The Overgod Xuanwu Is My Father

"Bang! Bang!" Jie Ning's two attacks struck Stan directly.

Stan did not dodge in the slightest.

After taking Jie Ning's two attacks head-on, Stan smiled at him. However, that smile seemed rather frightening to Jie Ning. "Not bad. You've got some strength."

"But you're still far from enough."

Feeling the results of his two strikes, Jie Ning could not help but find the situation troublesome. His material defense is way too strong.

He's equally tough both inside and out.

In Jie Ning's previous barrage, his Life God Avatar had attempted to use the all-pervasive nature of Life God Power to damage Stan's body from within. Yet he had not expected Stan's insides to be just as unyielding as iron, completely unaffected.

The Death God Avatar's attacks carried an aura of death and some corrosive force, but they likewise failed to inflict the slightest harm upon Stan.

Should I use a Soul Attack? The thought flashed through Jie Ning's mind, but he quickly rejected it.

He could still control material attacks, but without knowing the strength of Stan's soul, Soul Attacks would be difficult to control.

He's basically an iron turtle. Jie Ning grumbled inwardly.

"Still, since you're standing this close, I won't hold back." Stan smiled.

Jie Ning felt a powerful gravitational force surge from Stan, instantly pinning down both of his bodies.

At the same time, Stan's massive hammer was already swinging toward him. Under that gravitational force, avoiding the attack was no longer possible.

Jie Ning sensed a powerful threat from Stan's hammer.

In that lightning-fast instant, Jie Ning's two Divine Avatars simultaneously launched attacks at each other.

The two attacks, containing Life God Power and death god power, converged.

The moment the two kinds of divine power came into contact, they underwent an inexplicable change under Jie Ning's interference.

Then, in an instant, they exploded.

For a fleeting moment, that force seemed to destroy everything, as though even the Heavenly Law itself had vanished from this area.

Space itself was torn open by the blast, revealing crack after crack.

As Jie Ning felt the gravitational force on him disappear, his two Divine Avatars hurriedly used the explosion's shockwave to flee into the distance.

Jie Ning had accidentally developed this move while researching Teleportation Arrays.

At first, Jie Ning discovered that the magical Runes within a Teleportation Array perfectly integrated the rules and laws of every element.

His original intention had been to create a Magic Array that could combine the attacks of his Life God Avatar and Death God Avatar, achieving an effect greater than one plus one.

Ideally, even if he could not achieve the fusion of different laws like a Soul Mutation, it would still be a tremendous breakthrough if he could make the divine powers fuse under the control of a Magic Array.

However, no matter what Jie Ning tried, whenever his Life God Power and death god power came together, they usually ended by mutually annihilating each other.

Yet on extremely rare occasions, the two divine powers would fail to annihilate each other completely, and the remaining divine power would undergo an "explosion."

Thus, Jie Ning simply went with the flow. He abandoned his research into fusing the two kinds of divine power and instead studied how to make them "explode" the moment they came into contact.

Previously, Jie Ning had only used extremely tiny, diluted amounts of divine power in his experiments. This was his first time directly making two currents of divine power collide.

Looking at the cracks in space, he could see the surging Spatial Turbulence through them.

Even Jie Ning was shocked by the power of this move.

He even somewhat regretted using it.

Please don't let anything happen. Jie Ning prayed inwardly.

He knew very well that anyone who could come from a Supreme Plane to a Material Plane at this time was probably connected to an Overgod.

If something really happened, he could only take his entire family and flee to a Supreme Plane.

And that was assuming this fellow had no other Doppelgangers...

That was also why Jie Ning had not dared to use a Soul Attack.

Fortunately, the spatial cracks quickly healed, and Stan's figure appeared where he had been.

His entire body was wrapped in a yellow halo.

Upon closer inspection, a yellow suit of armor had appeared on him at some point, and the light was emanating from it.

Only when he saw that Stan was unharmed did Jie Ning finally let out a breath of relief.

"Good kid." Stan looked at Jie Ning in surprise.

"If I didn't have this Sovereign Artifact, I really would've gotten hurt today."

In truth, the previous attack had not been enough to kill Stan, but it was enough to leave him with a minor injury.

Hearing Stan's words, the heart that had only just relaxed slightly tightened again.

A Material Defense Divine Artifact... Jie Ning felt bitterness in his mouth.

Jie Ning had already started considering how he should escape.

Maybe I should have my Divine Avatars hold him back while my true body takes...

Sensing the change in Jie Ning's gaze, Stan looked at the Sovereign Artifact on his body and suddenly lost all desire to continue fighting.

"Forget it, forget it. No more fighting."

"I have both a Material Defense Divine Artifact and a Soul Defense Divine Artifact. You can't threaten me at all. There's no point."

