Chapter 220: 219: Eighteen More God Spirit Level Fighters! (Seeking Subscriptions!)
Translator:549690339
Outside the temple, changes began to occur as soon as Du Gang entered.
The entrance of the temple was leaking divine power, causing an uneasy disturbance, as if a terrifying entity was about to emerge.
On that day, the entrance of the temple was thoroughly sealed by the four major companies. No one was allowed to enter anymore, and various powerful beings were deployed to guard the entrance.
An hour ago, the temple experienced another disturbance. A massive power was brewing within it. Even a bit of power leaking out was enough to instill fear in everyone on the outside.
At this moment, a considerable number of God Spirit Level powerhouses from the eighteen clans were waiting with grave expressions.
They didn’t know what was happening, but they were certain it had something to do with the Supreme Pangu!
......
“Boom!”
As the platform slowly moved into the black world, everyone’s cultivation was restored at that moment.
“Whoosh!”
The moment their cultivations were restored, someone swiftly deployed a movement technique, flew toward the direction they came from to try and exit the black world, voluntarily going to the white world.
“Boom!”
To everyone’s surprise, they could see the path from which they came, and the Spatial Channels were still open, but they couldn’t traverse through.
“Whoosh! Whoosh!”
Not only him, after that, two other figures followed suit, but the result was the same, they were blocked as well.
Du Gang ignored them and inspected the situation on this world, which was filled with strange black monsters with wings, just as he saw outside.
Fortunately, the monsters that landed around them were mainly at the Four Laws Domain Lord level, not something they couldn’t handle.
“Rumble!”
To everyone’s surprise, the platform beneath their feet, which had been standing still originally, began to change.
Like building blocks, the intact platform morphed into rectangular blocks.
Then, seemingly manipulated by something, these blocks combined together, arrayed neatly, forming nine roads leading to the sky.
“What does this mean?”
Everyone stopped and silently contemplated the scene before them.
“Could these be the nine paths leading to godhood?!”
These words startled everyone present.
“Is that so?!”
No one could provide an answer.
“Whoosh!”
At this moment, a young man turned into a streak of blue light, flying at high speed toward the stairway.
Unexpectedly, just as he was about to fly up, he suddenly fell like an angel with broken wings, crashing onto the first step with a “boom!”.
“What...”
Everyone was shocked, not knowing what this signified.
Upon reaching the step, the young man shuddered, then began running up the steps without flying.
“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!”
At this point, no one remained standing idly, everyone flew towards the staircase.
“Boom, boom, boom!”
Just like the earlier young man, they all rapidly descended the moment they reached the stairs, and their bodies shuddered simultaneously.
“Reach the end of the stairs to Heaven, to attain godhood!”
Everyone, including Du Gang, received this message.
Surprisingly, Du Gang could fly.
While everyone else was unable to fly, he could!
Seeing this, Du Gang quickly turned into a beam of light, flying towards the end of the stairway on one path.
“What...”
Everyone envied him, but they couldn’t help it.
At this point, someone quickly left the staircase, attempting to fly towards the end of the staircase.
Strangely, no matter how much he flew, he couldn’t bypass the first step; the distance between him and the first step remained the same.
“To proceed, we must climb the stairs!”
At this moment, everyone understood!
“Go!”
On each staircase, there were people running fast, taking the lead.
Seeing this, everyone quickly chose a staircase and pursued them.
The staircase wasn’t long, only having ten thousand steps. Du Gang flew to the end in an instant.
“Hmm?!”
He stood at the end of the stairs, somewhat puzzling.
“Wasn’t it said that I had achieved God Spirit Level? Why isn’t there any reaction?!”
At this moment, he was standing at the last step, shaking left and right, with no reaction whatsoever.
Seeing this, he jumped onto the end of another set of stairs next to him, and just like before, nothing happened.
It seemed as though, all these had nothing to do with him!
Watching this, Du Gang twitched the corner of his mouth. At first when he could fly, he thought it was the convenience created by his ancestor, the Supreme Pangu, and praised him endlessly in his heart.
But now it seems that the Supreme Pangu simply didn’t want him to participate at all!
Damn it, isn’t this a screw over?!
Supreme Pangu, I am your descendant!
Du Gang with a helpless expression, still tried walking to the end of each of the nine sets of stairs, with no response whatsoever. In the end, he could only give up and fly back along the path he came from.
