He was the War God of the Divine Realm. Even as a Second-Class God, he was a figure of prestige and status in the heavens. To be so utterly disdained by a few juniors from the lower realm who had only recently attained godhood?
"Do you truly think we are made of clay?"
The golden divine light surrounding Dai Mubai suddenly surged, and a violent battle intent pierced through the heavens.
"Your origins, your identities, your goals—I will ask them personally after I have broken you."
Before his voice had even faded, Dai Mubai stomped the ground fiercely.
"Boom—!"
The earth for a hundred meters around instantly collapsed. The golden divine power of the War God erupted like a volcano, and a phantom of a white tiger, dozens of meters tall, coalesced behind him.
The tiger's fur appeared as if forged from pure gold, each strand shimmering with sharp divine runes. Its tiger eyes burned with raging golden flames, and within its massive, gaping maw, one could see rolling golden divine fire containing destructive power.
"White Tiger Roar."
Dai Mubai bellowed, clenching his right hand into a fist and smashing it into the ground.
The white tiger phantom mimicked the movement, its colossal tiger claw carrying the momentum of tearing the world asunder as it crashed toward the Demon Empress.
Golden airwaves spread out like a tsunami. The withered yellow weeds on the wasteland were instantly shredded by the gale, and even the purple lightning in the distant Thunder Grand Canyon dimmed slightly under the pressure of this surge.
"Hahaha! This is how it should be! Come, let us slaughter—and then, you shall die!"
Seeing this, the Demon Empress did not feel fear; instead, she let out a burst of crazied laughter.
The Herrscher of Thunder core within her body instantly spun to its limit. Energy from the Imaginary Space flooded into her like a tide. The purple lightning surged to its peak, actually condensing into a massive phantom of a Deep Sea Demon Whale behind her—this was her true form. The whale's body was hundreds of meters long, its skin covered in dark purple scales. Each scale was entwined with dancing purple electricity. Its whale eyes were like two purple stars, exuding an aura of destruction.
"Thunder Purgatory Descends."
The Demon Empress threw her arms wide. The leaden grey clouds above the sky were instantly dyed deep purple. Countless bolts of purple lightning, thick as barrels, struck down from the clouds, densely covering an area of several thousand meters.
This was no ordinary lightning, but Divine Thunder imbued with godhood. Upon hitting the ground, it did not explode but instead formed a lake of lightning crackling with purple arcs.
The purple arcs in the lightning lake slithered like venomous snakes. The rocks on the ground hissed under the scorching arcs, rapidly corroding into black powder.
The moment the golden white tiger phantom stepped into the lightning lake, the golden divine runes on its body began to flicker unsteadily. Its originally solid form became slightly transparent as it was eroded by the electrical arcs.
"Dai Mubai, aren't you the War God? Come on!"
The Demon Empress's voice echoed over the lightning lake, carrying sky-high hatred.
Her figure blurred, turning into a streak of purple lightning as she charged directly into the lake.
The purple arcs in the lake instantly converged on her, condensing in her hand into a thunder spear several meters long. The tip of the spear flickered with pitch-black spatial rifts—a sign of divine power tearing through space.
"Whale Swallow, Thunder Tribulation."
Holding the thunder spear, the Demon Empress lunged fiercely at Dai Mubai.
The Deep Sea Demon Whale phantom behind her moved in synchronization. Its massive mouth opened, actually swallowing all the surrounding purple lightning before spitting out an even more violent pillar of purple thunder, which surged toward Dai Mubai along with the spear.
Dai Mubai's expression changed. He could feel that even though the Demon Empress's divine power rank was clearly lower than his own, she possessed inexhaustible energy. That thunder pillar just now contained energy comparable to his full-strength strike, yet the Demon Empress seemed to have suffered no depletion at all. Her eyes remained crazed, and the purple lightning remained frantic.
"War God Domain: White Tiger Annihilation."
Dai Mubai dared not be careless and pushed his War God Domain to its absolute limit.
The golden domain unfolded instantly. The golden divine flames within the domain surged, and countless golden tiger-shaped energy phantoms rushed out from the domain to collide with the purple thunder pillar and spear.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Three consecutive world-shaking roars rang out. Golden divine fire and purple lightning collided and annihilated each other violently in the center of the wasteland.
The golden energy shockwaves spread outward, forcing the purple arcs in the lightning lake to retreat step by step.
The purple lightning was not to be outdone, constantly eroding the golden domain and causing the divine flames at the domain's edge to dim slightly.
However, Dai Mubai's face grew increasingly grim. His divine power was consuming rapidly. That round of collision alone had exhausted nearly ten percent of his divine power.
