The dozens of people who had squeezed into the pocket dimension all felt nervous.
“Linley,” Delia said hurriedly.
“Leave, quickly. Don’t hesitate.” Linley directly grabbed Gates’ son, pulling him out of the pocket dimension. Everyone, knowing how grave the situation had become, quickly fled from the pocket dimension, and then began to tunnel through the ground in every which way.
Bloodviolet shuddered, emitting that humming sword sound, as gentle and soft as a flute’s song. The flute song, under Linley’s control, directly emanated towards the two black-robed men, as well as that golden-haired youth who was battling Olivier.
Both the golden-haired youth and the two black-robed men, in this moment, felt as though the entire world had gone silent, aside from that soft, gentle flute song. It was so pleasing to the ear.
“Clang!”
A blood-red illusionary sword shot out from Bloodviolet, shooting directly into the mind of one of those two black-robed me. The black-robed man’s spiritual energy was in a state of relaxation, and only when the illusory blood-red sword shot into his spiritual energy did he suddenly come to his sense.
However, it was too late.
The blood-red sword image pierced directly into his divine spark, the stabbing blow shattering his soul and dispersing his spirit.
Profound Truths of the Wind – Hymn of the Wind!
Although slow to describe, the Hymn of the Wind technique was executed in but an instant. But to Ojwin, that instant was an instant of disaster.
“NO!!!!” Ojwin’s eyes suddenly turned around.
Linley had exploded forth with his full power, while Olivier had done the same! Linley had utilized his ‘Hymn of the Wind’, while Olivier, despite badly injuring himself, had once again released that black and white sword-flash that had shattered the Great Botha Levee. For the gold-haired youth, the worst part of it was…
Just before Olivier’s attack, he had been affected by Bloodviolet’s humming sword song.
“BOOM!”
The mystic icesword’s full-strength blow chopped down onto the golden-haired youth’s warblade. The power of this attack of Olivier’s was simply too incredible. It actually caused the warblade to smash back down upon the golden-haired youth, while at the same time, that black and white sword-flash also chopped down, descending towards the golden-haired youth’s head.
“Aaaah!” A fierce, miserable cry rang out.
His head was split in half, and that divine spark was chopped directly by the black and white sword-flash. The soul within the divine spark trembled, then shattered.
“No, Kingsley, no!” The black-robed man’s death, Ojwin didn’t care about. But this golden-haired youngster, Kingsley, was Ojwin’s one and only son. Generally, when training his son, Ojwin would let his son engage in some true life and death battles. Only through this sort of training was his son truly be able to grow and develop.
In this battle, his son was only dealing with someone who had just reached the Deity-level. Ojwin didn’t know how powerful Olivier was. He was only worried about Linley, but hadn’t paid Olivier any mind.
Ojwin hadn’t paid him any mind, but who would have thought…
Ojwin’s most dearly beloved, only son, whom he had loved as much as life itself for countless years. He had died, just like that!
“Die!!!!” No matter how calm and unflappable he normally was, at this moment, even Ojwin had gone utterly mad. The fierce-faced Ojwin’s body surged with divine power. The strength of his Godrealm suddenly raised to the maximum, like countless surging waves, surrounding everyone present.
At the same time, Ojwin transformed into a ray of white light, charging straight towards Olivier, a greatsword appearing in his hands.
The already badly-injured Olivier wasn’t able to resist at all.
Olivier instantly split apart into his two divine bodies, the divine light clone and the divine darkness clone, but both divine clones were heavily wounded. Olivier didn’t have the chance to escape at all.
“Aaaaaaargh!” Ojwin howled savagely, his greatsword chopping down with a power that contained untold profundities!
A devilish violet light flashed…
“CLANG!”
Linley’s badly injured body was smashed flying back, but then he was once again frozen in mid-air by the restriction of the Godrealm.
Just then, he had killed a black-robed man, but had his arm chopped off by the other, furious black-robed man. Realizing what danger Olivier was in, Linley had hurried over frantically, helping Olivier to receive that blow. A massive wound had appeared in his chest, however, and fresh blood splattered everywhere. Linley immediately summoned the divine power in his body to heal himself.
