Soaring Through the Heavens

How many gods did Heavenly Court have in the past? She didn't know.

But she felt that there were probably fewer than five gods still alive in the Heavenly Court.

So she continued upwards.

In the Jade Purity Heaven, she saw the remains of Erlang Shen. She saw Nezha, and the many Golden Immortal belonging to the Chan Sect, the disciples of the Primordial Heavenly Venerate Venerable. Most of them were undistorted, but the only one distorted was the Celestial Venerable himself—in his final moments, the Celestial Venerable had his disciples and grand-disciples kill his own uncontrollable form. And after his death, the other Immortals and Gods also embraced the only outcome they could choose.

The same was true in Upper Purity Heaven; the Ten Thousand Immortals of the Jie Sect and the Upper Purity Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerate made the same choice. And when she passed over them, burning them to ashes with fire as she climbed to an even higher heaven, she encountered no feedback or unexpected accidents.

And there she saw the Monkey King again in the Grand Purity Heaven —no, in this case it should be Sun Wukong, or Victorious Fighting Buddha. This Buddha had already passed away, his body transformed into iron and stone, and he suppressed a still faintly burning Eight Trigrams Furnace, surrounded by the arms of apes.

She hadn't seen Laozi, but she felt she should know where he was buried—so Miss Surtr reached out and placed her fingertips on the Elixir Furnace. Accompanied by surging, blazing flames, an exceptionally bright starlight erupted from the depths of the Eight Trigrams Furnace, disappearing completely into the void.

All the gods in Heavenly Court failed.

She continued upwards, heading towards the highest level of the heavens.

The Great Luo Heaven. In Eastern Mythology, the highest heaven. She saw an infinitely radiant figure seated on the sole throne in the very center of the celestial palace—its form had merged with the throne. And from the chest down, eyes overflowing with scattered starlight grew from that majestic divine body, constantly opening and closing, shimmering.

"We made an effort," the figure whispered as Miss Surtr stepped into the Great Luo Heaven. "We tried to purify, expel, or at least seal away the evil power that arose directly from within us—but we failed. All our attempts failed."

"Divine power cannot sever this curse. No matter how exquisite the supernatural abilities or how wondrous the artifacts, they will be corrupted upon contact. They will be infected upon attempt. In the end, we can only choose to let the most powerful deities bear more of the evil. I, the Three Heavenly Venerates, and Buddhas of the West, have shared the curse within the weaker deities, but we could not delay it for long—all attempts ultimately failed. And the only thing we can do is to exterminate the corrupted deities and release the divine power that has not yet been corrupted. We will use the bodies of the deities to trap these evil forces."

"But you still failed." Surtr looked up at the Great Celestial Venerable at the edge of his vision. "This hastily made seal won't last long. If I hadn't come, even with a damaged divine body, it would still have gained a new life form from the contamination and been able to rise again."

"So, I've been waiting for you." The Great Celestial Venerable rose from his throne, accompanied by a chain reaction of ruptured blood vessels and tendons. Countless grotesque and terrifying derivative organs and flesh writhe wildly below his chest and abdomen, accompanied by thousands of shimmering eyes. Boiling starlight overflowed within his body, crawling across his still intact flesh.

"My mind is shifting; the will to survive and the urge to destroy are filling my consciousness. Even if I die now, new alien Demons will be born directly from my corpse. Therefore, I need your power."

"I understand." Miss Surtr nodded, gripped Laevateinn tightly, took a step, and traversed an infinite distance to stand before the Great Celestial Venerable. "You waited for me so that I could clean up the mess after your death."

"Why do you do this?" She raised her sword, still burning with flames, and pointed it at the Great Celestial Venerable's chest. "Your divine realm, your Heavenly Court, no longer exist. Are you waiting for me here because even gods have their own way of dying?"

"No. I am only afraid that you are not strong enough." The starlight on the Great Celestial Venerable's chest and abdomen suddenly increased. "I have lost my ministers in the heavens. But I still have people on earth who need my protection. However, besides me, there are still many gods of the same rank as me on the outer land."

"They may not choose the same fate as me. Young Lord of Rakshasa, you may soon face many adversaries who have devoted their bodies and souls to this evil power. And you know nothing about them after their transformation. Therefore, I judge that you need an adversary who can provide you with intelligence."

