supreme deity

Chapter 819 Partition
In the dreamlike divine kingdom, a seven-colored cloud vortex slowly rotates. The Dreamlike Celestial Venerable sits on a divine throne woven from starlight, his gaze piercing through layers of void, fixed on the direction of the Divine Pivot Island of the Machine God Temple.

At this moment, the divine power fluctuations generated by the God of Myriad Machines were like a raging storm, impacting heaven and earth.

The etheric tide generated by the conflict between the Divine Talisman Celestial Venerable and the Lord of Light also spread outwards in concentric circles.

"really!"

The Dream Celestial tapped the seven-colored light fish swimming on the armrest with his fingertips, seemingly casually watching the billions of runes formed from the mechanical cube fragments below, like a river of stardust swirling around the Dream Celestial.

He let out a cold laugh: "This bastard really knows how to pick his time, choosing just when the Eastern Abyss is about to advance to 'Transcendent'."

"I received news that Lin Rui's confidant Fei Yunlai visited the Luojing Divine Palace not long ago. The Eastern Abyss immediately accelerated its progress. It should know that it can no longer hide its collusion with the Lihe Heavenly Venerable from Lin Rui, so it had to launch the attack ahead of schedule. However, I suspect that Lin Rui was already aware that the Lihe Heavenly Venerable was hiding in the Luojing Divine Palace. Today, it was just using Fei Yunlai to warn the Eastern Abyss and force it to advance to the Transcendent Realm immediately."

Saintess Mengli, standing beside the throne, bowed her head and said, "This child is indeed very clever, and his plan is very meticulous. He was able to endure for three years, and when the gods were too busy to pay attention, he launched his attack. He also used the mechanical body forged by Tan Shenzhi as a vessel to confer the title of God of Myriad Machines."

This move serves two purposes: firstly, it effectively resists the corruption caused by the return of the Divine Talisman Celestial Venerable's true spirit; secondly, it allows the use of Tan Shenzhi's and the Divine Talisman Celestial Venerable's power to elevate the power of the God of Myriad Machines to its peak, even pushing it into the true abyss realm! This person must have other plans; his wisdom even reminds me of the Lord of Fate.”

The Celestial Venerable chuckled softly, offering no comment on the words of the Holy Maiden Mengli.

He stared intently at Shenshu Island, at Tan Shenzhi and Shenfu Tianzun, and also at Lin Rui and the silhouette of a silver-haired woman reflected on the Truth Throne behind him.

While observing, the Dream Celestial was also pondering and weighing his options. He tapped the armrest with his fingers, making an increasingly rapid 'tap-tap' sound.

Mengli knew that her god was now in a dilemma.

The gods will never allow the Eastern Abyss to step into the realm of transcendence, adding another powerful enemy to its path of transcendence.

At the same time, He was also unwilling to see Lin Rui control the God of Myriad Machines.

At that time, the power of the Lord of Light will surely expand further. The newly born God of Myriad Machines alone will add another Abyss combat force to Lin Rui's forces and allow him to take over the accumulation of the Machine God Temple over the past tens of thousands of years.

That Divine Talisman Celestial Venerable was also someone that the Dream Celestial Venerable greatly feared.

In the past, the Divine Talisman Celestial Venerable and the Supreme God fought an unprecedented divine war for the throne of the God King.

Although she did not experience that era, she learned about the brutality of that divine war from the fragments left behind from ancient times.

It is said that at that time, the islands of Central Continent were still a complete continent, but they were mostly sunk due to the 25300-year divine war between the two.

Although the Dream Celestial ultimately prevailed, he lost his physical body as a result, and his hegemony lasted only 45000 years before being replaced by the Undying Dragon Celestial.

The gods were no match for the invincible physical power of the Undying Dragon Lord.

Mengli knew that there were two sealed areas in the God's Dream Kingdom that could not be entered, where the concepts of 'immortality', 'divine power', 'divine talismans' and 'magic arrays' remained.

Mengli suspected that those were memories of the battle between the god and these two deities.

However, compared to these two, the Gods are probably even less willing to see the Supreme God return.

After a moment, the Dream Celestial Venerable let out a bitter laugh and crushed the image reflected in front of him: "Forget it, the Divine Talisman Celestial Venerable is no easy person, let's ignore him."

Given the arrogance of the Divine Talisman Celestial Venerable, he would never willingly be controlled and manipulated by Lin Rui. With the capabilities of this old rival, it remains difficult to predict who will win this battle.

