Chapter 590: The Tenth Color of Divine Fire

Chapter 590: The Tenth Color of Divine Fire

Boom!

The Divine Spawn was slammed hard by the Sacred Dragon King deep into the seabed.

Moments later, it burst forth unscathed from the mud and sand.

The Sacred Dragon King's tail transformed into a whip of golden lightning.

With a thunderous crack that shattered the sea itself, the Divine Spawn was sent flying backward for thousands of meters, carving a deep chasm over a thousand meters long upon the ocean floor.

The Sacred Dragon King gazed at the Divine Spawn with a grave expression.

Slowly rising from the trench, the Divine Spawn charged toward the Sacred Dragon King.

No—it was charging toward Li Wei, who stood behind the Sacred Dragon King.

The Divine Spawn’s resilience was too great.

Countless times had the Sacred Dragon King struck it down and driven it back, yet never could he slay it.

At its core lay an extraordinary kind of divine power—the very essence of divinity.

It was a body forged entirely from divine force.

Ordinary attacks simply could not harm such a form effectively.

Only divine power itself could wound it.

Yet, ironically, the Divine Spawn could devour divine energy.

Even the Sacred Dragon King dared not use his own divine strength against it.

All he could do was rely on brute physical might, battering the creature relentlessly in hopes of gradually wearing away its power.

Truth be told, even a body made of divine force could not remain untouched forever.

Its aura had already weakened somewhat compared to before.

Still, the overall decline remained minimal.

At this rate, the Sacred Dragon King would have to beat the Divine Spawn continuously for nearly a millennium to finally erase it completely.

Not to mention whether the Sacred Dragon King could sustain battle for so long—

After enduring endless assaults, the Divine Spawn had evolved new adaptive abilities.

Each blow from the Sacred Dragon King now inflicted less damage than before.

The Divine Spawn lunged straight at Li Wei, who stood behind the Sacred Dragon King.

A massive claw tore through the seawater as the Sacred Dragon King attempted to drive the spawn underground once more.

Suddenly, the Divine Spawn shifted shape—shrinking into a small black dragon.

It bit down fiercely on the Sacred Dragon King’s claw.

From within that tiny frame erupted tremendous strength.

It flipped the mighty dragon king upside-down, slamming him bodily into the seafloor.

Boom!

An earthquake shook beneath the waves.

Bubbles surged up in vast numbers, shrouding the battlefield in foam.

Both figures vanished beneath the surface.

Li Wei scanned his surroundings quickly.

He saw the moment when the Sacred Dragon King was flung aside, his tail whipping across the head of the transformed Divine Spawn, crushing its skull flat.

But the Sacred Dragon King had lived for millennia.

Though caught off-guard by the sudden transformation, his reflexes were still sharp.

The Divine Spawn gained no advantage whatsoever.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The clash between the Sacred Dragon King and the Divine Spawn raged on.

Unrelenting, the Divine Spawn pressed forward again and again, seeking only one thing—to reach Li Wei and consume the divine power within him.

Time and again, the Sacred Dragon King intercepted, dragging the spawn back to the ground and grinding it mercilessly.

As the Divine Spawn grew ever more versatile in combat, even the Sacred Dragon King began to feel troubled.

Li Wei yearned to assist but feared that if any divine energy leaked out, the Divine Spawn would absorb it and grow stronger.

Right now, thanks to its indestructible divine body, the spawn could withstand the relentless onslaught.

And yet, it also possessed just enough retaliatory strength.

This likely meant the Divine Spawn had reached near-godlike status.

It was dangerously close to ascending fully.

If by some misstep it managed to steal even a fragment of divine power…

Should it break past the ninth stage and become a true god—

Then all would be lost.

Li Wei racked his brains, searching desperately for a way to aid the Sacred Dragon King against the spawn.

His eyes swept around the area, sensing something odd.

Wasn’t there supposed to be an evil deity lurking here in the Abyssal Depths?

Such a monumental battle should have drawn attention.

