"The procreation of this world has been deprived. Rather than saying people are forming couples to bear offspring, it's more like they are nurturing the 'God's children. If the 'God' dies, the entire world's ability to procreate will be utterly stripped away!"

"The God is dead," Xue Dili said calmly.

The Mad Viscount and the Golden Emperor were taken aback. Perhaps due to the charm value, they didn't doubt Xue Dili's words too much, and then asked, "Who did it?"

"My friend," Xue Dili replied directly.

At that moment, their minds were buzzing, and even the 'God' observing them had its mind buzzing...

And looking at the intelligence handed over by this Heroic Spirit, Xue Dili confirmed his identity.

It was precisely the persona he had adopted earlier, the Mad Viscount...

So he had been disguising himself as the original in front of the main character all along...

But this was not the time to dwell on these trivial matters. Looking at his research, Xue Dili understood why he was nicknamed the "Mad Viscount."

He didn't see others as humans, like the maddest scientist, conducting crazy human experiments and directly abducting children from the Royal Family and the Duke's family for reproductive research. Such actions were bound to bring about death.

And he managed to remain hidden even after over a dozen members of the royal family were abducted, which already made him a particularly well-hidden fellow.

At the same time, the research of the Mad Viscount also validated many of Xue Dili's suspicions.

As expected, he could only summon an external deity representing procreation because of the lack of procreation in this world.

The Ninth Apostle was born on this planet, and it is still unknown how the world was before His birth. But now, after His birth, He orchestrated this great expedition where both parties became mutual snacks for the Divine Tree.

Meanwhile, the Ninth Apostle wielded the world's authority, as if He had completed the Genesis like Zeus, including the authority of procreation.

After the Ninth Apostle's death, most of the authority was stripped away, especially the most crucial authority named procreation. If it became ineffective...

The entire world and all living beings would fall into infertility.

No, according to the Mad Viscount's research, the authority of procreation was missing in the past as well, perhaps lacking when the Ninth Apostle ascended, or it might have been shattered during His battle with the original World Consciousness.

The procreation authority derived by the Ninth Apostle was essentially just cloning.

The races of their world were essentially not procreating offspring but rather producing their clones.

But all individuals, although different externally, had identical core genes.

Like a world of clones.

Now that the authority of procreation has disappeared entirely, the world has fallen into the state of the God being dead, and no living creatures can reproduce.

Xue Dili closed his eyes; indeed, this was the fundamental logic of why he could only summon Heroic Spirits representing procreation.

The so-called Summoning of Outer Gods was not created by him; it was essentially the world, through him as a medium from an alien, calling forth an external god to fill in the missing 'procreation.'

Xue Dili was merely a medium.

Or rather, Xue Dili became a 'Holy Relic,' through which the world summoned the most needed external deity.

And sealing this basehead four was the right thing to do. If any of them were to reclaim the authority of procreation, it would result in unimaginable disasters worldwide.

Zeus would sing songs of slaughter and boiling, Typhon would turn everyone into a demon beast's breeding ground, Poseidon would make everyone into grotesque creatures, and if Aphrodite reclaimed the procreation authority, it would plunge the world into a sea of lust and pleasure.

Damn, what a headache...

So after the Ninth Apostle died, who holds the world's authority now? Does it still have its consciousness?

Xue Dili didn't know, but based on the aggregation of all existing intelligence, the truth would emerge after the victory of this great expedition.

Now, he had pieced together most of the intelligence and information about this world, next, he just needed to...

Fight!