“Thank you.” Olivier’s two divine clones both looked at Linley.
“Why thank me? All I did was delay our deaths by a moment.” Linley and Olivier’s eyes were filled with the same bitter laugh and grief.
They couldn’t resist any longer!
In the face of that enraged, maddened Ojwin, both Linley and Olivier had somewhat given in to despair.
That sword blow just now had included a spiritual attack element. Linley, relying upon his damaged Sovereign artifact as well as his spiritual Pulseguard Defense, had just barely managed to withstand that blow. But despite that… Linley’s spiritual energy had just become all but used up.
He wouldn’t even be able to use the Hymn of the Wind a single extra time.
“I will destroy and shatter your souls!” Ojwin, filled with the utmost of grief, roared in fury as he swept out with that greatsword in his hands.
“Raaaaaaaaaaaargh!”
A furious, earth-shaking roar suddenly rang out, and an invisible ripple shot out like a bullet towards Ojwin. Ojwin, greatly shocked, could sense the power of this sudden attack. “Where did this attack come from?!” At the same time, Ojwin hurriedly wielded his sword to counter-attack.
“BOOM!” Ojwin’s body was knocked backwards, and he continued to retreat.
In mid-air, there was an enormous rainbow-colored, lion-like creature hovering there. In the middle of the lion’s forehead, there was a third eye. The enormous lion transformed, reforming into a devilish young man who wore a long, golden robe.
It was Dylin!
“Dylin!” Linley and Olivier’s eyes were filled with a look of surprise and joy.
Ojwin, having suffered that spiritual energy attack, had his Godrealm disrupted. The two Olivier’s fused with each other once more, and Linley and Olivier both flew straight towards Dylin at high speed.
“Don’t think of escaping.” Ojwin’s gaze was completely focused on Olivier right now. His eyes were filled with boundless killing intent, while at the same time, he charged towards Olivier, ignoring everything else. Dylin’s face turned slightly colder, and that third eye of his opened…
An invisible ripple once more surged forth.
Ojwin let out a low growl, allowing the invisible ripple to strike against his body. He only paused for a moment, before his speed picked up once again.
Dylin had broken through and reached the God-level, but… Dylin was only an early stage God. Compared to Ojwin, there was still some difference between the two in power. If it weren’t for him relying on his innate gifts, Dylin’s earlier attack would have found it quite difficult to force Ojwin to retreat.
“Huh?” Ojwin turned to look towards another side in astonishment.
Dozens of rays of black light had shot out towards Ojwin from far away in that direction. This time, Ojwin didn’t dare to take it head on, immediately trying to dodge at high speed. However, those dozens of rays of black light curved after him, and so Ojwin had to use his greatsword to block every single one of those rays of black light.
A human figured appeared next to Dylin.
It was a devilish youngster with long green hair.
“Dylin, you ‘Heaven Devouring Beast’, you really live up to the title of being a ‘divine beast’. In your true fo
rm, your speed truly is astonishing. Even I couldn’t catch up to you.” The green-haired youngster laughed.
“Tarosse, enough chitchat. This fellow’s power is rather high. We’ll rely on your power now,” Dylin said with a cold face. “Don’t end up being beaten and losing face.”
“How could I?” Tarosse looked at Ojwin.
Ojwin was staring coldly at the two of them. “Gentlemen, I just want to kill that kid with black and white hair. As for Linley, I can spare him. Gentlemen… don’t interfere.” Ojwin had sensed the threat that these two experts posed.
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Hearing Ojwin mention himself, Linley couldn’t help but sneer to himself.
Just then, when he wanted to kill them, Ojwin hadn’t shown any mercy. Even Desri’s divine clone had been destroyed! But now, he said that he didn’t want to kill Linley, just Olivier? Clearly, he was somewhat afraid of Tarosse and Dylin.
