Beyond the Timescape - Chapter 1225: Bimo Si, God of Pain

Chapter 1225: Bimo Si, God of Pain

Meanwhile, inside the Heavenless Zone, as the god prison trembled, and the aura of a god proliferated… numerous streams of immortal will were converging in the starry sky from all directions, and none but immortals could sense them. They were patrolling immortals from the Nineshores and Spiritlight heavens beyond heaven! They had sensed the disturbance, and had come to reestablish order.

However, the moment their immortal wills took shape… a calm voice spoke to them.

“Let him try. And let those of this generation experience what a True God is like.”

The streams of immortal will replied in a shaky voice.

“We shall follow the Nineshores Immortal Decree.”

***

Thanks to the godly aura, the Heavenless Zone was shaking violently.

Everyone was backing away from the prison and putting up their defenses, including the two wardens, Sir Star Ring, and everyone else. It was the same with the kelp plant. They knew full well that they weren’t facing an ordinary god right now. This was… a returning True God!

True Gods were equivalent to Lower Immortals! In fact, in their gruish nature, they were more astonishing than Lower Immortals! After all, the gods were the former rulers of this higher star ring, and as a result, they could naturally absorb ringsource. That meant that they were much better adapted to exist in higher star rings than cultivators! Furthermore, they were eternally indestructible. Thus, when cultivators faced a True God, it was only natural that they would experience incredible pressure weighing down on them.

Everyone present knew that, taking in the Fifth Star Ring as a whole, the return of one True God wasn’t very consequential. It wouldn’t take much effort in the grand scheme of things to deal with such a True God. In fact, the Immortal Lords wouldn’t even need to take action. They could just issue a decree to have Lower Immortals deal with the situation.

But… to personally witness the awakening of such a god, and directly feel the terrifying aura that came along with it, was still a monumental thing.

The terrifying fluctuations distorted the soul, and caused everyone present to tremble to the core of their being. Everyone was backing away as quickly as possible.

With the exception of Xu Qing! In fact, he wasn’t just refusing to back down. Instead, his battle prowess was raging, and his cold eyes were fixed directly on the statue of the spider….

He lifted his hand, and his energy erupted. The iron skewer had been powering up, and now it glittered brightly. At the same time, all of the layers of space-time around him thrummed, and the immortal embryo behind him shone dazzlingly. He was going to try to slaughter a god!

Even as he took action, the huge spider statue shook violently! The will of awakening was exploding! Golden light shone off the eight limbs as the spider statue started moving.

Golden light was the hallmark of the gods, and as it shone, the spider placed its legs in front of it like a shield. It was a shimmering screen of gold! Behind that shield, and behind the spider legs, the statue’s eyes opened. They emanated cold apathy, and even stronger golden light, which spread through the starry sky like a sea.

The godly aura grew stronger. The chanting grew louder.

The name Bimo Si became deafening. Hē was quickly returning!

At the same time, Xu Qing dropped his hand down.

The iron skewer shot forth, piercing through the starry sky, its immortal light shimmering, all while unleashing terrifying fluctuations. This was a weapon that had been created by a Lower Immortal, and it brimmed with Xu Qing’s Quasi-Immortal power! The attack also included his canon! And it was backed by the might of the Aurora Immortal Palace and the associated heaven beyond heaven! Furthermore, it contained heaven’s principle!

Whether in terms of the materials it was constructed with or the power that filled it, the iron skewer was a superior product. Where it passed, the void shattered, and the starry sky filled with a succession of black holes. It was so sharp that it could conquer every obstacle!

In short order, it appeared right in front of the golden screen protecting the spider. It stabbed into it! An intense rumbling sound spread out!

But… it wasn’t able to pierce all the way through. It was blocked by the golden light. The statue was the desiccated corpse of a True God, and was essentially a carrier. This True God was not asleep any longer, but was in the process of returning. As such, it was no surprise that the golden shield hē generated was terrifying. In fact, not only did the iron skewer fail to pierce through the golden light, but actually, the golden light seemed like it wanted to devour it.

However, that was when a bell tolled.

