Yes, I became a god just by exercising.

Chapter 286 The Bronze Cleaner Falls into the Trap! Xia Fa's Watertight Scheme!
"It...is injured?"

Tefaro spoke with disbelief, finding it hard to believe that this bronze-armored cavalryman, so powerful and imposing, was actually critically wounded and on the verge of death.

With only half of their bodies remaining, and even that half still being scorched by some terrifying pale flame, the bronze-armored cavalryman had almost killed several of them with a single spear thrust.
"Yes, that's the real reason it went berserk. It knows it's about to die and wants to... wipe out us superhumans before it dies."

Xia Fa spoke in a deep voice, his expression serious:

"However, this ritual defensive array can only hold out for less than twenty minutes at most. Given its life force, it can live for at least several more hours, more than enough to kill us all."

The Lord of Guardians spoke in a deep voice from the side:

"So, we still have to find a way to kill it."

Xia Fa nodded:
"But this is already much better than dealing with a bronze armored cavalryman at his peak, isn't it?"

Despite saying this, the three of them showed no signs of truly easing their inner turmoil.

Because even if this bronze-armored cavalryman only has a few hours left before he dies, it's still very difficult to escape even in those few hours.

Especially after the ritual defense array was completely breached.

“I think I know… what made it this way, and that’s something I can use.”

The Lord of Guardians murmured, his tone tinged with uncertainty.

Shafa and Tefaro asked almost immediately in unison:
"Who?"

A hint of melancholy welled up in the eyes of the Guardian Lord:

"That was 20,000 years ago, when I wasn't sealed away and was traveling around the Star Spirit Realm with Lord Kong Su."

"As you know, once someone ascends from human or demi-human to god, even if it's just godhood, they can no longer stay in the real world."

"Because, given God's power, if we continue to stay in the real world, we will cause extremely serious pollution to the real world if we are not careful, causing countless people to lose control."

"Therefore, in order to follow Lord Kong Su, I have no choice but to go to the Star Spirit Realm with Him."

"But it is precisely because of this that I have seen many landscapes in this universe that are impossible to see in the real world, and I have also met many magical or strange beings, and even witnessed... several gods."

At this point, a look of awe appeared in the Guardian's eyes, as if recalling his experience of meeting the gods when he followed Lord Kong Su:

"Of course, those gods are all external gods and non-gods; there are no true gods."

"I have also seen the Nine Great Gods, but basically when they descended into the world and walked on the earth."

"Among the gods I saw in the Protoss Realm at that time, there was one who left the deepest impression on me."

"That was also a deity, whose title was the God of a Hundred Million Fires. This title sounds terrifying, but in reality, He only controlled one kind of fire."

"But that is a flame that can defeat even the gods."

"That flame originates from the eternal credentials that He has contained and absorbed, as well as the supreme covenant He has signed, along with other covenants, through a profound development and fusion."

"Any being below the level of an Outer God will suffer continuous damage and corrosion once it is tainted by that flame, and it will be extremely difficult to remove it."

The Guardian spoke, raising the photograph from Xia Fa's hand, his gaze deep and tinged with a sense of shared sorrow:

"That flame was pale white, hence it was also called the 'Pale Devouring Flame,' but I never expected..."

Upon hearing this, Tefal realized something:
"You mean that the Lord God, the God of Billions of Fire... has very likely been killed by this bronze-armored cavalryman, but He sacrificed His life to severely wound it?"

The Lord of Guardians sighed:

"That must be it, otherwise, given the temperament of the God of Fire, even though he had already severely injured it, he would definitely hunt it down to every corner of the universe and would not let it go. Besides..."

His eyes were lowered:
“When this bronze armored cavalry first appeared, I couldn’t sense the divine aura of the God of Fire from it, which means… He most likely died at its hands.”

The pale, devouring flames of the God of Fire were still burning on the bronze-armored cavalryman, but the divine aura was gone. The result was clear to both Xia Fa and Te Faro without the Guardian Lord needing to elaborate.

"One of the strongest beings even among the gods died at the hands of this bronze-armored cavalryman, though it too was severely wounded and on the verge of death..."

