Asura God's blood-red pupils narrowed sharply. Though his heart seethed with hatred, yearning to grind Qian Chongguang's bones to dust, he understood the situation they were in. He gave a heavy snort, and the Asura Demon Sword in his hand abruptly took shape. Blood-red swordlight tore through the sky as he stood his ground, locking onto Qian Chongguang. "That brat's lucky to be alive. Let's join forces and take him down first. Afterward, his soul is mine to deal with!"
"Ah, I was hoping to sit back and watch the show. Didn't expect I'd have to get involved after all." The Evil God King sighed. The laws of evil and emotion spread around him, but the smile vanished from his lips, leaving only solemnity in his eyes. "Boy, you've really landed us in a world of trouble."
Goodness Goddess and Life Goddess exchanged a glance and shook their heads helplessly, then unfurled their divine domains at the same time. Life Goddess's green light enveloped the battlefield, ready to heal everyone's wounds at any moment. Goodness Goddess's laws of emotion slowly spread out, attempting to suppress the frenzied fighting spirit surging from Qian Chongguang.
In the next instant, the Five Great God Kings moved as one!
Five currents of God King-level divine power, each powerful enough to tear heaven and earth apart, converged on Qian Chongguang from five different directions. Space warped and shattered beneath that terrifying force, forming a vacuum that cut off everything and left Qian Chongguang no room to escape.
Yet faced with the Five Great God Kings' combined attack, Qian Chongguang showed not the slightest fear. Instead, he threw back his head and laughed.
He swept the Holy Sword of Light across with his left hand and slashed down with the Holy Sword of Darkness in his right. His twelve wings of light and darkness beat fiercely, and at the very last instant, he unleashed two entirely different styles of offense and defense at once!
His left-hand sword carried the sacred heat of the laws of light. Its style was upright and imposing, wide-ranging and powerful—the orthodox swordsmanship of the Angel God. Every move targeted the openings of Life Goddess and Goodness Goddess, sealing off every path for them to offer support. His right-hand sword carried the deathly slaughter of the laws of darkness. Its vicious, unpredictable techniques had been honed amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, each a life-for-life move aimed at the weaknesses in the flow of divine power belonging to Destruction, Evil, and Asura.
Even more hair-raising to the gods, his feet were just as busy. The gust from his left kick, wrapped in dense holy light, covered every opening around him without a gap. The force of his right sweep carried bone-corroding demonic energy, every strike aimed straight at the God Kings' blind spots. One attacked while the other defended, one wielded light while the other wielded darkness, their coordination flawless. Though he had only one body, he fought as if two top-tier experts were attacking in tandem, as though two independent minds were controlling him at once—with not the slightest hesitation or conflict between them.
"Something's wrong!"
Asura God struck with his sword and clashed head-on with the Holy Sword of Darkness, only to be sent staggering backward. His expression changed drastically. "There's something wrong with this brat! We're clearly fighting one person, so why does it feel like we're fighting two at once?!"
"What kind of bizarre technique is this?!" Destruction God King snarled through clenched teeth, smashing the incoming light sword energy with a punch. His eyes were filled with baffled disbelief. He had lived for a million years and seen all kinds of combat among the inhabitants of the small worlds under his rule, but never anything this outrageous.
"How can he control two completely opposing laws at the same time and use two sets of moves that have nothing to do with each other? Did he split his soul in two and have each half fight separately? That completely defies the ironclad laws of how the soul works!"
They could clearly sense that Qian Chongguang had only one divine body and one main soul, yet they couldn't begin to understand how he was capable of such extreme multitasking—of using two minds at once, or even several. All they could do was fall back again and again as they clashed with his bizarre fighting style.
The battle had lasted less than a hundred breaths, yet the Five Great God Kings' expressions grew grimmer by the moment. They had thought that with all five of them working together, they could crush and capture their opponent in an instant, even if he was only half a step from the God King realm. But reality was the opposite: not only had they failed to suppress Qian Chongguang, they were gradually losing ground under his unfathomable alternation of light and darkness, his two-pronged assault!
A deep gash, bone showing, had been carved across Asura God's shoulder by the Holy Sword of Darkness. Deathly demonic energy surged through the wound, greedily eating away at his body. The Holy Sword of Light had split Destruction God King's robe, leaving a scorched mark on his chest. Even Life Goddess, who had stayed at the rear to provide support, had a sleeve torn apart by sword energy, leaving a shallow wound on her arm.
Five Supreme God Kings had joined forces to attack a newly ascended god who had entered the Divine Realm less than an hour ago—and they had all been injured!
If word of this got out, the entire Divine Realm—and even the myriad worlds—would laugh themselves silly!
At the edge of the battlefield, the Seven Deadly Sins Gods and the Seven Elemental Gods were already pale, their palms slick with sweat.
They were all veteran First-Level Gods, powerful figures who had existed since the Divine Realm's birth. But facing this God King-level battle, they couldn't so much as lend a hand. They couldn't even get close to the battlefield; every stray shock wave of divine power was enough to leave them gravely wounded.
Even more humiliating, for all their First-Level God cultivation, they had precious few combat skills worth mentioning.
The Divine Realm had enjoyed a million years of peace. Aside from the Dragon God War, there had been almost no large-scale fighting. In their daily lives, they either wielded the laws through the authority of their Divine Positions or simply enjoyed the faith and offerings of the lower world. When had they ever trained in the art of fighting to the death?
Compared with the ascended gods who had fought their way up step by step through mountains of corpses and seas of blood in the lower world, their actual combat ability was more than one tier behind.
Seeing the Five Great God Kings seemingly fall into an ever-greater disadvantage, the Seven Deadly Sins Gods and Seven Elemental Gods could no longer hold back.
"Form the array! Activate the Original Sin Divine Punishment Array!"
At the leading God of Pride's shout, the Seven Deadly Sins Gods immediately spread out into position, unleashing the laws of original sin around them. Pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust—seven entirely different laws of emotion intertwined, forming a blood-red array that covered half the sky. Its terrifying power to corrode the emotions swept furiously toward Qian Chongguang at the center of the battlefield!
"Elemental Divine Punishment Array, activate!" On the other side, the Seven Elemental Gods attacked as one. Water, fire, earth, wind, light, darkness, and space—the Seven Great Elemental Laws fused perfectly, forming a dazzling, multicolored array. Its utterly annihilating elemental force sealed off every avenue of escape for Qian Chongguang!
Both arrays were recognized throughout the Divine Realm as two of its three great realm-protecting formations. They had been created a million years ago as killing formations to counter the Dragon God War and defend the Divine Realm against disaster. Their power was boundless; even a God King caught inside would have to lose a layer of skin.
Now, to capture Qian Chongguang, they had unleashed both without holding anything back!
Watching the two killing arrays sweep down from all sides, feeling the terrifying power within them—enough to annihilate his soul—Qian Chongguang showed no sign of panic. Instead, he raised an eyebrow and chuckled. "Interesting."
"Since you've all brought out your best tricks, I can't be stingy either. I'll show you what I've got."