Chapter 1223: Painful God Bimos

Chapter 1228: The God of Pain: Bimos

Meanwhile, within the Tianwu Belt, as the God Prison rumbled and divine energy surged...

Across the starry sky, strands of awareness, imperceptible to all but immortals, were descending.

They belonged to patrolling immortals from the Auroral Outer Heaven and the Nine Shores Outer Heaven!

The moment an anomaly appeared here, they sensed it and thus arrived, intending to restore order.

But just as their awareness was about to coalesce...

A calm voice, imbued with mystery, fell upon these immortal strands of awareness.

“Let him try, and let this generation perceive what a true god is.”

The descending strands of awareness trembled momentarily, then emitted a unified response.

“We obey the Immortal Edict of Nine Shores.”

At this moment, in the Tianwu Belt, the divine energy continued to rise, growing increasingly intense.

Above the prison, both the two wardens and Xinghuanzi and others were rapidly retreating, their expressions solemn, each deploying their cultivation for full protection.

Haicao did the same.

They clearly understood that what they now faced was no ordinary god, but a true god... in the process of returning!

A true god is equivalent to a Lower Immortal!

Even in terms of strangeness, they were more astonishing than Lower Immortals.

After all, gods were the original inhabitants of the Upper Ring, the natural extractors of the Upper Ring's prime essence, and more adapted to existence in the Upper Realm than cultivators!

And they were eternally indestructible.

Therefore, facing a true god, the pressure on the cultivators was naturally immense.

Although they also knew clearly that in the current Fifth Star Ring, the revival of a true god was insignificant from a broader perspective, and suppressing it was not difficult.

It wouldn't even require an Immortal Lord to act; a single edict and a Lower Immortal coming here could suppress it.

However... experiencing such a revival firsthand was a different sensation.

Even knowing it was insignificant for the Fifth Star Ring, personally experiencing, witnessing a true god's return with their own eyes, and directly feeling the terrifying aura emanating from a true god...

That terrifying fluctuation, that soul-twisting strangeness, made everyone here tremble in their hearts.

Thus, everyone protected themselves and retreated at full speed.

Only Xu Qing!

At this moment, not only did he not retreat, but instead, his battle power soared throughout his body, his eyes gleaming with cold light, and under everyone's gaze, he confronted the spider statue directly...

He even raised his hand, and his own power fully erupted.

Immediately, the iron skewer, long accumulated with power, shone brightly; layers of space-time around it rumbled, and the immortal embryo behind him became increasingly dazzling.

He intended to attempt god-slaying!

The moment Xu Qing made his move, the enormous spider statue trembled all over!

Its intent of revival surged greatly!

The statue's eight spider arms shone with dazzling golden light in an instant and actually began to move.

The golden light it emitted was divine light belonging to a god; as it shot out in all directions, its arms, like eight golden long rainbows, blocked in front of it.

Forming a golden barrier of light!

Within the barrier, behind the spider arms, the statue's eyes suddenly opened at this moment.

They revealed coldness and an even denser golden light, like a sea, enveloped the starry sky in an instant.

The divine aura grew stronger.

And so did the whispers.

The voice of Bimos was deafening and shook souls.

It had accelerated its return!

At the same time, Xu Qing's raised hand had already descended.

In an instant, his iron skewer shot out first, with astonishing speed, traversing the starry sky, with immortal light gleaming within it and a terrifying, earth-shattering power surging!

This was refined by a Lower Immortal and contained Xu Qing's quasi-immortal power in a single strike!

This strike contained his Constitution!

This strike carried the might of the Auroral Immortal Palace and even the Outer Heaven!

This also contained the Heavenly Principle in a single strike!

Both its material and its prior accumulated momentum made this iron skewer already transcendent.

Where it passed at this moment, the void shattered, a series of black holes appeared in the starry sky, and its sharpness seemed unstoppable!

In a flash, it appeared on the golden barrier of light before the spider statue.

It stabbed fiercely!

A roaring sound surged to the heavens!

But... it did not penetrate; instead, it was blocked by the golden light.

The statue was the remnant body of the returning true god and also its vessel. At this moment, the true god was not dormant but in the midst of its return, thus, the golden barrier of light it emitted possessed equally terrifying power.

Therefore, when the iron skewer arrived, not only did it not penetrate, but as the golden light spread, it even sought to devour and assimilate it.

But the next instant, the sound of a bell echoed.

Xu Qing's body swayed; as he stepped forward, he also took out his bell. This bell contained a trace of the God Lord's will, and as its sound emanated, the starry sky trembled.

