Chapter 160: The Power of the Virtual Divine Artifact

In the sky, three powerful beings from different realms formed a triangular formation, surrounding the entire Glory Temple.
One of these three was someone Chen Xiao had met before—Lian Shang, the envoy of the Freedom Temple. As for the other two, with blue clothes and hair, aged faces, and water-based powers that had reached almost their peak, they must be powerful beings from Atlantis.
“Quite fast. It’s only been a day since they joined forces to come after us,” Chen Xiao thought with a cold smirk.
In the Thousand Souls Realm, Ming Lan and Ming Qing had spent an entire day undergoing the thunder tribulation. Chen Xiao hadn’t expected that just a day later, Lian Shang would arrive along with two powerful Atlantis beings.
But even though they had come, Chen Xiao wasn’t worried at all.
“Fuyun, what’s their strength?” Chen Xiao asked, looking at the three in the sky.
“Young master, that guy wearing the green hat is at the fifth level of the realm, having mastered the law of time. As for those two with blue hair, they are at the third level of the realm, mastering the law of immortality,” Fuyun replied.
“Are you sure?” Chen Xiao asked.
“With the help of the Glory Temple, I can defeat them. I can keep those two at the third level of the realm, but as for that guy in the green hat, since he has mastered the law of time and can alter the flow of time within his realm, even with a virtual divine artifact, I can only defeat him, not capture him,” Fuyun said in a gloomy tone.
“Just capture those two mermaids. Hopefully, they know how to cast the spell to restore the Blessing of the Gods,” Chen Xiao smiled.
“Pseudo-Temple below, listen up! Hand over Shang Weiting, or don’t blame me for destroying this temple without hesitation!” Lian Shang shouted toward the Glory Temple.
Lian Shang had indeed found Atlantis, but he wasn’t a fool. He wouldn’t start killing indiscriminately until he understood the situation. Someone sent by a virtual god to this world of supernatural powers surely wasn’t an idiot.
Lian Shang went straight to see the Sea King. With Lian Shang’s tactics and the Sea King’s cunning, both recognized the value in working together, and they quickly reached an agreement.
After some calculation, they realized that this so-called Shang Weiting had serious problems. The Sea King even concluded that the theft from the previous Sea God Temple was also related to forces behind him.
The Atlantis Empire hadn’t appeared on Earth in ten thousand years. Even the oldest myths, after ten thousand years, would decay. The supernatural beings on Earth surely couldn’t recall the name of the Atlantis Empire.
Moreover, when Chen Xiao had used the combined spiritual spell created by the people of Atlantis, “Tidal Wave of Destruction,” it further convinced the Sea King.
As for the two sides joining forces to target the Glory Temple, it was just an excuse. Whether Shang Weiting was from the Glory Temple or not, in the eyes of Lian Shang and Atlantis, he already counted as one of them.
Lian Shang was confident that in this borderland of the world of supernatural powers, with his fifth-level realm power and mastery of the law of time, he was invincible. This mere Glory Temple, though it had shown miracles before, was nothing to him. Lian Shang knew well that gods, even virtual gods, would not appear here.

As for Atlantis, it intended to take this opportunity to expand onto land, strengthen its power, and dominate the world of supernatural abilities. The two sides had no direct conflicts of interest and thus reached an immediate agreement.
“Hand over Shang Weiting and return my Atlantis sacred relics, or don’t blame us if we become ruthless,” said the two domain masters of the Atlantis Empire who had grasped the laws of immortality.
Yet inside the Glory Temple, there was complete silence—no movement at all. From outside, one could even see its believers praying incessantly before the statues. They clearly did not take those three seriously at all.
“Dirty sea reptiles, scurry back into the sea. Land is not your place,” came a supremely frivolous voice from within the temple after a long while.
“And as for you, clown wearing a green hat—your so-called Freedom Temple has been destroyed, yet you still show no sign of the wrath or punishment of the God of Freedom. Clearly, it’s a fake temple. How dare you come here and cause trouble?”
Fuyun suddenly appeared above the temple, dressed in white clothes and with white hair, standing against the wind with an otherworldly aura.
“Are you the leader of this Glory Temple?” asked the two elders from Atlantis coldly, without speaking.
“I am a servant of the Glory God, not some leader,” Fuyun replied, glancing at Lian Shang with a smile. “Hmm, you might be wearing a green hat, but you still have a bit of masculinity. Not bad, not bad.”
Noticing Fuyun’s strange gaze, Lian Shang couldn’t help but shiver slightly and stepped back a bit.
“Shang Weiting—will you hand him over or not?” demanded one of the Atlantis elders in a cold tone. They were certain that the loss of the temple was related to the forces behind Shang Weiting. If they could find him, they would have a clue to recover the temple and the Blessing of the Sea God.
“Shang Weiting? Isn’t he the young man who destroyed the Freedom Temple?” Fuyun still smiled. “He seemed to identify himself as an Atlantean back then. If he’s an Atlantean, why would he come to my Glory Temple to cause trouble?”
As he spoke, Fuyun’s expression gradually darkened.
“Since you’re here, stay all of you.” Without warning, Fuyun suddenly attacked, his domain reaching out toward one of the Atlantis elders.
“Disgraceful! Attacking from behind!”
The other elder cursed and also activated his domain to rescue his companion. But as soon as his domain entered Fuyun’s domain, it lost its effect and vanished.
“Domain Level Four? No wonder you’re so arrogant!”
Lian Shang sneered before striking boldly. In an instant, his domain enveloped Fuyun and the temple beneath him.
“Hmph, the Law of Time? Perfect—I’ll take some fragments of your law to help me master it.”
Seeing Lian Shang’s domain surround him, Fuyun remained calm. He gently formed several seals in the air, and suddenly, the Glory Temple below burst forth with dazzling light. Within that golden light lay an infinite sense of power, along with a faint aura of a virtual god, spreading instantly.