The Demon Empress, however, acted as if nothing had happened. She raised the thunder spear again as the surrounding lake began to condense new purple lightning.
"How is this possible... How can your divine power be so vast?"
Dai Mubai gritted his teeth. He could feel that the Demon Empress's divine power seemed infinite; every attack was delivered with full strength, yet she showed no sign of fatigue.
The Demon Empress sneered, offering no reply.
The Herrscher of Thunder core in her body was continuously drawing energy from the Imaginary Space, converting it into Honkai energy for her use.
Forget consuming divine power—even if she released the previous attack ten times in a row, she wouldn't feel the slightest bit of exhaustion. This was the advantage of a Herrscher: a perpetual motion machine with infinite energy.
"Take this move: Heaven's Judgment, World Extinction."
The Demon Empress struck again. This time she did not condense a spear, but instead pushed the Herrscher of Thunder authority to its peak.
The purple clouds in the sky churned violently, and a purple thunder blade spanning across the horizon condensed. This blade was ten times larger than the previous Magneto-Sunder. Its edge was riddled with pitch-black spatial rifts, exuding a majesty capable of annihilating all things.
The lightning blade descended slowly. Wherever it passed, space was completely torn apart, and even the laws of heaven and earth began to fall into disorder.
Dai Mubai's pupils constricted. He knew he could not dodge this blow; he could only withstand it.
"White Tiger True Form: War God Possession."
Dai Mubai roared, his body swelling until he transformed into a ten-meter-tall White Tiger War God.
His skin was covered in golden divine armor, and a golden war blade coalesced in his hand, burning with fierce golden divine flames.
He poured all of his divine power into the war blade and slashed fiercely at the descending purple lightning blade.
"Boom—!!!"
The golden war blade and the purple lightning blade collided. There was no world-shaking roar; instead, there was a brief moment of silence.
Then, a wave of destructive energy shockwaves centered on the point of collision exploded outward frantically.
The earth on the wasteland was flipped over entirely, exposing the rock layers hundreds of meters deep.
The distant Thunder Grand Canyon was completely leveled by the shockwave, and the purple lightning within the canyon vanished instantly.
Even the cloud layer in the sky was torn into a massive hole by the shockwave, revealing the azure sky behind it.
Dai Mubai was blown back repeatedly by the shockwave. Dense cracks appeared on his golden divine armor, and a mouthful of golden divine blood spilled from his lips.
He had consumed seventy percent of his divine power, and his aura became erratic.
The Demon Empress, however, was only knocked back a few steps by the shockwave. The purple lightning on her body remained violent.
The Herrscher core in her body spun again. Energy from the Imaginary Space flooded into her, instantly replenishing all the energy she had just consumed.
"It's not over yet."
The Demon Empress sneered. She turned back into a streak of purple lightning and charged at Dai Mubai. She intended to press her advantage and completely crush this lackey of the Sea God.
At the same time, the Snow Empress held back Lu Jingming, who was prepared to step in.
Her fingertips lightly pressed against Lu Jingming's arm, and her ice-blue eyes shimmered with a spark of excitement.
"Leave her to me. Let me show you my current strength."
Without waiting for Lu Jingming's reply, the Snow Empress's figure turned into a streak of ice-blue light, appearing instantly before Zhu Zhuqing.
Zhu Zhuqing's expression turned solemn to the extreme.
If Dai Mubai was at a disadvantage in his fight against the Demon Empress, then the Snow Empress would surely be a difficult opponent as well.
"Your speed is very fast, but before my ice and snow, it is useless."
The Snow Empress's voice was cool and aloof, yet it carried a trace of confidence.
She extended her right hand. Ice-blue divine power condensed in her palm, and a three-meter-long ice sword slowly took shape.
The blade of the ice sword was covered in snowflake-like patterns, each shimmering with a cold light. The space around the edge of the blade had already begun to condense into tiny ice crystals.
"Emperor's Sword: Peerless Frost!"
The Snow Empress gave the ice sword a light swing, and an ice-blue blade of light dozens of meters long slashed out from the sword.
Wherever the blade passed, the air was instantly frozen, forming a crystal-clear path of ice adorned with delicate ice flowers.
Zhu Zhuqing's pupils shrank. Her divine power as the Goddess of Speed was pushed to its limit. Her figure left an afterimage in place as she attempted to teleport behind the Snow Empress.
But just as her body was about to merge into space, the surrounding space suddenly became viscous.
Countless tiny ice crystals condensed from the void, entwining her body like chains, causing her teleportation to stall for a split second.
