Wilayah di atas kanopi awan Revered Ancient telah kosong selama beribu-ribu usia. Namun, setelah Kaisar Kuno Dark Serenity pergi dan para dewa tiba, sesuatu pun muncul di puncak langit Revered Ancient. Ya, sebuah godwarding. Seperti sebuah kutukan tak kasat dan tak terdeteksi, namun setajam tutup yang membuat sulit masuk maupun keluar dari dunia ini.
Hanya seseorang seperti Li Zihua, yang merupakan Altir Dewa, yang bisa melampauinya. Tak ada pengecualian lainnya. Setelah Dark Serenity dan para kaisar spesies lain pergi untuk mendirikan tanah suci, mereka yang mencapai tingkatan Altir Dewa tidak ada satupun, sesenggunya. Bahkan para Flawless God pun tak bisa lepas dari kerinduan mencapai tingkatan itu. Meskipun mereka tak perlu menghadapi ujian yang datang dari luar segala pengetahuan mereka, tuntunya tetap mustahil.
Di kondisi ini, satu-satunya cara untuk mencapai Altir Dewa adalah dengan berperang melawan dewa-dewa lain dan menyantap mereka yang kalah.
Perang antar dewa bukanlah sesuatu yang terjadi dengan mudah. Para dewa tidak senang memulai perang, dan tidak seperti kultivator, mereka tidak terbiasa dengan penderitaan.
Namun bagi makhluk hidup di Revered Ancient, rumah mereka adalah seperti yang diajarkan oleh Gereja Keberangkatan — sebuah sarang kampung. Dan godwarding adalah pintu sarangnya. Ia memotong kebebasan dan membuat tidak ada cara untuk bebas. Makhluk hidup tak punya pilihan selain menunggu sampai Revered Ancient benar-benar dimakan. Kematian adalah satu-satunya jalan keluar dari laut kemalangan. Tidak ada perlawanan. Tidak ada pelarian.
Itu adalah takdir Revered Ancient, yang ditentukan oleh wajah dewa yang hancur. Hē menelan langit dan mengatasi segalanya. Hē adalah seperti kehendak surgawi terhadap Revered Ancient, dan penentu takdir. Siapa sebenarnya yang bisa melawan kehendak surgawi itu sendiri?
Namun hari ini ada pengecualian. Seseorang berhasil mengubah yang mustahil menjadi mungkin. Dalam sebuah tindakan yang hendaknya tidak masuk akal dan berani, mereka meminjam kekuatan dari sebuah domain dewa yang sedang naik level serta karma dari Ibu Crimson, untuk merusuk melalui langit, mempertaruhkan diri melintasi surgawi, dan meloloskan diri dari dalam sangkar! Pada dasarnya ini adalah sebuah upaculangan!
Ketika mayat kaisar, yang sedang dikendalikan oleh Xu Qing dan Kapten, muncul di depan wajah dewa yang hancur, banyak pakar kuat dari berbagai spesies di Revered Ancient tak bisa menekurkan senyum terkejut di wajah mereka. Banyak dari mereka keluar dari fasilitas meditasi tersembunyipun dan terbang ke udara dengan tampilan kagum. Mereka terkejut pertama-tama oleh upaculangan ini, kedua oleh keberanian yang ditunjukkan, dan ketiga oleh seluruh skenarnya.
Beberapa kultivator berteriak teriak kagum.
"Seseorang kabur!"
"Ini... ini..."
"Yang ampun! Kesempatan seperti ini tidak ada duanya. Jika kami mendapat kesempatan seperti ini, kami pasti akan melarikan diri dari sangkar ini!"
"Sayang sekali. Sayang sekali sekali ini! Ini mungkin tidak akan terjadi lagi!"
Ketiga dewa memiliki ekspresi berbeda. Sunfire tampak suram, dengan mata yang sejuk. Moonfire wajahnya berganti-ganti ekspresi. Hanya Starfire yang terlihat penuh pemikiran.
