“It is the Moon Goddess. She has actually come to the Dark Great Triangle Star Domain as well.”
Qian Heng Yi Si looked towards Zhang Ruochen, his expression peculiar.
All cultivators under heaven knew that Zhang Ruochen had once been the Moon Goddess’s emissary and had received extraordinary favour from her.
To save Zhang Ruochen, the Moon Goddess, with her exalted status, had even furiously crashed into the Merit Divine Hall. For a mere Saint realm cultivator to earn such regard from an ancient great god was simply unthinkable.
For a time, some cultivators even spread rumours that Zhang Ruochen was the Moon Goddess’s son.
Not long afterwards, every one of those people died.
After that, no one dared to utter such words again.
Wu Yue did indeed resemble the Moon Goddess closely, but their auras were entirely different. One was sinister and menacing, the other ethereal and refined.
Zhang Ruochen was absolutely certain that the woman fighting Xiu Chen Heavenly God was Wu Yue. Even the black divine robe she wore was the same one from years ago.
Yet at this moment, Wu Yue’s aura had changed greatly. The malevolence was gone, replaced by considerable elegance, and she no longer deliberately concealed her appearance. It was no wonder Qian Heng Yi Si had mistaken her.
“I never expected the Moon Goddess’s mental strength to be so formidable, already capable of contending with Immensity realm great gods,” Qian Heng Yi Si said.
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“Wu Yue, is this all the strength you have? Have your cultivations actually regressed over these years?”
Xiu Chen Heavenly God’s jade hand swept sideways, sending a tidal wave of time imprint light points surging forward in a colossal surge thousands of miles long towards Wu Yue.
The two had already battled into the starry void beyond the Continent of Gods. The ripples of divine force destroyed stars one after another.
A trace of bewilderment appeared in Wu Yue’s eyes. She formed a talisman seal that collided with the time imprint tide, then swiftly retreated into the distance.
“You know who I am?” she asked.
Xiu Chen Heavenly God pursued, her colourful robes fluttering like a divine consort of the ninth heaven soaring through the dark void. She sneered coldly. “What manner of existence is this god? Few cultivators indeed know your true background, but do you think you can deceive me? What, are you pretending to be the Moon Goddess?”
As she spoke, Xiu Chen Heavenly God pointed a finger, unleashing a beam of slaughter light that spanned the starry sky and tore a ten-thousand-mile rift through space.
Wu Yue attempted to inscribe a talisman seal, but failed halfway and could only dodge immediately.
The aftermath of the slaughter light struck her, drawing a muffled groan from her lips.
“I do not know what you are talking about. Why attack me without cause? Do we have some grudge?” Wu Yue asked.
Xiu Chen Heavenly God said, “Still pretending? You came to the Continent of Gods. Is it not to rescue your disciple?”
“My disciple? Could we pause the fight first? Perhaps there is a misunderstanding here,” Wu Yue urged.
Doubt flickered in Xiu Chen Heavenly God’s eyes. She felt something was deeply amiss with Wu Yue’s condition. Her cultivation and strength were even weaker than ten thousand years ago. Moreover, as a renowned talisman dao divine master, her handling of talisman dao was crude and clumsy. She had actually failed to inscribe a single divine talisman.
“It is said this wretch possesses extraordinary mental strength talent. In recent years she has reached the eighty-fourth order. I am no match for her at all. If she came to save Yu Shi, she could simply storm the Eternal Divine Hall directly. There would be no need to act like this. She cannot possibly have lost her memory, can she?”
The moment this thought arose, Xiu Chen Heavenly God shook her head.
How could a mental strength powerhouse of the eighty-fourth order lose her memory?
Only a Heaven Round Without Flaw level existence could achieve that.
“Never mind so much. Since you have delivered yourself to me, I shall refine you. That will be more than enough to make my divine source far stronger.”
Xiu Chen Heavenly God ceased her probing. Her slender jade hands traced circles, and instantly the entire starry sky blazed with light, transforming into a sea of time over a billion miles across.
Too far away, Zhang Ruochen could not hear the exchange between Xiu Chen and Wu Yue, but he could clearly see their battle. Astonishment filled him to the utmost.
How could this be?
Wu Yue was so powerful. Even Feng Yun Ba’s Pure Yang Self-Immolation Technique had failed to kill her. How was she now being completely suppressed by Xiu Chen?
Moreover, she only dodged and defended, as though she had forgotten every combat divine art. Everything relied on pure instinct to resist Xiu Chen’s assaults.
Qian Heng Yi Si said, “Why does the Moon Goddess fight solely with mental strength? Has something happened to her martial dao cultivation? Zhang Ruochen, will you not lend her aid?”
A thoughtful look appeared in Zhang Ruochen’s eyes. “This is precisely the perfect moment to storm the Eternal Divine Hall.”
“Whoosh!”
He sped towards the Continent of Gods.
“The Amorous Sword God turns out to be heartless after all.”
Qian Heng Yi Si smiled faintly, his form dissolving into a wisp of qi and vanishing without trace.
Moments later, Qian Heng Yi Si arrived above the Continent of Gods. His body stood straight as a spear, cape billowing, as he gazed down at the vast rolling sea of clouds and the mountains and rivers spread out like a map beneath.
He raised his six-chi longsword, drawing forth the sword dao rules of heaven and earth. Billions of sword shadows manifested behind him.
One slash unleashed a radiant river of swords.
“Boom!”
The sword river plunged into the sea of clouds and collided with the boundary-protecting divine array.
The entire Continent of Gods seemed to shudder slightly.
