God of Pets Chapter 996: The Fourth Stage of One Thought Ghost-God

"What power is this?" The Netherworld Emperor frowned as he scrutinized Jiang Qiemo. This kind of power clearly surpassed the shackles of cosmic laws, breaking through the hundred-level limit and entering another realm.

The Netherworld Emperor sensed that Jiang Qiemo seemed to have reached a level akin to her and the Spirit Devouring God, which astonished her greatly.

Achieving such a level with just one person's capability is almost impossible.

The reason the Netherworld Emperor and the Spirit Devouring God can reach this level is because the Netherworld Emperor was born from the power of death in the universe, while the Spirit Devouring God represents the power of life.

One could say the Netherworld Emperor and the Spirit Devouring God are two facets of this world; in this universe, apart from each other, they have no opponents.

The Spirit Devouring God came first. When she attempted to establish a world of immortality, driving the power of death away from the Sky Secret Spirit and relegating it to the Earth Secret Realm, the Netherworld Emperor was born.

Initially, the Netherworld Emperor's abilities were far inferior to the Spirit Devouring God's.

But as the waning energy grew, the Netherworld Emperor, born of that energy, also became increasingly powerful.

Each time the Spirit Devouring God cleansed the Earth Secret Realm, she was not only reclaiming the energy belonging to the Celestial Secret Realm but also destroying and killing the Netherworld Emperor.

As long as the Netherworld Emperor exists, a truly immortal and deathless eternal kingdom cannot exist; one day, the Celestial Secret Realm might be broken, bringing death back to the Sky Secret Spirit.

However, because the Netherworld Emperor was born from death, she is almost impossible to be truly killed.

Every time she is defeated, the Netherworld Emperor reincarnates in the Netherworld City.

Furthermore, with more and more waning energy channeling into the Earth Secret Realm, the Netherworld Emperor's power continues to increase—an unsolvable predicament.

Until the last battle between the Spirit Devouring God and the Netherworld Emperor, the Netherworld Emperor unexpectedly wounded the Spirit Devouring God, letting a drop of blood fall into the Earth Secret Realm.

It was at that time that the Spirit Devouring God realized she would have difficulty continuing to suppress the Netherworld Emperor, unless she gave up establishing an imperishable eternal paradise, allowing waning energy to return to the Sky Secret Spirit, thereby losing eternal youth and immortality.

Immortal paradise was the Spirit Devouring God's lifelong pursuit; naturally, she was unwilling to give up.

It wasn't until the Spirit Devouring God noticed humanity's growth that she conceived a new idea.

If the Sky Secret Spirit cannot truly kill the Netherworld Emperor or resolve the increasing waning energy problem, then perhaps humanity is the solution.

Humans are also born from waning energy, yet distinct from the Earth Secret Spirit; humans appear to be a new kind of life form.

Born from waning energy, humans possess the ability to harness Life Essence Qi and even death, distinct from both the Sky Secret Spirit and Earth Secret Spirit.

In countless past generations, humans existed in insignificance, lacking the ability to actively participate in battle, serving at most as auxiliary fighters for the Earth Secret Spirit.

But in this generation, when the Emperor Ancestor charged into the Celestial Secret Realm, the Spirit Devouring God began to regard humanity seriously.

As the Spirit Devouring God discovered, humans not only can wield the power of life but also harness waning energy, even serving as vehicles for such energy.

This capability, beyond even the Spirit Devouring God's, suggests that humans possess the traits of both the Spirit Devouring God and the Netherworld Emperor.

From that moment, the Spirit Devouring God devised a new plan.

Completely killing the Netherworld Emperor is nearly impossible, but if humans can absorb vast quantities of waning energy, then the Netherworld Emperor's forces will weaken, ultimately posing no threat to the Celestial Secret Realm.

Hence, the Spirit Devouring God wants to entirely destroy the Sky City, preventing its energy from flowing into the Earth Secret Realm, severing humanity's chance to absorb primordial energy.

Indeed, what the Spirit Devouring God told Chen Guan wasn't entirely false.

However, she did not disclose all the details to Chen Guan; after destroying the Tower of the Sky, the Sky Garden replaced the Sky City, serving as the new portal between two realms.

Unlike Sky City, the Sky Garden can filter Life Essence Qi, keeping it in the Celestial Secret Realm.

While waning energy continues flowing into the Earth Secret Realm, humans, deprived of Life Essence Qi, will turn to absorbing waning energy for cultivation.

Humans can still cultivate, just in a different direction.

By absorbing waning energy for cultivation, humans draw away the Netherworld Emperor's powers, preventing her from growing stronger and potentially leading to her demise as waning energy is siphoned by humans.

Only, humans will evolve into beings similar to those in the Netherworld, not quite becoming mindless, but certainly affected, particularly in their ability to reproduce, which will severely decline.

Given that waning energy is antithetical to life force, bodies filled with waning energy struggle to sustain progeny.

The Spirit Devouring God knew this consequence, so she withheld complete information from Chen Guan.

But the Spirit Devouring God miscalculated one thing, rushing the plan with the belief that the Netherworld Emperor hadn't yet reached her rebirth period, intending to complete the plan before she reincarnated, rendering her helpless afterward.

But in all her calculations, the Spirit Devouring God never expected that the Peace Pendant she used to suppress the Netherworld Emperor would be taken by Chen Guan, allowing the Netherworld Emperor to reincarnate earlier than expected.

Thus, after Chen Guan took the Peace Pendant, the manifestation of King of Du by the Netherworld Emperor never truly reappeared.

Because if her manifestation appeared again without the Peace Pendant, the Spirit Devouring God would know she had genuinely reincarnated.

The Netherworld Emperor's premature reincarnation significantly altered the Spirit Devouring God's plan.

The Netherworld Emperor thought the Spirit Devouring God wouldn't truly sacrifice herself for the path, hence she didn't originally stop Chen Guan and his companions because she also needed this opportunity.

Unlike the Spirit Devouring God, she needed Chen Guan and his allies to shatter the Tower of the Sky that symbolized life, thereby fully opening the inter-realm channels, allowing waning energy to flood back into the Celestial Secret Realm, completely dismantling the immortal world crafted by the Spirit Devouring God, and achieving universal dominance.

This would save her much time; the Netherworld Emperor was all too willing.

Events unfolded even more smoothly than the Netherworld Emperor anticipated; absent the Spirit Devouring God's obstruction, she seemed already poised for victory.

Yet the power Jiang Qiemo now emanated appeared to have reached the level of her and the Spirit Devouring God, which seemed an impossibility.

How could a mere ant within the rules leap beyond them?

Yet at this moment, Jiang Qiemo was like a beacon in the wilderness, illuminating the way for all despairing human cultivators, offering them a glimpse of other possibilities.

Jiang Qiemo transformed into the One Thought Ghost God, unhesitatingly launching the most powerful strike against the Netherworld Emperor—the fourth-stage Absolute Secret State strike.

Finally, the Netherworld Emperor intervened; holding the Sky Garden with one hand, she met the ghost god-like Jiang Qiemo with the other.

Boom!

As they clashed, space and time were torn apart, creating a cosmic rift that absorbed everything around them into its void.