# 1085
Chapter 1086: Guarding the Stele
"Without reaching Supreme God status, what makes you think you alone can stop us?"
Nuit, the sky god, spoke coldly. He reached out and gripped the air above. The dim, gloomy sky seemed to collapse, crashing heavily against the surface of the Kunlun Mirror suspended on high, causing it to ring deafeningly.
As the sky shook, the thick snow clouds rolled and churned. A violent snowstorm poured from between the clouds, and moments later, combined with the howling hurricanes that swept through the void, it created an unprecedented blizzard across the barren snow plain.
With Nuit and Shu making their moves, several other gods also channeled their divine power, crashing into the Kunlun Mirror in the sky. With eight gods attacking in unison, the mirror's surface covering the sky was forcibly peeled back at one corner.
The Queen Mother of the West's face paled. Her brows knitted tighter together. Her golden and purple-patterned divine robe billowed wildly in the wind and snow as she transformed into a rainbow and directly engaged the many Egyptian gods in battle.
In an instant, divine power surged and the earth shook.
From the snow peaks, the recruits who witnessed the divine battle at the horizon were stunned beyond words. Their hearts trembled with each collision of divine power. Their faces were deathly pale.
"This is bad..."
Lin Qiye murmured to himself.
Deep in his heart, Lin Qiye was well aware that even with the Kunlun Mirror in hand, the Queen Mother of the West could not possibly defeat eight Egyptian gods. Even the recruits present could see this much.
The Queen Mother of the West's fierce determination to hold back the eight Egyptian gods could buy at most ten breaths of time... But at this moment, all the Gods of Great Xia had mobilized completely. Even if the Queen Mother of the West exhausted herself buying time, no divine reinforcements were coming.
Although Great Xia had Human Apex-level experts guarding the territory, there was no way they could arrive in time over such a short distance!
Lin Qiye's gaze shifted away from the divine battle in the sky, landing on the void where the National Guardian Stele stood. The image of the Gods of Great Xia sacrificing themselves like moths darting into flames, their bodies transforming into the stele, flashed through his mind once more—the Queen Mother of the West, Jade Tripod True Lord, Emperor of Fengdu, Yang Jian...
That stele was the divine monument guarding Great Xia's border. It was a stele that countless Great Xia gods had purchased with their cultivation and their lives a hundred years ago!
Beyond the National Guardian Stele stood the Kayumesh Border Defense Company, and beyond that... were the countless lights of homes across Great Xia.
No matter what, this stele must not fall.
Lin Qiye's gaze locked onto those Egyptian gods. His fists clenched involuntarily, and resolute determination flickered in his eyes.
He opened the radio and shouted: "Cao Yuan, Qingyu! The two of you, come with me!"
A cloud of vapor rapidly gathered beneath his feet, carrying his body as it picked up the approaching Cao Yuan and An Qingyu. Before the many recruits could even react, three深红色 cloaked figures had already mounted the Somersault Cloud and were hurtling toward the National Guardian Stele!
"What is Instructor Lin doing?!"
"I don't know... he's heading straight for the National Guardian Stele!"
"Those gods' target is our National Guardian Stele? Are the instructors going to guard the stele?"
"But those are gods! Many of them!! Can the instructors even hold them off?"
"Did you forget what the instructor just taught us? If we can't hold... we still have to hold." A recruit fell silent for a moment. "Because that is the Night Watch's duty."
BOOM—!!
A thunderous explosion rang out from the sky. The Queen Mother of the West's face paled. Her身形 slipped backward like a swan goose, gliding hundreds of meters before coming to a halt. The Kunlun Mirror suspended in the sky trembled violently and finally tumbled back into the Queen Mother of the West's hand.
"She's about to break! Hold her down!"
Shu, the wind god, eyes flashed with a cunning light. Seizing the opportunity, he transformed into a streak of rainbow light and instantly broke through the Queen Mother of the West's blockade, darting forward.
Following him, Nuit the sky god, Geb the earth god, and Isis the life god also broke free simultaneously. The Queen Mother of the West's expression darkened. Just as she moved to intercept, the four octogenary gods rushed in and pinned her down死死, leaving her no chance to act.
The four Ennead gods swept forward with divine might like thunderbolts, cutting through the howling blizzard and landing directly on the barren plain.
Life Goddess Isis narrowed her eyes as she gazed at the void ahead. Her jade-like fingers lifted gently, and countless vines sprang forth from the snow. They climbed along the stele hidden within the void—invisible to the naked eye—creeping upward.
These vines twisted around the stele like water snakes. Under their binding embrace, the towering black monument gradually took shape, emerging from the blizzard.
The four gods stood in the snowfield, gazing up at this magnificent black stone monument. Their eyes narrowed with dangerous glints.
"So this is the true form of the National Guardian Stele..."
The wind god Shu冷笑ed. He stepped forward toward the black stele when suddenly, they seemed to sense something. They raised their heads, looking toward the nearby sky.
A streak of cloud crossed the horizon, and three figures cloaked in深红色 tumbled down like shells in front of the black stele. Their bodies crashed into the snow, sending漫天碎雪 tumbling into the air.
CLANG—!
A soft chime rang out. Lin Qiye's sword case burst open behind him. The Ame-no-Murakumo弹射而出, slicing upward from the base of the National Guardian Stele into the clouds in an instant, severing all the vines binding the stele's surface into fragments that scattered to the ground with the howling wind and snow.
"Three mortals?" Geb the earth god瞥见 this scene and sneered. "These three mortals are much weaker than anything we've encountered before. And they dare stand in our way?"
"I heard Great Xia has a group of mortals专门做清剿异兽的事情, what do they call them... Night Watch? He probably thinks we're some kind of异兽 too, trying to block us."
"Stupid. Ridiculous."
"Crush these three insects and hurry—let's destroy this stele. Those annoying fellows will be here soon enough."
Just as the four Ennead gods prepared to strike with thunderous force and instantly kill these three people, Lin Qiye—who stood at the very center—took the first move.
Lin Qiye gave An Qingyu beside him a look, then transformed into a streak of night and surged forward. He pressed his palm against the void, and five resplendent magic circles bloomed around him.
Divine magical energy diffused outward. A dog in a tailcoat, a grey sparrow, a massive black python, a white-robed snow maiden, and a vermillion-red pencil consecutively flew out.
As Lin Qiye's hand swept across the White Slash at his waist, a sixth Klein-level void white bear roared as it landed in the snowfield.
Except for the tumbler that was still in the asylum and hadn't been converted into an orderly, and the thunder beast at Pseudo-God level, Lin Qiye had summoned all his Klein-level mysteries.
In the violent snowstorm, six mysteries dressed in deep cyan orderly uniforms, along with one figure cloaked in the Crimson Cloak, stood resolutely before the four gods.
This was currently the strongest lineup Lin Qiye could muster.
Of course, relying on these alone to stop four gods... was still a fool's dream.
Lin Qiye took a deep breath and dove his consciousness into the Asylum of the Gods in his mind.