Chapter 1247: Kill This Person!

Chapter 1247 Kill This Man!

The starry sky remained unchanged!

The vast nebula born from the sun’s final exhalation before death drifted apart.

Beside it, Xu Qing and his companions descended.

Gazing upon this nebula, they saw lightning flicker and thunder echo, a blurred expanse.

Its inner essence remained unseen.

Within the nebula, the Ancient Deity concealed there maintained composure.

Though his cultivation lay shattered, barely sustaining True Godhood,

he did not believe his concealment could be pierced by quasi-immortals matching his divine platform’s rank.

Thus, in his understanding, these arriving cultivators had merely traced them here.

Under other circumstances, he could have eradicated them with a mere gesture, but now… he chose to ignore them.

“Beneath the Phoenix, these humans cannot find us,” the Ancient Deity intoned lowly.

Yet as his words faded, the Star-Eyed Goddess seated cross-legged beside him flashed intense golden light within her eyes. Her expression hardened instantly.

A flicker of bewilderment crossed her features before she suddenly spoke.

“Kill them!”

At her command, the Ancient Deity’s brow furrowed slightly as he turned toward her.

Acting now, in his view, was utterly unnecessary and would surely expose them, inviting peril.

Meeting his gaze, the Goddess’s intensity deepened.

She understood concealment was the wiser choice, yet inexplicably, upon seeing the cultivators beyond the nebula, a profound sense stirred within her.

It felt as though failing to slay those cultivators would bring upon her an unimaginably grave calamity, a life-or-death catastrophe.

This sensation arose strangely, yet burned with fierce conviction.

Seeing the Ancient Deity hesitate, the Star-Eyed Goddess fixed him with a cold, commanding glare.

“Immediately!”

The Ancient Deity fell silent, sensing the anomaly. He raised his right hand and grasped forward.

At that grasp, the vast nebula hiding them thundered violently, churning with sudden fury.

The nebula, as if controlled, transformed in that instant into a misty sea.

It erupted.

Waves of dust surged, winds of collapse rose, roaring toward Xu Qing’s group, threatening to engulf them all.

Its force shook the world; its might towered over heaven. It bore a rank unshaken even by rules and laws!

Ripples tore through the void, warping the starry sky, seeking to crush all beneath.

As the nebula erupted, Xu Qing’s companions each moved.

Star-Ring Zi blazed with cosmic principles. Thousands of chains of order encircled him, and the Balance Charter burst forth, enveloping everyone.

It fortified them all with its might!

Above Zhengli Zhou’s head, the Mysterious Eye opened, linking their souls, fusing them into one entity for that instant.

Demon-Spirit Zi raised his hand; the Bloodthirsty Demon Blade gleamed crimson, blocking the onslaught ahead.

Li Mengtu’s poison formed phantom mists, settling within Yuan Shan Su’s layered distant mountains…

Others acted likewise. Every Ascendant unleashed their ultimate techniques against the nebula’s assault.

Simultaneously, through Zhengli Zhou’s Mysterious Eye, they coalesced into a single force.

Their cultivation, long elevated through trials and abundant source essence, had all broken through to quasi-immortal ranks. Now united,

they became a colossal reef!

Beyond this reef stood Xu Qing’s terrifyingly vast immortal embryo, suddenly towering!

The Temporal Charter manifested, shrouding all directions, forming layered peaks!

Then the nebula’s tidal wave, bearing irresistible force, thundered near, crashing upon the reef they formed.

Boom!

Deafening sound split the heavens!

True Godly power was unspeakably terrifying. Even a weakened True God’s strike, channeled through the nebula, pressed them with ultimate dread.

The reef they formed did not endure long before shattering apart.

Each body jolted violently. Wounds of varying severity formed instantly; blood sprayed as they recoiled backward.

Yet they had succeeded in withstanding the weakened True God’s blow!

Reeling back now, though battered and bloodied, their inner energies chaotic, their movements remained flawlessly practiced, deploying diverse life-preserving arts.

Yet the inner shock was unavoidable.

Not from the sudden attack—but from encountering the Goddess herself!

Though Xu Qing had claimed they could find her, deep down, everyone, including Zhengli Zhou, had harbored doubt.

Not that they distrusted Xu Qing.

Simply, such a thing was inherently hard to fully believe.

Indeed, had anyone else spoken those words, they would have dismissed it entirely.

The frontline war zone was vast, and involved the Goddess; logically, the chance of meeting her was infinitesimal.

But now…

As their hearts churned, they gazed toward the nebula ahead.

With the nebula’s prior dispersal, it now appeared far thinner to their eyes. Unobscured, everything grew clear.

Faintly, two figures emerged within!

One before the other!

The foremost appeared aged, outwardly resembling a human, clad in golden robes, radiating terrifying pressure, expression cold.

