Chapter 1947: Advancing Rapidly

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"Shiva, you should be able to do it if you imitate us," Maria said.

"It is not too hard to copy someone else’s technique," Shiva replied, nodding. "But I have a better affinity with fists than any other weapon... like that guy, the Heavenly Demon, right?"

"Yes, Lord Shiva," the Heavenly Demon nodded. "Show me what you can copy."

"This? Easy."

Shiva swung his hand, and giant crimson dragon claws surged forth, tearing apart a nearby cloud and scattering it instantly.

"Oh?!" The Heavenly Demon looked amazed. "Then follow my movements from now on, Shiva. I will guide you along the right path."

"Thank you," Shiva nodded.

At that moment, as the chains were destroyed, the gate leading to Floor 90 opened.

Maria gazed into the wormhole that led to the next floor.

Earlier, she had tried using the Floor Skipping Ticket again. She had plenty of them. However, a system message informed her that an Administrator Authority was being used to prevent her from using it any longer within the Tenfold Realm of Vedas.

Therefore, Maria had been forced to fight on Floor 89, unable to skip directly to Floor 90.

The reason was simple.

The one who had plotted for everyone to kill each other and destroy the Tenfold Realm to feed it to The Creator was hiding on this floor.

"It’s time, everyone!" Shiva roared. "Let’s go!"

Everyone roared in unison as Maria led the army of brave gods. She enveloped them in her Domain of Void, helping them cross the boundaries between dimensions.

FLUOSH!

The group pierced through the barriers. Maria noticed the same Celestial Walls once again, now wrapped tightly in chains.

"Aha! You’re getting desperate, huh?"

Despite everything, Maria smirked. She swung her Sword Soul Heart and unleashed the combined power of the Path of Nihility, the Path of Genesis, and the Path of Oblivion.

Nihility merged all offensive moves into a lightning-fast series of blows that divided across the opponent’s body.

Genesis allowed her to cut through things a physical sword could not normally sever, such as spells, curses, magic, techniques, and elemental essence.

Oblivion enabled her to sever the connections between planes, souls, entities, and dimensions.

By combining Nihility’s destructive speed, Genesis’s ability to cut the abstract, and Oblivion’s power to ascend temporarily into a higher dimension, Maria began cutting through the chains and walls one by one with relentless precision.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

Susanoo, the Heavenly Demon, and Shiva followed with their own techniques. Shiva quickly caught up to the Heavenly Demon, copying his moves and then incorporating them into his own rhythm.

To the incredulous eyes of the Jade Emperor and his Council of True Immortals, the four of them danced with swords and fists, pummeling through more than three hundred walls and chains.

Every fragment of wall and every broken chain was devoured by Maria. She absorbed their essence and processed it into her own soul.

She found fragments of will scattered everywhere. Beings from higher dimensions, these Celestials, infused their very will into everything they created.

Erasing those wills was easy. She simply refined them using her Outer God Power and Authority. Once the wills were deleted, the chains and wall fragments scattered into pure Celestial Essence.

Maria absorbed the essence, refined it further, and fed it to every inch of her body, heart, and soul.

Eventually, a white dimensional glow emerged from within her. She spread her aura into a Domain, and her attacks now carried fragments of her opponents’ own power.

The Jade Emperor watched in dread. These monsters were too much.

"This is ridiculous! We have barely managed to slow them down at all! Just what are they?! What kind of monsters are these?!"

As he screamed in fury, the Jade Emperor gathered all his power into his hands and channeled his Administrator Authority to create even more obstacles. He summoned wall after wall, desperately trying to buy time until the Dimensional Storms swept through them during their ascent.

"That damned woman! How could she revive everyone she killed and then turn them against me?! This is beyond ridiculous! How... how is this even possible?!"

In a fit of rage, he channeled more of his powerful Primordial Qi into the Plane of the Soul. Using Celestial Essence, he generated jade-like white walls encased in thick jade chains.

"You won’t pass! You will die inside that wormhole, swallowed by the dimensional turbulences! Die! Die already! Die!"

While he raged, his face grew paler and more strained. He watched in horror as Maria cut through the walls with increasing speed.

With every wall she destroyed, the Jade Emperor felt a sharp pain in his head.

The countless wills infused into the walls, which should have returned to him when they scattered, were instead being devoured by her.

"W-What is this?! How can she do that?! And... they are not dead yet?! They have been in there for ten minutes!"

The Jade Emperor had no idea that Maria’s powerful Void Aura was being constantly supplied with energy from his own creations. The walls and chains that were meant to destroy her were instead feeding her resistance against the Dimensional Turbulences.

"They’re drawing closer, Emperor!" one of the True Immortals warned.

"We cannot let them reach Floor 90, or the Administrators will punish me...!" the Jade Emperor said. "Go through the door and stop them!"

"What?! We might be Supreme True Immortals, but even we cannot resist the Dimensional Turbulences for long, great emperor!"

"Please have mercy! This is not something we can do on our own...!"

"I know!" the Jade Emperor replied, his eyes glowing with golden light. "So I will grant you the power to do it!"

He suddenly unleashed Celestial Essence from his palms, infusing it into dozens of Supreme True Immortals. Their eyes turned golden like his, small white feathered wings sprouted from their backs, and tiny golden halos appeared above their heads. They were shocked, overflowing with newfound power.

"I have granted you a Minor Celestial Blessing! Now you possess the strength to survive the Dimensional Turbulences and kill them!" the Jade Emperor declared. "Do you still doubt me?"

"O-Of course not!"

"This is incredible! We will do our best!"

"Count on us, oh great emperor and great ancestor!"

"We shall slay them all!"

"Especially that filthy Heavenly Demon, who thinks he can match us Ancient Immortals with those weak new cultivation methods from that backwater world!"

Laughing with their newfound angelic power, the True Immortals rushed through the gates and intercepted Maria and her army across the spatial membranes as they tried to advance to the next floor.

A fierce battle within the turbulent dimensional staircase was about to begin under the nervous gaze of the Jade Emperor. His obsessive eyes remained fixed on Maria as she sliced through his barriers and chains as if they were nothing.

Power condensed within his hands as he began weaving yet another plan to stop her from advancing any further.

"Don’t think you will ever reach Floor 90, you wretched being! A monster like you must not step into Heaven! I will not allow it!"

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