Translator: CinderTL
Buzz!
Two days later.
Mist shrouded the ruins of Qinggang City.
As another Light Orb was completely drained, the world plunged once more into absolute icy darkness.
Unsurprised, Chen Feng silently raised his head, gazing at the ethereal Golden Palace suspended high in the sky.
As if sensing his gaze, the Heroic Spirit Hall suddenly solidified, becoming more tangible.
The massive, majestic palace gates slowly creaked open, revealing glimpses of stone tablets engraved with countless names and humanoid statues flanking the entrance, each bearing an Angel Fire Seed.
[Yan Changkong], [Pandor], [Meister].
Transcendent-Realm Martial Artists renowned for their swordsmanship, Envoy Rank angels with unique abilities, and even Lower-Ranking Angel-level Extraordinary Ones.
These were the names of the first generation of Angel Fire Seeds, each possessing extraordinary power.
Every time Chen Feng witnessed this scene, his anticipation grew stronger, fueling his desire to gather the final two Fragments of Divinity as soon as possible.
Buzz!
The palace trembled.
The golden gates opened only a quarter of the way, releasing streams of glowing particles.
White, pale red, blue.
The palace rained down these luminous specks like meteors, filling the sky with a celestial shower.
The remnants of the High Wall Alliance's will—spiritual sparks and Fire Seeds—were now transforming into a new civilization's legacy.
Chen Feng watched silently as the tiny sparks drifted past him.
Focusing his Perception, he clearly saw the pitch-black Qinggang City Dreamscape once again dotted with flickering lights.
It resembled the pre-dawn sky, with lanterns gradually lighting up the night.
"The legacy of civilization..."
His gaze flickered with emotion, and Chen Feng felt a pang of melancholy.
It was precisely through this inheritance from the High Wall Alliance that he had risen to become the pinnacle of martial arts on Earth.
And it was through this same legacy that the Fire Seeds of this world had been preserved, gradually leaving an indelible mark upon Earth.
Buzz!
The Golden Palace high above shimmered into translucence once more.
The countless sparks that had scattered across Qinggang City began to slowly merge into the void, as if overlapping from another dimension.
The pitch-black city lit up with new lights, like beacons of hope, radiating an extraordinary warmth.
Yet Chen Feng's intuition ran deep.
He suspected that these Light Orbs of civilization's Fire Seeds were not infinite.
They represented the remaining power of the High Wall Alliance's civilization, and their total number must have a finite limit.
The Heroic Spirit Hall might merely be a special vessel for inheritance, and the remaining Fire Seed Light Orbs within it would inevitably be depleted one day.
As these thoughts swirled through his mind, Chen Feng's expression grew unusually solemn.
He understood that each Light Orb was precious and must be used to its fullest potential. Only by doing so could he ensure that his martial arts path wouldn't suddenly stagnate at some dead end.
Boom!
A muffled roar shattered his train of thought.
Chen Feng refocused, his gaze sweeping across the pitch-black darkness beyond the High Wall.
The ocean-like black mist churned endlessly, and new non-human creatures swarmed toward him.
Thousands upon thousands of crimson eyes blanketed the sky, accompanied by countless cruel figures.
Among them loomed several colossal angels, hundreds of meters tall, radiating an aura of divine authority.
Some possessed bat wings that blotted out the sky like giant dragons.
Others had hundreds of spindly legs, resembling centipedes, their bodies covered in crimson compound eyes.
The weakest among them were at the peak of the Envoy Rank, while the headless two-winged giant leading the charge rivaled a Lower-Ranking Angel.
Boom!
The earth trembled, and the air distorted.
Standing atop the ruins of a skyscraper, Chen Feng remained unmoved. Instead, sensing a subtle shift, a flicker of anticipation crossed his face.
"Has the transformation ended?"
For two full days, he had remained within the Niduo Embassy.
A faint new pulse finally emanated from the brilliant platinum in Chen Feng's mind. Sensing through their mental link, he detected the Holy Shield Colossus's pent-up violent emotions, eager to be unleashed.
