He achieved the God King realm through the unification of his three natures!
As the Golden Gate was shattered by Yu Lich, the lower realm was connected to the Divine Realm. The power of stars from the lower realm surged upwards. He Li, borrowing the last vestiges of the Yan Li's bloodlust and the surging stellar power, underwent a baptism through the sea of stars and broke through to ascend as a God King.
At this moment,
The entire universe's He Yu realm turned towards the Divine Realm. Each being's expression was solemn, as they bore witness to the birth of a king.
"This... He Li has become a God King!" Xia Hu Chu and the other God Lords were shocked, but more so, they were excited. Earlier, they had been somewhat worried. Their original plan was to destroy the Divine Realm, but they hadn't expected He Li to appear. Even if He Li was invincible among God Lords, facing a God King, he would still be no match.
Now, witnessing He Li's ascension to God King, they all felt relieved and rejoiced for their own future and that of their kin.
Indeed, just as Chen Du had told He Li, people gathered together, regardless of their beliefs, they would always have a certain purpose they wished to achieve.
And the person they followed was merely a tool to achieve that purpose.
Of course, they were also willing to sacrifice their lives in the process of achieving it, for that was the price of achieving their goals.
He Li stood there, his eyes seemingly containing the entire universe's starry river, profound and brilliant. Wisps of Star God Power coiled around him like wisps of cloud and mist.
The God King's expression instantly turned grave. He Li's ascension was too sudden. After the roar of the Golden Gate, He Li ascended at the same moment, so quickly that the God King couldn't intervene immediately.
In the God King realm, he truly had the possibility of defeating, even killing himself.
The God King's gaze flickered, and then a long sword appeared before him, shimmering with divine light. The sword trembled, began to spin, and the surrounding air became sharp due to its presence.
He Li ignored it. He felt the changes in his body and suddenly laughed. It was a ferocious laugh, filled with killing intent. Yes, he had gained the power to kill a God King. The Law of Time had also evolved again, as if he now controlled the entire universe, with the vast river of time spanning eternity lying beneath his feet.
The myriad stars evolved in his palm; his breath was the breath of the entire era, and his will transcended this era.
*Buzz!*
The long sword in the God King's hand emitted a faint hum and shot out, piercing directly towards He Li.
He Li did not dodge. He allowed the long sword to pass through his brow. Like an illusion, his figure rippled, and the long sword pierced through his brow, flying out of the shattered divine power barrier and heading into deeper void.
On the central battlefield, the God Clan army was collecting the divine nature of fallen Heavenly Gods. The next moment, they all looked north. A beam of light streaked from the depths of the universe, as if piercing through time and space. It swept over the battlefield, flashed, and vanished into the void.
The next moment,
*Crack... crackle...*
*Bang!*
The sky above the battlefield cracked like glass and then exploded. The long sword struck a golden cauldron. The cauldron and the sword remained locked for a moment before the sword neatly sliced it in half. From the split cauldron emerged a man in a black robe. He didn't even glance at the long sword but looked north, towards the Divine Realm, in surprise.
He murmured in astonishment, "He actually ascended to God King!"
Immediately after,
The liberated Desolate King stepped forward and vanished into the void.
In the Divine Realm,
The God King's figure retreated, standing atop the God King Palace. Below, the Seeing God Mountain, guided by the God King's divine power, reassembled piece by piece, forming a mountain again. The God King Palace also descended from the clouds, creating ripples of divine power in the air. He Li paid no attention to this. Instead, he looked at Xia Hu Chu and the other God Lords and said, "Take the clan leaders and leave to rendezvous with Yu Lich, then retreat to the central battlefield."
"Understood!"
Xia Hu Chu did not hesitate. He enveloped Xia Bailin with his divine power and leaped away, vanishing in an instant beyond the shattered divine power barrier. The remaining God Lords followed closely, including those standing behind the God King. He Li paid them no mind; the battle among God Lords was not here, and besides, they could not escape.
Before leaving, Seth, the clan leader of the Mu Kui Star Clan, stood at the edge of his fallen clan realm, looking back at his homeland with reluctance.
"I will give you a better one."
He Li's voice entered Seth's ears. Seth looked up at He Li's retreating back in surprise, curved his lips into a faint smile, and turned to leave.
He Li lowered his head and softly said, "You should go too." As his voice fell, a ball of light floated out of the damaged God Clan realm. Within the light was Qing Yuan, tears streaming down her face.
He Li dared not look at Qing Yuan, filled with guilt. With a wave of his hand, the ball of light vanished into the void, heading for the central battlefield and appearing within Huai Xi's stone tower.
After completing all this, He Li finally turned his gaze back to the God King.
