God Cult were actually quite numerous, but Amu, in his detached state, was more than enough to handle them.
This formed a situation where the Alliance faction temporarily occupied the Gloomy Grand Cathedral, using it to block the fierce attacks of the Dark God Cult members. In Ghost Soul City, the Dark God Cult had too many people, so passive defense was the only option. During this time, Su Xiao would fight to the death with Abyss Leader·Xilves.
At this moment, in the first-floor hall of the Gloomy Grand Cathedral, Tessa, with her ponytail and black gloves, quickly walked toward the stairs leading to the underground corridor. The smell of blood was unusually heavy along the way. When she reached the underground corridor and approached the corner, she was surprised to find that her subordinates had all stopped before the turn.
"What are you standing around for? Bai Ye should be dealing with a group of church knights alone..."
Tessa spoke loudly while walking quickly, but after passing the corner, her voice gradually lowered until it completely faded. Because she saw that in the corridor beyond the corner, large pieces of armored limbs and broken bodies were scattered everywhere on the ground. The walls on both sides and the ceiling were covered with slash marks and splattered bloodstains. There was also a church knight covered in cuts, hanging in midair by energy threads around his neck.
Beside the metal door at the end of the corridor, the only surviving church knight was clutching his slashed, bleeding throat, with more breath going out than coming in.
Su Xiao flicked the blood off his blade. Blood dripped down his cheek, and from its dark, almost black color, it was clearly not his own.
Seeing this, the corner of Tessa's eye twitched almost imperceptibly. She had once thought Su Xiao's strength was about the same as hers, but now it seemed that wasn't the case.
Seeing Tessa had arrived, Su Xiao nodded to her and pushed open the innermost door of the corridor, entering the underground palace.
As soon as Su Xiao stepped into the underground palace, the door behind him slammed shut, causing Baha and Bubu Wang, who had blended into the environment, to become instinctively alert.
Su Xiao surveyed the situation. On the wall ledges of the palace on both sides, arm-thick ritual candles were arranged. The stone bed at the innermost part of the hall was empty, with no sign of Abyss Leader·Xilves. The hall was completely empty.
An empty palace—why would so many church knights be guarding it? Su Xiao approached the stone bed and sensed faint Abyss energy emanating from the wall opposite. He delivered a straight kick.
Boom!
The stone secret door shattered, revealing a rock pool filled with liquid Abyss energy in the secret chamber ahead. Seeing this, Su Xiao began observing other areas to see if there were more hidden doors.
"Woof."
"Are you sure?"
"Woof!"
"Mm."
Su Xiao took a deep breath and leaped directly into the liquid Abyss energy. Ordinary people wouldn't dare do this, but Su Xiao, having undergone the Wolf Blood Baptism, had 5 points of Abyss Resistance. Don't think that's too low.
Bubu Wang and Baha had also undergone the Wolf Blood Baptism. Bubu's Abyss Resistance was 4 points, and Baha's was 5 points. They also jumped into the Abyss energy pool together.
Darkness—viscous, heavy darkness.
Su Xiao felt himself sinking in the darkness. He didn't know how long he descended, but just as he felt he would be eroded by the Abyss, his feet found empty space, and he fell out of the darkness.
Su Xiao landed in a half-crouch. The black liquid on his hands evaporated into gas upon contact with the air.
Looking around, Su Xiao found himself in an old, dilapidated rock tunnel. Directly above was an opening sealed by black liquid. The next second, Bubu Wang and Baha fell out from inside, landing on the ground one after another. This was the benefit of the entire team having Abyss Resistance.
Su Xiao walked along the rock tunnel. Before he had gone far, he noticed murals on the tunnel walls. The painting skill wasn't high—or rather, these weren't meant for outsiders to see. They were left by the painter to prevent himself from forgetting what had happened.
The first mural showed a group of people wearing robes with sun marks on the backs, facing the sun in a posture of praising it.
Su Xiao continued looking. The second mural depicted a chaotic battlefield. On this deliberately pale-painted mural, several black figures in the melee, along with those black monsters, stood out prominently. This represented the Dark God Cult members active on the battlefield during the Thousand-Year Blood War between the Alliance and the Northern Border Empire.
The third mural's style changed. Although the war had subsided, above the Yellow Sand Kingdom, a black hole like a leak in the sky appeared, with darkness pouring out from within. This was the Abyss Passage. Figures wearing robes with sun marks on their backs walked toward the direction of the Abyss Passage.
The fourth mural's style changed again. A broken Sun Holy Temple, a shattered giant sun stone disc. Of the group that had been praising the sun, only one person remained, sitting alone on the half-broken sun stone disc, watching the distant sunset. His back was lonely and desolate, but his shadow was fierce and clawing, seemingly indicating that he had sealed an Abyss Spawn within his body—or rather, the first indestructible Abyss Spawn to come to this world was sealed inside him.
The fifth mural had the simplest content. That person wearing a robe with a sun mark on the back stood before a long blade. On this blade was the mark of the Law Destruction Shadow, indicating it was a Blade of Law Annihilation.
The sixth mural showed that figure picking up the Blade of Law Annihilation and stabbing it into his own chest. This caused his upper body to show three overlapping shadows: one shadow wearing a platinum mask, one with pitch-black vertical pupils, and the last with its mouth sealed and a circular mark on its forehead. Su Xiao had seen this circular mark before—on the forehead of the Murderer·Hatred in the third level of the dungeon.
Su Xiao realized who the last survivor of the Sun faction was—the name written at the top of the stone tablet he had seen in the Fallen Fire Land: Sun Archbishop·Xilves.
