Chapter 569: Hunting in the Abyss

Compared to the divine wills of gods, the avatars of true gods, being essentially independent entities, cannot traverse space to return to their original form at will like divine wills. Therefore, if an avatar wishes to return to the divine realm where its original form resides, it must either travel on its own or disintegrate, allowing its soul and divine core to return to the original form while abandoning the divine power that composed the avatar.
However, the latter is also a significant waste for a true god, and such a choice is generally only made in extreme circumstances.
There is another issue: unlike intangible souls and divine cores, artifacts are easily intercepted by enemies during the return process.
This time, Yenogu came in his avatar form, carrying his exclusive artifact—the Three-Headed Flail, his only true artifact. Losing one avatar wasn’t a big deal; there would always be a chance to gather enough divine power to reassemble one. But if he chose to escape this way and lost the artifact along the way, his position in the abyss would likely be immediately threatened.
Without his most powerful weapon, not only would the surrounding demon lords eye him warily, but even his own demons would become restless, seeking to overthrow his rule.
So, it wasn’t that Yenogu couldn’t do it—it was that he dared not.
After fleeing endlessly and being easily caught up to several times, Yenogu, the god of werewolves, realized that he would eventually fall into the hands of his pursuers. He then unleashed all his skills in an attempt to stop them.
Like the werewolves in the original world, Yenogu was cunning and cautious, fierce and cruel. When facing a powerful opponent in groups, they would charge at them in droves to provoke them, but flee at the first sign of retaliation. When the opponent rested, they would return to harass them, waiting until their prey was exhausted before pouncing to devour them.
Thus, even a powerful predator, unless it had the absolute strength to eliminate an entire group of werewolves in a short time, would have to abandon its hard-earned prey when facing a swarm of them, otherwise it would fall into their trap and die from exhaustion after being torn apart.
Before being caught again, Yenogu paused for a few seconds, summoning a group of zombies around him to set a trap. Only after sensing the ripple of teleportation did he continue fleeing.

Donald stepped out of the beam of light and fell into the trap prepared by Yenogu, surrounded by dozens of zombies. These foul-smelling, undead creatures filled with negative energy and decayed stench attacked him. Donald showed no emotion at all, seemingly unconcerned. With a slight shake of his body, he released a natural force imbued with destructive power, turning all those zombies to ashes. Compared to the incarnation of a true god, these elite zombies, whose average level was only mid-bronze, were far too weak. Some even collapsed on contact with Donald’s wrathful incarnation’s aura due to the overwhelming power of nature. Still, these zombies served a purpose—due to this delay, Yenogu managed to escape dozens of miles further than before. Donald wasn’t worried that his target would escape and continued to pursue using the Great Teleportation spell. Generally, when dealing with enemies, if they were weak, Yenogu would fight personally to showcase his strength. But if the enemies were numerous or too powerful, he would summon zombies, werewolves, and demons to assist. Even if he couldn’t win, these subordinates could hold off the enemies while he escaped the battlefield. These three types of creatures belonged to the three races under his rule: the first being the kings of zombies he had subjugated, and the latter two due to his status as the god of werewolves and the lord of Layer 422. Among them, the demons were the strongest but also the most unruly. Given their chaotic nature, they would surely neglect orders unless he personally supervised them. The second-strongest force under Yenogu was the undead led by zombies. Besides the zombie armies, there were many powerful undead such as vampire nobles, necromancers, and death knights. The weakest among Yenogu’s forces were actually the werewolves he controlled. Although werewolves had the trait of standing upright like humans, they were inferior to humans in both numbers and intelligence, let alone compared to the demons and undead under him! Due to the limitations of their race, only a few werewolves could become strong. Without external help, an ordinary werewolf could at most reach bronze-level strength throughout their life. Thus, even among tribes of tens of thousands of werewolves, it was difficult to produce a legendary warrior—far inferior to higher-intelligence races like elves and humans.

This made Yenogu, the god of the werewolves, find it hard to accept. If not for his own racial background, he might even have considered changing his domain of worship.

After encountering several traps in a row, Donald finally managed to gain a few breaths of respite from the god of the werewolves. Those brief moments were enough for him to escape this realm and return to his own territory. This was something Donald could not allow.

Through his observations along the way, Donald concluded that the area he was in was a desolate realm nestled between the domains controlled by several demon lords in the abyss. In other words, to facilitate his return in physical form, this place must be close to either the Deep Pit Web of the 66th layer controlled by the Spider Queen or the realm of the 422nd layer under Yenogu’s control. Otherwise, those two would not risk opening a spatial rift from the abyss to the main world here.

Given the cunning and caution of the god of the werewolves, he surely would not allow the Spider Queen to take control of the situation. Thus, it was highly likely that the passage between this abyss and the main world was located in a desolate realm near Yenogu’s domain in the 422nd layer of the abyss.

Therefore, Donald could not let Yenogu escape back to his own territory.

“If the god of the werewolves returns to his own domain, empowered by both his true godly domain and the virtual divine essence of an abyssal lord, he is likely to possess combat strength on par with that of a lower-tier god, or even a mid-tier god. This would be a world of difference compared to his weak state outside.”

A true god entering an abyssal realm is like a tiger facing a pack of wolves. Despite his strength, he cannot withstand the overwhelming number of wolves and lacks support, making it inevitable that he will eventually be defeated in a group attack.

If Donald did not have his own trump card and confidence in escaping back to the main world, he would not have rashly chased after the god of the werewolves into the endless abyss.

“With the strength of my Punishment Avatar, I do have a good chance of defeating Yenogu of this caliber. But I’ll likely lose most of my strength, making it difficult to return!”