Chapter 884: Returning to the Ruin Realm

The bizarre mist steadily rose toward the starry region above.

A chill of unease swept over the Outer Gods as they observed its strange movements. Even the two Sovereigns were no exception. No one understood why the usually still bizarre mist had suddenly become restless.

The bizarre mist.

Pang Jian hovered calmly above the star.

His Immortal Divine Soul, resting atop his Divine Persona, used the starry sky within his Primordial Chaos Spiritual Sea to sense the rhythms of the starry skies above the bizarre mist.

It was as though he had become the master of this entire region of the starry skies.

Even without a World God Pendant, he found he could teleport to the blazing sun, the luminous moon, or any of the stars with a single thought.

The energies within the entire starry region were his to command. He could stir the celestial bodies and channel his divine techniques through the starry region to unleash greater might.

The will of the bizarre mist.

It felt as though a faint, elusive will down in the bizarre mist were responding to him, cooperating with his usurpation of the starry region.

The will of the bizarre mist below chose me, not Ling Yun.

Ling Yun, even resurrected, would only fail again. It doesn't matter whether he can command the God King's skull or manifest the Ruin Realm. A failure is a failure. That's a fact.

I am the bizarre mist's best choice for this era.

This firm belief planted itself firmly in Pang Jian's mind, as if a hidden force was pushing him to think this way—that he, and no one else, was the bizarre mist's best choice.

Meanwhile, his connection to the starry region grew ever stronger.

Pang Jian suspected that his Primordial Chaos Spiritual Sea had been shaped to correspond to this region of the starry skies from the beginning. It was as if it existed precisely for him to become the true master of this desolate starry region once he left the Abyss.

I was destined to become the ruler of this starry region the moment I set foot in it!

When Pang Jian released his divine sense, he was amazed to find that it ignored distance, reaching any star in the blink of an eye.

His divine sense could lay bare the secrets of the celestial bodies in this starry region, from the chilly star where Han Yi had once resided to the ones where the Gods of the Ghost Race had gathered.

"It's as though I am the supreme divine being of this place," Pang Jian murmured.

He Motian, Luan Ji, Tian Wei, and Qi Ling—though relieved and happy at having survived—could not help but stare at Pang Jian like he was a monster.

Pang Jian had somehow saved them from being devoured by the God King's skull.

However, the four could not figure out how he had managed it. They could not see through Pang Jian at all. In their eyes, Pang Jian was an unfathomable mystery so far beyond their understanding it left them uneasy.

Luan Ji broke the silence. "Pang Jian, the happenings on this star, this starry region, and even in the bizarre mist below...are they really because of you?"

Luan Ji's sharp senses told him that Pang Jian had somehow merged with the entire starry region in an uncannily seamless way.

The ring of light protecting the Great Demon Gods from the God King's skull and the expressions on the two Sovereigns' faces only made Luan Ji more certain that he was right.

"More or less," Pang Jian replied with an ambiguous smile.

His body, radiating golden light, vanished from the star where the four Great Demon Gods stood and reappeared before the fiery eye sockets of the God King's massive skull.

Then, a starry expanse appeared behind him, almost indistinguishable from the real starry skies around them.

Pang Jian had drawn out the Primordial Chaos Starry Expanse from the sky in his dantian. As it manifested, it inexplicably linked itself with the real starry skies.

The hidden mysteries of every celestial body in this starry region revealed themselves to Pang Jian!

It was akin to when he harmonized with the Resolute Expanse.

Pang Jian had truly become the master of this entire starry region!

Stop.

The torrents of energies flowing toward the Ruin Realm halted.

Pang Jian's gaze locked with Ling Yun's through the transparent boundary wall.

The one difference in Pang Jian's Primordial Chaos Starry Expanse from the real starry region was the fact that his manifested sky had three blazing suns.

Pang Jian poured his divine sense into those three suns, using them to tug at the real sun.

"Solar Radiance."

The ancient sun of this starry region flared dozens of times brighter than before. Blinding beams of searing light stabbed at the God King's skull like a flurry of swords.

These beams swept forth like a vast, unstoppable tide, filled with solar flares and storms of raging flames.

The latent fire energy on many of the dry, barren stars responded to this solar radiance, feeding the beams with tongues of flame that further amplified their might.

"He's attacking that God King's skull!"

"Ling Yun had expelled him from that realm. Is he going to break through the boundary wall and force his way back in?"

The surviving Outer Gods were in shock.

As the Moon God, Ying Yue naturally held sway over the moon. However, she had felt it slip from her control when Pang Jian appeared at the yellow star. At first, she did not understand how or why the moon had been taken from her, but watching Pang Jian, everything quickly became clear.

"Han Yi, he's truly full of surprises," Ying Yue muttered.

Waves of solar radiance crashed against Yan Hao's skull, scorching its boundary wall with charred streaks.

Pang Jian's Primordial Chaos Starry Expanse started to fade. The stars and moons blinked out, leaving only the three blazing suns.

The three suns circled Pang Jian's golden figure.

Riding the tide of solar radiance, Pang Jian charged forward with the three suns, aiming straight for the skull's mouth.

Pang Jian had returned to the inner world of the skull.

Landing atop a palace wreathed in crackling lightning, he casually flicked his wrist, snatched up the demonic cloak, and draped it over his shoulders.