Hearing the startling thunder overhead and feeling the earth quake, every living being on the continent fell into panic and terror, kneeling in worship.
The continent’s boundary-protecting great array was far inferior to Xing Huan Heaven’s. Qian Heng Yi Si’s single slash tore a long gash through it, the sword light falling straight towards the divine hall in the Eternal Divine Domain.
Above the Eternal Divine Hall, a circular great array appeared. Tens of thousands of lightning bolts shot forth, forming a torrent of electric rivers that shattered the incoming sword river mid-air.
The Eight-Armed Asura flew out from the hall and roared furiously. “Qian Heng Yi Si, you have tremendous nerve. The Heavenly God ignored you, yet you dare provoke us directly at our door. Do you seek death?”
“Xiu Chen is merely a stray dog that has lost its home. You are nothing more than a battle soul of such a dog. What have I to fear?”
Qian Heng Yi Si passed through the boundary-protecting great array and stood above the clouds. He unleashed a second slash.
The sword light was pitch black and rent space asunder.
The Eight-Armed Asura’s temperament was even more extreme than Xiu Chen Heavenly God’s. He could tolerate no provocation whatsoever. “Guard the Eternal Divine Hall well. If you allow any other god to break in, the false gods will be your fate.”
With those words, the Eight-Armed Asura soared upward. He tore the incoming black sword qi apart with his bare arms while the remaining six arms hurled battle weapons towards Qian Heng Yi Si.
“So strong after all. I underestimated you.”
Qian Heng Yi Si turned and fled towards one direction in the cosmos.
“You still think you can escape? Can you?”
The Eight-Armed Asura was faster. One punch conjured the phantom of an Asura divine army and wounded Qian Heng Yi Si.
Though Qian Heng Yi Si had deliberately allowed the injury to lure the Eight-Armed Asura, the blow still far exceeded his expectations. Its power was scarcely inferior to an Immensity realm god.
Even a starving camel is bigger than a horse.
Xiu Chen Heavenly God in his prime had been far more than a camel. He had been a divine dragon among the clouds.
Inside the Eternal Divine Hall, the five true gods gazed at the divine corpses strewn across the floor. Terror filled every heart. They desperately wished to flee the Continent of Gods at once.
This Eternal Heavenly God was truly too ruthless. To refine his divine source, he had excavated the divine sources of every false god on the continent and drained their divine blood and souls completely.
If that proved insufficient, he would likely turn to them next.
Yet where could they flee?
Now they could only hope that the Eternal Heavenly God and Eight-Armed Asura would capture the two provoking great gods. Then perhaps they would be spared.
“Boom!”
The earth quaked and mountains swayed. Every array around the divine hall fully manifested.
The five true gods snapped out of their despairing mood and looked dozens of miles away. They saw a Confucian-robed man breaking into the arrays, utterly ignoring the divine patterns and array inscriptions of heaven and earth as he advanced straight towards the hall.
“Someone is forcibly storming the divine hall.”
“Quickly, activate the arrays to intercept.”
A demon race upper god with three fiery red tails issued orders. “Ma Yi, take charge of the Strange Wind Divine Array. Bo Ye Jun, host the Lone Dragon Earth Fire Divine Array. Jing Kong True God, control the Seven Cities Divine Array. Block him beyond the seven cities if necessary. Rong Nai, manage the Cloud Thunder Divine Array.”
The four true gods felt no panic. Even if the intruder was a great god, what of it? Vast numbers of divine patterns and multiple reinforced divine arrays protected the Eternal Divine Hall. With a single true god presiding, even an Immensity realm great god could not breach it swiftly.
Moreover, all five true gods were present.
If the opponent was merely a Tai Yi realm great god attempting to force entry, once trapped in the arrays, falling was far from impossible.
Yet soon, events unfolded that filled them with horror.
The ghost race middle god named Ma Yi stood within the Strange Wind Divine Array. He released his divine realm world to merge with the array, and under the urging of divine qi, a divine wind giant condensed within.
This Strange Wind Divine Array had been left by a hall master of the Eternal Divine Hall in ancient times.
That hall master’s cultivation had reached the divine venerable level.
The divine wind giant emitted howling “wuu wuu” cries and punched towards Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen held a brick-sized object in his palm and activated it. Instantly, the divine wind giant’s fist disintegrated into streams of array inscriptions and divine qi.
Finally, its entire body exploded.
Ma Yi discovered in horror that the array inscriptions of the Strange Wind Divine Array beneath his feet were rapidly fading and vanishing.
An entire divine array had simply disappeared.
How could such a bizarre thing occur in the world?
Zhang Ruochen flicked his sleeve, conjuring a divine wind that whipped Ma Yi away hundreds of thousands of miles.
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
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Seven city walls rose consecutively from the ground, spatial force rippling intensely.
The walls stood upon the earth and reached the firmament, seemingly infinitely tall and impassable.
Zhang Ruochen charged straight into them. The Seven Cities Divine Array, boasted to withstand great gods, collapsed one after another with deafening crashes, utterly unable to halt him.
Watching Zhang Ruochen advance irresistibly, the demon race upper god’s lips trembled. He muttered, “Impossible. How is this possible? Why are all divine arrays as nothing before you?”
Moments later, Zhang Ruochen had shattered every divine array and stood at the foot of the divine hall’s steps. “Whatever other means you possess, use them now.”
With the Reverse God Stele clearing the path, erasing divine patterns and array inscriptions, who could stop Zhang Ruochen’s advance?
The Eternal Divine Hall still held its most powerful time divine array, but the demon race upper god knew the intruder’s attainment in the way of time was profound. Even activating the time divine array would likely fail to hold him back.