At this moment, the God King had revealed his true God King form. He stood atop the clouds, one hand supporting the Seeing God Mountain, the other holding the God King Palace, while the heavens behind him churned with divine power.
He did not immediately attack He Li, nor did He Li make any move.
And at this very moment, a corner of the divine power barrier on the other side was violently shattered. Thus, the divine power barrier of the entire Divine Realm completely disappeared. From a distance, the Divine Realm resembled a celestial palace suspended in a brilliant river of stars, radiating divine light.
The Desolate King arrived. He first glanced at the God King supporting the Seeing God Mountain and the God King Palace, then at He Li, who held a blood-red great saber in one hand and a gleaming long saber in the other. He remained silent.
He Li had already ascended to God King. Further words were useless.
No one had expected that He Li, who was on the verge of death, would actually ascend to God King. All of this could be attributed to one man's final scheme, which led Yu Lich to shatter the Golden Gate. Regardless of the reason, He Li had used this power to ascend to God King.
He Li's current standing as a God King, facing the two kings, was all thanks to Chen Du's step-by-step calculations. He had kept his word. He personally supported He Li's arm and helped him onto the divine throne that symbolized power and authority.
The Desolate King no longer waited. The current situation demanded only battle. He ascended higher and higher, clasped his hands together, and eight colossal battle flags appeared behind him. The surging Desolate God Power occupied half of the Divine Realm and crashed down towards He Li.
The God King also attacked. The Seeing God Mountain emanated endless divine power and slammed towards He Li.
He Li slowly exhaled, sheathed his saber, and then extended his hand, opening his palm. Facing the crashing Seeing God Mountain, he softly chanted as if issuing a command:
"Retrograde."
The Seeing God Mountain suddenly halted and then disintegrated piece by piece in the air, just like the other side that had formed earlier. Time on the Seeing God Mountain reversed. Not only that, but the disintegrating stones did not fall. Instead, they floated in the air. The power of time had not vanished. The stones reversed again, transforming back into the Seeing God Mountain before Xia Hu Chu had shattered it. Finally, they shrunk bit by bit until they became a single grain of sand and disappeared into the universe.
This was not a realm achievable by divine power; it was true time. Time on the Seeing God Mountain reversed, causing it to retrograde for billions of years until it turned into nothingness, as if it had never existed.
The evolution of the Seeing God Mountain happened in an instant, leaving the God King and the Desolate King stunned, shocked, and disbelieving.
He Li then slashed his saber horizontally across the surging tide of Desolate God Power, directly scattering the attacking Desolate God Power.
"In the battles of gods on Earth, there's a saying: 'The war of gods ends only in death.'"
He Li reassembled the golden cauldron that had been split by the God King's sword and placed it in the sky, imbuing it with God King power and the Law of Time. It enveloped the entire Divine Realm. Now, the Divine Realm was like a death cage, a bloody arena.
He Li looked at the God King and the Desolate King. He said softly, "The battle of God Kings is the same. You cannot leave. This slaughter can only end with death."
He smiled silently, his calm eyes filled with violent killing intent.
"Come, it's time to settle the score."
He Li raised his saber and charged towards the God King, unleashing a world-shattering saber strike that heavily impacted the God King Palace. The God King Palace roared and, in its final moments of precariousness, bounced He Li away. The God King did not miss the opportunity and pursued the retreating He Li, launching a fierce assault.
Dozens of halos of divine power, like dragons and serpents, lunged at He Li.
He Li stood firm, switching the great saber to his left hand and clenching his right fist. He punched towards the dozens of divine lights.
*Boom!!!*
The divine lights shattered, scattering a rain of light.
Amidst the light rain, the Desolate King flickered like a ghost, appearing beside He Li and striking towards the back of his neck with a bone saber. It was a very thin, narrow, and slightly curved bone saber.
He Li calmly placed the great saber vertically behind his back, blocking the Desolate King's strike.
*Clang!*
He Li seized an opportunity, grabbed the Desolate King by the neck, and rammed his shoulder into his chest before throwing him forward. The Desolate King's body streaked through the turbulent air, sliding rapidly. He Li pursued closely, gathering strength to unleash a saber strike.
Layer upon layer of divine power barriers appeared on the Desolate King.
*Boom!!!*
The divine power barriers were shattered, and the Desolate King seized the opening to escape He Li's saber.
He Li looked up and released his Star God Power, forming myriad threads that forcefully pulled down the God King, who intended to join the fray and surround He Li. The great saber rang out, and with a single strike, it sent the God King flying back a hundred zhang.
He Li's offensive was continuous and thunderous. As God Kings themselves, their divine power was no less than his. The Divine Realm gradually collapsed under the collision of divine power, star god power, and desolate god power.
