The Three Lives Gate stood nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine zhang high. Buddha patterns intertwined, and the light was scorching hot.
Although Yun Qing Ancient Buddha had long fallen, under the Three Lives Gate, life qi still surged vigorously. Golden Buddha qi liquefied, like a golden lake sea. On the surface of the golden lake sea, golden leaf bodhi trees grew one by one. All were sacred trees of Buddhism.
Meditating under the trees could yield twice the result with half the effort.
Ban Ruo, the Sealed Dust Sword God, and Xiao Hei were all true gods. But when they reached dozens of li outside the Three Lives Gate, they could no longer move forward.
Ahead, divine venerable level divine patterns floated. Golden rule divine patterns like dragons and snakes flowed between heaven and earth. Moving forward would surely draw attacks. They could not yet withstand divine venerable power.
Ban Ruo stepped on the surface of the liquid gold lake. She came to the side of that suspended block of ice crystal dozens of metres long. She sensed a strong yin cold aura.
In the ice block, Kong Li Zang Hai’s face was ferocious and pained. He was almost curled into a ball.
She reached out with one finger and touched the ice block.
“Hua!”
Black ghost patterns emerged one by one. They erupted with divine energy and bounced her hand away. Her body retreated two steps.
“It is ghost god yin ice! Such strong ghost fiend aura. Everyone be careful. There is a ghost race divine realm strongman nearby…”
Ban Ruo had just activated her True Self Gate.
A finger energy flew over and pierced the True Self Gate. It struck her back heart.
“Bang!”
Divine blood sprayed.
Ban Ruo flew forward. A shocking blood hole appeared on her back. All her defences could not block this one strike from the opponent.
At the same time, the Sealed Dust Sword God and Xiao Hei also suffered attacks.
Xiao Hei was struck by a ghost hand. His divine body exploded and turned into a mass of blood mist.
The Sealed Dust Sword God was suppressed by a yin cauldron. Even after releasing his divine realm world, he could only barely hold on. His body could not move. Fresh red blood kept pouring from his mouth.
Jin Ju Great God walked out from behind a golden leaf bodhi tree with a diameter of over ten metres. It was a white-furred ape monkey, seven or eight metres tall. His robe was adorned with skull heads.
“Jin Ju Great God!”
Ban Ruo was badly injured. With difficulty, she supported her body and showed an incredulous expression.
Jin Ju Great God was the divine spirit of the ghost race’s second great ghost city, Wuchang Ghost City. He was a renowned strongman and a close friend of Wu Qing Zong, the patriarch of the Yan clan in the Darkness Abyss.
But this close friend had betrayed Wu Qing Zong.
Zhang Ruochen’s whereabouts were told to the Nether Hall by him.
This led to Zhang Ruochen being ambushed multiple times by Nether Hall divine spirits in the Life and Death Realm Star and the Three Ways River.
After the incident, Jin Ju Great God left Wuchang Ghost City. His whereabouts became unknown.
A sinister smile appeared on Jin Ju Great God’s ape face. “Everyone says the Darkness Abyss is dangerous. But this seat finds it an unparalleled good place. Devouring Kong Li Zang Hai’s divine soul is comparable to this seat’s ten thousand years of cultivation. Outside, if this seat dared to touch him, the great gods of the death race would already have arrived and fought me to the death.”
“Here, who knows how he died?”
“Even the Destiny God Temple cannot deduce it.”
Ban Ruo said, “Ać ć great god, if you want to devour divine souls, you can go deal with the Heavenly Court divine spirits. Why be ruthless to the Hell Realm divine spirits?”
Jin Ju Great God sneered mockingly. “Heh heh, capturing or killing a true god, how easy is that? Only in an environment like the Darkness Abyss can true gods hardly escape. Moreover, killing Heavenly Court true gods, what if it provokes a divine venerable?”