Yet as he stepped forward, wailing winds howled around him, shrieking as if countless wronged souls lamented.

His aura hung heavy as substance, pressing down upon all directions, seeming to shroud this starry sky in a suffocating distortion.

Behind him, a phantom temple materialized.

Ruined, like rubble, its broken walls and shattered beams hinted at shadowy forms—like monstrous beasts lying in wait, or twisted creatures clawing from darkness.

Within that temple, a deity was enshrined.

This deity hovered midair, its form grotesque. Long, spindly arms, like withered branches, stretched from its shoulders, twisting without pattern. Each finger unnaturally elongated, resembling writhing worms. Their needle-sharp tips glinted coldly in the dark.

Yet the body as a whole seemed to have suffered grievous trauma, twisted and bent in ways defying all reason; the upper half wrenched by some invisible force into a grotesque angle with the lower, as if ready to snap at any moment.

As for the face, it was covered in black scales, each one glinting with an eerie light, like countless cold eyes watching all things in the world.

Not a single flaw, not a strand of hair, not a trace of imperfection within sight!

The mouth stretched impossibly wide, curving all the way to the ears, revealing a row of sharp, jagged fangs.

Between those fangs, one could see His tongue, red as fresh blood, writhing ceaselessly—like a living serpent, ravenous and ready to strike, to taste the very essence of life.

Atop His head grew a massive, softly glowing crystal, irregular in shape, within which countless streaks of light darted and surged, shrouded in profound mystery.

A faint halo of purple light encircled it, within which countless distorted human faces seemed hidden, a sight both chilling and horrifying.

This—was the divine essence of the True God!

Within it resided the divine will, supreme over all laws and rules!

Behind this ancient deity stood a woman.

This woman was breathtaking!

She emerged slowly from the thin mist.

Like the ancient deity, she appeared human in form, tall and slender.

A gown woven from the deepest night clung to her frame, its hem glimmering with ghostly blue light, as if every thread imprisoned countless sorrowful souls; with each step, that dim radiance flickered like spectral fire.

Her skin, whiter than snow, bore an almost icy pallor, as if untouched by sunlight for centuries, radiating a chill that made one feel plunged into an ice vault at a single glance.

Her face was flawlessly beautiful, features carved with supernatural precision; her brows, like distant mountains, held a faint, almost imperceptible twist, as if pain and sorrow had crystallized at their ends.

A gentle furrow could summon the deepest terror from the heart.

Her eyes were pools of bottomless darkness, the irises an unnatural crimson, gleaming with a bewitching yet perilous light in the shadows.

Her lips were shockingly red, as if freshly sated with blood; it seemed that with the next parting of those vermilion lips, no words would emerge—only curses dragging souls into eternal ruin.

As she walked now, her hair cascaded like a lifeless waterfall of silver-white, while a faint mist clung to her form, within which indistinct ghostly faces flickered in and out of view.

Clawing and roaring soundlessly, they dared not draw too near, merely circling her, adding to the aura of eerie dread.

This fused her exquisite beauty utterly with the uncanny, making her the most heart-stopping yet mesmerizing presence in the starry void.

Like a vision of beauty stepped from the abyss where nightmares and dreams entwine.

Such divinity, beheld by Xu Qing and his companions, stirred waves that overturned heaven and earth!

Yet simultaneously, battle fervor erupted within each of them.

Xing Huanzi’s eyes blazed with sharp light, Zhou Zhengli narrowed his gaze, Xie Lingzi radiated intense killing aura—most were thus.

Only Qianjun Biyi, thoughts reeling, mind thundering.

“Have we truly found it?”

These two brothers trembled in their very souls.

As for Xu Qing, his expression remained calm throughout, gazing toward the figure emerging from the cloud, toward that goddess—where beauty and horror converged!

The goddess’s divine eyes swept across, settling upon Xu Qing.

Their gazes met in that instant, unobscured by cloud, and a fierce palpitation surged through her heart.

Bloodlight flashed in her eyes; she raised a hand, pointing at Xu Qing.

“Kill this man!”

“At any cost!”

The divine voice echoed, uncharacteristically charged with resolve—a sight that made the ancient deity before her glance with curiosity.

Having guarded the Phoenix Below for years, he had never witnessed such a thing!

Even after defeat and flight, the Phoenix Below had only shown bewilderment, never this.

But he asked no questions; having chosen to act earlier, now all traces must vanish—all must be slain!

And swiftly!

Thus, the moment he appeared, this human-shaped ancient deity closed his eyes.

As his eyes shut, the temple behind him roared; the floating deity within unleashed its full divine might.

Chaos erupted in the starry void, clouds tore apart, and the temple itself shifted, materializing in the heavens.

Descending from illusion into reality, it radiated terrifying alien power.

Then transformed into a barrier, enveloping all.

Next, the temple opened, and the deity within stepped forth!

This starry realm was utterly transformed.