Chapter 429: Chapter 216: Great Thousand Worlds! Severing Causality! (2)

"Divine Skill - Arhat Realm!"

The True Zen Saint Monarch was the first to strike. Several golden arms formed instantaneously, reaching out to grab the Blood Erosion Tyrant from all directions. The thirty-meter-tall tyrant was quickly bound, the arms seemingly containing some sort of sealing suppression power.

"The dominion of the Divine Race is the truly correct path for this world," True Zen said with a glare.

"Crack!"

The Blood Erosion Tyrant flexed his muscles, and with terrifying divine power, he quickly broke free from the giant hands. A mocking smile appeared on his face, and he said, "Do you think I care about such things?"

"Evil tyrant!"

True Zen clapped his hands, transforming the terrifying golden divine power into palms to suppress him, but it failed.

The Blood Erosion Tyrant’s control effect resistance and abnormal status resistance were absurdly high, making the sealing aspect of his divine power ineffective.

Even scarier, as the Blood Erosion Tyrant exerted more force, the golden arms started collapsing faster. True Zen no longer attempted to continue the suppression but instead gathered more divine power, seizing the opportunity to unleash his most potent ability.

"Divine Skill - Great Thousand Worlds."

In an instant, the scene before the Blood Erosion Tyrant’s eyes turned illusory and ethereal, no longer real. Everything around became pitch black, evoking a feeling of descending into an abyss—both familiar and strange to him.

What is this...

What sort of divine skill is this...

The Blood Erosion Tyrant frowned, maintaining his consciousness clear under the high abnormal status resistance, but he could no longer see the real world he was in, nor could he continue fighting.

The endless feeling of falling in the dark, a sensation all too familiar yet strange; he didn’t know what it meant for him but only knew that he was fighting earlier and the Great Thousand Worlds had dragged him into this place.

Dammit!

No resistance checks, is it some ability bypassing abnormal status resistance?

Or maybe, this ability’s essence isn’t control but achieving inner enlightenment through extended experiences or insights, thus fundamentally belonging to an effect of capability enhancement, with the body at risk upon entry.

Therefore, it doesn’t trigger abnormal status resistance and can directly take effect, while control resistance and abnormal status resistance just make the buff effect better.

Given that...

All I can do is leave it to my instincts...

"Drip!"

The sound of liquid dropping echoed, and Ye Mingqiu found himself in an unfamiliar wasteland. Endless sandstorms swept across the land, blood-red rain fell from the sky, countless strong ones perished, and the winds of death swept the earth.

He stood on the ground, beneath him a small stream dyed red with endless blood, burying countless beings whose forms he couldn’t discern, but he could sense the unusualness of the other party.

Where is this place?

Why am I here?

Who... am I?

He suddenly felt a bit bewildered, but his instincts told him that with his abnormal status resistance, he shouldn’t feel this way. It wasn’t some form of control, but an impression from another dimension.

Countless corpse remains littered the ground, a massive one exuding a familiar aura seemingly belonging to a deceased formidable Ancient God.

One of its eyes was missing, and the remaining one looked quite familiar.

....

"Did it work?"

True Zen observed the immobilized Blood Erosion Tyrant and finally breathed a slight sigh of relief.

This peerless powerhouse with formidable attacks, rapid life recovery, and fearless of death would even cause him, possessing Authority Deity strength, to feel a bit mentally stressed.

He slowly stepped forward, watching the motionless Blood Erosion Tyrant, murmuring, "Blood Erosion Tyrant, you’re the strongest god I’ve encountered. Unfortunately, your nature is too malicious and obstinate; I wonder if there’s any hope for enlightenment."

The Blood Erosion Tyrant’s head slowly rose, his closed eyes gradually opening, no longer the crimson eyes but purely scarlet, with no distinction between pupils and sclera.

"What is this...?"

True Zen Saint Monarch swiftly retreated, bewildered and shocked at the sight of the Blood Erosion Tyrant. His gaze was full of disbelief, as the tyrant was still roaming in the cycle of the Great Thousand Worlds, consciousness missing, but why was his body still able to move?