Whether cultivators or gods, all, amidst the sound of this bell, had all functions within their bodies stagnate to varying degrees.

The golden barrier of light was no different!

It experienced a momentary stagnation.

And the might of the iron skewer erupted even more powerfully at this instant, forming an overwhelming momentum, carrying endless destructive intent, suddenly piercing through the golden barrier of light, and heading straight for the statue's glabella.

Its speed was immense, as it exploded forth.

It passed directly through!

The spider statue trembled...

Amidst the roaring minds of the cultivators in the distance, they witnessed with their own eyes that after the spider statue trembled, it actually began to crack.

And then... it shattered into pieces and collapsed.

But no one felt any relief, because even after the statue shattered, the divine aura did not disappear, the sense of return still persisted, and even the whispers from the god still echoed.

It was as if what had shattered was merely the most superficial manifestation of the returning true god.

The next instant, an even more terrifying power suddenly descended from the void.

Wherever it passed, the starry sky warped, and all beings trembled.

That was divine power!

The profoundness of this power was like a sea of stars, surpassing heavenly might, sweeping across the area, and as the divine whispers grew louder, this region... began to fold like paper!

However, this folding was perceived in consciousness, not truly happening in the starry sky.

It was as if the space here had become two layers.

The lower layer was where everyone was located, while the added upper layer only contained the shattered statue.

This folding occurred in that added upper layer!

Therefore, it did not include living beings, only the shattered fragments of the statue.

Moreover, the folding was not a single event, but occurred countless times in an instant.

The next instant, the shattered fragments of the statue vanished from everyone's sight; everything became hidden. Even the divine energy that was just surging, the power of return, and the whispers, all disappeared with this folding.

It was as if nothing had ever happened!

The starry sky was utterly calm.

Everyone's expressions changed.

This scene was too bizarre, even making people wonder if a Lower Immortal had invisibly arrived and resolved the true god's revival.

But soon, someone realized something was wrong! “No,” they exclaimed, “it's trying to escape!”

Xu Qing's discovery, being the one who acted, was faster than other cultivators'. Almost at the same time the folding began, layers of space-time formed by his surrounding parallel Constitutions had already descended.

The Space-Time Constitution and the power of 'Merging Universes and Stacking Cosmos' boomed as they spread.

Swaths of space-time directly suppressed this area.

Making the starry sky's time reverse, causing space to ripple. Then... the Xu Qings within these layers of space-time all formed hand seals and activated their respective Constitutions.

They began... to reverse it!

Unfolding what had been folded!

However many times it had folded, it would be unfolded that many times!

Thus, in their perceptions, everything here seemed to flow backward: the vanished divine energy reappeared, and the silenced divine whispers once again echoed.

And the power of return also manifested again!

The hidden shattered statue fragments... reappeared!

Only, their appearance had greatly changed.

No longer the material of the statue, they had become clumps of white hair!

It was as if flesh had grown white fur; and because these hairs were too long, they resembled white hair, dancing and swaying like tentacles, spreading outwards.

All the shattered statue fragments were like this.

And there was also a soul-piercing sensation emanating from each hair clump, causing all non-divine beings, at this instant, to feel their souls tearing apart and waves of pain.

Xu Qing's face also turned pale, his soul intensely fluctuating.

But the next instant, the immortal embryo behind him suddenly stepped out, enveloping his body. The immortal embryo's body expanded again, then it raised its hand.

This hand was like an expanse of starry sky!

With accumulated momentum, with supreme might, and with a vast form that was immense even in the starry sky, it suddenly descended towards this place!

It slammed down fiercely!

Within the immortal embryo, the Auroral Immortal Palace, serving as its immortal foundation, shone intensely.

The light it emitted traversed throughout the entire immortal embryo, making the immortal embryo at this moment exceedingly sacred.

And the immortal embryo's raised hand was equally vast.

The moment it descended, it seemed to cover the void and block everything.

Even the swaying clumps of white hair formed from the shattered statue fragments paused.

This was no mere hand of an immortal embryo; this was clearly the Auroral Immortal Palace descending to suppress!

The next instant, the massive hand had fallen!

But just as this massive hand slammed down, another anomaly arose.

The shattered statue fragments that had become hair clumps each had their hair strands suddenly surge, connecting to each other, then spreading outwards at an astonishing speed.

As the hair strands connected and the hair clumps spread, an enormous spiderweb suddenly formed in the starry sky, appearing beneath Xu Qing's immortal embryo hand!

