# 1956
Chapter 1946: Hell Returns
Thinking of this, Lin Qiye's mind naturally浮现出An Qingyu的身影。
His双拳紧紧攥起……
This time fraud had directly deceived the entire Great Xia. Perhaps when Vishnu led his forces to invade Sunken Dragon Pass earlier, it was also a discarded pawn designed by the other side to gain their trust!
Now, the three S-class war passes built with the combined strength of the entire Night Watch and Oath Society had not welcomed the millions of young 【Black Goat】, and the thousands of forbidden spells had no use whatsoever... Meanwhile, the northern war pass that had been stripped of all high-level combat power was easily torn open by the 【Black Goat】.
Without the war passes, the 【Black Goat】 and its millions of offspring would walk all over Great Xia as if on flat ground. Even though northern cities were scattered and far from the border, finding the locations of various shelters was only a matter of time.
Moreover, Jialin, Banruo, and Shanhai passes were all in the southernmost part of Great Xia. Even if all combat forces wanted to rush north immediately, they would need some time...
Besides, without the three passes and the forbidden spell forests within them, what did they have to stop the millions of young 【Black Goat】??
"Commander! What do we do now?"
The booming sounds of battle came through the phone—should be the several Chief God-level human combatants fighting the invading Cthulhu Faction deities.
If Lin Qiye hadn't guessed wrong, the three Cthulhu Faction deities invading the three passes were the chess pieces used by 【Chaos】 to delay Great Xia's top combat power. Cthulhu Faction deities were powerful and bizarre—even a powerhouse at Shen Qingzhu's level might not be able to kill one in a one-on-one fight. Even if they could, it would take considerable time.
And now, there was no time left in the north...
"Don't panic!" Lin Qiye quickly steadied himself and commanded, "Who's fighting the Cthulhu Faction deities right now?"
"Shen Qingzhu, Wang Mian, and Hu Jia."
"Is Chloe there?"
"She's at Banruo Pass."
Lin Qiye couldn't bother to put on his shirt. He rushed directly to the courtyard, where a map of Great Xia was quickly sketched in the void using divine power. He stared at the map for a moment and said in a deep voice:
"Contact Chloe immediately and have her try to transport the three war passes to Beibin City."
"Beibin City??" Min Junliang was stunned. "Commander, what are you going to do?"
"If they burst through from Snowchill Pass, they will inevitably march south. Beibin City is the emergency positioning point for all northern shelters. Once 【Weiyang】 is activated, all northern shelters will be gathered there—the population will be extremely dense... I'll go rescue the shelters along the way first, while dragging them as far from Beibin City as possible, and wait for you to arrive."
"But that's the entire Cthulhu Faction's combat power, Commander, by yourself..."
"Don't waste time—this is the best solution right now." Lin Qiye continued, "The three war passes are too large in area with too many targets. Chloe probably can't teleport them collectively... Have Yuzuri Takishiro replace Wang Mian and hold back that Cthulhu Faction deity, so Wang Mian can accelerate time for Chloe!
Whatever the cost, the three war passes must be relocated as quickly as possible...
I can't hold them for long."
"...Understood!"
Min Junliang immediately agreed and hung up to relay Lin Qiye's orders.
Lin Qiye took a deep breath, grabbed the cloak and Straight Blade from beside his bed, and rushed outside without even putting the cloak on.
The current situation was too dire. Nearly all of Great Xia's top combat power was stranded at the southern border. Even if Lin Qiye was formidable, he couldn't possibly stop millions of young 【Black Goat】 by himself.
It wasn't that he couldn't win—the enemy's numbers were simply too overwhelming. As long as the 【Black Goat】 didn't voluntarily send its offspring to die, it could use over a hundred thousand young to bog Lin Qiye down while the remaining millions continued advancing.
Let alone the two Cthulhu Faction deities that hadn't appeared yet, and whether the 【Black Goat】 had found other corpse pollutions was unknown... If 【Chaos】 was also there, adding the two pillar-level combat forces, it would be an almost certain death situation where they'd kill any god or Buddha in their path.
Lin Qiye had also considered having Wang Mian reverse time and return to the past to warn them of everything, but he dismissed the idea the moment it surfaced.
Wang Mian was the god of time, that was true, but the 【Key to the Gate】 was the master of time and space. In the old Wang Mian's previous description, there was no information about the 【Key to the Gate】 at all, indicating the gap between them was too vast. Wang Mian hadn't even been able to detect the other's existence. It was precisely because of this that the people of Great Xia believed the 【Key to the Gate】 hadn't awakened, and that what they faced was only the 【Black Goat】 and 【Chaos】.
But from the current situation, the 【Key to the Gate】 had already awakened... Since it had set up this time fraud and voluntarily let old Wang Mian return, it certainly wouldn't allow Wang Mian to go back and reverse everything... Lin Qiye was certain that if Wang Mian dared to reverse this timeline now, he would immediately be killed by the 【Key to the Gate】 on the river of time.
In terms of time, almost no one was a match for the 【Key to the Gate】.
But regardless, Shangjing City was in the north to begin with, and his speed was extremely fast. He was the only one who could reach the battlefield immediately...
Just as Lin Qiye was about to leave the courtyard, a temporal fluctuation suddenly rippled from beneath his feet!
Inexplicably, Lin Qiye could clearly sense a gaze crossing the river of time and landing upon him.
Having just experienced the time fraud and realized the existence of the 【Key to the Gate】, Lin Qiye was most sensitive and vigilant to fluctuations in time. He sharply turned his head to look behind him, and a time barrier resembling frosted glass appeared before his eyes.
That gaze spying on him came from beyond this frosted time river!
Lin Qiye's brow furrowed tightly. He gripped the Straight Blade at his waist with one hand and said in a low voice:
"...Who is spying on me?!"
He raised his palm and struck hard against the frosted time barrier before him!
Szzzzip—!!
With a violent explosion, the time barrier before his eyes shattered into pieces!
Lin Qiye could sense that whoever controlled this temporal law was, like himself, at the Chief God realm. Since they were both Chief Gods, Lin Qiye possessed absolute overwhelming strength. Smashing this time barrier with his bare hands wasn't difficult for him at all.
As fragments of time scattered before his eyes, a world dancing with gray ash appeared before him.
It was a world shrouded in endless gloom. In the valley below, countless disgusting and ugly growths writhed madly. Crimson light burst forth from eyeballs, while manic and evil energy filled the world!
And above this valley of rotting flesh, a grotesque and twisted angel hovered in the air.
Two tall crosses stood respectively before that angel.