Chapter 1204: The Situation Reverses

This voice transcended heavenly sounds, transcended Daoist thoughts, and stood above all rules and laws.

It was as if countless gods were whispering in unison, possessing the power to shatter the starry sky, capable of overturning the souls of all living beings and annihilating all existence; even the universe was shattering at this very moment.

Countless black flesh and blood crawled out from those shattered places, proliferating madly, as if they wanted to permeate all the void they could perceive into a realm of weirdness.

The speaker was none other than... God Emperor Li Zhu!

He sat upon a throne composed of countless universes. At this moment, he opened his eyes, scattering his divine sense onto every shattered piece of ice, as if looking down upon the heavens.

In an instant, the minds of all beings on the cultivators' side were in turmoil, their life flames appearing as if they were about to extinguish.

The Immortals were no exception!

The countless rubble floating in this ancient battlefield also trembled violently. Countless remains that had slumbered here since ancient times all floated up, and amidst the descent of this God Lord's will, they transformed into a long river of granular crystals.

As for the altar at the center, the lids of all three hundred and sixty magic copper coffins were lifted, forming a monstrous black Qi that erupted rumblingly in all directions, composing space-time ripples capable of tearing apart divine souls.

All of this was because of a single sentence from the God Lord!

Xu Qing, located at the edge of the altar, felt it even more intensely. At this moment, his mind was a blank, his spirit seemingly falling into silence, and his entire person felt as if he had lost all perception.

It was as if... he had become a speck of dust.

Before a God Lord-level existence, he was indeed... just a speck of dust.

Seeing the situation change drastically, at this very moment, a calm voice echoed faintly from within the vast scroll that was confronting the God Lord.

"So what if I break the agreement!"

Following the transmission of these words, the battlefield's starry sky changed violently once again.

Whether it was the shattered ice river, the formed crystals, the surging divine might and strange substances, or the proliferating infinite weird flesh and blood, everything solidified in this instant.

They transformed into endless black fog, heading straight for the painting scroll, gathering on the right index finger of the Immortal Lord who sat cross-legged within it.

Finally, they dissipated.

Only a lingering afterglow remained on the fingertip, appearing as if a layer of black ice had constructed a ring of void.

The Immortal Lord flicked his finger lightly.

The black ice on his fingertip melted instantly, and a white fire leaped upon his fingertip, branding a scorch mark like stardust.

At the same time, everything on the battlefield changed accordingly; the lids of the altar's magic copper coffins were instantly covered again, and the space-time ripples that had formed were also erased in an instant.

As for the long river of crystals that had swept across the four directions, it even rolled back into a sea of fire, filling all directions and burning with thick Immortal Spirit Qi!

The cultivators' side also recovered their spirits at this moment, and one by one, without hesitation, they beat their war drums.

The drum sounds became monstrous, rumbling through the starry sky.

Xu Qing, too, had his consciousness return. His mind was in violent turmoil, and without hesitation, he continued to retreat.

He would not simply judge that he had been betrayed by the Fifth Star Ring.

Nor would he naively think that he was so important that he was someone who could not be betrayed.

Everything, in the final analysis, actually indicated that this exchange contained other secrets.

His significance was more just to appear for a moment, allowing this exchange to have a smooth start...

The moment these thoughts surfaced in his mind, above the starry sky, the God River surged. God Lord Li Zhu, who sat there, slowly stood up, his figure so tall that it seemed even the starry sky could not contain him.

He emitted a terrifying divine might that moved mountains and overturned seas, accompanied by his voice rising again.

"Breaking an agreement for the sake of a Quasi-Immortal?"

Responding to him was not the Zhanlu Immortal Lord within the scroll, but the Jidao True Monarch who stepped out from the cultivator army.

As he stepped forward, he stood before the army, gazing at the God River, a low voice emerging from his mouth.

"God Emperor Li Zhu, with your level, there is no need to continue these concealing words. Your goal was never a Quasi-Immortal; you deliberately added this clause just to make my Master believe in this exchange."

