Chapter 515: Divine War Ritual Annihilation Counter!

Heh heh heh……

Within the candlelight, a faint arc of light was blooming.

Even though Ta Ke had already ascended to demigod, wielding a divine seat, he feared not the passage of time.

But at this moment, in this mysterious divine war ritual.

The candle's power still continuously seared Ta Ke's demigod sequence.

It was only just beginning and was weak, but as time passed.

The searing force grew increasingly astonishing.

Heh heh heh……

The flicker of electric arc light grew ever brighter.

Now, Ta Ke's grip on the powerful ancient artifact is gradually strengthening, and many wondrous divine abilities can slowly manifest.

The inner and outer layers of the flame are completely blocked, unable to break free at all.

But as steam surged, the candle's blaze became ever hotter.

At the same time.

Just appearing, the three struck simultaneously.

The divine shadow dark robe swiftly enveloped Ta Ke, entering a void‑hazy state, like an extremely translucent ghost.

Star Remains God!

A hoarse, ancient voice rose and fell erratically, making it hard to track.

Heh heh heh……

Ta Ke tried to break free from the candle's confinement.

A massive gush of steam spewed out.

"The ritual's binding and restraining power is astonishing!"

"Ta Ke, this is a sacrificial ritual from beyond the main world; you cannot resist it."

Ta Ke gently clenched his fist.

Pairs of greedy, evil eyes were scrutinizing Ta Ke.

Ta Ke gave a faint smile.

The Star Nian Ring Staff's divine power flared.

Three very bright candles ignited from the darkness.

The searing force grew ever more urgent.

Great Nest Pillar God!

However, when he touched the edge of the candle flame, Ta Ke's brow twitched slightly.

The Dark Sun's outline remained as ever, a massive black, sinking Death‑Chaos star core, and a surrounding burning crimson halo.

"This time, you won't escape either."

The arc produced by the candle's searing vanished.

Before Ta Ke could further investigate the surroundings.

It seemed… they were already ready for the forthcoming feast.

The three evil gods of the Chaotic Ancient Continent's alien layer gathered here together.

Simultaneously, in the endless darkness beyond the candle.

Ta Ke abruptly retracted the erupting steam, and the wizard's divine robe on his body was torn.

The Great Nest Pillar God is an evil divine pillar that breeds countless aberrant insect races.

"Wha—…"

"Wooo…."

"Damned ancient artifact!"

Even the intensity of the searing on Ta Ke increased greatly.

"Is that so?"

As the party leading the ritual, they had already prepared.

"The gods of your main world who once existed all perished within this mighty ritual."

Dark Sun God!

An angry low growl came from the depths of darkness.

The Star Remains God is a nebular form gathered from scattered starlight.

"We must adopt a corresponding countermeasure, not… flee!"

Three ritual tendrils, like grasping vines, suddenly leapt from their candlelight onto Ta Ke's candle.

One was a dark vortex shape.

One was a nebulous, hazy form.

One was a twisted rock shape.

When the ritual power of the three evil gods touched Ta Ke's candle simultaneously.

"Heh heh heh……"

The divine clash's annihilation crackled with heh heh sounds.

For a moment, Ta Ke's demigod sequence trembled.

The Dark Sun evil god's twisted, grotesque roar swept in.

"Ta Ke… don't you love expeditions? Didn't you want to deal with me?"

"Come… Hahaha… Die die die…"

"Since you won't let me go, today I'll finish you off like fish caught in a net."

"The great Divine Confrontation Annihilation Ritual—this is divine punishment for you!"

"Even if I die today, I will drag you down with me."

"Hahaha…"

The Dark Sun Evil God's voice grew increasingly frantic and ferocious.

Divine Confrontation, divine positions annihilating each other!

This is a mad divine ritual, evidently requiring three divine beings to pay a gruesome price to erase Ta Ke's divine position.

And the one observing and driving the ritual from the shadows.

Without a doubt, it is the Green Star Clan.

The evil god's madness and distortion are displayed here in full.

As the three Great Evil Gods strike simultaneously.

Even though Ta Ke now uses an ancient artifact to resist the scorching.

The relentless annihilating power continues to seep in through the Candlefire Ritual's opposition, constantly scorching Ta Ke.

Heh heh heh…

Amid the high‑intensity ritual clash, Ta Ke's already void‑transparent form becomes ever more ethereal and pallid.

It even feels like a candle in the wind, ready to be snuffed out with a single breath.

Facing this situation.

The three Great Evil Gods spare no effort in driving their own evil divine positions to wildly annihilate and drain Ta Ke's divinity.

They are powerful divine beings over three hundred levels.

Whereas Ta Ke is only a demigod of just over two hundred seventy levels.

Having traversed endless ages, the divinity they have accumulated is astonishingly vast.

Although Ta Ke's steam ecology is formidable, his cultivation time is ultimately too short.

No matter what, he is still a demigod.

And how substantial can a demigod's divinity be?

Therefore!

