Chapter 243: Defying Heaven
Relying on the power of the Chaotic Supreme God within him, Chen Xiao boldly continued flying upward through the clouds. At the same time, his mind was tightly connected to the Supreme God’s realm.
“So, those gray mists in the world of supernatural abilities come from above… But where do those gray gases of death originate?”
Chen Xiao’s curiosity grew stronger. The thick clouds formed by these deadly gases were unbeknownst how deep—even after flying at his current speed for three hours, he still hadn’t reached the end. The deadly gases around him grew denser, and the purple power of the Chaotic Supreme God within Chen Xiao was being consumed faster and faster.
Yet in his mental sea, the celestial map and the Supreme God essence continuously released chaotic energy. The power of the Supreme God and this chaotic energy merged, forming the purple Chaotic Supreme God power that strengthened Chen Xiao’s body.
A faint purple aura surrounded Chen Xiao’s body, firmly blocking the deadly gases from approaching. It was precisely because of this strange purple Chaotic Supreme God power that he could counter these deadly gases. If it were another Void God, they would likely be instantly assimilated by the pervasive deadly gases and turn into monstrous beings.
“Damn it! Is this place a world of death? Even the netherworld doesn’t have such terrifying deadly gases!”
Chen Xiao’s body instantly turned into a faint trail. With the aid of the purple Chaotic Supreme God power, his speed soared as he rushed upward at incredible velocity.
Boom!
Suddenly, the entire cloud layer trembled slightly. A black deadly beast leaped down from above, its massive claws reaching out to grab the trail of Chen Xiao’s body.
Chen Xiao smirked coldly. His body moved according to some strange pattern, effortlessly avoiding the beast’s attack.
“A monstrous beast at the seventh level of the Domain realm…” Without pause, Chen Xiao accelerated again, with the world energy of the purple world’s phantom also strengthening his body.
In an instant, his explosive power surged, and his trail turned into a faint purple streak that pierced through the clouds of deadly gases. In fact, only a monster like Chen Xiao, possessing the power of a Supreme God within his body, could reach the top of these clouds unharmed.
Throughout the history of the world of supernatural abilities, countless supernatural beings, cultivators, and even Void Gods had tried to explore this place, but undoubtedly, they all failed—some disappearing without a trace, never to reappear in that world again.
“This is…”
When Chen Xiao reached the top of the clouds, he was utterly stunned. Above lay a golden world, with warm golden light spreading throughout the space. He looked up and saw a sun of unknown size floating silently in the sky. But this sun seemed dead, merely emitting light and heat without any sign of life. Yes, it was a lifeless, giant sun.
In this golden space, countless corpses floated densely. These corpses took human, beast, bird forms, and even many forms of life that Chen Xiao had never seen before. But in Chen Xiao’s eyes, they all shared one characteristic: they were enormous, incredibly huge. Each of these corpses was tens of thousands of meters tall, resembling mountains floating in space. The largest one was so vast that Chen Xiao couldn’t even make out its specific shape or features—it was like a real mountain. All of these corpses were black, emitting a thick aura of death, which gradually converged into a massive layer of deathly mist spreading below.
“It’s terrifying… What kind of creatures are these? Are they the corpses of gods?” Chen Xiao quickly approached a relatively smaller corpse, yet even this one was tens of thousands of meters long. When he flew to its base, he was nothing but an ant, an existence even smaller than an ant. As he flew up to its forehead, the face of this goddess appeared before his eyes. It was the corpse of a goddess, but her features had turned black, making it impossible to discern her exact appearance.
“It’s not damaged at all. Could her divine essence still be inside?” Chen Xiao noticed that her forehead wasn’t pierced with a large hole as he had imagined—her divine essence hadn’t been taken out. Instead, her head was intact, with no signs of damage. However, her eyes were wide open, now turned into black orbs, seemingly conveying some unimaginable message.
With the help of the primordial spiritual fire from his dantian, Chen Xiao sent his mental energy toward the corpse. Instantly, the black deathly mist emanating from the corpse was burned away by the icy blue flames. But this was merely burning—it left nothing behind, unlike when it burned other energies, which it would assimilate. It seemed this deathly mist was nothing but waste energy.
With the aid of the icy blue flames, Chen Xiao felt slightly reassured. His mental energy surged forward, penetrating deep into the body of this goddess.
“So that’s how it is…” A look of fear appeared on Chen Xiao’s face. This goddess’s body was undoubtedly dead and even beginning to rot—only the decay of a god’s corpse could produce such a terrifying aura of death. Yet what shocked Chen Xiao was that there was no sign of damage in her corpse at all. In other words, he couldn’t detect the cause of her death. But the next moment, as his mental energy penetrated her mind, he grabbed seven fragments of black crystals with one hand.
“So her divine essence was simply shattered…” Chen Xiao swallowed hard. He didn’t know how hard divine essences could be, but he understood that even in the Main God’s space, using the laws of the Main God, he wouldn’t be able to shatter even the weakest true god’s divine essence. Yet these seven fragments in his hand were clearly from higher-ranking gods, their divine essences having been forcibly shattered.
Not only that, but that terrifying existence merely shattered her divine essence without harming her physical body—this was what was most frightening.
“What kind of existence could it be? Or perhaps it was a war among other gods that led to their downfall?”
Chen Xiao looked around. The corpses he saw numbered well over ten thousand, filling this golden space.
This world of supernatural powers was boundless; no one with supernatural abilities or cultivators had ever explored its limits. So if these corpses covered the skies of this world, what an terrifying number that would be.
