Chapter 243: The Main God's Ability Model from Another World

"It's... it's over?"

Looking at the World Passage that had completely calmed down.

An ancient dragon seemed to mutter in disbelief.

Even though they knew well how powerful their Father God was, because He had never displayed divine power before them, even the Ancestral Ancient Dragons, who were closest to Baichuan, had no concrete sense of His actual strength.

They only knew their Father God was very strong, extremely strong.

But just how strong, they had no idea.

Yet the Lord of Radiance was different. As for His power, every ancient dragon had a perfectly clear perception of it in their minds.

During those three hundred-plus years, more than one second-generation ancient dragon had died at His hands while trying to block the gods from another world.

In every battle, even on their home world where the Ancestral Ancient Dragons held home advantage, it initially took more than three Ancestral Ancient Dragons just to match Him evenly.

Later, even as the world's energy level rose, facing a severely weakened avatar of the Lord of Radiance still required at least two Ancestral Ancient Dragons to hold Him at bay.

As for His true body... no, even just one of His fingers — and a finger that had crossed over through a World Passage at that.

Back then, if their strongest among them — the Primordial Dragon — had not paid the price of its own collapse to fully Burst, pouring out everything it had to try to destroy the destabilized World Passage under the surging force of the other's power, the other would have had no such reservations.

Otherwise, they would likely have all fallen into slumber beneath that terrifying finger back then — or perhaps even perished outright!

Therefore, in their eyes, the Lord of Radiance was nearly invincible!

And now, such a powerful being had been unable to gain the slightest advantage against their Father God, and after softening three times, had been thoroughly humiliated by their Father God, leaving in utter disarray with only a severed finger behind.

For a moment, every ancient dragon — whether Ancestral Ancient Dragon or second-generation ancient dragon — fell into a state of shock and disbelief, unable to accept that it was all real.

This was not because they distrusted their Father God, but because the shadow that one being had cast over them was far, far too deep, making them feel from the bottom of their hearts that that terrifying existence seemed unbeatable.

If at this moment a powerhouse intimately familiar with that Lord of Radiance were to appear, they would surely shake their head and sigh helplessly.

This was precisely that Lord's favorite trick.

It was not merely a psychological shadow born of fear at the other's strength, but a special Technique of Spirit Intimidation.

Using fear as a catalyst, it silently and imperceptibly planted a seed of fear toward oneself in the target's heart.

Once that seed took root and sprouted in the future, as long as the target's strength did not completely surpass the one who planted it, they would exhibit an unavoidable stiffness and dread when facing Him.

Unfortunately, this insidious Technique had now been unknowingly shattered by Baichuan through sheer, straightforward violence.

At this moment, beams of golden sunlight pierced through the clouds and shone down, making the scales and armor exposed by the flood dragon appear even more sacred.

The nightmare was finally over!

At this moment, every ancient dragon simultaneously raised its proud dragon head, gazing with the deepest respect at the great flood dragon drifting amid the sea of clouds.

Look! This was their Father God / Ancestor God!

Those beams of sunlight pierced through not only the clouds, but the gloom in every ancient dragon's heart.

Of course, Baichuan had no time to spare for the ancient dragons' changes at this moment.

After one final glance at the World Passage that had returned to calm, he paid it no further heed.

Because now was not yet the time to cross over there; this world still needed him to wrap things up.

Moreover, the Main God's ability model was still waiting for him.

He believed this ability model would bring him an enormous surprise.

Thinking of this, he looked again at the many avatars of gods from another world around him, whose expressions had greatly changed, and then his mind stirred.

In an instant, the energy between heaven and earth responded to his will, transforming into chains of immense hardness that pierced through and bound those gods.

Only then did he lower his dragon head to look at the severed finger on the ground.

That severed finger slowly deformed under his puzzled gaze, and after several breaths transformed into a half-formed claw resembling a bird's.

"This is?"

Not human?

As thoughts flickered through his mind, Baichuan grasped one point.

However, he grew even more curious about the situation in the world on the other side.

Gods existed, and most likely their true bodies could not cross over — or there was some enormous cost involved — and among them, the Main God — the Lord of Radiance, likely one of the strongest batch of gods — His true body was probably not human, but rather a shapeshifting animal?

Without a doubt, this could be said to suit him perfectly!

What was he elevating his world for now? Wasn't it precisely to obtain even more powerful abilities?

And now he had discovered an entire world's worth of resources — this was truly his good fortune.

Previously it had been the other side invading him; as for the future, that was no longer certain.

After all, the nation he once came from placed the greatest emphasis on reciprocity in all things.

Then, let him take a look at the abilities of a Main God-level powerhouse among the gods.

