Chapter 494: Battle of the True Gods

Chapter 494: Battle of the True Gods



Several hours later.

The shattered Flame Rainbow Star continued to fracture, with countless fragments colliding against each other, creating astonishing aftershocks and causing rocks and magma to flow with each impact.

About sixty thousand kilometers away, the starry sky here was also affected.

However, it was impossible for the towering figure in the void, standing over a hundred meters tall, to be affected.

Li Yuan and Liu Bing were nowhere to be seen.

"Li Yuan, you're hiding in the Dongtian Law Treasure, right?" Lie Qing Zhen Shen sent a message, "Wait until Zhi Yan Zhen Shen enters the array's range, then come out."

"Mm-hmm," Li Yuan responded, already hiding with Liu Bing inside the Ancient God Palace.

They dared not hide in the distant void.

In the presence of a True God's powerful perception, Li Yuan and Liu Bing's soul auras could not remain hidden.

Therefore, at this moment, the Ancient God Palace turned to dust, hiding in the cracks of Lie Qing Zhen Shen's armor.

This way, under the cover of Lie Qing Zhen Shen's powerful aura, Zhi Yan Zhen Shen couldn't immediately detect the act of the Ancient God Palace, let alone know that Li Yuan and Liu Bing were hiding inside.

As for the array artifacts? They were inanimate objects, and unless they activated, it would be extremely difficult for a True God to detect them.

Moreover, this was an array treasure refined by Qinghong Heaven God. If Zhi Yan Zhen Shen easily detected it, that would be a joke.

Suddenly—

"Zhi Yan is here," Lie Qing Zhen Shen informed Li Yuan.

Boom! Lie Qing Zhen Shen stood up, gazing into the distant void, and a stream of fiery light descended rapidly.

It finally stopped tens of thousands of kilometers away, its body clad in fiery red armor, with long spears floating around it.

Nine fiery red spears circled behind him, forming a massive circle of flames.

His aura was overwhelming.

"Lie Qing!!!" Zhi Yan Zhen Shen roared in anger, "As a True God, you're shamelessly bullying the weak."

This voice, transmitted through spatial vibrations, instantly reached a radius of over ten thousand kilometers.

"I'm not bullying the weak," Lie Qing Zhen Shen's laughter thundered, "I've recently made progress in my cultivation and wanted to spar with you. I didn't kill your subordinate Void Deity."

"As for those Demigods? Anyway, they'll all die within a thousand years. What's a hundred or two hundred deaths? I'm saving you resources; you should thank me."

Whoosh!

Lie Qing Zhen Shen waved his hand, and the two Void Deities felt the world spinning, as they were thrown far away, landing over a thousand kilometers distant, their previously blocked senses now restored.

"Ancestor?"

"Is it a True God coming to save us?" The two Void Deities, upon regaining their senses, immediately detected the terrifying aura emanating from the figure in the distant void.

"Leave here," Zhi Yan Zhen Shen transmitted.

"Yes."

"Quickly, go!" The two Void Deities transformed into streams of light and swiftly moved away from the area.

They knew that the two True Gods were about to engage in a fierce battle.

...

"Sister Gu You, is it him?" Inside the Ancient God Palace, Li Yuan was also making his final observations.

Although various intelligence confirmed that Zhi Yan Zhen Shen was the 'Zhi Yan Void Deity' from ten thousand years ago, it was best to be cautious.

"It's him!!!"

"It's him!" Gu You's voice carried a hint of hatred, "During that great battle, he severely injured True Phoenix."

"Even if he became a True God, I could still recognize him."

"Good, then we're certain." Li Yuan nodded, his heart now completely reassured.

In the starry sky, after the two Void Deities left—

"You've made progress in your cultivation?"

Zhi Yan Zhen Shen's eyes turned cold, "Lie Qing, let me see how much progress you've made in the past millennium, you old man on the brink of death."

Boom! Zhi Yan Zhen Shen suddenly erupted with dazzling fiery light, taking action.

Like a Fire God! True Gods, having condensed their divine hearts, no longer cared about their physical forms. After cultivating Stellar Techniques to the 'Sixth Stage', their power would reach a terrifying level when unleashed.