“Well, so every day above our heads, there’s such a pile of corpses…”
Chen Xiao couldn’t help but sigh bitterly. With a wave of his hand, he sent the corpse of this goddess into the Main God’s Space.
“Guigui, Mumu, do you two have any way to turn her into a puppet?” Immediately after, Chen Xiao’s body also entered the Main God’s Space.
As soon as the goddess’s corpse entered the Main God’s Space, it was suppressed by the laws of the Main God within, and the aura of death all over her body vanished instantly.
“This…” Mumu examined the corpse thoroughly, closed her eyes to sense it, and then shook her head. “Young master, this corpse has been dead for too long. All the laws of divinity within her have disappeared, even her divine power has vanished. If we want to turn her into a puppet, we don’t have the strength. We’d have to seek help from those senior divine attendants in the intermediate worlds.”
Divine attendants were responsible for guarding the intermediate worlds within the Main God’s Space. Each of them possessed the power of nine layers of primordial divine spirits. But right now, Chen Xiao’s strength wasn’t enough to summon such terrifying beings.
Moreover, he hadn’t fully unlocked even the lower worlds within the Main God’s Space. To unlock the intermediate worlds, he would need to reach the realm of Virtual God first.
“Can’t turn her into a puppet?”
Chen Xiao thought for a while before shaking his head. With another wave of his hand, he sent the corpse away again.
Returning to the outside world, Chen Xiao gazed at the countless massive corpses of gods and couldn’t help but feel emotional.
Gods once stood high above, worshipped by billions of beings, looking down upon all life. But now they lay here, forgotten, leaving only these terrifying auras of death.
“Will I end up like this too?”
Chen Xiao quietly stared at the corpses of these gods and slowly exhaled. “Maybe… But even if I end up forgotten after death, I still want to prove to this world that I was here.”
Two purple glows flashed in Chen Xiao’s eyes.
“Hm? What’s that?”
Suddenly, Chen Xiao’s mind stirred. Dozens of miles away, on the forehead of a god’s corpse, there was a gleaming weapon stuck in it.
Chen Xiao was momentarily stunned, then quickly moved forward.
This god’s corpse stood tall in the sky, over a hundred thousand meters long, with its arms outstretched as if roaring at the heavens. On its forehead was a gleaming weapon—neither a sword nor a knife, seemingly made entirely of light.
Chen Xiao’s heart trembled repeatedly. Even though the Supreme God’s essence protected his mind now, his entire body still couldn’t help but shake. That enormous deity had clearly been killed by that sharp weapon—a single fatal strike! But how many years had passed? Even the deity’s corpse had begun to rot, and its divine laws had vanished, yet that weapon still emitted a chilling glint. Chen Xiao took a deep breath and reached out with one hand, grabbing straight for the weapon. Buzz! It seemed as if the weapon had its own life—emitting a faint groan as its entire body turned into a streak of light and rushed toward Chen Xiao. Chen Xiao’s pupils contracted, and instinctively, his body flashed as he entered the Supreme God’s space. Whoosh! But almost simultaneously, the weapon also entered the Supreme God’s space. “How is this possible?!” Chen Xiao was shocked. He stretched out his hand, and the laws of the Supreme God’s space quickly condensed into a massive hand of light, reaching out to grab the weapon. Yet the weapon suddenly changed direction and moved in a strange manner, easily avoiding the laws of the Supreme God’s space before continuing toward Chen Xiao’s body. “Is this… the trajectory of the Primordial Spirit Fire?” Chen Xiao frowned. The next moment, he reached out, and the Primordial Spirit Fire from deep within his dantian surged forth, heading straight for the weapon transformed into light. This Primordial Spirit Fire was extremely peculiar. Although Chen Xiao’s strength in the Supreme God’s space was nearly equal to that of the Supreme God, the power of this fire didn’t increase—it remained a small, thumb-sized flame. But here, it gained more fuel, even burning the laws of the Supreme God’s space to fuel itself. Whoosh! In an instant, the Primordial Spirit Fire enveloped and burned the unknown weapon. No matter how hard the weapon struggled, it couldn’t break free. Boom! Suddenly, the weapon exploded into fragments that flew everywhere, but the Primordial Spirit Fire also dispersed, forming trails that surrounded and absorbed those fragments. After what seemed like a long time, the Primordial Spirit Fire began to reassemble, forming a thumb-sized ice-blue flame that flew back into Chen Xiao’s dantian. Chen Xiao’s spirit jolted as he clearly felt a strange force merging with his body, just like when he had merged with Snowflakes Drifting. “Is this… Qi Tian Kuo?” Chen Xiao raised his hand, and a peculiar weapon that resembled neither a knife nor a sword appeared in his hand. This weapon had only one main body, without a hilt. Sharp. Qi Tian Kuo gave Chen Xiao the impression of being merely sharp, lacking the diverse and infinite uses of Snowflakes Drifting. Yet, relying solely on its sharpness, Qi Tian Kuo seemed capable of cutting through anything, its power far exceeding that of Snowflakes Drifting.
And more importantly, this Qi Tian Jue seemed to possess a trace of that trajectory’s power; Chen Xiao could even use his primordial spiritual fire to enhance this weapon.
“I wonder what grade of divine artifact this Qi Tian Jue is…”
Chen Xiao stared at it for a long time before retracting it into his body.
“Hmm, my body has merged with this thing…”
Chen Xiao raised his hand, and a bright light shot out from his fingertips, instantly penetrating an asteroid flying along a fixed trajectory, over a thousand meters away.
Yet, the asteroid seemed unharmed and hadn’t suffered any damage at all. It took more than a dozen breaths before it finally split into two and shattered.