# 1091
Chapter 1091: Last Stand
BOOM——!!
A terrifying circular blast erupted from Lin Qiye's center, exploding outward.
As Esis rapidly closed in, her expression shifted as if sensing something. She sharply raised her delicate hand, piercing through the blast wave and dust, pressing toward where Lin Qiye's chest had been!
A hand gradually returning to its fleshy color similarly crashed through the dust, colliding with her palm!
BOOM——!!
An earth-shattering detonation rang out between the two palms. The ground for several miles around the Divine Suppression Stele sank by several meters!
The howling gale tore through the blizzard, directly turning this entire area into a windless vacuum zone. The drifting snow was fractured mid-air, and only after a dozen seconds did snowflakes continue to fall from the sky.
At the same time, at the hilt of Ame-no-Murakumo lying prostrate in the distance, a sliver of night suddenly appeared. With a sword cry, Ame-no-Murakumo transformed into a beam of sword light, instantly streaking across the horizon, cleanly severing Esis's delicate hand along with her wrist. The incision was smooth as a mirror.
Esis's pupils constricted. Her body retreated rapidly over a hundred meters. She channeled her life force to attempt regenerating her wrist, but found herself helpless against the wound left by Ame-no-Murakumo.
Blood continuously dripped from her severed wrist onto the ground. Esis furrowed her brow and looked up to see a figure walking toward her, single-handedly gripping a sword.
The drifting wind and snow whirled wildly around his charred body. With the Demonic Possession exhausting all his potential, Lin Qiye's spiritual power realm climbed in successive bounds, breaking through the "Klein" realm bottleneck and briefly stepping into the Human Apex realm.
The wounds on his body were healing rapidly. He reached out and tore at the void, transforming night and stars into a robe that draped over his shoulders.
Lin Qiye's eyes blazed with brilliant light.
In truth, the power of Demonic Possession alone was insufficient to allow a human to cross that bottleneck and enter the Human Apex.
The pinnacle of the "Klein" realm was precisely the limit of what Demonic Possession could affect.
But just as Lin Qiye's realm was about to be intercepted by that bottleneck, another force surged forth, helping him cross the threshold and enter the Human Apex realm.
【Skyward Bard】.
【Skyward Bard】: Poetry possesses spirit. Whenever a verse that resonates with one's heart is recited, corresponding effects can be exerted upon the surrounding environment. The stronger the resonance between the poetry and one's heart, the greater the influence on the outside world.
The verses Lin Qiye had previously used to obstruct the Wind God and Goddess of Life were fragile and weak. This was not only due to Lin Qiye's own realm but also because his heart could not resonate with the poetry—a crucial factor in weakening the power.
But those four vows were different.
They were the initial oath taken upon becoming a Night Watch, as well as the world's greatest swan song spoken by countless Night Watch before they sacrificed their lives!
Lin Qiye had witnessed countless Night Watch throughout his journey, and their radiant qualities had left an incredibly profound impression on his heart. Moreover, before reciting the oath, he had finally untied his last emotional burden, achieving complete spiritual clarity.
This state, combined with the desperate situation before him, pushed Lin Qiye's resonance with those four vows to an absolutely terrifying level!
【Skyward Bard】 combined with Demonic Possession's potential exhaustion allowed Lin Qiye to stride across the Human Apex threshold in a single step. In terms of realm, he had even reached a level close to the divine realm!
Lin Qiye didn't know how strong he was now, but purely from the perspective of aura, he was already on par with Zuo Qing.
Of course, everything came at a price.
Lin Qiye was very clear-headed. The side effects from consecutively housing the souls of two gods, combined with exhausting all his potential through Demonic Possession—even if his physical constitution were stronger, once the time limit expired, there would be no possibility of survival.
This was Lin Qiye's final battle.
Lin Qiye's gaze swept across the stele where seedlings continued to grow. He murmured verses softly, and roaring flames erupted from the stele's base, sweeping up along the face of the stele where the seedlings grew, instantly igniting the entire Divine Suppression Stele!
The Divine Suppression Stele was formed from the combined divine power of the gods. It was incomparably hard, and no amount of burning would damage it. However, the seedlings that had taken root and were drawing power from the stele gradually withered and died in the flames.
The flames licked at the towering stele, staining the sky red. Lin Qiye, cloaked in his robe of night, flashed beneath the stele as an extreme darkness rapidly devoured the sky above his head.
Esis gazed at the burning stele, fury flickering in her eyes.
"A mere mortal, truly courting death!"
With divine power surging, her blue jacket billowed wildly in the wind. She raised her right hand and slammed it heavily against the ground. Her eyes blazed with murderous intent!
BOOM——!!!
Life divine power madly flooded into the earth. Within moments, countless exaggerated plants erupted from beneath the hard rock layer. Hundred-meter-tall weeds writhed like giant serpents. Five thick trunks covered in thorns shot skyward, trapping Lin Qiye in their center before curling inward like the fingers of a giant, intending to crush him in their grasp.
The barren snow plain was forcibly transformed by the Goddess of Life into a wild and murderous paradise.
"What does it matter if I'm mortal? Right now... you can't even kill a mortal."
Lin Qiye's form flickered among the countless green plants, his expression utterly calm. He raised his head toward the stars scattered through the night sky above him and parted his lips:
"【Falling Thousand Stars】."
The moment Lin Qiye's voice sounded, those stars violently trembled. They transformed into a meteor shower sweeping across the heavens, hurtling directly toward this land.
The stars rubbed against the atmosphere, becoming countless burning giant fireballs that crashed thunderously into the paradise of wild, dancing mega-plants, tearing it to fragments. With continuous explosions and rumbling, crater after crater appeared upon the earth.
The chaotic explosions and flames bathed Esis's blue jacket in scarlet light. Her brow furrowed as she was about to take action when, emerging from the flames beside her, a figure in black single-handedly gripped a sword. Blade light tore through the air, slashing directly toward her snow-white neck!
Esis felt the terrifying aura emanating from Ame-no-Murakumo. Her pupils constricted, her legs rooted to the ground, but her upper body sharply twisted backward at an uncanny angle, evading the blade.
Her hand seized Lin Qiye's wrist in a reverse grip.
With the infusion of life divine power, abundant seedlings sprouted from Lin Qiye's right hand, rapidly spreading along his arm toward his body. Lin Qiye felt his movements slowing once more, his entire arm growing rigid.
Lin Qiye's eyes narrowed. His left hand grasped a blade of starlight summoned from thin air and, with brutal force, chopped off his own right arm—seedlings and all—severing it at the bone!
Blood sprayed. The severed arm together with Ame-no-Murakumo broke through the earth and plummeted toward the planet's core.
Lin Qiye endured the excruciating agony. A second magic circle flickered beneath his feet as a blue cat-like shadow弹起 from the ground and lunged, biting toward Esis's body.
SLASH——!!
A thick, savage bolt of lightning cleaved down from between the clouds.