This terrifying fiery aura was the external manifestation of Zhi Yan Zhen Shen's body-refining Stellar Technique.

"Haha, come!" Lie Qing Zhen Shen's massive body instantly transformed into a height of over a thousand meters, his armor thick and heavy, and a huge battle axe appeared in his hand, emitting dazzling light.

Boom!

Streaks of earthy yellow airflow were born, the signature skill of Lie Qing Zhen Shen—his domain.

By drawing upon the origin power of the laws, infusing it with endless source energy, this massive domain was formed.

Whoosh!

In the instant the domain formed, a speck of dust that was once the Ancient God Palace rapidly moved in the opposite direction.

Under the powerful fluctuations of the domain, even a True God would find it difficult to detect, especially with Lie Qing Zhen Shen helping the Ancient God Palace move away.

"A battle of True Gods."

"If they engage in close combat, I dare not come out. Once I appear, even the residual shockwaves from their fight might severely injure me." Li Yuan was well aware of this, "Or even directly kill me."

Once a Void Deity reaches its limit and ascends to the True God realm, their cultivation level increases significantly, their source energy multiplies by tens of times, and their various Stellar Techniques improve... Overall, their strength increases by a thousandfold, no exaggeration.

The higher the level, the more difficult it is for high-level beings to fight.

...

In just a few seconds—

Boom! Like a Fire God, Zhi Yan Zhen Shen's speed skyrocketed, his feet treading the void, causing space to tremble, rapidly closing in on Lie Qing Zhen Shen.

He grasped one of the nine fiery spears behind him, nearly ten thousand kilometers away, and flung it out.

Boom!!!

This fiery spear's speed skyrocketed to an astonishing level, piercing through nearly ten thousand kilometers of starry sky in less than a second, tearing open shocking spatial rifts wherever it passed.

True Gods fear not spatial rifts, for they can tear through space with a mere gesture.

Boom! The spear's light pierced through the domain, like a gaseous star, instantly puncturing it.

Lie Qing Zhen Shen took a step forward, his aura surging as layer upon layer of earthy yellow law runes appeared on the axe, intertwining and causing the axe's aura to surge.

Boom!

The dazzling axe light slashed across the heavens and earth, seemingly tearing apart the very fabric of reality, creating a massive spatial rift in the starry sky.

Boom!

The axe slashed through the heavens and earth, directly sending the spear flying, its countless fiery lights extinguishing layer by layer, and the terrifying aftermath of the collision impacting a radius of several thousand kilometers.

Fortunately, this battle was taking place in the starry sky.

If it were on a planet, it would be enough to swiftly destroy a world.

Whoosh!

Just as Lie Qing Zhen Shen had slashed away the first spear, the second fiery spear was already howling towards him.

The third fiery spear, the fourth...

One after another.

The nine fiery spears, like a string of nine stars, were almost simultaneously shot out within a second under Zhi Yan Zhen Shen's control, all aimed at the area where Lie Qing Zhen Shen was.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..."

Lie Qing Zhen Shen, the True God, fearlessly brandished his battle blade, unleashing a series of terrifying blade lights to directly clash with the flaming spear.

For the first six spears, Lie Qing Zhen Shen could barely hold his ground.

But the continuous impact was too overwhelming, and the last three flaming spears sent him flying thousands of kilometers away, causing significant damage to his body.

"Omm~" Lie Qing Zhen Shen's divine heart surged within, and his source energy frantically repaired the damage to his body.

"Zhich Yan, the power of your 'Nine Flaming Spears' is not as formidable as you think," Lie Qing Zhen Shen's voice rumbled.

"Why didn't you dodge?" Zhich Yan Zhen Shen frowned, as the nine flaming spears were already swirling around him.

The speed of a divine artifact's activation was far superior to a cultivator's flying speed.

"Dodge?" Lie Qing Zhen Shen suddenly revealed a sinister smile, "If I dodge, how can I lure you in?"

Zhich Yan Zhen Shen's pupils constricted, and he felt a sense of unease in his heart. Just as he was about to retreat...

"Trying to leave now? It's too late!"

