Chapter 375

Chapter 375: Brilliant, Absolutely Brilliant!

The woman who arrived was none other than Qingzhi, whom he had met before at the Academy of Gods.

Ye Tianming was naturally a little surprised. He had anticipated that the gods might try to stop him, and had even considered that they might descend personally, but he never expected it would be Qingzhi who came.

Qingzhi!

In that moment, he thought of Qingyuan, that honest and kind-hearted man.

Qingzhi’s hair was now completely white, and the fragility she once carried was long gone. Her gaze was terrifyingly calm, devoid of any emotion. In her hand was a three-foot sword, two fingers wide, an utterly ordinary blade.

Recalling the terrifying power of Qingzhi’s sword strike earlier, he knew that something must have happened to her after she ascended to the divine realm.

On the field, the sudden appearance of Qingzhi caused Jin Qing and the others to grow visibly solemn.

This woman was the one who had become a god back then!

It was obvious she had been sent down by the gods!

The gods!

Though they had mentally prepared themselves, seeing the gods make their move still filled everyone with deep apprehension. After all, the gods had ruled the divine cosmos for far, far too long, and their authority still loomed large.

“Her cultivation has been suppressed.”

Chu Nai suddenly spoke, his eyes fixed intently on Qingzhi.

Qingzhi was not a true god at this moment, having been suppressed to the pseudo-divine realm by the Ancestral God’s seal.

But even so, Jin Qing and the others remained gravely tense, because Qingzhi had just suppressed Ye Tianming’s Cosmic Star God Formation with a single sword strike!

A single strike!

Across from Ye Tianming, Qingzhi’s face was expressionless.

Ye Tianming said nothing more. The moment Qingzhi appeared here, he knew that words had become meaningless.

As for the matter of her brother.

He had no need to explain.

Nor any reason to!

Qingzhi suddenly lifted her sword and walked toward Ye Tianming. Each step seemed to fall upon nothingness, her figure swaying in the air, growing ever more unreal.

Between heaven and earth, an indescribable force surged forth.

Crack!

The surrounding space-time suddenly began to fracture rapidly, like a mirror shattering, as dark rifts spread like great serpents, devouring everything in their path.

There was no sword intent, no oppressive sword dao pressure.

Yet it bore down on everyone, leaving them unable to breathe.

A sword dao utterly unlike Yang Jia’s.

Hiss!

The space-time before Ye Tianming suddenly split open, and in the next instant, a sword came slashing out without any warning. The strike was completely ordinary, devoid of sword intent, sword dao will, or even a trace of sword light, as plain as a sword could possibly be.

Yet Ye Tianming’s expression turned grave in an instant. His left hand clenched tightly, and the Divine Domain emerged, but in just a moment it shattered completely, and the sword drove straight into his chest.

Boom!

Before the eyes of everyone present, Ye Tianming was sent flying back tens of thousands of feet. The moment he stopped, his physical body suddenly exploded like fireworks, sending countless streaks of sword light and stellar energy scattering and spreading in all directions.

One sword strike, and his body was destroyed!

Witnessing this, Qingzhi and the others’ expressions became unprecedentedly grave.

Shenqi looked at Qingzhi, a flash of surprise crossing her eyes.

Just then, Ye Tianming’s shattered body suddenly began to reconstitute itself, and in an instant, his physical form was fully restored on the spot.

Ye Tianming raised his head and looked toward Qingzhi in the distance. She stood there in silence, yet the feeling she gave him was as though she wasn’t in this space-time at all.

A sense of transcending everything!

Ye Tianming pondered briefly, then suddenly looked up toward the depths of the cosmos. Deep within, a sword was forcibly suppressing his divine formation, leaving the stars unable to move.

At that moment, he slowly extended his left hand and gradually clenched it into a fist.

Boom!

Deep within the distant cosmic star river, the stars that had been suppressed by Qingzhi’s sword suddenly began to tremble violently, and countless celestial bodies erupted with boundless stellar energy.

The stars were awakened once more!

Just then, Qingzhi suddenly extended her left hand and gently pressed it downward.

Within the cosmic star river, the sword sensed Qingzhi’s intent and slowly descended!

As the sword sank lower, the stars surged again, on the verge of being suppressed once more.

Ye Tianming stared at Qingzhi. “Merge!”

Rumble!

As his voice fell, the energy of a billion stars suddenly fused together at rapid speed, and wave after wave of incomparable stellar pressure spread out from that star river cosmos, beginning to push back against the sword.

Just then, Qingzhi’s left hand suddenly shot upward, then came crashing down.

Hum!

A sword cry suddenly rang out from deep within that cosmic star river, and in the next instant, those billions of stars began to annihilate at a visible speed.

At that moment, Ye Tianming suddenly stepped forward. With that single step, something uncanny occurred, as the entire celestial space-time transformed into a vast star river, with billions of stars filling every corner of it.

Shenqi witnessed this, a flicker of surprise crossing her eyes. “Divine Dao Domain……”

The Divine Dao Domain!

Every god has their own dao. The Divine Domain is a dao technique that all gods can use, but the Divine Dao Domain is something else entirely. The so-called Divine Dao Domain is when a true god condenses their own grand dao concept into a special domain.