“You want to kill Olivier but not kill Linley?” Dylin deliberately paused for a moment.
Towards Olivier, Dylin didn’t feel too much affection. But Linley was different. Originally, his escape with the three Six-Eyed Golden Ni-Lions to the Yulan Plane was partially due to Linley. In the Necropolis of the Gods, Linley had saved his son yet again. Most importantly, Linley had given him a divine spark without asking for anything in return.
Dylin naturally had to protect Linley.
“This Olivier doesn’t have anything to do with me.” Tarosse laughed merrily as he looked at Ojwin.
Ojwin relaxed.
“But what does that have to do with my decision as to whether I want to interfere or not?” Tarosse said with a wicked laugh. “You ask me not to interfere, and thus I won’t interfere? If others heard this story, they’d think that I, Tarosse, was afraid of you. If you know what’s good for you, you’d best hurry up and fuck off. I can spare your life this once. Otherwise, well…”
Tarosse stretched out a single hand. Within it, a long, green whip appeared. This long green whip looked just like a green snake, and it naturally emitted a frigid aura. Even the air around it seemed to have been somewhat frozen. Tarosse casually snapped the long whip, emitting a clear cracking sound.
“Are you going to leave? Or do you want me to make you leave?” Tarosse didn’t view Ojwin with any respect at all.
Ojwin swept Tarosse and Dylin with his gaze, before staring at Olivier. His eyes seemed to want to devour Olivier alive.
Ojwin paused a moment.
“Fine. Since that’s the case, I’ll give you two face. I…” Ojwin said, but suddenly, the fingers of his right hand swept towards Olivier, and a white beam of light suddenly split the air, causing space to begin to fold. The white light shot directly towards the nearby Olivier.
“Crackle…” Wherever the light from his fingers passed through, space began to emit a rumbling, crackling sound.
The speed of this light was extremely fast.
“Hrmph.” Tarosse narrowed his eyes, letting out a cold, disdainful snort.
“Whap!” That long green whip struck out like a serpent, while at the same time elongating from the original length of three or four meters to thirty to forty meters. The thickness of the whip was like that of the tail of a giant python, and it struck directly against that ray of light. Faintly emitting a green light, it circled around that white light, dispersing it.
“Lord Tarosse, thank you,” Olivier said in a low voice. Olivier knew when to be grateful to someone.
However, Olivier also knew that he didn’t have much of a relationship with Tarosse and Dylin. The reason why they were willing to help was for Linley’s sake.
Olivier looked at the nearby Linley.
Linley grinned at him. “Olivier, since Lord Tarosse is willing to act, we won’t have any more problems today.”
“But of course. I’m Lord Tarosse, you know.” Lord Tarosse laughed loudly and delightedly, while at the same time, he continued to snap his long green whip out. His body was floating and flashing about like a shadow, casually engaging in blows and counter-blows with Ojwin.
Ojwin, after a short testing period, became certain that this Tarosse was a powerful combatant even amongst Gods.
Given Ojwin’s cautious nature of never engaging in something he wasn’t confident in achieving, he normally would never engage in a fight with Tarosse like this. However… his son had died. Throughout these countless years, aside from his goal of reaching the peak of training and increasing his strength, his highest priority was raising his son.
Ojwin’s son was the reason for his existence.
“Tarosse, you are forcing me to do this!!!” Ojwin’s face slowly grew ferocious.
“What is it? If you have some powerful techniques, bring’m out!” Tarosse flew high into the air, while Ojwin chased after him. Once these two Gods really went all out, the shockwaves from their attacks would reach and harm Linley and the others. It might be enough to cause Linley to be badly injured, or even die.
Ojwin’s subordinates.
“You can go for now,” Ojwin’s voice rang out in the minds of those two lucky survivors. Four Demigods. Ojwin’s son and the black-robed man had both died, thanks to Linley and Olivier. Only two remained.
“The situation is bad. Let’s leave, quickly.” The two lucky Demigod survivors glanced at each other, then immediately fled at high speed per Ojwin’s orders.
