Chapter 2786: Thirty-Three Heavenly Realms
Gui Si held a battle weapon in each of his four divine arms, all forged from divine smelting substance.
Divine smelting substance is one of the top ten supreme materials in the universe.
One of the weapons, shaped like a curved blade and also like a moon wheel, was a full hundred zhang long, shining like a divine moon hanging in the sky, its radiance illuminating thirty thousand li, as it met the majestic force of Chi Yao's sword strike.
"Boom!"
The two battle weapons clashed, and a powerful divine force rippled outward.
Gui Si's other arm swung out, a purple-copper long spear piercing through Chi Yao's divine realm world, heading straight for her divine body.
At the spear's tip, divine flame burst forth, scorching and hot.
In terms of divine realm world, Gui Si's was far superior in both size and strength to Chi Yao's, who had only recently entered the mid-level god rank.
"Rustle."
The Chaotic Time-Space Lotus bloomed, expanding into a divine lotus dozens of zhang in size, chaotic qi surging and spatial power spilling outward.
The purple-copper long spear struck the Chaotic Time-Space Lotus, and with a sound like divine thunder exploding, time and space power became chaotic, and both figures flew backward.
"Upper-level god, nothing more than this."
Chi Yao landed at the center of the Chaotic Time-Space Lotus, its petals flowing with cascading chaotic mist, making her peerless beauty appear ethereal and immortal, flickering in and out of view.
Gui Si looked down at the curved-blade-shaped battle weapon in his hand.
On the blade's edge, a shallow crack had appeared.
A divine smelting substance weapon could not withstand a single strike from the Blood-Drop Sword.
"With strength like yours, you dare to boast about cutting me down? How laughable, like a child. Chi Yao, you still have a long way to go!"
On Gui Si's chest and abdomen, a blood-red line emerged, splitting open like a vertical mouth. Inside, a pillar of dark red divine qi shot out.
"Whoosh!"
The divine qi pillar had just reached the outer edge of the Chaotic Time-Space Lotus when it was affected by a powerful spatial force, changing direction and circling around the lotus, unable to penetrate inside.
Only within the qi sea of a god venerable could someone with Chi Yao's cultivation, combined with the Chaotic Time-Space Lotus treasure, alter space in this way.
Inside the Chaotic Time-Space Lotus, the Blood-Drop Sword hovered above Chi Yao's head. She spread her slender jade arms, her delicate body surrounded by a mist of divine qi, time and space alternately stretching and contracting.
"Whoosh!"
Thirty-three bright light points arranged in the pattern of a Star Soul Divine Throne shone with extreme brilliance, making even Gui Si feel as if he could barely open his eyes.
All the light points formed lines of light that interwove into the peerless silhouette of Empress Chi Yao.
Beautiful, yet cold.
"How is this possible..."
Xiao Hei was stunned, muttering these words.
Gui Si was extremely astonished, saying, "A Star Soul Divine Throne! How can you carry a Star Soul Divine Throne with you?"
Generally speaking, when a true god becomes a god, they can condense their own Star Soul Divine Throne.
The Star Soul Divine Throne is a symbol of identity, its starlight shining across the universe, essentially announcing to the entire cosmos that one has stepped into the divine realm and become an awe-inspiring existence that dominates heaven and earth.
Most Star Soul Divine Thrones float in places where gods often reside and cultivate, storing divine qi, allowing divine patterns to be inscribed in the surrounding space, connecting with the cosmic meridians, and constructing divine formations.
The Star Soul Divine Throne is like a god's foundation and nest, providing a home-field advantage. When another god attacks, it can amplify combat power by one or even several times.
For example, if Chi Yao were in the Kunlun Realm, with her home-field advantage and the support of her Star Soul Divine Throne, defeating Gui Si would be much easier.
For a major world, a god's Star Soul Divine Throne acts like a shield, capable of blocking attacks from the starry sky or naturally colliding asteroids, serving a protective function.
Of course, gods can also carry their Star Soul Divine Throne planets with them.
But this is completely meaningless, more of a burden.
It's like a mortal in the mortal world carrying a fortress-like house full of weapons with them at all times. Can't carry it? Build a large enough cart, buy enough horses, and pave a wide enough road—then you can take it.
