Chapter 364: The Fallen Sun God
Viper Canyon is not far from the Temple of Death. Led by the guide, we continued walking southward for a day and saw a mountain range rising from the Gobi Desert in the distance.

The Viper Valley is just at the foot of the mountain, surrounded by a completely barren Gobi desert.

"Sir, the Viper Valley is ahead. Neither my camel nor I dare to get close. You can only go there by yourself!" said the guide respectfully.

"You just wait here." Richard waved his hand. An ordinary person running to the Viper Valley would be seeking death, so he just had to wait here.

Richard continued to move forward with Flavius, and soon they arrived near the Viper Valley. As soon as they approached the valley, Richard smelled a strong fishy smell. The valley was also very desolate, with a layer of yellow sand and rocks blown by the wind on the ground, and only some wild grass growing tenaciously.

At the end of the valley, a temple with the same style as the Temple of Death appeared in front of us.

Richard took the lead and walked over. This temple was also built underground, with a large number of pictures and hieroglyphs carved at the entrance. According to Lu Gaoyin's information, this temple was called the Temple of the Viper.

It got its name because of the large number of vipers living inside, but after Richard saw the hieroglyphs at the entrance, he discovered that the real name of this place was not the Temple of Vipers, but the Temple of the Sun.

The Sun Temple before him was not the Lord of the Dawn, Lathander, that Richard was familiar with. Yes, that sunny, cute and silly Lathander. Nor was it the Sun God Pero, or the Sun God of other pantheons in the Motera world, but the Sun God of the desert pantheon.

It can be said that very few people know about the Sun God of the Desert God System, mainly because this Sun God has been dead for too long. It has been so long that even his name is unclear. Some people call him Ra, some call him Amon, and some call him Atum.

The name written on the temple in front of us is Ra, which should be the original sun god.

Richard took Flavius ​​into the temple. As soon as they came in, they heard a sparse sound, like the sound of many snakes crawling in the desert.

Flavius ​​fired his bow and arrows continuously, and a blazing storm swept over in an instant, instantly burning the vipers in the darkness into torches. These vipers were two meters tall, with a huge snake head, able to walk upright, a pair of sharp claws, and a snake tail in the lower body.

"Ta Ling, scan the surrounding illusions!"

“Scanning.”

A ray of light instantly spread in all directions, and in the blink of an eye, a holographic image appeared in front of Richard's eyes. It was the holographic map of the entire Temple of the Sun.

The area of ​​this Sun Temple was more than half that of the Death Temple, and it only had two floors. Richard led Flavius ​​to the second floor, and along the way a large number of vipers attacked the two, but none of them could get within five meters of them.

This Sun Temple seems to have existed at the same time as the Death Temple, but the Sun Temple is obviously more dilapidated than the Death Temple. Many of the murals in the corridors are already mottled, and many have even been deliberately destroyed.

Richard didn't get much information from these murals.

There were many vipers in the Temple of the Sun, but they suffered heavy casualties under Flavius's attack, and soon these vipers fled deeper into the temple. The two came to the second floor, where there were more vipers, and the color of the vipers changed from brown to red, and their strength was stronger than the first floor.

The second floor of the temple is smaller in area. The walls of the passage are painted with the myth of the sun god. In these murals, the sun god is an image of a human body with a bird's head and a sun on his head. The murals depict the battle between the god Ra riding on the sun boat and the giant snake of destruction.

In these pictures, the god Ra rests during the day and rides the sun boat into the underworld at night to fight against the giant destructive serpent Apop to prevent it from destroying the world.

That is to say, in the desert pantheon, the world is on the brink of destruction every day. Apop, the serpent of destruction, is immortal. Even if Ra kills it and tears it into pieces, it will recover and fight Ra again the next night.

Over the endless years, Ra and Apop fought countless times, but Ra grew older and older in each battle, until the eternity of battle, while Apop remained strong.