"Array!" Lie Qing Zhen Shen's heart stirred, and he immediately activated the array that covered a 30,000-kilometer radius of void space.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

In the area where the two True Gods were fighting, nine dazzling rays of light suddenly soared into the sky, along with a large number of array bases and plates being activated. In just a few seconds, the array covered an area with a radius of 30,000 kilometers.

From the outside, the space seemed to become hazy and mysterious.

"What's going on?"

"Is that the Ancestor?" Two Immortal Ruin Civilization Void Deities who had just escaped tens of thousands of kilometers away were shocked, "Is this a trap?"

"When was this array set up?" These two Void Deities had no idea about the existence of the array.

"Could a True God be in danger?" The two Void Deities were terrified, but they didn't dare to stay, and they continued to flee.

They knew that staying here would only distract Zhich Yan Zhen Shen.

...

Inside the array.

"An array?"

"A spatial array? Creating a separate realm?" Zhich Yan Zhen Shen was slightly surprised, but not overly panicked.

He had anticipated that Lie Qing Zhen Shen would come to kill him, and he must have been prepared.

And for an array to be set up so quickly, its power usually wouldn't be too strong.

"As long as I can hold on for a while, and we fight, it will affect the stability of the array space. There's a chance to find its weakness and break out." Zhich Yan Zhen Shen made a decision in his heart.

His judgment was indeed correct.

Take the two arrays set up by Liu Bing, for example. They barely covered a vast area and weren't perfectly executed.

Their advantage was their rapid deployment.

Some major power bases or cultivator strongholds used eight or even ten arrays in combination, relying on quantity to win, in order to maximize the stability of space.

Otherwise, with the strength of True Gods, over time, they could directly shake the foundation of the array.

"Restricting my divine perception range?" Zhich Yan Zhen Shen's eyes turned cold, and he shouted, "Lie Qing, do you think you can kill me with this array?"

Boom!

Zhich Yan Zhen Shen also stopped his offensive and instead used his divine perception to sense the operation of the surrounding array, trying to figure out its weakness.

Arrays were all about utilizing the operation of heaven and earth, and as long as one found the inherent rules, they could break the array.

"Trapped."

"This Heaven and Earth Reversal Array stabilizes space and confuses divine perception, it's indeed formidable." Lie Qing Zhen Shen sent a message to the distance, "Li Yuan, you must hurry."

"Otherwise, if it takes too long, he might find the array's weakness."

"Understood," Li Yuan responded.

Boom!

Lie Qing Zhen Shen charged towards Zhich Yan Zhen Shen again. With a move, a dazzling rainbow light swept past, and the power of his blade seemed endless.

Zhich Yan Zhen Shen could only do his best to defend.

As a result, he couldn't focus his entire mind on comprehending the array.

Suddenly...

"Whoosh~" A powerful divine perception wave swept by, immediately alerting Zhich Yan Zhen Shen, "True God-level divine perception? Another True God? Impossible!"

He was shocked in his heart.

Zhich Yan Zhen Shen hadn't seen Li Yuan before and wasn't aware of his soul's aura.

"Haha, Zhich Yan, the shocking part is yet to come! Die!" Lie Qing Zhen Shen roared with laughter.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The two True Gods fought fiercely, causing cracks in the void space.

Countless cracks appeared and then healed, only to tear open again.

...

More than ten thousand kilometers away from the battlefield of the two True Gods, at the edge of the array, Li Yuan and Liu Bing had flown out of the Ancient God Palace.

"Trapped."

"It's time to make our move." Li Yuan's divine perception covered half of the array, and he also sensed the battle between the two True Gods.

Although his divine perception would be noticed by Zhich Yan Zhen Shen, Li Yuan didn't care at this moment.

In fact, from the perspective of the Seven Star Civilization's safety, Li Yuan should have directly attacked the Immortal Ruin Civilization... He should have first slaughtered the Demi-Gods and Void Deities of the Immortal Ruin Civilization before attempting to hunt down Zhich Yan Zhen Shen.

That way, even if he failed, the lower-level combat power of the Immortal Ruin Civilization would be greatly weakened, posing less of a threat to the Seven Star Civilization.

But Li Yuan's first target had always been Zhich Yan Zhen Shen.