Fokus dari semua tatapan dan aliran kehendak dewa — mayat kaisar — dituntun oleh Kapten dan Xu Qing menuju salah satu titik darah. Mereka tak kehilangan sepenuhnya. Dalam seketika, mereka mendekat, satu penuh kegilaan dan keserakahan, yang lain penuh antusiasme dan lapar.
Ketika mayat memasuki lautan darah, sebuah kekuatan yang menentang muncul bersama tekanan yang menakutkan. Sejenis kehendak yang bisa menghancurkan segalanya meletup dengan liar. Kekuatan yang menakutkan itu tidak hanya berasal dari laut darah, tetapi juga dari wajah dewa yang hancur di dekat sana. Tempat ini begitu dekat dengan wajah dewa yang tidak pernah ada makhluk hidup yang pernah berada di sini sebelumnya. Tentu saja, aura wajah dewa yang hancur itu menakutkan. Bahkan jika ketiga dewa ada di sini, mereka hanya akan bertahan dalam waktu yang terbatas sebelum tubuh dan jiwa mereka dihancurkan.
Kapten telah datang dengan penuh persiapan, namun ia sudah mulai menunjukkan tanda-tanda kegagapan fisik.
Dengan waktu yang terbatas, Kapten dan Xu Qing memberikan segalanya. Mereka bisa merasakan bahaya ekstrem di sekitar mereka, namun jalannya sudah ditentukan.
Butuh satu hembusan napas untuk masuk ke dalam laut darah. Pada hembusan kedua, Kapten sudah membuka mulutnya dengan lebar untuk mulai menelan segala sesuatu di luar sana dengan liar.
Namun setelah hanya sejakali menelan, Kapten meledak. Ia terbentuk kembali dalam seketika. Ia terlihat pucat dan agak terkejut. Ia membuka mulutnya lagi. Namun kali ini, sepertinya ia bersiap untuk mencoba metode yang berbeda, bukan sekadar menelan langsung. Pada sa yang sama, ia sepertinya bersedia riskan tubuhnya hancur selama ia bisa menelan cukup banyak yang diinginkan.
Xu Qing juga tidak kalah gila. Setelah menelan satu kali, tanah kosongnya berkeliaran liar, dan dasar kultivasi naik secara dramatis. Yang paling mengejutkan adalah lebih dari seratus garis otoritas dewa muncul di dalam tanah kosongnya. Pada titik ini, ia baru saja membangun empat garis saja. Namun hanya dengan sejakali menelan darah, lebih dari seratus muncul! Ini hanya menunjukkan betapa menakutkannya darah itu!
Sayangnya, garis-garis otoritas dewa itu redup. Bahkan lebih dari itu, mereka bahkan tidak berbentuk material. Mereka adalah proyeksi redup yang membutuhkan pencerahan untuk sepenuhnya nyata. Namun tetap saja, mereka luar biasa!
Xu Qing telah bersiap untuk sesuatu yang luar biasa, namun ini membuatnya begitu terkejut sampai tak bisa lebih bersemangat. laparnya sudah hilang! Sehingga ia merasa kenyang sekarang!
Sekarang, semua ini membutuhkan sedikit waktu untuk dijelaskan, namun kenyataannya semua terjadi dalam seketika. Mengertakkan giginya, Xu Qing mengabaikan rasa kenyangnya dan terus memberikan segalanya. Ia tidak bisa puas hanya dengan sekali. Setelah hembusan kedua selesai, ketiga mulai, dan ia membuka mulutnya dan menelan lagi dengan penuh gigitan.
Pada sa yang sama, ia sepenuhnya mengaktifkan kristal violet. Jika ada sesuatu yang bisa mendukung kemanusiaan wajah dewa yang hancur, itu adalah kristal violet! Jika kristal violet tidak bisa melakukannya, maka Xu Qing akan merasa sesal, namun tak ada pilihan lain.
Cahaya violet berkelip di sekitar Xu Qing, kemudian darah mulai mengalir ke arahnya. Berhasil!
