I Am the Fated Villain

Chapter 1794. Filth Breeds, Darkness Invades the Taixuan Divine Realm

The vast expanse was boundless and infinite, containing trillions upon trillions of universes and endless dimensions of spacetime.

The Taixuan Divine Realm was situated within overlapping layers of spacetime dimensions. Ancient and radiant worlds were piled together like nebulae, surrounding and supporting the Taixuan Divine Realm at the center like stars worshipping the moon.

An immeasurable tide of faith-based divine power continuously gathered from countless kingdoms and universes, surging like rivers and oceans, covering the heavens and earth as it formed a supreme divine crown and throne.

Surrounding the Taixuan Divine Realm was the Multiversal Void Sea, composed of countless shattered spacetime dimensions that existed outside the past, future, and present.

Even beings at the Ancestor Dao Realm would find it difficult to detect its existence or determine its spatial coordinates.

This was also the reason why every Ancestor God could safely hide within multiple dimensional layers of spacetime.

Throughout the endless ages, countless divine kingdoms had perished and been destroyed, and many Ancestor Gods had fallen as well.

Only those Ancestor Gods capable of avoiding natural enemies and seeking fortune while escaping disaster could endure eternally.

To the endless trillions of citizens within the Taixuan Divine Realm, the Taixuan Ancestor God was the one and only Creator God. Her existence protected every kingdom, allowing the Taixuan Divine Realm to remain everlasting and free from invasion by foreign races and warfare.

However, ever since the Taixuan Ancestor God returned last time, the entire Taixuan Divine Realm had undergone earth-shaking changes.

Countless citizens of the divine kingdoms were filled with anxiety, fear, and unease.

The divine light enveloping the borders of the divine kingdom had become dim and blurry, seemingly suffering from some terrifying erosion and contamination. The border regions grew increasingly bleak, as though they might disappear at any moment.

The tides of the Multiversal Void Sea continuously crashed against the realm like a terrifying darkness capable of devouring everything. Any living being who stepped into it would perish instantly, crushed to pieces by the power between multiple dimensions.

The vast divine light protecting the divine kingdom was formed from the power of the Taixuan Ancestor God. If the divine light was dimming, what did that mean?

It meant the Taixuan Ancestor God’s power was weakening and gradually disappearing.

Perhaps even she had become powerless and could no longer continue protecting the Taixuan Divine Kingdom.

For the countless citizens of the Taixuan Divine Kingdom, this was an indescribably devastating blow, as though the sky itself had collapsed.

“If the Ancestor God’s power completely disappears, then the Void Beasts of the Multiversal Void Sea will invade and devour our kingdoms. With our strength, there’s no way we can stop so many Void Beasts…”

At the borders of the Taixuan Divine Kingdom, figures bathed in divine light stood watch. Brilliant divine halos shone behind them, and multiple wings spread from their backs. Clad in divine armor and wielding divine weapons, they stared fixedly at the towering tides that endlessly battered the borders.

Though called tides, they were actually composed of countless shattered spacetime dimensions and cosmic fissures.

Every wave was a crack in reality, remnants of broken and decayed worlds and universes accumulated throughout countless eras of the boundless expanse.

These remnants not only contained terrifying power, but had also given birth to a species known as Void Beasts, creatures that specialized in devouring the fragments of ruined universes and worlds. Their strength was incredibly terrifying, and they were almost impossible to exterminate.

To divine civilization systems, these Void Beasts were akin to natural predators.

Many kingdoms established by weaker gods had been annihilated over the long river of time because they lacked the ability to resist Void Beasts.

Only divine kingdoms protected by Ancestor Gods possessed the qualifications and foundation necessary to resist Void Beasts and endure eternally.

“What exactly happened? Why did the Ancestor God’s power begin weakening after her return? Even the divine power is fading, and filth has begun to breed. Before long, these areas will probably be torn open by the Void Beasts…”

“The Nine Ao Divine Realm was swallowed by Void Beasts not long ago and completely destroyed. Could it be that our Taixuan Divine Realm will follow in the footsteps of the Nine Ao Divine Realm?”

A female deity spoke with a face full of fear and trembling.

The Nine Ao Divine Realm had also once been a renowned and powerful divine realm within divine civilization. Although its foundation could not compare to the Taixuan Divine Realm, it too possessed an Ancestor God overseeing it.

Yet not long ago, the Nine Ao Ancestor God had suddenly fallen. Her godhood shattered, and the entire faith system collapsed. Endless faith power burst outward from the Nine Ao Divine Realm, tearing apart the protective barrier the Nine Ao Ancestor God had left behind.

In an instant, it was like a dam collapsing. The Multiversal Void Sea flooded inward, followed by endless Void Beasts. A once ancient and prosperous divine realm crumbled and disintegrated completely.

That incident caused a massive uproar throughout the entire divine civilization system.

The Taisu Divine Realm, the Chu Wu Divine Realm, and many other divine realms all fell into turmoil and terror. It was also at that time that the Taixuan Ancestor God returned from the outside world.

Regarding the destruction of the Nine Ao Divine Realm, she seemed completely unsurprised and said nothing to her divine envoys before entering seclusion and deep slumber to recover.

