Chapter 257: Explosion!

Hearing the words of the white-haired old man, Chen Xiao felt a slight stir in his heart. He understood that this old man likely came to help him.
However, he didn’t mention that the Laws of the Virtual Gods on these Virtual God puppets originated from the Supreme God’s Space. Compared to the Laws of the Virtual Gods refined by ordinary Virtual Gods, they were vastly stronger in quality.
If all these Laws of the Virtual Gods exploded at once, they would surely be able to injure a deity.
But since this old man was willing to help him, Chen Xiao was happy about it.
“Bu Qingchen? It’s really you?” Li Mo, the middle-aged man in green robes, frowned slightly upon seeing the white-haired old man. “Why have you come to stir up trouble?”
Li Mo and Bu Qingchen clearly knew each other, but their relationship didn’t seem very harmonious.
“I just can’t stand it. A deity personally taking action against an Aberrant with a Source Realm ability? If word gets out, it will bring shame to the deity,” Bu Qingchen said bluntly.
“Hmph,” Li Mo snorted coldly. “Since you’re getting involved, I’ll spare him for now. But remember, unless you stay by his side from now on, I will take his life.”
Hearing this, Chen Xiao couldn’t help but frown. It seemed that Li Mo had also become a threat to him.
“I’ll take these Wan Si clan members with me,” Li Mo said, raising his hand to snatch the eight hundred Virtual Gods beneath Chen Xiao’s body.
“Wait!”
Chen Xiao suddenly shouted. “You just want to take them away? I said it—either all of them die, or there will be one million spirit stone veins!”
Chen Xiao stared at Li Mo, his gaze filled with defiance.
“Chen Xiao!”
Bu Qingchen’s expression changed at that moment, and he frowned slightly.
“One million spirit stone veins? You have quite the appetite,” Li Mo said, a cruel smile appearing on his lips. “Bu Qingchen, if you keep protecting this man, you’ll be my enemy. From now on, it will be a never-ending struggle between us.”
Li Mo was truly angry. Chen Xiao had provoked him repeatedly and even killed someone he wanted to protect right in front of him—this was nothing short of blasphemy.
If Li Mo endured any longer, even Bu Qingchen would laugh at him.
“This…”
Bu Qingchen glanced at Chen Xiao, pondered for a moment, then sighed.
“This kid is really arrogant. I don’t know why the great immortal senior values him so much… With his behavior, offending a true deity would likely mean his death… Li Mo will definitely kill him, but if I stand by and do nothing, the great immortal senior will also blame me…”
After thinking it over, Bu Qingchen said, “Li Mo, you’d better leave. As long as I’m here today, you won’t be able to harm him even a bit.”
Bu Qingchen didn’t say it outright—that he couldn’t kill him while he was there—but once he left, Li Mo could do as he pleased.
“Bu Qingchen, you’re really good,” Li Mo nodded. At this moment, he also harbored hatred for Bu Qingchen.
Suddenly, Li Mo raised his hand, and a sharp sword aura shot straight toward Chen Xiao’s head.
“Hmph!”

Bu Qingchen narrowed his eyes; he was prepared for such a situation. Seeing the sword energy shooting toward him, he raised his hand and sent out another sword energy in response.
Boom!
The two sword energies collided in midair, shattering the space within three meters around them, while the two energies also canceled each other out.
Judging by their cultivation levels, it seemed Bu Qingchen was slightly stronger than Li Mo.
“Young man, it’s best not to be so arrogant before you’ve grown up enough.”
Bu Qingchen glanced at Chen Xiao with slight displeasure.
“Elder, this is my own matter. I decide my own path of growth—I don’t need anyone to protect me.”
Chen Xiao showed no gratitude. A deity protecting him like this? Even Chen Xiao couldn’t believe it. It seemed they had just met, and there was no reason for this deity to help him.
A sense of alert arose instantly in Chen Xiao’s mind.
When things go against expectations, there must be something suspicious.
Chen Xiao possessed several extraordinary treasures. Even a supreme deity would go mad upon seeing them, let alone an ordinary deity.
So now, Chen Xiao showed no gratitude. If those two attacked him, he would simply detonate all those vicious spirit puppets, along with the virtual divine artifacts in their hands.
Upon hearing Chen Xiao’s words, Bu Qingchen’s brows furrowed instantly. He almost couldn’t hold back and slapped Chen Xiao to death.
“Ungrateful brat.”
Bu Qingchen took a deep breath, but then thought of the terrifying great immortal, and his mood calmed down. Chen Xiao wasn’t his goal—he wanted to get close to the great immortal.
In his mind, no matter how bright Chen Xiao’s future might be, it paled in comparison to the terrifying power of the great immortal.
The Cold-Faced Killing God!
Bu Qingchen’s expression remained utterly calm, showing not the slightest hint of emotion. Chen Xiao couldn’t figure out what he was thinking.
But Chen Xiao’s mental energy was already tightly fused with the Supreme Deity’s space. Even the slightest anomaly around him would make him flee immediately into the Supreme Deity’s space.
At the same time, Chen Xiao knew clearly that this Thousand Souls Realm was no longer a perfect refuge. He needed to find a new location to communicate with the Supreme Deity’s space.
“Bu Qingchen, you’ve heard what he said. Why do you still protect him? Could there be some treasure on him that makes you covet it?”
Li Mo’s expression suddenly changed.
He suddenly remembered that Chen Xiao was just an abler with a domain-level ability, yet he was able to ambush and kill a peak-level virtual deity right under a deity’s nose in an instant. If there wasn’t some extraordinary treasure on him, no one would believe it.
In the next moment, a glint of fervor flashed in Li Mo’s eyes.
“That old bastard Wan Si only said that protecting the people of the Long family could please that old dragon. But that old dragon has been asleep for who knows how long. If it stays asleep, pleasing it won’t be of any use…”
Li Mo quickly began calculating in his mind.
“Kill this kid and seize the treasures on him!”

