Chapter 209: The Vatican

Those five Virtual Divine Artifacts, along with the true form of Yuanmie, made up six in total, instantly surrounding the body of that six-winged monster.
These six Virtual Divine Artifacts were all manifestations of Yuanmie’s true form, but the other five only possessed the power of the Ninth Realm. Together, they formed a complex array in a hexagonal shape, trapping the six-winged monster inside.
Glimmers of blood-gold veins connected the six Virtual Divine Artifacts, forming a gigantic blood-gold hexagram. The six-winged monster was trapped within this hexagram array.
Each of these six Virtual Divine Artifacts—a sword, an axe, a hammer, a shield, a staff, and a spear—emitted a dazzling blood-red glow. Among them, Yuanmie’s true form served as the core.
That intermediate-level Virtual Divine monster was trapped within this blood-gold hexagram array, unable to move at all. Yet, due to its immense strength, even though it couldn’t move, Yuanmie couldn’t do anything to it either, leaving the two locked in a stalemate.
“How is such a thing possible?”
Chen Xiao’s body was hidden elsewhere. “Could the five Virtual Divine Artifacts consumed by Yuanmie reassemble and come under its control?”
Unconsciously, Chen Xiao raised his hand. The Divine Artifact Snowflakes emerged from his hand, still in the form of falling snowflakes, just like before. But now they were fully integrated with Chen Xiao’s body. Using Snowflakes was like using his own arm.
With a gentle wave of his hand, a snow-white light flashed across the core of Snowflakes, which instantly flew toward the trapped six-winged monster.
Boom…
The power of Snowflakes was closely tied to Chen Xiao’s strength. Although Chen Xiao was currently at the Ninth Realm, the ice-blue power within him—resembling both water and fire—was even stronger than the power of the previous Supreme God. Though it seemed weak at the moment, it was sufficient for Chen Xiao to break through the immortality laws of those at the Third Realm and eliminate even the strongest among them.
And Snowflakes was precisely the final straw that brought it all down.
Boom!
With the addition of Snowflakes, the six-winged monster’s body was instantly frozen into ice. It had already devoted all its strength to resisting the attack of the blood-gold hexagram array, leaving it powerless to defend against Snowflakes.
Not even its true divine form could withstand it—Chen Xiao’s terrifying ice-blue flame already possessed the power to harm divine bodies.
Seeming to see the six-winged monster frozen, the Demon Sword Yuanmie suddenly flew out, its blade unfolding as it swallowed the frozen monster in one gulp.
Soon after, the other five Virtual Divine Artifacts also returned to its body. Yuanmie, seemingly having learned from this experience, eagerly returned to Chen Xiao’s side, emitting a soft hum, as if trying to convey something.
Chen Xiao smiled slightly. Of course, he understood what Yuanmie meant. Likely, in a short while, when the six-winged monster regained its strength, Yuanmie would be overwhelmed again.
Chen Xiao waved his hand, sending Yuanmie back into the Supreme God’s Space. Yuanmie wasn’t Chen Xiao’s disciple; without him, it couldn’t freely enter or leave the Supreme God’s Space.

As the six-winged monster was consumed, this space also changed its appearance, becoming exactly like what it had been in front of Cain’s treasure vault before. A pale golden door tightly sealed that entrance, and instead of a lockhole, there was a cross-shaped indentation above it. “This…” Chen Xiao blinked slightly; it seemed extremely similar to the things associated with the Western Church. “Could it be that the key is in the hands of the Western Church?” Chen Xiao frowned slightly, then suddenly his expression changed as he vanished into the void. A blond man with blue eyes, wearing a cross on his head, appeared there. But this man was not a divine being; he was merely a cultivator at the Domain realm. Yet he was still an extremely powerful cultivator, even stronger than Xuanyuan Po. “Hm? The guardian monster has been killed?” The blond man was slightly stunned upon arriving here, quite surprised. It wasn’t his first time visiting such a treasure vault; clearly, he also had keys to several other vaults and had encountered similar situations before. “But this is even better—it saves me the trouble.” The blond man spoke fluent English, obviously a Westerner from Earth. He raised his hand, and the cross floating above his head turned into a stream of light and was imprinted into the cross-shaped indentation. “Huh? How is that possible?” But the next moment, just as the blond man was about to step in, he froze—because the door he had just opened closed again, and even the golden cross above it disappeared, its whereabouts unknown. The blond man blinked, then started cursing loudly, “Damn it! Which bastard is hiding over here, sneaking in while I was opening the door?” … At that moment, in the passage, Chen Xiao was secretly smiling. He now had a golden cross in his hand, the key to unlocking this treasure vault. At that instant, Yuanmie was still in the Supreme God’s space, absorbing and digesting the corpse of the six-winged monster, so he couldn’t appear right away. That’s why Chen Xiao had hidden beside the door from the start. With his concealment technique, even the Ocean God at the True God level couldn’t detect his presence, let alone that blond man who was only at the Domain realm. So as soon as the door was opened, Chen Xiao rushed in instantly and took the golden cross from above it. “That blond man must be from the Western Church. Although he’s only at the Domain realm, coming all this way means he’s no ordinary figure. It seems the Church is also quite formidable.” Chen Xiao stepped forward, slowly moving deeper into the passage. The flames in this passage were pale golden, seemingly some kind of luminous substance. The murals on the walls depicted battle scenes, with winged creatures as the protagonists—just like the angels depicted by the Western Church. But the scenes were generally the same.

“The Western Church seems to have great influence in the secular world of the West. Even the vampires are tightly suppressed by the Church in Europe…” Chen Xiao thought for a moment. He couldn’t afford to underestimate this Church at all. The fact that they could send someone here just by relying on a cultivator from a certain realm clearly meant they were no ordinary force.
Chen Xiao had no intention of engaging in a fierce battle with that guy.
“Never mind. I’ll just take the treasure hoard of this six-winged guy and relax, seeing where that summoning intent will take me.”
With these thoughts in mind, Chen Xiao quickly headed to the treasure hoard at the end.