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Melchaba froze, startled. He turned quickly, recognition dawning as he beheld the figure standing before him.

"Asclepius…" He whispered the name in awe, a surge of hope and reverence lighting his face.

"Let me handle this. The rest of you, stand down." Jiang Chen, also known as the divine healer Asclepius, smiled warmly and nodded, making a subtle gesture toward the other Golden Saints.

"But--"

Melchaba stepped forward, concern lacing his voice. Yet before he could say more, an invisible force gently pulled him back, as though time itself had shifted him aside.

Around Jiang Chen, an unseen ripple spread out, warping the surrounding space-time. The very fabric of reality twisted, forming a barrier that separated him from the rest of the battlefield… and from the encroaching Gods.

The distortion was unmistakable.

The gods instantly sensed it but their reaction came too late.

The sudden fluctuation in time locked their movements. Even the sheer divine will and raging Cosmo they unleashed were not enough to escape Jiang Chen's pull, his creation of an alternate time-space realm.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The moment they were drawn in, divine power erupted violently. Massive waves of Cosmo, intertwined with the celestial will of over twenty gods, detonated across the isolated dimension.

The entire pocket space trembled under the pressure and Cracks spiderwebbed through time and space.

This was no small force. Among the invading gods were three first-tier beings, each one a force capable of making even a Sovereign hesitate.

Naturally, Jiang Chen's constructed realm couldn't hold forever under such weight.

Yet as the alternate dimension collapsed… It didn't return to normal. Instead, what surrounded the gods was not reality, but an even deeper void: A sea of fractured timelines and chaotic, unanchored space.

At this moment, Jiang Chen drew them in, but this wasn't merely a simple pocket of alternate time and space. He had pulled the gods into the Realm of Endless Dimensions.

Simultaneously, his Cosmo, or rather, what had now begun to evolve into the embryonic form of the Great Universe, steadily expanded, stretching across the void like the breath of creation itself.

This was destined to be a battle of absolutes.

Either Jiang Chen would complete his journey as a god-slayer and emerge from the void victorious…

Or the gods would obliterate him, leaving no trace behind.

There would be no third outcome.

"Mortal… are you seeking death?"

Among the twenty figures surrounding him, three stood out, leaders among the gods. Their eyes narrowed as they felt the pressure mounting. A glacial voice echoed across the void, filled with divine contempt.

Jiang Chen raised an eyebrow.

"Seeking death? Maybe. But this time, it looks like only one side is walking out of here." He chuckled softly, and in that moment, his Cosmo erupted, vast, unstoppable, flooding the surrounding space.

The entire realm was sealed in an instant.

The Serpent Bearer Cloth burst into radiance, wrapping around him as if answering his will. In mere seconds, the sacred armor evolved, transcending its former state and becoming a Divine Cloth.

At the same time, his Eighth Sense Cosmo surged to its peak.

Amidst the haze of the growing Great Universe within him, a terrifying power began to stir.

"So it is you! You dare trespass into the forbidden realm of the gods, mortal!"

Their voices turned cold, divine fury crackling in every syllable.

Then, an eruption happened as a wave of divine will exploded outward and combat ignited without warning.

Jiang Chen's strength was now on full display. This was not the same power he had wielded during the Mythical Era. Now, his Cosmo had reached the zenith of the Eighth Sense, his Divine Cloth had awakened, and most critically, the embryonic Great Universe within him had begun to take shape.

These forces amplified one another.

Even Jiang Chen wasn't certain how far his power now extended.

"Boom! Pfft!"

A third-tier god barely had time to react. His eyes widened in shock as he looked down, his chest had already been pierced clean through. Before the god could even cry out, Jiang Chen flicked his hand, sending his broken form flying across the void.

In the next instant, Jiang Chen vanished, reappearing like a phantom, and struck again. Another God was launched into the air, crashing into the unstable fabric of space.

The battlefield expanded rapidly.

Now, Jiang Chen's power surged with terrifying momentum.

With the amplification of his awakened Cosmo and Divine Cloth, he had far surpassed the level of a third-tier God. Even most second-tier gods couldn't endure a direct confrontation.

Only first-tier gods could truly challenge him, and that was assuming his Omega Power, the deepest aspect of his being, had not yet fully awakened.

If it had… even the first-tier gods might fall.

Across the shattered void, divine blood rained down. Jiang Chen stood radiant, wreathed in power. At that moment, even the gods, who had moments earlier sneered in contempt, began to falter.

They could feel it now. The tremor of fear.

"Impossible!"

"How can this be?!"

"You're just a mortal! How can you wield such power?!"

Cries of disbelief echoed across the void as several Gods roared in fury. But their rage was answered not with reason, only with Jiang Chen's terrifying eruption of Cosmo.

Reality trembled.

Layers of space and time collapsed around him. His power tore effortlessly through the divine fabric, shredding the protective will of the gods themselves. Even the divine authority of first-tier gods couldn't stand against the magnitude of Jiang Chen's aura.

"Join forces!" A first-tier God growled, his tone grim. As he moved, the other two first-tier gods nodded silently and followed suit.

"Boom!"

Three divine wills surged forth simultaneously, fusing with the explosive Cosmo of the trio. The combined force swept across the realm like a tidal wave, aiming to suppress Jiang Chen completely.

But Jiang Chen took a single step forward.

His majestic Cosmo flared around him like a storm of stars. Ripples of power pulsed outward, and his Divine Cloth glowed with deeper resonance, beginning to emit a profound, almost sacred aura.

As battle raged, his Cosmo burned more intensely. Within that blaze, a dormant force began to awaken, Omega Power, stirring at last. As the Omega force slowly gathered, Jiang Chen's Cosmo started to shift.

A quiet yet undeniable evolution had begun. The expressions of the three first-tier gods twisted in alarm.

"No! This is bad! Stop him, now!" A furious voice rang out, as a torrent of divine energy surged toward Jiang Chen. At this point, no one, divine or otherwise, could ignore the sheer terror Jiang Chen now represented.

If he was allowed to continue… no one could predict what he would become but it was already too late.

"Boom!"

A second-tier god rushed in recklessly, divine fury in his eyes. But with a single punch, Jiang Chen shattered him mid-air, turning his divine body into a crimson mist. The blood mist scattered across the fractured void, its droplets glinting with the rules of divine law, then twisting into chaos.

Far off in the distance, the god's body hastily reformed, but his face was pale, his breath ragged.

One strike.

Just one.

That was all Jiang Chen needed to reduce a second-tier god to near death.

The entire battlefield froze in disbelief as dread settled into the hearts of the Gods like a lead weight. Even the three first-tier deities, once aloof and scornful, now found themselves drenched in cold sweat.

Jiang Chen's strength had completely shattered their expectations.

(Note: At this point, Jiang Chen's true power has not fully entered the Omega realm. He has only just begun to touch its threshold. In terms of raw strength, he remains beneath the level of a Sovereign, and is nowhere near capable of challenging the four Sovereigns who each command one of the Great Cosmic Forces.)

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