A long, long time ago, there was a rich and beautiful land. It was a land surrounded by the sea, and many creatures lived there.
On this land, many people lived there. They built a kingdom called "Heaven's Net," and named the land they lived on "Heaven's Net."
However, one day, this land was met with a calamity of destruction. Lava spewed out from the ground, mountains collapsed, and the earth cracked. Tsunamis hundreds of meters high drowned the land. Flames burned, and hurricanes swept across. The whole world fell into a doomsday of despair.
At this time, a powerful silver beast stood up and used its supreme magic to suppress the disaster of the earth, water, fire, and wind. It made a contract with humans, sacrificing 300 virgin girls every year to protect this kingdom called the Celestial Kingdom.
She was the Mercury Heavenly Spider, also known as the Mercury God of the Holy Kingdom of Tian Luo.
Ten years passed. People slowly walked out of the grief of their dead loved ones and started to build their homes again.
Thirty years passed. Under the efforts of the priests of the God of Mercury, the land began to regain its vitality. The raging lava rivers were all filled, and the Celestial Kingdom was revived.
Fifty years passed. A new generation of boys and girls started to grow up. They hadn't experienced the terror of the disaster, and they were protected by their elders, who couldn't bear to let them suffer.
More than a hundred years later, the new generation of the Celestial Kingdom's princes, who had replaced the great masters of the previous generation, started to question the existence of the God of Mercury, rebelling against the faith of the God of Mercury.
They didn't believe in gods, and they didn't believe in the warnings of the previous generation. They only believed in themselves, and they only believed in the truth that they were sure of.
The Celestial Kingdom didn't need gods!
They were the true masters of the Celestial Kingdom!
Therefore, they destroyed the temples of the God of Mercury one after another, and killed the priests of the God of Mercury. The remaining priests either fled to the Mercury Islands overseas or into the mountains.
They thought that everything they did was absolutely "righteous," and that they represented the will of all the people of the Celestial Kingdom.
That was why they gathered millions of soldiers and uprooted the faith of the God of Mercury from the Celestial Kingdom. They didn't even let go of the distant Mercury Islands.
They refused to negotiate with the Water God, the Chief Priest of the God of Mercury, who had helped their ancestors to quell the anger of the lava river and revive the earth. They even set up a trap to kill her and turned her corpse into a puppet for them to control.
They wanted to kill a god!
The Marquis of the East – Tian Luo Ming, the Marquis of the West – Tian Luo Sheng, the Marquis of the South – Tian Luo Sheng, the Patriarchs of the Shi, Zhao, Han, and Yin Clans, as well as Tien Raffa, the son of Tian Luo, the person who had mastered the divine bloodline ability of the Celestial Kingdom in every generation, had never thought that they were fighting alone.
They were the Alliance, the League of Legends that represented the Celestial Kingdom, and their enemy was the unforgivable evil god — Mercury Heavenly Spider.
However, was the Mercury Heavenly Spider really unforgivable?
Mei Xue's answer was that there was absolutely no such thing. That was because when she received the blessing of the Mercury Heavenly Divine Garment, she knew the truth. She knew why the Mercury Heavenly Spider couldn't leave the Mercury Islands and couldn't even appear in this world with her true body.
Do you still remember the notification that all the students of the Blue Dragon College would hear when they entered this world?
"Historical Records of the Celestial Kingdom — Year 1001 of the Tian Luo Calendar, Tian Luo Mountain encountered a great calamity. The heavens cried and the earth mourned. The sun and moon lost their light. A silver beast was born and suppressed the earth, water, fire, and wind …"
Suppressed. How did she suppress it? What price did she pay to suppress the great calamity?
The answer was — herself.
Using her own flesh and blood as a sacrifice and the indestructible body of the Mercury Heavenly Spider as a thread, she weaved a net that surrounded the entire Celestial Kingdom. In the center of each net, she split off a part of her body to suppress the calamity that threatened to completely destroy the Celestial Kingdom.
