Chapter 1165

Another deity was waiting there.

This battle, these deities found utterly thrilling!

But they still felt it wasn't enough!

After all, the battle was too short!

There was no helping it—both sides had unleashed their utmost power from the start.

Originally, these deities had expected to witness a battle at least evenly matched.

The Lord of Flames and the Ancient God Niku battled for three hundred rounds, and finally the Lord of Flames barely won!

Why did the Lord of Flames barely win?

Because many deities still hoped the Lord of Flames would emerge victorious in the end!

The Ancient God, after all, was an Ancient God—his power differed significantly from that of the heavenly deities.

Yet to these deities, the Lord of Flames was also an entity who had slumbered since ancient times.

But the power the Lord of Flames wielded had become nearly identical to that of the heavenly deities.

Otherwise, the Lord of Flames could never have unleashed that stunning sword strike that drove the rules of Chaoguojiu Sect.

Otherwise, the Lord of Flames would not have possessed the force of two laws!

These factors led the heavenly deities to recognize the Lord of Flames.

Yet the watching deities had not anticipated that this battle would end so swiftly!

Not evenly matched!

But utter domination!

At the very first clash, Ancient God Niku had no resistance against the Lord of Flames—he was utterly crushed!

Although Ancient God Niku had not yet perished, his demise was merely a matter of time!

Among these watching deities, a great many were stunned!

Some female deities' eyes shimmered with unusually bright light!

Many female deities not aligned with any divine system were already calculating whether to join the Lord of Flames' divine domain.

On the other side, the cold-faced Venerable Tianlan stood there, her gaze calm as she watched Ancient God Niku engulfed in flames.

The blazing firelight reflected on her face, yet her expression remained utterly blank.

No one knew what she was thinking.

Yet, if one observed closely, a faint, almost imperceptible surprise lingered at the bottom of her eyes.

A Two-and-a-Half-Star Ancient God!

With her strength, she was not afraid of him.

Otherwise, why would Ancient God Niku fear her intervention and threaten her with a Grand尊-level Ancient God?

Even if she went herself, she could never resolve Ancient God Niku so swiftly!

Yet the Lord of Flames had rendered Ancient God Niku utterly powerless in a short time.

This level of power was already terrifying!

"Boom!"

As the flames fully entered Ancient God Niku's brain, his hands finally dropped.

His skull had been burned completely empty.

Though he might still harbor one or two strands of will elsewhere, without his brain, Ancient God Niku had lost control of his body.

Immediately after, the flames surged fully into Ancient God Niku's internal structure.

Lin Yan made no attempt to extract from Ancient God Niku the location of his divine realm.

He would likely have gotten nothing even if he asked.

Moreover, the Ancient God himself was Lin Yan's greatest treasure!

After burning Ancient God Niku to ashes, Lin Yan suddenly realized he had enough evolution points to level up!

Burning an Ancient God yielded immense returns.

Especially an Ancient God with such abundant Ancient God power.

Lin Yan immediately chose to level up.

Now, he had reached Level Nine of the Third Stage of Infinite Fire!

Just one level away from Level Ten!

"I wonder if you'll send even stronger Ancient Gods next."

Lin Yan's gaze turned toward the sky.

In the infinite heights of the heavenly realm floated a massive shattered star.

This shattered star resembled Jupiter from the star system Lin Yan had come from before his transmigration.

Its entire outer surface consisted of extremely low-density gaseous matter.

It even had a large planetary ring.

Around this shattered star orbited numerous moons.

"Has a new threat finally appeared?"

At that moment, a low whisper echoed from within the shattered star.

"I've slept too long—it's time to stretch my limbs."

The voice added.

"Must you really go? With our power, even without doing these things, we could live for countless more years—using some of the heavenly realm's solar energy, we could still maintain slow power growth."

Another voice spoke then.

"Is that so? But you must know, if the Heavenly Realm gains one more main deity, the energy we draw from its sun will decrease further. Moreover, do you really think we've survived this long because the ancient gods were merely limited to five-star supreme beings? That wasn't because five stars were the ultimate limit of ancient gods."

The first voice paused here, then spoke with a hint of cold amusement:

"If the ancient supreme's original plan had succeeded—swallowing more than a third of the Heavenly Realm's sun—the ancient supreme might have directly ascended to a six-star ancient god, his combat power far surpassing even ordinary main deities. The main deities have always seen us as their greatest threat. But think: why have they let us live? Aren't they afraid that one day, while they're unguarded, we'll devour a portion of the Heavenly Realm's sun and become six-star gods?"

The second voice fell silent.

"The Heavenly Realm belongs to the main deities. Yet now, they allow us to ambush the fourth tier within it. Why do you suppose that is?"

The first voice asked again.

The second voice said: "But we still have a choice..."

"We have no choice!"

The first voice declared firmly: "You cannot fathom the power of the main deities. Unless we flee to the Abyss and the Dark Abyssal Prison, but even the Abyssal Main Deity and the Dark Main Deity are no more merciful than the Heavenly Realm's main deities."

"We have one other option: that patch of dark starfield—the one where we've devoured every single star. We could flee into it. But there is not a trace of energy or life there. Our strength gains no replenishment. Are you willing to do that?"

The second voice fell silent.

The first voice sighed, tinged with helplessness:

"We are merely tools of the main deities. As long as they remain powerful, we will never have hope of advancement. The gods of the Heavenly Realm will never permit us to devour their sun. To live in such despair, if we don't find something to occupy ourselves with, what meaning is there in our existence?"

Here, the first voice shifted again:

"This newly emerged Flame Lord is unusual. If we can kill him and devour his power, perhaps I too can become a supreme being. Don't worry—I'll be back soon!"

As he finished speaking, the gaseous matter floating around the massive shattered star suddenly retracted!

These gaseous substances were not true gas.

They were merely energy leaked out by the powerful ancient god during his slumber!

When all the energy was drawn back into his body, the ancient god whose body rivaled a planet in size stretched out from the location of the shattered star.

Slowly, the ancient god rose to his feet, reached out, and plucked one by one the objects orbiting around him—like satellites—and strung them together into a bracelet, which he wore on his wrist!

Then, the ancient god tore open a passage and stepped through in a single stride!

This powerful ancient god was the Great One awakened by the ancient gods!

The terrifying four-star ancient god!