The surrounding space trembled slightly. The domain of Love Sorrow was shattered in an instant, vanishing without a trace. Floating Cloud used the golden light to seize a fragment of that domain.

“Pfft!”

A mouthful of green blood gushed out from Love Sorrow’s mouth as his domain was violently torn apart, dealing severe damage to both his soul and body.

“A False Divine Artifact! Damn it, this temple is a False Divine Artifact!” Love Sorrow screamed, his face filled with fear.

False Divine Artifacts are magical weapons created by False Gods by using their own laws of power. Though not true divine artifacts, the laws of power contained within them are beyond the reach of those at the domain level.

A practitioner at the fourth stage of the domain realm, armed with a False Divine Artifact, can surpass his opponent’s level and harm them. And now, this vast temple beneath Floating Cloud contained the laws of power of not just one False God. Moreover, the entire artifact was under Floating Cloud’s control. Although he couldn’t fully unleash its power yet, it was enough to defeat Love Sorrow.

“Madman! Madman! Which False God sent you? Why would you risk wasting your own laws of power to create such a False Divine Artifact for you?”

Love Sorrow cried out in terror. Once again, his body was enveloped by a small domain. Time around him accelerated sharply, and in almost an instant, he left the battlefield, disappearing without a trace.

What Love Sorrow didn’t know was that the False Gods who created this False Divine Artifact for Floating Cloud weren’t worried about wasting their own laws of power. In the Main God’s space, as his disciples, they could instantly recover from any losses.

As for the two strongmen at the third stage of the domain realm from the Atlantis Empire, they were grabbed by Floating Cloud and pressed to the ground, trapped by his domain.

Floating Cloud’s current strength wasn’t enough to seal the power of those who had mastered the law of immortality.

“Young master, what should we do with them?” Floating Cloud asked Chen Xiao, holding down the two struggling Atlantis warriors.

“Read their soul memories and then erase them. People like these are a threat and an unstable factor if left alive,” Chen Xiao said calmly.

If those two strongmen at the third stage of the domain realm were eliminated, the conflict between the two sides would truly become a never-ending war. But Chen Xiao knew that ever since the Sea King ordered his capture to obtain the so-called protection of the Sea God, his feud with Atlantis had already begun.

Hearing Chen Xiao’s words, Floating Cloud nodded in agreement, then instantly crushed the two men’s heads, exposing their souls.

But the next moment, their shattered heads began to reassemble. Practitioners who had mastered the law of immortality could regenerate even if torn into ten thousand pieces—as long as their souls remained, they could grow back together. Their life force might be severely damaged, but they couldn’t truly die.

“False Divine Artifact, law refinement—break it!”

Floating Cloud took out the long sword, a False Divine Artifact crafted for him by Nest Trace, and activated it. He made two quick strikes in the void, breaking the law of immortality of those two elders.

At present, Floating Cloud’s strength is only slightly greater than that of these two elders. He can use the laws of space to suppress or even kill them, but it is very difficult for him to break through their laws of immortality and access their soul memories. Only by using a virtual divine artifact to break through the protective laws can he read their soul memories, and once their laws of immortality are broken, the two elders die immediately. Floating Cloud opened his mouth and devoured the souls of these two elders. In an instant, all of their memories flashed through Floating Cloud’s mind.