The three divine beings join forces, using the Divine Punishment Ritual as a foundation to activate a higher‑intensity Divine War Annihilation Ritual.

This time they will press on in one surge, erasing Ta Ke completely.

They intend to make this clueless demigod understand.

A petty demigod daring to expedition divine beings must pay a gruesome price of death.

As the three Great Evil Gods' sustained assault continues.

Soon, waves of steam roaring sound arise.

Immediately after, a sizable steam ecology force seeps in from the expedition ritual's dimension.

As the external steam ecology force infiltrates.

Heh heh heh…

The Divine Confrontation war ritual seems even more intense.

This scene makes the surrounding observing divine beings smile.

And the Dark Sun Evil God now holds the victory firmly.

"Ta Ke, stop struggling. Trying to use this faith‑infused steam power to counter our drain? That's impossible!"

"As a demigod, your foundation is far too weak."

"Even if we let you draw on faith power, we can still slay you completely today."

"Under the great Lord Fei Ke Lai Si's witness, you… cannot escape!"

"Today… is your day of downfall!"

They gather steam faith power to oppose the external Divine Confrontation.

The void‑like Ta Ke, with a composed expression, says: "Is that all your tactics? I doubt they can affect me!"

"Even at death's brink, you still talk back."

The Dark Sun God smiles slyly.

"Don't think I can't sense your divine body beginning to boil."

"Even though the divine robe masks the surface, the scorching of the Divine Confrontation can burn through your sequence realm ecology."

"Hmph!"

Ta Ke lets out a cold hum and silently continues his own resistance, ignoring the opponent.

Soon, a familiar voice slowly rises.

It turns out to be Fei Ke Lai Si, the powerful "Sequence True God" of the Green Star Clan mentioned earlier by the Dark Sun Evil God, a being over four hundred levels.

"Ta Ke… you should have felt the tremendous power of this ritual from the ancient divine kingdom."

"This is not a force you can contend with at all."

"Not to mention… within that divine fortress lie terrifying methods you cannot possibly match."

"The star‑core ecology of the Chaotic Ancient Continent is something the Green Star Clan must obtain."

"You… cannot possibly oppose the Green Star Clan."

"Or rather, as before, if you surrender, the Green Star Clan will grant you a seat beneath the Sequence True God, allowing you to fully protect your clan's safety."

The Sequence True God Fei Ke Lai Si speaks gently and persuasively.

Carrying the ritual, Taku glanced at the darkness beyond the candle flame.

"Lord Fikelei, if you surrender now, I might be able to spare you a tow‑chain lock in front of the worldship; I hope you will consider it seriously!"

Fikelei, who had been silently pondering for a long time, took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.

"Burn him to death!"

With Fikelei's order,

the six surrounding deities simultaneously acted, joining the ritual.

Heh heh heh…

The intensity of the divine clash rose another notch.

Undoubtedly, the six deities that later joined were the Green Star Clan's subordinate deity hounds.

In the confrontation,

the burning power of the ritual's divine clash nearly engulfed Taku.

Taku could only sustain his frail outline with steam, stubbornly holding the line, with no hope of turning the tide.

However, at this moment Taku's situation was far from what the three Great Evil Gods and the six Green Star deity hounds perceived!

Divine clash annihilates the divine crown.

This powerful ritual indeed has astonishing destructive power.

But the problem is that Taku's Chaotic Rune Secret Art has reached the 716th cycle.

This is the Chaotic Rune Secret Art, not an ordinary Rune Secret Art.

The stability of Taku's divine crown is self‑evident.

The strength of Taku's Star Scar Rune has also reached demi‑god level.

Thanks to Taku's incomprehensible innate talent in the Star Scar Rune Secret Art,

the power of the Star Scar Rune Secret Art permeates every corner and also settles within Taku's demi‑god sequence crown.

One divine crown, double runes.

The combination of two high‑intensity Rune Secret Arts itself allows Taku to endure the divine clash.

At this moment, the powerful deity‑level talent "Chaos·Cosmic Constellation" amplifies the crown's toughness and defense by 270 times, rendering enemy attacks almost like a gentle scrape.

The damage this ritual's clash inflicts on Taku cannot be said to be nonexistent, yet it is almost as if there were none.

Yes!

At this moment, this seemingly highly threatening divine‑annihilation ritual almost melts Taku.

For Taku, whose foundation is astonishingly profound, it actually poses little threat.

On the contrary, within the divine clash,

something slightly surprising happened to Taku.

That is, as Taku clashed with the three Evil Gods,

the divine war intensity was instantly raised to an extremely high level.

Taku's divine essence stored within the ecosystem was swiftly refined.

Because the advancement speed was too fast, the divine furnace flame of Taku's sequence deity state flared unusually fiercely, giving him a melting tendency.

And this point was precisely noticed by the enemy.

As for the massive steam‑ecosystem sediment of faith‑based divinity drawn from the outside,

it appears to counter the annihilation of one's own divinity by so many deities.

