Chapter 722

He roared loudly, swinging his weapon with an unimaginable aura as it struck toward Lin Yan's giant hand!

In the surrounding space, the ripples from the two gods' full-power attacks became waves of energy, spreading everywhere like a tidal flood!

The floating rocks in the sky all flew backward, swept clean away.

"Watch out!"

The two newly ascended goddesses watching the battle immediately summoned their power to block the ripples from the two gods' clash.

They weren't close.

But Kino, the nearby Holy Spirit, was in terrible shape.

Kino didn't even have time to cry out before he was instantly shattered by the colliding forces.

On the other side, Gassia's expression changed too, but unlike Kino, her power remained fully intact.

So under the shockwave of the colliding forces, Gassia raised a shield and held through the first wave.

But the shield immediately shattered with a "pop."

Just as Gassia was about to be destroyed, suddenly, a pale, jade-like hand appeared midair and seized her in its grasp.

Weiweila had arrived!

"Another second-tier god!"

Far away, the two newly ascended goddesses stared in utter shock!

Then came something even more shocking.

Lin Yan's towering giant hand suddenly closed, snatching Star God Hulington in its grip.

"Crack—crack"

Under Lin Yan's grasp, Star God Hulington's weapon shattered outright!

His armor couldn't resist Lin Yan's giant hand at all.

The armor kept breaking apart, then Star God Hulington's body was crushed outright in Lin Yan's grip!

"So powerful!"

The two newly ascended goddesses' mouths hung wide open!

"Flame Lord, I will be your eternal enemy—for a thousand years, ten thousand years—I will seek revenge!"

Star God Hulington let out a furious, resentful roar.

From his already shattered body, a speck of white light suddenly emerged, piercing through the spatial lockdown and swiftly opening a faith channel before plunging into it!

Immediately, the faith channel closed rapidly.

Inside that white light was Star God Hulington's divine mark.

Yes, the one who had descended was not Star God Hulington's true body.

After learning Flame Lord was a third-tier god, Star God Hulington had been extremely cautious!

So what he descended was a battle avatar, crafted at great cost.

This battle avatar was stronger than the battle avatars the gods of the Purple Gold Empire had sent to the Continent of Gods.

The Purple Gold Empire's gods sent avatars without physical form—only energy bodies.

But Star God Hulington's battle avatar had a physical form, though not flesh and blood; it was constructed from vast quantities of divine matter mixed with celestial substances.

Similar to the divine bodies of Abyssal Demon Gods.

A pure combat machine.

This battle avatar was incomplete, yet still powerful—but Lin Yan destroyed it in one grasp, and absorbed all the divine matter within!

That was nearly half of Star God Hulington's entire fortune!

It was the result of countless years of painstaking accumulation.

No wonder he hated it!

To control such a powerful battle avatar, Star God Hulington had left behind his divine mark inside.

The divine mark had to escape back—otherwise his will would be damaged.

Fortunately, divine marks were not affected by spatial lockdowns!

"Trying to escape!"

Lin Yan had long anticipated Star God Hulington's escape.

As the faith channel closed and its final trace was about to vanish, Lin Yan's divine core spun rapidly.

"One second left before the trace disappears—must channel more divine power."

Lin Yan surged massive divine power into his divine core, activating its analytical function.

The more divine power fed into his divine core, the faster it analyzed.

With Lin Yan disregarding divine power consumption and supported by abundant rules within his divine core, his divine core captured the channel's residual traces and decoded its path in under a second.

Then, Lin Yan plunged straight into it!

"Flame Lord is too powerful. I'll seal my divine realm, seek out barbarian tribes to gather faith—someday, I will avenge myself on him!"

Inside the faith channel, Star God Hulington's divine mark seethed with hatred.

At that moment, he sensed something wrong.

Behind him, Flame Lord was charging after him with terrifying force.

"How is this possible—he caught up so fast!"

Star God Hulington was stunned.

A god's faith channel, once used to descend, could also be used to return.

But the faith channel belonged solely to that god; only he could close it, and no one else could enter without his permission.

Yet anything that exists must leave traces.

The faith channel was no exception—only, the traces of its existence vanished far too quickly, disappearing entirely within a second or two at most.

And if one could seize and analyze those traces, one could reverse-engineer them and find the path of that channel!

However, this kind of reverse-engineering required no small amount of time.

Even a peak third-tier deity, to reverse-engineer a channel, would need at least a dozen seconds or more!

To say nothing of a dozen seconds—even three to five seconds passing, and every trace of the faith channel's existence would already have vanished clean away; even a fourth-tier God Lord arriving would be useless!

But Lin Yan, before the traces of the faith channel's existence had completely vanished, had actually found the path of that channel and pursued it in reverse!

At this, Star God Hollington was terrified!

If Lin Yan chased him back to the divine kingdom, that would be disastrous!

However, the divine sigil no longer contained any energy, so he could only return to the divine kingdom.

And to lose the divine sigil—Star God Hollington was unwilling!

"The moment I enter the divine kingdom, seal it, then drive the divine kingdom away from here!"

Star God Hollington decided to risk it all!

As long as he sealed it quickly enough, given the solidity of the divine kingdom, no matter what, he could escape before the Flame Lord broke through!