Yama Rising

If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

This quote sprang into Qin Ye's mind, and it fitted this situation perfectly.

The hall was over a kilometer in size, yet the sun was only around 20 meters in size. As soon as Tepoztli fell into Tezcatlipoca's grasp, the relief of the sun completely crumbled, revealing a bottomless abyss down below.

The abyss was filled with human remains, but they weren't normal remains. Instead, they were only around 40 centimeters tall with disproportionately large skulls.

These were the remains of the people of the four waters.

Amid the countless sets of remains sat the giant eye, and even just looking at it was enough to evoke countless negative emotions within Qin Ye's heart. A series of python-like tentacles sat atop the pile of bones, and it was a truly nightmarish scene to behold.

The Death Star was seated right in front of the eyeball.

"I see..." Qin Ye took a few steps backward as he slowly closed his eyes. "Everything makes sense now..."

The Plumed Serpent God had ordered the Death Star to steal Mictlantecutli and Mictetikasiwa's space exploration information in order to lure Qin Ye to this place. This was a security measure taken in case the treasure vault of the Aztec gods wasn't enough to tempt Qin Ye.

However, his target wasn't Qin Ye. Instead, it was Tezcatlipoca!

Qin Ye had once threatened the Plumed Serpent God, stating that he didn't necessarily have to work with him. At the time, he had revealed the fact that he had met Tezcatlipoca, and that had provided the Plumed Serpent God with an opportunity.

No one was more familiar with Tezcatlipoca than he was.

Furthermore, this was the treasure vault of the Aztec gods, and Tezcatlipoca was clearly the ideal guide. Even more importantly, the Plumed Serpent God hadn't explicitly told Qin Ye to take Tezcatlipoca with him. If he had done that, then Qin Ye most likely wouldn't have taken Tezcatlipoca with him.

Taking Tezcatlipoca was an instinctive measure. It was like taking a tour guide to a tourist destination that one was unfamiliar with, and it was a very understandable reaction. Furthermore, this was a decision made solely by Qin Ye himself, so he didn't feel the need to be cautious of it.

Upon arriving at this island, they had already stepped into the hunting grounds of this extraterrestrial god, and the Plumed Serpent God also bared his fangs at the same time. However, there was no going back now.

The island was sinking, and the sea was filled with monsters that could devour Yin energy. Thus, the only option available to them was to enter the treasure vault, and the moment they entered the treasure vault was the moment that this showdown drew to a conclusion.

Tepoztli sensed the presence of its former owner and automatically entered its former owner's body. As a result of Tepoztli's departure, the seal on the extraterrestrial god was broken.

"What an incredibly cunning plot this is... Looks like I underestimated him, after all." A wry smile appeared on Qin Ye's face. During the past few years, he had been at the top of the world, and even the ruler death gods of the three pillars were wrapped around his little finger. However, little did he know that he was being used by the Plumed Serpent God this entire time.

The Plumed Serpent God had told him nothing but the truth and convinced Qin Ye that he could control everything. Never did he think that the Plumed Serpent God's true target would be Tezcatlipoca.

"Quetzalcoatl, you've truly angered me now."

He could even predict what the Plumed Serpent God was thinking.

He and Tezcatlipoca were sworn enemies, and upon recovering Tepoztli, Tezcatlipoca's powers would undoubtedly receive a significant boost. However, in order to open this prison, the Plumed Serpent God was willing to set aside a vendetta that had been raging for thousands of years to do something that benefitted this sworn enemy of his.

His cold and calculating nature really did deserve praise.

Since when did this idea spring into his mind?

"It most likely occurred to him after he became aware of the fact that I met Tezcatlipoca," Qin Ye murmured to himself. "At the time, our collaboration was a mutually beneficial one. Once that relationship ended and he knew that I had come into contact with Tezcatlipoca, he realized that his position could be usurped by Tezcatlipoca. Thus..."

He opened his eyes as he looked into the abyss down below. "He contacted this foreign god. There's no way that Tezcatlipoca could've known about this place, and he certainly couldn't have predicted that his entry would break the seal on the foreign god. It all makes sense now..."

He turned toward Tezcatlipoca to find that the latter was entirely bathed in golden light, and his aura was elevating with each passing second. Meanwhile, countless cracks had already appeared on the surrounding palace, and it was clearly on the verge of collapse.

He took a deep breath, and in the next instant, he had already descended into the massive abyss.

His Yin energy was fully released, and inky-black Yin energy was surging out of his orifices incessantly, swirling around his entire body like a black dragon as he descended from above.

"I have something to ask you." Within the abyss, Medes was bound by countless chains that were as thick as adult human arms, but the chains were quickly snapping one after another amid a string of loud clangs.

"Did you release a grand script of death 10 years ago that ended up in the Caribbean Sea?"

The sound of snapping chains was still ringing out incessantly, and there seemed to be a smile in Medes's voice as he said, "I release countless grand scripts of death every year, I don't know whether they make it to the outside world or where they end up."

"When did the Plumed Serpent God get into contact with you?"

"Ah, let me think. Was it several centuries ago or just one century ago? It's been too long, I don't remember anymore."