"And now that my Master has appeared here, your goal has been achieved."

"Your true goal is nothing more than to contain my Master, allowing the tearing that had already been hidden and was seeking an opportunity to erupt in the right-wing war zone to form smoothly. And as for that place... my Master has long been clear about it and has already laid out a plan. At this moment, the war there, with God Emperor's omniscience, must be clearly known to you."

Once Jidao True Monarch's words were spoken, the God Lord on the God River remained expressionless, saying nothing.

"But for our side, God Lord, your appearance here is also our goal. Here... we will send the God Lord back to the God Homeland!"

"As for the escalation of war after killing you... your words indeed have merit, but after killing you, the combat power of both our sides will be rebalanced. So what if a full-scale war begins!"

"That is why my Master agreed to your exchange request, because at that time my Master had not fully mastered your Godhead. Now that it has been thoroughly mastered, it is precisely to... kill you here!"

Once these words were spoken, the war drums on the cultivators' side became even more intense, their emotions surged, and the momentum rose.

As for the God side, they fell into silence.

And the God Lord in the God River had a deep gaze as he looked at the Zhanlu Immortal Lord in the scroll.

"Zhanlu, it seems you have indeed probed the secret of this Emperor's Godhead, hence letting your disciple voice your inner thoughts, rather than speaking yourself."

"But, you discovered it too late."

"You cultivators always like to be self-righteous. All those previous strategies and calculations—could it be you really thought this Emperor didn't know?"

The God River surged, and the God Emperor's divine might within it spread, filling all directions.

"This God has long been clear about the secret of your left-wing lamp light, knew there was something strange about the death of my right-wing commander, and saw that this was your strategy to lure my daughter here."

"I also knew of your heart to probe this Emperor's Godhead!"

At this moment, amidst his words, he even stepped out from the God River step by step, moving toward the painting scroll.

Every step he took caused the starry sky to shatter, the battlefield to rumble, and the universe to overturn.

His divine voice also continued to echo.

"Therefore, this Emperor simply went along with your wish, pretending not to know, letting the Goddess come here, and letting her be captured by you."

"You, Zhanlu, want to probe me, and I also want to probe you!"

"You probed my divine power through the Goddess; in reality, I was also probing your Constitution and Laws through her."

"This is the true purpose of my proposing the exchange. With Feiyu as a condition, you could not possibly have disagreed."

"And I, as long as I see her once on the battlefield and hear her say a single word, I can fully know everything about her, including the results of the reverse probing I arranged."

"Now, you know my Godhead, and I know your Constitution and Laws. Zhanlu... how can you defeat me!"

The God Emperor's voice shook the universe, and even the Constitution and Laws belonging to the cultivator side erupted on his body, manifesting a constantly changing mask that shone on his fingertips.

That mask contained men, women, the old, and the young, of different ages and different cultivation bases, yet their expressions were identical—all were laughing, overflowing with happiness, and permeated with joy.

Gazing at this mask of all living beings, the God Lord exclaimed in admiration.

"The Immortal cultivators' Constitution and Laws are indeed not bad, actually capable of simulating a Godhead... and even opening a new path, dividing the second source of quality!"

"Especially you, Zhanlu, your Constitution and Laws... I didn't expect it to be hope, not slaughter."

"Gathering all the hope you have seen in this life to protect, to cherish, and not to forget—because the extreme of everything is here, hence it is for protection, molding the power of war and slaughter!"

The God Lord's admiration grew even deeper, but the next instant, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and his fingertips flickered.

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Suddenly, black Qi proliferated, mixing into the mask, causing the living beings in the mask who were originally overflowing with happiness and joy to change in an instant—no longer laughing, but transforming into desperate crying!

In an instant, the crying was shrill and rose to the heavens.

He was actually polluting the Zhanlu Immortal Lord's Constitution and Laws!