Xia Fa murmured to himself, feeling an immense pressure for the first time.

Because there are far more than one such Bronze Cleaner in the entire universe; there may even be thousands or tens of thousands.

If every Bronze Cleanser possessed the strongest power among the gods... just thinking about it made his scalp tingle.

Not to mention, above the Bronze Cleaners are the Silver Cleaners, and above the Silver Cleaners are the Gold Cleaners...

Fortunately, according to the Golden Axe Cleaner, the Golden Cleaner is the highest-ranking being among them, and there is no one higher.

In other words, there are no such things as Platinum Cleaners, Diamond Cleaners, Master Cleaners, Grandmaster Cleaners, or King Cleaners...

Otherwise, given that even a Gold Cleaner is equivalent to one of the nine Great Gods, even a Platinum Cleaner would probably be too much for the entire universe to withstand a single blow from.

“In any case,” Tefaro said at this moment. Unlike Shafa, who became calmer in times of crisis, Tefaro became more excited in times of crisis. “This is our opportunity, if we can make good use of it.”

Previously, after witnessing the terrifying and unparalleled strength of the bronze armored cavalry, everyone was in despair. However, they were unwilling to sit idly by and wait for death, so they still relied on the ritual defense array to resist.

At the same time, they are waiting for Xia Fa to successfully sign the next secret agreement, so that they can keep a last glimmer of hope.

But now, since this bronze-armored cavalryman was already seriously injured and on the verge of death, and there was the extraordinary Lord of the Guardians present, as well as the extremely powerful Xiafa, plus Tefaro himself providing cover from the side.

So... there is still a chance to survive.

“That’s right,” Xia Fa agreed, becoming increasingly calm. “If we can strike while the iron is hot and attack its most vulnerable spot…”

The Guardian Lord, having composed himself of his initial sympathy, said with a sharp gaze:

"The ritual defense array... can hold out for at least another ten minutes. Let's use this time to come up with a plan."

Regardless, as long as there is even the slightest hope, He is unwilling to betray the trust that Lord Kongsu had placed in Him.

They were even less willing to watch the entire city of Michi die under the onslaught or aftermath of the bronze-armored cavalry's attack.

In particular, since Archmage Wizreel was finally killed by Him, if He could also kill this bronze-armored cavalryman, this place where time had stopped would soon usher in a truly happy and peaceful life that belonged only to the extraordinary and ordinary people...

"In that case, I do have a plan."

After thinking for a moment, Xia Fa spoke in a deep voice.

The Guardian and Tefaro immediately came over. At the same time, mystical living silver emanated from Xiafa's blood vessels, instantly forming a red-silver star shell that encompassed the three of them.

Because this ritual defensive array can isolate most divination and spying, and with the addition of the red and silver star shell, it is even safer.

Therefore, they were not afraid of being overheard by the bronze-armored cavalry.

“First, Tefaro, it’s up to you…”

……

Time passes minute by minute.

Perhaps because they were about to perish, the bronze-armored cavalrymen launched an increasingly frenzied attack.

Previously, after each thrust of tens of thousands of spears, He would pause for a moment.

But now, He was like a machine gun, His lance almost turning into a torrential downpour, relentlessly attacking the weakest point of the ritual defense array.

Just a few more minutes... just a few more minutes and we'll truly break through!
But just then, the sky suddenly darkened for a moment.

The ever-moving sun was thus obscured, and the sky was filled with countless stars, creating an extremely tranquil atmosphere, as if a summer night had suddenly arrived.

Immediately afterwards, countless stars gathered and converged on a spot far away beside the bronze-armored cavalryman.

A figure with a curved sword at his waist and a golden bell on his head appeared.

That was Tefaro, a transcendent monarch who had only signed nine secret contracts. Yet, facing the bronze armored cavalry, a terrifying being capable of slaying gods, he seemed completely unconcerned, even lazily yawning.

"Hey, stop wasting your time. If you're so capable, come and fight me."

As soon as Tefaro appeared, he seemed fearless and began to provoke the bronze-armored cavalryman from afar.

The bronze-armored cavalryman was taken aback, seemingly never expecting that this insect-like superhuman would dare to speak to it like that.

