Am I going to be sacrificed too?

Chapter 31 Lord of the Void and Chaos

Wang An successfully recruited a ten-person team from the logistics department.

However, this squad consisted of ordinary people, mostly family members of inner-city citizens, who were simply there to earn a living.

Not everyone can afford the annual housing cost of 50,000 yuan on their own. Most families have to work together to barely make ends meet with subsidies.

But Wang An didn't care about these trivial matters. His purpose in coming here wasn't much better; he was after the right to come and go freely. In some ways, he was more like a scoundrel than these people.

However, before he could even settle in, he was given a new task.

"Provide supplies to the frontline teams in the Misty Ruins?"

The opportunity to leave the city has arrived.

……

Inside a building in the outer city.

It was actually just a dormitory building, which Wang Yu rented long-term to house more than 30 people temporarily.

But this wasn't a free stay; they had to unconditionally obey Wang Yu's arrangements and work.

Compared to the perilous wilderness, the environment in Strange Stone City is far superior. Even though the dormitory rooms are a bit cramped, it's still better than constantly worrying about losing your life.

Their first job now is to dedicate their devout faith.

Wang Yu adopted "Void and Chaos" as his divine title and revered Jie Sheng as "Lord of the Lost Path," thus setting up a makeshift team.

From this moment forward, these people will be the first batch of lost sheep in the Lost Church. Wang An will be the leader, and Wang Yu will be the deputy leader.

Hearing that they would have to worship this unfamiliar deity who was clearly not very popular, everyone was obviously uneasy. However, under pressure from Wang Yu, they had already made a pact through the black box and were now in the same boat.

They will dedicate everything to the glory of the heretical cult.

Wang Yu didn't care whether these people were truly devout or not, as long as their actions were correct and they achieved their goal.

Jie Shengben thought so too.

Until a wisp of faith came before him.

"It turns out that having a sincere faith actually brings real feedback!"

This was the first time Jie Sheng had ever heard that ethereal faith could be a source of power, and perhaps this was the normal way for deities to obtain power?

He looked at the believer who had offered his faith, Bai Yan.

Strands of divine faith emanated from the other person's soul and drifted into Xie Sheng's hand.

After careful observation for a long time, Jie Sheng discovered that these beliefs and divine powers had no concrete effects.

"No, these beliefs actually have attributes, namely 'nothingness' and 'chaos,' but they only have attributes without any concrete effects."

Jie Sheng had a bold guess in his mind: the reason why it had no effect was because there were no pantheons with these two attributes in this world.

"This is a pantheon that belongs to me alone. It is a vague concept that has never appeared in this world before, so I need to set a specific standard for it."

Now that we have a clue, things will be easier.

Jie Sheng assigned meanings to these two divine powers, which corresponded to his two abilities.

Chaos is existence, disorder and chaos, which can be transformed into any type of divine power, creating things or amplifying the effects of the original divine power. It is a lower-level substitute for the origin of chaos.

"Nothingness" means non-existence. All laws cannot affect it. Anything touched by the power of nothingness will lose all its effects until it completely returns to nothingness and ceases to exist.

Chaos and nothingness, both are powerful, but Jie Sheng is a little worried. Can a human soul really withstand such a powerful effect?

Jie Sheng turned his gaze to Bai Yan, the young man who had contributed his first faith. "Since you are so devout, I will grant you an awakening and make you my first chosen one."

With Jie Sheng personally overseeing the modifications, Bai Yan would not be in any danger even if the awakening failed.

Bai Yan is a very simple person, without many hidden thoughts, and takes everything very seriously.

So after Wang Yu asked them to believe in "nothingness and chaos," he did just that.

And so everyone witnessed the first miracle of their lives.

……

As Wang Yu preached on the stage, Bai Yan closed his eyes, his consciousness gradually sinking into his soul, trying to imagine the great being the other party spoke of.

Fortunately, he succeeded.

He felt as if his body no longer existed, becoming unimaginably light, as if his soul was about to leave his body.

Then he saw... Him.

He stood above the void, where nothing seemed to exist—time, space, matter, concepts… The darkness before him gradually dissipated, turning into a void of nothingness. All distracting thoughts in his consciousness were cleared away, and even thinking could not continue. This moment was like eternity.

Until a certain moment, He moved.

It was like a dream, vast and indescribable, yet it was also like a point condensed to the extreme, containing all things. When Bai Yan looked at it, endless chaotic colors exploded in his vision.

In a daze, Bai Yan seemed to see a magnificent world unfolding before him.

Blue skies and white clouds, green mountains and clear waters, no wasteland, no wilderness—the scenery that only exists in fantasy is like an unreal painting.

Breathe

Everything before him was terrifyingly real. With each breath, Bai Yan could feel the wind flowing through his chest.

Isn't this plain a bit too monotonous?

The instant Bai Yan had this thought, he saw vast expanses of vegetation before his eyes. This vegetation was wildly piled up, intertwined and crisscrossed, blocking out the sky and burying the entire horizon.

"No! This is too much!"

Just as these things were sweeping over him and about to crush him, he seemed to sense Baiyan's will and stopped in an instant.

The next second, the vegetation vanished like bubbles, leaving no trace.

Bai Yan stared blankly at the unbelievable scene before him.

And didn't he just speak?

Bai Yan touched his throat, where the hideous marks left by his previous injury had disappeared, replaced by smooth, brand-new skin.

He picked up a stone from the ground and watched it turn into countless fragments in his hand, disappearing into nothingness.

Here, he seems to be able to create and destroy everything.

Click~

A faint cracking sound came from afar. Bai Yan turned his head and saw that at the edge of the world, the entire horizon was receding at a visible speed, being replaced by the void. The part swallowed by the void turned into the purest chaos.

Before Bai Yan could react, he was swallowed by the void and chaos, and gradually stopped thinking.

"Shiraiwa? Shiraiwa!"

Bai Yan suddenly woke up and looked around, only to find that everyone present was looking at him.

Or rather, they were looking at the two divine powers in his hands.

"Nothingness" and "chaos".

"Baiyan, you...you've successfully awakened!?"