The key point is that He had no other choice.

Upon hearing this, Mengli's expression shifted slightly, and she turned her gaze toward Luojing in the Eastern Continent.

Her expression instantly darkened slightly; she had sensed the massive spiritual tide erupting from the direction of Luojing City.

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At this moment in Star Harbor, the octagonal central altar of the Sacred Light Cathedral is illuminated by eight hundred gilded glass lamps, turning the glass dome into daylight.

Ji Xueying, the Grand Celestial Master of Light, sat upright on the central stone steps, her pure white sacrificial robes fluttering without wind, and her long black hair swaying slightly in the sound of hymns.

Behind her unfolded six pairs of luminous wings, within which holy lightning and tribulation fire slowly swirled. The three junior celestial masters, led by Shangguan Tianyi, stood on the second step, their expressions solemn and dignified.

At this moment, the five envoys, seven kings, and ten sages of light of the Divine Church all gathered here, standing under the magnificent altars in the eight corners. Around them, seventy thousand clergy knelt in a star-orbiting array. Their hymns, accompanied by organ music, resounded through the sky and even spread to a hundred miles away. Under the illumination of the holy power of light, the entire sanctuary resembled a sacred fortress supported by a glittering galaxy.

Behind Ji Xueying were two towering divine thrones.

Despair Goddess Lin Xi and Pain Goddess Lin Yi each sat on their divine thrones, their 'Endless Ashes' and 'Heart-Torn Thorns' hanging beside them. The crimson glow emanating from their artifacts not only did not conflict with the holy light power here, but even merged into it.

Looking at the scene before her, Ji Xueying couldn't help but feel a surge of emotions.

When she met Lin Rui six years ago, did she ever imagine that things would turn out this way?

At that very moment, the entire church suddenly trembled violently.

Suddenly, the dome projection displayed a terrifying scene above Luojing: a colossal blue-scaled dragon stretching for tens of thousands of meters was emerging from the sea of ​​clouds.

"This is?"

The Lesser Heavenly Lord of Ten Thousand Thunders raised his head, looking up with a terrified expression: "The Undying Dragon Lord, what does He intend to do?"

At this time, the Church of Light had abolished the position of vice-leader, and both Wan Lei Yuanjun and Wan Yan Jushi had been transferred to the position of 'Junior Heavenly Master'.

She quickly learned the purpose of the azure-scaled dragon. The dragon lord first stared at the divine palace above Luojing, then swung its body, its spinal spikes tearing through the clouds one by one, like a meteorite carrying the fire of purgatory, crashing towards the divine palace of Luojing.

Before anyone in the sanctuary could react, the enormous dragon horn between the blue-scaled dragon's brows, resembling a long sword, slammed into the spire of the Luojing Divine Palace, blasting huge cracks into the defensive array and truth barrier outside the Luojing Divine Palace. Dark gold blood and shattered divine runes instantly poured down like a torrential rain.

Starport is thousands of miles away from Luojing, yet the members of the Holy Temple still sensed a tremendous surge of spiritual energy at that moment.

Through the images, they saw countless purplish-black spatial folds suddenly crack open above Luojing, and as the Undying Dragon Lord's tail, wreathed in purgatory fire, slashed down fiercely, the entire city's ley lines emitted a dying groan.

All the defenses of the Luojing Divine Kingdom crumbled into countless fragments under the impact of the dragon's horn, bursting out like millions of diamond-shaped light blades as if a glass curtain wall had been shattered by a heavy hammer.

The azure-scaled dragon was also slashed open by these light blades, its dark gold blood falling like meteorites along with the shattered palace ruins.

The shockwave caused the foundation of the entire palace below to suddenly sink three zhang (approximately 10 meters), and all the buildings inside the palace were pulverized by the terrifying shockwave.

The streets centered around the palace were also collapsing at a speed of three meters per second, with bricks and soil turning into dust the instant they came into contact with the shockwave.

Within a hundred miles of the palace, almost all martial artists and mortals below the fourth realm died in an instant.

At the same time, more runes of truth and movement lit up around the divine palace, stabilizing the seemingly crumbling palace once again.

The divine runes suddenly emitted a dark golden glow, and a powerful aura of origin arose at the end of each stroke.