Linley, Olivier, and Dylin were still paying close attention to the battle between those two Gods in mid-air.
“Hey, they fled.” Dylin was the first to notice.
“Where’d they go?” Only now did Linley realize that those two Demigods had disappeared into the horizon.
Linley’s face was extremely ugly to behold. He said frantically, “Desri’s divine spark! Desri’s divine spark is being held by that silver-robed man.” Once the divine clone was destroyed, the original body wouldn’t be able to be gifted by heaven with yet another light-style divine spark.
However…
The original body could still fuse with that light-style divine spark yet again.
The original body would be able to fuse it extremely quickly, allowing him to soon return to his full level of strength. But… if he did this, Desri would never be able to train in any other Laws again.
“Oh? No rush.” Dylin suddenly moved, intending to charge after that silver-robed man.
“Whoosh!”
In mid-air, a fiery red human figure suddenly came out from Ojwin’s body. This fiery red body was actually wielding a fiery red lance, and it stabbed directly at Dylin. Dylin immediately became entangled by the fiery red figure, and wasn’t able to shake him off right away.
“This Ojwin has two bodies!” Linley was greatly astonished.
Linley and Olivier exchanged glances, their eyes filled with shock. Ojwin didn’t just have a divine light clone; he also had a divine fire clone. The two divine clones battled against Dylin and Tarosse, and for now they fought to a standstill.
Ojwin’s strength truly was astonishing.
Although Linley wanted to chase after that silver-robed man, after having executed the ‘Hymn of the Wind’, then helped Olivier block Ojwin’s killing strike, Linley’s spiritual energy had been almost completely used up. Even his soul had been shaken.
Actually, Linley had enough spiritual energy to utilize the ‘Hymn of the Wind’ twice, with some energy left over.
But the thing was, Olivier had killed Ojwin’s son, and Ojwin had naturally gone crazy.
That attack of his had truly been too vicious. Fortunately, Linley had that damaged Sovereign artifact, which allowed him to just barely take the blow without dying.
“Desri’s divine spark.” Linley felt helpless. He wanted to chase, but he didn’t have any confidence in being able to overcome that silver-robed man.
Linley still clearly remembered the scene of that silver-robed man killing Desri. That illusionary blade blow… it was too powerful. Linley had the feeling that the silver-robed man was
most likely the most powerful of the four experts Ojwin originally commanded.
“With Tarosse and Dylin joining forces, it shouldn’t be too much of a problem for them to deal with Ojwin.”
In terms of spiritual strength, Linley’s divine clone was far inferior to his original body’s. After all, his original body had fused twenty million soul essences.
Linley’s original body had already stopped fleeing.
Linley’s original body stretched out his divine sense. During this short period of time, even Saints had only flown less than a thousand kilometers. Linley’s divine sense instantly located every single fleeing family member and friend. “Everyone. The danger has passed. Everyone, come back to Dragonblood Castle.”
The members of Dragonblood Castle who had been fleeing, mentally agonized, instantly felt great joy upon hearing Linley’s divine sense message.
All of them hurriedly returned.
In the air above Dragonblood Castle. Tarosse and Ojwin had begun to go all out.
“Just this little bit of power you have, haha…” Tarosse’s loud laughter rang out.
“Whooooosh.” Tarosse’ long green whip coiled about like a serpent, while at the same time, the temperature of the surrounding area dropped dramatically, and one blue crystal after another appeared out of nowhere. They hovered in mid-air in an area of several square kilometers. Under the light of the sun, they seemed so beautiful.
Within an area of several square kilometers, the surrounding water elemental essences had come under Tarosse’s control.
Ojwin’s face changed.
Instantly, his entire body began to emit a dazzling, holy light, and the greatsword in his hands, covered by that holy light, began to tremble slightly.
In the area around the greatsword, tiny, thread-like fractures in space could be seen.
“Hrmph.” Tarosse sneered coldly. An invisible ripple surged forth from his head and was directly absorbed by each of those blue ice crystals.
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