Chapter 2785: The Empress's True Form
After forcing Kongli Canghai back, Zhang Ruochen did not continue his attack.
Given his current cultivation level, it would be unwise to contend with a mid-level god.
Zhang Ruochen spread his fourteen golden wings and flew out, charging toward the sun at the edge of the sky.
"Damn it."
Kongli Canghai's hair had been largely burned away by the divine talisman.
For a mid-level god, this was a great humiliation. The divine mist beneath his feet transformed into a long river as he once again pursued Zhang Ruochen.
He activated a divine ability, and from the cat's head's mouth, a frosty breath spewed out, turning into thousands upon thousands of ice spikes. Each ice spike was as hard as a sacred artifact.
Empowered by divine qi, the ice spikes were incredibly sharp.
Even with a supreme sacred artifact protecting his body, Zhang Ruochen could not fully block them. The Mountain-Hiding Demon Mirror and the twelve Soul-Devouring Bells were knocked flying.
"Bang! Bang!"
The ice spikes struck him continuously.
But they were all blocked by the Seven Patriarchs' Sanskrit characters, shattering into crystalline fragments without harming Zhang Ruochen in the slightest.
"The Buddha Emperor Relic is so miraculous. If I could obtain one, wouldn't I have a chance to survive the Eon Calamity?"
Kongli Canghai's lifespan was already running low, and he knew that with his cultivation, he could never survive the Eon Calamity. That was why he had come to the Abyss of Darkness to seek an opportunity.
What opportunity could compare to a Buddha Emperor Relic?
Kongli Canghai was determined to capture Zhang Ruochen at all costs.
This was the key to him living another eon.
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After Zhang Ruochen and Kongli Canghai had gone far away, Gui Si sneered coldly, "Both of you have powerful backgrounds, and I have no desire to make enemies of you. If you know what's good for you, step aside immediately."
The "Three Enclosures and Twenty-Eight Mansions Grand Formation" hovered above Xiao Hei's head, like a sky full of stars. Xiao Hei spoke with great authority, "So what if you're a high-level god? You've only cultivated a few tens of thousands of years longer than I have. If I hadn't been sealed for a hundred thousand years, I would have already reached the great god level and could suppress you with a flip of my hand."
"Hmph! Without Lord Ice King as your backer, what are you?"
Seeing Zhang Ruochen's figure growing more distant, Gui Si let out a furious snort and flipped his hand, striking toward Xiao Hei.
His palm was as large as a cloud, with divine rule patterns interwoven like a net.
"Boom!"
The divine formation could not withstand it.
All twenty-eight supreme sacred artifacts were shattered in a single blow, turning into metallic powder.
Xiao Hei was heartbroken and cursed loudly, but the palm strike landed on him, drowning out his voice. Together with three supreme sacred artifacts, Xiao Hei was sent crashing deep into the Buddha Light Cloud Sea, narrowly flying past a spatial rift.
He had come within a hair's breadth of falling into the spatial rift and perishing.
At the same time, a dark red pillar of divine qi shot out from Gui Si's chest, causing space to tremble, light to flow, and energy to surge in all directions.
The pillar of divine qi locked onto Bore, leaving her no way to dodge. She could only raise the Fate Determination Staff to block it.
In front of the Fate Determination Staff, the forces of light and darkness alternated continuously, like the cycle of day and night.
"Bang!"
In an instant, heaven and earth seemed to shatter. Both the light and dark forces were scattered, and the Fate Determination Staff flew out of her hands.
The skin on Bore's hands split open, divine blood dripped down, and seven bones in her arms were broken, leaving her unable to lift them.
"Roar!"
The Hundred Dragon Bright Emperor Armor on her body emitted a series of dragon roars. The shadows of a hundred golden divine dragons burst forth from the armor, wrapping around her and neutralizing the power of the divine qi pillar.
Even so, Bore was sent flying dozens of miles across the Buddha Light Cloud Sea.
In the face of a high-level god, new gods like them, no matter how powerful their combat strength, could not hope to contend. The gap in cultivation level was too great. Even a casual strike from a high-level god could overturn them.
Gui Si knew that defeating Bore and Xiao Hei would be easy, but killing them would be as difficult as ascending to heaven. Even if he succeeded, it would come at a great cost.