This spiderweb was astonishingly massive.

Sprawling across the starry sky.

The silk of the web was white hair!

And the shattered statue fragments at each node also changed their appearance at this moment, becoming heads with expressions of agony!

These heads were male and female, old and young, cultivators and gods.

All were beings once slain by this true god.

The lives slain by it, though dead, had their souls unable to escape, and would forever be controlled by it, becoming a part of it!

Now revealed, they blocked Xu Qing's immortal embryo hand.

The moment they touched, there was no roaring sound, but a sense of resonance penetrated the void, forming a starry sky storm, sweeping across everything.

Wherever this storm passed, even stars would shatter upon contact, and countless meteorites instantly turned to dust.

While dissolving the attack, a rebound force also surged.

Causing Xu Qing's immortal embryo hand to instantly withstand two fluctuations, and as it recoiled, it began to collapse.

This scene made everyone's expressions change drastically!

Xu Qing also spat out blood, a sharp glint appearing in his eyes.

He saw that this bizarre and vast spiderweb was now mostly golden!

He also realized that when it was entirely golden, it would signify the completion of its return.

“I have displayed my strongest power, but still cannot suppress this true god, who is in the process of returning and in a weakened state…”

Xu Qing fell silent.

He understood that the Jade-Glazed Dust from back then had only plotted against a true god that had not yet returned, which was ultimately different from the situation he now faced.

He also knew clearly that even if he gave up now, it wouldn't matter.

Even if this true god truly returned, in the Fifth Star Ring, it couldn't stir up major waves. And judging by the time, it was likely that soon a Lower Immortal would arrive to suppress it.

Xu Qing even felt that most likely, Lower Immortals were already present in the vicinity!

Only, they had not chosen to act immediately...

Therefore, Xu Qing wanted to try again.

He needed prime essence!

If he could suppress this returning true god, he could continuously extract prime essence, which would be equivalent to adding a prime essence pool for his future cultivation!

Thinking of this, a faint glint flashed in Xu Qing's eyes.

“There's one more way!”

As this thought crossed his mind, the prime essence within Xu Qing's body fully erupted, and his immortal spiritual energy surged explosively to empower his immortal embryo, making the recoiling immortal embryo hand, at this instant, even more robust and larger.

He even used his authority to activate the Auroral Immortal Palace.

Making the power of this immortal palace rise even higher within the immortal embryo, the palm that eventually appeared in the starry sky was ten times its previous size.

Astonishingly vast.

Then it descended once more!

This time, it was not a slap, but the immortal embryo's five fingers spread open, those five fingers, like pillars of the starry sky, grabbed fiercely at the spiderweb!

The moment of contact, Xu Qing spat out blood, the immortal embryo hand recoiled, visibly collapsing continuously, and not just the hand, but even the arm and the entire immortal embryo were affected.

But madness appeared in his eyes; even as his immortal embryo fluctuated violently, he still fully activated the Auroral Immortal Palace within it, making the immortal light shine with unprecedented brilliance, transforming into a sea of light, filling every crumbling point, and spreading outwards, illuminating the entire star system.

The power of authority over the Auroral Outer Heaven contained within it was completely activated by Xu Qing at this instant.

Forming... an unprecedented large-scale teleportation!

Its scope encompassed the entire star system!

Xu Qing, at this point, was clearly intending to change the battlefield of his fight with the true god!

He intended to move this true god's vessel, which was in the process of returning, to his own Outer Heaven.

There, he would use the might of the entire Outer Heaven to suppress this returning true god!

The next instant!

The power of teleportation, amidst deafening roars, fully ascended, and after enveloping everything, Xu Qing and the spiderweb held by his immortal embryo hand vanished in an instant!

At the same time, within the Tianwu Belt, those immortal strands of awareness, imperceptible to non-immortals, also fluctuated and shifted their thoughts, gazing towards... the former Auroral Outer Heaven!

Meanwhile, in the Nine Shores Outer Heaven, within its core, the Nine Shores Immortal Palace, among countless buildings, atop the highest Nine Shores Immortal Tower, a majestic figure stood at this moment.

He wore a navy blue long robe, his hands clasped behind his back, gazing into the distance.

“Bimos, the renowned God of Pain from the Fifth Star Ring in the past, whose divine authority could manifest all extreme pain of souls, which then became a source for itself. The Immortal Venerable once said that this god's illusions were not entirely false, but also contained truth!”

“So Xu Qing, this time, you have been given an opportunity. Whether you can seize it will depend on your fortune.”