supreme deity

Chapter 821 Arrival
Beneath the crack in the northern sky, the golden throne of the Divine Law Celestial Venerable groaned in despair, on the verge of collapse. On the surface of this throne, condensed from the concept of 'law,' countless gilded stripes twisted and cracked like burning chains, each fissure oozing dark golden primordial power—

That was the Great Sun Celestial Venerable gnawing at the very foundation of the Divine Law Celestial Venerable's power from its very roots. The Great Sun Celestial Venerable's phantom hovered above the divine throne, with twelve dark golden wheels slowly rotating behind him. Each wheel reflected the altered legal texts, like sharp scalpels, peeling away the 'judgment' authority upon which the Divine Law Celestial Venerable depended for its survival.

"Divine Law, I wonder if you still remember that time when you stabbed me in the heart from behind?"

The voice of the Great Sun Celestial Venerable was filled with resentment accumulated over hundreds of thousands of years, each word tearing through space: "After I awoke, I was deeply etched in my heart and could never forget it. What have I done to wrong you? Is it because of your desire for order? I promised that if you gave me another 2000 years, I would give you a peaceful world. You couldn't even wait for these mere 2000 years?"
"In the past, you fought alongside me and witnessed firsthand how ruthless and cruel the Supreme Celestial Venerable was when he swept across heaven and earth, establishing the Supreme Divine Court. Now you have followed me and betrayed the Supreme Celestial Venerable, even inheriting the laws of order that I stripped from Him. Do you really expect Him to show us mercy upon His return?"

The Celestial Lord of Divine Laws did not respond.

He lost his physical body 260,000 years ago, and now even his primordial spirit and physical form have been scattered by the Great Sun Celestial Venerable.

At this moment, the entire system is maintained by the dense network of laws that permeates heaven and earth. The tens of thousands of official decrees and folk customs that originated from mortals are now like chains bound together, coiling and twisting like giant snakes at the feet of the Great Sun Celestial Venerable, struggling madly.

His eyes appeared on the serpentine chains, reflecting the shadow of the great sun wheel, and some forgotten memories surged into the thoughts of divine law like a tide.

Three hundred and ten thousand years ago, he had indeed personally pierced his divine weapon, the Thunder Punishment Divine Sword, into the heart of the Great Sun Reborn Body. He still remembered the fury and resentment in that person's eyes.

The same emotions are now playing out before my eyes.

"You—you are still as ruthless as ever, using the lives of mortals and twisted laws as bait—"

The divine law spoke with a mocking laugh, its voice broken like a candle flickering in the wind, yet still carrying the majesty of the law: "Therefore I have never regretted it! What I regret is that I listened to your persuasion and personally shattered the order that I should have protected—"

These remnants of the Great Sun set a trap within this territory belonging to the Great Liao, using the distorted laws of the surrounding thirty-four prefectures and the blood sacrifice of hundreds of millions of people to lure Him into the game.

The despicable, vile, and bloody cruelty of this method is exactly the same as it was 320,000 years ago!
Therefore, He has no regrets!
At this moment, more memories surfaced in His mind.

In that era, the sky was like rotting flesh devoured by a giant beast, with scarlet blood raining down from the cracks, each drop accompanied by mad ravings.

In order to resist the pull of the Root and to increase their power, the gods of the Great Sun Divine Court recruited believers on a large scale in the earth and purgatory.

But when they realized that these beliefs were poisonous and might drag them further into the source of the problem, and that as long as the order established by the Supreme Celestial Venerable still existed in the world, and that mortals in the world still maintained their love and respect for the Supreme Celestial Venerable, then the Supreme Celestial Venerable would never fall from the throne of truth, they did not hesitate to raise their swords against their followers.

At that time, the land of Tianji Star was shattered in blood and fire. Demons created by the gods were everywhere in the mortal world. They swept across the five continents like a raging tide, wantonly killing living beings and devouring flesh and blood. Mortals were trampled on like ants under the crushing power of the gods and were driven to a dead end.

The pupils of the Divine Law Celestial Venerable gradually turned crimson.

