Chapter 215: Might of the Five Gods

Above the starry sky.

The Sky Demon’s incarnation, locked in fierce combat with the Martial Gods, suddenly let out a cold laugh. After repelling an attacker with a single strike, he turned his gaze to the five Martial Gods surrounding him.

“My true form is about to succeed. It seems I must keep these five ants occupied. After all, I can dissolve my Origin Source and return to my true form before death. Right now, retrieving the remaining half of the Origin Source is of utmost importance.”

With this thought, he activated the secret technique of his shell’s Divine Ability. The Legacy Talismanic Incantations carved upon it transformed into chains that brutally pierced through the four massive stars floating in the four directions.

“True Demon Final Rune—Imprison!”

Boom!

“Run! This is his Legacy Divine Ability!”

The five scattered, teleporting in all directions, only to feel their flesh and blood suppressed and their bodies constrained.

“Damn it, why can’t we move?!”

A gray-white barrier rapidly spread along the runic chains, using the four massive stars as pillars to form a cage.

Countless chains projected down from the barrier, transforming into a vast prison that trapped the six Tenth Rank powerhouses, including the Sky Demon’s incarnation.

“Hahahahaha! Now, it’s time for a cage fight!”

Inside the cage, the Sky Demon charged forward recklessly.

From the four massive star pillars, countless skeletons crawled out.

“The Life and Death Patriarch’s Divine Ability is truly useful. Good thing Mom played around back then!”

The Sky Demon laughed wildly, throwing a punch toward Xuan Rou, the female Martial God among the five.

“Damn it, why is he coming for me?”

Xuan Rou formed hand seals, condensing Laws before her.

“All Laws draw near, nature reveals itself—transform cocoon into butterfly!”

Xuan Rou’s Martial God veil burned away. Black patterns extended from her forehead down to her chin, terrifying and twisted lines gradually dispersing into nothingness, scattering into the air. Then, a fluorescent glow enveloped her entire body.

She teleported instantly, dodging the Sky Demon’s attack.

“Interesting. You can actually break free from the Life and Death Patriarch’s Divine Ability.”

“But it doesn’t matter. As long as I stall until my true form seizes the Origin Source, it’s a success.”

The Sky Demon charged toward Chi Heng with no regard for his own life.

“Old ghost, our earlier clash of flames didn’t settle the score. Let me test you again!”

“Sigh, I was hoping to slack off.” Chi Heng sighed. “It seems I’ll have to show some real skill.”

As he spoke, he landed at the edge of the cage, unleashing a white flame toward the chains conjured by the Sky Demon’s incarnation.

“Trying to break my Divine Ability? Not so easy!”

The Sky Demon arrived in an instant, his hand covered in the secret technique’s black flames, striking toward Chi Heng, who was unleashing the white flames.

“I’ll help you!”

The Body Cultivator Martial God Hong Luo kicked out, his limbs extending infinitely, instantly striking the Sky Demon’s incarnation from ten thousand meters away.

Boom!

The violent impact shook the cage, but that was all. The Life and Death Demon Skeleton’s Divine Ability was not so easily broken. Although the Sky Demon’s Life and Death Bloodline was not dense, he had perfectly inherited this Divine Ability.

For now, he only needed to buy time for his true form to reclaim the Origin Source.

Hong Luo kicked away the Sky Demon’s incarnation, while Chi Heng released white flames, attempting to burn through the chains and break open the cage.

However…

“Damn it! Why won’t they burn? They won’t budge either!”

The four massive stars were outside the cage. Chi Heng couldn’t destroy them to break the cage, leaving him furious and flustered.

Inside the cage, countless skeletons swarmed forward.

These skeletons were all creatures the Sky Demon had killed in the past.

Endless in number.

Fierce Beasts, Martial Artists, Transcendents from various Great Worlds…

Among them were even the remains of several Tenth Rank powerhouses!

“Don’t worry, these skeletons don’t even have half their strength from when they were alive. This cage that seems to trap us might as well be trapping the Sky Demon inside as well.”

With a shout from Liu’er, a rod wrapped in pure golden flames materialized out of thin air.

“Today, we’re closing the door to beat the dog!”

Boom!

As the rod swept across, countless corpses turned to dust.

“Take this, you beast! Eat your Grandpa Liu’er’s strike!”