At this moment, everyone on the nine paths was fighting at the one-hundredth step, including the youth who first came out, he was also stopped here.
However, Du Gang was able to judge from their fighting prowess and the aftermath of the fight that there was a certain restriction on the stairs.
“Boom!”
At this moment, a youth was blasted out of the stairs. However, when he tried to return, he was astonished to find that he was blocked outside the stairs.
An invisible and unseeable air shield appeared within the range of the stairs.
“Damn it!”
The youth cursed quietly and quickly flew back along the path he came from. He soon reached the first stair, this time he swooped down, successfully got on to the stairs, and quickly chased after the others.
“So, it’s like this. As soon as you were knocked off the stairs, you have to start all over again?!”
At this moment, Du Gang looked like a bystander, floating in mid-air, quietly watching the whole event.
Suddenly, he noticed that Jiang Wenxing was leading on one of the paths, about to reach the two hundredth step.
“Hehe!”
Instantly, Du Gang revealed an interesting smile and quickly flew toward Jiang Wenxing.
“Sky Breaking Stance!”
At this moment, he directly unleashed his strongest attack!
Jiang Wenxing was startled and rapidly prepared to resist.
However, in the next second, Du Gang’s strike was blocked by the air shield around the stairs.
“Damn, can’t you be more reasonable!”
Du Gang wore a helpless expression, “Are you not letting me intervene?!”
Seeing this, Jiang Wenxing, who was situated within the stairs, immediately heaved a sigh of relief, shot Du Gang a cold sneer, and continued running forward.
“World forces?”
Du Gang tried to unfold his world forces. What surprised him was that the world forces were successfully launched.
However, when he struck Jiang Wenxing with the world forces, it failed once more.
So, I can’t attack people?!
Du Gang wondered in his heart, “What about pulling someone into my internal world?!”
He wanted to try, but the people present had regained their abilities, and the weakest among them could compare with the Four Law Domain Lord level. His world forces couldn’t pull them in.
It was normal. World forces generally can only pull in those who have no resistance or voluntarily enter.
In this way, everyone was both walking and fighting. Those who won continued to move forward while those who lost had to start over.
Normally, ten thousand steps actually weren’t that far to walk. You could easily walk the whole way if each step was like those at the beginning. However, judging by their footsteps, there is clearly some restriction inside; the further they walked, the slower they got, indirectly providing others a chance.
Or maybe, everyone had a chance. Even if they were kicked out, they could always start from the beginning again!
As fighters defeated in battle were still able to return to the steps, gradually, some people started to get impatient.
Before, they were fighting until one was driven off the steps.
Who knew, it was meaningless doing that. The opponent could still return to the steps.
Therefore, some stronger individuals started to get ruthless.
“Bang!”
A youth whose strength was only at the Four Law Domain Lord level was heavily hit by a stronger person and sent flying.
“Puh!”
At this moment, the youth suffered severe injuries, coughing up a lot of blood.
He tried to return to the stairs, but his body couldn’t support him and he vomited blood again, appearing about to fall at any moment.
Nevertheless, he was still unwilling to give up and tried returning to the stairs, forcibly got to the entrance of the first step and stepped on it again.
When he caught up with the others again, this time he was in worse condition, hit by the aftermath of the others’ fighting
“Bang!”
This time, it was injury upon injury, he was thoroughly knocked out and fainted.
“Ouch, don’t tell me he is going to die!”
Du Gang spoke with great pity, simultaneously trying to unleash the power of the world and take him in.
“Whoosh!”
In an instant, the young man was taken into his inner world.
He he!
Du Gang let out a silly laugh and quickly cast part of his consciousness into his inner world.
Inspecting the physical condition of the youth, he discovered that he had simply fainted from exhaustion, his powerful physique making his life force extraordinarily tenacious.
Seeing this, he didn’t hesitate and directly tied him to the third pillar.
“This...”
Little Hawk King and Long Aotian looked at the young man in surprise and panic.
The youth was seen to be bloodied, his flesh fuzzy to look at, appearing extremely brutal.
“Poor guy, beaten into this by Du Gang, huh?!”
The two shared a glance but dared not speak. Knowing better than to swallow a loss under one’s nose, they were both captives currently. Provoking Du Gang to be unhappy would be unpredictable.
They were more so afraid of enduring inhumanly cruelty than being beaten or killed. That was something they could not tolerate.