However, at this moment, His judgment and His order are being forcibly stripped away little by little by the Great Sun Celestial Venerable.

The Law of Judgment originally belonged to the Great Sun Celestial Venerable. He seized it from the Lord of Divine Script and preserved it for 70,000 years. Even now, the Divine Law Celestial Venerable is still unable to refine the spiritual imprint of the Great Sun Celestial Venerable.

Therefore, at this moment, this concept has already been largely stripped away by the Great Sun Deity.

The Law of Order originally belonged to the Supreme Celestial Venerable. It was after the Great Sun Celestial Venerable fought with the Supreme Celestial Venerable that a portion of the Supreme Celestial Venerable's essence was handed over to him. Therefore, the Celestial Venerable of Divine Law's control over this concept was also unstable. Of course, this did not belong to the Great Sun Celestial Venerable either.

However, the Heavenly Venerable of Divine Law served the Great Sun Divine Court in ancient times and was bound by a blood pact with the Great Sun Heavenly Venerable, making it impossible to confront Him directly.

The Celestial Venerable of Divine Law could only exert all his strength to resist and delay the time for the Great Sun Celestial Venerable to seize His power.

He knew that if this situation continued, he would eventually perish.

However, the Divine Law Lord would never allow it! He would never allow the order He protected and the laws He established to be destroyed or disrupted.

The remaining wisdom of the Divine Law Celestial Venerable vaguely realized that his thoughts were likely influenced by the will and cognition of all living beings, but he resolutely swept the heavens and earth with his divine consciousness.

Although His judgment and order have been taken away, the concepts of 'law', 'punishment', 'contract' and 'justice' still belong to Him.

He would never allow the Great Sun Deity to obtain these powers of His.

Compared to the Great Japanese Remnants who plunged the world into bloody chaos once again and languished in darkness for over 30,000 years, He would rather entrust these concepts to others, to those who can truly uphold the order and laws of this world.

The Great Sun Celestial Venerable stared coldly at the writhing serpent of law beneath his throne, then turned his gaze toward Luo Jing.

At this moment, the figure of the Celestial Venerable appeared beside him: "Your Majesty, there is some terrible news. The former Celestial Venerable of Divine Talismans, Wei Fan, has awakened and returned as the 'God of Myriad Machines.' For some reason, he has chosen to submit to Lin Rui and become one of his 'Divine Mechanized Angels.'"

The Great Sun Celestial Venerable immediately frowned deeply.

He had actually sensed this matter long ago and felt it was extremely difficult to handle.

Although the Great Sun Celestial Venerable had never been in contact with the Divine Talisman Celestial Venerable, he knew that any Abyss being whose comprehensive power reached the Transcendent level was not to be underestimated.

It is said that the Divine Rune rose to prominence after his fall, and based on the concept of the Lord of Divine Runes, it developed the Way of Divine Runes and Magic Arrays, which is extremely powerful.

Especially in the battlefield pre-set by the Divine Talisman Celestial Venerable, this Abyss was practically invincible.

Although the Great Sun Celestial Venerable regained the Divine Law of Judgment and stepped back into the Abyss Forest, that brat's power had become even stronger.

"This is strange. Normally, the divine rune has no reason to submit to him, unless—"

The Great Sun Celestial Venerable recalled Lin Rui's "One" method, and a deep sense of surprise and doubt flashed across his eyes: "Also, he has now gone to Luoyang."

Upon hearing this, the Celestial Venerable narrowed his eyes, his gaze sharp as a knife.

Lin Rui did not rush over to interfere and suppress them as they had expected; instead, he went to Luojing!

This indicates that something even more important to Lin Rui exists in that direction.

Is it the Celestial Venerable of Separation and Union?

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When Lin Rui turned his attention to the Starport, the divine battle on the Luojing Divine Palace had already lasted for six hours.

The sky here has been covered by the power of the Lord of Darkness, plunging it into absolute darkness.

However, Lin Rui's power was already able to penetrate the concept realm of the Lord of Darkness and see the scene inside.