Thinking of this, he slowly emerged from the sea of clouds. At this moment, as the flood dragon began to swim, the dragon body hidden as if in another space and deep within the sea of clouds was truly revealed to the eyes of every being present.

Vast! Unimaginably vast!

As the entire body undulated, the rippling muscles gave an unimaginable sense of fluid beauty; the deep, luminous scales covering its body were dazzling to behold, and as the body moved, they rubbed and struck against each other, producing crisp, metallic music — as if announcing the descent of the greatest being in all heaven and earth.

What a majestic, mysterious, and powerful flood dragon!

"F-Father God has become even more powerful!"

"Mm, yes."

At this moment, an ancient dragon began gazing at the greatest flood dragon in all heaven and earth with reverent, affectionate eyes, and sighed softly.

Another ancient dragon quickly echoed in agreement.

It remembered well — when they were young, the Father God in its memory, though massive, was only about a third larger than their current forms.

But now, even the largest ancient dragon among them, with its body over thirty meters long, was nothing more than a mere child before Him.

"I'm going to visit A Shi and the others first. You all follow along shortly."

Just as the ancient dragons were marveling, a gentle voice drifted over from afar.

After that, the mysterious Jiaolong that had loomed like a great mountain was never seen again, leaving behind only a dense sea of clouds brimming with spirituality and the lingering strange fragrance born of heaven-and-earth portents that had yet to disperse.

As the saying goes, "a divine dragon shows its head but never its tail" — nothing more need be said.

"Everyone, let us follow as well — to welcome back our elder brother and our younger siblings!"

Seeing this, gazing toward where their Father God had utterly vanished, the eldest among them, the Ice Sea Dragon, was lost in melancholy for a moment before being the first to come back to himself, and spoke to his still somewhat dazed younger siblings.

"Mm! Let us go!"

"To welcome back our elder brothers and sister!"

At this moment, one after another, the Ancestral Ancient Dragons who had always been dignified and steady before their own Juanzhu, every one of them, eyes brimming with hot tears, heavily lowered their dragon heads in a nod.

Then, led by several Ancestral Ancient Dragons, the dragon flock that had only just barely caught up once more beat their broad, cloak-like Dragon Wings and departed.

As for those otherworldly Spirits strung across the heavens like ornaments, still writhing and struggling — at this moment, who cared?

They were nothing more than a few captives imprisoned here by Father God; no need to pay them any further heed.

This was the Ancient Dragons' unconditional, blind trust in their own Father God.

So long as Father God is present, nothing is a problem!

In the end, beneath Father God's mighty power, all shall melt away like ice — exactly as happened this time.

……

Meanwhile, on the other side of the World Passage.

"Ah—!"

After a scream rang out far across the entire stretch of heaven and earth.

In several mysterious spaces scattered across this world suffused with magic and laws, a few existences radiating terrifying auras simultaneously cast their gazes over.

"This is? That wretched bird's scream? Who could have made Him suffer such a great loss? Interesting, very interesting!"

"Radiance's voice? Where has He suffered a setback? Speaking of which, He has been acting mysteriously of late — has something interesting happened in this world that I don't know about?"

"Hehehehe, what a delightful scream — to think someone could actually make Him suffer a loss."

"Mm~~~"

At this moment, drawn by that single scream, countless existences cast their gazes over and murmured.

"How— dare— he—!!!"

"He, he, how dare he?!!!"

Looking at his own severed finger — a section already missing, its bleeding slowly stanched — this mighty being, whom no one had ever dared to defy, was so enraged that his whole body trembled, his eyes blazed red, and his face twisted with fury as he growled low.

"Ga~"

Mm~~~?

In the midst of his fury, the great being abruptly caught a strange sound from afar and slowly turned his head.

At once, a Dragon Beast with vacant, dull eyes slowly came into his view.

It was a Dragon Beast that, for reasons unknown, had lost its intelligence and its inheritance.

"Dragon? Dragon! A dragon again!!! That damned dragon again!!!"

Gazing upon the dull-witted giant dragon that had appeared before his eyes at the very moment of his deepest displeasure and fury, the Lord of Radiance thought of how, just now, he had been made to lose face before all the Spirits by the giant dragon from another world.

In an instant, his rage surged higher and higher without cease.

"Damned ant, die!"

In his wrath, the Lord of Radiance gave a low shout and hurled out a spear of light radiating a sharp aura.

"Boom—!"

In an instant, the spear of light fell, setting off a chain of earth-shattering explosions.

Rolling waves of heat ran rampant across this Ice Plains swept by biting cold winds; the heat they generated even, for a time, twisted the frigid air around them into the scorching, shimmering air most commonly seen in the Desert.

