Chapter 1003: The Fourth Level Is Here! Even If You Refuse, You Must Agree!

"Lord Tianfeng, perhaps we should stay out of this mess—there are so many gods here; the Goddess of Eternal Night won't break through. If the Lord of Flame gets involved, we won't be able to do anything either."

Lord Tianlong also glanced warily around.

After leaving her divine realm, the Goddess of Eternal Night had reappeared in the Heavenly Realm.

This was a foreign divine domain, so remote that almost no gods resided here.

Such divine domains were typically enormous, yet had few gods simply because they were far too barren for divine beings.

Even in the Heavenly Realm, not every place was rich with treasures.

If viewed on a star chart, the stars here were exceptionally sparse.

"No—if the Lord of Flame appears, we simply avoid him. Such a grand spectacle must be witnessed."

Said Lord Tianfeng.

Though he sensed danger, he also felt excitement.

He even hoped for a great war among the gods, with many gods falling—what if one of the fallen gods' realms happened to lie beside the Tianfeng Empire?

Perhaps he could seize the chance to expand his territory.

While these two gods conversed, they ensured no other gods overheard.

Surrounded by so many gods, the Goddess of Eternal Night showed not the slightest fear.

Compared to these gods, she was remarkably young.

Which of them hadn't existed for thousands, even tens of thousands of years?

The Goddess of Eternal Night's age was barely older than Empress Tina's.

Just over two thousand years!

And she had only been in the Heavenly Realm for a little over a thousand years.

To ordinary mortals, a thousand years meant twenty generations.

To gods, it was far too short.

So short that some new gods might still be stuck at the First Level.

Yet in just over a thousand years, the Goddess of Eternal Night had risen from the First Level straight to the peak of the Third Level—and dared to rush toward the Fourth Level so quickly!

Her speed was tied to her seizing all the treasures from the fallen gods' realms in the Dawn Star Divine Domain.

It was also tied to the Eternal Night Empire.

The Eternal Night Empire provided vast gains, giving the Goddess of Eternal Night enough accumulation to challenge the Fourth Level!

Otherwise, gods like Lord Ziyun, despite ruling the Ziyun Empire, would need thousands more years to accumulate enough—and even then, Lord Ziyun wouldn't dare attempt it!

The longer one lives, the more one knows the peril of challenging the Fourth Level—and the less willing one is to risk it.

In spirit, they were far less fearless than the Goddess of Eternal Night, who pressed forward without hesitation!

She continued driving her power to complete the final step.

"Still not giving up at this point? Attack together—don't give her a chance!"

Seeing the Goddess of Eternal Night persist despite being surrounded by so many gods, Lord Lanxu's gaze turned icy.

"Agreed!"

Dozens of gods struck in unison, targeting the Goddess of Eternal Night.

Lord Lanxu also attacked—but this time, he did not rashly use his single drop of Fourth Level divine power.

A single drop of Fourth Level divine power was extremely durable, enough for Lord Lanxu to use several times.

With his divine essence and divine body, he couldn't expend it all in one go.

Dozens of gods attacking at once unleashed a terrifying, earth-shaking force!

If this battle erupted in the Abyss, it could shatter an entire named layer of the Abyss!

The Goddess of Eternal Night's expression remained unchanged as she once again summoned her Fourth Level divine power.

She intercepted every single attack.

After blocking all attacks, she turned defense into offense, lunging at one god—who turned pale and fled in panic.

The Goddess of Eternal Night surged through the gap left by the fleeing god.

But Lord Lanxu reappeared, again using his Fourth Level divine power to block her.

"Let's see how much Fourth Level divine power you still have!"

Lord Lanxu snorted.

The gods launched another wave of attacks.

In Lord Lanxu's view, a single drop of Fourth Level divine power was far less durable for the Goddess of Eternal Night, who had to use it to block dozens of attacks, compared to his own.

Besides, other gods likely had their own hidden cards—they were just holding back.

Lord Lanxu led this pursuit and wanted to claim half the Eternal Night Empire, so he had no choice but to expend his own drop of Fourth Level divine power to establish absolute authority!

Facing the onslaught of the gods, the Goddess of Eternal Night once again activated her Fourth Level divine power.

This battle had become a war of attrition.

The gods' goal was to drain her supply of Fourth Level divine power.

All were peak Third Level gods; without Fourth Level divine power, even the most formidable Goddess of Eternal Night couldn't stand against a dozen peers.

Meanwhile, more gods kept arriving around them!

In a short time, several more gods had descended—the total number of gods present was nearing twenty!

With so many gods, the space the Goddess of Eternal Night could maneuver in grew ever smaller.

The gods even formed two concentric circles of encirclement.

Now, even if the Goddess of Eternal Night frightened off one god as before, the outer circle could immediately attack and block her escape.

As the war among the gods of the Heavenly Realm grew fiercer, Empress Tina on the Continent of Gods finally exhaled in relief.

Those divine lords had to concentrate their strength against the Eternal Night Goddess, and since they believed Empress Tina could no longer hold out, they merely ordered the deities within their own divine systems to accelerate their attacks before ceasing to manifest avatars.

Now, the war on the Divine Continent had become a conflict between numerous divine system avatars and Empress Tina.

There were dozens of these divine system deities, but most were Second Rank deities, who could typically manifest only First Rank Sacred Domain avatars.

Even manifesting a First Rank Sacred Domain avatar required them to expend vast amounts of divine power.

Yet each divine lord had promised them various rewards upon conquering the Eternal Night Empire.

So these deities were still putting forth considerable effort.

Only three deities possessed Second Rank Sacred Domain avatars, yet even these three, combined with all the others, were stymied by Meng Ying's spatial laws.

The battle had also turned into a war of attrition.

These divine avatars could not locate Meng Ying, and could only continually struggle against the isolation spaces she created.

The isolation spaces and refractive spaces Meng Ying created kept shattering under their attacks, consuming considerable energy from her as well.

Yet Meng Ying's energy drain was far smaller than theirs.

So this war of attrition might not end sooner than the one in the Heavenly Realm.

"Her divine power is nearly exhausted!"

In the Heavenly Realm, barely half a minute later, a divine lord exclaimed joyfully.

Wars between deities rarely last long.

Of course, if both sides prolonged it, they could fight for an extremely long time.

"Not long" refers to the actual combat time that decides life or death — which is usually brief.

Many divine lords, as if inspired, joined forces once more, unleashing a sky-covering assault upon the Eternal Night Goddess!

"So terrifying!"