The Divine Realm, suspended in the river of stars, was like a floating island. Countless fragments fell. Above, a golden cauldron emitted golden and white divine light, maintaining the last terrestrial boundaries of the Divine Realm.
He Li shouldered the great saber and looked up at the two kings who had ruled the new divine era for billions of years. He grinned, shrugged his shoulders, and the Corrupt Blood Forest Great Saber shed its white light, once again emitting a blood-red glow from within. He held the saber in one hand, its tip pointing at the God King and the Desolate King, grinning without a word.
*Boom!*
A golden bell flew out from behind He Li and spun in the air. The divine power and desolate god power around the golden bell continuously exploded, and star god power overflowed, spreading outwards like monstrous tentacles.
The Desolate King said coldly, "It's useless. Even with three divine artifacts, you cannot truly kill us. Since you are already in the God King realm, you should know that the God King realm is incorruptible, immortal, and indestructible."
The Desolate King's indifference was ingrained. He seemed genuinely unconcerned about his potential failure. The immortal and indestructible God King realm made him disregard He Li's power and killing intent.
The God King gazed at He Li, recalling the scene of them destroying the Primordial Era. They had exiled the Primordial True Gods whose bodies had been severed. The wheel of time turns, and would he today suffer the same fate, his body severed, leaving only an indestructible spirit to slumber in the river of time, to be worn away over billions of years, awaiting the dawn of a new era?
Even so, those Primordial True Gods who awoke from the river of time were all annihilated by Xia Keduo upon their awakening.
How could he escape?
A trace of sadness arose in the God King's heart. Suddenly, he was startled. How could a flaw appear in his state of mind? He immediately suppressed it.
But this momentary change caused the Desolate King to change color, and he looked at the God King with a grave expression.
Evidently, He Li had also captured the God King's momentary change. After a brief pause, he grinned and said, "Shattering the Seeing God Mountain was truly a brilliant move, perhaps the most crucial move in the entire plan. God King, has your humanity also appeared? You are beginning to waver."
He Li felt a sense of revenge. The three natures of a god, when unified, were required to ascend to God King. Yet, the God King had erected the Seeing God Mountain, suppressing the humanity of the Heavenly Gods. From then on, there would be no god in the Divine Realm who could unify the three natures, and no one could ascend to God King. In the end, their cultivation could only be stuck at the peak of the He Yu realm.
No wonder they were so wary of him, not just because of his identity, but because he was a god of humanity, not suppressed by the Seeing God Mountain.
Combined with his identity as a member of the Primordial Yan Clan, he had a high probability of ascending to the God King realm.
He erected the Seeing God Mountain to suppress the humanity of the gods, and in the end, he himself displayed the sorrowful emotion that only humanity could possess.
Ridiculous, truly ridiculous.
He Li seized the opportunity and attacked first. The blood-red great saber radiated a blood-red glow, exuding bloodlust, and unleashed a bloody-red radiance in front of the God King and the Desolate King, like a blood mist spreading.
The God King punched through the blood-red mist, breaking through He Li's attacking Star God Power. Then, the God King Palace in the sky slammed down, directly crashing towards He Li.
He Li was unhurried and did not dodge. He charged directly at the God King. The golden bell behind him flew towards the God King Palace, collided with it in the air, then pushed the God King Palace aside, and then struck towards the eight Arid Clan battle flags standing higher up.
As He Li ascended to God King, his divine power became even stronger. The golden bell and the golden cauldron seemed to have no upper limit and also became stronger.
The Corrupt Blood Forest Great Saber continued its relentless assault, directly cleaving through the God King's protective divine light, its blade cutting into the God King's shoulder.
The God King grabbed the great saber on his shoulder with his left hand and raised his right fist, smashing it towards He Li's head. This punch, imbued with the God King's rage, was bound to heavily injure He Li.
He Li could not withdraw his saber. Seeing the God King's devastating blow about to strike him, he had no choice but to abandon his saber and lean backward. However, at the moment he abandoned his saber, the Desolate King's bone saber also arrived, slanting towards He Li's neck.
The divine powers around them intertwined, collided, rubbed, and then canceled each other out.
He Li could not twist to dodge. He kicked the God King in the abdomen, using the force to retreat, and reached out to grab the tail of the great saber, stopping himself. He dodged the Desolate King's beheading strike and, in turn, punched the Desolate King's left rib.
Then, the divine powers of the three kings intertwined and reached a critical point, exploding at this moment.
With a *boom*.
All three of them were blasted away by the exploding divine power. In the end, He Li's saber not only broke through the God King's protective divine light but also tore his clothes, drawing blood from the God King.
He Li gasped for breath and sneered, "So, your blood is also red."
"Hmph!"
The God King let out a cold snort, and the wound on his shoulder healed.
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