Chapter 1857
by 林方方Chapter 1857 Devouring the Night
Lin Qiye narrowed his eyes, and from the ink-like darkness beneath his feet, countless stars also lit up. These stars transformed into long swords that shot up from beneath him toward the sky, clashing with the descending starlight!
[Star-Splitting Technique] versus [Star-Splitting Technique]!
The Night Goddess’s technique, Lin Qiye also knew it. During these four or five years, the dark essence within him had grown into a towering tree, not only encompassing most of Nyx’s abilities but also containing vast amounts of darkness power that even Nyx never possessed.
After the Dark Ancestor evolved the night essence into a complete dark essence, this essence was no longer simply a “night” attribute. What it symbolized was darkness, one of the world’s origins—the fear of darkness that existed in all living beings before humans were even born, countless ages ago.
But even so, Lin Qiye didn’t use this power much. The reason was simple… no complete law had yet been born from this essence.
Without laws, these abilities were merely for show, far less straightforward and powerful than the Seraph’s power. However, after so many years of nurturing, Lin Qiye could vaguely sense that a law was about to emerge from this soil.
In at most another year or two, he would be able to cultivate his own darkness law from the essence, becoming the ancient and unique God of Darkness.
Slash—!!
The two [Star-Splitting Techniques] collided and intertwined, instantly tearing apart most of the starlight on the ground.
As Lin Qiye expected, the [Star-Splitting Technique] without laws was just superficial. Against Nyx, who possessed true night laws, it was still considerably inferior.
Lin Qiye’s figure swiftly moved through countless stars, his Amanomurakumo sword tracing a flower-like pattern. Golden sword light instantly swept across the battlefield, shattering the starlight everywhere. Between the golden and silver remnant lights, a shadow had already flashed behind Nyx!
“What a powerful divine weapon.” Nyx’s eyes flashed with surprise, her eyebrows tightly knitted together. Her wrist trembled slightly, and a silver bracelet immediately emitted a crisp humming sound!
Ding—!!
Just as the sword was about to touch Nyx, a silver light flashed before Lin Qiye’s eyes. He felt his vision blur, and a terrifying repulsive force struck his chest, sending him flying backward!
A defensive divine artifact?
Lin Qiye flapped his wings, stabilizing himself in mid-air. He saw that a silver bracelet had floated away from Nyx’s wrist, expanding rapidly in the wind, transforming into a massive silver ring protecting Nyx. With the appearance of this silver ring, the surrounding force field visibly distorted, even the shattered starlight was drawn into it.
Divine light flowed with colorful radiance, dotted with starlight. Around Nyx, it was as if a brilliant river of stars flowed under the night sky.
Lin Qiye had the Amanomurakumo sword by his side, but as one of the primordial gods of Olympus, how could Nyx not have divine artifacts?
“It’s a pity… if my true body were here, it would be much easier,” Lin Qiye murmured, then his eyes brightened as if he had thought of something.
He gripped the hilt of the Amanomurakumo sword with both hands, took a deep breath, and his wings flapped again.
Seeing Lin Qiye rapidly flying toward her from below, Nyx, standing on the river of stars, raised her palm slightly. Several strands of starlight intertwined before her in the darkness, quickly converging into a complex star chart. Three pitch-black spheres were outlined from within.
As these three spheres appeared, the surrounding space seemed unable to bear their weight, gradually sinking. Voids of nothingness were torn open, spreading in all directions.
[Dark Side Devourer]!
Lin Qiye immediately recognized these three spheres. As one of the Night Goddess’s signature killing moves, when these three spheres appeared, it meant Nyx’s killing intent had reached its peak.
World-destroying vibrations emanated from the three black spheres. Athena, who was fighting among the starlight tentacles, changed her expression and looked back toward the battlefield.
“This is bad… he will die.” Athena gritted her teeth, preparing to turn back to help Lin Qiye, when a massive starlight tentacle came whistling from behind!
Whoosh—!
An arrow precisely pierced the end of the tentacle, tearing apart more than half of its body. Sharp wails came from the remaining flesh!
“Don’t space out! Saving Lady Nyx is more important!” Artemis’s anxious voice came from the side. “These tentacles are getting more and more numerous! If this continues, both of us will be drained by them!”
Athena came to her senses, swept her spear horizontally, and split the tentacle before her in half. But immediately afterward, these broken tentacles rapidly regenerated, each becoming two tentacles of the same size, frantically coiling toward her.
In the current predicament, escaping to help was impossible… that human could only fend for himself. Hopefully, he could hold on until she rescued Lady Nyx, Athena thought to herself.
On the brilliant star chart, as Nyx’s fingertip lightly tapped, the three black spheres fell from the sky one after another.
These Dark Side Devourers seemed to have eyes, locking onto Lin Qiye’s figure no matter how he dodged. Under their weight, this space became unbearably heavy, even the ability of [White Slash] temporarily failed.
Seeing this, Lin Qiye directly put away [White Slash], gripped the hilt of the Amanomurakumo sword with both hands, and opened two domains, one purple and one golden. The dazzling sword light rose and slashed directly toward one of the spheres!
Under the power of [Final King’s Law], Lin Qiye forcibly fixed the first Dark Side Devourer in place. The golden sword light slashed down like lightning, and a terrifying explosion resounded throughout this realm!
Boom—!!
With continuous sword light, the first Dark Side Devourer shattered into pieces. Scattered fragments fell into the darkness beneath Lin Qiye’s feet, quickly dissolving without a trace.
Just as he was about to strike the second blow, Lin Qiye’s figure paused.
He looked down at his body in surprise. After absorbing the law from one Dark Side Devourer, the dark essence hidden within his body began to grow rapidly… the seedling of law that was about to be born now showed signs of breaking through the soil.
Could the night law accelerate the nurturing of new laws in the essence?
This thought flashed through Lin Qiye’s mind!
Lin Qiye had no time to think further, as the second Dark Side Devourer was already howling down toward his head. As the golden sword light slashed out, gold and black intertwined in the air, then spread in all directions. A figure fought its way out from within, actively approaching the third Dark Side Devourer!
This time, Lin Qiye witnessed the entire process of the dark essence devouring the night law.
Perhaps due to their common origin, the shattered night law acted like nutrients, continuously nurturing the birth of new laws within the essence. The night laws contained in these two Dark Side Devourers were not abundant, so the nurturing effect was quite limited… but what about the young Nyx who had been manifested?
Strictly speaking, young Nyx was created by the Gate of Truth extracting divine power and laws from the real Nyx, and these laws had already become part of the Gate of Truth.
If he could devour this part of the night law from the Gate of Truth, wouldn’t it mean… the progress of the new law’s birth would be greatly accelerated?
Thinking of this, Lin Qiye’s gaze toward the Dark Side Devourer and young Nyx changed.
The Gate of Truth might have only wanted to manifest a strong enemy to clear out these intruding ants, but it could never have imagined that the strong enemy it manifested had already become fertilizer in Lin Qiye’s eyes.