The huge obelisks that stood tall in the mainland of the Celestial Kingdom, the Mercury Islands, and even in the sea and underground were all part of the Mercury Heavenly Spider.
In order to save the land of Tian Luo, which was plagued with calamities, she used her own body as a seal and forcefully suppressed the chaotic power of the earth, water, fire, and wind.
As a result, her body was completely locked to the ground, becoming one with the earth.
The endless and strange mountain ranges were all part of her blood vessels and nerves.
The towering obelisks that pierced through the clouds were all the nerve nodes of her body. The huge silver ring that floated in her mouth was the seal that she had placed on this land.
The entire Celestial Kingdom was protected from destruction by the Mercury Heavenly Spider because it was sealed by the Mercury Heavenly Spider.
The reason why so many heroes and peerless geniuses could emerge in this era of the Celestial Kingdom, and even Tien Raffa, who had gathered all the divine abilities and bloodlines of the past generations of the Celestial Kingdom, was all because of the spiritual energy of the world that was released when the Mercury Heavenly Spider suppressed the great calamity.
However, people always turned a blind eye to the miracles around them. They even felt that it was a matter of course.
They forgot that before the Mercury Heavenly Spider sacrificed her body to suppress the great calamity, the Celestial Kingdom often experienced earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and tsunamis.
They forgot that before the appearance of the countless obelisks and the huge silver ring in the sky, there would be plagues and explosions of fire and poisonous fog every year. Every year, there would be people fleeing in fear.
They forgot that before the appearance of the Mercury Heavenly Spider, there might not even be one person among tens of thousands of people who could awaken the bloodline of the ancient divine abilities. Not to mention the ratio of peerless divine abilities, those were peerless geniuses that only appeared once in a hundred years.
It was because the Mercury Heavenly Spider sacrificed her freedom and turned her body into a net that covered the Celestial Kingdom, that this peaceful and beautiful world existed. That was why the prosperity of the Celestial Kingdom lasted for a hundred years, and that was why powerful beings like Tian Luo Ming and Tien Raffa were born.
However, humans would not believe this truth. They would not even admit it.
Because humans only believed in themselves. They only believed in what they saw.
The Mercury Heavenly Spider turned her body into a seal to suppress the earth, water, fire, and wind of the Celestial Kingdom could no longer appear. She could only rely on the Water God to represent her will. When the Water God died, she also lost the way to contact the human world.
Then, Mei Xue appeared.
She chose Mei Xue to become the Child of God and gave humans one last chance.
In the end, she was still betrayed. She finally understood one thing – it was time for her contract with humans to end.
In the end, she still did not understand why humans would so easily betray their ancestor's contract and want to kill her.
However, it was enough. She did not want this to continue.
So it was time to end it.
Since humans did not want to continue this contract and personally destroyed the proof of her contract with humans, then it was time to end it.
Everything was the choice of the humans.
This was her, the Mercury Heavenly Spider – no, the decision of the Mercury Heavenly Spider.
From the Mercury Heavenly Spider to the Mercury God, and from the Mercury God back to the Mercury Heavenly Spider, it took more than a hundred years. She went through a reincarnation and finally understood something.
This was the last choice.
This was her last step.
She had once changed the fate of this land with her own hands. She used her own body to repair, suppress, and calm the anger of the earth, water, fire, and wind.
Because of this, she lost her freedom and was bound to this land. She became the seal of the great tribulation of heaven and earth, protecting this land that was plagued with disasters.
This was because she loved humans so much that she wanted to protect them with her own hands. She wanted to put them into the net that her body weaved.
However, she was wrong.
She thought of herself as the mother of humans and treated humans as her own children. She thought that as long as she gave her heart, she would be able to receive the same return from humans and obtain true happiness.
However, things were not like this.
Humans wanted freedom, wanted control, and when she was their friend, they smiled at her and paid her respect.
