Chapter 2863: The Two Great Secrets Shattered!

He Lingchuan's state of mind had shifted from the joy of first seeing Jiuyou manifest to the current worry and caution.

If even Bai Zhandian was defeated by him, then I...

I have to face both Dimu and Jiuyou at once—greater difficulty than Bai Zhandian faced!

At this moment, he regretted deeply: why did I separate from Bai Zhandian?

"This guy can control a gravity field!" Dimu growled, "I hate fighting him."

It had figured out that Tongming Zhenjun wasn't strong in power or speed, but he could freely adjust gravity within the field, making Dimu's attacks uncertain. The fluctuating gravity caused the stone giant to either punch air or trip himself.

This feeling of power being useless was truly suffocating!

"Just join Cangyan, and you can use primordial power to oppose divine power." He Lingchuan smiled, "Didn't I tell you that earlier?"

"Ugh, I don't like it." Dimu pouted. It simply disliked joining major powers—too unfree.

"Alright, I have a way." He Lingchuan rubbed his right hand on his left wrist, then pointed at Dimu and said, "Go."

A faint light flashed. Dimu lowered its head and found a bracelet on its wrist, shaped like a gold snake biting its own tail.

After the bracelet was fastened on Dimu's wrist, the snake head suddenly rose, and its eyes flashed red.

Immediately, Dimu felt its whole body loosen, an indescribable sense of ease.

It raised its iron fist again and pounded Tongming Zhenjun with a barrage of blows. Amazingly, despite still being inside the gravity field, it felt no effect from Tongming Zhenjun's gravity control!

Tongming Zhenjun's face changed drastically; he retreated swiftly, but Dimu clung like a shadow, unleashing speed utterly mismatched to its size, chasing him around the field and pummeling him.

So refreshing, this time it's refreshing! Dimu finally regained its strength and agility, couldn't help laughing: "Come on, come on, why don't you dare fight me fairly?"

Why does wearing the snake bracelet grant immunity to the field? It didn't care to ask further—first beat Tongming Zhenjun senseless, then talk!

Tongming Zhenjun focused on dodging its fist wind, no time to speak. Being hit by this stone giant's punch would have serious consequences.

Yet he was utterly puzzled in his heart: why!

Why can Dimu be immune to his gravity field?

Needless to say, it must be related to the snake bracelet Jiuyou gave it.

This thing... Tongming Zhenjun's gaze fell on the bracelet—what a rich divine aura!

What exactly is this divinity, and why does it feel somewhat familiar to him?

And He Lingchuan's wrist also bore a snake-shaped bracelet, only its eyes were black.

One divinity, split into two?

Not strange—some heavenly gods can cast their divinity as a magical artifact and even create avatars, like the Order Divinity of Jiaolou Tian, which can attach to multiple subordinates simultaneously to quickly absorb energy.

And in He Lingchuan's eyes as a candidate for the God of Fate, with Tongming Zhenjun as the center, the space within thirty zhang was filled with dark gray particles, like smoke dust floating in the air, densely occupying every inch, leaving no blind spot.

No matter how the wind blew, these particles remained unmoved, drifting slowly.

Whenever an external object entered this space—such as the stone giant—these dark gray particles would actively attach to it, like butterflies flying to nectar.

They covered it extremely uniformly, 360 degrees with no blind spot; every inch of an intruder's surface would be seized by them.

Of course, Dimu felt nothing, because these gray particles were not truly existent but manifestations given form by the God of Fate's divinity for He Lingchuan, just like the red threads he had seen in Bai Zhandian's power runes before.

They marked a kind of causality.

The runes Bai Zhandian placed on the battlefield could absorb lost biological energy and transfer it to himself. Thus, the relationship between Bai Zhandian's divinity and runes was embodied as red threads.

Likewise, within Tongming Zhenjun's gravity field, any intruder is affected by gravity factors, so this causality manifests as gray particles.

When He Lingchuan dealt with Bai Zhandian, to prevent him from drawing energy from the runes, he had to sever those few causal red threads.

But when dealing with Tongming Zhenjun, what he needed to do was not sever, but detach—peel Dimu entirely out of this causal relationship and make it independent.

No causality.

Then Tongming Zhenjun's gravity field could no longer affect Dimu's movements.

The gold snake bracelet He Lingchuan gave Dimu—that is, an avatar of the God of Fate's divinity—could achieve exactly that.

As long as it was unaffected by Tongming Zhenjun's gravity field, Dimu would instantly recover twelve-tenths of its divine power.

So far, Tongming Zhenjun's two great secrets against strong enemies—his immortal body and gravity field—had both been easily cracked by the opponent.

Even though he usually prided himself on his clever strategies, now he felt somewhat helpless. Clearly, Jiuyou knew his signature techniques and his deepest secrets like the back of his hand; otherwise, he couldn't have made such preparations in advance.

What kind of traitor has appeared in the heavenly realm?

Tongming Zhenjun cursed inwardly, struggled to dodge Dimu's barrage of hammer blows, then suddenly bent down and snatched something from Yunqing Shen's embrace, making a very abrupt move.

In the midst of such fierce combat, he actually bent down, rummaged twice on Yunqing Shen's corpse, and pulled out something—

That wooden ant nest.

Only then did Dimu realize that Tongming Zhenjun had been fighting while moving toward Yunqing Shen's corpse. Yunqing Shen had used flying ants to search for the Secret Realm's exit, and had indeed just found it.

Now Tongming Zhenjun held the ant nest; his divine sense communicated with the ant queen in the court, requiring no verbal inquiry, and he obtained the Secret Realm's exit location.

He ordered all the heavenly demons, himself leading the way, turning and rushing toward the exit.

Tongming Zhenjun had thought it through clearly: once the gravity field failed, he would struggle to handle the tireless stone giant in this Secret Realm, let alone with Jiuyou the Great Emperor eyeing him like a tiger. His only chance to turn the tide was to leave this Secret Realm as soon as possible and meet up with Jiaolou Tian.

Jiaolou Tian itself was immensely powerful, with countless heavenly gods under its command; adding Tongming Zhenjun, even if they couldn't instantly kill Jiuyou, escaping Dimu's plains posed no problem at all.

A mistaken decision. When they first discovered the Panlong Secret Realm entrance, if Jiaolou Tian had waited just another quarter hour, Jiuyou couldn't have picked them off one by one, and Bai Zhandian wouldn't have died.

Tongming Zhenjun also understood that back then, Jiaolou Tian must have been anxious to crush the Panlong Secret Realm before Jiuyou arrived. But such a tiny oversight bore the bitter fruit of irreversible consequences.