But Du Gang paid them no mind. Confirming the youth wouldn’t die, he quickly left.
This time, he wore a smile, his eyes shining brightly, staring unblinkingly at the people on the nine paths.
Soon, another youth was knocked off the steps, seeing this, Du Gang quickly reached out with the power of the world to draw him in.
But it was a pity that the youth still had the power to resist, quickly breaking free, while cautiously glancing at Du Gang.
He eventually did not provoke Du Gang. After all, Du Gang seemed unconcerned compared to the others constantly battling on the steps.
Watching the youth return to the steps and continue fighting, Du Gang expressed a look of regret, but quickly recovered.
He quickly flew above the crowd, constantly inspecting, waiting for someone to fall into a coma like the first youth who was pulled into his inner world.
“I’m not harming people, I’m saving them!”
Soon, another boy was punched in the chest, and the whole person fell unconscious the moment he flew off the steps.
Seeing this, Du Gang did not hesitate to quickly draw him into his inner world and immediately examine his injury.
After finding that he was still alive but barely breathing, Du Gang thought for a moment, then took out some Ganoderma Lucidum given by the too aged spirit race earlier, broke off a small piece, and fed it to him.
“Boom!”
The ganoderma was indeed extraordinary. Just a small piece unleashed infinite life force.
The youth’s life breath immediately stabilized, and not only that, the hole in his chest began to recover at this moment.
“Bala, record this, ganoderma is expensive, their clan has to pay for it!”
Long Aotian could not help but say, “You beat someone to this state, then save them, and you have the nerve...”
Du Gang glanced at this honest boy and smiled, saying, “Who told you I hurt him?!”
“Not you?!”
Long Aotian and Little Hawk King shared a glance and furrowed their brows, “If not you then how could they...”
Suddenly, the two seemed to realize something, “Could it be that, there has been some unprecedented opportunity outside, and they started fighting for it?!”
Du Gang nodded and laughed, “Yes, an opportunity to become a god has appeared outside, a total of eighteen...”
“What?!!”
This cosmos felt like an entirely separate world outside the universe, devoid of any signs of life. All the planets had stopped moving; among them, some of the planets closer to the torn space were split in half with the cut surface incredibly smooth as if someone had sliced them with a blade.
Below that, there were some planets visibly cracked open, revealing the decaying and dead cores at their centers.
The entire space was filled with deathly stillness!
“Is this... The inner Divine Kingdom of the Supreme Pangu?”
He had heard that at God Spirit Level, gods could construct complete worlds, ceaselessly expand it and when they attained the True God Level, they would breed a universe, transforming the world they built into planets to develop their cosmic Divine Kingdom.
Just then, a memory spanning across epochs flooded into his mind.
At the same time, he saw it!
Before his eyes, a giant suddenly appeared. The giant was colossal; the only thing that could serve as a point of reference were the tiny planets around him.
At this moment, the previously ruined cosmos existed no more and the world was in a state of prosperity. Satellites orbited around planets, planets around constant stars, constant stars around core stars, forming a perfect image of the natural operations of the cosmic law.
At this moment, the incredibly tall giant suddenly pulled out a colossal axe that was as large as his body.
Sky-Opening Axe!
At this moment, such a term emerged in Du Gang’s mind.
Simultaneously, he realized that the giant before his eyes was Pangu!
He was witnessing what had happened over 10 billion years ago!
“Boom!”
Just before Pangu swung his axe down, Du Gang felt as though he had transcended time and space once again and saw the world outside.
An eggshell!
The eggshell symbolizing the Primordial Continent!
Beyond the eggshell was nothing but silence.
No, wait...
Suddenly, Du Gang saw something subtly amiss in the darkness from the outside world.
Surrounding the eggshell were clusters of black, writhing fur. The fur was so dark, Du Gang wouldn’t have made it out if it wasn’t moving.
What is this thing?
Du Gang was utterly puzzled!
As the fur wriggled, to his horror, he realized that the surrounding space seemed to shrivel as if it were being swallowed and started to shrink.
“Is this... the Entropy border?!”
Du Gang was left aghast. Beyond the fur, he sensed nothing but deathly stillness, devoid of any signs of life.
Before he could get a clear view, the world began to blur and the figure of Pangu appeared before him once again.
He saw him wielding the giant axe, and after a one-second pause, he resolutely chopped it towards his inner Divine Kingdom.