However, after she became the "Mercury God" above humans, humans started to hate her, detest her, and finally betray her.
After becoming the "Mercury God", she lost everything. Her freedom, her friendship with humans, and all the beautiful things that she longed for.
This contract was wrong from the beginning.
She should not have become a god. This was not the path that she needed.
She was still herself – the Mercury Heavenly Spider.
Now, she was going to regain her freedom and end the contract with humans.
"Boom!
Boom! "
Countless huge tremors sounded. The mountains that looked abnormal from the sky of the Celestial Kingdom started to shrink and sink, disappearing from the land of the Celestial Kingdom.
The huge obelisks that stood on the land of the Celestial Kingdom also shrank and sank, disappearing from the eyes of the people of the Celestial Kingdom.
The unique scenery in the sky of the Celestial Kingdom, the huge silver rings, shattered as the obelisks disappeared like bubbles under the sun.
"What's going on?"
"What's going on?"
"Why are the obelisks gone?"
"The sky! The silver rings in the sky are gone!"
In the surprised and confused voices of the people of the Celestial Kingdom, all the traces of the Mercury God in the Celestial Kingdom were disappearing. The process was so fast and shocking that many people, who had taken it for granted, were lost.
In the faraway Mercury Islands, Macy let out a sigh, as if she had already seen the end of everything.
In fact, it was a very simple deduction.
During the catastrophe of the world a hundred years ago in the Celestial Kingdom, who suppressed the destructive power of earth, water, fire, and wind? Who turned her body into a seal and saved the world?
If she gave up the contract with humans and regained the freedom of her body, what would happen to the suppressed earth, water, fire, and wind?
Even Mei Xue, who was far away on the Mercury Islands, saw the answer a moment later.
"Boom!"
Lava erupted from the center of the Tianluo Mountain, where Tien Raffa had extracted the power of the ley lines. The power of earth and fire went out of control after losing its suppressive power.
With this as the beginning, the underwater volcanoes that had been suppressed by the obelisks were resurrected one after another. Amidst the countless turbid waves, the earth quaked and the mountains shook. The volcanic eruptions threw up tsunamis that were hundreds of meters high, sweeping towards the Tianluo Holy Kingdom.
After the unusual movement of the earth fire, dense dark clouds gathered in the sky. Even Mei Xue, who had once wielded the Ninth Nether Divine Thunder Whip, felt the power of heaven and earth tremble. Countless lightning bolts fell, and the destructive thunderstorm descended on the land, causing countless tragedies.
"No, what's going on?
What's happening? "
The people who had just celebrated the disappearance of the Mercury God from the Celestial Kingdom fell into endless fear.
They couldn't understand why there were earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, poisonous fog, plagues, and thunderstorms.
For the past hundred years, they had been living a peaceful and happy life, hadn't they?
The world was supposed to be so beautiful and harmonious. It was a world where no one closed their doors at night and no one picked up their belongings on the streets.
Except for the man-eating Mercury God, there was nothing wrong with the world, and there were no disasters. Wasn't it natural for such a world to exist?
Why, why, why?
Who was the sinner that triggered the calamity of the earth, water, fire, and wind, and plunged the world into terror again?
"Mercury God!"
"It's you!"
"I curse you, Mercury God, you'll die a horrible death!"
"Even if you're a god, I'll kill you one day!"
Endless resentment soared into the sky, heading toward the Mercury Islands. Its target was the Mercury God, who had pulled his body out of the ground and regained his freedom.
They didn't think that they were wrong, but pointed the source of all evil at the Mercury God, who protected them and was willing to turn his body into the seal of the earth, water, fire, and wind.
The Mercury God, who sensed all this, just shook his head.
Everything was the choice of the humans.
Since they weren't willing to continue the contract and wanted to kill her, why should she continue to be bound by this land and the beautiful past?
She didn't need to be the Mercury God anymore. The moment the humans decided to abandon her and kill her, the world had a lifespan.
