# 1497
Chapter 1498: Lingbao Tianzun's Power
Bang——!
A cloud of blood mist exploded from Wang Mian's body, wisps of white threads drifting toward the sky, then returning to his body as time flowed backward, as if nothing had happened.
"Lucifer..." Wang Mian's hand rested on the hilt of the 【Mandarin Arrow】 at his waist, and he spoke slowly, "Allying yourself with the Cthulhu Gods will lead to no good end..."
Hearing these words, Lucifer's eyes narrowed. He seemed to have realized something:
"You're not from this time? You came from the future?"
In Wang Mian's eyes, a pair of time rings linked head to tail flowed slowly. He simply stood in silence before Lu Baoyou and Fang Mo, making no denial.
"You think becoming the God of Time gives you the right to oppose me?" Lucifer coldly shook his head with a smirk, "Even Chronos might not be able to defeat me. You're merely a Chief God now—where do you get the courage?"
"I don't intend to defeat you." Wang Mian's voice was utterly calm, "I only came to buy some time."
"Buy time? Waiting for those two Celestial Venerables from Great Xia to save you? Even if they could..."
"Five."
"...?" Lucifer froze.
"Four."
"Three."
"Two."
"One..."
As Wang Mian's words fell, the time rings in his pupils suddenly reversed direction. A river of time appeared behind him once more.
Wang Mian lightly leaped backward. Ripples of time law rippled outward, and his figure vanished instantly.
Almost simultaneously, a golden scepter surging with divine power thrust violently out of the void, whistling as it smashed against Lucifer's back!
Boom——!!!
A surge of divine power crashed onto Lucifer's six wings. He was blasted flying like a cannonball for several miles, flapping his wings mid-air to stabilize his form before rapidly turning to look behind him, his expression turning grim!
In the void, a dark and profound black hole had opened without anyone noticing. A slightly portly figure in a Taoist robe emerged slowly from it, one hand gripping a golden scepter, the other holding a Jade Ruyi.
"Lingbao Tianzun?!"
When Lucifer saw that Taoist figure, he was stunned for a moment, then shock flashed in his eyes. "How is this possible? Weren't you all already..."
"Exiled?" Lingbao Tianzun coldly smirked. "Open your eyes wide and take a look... what is that?"
Lingbao Tianzun pointed into the distance. Lucifer turned to look, and above the surging Black Goat offspring, the outline of Heavenly Court rapidly took shape. Swirling spiritual energy swept across the sky in dense waves. Countless streams of divine power raindropped down from within, cascading overwhelmingly toward the earth!
Those were the returning Gods of Great Xia, at their peak condition!
After days of rest and recuperation at the Ancestral God Temple, the Gods of Great Xia had long healed from their injuries sustained in consecutive battles. They had gathered their strength and restored their vigor—both their power and fighting spirit had returned to their pinnacle!
Under the Gods of Great Xia's assault, the flesh-and-blood torrent that had been sweeping all before it was quickly halted. Another Taoist figure stood above Heavenly Court, holding the origin of Heavenly Court in his hand. With a gentle wave, vast swathes of Black Goat offspring were crushed into bloody pulp!
A shadow flew out from the Primordial Infinite Void,无边夜幕 sweeping across the earth. The next moment, Lu Baoyou and Fang Mo, frozen in place by time, vanished without a trace.
A young man's silhouette emerged from the darkness, gazing at Lucifer in the sky.
"Lin Qiye?" When Lucifer sensed the familiar Seraph气息 within Lin Qiye, he immediately thought of the man Lu Baoyou had mentioned.
He carefully studied Lin Qiye. Though his realm hadn't reached the Human Apex, the aura emanating from his body was nearly indistinguishable from the Human Apex... Given such an enemy, no wonder Lu Baoyou had been no match for him.
However, why was there another ancient and mysterious aura on him? One that had even suppressed Michael's angelic presence.
For some reason, the moment Lucifer sensed the Dark Ancestor aura, he felt a subconscious resistance. Coupled with that enemy-like Seraph aura, just standing there, Lin Qiye made him feel uneasy all over.
"I've heard you were once the number one fighter of Hell." Lingbao Tianzun spoke indifferently, "Today... let贫道 experience your strength."
The Primordial Infinite Void rapidly expanded beneath Lingbao Tianzun's feet, like a black hole enveloping Lucifer's form. A terrifying gravitational pull surged from within!
Lucifer sensed that Lingbao Tianzun's aura was no less terrifying than his own. His expression changed again. Instinct told him he absolutely could not fight Lingbao Tianzun within this black void. His six wings flapped, and he rocket upward toward the sky!
However, choosing to retreat now was already somewhat too late.
Lingbao Tianzun gripped the Jade Ruyi. Murky Taoist incantations echoed across the sky. The Primordial Infinite Void beneath his feet instantly inverted the heavens and earth. As Lucifer rapidly flew upward, he only felt his vision blur. The black hole swallowed him whole!
Within the ink-black and infinite void, Lucifer's consciousness spun wildly. Even as he constantly adjusted his posture with his wings, he continued to fall, fall, fall...
When he recovered his vision again, what lay before him was a vast and boundlessly cosmic starfield.
In the dead silence of space, Earth appeared walnut-sized. Grayish-white mist nearly obscured it entirely. Only one territory remained, like the only eye in a gray-white world, silently gazing at him from the depths.
Lucifer looked up. An enormous, exaggeratedly large dark-yellow planet slowly drifted overhead. He could even clearly see the ridgelines formed by mountain chains on the planet's surface—Venus, nearly forty million kilometers from Earth.
Lucifer's eyes narrowed slightly. He gazed down at the void beneath his feet. That white aperture flowed gently through space. Lingbao Tianzun calmly stood above the aperture, his Taoist robe rippling without wind.
"All this trouble just to take me away from Great Xia?" Lucifer's lips slightly parted, his voice ringing in Lingbao Tianzun's mind, "Without the other two Celestial Venerables joining in, you truly believe you can defeat me?"
A faint smile curled at the corner of Lingbao Tianzun's lips. "You... are overestimating yourself far too much, and underestimating贫道far too much."
Lingbao Tianzun slowly raised the golden scepter in his right hand. The sun in the deep void suddenly blazed brilliantly. Several streams of coronal fire, like long dragons, swept across the cosmos. Carrying terrifying heat capable of destroying worlds, they coiled behind the Taoist figure, silently roaring toward Lucifer!
At this position, the sun was far closer to them than it was to Earth!
The white Infinite Void beneath their feet visibly transformed toward blackness. Ferocious thunderbolts, like a prison, trapped Lucifer's form within this space.
Lingbao Tianzun grasped the two Supreme God artifacts in his hands. Divine power surged forth seemingly endlessly. He walked unhurriedly toward Lucifer, speaking calmly:
"You... truly believe that贫道's several thousand years of reincarnation was spent idly?"