Chapter 609: Freeze the World!

Chapter 609: Freeze the World!

The celestial realm assembles its full might.

Over a hundred semi-gods gather in one place.

Nearly ten thousand legendary-tier warriors converge.

All tilt their heads, gazing up at the eight figures suspended in the sky.

The eight deities of the Celestial Realm.

The Celestial Realm holds nine deities in total.

One deity remains absent from this gathering.

That deity is also the most powerful among all the gods of the Celestial Realm.

Every soul waits, eyes fixed on the heavens, biding their time.

A golden radiance erupts across the sky—the divine realms of the gods swing open their gates.

Countless heroic spirits and sacred spirits pour forth, descending into the Celestial Realm.

They pause, stunned upon beholding the scene before them.

Instinctively, they halt in their tracks.

The heroic and sacred spirits emerging from the divine realms, like the denizens of the Celestial Realm, possess immortal bodies.

Should they fall in battle within the Celestial Realm, they are reborn anew within their divine realm.

Thus, both sides know each other intimately.

Now, seeing all familiar faces gathered together—alongside many unfamiliar ones—the spirits emerging from the divine realm themselves feel disoriented.

What is happening?

The eight silhouettes above warn them: do not act rashly.

Those are deities—true, ninth-tier god-tier warriors.

Even the mightiest sacred spirit among them reaches only the peak of eighth-tier power.

Perhaps, with the grace bestowed by the gods, they might rival ordinary deities in strength.

But facing these deities—most of whom have emerged unscathed from rivers of blood—they stand no chance.

Suddenly, a rainbow arcs across the heavens.

One end of the colossal rainbow bridges the open gate of the divine realm,

the other touches the earth below.

The Frost and Warhammer God, within the divine realm, senses something amiss and urgently commands the sacred spirits to destroy the rainbow bridge.

He simultaneously attempts to seal the divine realm’s gate.

Yet, to his shock, the gate refuses to close.

A force surges through the rainbow bridge, flooding into the divine realm.

Not only can he not shut the gate—this force dares challenge him for control over the realm itself.

It is rewriting the very rules of the divine realm.

When the Frost and Warhammer God realizes this, his fury erupts like a volcanic eruption.

He knows who it is.

In the entire Celestial Realm, only one being possesses such power.

“Damnable human!”

He issues a death-order: “Stop anyone from entering the divine realm. Kill every enemy who dares step inside.”

Then, he plunges headlong into the battle for dominion over his realm’s sovereignty.

“Charge!”

The assembled warriors storm forward, crossing the rainbow bridge toward the distant divine realm beyond.

Countless heroic and sacred spirits, upon receiving orders, launch assaults upon those traversing the bridge.

Men are hurled off the bridge, falling endlessly.

Heroic spirits and sacred spirits plummet from the sky, crashing to the ground.

The eight deities have not yet moved.

Their attention is fixed on the god-tier warriors within the enemy’s divine realm.

The Frost and Warhammer God is but one among many gods.

Within the pantheon, numerous lesser deities have pledged allegiance, yet still lack full recognition.

The Frost and Warhammer God commands many such lesser deities.

As he battles Sariel for control over the divine realm’s foundational rules,

he issues further decrees, dispatching his lesser deities to halt the warriors of the Celestial Realm from breaching the divine realm.

“A deity has appeared—I’ll take it.”

The Beastslayer surges ahead, charging straight toward the first emerging lesser deity.

The two clash fiercely upon the rainbow bridge.

The Beastslayer drags the lesser deity off the bridge, to avoid disrupting the plan’s execution.

The alien lesser deity, unwilling to die, retreats beyond the bridge’s reach under the Beastslayer’s ferocious assault.

Within the Celestial Realm’s domain, the Beastslayer enjoys infinite resurrection.

But the alien lesser deity does not.

He is a god—not a heroic or sacred spirit bound to the divine realm.

Should he perish within the Celestial Realm, he will not be reborn.

With the first warrior of the Celestial Realm stepping off the rainbow bridge and into the divine realm,

the first shot of the Celestial Realm’s counteroffensive against the gods is fired.

More and more pour into the divine realm, clashing with enemies deep within its borders.

Sariel has already entered the higher-dimensional space where the divine realm resides.

From this vantage, he perceives every event unfolding inside the realm.

His power surges rapidly into the divine realm, altering its foundational rules.

Yet another force resists his modifications—

Two titanic powers clash in a relentless tug-of-war, neither gaining the upper hand in the short span of time.

Pfft!

The first legendary practitioner to perish did not reincarnate, their blood staining the soil of the divine kingdom crimson.

The corpse of the fallen legend decomposed at a breakneck speed.

Dissolving into countless specks of elemental light, it melded into the divine realm.

The laws governing a localized region of the divine kingdom were utterly rewritten.

Levi seized dominion over this newly claimed territory.

It was a localized triumph bought at the exorbitant cost of a life.

Anchored to this foothold, Levi plundered the surrounding dominion of the divine laws.