The temporal void within had been torn into countless fragments, and the power of several abysses was transforming into a world-destroying torrent, rampaging and ravaging the vicinity of Luojing City, crushing all matter here into dust and dregs.

With the Immortal Dragon Lord taking the lead and sounding the battle horn, several Abyss beings in the present world joined this divine war one after another.

The defensive arrays and force field shields of the Luojing Divine Palace were cracked inch by inch, and some of the buildings inside the palace had been reduced to ruins. The ten-thousand-meter-long azure-scaled dragon body of the Undying Dragon Lord was already riddled with holes, and even some of its platinum bones were exposed, but it did not care. It repeatedly crashed into the spire of the divine palace with the fire of purgatory, without stopping.

The shadows beneath the divine palace solidified into countless chains, threatening to drag everything within into the enormous vortex formed by the Devouring Celestial Venerable's incarnation.

The power of nothingness in the Western Abyss is turning the laws of movement and stillness and the concept of truth in the Eastern Abyss into nothingness.

Furthermore, frost poured down from the cracks in the sky, freezing the water vapor inside the divine palace into millennia-old ice. Even the flow of time was frozen, forcing the Eastern Abyss to expend enormous power to shake this frozen force through methods of movement and stillness.

However, the power of the inner abyss is even more terrifying. They have cut the outer perimeter of the divine palace into countless cubes, and have even rendered each fragment eternally still.

The two dragons, unique to the two gods, now resembled intertwined DNA helices. The male black dragon's scales were engraved with broken clock gears, while the female white dragon's body extended with numerous void bone spears. When they clasped necks and roared, the flow of time around the divine palace fluctuated.

The 'Spears of Movement and Stillness' blasted out from inside the shrine rusted to dust under their power; while the dark tentacles, which should have been stilled by the power of the Eastern Abyss, regained ten times the impact force due to the reversal of time.

The Heavenly Dragon of the Eastern Abyss was currently circling around the outer perimeter of the Divine Palace, its mournful cries shaking the heavens under the combined attack of six forces.

This war dragon, with its bones formed by dynamic and static divine patterns and its blood by the tides of truth, has each scale that is a rotating tai chi diagram, making it incomparably powerful.

At this moment, its left wing was bitten and torn by the Devouring Celestial's 'Spiritual Devouring Dragon', while a 'Ice Skeleton Dragon' on its right raised its claws and probed into its chest cavity, and its dragon tail was gnawed to pieces by the 'Spiritual Void Dragon'.

Even more deadly is the Dream Celestial Venerable, but his power mainly affects the mind and does not manifest in the mortal world.

However, just by looking at the battle between the Eastern Abyss and the gods, it is clear that this person's methods of resistance and response are often chaotic and illogical, obviously influenced by the Dream Celestial, and unable to accurately judge the situation.

In addition, numerous priests and dragon guards under the Eastern Abyss, as well as 37,000 dragon-transformation martial artists, were also concentrated inside the Divine Palace, maintaining the defensive array of the Divine Palace under the command of the Grand Master of Heaven.

However, the magic array kept revealing its flaws. In just the 100 seconds that Lin Rui turned his attention to it, he saw many basic mistakes.

but--

"Xiao Rui, the strength of his concept of truth is rapidly increasing."

At this time, Sima Lin and several academicians had retreated into the Star Harbor Great Cathedral of Light, using the various instruments there to monitor Luo Jing's condition: "It can improve by 0.001% almost every 10 minutes."

This number may not seem like much, but the concept of truth in the Eastern Abyss is already quite profound.

This person's grasp and understanding of truth has reached an extremely profound level; now he only needs to inscribe his own concept of truth deep into the roots of reality.

Once this person's concept of truth reaches the divine level, their overall power can enter the realm of transcendence.

Lin Rui shook his head slightly, not very optimistic.

At this moment, His concept of 'One' has spread out like a giant net within the source, and the perception is actually clearer.

The concept of truth in the Eastern Abyss may have reached 99.995%.

The problem is that the next 0.005% is an insurmountable barrier for the Eastern Abyss.

