Chapter 181

What is a divine oracle? It is something that even the gods might have forgotten, yet there are still pious believers who will risk their lives to fulfill it.

"Eat sprout! Kill! Hemertus." Ouke said word by word, seriously. After finishing, he suddenly scratched his head and asked somewhat embarrassedly: "Uh, excuse me, are you Hemertus?"

The consciousness in the darkness was very helpless and let out an "Hmm." You came to kill me without even knowing who I am? Where did you come from? So arrogant?

With a thought, a faint human-like figure emerged from the darkness and quietly crept toward Ouke.

"Oh, that's great. Bone Priest, I've found it." Following Ouke's words, a summoning channel opened behind him, and the Bone Priest, carrying a broom, jumped out from inside.

A broom? A skeleton? When did I provoke a sweeping skeleton? Hemertus's heart was filled with confusion.

The human-like figure had already crept not far from Ouke. Its form was faint, and it had strong stealth capabilities. Coupled with the pitch-black cave, it was very difficult for ordinary people to see its existence.

However, just as it was about to launch an attack, it discovered that Ouke and the skeleton that had just jumped out were both twisting their faces to look at it.

Eh, discovered? The human-like figure quietly moved laterally for a distance, only to find that the enemy's gaze kept following its movement.

It was indeed discovered. The human-like figure simply stopped hiding and revealed its form.

It was a human-like insect with two saw-blades bent on its arms, like a mantis. Its arms and legs were all triple-jointed and recurved. After revealing itself, it kicked off its hind legs and darted toward Ouke like a bolt of lightning.

The Bone Priest's hands moved slightly, and the broom in its hand swept across. The end of the broom rapidly changed into a blade, blocking the front of the human-like mantis insect.

The human-like mantis insect couldn't dodge in time and crashed into the blade, splitting into two halves and dying.

Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. In the darkness, a series of fish roe bursting sounds occurred. Countless beetles and insects exploded, looking like dark clouds and tides, surging forward in large waves.

Ouke was fearless and shouted loudly: "My Lord Ang, grant me divine power! Where there is light, no one can hurt me!"

Following his voice, his entire body lit up, forming a solid barrier of light.

Ang only felt his power being continuously projected onto Ouke, faster than ever before. It was fortunate that his recovery ability was strong, otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to keep up.

With the continuous superposition of power, the barrier of light on Ouke became more and more solid.

Soon, he shouted again: "My Lord Ang, grant me divine power! Where my eyes see, it shall burn!"

In an instant, the place where Ouke's gaze focused began to sizzle and burn, but the burning range was a bit small, only one centimeter in diameter at the focal point. The insects it touched all exploded with a pop.

"Good fellow, Ouke is the most pious believer. He defined two divine arts at once: Barrier of Light and Burning Gaze, and he even summoned the Bone Priest? This guy is a genius."

Projected into Ang's soul, watching the battle from Ang's perspective, Negris couldn't help but mutter, unable to hide the envy in his tone.

"Summoning, and cross-plane summoning at that. This is simply... Don't look at those knight novels where summoning pets and summoning skeletons seems simple. This involves cross-plane spatial conversion, and the difficulty is extremely high."

"If it's stored in a spatial artifact, most spatial artifacts cannot store living things, unlike the Palace of Peace. This guy can actually perform cross-plane summoning? Where does the energy to establish the summoning channel come from?"

Ang replied: "Mine."

"..." This was the most speechless part for Negris. The power was borrowed from Ang, yet he could do things Ang couldn't do. And then, once Ouke succeeded, Ang would naturally know how to do it.

Divine arts defined by believers are naturally mastered by the god. That is to say, Ang now also knew the Barrier of Light and Burning Gaze that Ouke was using.

What does this equate to? It's like a believer borrowing your money to do business, and all the profits belong to you. What kind of unreasonable thing is this?

"Why can't I encounter a fanatical believer? I finally taught a believer, and now she's about to be snatched away by your Lisa. With their kind of fanaticism, it won't be long before you have to light another divine fire called 'Beauty'. Undead Beauty God? Ku Ba Da."

While Negris was grumbling, the Bone Priest made its move. Facing the overwhelming insects surging over, it arched its body and opened its jaw: "Ah—ah—ah—!"

Have you ever seen a rhythmic soul impact? This was it. A soul impact, leveled by the Bone Priest to have ups and downs, ups and downs. With several layers of soul chanting, the overwhelming insects fell in waves under this rhythm.