The god Ra was getting older and older. In order to deal with Apop, he could only take his son and daughter on the sun boat to the underworld every day to fight Apop.

However, the mural does not depict the final outcome of the battle.

After the mural ended, Richard and the others came to the altar on the second floor. On the huge altar, a ball of golden light was shrouded by dark divine power. Next to the altar were a large number of red vipers and a viper leader.

"Deal with them!" Richard said casually.

The bow in Flavius's hand immediately waved, and the magic arrows fell like rain. In a blink of an eye, the vipers were killed by various spells. Richard came to the altar. This altar was originally used to sacrifice to the sun god, but now it has been polluted by dark forces.

The little bit of solar power that remained in the former solar temple was also eroded by the forces of darkness.

Richard was very familiar with this power, it was the power of hell. The solar eclipse was caused by him using the dark power to corrode the altar.

Richard exerted a little force on the staff in his hand.

boom!
With a dull sound, the hard rock cracked and a strong divine power instantly burst out from his body. The powerful divine power swept in all directions, and the dark power that originally polluted the sun's divine power began to collide with this divine power.

The dark destructive power quickly collapsed under Richard's divine power, and then collapsed. Richard's elemental power was completely dispersed and finally dissipated into the air.

Without the dark destructive power, the power of the sun on the altar in front of him immediately burst into dazzling brilliance. The golden sunlight instantly illuminated the entire stone chamber, and this sunlight penetrated the rock and expanded in all directions.

The God of Destruction Diablo also returned to the sun with the help of the light forcibly bound by the Sun Altar. The sun, which had been obscured by the solar eclipse, now bloomed with infinite light.

The world that was originally shrouded in darkness was penetrated by light at this moment. The darkness was quickly dispelled by the light, and the whole world was restored to light.

The Sun Altar, after the sun's light returned, the altar also dimmed, and finally only a ray of golden light was left, swaying. Richard knew that this ray of light was the last bit of the sun's divine power in this sun temple.

The power of the long-fallen desert sun god.

Since the fall of the Desert Sun God, his power has been divided up among other gods, but some of the divine power is still scattered in the multiverse. This Sun Temple in front of us worships the god Ra, and the power of faith allows the echoes of the god Ra's memory to gather here.

Even if a god is killed, the remaining memory echoes will exist for many years. Just like when Richard traveled to the abyss before, he once saw the corpse of a huge Orbis demon in the abyss ruled by the God of Jackals. This Orbis demon has been dead for tens of thousands of years, but the memory echoes still remain around its body. You can even communicate with it through the soul.

But in fact, they were already dead.

The same was true of the sun god power in front of him. Ra was dead, but the echo of his memory still remained. Richard gently stretched out his hand, and the golden flame slowly fell into his hand, and then entered his soul.

Diablo didn't dare to devour this divinity which was completely opposite to his own power, as that would be asking for trouble for him. However, this bit of sun power was a big piece of fat meat for Richard.

The golden divine power merged into his soul. At this moment, Richard seemed to have transcended time and space. A strong but old-looking god appeared before him.

The powerful power of the sun god made Richard feel a sense of oppression and difficulty breathing, but within this powerful power, he also felt a sense of old age and fatigue.

This god was driving a golden ship, and was entering the underworld, pulled by two sun snakes. Beside him, four strong gods stood on the side of the ship, but the combined power of these gods was not as strong as that of Ra.

Soon the sun boat entered the dark underground world. A crazy atmosphere of destruction enveloped the world, and only around the sun boat was there some light. The huge snake of destruction, Apop, rushed out from the darkness.

The thick snake body was as huge as the World Tree, and the crazy destructive breath made the gods breathless. Ra raised the golden scepter, came to the sun boat, and manipulated the power to attack Apop.

Apopo was beaten so hard by the sun god that he was in great pain, but this giant snake of destruction still attacked frantically. Its huge mouth was like a bottomless abyss that wanted to swallow everything. However, under the protection of the sun god Ra, Apopo was finally repelled.

