Might of the Yang God!

The disparity between a Yang God and a Yin God was vaster than the divide between a human and an ant. Every Yang God possessed a star of their own that radiated boundless light. In Qi Yuan's understanding, such a celestial body was a star. A single Yang God was an entire star! In his previous life on the Blue Star, the sun reigned supreme in the solar system, accounting for 99.86 percent of its total mass. In the Canglan Realm, a full-power strike from an ordinary Yin God could obliterate a nation. Yet a Yang God... given enough time, could devour the entire Canglan Realm. At this moment, in the distant cosmic void, the true bodies of two towering, unimaginably colossal Yang Gods stared down at everyone with gigantic eyes. The sheer visceral shock of confronting them was horrifying and blood-chilling. As Great Sage Blood Sun's true body shifted, rivers of stars churned. Dozens of stars hung like ornaments nestled within her cascading, waterfall-like hair. She spoke, her vast voice reverberating as though ringing directly from within their hearts: "All who have not attained the Yang God realm are mere ants! "You all are quite remarkable, but regrettably, you are destined to have no future!" Hearing this, Qi Yuan gave a shrug. "I've heard lines like that way too many times!" Back in Qi Refinement, he heard Foundation Establishment cultivators declare that beneath Foundation Establishment, all were ants. Later, he heard Purple Mansion masters say that beneath Purple Mansion, all were ants. As his strength increased, the line shifted to Yin God, and now it had become Yang God. "You NPCs really need to update your dialogue library!" Facing two Yang Gods, Qi Yuan tensed with every fiber of his being, sensing an overwhelming aura of danger. Yet he felt no fear. If he cowered upon meeting a Yang God in a game, wouldn't he have to bow and call them daddy if he met one in reality? Meanwhile, Great Sage Blood God stood off to the side, sealing off this entire expanse of space to prevent Qi Yuan from fleeing. Great Sage Blood Sun could not be bothered to waste breath on Qi Yuan. "Devouring you will fulfill me!" At Great Sage Blood Sun's command, her colossal form moved. The stars suspended in her hair chimed like trinkets. A massive palm descended from the heavens. This was both the true body and the dharma idol body of a Yang God. In the Upper Realm, a Yang God naturally would not manifest through a dharma idol body. Yet this was the hollow void between worlds. As the colossal palm fell, it seemed capable of seizing the entire Mortal Heart Realm in a single grasp. In truth, such a strike could at most shock all the ordinary mortals on the surface of the Mortal Heart Realm to death. A world of the Mortal Heart Realm's energy scale was not so easily crushed into powder. Still, the boundless blow was utterly peerless. It was the most powerful strike Qi Yuan had encountered since crossing over. The Ancient Gods wore solemn expressions. How could such a blow be blocked? Could mortal strength withstand it? Yet not one of them felt fear; not a single Ancient God drew back! "Kill!" Qi Yuan roared and charged out first. In the Mortal Heart Realm, he had not slain many gods, but his experience bar had skyrocketed. Coupled with his visualization of the Three Pure Ones, he had already walked to the very pinnacle of the Mythological path. Otherwise, how could he have used a Mythological form to cut down the past body of a Yang God? Now, he faced a Yang God's present body—her true body! Qi Yuan transformed into a streak of flowing light, rocketing toward the Yang God's dharma idol body. Compared to the Yang God's immense scale, that streak of light was like a solitary grain of rice. Yet a glow as humble as a grain of rice was enough to spark a prairie fire. "I come to assist the Celestial Venerable!" "Let the Nine Luminaries blaze across the heavens!" "Legions of the Thunder Bureau, kill!" "Legions of the Dipper Bureau, fight!" "Imperial Heaven and Empress Earth, wielding yin and yang, nurturing all creation!" Nearly five thousand Great Venerables acted at once, sweeping forward closely behind Origin Celestial Venerable. Across the vast, hollow void, countless beams of light soared into the heavens. Though insignificant compared to the Yang God, they gathered like sparks igniting a plain. "Grand Stellar Array of All the Heavens!" "Big Dipper Seven Stars Array!" "Immortal Slaying Sword Array!" "Nine Nether Twelve Capital Heavens Array!" At this moment, every Ancient God transformed into what seemed like a star. Nearly five thousand stars formed the Grand Hundred Thousand Arrays of the Heavens! Qi Yuan's figure expanded without limit. The blood-red sword in his hand radiated an endless aura of slaughter. He alone sat at the center of the myriad arrays, serving as their array core. The blood-red longsword seemed blessed simultaneously by the Immortal Slaying Sword, the Immortal Slaughtering Sword, the Immortal Trapping Sword, and the Immortal Absolute Sword. Looking up at the towering, majestic Yang God, Qi Yuan called out with a resonant voice: "Together with all of you, we shall slash a single sword strike!" Within the myriad arrays, blood-red swords materialized in the hands of every Ancient God. Slaughter, execution, extinction, doom... A terrifying aura surged outward. Nearly five thousand innate gods held their blades, their expressions solemn. At that instant, every god swung their