As Xu Qing began moving forward, he took out a bell that contained a scrap of will from a God Lord. Its tolling caused the starry sky to shake. Cultivators and gods could both be affected by the sound of that bell. To varying degrees, their internal functions all slowed down.

It also affected the golden light! It suddenly seemed to stagnate.

The might of the iron skewer intensified, and it pushed forward with mountain-toppling, sea-draining force, and a will of destruction. Pushing all the way through the golden light, it shot toward the forehead of the statue.

It moved with incredibly explosive speed and stabbed into the forehead! The spider statue trembled….

The cultivators off in the distance watched, their minds and hearts trembling, as cracks appeared on the spider statue.

And then… it exploded violently.

That said, nobody relaxed. After the statue exploded, the aura of a god didn’t disappear. The sensation of a return was still present, and the chanting still echoed in the area. It was as if what had exploded was only the surface-level veneer of the returning True God.

A terrifying power suddenly arrived from the void. As it passed, the starry sky trembled, and all living beings writhed. It was the power of a god! It was pure power, like a starry sea, something that surpassed heavenly might. As it swept along, the godly chanting grew louder, and then… the entire region began to fold like a piece of paper.

However, the senses of the cultivators told them that the folding wasn’t taking place in this starry sky. It was as if space in this area had two different levels.

The first level was where all the living beings existed, while the second level contained only the crumbled statue. What was folding was in that separate, higher level! In other words, it didn’t affect any of the living beings present, only the rubble of the statue. It didn’t involve a single fold. In the shortest of moments, there were innumerable folds.

Then the rubble of the statue disappeared. The godly aura from moments ago, along with the power of return and the chanting, all disappeared. The folds went away.

It was as if nothing had just happened. The starry sky went calm. Everyone looked around in shock. It was too gruish, to the point where everyone had to wonder whether or not a Lower Immortal had suddenly arrived and put an end to the return of the True God.

But it didn’t take long before people realized that something else was happening.

No, that’s not it. The god. Īts fleeing!

Considering that Xu Qing was in the thick of things, he realized it before everyone else. Almost as soon as the folding began, the layers of space from his canon of parallelism began to descend. Using space-time canon and the power of overlapping universes, he suppressed everything in the area.

As a result, time went backward in this part of the starry sky, and then… all of the Xu Qings in the various space-times performed incantation gestures and tapped into their canon.

Things were… reversing! The folds were unfolding! However many folds had occurred, that many unfoldings were occurring!

To the sense of the onlookers, it was as if everything was flowing backward. The godly aura that had disappeared came back. It was once again possible to hear the godly chanting.

The power of return came back! The rubble of the statue… was visible again!

However, its appearance had changed. It was no longer the same substance the statue had been made of. Instead, the rubble took the shape of numerous white balls. They looked like flesh with white fur on it. However, the fur was so long that it was more like white hair, and as the hair swayed, it almost looked like tentacles spreading out.

All pieces of the rubble were like that. Each ball of hair emanated a soul-piercing sensation that inflicted bitter pain onto all non-gods.

Xu Qing’s face was pale as even his soul was affected. But then his immortal embryo stepped forward, enveloping him. And it grew even larger as it reached out with its hand. That hand was like an entire starry sky!

An immense buildup of power existed in that hand as it slammed down! It was a vicious slap!

Inside the immortal embryo, the foundational Aurora Immortal Palace glittered brightly. The light it emanated filled the entire immortal embryo, making it incomparably holy. The immortal embryo’s hand was similarly majestic.

As the hand slapped down, it filled the void and blocked everything. All of the remnants of the statue with the floating white hair suddenly stopped in place.

This was not just the hand of an immortal embryo, this was the crushing power of the Aurora Immortal Palace!

The hand fell.

That was when strange things happened. The various streams of hair swaying around the statue rubble suddenly stretched out and connected to each other.

A huge spider web formed in the middle of the starry sky, right beneath the hand of Xu Qing’s immortal embryo. The spider web was astonishing. It filled the starry sky, and was made of white hair!