"Hiss, look, look, this is what you call technique. The soul impact is just enough to cause damage to the insects without being excessive, thereby extending the duration of the impact and maximizing the damage to the enemy. It seems this silver bone doesn't just know how to sweep the floor."

The insects fell down with a rustle. The Bone Priest stomped its foot on the ground and slid backward.

The dead insects flipped over and crawled up, biting the living insects with stiff movements.

"Soul impact, The King Arrives—so it can be used to deal with insects like this. Truly a genius." Negris exclaimed.

The Bone Priest's intelligence wasn't high; you could feel it when communicating with it. But as a thousand-year-old silver skeleton priest, its intelligence couldn't be low. Now it seemed that what it was proficient in was clearly something else, such as combat.

The overwhelming insects, under the Bone Priest's soul impact, The King Arrives, and Ouke's burning gaze, couldn't rush up for a long time.

Hemertus was getting a bit anxious. The entire space emitted a hissing sound, spreading out like ripples. The insects suddenly went crazy, accelerating wildly, not hesitating to step on their own kind, and even if their own kind blocked the front, they would bite down without hesitation.

Under this desperate madness, the insect tide surged to within ten meters of Ouke, and he was about to be submerged.

Being submerged by insects, Ouke would be dead for sure. Although he had Ang covering him, he was still an ordinary person, and the Barrier of Light couldn't last forever.

Ouke was fearless and shouted loudly: "My Lord Ang, grant me divine power! I am willing to sacrifice everything in exchange for your arrival!"

Just after finishing, a raging fire of life ignited on Ouke's body.

"Ku Ba Da, sacrifice? What kind of shitty fanatical believer are you? Don't you want your life? Even if you win, your little life will be gone." Negris said with some envy, some jealousy, and some inability to understand.

Ang had no time to care about it, because the moment the fire of life ignited on Ouke, Ang felt an unobstructed energy channel open between him and Ouke.

Seeing his fanatical believer being submerged by the insect tide, was Ang not anxious? He was anxious; he was so anxious he wanted to drill over. But the connection between him and Ouke was like a small water pipe, continuously transporting, but the amount of water was just that little bit.

Alright, through sacrifice, the small water pipe went "crack" and turned into a high-speed highway, and all of Ang's power surged over at once.

Ouke screamed. His body couldn't bear the massive power, and he felt like he was about to split apart.

But the next moment, the light of the Jing Yan Shu enveloped him, healing the wounds on his body.

Then, he stomped his foot down hard, the Death Aura spread out, and at the same time, layers of dragon scales flipped out from his skin. His body also rapidly grew, transforming into a three-meter-tall dragon-man, and he rushed out involuntarily.

In the first second, he completed the transformation. In the second second, he rushed into the insect pile like a high-speed object, insect juice splashing everywhere. In the third second, he pounced in front of that biological tissue and threw a punch.

The biological tissue exploded, ripples bursting from the point of his punch, bang, bang, bang.

However, he tilted his ear in confusion, as if listening intently. At the same time, the dragon scales on his body were changing: cyan, red, yellow, representing the Time Dragon, Space Dragon, and Prophet Dragon respectively.

Not until it settled on a brass color did he leap up violently, his sharp claws scratching at the empty air.

Just as his sharp claws scratched down, a black shadow appeared there. The sharp claws cut into the black shadow's body, and he gripped hard, pulling out its heart.

At this point, in the fifth second, before he even landed, his head tilted forward, he lost consciousness, and his body rapidly transformed from the Dragon God back into a human.

Ang could persist for fifteen seconds without injury, but Ouke sacrificed his life and could only bear it for five seconds.

Despite losing consciousness, the hand holding the heart didn't loosen, and he fell straight forward like that. Having launched the impact with the body of a Dragon God, but having to bear the landing with a human body, Ouke would definitely have his brains smashed out.

Fortunately, at the moment of landing, a hand appeared abruptly, grabbed him, and pulled him backward, dragging him away.

The insect tide covering the sky instantly lost all motivation and fell to the ground with a rustle.

The Bone Priest looked at the insects on the ground in a daze, then looked at the place where Ouke had disappeared. It stood still for a long time, then suddenly, as if remembering something, it converted the machete back into a broom and began to sweep the floor.

