Chapter 906: I Want More!

Chapter 906: I Want More!

The area high above the cloud canopy of Revered Ancient had been empty for aeons. But after Ancient Emperor Dark Serenity left and the gods came, something came to exist at the peak of the Revered Ancient sky. It was a godwarding. It was like a hex, invisible and undetectable, but as functional as a lid that made it impossible to get in or out of the world.

Only someone like Li Zihua, who was an Altar God, could surpass it. There were no other exceptions. After Dark Serenity and the emperors of other species left to establish the holy lands, people who reached the Altar God level were so rare as to be nonexistent.

Even Flawless Gods could only long to reach that level. Although they didn’t have to deal with tribulations that came from beyond their omniscience, the requirements to succeed were still staggering.

In these circumstances, the only way to succeed at Altar God would be to wage war on other gods and devour the losers.

Wars between gods weren’t things that happened casually. Gods didn’t start wars lightly, and unlike cultivators, were not used to dealing with suffering.

But to the living beings of Revered Ancient, their home was, just as the Church of Departure taught, like a prison cage. And the godwarding was the cage door. It cut off freedom and made it impossible to be unrestrained. The living beings had no choice but to wait until the day Revered Ancient was completely devoured. Death was the only way to escape from the sea of bitterness. There was no fighting back. There was no escaping.

That was Revered Ancient’s fate, as decided by the broken face of the god. Hē devoured heavenly daos, surpassing all else. Hē was like the will of heaven to Revered Ancient, and the decider of fate. Who could possibly defy the will of heaven itself?

But today there was an exception. Someone had turned the impossible into the possible. In an outrageous and daring act, they borrowed power from an upgrading god domain as well as karma from Crimson Mother, to burrow through the sky, defy heaven, and escape from within the prison cage! It was essentially a jailbreak!

When the emperor’s corpse, which was under the control of Xu Qing and the Captain, appeared in front of the broken face, there were powerful experts from many species on Revered Ancient who couldn’t stop shocked looks from appearing on their faces. Many of them emerged from their secluded meditation facilities and flew up into the air looking flabbergasted. They were shocked first by the jailbreak, second by the recklessness on display, and third by the entire scenario.

Some cultivators cried out in astonishment.

“Someone got out!”

“This....”

“What a waste! An opportunity like this is unheard-of. If we got a chance like this we would definitely escape this cage!”

“What a pity. What a real pity! This will probably never happen again!’

The three gods all had different facial expressions. Sunfire looked grim, with cold eyes. Moonfire’s face flashed back and forth between different expressions. Only Starfire had a thoughtful expression.

The focus of all those gazes and streams of divine will, the emperor’s corpse, was being guided by the Captain and Xu Qing right toward one of the drops of blood. They didn’t waste any time. In the blink of an eye, they closed in, one full of craziness and greed, the other full of excitement and hunger.

When the corpse entered the blood, an immense force of resistance sprang up along with terrifying pressure. A will that could wipe out all else erupted wildly. The terrifying power didn’t just come from the sea of blood. It also came from the holy broken face so close by. This spot was so close to the broken face that no living being had ever been here before. Naturally, the broken face’s aura was horrifying. Even if the three gods were here, they would only last for a certain amount of time before they were destroyed in body and soul.

The Captain had come fully prepared, yet he was already showing signs of physical collapse.

Given the limited time, the Captain and Xu Qing were going all out. They could sense the extreme danger around them, yet their course had already been set.

Though hē ultimately met with failure, and collapsed because of an unimaginable backlash, hē was still an entity that no one would dare to offend. When a whale dies, it can provide a foundation for countless living things to flourish. The same principle applied to someone with personhood like hīs.

After hē fell, countless years passed in which numerous gods arose. In fact, wherever hē went, gods followed.

That was why hē was respectfully called Father God. From that it could be seen how paramount hīs personhood was. That was why, from ancient times until now, though many people had coveted hīs flesh and blood, not one person had ever dared to try to get it.

Cultivators couldn’t get past the godwarding, so obviously they couldn’t get any of that flesh and blood. Besides, gods were so revered that no one would try. In the past, taking a bite out of hīm was literally impossible. That wasn’t even to mention that the broken face’s aura was enough to wipe out countless living beings.

Today, under the eyes of many onlookers, two people were going completely crazy. Not only did they go out to the broken face, but they went right into one of the sea-sized drops of blood. It wasn’t really appropriate to describe the actions of Xu Qing and the Captain with the idiom snakes devouring mammoths. A more accurate way to put it was ants devouring dragons. Most important, it seemed as if... even if they succeeded, they would still be killed.

As of this moment, everyone was watching closely. How crazy! How rash! How suicidal.... That was exactly the way to describe it. All streams of divine will and all gazes were watching closely, and waiting for them to die.

But right then....

A huge golden hand appeared outside of the godwarding, high in the canopy of heaven! It was a majestic hand that, as soon as it appeared, unhesitatingly swept the area clear.

It grabbed a huge chunk of flesh from the broken face, then snatched the drop of blood that held Xu Qing and the Captain. Next, it grabbed another chunk of flesh!

All the gods who were watching this event were astonished! The three gods in particular were taken aback. The broken face’s eyelashes twitched.

All of a sudden, the huge hand collapsed. Golden blood sprayed everywhere. But clearly, this gigantic hand was a font of greed. After collapsing, it clumped back together into a huge mouth that took a vicious bite of flesh before fleeing.

The price to be paid was huge, though, as the hand collapsed again. The fingers shattered, and the only thing left behind was a bit of golden light that swept up Xu Qing and the Captain and then sped away in retreat.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t fast enough. That golden light was also wiped out of existence. As it did, Xu Qing and the Captain heard someone shouting into their minds.

“What are you two suicidal brats lounging around for? I can’t hold on much longer, you dolts!!”

Even as those words exploded into their minds, a hair activated in the emperor’s corpse, which was still inside the sea of blood, only one-tenth of which remained. Thanks to the protection of the golden light, the power of teleportation flared. Within the dazzling light, Xu Qing excitedly directed the emperor’s corpse to check the golden light. The golden light faded away.

Relieved, Xu Qing was about to look away when, all of a sudden, his gaze sharpened.

Far off in the distance in the starry sky, he could see hundreds of stars on the move. They were like shooting stars, and they were getting closer!

They were so far away that Xu Qing couldn’t tell what they were. He would have examined them closer if he could, but there wasn’t time.

The next instant, the corpse he was in vanished as it teleported away!