CHAPTER 1143: CHAPTER 865: GREAT POWER

"Blood for blood!"

Gu Jinlai looked at the Great Immortal Venerable of the Star Spirit Yan Clan before him, then glanced at the Super Divine System composed of tens of thousands of divine spirits...

Unexpectedly, the Yan Clan has actually colluded with the divine spirits.

Perhaps...

It could be said that the Divine Race sought out the Yan Clan.

But now there’s no point in accusing the Yan Clan and the Divine Race of colluding with each other, anyway, today might not end well.

Gu Jinlai took a deep breath.

"I have prepared for the great revenge of the Divine Race, and today is also the battle to test my thousand years of cultivation, and to spread the name Gu Jinlai throughout the Heart of the Cosmic..."

His gaze gradually became sharp: "Come on, summon your Star Spirit Yan Clan’s Great Power! Who has come? Yan Chu, Yan Yi, Yan Guang... or is it a Great Power who has not yet appeared? Or have more than one Great Power come?"

"A Great Power?"

Yan Xuan looked at Gu Jinlai and sneered coldly: "I have a Supreme Immortal Device, and with the interference from the Super Divine System led by Emperor Jin Yao, I do not need to invite any Great Power from my Star Spirit Yan Clan to take action."

As he spoke, he seemed to have thought of something, continuing to attempt to strike at Gu Jinlai’s spirit: "Don’t think that your Human Clan, relying on the Immortal Immortal Realm, can escape a strand of divine sense into the Immortal Immortal Realm at critical moments to preserve your life. Since I’ve taken action, I’ve naturally considered all aspects and won’t give you any chance to escape! At the same time that the Great Annihilation Realm was unleashed, I’ve already used a Cosmic Oddity to anchor your soul. Want to escape to the Immortal Immortal Realm? Feel free to try."

"Gu Jinlai, I don’t care what your true identity is. Since you joined my Ten Thousand Gods Realm for just a few hundred years, how many Divine Race members have perished by your hand? Today, it’s time for you to pay the price! I, Jin Yao, will personally take action to avenge all the divine spirits who died at your hands!"

Emperor Jin Yao also stepped forward, speaking in a cold voice.

But as Gu Jinlai listened to their words, a question mark slowly surfaced in his mind.

"You all?"

His gaze swept over Emperor Jin Yao and Yan Xuan, then looked through them toward the void behind them.

Nothing!

The Star Spirit Yan Clan...

Seems to truly not have any Great Power present.

So...

Without the presence of a Great Power, a Super Divine System that requires the joint efforts of many gods to interfere with a Great Power’s operations, and a Star Spirit Yan Clan at merely Immortal Venerable Level, where do they get the courage to encircle and kill a Reincarnated Great Power like him?

Especially one who has already recovered to the Silent Annihilation Realm?

Or is it...

Do they think that he is still at the peak Immortal Venerable battle strength like in the Ashen Star Domain?

Managing to kill many divine spirits by relying on the Supreme Immortal Device left from his Primordial Reincarnation?

Gu Jinlai was silent for a moment, looking at Emperor Jin Yao and Yan Xuan Star Spirit with a seemingly confident demeanor...

Perhaps they really are as he guessed.

"What makes you think I would dare to wander around without recovering to the Great Power Level?"

In theory, he shouldn’t waste too much time before the battle, but Gu Jinlai couldn’t help but ask.

"Throughout the ages, it is rare for a Reincarnated Great Power to recover to Immortal Venerable cultivation in a thousand years, and to fully recover, no Great Power has accomplished it in under three thousand years. We’ve investigated you; your cultivation has been less than a thousand years, right? Even if you have hidden something, recovering as fast as possible, the best you could reach would be the peak Immortal Venerable. You think this bluff will scare us?"

Yan Xuan chuckled softly.

He was shouldering two tasks.

One was to capture Gu Jinlai, the other to probe as much as possible.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t be wasting so much verbal exchange with Gu Jinlai.

But...

Gu Jinlai had long decided not to waste time with them.

He was still eager to expedite the restoration to the Eighteenth Rank Great Power through his primordial arrangements.

His divine sense had already surpassed the "merely" Immortal Venerable cultivation of Yan Xuan, focusing on the Super Divine System led by Emperor Jin Yao.

His mind leaped, revealing the connections and power circulations among the divine spirits within this Super Divine System in his mind, and computing its flaws and nodes at an extremely fast pace.

"Don’t even think there’s a Great Power who can save you! The nearest Human Clan Great Power will take half a month to arrive, even if you’ve recovered to Immortal Venerable Level, in this half-month, we can wear you down to nothing."

Yan Xuan’s divine sense rippled once more, attempting to dissolve Gu Jinlai’s fighting spirit.

Yet there was no response.

For a moment, this Immortal Venerable realized something: "Stubborn! It’s time for you to pay the price! Suppress him!"

With this loud shout, Emperor Jin Yao’s massive Divine System began to operate, and Yan Xuan took a stride forward, manifesting a radiant Great Sun above his head, brewing endless high temperatures and destruction within, as if compressing a supergiant star spanning tens of millions of miles to a diameter of a hundred miles.

The destructive force contained in the high temperature, the Devouring Power carried by such a massive celestial body, the Space Power distorting the surrounding space, and the Flowing Light Power embodied in strong light transmission, all simultaneously erupted from this star.