The Ancestor Gods of the other divine realms also seemed to know the truth behind the matter, yet none dared speak openly, as though they feared and avoided some taboo.

To all gods within the divine system, the fall of an ancient Ancestor God, along with the shattering of their godhood, meant true extinction.

The shock caused by such news could easily be imagined.

However, since even the Nine Ao Divine Realm had already been annihilated, no one dared continue investigating further.

To the gods of the Taixuan Divine Realm, the matter originally seemed unrelated to them.

Yet no one expected that during the period while the Taixuan Ancestor God remained in slumber recovering—

The heavens of the Taixuan Divine Realm would change…

At first, citizens noticed terrifying phenomena appearing in some of the kingdoms personally created by the Taixuan Ancestor God.

Black blood began pouring from the sky like torrential rain.

Strange, filthy tentacles clung to the barriers of worlds, as though attempting to wriggle in from some unknown place beyond.

The order within many kingdoms began descending into chaos. In dark corners, corruption bred and gradually eroded the souls of the citizens.

At the same time, the protective barriers left behind by the Taixuan Ancestor God began turning blurry. In some places, black spots even appeared, as though cursed by some sinister power, spreading slowly like thick ink soaking through paper.

The entire Taixuan Divine Realm fell into panic.

Many gods suspected that the Taixuan Divine Realm had been invaded by evil gods who had fallen into darkness. The power of darkness was seeping in from some unknown location, threatening to corrupt the entire realm.

Yet at such a critical moment, the Taixuan Ancestor God still remained in slumber. No deity could approach her sleeping palace, nor could anyone awaken her.

To all the gods of the Taixuan Divine Realm, this was utter despair.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Thick black lightning bolts tore across the heavens throughout the Taixuan Divine Realm like falling black suns, heavy and overwhelming.

As the lightning flashed, dark clouds gathered across the sky, followed by torrents of black rain pouring down endlessly.

These black raindrops seemed to possess some strange life force. The moment they landed upon the ground, they immediately began spreading outward.

Many ordinary citizens of the divine kingdom became contaminated by the black rain. Soon afterward, they fell gravely ill. After remaining unconscious for several days, they awakened with a mysterious power inside them—one that did not belong to divine power.

This power was beyond their control, yet it influenced them constantly, making them become insane, cruel, bloodthirsty, and violent.

Even ordinary vegetation changed the same way, as though stimulated into frenzied growth. Normal grass instantly expanded into mountain-sized proportions, becoming incomparably savage. With a single lash, an entire city could collapse into ruins.

The same happened to every other living creature…

The black rain grew heavier and heavier, quickly spreading across one kingdom after another. All the gods fell into despair.

The Taixuan Divine Realm had been personally created by the Taixuan Ancestor God. For such terrifying and bizarre disasters to occur, it could only mean one thing—

Something catastrophic had happened to the Taixuan Ancestor God herself.

Perhaps it was not that she refused to awaken.

Perhaps she simply could not awaken.

“Although I already knew that bait had problems, I still took the risk and brought it away. I originally intended to suppress it temporarily and carefully refine and purge it after returning to the divine realm. Even losing part of my origin would have been acceptable.”

“But I truly never expected that the Lord of the Heaven-Felling Alliance possessed such tyrannical and terrifying methods. I merely became tainted by a trace of it at the time, yet it brought endless disaster upon me.”

Within a dark and empty void, the Taixuan Ancestor God let out a soft sigh.

How could she possibly fail to notice the changes within herself?

From the location of her severed arm, strands of black mist continuously spread upward, completely contaminating half of her shoulder.

The power was strange and overbearing, like maggots attached to bone, impossible to remove.

Back in the Sea of Spacetime, in order to reclaim her arm before the Taisu Ancestor God, the Chu Wu Ancestor God, the Haoshang Ancestor God, and the others—

Even though she knew Gu Changge had probably left some hidden method behind and was merely waiting for her to take the bait—

She still forcibly fused the severed arm back onto herself.

And it was precisely because of that decision that she suffered the calamity she now faced.

After leaving the Sea of Spacetime, she immediately severed the arm once more.

Yet within that brief span of time, the strange power had already spread to her shoulder.

Thus, the moment she returned to the Taixuan Divine Realm, she entered deep slumber in an attempt to completely purge and purify it.

But she had never expected that not only could she not remove it, the strange power instead rooted itself deeper and deeper within her.

The Taixuan Ancestor God felt immense regret.

If she had not spied upon Gu Changge and offended him when the Heaven-Felling Alliance was first established, perhaps none of today’s disasters would have happened.

“This strange power is extremely similar to the source of darkness… just what exactly is he?”

At present, the only apparent solution was to personally find Gu Changge and ask him to resolve the problem.

However, her consciousness was trapped within this cage-like, dark, and endless space.

The Taixuan Ancestor God could clearly sense that within her physical body, a new consciousness now seemed to be taking shape.

If she failed to escape this space in time, then from this moment onward, her body might be occupied by another consciousness entirely.

The mere thought of such an outcome sent chills down her spine.

She could not help but think of those races and living beings that had fallen into darkness.