Chapter 427: The True Phoenix Remnant Hatred!

"Roar!!!"

The roar of the Formless Birth Mother exploded, and the ten thousand spirits and ten thousand lives evolved from the divine ability blood immediately surged forth; even the single-celled organisms were wriggling with all their might, trying to contribute their share.

"Screech!!!"

The Phoenix Remnant Hatred did not care about your situation; burn, die, be completely destroyed!!! The frenzied hatred ignited frenzied flames, and the shell created by the prototype of Du En's Dao Might reinforcing the Eternal Frozen Coffin now actually vaporized and cracked again, with hotter and more intense flames flowing out from within.

This was him intentionally, in an indirect form, feeding his own prototype of Dao Might to this Divine Venerable's Remnant Hatred, thereby safely increasing the scale of its surfacing!

When all is said and done, the Phoenix Blood Spear in his hand right now was merely a branch created by the transformation of a Dharma treasure; the main body port of the Remnant Hatred was still within his Divine Palace, inside the Dharma Gate Light Sun, utilizing its endless heat and fire while simultaneously acting as a shackle.

The connection between them was actually quite tight, not to mention that the Eternal Frozen Coffin was also a branch of the Dharma treasure's transformation, which is why the prototype of Dao Might could be "fed" to it in such a way.

Therefore, like adding firewood to a raging fire, the Phoenix Remnant Hatred immediately radiated wildly, the blazing sun suddenly expanded by two circles, forming phantoms of light wheels and light crowns at the edges, and the rampaging sea of fire surged like a tsunami, directly slapping down toward the incoming ten thousand spirits and ten thousand lives.

In an instant, the vast majority of the fragile creatures among them turned to ash on the spot; only those at the Transformation Deity stage could barely withstand it, but they could not hold on for long either, struggling forward while bathed in fire, and most of them were reduced to ashes before crossing even half the distance.

Only a very few exceptional individuals were able to wade through the fire all the way to the front of the blazing sun and still have enough remaining strength to launch an attack.

It sounds like a small number, but in reality, because the base was too large—truly too large—it was the re-enactment of all the living beings that had ever appeared on this star in the past two thousand years!

In fact, under normal circumstances, in a mere two thousand years, even if the surface area of this star were comparable to the sun, it would be impossible to have such strong and numerous individuals; after all, Transformation Deity stage existences are very rare under normal conditions.

But do not forget, True Monarch Bu Yi had been continuously exerting influence here during this period, or to be more specific, continuously casting various living beings and various formidable existences into the Life Source Star Realm, and conducting his extremely harsh and inhumane experiments.

Therefore, at this very moment, in front of Du En, outside that blazing sun, there were actually thousands of formidable existences from different races squeezing out!

Gods, flood dragons, phoenix birds, qilin beasts, great demons, filthy ghosts, sea kings, void insects, heavenly spirits... the types were truly too numerous; the powerful ones among the ten thousand spirits could be said to have been basically collected in full, with the weakest being at the Transformation Deity Perfection stage, exceeding a strong genius by a thread, and the strongest even being at the Transformation Deity Perfection stage at the level of a weak heaven-gifted prodigy! All kinds of terrifying great might were intertwined at this moment, like a bloody curtain, actually able to wrap around the blazing sun of the Phoenix Remnant Hatred, pressing the sea of fire down by nine feet out of thin air!

If it were only Du En himself, he would now have to use many trump cards and similarly activate his divine abilities to cope with this scene, but now, he was borrowing external force.

Phoenix Blood Spear, detonate! Du En did not hesitate at all and directly detonated the Phoenix Blood Spear in his hand.

This was not a good choice, because due to the Phoenix Remnant Hatred, self-detonation was actually not destroying the port of its surfacing; on the contrary, it was expanding the opening through which it was surfacing.

If this were over at the Immortal Sect, the moment it self-detonated, a True Monarch would have rushed over to clean up the mess and would have flung it into the depths of the starry sky before this port could expand.

Placed here, of course, that was impossible, and so, a true ferocious eye now suddenly replaced the blazing sun, truly opening here in the upper, shallow layer.

In an instant, everything turned to ash! The remaining power of the Divine Venerable at the time of death, when spread out, was still enough to destroy the heavens and the earth, turning the star into nothingness, even more thorough and absolute than a so-called ecological mass extinction, let alone the ten thousand spirits that were merely a re-enactment of a portion of the star's life sources.

Not only did the ten thousand spirits and ten thousand lives completely vanish into smoke, but even the Formless Birth Mother, which had been coming to kill along with them, fled tens of thousands of miles away in terror and trembling, only to be caught up with and erased!

True hatred is indifferent destruction.

