supreme deity

Chapter 825 The truth?

At this time in the Garden of Truth, all the buildings were leveled and destroyed by the power of the gods, except for one pavilion.

It stands tall on the south side of the Garden of Truth. Although its surface is scarred and covered with spiderweb-like cracks, it still stands there, unmoved by the aftershocks of the battle between the gods.

The cloaked figure stood on the second floor of the pavilion, intently observing the divine battle.

Behind him, besides Cheng Zaotian, there was another person, none other than Zhen Hao, the biologist whom the Forest Group had been searching for.

Zhen Hao dared not look directly at the gods engaged in fierce battle outside. He pushed up his glasses and exclaimed sincerely, "As expected of the Supreme Celestial Venerable, even before fully recovering, he already possesses such divine power!"

Is this what is meant by the law of truth?
The 'Supreme Celestial Venerable' outside has not yet recovered to the Transcendental Truth level, nor has she restored her War Dragon, yet she already possesses the power to resist the gods.

However, he also noticed that these abysses were holding back a great deal, not using their full strength.

Apart from the Undying Dragon Lord, none of the others wanted to be injured just as the artificial canopy was about to be completed.

Zhen Hao then turned his gaze to the data panel in front of him.

On the second floor of this pavilion, there is a huge incubation chamber containing a crystal-clear female skeleton. Her silver hair is like a frozen galaxy, and her silver bones flow with an icy blue glow. Each vertebra is engraved with three-dimensional spiral divine patterns, and a source core that emits a purple-gold light is embedded in her skull.

If Lin Rui were here, he would discover that the skeleton in the cultivation chamber was the very remains of the Supreme Being, nurtured by his father and originally intended to be hidden in the outer layer of the Heavenly Canopy Temple.

As the power of the Supreme Celestial Venerable gathered above the Garden of Truth, strands of filtered, pure essence, like shimmering threads of light, surged toward the cultivation chamber.

The purple-gold source core suddenly trembled, and the icy blue divine patterns moved like living snakes, condensing into a pale golden mist around the skeleton.

The light mist first transformed into blood-like threads that wrapped around the silvery-white bones, weaving a translucent fascia network. Then, it generated pearly-colored muscle fibers, and the spine of the skeleton gradually lit up with spiral patterns of light, with hair-like nerve veins growing along the ice-blue glow.

Her silver hair began to sway, as if a long-dormant life was about to awaken, and a mysterious and powerful aura filled the scene.

"In the past, when the Supreme Celestial Venerable was poisoned, he was still able to sweep away the eleven Abyss beings led by the Great Sun Celestial Venerable while fighting against the Root. His divine power was immeasurable."

As the cloaked figure watched the battle, he sensed the gradually reviving skeletons in the incubation chamber. A slight smile of excitement played on his lips beneath his hood: "The Star Chart's prophecy was not wrong after all. The flower of flesh and blood will eventually bloom! Light has arrived, and the Master of the Kingdom of Truth is about to awaken!"

He lowered his head and looked towards the direction of Tianyuan: "We will eventually dispel the chaos in the source, let it fully integrate into this world, and bring true light to heaven and earth."

Cheng Zaotian remained expressionless, his eyes as cold as ancient ice, concealing a deep sense of disappointment.

With holy thunder, darkness is cleaved; with calamity, humanity is refined; with light, the world is illuminated.

Is this all the so-called 'light' of the seven generations of cult leaders has to offer? Is this really how they bring about their so-called 'light'?
Zhen Hao pushed up his glasses, the reflection in the lenses obscuring the gleam in his eyes.

He was recording data, but his fingertips were secretly inputting a string of code on the control panel.

Even the cloaked figure didn't notice that a wisp of dark purple liquid was quietly mixing into the source matter through the conduits inside the incubation chamber.

That was a mechanism he left when he designed and built this incubation chamber, which could help him extract the genetic sample of the Supreme Celestial Venerable.

Just then, the body of the 'Supreme Celestial Venerable' outside the pavilion, formed from a flower of flesh and blood, suddenly staggered backward. Without warning, a ghostly blue flame ignited on the cuffs of her gilded black robe. The flame eroded the 'Supreme Celestial Venerable's' newly formed flesh and blood, causing signs of necrosis in her body. The newly formed tissues seemed to be decayed by time, constantly peeling away.

"This must be a powerful toxin that can corrode the flesh and blood of gods."

Zhen Hao flipped through the data panel, then shook his head helplessly: "Almost all the testing equipment is broken. I can't check the composition of this toxin, so I can't crack it. But I guess the problem lies with the blood of the Supreme Beings."

It took nearly three and a half years for the Eastern Abyss to collect the 760,000 'Supreme Blood Remnants'. During this period, the gods had plenty of time and methods to plant their own schemes within these Supreme Blood Remnants.

They may not have known the cloaked man's scheme; he was simply shrewd and made some preparations in advance as a precaution.

