Chapter 343

Chapter 343: On Their Knees!

“Kneel!”

　　Without warning, a single thought appeared in the Star God’s mind.

　　Thud!

　　The Star God’s legs gave way, and he dropped to his knees on the spot.

　　Stunned.

　　His face was filled with disbelief, his mind a complete blank.

　　What the hell?

　　Where am I?

　　After a long moment, his mind finally came back to him. As if realizing something, he snapped his head up and looked toward the woman in the plain dress in the distance — but she had already turned and was slowly walking away.

　　She didn’t even look at him!

　　Not worthy!

　　The Star God instantly understood what she meant. He felt a profound humiliation. He wanted to resist. His hands clenched tight, and a billion rays of stellar light erupted from within him.

　　Yet the moment that stellar light appeared, it was directly extinguished — as if it had struck an invisible barrier, utterly unable to take form.

　　”How is this possible!”

　　The Star God’s face was filled with shock. He let out a furious roar and tried to gather the light again, but every ray of stellar light vanished the instant it appeared.

　　In that moment, a deep fear welled up from within him.

　　Ever since that encounter long ago with the ancient sword cultivator, the God of the Sword Dao, he had not felt fear for a very, very long time.

　　He knew that all of this was because of that woman in the plain dress. He realized the gap between them was far greater than he had ever imagined.

　　But how could that be?

　　After the Age of Gods, how could a being of this level possibly exist in the mortal world? It made no sense!

　　Could it be that the Heavenly Demon had returned?

　　He looked toward the edge of his vision, but the woman in the plain dress had already vanished.

　　And now, his body was dissolving, bit by bit.

　　No, wait!

　　He was being counter-possessed!

　　The Star God was instantly seized with terror. His eyes went wide with rage as he roared, “Who are you……. impossible, there is absolutely no one in this world this powerful……. are you a Dao-Outer Heavenly Demon……”

　　From the Age of Gods until now, no one this powerful had ever appeared.

　　Never!

　　Yet no matter how he questioned, no matter how he raged, the woman in the plain dress never appeared again.

　　He despaired!

　　Though more than anything, what he felt was humiliation.

　　Because he knew that woman looked at him the way one looks at an ant — no, in that woman’s eyes, he wasn’t even worth an ant!

　　He was a god!

　　Yet no matter how unwilling he was, no matter how humiliated, there was nothing he could do.

　　He exhausted every means at his disposal, and still it was useless.

　　All he could do was watch himself be devoured, bit by bit.

　　Outside, Ye Tianming suddenly felt a flood of information pouring into his sea of consciousness.

　　At first he was a little dazed, but very quickly he realized that all of it was memories.

　　The Star God’s memories!

　　Ye Tianming grew even more confused.

　　What was going on?

　　Why did he have the Star God’s memories in his head?

　　Soon, a vague understanding began to form.

　　The Star God must have failed when he tried to possess him.

　　But why had he failed?

　　Ye Tianming was genuinely puzzled.

　　He had the Law of All Beings, but that law was surely useless against a powerhouse of this level.

　　He had no time to think further, because the Star God’s endless memories were now crashing into his sea of consciousness like a tidal wave.

　　Too much!

　　He felt like his head was about to explode.

　　And at this moment, the Star God was still roaring with indignation.

　　He had been gravely wounded and sealed by that sword light for so many years. He had finally broken free, and on top of that, he had found such a perfect vessel.

　　And now it was all going to benefit someone else — how could he accept that?

　　He had survived even the great war of the gods.

　　He did not want to die.

　　He fought back frantically, but it was all for nothing.

　　Death drew closer and closer. In the end, the will to survive forced him to set aside his pride as a ‘god’, and he began to beg Ye Tianming directly, “Let me go, and I can……”

　　Ye Tianming refused outright. “Keep dreaming.”

　　The Star God: …….

　　Ye Tianming stopped paying attention to the howling Star God and quickly sat down, beginning to rapidly absorb the Star God’s memories.

　　Outside.

　　At this moment, the white-haired woman and Dong Qian were locked in a standoff. Dong Qian held the Heavenly Lord Mirror, a beam of golden light enveloping her, but the wound on her chest was growing larger and larger, and her body was becoming weaker and weaker.

　　The God-Slaying Artifact!

　　A divine object capable of slaying even gods — let alone Dong Qian, who had a mortal body.

　　The white-haired woman, her cultivation suppressed by the Law of All Beings, was powerless to strike at Dong Qian again, and so the two women stood in a standoff.

　　But the white-haired woman was clearly the more confident of the two, because the Star God had already entered Ye Tianming’s body to possess him.

　　In truth, the Star God had never intended to fight three opponents from the start. Of course, what the Star God had his eye on was not Dong Qian herself, but the force standing behind her.

　　The Mohe Death Domain!

　　The Mohe Death Domain was not one of the Five Great Divine Halls. Though they had a true god of their own, that god was in a state of severe injury and sealing — having been gravely wounded by the combined efforts of the true gods of the Five Great Divine Halls back in the day — and so they had been keeping a low profile all these years.

　　Once the Star God appeared, he would naturally want territory, since territory meant a faith manor, and only by obtaining a new faith manor could he possibly recover to his peak. That was also why he had chosen the white-haired woman.

