Chapter 344

Chapter 344: Why Do the Gods Stand Above All Others?

The white-haired woman suddenly turned to look at Dongqian, murder in her eyes, the Mohe Death Spear in her hand trembling slightly.

She was about to strike.

But Ye Tianming reached out his left hand to stop her.

The white-haired woman looked at Ye Tianming with some confusion. Ye Tianming glanced at Dongqian, “I’m keeping her around for a reason.”

The white-haired woman asked, “What reason?”

Ye Tianming turned to look at her, “Is that something you should be asking?”

The white-haired woman’s dark brows furrowed, but she held back.

Ye Tianming ignored her entirely and turned to leave.

The white-haired woman glanced at Dongqian, and though she was reluctant, she didn’t make a move.

She turned and followed him away.

Dongqian stared at Ye Tianming’s retreating figure in the distance, her brow tightly knitted.

She was also puzzled as to why this “Star God” before her hadn’t killed her…could it really be?

The moment that thought arose, even Dongqian herself was startled by it.

How could that be possible?

No matter how extraordinary Ye Tianming was, he couldn’t possibly stand against a super true god.

Dongqian grew more and more confused, unable to make sense of it.

But she didn’t dwell on it. She immediately left the scene, because right now, the most pressing thing was to get back and tend to her injuries.

At the same time, with a new true god appearing, the five great divine temples would surely know about it immediately.

What followed would be an era of great turmoil in the divine universe.

Ye Tianming followed the white-haired woman as they traversed the void.

At this point, his physical body had already reached the pseudo-divine realm, and combined with his earlier absorption, his own cultivation had reached the peak of the Immeasurable realm.

It was truly a massive windfall.

What he needed now was resources, because cultivating the Star God’s techniques required an enormous, enormous amount of divine incense.

That was also why he had chosen to impersonate the Star God and follow this white-haired woman.

The five great divine temples all still had living true gods — posturing over there carried real risks. But from the memories he had obtained, the supreme god currently presiding over Mohe Divine Prison was sealed away with severe injuries.

Therefore, Mohe Divine Prison was undoubtedly his best option.

He had actually been hoping the Star God might have a storage ring or something, but there was nothing. In that great battle long ago, the Star God’s storage ring and god-slaying weapon had both been severed away by that single sword strike.

That made him feel it was an incredible shame.

Of course, things were already incredibly, incredibly profitable as they stood.

Along the way.

Ye Tianming slowly closed his eyes, sorting through the Star God’s memories.

The Star God’s original name: Lu.

It didn’t matter anymore.

The dead don’t deserve names.

After sorting through everything, Ye Tianming was still deeply shocked. He had to admit, this Star God was truly a prodigy, because he had pushed the path of stellar cultivation to its absolute limits.

Moreover, as one of the four super true gods, he had originally been on the verge of taking a step further and becoming a supreme god.

It was a pity that heaven hadn’t given him enough time.

At the height of his power, the gods erupted into civil war, and he was gravely wounded by that ancient sword cultivator…though he hadn’t truly died, he had been trapped in a sealed realm, and that confinement lasted hundreds of millions of years.

Throughout those hundreds of millions of years, the Star God had not dared to awaken, because that sword light was eternal and inextinguishable, lingering within his body the entire time.

He could only wait until his injuries had recovered somewhat before daring to wake, but that sword light was far too powerful. His divine body could no longer be used, and so to break free, he had no choice but to find a body with exceptional potential.

And so he waited and waited, until at last Ye Tianming and his two companions arrived.

The Stellar River!

After acquiring the Star God’s memories, Ye Tianming developed a deep and profound interest in the path of the stars.

The universe is boundless!

The stellar river is endless!

This path has no ceiling whatsoever.

All living beings!

Ye Tianming’s eyes narrowed.

In this moment, he suddenly realized his own perspective had been a little too small.

What had he once considered “all living beings” to mean?

People!

Living creatures!

But in this vast universe, this boundless stellar river — weren’t they also part of all living beings?

In this moment, Ye Tianming suddenly felt a great clarity wash over him.

If his Law of All Beings was confined only to people and living creatures, then it would be limited by the boundaries of his own perception.

Therefore, for the Law of All Beings to break through its bottleneck, his gaze had to reach much, much further.

The vast stellar river.

The endless universe!

Wherever the eye could see, who was not a living being?

Ye Tianming’s smile gradually widened.

He had to admit, he was genuinely grateful to the Star God in this moment, because the Star God had shown him the boundlessness and might of the stellar river.

It had truly made him realize that the endless universe, the endless stars, represented endless possibility.

With no more limits on his thinking, what came next was action.

The unity of knowledge and action!

That was his current demand of himself.

He absolutely could not just think without doing — whatever he thought of, he had to go and do.

Forge yourself through practice, and conquer the enemy within.

He decided to start with the path of the stars.

Subdue the stars!

Become the god of all stars!

In truth, he was even more curious about the Star God’s earlier memories — the era of the gods — but unfortunately, what he had absorbed was only the memories of the Star God’s latter half of life. So right now, he knew very little about the age of the gods.

He would have to wait for later!

Before long, the two of them came to a stop.

Mohe Divine Prison had arrived.

Ye Tianming looked up into the distance, and his expression instantly turned grave.

