Chapter 1334: The Other Shore (2)
An incomparably eerie aura hung over Star God City, even causing the Star Gods and elders within the barrier to feel an unnatural chill penetrating their entire bodies.
"What is this?"
"Yun Che? Impossible! No matter what, he couldn't have such an aura." Tuanmi, the Heavenly Origin Star God, stared at Yun Che and said in a deep voice.
Mo Li's gaze had never left Yun Che. Feeling that strange aura that could even pierce the barrier, watching him sink his five fingers into his own chest... In a daze, a memory from the Evil God's Indestructible Blood flashed through her heart, causing her face to turn deathly pale, and between her lips came the most terrified cry of her life: "Yun Che!! No... no... NO!!!"
"..." Yun Che didn't move, his five fingers still slowly tightening.
"Xing Ling, what are you doing! Make your move!" Xing Mingzi roared.
But faced with Xing Mingzi's command, Xing Ling was still retreating step by step. If Xing Mingzi had been facing Xing Ling, he would have seen his pupils shrink to the size of a pinhole, his whole body trembling as if deep in an icy hell.
"Yun Che!!!" This cry was extremely hoarse. Mo Li let go of Cai Zhi, struggling with all her strength to rush to the edge of the barrier: "Listen to me! This ritual, this barrier, is connected to all the Star Gods and elders — the power of over forty Divine Lords. No one can stop or break it. Even if you do that, you can't save me, you can't save Cai Zhi... you can't do anything! You'll only bury yourself for nothing... Do you hear me!!"
"If you dare to do such a stupid thing... I will never forgive you... never!"
Yun Che's Evil God Mysterious Vein was given by her. The memories on the Evil God's Indestructible Blood were read by her. Even Yun Che's initial understanding and operation of the Evil God's Divine Power were guided step by step by Mo Li. Therefore, in many aspects, Mo Li's understanding of the Evil God's Divine Power surpassed Yun Che's.
Yun Che's action and the abnormal aura made her instantly understand what Yun Che was about to do.
It was a kind of... forbidden power he should never touch, never in his life touch... a power of utter despair!
Yun Che slowly raised his head, looking at Mo Li, a faint smile on his lips: "Mo Li... I'm not here to save you... I can't save you... I'm here to accompany you..."
These few words made Mo Li burst into tears. She fiercely turned her head away and choked out: "What right do you have to accompany me... Who do you think you are..."
She pointed towards the location of the Star God Emperor: "That old thief, I hate him, but he is still my biological father. My life was given by him, and if he wants to take it back... it's only natural! What does it have to do with you! Don't be so self-righteous here... Go away... Go away!! Otherwise... I really... will never forgive you!"
But Yun Che shook his head and said softly: "The life he gave you died when you were thirteen. Your current life was given by me... your life is mine... everything about you is mine... I will never allow anyone to take her away... unless I die!"
This selfish and overbearing declaration pierced straight into the deepest and softest part of Mo Li's soul. She clenched her teeth tightly, but tears still streamed down her cheeks, and she could no longer speak.
"My current life was also given by you. We gave each other a new life... In those years, our lives and souls were tightly bound together... In the years we were apart, I endured the tormented sense of incompleteness every moment — an incompleteness of both life and soul. So, I didn't listen to you, came here so impatiently, and spared no effort to see you..."
Mo Li trembled all over, her tightly shut eyes overflowing with teardrops that had already stained her face... Countless stunned gazes fell on Mo Li. They couldn't believe that Tiansha Xingshen, known for her most evil reputation and icy ruthlessness towards everything, would shed tears... so many tears.
Yun Che's entire right hand was stained with blood, but his expression was terrifyingly calm: "I know you won't forgive me, but this time... whether you hit me or scold me, whether you go to heaven or hell, I will be by your side, never letting go of your hand again!!"
A ball of blood mist exploded on Yun Che's chest.
"NO!!!!" Mo Li let out a scream of incomparable anguish.
Boom——
Inside Yun Che's mysterious vein world, the four-colored domains — red, blue, purple, black — exploded simultaneously in the same instant.
Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang...
The skin on Yun Che's body surface burst like mad, exploding in countless sprays of blood. The profound aura swirling around him turned blood-red in an instant... deep and thick, like the solidified blood of purgatory.
"AHHHHHHH!!!"
Beneath the blood-red profound aura, Yun Che let out beast-like roars... filled with endless rage, pain, and despair, like a desperate demon god chained at the bottom of hell.
"What... is he doing?"
"Could it be... he's going to commit suicide?"
An aura that should never exist, unmistakably one of "unease," enveloped everyone's mind. An inexplicable oppression and fear sprouted in their hearts and spread like a plague.
Amidst demonic roars, the blood aura around Yun Che rapidly expanded, driving his aura to rise at an incomprehensible speed.
"As I thought..." Heavenly Origin Star God Tuanmi frowned. "Another forbidden ability that uses a great price to amplify profound energy, just like that battle against Luo Changsheng. But unfortunately, with his realm, even if his energy bursts ten or a hundred times more, what can it..."
Before he could finish, his expression suddenly changed... The Star God Emperor, and all the Star Gods, also changed expressions dramatically in that instant, revealing looks of shock, or disbelief.