At the same time, endless blackness erupted from beneath his feet, rumbling and expanding in all directions, causing strange substances to descend across the entire range.

Instantly polluting this battlefield.

Subsequently, God Emperor Li Zhu stepped into the Zhanlu Immortal Lord's painting scroll!

"Let's see today, whether you kill me, or I slaughter you!"

Black and white were inverted, and the painting scroll blurred.

A battle that could not be perceived erupted within.

The struggle between the two armies also fully commenced at this moment!

The war formations of the two armies simultaneously emitted a rumbling that shook the universe.

The cultivator side expanded, like countless dense points, becoming a wave of fire that covered the sky.

Inside, countless magic treasures could be seen shining, erupting with five-colored power.

There was also that scarlet giant star, shifting out, the flares it emitted transforming into true sun fire, burning all surrounding gods and strange substances into crimson mist.

There were also war banners sweeping across, rolling up a fire curtain that burned the stars, accompanied by war drums that suppressed souls!

Their sound shattered the broken stars they passed; before the dust could drift away, it was gathered into a long river of rosy light surrounding the army formation.

As for the God side, at this moment, strings were released, and countless divine lights carrying extreme destruction and pollution fell like meteors, their momentum unprecedented.

Especially their barrier, which also rippled at this moment, unfolding a universe-swallowing vortex, its vast power causing countless planets at the edge of the Fifth Star Ring to be pulled and collectively deviate from their orbits.

There were also countless gods who killed their way out one after another.

Looking out, the battlefield was like a meat grinder, blooming with countless blood flowers in an instant.

There were also the lingering powers of the Immortal Lord and God Lord from within the painting scroll, occasionally falling into the battlefield, where the Immortal Lord's power transformed into ink marks.

Every ink mark transformed into a Great Wall of sword intent spanning the starry sky, suppressing the gods.

Causing god after god to collapse, their flesh and blood scattering.

It was just that the splashed flesh and blood fragments had not yet cooled before they were frozen by the God Lord's descending ice-sealing divine might, condensing into hundreds of millions of inverted Immortal-slaying spears that fell into the cultivator army.

Wherever they passed, flesh and blood flew.

Black and white were no longer intertwined on this battlefield, but were becoming substantial, containing their respective wills and clashing fiercely.

Causing the space-time structure here to crack piece by piece, with micro-universes constantly being born and annihilated.

The altar in the central area was the same; at this moment, the magic copper and Immortal wood were separating!

The magic copper coffins collapsed one by one, and the black fog that surged out condensed in the void into huge divine faces, scattering and devouring everything.

As for the Immortal Spirit giant wood, it also shattered root by root, breaking into strips of cause-and-effect lines that swept across the battlefield; any god they touched was destroyed in both form and spirit!

The entire battlefield was in chaos!

The space within it was constantly displaced, and even time was affected; space-time was collapsing.

And Xu Qing was galloping through this chaotic crisis!

Exploding with all his strength, he rushed toward the distance.

But behind him, that purple-haired, golden-armored, jade-faced god who had originally planned to exchange with him, at this moment, had golden light in his eyes, his whole body emitting a sacred intent, and with one inhalation...

The five human cultivators who were the objects of the exchange all shook their bodies, as if they had shed their colors, revealing their true forms.

Those were five corpses that had been refined by gods!

They had long since died.

What appeared at this moment were merely divine puppets!

Under that jade-faced god's inhalation, these five divine puppets instantly became fly ash, and all the divine source contained in their bodies was instantly integrated into the jade-faced god's body.

Causing this jade-faced god's realm to break through rumblingly, returning to the True God Realm!

On this chaotic battlefield, he headed straight for Xu Qing!

His mission was to rescue the Goddess and simultaneously kill Xu Qing!

Originally, as long as the distance was closer just now, he could have completed it instantly, but Xu Qing's previous perception and retreat caused this battlefield to erupt ahead of schedule, causing his mission to deviate.

At this moment, he had to set things right! ===== CHAPTER 1207 =====