Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 561: Battle of the Gods
Chen Baxian was enveloped in crimson divine fire. With each swing of his Panlong Flame Staff, a heat wave like a volcanic eruption burst forth, burning hordes of nightmares to ashes.
Yang Zhong and Fa Xiu did not waste the next twelve years. With the help of Chen Qingzhi and A Yao, they obtained their own divine fire by hunting gods and both advanced to demigods...

Then Yang Zhong stood on a black tortoise and held a Teng Snake in his hand. At the same time, the ghost snake spewed out huge black waves, corroding countless nightmares.

Faxiu clasped his hands together, chanting the Demon-Subduing Sutra, golden swastikas constantly shooting from his mouth, causing nightmares to vanish upon contact...

Nine figures, radiating different colored lights, like nine shooting stars streaking across the night sky, darted freely through the thick, inky sea of ​​nightmares. Before long, they reached the outside of the bubble barrier enveloping the city walls.

Chen Baxian struck with his staff, but it didn't break through the defense. Yang Zhong followed up with a Xuanwu Subduing Demon Spear strike, which similarly only made Bubble tremble.

"Let's go!" Wu Gu and Wu Xie shouted in unison. Black mist and white light surged around them simultaneously, and the yin-yang fish beneath their feet spun rapidly, growing larger and larger.

With a piercing whistle, the Yin-Yang Fish transformed into a giant halo of light and slashed rapidly toward the bubble barrier!
The surface of the bubble barrier rippled violently, its multicolored light flashing wildly in an attempt to resist the powerful force. However, under the impact of the Yin-Yang power accumulated by the two gods, cracks appeared on the surface of the barrier, which then shattered with a deafening roar!

The erupting energy storm swept away the torrent of nightmares gushing out of the city, instantly turning it to ashes...

After breaking the barrier, the Nine Gods immediately turned their attention to Birch. These enormous defensive beasts, compared to the nine powerful beings, appeared clumsy and laughable, being easily crushed like whack-a-mole…

On the walls of Huaxu City, amidst flashes of divine light, explosions resounded one after another. The massive bodies of the Burchi exploded one after another, turning into a series of bubbles. In just a moment, nearly half of them had been wiped out, and the remaining Burchi were utterly powerless to fight back, only able to passively endure the onslaught…

Just as the nine-man group was about to capture the city wall, Wu Gu suddenly felt a sense of danger and shouted, "Retreat!"

Without hesitation, everyone teleported upon hearing the sound. The moment their figures left the city wall, the remaining sections of the wall exploded! A massive mushroom cloud rose into the sky, and the entire section of the wall was instantly reduced to dust…

However, the next moment, the magnificent city wall sprang up from the ground like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, and was restored to its original state in the blink of an eye.

But the city's defender, Birch, did not reappear; instead, nine figures brimming with divine power appeared—

“Those are the nine divine generals,” Fifth Dimension whispered to the crowd. “They will all receive a huge boost in Wu Yang’s divine realm. At the very least, they will be at the level of demigods. And demigods like Zhen Di can obtain the power of gods here.”

"I see." Everyone nodded. That makes sense, after all, anything can happen in dreams...

"Of course, I betrayed Wu Yang, so I can no longer feel the bonus." He sighed softly again.

“You should feel lucky, otherwise He could have taken your life at any time,” the witch said with a smile.

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As the Demon King said, the first battle is the decisive battle. The nine divine generals will not be like the Gold Saints, guarding their own divine palaces and waiting for the enemy to come to them and be defeated one by one.

They'll definitely have to go together.

Standing in the center was the First Divine General, Wu Jiu, the Dream Master of Cause and Effect, also known as the Great Dream Master Xiao Yuyao had mentioned. He wore a dark gold robe with cloud patterns, upon which flowed fine golden threads of cause and effect. His face was blurred, but his eyes shone brightly, as if they could see through all cause and effect.