The rod swung down vertically. The Sky Demon hastily dodged, but the rod swept horizontally, golden flames roaring as they transformed into a fiery dragon charging forward.

“Ants! Once this lord finds his Origin Source, you’ll be the first to die!” The Sky Demon’s Incarnation roared inwardly, not daring to take this terrifying blow head-on.

“Hahahahaha, old Demon Lord, take your grandpa’s foot!”

Hong Luo’s Physical Body expanded infinitely within the cage until it reached the top, then stomped down. The white-bone skeletons below, tiny as ants, were crushed into debris.

The Sky Demon’s Incarnation was enveloped by a massive shadow. Unable to dodge in time, it could only block with both hands.

Bang!

The space beneath the foot cracked inch by inch, yet did not completely collapse due to the Life and Death Demon Skeleton’s imprisoning Divine Ability.

This cage was so domineering that even shattering the Void would not allow escape.

“Butterfly Transformation, Body Swell!”

A wisp of eerie light struck the Sky Demon’s Incarnation pinned under Hong Luo’s foot. Its entire body convulsed uncontrollably, spewing out fat and stomach sacs. Its originally menacing head swelled into that of a fat pig.

Xuan Rou staggered a step, clearly having expended great effort with this move.

“You like playing with cages? Then let this lord have a taste too!” The thin, effeminate man revealed a smile on his pale face, pointing a finger.

Five rings of different colors flew out.

The five-colored rings fastened onto the Sky Demon’s Incarnation pinned underfoot.

Red around the neck.

Blue and yellow on the left and right wrists.

Purple and black on both ankles.

The rings shrank infinitely, then flew to opposite sides, pulling taut, attempting to tear the Sky Demon apart.

“Ahhhhhhhhh!”

“Ahhhhhhh!”

“Damn humans! Damn humans! This lord won’t let you off!”

“Enough noise!”

Hong Luo exerted force through his sole, completely defending against the surrounding skeleton attacks. Before his top-tier Physical Body, these skeletons could not harm him.

All along, among the five, one had remained rather inconspicuous…

“Sword Law.”

“Heaven Concealment, Shallow Severance.”

“Horizontal Birth, Falling Patterns.”

“No Return, Fleeting Splendor, Execute!”

A beam of cyan light traversed distance, leaped over time, ignoring the constraints of spacetime Laws. In that instant—no, it shouldn’t be described with time!

Rather, it was that when the sword was drawn, the outcome was already decided.

He passed through the Sky Demon’s body, then stopped directly ahead.

The man stood with his back to the Sky Demon’s Incarnation, sword sheathed.

Behind him, a bowl-sized hole was visible in the Sky Demon’s Physical Body, blood dried up.

Life force drained away.

“True Body… you’d better… have found the Origin Source…”

The Sky Demon’s Incarnation’s pupils gradually dimmed.

Within the cage, information was cut off, even the connection between the main body and the Incarnation severed.

Thus, he would not know anything happening on Tianyuan Star. Now, with the Incarnation dispersing, only a remnant consciousness of the Origin Source remained, knowing even less.

“Forget it, find a place to stabilize the Origin Source from dissipating, then reunite with the main body.”

Casting one last glance at the five humans, extreme hatred filled his eyes.

“Humans, next time we meet, I will surely annihilate you!”

The cage dissipated, and that small fragment of Origin Source seized the chance to flee.

“Not good, that’s the Sky Demon’s Origin Source! Hurry, chase it, or if the Origin Source isn’t destroyed, the Sky Demon will revive in ten thousand years!”

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Five streaks of light pursued that small fragment of the Origin Source.

Tianyuan Star.

The Sky Demon’s true form, having lost contact with his Incarnation, suddenly spat out a mouthful of black blood and crouched on the ground in agony.

Trembling, he stared at his own hands, his eyes filled with hatred.

“It seems my Incarnation can’t hold on any longer. Damn it, now that I’ve lost contact with the Incarnation, I don’t know if those human scum have returned yet.”

The Sky Demon placed a hand over his chest to regulate his Qi. After half a moment, once his Aura had stabilized slightly, he dared not waste any more time on recovery.

“Better to retrieve the item first.”

Jiang Yan, hidden in the shadows, nodded in agreement.

“Ah, yes, yes, yes, retrieving the item is more important.”