Chapter 434: Darkness Extinguishes the Sun, the True Body First Appears

In the silence, the mirror flames began to dim. The Dark Lustrous Armor officially exerted its power, and the hall suddenly became gloomy, as if one had arrived at dusk, or perhaps the darkness before dawn.

Only three types of flames were still casting light at this moment, especially the Hatred Fire of Phoenix Remnant Hate, which was red to the point of turbidity, raging in all directions. There was no need for Du En to control anything; it was already crazily surging toward those mirror surfaces, stubbornly pressing against the dimming Divine Fire as it advanced, beginning to make contact with the Divine Fire itself.

And then, there was no then.

Only to see the Dark God's hands suddenly clasp together. The countless versions of him within the mirror flames all performed the same action. Upon that divine artifact armor, streaks of dark light wandered and converged. In the palms of his hands, a trembling black dot suddenly appeared.

The more light that was filled into it, the larger the black dot grew.

In the end, even the mirror flames themselves were trembling, beginning to actively pull and drag in the turbid Hatred Fire. It left no room for it to cause destruction, and this crazy flame actually appeared to accept it submissively, even becoming more impatient to rush inside after a moment, as if it had received some summons, or as if it had discovered some greater target!

Drawing in, swallowing, growing...

Crack, crack, crack! Space was splitting, the hall was shattering, and the mirror flames also began to wither rapidly.

Du En naturally wanted to intervene. When he caught the signs of something being wrong, he had already made his move, but it felt as if he had jumped into a boundless sea. Clearly, he was advancing at a terrifying speed, directly stepping on the nodes of space to perform displacement jumps, yet he still could not advance even a little bit.

Because those black dots had suddenly turned into black spheres. Countless black spheres were tearing at space, each possessing the same tearing force, so in the deeper layers, they divided the space here into countless identical parts.

Du En was trapped in this sea of countless parts. Even though his speed was lightning-fast, and even though he could cross hundreds of them in the blink of an eye, he still could not make any substantial progress.

The disparity in their attainments in space was truly too great, not to mention that this move the Dark God was brewing was aimed directly at the depths, a hidden method from before, so even though the Holy God was already trying her best to assist, it still could not compare.

However, he still had the Hatred Fire. In the eyes of the Divine Venerable's remnant hate, this depth was actually just the surface layer; the result was the same. It was still crossing the sea of countless parts, being swallowed within the surging tide.

It seemed useless, but that was while Du En was holding it.

Holding it and not holding it were two different things! Thus, he did not hesitate at all, directly chose a random spot, and threw the Phoenix Blood Great Spear.

Boom! The turbid Hatred Fire became even filthier, yet calmer. Aside from the sound of it piercing through the sea of countless parts, there was no other movement. It merely gathered and condensed the raging Hatred Fire, transforming into a terrifying, turbid, and blackened ferocious phoenix that spread its wings and lunged straight over.

The Dark God's gaze could not help but change, and then, a hint of a smile appeared.

Before Du En could react, that turbid, filthy Phoenix Blood throwing spear had already struck the edge of the mirror flames, which served as the embankment for the sea of countless parts. It was just like breaking through an illusion; both quietly vanished from sight.

Because the Dark God had already taken a step ahead and fed his own Mirror Crow Divine Fire to the black sphere in his hand.

He also suddenly merged from countless into one. This intense contrast tore at the shallow appearance. Even Du En's Fiery Eyes of Truth could not capture the actual inner image, only catching a fleeting glimpse of a pitch-black sun hovering somewhere, silent and stagnant, isolating everything.

The Hatred Fire ferocious phoenix did not lose its target; it lunged down, and then, quietly vanished from sight.

The extremely troublesome Phoenix Blood Spear lost its hold and control, and was digested completely just like that. Even Du En felt a ripple of surprise, but he immediately understood something.

"Not bad, not bad. With this kind of flame, the plan will be much easier to realize!"

Lowering the curtain, covering eyes and ears?

Wrong!

The Dark God went to great lengths to create the Formless Birth Mother and collect all the karma left behind by the Unmoving True Monarch over the past two thousand years, not just to block the other party's line of sight.

He wanted a counter-kill!

At the very least, he wanted to inflict heavy damage! Only in this way could he fight for the opportunity and result to cross the starry sky and leave the other party's control!

Originally, he had absolutely no confidence in a counter-kill, even though he had already studied and obtained the Divine Fire, possessed his own divine abilities, and added the Dark Lustrous Armor created by devouring the Fluorite Disease, and so on.

But now, Du En really gave him a surprise. First, he could continuously release the high-intensity Phoenix Remnant Hate, which could almost rival his own Divine Fire.

