Chapter 890

But.

In the history of the Heavenly Realm, there has never been a deity whose awakening caused a fluctuation of only thirty seconds before ascending to the Fourth Rank!

Could the Flame Lord have been a Fourth Rank deity all along?

But if the Flame Lord had already been a Fourth Rank deity before, that still doesn't make sense…

In a brief moment, the Starfall Lord's mind flashed with countless thoughts.

But no matter how many doubts he had, he had no chance to clarify them.

The Starfall Lord exerted every ounce of strength to resist, yet he could not resist at all.

And because he reacted a fraction too late, even now fleeing was utterly impossible.

Moreover, to flee, Lin Yan had already sealed the space!

The space seal driven by Fourth Rank divine power was far more terrifying than one driven by Third Rank divine power!

After a deity ascends to the Fourth Rank, although the number of rules they master does not increase, because they have created a new rule, their understanding of rules becomes far deeper.

Additionally, when divine power reaches the Fourth Rank, the power of an attack differs from that of the Third Rank as vastly as heaven and earth.

Thus, the Starfall Lord had barely time to scream, just preparing to draw power from his divine system for a final resistance.

But it was too late!

Lin Yan's colossal hand had already seized him.

Then—he squeezed!

Before the Starfall Lord could draw power from his divine system, Lin Yan crushed him into dust!

This crushing was not merely physical force.

For on Lin Yan's hand, flames of unimaginable heat had already appeared.

In the instant he squeezed, the flames erupted, reducing the Starfall Lord to ash.

A peak Third Rank Lord was instantly transformed into a level-up for Lin Yan's Flame Form!

Now Lin Yan was in the Second Stage of Infinite Flame.

The First Stage had ten levels.

The Second Stage had ten levels as well.

Infinite Flame had few stages—no more than three in total—and once all three stages reached their peak, a tremendous transformation should follow.

Not far away, witnessing this, the square-faced deity's face twisted with utter horror.

The mighty Starfall Lord had been instantly slain by the Flame Lord!

Even if this occurred within the Sun, where the Starfall Lord could not fully unleash his power, and even if he had underestimated his foe and failed to draw divine system power immediately, this was still astonishing!

He had not, like the Starfall Lord, sensed the faint trace of Fourth Rank power within Lin Yan's attack.

But the Starfall Lord's final words before death were enough to spark countless associations in the square-faced deity's mind.

"No good!"

Before the square-faced deity could act, the colossal hand that had crushed the Starfall Lord swung down in a slap.

The square-faced deity desperately activated his staff; power surged from it and collided with the colossal hand.

"Boom!"

The collision of two peak forces generated terrifying ripples, carving a hollow sphere out of the Sun's current layer.

The several Second and Third Rank deities behind the square-faced deity were flung far away.

The two Third Rank deities were fine.

The three Second Rank deities, under the shockwave, could not even stand—they were blasted far beyond sight, clearly badly injured.

"Puff!"

The square-faced deity also spat out a mouthful of blood.

This was true divine blood!

Yet he had at least blocked the colossal hand's attack—and shattered it with a single strike!

"Flee!"

The square-faced deity no longer hesitated—he violently drew power from his divine system, his strength surging again.

Immediately, he used his staff to carve a path and sped out of the Sun.

Although he had blocked the colossal hand's attack, the square-faced deity knew his own limits.

Remember, Lin Yan's colossal hand had struck the square-faced deity only after crushing the Starfall Lord.

In other words, the hand attacking the square-faced deity was already spent.

Yet even so, it still inflicted serious injury upon the square-faced deity.

Moreover, the square-faced deity had sensed the presence of Fourth Rank power within Lin Yan's attack.

His heart was filled with dread.

Even as a peak Third Rank deity and a divine system lord, he had not the slightest chance of confronting a Fourth Rank deity.

Just as he could look down upon a deity with only a 14-level divine core and divine body.

A Fourth Rank deity, even without invoking divine system power, could crush him effortlessly.

From level 14 to level 15, it was only one level.

From level 15 to level 16, it was also only one level.

But the value of these two levels was entirely different.

Level 15 to level 16 represented two entirely different tiers—power differed as vastly as heaven and earth!

Thus, the square-faced deity had no fighting spirit left.

With Lin Yan sealing space, he could not directly open a passage to his divine realm.

So, the square-faced Divine Lord decisively drew upon the power of his divine system and swiftly flew away from the Sun.

He intended to fly out of the Sun, beyond the range of Lin Yan's spatial lockdown, then escape back to his own divine realm!

As a Divine Lord at the peak of the third tier, when he decided to flee, his speed was extremely rapid.

In a short time, the square-faced Divine Lord had already burst through the current layer, reached the Sun's surface, then shot rapidly upward.

"I'm escaping—you can't stop me!"

Thought the square-faced Divine Lord.

In the Heavenly Realm, a peak third-tier Divine Lord who gives full effort to flee still has a good chance of escaping a fourth-tier deity.

Especially since Lin Yan had only just ascended to the fourth tier.

But the square-faced Divine Lord, of all choices, fled straight toward the spatial gate where Weili and the others were located.

"Weili, pray to me!"

Lin Yan saw his direction and contacted Weili through the divine system.

Upon hearing Lin Yan's voice, Weili immediately began praying without hesitation.

As Weili prayed, the threads of faith appeared.

Within the Sun, opening a faith channel is far more difficult.

But this difficulty was merely a matter of consuming more divine power.

Lin Yan directly opened the faith channel and vanished from here.

"So powerful!"

Although Lin Yan had vanished, several Divine Lords had actually arrived around this area.

These Divine Lords were relatively nearby.

Their sensing range was broad, and still quite vast.

So many other Divine Lords had not yet found this place.

The square-faced Divine Lord and the Starfall Divine Lord could arrive so quickly because they had dispatched third-tier deities to track from afar.

The ripples from the clash among the three deities had drawn these nearby Divine Lords.

All of them had witnessed the moment the Starfall Divine Lord was crushed.

They had also seen the square-faced Divine Lord slapped into spitting blood.

They involuntarily exchanged glances.

In each Divine Lord's eyes burned deep shock.

Two Divine Lords!

In the blink of an eye, one dead, one wounded.

And Lin Yan had only struck once!