The God of Frost and Warhammers wore an exceedingly grim countenance.

"Drive them all out of the divine kingdom at once!"

He dispatched every subordinate lesser deity under his command to join the fray.

The deities of the Firmament World likewise crossed the Bifrost, entering the divine kingdom.

Within the celestial realm, they met the encroaching horde of lesser gods in fierce combat.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Arthur Li faced three foes alone, holding back a trio of lesser deities.

The Holy Dragon King seized an opposing lesser god, driving them ruthlessly down into the divine kingdom's army of heroic spirits.

Countless heroic spirits were torn to shreds by the residual shockwaves of the clash.

Sheng Xi utilized the power of time to immobilize two of the enemy deities.

The Elven King manifested a World Tree through divine power, its glorious canopy enveloping everyone and bestowing a buffing aura that restored vitality and mended wounds.

Guthrie gazed upon the vast army of heroic spirits before her, raising the Frost Scepter, now ascended to a divine artifact.

"Ice Age!"

Sizzle! Crack! Snap!

Ice sealed the land for thousands of miles.

Frigid frost froze countless heroic spirits solid.

The temperature across the entire battlefield plummeted below freezing.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

The practitioners of the Firmament World shattered the frozen adversaries.

The enemies splintered into fragments along with the ice.

Yet, some foes broke free from their icy encasement, launching desperate counterattacks.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Raging flames surged across the battlefield, melting the ice.

Ice and fire erupted in the most violent of collisions.

More and more practitioners from the Firmament World breached the divine kingdom.

Levi exerted every ounce of his strength to alter the laws of the divine realm.

Securing a silver lining of survival for the masses.

"Mortal, do not presume you will succeed!"

"The gods have returned, and your doom is absolute!"

The God of Frost and Warhammers roared threateningly at Levi.

Levi paid no heed; even if the gods had returned, he would conquer this divine kingdom regardless.

Stars in the astral plane extinguished one after another in rapid succession.

Transforming into boundless divine power that surged into Levi's body.

Armed with this infinite divine might, Levi swam against the current, forcibly wresting control of the divine kingdom's laws.

Forcibly rewriting the rules within the celestial domain.

Locking onto the coordinates of the true body of the God of Frost and Warhammers, he projected a divine avatar to wage war.

Boom! Crash!

An astonishing tremor of battle erupted from the depths of the divine kingdom.

Destructive shockwaves of energy rippled out to the fringes of the battlefield.

Everyone instinctively raised their eyes to look.

The Holy Dragon King revealed a look of shock, "This is..."

Arthur Li's gaze narrowed, "Father."

The God of Frost and Warhammers stared at the Levi who appeared before him, utterly stunned.

"You actually dare to show yourself before me, die!" Levi uttered not a single word.

With a lift of his hand, he forged a miniature sun of divine energy.

Supernova Explosion!

"Do you intend to destroy the entire divine kingdom? You lunatic!"

The God of Frost and Warhammers had no time to ponder where Levi had come from.

He hastily marshaled the power within the divine kingdom to withstand Levi's assault.

A thunderous detonation roared.

The entire divine kingdom trembled violently.

Showing signs of slipping from high-dimensional space and falling.

While the God of Frost and Warhammers was preoccupied with blocking Levi's attack.

Levi seized the opportunity to usurp the world authorities the deity had loosened his grip on.

The laws of the Firmament World spread rapidly within the divine kingdom.

Seeing the boundaries of their world expanding swiftly, the crowd erupted into cheers and charged forward frantically.

"Charge!"

"Kill!"

"Let the gods witness our might!"

Beneath the domain covered by the laws of the Firmament World.

The practitioners of the Firmament World found their strength vastly augmented, enjoying infinite resurrection.

Every single one fought with desperate fervor, defying death itself.

Wound for wound, death for wound—these were standard combat tactics.

Bathed in Leiv’s near-infinite divine power, every soul in the Celestial Dome World could rapidly resurrect upon death, restoring them to their peak condition.

Yet the heroes and saints within the divine realm could not resurrect so swiftly.

Though their spirits would inevitably reincarnate back into the Hall of Heroes and the Sanctum Pool after death,

it took time to reassemble their bodies and regain their strength—

leaving them unable to fight again for a brief, critical span.

The crowd surged forward desperately, striving to hold the line.

But the enemy outnumbered them beyond measure.

The divine realm of the Frost and Warhammer Deity had accumulated heroes and saints from dozens of worlds—

their number of elites nearly twentyfold that of the Celestial Dome World.

Even with immortality, breaking through the enemy’s human tide proved impossible.

The Celestial Dome World boasted over a hundred semi-gods.

Yet the eighth-rank saints within the divine realm exceeded their number by more than tenfold.

The enemy’s divine numbers also surpassed those of the Celestial Dome World.

The tide of battle had always tilted heavily against them.

Now, as the boundaries of the realm Leiv had seized shrank bit by bit beneath the enemy’s encroachment,

all they could do was watch, helpless and hollow-eyed.

