Chapter 1337: The Other Shore (Part 2)

An incredibly eerie aura shrouded the sky above Star God City. Even the Star Gods and Elders within the barrier felt an unnatural, chilling coldness course through their entire bodies.

"What's happening?"

"Yun Che? Impossible! No matter what, he couldn't possibly possess an aura like this." Tian Yuan Star God Tumi stared intently at Yun Che, speaking in a low voice.

Jasmine's gaze never left Yun Che. She felt the strange aura that could even pierce the barrier, watching him plunge his five fingers into his chest... In a daze, a memory from the Undying Blood of the Evil God flashed through her mind, making her face instantly turn incredibly pale, and from her lips burst the most terrified cry of her life: "Yun Che!! No... don't... no!!!"

Yun Che remained motionless, only his five fingers continued to slowly tighten.

"Xing Ling, what are you doing! Move!" Xing Mingzi roared.

But facing Xing Mingzi's command, Xing Ling continued to retreat step by step. If Xing Mingzi had been facing Xing Ling, he would have seen that his pupils had contracted to the size of needlepoints, and his entire body was trembling as if he were in the depths of an icy hell.

"Yun Che!!!" This cry was incredibly hoarse. Jasmine released Caizhi, struggling with all her might to throw herself against the edge of the barrier. "Listen to me! This ritual, this barrier, connects to all the Star Gods and Elders, to the power of over forty Divine Masters. No one can stop it or break it. Even if you do that, you can't save me, you can't save Caizhi... you can't do anything! You'll only sacrifice yourself for nothing... Do you understand?!"

"If you dare do something so foolish... I will never forgive you... never!"

Yun Che's Evil God Profound Veins were bestowed by her. The memories within the Undying Blood of the Evil God were read by her. Even Yun Che's initial understanding and operation of the Evil God's divine power were guided by Jasmine step by step. Therefore, in many aspects, Jasmine's understanding of the Evil God's divine power surpassed Yun Che's.

Yun Che's actions and the abnormal aura instantly made her realize what he intended to do. It was a power... a taboo he should never touch, not in his entire life... a power of despair!

Yun Che slowly raised his head and looked at Jasmine, a very faint smile on his lips. "Jasmine... I'm not here to save you... I can't save you... I'm here to accompany you..."

That single sentence made Jasmine's tears gush forth like a spring. She abruptly turned her head away, her voice choked: "What right do you have to accompany me... Who do you think you are..."

She extended her hand, pointing towards the Star God Emperor's location. "That old scoundrel, though I hate him, he is my birth father after all. My life was given by him; if he wants to take it... it's only right and proper! What does it have to do with you! Don't be so self-righteous here... Go... go!! Otherwise... I truly... will never forgive you!"

Yun Che shook his head, softly saying: "The life he gave you died when you were thirteen. Your current life, I gave it to you... Your life is mine... Everything about you is mine... I will never allow anyone to take her away... unless I die!"

This selfish and domineering statement fiercely pierced the deepest, softest part of Jasmine's soul. She bit down hard on her teeth, but tears still streamed down her cheeks, making it impossible for her to speak further.

"My current life was also given by you. We made each other reborn... In those years, our lives and souls were tightly linked... In the years we were separated, every moment I endured that agonizing sense of incompleteness... an incompleteness of both life and soul... So, I didn't listen to you; I came here so eagerly, and I wanted to see you at all costs..."

Jasmine's entire body trembled. From her tightly closed eyes, droplets of tears poured out, already soaking her cheeks... Countless stunned gazes fell upon Jasmine; they couldn't believe that the Heaven Slaughter Star God, renowned for her wickedness and cold ruthlessness towards everything, would actually weep... and with so many tears.

Yun Che's entire right hand was already stained with blood, but his face held a terrifying calmness. "I know you won't forgive me, but this time... no matter if you hit me or scold me, no matter if you go to heaven or hell, I will be by your side, and I will never let go of your hand again!!"

A ball of blood mist burst open in front of Yun Che's chest.

"No—!" Jasmine let out an extremely shrill cry.

Boom—Yun Che's profound vein world, with its red, blue, purple, and black domains, exploded simultaneously.Bang, bang, bang...

On Yun Che's body surface, his skin ruptured wildly, bursting open with countless sprays of blood. The profound energy coiled around him instantly turned blood-red... deep and rich like tangible, reeking blood from purgatory.

"Ugh ahhhhhh!!"Beneath the blood-red profound energy, Yun Che let out bestial roars... carrying endless rage, pain, and despair, like a desperate demon god chained at the bottom of hell.

"He... what is he doing?""Could it be... suicide?"An aura that absolutely should not exist, clearly one of "unease," enveloped the souls of everyone present. Unnamed suppression and fear sprouted in their hearts, spreading wildly like a plague.

Amidst the demonic roars, the blood energy surrounding Yun Che rapidly expanded, causing his aura to surge at an incomprehensible speed.

"Indeed..." Tian Yuan Star God Tumi furrowed his brows. "It's another forbidden ability that amplifies profound energy at a great cost, just like his battle with Luo Changsheng back then. What a pity, with his realm, even if his profound energy erupts tenfold or a hundredfold, how can it—" Before he finished speaking, his expression suddenly changed... The Star God Emperor, and all the Star Gods, also underwent a dramatic change in expression at that instant, appearing either stunned or utterly disbelieving.

