Apotheosis

Zen slightly raised his right hand.

More invisible blades emerged and shot towards the space doors.

As they penetrated through the bodies of the Troubled Creatures, these blades hit the surface of the space doors.

Whoosh! Crack!

The space doors were actually as fragile as a piece of glass in the face of Zen's invisible blades. He was able to effortlessly break them into pieces.

However, just as Zen shattered them, more space doors suddenly appeared around him.

With this, more Troubled Creatures continued to swarm and rush out.

Zen couldn't help but snort at the sight of all the new Troubled Creatures that surfaced, but he just continued to attack them and kill them off without breaking a sweat.

At the same time, the Burial Land could witness the merciless death of the Troubled Creatures.

Although it seemed that these Troubled Creatures were flooding the area, it only took Zen a few moments before he finished them off.

As the number of the space doors increased, Zen also released more and more blades. The rate at which he killed the Troubled Creatures was much faster than their appearance. That was why he was able to fully obliterate them along with the space doors.

However, after killing them off, Zen suddenly noticed that there was something wrong with the bodies that he had slain.

After Zen had successfully killed them off, their corpses didn't actually fall to the ground. Instead, they floated in the air as if they weren't affected by gravity. From afar, they looked like black insects in various shapes that hovered over a large area.

"Did you finally realize?" The Snake Spirit King's voice sounded in a contemptuous tone. "Too bad for you, it's too late!"

The black corpses began to move and merged with the other bodies until they formed a humongous hand that attempted to grab Zen.

"Is that it?" Zen said with an unimpressed tone.

He then narrowed his eyes and gathered his power. He summoned countless invisible blades that formed a storm around him, spinning from top to bottom.

However, as soon as the invisible blades were about to set out, they were suddenly destroyed.

"What the hell happened?"

Zen was taken aback and was confused at the sudden turn of events.

"Ha! Do you think that this is still your territory?

This area has already been contaminated by the Troubled Creatures. This space is now under our control!

Prepare to die!"

The enormous hand made up of the corpses of the Troubled Creatures completely grasped Zen's body and exerted a tremendous force.

Splat!

In an instant, Zen's whole body was crushed into pieces.

"Ha-ha! That's what you get for being too arrogant. You're only human. How dare you—"

The Snake Spirit King suddenly stopped in the middle of his sentence, surprised at what he saw from afar.

Another avatar of Zen appeared out

primitive lands.

'Swallow?'

Hilario realized something. His eyes instantly widened. "Zen! Project the image outside the primitive land!"

The real Zen, who was standing on the jadeite platform, looked at Hilario with furrowed brows but still did what he was told. As he pointed to the air, the image of the outside was projected on the jadeite platform. From there, they could clearly see the corner of the Burial Land that drilled into the primitive land.

"Is there something wrong? What do we need to see here?" Kincaid asked as he was also a little confused with Hilario's sudden request.

After studying the projected image, Hilario continued, "Zen, can you try and push that corner out?"

"Huh? I'm afraid that's difficult to do," Zen said while shaking his head. Doing so would actually be equivalent to lifting the entire Burial Land upwards.

With Zen's current strength, he could easily prevent the Burial Land from invading further into the primitive land, but it would be difficult to completely get rid of it. He actually preferred to fight the downgrader head-on, but the latter had never shown himself.

"Just try it!" Hilario insisted.

Although Zen didn't really understand why Hilario was strongly suggesting he do it, he still followed and did his best to push the corner.

With that, his avatar raised his hand.

In an instant, the power of the entire primitive land was directed to that corner.

Rumble! Rumble!

With the avatar's full power, the corner was slowly raised to a height, but it was quickly pressed down hard again.

"I can't do it. It's too heavy," Zen said as he turned to Hilario.

Then, Hilario pointed at the image of the outside and said, "Even if it was just a little, you were able to lift the corner of the Burial Land, but the image didn't move one bit. It means that the image is fake! It's just an illusion created by the downgrader!"