Penuh semangat, Xu Qing terus bekerja keras. Sayangnya, waktu sangatlah terbatas.
Meskipun keseluruhan situasi ini terlihat seperti memakan waktu lama, sejauh ini hanya tiga hembusan yang telah berlalu. Ketika hembusan keempat tiba, kata-kata tanpa kata yang menyembunyikan mereka... runtuh. Meskipun mereka hebat, dan telah menerima berbagai ensorcelling, mereka punya batasannya.
Tanpa rahasia kata-kata tanpa kata, satu-satunya perlindungan yang tersisa adalah mayat kaisar. Xu Qing dan Kapten terkejut, namun mereka tidak berhenti menelan laut darah. Berkat penelan yang liar, mereka telah berhasil mengurangi laut darah hingga sekitar tiga puluh persen.
Sayangnya, mayat kaisar terus-menerus hancur menjadi abu. Mayat ini luar biasa. Sulit untuk mengatakan secara pasti seberapa kuat dasar kultivasi ia miliki di masa hidupnya, namun sepertinya setidaknya berada di tingkat Grand Emperor. Ditambah dengan otoritas atas domain dewa, pasti ini adalah perlindungan yang sangat kuat bagi Xu Qing dan Kapten. Namun akhirnya, kaisar itu telah mati, dan hanyalah mayat. Seperti pohon tanpa akar, oleh karena itu, aura wajah dewa yang hancur sedang merusaknya dengan cepat.
Aura wajah dewa yang hancur bisa memusnakan segalanya dan membunuh segala sesuatu. Mayat kaisar sedang memperlambatnya, dan dari kecepatan penghancurannya, jelas bahwa tanpa mayat itu, Xu Qing dan Kapten mungkin tidak akan bisa bertahan setetes napas pun.
Saat hembusan keenam tiba, krisis yang menakutkan mencapai puncaknya. Kematian hampir tiba. Empat puluh persen dari laut darah masih tersisa.
"Ada trik lain di sleeve-mu?" Xu Qing bertanya melalui kehendak dewa, menekan keserakahannya. "Jika tidak, kita harus keluar dari sini!"
"Ada!" Kapten menjawab. "Aku punya satu strategi lagi!" Alih-alih mengeluarkan sehelai rambut untuk teleportasi, Kapten dengan liar menyampaikan pesan melalui kehendak dewa. "Master, jika kamu tidak muncul sekarang, kamu tidak akan punya murid lagi!!"
Mata Xu Qing terbuka lebar.
Apa yang sedang terjadi di kubah langit itu adalah kejutan mutlak bagi semua kultivator yang bisa melihatnya. Upaculangan saja sudah cukup mengejutkan, namun yang lebih membuat napas tercengang adalah betapa serakahnya Xu Qing dan Kapten. Bahkan tidak lebih tepat untuk menggambarkan aksi Xu Qing dan Kapten dengan peribahasa ular memangsa gajah. Cara yang lebih tepat adalah seperti semut memangsa naga. Paling penting, sepertinya... bahkan jika mereka berhasil, mereka masih akan dibunuh.
Hingga saat ini, semua orang sedang menyaksikan erat-erat. Betapa gila! Betapa tembang! Betapa bunuh diri... Itulah kata-kata yang tepat untuk menggambarkannya. Semua aliran kehendak dewa dan semua tatapan sedang menyaksikan dengan cemas, menunggu mereka mati.
Tapi tiba-tiba...
Tangan kuningan raksaksa muncul di luar godwarding, tinggi di atas kanopi langit! Tangannya yang megah, begitu muncul, tanpa ragu menyapu bersih area itu.
Ia memegang seekor potong daging besar dari wajah dewa yang hancur, lalu mencuri tetesan darah yang memegang Xu Qing dan Kapten. Lalu memegang potongan daging besar lainnya!
Semua dewa yang menyaksikan peristiwa ini tercengang! Ketiga dewa terutama terkejut. Jengger wajah dewa yang hancur bergemering.
