Novel Full Chapter 1248: Fighting a True God
Chapter 1248: Fighting a True God
Xu Qing had encountered True Gods before. But this was his first time dealing with a True God in the true sense! Bimo Si, the god of pain, had been returning, and not complete. In fact, there were many details about hīm that had been different from hīs complete form. For example, hīs temple, the god inside of it, and hīs godhood….
That god in the temple is nearly cut in half at the waist. That must be the doing of Immortal Monarch Spirit Jade. This god… is already seriously wounded!
Xu Qing shot backward, but his eyes glittered as he focused on the temple. The other ascendees unleashed their cultivation bases as they also fell back.
The temple, meanwhile, rumbled loudly and shone with golden light. Though it was largely crumbling, the godly might from inside was as majestic as a sea. And as the god from inside emerged, intense rumbling sounds filled the area. Mountain-toppling, sea-draining power swept out like a storm.
The starry sky rippled and the void distorted. Xu Qing and the ascendees were shaken to the core. It was like an instinct from their life force, causing their souls to tremble out of control. Fear took root inside of them on the deepest level.
Then a godly voice echoed out.
“Terror!”
The godly voice caused the seed to grow. It bloomed, producing fruit and bringing terror to every corner of their beings. Blood sprayed out of their mouths, as bizarre mutations struck them.
They grew scales all over their bodies, their arms became very skinny, they felt their faces distorting, and they sprouted fangs…. They were all starting to transform to look exactly like this god!
The fruit of terror blossomed within them, causing them to shake violently from fear. It seemed like their souls were being corrupted. If the process completed, they might not be dead, but they would be close to it. And that would be because what was left behind wouldn’t be them. They would simply be believers in the True God to possess as mediums!
That was the real strength of True Gods.
The grievous blow landed by Immortal Monarch Spirit Jade, and the suppression by the immortal will in the area, put this True God at a big disadvantage. The god was struggling to do this. If hē had been dealing with ordinary cultivators, things might have been going better. Hīs weakness wouldn’t have been so obvious.
But Xu Qing and the ascendees were not ordinary cultivators. Therefore, the instant that this True God’s power spread out, Xu Qing and the others unleashed their trump cards.
Whether it was the hypertoxic poison Li Mengtu could utilize after becoming a Quasi-Immortal, or Sir Vilespirit’s mysterious broken blade, or Zhou Zhengli’s eye of foresight… they let loose all of them in a defensive manner. Sir Star Ring, Yuanshan Su, Hordeslayer and Rampart held nothing back.
They suppressed the mutations. Furthermore… their formation did not falter. They stayed tightly organized around Xu Qing.
Each person unleashed a trump card in defense, but not just in self-defense. The trump cards spread out, overlapping and merging together to completely cover Xu Qing! They were like numerous barriers around him! Within those barriers, Xu Qing didn’t need to worry about his own defenses. All he had to do… was attack!
This was the strategy they had devised along the way. Xu Qing was the strongest among them. He was the heart of their team. So they would bolster him. At the moment, their fleshly bodies were mutating, their souls were being corrupted, and their minds were full of terror. But they went all out to form the defenses, whereupon Xu Qing summoned his immortal embryo.
It towered high into the starry sky, the Aurora Immortal Palace glittering within it. The immortal embryo lifted its hand… and smashed it toward the temple.
The starry sky trembled as massive pressure built up. The huge hand of the immortal embryo shot down with astonishing momentum. Just as it was about to hit the temple, the True God emerged from inside.
The twisted frame of the god was about to break at the waist, which was a very bizarre sight. The long, spindly arms then reached up, and the god waved a finger in the direction of the immortal embryo’s hand. The power of a True God erupted.
The wave of that finger caused Xu Qing’s immortal embryo to rumble and blur. Mutagen erupted within it, rapidly spreading out. Before the hand could land, the immortal embryo collapsed. The backlash would have seriously injured Xu Qing, but instead, it was split among the ascendees. Blood sprayed out of their mouths, and their auras vibrated.
Eyes bloodshot, Xu Qing once again formed his immortal embryo.
The True God suddenly vanished, then appeared right in front of the cultivators. That long, skinny finger once again pointed out. A sensation of terror erupted within them, all while the might of the True God weighed down like a destructive mountain.
A rumbling boom echoed out. The blood drained from the faces of Xu Qing and the ascendees. They began to bleed as their bodies withered and their souls distorted from the corruption.
The defenses were starting to melt. Li Mengtu’s poison was thinning. Zhou Zhengli’s eye was shattering. Sir Star Ring’s chains were crumbling. Hordeslayer and Rampart were wailing in agony.
Suddenly, two of the ascendees couldn’t last any longer, and the flames of their life force were extinguished. And yet, they held nothing back, tapping into secret magics to last a bit longer.
