Chapter 941: Carnage on All Fronts

In the Ruin Realm, silvery-white cold energy crackled like lightning across Han Yi's body, cleansing her bloodline and purifying the filth within her body.

Insights of the Dao of Cold manifested clearly, no longer cryptic or elusive, allowing her to immediately grasp their profound truths the moment they emerged in her Divine Persona. Her comprehension of the Dao of Cold grew deeper by the second.

She did not know how Pang Jian had done it, nor did she need to. All she had to do was absorb the truths and imprint them deeply within her Divine Persona.

"High-ranking godhood..." A subtle sweetness welled up in her heart, curving her lips into a soft smile.

She glanced at Ying Yue and sent her a gentle nod to signal that she was on her path to ascension.

The expressions on the Outer Gods shifted from shock to awe, their thoughts racing.

Is it really that easy for him to give rise to a high-ranking God?

First, Ying Yue, and now, Han Yi. What else is he capable of?

Mu Duo, watching from a star in the Ruin Realm, muttered softly, "This is nothing short of a miracle."

After personally witnessing Pang Jian's many astounding feats, he could not help but feel immensely grateful that he had not made another misstep after the Ling Yun incident.

A chill ran down his spine as he glanced at Outer Gods like Yan Lie and Cang Feng. He could almost see their tragic end.

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Pang Jian stood tall like a supreme deity in the sky of the Ruin Realm.

The Primeval Demon Fusion Art spun in a massive vortex above him, drawing in shattered divine platforms and the remains of the Outer Gods from the Primordial Chaos Starry Region.

Anything that entered the Ruin Realm, be it body parts or residual divine powers sealed within the Outer Gods' divine platforms or artifacts, Pang Jian could instantaneously analyze and comprehend.

Pang Jian pursued the Dao of Chaos. What he sought was multitude and totality.

The Daos of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Lightning, Cold, Star, and Moon were all stripped bare once they entered the Ruin Realm.

This was the reason he could condense cold energy and infuse it with the Dao of Cold, pushing Han Yi to ascend.

Elevating a mid-ranking God to a high-ranking God was no difficult feat for him while inside the Ruin Realm.

Sovereignhood is drawing closer, but I'll need an immense amount of soul essence...

Pang Jian's thoughts drifted as he contemplated his next step.

The strands of divine consciousness descending from the starry region were wiped clean of their imprint upon entering the Ruin Realm, transformed into soul essence, and swiftly harvested. His divine sense grew stronger with every strand he absorbed.

At the same time, the Ruin Realm also purified the divine power and blood essence within the shattered artifacts and divine platforms. They were then scattered across the stars and continents, flowing into insects and beasts, or seeping into the bodies of various races.

The stars and continents became increasingly vibrant with life.

This realm, forged from a God King's skull, remained in constant flux. It was metamorphosing into something entirely new and otherworldly, with Pang Jian as its sole master.

In the eyes of the many Outer Gods, Pang Jian was the embodiment of the Dao in this realm. The laws and orders that governed stars, continents, and life all fell under his dominion.

He could move mountains and overturn seas. The heavens and the earth were his to reshape. Even the cycle of day and night, or the seasons, was all under his control.

There was nothing he could not do.

"He's like a Sovereign, capable of altering the laws with a single word!" Ah Man softly exclaimed.

This Ancestor of Ten Thousand Mountains watched as a stream of cold energy poured into Han Yi's divine platform, triggering her breakthrough.

Not-so-distant memories of his past encounters with Pang Jian raced through his mind.

Ah Man sighed. "To reach such a height in such a short time, he truly is a chosen one."

When they first met, Pang Jian had merely been a lucky human youth with an unexpected but relentless rise. His brilliance only grew from there.

Even so, Ah Man had not thought much of him at the time. At best, he believed Pang Jian would match someone like Li Wang or Li Zhaotian, becoming a True God but nothing more. He now realized how short-sighted he had been.