In fact, Taku is using the opposing force of the divine war ritual to rapidly refine the sedimented faith power into divinity.

The steam ecosystem itself is highly efficient.

Under the drive of the divine war ritual, the effect is akin to taking off on the spot.

Facing this, Taku naturally kept silent, stubbornly resisting the opponent's divine clash.

After all!

Such opportunities are not many.

Moreover, once the opponent discovers it, they will never give Taku a second chance.

Outside, the Four‑Tusk Elephant Worldship Divine Nation, under the governance of the Steam Spirit Wendy, continues its expeditionary assault on the three Great Evil Gods' lairs.

And within the ritual plane,

a divine war ritual of divine annihilation involving nine deities continues unabated.

The three Great Evil Gods serve as the main force, assisted by the six Green Star deity hounds.

Day after day.

Time flies rapidly.

The divine clash ritual is ongoing.

The God of Dark Sun, the God of Star Remains, and the Giant Nest Pillar God have spared no expense in dealing with Taku this time.

Such divine clashes, while causing them massive damage, also accelerate the progress of their expeditionary divine war ritual.

If they merely killed Taku, it would be fine; they could recover slowly and even scavenge useful items from Taku's expedition ritual and the wreckage of his divine realm.

But if they fail,

the expedition ritual will become their death catalyst.

Yet the divine clash ritual happening now is about to annihilate Taku.

Undoubtedly, from their perspective, they are about to win.

In the first few days of the divine clash, the situation where "Taku would soon be unable to continue" left a deep impression on the participating deities.

Obviously, Taku is like a candle flickering in the wind; if we persist a bit longer, he will go out.

Half a month later.

The deities still thought so, but regarding this Divine Confrontation ritual they developed a new thought: "This Taku can hold on quite well, though it's unclear how long he can keep it up."

When the ritual entered its third month.

The situation changed a bit.

The three evil gods saw a noticeable reduction in the intensity of their divine aura.

But Taku remained as ever, looking like he would fail in the next second.

Facing this, even the deities whose will was as solid as a rock couldn't help but harbor some doubt.

"Is Taku really about to give up?"

"Clearly those three ritual leaders have already erased a great deal of divinity."

"Why hasn't Taku died yet?"

"It can't be…"

The bad thought began to sprout.

Finally!

When the Divine Confrontation ritual reached the middle of its fourth month.

No matter how much they doubted.

At this moment, the Prime Deity of the Sequence, the mighty Fikeleis, also had to face a fact: this powerful ritual might not only have failed to harm Taku, but could actually have accelerated the Expedition ritual's progress.

The seemingly wounded, near‑death Taku was probably the one who dug their own grave.

Amid the flickering candlelight.

The outline of Prime Deity Fikeleis's face emerged.

At the same time, the opposing force of the Divine Confrontation·Divine Punishment·Annihilation Ritual was waning.

They watched the ritual recede.

The Dark Sun God glanced anxiously at the candle where the Prime Deity stood,

"Lord Fikeleis, that Taku is about to collapse. Why cancel the ritual now?"

"We are willing to trade our lives for Taku's death!"

While explaining, the Dark Sun Evil God let out a restless low growl.

But Fikeleis never paid attention to the Dark Sun Evil God, instead focusing his extremely cautious gaze on the soon‑to‑break Taku.

"How is the ritual's catalytic effect?"

His soothing voice sounded.

Those words caused a slight heaviness in the hearts of the many deities still lingering in the retreating ritual.

Is it really so?

They hadn't failed to guess; they just couldn't believe it.

After all!

Taku is only a demigod!

Not to mention a demigod— even a deity, facing such a divine war ritual, would have to sacrifice half a life, hurting flesh and bone, even if immortal.

Yet Taku not only emerged unscathed from the Divine Confrontation, but also used the divine war ritual to catalyze his own Expedition progress, which defies possibility.

"The effect is excellent."

Taku gave a faint smile.

"I think… we will meet again soon, Lord Fikeleis!"

As the words fell, Taku acted decisively.

Whoosh—whoosh—whoosh—

One after another, steam light feather blades flashed in front of Taku.

Each was poured into all the surrounding ritual candleflames.

After such a long time, Taku had already figured out the basic framework of this Divine Confrontation ritual.

After all!

He had also used this ritual process to deal with enemies.

Heh—heh—heh—

The light feather blades, imbued with powerful divine curse blood‑source energy, followed the ritual's flow, continuously pouring into the outlines of the human ritual candleflames.

Screams of agony rang out in succession.

Even Fikeleis failed to dodge Taku's counterattack.

His outline was torn apart by Taku's steam light feather blade.

Then Taku looked at the three great evil gods.

"Thanks for the ritual catalysis, you three idiots, and this also marks the progress of your deaths!"

"The intensity of the Expedition… will accelerate further!"

His words fell amid the wails and roars of the three evil gods.

Taku silently broke free from the ritual.

This wave of ritual catalysis in the Divine Confrontation propelled Taku's divine refinement dramatically, enough to raise him up a dozen levels.