"Fifth Dimension, you traitor!" The one cursing was the Second Divine General, the Dream Lord of Reincarnation, standing to Wu Jiu's left. He wore a crimson kasaya embroidered with a golden Six Paths of Reincarnation diagram, and a golden reincarnation disc floated behind his head, on which countless figures were constantly changing in the cycle of life and death.

"I've forgotten everything from the past," Fifth Dimension said coldly. "But I remember how Wu Yang murdered my lover and wreaked havoc on the world!"

"Fifth Brother is right, we are simply abandoning darkness for light!" Fa Xiu echoed loudly.

"Faxiu, you are a traitor too!" Zhendi was furious. His life's work, Tongtai Temple, had been wasted, and now he had to return to serve under the Great Dream Master. How could he not feel aggrieved?
"And you, witch! You are all traitors!" The wheel of reincarnation behind his head spun, and he gritted his teeth, saying, "This old monk will cast you all into the animal realm, so that you will never be able to rise again..."

Before he finished speaking, a sword aura carrying the power to burn the heavens shot straight at Zhen Di's face!
If this sword were used in the outside world, Zhen Di would probably have ended the matter immediately, but in the Dream God Realm, he is a powerful god!
"Shameless sneak attack!" Zhen Di roared, raising his purple-gold staff to block. The moment the sword energy touched the staff, space twisted strangely, the attack direction was forcibly changed, and the fiery sword energy blasted into the sky...

"Enough with the nonsense!" A Yao's body erupted in flames that surged three zhang high. The true form of the female demon appeared, stepping on red lotuses. In an instant, she unleashed tens of thousands of swords, their blades weaving together, completely enveloping the true essence!
Zhen Di dared not be negligent and manifested a ten-zhang-tall Arhat form, with a golden wheel behind his head spinning wildly, shooting out ten thousand rays of reincarnation light to resist A Yao's 'True Ten Thousand Swords Technique'.

The two sides were locked in fierce combat, while the others were not idle either.

Chen Qingzhi also revealed his Dharma form, raising his silver spear and aiming directly at the Great Dream Master Wujiu. Wujiu held the Primordial Cause and Effect Talisman, his body covered with spiderweb-like threads of cause and effect. Each thread was connected to a set of cause and effect, as if linking the threads of destiny between heaven and earth.

Chen Qingzhi's spear, imbued with immense force, was aimed straight at Wu Jiu's throat—a fatal blow with no chance of avoidance. However, Wu Jiu suddenly activated a thread of cause and effect, altering the causal connections on that thread…

Chen Qingzhi felt a numbness in his arm, and the spear that was sure to hit him somehow missed, grazing past Wu Jiu's ear and leaving a long silver mark in the air.

"Under the power of cause and effect, even the God of War will surely be defeated!" Wu Jiu sneered as he rapidly manipulated the causal threads with his hands.

Pulled by the causal thread, a stray arrow suddenly changed its trajectory and shot straight toward Chen Qingzhi's heart! Chen Qingzhi immediately used the barrel of his spear to deflect it, but the stray arrow suddenly broke in two. The second half was deflected, while the first half continued to shoot straight toward his heart.

Fortunately, the God of War had unparalleled intuition and his judgment was never wrong. At the critical moment, Chen Qingzhi's silver spear struck the arrowhead with precision, like a venomous snake spitting its tongue.

'Boom!' The arrow exploded instantly, and scorching metal fragments, carrying the power of cause and effect, splashed dense sparks on his silver armor!

"You think cause and effect can bind everything?!" Chen Qingzhi's spear once again pointed directly at Wujiu's brow.

This time, he deliberately slowed his thrust, letting the causal threads entangle the spear. But Wu Jiu was unable to change the direction of the shot by manipulating the causal threads again.

"This spear of mine may strike you, or it may not." Chen Qingzhi's spear continued to advance slowly, its tip shrouded in countless interplays of light and shadow. "Whether it strikes you or not, I myself do not know."

(End of this chapter)