Having done this, the Lord of Radiance paid no further heed to the place, and with a single stride vanished on the spot.

He had returned to his own Divine Kingdom, to lay his great plans for revenge.

He knew well that, no matter how much he wished to conceal the previous commotion, he absolutely could not hide it from those few Main Gods — some slumbering, some indifferent to worldly affairs, some probing beyond the world — as easily as he had three hundred years ago.

But he no longer cared.

Let them discover it if they will.

Best of all would be for them to fight among themselves, the fiercer the better.

In any case, whether it was the detestable giant dragon on the other side or the other Main Gods of this world, any one of them being wounded would be a good thing for him.

This loss could not be borne by him alone!

With one of his most important avatars destroyed, this tremendous loss and price would be more than enough to torment him for some time to come.

……

On the other side.

A few days later, Baichuan, who had been drifting through the world, suddenly paused and glanced at the prompt on his panel indicating a successful scan.

A rare flicker of joy rose within him.

He was in no rush to continue his journey; after surveying the surroundings, he decisively descended from his clouds toward a certain great mountain.

And with that, he headed straight for the panel space.

Accompanied by a flash of faint light.

The personal Ability Panel, which had not appeared for a long time, popped up.

'Name: Baichuan.'

'Race: Jiaolong.'

'Length: 118 meters.'

'Lifespan: 1008 years, 9 months.'

【Points: 801 (16%)】

【Abilities: LV5 Ability (Expand), LV4 Ability (Expand), LV3 Ability (Expand), LV2 Ability (Expand), LV1 Ability (Expand).】

【Ability Structure Library: (Expand)】

【Kedianji……】

Without the slightest hesitation, after merely a glance at his incomparably lavish panel, Baichuan opened the Ability Structure Library and looked toward the newly generated ability model.

Along with his confirmation, in an instant within this pitch-black panel space, a majestic divine bird wholly shrouded in golden flames leapt forth.

For a moment, it brought a faint glimmer of light to this pitch-black space.

A sharp, slightly curved beak, a pair of keen, majestic eyes with a hidden divine gleam, metallic feathers whose tips seemed to endlessly flicker with wisps of trailing flame, and massive talons upon which a sharp radiance shimmered, giving one the feeling that cleaving metal and rending stone would be the merest trifle.

After a glance at this astonishing divine bird, Baichuan looked toward the main event that followed — the specific abilities of this otherworldly Main God who represented the Lord of Radiance:

【Race: Lord of Radiance /??】

【Abilities: Planet Tentacle LV5 (Inner), Energy Level 4 (Transcendent), Jin Yan LV4 (Extreme), Soul LV3 (Limit Break), Wisdom Brain LV3 (King), Mo Li Shi Ying LV2……】

Looking at the ability model information above, Baichuan merely cast a speechless glance at the Race column, then helplessly let out a sigh.

Well, aside from the abilities, none of the other information could be trusted.

That race thing or whatever was merely assigned to this ability model based on his own cognition.

Previously, in this half-truthful world, it was fine — many creatures could glean the specific information of the biological ability models he had preyed upon from the information within his past-life subconscious.

But now, facing a genuine otherworldly creature he had never encountered before — and moreover a Main God-level powerhouse of unfathomable mystery — some of his panel's information-extraction functions had gone blind.

Because there was simply not the slightest bit of relevant knowledge in his mind.

That was why the race had ended up showing the bizarre entry "Lord of Radiance."

Shaking his head, he looked toward the various pieces of information in the Abilities column.

Planet Tentacle: A portion of some mysterious ability very likely at the "planet" level; it allows the host to command a fraction of a certain power upon a planet, unleashing incomparably tremendous might and transformations.

Energy Level 4: The ability allows the host to assume a form entirely composed of energy, thereby avoiding various physical attacks to a certain extent, while also absorbing certain powers to restore itself.

Jin Yan: A flame fueled by a special energy, with extremely high adhesion; as long as the energy persists, the flame will not be extinguished, until the object it clings to vanishes.

Soul: A consciousness crystal born from within an intelligent creature's body due to the influence of some power or some special environment.

Mo Li Shi Ying: An energy organ born from within a creature's body due to the influence of some power or some special environment.

……

Looking at the various ability descriptions above, Baichuan fell completely into deep thought.

Clearly, the information revealed among these abilities exposed far, far too much about the otherworld.

So much that he could almost piece together a portion of the otherworld's specific circumstances based on the otherworldly deity information he had previously obtained.

Moreover, these pieces of information gave him a subtle, faint sense of déjà vu.

……

(End of Chapter)