“In the Darkness Abyss, this seat has no such worries at all. Because among the divine spirits who entered the Darkness Abyss besides this seat, not one has passed the Yuan Hui Tribulation. This seat is the number one supreme here. Whoever this seat wants dead must die.”
Jin Ju Great God’s gaze glanced towards the Sealed Dust Sword God. He saw he was still holding on.
“Worthily the Shura race’s divine venerable seed. Not bad skills!”
Jin Ju Great God blinked his eyes. Two rays of light flew out from his double pupils. They struck the Sealed Dust Sword God’s body, shattered his divine realm world, turned his body into bloody flesh, and sent him flying.
The yin cauldron fell accordingly and struck heavily on the Sealed Dust Sword God. His flesh completely exploded. Only a skeleton remained.
Before a great god, any true god’s divine body was like made of sand. It could be easily crushed.
Xiao Hei, who had turned into blood mist and was firmly suppressed by the ghost hand, transmitted his voice. He said, “I am the son of the Ice Emperor. Monkey, if you dare touch me, you will surely die without a burial place.”
“Hmph! If outside, this seat indeed dares not touch you. But in the Darkness Abyss, let alone being the son of the Ice Emperor, even if you are the son of the Fengdu Great Emperor, would this seat have any fear?”
Jin Ju Great God walked towards the blood mist. He said, “Your divine soul is passable. This seat will devour you first.”
“Wait a moment.”
Ban Ruo supported herself with the Destiny Decree Staff and stood up. She secretly refined the ghost qi that had invaded her body. She said, “Where did Zhang Ruochen go?”
Jin Ju Great God looked towards the Three Lives Gate. He said, “Zhang Ruochen refined the Buddha Ancestor’s relic. This gate, only he can enter. This seat does not want to kill him for now. Perhaps he can bring out more treasures from inside for this seat.”
“I have another question.”
To delay time, Ban Ruo said, “The news that Zhang Ruochen was entering the Darkness Abyss, was it you who spread it?”
“Haha! Goddess Highness, indeed supremely intelligent.”
Jin Ju Great God praised once. His face turned serious. He said, “Correct! If this news was not released, how would you young new gods obediently enter the Darkness Abyss?”
“Shua!”
Just as Jin Ju Great God laughed long, Chi Yao’s figure flashed lightning-like from Ban Ruo’s body. She threw out a clay vase.
“Collect!”
The clay vase hung in the air. Billions of characters flew out from the vase and wrapped around Jin Ju Great God, pulling him towards the vase.
This vase was the Literary Vase refined by the Third Confucian Ancestor.
Even with Jin Ju Great God’s cultivation, trapped in the characters’ wrap, he still had to go all out to resist. If slightly careless, he might be taken into the vase.
“Sword out!”
Chi Yao spread her arms. Six divine swords flew out from her brow centre.
They were true divine swords, at the divine artifact level.
When the divine swords emerged, the might shook heaven and earth. Even the golden water surface was stirred into waves.
“Bang!”
The ghost hand pressing on the blood mist above was pierced by one of the divine swords. It exploded and turned into a patch of ghost qi yin cloud.
Freed from suppression, the blood mist quickly contracted, rotated rapidly, and condensed into Xiao Hei’s body. He was furious beyond measure. He let out a long howl and turned into an undying bird. A pair of flame wings unfolded. He said, “Where is this emperor’s Ice Soul Cold Pearl?”
Chi Yao threw out the Ice Soul Cold Pearl and returned it to him.
Another divine sword slashed the yin cauldron pressing on the Sealed Dust Sword God flying away.
After escaping, the Sealed Dust Sword God’s white bone divine body slowly stood up. He gathered the scattered blood mist around and turned it back into flesh and skin. He said, “Give me one divine sword. Today, I want to battle a great god.”
One of the divine swords flew into the Sealed Dust Sword God’s hand.
“Sword Fifteen!”