“Boom!”
At this moment, a massive explosion occurred!
A black dot appeared around the ‘eggshell,’ gradually expanding!
This was the channel connecting to Pangu’s inner Divine Kingdom. As the black dot grew larger, countless pieces of world fragments surfaced, spreading out crazily in all directions.
At the same time, the fur that had been devouring the whole space was forcibly spread apart at this moment.
The vision ended here!
Outside the temple.
Countless God Spirit Level powerhouses sensed something grand at this moment.
“What is that?!”
Countless beings released the divine within them, flying toward the sky above the temple.
Quietly sensing something mysterious.
In a place they could not see, an old man was watching the temple, his eyes seemed to penetrate through time and space.
“Sigh!”
After a long time, he finally sighed.
The World Creation by Pangu Supreme was not a secret among the elites!
Though it was not a secret to him, it was incredibly shocking to these newly born God Spirit Level powerhouses.
At this moment, the temple world was unstable, witnessing this tiny trace of shattering power, they also saw the same scene as Du Gang.
“Pangu... World Creation!”
“My God, is our universe actually created by Pangu Supreme?!”
“The universe we live in is actually the internal world of Pangu Supreme...”
Many God Spirits were shocked, the light emitted by the divine flickered in astonishment.
“So this is the truth...”
Du Gang uttered to himself, the mystery of the universe that he had never understood since childhood was finally fully revealed today.
The World Creation by Pangu was indeed this!
When the ‘eggshell’ was about to perish, someone stepped forward to create the world, holding the entire world together!
The fact that Pangu Supreme was forced to cleave his divine kingdom within him to decelerate the decay of the Primordial Continent revealed that the fuzzy substance was something even more terrifying, something even the Supreme couldn’t cope with!
“Buzz!”
At this moment, Du Gang found that the world within himself was making a buzzing sound.
“What’s happening?!”
The power of the world expanded rapidly at this moment, enveloping the entire remaining lifeless world.
“This...!”
Du Gang looked shocked, “My inner world wants to devour this broken universe?!”
Wrong!
Rather than saying his inner world wanted to devour this universe, it was more accurate to say that this broken universe wanted him to devour it.
“Boom!”
A giant crack suddenly opened in the sky, and the whole broken universe, as if revived, rushed towards the temporarily exposed inner world.
“Damn it, what is that thing, Du Gang save me!”
In the inner world, all nineteen selected ones screamed in shock at the falling universe.
Although the broken universe was in shambles, the force it carried was undiminished, crushing down onto the inner world’s more than a million square kilometers of land with unstoppable vigor.
Du Gang immediately sent a fraction of his consciousness into the inner world and quickly moved the nineteen captives from the center of the continent to the periphery.
“Du Gang, what are you doing? What is that thing?!”
The nineteen people were shocked, watching the universe in the distance continue to fall, they were speechless.
Du Gang himself was speechless too, he had no control over this.
It was as if the two worlds were meant to come together, without a single gap or contradiction.
Only at this moment did he realize that the Life Space that Du Kang left him was a part of this universe.
“You devoured a universe?”
Long Aotian mumbled with a slur.
As proud as he was, he was trembling, looking horrified.
“No one has ever heard of someone devouring a universe...”
“No, this might not be an existing universe...”
Someone noticed the desolate condition of the universe above their heads and shook his head, “This might be some kind of broken universe!”
“Normally, only those who have reached the True God Level can start to turn continents into planets and gradually hatch their universe...”
“Great Power can hatch eternal stars within, the Kings can hatch their core...”
“He...”
“We are now in the temple world, could this broken universe of his be from Pangu Supreme?!”
At this moment, everyone was so shocked that they were speechless.
If the news of Du Gang absorbing Pangu Supreme’s universe got out, it would definitely cause an uproar.
“What can he do... after absorbing this broken universe?”
“I don’t know, I’ve never heard of anyone absorbing someone else’s inner world before...”
The inner world, even if the God Spirit Level powerhouse dies, his inner world would later turn into relics, also, due to the loss of energy, it will gradually fade away and eventually disappear.
“The Supreme Pangu has a history of over one hundred billion years, right?!”
“His internal world still exists...”
Without the support of energy, this barren universe managed to survive for billion years!
Under everyone’s gaze, the broken universe gradually squeezed into Du Gang’s internal world, finally hovering above the continent.