"It's yours," Chen Feng said quietly, wanting to witness the Holy Shield Colossus's current power.
Whoosh!
At that moment, the world trembled.
A black shadow, moving like a beam of light, transformed into a straight black line, hurtling closer.
The pitch-black sky split in two as a dark dragon with bat wings descended before him. It opened its massive jaws, stretched its serpentine body, and spewed a stream of bone-corroding Black Flame from its cavernous maw.
Boom!
Simultaneously, the earth fractured.
The ruined buildings before him crumbled into rubble as a hundred-legged centipede, its emergence from the ground unnoticed, burrowed through the earth.
Its hundreds of clawed legs whirred like intricate gears, slicing through everything in its path and causing the buildings to collapse in a thunderous roar.
A swarm of crimson compound eyes snapped open, emitting an eerie glow that enveloped Chen Feng, solidifying his Physical Body and spirit.
Whoosh!
The Black Flame, bone-corroding and pillar-like, surged forth.
The two angel creatures coordinated flawlessly, intent on reducing Chen Feng to ashes.
Yet Chen Feng, his gaze deep and unwavering, merely watched the approaching assault in silence.
Until—
Thump!
The platinum solidified, erupting into a towering pillar of light.
Like a beacon in the night, it tore through the darkness, illuminating everything.
Buzz!
The world shifted, and all motion froze.
The crimson, malevolent Mental Shock and the bone-corroding Black Flame that had been pouring down like a waterfall instantly dissipated.
A platinum giant, towering between heaven and earth, stood before Chen Feng.
Endless platinum light radiated from its body, forming a radiant Barrier that enveloped the surrounding ruined city, expanding outward inch by inch.
"Roar!!"
The mutated black-winged giant dragon in the sky sensed the change and roared in fury.
Visible to the naked eye, its body began to petrify, inch by inch. Even the dark, glowing Black Flame gathering in its maw rapidly solidified, transforming into deathly pale ash along with its scales.
The compound-eyed angel, resembling a hundred-legged centipede, suffered a similar fate.
Its massive body writhed in vain, as if fused to the ground, steadily transitioning into lifeless white ash. All its power rapidly waned.
"Petrification?" Chen Feng narrowed his eyes, recognizing the phenomenon.
This ability bore a striking resemblance to that of the Lava Lord.
Just as the two angel creatures were about to be completely petrified, turning into lifeless statues amidst the ruined city,
Whoosh!
A black beam, a hundred meters thick, shot forth like lightning. The headless two-winged giant in the distance had sensed the anomaly and unleashed its full power.
The entire Qinggang City trembled, and a mental shockwave reverberated through the air.
Chen Feng's mind jolted, and he narrowed his eyes.
Within the black pillar of light, he saw countless human faces writhing in agony, their anguished cries echoing through the air, and felt an overwhelming surge of resentment.
His spirit shuddered. He hadn't realized this angel creature also possessed some form of mental power.
The black pillar hurtled closer, carrying the lamentations of countless destroyed civilizations, and slammed into the Holy Shield Colossus.
Boom!!!
The heavens roared, and fissures tore through the ruined city.
The kilometer-wide crater continued to expand, as if struck by a high-energy missile, unleashing a raging storm.
At the epicenter, the Holy Shield Colossus was engulfed by endless black energy, its body corroding, its radiance dimming. Countless pale hands clawed at it, as if trying to drag it from its divine altar.
Defeat seemed imminent.
But at that critical moment...
Hum!!
The Colossus's long-sealed stone eyes snapped open, radiating boundless majesty.
The rhombus crystal on its forehead erupted with a soaring platinum light, projecting the Holy Shield Colossus's crown into the sky, where it materialized into a new, colossal mountain range.
Boom!!
In an instant, the world roared, and Qinggang City seemed to vanish completely.
A vast, pale gray land stretched before Chen Feng, with tens of thousands of sand and dust tornadoes spiraling skyward.
Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!
