Chapter 341

Chapter 341: God of the Sword!

When that voice was heard, the white-haired woman nearby and Dong Qian both grew solemn.

Ye Tianming looked toward the depths of the cosmos, “I am not his descendant……. has Senior met him before?”

That voice laughed, “I have.”

As the words fell, countless points of starlight suddenly surged forth from the surrounding stellar rivers, converging like a tide. Soon, those points of starlight coalesced into a man who appeared to be in his thirties, dressed in a long robe that seemed woven from the stars themselves.

When they saw who had appeared, Dong Qian’s expression grew more solemn than ever before, “You are the Star God of legend.”

The Star God!

Below the Ancestral Gods were the three Supreme Gods, and below the three Supreme Gods were the True Gods. Among the True Gods there were also distinctions, and the most renowned were the four Super True Gods, of which the Star God was one, presiding over the supreme laws of the stars.

And between his brows, there was a sliver of sword light.

The Star God glanced at Dong Qian and smiled, “That’s me.”

Dong Qian looked at the sliver of sword light between the Star God’s brows and said in a low voice, “Senior, you…… have already fallen.”

The Star God smiled, “Nothing to be done about it. Aside from the Father God and those two others, no one could withstand her sword.”

Dong Qian asked, “Was it the God of the Sword Dao, one of the three Supreme Gods?”

The Star God nodded.

Dong Qian fell silent.

The God of the Sword Dao!

One of the three Supreme Gods.

Unrivaled in the Sword Dao!

And a true half-step Ancestral God realm cultivator!

When the Ancestral God had scattered the Dao back then, it was she alone with a single sword who stood guard at the Ancestral God Hall where the Ancestral God had scattered the Dao, keeping three thousand True Gods from daring to advance a single step further.

The Star God suddenly sized up Dong Qian and smiled, “Little one, you are quite remarkable, to actually possess an innate divine bone.”

As he said this, he looked toward the white-haired woman walking over not far away, with some surprise and some gravity, “An innate demonic womb. You are from Mohe Divine Prison.”

The white-haired woman looked at him and said nothing.

The Star God’s gaze suddenly fell on Ye Tianming. After sizing him up, he said in surprise, “You are actually……”

At that, he stopped.

Ye Tianming knew that the other party had clearly already seen that he was not a being of this world.

He quietly put up his guard.

But the Star God smiled, showing no hostility.

Seeing that the Star God had no hostility whatsoever, Ye Tianming was somewhat surprised.

The Star God smiled, “How strange. If none were to come, none would come, but now three such monstrous talents arrive all at once. You’ve made it rather difficult for me to choose.”

As he said this, he suddenly swept his sleeve, and a great stellar path paved itself before the three of them, a full ten thousand zhang in length.

The Star God looked at the three of them and smiled, “This is the Stellar Path. Upon it are the stellar laws I have left behind. The three of you shall walk it, and whoever reaches the end first shall receive my inheritance. What do you say?”

As he said this, he glanced at the Stellar Path and added, “Upon it is the most pure stellar energy in this world, as well as the stellar body refinement art I have left behind. Of course, whether you can comprehend it is up to you.”

The white-haired woman said nothing and stepped directly onto it.

Dong Qian turned to look at Ye Tianming, and Ye Tianming gave a nod.

The two of them stepped on as well.

The moment the three of them set foot on the Stellar Path, the entire path erupted, and in that instant, hundreds of millions of stars seemed to come alive.

Ye Tianming slowly walked forward into the distance, and soon, densely packed runic characters appeared beneath his feet.

The Stellar Body Refinement Art!

With just a single glance, he had memorized it all, and at the same time, he directly began to run it.

One look and he had it mastered!

Soon, a great deal of stellar energy came surging toward him.

And at almost the same moment, Dong Qian and the white-haired woman not far from his side also directly began absorbing the stellar energy upon the Stellar Path.

Ye Tianming slowly closed his eyes.

Endless stellar energy continuously entered his body and began frantically reforging his physical form.

His physical body underwent earth-shattering changes in that moment.

He was somewhat stunned.

This was practically a forced reforging.

How heaven-defying!

In that moment, he realized he had truly greatly underestimated the divine beings of this cosmos.

Soon, the auras of all three surged wildly.

Their physical realm was also rapidly skyrocketing.

Human Spirit, Earth Prayer, Star Vault, Heaven Void.

Sensing the changes in his own body, Ye Tianming’s expression gradually grew solemn. Of course, for him this was undoubtedly a good thing.

His primary purpose in coming to this world was to strengthen his physical body.

On the Stellar Path, the auras of all three were surging wildly, especially their physical bodies, which were all undergoing earth-shattering transformations.

At the same time, the pace of all three was also growing faster and faster.

Ye Tianming carefully sensed his own physical body and found that the pure stellar energy was seeping bit by bit into his flesh and blood, becoming a part of it.

At this moment, his physical realm had already reached Immeasurable.

The improvement was truly staggering.

Before long, the three of them had walked half the distance, and at this point, after being tempered by countless waves of stellar energy, their physical bodies had already reached the Pseudo-Divine realm.

The Pseudo-Divine realm!

Even Ye Tianming himself felt it was somewhat unreal.