sword! "Slash!" "Slash!" "Slash!" The Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits, the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends, the Ten Directions Celestial Venerables, the Six Offices Heavenly Gods, the Three Primordial Great Emperors... Behind the nearly five thousand Great Venerables roared all the deities of the Heavenly Court! Behind a single Great Venerable, how could there be fewer than ten phantoms of heavenly gods? Qi Yuan sat at the array core with a grim expression, his blood-colored robe snapping violently. The roars of all the heavenly gods coalesced into decrees of law. Behind him, the Three Pure Ones opened their eyes, sweeping forward as though emerging straight from the primordial dawn! "Slash!" Qi Yuan bellowed. He struck out the most powerful sword strike of this world! This strike was the projection of the Heavenly Court into this world! This strike was the supreme sword of the Mortal Heart Realm! The sea of stars churned. Time and space seemed frozen. Within the barren starry sea, everything vanished. All that remained in existence was slaughter. A single sword strike carried slaughter to the absolute extreme, driven by the furious roars of a million heavenly gods, cutting down with all its might! The collision between the sword and the colossal dharma idol. Mortal slaughter pushed to the utmost, crashing against a Yang God! There was no sound, nor any shockwave. Across that colossal dharma idol, a massive hand was cleanly severed. Along the smooth cut, not a single drop of blood fell. It was as though a piece of cooked meat had been sliced away. A glimmer of shock surfaced in Great Sage Blood Sun's eyes. This strike had actually injured her! A mortal's sword had wounded her! It was utterly unimaginable! Although a dharma idol body's defenses were not exceedingly tough, it was still not something a Mythological being should have been able to harm! Yet rather than rage or fear, delight rose within her. "The stronger you all are, the more thrilled I become!" The gulf between a Yin God and a Yang God was impossible to bridge. Born within an innate world, these Ancient Gods were destined never to break through to the Yang God realm here. Since the dawn of creation, there had never been an instance of a Yin God slaying a Yang God. Unhurried and composed, Great Sage Blood Sun shook her hair. The stars within her locks burst apart, and the severed hand reattached itself. "This sword strike is enough to stun the Upper Realm! "Regrettably, you are all destined to remain nameless, perishing here to nourish my body!" The immense palm resumed its descent. That strike of supreme power seemed to have left no lasting mark upon her at all. Qi Yuan looked solemn. Every Ancient God circulated their divine spiritual power to the limit, raising their defenses to their absolute peak. Boom! The Yang God's blow crashed down with brutal, unreasonable speed. Every stellar array flashed violently. Across the vast, pitch-black void, the arrays looked like a glowing spiderweb, blazing with intense light. Yet under the Yang God's strike, every Ancient God without exception turned deathly pale and coughed up blood. Behind them, the million phantoms of heavenly gods violently destabilized, many shattering apart. Qi Yuan's face also went pale. Even with so many subjects fighting alongside him to form the arrays, the gap between them and a Yang God was still far, far too immense. How could the power of a single world compare to that of a star? "Beneath the Yang God realm, how do you even qualify to be my opponent? "Origin Celestial Venerable, bring out your greatest strength!" Great Sage Blood Sun shouted coldly. She wanted Qi Yuan to face her at his absolute peak so she could consume him at his strongest. Only then could she maximize the benefits! Greed flooded her gaze. After all, Origin Celestial Venerable's past life must have been... unimaginable. Every single deity visualized by those Ancient Gods filled her with deep wariness. Yet so what? Now, she was a Yang God! The two words "Yang God" represented everything. The mighty palm swept forward once more. The Grand Stellar Array of All the Heavens stood before the Mortal Heart Realm. Positioned at the core, Qi Yuan mobilized all his divine spiritual power to resist the terrifying onslaught. Once again, the brilliance of the stellar array dimmed. Blood dripped from Qi Yuan's crimson robe. Among the nearly five thousand Great Venerables, close to a hundred coughed up blood and disintegrated into ash. The former Big Black Dog, even after visualizing other deities, turned to ash under that single strike from the Yang God. How similar this scene was to when Qi Yuan had faced the Palace of Light! Only now, they had become the Palace of Light, and Great Sage Blood Sun had become him! Against a Yang God, they could not launch an effective frontal assault; they could only defend. Yet if this continued, every last one of them would inevitably die beneath the Yang God's attacks. "The Celestial Venerable saved me from distress; to die for the Celestial Venerable is my wish!" Shi Chongshan's wife, once a helpless woman, was shattered beneath the Yang God's strike. Only a pool of blood remained, soaking into the stellar array to keep it functioning. Without the Celestial Venerable, they might have perished long ago. Drenched in blood, Dong Jianghe gave a tragic smile: "If the spring breeze has pity for flowers, could it grant me my youth once