Chapter 1280

Lin Yan sensed that one thread of gaze carried a cold, heartless quality, towering above all living beings.

"The gaze of the Primordial Deity!"

Lin Yan whispered within his heart.

He was almost certain— that thread of gaze was unquestionably the Primordial Deity's.

He hadn't expected the Primordial Deity to even cast a glance.

To the people of the Continent of Gods, deities loomed high above, towering over all life.

But to the gods of the Heavenly Realm, the Primordial Deity was the true entity towering above all life!

Deities were at least visible, if unreachable.

But the Primordial Deity? Completely invisible, completely unattainable.

Even within the Heavenly Realm, events worthy of the Primordial Deity's interest were exceedingly rare.

And this time, Lin Yan's attempt to ascend to Primordial Deity had indeed drawn the attention of the Primordial Deities.

That was within Lin Yan's expectations.

After all, ascending to Primordial Deity was no trivial matter.

Should Lin Yan truly succeed, the Heavenly Realm would gain another Primordial Deity, profoundly altering the entire world's balance.

Yet while the Primordial Deities might pay attention, whether they would directly cast a gaze remained uncertain.

Lin Yan had previously dared not be certain whether any Primordial Deity would cast a gaze to observe the entire process.

Now Lin Yan knew.

One Primordial Deity had already cast a gaze.

He just didn't know when that gaze had been cast.

Had it been after he began his ascent to Primordial Deity, or after the Lord of the Seven Seas descended, or perhaps even after the Five-Star Ancient God appeared?

Before Lin Yan's flame form had risen to Final Flame, he could not sense the Primordial Deity's gaze.

Of course, even without sensing that faint thread of the Primordial Deity's gaze, Lin Yan could still be certain the Primordial Deity's gaze would not see his core secrets.

Even now, the Primordial Deity's gaze had made no further attempt.

It had not tried to summon more power, nor had it attempted to peer into the flames.

Even if the opponent was a Primordial Deity, such an action would not go unnoticed by Lin Yan.

Even before his flame form had reached Final Flame, he was already immensely powerful—not like ordinary deities, whose secrets a Primordial Deity could glimpse with a single glance.

The Primordial Deity's gaze was like a camera, cold and heartless, observing everything.

The Primordial Deity who cast this gaze could certainly see more than other deities, given how vastly higher its level was—but this Primordial Deity who merely cast a gaze might not know about Lin Yan's act of sealing the entire Elven Divine Realm and using temporal power to instantly kill the Lord of the Seven Seas.

Even the deaths of the Lord of the Seven Seas and the other three Law Lords in the sea of fire might well be unknown to the observer.

"I wonder which Primordial Deity's gaze this is."

Lin Yan thought.

In a short span of time, countless thoughts raced through Lin Yan's mind.

Then, the Five-Star Ancient God's attack arrived.

The Five-Star Ancient God's attack was terrifying.

When the flaming great trident swung, wherever it struck, space shattered by more than half—more terrifying than the Void Beasts.

With the Five-Star Ancient God's power, a single strike could forcibly tear through even regions rendered void by the Void Beasts.

Because Lin Yan had noticed the Primordial Deity's gaze and was pondering the Primordial Deity's affairs, he made no defense against the Five-Star Ancient God's attack.

He didn't need any defense.

His flame was already unextinguishable—no one could put it out.

Earlier, when he had clashed with the Five-Star Ancient God using the Flame Sun, it was merely to prevent the Five-Star Ancient God from destroying the Elven Divine Realm.

Thus, the Five-Star Ancient God's trident instantly swept across the Flame Sun, cleaving the massive Flame Sun cleanly in two!

This sight was astonishing.

The enormous Flame Sun was split open before the eyes of countless deities!

"Ah!"

Venerable Tianlan covered her mouth, her lovely face filled with worry.

The other deities stirred in agitation.

"Will the Flame Lord be defeated so easily?"

One deity murmured.

"Possible. The Lord of the Seven Seas and the others have vanished—perhaps they're still fighting the Flame Lord. The Flame Lord is fighting both the Lord of the Seven Seas and the Five-Star Ancient God at once—his chances of victory are already extremely slim!"

Another deity's expression turned solemn.

"The Flame Lord won't necessarily lose. This Flame Sun is merely energy released by the Flame Lord, while the burning star is the Five-Star Ancient God's true body—one is energy, the other is physical form. This isn't the same as the earlier full-scale collision; it's normal for the Flame Sun to be split."

Another deity said.

This deity had some insight.

Lin Yan's flame form was ultimately energy.

When he and the Five-Star Ancient God both transformed into stars and collided, it was a full-scale impact—in such a collision, even though it wasn't Lin Yan's strength, he still utterly defeated the Five-Star Ancient God.

But when the Five-Star Ancient God used his weapon for precise, point-to-point, line-to-line breakthrough attacks, Lin Yan could hardly block it unless he used spatial law or the Primordial Deity Shield.

Lin Yan hadn't yet had time to condense the Primordial Deity Shield.

Besides, Lin Yan didn't need to block it.

Let it be split—the Flame Sun wasn't his ultimate technique.

If you cut the flame, can you extinguish it?

"Pathetic!"

The Five-Star Ancient God emitted a deep, resonant voice.

He fully transformed from a stellar state into a colossal giant rivaling a star.

This giant was truly immense.

The previous Four-Star Ancient God, Dalong Dazun, was roughly the size of Earth before Lin Yan's transmigration.

But this Five-Star Ancient God was no less formidable than the Sun before Lin Yan's transmigration.

Keep in mind, according to the scale of the world Lin Yan had transmigrated from, one Sun's volume equaled over a million times that of Earth.

This also reveals the vast gap in power between a Five-Star Ancient God and a Four-Star Ancient God.

Moreover, this Five-Star Ancient God was the most powerful among all Five-Star Ancient Gods, the closest to the Primordial Deity level!

As soon as the Five-Star Ancient God took human form, he gripped his trident once more, and terrifying power surged within him.

"God Shatter!"

The Five-Star Ancient God roared, and the flaming trident in his hand brimmed with destructive force.

"Again, this move!"

In the void, a hidden Law Lord murmured to himself.

This Law Lord was exceedingly ancient.

So ancient that he had once witnessed a Five-Star Ancient God in action.

Countless years ago, there had been a supremely brilliant Law Lord attempting to ascend to Primordial Deity.

But that Law Lord was ultimately defeated by this very move of the Five-Star Ancient God!

With a single strike, nothing remained!

This strike contained no trace of Law force, yet the power surging within the Five-Star Ancient God carried immense force that strongly suppressed Law force.

This was a method developed by the Ancient Gods after their defeat at the hands of the Primordial Deities, specifically to counter Law force.

After all, the Ancient Gods would never choose to engage with Law the way Celestial Deities do.

Law was the domain of Celestial Deities; if they wished to touch Law, they need only abandon all Ancient God power and embrace Celestial Deity power instead.

Using Ancient God power to channel Law was far too disadvantageous.

Much of the Ancient God power originated from the stars they devoured—this power was immensely destructive.

Yet it was far less suited to channeling Law.

Celestial Deity power infused with faith, or Abyssal divine power, were the best forces for channeling Law and Rules.

One theory held that Law and Rules embodied the secrets of the entire world's operation.

And every single individual was born from this world.

Humans, demons, dark creatures of the Abyssal Prison—all were born from their respective worlds.