He even wondered if this was an illusion, a test of some kind, but after carefully sensing his surroundings for a moment, he felt this was no illusion. Everything was real.

Could they actually reach True God?

A notion that even he himself found somewhat absurd suddenly arose in his mind.

If they truly could reach True God, that would be utterly monstrous.

But at the current rate of progress, he felt it didn’t seem impossible.

Even if it was only the physical realm, if they truly reached True God, that would still be extraordinarily terrifying.

This would be equivalent to the physical body ascending to godhood.

Not only did Ye Tianming find it inconceivable, even Dong Qian and the white-haired woman beside him wore expressions of obvious shock.

Of course, after the shock came anticipation.

If they truly could achieve physical godhood, this would be an overwhelming windfall.

One had to know that out in the world right now, ascending to godhood was nearly impossible for anyone, even in terms of the physical body, since the incense and offerings of the divine offices had almost entirely been monopolized by those few True Gods.

Without realizing it, the three of them were walking faster and faster.

And the further forward they went, the more stellar energy there was, and the purer it became.

Ye Tianming could feel that his physical body already harbored hundreds of millions of stellar energy, fused as one with his flesh. His bones and blood had undergone a qualitative transformation under the tempering of this stellar energy.

Of course, this had not changed his special constitution.

The core of his physical body was still Mortal!

But compared to before, there was no doubt that his physical body was now far, far stronger, and would not be so easily shattered.

The special quality of the Mortal Body was not its solidity, but its eternal indestructibility and its capacity for endless rebirth.

As the three of them moved further and further forward, their auras grew more and more terrifying, but after reaching the Pseudo-Divine realm, their auras seemed to hit a bottleneck.

And at this moment, all three of them were clearly eager to take one more step forward!

If they could take one more step forward,

that would be divinity!

The temptation was immense.

It was the same for Ye Tianming. His instincts told him that as long as he could take that one more step and achieve physical godhood, his physical body would surely be able to bear the weight of hundreds of millions upon millions of faith power.

Just one step short.

Ye Tianming’s pace quickened.

Dong Qian and the white-haired woman also quickened their pace. All three of them were somewhat impatient at this moment.

And at this point, they were less than ten zhang from the finish line.

At the same time, the auras on their bodies were still surging, yet their auras seemed to have hit a bottleneck as well, and no matter how much they surged, they could not break through that final step.

The entire Stellar Path had erupted at this moment, suffused with endless stellar energy, extraordinarily terrifying.

Soon, the three of them arrived at the end of the Stellar Path at almost the same instant. Just one final step, and the three of them could walk out.

The auras on their bodies were still surging, yet they still could not break through the current bottleneck.

Just then, the Star God nearby suddenly said, “If you wish to achieve physical godhood, you must possess a divine mandate or a divine grade. Without either of these two things, you can never become gods.”

The three looked toward the Star God, who smiled and said, “A divine mandate is something one is born with. Even in our era, it was extremely rare to see. But a divine grade…… can be bestowed.”

As he said this, he swept his sleeve, and suddenly three beams of golden light fell straight down before the three of them, with a special kind of talisman drifting within the golden light.

The Star God said softly, “These are divine grades, among the few that exist in this world. Take one more step forward, and you can achieve physical godhood.”

Physical godhood!

All three of them raised their right foot at almost the same time.

But just as they were about to step down, Ye Tianming suddenly grabbed Dong Qian beside him.

At almost the same moment, the white-haired woman’s right foot also stopped.

Ye Tianming slowly turned to look at the Star God and smiled, “Senior, achieving physical godhood shouldn’t be quite that simple, should it?”

The Star God smiled and said, “How do you mean?”

Ye Tianming looked at the Star God, “Let me guess. You helped us strengthen our physical bodies not because you wanted us to obtain your inheritance, but because you wanted to…… take over our bodies. Am I right?”

Body possession!

He had seen it in the divine records of this world. The body possession of this divine cosmos was different from what existed below. In the lower worlds, body possession simply meant destroying the soul and seizing the physical body.

Body possession in this world was not merely seizing the physical body, but also seizing the fortune of the past and future.

The Star God smiled, “My friend, what are you talking about?”

Ye Tianming stared at him, “That sliver of sword light between your brows did not truly kill you, but rather imprisoned you. You have been confined here. To break free, you must shed your current physical body and have a new one. But the three of us were too physically weak to bear you, so you spared no expense in helping us strengthen our physical bodies……”

As he said this, he turned to glance at those three mysterious talismans, “These are not divine grades at all. If we stepped forward and absorbed them, we would be immediately devoured by you. Isn’t that right?”

The Star God looked at Ye Tianming. His face still wore a smile, but that smile had suddenly become spine-chilling, “How did you figure it out? Don’t tell me you just guessed.”

Dong Qian turned to look at Ye Tianming, curiosity also showing in her eyes.

The white-haired woman was also looking at Ye Tianming, but her eyes held no curiosity.

Ye Tianming said, “Miss Dong Qian told me that the great war among the gods broke out because of differing beliefs……”

As he said this, he looked toward the Star God, “From beginning to now, you have never once mentioned what your belief is.”

“Ha ha!”

The Star God suddenly burst out laughing, “How clever…….”