After traveling around the underground world, the solar boat once again entered the surface world.

After a night of fighting, Ra became exhausted and returned to the palace to rest. Eventually, everything disappeared and Richard slowly recovered from the echoes of his memory.

A ray of the power of the sun god merged into his soul. This ray of the sun god's power was very small, with only a little divinity, and because the sun god Ra had fallen long ago, the will of this divine power was also erased by him, and finally he easily swallowed it and merged it into his body.

Richard opened his eyes, and a golden light flashed through his eyes. In his system tower spirit record, Richard's divine domain had an additional [Sun].

However, this solar domain is very weak. It is almost impossible to rely on this divinity to condense the godhood and obtain the position of the sun god. It can be said that even a follower of the sun god has higher solar power than him.

But this doesn't mean that this little bit of sun god power is useless. Richard's magic has the power of [purification] and [evil-breaking], which has more restraint on the dark forces.

Richard now has a lot of divinity integrated into his body, but these divinities have been thoroughly purified by Richard and finally integrated into the power of elements. The only divine powers he retains are the power of death and the power of the sun.

The power of death gave him a trace of authority over death. He could use the power of death to kill some extremely difficult-to-kill monsters, such as evil gods and ancient evil creatures.

The power of death seems to be dark and evil, but that is just the prejudice of some people. Death is actually neutral, which is why Richard can combine the two powers of death and the sun.

After he integrated the power of the sun god, the sun altar before him, which had existed for who knows how many thousand years, slowly collapsed at this moment and eventually scattered to the ground and turned into countless pieces of rubble.

The altar completed its final mission.

This bit of Sun God power could be said to be the easiest time for him to merge divine power. There was almost no resistance. The will on it was easily wiped out and merged into his body.

After the altar collapsed, a golden snake-shaped amulet rolled down. Richard waved his hand gently and the amulet fell into his hand.

This snake-shaped amulet was not a simple amulet, but something from the Horadric Scepter. Richard left the Temple of the Sun with the amulet, and next he needed to find the sandworm nest.

The sandworm nest is located in an oasis where a large number of sandworms live. Deep in the sandworm nest, the other part of the Horadric Scepter is left here.

Compared to the Temple of Death, the Sandworm Lair was also interconnected, like a maze. However, it was not surrounded by the power of death and destruction, so it was easy to deal with these sandworms.

This time, Richard did not let a guide lead him, but came directly to the oasis through teleportation.

As soon as we arrived here, we saw sandworms as big as carriages wandering around in the oasis. These huge sandworms occupied this place, and almost all the animals in the oasis were eaten by them.

Richard waved his hand gently, and a ray of light burst out from him.

——【Death Ripple! (Extreme Spell Effect + Divine Power)】

A powerful death wave instantly spread to the entire oasis. After being blessed by divine power, the power of the death wave became extremely strong. Wherever it passed, all the insects instantly lost their breath of life.

At this moment, huge sandworms were deprived of their lives. The death ripples ignored any obstacles. Even the underground sandworm nests did not block it. The powerful force of death swept through.

The once powerful Sandworm Kingdom completely took advantage of this moment, and all life disappeared without a trace.

Even the mother of the sandworms hiding in the deepest part of the sandworm nest could not resist this force and was directly deprived of her life. After being blessed by the divine power, the range of the death wave directly expanded to thirty kilometers.

With a flash of light, Richard instantly appeared in the nest of the underground sandworm kingdom. A ray of light rose from the dark nest, illuminating the huge nest, and a giant sandworm several meters long appeared before his eyes.

The sandworm eggs that lay secretly on the ground had lost their life force. In this nest, a golden scepter lay quietly on the sand.

Richard waved his hand and put the scepter into his private space. The next second, a beam of teleportation light rose up and the sandworm nest returned to darkness again.

Richard, who found the things, took Flavius ​​and followed the guide back to Lugoin.

(End of this chapter)