Tiba-tiba, tangan besar itu runtuh. Darah emas berserakan ke mana-mana. Namun jelas, tangan yang raksaksa ini adalah font keinginan. Setelah runtuh, ia berkumpul kembali menjadi mulut yang besar dan menggigit daging dengan garang sebelum melarikan diri.
Harganya adalah besar, namun tangan itu runtuh lagi. Jarinya hancur, dan satu-satunya hal yang tersisa hanyalah sedikit cahaya emas yang mengangkat Xu Qing dan Kapten, lalu melaju dengan cepat.
Sayangnya, ia tidak cepat cukup. Cahaya emas itu juga punah. Pada saat itu, Xu Qing dan Kapten mendengar seseorang yang melayangkan ke mana pun dalam pikiran mereka.
"Ada apa yang kalian lakukan di sini, kamu mengembarakan diri sendiri! Aku tidak tahan lama lagi, kamu bodoh!!"
Tepat ketika kata-kata itu meledak ke dalam pikiran mereka, satu helai rambut diaktifkan di dalam mayat kaisar yang masih berada di dalam laut darah, yang tersisa hanya satu persepuluh. Berkat perlindungan cahaya emas, kekuatan teleportasi meledak. Dalam cahaya yang bersinar, Xu Qing dengan gembira memerintahkan mayat kaisar untuk memeriksa cahaya emas. Cahaya emas itu pun sirna.
Rekah, Xu Qing hendak menoleh ketika tiba-tiba, pandangannya tajam.
Jauh di kejauhan di langit bintang, ia bisa melihat ratusan bintang bergerak. Mereka seperti bintang jatuh, dan semakin dekat!
Mereka begitu jauh sehingga Xu Qing tidak bisa memberi tahu apa pun. Ia akan memeriksakan lebih dekat jika bisa, namun tidak ada waktu.
Detik berikutnya, mayat yang ia kendalikan menghilang ketika ia teleportasi pergi!
The area high above the cloud canopy of Revered Ancient had been empty for aeons. But after Ancient Emperor Dark Serenity left and the gods came, something came to exist at the peak of the Revered Ancient sky. It was a godwarding. It was like a hex, invisible and undetectable, but as functional as a lid that made it impossible to get in or out of the world.
Only someone like Li Zihua, who was an Altar God, could surpass it. There were no other exceptions. After Dark Serenity and the emperors of other species left to establish the holy lands, people who reached the Altar God level were so rare as to be nonexistent.
Even Flawless Gods could only long to reach that level. Although they didn’t have to deal with tribulations that came from beyond their omniscience, the requirements to succeed were still staggering.
In these circumstances, the only way to succeed at Altar God would be to wage war on other gods and devour the losers.
Wars between gods weren’t things that happened casually. Gods didn’t start wars lightly, and unlike cultivators, were not used to dealing with suffering.
But to the living beings of Revered Ancient, their home was, just as the Church of Departure taught, like a prison cage. And the godwarding was the cage door. It cut off freedom and made it impossible to be unrestrained. The living beings had no choice but to wait until the day Revered Ancient was completely devoured. Death was the only way to escape from the sea of bitterness. There was no fighting back. There was no escaping.
That was Revered Ancient’s fate, as decided by the broken face of the god. Hē devoured heavenly daos, surpassing all else. Hē was like the will of heaven to Revered Ancient, and the decider of fate. Who could possibly defy the will of heaven itself?
But today there was an exception. Someone had turned the impossible into the possible. In an outrageous and daring act, they borrowed power from an upgrading god domain as well as karma from Crimson Mother, to burrow through the sky, defy heaven, and escape from within the prison cage! It was essentially a jailbreak!
When the emperor’s corpse, which was under the control of Xu Qing and the Captain, appeared in front of the broken face, there were powerful experts from many species on Revered Ancient who couldn’t stop shocked looks from appearing on their faces. Many of them emerged from their secluded meditation facilities and flew up into the air looking flabbergasted. They were shocked first by the jailbreak, second by the recklessness on display, and third by the entire scenario.