Wrong, isn’t it?

Something feels off, right?

"Bang!!"

The Blood Erosion Tyrant suddenly unleashed incredibly robust Omni Divine Power, fracturing the golden giant hands binding him, and lifted his Blood Spear into a combat stance once more.

Does he have two consciousnesses?

No, this doesn’t seem like two consciousnesses...

How was this even achieved?

The Blood Erosion Tyrant gave no time for True Zen to think, charging forward with ferocious steps, reaching him almost instantaneously. With a horizontal sweep, the Blood Spear cleaved the air, aiming precisely at True Zen’s throat.

"Bang!!"

The golden divine power blocked it, but a massive wound instantly appeared on the Blood Erosion Tyrant’s throat, yet it healed at an incredible speed.

[Innate Perception] brought to an unprecedented extreme under instinctive reaction, the tyrant gazed upon the True Zen Saint Monarch, seemingly perceiving something invisible—a thread connecting him to the True Zen Saint Monarch.

Causal link thread

He reached, attempting to break that thread, but couldn’t reach it. To True Zen, it appeared as a meaningless strange gesture.

What is this guy doing?

True Zen didn’t know, but he realized he should subdue the Blood Erosion Tyrant first, or else dealing with him could prove troublesome.

In the next moment, the Blood Spear entwined with Holy Power, auxiliary Enchantment power from the Authority of Light and Shadow, transformed into a blade, and with golden radiance, sliced toward the thread.

The tangible feedback registered in his hand as the Blood Erosion Tyrant continued to exert force, the Sequence power+Authority blade slicing the thread of causality ever thinner, even as True Zen commanded the Arhat golden arms to bombard him without phasing him. He just focused on breaking that thread.

"Snap!"

The crisp sound of breaking arose, blood trickled from the Blood Erosion Tyrant’s mouth, as the thread in his perception shattered. He once again unleashed divine power, brandishing the Blood Spear, shattering the innumerable golden arms, and then thrusting it into the True Zen Saint Monarch’s heart.

"You’ll regret this,"

said the True Zen Saint Monarch, narrowing his eyes.

"Clang!!"

The resonant sound of a fierce tremor echoed, as the Blood Spear, burning with Blood Flame, continuously pushed forward, piercing through True Zen’s defense, while no fresh injuries appeared on the Blood Erosion Tyrant.

It was at this moment that True Zen finally realized a terrifying issue—the causal link between him and the Blood Erosion Tyrant seemed to have been severed.

The Blood Erosion Tyrant displayed a cruel smile, the Blood Spear ceaselessly pounding, with increasing speed and power.

....

In the Desolate World, Ye Mingqiu sat alone under an ancient tree that felt exceptionally familiar, though he couldn’t quite grasp how. But sitting beneath it calmed him in an inexplicably serene way.

He sniffed the blood-heavy air before him yet felt nothing, as if long accustomed to it. His reflection appeared in the puddle of blood on the ground, though its details remained unclear.

[Prompt: You have comprehended the skill: Killing Intent]

[Killing Intent (Active/Passive)]

Skill Tier: ★★★

Skill Effect: Upon release, inflicts panic/weakness/intimidation etc., causing abnormal status checks within a certain range of enemies. The check intensity depends on Will Attribute and Killing Intent strength.

Tsk, I’ve grasped a skill—one that allows for constant release of Killing Intent.

Ye Mingqiu continued to sit quietly, gazing at the tableau of corpses and blood, frowning slightly as if he were about to remember something.

But in the next instant, the void of illusion shattered. At that moment, he maintained his stance with the spear, the Blood Spear penetrating the True Zen Saint Monarch’s heart. Blood dripped down the spear, and it seemed that True Zen Saint Monarch’s head suffered a formidable strike, leaving it blasted.

True Zen Saint Monarch, he was dead.

Ye Mingqiu felt a sudden sense of regret but nevertheless allowed the Blood Spear to absorb the divine blood and temporarily switched the Title to [Overlord Hunter], absorbing the essence of the True Zen Saint Monarch.

An Authority Deity enemy should yield a significant amplification, right?