Chapter 1866 – Rivet
Noticing that the scepter didn’t feel right in his hand, An Qingyu immediately tried to pull it out of the dark quagmire, but in that instant, a flash of sword awns slashed vertically towards the top of his head!
An Qingyu immediately dodged to the side, but the palm that was originally holding the scepter was still a step too slow, and was chopped off by the sword awnings in response, his brows furrowed, and the [King’s Treasure Sword] in his other hand swept behind him, and a flash of cold air instantly froze half of the sky into blocks!
Between the extremely cold ice and snow, a pitch-black humanoid silhouette swept out, instantly transforming into Lin Qiye’s form as he grabbed at the [King’s Scepter] with one hand!
The ability of the [King’s Scepter] was extremely tricky, whoever could extract away the opponent’s divine power through it first was equivalent to locking up victory in advance.
Anqing Yu knew this as well, and a ball of bloody light exploded violently from beneath his ribcage as a hideous bloody hand crawled out of his body and similarly reached for the end of the scepter.
Both palms grabbed both sides of the scepter at the same time!
As An Qingyu urged the power of the [King’s Scepter], a faint golden aura blossomed from the bottom of the scepter, while at the same time, Lin Qiye’s body flashed with a magical radiance, once again turning into his original body, and a karmic filament tightly wrapped around it!
For a moment, the light on the surface of the [King’s Scepter] rapidly alternated between bright and dark, as if it was a broken light bulb.
Lin Qiye’s eyes narrowed as the threads of causality directly crossed over the [King’s Scepter] and extended towards An Qingyu’s body, who’s gray eyes condensed as her other palm instantly erupted into a ball of deep purple lightning that smashed into the surface of the scepter!
Boom-!
The large ball of lightning exploded in mid-air, and the [King’s Scepter] was sent flying by the aftershock, plunging backwards directly into the broken earth.
Lin Qiye’s figure was outlined from the darkness and landed firmly on the ground, while An Qingyu broke one of her arms, barely supporting herself with only one arm and a bloody hand, and landed on the other side of the battlefield in a bit of a sorry state.
”Before, I was wondering, this labyrinth is so big, even if thousands of people came in it would be directly dismantled …… [Divine Realm Paradise] those dozen or so people didn’t encounter a single one, how come 22 happened to be so coincidental, and just happened to run into Vishnu?” Lin Qiye slowly spoke, “Now it seems like this was all your arrangement?”
”Yes.” An Qingyu nodded.
”You designed 22’s encounter with Vishnu so that Vishnu would inevitably make a move to stall me, and then you could hijack the [King’s Scepter] while turning on Vishnu and appropriating his divine power with Nix, who was locked behind the door, for your own use……. But there’s one thing that I don’t understand yet. ”
Lin Qiye gazed into his eyes and
”When did you start tailing him? Or have you been hiding in this labyrinth all along?”
”The wreckage of the Gate of Truth is vital to me, so of course I had to keep some means to prevent it from being taken advantage of.” Anqing Yu spoke faintly.
”What do you want to do with His wreckage?”
An Qingyu paused for a moment, “Awaken the [Key of the Gate] and descend to the true Gate of Truth.”
Hearing this, the coldness in Lin Qiye’s eyes surged once more as he stretched out his palm and pressed it against the darkness in the air.
In the next moment, An Qingyu only felt a succession of sharp pains coming from various parts of his body, as if there was a thick rivet that violently chiseled into his body!
He looked down and saw that his shoulders, knees, ankles, and palms had been pierced through by the darkness, and it was as if his entire body had been crucified on a cross, with bone-chilling cold seeping through his body from the wounds, and an unprecedented feeling of weakness surging through his heart.
Lin Qiye held the Tian Cong Yun Sword in his hand, and the two auras of profound and blazing heat were scattered from the two pupils of a black and a gold respectively, and divine power infinitely close to the highest level surged out!
An Qingyu’s face was incredibly grave as he tried to catalyze the divine power in his body, only to find that the vast majority of the divine power was constantly swallowed by the dark rivets that were chiseled into his body, and in the end, the amount of divine power that could be brought together was pitifully small.
Snow-white frost spread across Anqing Yu’s body, he twisted his body with force, and his frost-frozen left shoulder was hardened and pulled out from the nailed rivets.
Just as he was about to continue, the pair of gold and black eye pupils had already arrived in front of him.
”[Key of the Gate] cannot be revived, this body of yours …… I take it.”
A flash of sword flashed past An Qingyu’s eyes, and in the endless darkness, golden light hung down from the sky, light and shadow seemed to be cut by an extremely thin border, cutting through An Qingyu’s crucified body.
The light and shadow projected on the black cross, An Qingyu’s still struggling figure gave a start, a line of blood emerged from the junction of light and shadow, the whole person was cut in two in a silent manner.
Dark flames flared up from within the blood line, mercilessly devouring the surrounding flesh and blood.
An Qingyu’s eyes gradually lax, the gray meaning disappeared without a trace, back into the bright red “one” pupil, the black robe into gray, in which the soul has long been transferred elsewhere.
The darkness retreated to Lin Qiye’s feet like a tidal wave, and the golden light was like a feather, closing back between the six white feathers.
Lin Qiye looked at the body engulfed in darkness in front of him, his expression did not fluctuate too much, he had long known that An Qingyu would not die along with this body, and in order to truly kill him, he would have to kill all of these Artificial God Bilocations before he could do so.
Lin Qiye put away the Heavenly Clouds Sword and walked towards Niux who was on the side.
Niix’s eyes lit up when she saw that long-lost face, she lifted her skirt and quickly stepped forward, clasping her hands around Lin Qiye’s shoulders as she asked with concern:
”How is it? Are there any injuries?”
”It’s fine, mother.” Lin Qiye smiled, “I’m not the same person I was back then …… Now even if a supreme god strikes, they may not be able to help me.”
After confirming that Lin Qiye was indeed unharmed, Nix let out a long sigh, “Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to stop Vishnu and let him escape.”
”There’s no need for you to take a risk since you were drained of your divine power, just kill him head on next time.”
Lin Qiye looked like he remembered something, and picked up the [King’s Scepter] and [King’s Sword] from the ground aside, Fish One was killed by him, so naturally, these divine artifacts couldn’t be taken away, and they all ended up back in his hands.
Athena and Artemis came from afar, both of them were carrying wounds on their bodies, and their divine power was similarly dried up, seeing that Nyx came back in one piece, both of them let out a sigh of relief.
While the three of them were talking, Lin Qiye’s gaze fell between the tentacles’ corpses and his eyes narrowed slightly ……
He took a step forward, only to see the disemboweled 22, trapped in the thick cold ice, struggling.
As he watched Lin Qiye walk towards him, a flash of fear surfaced in his eyes.
”It seems like your good righteous father isn’t that attached to you either.” Lin Qiye spoke nonchalantly, “Taking advantage of the chaos and running away himself, but leaving you here …… is really chilling.”