"The second question is, how can we trap Zeus in the Netherworld and ensure he cannot leave?" The Great Sage raised the crucial question.

Xue Dili saw the old man's gaze fixed upon him, and he understood.

"With my death!" Xue Dili looked up at the sky, "With a grand enough death that would shock all of Greece!"

"Next, it's your performance now, a drama that fools the gods."

...

Xue Dili's contemplation made the gods, and the three goddesses seemed to want to continue raising their stakes.

Holding the Golden Apple in his hand, he didn't immediately decide its ownership but said, "Heavenly Father, I am but a mere mortal, afraid that after deciding the ownership of the Golden Apple, I will incur punishment."

As soon as he said these words, the gods snapped out of their beautified illusions. Indeed, he was merely a mortal, and his fear of the other goddesses' wrath was understandable.

Amid the gods' whispered discussions, Zeus said, "Then I hereby declare, no god will bring punishment or harm upon you."

The gods were all shocked, as Zeus' declaration in front of the Three Fates was tantamount to a blessing from the Celestial Gods, and for credibility, he even used his authority.

It was clear that this charming young man was very much favored by Zeus.

"Thank you, Heavenly Father." Xue Dili sat down on a pure white stone bench, holding the apple, his back to the gods.

Out of sight of the gods, he revealed a smile as if his plan had come together.

[Divine Protection (A-Class): Gods cannot directly attack, curse, or punish you.]

He had already succeeded halfway; this protection directly made him a matchless monster in external appearances.

"Mortal scholar, your time to ponder and choose has ended. Decide on the ownership of the Golden Apple." Queen Hera looked at Xue Dili's back on the pure white stone bench and spoke.

Yet Xue Dili only slightly rose, without even turning his head, as if the pure white stone bench underneath him felt an approaching storm.

"If you want it, then come and take it." Xue Dili slightly turned around, the pure white stone bench turned to ashes, and the gods incredulously felt an incomprehensible sense of oppression and power from this mortal, "My rules are as such."

At that moment, all the gods were shocked, astonished at this mortal's audacity, and also shocked at why he dared to be so arrogant in front of them.

At this time, even the goddesses who liked Xue Dili for his looks were quite frightened; even the three goddesses were taken aback, Aphrodite clenched her fist tightly, Hera's scepter struck the ground heavily, and Athena also had a golden spear appear in her hand, her expression unfriendly.

Xue Dili laughed, returning to his true nature, no longer as humble as before, even taking up the Golden Apple in his hand and biting into it.

The golden juice flowed out, and the flesh inscribed with "For the Fairest Goddess" was eaten by him, the three goddesses were furious, the gods frowned deeply, and their right eyelids twitched wildly.

And when they were about to act, they felt the world's restraint on them, the oppressive force so heavy they couldn't breathe.

It was then that they remembered that this mortal had tricked Father Zeus into granting him protection, and the gods could not punish or harm him!

Is this the foolish mortal's cunning scheme!

At this moment, the gods originally fond of Xue Dili due to his looks no longer had any intention of taking him as a follower, only wanting to humiliate this arrogant fellow! Utter humiliation!

Did this mortal have not even a bit of respect for the gods?

And just as the gods were getting heated up, Zeus, with a grim expression, ordered, "Hermes, quickly send this mortal back to Troy."

"Huh? But he's not a Trojan..." And as Hermes muttered, Zeus only gave him a stern look.

Hermes instantly understood Zeus' intent.

Yet even as this foolish mortal was leaving, the gods all felt the pressure, like an impending storm, the Divine King's wrath wasn't so easily dissipated.

Even if he had received the Divine Protection, and even though the gods didn't act directly, there were countless ways to bypass this protection to deal with Xue Dili.

He's finished, he's going to be struck so hard by Father that he'll be dragged back to the chamber.

...

Thrown in Troy, Xue Dili finally began to put himself on the right track.

Their goal was to kill Zeus.

Even though the difficulty of "beating the Divine King" had lowered from defeating Ye Gezi to beating Zeus, as long as this Divine King wasn't into ensnarement, Xue Dili would have absolutely no chance of winning.

At most, the difficulty was lowered from a Tathagata level to a No Heaven level.

In Ancient Greece, Zeus was invincible; even if all other twelve gods of Olympus combined, they were no match for Zeus.

Why could Zeus become the Divine King? Because he beat those who opposed him into submission and imprisoned them in the Netherworld.

But Zeus has a fatal weakness.

When Zeus and his brothers imprisoned their father, Kronos, Kronos placed an inescapable curse on Zeus.

Zeus is destined to die by the hand of his youngest child.

This is one of the reasons Zeus frantically spread his seed, constantly fathering children all over Greece, because he was destined to be killed by his youngest child, but if a new younger son was born before my youngest child grew up, wouldn't that perfectly evade the curse?

Therefore, to kill Zeus, there's only one method: conceptually become the "youngest child of Zeus."

Once the condition of being "Zeus' youngest child" is met, he will inevitably die under this concept.

In other words, restraint overrides all, and specialized attacks defeat gods.

But clearly, Xue Dili is not Zeus' child, so he must use another way to achieve this conceptual transformation, and this transformation takes time.

Xue Dili's current cards only consisted of Cursed Blood and Birdman Armor.

He couldn't rely on Birdman Armor and had to depend on Cursed Blood.

"The power of Cursed Blood, if given enough time, can modify every living organism within my body at a micro level." The old man's words echoed clearly in his mind.

"So, can the virus in my body be controlled by me as well?" Xue Dili manipulated the Cursed Blood, a virus that instilled fear in the whole world appearing in his hand.

The Holy Light and Birdman Armor actually suppressed this virus completely, but Cursed Blood not only controlled and strengthened it, but could even strike precisely, infecting only a specific type of organism.

"No wonder you said this was the power of a curse..." Xue Dili murmured.

"In truth, I have nothing more to teach you; this final lesson is to teach you, this simple-minded fellow, how to play with intrigue and schemes."

...

"Cough, cough..." On Mount Olympus, an unknown small river god kept coughing as if trying to cough up his lungs.

Not just him, more and more small gods began coughing non-stop, then showing symptoms of a plague.

Apollo among the gods immediately realized something was wrong. As the God of Light, also the God of Healing, he instantly realized these gods were starting to contract a plague.

He immediately cast healing, and the situation improved. Those small gods infected with the plague quickly recovered, but Apollo sensed something was amiss; the small gods themselves were cured, but the plague on them didn't dissipate, instead mutating to become even stronger.

He used his Divine Power to see the lungs of the infected small gods, finding new viruses imbued with Divine Power.

The strongest virus in history.

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