And those capable of doing so are exceedingly rare.

Without question, the Star God, as a supreme true god, was one of them.

What surprised Shenqi was that Ye Tianming had managed to accomplish this in such a short span of time.

One must know that some true gods spend their entire lives unable to condense their grand dao concept into a domain!

As the entire celestial space-time transformed into a cosmic star river, a terrifying pressure spread across heaven and earth, sweeping into every corner. Within that pressure lay boundless vastness and ancient primordial force, the most original and fundamental power from the deepest reaches of the cosmos!

Stars!

Beneath the starry sky, all things are insignificant.

This was the grand dao concept of the Star God from that era!

I am the God of Stars!

Rumble, rumble

As the Divine Dao Domain emerged, Qingzhi’s sword began to tremble violently, and then it was as though something was crumbling apart!

Counter-suppression!

Qingzhi stared at Ye Tianming. Her gaze remained utterly undisturbed, but the sword in her hand was cracking, little by little.

Ye Tianming suddenly stepped forward, and in an instant, the entire cosmic star river erupted at that very moment. In this instant, an indescribable aura radiated from his entire being, as though a deity had descended to command all things in the world.

Wave after wave of stellar pressure surged forth like a torrent from the depths of the star river, and as it appeared within this celestial space-time, the entire space-time began to grow illusory.

Jin Qing and the others were utterly horrified, retreating one after another from the celestial space-time, for they could no longer withstand that terrifying stellar pressure!

God!

In this moment, Jin Qing and the others truly felt the terror of a “god.” This kind of power was absolutely not something any pseudo-divine realm could contend with.

The group exchanged glances, their eyes filled not only with shock, but also with confusion.

In truth, during the earlier battle with Yang Jia, they had already begun to suspect Ye Tianming’s true identity. Thinking back to Ye Tianming’s attitude toward the beings of the official residence… they had actually almost confirmed it.

But at a time like this, even if Ye Tianming wasn’t the Star God, they could only treat him as such.

What else could they do?

But now, seeing that Ye Tianming could actually unleash the Divine Dao Domain…

What the hell!

Was this Ye Tianming or the Star God?!

They were completely baffled.

Just then, Jin Qing beside them suddenly said with excitement, “Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!!”

Hearing Jin Qing’s words, the other hall masters all looked toward him. This unreliable fellow always managed to offer some uniquely unconventional take.

Jie Jie said in a low voice, “What’s so brilliant about it?”

Jin Qing was brimming with excitement. “If he is the Star God, then that’s naturally wonderful, following a supreme true god is an incredibly promising path to be on!”

Jie Jie asked, “And if he’s not?”

Jin Qing burst out laughing. “Then it’s even more brilliant. Everyone, think about it, if he’s not the Star God, that means he directly counter-absorbed the Star God back then! What the hell! Do you know what that means? It means he’s even more powerful than the Star God!! Isn’t that absolutely brilliant?!”

Hearing Jin Qing’s words, the hall masters were all momentarily stunned.

What the hell!

That logic… seemed completely sound!

Jin Qing gazed with burning eyes at Ye Tianming, now surrounded by swirling stars. “I actually hope he’s not the Star God, because if he isn’t, that means he’s even more powerful than the Star God!”

Jie Jie said in a low voice, “How could he possibly absorb a god? That’s not realistic……”

“What the hell do you mean realistic!!”

Jin Qing suddenly went a little wild. “Why are you looking at what’s realistic? Look at the facts!!”

Jie Jie: “……”

Chu Nai beside them also suddenly said, “Jin Qing is right. If he’s not the Star God, then it proves he’s even more powerful than the Star God, which isn’t a bad thing for us.”

Ke Sheng also nodded. “What the two hall masters said makes sense. If he’s not the Star God, then that makes him even more terrifying. Think about it, everyone, if he’s not the Star God, that means he learned the Star God’s star dao from scratch, yet he’s been able to cultivate the Star God’s star dao to this level in such a short time…… how terrifyingly gifted is that?”

“Exactly!”

Jin Qing added, “And a prodigy like this definitely didn’t come from an ordinary background or start as a rogue cultivator. There must be top-tier powerhouses or forces backing him……”

Jie Jie said in a low voice, “He comes from the official residence cosmos!”

Jin Qing glared at Jie Jie. “Can you stop being contrarian? Huh? Are you some kind of argument addict?”

Jie Jie: “???”

Chu Nai beside them suddenly said, “The official residence cosmos doesn’t mean much. Take the Guanxuan Sword Master, for instance, and that young man called Yang Jia from earlier, they all came from the official residence cosmos, yet their strength and talent…… are both abnormal.”

Jin Qing and the others nodded. The beings of this official residence cosmos had a tendency to mutate.

Abnormal as it was, they had already accepted that fact.

Just then, Jie Jie suddenly spoke again, “But if he’s not the Star God, then doesn’t that mean all that talk about the Law of All Beings and the gods’ betrayal…… was just him deceiving us?”

At those words, all the hall masters fell silent.

Jin Qing suddenly glared at Jie Jie. “Damn it, do you have to keep being contrarian? Huh, huh?? Do you have to wreck our conviction like this?? Damn it!!”

Jie Jie: “……”