However, it hesitated for less than a second before immediately choosing to continue its attack on the ritual defense array.

It wasn't stupid; in fact, it could be described as cunning and ruthless. Of course, it understood that this was a trap set by these extraordinary beings to lure the enemy.

But it doesn't need to worry about all that. As long as it breaks through this ritual defense array, no matter which superhuman it is, they will have nowhere to escape!
When Tefaro saw that the bronze-armored cavalryman was completely ignoring him, his eyes narrowed.

“What Xia Fa said was indeed true…”

As Xia Fa had said before, even if Tefaro personally risked breaking out of this ritual defense array, he might still be unable to change the target of the bronze armored cavalry's attack.

In addition, Xia Fa also said—

boom!
Just then, a loud bang was heard, and a lance suddenly shot out from behind Tefaro, striking him squarely in the air.

That lance strike was incredibly fierce; with a single blow, the void itself collapsed and vanished, and wherever the spear tip struck, everything turned into pure black nothingness.

However, Tefaro's figure shattered like a bubble, completely unharmed.

The next moment, the sky dimmed for a fleeting instant, and the starlight condensed Tefaro's figure into a more distant place. This was a fusion ability developed after He merged the "Starlight Body" of the [Gate of Stars] with the advanced secret contract "Starlight Shadow".

Just now, when Tefaro first appeared, it was indeed his true form.
Almost the instant He appeared, He left only a faint starlight shadow in the same spot, and His true form transformed back into starlight, disappearing into the sky.

As Xia Fa had predicted, the bronze-armored cavalryman, while ignoring Tefaro's provocation, would certainly attack him.

Because, with the power and status of a god, the bronze-armored cavalry could kill a tiny insect like Thephalos effortlessly, it was a piece of cake.

However, Tefaro did not expect that this bronze-armored cavalryman would be so insidious and treacherous, pretending to be completely indifferent to him while secretly launching a deadly lance thrust.

After regaining his composure, He continued to act according to Xia Fa's plan.

"Hey! You don't seem to be doing so well; you couldn't even manage a sneak attack."

Tefaro shouted at the bronze-armored cavalryman from afar again. This time, he even spread his hands into a megaphone shape and deliberately vibrated the air to create expanding sound waves that reached the back of the bronze-armored cavalryman.

This time, the bronze-armored cavalryman ignored him completely, focusing all his attention on breaking through the ritual defense array.

But the next moment, hundreds of lances emerged from the void around Tefal, stabbing down with lightning speed.

But, without a doubt, it missed again.

Tefaro's figure once again dissipated like a bubble, leaving nothing but the collapsed and annihilated void.

This time, before Tefaro's figure could materialize for the third time, the bronze-armored cavalryman seemed to have reached his limit of patience. He suddenly turned around and thrust out an extremely vicious lance, as if venting his anger, aiming it at the sky.

Although it had previously annihilated beings of divine rank, it seems to have an extremely good understanding of the abilities of those who signed the Star Gate and knows how to attack them.

This thrust was completely different from the previous ones. The sky suddenly froze for a moment, and then the air seemed to freeze into solid ice, shattering into pieces.

But at that moment, for the first time, a look of doubt appeared in the eyes of the bronze-armored cavalryman beneath his mask.

It had thought that this attack would finally kill that noisy, extraordinary monarch.

In a sense, the destruction of the Pillars of the Ancient Gods led to its being drawn here, and its original purpose was to kill the transcendental ruler who had the potential to become a god, as well as two other transcendental beings with extraordinary and terrifying potential.

However, it did not expect that this thrust, which clearly aimed to attack every part of the sky, would miss its target entirely.

But just a moment later, the bronze-armored cavalryman keenly sensed something and thrust out his spear again.

This shot, still piercing somewhere in the sky, no longer used its power to imprison everything, but instead employed a fierce killing intent, aiming to kill with a single blow.

The next moment, in the sky, a transparent shadow struggled on the tip of the gun and revealed its form.

That was Tefal; His entire body had been pierced by a lance.

However, He was not facing the bronze-armored cavalryman, but with his back to him.