Even the Eastern Abyss may have left something on this Supreme Blood Remnant.

"It's not just the toxins that corrode this flesh."

Cheng Zaotian forced his head up and glanced at the head of the 'Supreme Celestial Venerable': "There should be more than one kind of toxin in her body now, and even the primordial spirit of the Supreme Celestial Venerable seems to be disturbed."

It was a power that could disrupt the order of the soul, and it must be related to the power of nothingness in the Western Abyss.

Cheng Zaotian also noticed that the 'Supreme Celestial Venerable's' eyes seemed to show signs of confusion and disorientation, and her control over her own power was also much weaker than before.

—Is that the power of the Dream Celestial?

The cloaked figure remained expressionless; indeed, the gods had left more than one hidden measure in the blood of the Supreme Being.

He sensed that the 'Supreme Celestial Venerable's' newborn body was simultaneously suffering the pain of aging and degeneration in the time reversal of the cosmic twin dragons—the cloaked man did not know the specific mechanism, but guessed that it should be a kind of spacetime curse in the abyss.

This body of the 'Supreme Celestial Venerable' even contains the blood of the Devouring Celestial Venerable.

Although they were tiny, only the size of a speck of dust, they were like bottomless pits, frantically devouring the 'Supreme Celestial Venerable's' original power, greedily consuming everything around them, hindering her revival process and causing her power to continuously drain away.

Furthermore, the Eternal Silence Poison of the Lord of Darkness is erupting within the body of the 'Supreme Celestial Venerable,' eroding her consciousness and causing her flesh and blood to return to silence and death, attempting to drag her into an endless abyss of darkness so that she can never fully awaken.

The attacks of the Dream Celestial Venerable are the most concealed; this one must have planted illusory shackles deep within the memories of those 'Supreme Blood Remnants'.

At this moment, these shackles were triggered when 'Supreme Celestial Venerable' was revived. In addition to countless false memory shocks that confused her memories and interfered with her judgment, they also tried to sever the connection between 'Supreme Celestial Venerable's' soul and body.

—That body even contained the River of Hope, the blood of the Celestial Venerable of Hope.

However, the cloaked figure remained calm and unconcerned.

This is why he created a second 'Supreme Celestial Venerable' in this attic.

The gods have done countless tricks with those remnants of the Supreme Being's blood. How could he truly be at ease without filtering and screening them?
Especially in the Eastern Abyss, those Supreme Blood Remnants had been in this person's hands for a full three years. This person could not only obtain various top-level biotechnology of the Federation through the Great Song Starport, but was also proficient in the concept of truth. How could He not be wary?

The cloaked figure would not lower his guard just because this person abandoned the truth beyond limits and allowed the Supreme Celestial Venerable to revive.

At this moment, the silver-haired goddess's body outside the attic was disintegrating, with her left arm turning into dust first.

At this moment, the corrosive runes of the Divine Talisman Celestial spread like a plague to her shoulder blades, and the silver-haired goddess's right leg was also swallowed by ice crystals. The despairing face buried by the Hope Celestial emitted a silent shriek from within the ice. The seven-colored light traces representing the power of dreams cracked from her neck to her brow, while the spacetime power of the Abyss twisted and deformed her face continuously—sometimes appearing as a frail old woman, and sometimes as a crying infant.

“Not enough—not enough—” 'Supreme Celestial Venerable’s broken lips opened and closed.

She then turned her gaze toward the attic, a chill creeping into her dark golden eyes.

The magic array over there was continuously draining her source essence, worsening her condition and bringing her recovery process to the brink of collapse.

The other Supreme Celestial Being in the cultivation chamber made her frown even more.

The Supreme Celestial Venerable suddenly reached out and grabbed the incubation chamber inside the attic.

However, the moment her fingertips touched the attic, the Supreme Celestial Venerable's three fingers were bitten off by the Devouring Celestial Venerable's 'Void Devour'.

"destiny?"

The Supreme Celestial Venerable's gaze narrowed slightly.

This is the power of fate, the arrangement of the Lord of Destiny.

At this moment, a dark purple bruise was spreading across her chest; it was the eternal poison of the Lord of Darkness corroding her heart.

The most devastating blow came from above, when the temporal curse of the abyss erupted in full force, instantly turning her silver hair gray and causing her newborn body to wither and decay at a visible speed.

The vital energy that should have been healing her wounds, along with the source essence within her body, was instead transforming into golden threads of light, flowing continuously into the skeleton in the incubation chamber.

"What a mess, it's so frustrating!"

At the Heavenly Abyss Passage, Luo Wangshu squinted, staring at the pitiful shape of the silver-haired goddess in the sky above.

A mocking smile curved her lips, a smile that seemed both sarcastic and self-mocking: "The Supreme Celestial Venerable who swept across the gods 320,000 years ago has now been tricked into this state by a bunch of villains. Look at this pathetic body, corroded by hope, toyed with by dreams, even its flesh and blood essence has been taken away by that Lord of Fate, becoming a discarded pawn in the game of the gods."

