Super Righteous Player-Chapter 180 - 178 The King of the Immortals_1

The Sublimation Ritual of the Rotten, named "King of the Eternals".

The content of the ritual involves seven Eternals slaughtering each other. The last one standing can obtain the truth of "eternal life" and have the chance to become a true "Eternal" God.

But the Rotten himself had already completed his ascension to Godhood.

He only lacked the complete truth of "eternal life".

——The first Eternal in this world was the Rotten himself.

And He clearly wasn’t a fool... to let his ritual serve as a bridal gown for others.

Therefore, the Rotten directly used the authority of the divine to monopolize the ritual that granted the "Eternal" Curse Binding.

The only way to obtain the "Eternal" Curse Binding in the world today is to complete the Rotten’s ritual.

Merely "restoring youth", to the extent of that level of "eternal life", naturally wouldn’t grant one this special Curse Binding. To become a true Eternal, one must complete the highest ritual in the domain of the Rotten.

——There’s no other ritual that could please the Rotten more than the extinction of a royal bloodline.

For instance, "Fratricidal Killings", "Patricide and Solitary Kingship", or "Barren Monarch".

——Yes.

The ritual that the Kingdom of Noah is currently undertaking is indeed an immortality ritual.

The first requires a king to be healthy and alive while all his direct descendants slaughter each other to extinction, then for him to receive the Rotten’s blessing to become a "Celestial Eunuch"; the second is "for a member of the royal family to slay the sovereign and all siblings", then successfully stage a coup and receive the Rotten’s blessing; the last one requires a monarch to succeed, have all their kin die, and leave no descendants, and then receive the Rotten’s blessing.

The first and third rituals are similar in nature, but the first targets the descendants of the current king, while the third is aimed at the descendants of the previous king.

No matter which ritual is completed, it allows the king to obtain the powerful Curse Binding of an "Eternal", and to directly ascend to the ranks of the Silver.

Presumably, the Rotten would immediately turn against him, straightaway killing him.

On one hand, this is to deny this new Eternal any chance to grow and compete with himself.

On the other hand... it is also a form of recycling waste.

After the collapse of the great barrier, following the protracted "Blood War"... the world that humanity could reach was left with only five countries.

The country where the Rotten held the first ritual is today’s "Double Goddess Confederation", also known as the "Underground Confederation".

The guardians of this nation are the Mysterious Lady and the Lady of Silence——two goddesses who are rarely seen and have always been enigmatic in their whereabouts... Unlike the Silver Baron and the Grandmother, they do not stay near their own countries. This directly led to the weakness of the church’s influence in the Underground Confederation.

And one of the primary countries of this federation was devastated by the Rotten, losing an entire generation of newborns and all royal bloodlines.

Although all the babies born within seven years died of the curse... an entire nation had lost half a generation and all its Transcendents in an instant.

But there was also a large number of ordinary people... They desperately dug underground tunnels and, before dying in large numbers from the curse, managed to relocate most of the young and a few middle-aged and older people to the mist-free Underworld.

Their royal family had been completely wiped out.

Fearing the Rotten, who had become a God, they did not dare to elect a new sovereign... Of course, it’s also possible that some authoritative figures among the people found the opportunity and thus propagated such an idea.

In any case, they established "The Diggers’ Council", founding a "kinsgless state".

And at that moment, their protector, the Lady of Silence who had been slow to realize the peril, hurried back home.

She held up the barrier again, but it was too late. The surface world was left with only skeletons and deserted ruins.

Fortunately, she eventually found the people who had moved underground.

But they were unwilling to return to the surface.

Because some believed that, after the collapse of the great barrier, the Underworld was necessary for its existence... With the protection of divine power, they could completely survive underground.

Being the first to occupy this vast land, previously unnoticed by anyone, was not a bad thing.

The Lady of Silence also highly agreed with their opinion.

Thus, she invited the mysterious lady to help herself extensively remodel the Underworld.

Since then, all children born in the Underworld have possessed Dark Vision, enabling them to survive in utterly lightless environments. They also received numerous "cursed objects" made by the mysterious lady to aid them in establishing cities underground.

For instance, mosses that could glow steadily in the dark and serve as streetlights, crops that could grow underground, livestock that could thrive in darkness, clean underground water, and water extraction tools...

Soon, the few small nations under the protection of the mysterious lady also heard the news. After seeking the goddesses’ opinions, they quickly made their way over... with the goal of avoiding the "Blood War".

The losers who perished in the Mist and did not manage to snatch the shelter of deities in the Blood War also scrambled to escape to the Underworld—fortunately, the Underworld was vast enough and free from the intrusion of the Mist to accommodate so many people.

And so these losers united to establish the "Double Goddess Republic".

They didn’t create a monarchy, but were governed by a dual council system comprising of "The Diggers’ Council" and "The Council of Sages".

After all, the Underworld was spacious enough. Today’s Underworld Federation can be regarded as the state with the largest population.

The underground tunnels leading to the other four nations were all constructed under the auspices of the Underworld Federation—

The mysterious lady was the "God of Secrets and Rituals". Her followers, many being sages, especially excelled in crafting technologies that appeared quite outlandish... like the underground rail trains powered by the Mist as an energy source.

Of course, if other nations wanted to use the underground tunnels or other underground technologies, they had to pay a high service fee. They didn’t ask for money, but rather fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, and fiber products from above ground.

Because they were far below the ground, they never had to worry about the Mist. After the Underworld Federation began operating normally, the two goddesses left once again.

They were the only nation that nearly went the entire year without the protection of a True God.

Though the seven True Gods of The Holy Nation weren’t always in The Tower of Heaven, at least a couple of them were left to keep watch...

After all, the citizens of the Federation lived underground and didn’t need the protection of great barriers—the people of the aboveground world hadn’t been modified by the mysterious lady and couldn’t adapt to living underground. And those from the Underworld felt a sense of superiority over the aboveground world and felt a deep connection to their own.

The Underworld Federation had no King.

The Holy Nation dared not go there.

The Curse Binding ritual seemed simple, but it could only circulate between the United Kingdom, the Duchy of Winter, and the Kingdom of Noah.

It had been several hundred years since the Curse Binding became a Transcendent.

Annan had every reason to suspect...

That its ritual had probably made almost no progress.

Because when Annan was reviewing the historical records, he had never heard of a similar situation occurring in the Kingdom of Noah before. And Yawen, the Silver Baron, and the Old Grandmother were True Gods not to be trifled with; there might not be a chance for the Curse Binding...

—Hence, it sought the Book of the Celestial Chariot.

The ritual of the "King of the Eternals" had made no progress in hundreds of years, thoroughly blocked by the three True Gods.

The Curse Binding might have completely abandoned this ritual.

Now, it was merely using this ritual as a ruse...

to hide its plans to secretly collect "Book of the Celestial Chariot".

Players are the "eternal" and "childless" beings!

Upon collecting the first fragment of the Book of the Celestial Chariot, the effect is to allow players "to resurrect".

For the Curse Binding, this was essentially "the truth used to summon and control the eternal warriors from the Otherworld"!

No wonder it set its sights on the Book of the Celestial Chariot...

But in the tone of the Skeletal Lord, Annan vaguely perceived...

—The Skeletal Lord seemed to be aware of this matter.

Whether it was the Curse Binding’s scheme.

...Or the fact that Annan was in possession of the Book of the Celestial Chariot.