Every point of intersection was a piece of rubble from the statue. Except, the rubble had changed. Now, each piece was a severed head with an anguished expression on it! They were the heads of men and women, old and young, cultivators and gods. They were all of the victims slaughtered by this True God. All living beings hē had cut down had been unable to flee in soul form. Hē had come to control them for all eternity, as they had become part of hīm!

And now they had emerged to block the hand of Xu Qing’s immortal embryo.

When the two made contact, there was no rumbling boom. Instead, there was a sensation of resonance that swept through the starry sky like a tempest. Where the tempest passed, planets crumbled, and asteroids were rendered into dust.

There was also a powerful backlash. As a result, the hand of Xu Qing’s immortal embryo was pushed back, and it even looked like it might collapse.

All of the onlookers seemed astonished.

Blood sprayed out of Xu Qing’s mouth, and his gaze became razor-sharp. In his view, the gruish and majestic spider web was almost completely golden! And he could tell that when it was indeed completely golden, the return would be complete.

I’ve already unleashed my strongest level of power, but I still can’t stop this thing from returning. And this is a weakened True God….

Xu Qing looked on silently. He was aware that Yu Liuchen had been dealing with a True God that hadn’t actually returned. Clearly, this situation right now was very different. He knew full well that even if he gave up right now, it wouldn’t change anything.

Even if this True God really did come back, it wouldn’t be some major event in the Fifth Star Ring. It seemed entirely likely that Lower Immortals had already been dispatched to deal with the situation. In fact, he got the feeling there were already Lower Immortals in the vicinity!

However, the fact that they hadn’t taken action yet…. Well, it meant he might be able to get some more ringsource! If he could suppress this True God in the process of returning, then he could continue to extract ringsource. Maybe he could even build up a big stockpile for future use.

Having reached the conclusion that this was definitely the best idea, Xu Qing’s eyes glittered.

I still have something to try!

He released the full power of his ringsource. Immortal energy surged, bolstering his immortal embryo, and causing the rebuffed hand to grow stronger and bigger. Tapping into the power of his authority, he catalyzed the Aurora Immortal Palace. It filled the immortal embryo, causing the hand in the starry sky to reach ten times its previous size. It was astonishingly majestic. Once again, it descended!

This time, it was not a slap. The five fingers were splayed, like columns in the starry sky. And the hand reached out to grab the spider web!

The moment the hand touched the spider web, blood sprayed out of Xu Qing’s mouth from the backlash. The hand seemed like it might collapse at any moment, and the effect actually spread to the entire immortal embryo.

Yet there was a crazy look in Xu Qing’s eyes. His immortal embryo was in chaos, but it was still being powered by the Aurora Immortal Palace. Immortal light shone dazzlingly from the palace, becoming a sea of brightness that stabilized all the weakened parts and cast brilliance into the surrounding starry sky.

Xu Qing was fully tapping into the power of the Aurora heaven beyond heaven. It turned into… an unprecedented long-range teleportation! And the range encompassed the entire surrounding galaxy!

Astonishingly, he was turning this place into a battlefield on which to battle the True God! He was taking the carrier body of the True God and teleporting it into his own heaven beyond heaven. Once there, he could use the entire might of the heaven beyond heaven to suppress the returning True God!

The power of teleportation surged. Deafening rumbling sounds echoed out, covering everything. And then Xu Qing, the immortal embryo, the hand, and the spider web all disappeared!

***

Meanwhile, in the Heavenless Zone, the immortal wills that could be detected by only immortals, were all shaken. Then they shifted their focus to look at… what had once been the Aurora heaven beyond heaven!

***

In the Nineshores heaven beyond heaven, in the very middle of the Nineshores Immortal Palace, amidst countless structures, was the Nineshores Immortal Tower, which rose high above all else. Standing there was an incredibly majestic figure. He wore a robe of blue and had his hands clasped behind his back as he looked off into the distance.

“Bimo Si was known far and wide in the Fifth Star Ring as the god of pain, with godly authority that could inflict extreme pain on all souls and convert it into personal power. The Immortal Paragon once said that this god’s illusion was only partly false. Some of it contained truth! Well, Xu Qing. I’ve given you an opportunity. Will you seize it and turn it into good fortune?”