"Final question," Qin Ye said with a smile. "Do you come from space?"

"That's right." Without Tepoztli to restrict Medes, the chains were like frail, papier-mâché structures to it.

It was watching Qin Ye with its massive eye as it continued, "There's more than just one intelligent civilization in space. Allow me to interest myself: I am Medes of the Fenyl religion, and I also come from the seventh spiral."

Qin Ye nodded in response. "Greetings, and goodbye."

As soon as his voice trailed off, his Heavenly Dragnet instantly erupted out of his sleeves.

Countless chains instantly filled the entire abyss, intertwining to form a series of giant dragons that pounced directly toward Medes.

All extraterrestrial beings had to be eradicated!

The world's gate that the second King Yanluo was guarding in Australis most likely contained a monster just like Medes! Back when the Heavenly Dao had taken the three Caribbean death gods, they were also trying to figure out where their grand script of death had come from. However, all of this had become a mystery due to the collapse of the Aztec religion's fifth sun and the subsequent hibernation of all of the Aztec gods.

On this day, he had solved this mystery, and as the ruler of one of the four pillars, backing down was not an option for him!

At the same time as he unleashed his Heavenly Dragnet, Qin Ye abruptly sprang into action as well, and in the blink of an eye, he was already within 100 meters of Medes. Simultaneously, Fate flew out of his sleeve, transforming into a silver spear that was hurtling directly toward the center of Mede's giant pupil.

BOOM!!!

In retaliation, Medes instantly raised countless tentacles that bloomed like a giant, grotesque flower from within the depth. At the tips of all of the tentacles, one eye sprang open after another, and Fate was kept firmly at bay amid a resounding boom.

In the blink of an eye, an inky-black shockwave surged through the entire area, and countless bones were sent flying upward within the abyss before being reduced to dust by the shockwaves.

"You're an intermediate death god?" Down below, Mede's giant eyeball was squirming violently, and its voice resembled rumbling thunder. "How dare you provoke the mighty Fenyl religion?!"

All of a sudden, the giant eyeball split apart down the middle, transforming into a massive mouth, and a pillar of scarlet light shot forth out of the mouth like lightning.

It was a tongue, one that had transformed into a red serpent.

The tongue was piercing directly toward Qin Ye's chest, yet right at this moment, a resounding boom suddenly rang out up above.

The world's gate and this seal that had stood for countless years was collapsing violently.

Qin Ye and Medes both faltered slightly upon seeing this, immediately following which both of them raised a hand in unison. Fate was hurtling directly toward the red scarlet tongue, yet before they had a chance to make contact with one another, an earth-shattering boom rang out.

It was as if a mountain had just collapsed.

The sound was quite faint in the beginning, but in the span of no more than a second, it had crescendoed into a deafening commotion that was causing the entire abyss to quake violently!

Only then did it occur to Qin Ye that this island had sunk into the sea. In that case, seawater was in the process of gushing into the hall, and the nearby seawater contained...

Before he even had a chance to finish that thought, Medes suddenly let loose a piercing screech as if it had seen something terrifying, immediately following which it withdrew all of its tentacles before quickly fleeing deeper into the darkness.

It was also at the same moment that a massive pillar of water came crashing down violently from the opening left behind by the shattered sun relief. The water then spilled to every single corner as if it had a life of its own.

That wasn't seawater.

Qin Ye finally caught a clear glimpse of it to find that they were countless inky-black snakes!

Each one of them was only around the size of a finger, but there were far too many of them, so many that just the mere sight of them was enough to make one's skin crawl! They were interspersed throughout the seawater, and all of them had crimson eyes. These were the exact same things that Qin Ye had seen in the seawater outside earlier.

As soon as they landed on the ground, they began to frantically search for something as their bodies squirmed incessantly. All of a sudden, they seemed to have sensed something, and they turned toward Qin Ye in unison before letting a collective, sharp screech.

More and more seawater was gushing into the hall, and all of the seawater split apart into countless tiny snakes. Their bodies were coiled like springs, and they were ready to pounce at any moment.

"Run!!" Right at this moment, Tezcatlipoca's voice suddenly rang out in Qin Ye's mind. "We have to get out of here! Those are satans, the guardians of this place, and their duty is to destroy all souls here if the seal in this place is ever broken! They're monsters born from the blood of the Eternal Devourer, and souls devoured by them can never be restored!"

Fuck!

Qin Ye immediately transformed into a gust of Yin wind, then fled toward the same direction as Medes without any hesitation.

With the seal broken, the flight restriction was also undone, and in the instant he sprang into action, tens of thousands of black snakes in all directions screeched in unison before pouncing toward him like lightning.

They really were lightning-fast!

Qin Ye was stunned by the fact that these things could keep up with the speed of a mid Yama-King!

In the blink of an eye, he was already surrounded by countless black snakes, and he could even clearly see the dark blue patterns all over their bodies, as well as the sharp fangs inside their mouths.

Azure netherfire quickly lit up within their crimson eyes, immediately following which more and more black snakes began to spring up into the sky, quickly forming a giant ball of snakes that was over 50 meters in size within the abyss!