Suddenly, Li Mo made a decision in his heart. With a thought, a true world within his divine realm burst forth and enveloped Chen Xiao’s body. But outside Chen Xiao’s body, a cluster of purple light erupted abruptly, and immediately afterward, Chen Xiao’s body, along with Gui Gui, Mu Mu, Shui Yueying, and Ling Yan—the four divine disciples—disappeared into the air. In that space, only 2,800 Virtual God puppets remained, standing quietly in the air.

“Hm?” Li Mo’s expression changed. Within his divine perception, Chen Xiao was nowhere to be seen, not even those Virtual Gods. Li Mo was a god, while Chen Xiao was merely an Aberrant with a Source Realm ability. How could an Aberrant, who hadn’t even reached the level of a cultivator, escape from a god’s sight?

Bu Qingchen seemed to have anticipated this situation; his face showed no surprise. Along the way, he had followed the trace of divine perception left by Chen Xiao to find this place. But once Chen Xiao entered the Main God Space, he completely severed that trace of perception.

“Phew, what a close call. I’m glad I was prepared. Otherwise, if that god had expanded his realm, I would have lost all chance of returning to the Main God Space…” Chen Xiao took a slight breath of relief in the Main God Space. He had been monitoring Li Mo’s movements the whole time. The moment Li Mo raised his hand, Chen Xiao instinctively entered the Main God Space.

“Hm? What is this?” Suddenly, Chen Xiao’s expression changed. He discovered a trace of lingering consciousness on his own body. “Damn it! It’s Bu Qingchen’s consciousness. He really has ulterior motives…” A murderous intent flashed in Chen Xiao’s eyes. With a single grip, he crushed that consciousness to pieces. “If that’s the case, don’t blame me for being ruthless…” With another thought, the puppet made from the corpse of a god, which had remained in the Glory Temple, appeared beside him. He had originally planned to take this god corpse puppet to the Source Continent, but now, with Shang Xie there, one Second-Level Primordial Spirit God was sufficient. That god corpse had been reforged into a true peak-level Virtual God, even containing a trace of true divine laws. Its strength could even surpass that of Xue Ye Can Hua and Long Tianhong. Chen Xiao frowned slightly at Long Tianhong’s corpse. “I can’t refine him yet. If the power of the Primordial Spirit Fire grows further, I might lose control and burn myself out…” With a wave of his hand, he separated the golden Dragon Emperor bloodline from Long Tianhong’s body and held it in his hand. “Hmph, the Dragon family’s bloodline is quite good. If he refines all the Floating Clouds, he can become the emperor of the dragon race, boosting his strength again…” Chen Xiao sneered inwardly. Meanwhile, outside, those 2,800 Virtual God puppets suddenly exploded all at once. At that moment, Bu Qingchen and Li Mo were staring at each other—Li Mo shocked by Chen Xiao’s sudden disappearance, while Bu Qingchen had already realized his trace of divine perception had been destroyed. Boom!

Suddenly, the entire void was filled with a thunderous noise. Almost at the same time, those 2,800 Void God puppets exploded simultaneously!
“What?”
“What’s going on?!”
Li Mo and Bu Qingchen were both shocked to death; their faces turned extremely pale.
The explosive power of these 2,800 vicious spirit puppets was equivalent to that of an actual god exploding.
The 2,800 Void God laws almost converged into one in the air, evolving directly into a single godly law.
And at that very moment, that godly law exploded.