Concealing his strength.

It was for this moment of eruption! "Boom!" Li Yuan's palm revealed an irregular red stone.

As soon as the stone appeared, Li Yuan's aura began to surge.

"This? The Red Stone?" Liu Bing was surprised. At this moment, she had a feeling that Li Yuan's aura was far more terrifying than that of the two True Gods engaged in battle.

"A True God-level soul, having comprehended the essence of the Illusory World, allows me to harness the power of the Dreamstone's origin to a far greater extent," Li Yuan said as he felt the power he could control.

During the Ancestral Realm War, he could only harness a tiny fraction of the Dreamstone's power.

But now, the power he could control had become quite impressive.

This was a soul-type divine artifact that even Heaven Gods would highly value... It had been in Li Yuan's possession for so long.

Today, it finally revealed a glimmer of its true power.

"Suppress!" Li Yuan activated the Dreamstone and directly displayed a soul secret art he had been cultivating for the past year—'Abyss of Black Illusion'.

This soul secret art, when cultivated to its extreme, was almost on par with a Heaven God's level. It was a soul attack art created by a master of soul attacks.

Li Yuan had only cultivated it to the second level.

The range of his divine perception was now filled with soul attacks.

"Boom!"

The terrifying soul wave instantly crossed ten thousand kilometers and invaded Zhich Yan Zhen Shen.

"Hmm?"

Zhich Yan Zhen Shen, who was in the midst of battle, suddenly felt as if everything before him had vanished. He couldn't see Lie Qing Zhen Shen or sense anything around him.

He felt as if he had fallen into an endless dark abyss.

In the depths of the abyss, terrifying illusions emerged one after another, relentlessly pulling him deeper into the abyss.

"Soul attack?"

"What a terrifying soul attack! Wake up! Wake up!" Zhich Yan True Deity roared in his mind, striving to regain his consciousness.

After a long period of cultivation, his soul will had reached the intermediate level of a True God.

However, having always been in the Mortal Realm, he didn't possess a True God-level soul treasure, and he hadn't paid much attention to it before.

After all, in the Mortal Realm, there were no powerful beings who could threaten him in terms of soul power.

But Li Yuan's soul, though just entering the True God realm, had a willpower that was at the pinnacle of the True God realm... His mastery of the soul path was also at the pinnacle of the True God level.

The most crucial factor, however, was still the Dreamstone!

The only weakness that could befit of Li Yuan was his short cultivation time. The Black Soul Abyss was exquisite, but overall, the soul abyss formed by Li Yuan's cultivation was still relatively crude.

Even so, the strength of Li Yuan's soul attack was undoubtedly top-notch among countless True Gods.

In just an instant, Zhich Yan True Deity was overwhelmed, his eyes becoming blank and unfocused.

"What?"

"How terrifying is this soul attack that it could make Zhich Yan directly succumb?" Lie Qing Zhen Shen was shocked beyond words.

He finally understood Li Yuan's trump card.

It wasn't the formation, the formation only prevented Zhich Yan True Deity from escaping.

It was the soul attack.

"Kill!" Lie Qing Zhen Shen was shocked, but his actions were not slowed down in the slightest. His battle sword slashed furiously towards Zhich Yan True Deity.

Bang!

In Zhich Yan True Deity's defenseless state, the formidable sword light, with its unmatched impact force, struck Zhich Yan True Deity's body, causing the flames of light on his body to dissipate significantly.

Zhich Yan True Deity's body emanated a divine glow.

It was a True God battle armor!

"Strike again!" Lie Qing Zhen Shen continued to unleash his most powerful attack, the sword light slicing through the sky and striking down fiercely once more.

Take advantage of your illness and take your life.

"Boom~"

His vast domain, those strands of yellowish-brown airflow, all roared, rushing towards Zhich Yan True Deity, aiming to inflict further damage on him.

Zhich Yan True Deity, with his consciousness submerged in the abyss, had an extremely weak perception of the outside world. He only felt himself trapped in an endless abyss.

All external perceptions were distorted.

However, his heart was very clear that if he didn't wake up quickly, he would undoubtedly die.

"Real?"