“Incredible!”
At this moment, each prodigy was awed. They all have encountered planets, constant stars, and their nuclei, but this was the first time they had such a close observation and in such a manner.
As the broken universe completely flowed into Du Gang’s internal world, a divine thought that supported the entire temple also drilled into Du Gang’s mind.
“Boom!”
At this moment, he felt like his head had exploded.
Countless information flooded in, threatening to blow his head apart.
Fortunately, this feeling only lasted for an instant, and the influx of information was over.
Finally, the moment it all entered, a cultivation method appeared in Du Gang’s mind.
“World Creation,” a supreme technique created by the Supreme Pangu.
It was this “World Creation” that blew open his entire universe, forming the current universe.
One can imagine how terrifying the power it contains!
It can be said that even among the Heavenly Level Cultivation Methods, this World Creation is considered top notch!
The only thing that Du Gang regretted was that this method, when performed with an axe, had the most significant effect.
Not only that, if an axe is used for practice during learning, it would considerably increase the efficiency.
As Du Gang absorbed this divine thought into his body, the eighteen figures in the world of night and day all trembled at this moment, and the Sound of the Dao rang out.
“Buzz!”
At this moment, eighteen of them collectively ascended to the Eternal Level!
Unlike Kong Xu, they didn’t have to endure the same tribulations. They didn’t have to cross the tribulation or they had theirs erased by the supreme divine thought.
“Was it that easy?”
Du Gang was floating in the black and white world at this moment, his gaze seeming to pierce the void, quietly watching these eighteen individuals.
“Boom!”
Eighteen dazzling lights flickered, and eighteen divine beings descended.
“Du Gang, I owe you one, I will help if there is trouble!”
Yao Zixuan was the first to jump out and make a promise.
She was the one who believed in karma most. If she didn’t believe, she wouldn’t have traded with Du Gang first.
Because she believed, she was willing to do so.
And karma is normally something stronger powers pay attention to.
It can only be said that Yao Zixuan is extraordinarily talented, having such high comprehension at such a young age.
At this moment, not only her, but others also understood something the moment they ascended to the Eternal Level.
“I owe karma...”
At this moment, Jiang Wenxing looked complicated, looking at Du Gang with a tangled gaze.
At this moment, Du Gang was also looking at him. For him, whether Jiang Wenxing returned the karmic debt was inconsequential; he didn’t care.
But Jiang Wenxing was helpless, he sighed and finally said, “Du Gang, I owe you a karma. Until this karmic debt is cleared, I will not trouble you...”
“Sigh~”
He sighed. Did the Jiang Family have a grudge against the Ancient God?
He didn’t know, as the Ancient God was already gone when he was born.
However, some people in the clan said so and offered high prices for them to target the Ancient God, as for the actual grievances, they didn’t know, or were not privileged to know.
Even Jiang Wenxing acknowledged the karmic debt at this moment, let alone others. Everyone spoke up.
“If there is trouble, I will come when called!”
Du Gang chuckled.
He has acquired eighteen more God Spirit Level strong beings. Although they are only First Tribulation Gods, these guys have extremely high talents. Their karma will be long-lived if he doesn’t use them.
He still has forty-six Divine Summoning Talismans, which means he might not use these people for a long time.
But that’s fine, it’s not late to use them when their strength becomes formidable.
By then, they might reach the True God Level...
If that time came, even if he couldn’t break through to True God, he wouldn’t be afraid.
“Boom!”
As all eighteen people ascended to the Eternal Level, the temple world began to collapse.
Ps: My editor mentioned that many readers dropped off at three points—Chapter 30 (written during a busy time with two books), Chapter 65 (the parents died because I wasn’t skillful at writing emotional scenes), and when the story shifted from wasteland to cosmic fantasy, losing a lot of readers. My editor said it could have been a popular book—the chief editor was personally following it and the general editor was paying attention, but it was a pity in the end.
If any friend has spare time, please help me out. Leave some positive comments, pour a couple more drinks, and blow up some hype... Too many readers dropped off early on. Begging you! I, Orange Cat, am on my knees! Hereby promising to update at least 1 million words this month: No upward limit! Even if I fail the ranking and have my lineage cut off, as long as I’m alive, I’ll keep writing—until my tendons rupture, my spine snaps, hemorrhoids crystallize, my prostate enlarges, and I go blind. If I’m not dead, the fight continues!!)