The scene playing out caused the True God to frown. Hē was actually in very bad shape, and the attacks from earlier had taken a huge amount of effort. Although these humans were not Lower Immortals, only Quasi-Immortals, they were clearly extraordinary. The person they were defending had the power of an immortal embryo. If hē was at hīs peak, hē could kill this person easily, but right now, all hē felt was a sense of great danger. What was even more important to hīm was that this fight end quickly.
The True God looked in the direction of the goddess, who had been watching this whole time. “Your Grace, let’s work together!”
Starryeyes lifted hēr foot to step forward. But before hēr foot could fall, hēr eyes glittered mysteriously. And instead of taking a step forward, shē actually stepped backward. And then, a teleportation portal appeared beneath hēr feet! The portal activated! Hēr gaze then fell upon Xu Qing, who was the very person that was causing fear to build up within
Xu Qing looked over with narrowed eyes. He could see what the goddess was doing. “The portal will complete activation in twenty breaths of time!”
Zhou Zhengli, Sir Star Ring, and everyone else reacted with visible shock, just like Xu Qing. Despite the physical pain and corruption to their souls, they were all frowning.
Xu Qing sighed softly. So did everyone else except for Hordeslayer and Rampart. The plan they had come up with on the way was to work together to unleash all of their strongest trump cards. They would create a killing move that would only work once! In reality, it would have been best for them if the goddess did join in and fight next to the True God. Then their killing move wouldn’t be wasted.
But this goddess was very decisive. It didn’t matter that they seemed so weak that all the goddess had to do was join forces with the True God, and they would be killed. Unfortunately… shē wasn’t coming over!
The reality was that they weren’t faking anything. They were really not going to be able to hold out much longer….
At that point, Xu Qing made a snap decision. Killing intent burned in his eyes. His cultivation base raged, and his immortal embryo formed again. And this time… it didn’t just have the Aurora Immortal Palace glittering within it. It had an iron skewer! It was inside the immortal palace, thrumming aggressively.
The canon of all the ascendees bolstered it. Sir Star Ring’s order and balance, combined with heaven’s principle, settled onto the iron skewer. Zhou Zhengli’s eye of foresight flowed around the skewer. Li Mengtu, Yuanshan Su, Sir Vilespirit and all the other ascendees used their canon to add their own effects. Hordeslayer and Rampart turned into swords that merged with the skewer.
With all of their Quasi-Immortal might, the iron skewer pulsed with a glow that illuminated the starry sky. And the addition of Xu Qing’s immortal embryo ensured that the iron skewer was astonishingly mighty.
But things weren’t over yet…. Next, the Green Heaven appeared within the immortal embryo!! Instantly, the starry sky filled with rumbling sounds, and the True God’s face fell.
Just barely visible within the Green Heaven was an astonishing coffin! Inside of that coffin was the god of pain. That god’s godly might had already been extracted and put into the iron skewer, filling it with even more heaven-shaking, earth-shattering momentum.
At this point, things still weren’t over. Xu Qing’s space-time canon and overlapping universes caused a host of images to spring up around the iron skewer. And within every single one of the different space-times, there was another astonishing iron skewer!
As Xu Qing’s eyes glittered with killing intent, he waved his hand, and over a hundred iron skewers stirred. They pierced out of the various instances of space-time, and then appeared on the battlefield, where they combined together!
Over a hundred iron skewers merged to make a nail! The nail had the combined power of all the ascendees, including nineteen canons, Aurora’s power, and Green Heaven’s might. And then, it shot right toward the True God! There was no way to describe how fast it moved. In fact, everyone present saw nothing more than a blur of afterimages that occurred in the past.
But what happened in the present and the future was that the nail stabbed right into the True God! It hit hīm right in hīs injury, at hīs waist where hē was almost cut in half! It stabbed in viciously!
A scream echoed out. The True God trembled as all of the godly might within hīm went into chaos. Hīs temple collapsed, and hīs godhood went weak. God blood poured out of hīm.
But hē was still a True God. The combined trump card of Xu Qing and the ascendees was intended to kill this True God, but even though hē was weak and wounded, that was no easy task. The only way it might have happened would be if this True God was in the middle of returning, similar to what happened with the god of pain.
The result was that this True God was not killed by the nail. However… it did shatter hīs True God cultivation level! Hīs aura weakened, and hīs level dropped! Hīs god magic of terror was diminished, causing the mutations plaguing the ascendees to reverse automatically.
All of this takes a bit of time to describe, but actually happened in the time it takes a spark to fly off a piece of flint. Screaming echoed out as the diminished old god glared with killing intent at the cultivators and prepared to fight back. But then hīs pupils constricted, and hē fell back.
The reason was that… the auras of numerous cultivators were closing in from off in the distance. It was the Longscale Regiment, which Xu Qing and the ascendees had contacted earlier. They were on the way!
The old god rushed toward the teleportation portal being activated by the goddess. Unfortunately… the moment hē started moving, Goddess Starryeyes pointed at Xu Qing.
“Self-detonate and kill him!” shē said. “You won’t be responsible for your own resurrection. My father will guide it! That’s an oath I hereby swear on my own bloodline!”
The old god stopped in place.