Boom——
With an explosion that seemed to resound in their hearts, Yun Che's Divine King Realm Level 1 aura suddenly broke through the limit, surging to Divine King Realm Level 2.
"This?" Tuanmi frowned deeply: "A sudden breakthrough? But in this situation... and without any precursor or process of breakthrough, what... what!?"
As Tuanmi's expression changed again, Yun Che's aura, which had just completed a "realm breakthrough," once again broke through a bottleneck, reaching Divine King Realm Level 3.
"This..." As the Star God Realm's longest-lived and most experienced sage, Tuanmi was utterly stunned, unable to understand what was happening before him no matter how hard he tried.
"Ugh... ahhh... AHHHHHHHH!!!"
The screeching shook the heavens and souls. The madly rising blood aura made it impossible to tell if it was profound energy or real blood. Every instant, the air grew more eerie, and the nameless fear was like countless evil spirits constantly surging into their souls...
Blood aura, screeching, fear... and Yun Che's profound energy continued to break through realms.
Divine King Realm Level 4...
Divine King Realm Level 5...
Divine King Realm Level 6...
Divine King Realm Level 7...
Divine King Realm Level 8...
Divine King Realm Level 9...
Divine King Realm Level 10!!
The blood aura on Yun Che finally began to contract. Just as everyone thought the terrifying anomaly was about to stop, the briefly contracted blood aura suddenly exploded with incomparable violence...
Boom——
At that moment, the entire sky above Star God City was stained red. And under this sky-drenching blood color, the terrifying aura underwent a change that even all the ancestors of the Star God Realm, if they were alive, could not believe or understand...
"Divine... Sovereign... Realm..." This was a realm he had long bid farewell to, long disdained, but when spoken by the Heavenly Origin Star God, every word carried a tremble not felt in tens of thousands of years.
Before him, the Star God Emperor's eyes were wide open, releasing extreme shock. All around, the Star Gods and elders, these figures standing at the pinnacle of Chaos, not a single one was not stunned, not a single one could believe their eyes and senses.
"What is... this..." a Star God murmured.
"How can there be... such a thing..."
"This is also... the Evil God's power?"
"Hiss..."
The profound aura realm directly shot up to Divine Sovereign Realm Level 1, finally ceasing to change, but the blood aura still churned madly. Yun Che's roars stopped, his body straightening bit by bit... In that instant, the entire sky seemed to press down. The chests of all the Star Guards were oppressed to the point of breathlessness, the cold air carrying a bloody scent drilling from their tailbones into their internal organs, then spreading to every corner of their bodies.
Amplification of profound energy was not unfamiliar at the level of the Star God Realm. But any amplification of profound energy would be accompanied by side effects of varying degrees — this was common knowledge in the Tao of Profound. However, no matter how powerful the amplification, it could never break out of its current realm. This was no longer just common knowledge, but the most basic understanding.
Yet they watched with their own eyes as Yun Che's Divine King Realm Level 1 profound energy broke through realms continuously in just a few breaths... until it broke through an entire major realm.
How difficult was it to break through in the Divine Way? Talent, effort, accumulation, insight, and opportunity were all indispensable. To go from Divine King Realm Level 1 to Divine Sovereign Realm Level 1 in less than ten breaths... what an absurd, ridiculous joke, yet it was vividly presented before their eyes, stinging their eyes and senses, shredding their most basic understanding.
Star God City fell into a terrifying silence. The three thousand Star Guards all seemed frozen in place by an invisible force, each looking like a lost soul.
"Brother-in-law... what happened to him?" Cai Zhi asked blankly.
Mo Li's eyes were vacant, unresponsive to Cai Zhi's words, as if she had lost her soul... Finally, she closed her eyes, her voice like a dream: "Other Shore... Asura..."
Cai Zhi: "..."
The first realm of the Evil God's power, Evil Soul, had "Falling Moon and Sinking Star"; the second realm, Heart Incineration, had "Cloud-Sealing Sun-Locking"; the third realm, Purgatory, had "Annihilation of Heaven and Earth"... Though powerful, they weren't enough to overturn understanding.
The fourth realm, Heaven-Shattering, had "Moon Return and Star Reversal," which truly began to reveal the Evil God's power that could defy rules.
The fifth realm, Yama King, unleashed an Evil God divine power whose strength, defiance of rules, and distortion of understanding far exceeded "Moon Return and Star Reversal."
"Other Shore Asura"... This was the divine power of the Evil God's fifth realm. It was the most terrifying, most forbidden... and most despairing of all the Evil God's divine powers.
Once "Other Shore Asura" was activated, it would cause a massive surge in one's own profound energy... but not the amplification of aura at the moment of realm gate opening, but a surge in realm itself. It would cause the Evil God's profound energy to defy the laws of reason and rise directly by an entire major realm from its current realm!
But the cost was also brutally extreme.
Self-destruction of the profound veins! Burning of the life soul!
"Other Shore" symbolized death. Once "Other Shore Asura" was activated, it would be the strongest, most brilliant moment of the Evil God's life... And the moment the power gained from self-destroying the profound veins and burning the life soul was exhausted, it would be the time of death.