Thorough madness is silent erasure.

Without need for words, without need for screaming, the Remnant Hatred Phoenix, which had finally managed to surface, erased everything it saw with a single glance, and then, under the restraint, binding, and suppression of other Dao laws, it had no choice but to close its eyes once again.

After all, this port was actually only temporary and illusory, brought about by the false transformation and self-detonation of that Light Flame Dream; it could not be mentioned in the same breath as the original pure substantial body, the initial Phoenix Blood Spear.

Now its substantial carrier port was actually Du En's life-bound Dharma treasure, the main body of the Qingjiang Palace.

Du En had long since sensed this; after all, the replaced carrier was his own life-bound Dharma treasure, a part of himself.

However, it was only when he reached the middle stage of Transformation Deity and began to comprehend and refine the Dao to return to himself that he fully figured it out.

Yet, even so, under normal circumstances, he would definitely not have been able to escape; he would have been erased along with it, and then the Qingjiang Palace would have been destroyed as a result, the true port would have surfaced and expanded, and the Phoenix Remnant Hatred would have been able to descend into the world, destroying the Life Source Star Realm and the surrounding star regions, triggering a larger and more absolute Heaven and Earth threshold, and subsequently being suppressed by other Dao laws, shrinking back into a new port or some other situation.

Just like the nervous estimations of the True Monarchs back then.

But he was not fighting alone right now!

—At the moment before the self-detonation, a point of golden flame seal quietly appeared in the center of his forehead, sacred and brilliant.

Sun Radiance Golden Flame!

Du En utilized the Eternal Frozen Coffin he had repeatedly used on himself to create a gap at the moment before the self-detonation, and catalyzed this secret technique of his.

And so, the Sacred God sensed it, the hanging lamp immediately shone brightly, and dangerously, he pulled him out from across space.

The reason it was across space was that the light spot channel where the hanging lamp was located had long since disconnected from the connection to that deep space.

The so-called securing of a retreat was to ensure this point! And then, there was the fleeting glimpse of the Divine Venerable's Remnant Hatred.

At this very moment, that deep space had already collapsed to a point, and subsequently completely returned to zero, erased by the Divine Venerable's Remnant Hatred!

"So he was doing this kind of thing, but it seems it was still just brewing..."

Compared to the portion that was still affected by the Remnant Hatred and burned away, the Sacred God was now more concerned with the Dark God's scheme.

Du En had also generally understood the purpose of that guy's open conspiracy.

Severing life sources, infecting with fluorite disease, managing to create the Formless Birth Mother, sealing it in deep space, being able to evolve ten thousand spirits and ten thousand lives with divine abilities—these were all the races that had appeared on the star over the past two thousand years, including those that had come from outside but perished here, their sources returning to the Star Realm.

The particularity of the Life Source Star Realm! True Monarch Bu Yi!

The various causes he planted were used to bear fruit, and then by completely destroying this fruit, he could attempt to backlash against the cause of all beginnings! And the deep space, being the fruit of the causal entanglement that sealed the Formless Birth Mother, as it completely returned to zero, had effectively turned into a curtain blocking prying eyes, an boundless, profound darkness...

"Indeed, all of this is just as I thought—no, it is even much better than what I had thought before."

The voice of the third party that suddenly appeared sounded somewhat low, slightly hoarse and weathered, and it inserted itself in a matter-of-fact tone, like a conversation with an old friend.

Du En, whose hand was frozen and burned and whose Dharma robe was tattered, immediately struck back without looking back.

Since the small movements he had been brewing whenever he had spare energy had not been put to use just now, they were just right to be used now!

Killing Wind, True Flame, Delicate Flower. Three techniques superimposed!

Wind Flower Flame Dance!

Dreamlike and illusory, as if releasing dandelion flowers, they suddenly flew out in the gale, directly piercing through the light network and also scattering the dark light figure that had quietly appeared there in the middle.

"As expected of the Sacred God's final apostle, a beautiful strike."

"But even though you are so hostile toward me right now, I still want to sincerely thank you."

"It is not just because you allowed me to achieve my dream goal and enabled the grand plan to be pushed forward, but also to thank you for helping my pathetic daughter find release, allowing her to finally be able to obtain peace..."

The inner space outside the light network appeared hazy, with only broken fragments of dark light drifting within, and the Dark God's voice flowed out slowly, with a sense of relieved exhaustion.

Listening to this, did he not choose to create the Formless Birth Mother for his current purpose, but rather had other ideas, and thus it happened by mistake?

"Dark God, is your fall because of your hopeless daughter?"

"You could think so..."

"No! Your fall is because you stepped across the boundary of taboo, actually wanting to and truly creating a daughter, which is why she was in such a hopelessly twisted state!"