In the moment her teleportation was delayed by the Snow Empress's ice crystals, alarm bells rang in Zhu Zhuqing's mind.
She immediately abandoned the spatial jump. Her figure transformed into hundreds of nether shadows scattering in all directions—this was the life-saving divine skill of the Goddess of Speed, "Nether Hundred Shadows." Each shadow was imbued with a portion of her divine sense, enough to confuse almost any lock-on.
However, there was no ripple of emotion in the Snow Empress's ice-blue eyes.
She merely raised her left hand slightly and clenched her fingers.
"Frozen Divine Domain."
The moment her cool voice rang out, a ring of ice-blue light expanded silently with the Snow Empress as the center.
Wherever the ring passed, time seemed to slow down—no, it wasn't time; the speed of all particle movement in space was forcibly reduced.
It was a terrifying cold approaching absolute zero.
The ring expanded for a thousand meters before stopping, but within those thousand meters, it had become an absolute domain ruled entirely by the laws of ice and snow.
What fell from the sky was not snowflakes, but countless tiny hexagonal ice crystals shimmering with ice-blue divine runes.
The ground was covered with a layer of crystal-clear Ten-Thousand-Year Black Ice. The ice layer was dozens of meters thick, and through its surface, one could see the textures of rocks frozen instantly.
Zhu Zhuqing's hundreds of nether shadows were simultaneously immobilized within this extreme cold domain.
The surface of each shadow was rapidly covered in frost, their movements becoming sluggish and clumsy.
What was even more terrifying was that these ice crystals were not merely frozen by low temperature, but were imbued with the divine laws of the Ice and Snow Goddess—they were eroding and assimilating every energy structure they touched.
"Found you."
The Snow Empress's gaze locked onto one of the hundreds of shadows.
The rate at which frost covered that shadow was significantly slower than the others, and it was still struggling slightly under the erosion of the ice crystals.
Zhu Zhuqing was horrified.
Her "Nether Hundred Shadows" should have produced identical shadows. How could the opponent lock onto her true body instantly?
Unless... the moment this ice domain spread, it had already completed its monitoring of all energy flow within the domain.
"Emperor's Palm: Coldness Without Snow."
The Snow Empress slowly pushed out her right hand, her movement as gentle as stroking a flower petal.
There was no howling wind or surging cold currents.
But in the space in front of her palm, a bizarre phenomenon occurred—all light began to bend and dim, as if that patch of space itself was dying.
That was the Absolute Zero Domain, where temperature was so low that even the movement of photons was restricted.
Zhu Zhuqing's true body broke free from the frost shackles at the last possible moment. Her speed goddess power erupted fully, and she turned into an almost invisible black thread, moving three hundred meters horizontally within a thousandth of a second.
However, the space she had just occupied was frozen.
It wasn't icebound, but a more terrifying phenomenon—that ten-meter-diameter area of space became a completely dark, absolute vacuum sphere.
Inside the sphere, time nearly stopped. All molecular motion approached zero, and even the spatial structure became exceptionally fragile due to the extreme cold.
At the edge of the sphere, air, dust, light—every matter that touched the sphere's wall solidified into a strange state between solid and energy before peeling off like broken glass, dissipating into fundamental energy particles.
Cold sweat trickled down Zhu Zhuqing's forehead.
If she had been hit head-on by that palm just now, even as a Second-Class Deity, her divine body would likely have suffered permanent damage.
"You flee quickly."
The Snow Empress's voice remained calm. She slowly turned around, her ice-blue gown blooming like a lotus within the frozen domain.
"But in this domain, does your speed have any meaning?"
She raised her right hand slightly, and the ice sword condensed in her palm.
The blade was no longer solid, but an edge of light formed by the pure laws of ice and snow. Wherever the sword pointed, space automatically condensed into an ice-blue trail.
The Snow Empress raised the sword and then slashed down gently.
There was no sweeping sword qi, yet Zhu Zhuqing felt her hair stand on end—the temperature of the space within a thousand-meter radius around her dropped by another three orders of magnitude in an instant.
The clouds in the sky solidified directly into a massive ice sheet hanging thousands of meters high.
The thickness of the black ice layer on the ground increased once more, and from the depths of the ice came the "crack" of rocks being torn apart by the extreme cold.
The most terrifying part was that every molecule in the air was transitioning toward a solid state—oxygen, nitrogen, and even free energy particles began to condense into visible pale blue crystals, drifting down slowly like snowflakes.
This was a permanent alteration of the battlefield environment.
Zhu Zhuqing's speed was fatally restricted within this domain approaching absolute zero.
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