The spear pierced through his left back and exited through his left abdomen.

Tefal gripped the tip of the gun with both hands, twisting his body desperately, as if trying to break free from it.

But it was no use. He was like a lance nailed to the sky, or a beetle pierced to the ground by the tip of a long sword. No matter how much he struggled, it was useless.

Upon seeing this, the bronze-armored cavalryman's eyes flashed with extreme contempt and a gratifying sense of venting anger.

It was ready to flick its wrist and shatter the body of this extraordinary monarch with its lance, along with his soul.

Just then, Tefaro's head turned 180 degrees in a strange way. Even though it was facing away from it, its head turned around and stared straight at it.

A strange and eerie smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Bang-!
The next instant, Tefaro's body turned into smoke and exploded, leaving only a rabbit plush toy in the spot.

The rabbit doll had buttons for its eyes, and its body was covered with stitched lines. Its left side was pierced through its back, and it was struggling and writhing on the lance.

The bronze-armored cavalryman suddenly realized something, his gaze changed drastically, but it was too late.

In an instant, its body shuddered, and a large hole appeared on the left side of its armor.
The large hole resembled the damage caused by a lance piercing through the armor. Immediately afterward, cracks in the armor spread rapidly from around the hole, shattering and falling off in pieces.

Its grayish-white body, which was already reduced to only the left half, was revealed from the shattered armor; it consisted only of flesh, without any bones or internal organs.

At this moment, not only were pale flames burning fiercely at the cross-section of this grayish-white body, but they were also relentlessly damaging its flesh and draining its life force.

It also has a large hole in the vest area, wider in the back and narrower in the front.

At that very moment, within the city of Mychi, within the ritual defensive array that resembled an inverted, shattering glass bowl, two figures simultaneously burst forth, each slashing at the bronze-armored cavalry!
That is the guardian lord whose entire body is surrounded by a metal skeleton formed from the incomplete and mysterious treasure "Sen Yama"!

And Xia Fa, with a golden bell on his head and wielding a calamity-slaying sword!
The Lord of Guardians held the Senyan Scimitar in his hand, and the metal skeleton surrounding him also held an identical, oversized scimitar in its hands.

This is the secret power of Sen Yanluo: Yanluo Skeleton.

At that moment, the slash struck the cross-section of the bronze-armored cavalryman's half-body.

With a deafening roar, the already raging pale flames intensified thousands of times!
But that wasn't all. Xia Fa unleashed a brutally powerful slash. Already in his Starshine Silver Throne state, he used all twelve arms to unleash terrifying violence. Combined with the sharpness of the broken ancient treasure, the Calamity Horse-Slaying Blade, the blade pierced right into the round wound!
boom! ! !
The pale, devouring flames were immediately drawn over, moving from the cross-section of the bronze armored cavalry's left side to the round wound that occupied almost half of its body.

Roar--!
The bronze-armored cavalry, who had been invincible since their appearance, now roared in agony as their gray-white bodies were rapidly consumed by the pale flames.

After Xia Fa and the Lord of Guardians successfully landed their attack, they immediately flashed back into the ritual defense array.

Immediately afterward, Tefaro's figure appeared on the street, though his face was slightly pale.

"Success!"

He clenched his fist, his face filled with extreme excitement. He never expected that the three of them working together would actually inflict further damage on the bronze-armored cavalry!
At this moment, with the three of them doing their best to maintain it, the ritual defense array can hold out for at least another five minutes.

This bronze-armored cavalryman not only had half his body missing long ago, but the remaining half was now almost completely covered by the pale, engulfing flames, making his entire body seem to be enveloped in blazing, pale flames.

If this continues, in another five minutes... its combat power will definitely be greatly weakened!
At that time, the opportunities will increase dramatically!

"Xia Fa, I really didn't expect that you could not only sign three hegemonic-level secret contracts and become the legendary future Holy Spirit of Destiny, but your schemes are also so watertight."

The Guardian sighed. Just now, what seemed like a simple trap set by Tefaro to lure the enemy was actually the result of a very complex design by Xiafa.

