# 1939
Chapter 1939: Let Him Walk
The sea had been evaporated dry, the sky scorched with several dark gaps, and mottled light and shadow cast across the barren seabed—absurd and grand, as if having arrived at an alien world beyond Earth.
Within a radius of several hundred li, nothing else could be seen except Sunken Dragon Pass.
Even the audience watching through their screens was completely stunned by this scene. After a brief moment of stunned silence, a flood of comments burst forth:
【Whoa... this really isn't CGI, is it??】
【It's still 2024, and people are still saying it's CGI?】
【This doesn't even look like Earth anymore! How did Commander Lin and Vishnu actually fight? They actually evaporated this entire sea area?!】
【If it weren't for the three Night Watch gods stepping in, Sunken Dragon Pass probably wouldn't exist anymore】
【Too strong... really too strong. I told you Vishnu is on a different level from other gods—this destructive power is insane!】
【So who actually won in the end??】
【I want to know too, who won?!】
【It has to be Commander Lin, it has to be Commander Lin... {#prayer} (attaching a photo of Lin Qiye as Six-Winged Seraph)】
【......】
Mottled sunlight scattered across the seabed. From the shattered fragments of darkness, a blood-soaked figure slowly walked out...
Lin Qiye's right hand, which had been gripping the Straight Blade, had been completely evaporated away, leaving only stark white bone. The gash running through his chest that pierced his body still seeped blood continuously.
In addition, petal-like wounds resembling lotus flowers had pierced through his torso. The whole person looked like a blood-soaked sieve, stumbling as he stood on the earth.
"Cough cough cough..." He glanced at the shattered corpse of Vishnu nearby and burst into violent coughing!
Even though he had动用 Takamagahara's faith power and slashed out that one strike, the lotus flower that Vishnu had bloomed in his final moments was simply too terrifying—he had been absolutely determined to self-detonate and take Lin Qiye with him!
That was the desperate counterattack of a Supreme God on the brink of death!
For Lin Qiye to still be alive and standing here was itself a "miracle"... a miracle maintained by forcibly sustaining his life with residual faith power.
But no matter what, he had won.
Killing a fully-powered, all-out Supreme God while bearing the body of a Chief God!
Even counting from the very birth of the gods, over thousands or tens of thousands of years, no one had ever accomplished such a miracle.
The sound of his wheezing cough echoed across the empty battlefield. On that pale face like paper, his heterochromatic eyes were somewhat unfocused. He laboriously walked to beside Vishnu's corpse and, with his left hand that still retained some flesh, gently raised it. A strand of flickering golden flame instantly consumed all the scattered尸块 on the ground!
The Black Goat had the ability to corrupt corpses and use them for its own purposes. Lin Qiye had fought so hard to kill Vishnu, naturally he couldn't let him become a future enemy... To kill, one must burn the evidence and eliminate the roots!
Watching Vishnu's body burn to ash, Lin Qiye's expression finally relaxed.
He turned and glanced at Sunken Dragon Pass standing in the ruins in the distance, his expression somewhat complicated...
After hesitating for a moment, a determined light flashed in his eyes. He slowly pressed the flickering golden flame in his palm against the deep, bone-piercing wound on his own chest!
Sizzle sizzle—
The flame burned the flesh, cauterizing it into charred scabs. Lin Qiye's already pallid face contorted violently, and large beads of sweat slid down from his temples...
The golden flame slowly moved, and once it had completely stopped the flowing blood, a shocking black charred scar appeared on Lin Qiye's skin surface. He dispersed the flame, and his entire body swayed weakly, nearly collapsing to the ground.
Lin Qiye took a deep breath, picked up the crimson cloak from the ground with his left hand and draped it over his shoulders, covering his sieve-like ravaged body and the hand that was now just stark white bone.
Next, he surveyed his surroundings and retrieved the Straight Blade from the rubble nearby. He wiped away the dust and bloodstains on its surface and neatly hung it back at his waist.
Having completed all this, Lin Qiye examined himself once more, straightened his chest with his remaining strength, and slowly began walking toward Sunken Dragon Pass...
...
At Sunken Dragon Pass.
"There! Commander Lin is there!!" The anxious members of the exploration team, who had been searching ceaselessly for Lin Qiye, finally spotted the slowly approaching crimson figure. One of them with sharp eyes shouted excitedly!
The cameraman immediately set up his equipment and pointed it in that direction.
On the barren earth, a figure walked steadily forward, one hand resting on the Straight Blade at his waist, the crimson cloak gently fluttering in the wind—exactly like a war god returning from battle bathed in blood.
"Victory!! Commander Lin won!!" Reporter Liao clenched his fist and shouted excitedly!
At the same time, the crowd nervously watching from their screens couldn't help but stand up!
"I knew it!!" Zhao Zhengbin's face flushed with excitement. His eyes fixed on the approaching crimson figure, he couldn't help but applaud!
In the shelter's main hall, the people who had been holding their breath while watching the livestream could finally contain themselves no longer. Following Zhao Zhengbin, they erupted into wild applause. Cheers and whistles resounded through every corner of the shelter!
【Commander Lin is invincible!!】
【What did I say?! What about Vishnu? Commander Lin still won! He's our Night Watch Commander!!】
【So cool, really cool... When I saw the scene after that explosion, I was scared out of my wits...】
【Me too, I never thought Commander Lin could come back unharmed from such a terrifying explosion!】
【Unharmed? He wasn't injured??】
【His cloak is deep crimson, you can't see clearly...】
【That's true, you can't see clearly, but from the way he walks, he really doesn't look injured!】
【Killed a creator god and barely got hurt... How strong is Commander Lin exactly?!】
【Total victory!! This battle!! We achieved total victory!!!】
【Commander Lin is awesome!!!】
【......】
A flood of comments swept across the screen. Everyone who saw that unharmed crimson figure returning was beyond excited. Some people ran wildly through every corner of the various shelters with their phones, shouting "Commander Lin is awesome," drawing curious onlookers who hadn't watched the livestream...
At this moment, people seemed to have completely forgotten that the shelter was an evacuation center for their escape. It had transformed into a celebratory venue of excited jubilation!
In front of Sunken Dragon Pass.
Shen Qingzhu, Wang Mian, and Hu Jia stood on the outer wall of the pass, their gazes locked on the slowly approaching crimson figure.
They weren't ordinary people watching from a distance through a camera. With just one glance, they saw through Lin Qiye's disguise—the ravaged body beneath the Crimson Cloak came into sharp focus.
"He's this heavily injured and can still walk?? He's insane!!"
Hu Jia's pupils trembled slightly. Instinctively, he wanted to rush out to support Lin Qiye, but a palm pressed down on his shoulder.
Hu Jia turned to look back, only to see Shen Qingzhu clenching his fist tightly, those bloodshot eyes staring fixedly at the slowly approaching Lin Qiye in the distance...
"Don't go... don't help him." Shen Qingzhu's voice was hoarse.
"Let him walk... Only after he walks this final stretch can he truly hold up... the sky of Great Xia."