Then, he even projected the Phoenix Blood Great Spear, allowing that out-of-control, terrifying ferocious phoenix to be merged in as well, completely finishing the power accumulation! In this way, his "Darkness Extinguishing Sun" could erupt with unimaginable, terrifying power! And this stemmed from a casual move that had seemed like a mere side-play earlier.

—Letting the Blood Lotus Sect act as the vanguard, moving in and stationing in Rain Valley, to be slaughtered by Du En's side.

Same blood, same fate, karma intertwined! Like an incredibly skillful weaver, the Dark God captured two substantial threads of karma through this.

That of the Phoenix Remnant Hate, allowing its Hatred Fire to perfectly merge into his Extinguishing Sun.

That of Du En, allowing the ripple projection of the Extinguishing Sun—the black sphere currently in the Dark God's hand—to be used against the enemy right now!

Therefore, when Du En finally broke through the path and struggled out of the sea of countless parts, truly arriving before his eyes, he saw that black sphere had already arrived in front of him, with nowhere to hide!

Suddenly shrinking back a point! "Extinction Death Point."

The Dark God whispered softly, watching his opponent and other objects shatter and disappear like foam illusions after making contact, and slowly lowered his hand.

Boom! Crack! The hall collapsed, and the divine artifact cracked.

The Dark God did not care at all, because they had all just fulfilled their mission, so he could not help but reveal a hint of a smile.

It had been successfully pushed; the Extinguishing Sun had been pushed very smoothly, following the connection of karma to the other end.

Moreover, the great enemy at that other end also seemed to have encountered some unexpected difficulty, as they had absolutely no spare time to intervene or interfere.

"My most critical step has already been completed ideally. Next..."

No sooner said than done—no, it was that time slowed, that time retreated.

The terrifying Extinguishing Sun was indeed continuing to move forward, having left the source and traced back across the karma, impossible to stop, but the Dark God's movements suddenly underwent a reversal.

Hmm? The four seasons cycle, the heavens and sun have order! It was as if dawn had arrived early, as if dusk had been dragged back. Du En's figure suddenly appeared before the Dark God's eyes again, because he had secretly consumed a medicinal pill earlier—the Time Wheel Pill refined from the Four Seasons Spirit Flower!

With the Holy God assisting in the operation and refinement, at this moment, he not only had time flowing back and his injuries fully recovered, but he could also manipulate the Time Wheel, jump away through displacement, and achieve short-term time travel! Although his karma had been locked just now and he had nowhere to hide, at the moment the fruit was fully formed, from the moment of contact where it became possible to dodge, he moved to before the contact. By overlapping twice in succession, he left behind a time-shadow of the full cause compensating for the effect to be swallowed by the extinction point, while he himself naturally reappeared at this moment, unscathed.

This was an extremely thrilling and exceptionally precise time movement, which could be called slicing and simultaneously reversing at the same time; it was something that could only be achieved if the Holy God controlled it—Du En could not do it at all right now.

Therefore, it was no wonder that the spirit flower had always been suspicious of the Holy God, because the time-sequence principles it contained were indeed extremely fitting for the Holy God, which could be called complementary and accompanying. If she herself had taken it to refine, mastering the laws of time in advance would have been entirely possible.

Thus, Du En escaped death and his state was restored, even with a phantom of the Phoenix Blood Great Spear in hand. At this moment, caught off guard, he thrust out fiercely, piercing through the distance between them and landing directly on the Dark God's head. Boom! The phantom shattered, the hall was completely torn apart, and the entire palace tower split in two on the spot—it was the abnormal collapse of the spatial restriction that tore open the space here.

The two women still in the middle of a great battle at the top of the tower could not help but be startled, shifting their eyes to look, only to see the Dark Lustrous Armor completely destroyed, and the Dark God...

"Good, good, good! Even at this point, you still want to stop me?!"

"Holy God!"

Inside the armor, there was no human body! Only the Dark God's terrifying roar rang out, as if he had been completely enraged.

But that was to be expected; his grand plan had perfectly reached the halfway point, yet now the Holy God and Du En had jumped back like a plaster to interfere again. One had to know that every second counted now; how could this not make him angry? Thus, the dark moon hanging in the sky suddenly revealed a huge pupil, which then erupted with light comparable to the sun, directly reversing night into day.

Jiang Ying had originally been happy, but at this moment, she could not help but be stunned.

Ming, however, was not surprised in the slightest, only speaking flatly: "As a human, being able to force a god to this extent can already be said to be very remarkable, and next, His Excellency the Dark God is going to deploy his true body to fight."

"That wasn't even his true body?!"

Even though it was just a fleeting glimpse earlier, the terrifying aura of the Dark God's avatar had made Jiang Ying feel suffocated from afar. The instinct of her supreme physical body was clamoring, telling of the terror of that existence.