Luo Wangshu's silver hair danced without wind, and her eyes gradually turned crimson gold: "Being manipulated and controlled by the gods is bad enough, but they dared to corrupt my true spirit with their very essence—"

At this moment, she paused and looked to their left.

Lin Rui raised an eyebrow slightly and glanced over.

At this moment, they were shrouded in the dark canopy of the Lord of Darkness. Normally, even a ninth-realm martial artist would be unable to see here. Furthermore, the power of the gods continued to impact them from all sides. Even someone as strong as a tenth-realm immortal could not stay in this range for more than ten seconds.

But this was no problem for them. The three of them could stand there calmly, and they could also see a cloud of seven-colored mist quietly emerging on the left side of the Tianyuan Passage, a hundred feet away to the left.

Amidst the swirling mist, a figure with exquisitely handsome features, dressed in a dreamlike, pure white robe woven from starlight, slowly emerged from within.

Lin Rui's eyes flickered slightly as he recognized the person as the Dream Celestial Venerable who had never shown himself.

This man had a relaxed expression, yet his eyes were as sharp as a hawk's.

He first glanced at Luo Wangshu, then fixed his gaze on her long, silvery-white hair, seemingly astonished by the rich aura of the Supreme Being emanating from her, as well as the powerful concept of truth that was confronting Lin Rui.

"This show is getting more and more interesting." A playful smile appeared on His lips, and He turned His gaze to Lin Rui: "Lord of Light should have seen the truth by now. The so-called Seventh Generation Leader and the Lord of Fate are the same person. All of this today was orchestrated by the Lord of Fate. I wonder what your thoughts are now?"

"Not necessarily, neither of us has witnessed his true nature." Lin Rui's feelings were indeed quite complicated. He gazed at the Garden of Truth from afar: "But God, do you know why the former Lord of Destiny betrayed the Supreme Heavenly Venerable?"

This was actually a sign.

Six years ago, among the four conceptual powers that Lin Rui first mastered, there were the methods of 'Destined Death' and 'Inevitable Hit'.

Both of these belong to the concept of the master of destiny.

"I don't know about that. When I achieved the Abyss, all the ancient gods, led by the Supreme Sun, perished. Only one Divine Law Celestial Venerable remained in the world. However, the Divine Law Celestial Venerable always kept the ancient events a secret. Not long after, he merged with the Dao and became one with the Dao of Law and Order."

The Celestial Venerable shook his head first, and said leisurely, "However, judging from today's situation, this person has probably been corrupted by the Origin, or perhaps, He is one of the ascended races in the Origin World."

I've heard that the battle in which the Supreme Celestial Venerable fought against the Root was exceptionally fierce. The Supreme Celestial Venerable even led the gods into the heart of the Root. At that time, there were 11 Abyss Gods in the Supreme Divine Court, but only 7 of them emerged; four perished inside. Now, no one knows exactly what happened back then.

At this moment, he paused: "However, no matter what, we cannot let the Lord of Fate succeed. You should have seen that he is creating a second Supreme Celestial Venerable inside the Garden of Truth. Once the mind of the Supreme Celestial Venerable is corrupted and polluted by the root, that will be the end of the entire Celestial World."

Lin Rui frowned upon hearing this, his eyes showing a thoughtful expression.

On one hand, he was contemplating and weighing the options, and on the other hand, he was experiencing and absorbing the essence and core of the Separation and Union Celestial Venerable after the refinement of the Throne of Truth.

In about 30 seconds, Lin Rui will be able to refine these source materials and source cores.

"I don't believe you've just watched the Garden of Truth do nothing for the past three years. The 1.2 million vials of medicine you sell to the Eastern Divine Palace every month must have some hidden secrets. And now, do you still want to stand aside?"

The Celestial Venerable of Dreams snorted lightly, his eyes showing disdain: "Furthermore, today is the best time to besiege that Lord of Fate. If you don't want to be taken back by Him and replaced by Him someday in the future, you should send Him back to the source as soon as possible."

Lin Rui remained silent.

He was unwilling to get involved in the fight too early or reveal his hand too soon.

And his master and senior sister are also causing him a lot of headaches now—

Just then, Luo Wangshu suddenly chuckled: "Don't bother, he's unwilling. Instead of relying on him, why don't you rely on me and lend me a hand? Go all out to seize those Supreme Origin Essences and give them all to me."

Upon hearing this, the Celestial Venerable of Dreams was taken aback, and once again fixed his gaze on Luo Wangshu with a solemn expression.

He had sensed the extraordinary nature of this woman before; Luo Wangshu's overall combat strength was already close to that of a demigod.

Perhaps soon, this woman will be able to join their ranks in the abyss.

Luo Wangshu's words just now made the Dream Celestial Venerable take notice.

(End of this chapter)