The world had a lifespan. When the time came, nothing could stop it.
Everything was fated to end. Everything was caused by people seeking death for their own sake.
On the first day, the humans and the creatures on the ground almost all disappeared from the fire and lightning.
On the second day, the trees and the sea all disappeared.
On the third day, the sun and moon were destroyed. There was no longer any distinction between day and night.
On the fourth day, the land sank, and everything turned into an ocean.
On the fifth day, the water and sky disappeared.
On the sixth day, the light disappeared, and everything was shrouded in darkness and chaos.
On the seventh day, the disaster ended. Everything returned to peace. The silver Mercury Forest started to cover the land, extending from the center of the world to the end of the world.
The new world was divided into four regions.
In the east, there was the endless ocean and vast land. Rivers were everywhere. This was the territory of the King of the East, Liu.
In the south, there were rich forests and swamps, full of vitality. This was the world of the King of the South, Zhu Huo.
In the west, there were countless mountains and huge deserts. There were countless ancient ruins in the mountains. This was the country of the King of the West, Green Hill Nine Moons.
In the north, there was the black land on one side, and the silent world of eternal snow on the other. This was the territory of the King of the North, Yellow Spring.
Finally, there was the center of the world. There used to be the Mercury Islands, but now it was the new Crystal Forest. This was the holy land that the four kings protected together. This was the territory of the Son of God that the new world loved, the Crystal Kingdom in the center.
In the center of countless crystals, the Mercury God stood in front of Mei Xue. Under the gazes of the four kings, he put the crystal crown on Mei Xue's head.
"You are my most outstanding child. You are the endless nightmare of the deep sea. You are an indescribable terror. You are the disaster of eternal sleep. My child, Senro.
"You have defeated the humans who betrayed me. You have protected the place where I am. You are the strongest Guardian of the Underworld.
"When you were born, even the fragments of the stars were proud of you.
My child, I have watched you grow up with pride. I believe that you can use your wisdom and power carefully to bring me the news of victory.
"Now, I have reached the end.
"And you will be crowned as the King, the Son of God that I am most proud of."
The voice of the Mercury God echoed in the center of the world where there were no humans. This was her promise to Mei Xue, her blessing to Mei Xue.
The crystal crown landed on Mei Xue's head, giving off a colorless and transparent light. This represented the absolute authority of Mei Xue as the new ruler of the Crystal Kingdom. This was proof from the past Mercury God, and the current Mercury Heavenly Spider.
After completing all this, the Mercury Heavenly Spider became even more beautiful and extraordinary than when she had first met Mei Xue. This was because she would no longer be bound by the beliefs of humans. She would no longer have to bear the heavy sins and watch the humans she protected betray her.
Now, the Mercury Heavenly Spider had given up her status as a god and walked down from the high altar.
Now, she was free.
The moment she realized this, the Mercury God's body suddenly trembled. Then, the eight silver limbs below her abdomen and the body that she had just retracted twisted violently.
So painful, so painful, so painful. The Mercury God lowered her head because of this sudden change. She looked at her melting body in disbelief.
Yes, her body was melting and disappearing. It turned into countless silver liquids that covered her entire body.
The first to disappear was the body that had been connected to the land of the Celestial Kingdom. It was used to suppress the four elements. Then, the eight transparent silver limbs melted and formed a transparent silver liquid that covered her entire body. In the end, it became a huge silver crystal cocoon.
All of this was shockingly similar to what Mei Xue had experienced when she came to this world.
However, this cocoon did not wait for a few days to hatch like Mei Xue. Instead, it started to crack after a short 15 minutes. Countless rays of light shot out from within.
This was a silver radiance that surpassed that of a god.
Then, a huge pair of silver wings of light shot into the sky. These were wings that could break free from everything. These were wings that represented unlimited freedom.
These were the supreme existences of the Netherworld Species — the Wings of Heaven Species.