First of all, the rabbit doll, named "Substitute Rabbit Doll," is the signatory of the "Fairy Tale World" overlord-level secret contract. Only when the progress of understanding the secret contract reaches one hundred percent can one comprehend and master the secret contract's abilities.

Therefore, when Prince Justinian faced the two Black Abyss Worms in the Mist God Hunting Grounds, he was unable to unleash it because he had not yet fully comprehended the overlord-level secret contract of the Fairy Tale World.

Otherwise, given His status as an angelic overlord, it would have been an easy task for Him to single-handedly annihilate two Black Abyss Worms of angelic rank.

The "Substitute Rabbit Puppet" can only be used once within a certain period of time. To use it again, you must wait for the mental effects to subside.

Because creating this substitute rabbit doll not only requires extraordinary power, but also extremely high mental energy.

Xia Fa was certainly familiar with this secret ability. Back in the City of Ten Thousand Stars, he had found a book that specifically explained the secret abilities of various overlord-level secrets, bought it at a high price, and studied it carefully.

The substitute rabbit doll possesses an ability that is almost like a "rule." Within the same rank or position, it can return 100% of any damage inflicted upon it to the one who caused it.

Even after discovering that the bronze-armored cavalryman was already severely wounded, Xia Fa had been plotting how to use the substitute rabbit puppet that the Guardian Lord, this extraordinary monarch, could conjure to make the bronze-armored cavalryman suffer the consequences of his own actions.

However, the difficulty lies in the fact that the Cleaners... seem to know a great deal about the secret abilities of any superhuman, and naturally they also know about the existence of the secret ability of the Substitute Rabbit Puppet.

The challenge lies in figuring out how to successfully trick them.

Just now, Xia Fa designed a simple but very effective plan based on this point.

First of all, he had anticipated that the bronze-armored cavalry would initially ignore Tefal's provocations.

After all, its true purpose was to break through the ritual defense array and kill all the extraordinary beings in the city of Michi, especially the Guardian Lord and Xia Fa himself.

However, at the same time, because this bronze armored cavalryman had long been driven to madness before his impending demise, after failing to eliminate Tefaro with several casual attacks, he would inevitably be provoked into making a real move when faced with Tefaro's continued provocations.

If the bronze-clad cavalry had been at their peak instead of facing imminent death, things certainly wouldn't have turned out this way.

But it has long since gone mad, like a furious beast, subconsciously viewing everything as a threat, and any provocation will make it lose its mind.

Xiafa himself had long been hiding in the "Time Concealment" of the "Gate of Stars" in Tefalo, waiting for the moment when the bronze armored cavalry would truly go all out!
The only thing that can injure it is its own all-out, frenzied attack!
Just as the bronze-armored cavalryman launched his attack, Shafa emerged from the time-hidden realm of Tefal. The two simultaneously used "Star Bubble," instantly swapping positions with the substitute rabbit doll that the guardian of Mych City had already conjured.

They even had the Guardian Lord disguise the substitute rabbit doll, making it look like Tefaro.

This is why the bronze-armored cavalryman stabbed the substitute rabbit doll, causing a large hole to appear in its own body from the lance.

"Fortunately, there's this mysterious treasure and this incomplete outer mysterious treasure, plus the residual power of Lord Kong Su within the ritual defense array, which allowed this sacrificial rabbit puppet to temporarily rise to the rank of a god..."

The Lord of Guardians sighed, his mood improving slightly, and looked up at the bronze-armored cavalrymen who were now completely enveloped in pale flames.

Xiafa and Tefaro also quietly looked up, waiting for its strength to weaken further, or better yet, for it to be burned to death.

But at that moment, the bronze-armored cavalryman's struggling and roaring movements suddenly stopped.

It turned around, its gaze looking down, and from its massive, mountain-like body, the oppressive aura emanating from its divine status poured down like a landslide and a tsunami.

It raised its lance high, and an indescribable, terrifying aura surged forth, its aura suddenly rising with a resolute determination to perish together with its foes.

At this moment, the pupils of the Guardian Lord, Xia Fa, and Te Faro all suddenly contracted.

"Oh no, it's going to...!"

(End of this chapter)