The content recorded on these murals wasn't too complicated. First, the Dark God Cult rose to power through the Thousand-Year Blood War between the Alliance and the Northern Border Empire. Then they stirred up trouble on a large scale, causing the Abyss Passage to appear. The Sun God Cult paid the price of near annihilation to successfully seal the Abyss Passage. However, almost all the Sun God Cult members died, leaving only the strongest, Sun Archbishop·Xilves, alive.
Although Sun Archbishop·Xilves felt lonely, he couldn't relax for a moment, because he was using himself as a prison to contain the indestructible Abyss Spawn. Such a powerful entity couldn't be killed by anyone in this world.
Sun Archbishop·Xilves traveled everywhere and finally found a Blade of Law Annihilation. He knew that the former Law Destroyers could eliminate indestructible Abyss Spawns.
After many years of investigation and travel, Sun Archbishop·Xilves confirmed one thing: although he could briefly pick up the Blade of Law Annihilation, he couldn't use this weapon to fight, let alone use the Blade Demon Spirit inside to devour the indestructible Abyss Spawn.
Even worse, Sun Archbishop·Xilves could feel that he couldn't hold on much longer. The indestructible Abyss Spawn inside him was about to break through his seal and burst out of his body.
Sun Archbishop·Xilves didn't give up. He came up with a method that was both brilliant and admirable. Since he couldn't use the Blade of Law Annihilation to fight or eliminate the indestructible Abyss Spawn, he could briefly pick up the blade and stab himself with it. If he stabbed himself, wouldn't that also stab the indestructible Abyss Spawn inside him?
In the end, Sun Archbishop·Xilves picked up the Blade of Law Annihilation and stabbed it into his own chest. At the same time, he split his soul into three parts—this was something he had planned long ago. Simply stabbing himself with the Blade of Law Annihilation wasn't enough to continue sealing the indestructible Abyss Spawn; other methods were needed as well.
While being stabbed by the Blade of Law Annihilation, Sun Archbishop·Xilves's body, soul, and consciousness split into three parts, each with different characteristics: Sun, Abyss, and Chaos.
The part representing the Sun was the Platinum Archbishop, responsible for restoring the Sun God Cult to its former glory.
The part representing the Abyss was Abyss Leader·Xilves, with the Blade of Law Annihilation still stuck in his body. He was responsible for continuing to seal the indestructible Abyss Spawn and becoming the leader of the Dark God Cult, gathering the scattered Dark God Cult members together—preferably in some godforsaken place like Ghost Soul City—and then controlling their lower limit as their leader, at least preventing them from trying to open the Abyss Hole again.
Finally, the part representing Chaos was Hatred. Hatred wasn't given any responsibility. Its existence was a safeguard, preventing Abyss Leader·Xilves, after being heavily eroded by the indestructible Abyss Spawn's consciousness, from seeking out the Platinum Archbishop to merge, which would release the indestructible Abyss Spawn.
In short, only Platinum Archbishop + Abyss Leader·Xilves + Hatred could recombine into Sun Archbishop·Xilves, and then pull out the Blade of Law Annihilation.
The problem now was that someone had directly pulled out the Blade of Law Annihilation from Abyss Leader·Xilves's body. But the indestructible Abyss Spawn inside Abyss Leader·Xilves had coexisted with him for too long. They were no longer in a mutual sealing relationship; they had partially merged.
The current Abyss Leader·Xilves was no longer the person he once was. His will had been completely eroded by the Abyss. He craved the Abyss, yearned for it, and because he had been bound by the Blade of Law Annihilation for so long, he was also hostile toward the Law Destruction faction.
After being freed from the Blade of Law Annihilation's restraint, Abyss Leader·Xilves immediately sought out the Platinum Archbishop. When they met, the Platinum Archbishop had no chance to act. Since they were of the same origin, the moment they met, the Platinum Archbishop was continuously assaulted by the indestructible Abyss Spawn's consciousness and was defeated on the spot by Abyss Leader·Xilves.
This was also the reason the Platinum Archbishop had left without saying goodbye. When he went to watch the sunset back then, he knew that this trip to Ghost Soul City would face the end of his fate. Unfortunately, before he could set out, he was ambushed by Abyss Leader·Xilves.
After merging with the Platinum Archbishop, Abyss Leader·Xilves then rescued Hatred through Water Brother. He was no longer trying to break the seal and become Sun Archbishop·Xilves again. He wanted to complete his incomplete soul. More precisely, he wanted to become Abyss Archbishop·Xilves. This way, he could open the Abyss Hole in the sacrificial ground, turn it into an Abyss Passage, and return to the Abyss. As for whether this world would be invaded by the Abyss and turned into a land of darkness and death, that was none of his concern.
Su Xiao stopped at the end of the underground passage. He pushed open the double stone doors ahead, revealing a sacrificial ground. This sacrificial ground had circular walls around it, covering an area of over a thousand square meters, with a height of over ten meters. The ceiling above was inlaid with dense bones. Looking closely at the surrounding walls, the rock walls were also mixed with dense bones.
On the gray stone floor, large patches of mottled, wet black marks were distributed, making the Abyss aura here exceptionally strong. A twisted, deformed platinum mask on the ground was stained with some black marks.
Ahead, a figure sat with its back to Su Xiao on a metal seat. In front of it, suspended in midair, was a black hole. This hole was spiral-shaped, pitch black inside—it was the Abyss Hole.
The stone door behind Su Xiao slammed shut, sealing the sacrificial ground. His opponent in this battle was: Abyss Archbishop·Xilves.