The pure starlight rises ever higher, past the neck, and erodes the face.

However, the divine light in the eyes of the Great Celestial Venerable remained as dazzling as ever.

"Make the most of it, Lord of Rakshasa. My remaining will will unleash all the hidden and unknown abilities of this corrupted god of evil. Defeat me, slay me. And then—"

Its form expanded rapidly, transforming into a gigantic and terrifying creature with ten thousand eyes, while its voice also abruptly changed, becoming a complex mix of myriad sounds.

"—Protect my people for me."

Thanks to Ellipsis for being the leader of the alliance OAO

This lazy book finally has a leader! QAQ

Chapter 134 - Lingxiao Trampled

—The first ability is to directly manipulate all known energy, force fields, and radiation.

—And the only thing that remains untouched is the fire between me and Laevateinn.

The instant the being with ten thousand eyes was born, an almost infinite repulsive force was released outwards from the center of the corrupted Great Celestial Venerable. All the flames were instantly repelled and pushed outwards.

Surtr raised her hand, flames forming a shield to deflect the kinetic energy impact. Her feet were fixed in space, while the Great Luo Heaven Palace beneath her was instantly pulverized into dust—particles of matter and residual divine energy—in that instant. Everything affected by the repulsive force was pushed back to an area at least 100,000 meters away. What remained was only a pure and pristine ideal void!

Absolute vacuum.

The purpose of the corrupted is to eliminate external forces, to eliminate the use of borrowed power, and to eliminate the application of protective power. And in that instant, Miss Surtr even sensed the interruption of the flow of divine power of faith provided by Second New Tokyo City!

Ordinary God Slayer, and even deities, would die the instant they were struck by this attack.

The next moment, the girl used her sword to strike in the pure vacuum, breaking through the energy tentacles that were suddenly projected from outside the fire shield!

The abominable thing let out a scream—a scream that should not be heard in a vacuum.

Because this is not simply sound, but a disguise, or rather, a curse manifested as sound waves!

—The second ability is that any action is accompanied by a high degree of mental pollution.

—The effect is...

Surtr remained unmoved. She severed the tentacles of power with a single strike. She then lunged forward, striking again, shattering and burning the corrupted entity. However, in the instant the corrupted form vanished in the molten lava, the Sulfur powder that had sprung in the clear sky of the divine realm transformed into countless floating eyes the moment it was swept by the cursed sonic waves!

—To transform all things that are not one's own into oneself...?

"Muspelheim, unfold." A whispered command, and flames erupted from his body and the blade, spreading and engulfing everything in all directions. The Realm of Fire was forged there, and all the floating eyes were instantly burned to dust.

But this doesn't mean everything... The Land of Fire's deployment couldn't keep up with the preemptive advantage of the cursed sonic waves. The instant the eyes covered by the Land of Fire were completely melted away, within the first strike, repelled by the repulsive force onto the numerous particles of dust tens of thousands of meters away, a rhythmic, meaningful tremor suddenly arose!

Information pollution.

Whether it's text, sound, image, or structure, as long as any trace related to this corrupted entity appears, its essence will undergo a homogeneous change in an extremely short instant. And this change will provide this malevolent entity with a new Vessel of Power.

Millions of tons of matter particles transformed in an instant into hundreds of millions of eyes of varying sizes. The moment they were born, they eroded all the divine power they could capture in the surrounding area. Then, they coalesced and grew.

They came together to form a gigantic object whose shape could not be defined.

This will result in extremely high immortality.

Space ripped open, and Miss Surtr, sword in hand, appeared above the colossal object, having traversed a vast distance. She raised her sword and struck down, unleashing a devastating torrent of flames.

Death fell from the sky.

The massive, aggregated mass contracted amidst the flames.

At the bottom of the Great Luo Heaven, the thirty-five heavens that had been burned to ashes earlier transformed into rising waves of flames—and they enveloped this reborn behemoth a second time from bottom to top, leaving no blind spots!

There is nowhere to escape.

But not all enemies need to flee from a deadly situation.

Even though flames from above and below blocked all passages, the behemoth did not succumb to the rage of death.

It is changing.

Amidst the burning flames, enveloped in a sea of fire, it is transforming.

It's like a seed sprouting, like a fetus developing.