In particular, the dynamic divine runes displayed a strange power as the Undying Dragon Lord continued its forward charge. The space within a thousand meters suddenly solidified, and the flames on the dragon scales floated in the air as if drawn away, transforming into millions of burning dark gold runes that pierced back at the Undying Dragon Lord. The shattered bricks and dust of the divine palace also surged back in that instant, reforging into a barrier engraved with divine runes to resist the impact of the azure-scaled dragon.

"As expected of you, Yu Youyuan!"

The giant azure-scaled dragon actually called out the name of the god of the Eastern Abyss, and the sound waves from its roar shattered the ice crystals in the clouds for tens of thousands of miles around into powder.

He let out a sharp laugh, coiling his dragon body back into the heavens: "If someone hadn't warned me, I truly wouldn't have imagined that your worthless Law of Truth had actually reached this level, only a step away from the throne of Truth! But—"

His expression suddenly turned ferocious, and his voice seemed to come from the deepest hell: "As long as I, Jiang Xuanzhang, have a breath left, you will never be able to climb to the transcendent divine realm! For six thousand years, you have stolen my divine power, suppressed my broken body for twenty-seven thousand years, and driven and raised me and my descendants like pigs and dogs, controlling our lives and deaths."

The azure-scaled dragon had already soared into the clouds. It lowered its head and looked down at the divine palace once more, letting out a low, maniacal laugh mixed with dark gold blood foam. "You shouldn't have tried to rely on external forces to break through the limits using the method of truth. You've gone too fast and climbed too high at this time, so you're bound to become the target of everyone's criticism!"

"You're doomed, Yu Youyuan! Today, I will wash away my 27,000 years of humiliation with your blood, and with the chains and nails that once oppressed me, I will make you wail eternally in the flames of hell!"

As the Undying Dragon Lord finished speaking, His enormous dragon body, accompanied by a purgatory cloud of fire that stretched for thousands of miles, once again swooped down.

At that moment, a stern, cold laugh echoed from within the Divine Palace: "Your brain is completely fried! Are you the Undying Dragon Lord or Jiang Xuanzhang now?"

The moment the Immortal Dragon Lord's claws touched the spire of the divine palace, the entire palace suddenly erupted with billions of dark gold divine runes, completely enveloping the ten-thousand-meter-long dragon body.

The dynamic and static divine patterns that permeated the heavens and earth wove a dual domain around the dragon's body as if they were alive—the outer space was like solidified amber, with the infernal fire on the surface of the dragon's scales frozen into fine dust; the inner layer, however, gave rise to a violent kinetic energy vortex, compressing the dragon lord's immense diving force into a dark golden sphere the size of a fist.

Then the frozen space suddenly collapsed, and the compressed kinetic energy was released in reverse like a volcanic eruption. Even the powerful dragon body of the Undying Dragon Lord could not withstand the terrifying pressure that was almost like the collapse of a star. Instantly, the dragon scales were shattered, and a large amount of blood was expelled.

Countless platinum chains emerged from the void, each chain entwined with powerful energy and dynamic techniques.

"Divine power!" The Undying Dragon Lord's eyes widened in fury, his anger barely contained: "Yu Youyuan, you deserve to die!"

This is the power that the Eastern Abyss stole from Him! This bastard actually dared to try to imprison and suppress Him with this concept of divine power!

The Undying Dragon Lord twisted its body violently, tearing all the platinum chains into pieces.

However, just as He was struggling, a huge eye with a diameter of a thousand miles suddenly appeared in the sky above the divine palace.

At this very moment, everyone who witnessed this pupil had the same thought pop into their mind.

This is the 'Eye of Truth,' a heavenly eye that represents all the truths of the world and reaches the very source!
The Eastern Abyss stands in the center of the pupil, and all the collapsed dynamic and static divine patterns are recombining in reverse, transforming into a dynamic and static spear that is entirely dark black and flows with dark golden light, with dark golden light flowing at the tip of the spear.

He hurled his spear, which instantly tore through space and transformed into a streak of light that struck the Undying Dragon Lord.

The Undying Dragon Lord roared and spewed forth infernal flames, but the Spear of Movement moved through the sea of ​​fire as if it were nothing. The spear tip precisely pierced the Dragon Lord's reverse scale. The concept of movement made the spear tremble, unleashing a thunderous force; the concept of stillness froze the Undying Dragon Lord's body and consciousness, rendering him unable to react.

The dragon scales of the Azure Scaled Dragon exploded once more, and a waterfall of dark gold blood poured down like a celestial river. Fragments of the dragon scales, along with infernal fire rain, splashed for thousands of miles. The majestic dragon body crashed into the north of Luojing like a meteorite, and the broken body created a magma rift thousands of feet deep. The earth trembled violently, and countless living beings within a radius of hundreds of miles bled from their seven orifices under the impact of this force.

