Chapter 1859

Chapter 1859 Sword of Light and Shadow

So far, Lin Qiye has only seen two laws with his own eyes.

One is the golden thread that actively sought him out after Michael’s death, which is now the Miracle Law within Lin Qiye’s body; the other is this black ball of thread before him that resembles a fruit.

Unlike the burning and sacred nature of the Miracle Law, the Dark Law before him constantly emits a suffocating sense of despair.

It is the dark side of the world, the shadow of light, the most ancient fear rooted in the hearts of primordial beings.

At this moment… Lin Qiye firmly grasped this fear in his palm!

The moment he grabbed the Dark Law, a cold divine power frantically poured into his body. Almost simultaneously, the Archangel divine power flowing through his body began to boil, clashing violently with the dark divine power entering his body.

Unprecedented pain filled Lin Qiye’s entire body. The darkness surrounding him exploded with a rumble. From a distance, his entire being appeared to be torn between light and shadow, and even his pure white wings began to be tainted with darkness…

“This is bad…” Lin Qiye felt the two opposing divine powers in his body, like water and fire, and his heart immediately sank.

The tearing pain consumed Lin Qiye’s consciousness, and everything before him became blurry. He took a deep breath, forcibly regaining a bit of clarity, and looked up at the distance.

Between the dense starlight tentacles, two divine figures carved a bloody path and had already reached the black sphere where Nyx was located. But countless starlight tentacles emerged frantically from beneath their feet, almost completely engulfing the two of them.

The Gate of Truth had long sensed the danger, and guarding Nyx, this endless source of divine power, was its bottom line.

Seeing Athena and Artemis about to be entangled by endless tentacles, Lin Qiye, breathing heavily, raised the Kusanagi sword in his hand, channeled both divine powers into it, and then, using his last bit of strength, hurled it forcefully in that direction!

The next moment, his vision went black, and he lost consciousness in the excruciating pain.

Endless darkness spread from beneath his feet, enveloping him like a sun. Occasionally, golden light burst from the darkness, like solar flares dancing on the surface of a black sun.

“Damn it! Why can’t we kill these tentacles?!”

Athena smashed a starlight tentacle in front of her into pieces with a punch. Just as she was about to sweep her spear, she found she couldn’t swing it at all. Several starlight tentacles had already wrapped around the spear’s surface, continuously devouring it.

The continuous battle had almost depleted her divine power. But just as they were about to touch the black sphere where Nyx was located, the number of tentacles increased dramatically, trapping the two of them firmly within. It was as if from the beginning, this had been the Gate of Truth’s trap.

With her spear locked, Athena simply let go of it and fought these tentacles hand-to-hand. But when she looked back, Artemis’s figure had almost been submerged by the tentacles.

Artemis was most skilled at ranged attacks, and in this situation, her combat effectiveness was very limited. Those tentacles attached to her body continuously sucked, extracting divine power endlessly, causing Artemis’s resistance to plummet.

Seeing this, Athena gritted her teeth and turned to save her, but at that moment, she found her ankle had already been bound by another slender tentacle. As she tried to break free, more and more tentacles surged from all directions, continuously compressing the space around her.

Sensing the divine power rapidly draining from her body, Athena’s heart sank to the bottom.

But even so, she still gritted her teeth and struggled frantically among these tentacles, because she knew that if she gave up now, both she and Artemis would become nourishment for this gate.

Just then, Athena suddenly felt the surroundings darken, and the tentacles coiled around her wrists and ankles seemed to loosen slightly.

She looked back, her pupils slightly contracting.

A long sword was seen whistling across the sky. Where it passed, light and darkness split the entire world.

Even though its physical form had not yet reached this mass of tentacles, the shadow of the sword passing over the ground had already shattered dozens of tentacles in an instant!

“That is…” Athena looked at the rapidly approaching sword and felt it somewhat familiar.

The starlight tentacles surrounding them seemed to sense the threat of this sword and swarmed toward its advancing direction. But as the edge of the sword’s cutting light shadow flashed by, their forms suddenly halted in mid-air.

The next moment, a fine line of blood appeared neatly in the center of the tentacles. The trajectory of this blood line matched perfectly with the light shadow that had just passed.

The light shadow was like a sword, invincible.

In just an instant, the light and darkness on the sword cut through all the tentacles in its path. Athena felt her body lighten, and the tentacles that had been attached to her body extracting divine power had turned into countless pieces of mush, falling to the ground.

The tentacle trap that she and Artemis had fought through for so long without breaking through was effortlessly sliced into fragments by this one sword strike.

The Kusanagi sword broke through the tentacles like a rainbow of light and shadow, instantly piercing the surface of the black sphere!

As the sword tip entered the sphere, fine cracks spread across its surface. Perhaps because the sword had consumed too much power on its path, these cracks only spread for a moment before stopping.

Athena struggled to her feet and rescued Artemis from the mass of tentacle fragments. The latter’s divine power had been completely drained, her eyes somewhat unfocused, her face extremely pale.

“Athena… did you… succeed?” Being held by Athena, she seemed to regain some consciousness and spoke hoarsely.

“No, it wasn’t me, it was Lin Qiye, he struck with his sword…”

Athena looked in the direction from which the sword had come, but before she could finish speaking, she froze.

Where Lin Qiye had been was now gone, replaced by a massive black sun. Golden light flashed across the sun’s surface, and terrifying waves of divine power emanated from it, but they were unstable, as if they might explode at any moment.

While Athena was stunned, a deep rumbling sound came from nearby. She turned to look and saw that the tightly closed Gate of Truth was slowly opening…

“The gate is opening?” Athena’s eyes showed astonishment. “Why at this time…”

As the gate opened a crack, a glimpse of the world beyond was revealed. But unexpectedly, behind the door was not the safety passage they had come through… but the time fragment at the deepest part of the maze, lined with countless giant stones.

The gate had opened, but in the opposite direction.

“Hmm?”

Atop the countless giant stones, Vishnu seemed to sense something and turned back puzzledly to look…