Lin Rui could tell that none of the seven Abyss warriors participating in the battle were using their full strength, except for the Undying Dragon Lord.

But when the concept of truth in the Eastern Abyss truly touched the level of the abyss, the gods present had no choice but to fight it with all their might.

In addition, the Supreme Celestial Venerable's resistance and suppression will become stronger and stronger—even if his true spirit has not yet truly awakened.

Lin Rui then turned his gaze to the underground shelters.

Today's divine battle was indeed unavoidable, it was just a matter of time. However, Lin Rui believed that he still bore some responsibility, as this divine battle was triggered by His direct provocation.

It may sound hypocritical, but Lin Rui values ​​it highly, believing it to be the basis for his continued 'humanity'—that he still cares about human life and his believers.

These shelters are in good condition. They were built under the supervision of Linghu Mingde, the regent of the Song Dynasty, who personally oversaw the project and invested heavily in their construction.

Their thickness is generally over 100 meters, and they have strong tensile strength.

There are also countless 'Vajra' divine runes drawn with the blood of dragons from the Nine Realms and carried by the Purgatory Mystic Stone.

With Lin Yilinxi's twisted and destructive magic cutting off the battlefield, and the blessing of the Holy Light, these shelters buried 300 meters underground remained largely intact.

Lin Rui then looked toward the location of the 'Garden of Truth'.

The remnant spirit of the Celestial Venerable of Separation and Union is hiding here, helping the Eastern Abyss to disperse the power of the Supreme Celestial Venerable.

However, this one clearly had no intention of following the Eastern Abyss down a dark path. In the past six hours, the remnant spirit of the Separation and Union Celestial Venerable had tried to escape three times, but was intercepted by the Lin Xi and Lin Yi sisters who had been keeping a close eye on him.

Lin Rui is now waiting for the right opportunity to seize all the wealth left behind by the Celestial Venerable of Separation and Union.

Just as Lin Rui was intently watching the battle, a seven-colored bubble suddenly appeared in front of him.

As the colorful bubbles burst, a breathtakingly beautiful female priestess emerged from within them, dressed in a shimmering, iridescent gown.

She first glanced at the 90,000 priests standing guard around the central sanctuary, as well as the eight magnificent altars, and then turned her gaze to Lin Rui and the three 'Abyss' sitting beside him—the Goddess of Despair Lin Xi, the Goddess of Pain Lin Yi, and the newly born Divine Mechanized Angel—Wei Fan!
Mengli bowed calmly and said, "Lord of Light, my god has instructed you to immediately capture and kill Lihe. The god will create a suitable opportunity for you later."

Lin Rui chuckled upon hearing this: "Capture, kill, separate, and unite? So what? I should thank your god?"

He intends to capture and kill Li He, but not necessarily now.

"Your Highness, the Throne of Truth will leave you sooner or later, and the Great Sun Celestial Venerable will soon enter the game. If Your Highness wishes to obtain the power of the Separation and Union Celestial Venerable, then this is your last and best opportunity."

Although Meng Li's face remained calm, a hint of mockery flickered in her eyes: "The gods and all the gods can grant you two artificial canopy bases for 5 million people each."

Lin Rui's lips twitched slightly; he had absolutely no interest in the artificial canopy base.

At that moment, Lin Rui's divine sense suddenly perceived a scene—her master, Luo Wangshu, was wearing a plain white robe and walking out of the Heavenly Abyss Passage step by step. Her silver hair fluttered in the wind, and every strand of hair was flowing with the faint light of the divine runes of truth. Beside her was the 'Supreme Divine Heart', which had been refined for more than three years. This artifact, which had a porcelain-like surface and a heart-shaped design, was surrounded by spatial ripples that were breaking and reforming.

The moment Luo Wangshu stepped out of the Heavenly Abyss Passage, semi-transparent runes of truth appeared on the ground around the passage, as if the entire world was trembling at her arrival. Her aura became even more majestic, steady, and powerful, as if endless power was being suppressed within her.

Lin Rui's mind immediately trembled.

(End of this chapter)