latelenovela Chapter 425 - 425: The Divine Key of Providence, Ice God's Heart!
Chapter 425 - 425: The Divine Key of Providence, Ice God's Heart!
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--- Chapter 425 ---
"That artifact?" Han Yuan and his companions couldn't help but exchange glances while frowning in silence.
At first, they thought the Glory City had invited its own disaster, but who would have thought that the other side had its own plot, too?
Yes, even the Snow Empress thought that way.
Jade Phoenix Lord frowned slightly, "To make a Quasi-God entity invade a mere city, this artifact can't be ordinary."
"Indeed, but the scheme is pretty obvious." White-Eyed Phoenix Lord said calmly. "Honestly, the way this fellow entered Douluo Plane is quite brave; he just came in as if it were his own home."
"However, that aside, his motive is an artifact."
"Probably for his advancement to godhood."
"The easiest way to reach the god realm..."
"After all, no matter how powerful Quasi-God is, this fellow is not a 'true' god himself."
"Now the question is... What kind of 'divine' artifact is it to force such an entity to break a dimensional law and invade another plane, though Glory City made the first move?"
"Divine... Artifact..." The Snow Empress froze on the spot upon hearing the White-Eyed Phoenix Lord's last statement because she felt like she had heard that line somewhere else before.
Something deep inside Snow Empress's very soul got stirred by the mere mention of it.
And it's not just Snow Empress, as the other Heavenly Snow Maiden also showed a look of bewilderment. Some clutched their chest anxiously, and some clutched their head in confusion.
"Snow..." Ice Empress watched Snow Empress's expression of struggle with a headache.
Han Yuan used his spiritual energy to ease Snow Empress and her fellow sisters, "Don't force yourself to remember, or it would be even more painful."
"I could feel it," Snow Empress uttered in response. "I could feel that the 'artifact' mentioned by the Demon Sage Emperor is the key to our time travel."
"It's also the reason behind our Heavenly Snow Maiden existence."
Han Yuan's eyes flashed with surprise, and he commented, "Then, that means the artifact must have relations to the Ice God."
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Glory City was in chaos.
The city lord gazed at the Demon Sage Emperor coldly after making that aggressive accusation, to which the latter responded with indifferent, yet villainous chuckles.
"Keke... Kekeke!" The Demon Sage Emperor's body exists in the Small Demon Grotto Plane. His body trembled, shaking the surrounding space as his chuckle echoed.
"Humans, my goal is beyond your understanding!"
"You possessed the most powerful, most beautiful divine artifact I've ever seen, but you merely used it to cross the dimensional barrier between your plane and mine."
"I saw more than that!"
"I saw the potential!"
"I saw the raw power that allowed me to become one 'true' god!"
"So... Just die!" Demon Sage Emperor's gray arms twisted wildly. Several green eyes in the air also swirled, fusing into a massive white blade of destruction.
Han Yuan narrowed his eyes at the white blade because he could see a damn flicker of crimson aura. The same aura he's very used to, and won't forget his whole life.
"Slaughter Qi..."
"How did this guy have Slaughter Qi?"
"Don't tell me... No, it can't be you, right?"
The City Lord and Divine Warriors of the Glory City watched the massive white blade descending from the sky.
"Land-Overturning Chessboard! Martial Soul True Body!" shouted the City Lord while burning his spirit energy like tomorrow, conjuring the most durable shield he could to protect the city.
Previously, the City Lord had done the same to protect the city, but only to cover the 'whole' city. At this very moment, he pushed his Martial Soul True Body, cutting the range by more than half, to redirect the Demon Sage Emperor's attack away.
The others obviously didn't stay idle and used their own defensive spirit skills to give the City Lord room for maneuver. Those with pure offensive spirit skills attacked the Demon Sage Emperor's sword, attempting to lessen its momentum.
Ultimately, the Demon Sage Emperor's attack fell.
"AAAAAAARRGH! GLORY CITY SHALL NOT FALL!" The City Lord roared at the top of his lungs.
BOOOOOOOM!!
The City Lord hovered in the air, his martial soul wrecked, and the Demon Sage Emperor's attack failed to break through his defense.
"Heh, what are you waiting for? City Lord can't keep up anymore! Cut off the wormhole!" shouted one of the Divine Warriors.
Several blue-robed figures appeared in the Glory City and tore countless scrolls made of spirit beasts' hides.
A large-scale array formed around the Glory City, stabilizing the spatial node and blocking the connection from the Small Demon Grotto Plane to the Douluo Continent, effectively shutting the wormholes down.
"No..." Demon Sage Emperor sounded angry. "Don't you dare cut off my path!"
The wormhole that occupied the sky above Glory City suddenly expanded more than ten times its original size. The 'true' body of the Demon Sage Emperor is about to descend to the Douluo Continent.
However, how could the City Lord allow that to happen?
Despite having his spirit energy and mental power totally drained, his martial soul broken beyond repair, and his life at its very end, the City Lord was still able to move his body.
Clenching his blood-red hand, the City Lord struggled to stand up again and breathe out.
"Huff..." The City Lord glanced down at the ruined Glory City and looked up at the enormous portal in the sky.
"Gods, huh?"
"They can be petty, too, after all."
"But..."
"My Glory City doesn't need your pity either." The City Lord pounded his chest a few times, causing him to spew a mouthful of blood. He pulled a golden key with an ice-blue crystal at the end of a crested symbol.
"That's the artifact!" White-Eyed Phoenix Lord gazed deeply at the golden key in the City Lord's hand.
"The key?" Xiao Wu tilted her head.
"No, the ice-blue crystal," White-Eyed Phoenix Lord added. "The key is merely the seal, no, the container for the real thing."
"After all, wielding the power of god is not so simple."
"Although that City Lord couldn't use the true, complete power of the artifact, he at least could unleash 1-5% of it to blow the Quasi-God Entity's attempt to descend to the city."
"So strong!" Xiao Wu's eyes widened in awe. So are Ice Empress and others.
Bi Ji shook her head gently and commented, "Strictly speaking, it is not that impressive."
"Huh, what do you mean, Bi Ji?" The Ice Empress frowned. "It's literally a strike of a divine artifact!"
"You're forgetting one thing, no, two things." Bi Ji replied bluntly. "The power of the wielder, and the type of the divine artifact itself."
"No matter how you see it, that ice-blue crystal is not an offensive type of divine artifact."
"The damage it could do to the Demon Sage Emperor is small."
"And that fact becomes even more apparent when the one using it is on the verge of death."
"Di Tian, who possessed an offensive Divine Artifact: Dragon God's Claw, could easily kill the Demon Sage Emperor."
"That's one claw strike."
White-Eyed Phoenix Lord sighed, "Bi Ji is right."
"After observing the key and the crystal, I basically confirmed the artifact in the City Lord's hand is actually an auxiliary-type divine artifact."
"Its main function is to draw upon the divine-level spiritual energy within the ice-blue crystal to raise one's mental power and clarity to a god level temporarily."
"As for what it is, I don't know..."
Meanwhile, Han Yuan couldn't be clearer than anyone else in the area. He used the Eyes of Truth on the City Lord's hand and understood what kind of artifact that man is about to use.
He also recognized the 'divine artifact' sealed in that key. "The Ice God's Heart..."
The City Lord glared at the sky, "Ye Zong, the Thirtieth City Lord of the Glory City, stand today!"
"All remaining residents, may all of you survive this ordeal in glory!"
His voice echoed throughout the Glory City.
"The Divine Key of Providence!"
"Open the Treasury of Mankind!"