The Sealed Dust Sword God merged with the divine sword into one. Between heaven and earth, endless sword qi appeared and turned into a ten thousand li sword river. It flew straight towards Jin Ju Great God.
Gods are divided into three realms:
Sky Mending Realm, Supreme True Realm, Immeasurable Realm.
Lower gods, mid gods, upper gods all refer to Sky Mending Realm divine spirits.
The so-called “great gods” refer to divine spirits who have surpassed upper gods and reached the Supreme True Realm. Such figures have almost all passed the Yuan Hui Tribulation. They can live for hundreds of thousands of years. Their combat power far surpasses Sky Mending Realm divine spirits.
Great gods also have strengths and weaknesses.
Jin Ju Great God had only just reached this level not long ago.
The Immeasurable Realm above is the level of “sealing king and claiming venerable” in the god realm. It belongs to universe ruler-like existences.
Jin Ju Great God’s combat power surpassed mid gods like Chi Yao and the Sealed Dust Sword God by unknown times. Even the Confucian Ancestor’s Literary Vase could not suppress him. One by one, the characters were shaken flying by his divine qi.
When the Sealed Dust Sword God’s sword attacked, Jin Ju Great God let out a long howl from his mouth.
“Roar!”
With the howl, he spat out a mouthful of divine qi.
The dense sword qi collided with the divine qi surging from his mouth and offset each other.
The Sealed Dust Sword God and the divine sword, wrapped in sword qi, slowed more and more. When they reached half a chi away from Jin Ju Great God, the power of Sword Fifteen and the divine sword was completely resolved.
The divine qi impacted the Sealed Dust Sword God flying backward.
“With you lot daring to battle this seat, cultivate another hundred thousand years first.”
Although Jin Ju Great God said this, he was very shocked in his heart. Because earlier, the Sealed Dust Sword God’s sword had broken his divine realm world. It was only half a chi short of reaching his body and injuring him.
The might of a divine artifact, one could see how terrifying it was.
“Shua!”
Jin Ju Great God became more cautious. His robe flew out and rolled towards the five divine swords Chi Yao had thrown. But the robe, known as a divine robe, was easily torn apart by the five divine swords and burned to ashes.
Jin Ju Great God reached out. Dense rule divine patterns appeared in his palm. He wanted to collect the divine swords.
But the divine swords’ power far exceeded his expectations. They actually slashed through his rule divine patterns and split his palm in two. Strands of ghost qi surged out from the broken palm.
A great god level divine body actually could not withstand one sword from a divine artifact.
On the other side, the Sealed Dust Sword God held the sword, Xiao Hei held the pearl, and they attacked.
…
Encountering a great god, even for an upper god, the most rational thing to do is to immediately flee.
But they could not do that.
Because Zhang Ruochen was still in the Three Lives Gate. If they fled, what about Zhang Ruochen?
“Burn my divine blood, connect heaven and earth.”
Chi Yao could no longer care about so much. She used a forbidden technique. Her internal divine blood burned. Her graceful delicate body floated up. Layers of heavenly universe appeared above her head. The erupted divine energy might climbed steadily.
The five divine swords flew around her. The divine artifact might grew stronger and stronger.
Three hundred li away.
Hai Shui wore a green robe. She stood on a branch of a golden leaf bodhi tree. One hand formed a Buddha seal, the other hand behind her back. She calmly looked towards the distant gods’ battle.
Powerful divine energy fluctuations constantly flew past her side but could not affect her at all.
She smiled and muttered to herself, “Everyone says Zhang Ruochen has countless supreme treasures on him. But Chi Yao seems to have even more treasures, and they are divine artifacts. Six divine swords, if held in my hand…”
Because of the divine artifacts’ appearance, this battle of gods, which was originally without suspense, became extremely intense. In a short time, it was hard to divide winner and loser.
But Hai Shui seemed not very interested in this divine battle. A pair of clear beautiful eyes looked towards the Three Lives Gate’s direction.