Some cultivators cried out in astonishment.
“Someone got out!”
“This....”
“What a waste! An opportunity like this is unheard-of. If we got a chance like this we would definitely escape this cage!”
“What a pity. What a real pity! This will probably never happen again!’
The three gods all had different facial expressions. Sunfire looked grim, with cold eyes. Moonfire’s face flashed back and forth between different expressions. Only Starfire had a thoughtful expression.
The focus of all those gazes and streams of divine will, the emperor’s corpse, was being guided by the Captain and Xu Qing right toward one of the drops of blood. They didn’t waste any time. In the blink of an eye, they closed in, one full of craziness and greed, the other full of excitement and hunger.
When the corpse entered the blood, an immense force of resistance sprang up along with terrifying pressure. A will that could wipe out all else erupted wildly. The terrifying power didn’t just come from the sea of blood. It also came from the holy broken face so close by. This spot was so close to the broken face that no living being had ever been here before. Naturally, the broken face’s aura was horrifying. Even if the three gods were here, they would only last for a certain amount of time before they were destroyed in body and soul.
The Captain had come fully prepared, yet he was already showing signs of physical collapse.
Given the limited time, the Captain and Xu Qing were going all out. They could sense the extreme danger around them, yet their course had already been set.
It took one breath of time to enter the sea of blood. By the time the second breath of time arrived, the Captain had already opened his mouth wide to start madly devouring whatever was on the outside.
However, after only one mouthful, the Captain exploded. He formed anew in an instant. Looking pale and a bit taken aback, he opened his mouth again. But this time, it seemed he was preparing to use a different method rather than direct absorption. At the same time, he looked like he was ready to risk being smashed to death as long as he could absorb enough of what he wanted.
Xu Qing was also going crazy. After taking in one mouthful, his void soil went wild, and his cultivation base rose dramatically. Most shocking of all was that over a hundred lineaments of godly authority appeared in his void soil. Up to this point, he’d only built up four lineaments. Yet one mouthful of blood provided over a hundred! It just went to show how terrifying the blood was!
Unfortunately, the lineaments of godly authority were faint. In fact, they weren’t even material. They were faint projections that would require enlightenment to fully manifest. Even still, they were exceptional!
Xu Qing had been prepared for something amazing, but this was such a shock he couldn’t have been more excited. His hunger was already gone! In fact, he was now feeling full!
Now, all of this takes a bit of time to describe, but the reality is that it happened in an instant. Gritting his teeth, Xu Qing ignored the fact that he was full and continued to put everything on the line. There was no way he would be satisfied with only one bite. After the second breath of time ended, the third began, and he opened his mouth and took another big mouthful.
At the same time, he fully tapped into the violet crystal. If there was anything that could sustain the personhood of the broken face, it was the violet crystal! If the violet crystal couldn’t do it, then Xu Qing would feel regret, but wouldn’t have any other options.
Violet light flared around Xu Qing, and then blood started rushing toward him. It was a success!
Full of excitement, Xu Qing kept working hard. Unfortunately, time was extremely limited.
Although this entire situation seemed like it was taking a long time, so far, only three breaths of time had passed. When the fourth breath of time arrived, the Wordless words that were keeping them concealed... collapsed. Though they were extraordinary, and had received multiple ensorcellments, they had their limits.
Without the concealment of the Wordless words, the only defense left was the emperor’s corpse. Xu Qing and the Captain were startled, but they didn’t stop devouring the sea of blood. Thanks to their ravenous devouring, they had already reduced the sea of blood by about thirty percent.
Unfortunately, the emperor’s corpse was constantly crumbling into ash. This corpse was extraordinary. It was hard to say exactly how strong his cultivation base had been in life, but it seemed that it was at least in the Grand Emperor level. Add in the authority over the god domain, and it was definitely a powerful defense for Xu Qing and the Captain. But the emperor had ultimately perished, and was only a corpse. It was like a tree with no roots, and thus, the aura of the broken face was breaking it down rapidly.
