# 1817
Chapter 1817: Blood-Stained Divine Mountain
Dionysus Mountain.
"Damn it!! Damn it!!"
"Tell me! Why won't you die?!"
"Ah?!!!"
"You're a human! How can you be tougher than me?!!"
"..."
The illusory drunken faces danced across the mountain's peak as Dionysus's frenzied screams echoed to the heavens.
In the center of the mythic restriction, Hu Jia sat cross-legged beneath his black cloak, the melodious sound of the xun flute floating through the air. Countless drunken faces attacked in waves, yet failed to wound him even slightly.
"Monsters! All you humans are monsters!"
"That guy with the gray wings is a monster! The one who slashed open the restriction with a single sword is a monster! You're a monster too!"
"I can't beat you in the mental world, and I can't deal with you in the real world... Fine, turns out you brought so many people? You're cheating! Cheating?!"
"Enough... Stop invading my mental world! Please, enough..."
"What the hell did you people sew into my mental world?! What's with all this 'v50 for KFC'? What is Crazy Thursday supposed to be?!"
"The one who decided to go against Great Xia was Poseidon! The one who kidnapped people was Poseidon! Take your grievances to him!! Stop sewing things in... Please... I don't want to go insane!"
"Ee, ee, ee, crooked neck toward the sky sings, white feathers float on green water... green water... green mountains and clear waters are mountains of gold and silver, this mountain road has eighteen turns..."
As the melodious xun music echoed, more and more drunken phantoms descended into madness. In the air, Dionysus clutched his head with both hands, sometimes muttering in agony, sometimes bursting into song, his eyes growing increasingly fractured and unseeing.
Hu Jia stopped playing the stone xun and slowly rose to his feet...
"Lord Lin said today we would blood-stain the divine mountain... My apologies."
Hu Jia drew the straight blade at his waist and slashed it骤然 at the completely maddened Dionysus. Crimson blood sprayed forth!
...
Hades Mountain.
Blazing flames erupted from within the temple. With a沉闷 rumbling, the final wall collapsed completely.
The gray pall that had shrouded the heavens and earth receded like a tide. Shen Qingzhu tucked away the wings behind his back and stood amidst the inferno, one hand already gripping the throat of the King of the Underworld.
"Did you just say... you were going to cut off your own head and give it to me?" Shen Qingzhu said calmly. "Would you like to do it yourself? Or would you like me to help?"
Hades glared with fury, his voice cold as ice:
"Human, don't be too arrogant!! If it weren't for your Underworld Origin, how could you have broken my Yama restriction?!"
Shen Qingzhu possessed the Underworld Origin. In a sense, he was the Lord of the Underworld, while Hades was merely the Olympian King of the Underworld. The two were not on the same hierarchical level in terms of cosmic law. Restrictions related to the underworld could not possibly bind the Angel of Silence.
"So... will you do it yourself, or should I help you?" Shen Qingzhu repeated, as if he hadn't heard a word Hades said.
"Even if you manage to defeat me by chance, the others will surely die! Even if you kill me now, you still won't escape Olymp—"
The last two words never left Hades's mouth. His gaze caught something in the distance, and he froze.
On the distant Sea God Mountain and Dionysus Mountain, the corresponding stars had shattered and dissipated. Crimson blood flowed like dye from the mountain peaks downward, staining the peaks blood-red.
"How is this possible..." Sensing the dissipation of two divine laws, Hades's pupils contracted slightly.
Poseidon and Dionysus were dead?!
Each of them had guarded their own mythic killing formation, yet they hadn't won against a single human in one-on-one combat?!
Although he was in the same situation himself... But, but this man who possessed the Underworld Origin was special! How could the other humans possibly win?
"It seems you've chosen not to do it yourself."
Shen Qingzhu's voice drifted over casually. Before Hades could say anything more, a blade of cold light swept across his neck. A terrified head arced high into the air!
Spurting blood gushed from within Hades's body. Shen Qingzhu calmly drew a cigarette from his breast pocket and struck it against the burning temple wall, igniting the ember. The flames of the inferno were instantly extinguished!
He lowered his head, took a gentle puff, exhaled a wisp of hazy smoke, stepped through the blood pool, and slowly descended the mountain...
...
Sun God Mountain.
"Is that all?"
Yuzuri Takishiro stood in the center of the nine stone pillars, now a scene of utter devastation, his interest visibly waning.
The sun god Apollo drove his chariot, gazing down at the white-haired youth whose health bar remained at four-fifths. His expression was as grim as if he'd eaten dirt.
"That can't be right... Even after I broke this restriction, you should have other skills, right?" Yuzuri Takishiro said with puzzlement. "Why aren't you using your 【Solar Divine念】? Are you saving it as a finishing move?"
Yuzuri Takishiro scratched his head, seemingly at a loss. "Your skill tree allocation is all wrong, you know? If you'd started with a control-type skill like 【Blazing Chains】, combined with 【Solar Divine念】, you could have landed some decent AOE damage in the first exchange. And if you'd activated this restriction when I took my first wave of damage to catch me at the right moment, that would've been optimal..."
"Also, your stat allocation is off too. You're too focused on magic damage, but you lack hard crowd control. Seriously, you should learn more auto-targeting skills! Or just dump more points into defense—you wouldn't be down to your last sliver of health by now."
Although Apollo was completely lost, for some reason he detected a profound mockery beneath the words... Yet Yuzuri Takishiro's expression was utterly sincere, as if he genuinely wanted to help improve the god's combat ability.
Yuzuri Takishiro sighed with resignation, seeming to feel genuine pity for Apollo... Just then, his peripheral vision caught sight of the surrounding divine mountains dyed crimson with blood. He snapped back to the present.
Ah, shoot. He'd been so engrossed in discussing game mechanics with this skill-tree-misallocated player that he'd forgotten to finish him off quickly!
Yuzuri Takishiro's expression immediately sharpened.
"Unfortunately, with your current strength, there's no way you can defeat me... Try again in your next life, and remember to allocate your skill points correctly."
Yuzuri Takishiro reached out and slashed through the void. A massive guillotine blade materialized in his palm. Then, a panel popped up before his eyes:
【——Unknown Plugin Installing... Installation Complete】
【——Please Select the Weapon Attributes You Wish to Modify】
【——[Attack Power +99999], [Armor Penetration +99999], [Bleed Effect +99999]...】
As a flood of stats scrolled across the guillotine blade's panel, Yuzuri Takishiro nodded with satisfaction. He tested the blade's weight, then vanished into a blur of motion, instantly appearing before Apollo!
A spray of blood erupted. As Apollo's final sliver of health emptied, his ravaged body was hurled backward!
"Player Apollo's challenge has failed."