At this moment, at the Great Altar of Light in Starport, all the members of the Church of Light who were watching this scene from afar turned pale.

The vast majority of them had witnessed that divine battle on Huangshan Island.

However, the battle between the Undying Dragon Lord and the Eastern Abyss today still gave them a huge shock.

Especially since this divine war broke out in the very heart of Luoyang, the area within thirty miles of the imperial palace was filled with the mansions of the powerful and wealthy, yet it still resulted in at least 500,000 deaths and injuries.

"Focus your minds!" Ji Xueying took a deep breath and warned everyone, "In accordance with the divine command, immediately cover Luojing with the holy power of light and guide the people in the city to the shelter."

Her god was also Lin Hao, the regent of the Song Dynasty.

This person had defied public opinion and spent a huge amount of money to build a large number of SSS-level standard shelters in the underground of Luojing as early as the year before.

However, this divine battle today came suddenly, and the forces on both sides are too powerful. Without the intervention and support of a force equal to that of the Abyss, the people in the city will not be able to evacuate to the refuge passages.

Behind her, Despairing Celestial Lin Xi raised an eyebrow, her eyes flashing with sarcasm: "That Great Song Emperor's memories are indeed confused and blurred, and he can no longer maintain himself."

Only Lin Yi, the Goddess of Pain, could hear her words. Lin Yi replied listlessly, "Sister, this has nothing to do with us, right?"

The reason why the Dark Celestial Venerable chose Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty to inherit the power of the Undying Dragon Venerable was precisely because this person's power was similar to that of the Undying Dragon Venerable, and he could withstand a period of corruption from the Undying Dragon Venerable.

Jiang Xuanzhang has endured this for three years, and now he has taken the lead in launching an attack on the Eastern Abyss. The Lord of Darkness has achieved his goal.

Lin Yi only remembered Lin Rui's instructions to them: one was to minimize casualties in Luojing City.

This disaster is hard to avoid unless the Eastern Abyss is willing to advance to a different location, or agrees to allow the people of Luojing City to evacuate in advance.

However, the Eastern Abyss will not easily leave its lair, nor will it issue an evacuation order, thus alarming all sides in advance.

A deity like Him, with a history of tens of thousands of years, has little humanity left and no longer cares about the lives of mortals.

Her brother had performed divination and concluded that no matter what they did, they could not avert this calamity, and the longer it went on, the greater the casualties in Luojing City would be.

All they can do now is what they can to help more people survive.

This decision is actually very cold-blooded; it's about choosing between options involving the number of deaths.

Another task for the sisters was to oversee the Great Cathedral of Light and prepare for Lin Rui's return to join the battle.

The Great Cathedral of Light, located in Star Harbor, and its eight magnificent altars, form the foundation upon which Lin Rui intervened in this divine war.

It's a pity the sanctuary isn't located in Luoyang, otherwise it would be much more convenient for them.

At this moment, Lin Xi seemed to want to say something, but then suddenly stood up, her blood-red skirt fluttering without wind.

She gripped the hilt of the 'Endless Ashes' spear and slashed diagonally into the void. The crimson blade light swept across tens of thousands of miles away, tearing open layers of spatial folds.

The black and red light on the blade of that divine spear covered the city of Luojing, and wherever it passed, the walls of time and space peeled away layer by layer—this was the ultimate law of destruction, reconstructing the boundaries of the battlefield at the cost of annihilating the cause and effect of time and space.

The entire city of Luojing was as if it had been encased in a blood-red crystal ball. All the aftershocks of the divine war turned into annihilated stardust when they struck the sphere's walls, and the falling infernal fire rain shattered in mid-air.

The cracked earth suddenly stopped collapsing, and the woman who was running away with her baby realized that the palace ruins falling above her were turning into quicksand and disappearing.

The Eastern Abyss, located in the Eye of Truth, also showed surprise—its divine runes of movement were actually divided and devoured by the blood-red crystal wall, and the entire battlefield was forcibly divided into the realm of reality and illusion by the Ember of the End.

But Lin Xi, who swung the gun, was thinking of Lin Rui.

My brother's opponent is the Divine Talisman Celestial Venerable, whose strength was close to that of a 'God King' in his lifetime. I wonder if he can succeed?

(End of this chapter)