"......"

The lingering light of the Dark God did not reply, perhaps because there was nothing to say, but more likely because it felt no need to answer.

The conflict between the two gods had been irreconcilable since that moment long ago, their paths diverging; nothing said now could change the fact that they had gone their separate ways.

Although the Holy God's sense of righteousness was awe-inspiring, upon closer inspection, there were some rather strange aspects to it.

After all, she still had the apostles she had "created," which at first glance were similar in nature to the Formless Birth Mother.

However, by now, it could basically be determined that the so-called Holy God's apostles were actually just outstanding individuals who had risen from the masses.

The only exception was likely me, this final apostle.

As Du En thought this, he turned his head completely and saw the light-spot passage that was closing up.

The Dark God's avatar had completely withered and vanished.

Through that gap, one could only see the inner layer of space.

And this depth was something he could not yet reach.

"Your eyes are still in a shattered state..."

The Holy God's emotions recovered quickly; noticing the gaze from this side, she immediately accelerated the healing of the passage gap, even rapidly spreading light spots to completely assimilate this passage, lest the Dark God repeat the maneuver just performed.

Although it wasn't out of fear, Du En was in a bad state, and she hadn't prepared for a decisive battle yet, so it was better to be cautious.

Upon hearing this, Du En blinked; the sensation of his eyeballs being shattered was incredibly distinct, and even though he had already deactivated the secret technique, within the closing of his eyelids, he could still count exactly how many cracks and fissures there were through his extremely keen perception.

Large and small, there were exactly three thousand six hundred of them.

It was precisely because of the shattering of the Fiery Eyes of Truth, and the fact that he had been staring into the inner layer of space at the very last moment before deactivating them, that a tiny change had occurred.

He remained calm and said nothing, only silently recovering himself.

If fought head-on, this Formless Birth Mother was an opponent who still surpassed Du En by a few notches; if he hadn't been restraining the Phoenix Remnant Hatred, then to win, he would have had to reveal his trump cards and engage in a duel of divine abilities.

Even so, the win rate would likely only be fifty-fifty!

He considered his own mastery of his divine abilities to be very deep, and they could form nested complements with other Daoist arts and secret techniques, but the Formless Birth Mother possessed two great divine abilities, each of which was terrifying and had extremely high potential, so it was truly hard to say who would win or lose.

At the same time, although it seemed at the end that he had walked right into the Dark God's trap and helped complete an important part of its ulterior plan, to be honest, resolving this matter ahead of time was something that had to be done.

Otherwise, when the time came for the decisive battle against the Dark God, if this Formless Birth Mother broke through the depths of the inner layer and came to attack from both sides, Du En would undoubtedly be defeated and face the risk of falling and dying!

And because the Formless Birth Mother was required to "slumber" in the Dark God's plan, even if the timing might be wrong, when it came to making a choice, the Dark God would not hesitate; it would simply release it at that critical moment to perish together with Du En! Fortunately, the situation was developing in a relatively better direction.

Now that the Formless Birth Mother was resolved and that deep space—the old lair where the Dark God had once conspired—had collapsed and vanished, logically speaking, there was no reason for the one god and one person to continue lingering here; they should immediately ascend and go to pursue the Dark God.

That hostile deity did indeed have old wounds and not much remaining strength, which was why Du En's move just now could easily shatter its avatar, but it was clear that the injuries the opponent sustained in the first Great War of Light and Darkness were not yet to the point where it could only lie dormant in one place.

It had previously tacitly allowed and guided Du En and the others to come here, and now that an important part of its scheme was achieved, there was no telling what it might do next, so they had to leave and ascend.

However, Du En's eyes, which were in the process of recovering, were looking elsewhere at this moment.

The Holy God's hanging lamp shone, and she did not seem to have any intention of moving immediately, appearing quite hesitant.

After a moment, she spoke: "For him to create such a space in the depths, he needs an anchoring point to attach to, because our cultivation realms can actually only barely reach this depth; to actually accomplish something, he needs additional assistance."

The limit of the Spirit Severing stage... one couldn't exactly say that.

It should be said that the limit of the Spirit Severing stage for a heaven-gifted genius was reaching the depths of the inner layer, and those at the supreme level, a step above that, likely did not need the anchoring point the Holy God mentioned, being able to create such a space on their own.

Du En was still a long way from that level, but he had no emotional fluctuations, accepting this status quo very calmly.

"Since we're already here, let's go take a look."

As the Holy God said this, she guided the passage, which had been completely assimilated, to extend toward a certain spot in the inner layer that was slightly protruding, and the place where Du En was gazing soon connected to it.

(End of this chapter)