Why hadn’t the evil god shown itself?

Could it be that the evil god feared the Divine Spawn too, choosing instead to hide?

That seemed possible.

To the evil god, the Divine Spawn was trouble incarnate.

Strike it, and you couldn’t kill it—you’d only make it stronger.

Once it transcended the ninth stage and became a full-fledged god, even the evil deities dwelling in these depths would suffer.

Better to ignore it altogether—or perhaps confine it to a sealed region where none need worry about it.

After all, what did the evil gods care if the world perished under the Divine Spawn’s wrath?

When the time came for the spawn to ascend and destroy everything,

They could always abandon this world and flee to another realm.

For beings like them, crossing worlds posed little difficulty.

Thinking thus, Li Wei felt slightly reassured.

At least he didn’t have to fear being attacked from behind by the evil god during this fight.

Still—he must not lower his guard.

Perhaps the evil god was watching nearby, ready at any moment to strike like a mantis stalking a cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.

The Sacred Dragon King had blocked the invasion of the evil god from the Sea Abyss into the Sea Abyss City for hundreds of years.

Long ago, he had been hated to the bone by the evil god.

Now that there was a chance to kill the Sacred Dragon King, it naturally would not be let go.

Li Wei stared at the divine spawn, thinking about how to deal with it.

The main thing was to find a way to counteract the abnormal divine power on the divine spawn's body.

As long as he could deal with the abnormal divine power on the divine spawn's body,

there would be a way to solve the divine spawn.

Currently, the Sacred Dragon King's method was extremely brutal.

Continuously beating up the divine spawn, consuming its abnormal divine power.

But this kind of consumption was extremely slow.

Li Wei shouted loudly at the Sacred Dragon King: "Sacred Dragon King, find a way to cut off part of the divine spawn's body and give it to me."

"I'll study it and see if there's a way to deal with the divine spawn."

Upon hearing this, the Sacred Dragon King grabbed the divine spawn with both claws and pulled it apart to the left and right.

The black shadow of the divine spawn's body was stretched into a hundred-meter-long noodle.

The divine spawn's body was like a ball of clay, no matter how much the Sacred Dragon King kneaded it, it wouldn't get injured.

Extremely shameless.

Conventional methods were simply unable to cut the divine spawn's body.

The Sacred Dragon King had no choice but to risk using divine power.

Severing a small section of the divine spawn's body.

At the same time the divine spawn's body was cut, it also devoured the divine power released by the Sacred Dragon King.

Its aura became even more powerful.

All of the Sacred Dragon King's previous efforts were wasted in vain.

The divine spawn not only didn't become weaker, but instead became stronger.

However, the Sacred Dragon King also obtained a small section of the divine spawn's body.

He threw the severed part to Li Wei.

A mass of black shadow bounced like slime, and after approaching Li Wei, its movements became even more violent, filled with longing.

Even a small section of the divine spawn's body possessed the ability to devour divine power.

Li Wei used telekinesis to immobilize it.

Divine power transformed into magical power, then telekinesis was cast.

The divine spawn would be unable to devour it.

However, doing so meant that divine power was consumed even more unnecessarily, and couldn't harm the divine spawn.

Casting spells was the same.

Spells cast with divine power were a hundred times more powerful.

Telekinesis cast with magical power could lift ten-thousand-jin boulders.

With the same amount of divine power casting telekinesis, it could easily lift million-jin boulders.

There was good reason why divine power could become the most powerful force in the world.

It was a crushing difference compared to other supernatural powers.

Fortunately, the section of the divine spawn's body cut by the Sacred Dragon King was less than a finger joint in size.

The telekinesis cast by Li Wei with magical power was sufficient to control the divine spawn's body fragment.

The Sacred Dragon King continued fighting fiercely with the divine spawn. Li Wei studied the divine spawn's body fragment.

After a moment, he said to the Sacred Dragon King: "Hold on a bit longer, I'll be back immediately."

Having finished speaking, Li Wei opened a planar teleportation gate and teleported to the Astral Plane.