Therefore, after driving back Xiao Hei and Bore, he set off in pursuit of Zhang Ruochen.
"Your opponent is I, the Emperor. Where do you think you're going?"
The one who spoke was not Xiao Hei, but Bore.
Bore reconnected the broken bones in her arms. Using some unknown technique, she instantly crossed dozens of miles, danced through the air, and swung the Fate Determination Staff at Gui Si. Her eyes were sharp and fierce, carrying a powerful imperial aura.
Seeing her gaze, Gui Si was momentarily startled. He swung his arm to meet the staff, which was as thick as a pillar.
"Bang!"
A powerful and overbearing divine force surged from the Fate Determination Staff, forcing Gui Si to take a step back.
Bore was sent flying again, landing more than twenty miles away. Her long hair was disheveled, but her battle intent soared even higher, condensing into a tangible form, manifesting as the phantom of thousands of troops and horses.
The eerie sounds of battlefield slaughter echoed through heaven and earth.
Battle intent took form!
Killing intent became sound!
"Anyone in the world who wants to kill Zhang Ruochen must first get past me." Bore's figure was tall and graceful, yet heroic and unparalleled, her gaze sweeping disdainfully.
"You are not the Bore Goddess. Your aura is different."
Gui Si's perception was sharp. The moment Chi Yao unleashed her own power, he sensed the difference.
"Clatter!"
A purple-black Nether River flowed out from beneath Bore's feet, winding and stretching for hundreds of miles, its nether qi isolating heaven and earth.
"Very well. With Kongli Canghai's cultivation, he should be enough to deal with Zhang Ruochen. I will deal with you and see who you really are."
Gui Si spread his arms, releasing his divine realm world, pulling both Bore and Xiao Hei inside.
Within the divine realm world, it was barren and desolate, with yellow sand stretching for a thousand miles. The air was filled with gray, hazy death divine qi. The rules of this world were condensed from Gui Si's divine rule patterns.
Every rule was as heavy as a mountain, capable of suppressing any cultivator within the divine realm world.
"As you wish. Today, I will let you die knowing exactly who I am."
Bore's voice changed, becoming Chi Yao's voice.
Xiao Hei emerged from the yellow sand, staring in shock at Bore.
From within Bore's body, a figure of peerless elegance stepped out.
She wore a robe of golden silk, her long hair jet-black, her skin like congealed fat, her immortal heart and sacred bones. Above her head floated a seven-colored divine cloud, like a goddess queen descending upon the world. Beneath her feet, her own divine realm world spread out, pushing back the power of Gui Si's divine realm world.
"Chi... Yao..."
Xiao Hei barely stopped himself from cursing aloud. This was too unbelievable. When had Bore and Chi Yao become one?
"Over, over. Even I, the Emperor, was kept in the dark. Zhang Ruochen definitely doesn't know yet. How can he ever fight against her? Women... their schemes run too deep." Xiao Hei silently mourned for Zhang Ruochen, feeling that he would never be able to overcome Chi Yao.
Gui Si was clearly shocked as well. "Empress Chi Yao of the Kunlun Realm, it's you. Weren't you cultivating in seclusion in the Western Buddha Realm? Why have you come to the Abyss of Darkness?"
His gaze then shifted to Bore, who was still breathtakingly beautiful. He simply could not understand the relationship between these two women.
For true gods, the fastest period of cultivation and strength improvement was the first thousand or ten thousand years after becoming a god.
During this time, one could "transform the Dao into divinity," "refine the qi sea into a divine sea," "consolidate the divine source, divine soul, and state of mind," and "cultivate the divine realm world"...
To accomplish these tasks, for eon-level representatives or those close to that level, it only took a thousand years. For other true gods, it took ten thousand years, or even longer.
It was precisely because Bore and Xiao Hei lacked this time that they were far from being able to contend with Gui Si.
However, Chi Yao had been a god for over a thousand years. She had cultivated her own divine realm world and stepped into the mid-level god realm. Her combat strength was naturally worlds apart from that of a newly ascended god.
In truth, even among mid-level gods, combat strength varied greatly.
Because even the weakest god could reach the mid-level god realm, simply by spending more time. However, the high-level god realm had a threshold, and not every god could reach it.