more?" His body was coming apart, on the brink of death. A single additional strike from the Yang God would end him! Qi Yuan remained frighteningly calm. In this battle... death was unavoidable. This game was the most grueling trial he had ever faced. Yet he felt no fear. Ever since he learned that there were two Yang Gods and that this world could not produce one, Qi Yuan had already known how this game would end. He had tested countless methods, but his right eyelid had twitched relentlessly, revealing not a single path to survival! If they stalled, they might grow marginally stronger, but once Great Sage Blood Sun finished devouring the Mortal Heart Realm's Heavenly Dao, that would truly be their doom. Right now, Great Sage Blood Sun was at her weakest relative to them. This was also their best opportunity. For every single point they gained in strength, Great Sage Blood Sun would gain ten. Thus, they had no choice but to fight. Even though, in anyone else's eyes, this was nothing short of throwing their lives away. Human strength had its limits. "Show me all your trump cards!" Great Sage Blood Sun roared. Far off in the distance, Great Sage Blood God watched the battle with a relaxed expression. How could a Yin God fight a Yang God? Since the splitting of heaven and earth, such a thing had never occurred! "There are no absolutes in this world!" Qi Yuan finally spoke, his aura turning profound and obscure. Even as his right eyelid twitched frantically—twitching faster by the second, heralding an ever more terrifying danger—he stood firm. "The Grand Dao numbers fifty; heaven manifests forty-nine, and one escapes!" The escaped one was the sliver of life. Yet to seize that single thread of survival, he had to master the forty-nine! Now, he would face the two Yang Gods in his strongest state! "The Great Sun blazes bright, shining in all directions! Clad in dark robes, I decree nine chapters of law!" Within the starry sky, the phantom of a star surged into existence. A massive phantom of the sun hung in the night sky, drawing closer and closer with terrifying intensity. A flicker of surprise crossed Great Sage Blood Sun's eyes. "A star phantom? Terrifying indeed, but it is merely... a phantom." She paid it no mind. Yet in the next instant, her expression shifted to genuine astonishment. "Two stars? How interesting!" Within that massive star phantom, a second star phantom appeared. Two star phantoms hung in the sky, illuminating the nine heavens and ten earths. "Still not enough. You can be stronger still. "Only then... will devouring you be truly interesting!" Greed coated Great Sage Blood Sun's face. Summoning two star phantoms caused the threat Origin Celestial Venerable posed to soar abruptly. Yet as long as he had not become a Yang God, she felt not the slightest fear. It felt as though she were sitting in a high tower five thousand meters away, peering at Qi Yuan through the scope of a heavy sniper rifle. Qi Yuan held a large saber. Even if the blade grew sharper and longer, how could it possibly threaten her? "Xiao Jia!" Qi Yuan called out coldly. In an instant, Xiao Jia's figure appeared. Draped in her bridal gown, she stood within the starry sky, her aura indistinct and profound. The hitherto silent Great Sage Blood God looked startled. "A Yang God's past body? No, that's not it!" "Share the Same Robe!" Qi Yuan bellowed. Blood-red armor spread across Qi Yuan's body. Sitting in the center of the myriad arrays, his height stretched across countless tens of thousands of zhang. The ferocious, hideous armor made him resemble a demon god from the depths of hell. A towering giant wielding a blood-red sword, looking as though a single strike could cleave the world in two. Yet beneath the Yang God's colossal dharma idol, he remained tiny, like a slightly larger ant. Qi Yuan's level leaped by six. Even so, the gulf between him and a Yang God was still far too vast. "Not enough, not enough, nowhere near enough!" Great Sage Blood Sun's eyes brimmed with ravenous hunger. "How many more surprises can you give me?" The stronger Origin Celestial Venerable became, the greater the harvest she would reap upon devouring him. Qi Yuan was now augmented by two star phantoms and clad in blood-red armor. He seemed to have reached the absolute peak of his might. Earlier, even bolstered by a hundred thousand arrays, his terrifying strike had merely inflicted a negligible wound upon the Yang God's dharma idol body. It had failed to touch her origin, let alone slay her. Just then, Village Chief Yulei let out an emotional sigh: "We are willing to lend the Celestial Venerable a hand!" Shi Chongshan stepped forward as well: "I am willing too!" Zhu Zhuangshi beamed broadly: "I am willing too!" Shrine Official Shentu's voice rang across the world at that moment: "I possess a method named Assimilation. We are willing to serve as nutrients for the Celestial Venerable, assisting the Celestial Venerable in slaying the evil god!" The method of Assimilation had been obtained from the evil gods. Ever since the people of Qingshui Village became Ancient Gods, they had been studying Assimilation. They researched this technique not only to rescue the common folk who had been assimilated by the evil gods, but also... so they could willingly allow themselves to be assimilated by Origin Celestial Venerable, becoming one with him to augment his strength! The art of Assimilation resounded across the Grand Stellar Array at this very moment.