Astral Plane.

A star radiating nine-colored brilliance.

Li Wei appeared on the star.

Through his research, he discovered that the divine spawn's body was composed of chaotic laws, divine power, matter, and energy.

Simply put, it gave him the feeling of being part of a world.

If the world was viewed as a person, then the divine spawn was cancer cells within the world's body.

Possessing extremely powerful vitality, and its essence was also part of the world, just having undergone slight changes and gone out of control.

The birth of the divine spawn was the early stage of world cancer, still with a chance of cure.

The divine spawn breaking through the nine stages to become a god was the late stage of world cancer - this world was beyond saving, only waiting for death.

As a member within the world.

To the entire world, humans who weren't even worth a cell.

Naturally couldn't harm the divine spawn.

After deducing the essence of the divine spawn, Li Wei thought of a force capable of destroying worlds.

Divine fire.

Divine fire could burn stars.

Naturally, it could also burn the entire world.

The Celestial World wasn't larger than a star.

Li Wei had no certainty either way, it was just an attempt.

The divine spawn fragment in his hand was sufficiently small, not worrying about exceeding experimental control range.

Moreover, the most important point was that although divine fire could burn forces transformed into divine power, divine fire itself wasn't divine power.

Not being divine power, there was no need to worry about divine fire being devoured by the divine spawn.

To be cautious, Li Wei still separated a small wisp of divine fire, conducting experiments after moving far from the nine-colored star.

In his left hand, a piece of divine spawn fragment elastic like a rubber ball.

In his right hand, a cluster of nine-colored divine fire, silently burning in space, releasing gorgeous divine radiance.

Li Wei placed the divine spawn fragment on the nine-colored divine fire to burn.

Upon touching the nine-colored divine fire, the divine spawn fragment's first reaction was rapid expansion, wanting to envelop the divine fire and devour it.

Seeing this, Li Wei was startled in his heart, instinctively wanting to stop the experiment.

The next moment, the expanding fragment of the divine fiend touched the Nine-Colored Divine Flame and instantly recoiled, shrinking into a small ball as if filled with fear.

Li Wei, seeing this, let out a breath he had been holding.

"It looks like it worked."

Li Wei threw the fragment of the divine fiend into the Nine-Colored Divine Flame.

The fragment thrashed about, trying to escape the Nine-Colored Divine Flame.

Under Li Wei's restraint, the fragment was unable to break free from the Nine-Colored Divine Flame.

As it burned in the Nine-Colored Divine Flame, it grew fainter and fainter, eventually disappearing completely.

After burning the fragment of the divine fiend, Li Wei did not sense any divine power coalescing within the Nine-Colored Divine Flame.

"The divine fiend is made entirely of divine power—how could burning it produce no divine power?"

Even Li Wei found this strange.

Still, the fact that the Nine-Colored Divine Flame could suppress the divine fiend was already quite fortunate.

Suddenly, Li Wei noticed that the Nine-Colored Divine Flame had undergone some changes.

A trace of black light appeared within the divine flame.

A tenth color emerged among the flames.

Ten-Colored Divine Flame.

Li Wei's expression turned to one of astonishment.

There existed such a thing as Ten-Colored Divine Flame in this world?

Carefully sensing the unique qualities of this small cluster of Ten-Colored Divine Flame,

Li Wei discovered that it converted divine power far more quickly than the Nine-Colored Divine Flame.

Joy sparkled in his eyes.

What an unexpected blessing.

This was far more significant than simply converting the divine fiend into divine power.

Li Wei hurriedly returned to the Nine-Colored Star.

When the small cluster of Ten-Colored Divine Flame merged with the Nine-Colored Divine Flame, the tenth color became extremely dim, almost imperceptible.

The Ten-Colored Divine Flame seemed to revert back to Nine-Colored Divine Flame once again.

Li Wei was not worried; as long as he could throw the entire divine fiend in to burn, the Nine-Colored Divine Flame would sooner or later transform into Ten-Colored Divine Flame.