The rampaging black light solidified and shattered. The giant black dragon and the centipede crashed to the ground simultaneously, their bodies collapsing into fragments with a thunderous impact.
"This is..."
His eyes gleaming with clarity, Chen Feng focused his senses.
A colossal mental power enveloped everything, almost forming a self-contained realm.
The surrounding kilometers were filled with endless pale gray hues. The headless two-winged giant in the distance was also drawn into this space, standing rigidly on the ashen sand.
Twisting sand and dust tornadoes, like Flood Dragon chains, coiled around it, binding it in place.
At the same moment, a massive shadow blotted out the sky, looming over the earth and closing in on the giant.
"The embryonic form of a spiritual world?"
Startled by this possibility, Chen Feng looked up.
The Holy Shield Colossus's body continued to rise like a moving mountain, surpassing a thousand meters and soaring toward ten thousand, nearly merging with the pale gray landscape.
Its clenched right fist, now a meteor-like mass, descended from the heavens, crushing the sky!
Boom!!
Finally, the fist descended from the heavens.
The Holy Shield Colossus's fist, as heavy as a mountain, crashed violently into the headless giant's body.
Boom!!
A muffled explosion reverberated through the air, shaking the very soul.
Layers of shockwaves erupted outward, shattering sandstorms into dust.
As the dust settled, Chen Feng squinted to see.
The platinum-lit spiritual vision vanished, and he returned to his senses, finding himself once again in the mist-shrouded ruins of Qinggang City.
The preceding events seemed like a hallucination.
But upon closer inspection, a massive crater several kilometers in diameter had appeared out of nowhere at the city's edge, obliterating the surrounding High Wall.
The Holy Shield Colossus, which had been standing nearby moments ago, now stood kilometers away, its platinum aura blazing undiminished, driving back the encroaching black mist.
Cracking sounds echoed across the earth as fissures spread from the crater beneath its feet.
Skyscrapers collapsed in the aftershocks, and the earlier dark dragon, centipede, and even the headless giant—comparable to a Lower-Ranking Angel—had vanished without a trace.
"So this is the first stage of transformation..."
Chen Feng's eyes shone with satisfaction. He had now roughly assessed the Holy Shield Colossus's true power.
Approaching the level of a High-Ranking Angel, even surpassing himself by mastering the rudimentary form of the spiritual world ahead of time.
With a single thought, he could create his own domain.
His body transformed into mountains, his will became the earth.
With this power, any enemy below the rank of High-Ranking Angel was merely a single strike away from annihilation.
Buzz!!
The relentless wind and waves continued to surge.
Chen Feng looked up and saw dozens, even hundreds, of sandstorm tornadoes rising into the sky, towering above like an even more formidable defense than the city's High Wall.
Most of the Black Tide Creatures outside the city were instantly annihilated, unable to breach even a fraction of the barrier.
This spectacle caused the Blood Moon high above to tremble once more, as if disturbing some fundamental law.
A sudden chill ran through Chen Feng's heart.
He looked up and saw the Blood Moon vanish abruptly, as if closing its eyes.
Then, in the next instant—
Boom!!
Crimson lightning erupted, crisscrossing the sky like a dense web of electric fire.
The crimson moon reappeared, and Chen Feng suddenly felt an instinctive sense of being watched, goosebumps erupting across his skin.
The reason became clear: the single moon in the sky had split into two identical Blood Moons.
It was as if two pairs of eyes were staring down, piercing through space and dimensions.
Chen Feng's expression turned grave, a bone-chilling cold spreading through his body.
Boom!!
In the next instant, before Chen Feng could react, a crimson bolt of lightning descended with overwhelming force. Thousands of meters thick, it nearly illuminated the entire world.
His pupils contracted as Chen Feng felt the approach of death for the first time.
This was a force of utter annihilation, the natural enemy of all life. He had no doubt that if struck, his very essence would be extinguished.
Yet there was nowhere to dodge, nowhere to escape.
The crimson lightning engulfed nearly half of Qinggang City, hurtling toward him with the speed of light.