　　Compared to the white-haired woman’s composure, Dong Qian’s expression had grown grim.

　　First, she could barely hold on right now, and she couldn’t hold on for much longer, because the power of the God-Slaying Artifact was simply too terrifying.

　　Second, once Ye Tianming was successfully possessed, who in this divine universe could stand against the Star God — aside from those few true gods?

　　It was safe to say the situation was extremely unfavorable for her.

　　But there was nothing she could do, because she had absolutely no way to contact the outside world.

　　This entire area had been completely sealed off by the Star God.

　　Dong Qian’s gaze fell on Ye Tianming. Her expression was complicated. She knew Ye Tianming had a certain mystique to him and was no ordinary person, but she was very clear that no matter how mysterious or extraordinary he was, he could never stand against a true god.

　　A true god!

　　From that brief exchange just now, she knew that even in her current state — pseudo-divine realm, wielding the God-Slaying Artifact — the gap between her and a true god was still enormous.

　　Just then, the aura around Ye Tianming suddenly began to shift. At the same time, his face grew paler and paler, and his features contorted, as if he were enduring some kind of agony.

　　Seeing this, Dong Qian’s heart instantly sank to the bottom.

　　The reason Ye Tianming was in such pain was entirely because he had absorbed far too many memories. The sheer volume of information in those memories was so immense that his sea of consciousness could barely contain it.

　　After all, this was an ancient true god!

　　On top of that, his body was also absorbing the Star God’s physical form and divine soul.

　　Not only was his sea of consciousness struggling to hold on, his body and divine soul were also on the verge of their limits. It was fortunate that his body had just been strengthened on the Stellar Grand Dao — otherwise, he would likely have already exploded and died.

　　And now, the Star God’s voice was growing weaker and weaker.

　　That faint voice was laced with fierce unwillingness.

　　But no matter how he struggled, Ye Tianming paid him no mind.

　　As far as Ye Tianming was concerned, this windfall of fortune had to be seized — he absolutely could not let it slip away.

　　After quite a while, Ye Tianming suddenly said, “Little Soul, help me seal off part of his memories.”

　　Hum!

　　Inside him, the sound of a sword cry suddenly rang out.

　　Little Soul entered his sea of consciousness directly, working alongside him to seal the remaining memories.

　　There was no other way — the Star God’s memories were simply too vast.

　　He couldn’t absorb that much right now, so the only option was to seal them away temporarily.

　　Before long, he and Little Soul joined forces and finally managed to lock the remaining memories of the divine being deep within his sea of consciousness, leaving them unabsorbed.

　　”Ahh!”

　　At that moment, from the deepest part of his sea of consciousness, a shrill, anguished cry filled with unwillingness suddenly rang out — but just as quickly, it fell completely silent.

　　The Star God was no more.

　　Ye Tianming collapsed.

　　Seeing this, the two women nearby both furrowed their brows.

　　What happened?

　　Before long, Ye Tianming slowly sat back up. He shook his head hard — it truly felt as heavy as if it had been filled with lead.

　　After a moment, a faint smile suddenly crept across Ye Tianming’s face.

　　It was a rather strange smile.

　　The two women beside him were completely baffled.

　　The smile at the corner of Ye Tianming’s mouth grew wider and wider, because he had gained an enormous wealth of memories — and within those memories were not only the Star God’s cultivation methods, but also the divine techniques the Star God had created himself.

　　The Star God Dao!

　　Using the universe as a chessboard and the stars as pieces, moving the stars with a single hand, dominating all things.

　　In the Age of Gods, it was known as one of the three greatest divine techniques.

　　Ye Tianming felt a genuine chill run through him, because he realized the Star God’s power had likely not even reached one percent of his peak.

　　Because just now, the Star God had only moved a single planet. At his peak, a casual wave of his hand would have set the endless stars in motion, forming a grand formation.

　　This also made him realize that the true gods of this world were absolutely terrifyingly powerful.

　　Of course, he wasn’t sure how they compared to his second senior uncle or that God of War.

　　Either way, both his second senior uncle and that God of War, placed in this universe, would absolutely be terrifying forces to reckon with.

　　That was, of course, assuming the special Dao laws of this universe ceased to exist.

　　Ye Tianming pulled his thoughts back and continued to explore the Star God’s memories.

　　Beyond the Star God Dao, the Star God had also created a stellar body-guarding technique — one that could draw upon the power of countless stars to forge an indestructible stellar body for oneself!

　　Also a divine technique!

　　For where he currently stood, this thing was genuinely broken.

　　This was an absolute windfall.

　　Thanks to his own natural gifts, combined with the Star God’s memories, cultivating it would be almost effortless — though the prerequisite was having money, and incense offerings.

　　To cultivate this divine technique to its ultimate level would require an enormous, enormous amount of incense offerings.

　　A moment later, Ye Tianming slowly opened his eyes.

　　The gazes of both women fell on him instantly.

　　Ye Tianming stood up. He looked at the white-haired woman, his expression calm. “Don’t worry. What I promised you before — I will not go back on my word.”

　　Hearing this, Dong Qian’s face went completely dark.

　　The Star God had succeeded!

　　Not far away, the white-haired woman heard Ye Tianming’s words and gave a slight nod.