A burden!
A drag!
And it's impossible to hide, constantly exposing oneself to enemies.
The fact that Chi Yao could carry thirty-three Star Soul Divine Throne planets with her without revealing their aura was clearly due to her possession of the Chaotic Time-Space Lotus treasure.
But even so, without the Star Soul Divine Throne integrating with the surrounding space and drawing on the power of the cosmic meridians, carrying it on one's person remained a burden. Worse, it could easily be destroyed by a powerful enemy.
That's why Gui Si was so surprised and confused.
Then, something even more unbelievable happened.
"Whoosh!"
"Whoosh!"
...
One by one, the Star Soul Divine Throne planets flew into Chi Yao's body, settling into thirty-three key meridian nodes throughout her form.
"Boom!"
She stepped on the Chaotic Time-Space Lotus, and above her head rose the phantom of Thirty-Three Heavenly Realms.
Each realm was like an immortal palace or divine hall, with pillars coiled by divine dragons and upturned eaves soaring into the sky.
But they were extremely faint, as if a single gust of wind could scatter them.
Xiao Hei's eyes were wide, his teeth chattering for a long time before he said, "This is too absurd; it can't be real. 'Thirty-Three Heavenly Realms'—Chi Yao is actually cultivating 'Thirty-Three Heavenly Realms'."
The fame of "Thirty-Three Heavenly Realms" was immense; it was the second-ranked technique on the Heavenly Court's "Taiyi Divine Skill Ranking." As for the first-ranked technique, it existed only in legend and had never appeared.
It could be said that "Thirty-Three Heavenly Realms" was the number one divine skill of the current era.
A cultivator of "Thirty-Three Heavenly Realms" would be invincible at the same cultivation level and could potentially become the ruler of the universe in the future.
This was not a technique to reach the divine realm, nor one to reach the god venerable level—it was a technique capable of reaching the level of the Twenty Heavens, or even the Heavenly Venerable.
"Impossible! After the Immovable Bright King Great Venerable, no one has been able to successfully cultivate 'Thirty-Three Heavenly Realms.' She... she has become the second person after the Immovable Bright King Great Venerable?"
Gui Si finally understood why Chi Yao carried her Star Soul Divine Throne with her.
Before he could recover from his shock, Chi Yao, now vastly more powerful, was already controlling the Blood-Drop Sword, slashing down directly.
The sword light was like a river of blood crossing the sky, shattering the dark red divine qi pillar into pieces.
"Boom!"
Gui Si raised all four battle weapons to block simultaneously.
But all four weapons exploded, falling to the ground as scrap metal.
Gui Si's four arms were drenched in blood, sword wounds piercing through the skin and reaching the divine bone.
Chi Yao was like a peerless female war god, every strand of her hair flowing with divine flame, her eyes blazing with extreme brilliance. At an unparalleled speed, she swung a second sword, slashing diagonally downward.
Gui Si's expression changed. He raised all four hands above his head and let out a long roar.
"Whoosh!"
His vast divine realm world rapidly contracted, transforming into trillions of rule divine patterns that converged between his four hands, condensing into a light shield a hundred meters in diameter.
"Boom!"
Gui Si, holding the light shield of his divine realm world, was sent flying a hundred li by the sword strike.
Now, he had completely fallen into Chi Yao's divine realm world.
Chi Yao's personality was decisive and ruthless; she would never give Gui Si any chance to catch his breath. The third sword, the fourth sword... one attack after another slashed out, forcing Gui Si into a purely defensive position, retreating step by step.
"Empress, let me, Xiao Hei, lend you a hand!"
Xiao Hei seized the moment, turning into a black divine light and appearing behind Gui Si. His right hand pulled out a white cold pearl, channeling divine qi into it.
"Behold my Great Thousand Ice Soul World!"
The white cold pearl shimmered with divine venerable-level divine patterns, transforming into a world of ice and snow spanning ten thousand li, pulling Gui Si, Chi Yao, and Bore all inside.
In an instant, the battlefield of the divine war appeared on a glacier stretching ten thousand li.
Cold air rushed in, and flying snow was like blades.