It was as if an Immortal Venerable had wielded four kinds of pathways in a composite Supreme Immortal Skill, the overwhelming, violent destructive power sent shudders through the spirit of any Immortal Venerable, the magnitude of which, if fully hit, would be enough to annihilate any Immortal Venerable.

This Immortal Technique, indeed, is immensely powerful.

But...

Almost as Yan Xuan was exercising that Supreme Immortal Skill imbued with four Powers of Dao, countless pieces of information naturally surged in Gu Jinlai’s mind.

The methods of operation, combination, and compatibility of the Destruction Dao, Devouring Dao, Space Avenue, and Flowing Light Path...

Flashed through his mind at an extremely fast speed.

In just a moment, the model of the immortal skill demonstrated by Yan Xuan was already completed in his mind.

Even...

Before Yan Xuan had fully formed this Supreme Immortal Skill, the model of the immortal skill in Gu Jinlai’s mind had already been constructed, predicting the subsequent formation trajectory of this skill, and moreover...

At the same time, corresponding methods formed in his mind as well.

These methods included three kinds of decryption methods, fourteen kinds of defense skills, forty-two kinds of evasion methods, and three hundred and thirty-three escape techniques.

"Great Power, this is Great Power."

Gu Jinlai gained insight in his heart.

"All-knowing and All-powerful."

This is the powerful core of the Great Power.

The total amount of their divine sense might not necessarily surpass the Great Immortal Venerable, nor would their manipulation of the Power of Dao be stronger than the Great Immortal Venerable, but...

Relying on the special advantage of accelerated thinking, plus the accumulation over a long span of time, they possess unparalleled knowledge foundation, and are well-aware of all changes stemming from the Three Thousand Great Dao.

So much so that all changes and combinations of immortal skills in front of them can be learned at first sight, broken at will.

Just like now...

Among his responding methods, any decryption method, defense skill, evasion method, escape technique, is at the level that a Great Immortal Venerable can achieve.

Even some top-tier Immortal Venerables, and even ordinary Immortal Venerables have ways to accomplish it.

But...

Those Immortal Venerables simply do not have such fast reaction speed to formulate so many methods; even if they occasionally devise one or two, they might not be able to use them immediately.

"Just like playing competitive games, even though both players use the same hero, and the game’s balance is quite well done, one opponent can pause, sweep through the large map during the pause, and sort through the various data such as gear, skill cooldown, etc. between the two sides, or even when the opponent’s skill is used, he can pause first, study how to dodge the skill and then proceed. How can you fight like this?"

Gu Jinlai said.

Seizing the moment when Yan Xuan’s strike seemed to come at the speed of flowing light like the annihilation of a Great Sun, he lightly stepped into the void, finding a ripple in the opponent’s spatial fluctuation, following the ripple, as if entering another space, and then...

evaded the strike that seemed like the annihilation of a Great Sun.

Yan Xuan’s attack seemed to strike a nonexistent phantom.

Not only that, Gu Jinlai made a spatial leap, directly arriving within the Super Divine System casted by Emperor Jin Yao, targeting a node composed of one Divine Emperor, six Divine Kings, and thirty-six Divine Spirits, and with a single point of his finger.

Particle Sword Intent exploded.

The void centered around the Divine Emperor collapsed, shattered, and under the sweeping power of the Destruction Dao, turned into nothingness.

The bodies of forty-three Divine Spirits were obliterated in one blow.

"Divine Power like a peak! Suppress!"

As the bodies of forty-three Divine Spirits crumbled, Emperor Jin Yao roared abruptly.

With the will of the Divine Emperor as the core, invoking the power of tens of thousands All Gods, which are hundreds of billions of Holy Spirits descending simultaneously, the strength of this will storm was so fierce that, compared to the environment of chaotic Three Thousand Great Dao deep within the Heart of the Cosmic, it was even worse.

Moreover...

It gave a terrifying sense akin to directly facing the clearing power of a Daoist Ancestor.

But, as this tsunami formed by the Divine Will was about to sweep over Gu Jinlai’s figure, because Gu Jinlai had slain these forty-three Divine Spirits, disrupting a node, this power slightly stalled.

It was this slight stall that allowed Gu Jinlai to shuttle out and forth to another node again.

Under the Particle Sword Intent, several dozens of Divine Spirits’ bodies in this node once more were ground into dust.

"Die!"

Behind him, the terrifying torrent of will swept by Emperor Jin Yao pursued again, but coincidentally, this node was destroyed again, followed by...

Watching helplessly as Gu Jinlai once again seized the opportunity to withdraw as this node was destroyed, to attack the third node!

That kind of feeling...

Was like a giant elephant protecting a flock of sheep chasing a nimble tiger.

No matter how the giant elephant roared repeatedly, shaking the earth with its charge, it was always a beat too slow, and could only watch helplessly as the tiger hunted the flock one after another.

"Hold him back!"

Emperor Jin Yao uttered a low shout upon noticing this.

Yan Xuan dared not be negligent, several Supreme Immortal Devices emerged on his body, the Constant Star with a hundred-mile diameter above his head blazed extremely, like a supernova explosion, firing a massive energy beam toward Gu Jinlai.

But just as his immortal skill formed, Gu Jinlai slightly turned, this time, he didn’t even need to deploy Particle Sword Intent, with a borrowing force technique, Yan Xuan’s destructive energy beam had already pierced through Jin Yao’s Divine System, with several Divine Spirits that failed to react in time being turned to ashes by this force on the spot.

The efficiency of annihilation...

was faster by a notch than if Gu Jinlai took action himself.