He couldn't wait to return to the Sea Abyss.

Seeing the Sacred Dragon King, Li Wei shouted, "I've found a way to deal with the divine fiend! You find a way to sever its body again—but don't cut too much at once."

He feared that if too many pieces of the divine fiend's body were severed, their combined strength might become uncontrollable.

The prerequisite for the Nine-Colored Divine Flame to burn the divine fiend was that he could control it.

Otherwise, the divine fiend could easily escape the Nine-Colored Divine Flame.

The flame itself possessed no binding ability whatsoever.

If the divine fiend escaped to the stellar realm, things would become even more troublesome.

Moreover, the Nine-Colored Star was Li Wei's lair—or rather, the source of his true form.

If the divine fiend rampaged across the Nine-Colored Star, it would bring catastrophic consequences for Li Wei.

Hearing Li Wei's words, the Sacred Dragon King acted decisively, cutting off a fist-sized fragment for him.

Li Wei quickly teleported to the stellar realm with the fragment.

He tossed the fist-sized piece into the Nine-Colored Divine Flame to burn.

Sizzling sounds filled the air!

The fragment of the divine fiend burned away completely, vanishing without a trace.

Faint traces of black light appeared at the edge of the Nine-Colored Divine Flame.

It still had some distance to go before fully transforming into Ten-Colored Divine Flame.

Li Wei hurriedly returned to the Sea Abyss.

While the Sacred Dragon King continuously severed parts of the divine fiend's body, Li Wei kept teleporting to the stellar realm to burn them.

Gradually, the nine-colored star in the stellar realm began emitting a tenth radiance.

Who knew how much time passed.

The tenth light on the star had stabilized.

The Nine-Colored Divine Flame had finally transformed completely into Ten-Colored Divine Flame.

Looking at the divine fiend fragments rapidly melting and disappearing in the Ten-Colored Divine Flame, Li Wei sighed, "Finally, it's over."

This was the last fragment of the divine fiend.

Thus, the divine fiend was truly killed by him and the Sacred Dragon King.

Having slain the divine fiend, Li Wei's Nine-Colored Divine Flame transformed into Ten-Colored Divine Flame.

The speed of converting the star's energy into divine power increased dramatically.

Whereas previously it took a year to convert one ten-thousandth of the star's power into divine energy,

now the speed had increased nearly tenfold.

It would take only a thousand years to completely burn the star's power into divine force.

To any deity, this represented an unimaginably vast amount of power.

After the Nine-Colored Divine Flame transformed into Ten-Colored Divine Flame,

Li Wei could feel his divine body growing stronger moment by moment.

Endless streams of divine power flowed into his body.

Returning to the Sea Abyss, Li Wei found the Sacred Dragon King waiting there for some time.

Seeing him return, the Sacred Dragon King couldn't help but ask, "How did you kill the divine fiend?"

Li Wei told the Sacred Dragon King about using divine fire to burn the fragments of the divine fiend.

"But isn't divine fire only supposed to have nine colors? Why did a tenth color appear?"

Li Wei asked with some confusion.

Hearing this, the Sacred Dragon King also showed surprise, as if hearing something unprecedented.

"This is the first time I've heard of such a case. I've never heard of anyone whose divine fire displayed a tenth color before. Besides, who would dare use something as crucial as divine fire as an offensive weapon to burn a divine fiend..."

The Sacred Dragon King was shocked by Li Wei's audacity.

If anything went wrong with his divine fire, Li Wei would have no hope of becoming a god for the rest of his life.

Who would dare risk their future so recklessly?

The Sacred Dragon King pondered for a moment before speaking: "Based on your description, the ten-colored divine flame currently exhibits characteristics that are at least stronger than the nine-colored divine flame—it should be a more powerful form of sacred fire."

Li Wei's eyes flickered slightly as he asked: "If ten-colored divine fire exists, then could there be divine flames with even more colors?"

"What differences would eleven-colored or twelve-colored divine flames possess?"

(End of Chapter)