Buzz!!
At the critical moment, the Golden Palace materialized once more, solidifying into existence.
A golden pillar of light erupted from the palace, forming a protective Barrier that shielded Qinggang City from above.
Boom!!
The two terrifying forces collided with earth-shattering impact. The world fell silent for a split second before erupting in a deafening roar.
Crackling!!
The thunderous echoes reverberated as the earth fractured and split.
Chen Feng's mind reeled, his eardrums throbbing in agony.
Qinggang City trembled violently as fissures in the ground swallowed collapsing buildings.
The Holy Shield Colossus swiftly retreated to defend him, positioning itself at his side.
Seizing the opportunity, Chen Feng tilted his head back and gazed upward.
The Golden Palace stood as the final bastion, radiating golden light that filled the sky and coalesced into a brilliant shield.
Though the darkness and crimson lightning were blocked, they pressed relentlessly against the barrier like a massive black hand gripping a blood-stained spear of destruction, seeking to shatter the defense.
A power surpassing even the angels...
A primal instinct surged through Chen Feng as he stared intently at the clash of these two forces.
He was certain this power far exceeded the level of High-Ranking Angels, dwarfing even the oppressive presence of the Evil God Angels he had encountered before.
It felt like the source of the Black Tide itself, the sovereign of chaos.
Deathly silence, icy cold, utter annihilation...
These malevolent sensations radiated outward, causing Chen Feng's body—as resilient as rainbow iron—to suddenly writhe with flesh, sprouting countless tiny buds across his skin.
This sudden, grotesque transformation startled him, accompanied by a chorus of chilling whispers in his ears.
"Is it an Evil God?"
His face darkened as Chen Feng focused his mind.
The Wrath of the Storm and his mental power merged into one, transforming him into a raging, volcanic inferno.
Crackling, popping
Explosive sounds erupted from within his body, as if shattering the encroaching corruption.
The vital flesh and blood on his body's surface writhed under suppression, with tiny buds of flesh repeatedly growing and retracting in a relentless tug-of-war between opposing forces.
Time passed, minute by minute.
After an unknown duration, just as Chen Feng began to feel his energy reserves draining rapidly, his body suddenly lightened. He looked up.
The crimson lightning had vanished, and the golden barrier that had blanketed the sky was gradually fading into nothingness.
The invisible corrosive force was receding. He internally examined himself, finding his body intact, with no lingering aftereffects.
"Is it over?"
The thought arose as he glanced skyward.
In the next instant—
Boom!!
A slender crimson lightning bolt suddenly descended, as if mockingly targeting the crown of his head.
Just as it was about to strike, the Golden Palace reappeared in the nick of time, erupting with a blinding golden light that shot skyward.
Thud!!
The two forces clashed again, the crimson lightning halted a mere foot above Chen Feng's head.
The golden barrier crackled and groaned, locked in a stalemate with the lightning.
Simultaneously, an invisible shockwave swept through both his physical body and spiritual world, striking him like a massive hammer blow. Chen Feng grunted, staggering as if struck by a heavy blow.
Bang!
His mind reeling, Chen Feng staggered to his feet, barely managing to steady himself.
A chill ran through his heart. After a few silent breaths, he raised a hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth.
His bloodshot eyes began to weep crimson tears. Slowly, he lifted his gaze toward the heavens.
Two Blood Moons dominated the sky, their malevolent aura surging like a tidal wave, engulfing everything.
In the end, after a prolonged stalemate, the crimson energy proved unable to overcome the golden light and finally dissipated completely.
Only the original Blood Moon remained in the sky, its howling winds relentlessly battering his body.
"Evil God..."
Standing rooted to the spot, Chen Feng allowed the twin trails of blood to trickle down his face.
Tendrils of cold light flickered across his skin as he met the Blood Moon's malevolent gaze without flinching.
Far from being demoralized or intimidated, a bone-chilling killing intent, sharp as a blade, surged within him.
"One day," he vowed, "I will personally slaughter you."
(End of the Chapter)
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