# 1625
Chapter 1619: Omniscient and Omnipotent
"Why are you so certain that we will definitely lose?" Lin Qiye asked in return. "The Black Goat has been severely wounded by the three Celestial Venerables and is on the brink of death. Although Chaos has returned, it is not invincible. As long as the Key to the Gate doesn't descend upon the world, our odds of victory remain substantial!"
"You are mistaken." An Qingyu shook his head. "What humanity must face is not just one enemy, Chaos, but an even more terrifying one — the Key to the Gate."
Hearing these words, Lin Qiye froze in place.
"How is that possible? The Gate of Truth hasn't been repaired yet. Where would the Key to the Gate come from?"
"Don't you understand yet? The Key to the Gate is not the kind of ordinary deity that humans can comprehend. It is time and space itself, the embodiment of omniscience and omnipotence! Although at this point in time, the Key to the Gate is still dormant, the Key to the Gate at some point in the past can directly cross through history to strike at the present!
The Key to the Gate is perpetually in slumber — this itself is a paradox! Because as long as it has ever existed, it is the sovereign suspended above the river of time. For it, both the past and the future are merely a point within reach! The only difference is that in this particular timeframe, it has no true body, and can only make moves from afar.
Over a year ago when the gods of Great Xia returned, over a hundred years ago when the Night Watch was established, even thousands of years ago when the Marquis established the Bureau of Evil Suppression... All of these events that feel impossibly distant to us occurred under its observation. Even the very words we are speaking here right now, it can hear!
The reason it hasn't intervened up to now is simply because in the future it has deduced and foreseen, humanity has absolutely no chance of victory. To it, we are merely a race destined to fail, like the insignificant creatures struggling to survive on this planet."
Lin Qiye's pupils contracted sharply.
The Key to the Gate was the embodiment of time and space, the omniscient and omnipotent god — this description was not the first time he had heard it, but it was only now that he understood what lay behind this title.
In other words, everything that had happened to humanity up to this point had been within the Key to the Gate's expectations? The reason it hadn't intervened from the past to simply sweep Earth away alongside Chaos was merely because it believed humanity had no hope whatsoever, not even worth crossing through time to deal with?
In the eyes of the Key to the Gate, humanity's failure and destruction were inevitable.
"So, are you asking everyone to surrender?" Lin Qiye took a deep breath. "Even if this is a war we are destined to lose, we can never give up resistance... Have you forgotten, what kind of conviction drove the Night Watch to battle against the gods during those years when Great Xia had no deities?"
An Qingyu gazed at Lin Qiye without answering.
"I have explained what needed to be explained." After a long while, he spoke slowly. "Move aside, or I'll kill you too."
Contacting those cold and indifferent gray eyes of An Qingyu, Lin Qiye's heart trembled slightly, an indescribable anguish spreading from the depths of his heart.
He knew that An Qingyu was no longer the deputy captain he once was.
No matter how many words of persuasion, it would surely be useless. Lin Qiye could only shake his head and say in a low voice:
"Apologies, but she is a key protected person of the Night Watch. She cannot fall into the hands of the Cthulhu Faction."
An Qingyu's eyes narrowed into dangerous arcs. Falling leaves swirled and scattered completely. Gray curtains of rain descended upon the carpet of leaves on the ground, producing muffled pattering sounds. A killing intent弥漫在沉寂的天空下。
"Since that is the case, don't blame me." An Qingyu said indifferently. His form vanished in an instant, and the fallen leaves on the ground suddenly rolled upward!
These leaves decomposed into purple toxic mist in midair, madly wrapping around Lin Qiye before the stone platform. Lin Qiye recognized this purple mist — it was the madness-inducing poison gas they had encountered when fighting Bell Cranel in Gusu City.
However, after An Qingyu's improvement and restructuring, the toxin concentration was at least ten thousand times the original! Even if a Chief God fell into this mist, it would cause mental frenzy and loss of reason.
Lin Qiye held his breath, stamped his feet hard against the ground, and zipped through the poison mist like lightning, flying toward the stone platform behind!
At the edge of the stone platform, An Qingyu's form suddenly emerged from nothingness. Seeing that Lin Qiye had seen through his movements, he frowned. The poison mist filling the air instantly solidified into giant serpent and scorpion mouths, tearing toward Lin Qiye's body!
Mid-air, Lin Qiye's entire body tensed at the sight. Cracking and popping sounds rang out from within his body. He twisted his body and threw a punch, shattering the giant mouths.
Seeing Lin Qiye move freely within this poison mist, a hint of surprise appeared on An Qingyu's face. Those gray eyes attempted to analyze his body while he raised his hand into the air, pointing toward Lin Qiye from afar.
Body restructuring, reorganization.
After entering this cathedral, An Qingyu had used this ability to instantly kill three knight commanders. Even their superhuman physiques bathed in Divine Beast blood remained fragile as paper before restructuring. This was An Qingyu's ultimate weapon against close-combat enemies!
But as his finger fell, Lin Qiye's form did not change in the slightest. He roared out of the poison mist, cannonballing toward An Qingyu's body!
An Qingyu was stunned.
"Cannot restructure?" Those gray eyes flickered rapidly, but he could only clearly see the structure of Lin Qiye's body. There was simply no way to restructure him at the microscopic level. The materials that composed Lin Qiye's flesh far exceeded the scope of his restructuring ability.
That brief moment of hesitation gave Lin Qiye the opportunity. He flashed to An Qingyu's front, clenched his fist tight, swung it back with all his strength, and slammed it into An Qingyu's chest!
BOOM——!!!
The deafening explosion sounded like thunder exploding on the ground. The stable structure of the cathedral was instantly torn apart by the aftershock of this punch. A black figure shot backward at a speed invisible to the naked eye, consecutively crashing through all building ruins within a straight line of one kilometer, crashing heavily onto the earth.
This single punch had turned An Qingyu's body into a mass of minced meat,模糊地翻滚在地面之上，已经不见人形。
The next moment, delicate blood vessels and flesh疯狂的重生。仅仅一眨眼的功夫，人形轮廓便被勾勒而出。那副还没有生长出皮肤的血色面孔，死死盯着远方的教堂，沙哑开口：
"果然，就算没有了凡尘神域，你也是那个能创造奇迹的家伙……"
【To be continued】