"How did it come to this? How did things change so drastically? What—what should we do?" muttered Sha Jia of the Celestial Race, eyes blank and unable to accept the sight before her.

Sovereign Luo and Yan Lie had helped her step out of the Abyss and enter the starry skies, even guiding her to ascend as a mid-ranking God.

As a member of the Celestial Race, she had firmly believed that loyalty to Sovereign Luo guaranteed greater heights.

She had never expected that Pang Jian, once merely a standout among the human race, would rise from the ashes of catastrophe, seizing the skull of God King Yan Hao and stirring chaos across the starry skies.

"Did he truly slay all those Gods? There were so many high-ranking Gods among the casualties!" At the moment, Sha Jia understood how the foreign races in the Abyss had been exiled to the Fifth World for tens of thousands of years. "The human race is terrifying!"

Even Outer Gods like Cang Feng and Mu Ya felt a growing dread that their end was near.

"Han Yi!" Ying Yue cheered.

The Outer Gods, attention split between Pang Jian and Han Yi, realized that the latter had already become a high-ranking God.

Yan Lie was shocked. "So fast!"

"Her talent and potential were always greater than mine." Ying Yue smiled as she approached Han Yi on her divine platform. "The only thing Han Yi lacked all these years was deeper insight and the nourishment of pure cold energy. A new era is coming, and we need to ride the tide of change!"

She had seen the battle above the bizarre mist. With the Black Empyrean Phoenix keeping the two Sovereigns occupied, Pang Jian was free to slaughter the Outer Gods. At this rate, even if the Hall of Gods were to be fully restored, it would be difficult to unleash its peak might without the Outer Gods to fuel it.

Both Pang Jian's Immortal Divine Soul in the starry region above and his physical body in the Ruin Realm were undergoing a transformative ascension. If either broke through to the next realm, his power would surge dramatically, enough to tip the scales of the battle.

These siblings are about to make history,

Ying Yue thought to herself.

Limbs and artifacts continued to rain down from the starry region above, sinking into the Ruin Realm before being refined and absorbed. Pang Jian hovered silently in the sky, immersed in his ascension.

Sovereignhood...

Pang Jian could feel the harmony between his Divine Persona and Immortal Divine Soul in the starry skies above, each sharing newfound insights in perfect sync.

The battle experience gained through his Immortal Divine Soul's harmonization with the Primordial Chaos Starry Region and slaying of the Outer Gods poured down like rain, enriching his physical body.

Conversely, the profound truths awakened by his physical body passed unimpeded to his Immortal Divine Soul.

"Rise," Pang Jian commanded softly.

The enormous skull soared upward at staggering speed, ripping through the bizarre mist and suspending itself in the starry skies above.

"A skull?!"

"It's larger than the sun!"

"That's the Ruin Realm under Pang Jian's command!"

All the divine beings and powerhouses of the various abysses in the bizarre mist cheered at the new development above.

The Primordial Chaos Starry Region no longer held any Outer Gods besides the Sovereigns.

Pang Jian's Immortal Divine Soul had slaughtered them all, leaving corpses, shattered divine platforms, and damaged artifacts in his wake.

Only a portion of these remnants had fallen into the Ruin Realm. Many more remained above, serving as fuel for Pang Jian's Immortal Divine Soul.

Pang Jian's physical body in the Ruin Realm murmured, "The coming battle is only for those with Sovereign-level strength."

Divine beings like Yan Lie, Cang Feng, Mu Ya, Ah Man, and Sha Jia paled with fright at his words, desperate to flee at any cost.

An invisible force suffused with the will of the Heavenly Daos swept through the Ruin Realm, silently drowning them in its pressure. It targeted their seas of consciousness and struck directly at their Divine Personas. There was no way for them to dodge or resist.

They could not evade this terrifying force as long as they remained in the Ruin Realm.

Even if they escaped the skull, the starry region beyond was also under Pang Jian's dominion.

It did not matter whether they were inside the Ruin Realm or outside in the starry skies.

Only death awaited them.