The aura of the broken face could exterminate anything and kill everything. The emperor’s corpse was slowing it down, and from how fast it was happening, it was obvious that without the corpse, Xu Qing and the Captain probably wouldn’t be able to last for a single breath of time.
As the sixth breath of time arrived, the deadly crisis was reaching a climax. Death was on nigh. Forty percent of the blood sea still remained.
“Got any other tricks up your sleeve?” Xu Qing asked via divine will, suppressing his greed. “If not, we should get out of here!”
“I do!” the Captain replied. “I’ve got one more strategy!” Instead of taking out a hair to teleport away, the Captain madly projected a message via divine will. “Master, if you don’t show your face right now, you won’t have any apprentices left!!”
Xu Qing’s eyes lit up.
What was happening in the dome of heaven was an absolute shock to any cultivators who could see it. The jailbreak itself was astonishing enough, but what was even more gasp-inducing was how greedy Xu Qing and the Captain were. In fact, that greed couldn’t even be described with the word ‘crazy’ at this point. It was such an over-the-top situation that it was definitely worthy of being recorded in the histories of Revered Ancient. Whether gods, cultivators from elite species, or other powerful experts, people throughout the mainland felt overwhelmed by tempests of astonishment. It was shocking to a river-drying, sea-draining, rock-smashing, heaven-startling level!
Living God Eminent Desolation, whose spine was wrapped around the Revered Ancient mainland, and who existed as half of a face, had always been incomparably holy, whether in the past or the present. In hīs glory days, hīs name was known in thirty-six star rings in the universe, as well as countless planetary systems. Being half a step into Living God, he was very close to the peak of being a god. Myriads of worlds offered hīm worship, and living beings could have their fate determined by hīs mere thoughts.
Though hē ultimately met with failure, and collapsed because of an unimaginable backlash, hē was still an entity that no one would dare to offend. When a whale dies, it can provide a foundation for countless living things to flourish. The same principle applied to someone with personhood like hīs.
After hē fell, countless years passed in which numerous gods arose. In fact, wherever hē went, gods followed.
That was why hē was respectfully called Father God. From that it could be seen how paramount hīs personhood was. That was why, from ancient times until now, though many people had coveted hīs flesh and blood, not one person had ever dared to try to get it.
Cultivators couldn’t get past the godwarding, so obviously they couldn’t get any of that flesh and blood. Besides, gods were so revered that no one would try. In the past, taking a bite out of hīm was literally impossible. That wasn’t even to mention that the broken face’s aura was enough to wipe out countless living beings.
Today, under the eyes of many onlookers, two people were going completely crazy. Not only did they go out to the broken face, but they went right into one of the sea-sized drops of blood. It wasn’t really appropriate to describe the actions of Xu Qing and the Captain with the idiom snakes devouring mammoths . A more accurate way to put it was ants devouring dragons . Most important, it seemed as if... even if they succeeded, they would still be killed.
As of this moment, everyone was watching closely. How crazy! How rash! How suicidal.... That was exactly the way to describe it. All streams of divine will and all gazes were watching closely, and waiting for them to die.
But right then....
A huge golden hand appeared outside of the godwarding, high in the canopy of heaven! It was a majestic hand that, as soon as it appeared, unhesitatingly swept the area clear.
It grabbed a huge chunk of flesh from the broken face, then snatched the drop of blood that held Xu Qing and the Captain. Next, it grabbed another chunk of flesh!
All the gods who were watching this event were astonished! The three gods in particular were taken aback. The broken face’s eyelashes twitched.
All of a sudden, the huge hand collapsed. Golden blood sprayed everywhere. But clearly, this gigantic hand was a font of greed. After collapsing, it clumped back together into a huge mouth that took a vicious bite of flesh before fleeing.
The price to be paid was huge, though, as the hand collapsed again. The fingers shattered, and the only thing left behind was a bit of golden light that swept up Xu Qing and the Captain and then sped away in retreat.
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