Thus, the vast majority of true gods in the Heavenly Court and Hell Realm were at the mid-level god level.
Even among mid-level gods, Chi Yao's combat strength was more than ten times that of Kongli Canghai. They represented the pinnacle and the nadir of mid-level gods, respectively.
A peak mid-level god could fight a high-level god.
The weakest mid-level god was inferior to a low-level god.
Of course, Chi Yao had only just entered the mid-level god realm. Her accumulation was insufficient, so she could not yet be called the "strongest mid-level god."
From mid-level god to high-level god, even eon-level representatives needed tens of thousands of years of accumulation and cultivation. It could not be achieved overnight.
Although the divine realm had its own level divisions, combat strength was influenced by many factors. A higher level did not necessarily mean greater strength. Defying the odds and defeating a higher-level opponent was common.
Gui Si's gaze locked onto Bore. "Goddess, colluding with a god of the Kunlun Realm, your relationship is entangled. If Lord Nutian Shenzun were to learn of this, I'm afraid he would kill you with his own hands."
Bore remained calm and composed. "Since I have let you know this secret, do you think I will let you leave alive?"
Gui Si's pupils contracted, and then he burst into laughter. "Even a great god would not dare to claim they can kill me. And you dare to speak such arrogant words?"
Chi Yao took out the Space-Time Chaos Lotus and held it in her palm.
"Whoosh!"
The lotus lit up like a heavenly lamp, its light spreading for ten thousand miles, illuminating Gui Si's divine realm world and driving away and purifying the death divine qi within it.
With the Space-Time Chaos Lotus at the center, a vast rain of time light appeared, with countless time imprint light points flowing within it.
Gui Si's expression hardened. "The Space-Time Chaos Lotus!"
The Space-Time Chaos Lotus was a space-time treasure obtained by Xumi Saint Monk from the Haishi Stone Dock back in the day, an object coveted even by god venerables. Chi Yao's production of this treasure indeed made Gui Si wary.
"Whoosh!"
Bore retreated rapidly, leaping into the air, raising the Fate Determination Staff above her head. The Gate of True Self appeared behind her, merging with the Fate Esoterica.
The fate rules of heaven and earth converged endlessly toward the Gate of True Self.
Fate was omnipresent, and the Abyss of Darkness was no exception.
The fate radiance emitted by the Gate of True Self suppressed Gui Si's cultivation, rapidly weakening his power. Of course, as a high-level god, with Bore's low-level god cultivation, she could only suppress him by ten to twenty percent.
Chi Yao's gaze fell on Xiao Hei in the distance. "Xiao Hei, Lord Ice King couldn't have failed to give you one or two powerful trump cards, could he? Now is the time to use them!"
"I am Xia Xiaotian, Prince Xia of the Undying Blood Clan's Xia Dynasty. 'Xiao Hei' is not something you can call me!"
Xiao Hei was now a god-level powerhouse and felt that Chi Yao addressing him as such was a sign of disrespect.
"Xiao Hei, stop the nonsense. If we don't kill Gui Si, do you think you can still be Prince Xia?" Bore said.
Xiao Hei was so angry his liver ached. He felt that Zhang Ruochen's women were all too fierce, showing him no respect at all. Was a true god, the son of a god venerable, supposed to have no face at all?
Shouldn't he be worshipped and respected by all living beings?
He secretly resolved to inform Zhang Ruochen of the deception between Chi Yao and Bore, so that Zhang Ruochen could deal with them. Although, he didn't have much confidence in Zhang Ruochen.
"Forget it. I don't need his help. I, the Emperor, alone am enough to behead Gui Si."
"Clang!"
The Blood-Dropping Sword flew out, transforming into a rainbow of blood qi, appearing in Chi Yao's hand.
The next moment, using the power of the Space-Time Chaos Lotus, Chi Yao instantly traversed space, appearing above Gui Si's head. She swung her sword downward, dragging a trail of blood-colored divine light.
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The college entrance exams are over!
I wish all senior high school students good results.
I didn't update last night, largely because I didn't want to waste the precious time of senior high school students... Well, that reason is a bit lame, but do I, Feitian Kun, need a reason to stop updating? A bit arrogant, a bit arrogant...
I dare not be arrogant anymore. There will be another chapter tonight.