The sound of swish, swish, swish echoed in the vast cave, just like the Undead Temple that had been silent for a thousand years.

Using the Hand of Dimensional Passage to drag Ouke back, Ang sat on the ground, a strong sense of fatigue surging in his soul.

Projecting power over wasn't tiring, and triggering Ouke's Dragon God transformation wasn't tiring, but the Hand of Dimensional Passage had penetrated a place that wasn't the Palace of Peace for the first time, and it almost exhausted Ang to death.

Seeing Ang, Ouke excitedly raised the heart in his hand: "Lord Ang, I have fulfilled your oracle." He didn't notice at all that his body was gradually turning to ash, just like when the little angel released the Holy Light Shine before.

Ouke wasn't a little angel. His turning to ash was irreversible, and even his soul would burn away. This was the result of him sacrificing his life.

"This silly child..." Negris looked at him with pain and helplessness, at a loss. As the God of Knowledge, the more he knew, the clearer he was that this situation was hopeless. Life sacrifice—even the gods of light couldn't save him from that.

Ang took the heart and nodded at Ouke: "Good."

He stuffed it back into the Palace of Peace, and pulled out a large bucket from inside, filled with essence insect ash liquid.

Ang immediately stuffed Ouke into the insect ash liquid, protecting his soul and soaking his whole body in it.

The red light of the left hand's spot removal technique kept dripping into the essence insect ash liquid, purifying the impurities inside.

Water also counted as an impurity. As the water continuously decreased, the concentration of the essence insect ash liquid would continuously increase. During this process, Ang also kept pulling out essence insect ash liquid and injecting it into the bucket.

It was almost three buckets distilled into one, and the concentration of the insect ash liquid increased threefold.

The left hand was purifying, and the right hand wasn't idle either. He kept casting Jing Yan Shu and Rebirth Technique back and forth, finally discovering that the Rebirth Technique had a better effect on this situation, so he simply cast only the Rebirth Technique.

Watching Ang's actions, Negris shook his head: "It's useless. Life sacrifice is a way of burning and releasing the entire life process in an instant. This is a process that even gods cannot reverse, because the life has already been burned out."

"If life could be reversed, the World Tree wouldn't have only nine thousand years of lifespan left. The World Tree is the God of Life, and even it can't reverse this process. Don't waste your effort, it's better to... Eh?" Before he finished speaking, the situation in the bucket surprised Negris. Ouke's turning to ash had actually stopped?

The people watching from all around silently accepted the baptism of the miracle. Ouke, who had been turning to ash, had his process stopped right there in the bucket. At this moment, more than half of his body had turned to ash, and even his bones and organs were exposed.

But he didn't die. He just looked at Ang blankly, seemingly realizing something: The lord is saving me?

The entire process lasted for a day and a night, during which Ang added six more buckets of insect ash liquid, making Negris's face twitch with heartache.

If it were before, this insect ash liquid, which could only be used as fertilizer or to revive stone eggs, would have been used if it was used; it was no big deal.

But now, after the insect ash liquid was purified, it could actually reverse life. The value was different. This was a treasure that even gods would covet.

"Oh my, did you just kill Hemertus? Then won't there be no more insects in the future? Then won't it be used up a little bit every time? No, no, I'm going to cover all the buckets to prevent evaporation. If I had this stuff back then, I wouldn't have died at ten thousand and two years old."

After stopping the turning-to-ash process, the rest was just treatment. Ouke, who only had bones and some organs left, was transferred into the holy essence liquid and had all parts regrown.

It was just that the regrown Ouke was a bit different from before. He had a young, tender face of a teenager, but the muscles on his body were clearly defined. A scan of his soul showed that his bone density was higher than that of a High Rank Sword Saint like Lu Se.

"In the future, whoever looks at your face and thinks you're easy to bully, and then punches you... Your body was born to bear divine power, right?" Negris said.

This was normal. Many divine art practitioners liked to wear loose robes because their bodies were too muscular. Once they tore their robes, they were all muscle, because only a strong body could bear greater power.

Ouke scratched his head honestly, then knelt piously toward Ang and kowtowed: "Thank you, my lord, for granting me a new life."

Ang nodded and said to Negris: "I want to sleep." He found a cool place, dug a hole, and buried himself.

Negris looked at Ang with worry. He actually wanted to sleep? It seemed the consumption was massive. Would he be alright?