He even has a Soul Defense Divine Artifact. Jie Ning suddenly felt that this world was utterly absurd.

Still, upon hearing Stan say that he would stop fighting, more than half of Jie Ning's worries vanished.

Stan looked at Jie Ning boredly. Then, as if remembering something, he frowned and looked at him. "Hey, kid, how do you know about Sovereign Artifacts?"

Logically speaking, a Middle-God from a Material Plane should not know about Sovereign Artifacts.

Yet the moment this fellow heard him mention a Sovereign Artifact, he had lost all desire to fight. That was not how someone unfamiliar with their power would react.

"Sir, I have another Divine Avatar in a Supreme Plane." Hearing Stan's question, Jie Ning immediately explained, though he deliberately did not mention which Supreme Plane it had gone to.

"So that's it." Stan nodded in realization, his gaze toward Jie Ning growing somewhat astonished.

"You actually have other Divine Avatars. Then these two Divine Avatars aren't even your strongest forms."

"Didn't Father say it had only been a little over a hundred thousand years..." Stan muttered softly without thinking.

Hearing Stan's words, Jie Ning understood. A little over a hundred thousand years... an Overgod...

After muttering to himself, Stan saw that Jie Ning still seemed somewhat nervous and immediately laughed.

"You don't need to be so tense."

"I have some connection to this Material Plane of yours, so you don't need to worry about me doing anything to you."

Jie Ning probed cautiously, "The four Overgods who descended upon the Bana Continent in the past are your..."

Stan froze, seemingly not expecting Jie Ning to figure it out so quickly. However, he had not intended to hide it in the first place. "Of the four Overgods you mentioned, one is my father. The other three are my elders."

Just as I thought. Jie Ning made up his mind and invited Stan, "So Lord Stan is actually a descendant of an Overgod. I was disrespectful earlier."

"May I ask what the four Overgods are called?" Jie Ning asked as though merely curious.

"My father is known as Progenitor God Xuanwu." Stan did not conceal it at all, perhaps because there was no need to conceal it. "My other three elders are Progenitor God Qinglong, Progenitor God Zhuque, and Progenitor God Baihu..."

Jie Ning's heart trembled. So it really is them...

However, Jie Ning's expression remained unchanged as he warmly invited Stan.

"Why don't you come to my residence? I'll have someone prepare a banquet, and I can apologize to you properly."

Stan seemed somewhat embarrassed. "I was the one who attacked first. What kind of sense would it make for you to apologize to me?"

"And your strength is quite good." Stan looked at Jie Ning approvingly. "You can just call me Stan from now on."

Jie Ning was somewhat surprised. He vaguely remembered that the Four Divine Beasts Clan did not have a very good reputation. He had not expected this fellow to actually feel embarrassed.

"Hello, Stan." Jie Ning immediately took advantage of the opening. "You can call me Jie Ning as well."

"I only got where I am today thanks to the descent of the Overgods back then." Jie Ning offered another reason for the invitation.

"Then... all right." Stan seemed to accept that reason.

Suddenly, a wine jar appeared in his hand, and he tossed it to Jie Ning. "Then let this be my gift for my first visit to your home."

Stan remembered his father saying that one needed to bring a gift when visiting a friend's home for the first time.

Since they had become acquainted through battle, they should count as friends, right?

Jie Ning caught the wine jar, initially thinking it contained some fine wine from a Supreme Plane.

Who would have thought that Stan would add, "Jie Ning, just accept this jar of Sovereign's Might."

"This stuff is quite useful for us. If we run into trouble, it can temporarily raise our strength."

As if worried that Jie Ning would not know how to use Sovereign's Might, Stan specifically reminded him, "One drop at a time is enough. Any more would be wasted on us."

Jie Ning stared blankly at the wine jar in his hands.

What?

Sovereign's Might?

A whole jar?

His divine sense immediately swept into the wine jar, where a vast amount of bright yellow Sovereign's Might was stored.

The wine jar itself seemed to be a specially refined divine artifact, firmly sealing the Sovereign's Might within.

Jie Ning's gaze toward Stan changed once again.

Elsewhere, Jie Ning's true body suddenly called Arannis and Serina to a halt.

"All right, stop. We're returning to the Hall of Life. Everything's fine now."

"What happened?" Arannis was utterly confused, while Serina also looked curiously at Jie Ning.

"Father, this is..."

Jie Ning did not explain much. "It was just a misunderstanding. Let's go back first."

"Also, have someone prepare a table of fine dishes."

"Is someone coming to visit our home?" Arannis became even more confused.

Jie Ning smiled, and his smile was especially bright. "One of my closest friends."

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