My System Arrives 3 Years Earlier, But the Deities Haven't Come Yet

Amidst Mors's furious roar, Zeng Shen saw that within a 200-square-meter area centered around the Purgatory Durian fruit tree in front of him, the ground suddenly shook. Red-hot iron rods, spaced only a thumb's length apart, rapidly rose from the ground.

These scorching red-hot iron rods extended ten meters high before bending at right angles to form an iron grid. In an instant, these fiery rods turned into a large square cage of flames, enclosing the entire area.

"Uh, so I've been discovered this quickly?"

Zeng Shen was momentarily stunned but remained invisible, instantly teleporting out of the fiery cage.

Above him, Mors continued to believe that the intruder, Zeng Shen, was still hiding in the void without revealing his consciousness.

Thus, Mors taunted the void, saying, "Vermin, have your followers return the rare Purgatory Durian fruit, or I will annihilate your followers here."

However, after waiting for about ten seconds, Mors saw no sign of the intruding deity. He guessed that the intruder had some equipment or tools that could shield their presence and hide them in the divine realm's sky.

What Mors didn't know was that the so-called intruding deity was actually present in the divine realm, which Mors could not physically enter.

After discovering that he could teleport safely out of Mors's Groundfire Iron Cage, Zeng Shen teleported back in and focused his mind on the uncollected Purgatory Durian fruits in the cage's center. Using telekinesis, he separated the fruits from the tree branches and brought them to him.

Without hesitation, Zeng Shen stored all the fruits in his backpack space.

At that moment, Mors, still waiting for the intruding deity to reveal themselves, saw the Purgatory Durian fruit inside the Groundfire Iron Cage disappear once more. Instantly, he felt a great sense of mockery and contempt, and his anger surged again, roaring from his giant phantom mouth.

"Falling Skyfire, Hellfire Tornado, Magma Quagmire."

In an instant, the hellish soil inside the fiery cage erupted with intense heat, turning into magma.

Simultaneously, countless dark red fireballs, resembling bullets, continuously formed above the cage and shot downward rapidly, crashing into the magma with explosive roars.

Amidst the roaring, a massive, fiery tornado, swirling with scorching magma, spun and howled.

Watching from a nearby Purgatory Durian fruit tree, Zeng Shen couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement and relief.

Fortunately, he had the versatile escape skill of teleportation.

Otherwise, he would have been trapped inside.

On second thought, he realized he could withstand temperatures up to 2500 degrees, while Mors's Magma Quagmire was only a low-level skill with a maximum temperature of 1500 degrees.

So, if he were in the magma, it would be as if soaking in cold water, making no difference.

As for the fire bullets, he could easily resist them with his intermediate skill, Air Shield.

This meant that even if he revealed himself, the demon Mors couldn't do anything to him.

So, he didn't really need to waste faith power on staying invisible.

Upon realizing this, Zeng Shen suddenly found that his level 5 fire resistance was a perfect counter to Mors's attack skills.

Immediately, he took out a disguise mask, put it on, and molded it into Lin Hui's face.

At this moment, above his divine realm, the demon Mors, who had projected himself into the realm with a thousand faith points, released four skills in extreme anger.

He continued to taunt the air with a mocking tone, using reverse psychology.

"Spineless vermin, did you see that?

"Under my detection, your hidden followers in this area have been completely annihilated and buried here, leaving no trace behind.

"I advise you to reveal your consciousness, kneel at my feet, admit your mistake, and compensate me with divine crystals or even divine shards. Otherwise, once I track your divine realm coordinates, I will annihilate your followers and strip you of your divinity, reducing you to a divine 'slave.'"

As Mors spat out the word 'slave,' he suddenly paused.

Because twenty meters outside the Groundfire Iron Cage, the Purgatory Durian fruits on a tree began spinning clockwise, then separated from the tree.

Immediately afterward, the fruits flew toward a human figure with no clothes on the upper body and wrapped in a circle of red fire grass on the lower body, appearing beneath the tree, and then vanished.

"Roar."

Mors let out a bloodthirsty roar, gritting his teeth, "Vermin, you've thoroughly enraged me. Once I track your divine realm coordinates, I will lead my followers to annihilate yours and have my master track your location to strip you of your divinity, reducing you to a slave."

With that, he quickly turned Zeng Shen's position into another Groundfire Iron Cage and once again unleashed the combination of Falling Skyfire, Hellfire Tornado, and Magma Quagmire.

As these three skills activated, Zeng Shen focused his mind, and an air shield appeared around him.

Immediately, the bullet-like fireballs raining from the sky hit the air shield like rain on a transparent glass, making a pattering sound.

As for the magma surging beneath his feet, it turned out to be just as he expected, akin to soaking in cold water, unable to harm him.

The fiery tornado only made his chest feel a bit tight, unable to harm him at all.

"Ah, impossible."

Mors, seeing the air shield Zeng Shen used, was shocked.

"You're not an intelligent species; you're a tier 1 deity. How can you manifest in a divine realm? Who are you, and which divine star do you come from?"

"How do you know I'm a deity and not an intelligent species?" Zeng Shen asked, puzzled.

However, Mors had no intention of answering, instead showing an incredibly arrogant expression, as if looking at an ignorant native, with a gleam of slaughter and greed in his eyes.

"Hmph, vermin, since you don't even know this, it seems you recently became a deity after the divine energy outbreak on some planet, fortuitously discovering the divine realm coordinate information point released by me in the inferior primary planet group and broke into my divine realm."

"So what if I did?" Zeng Shen continued along with Mors's narrative, trying to glean more information about the outer realms.

"So what? Hehehe, then just wait for me to expend divine fire to track your divine realm coordinates, locate your planet, and lead my followers to raid your planet's resources before any powerful deities emerge, draining your planet's potential to quickly evolve into a superior deity."

Mors said with a sinister, murderous excitement, his blood-red eyes gleaming with extreme excitement.

Listening to Mors, Zeng Shen's eyes narrowed, a deep light flashing, and he said expressionlessly, "Go ahead, you can try."

Saying this, Zeng Shen focused his mind, teleporting out of the Groundfire Iron Cage and appearing beside another Purgatory Durian fruit tree, using telekinesis to collect the fruits.

"Vermin, how dare you."

Mors roared furiously at Zeng Shen.

However, Zeng Shen ignored him and continued to the next Purgatory Durian fruit tree to collect more fruits.

"Fine, fine, you despicable god of an inferior planet, you've thoroughly enraged me. Divine Realm Tracking."

Enraged to the point of laughter, Mors roared at Zeng Shen, focusing his mind. From within his phantom, countless aurora-like flame beams emerged, flying toward the position where Zeng Shen first appeared among the red fire grass, forming a vortex gate.

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