A strong heaven-defying talent, a current state comparable to the perfection of Transformation into Divinity, an actual realm of half-step Void Refinement, and other things... added together, it was more than ten times the strength of her current self.

And then you told me that was only an avatar? But now, as the massive true form of the god begins to appear, she has no choice but to believe it.

Her expression sank, her eyes flashed with panic, but she immediately took a deep breath, suppressing her meaningless worry and fear.

Because no matter how strong the Dark God is, at least she hasn't faced it yet.

Her opponent is still the former apostle of the Holy God before her, now the number one general under the Dark God!

Ming merely glanced at the separated battlefield opposite, then with a cold face, prepared to blast Jiang Ying to death on the spot.

Both sides began to fight fiercely once again!

However, it was that very glance just now that allowed Ming to see the back of Du En—that back which remained calm and unchanged, which not even the collapsing heavens and earth or the god's wild rage could shake in the slightest, causing Ming's memories to stir uncontrollably.

She recalled the circumstances surrounding her defection to the Dark God.

That was when the first Holy-Dark War suddenly came to a halt due to the Fluorite Plague, and both sides withdrew their troops to clean up the mess.

Because Ming had witnessed a series of tragic scenes within the Holy Kingdom, her mood was exceptionally indignant; moreover, she was the only one in perfect condition, and she was doing too well—her power was rising at an unimaginable speed.

She had to do something! At the time, she didn't think much; she took her mount, Xiao Hui, and left the camp alone.

Xiao Hui was that snake, which she had encountered by accident when she was young; she had used her fists to make it obedient. Even back then, it was already dozens of zhang long with the strength of the Golden Core stage, and because its scales were a dull grey, it was named Xiao Hui.

Perhaps because a relatively primitive blood pact had been signed between the rider and the mount, Xiao Hui's resistance to the Fluorite Plague also became very strong; as long as there were no open wounds and its demonic power was full, it would not be infected.

Thus, relying on Xiao Hui, who possessed the art of tunneling, Ming successfully snuck into the Dark Kingdom alone, arriving outside the Dark Capital, the place where the Holy Kingdom's army had previously stopped.

Then, she witnessed the scene of the Dark Kingdom's populace, collapsed and crazed, gathering there only to be slaughtered by the elite of the Dark Kingdom's army.

If it had been just ordinary slaughter, it would only have made her more indignant, making her want to destroy and eliminate the Dark Kingdom and the Dark God, that tumor; but as it happened, it was not ordinary slaughter.

Ming clearly saw that among the crowd of infected, crazed people, amidst their hateful curses before death, the soldiers of the Dark Kingdom all had sorrowful gazes and tears in their eyes.

This scene shocked her greatly; she tasted a kind of extreme, helpless bitterness and sorrow, and also sensed a certain madness flowing faintly beneath it.

Because not a single soldier chose to withdraw from this slaughter; they were actually able to endure it to the end, and they did not become numb as time and the number of victims accumulated.

Something was very wrong!

Ming could not help but examine the situation in the Dark Kingdom.

By comparison, the situation in the Holy Kingdom was very simple—so simple that when compared to the Dark Kingdom, it was like a paradise in the heavens. She had lived in this paradise all along; although she had her troubles, now, alone, she had to experience the wind and rain of the outside world.

She spotted an opportunity and successfully snuck into the Dark Capital.

The quiet, obedient commoners, the extremely extravagant nobility—every fragmented part made her feel deeply shocked, to the point that when she truly climbed to the tower hall, the indignation in her heart had been filled and replaced by various confusions without her even realizing it.

Then, she looked up and saw that back of the god, standing with hands behind his back in front of the rising Dark Moon.

It seemed to fill the entire world, exerting its light to the utmost, yet it was inevitably dimming; the night was still sweeping in crazily, and in the end, it appeared powerless.

"Dark God!"

Ming drew her sword to face him, her power surging; without realizing it, she had actually reached the Nascent Soul stage—a realm where her older brothers and sisters stood—which could be said to be a natural result of her efforts.

"Hm?"

The Dark God moved slightly, as if he had not expected that an enemy would run over here at such a time.

He did not turn his head, but spoke calmly: "My sister's daughter?"

"It is me!"

Ming shouted in response, her heart in a mess, and made her accusation: "Why on earth did you spread the Great Plague?!"

This was a question that should not have appeared; once asked, it meant her stance had shifted, but because of what she had seen and heard inside and outside the Dark Capital, she still asked it at this moment.

The Dark God seemed to have finally become truly interested because of this, and he slowly turned around.

The avatar of the moonlight was very dim; the god who had descended to the human world, in order to distinguish himself from mortals, actually had no real face, only a pair of world-weary, rational eyes emerging from the dark light.

(End of this chapter)