The distance was profoundly dark and terrifyingly desolate.

Throughout the stellar river of the entire Mohe Divine Prison, the darkness was ink-black, so thick it seemed as though it could drip, swallowing every last trace of light. All around, black cliffs soared into the stellar river, standing tall and immovable, their surfaces carved with blood-red talismans like countless eyes, peering at every soul that dared set foot in this forbidden land, sending chills down one’s spine.

And beyond those cliffs stood row upon row of blood-red prisons, inside which massive iron chains lay strewn across the ground, and in some of the cells, white bones remained.

Stepping into this place brought a trembling and oppression from the very depths of one’s soul, as though the entire world had collapsed, leaving nothing but this dark, terrifying divine prison.

Mohe Divine Prison!

In his memories, this place had been built by the divine hall of the gods in ancient times to imprison gods who had committed transgressions. It could be said to be the darkest and most terrifying place in the entire divine universe.

Of course, the most terrifying thing here was still the Mohe God himself!

The Mohe God!

One of the three supreme gods!

A being of terror second only to the Ancestral God in those ancient times!

However, for reasons unknown, the Mohe God had been personally imprisoned in Mohe Divine Prison by the Ancestral God. Later, after the Ancestral God dissolved the Dao, the Mohe God had led the death row inmates here in an assault on the divine hall.

He failed.

The Mohe God was suppressed by the divine hall once more, and remained so to this day.

The white-haired woman led Ye Tianming deeper into Mohe Divine Prison. As they ventured further in, the darkness around them grew thicker and thicker, as though it might swallow them at any moment.

Ye Tianming surveyed his surroundings. Judging from those prisons, it was clear that extraordinarily terrifying powerhouses had once been held here, because every single cell still radiated a fearsome aura.

Before long, Ye Tianming caught sight of a range of mountains rising up within the dark stellar river.

At that moment, two figures suddenly appeared before Ye Tianming and the white-haired woman.

Ye Tianming recognized them — they were none other than Su Chen and Zuyi, the pair who had previously caused a great commotion at the divine academy.

The two of them were now curiously sizing up Ye Tianming.

Ye Tianming naturally had to keep up his act. He glanced at the two of them, “How can the living beings of this age be so weak? In our era of the gods, you wouldn’t even qualify to sweep the floors.”

The white-haired woman: “…….”

Su Chen and Zuyi’s expressions immediately darkened, but given Ye Tianming’s identity, neither of them dared say a word.

After all, he was a true god — and a super true god at that.

The white-haired woman glanced at Ye Tianming and continued leading him forward.

Along the way, Ye Tianming was deep in thought.

He had learned a fair amount about this place, and was also thinking about what he should say and do next.

Never go into battle unprepared!

Before long, the group arrived atop a great mountain, where a grand hall stood in the distance.

At that moment, powerful auras suddenly surged from the mountains all around, rushing rapidly toward them.

In no time, several thousand people had gathered nearby, nearly all of them dressed in black robes, looking nothing like ordinary people.

Of course they weren’t ordinary — after all, they were people hunted every day by the five great divine temples.

Ye Tianming took a look around. The people here were not only powerful, but clearly fierce and hardened — not ones to be trifled with.

However, when they looked at him, there was an obvious wariness in their eyes.

A true god!

In the divine universe, the name of a god was like a thunderclap, commanding awe over every living being.

Let alone the fact that the one before them was a super true god.

Just then, the sound of a cough suddenly came from the distance.

Everyone turned to look, and an old man had appeared at the entrance of the grand hall at some unknown moment.

Upon seeing this old man, every powerhouse in the area immediately bowed in salute, “Greetings, Prison Lord.”

The Prison Lord of Mohe Divine Prison!

The old man looked extremely aged, with white hair and the air of someone on the verge of death, yet his eyes carried an unusual sharpness.

The Prison Lord of Mohe Divine Prison looked down at Ye Tianming from the high platform.

His gaze was calm.

But for a true god, this was in fact a show of disrespect.

Below the divine, all living beings should look up to the gods.

Just then, Ye Tianming slowly walked toward the Prison Lord.

He walked very slowly, completely unhurried, yet in that moment, everyone present felt an invisible pressure.

Of course, it was entirely psychological.

They believed he was a true god, and so even a casual glance or the way he walked made them feel he exuded divine authority.

If he weren’t a true god…

Under the gaze of the crowd, Ye Tianming slowly walked up to the Prison Lord. The Prison Lord stared at Ye Tianming and said nothing.

The atmosphere in the area suddenly grew tense.

Everyone was on edge.

And then, at that very moment, Ye Tianming suddenly patted the Prison Lord on the shoulder and shook his head, “Too weak. How have you been cultivating?”

Everyone: “…….”

The Prison Lord’s expression turned somewhat ugly.

Ye Tianming slowly turned to face the crowd. He took a long, deep breath, then raised his arm and called out, “Why should the gods stand high above us all, while we grovel and scrape just to survive?”

The moment those words rang out, the crowd first froze, then erupted in a thunderous roar, “Why should the gods stand high above us all?”

They were rebels by nature, and these words struck right at the heart of them.

Ye Tianming slowly closed his eyes.

First, build up a force, establish a base of operations, then fortify the walls and stockpile provisions…

If you’re going to do something, don’t do it halfway — do it big and do it right.