The counteroffensive proved far more grueling than anyone had imagined.

“Charge! Kill them!”

Suddenly, a thunderous roar erupted from behind them.

Guswei instinctively turned her head—

and saw countless practitioners of the Celestial Dome World flooding across the Rainbow Bridge.

Some of them—those sixth-rank and below who had been left behind in the Celestial Dome World—

had all climbed the Rainbow Bridge and rushed forward.

“You weren’t supposed to stay in Maple Leaf City? How did you get here?”

Guswei gasped upon spotting Guze marching with the vanguard to the front lines.

Guze chuckled. “As expected—sitting idly behind while you fought to the death? We couldn’t bear it.

Even knowing we might perish here, we all still came.”

“For this war belongs to everyone in the Celestial Dome World.”

Practitioners from the Celestial Dome World poured into the divine realm in ceaseless waves—

ten thousand, one hundred thousand, one million…

Sixth-rank, fifth-rank, fourth-rank, third-rank…

All who were willing to fight ascended the Rainbow Bridge, rushing toward the fiercest battleground.

The weaker practitioners traded each death for enemy wounds—

sacrificing their lives to pin down formidable foes, buying fleeting chances for their comrades.

From sheer numbers alone, the forces of the Celestial Dome World now outnumbered the enemy.

Yet in the face of absolute power, numbers meant nothing.

Still—when every soul fought with resolve, when none hesitated to sacrifice themselves—

even the weakest strength could forge miracles.

Leiv had already seized a quarter of the divine realm.

Within the conquered territory, he uncovered several vital rules.

Spending vast amounts of divine power, he transformed them into rules favorable to his side:

the Hero Reincarnation Rule and the Saint Reincarnation Rule—

the foundational principles upon which the divine realm birthed heroes and saints.

Within the lands he controlled, Leiv conjured the Hall of Heroes and the Sanctum Pool using his divine might.

Any practitioner could enter either sanctuary, reincarnating as a hero or saint.

Becoming a hero preserved one’s original class traits while granting immense power—

allowing rapid growth and leveling during combat.

Becoming a saint erased all prior class traits, yet bestowed a powerful saint-class vocation outright—

also capable of leveling in battle, though far more slowly than heroes.

Many practitioners of the Celestial Dome World chose to reincarnate as heroes or saints to bolster their strength.

Leiv, sacrificing vast divine energy, introduced two entirely new vocations to his side—

injecting a powerful surge of hope into their ranks.

With these reincarnated heroes and saints, the forces of the Celestial Dome World rapidly closed the power gap with the armies of the gods.

Far behind the front lines, within the fortress heart of the divine realm,

the Frost and Warhammer Deity watched as his territory steadily slipped into enemy hands—his face twisted with fury.

“Damned ants—daring to crawl into the realm of gods and defile it!”

“Die! I’ll make you all die!”

The Frost and Warhammer Deity activated the realm’s hidden power.

CRACK—BOOM—

The entire divine realm shuddered violently.

Shock flared across every face.

WHOOSH—WHOOSH—WHOOSH—

A howling gale swept forth.

In an instant, the realm froze into an icy dominion.

Temperatures plummeted—

plunging toward absolute zero.

Ninety-nine point nine nine percent of all living beings froze in place—

their very consciousness threatening to shatter and halt.

This was the Frost and Warhammer Deity’s final gambit.

When this ultimate move was unleashed, the allied army of the gods within the divine kingdom was similarly frozen.

Countless ice sculptures materialized across the freezing realm.

Some human practitioners had their lives snuffed out instantly by the sheer bitter cold.

They were then caught in an endless cycle of death and resurrection.

A deathly stillness born of extreme frost filled the entire divine kingdom.

Only demigod-level powerhouses could barely manage to move in such an environment.

Top-tier demigods and true deities who had condensed divine bodies remained unaffected by the cataclysmic shift.

St. Hope gazed upon the ice-blue world before him, murmuring, "The world has stopped..."

Absolute zero.

It felt as though all change had ground to a halt.

Even time itself seemed frozen.

The final resort of the God of Frost and Warhammers was infinitely close to absolute zero.

He had brought almost all matter to a complete standstill.

"Human, you have lost."

The God of Frost and Warhammers cast his gaze upon Levi, who stood outside the divine kingdom.

At this moment, even the very rules of the divine kingdom were frozen, rendered immutable.

This meant Levi could no longer seize any further control over the realm's laws.

As long as this state was maintained until the return of the gods.

The deities would easily strike down Levi upon their arrival and erase the Firmament World.

Worlds that rebelled against the gods were not entirely unprecedented.

However, no past world had ever been a match for the pantheon.

Even when faced with resistance, the gods could easily crush it.

In the eyes of the God of Frost and Warhammers, the Firmament World was no different.

They were merely insects whose desperate struggles were slightly more annoying.

In the end, they were no match for the gods.

Annihilation was their predestined conclusion.

(End of Chapter)