Bang—With a burst that seemed to resound in their very souls, Yun Che's profound energy aura, at Divine King Realm level one, suddenly broke through its limits, surging to Divine King Realm level two.

"This?" Tumi's brows furrowed deeply. "A sudden breakthrough? But this situation... and absolutely no precursor or process to a breakthrough. What in the... wha... what!?"

As Tumi's expression changed yet again, Yun Che's profound energy, having just completed a "realm breakthrough," once again broke through its bottleneck, reaching Divine King Realm level three.

"This..." As the longest-lived and most senior wise man of the Star God Realm, Tumi was utterly dumbfounded, unable to comprehend anything he was witnessing.

"Ugh ah... ahhhh... ahhhhhh!!"His screams shook the heavens and souls. The wildly surging blood energy made it impossible to distinguish if it was profound energy or actual blood. The air grew more chilling with every passing moment, and that nameless fear felt as if countless evil spirits were continuously pouring into their souls...

Blood energy, screams, fear... yet Yun Che's profound energy continued to break through realms again and again.

Divine King Realm level four...Divine King Realm level five...Divine King Realm level six...Divine King Realm level seven...Divine King Realm level eight...Divine King Realm level nine...Divine King Realm level ten!!

The blood energy around Yun Che finally began to retract. Just as everyone thought the terrifying anomaly before them was finally about to cease, the briefly retracted blood energy suddenly exploded with immense ferocity...

Boom————In that instant, the entire sky above Star God City was dyed blood-red. And beneath this blood-red expanse that filled the heavens, the terrifying aura underwent a transformation that even all the ancestors of the Star God Realm, if they were alive, would find impossible to believe or comprehend...

"Divine... Sovereign... Realm..." This profound realm, which he had long since surpassed and even disdained for many years, when spoken by Tian Yuan Star God at this moment, each word carried a tremor he hadn't experienced in tens of thousands of years.

Before him, the Star God Emperor's eyes were wide, showing extreme horror. All around, the Star Gods and Elders, these figures standing at the pinnacle of the Primal Chaos, every single one of them was utterly aghast, none daring to believe their own eyes or spiritual senses.

"This is... what..." a Star God murmured."How could... such a thing happen...""Is this also... the power of the Evil God?""Hiss..."

The profound energy realm surged directly to Divine Sovereign Realm level one, finally ceasing its changes. But the blood energy continued to churn wildly. Yun Che's roars stopped, and his body slowly straightened... In that instant, the entire sky seemed to press down. The chests of all the Star Guards felt so suppressed they couldn't breathe, and a cold, metallic-smelling air pierced from their tailbones into their internal organs, then spread to every corner of their bodies.

Profound energy amplification, at the level of the Star God Realm, was naturally not unfamiliar. And any profound energy amplification would be accompanied by side effects of varying degrees; this was common knowledge in the profound way. However, no matter how powerful the profound energy amplification, it was absolutely impossible for it to transcend the realm one was in. This was no longer common knowledge, but the most fundamental understanding.

Yet, they watched with their own eyes as Yun Che's profound energy, from Divine King Realm level one, continuously broke through realms in just a few breaths... until he broke through an entire major realm.

How difficult was a breakthrough in the Divine Way? Talent, effort, accumulation, enlightenment, and serendipity—none could be lacking. To break through from Divine King Realm level one to Divine Sovereign Realm level one in less than ten breaths... What an absurd, laughable joke, yet it was vividly unfolding before their eyes, stabbing at their vision and perception, tearing apart their most fundamental understanding.

Star God City was enveloped in a terrifying silence. All three thousand Star Guards seemed to be frozen in place by an invisible force, each looking utterly lost.

"Brother-in-law... what happened to him..." Caizhi asked blankly.Jasmine's eyes were fixed in a daze, completely unresponsive to Caizhi's words, as if her soul had left her... Finally, she closed her eyes, murmuring like a sleepwalker: "Nirvana... Asura..."

Caizhi: "..."

The Evil God's power, First Stage Evil Soul's "Falling Moon Sinking Star," Second Stage Burning Heart's "Sealing Cloud Locking Sun," and Third Stage Purgatory's "Annihilating Sky Decimating Earth"... While these were powerful, they were not so powerful as to break conventional understanding.

The Fourth Stage Heaven Smiting's "Moon Waning, Star Returning" truly began to reveal the Evil God's power, strong enough to defy rules.

And the Fifth Stage Yama Emperor, the Evil God's divine power it unleashed, its might, its defiance of rules, and its distortion of understanding, far surpassed "Moon Waning, Star Returning."

"Nirvana Asura"... This was the Evil God's divine power of the Fifth Stage, and also the most terrifying, most forbidden... and most despair-inducing of all the Evil God's divine powers.

The activation of "Nirvana Asura" would cause one's profound strength to surge once again... but not merely an amplification of profound energy as when a realm is opened; instead, it was a massive increase in actual realm. It would cause the Evil God's profound energy, at its current realm, to defy common sense and rules, directly ascending an entire major realm!

But its cost was also cruelly absolute: self-destruction of profound veins and burning away the life soul!

Nirvana (彼岸) symbolizes death. Once "Nirvana Asura" is activated, it will be the Evil God's most powerful and brilliant moment in their entire life... And the moment the power gained by self-destructing profound veins and burning away the life soul is exhausted, will be the moment of death.