"No! This is still an illusion! It's still an illusion!"

"How could there be such a realistic illusion?" Zhich Yan True Deity was filled with anxiety.

"Soul! Extinguish!" Zhich Yan True Deity desperately tried to activate his soul defense secret technique.

After a long time, even though he didn't care much about soul defense, he still tried his best to cultivate it.

He struggled with all his might.

Finally!

"Bang!" Zhich Yan True Deity's soul consciousness broke through the massive abyss, perceiving the outside world.

He also became aware of his danger.

"Bang!" A fierce sword light slashed down heavily, sending him flying backward.

Even with the protection of the True God battle armor.

That formidable sword light, time and again, penetrated the battle armor and his flesh, impacting his divine heart, causing immense damage.

Numerous cracks had appeared on his divine heart.

"What kind of soul attack is this that it made me succumb for so long?" Zhich Yan True Deity was filled with fear.

The severe damage to his divine heart caused his internal source energy to circulate slowly, and his strength began to be affected.

Bang! Zhich Yan True Deity just managed to manipulate the flame spear, blocking Lie Qing Zhen Shen's ferocious sword light.

"Buzz~" Another terrifying soul fluctuation descended, causing Zhich Yan True Deity to succumb once more.

...

"As expected! It's just as I predicted." Li Yuan's divine sense had been observing, "My soul has just entered the True God realm, but with the help of the Dreamstone, it is enough to make my soul attack reach an extremely powerful level."

If Li Yuan were to break through and become a True God now, his physical attacks would also become extremely powerful.

But for now, the physical path was far inferior to the soul path.

"Under Lie Qing Zhen Shen's repeated consumption, before he can completely withstand my soul attack, his divine heart will definitely collapse first."

"Zhich Yan, you're finished."

If Li Yuan were to face Zhich Yan True Deity alone, his physical attacks would not be able to inflict much damage on Zhich Yan True Deity.

Directly killing with soul power? Li Yuan couldn't do that yet.

Only a soul attack at the Heavenly Deity level could directly annihilate the soul of a True God.

But with Lie Qing Zhen Shen, the situation was completely different.

...

Inside the formation.

"Zhich Yan, you're done for." Lie Qing Zhen Shen was both shocked and excited.

He never imagined that there would be a chance to slay Zhich Yan True Deity.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Under the suppression of Li Yuan's soul attack, he almost completely overwhelmed his opponent. Strands of sword light poured down on Zhich Yan True Deity's body, causing his divine heart to continuously deplete.

Zhich Yan True Deity wanted to escape.

But his soul consciousness kept sinking, and even though he was regaining consciousness faster and faster, where could he escape to? The formation had completely enveloped the surrounding area.

He couldn't even escape.

For a full thirty seconds, Zhich Yan True Deity was almost constantly on the receiving end.

His life had reached its end!

"Tell me! Tell me!"

"Who is the other True God who is skilled in soul attacks? Who?" Zhich Yan True Deity roared in despair.

He was utterly hopeless.

If he had known beforehand about the existence of such a soul attack expert, he would have definitely stayed far away.

"No need to ask further, go and die." Lie Qing Zhen Shen's voice turned cold.

How could Li Yuan possibly appear?

Before his death, Zhich Yan True Deity might reveal Li Yuan's information.

Whoosh~

Another sword light sliced through the sky and landed on Zhich Yan True Deity's body, causing him to be unable to endure it any longer.

Snap~ His divine heart shattered completely, and his massive body instantly began to disintegrate.

Only his soul could briefly linger.

But the endless darkness had begun to engulf his consciousness.

"No!! No!!" Zhich Yan True Deity's soul was rapidly dissipating, and facing death, he was still filled with unwillingness.

"Zhich Yan!"

"The one who kills you, is me, Li Yuan!" A soul wave transmitted to Zhich Yan True Deity's residual soul wave.

"Li Yuan?" Zhich Yan True Deity's last trace of consciousness was shocked, and he was also filled with endless fear.

Boom~

A soul wave swept in, like a gigantic rolling wheel, completely crushing and annihilating Zhich Yan True Deity's soul.

Zhich Yan True Deity, was dead.

(End of Chapter)

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