Chapter 973: The Unified World God Pendant

Yi Hao had merged the profound truths of space and time to unleash a divine technique that stilled the starry region.

It was a seal that even Luo Hongyan, a God King, could not break free from.

Yi Hao truly believed that nobody in existence could overcome his divine technique.

In the first place, he had never even regarded Pang Jian as an opponent worthy of standing on equal ground.

Pang Jian was merely in the Exalted God Realm, and he was still incredibly young. His understanding of the higher order could not possibly compare to that of ancient beings such as himself.

In Yi Hao's eyes, not even the strongest divine beings from the bizarre mist could measure up to the otherworldly existences like him.

The will of the starry skies had long triumphed in the wars between the two. It only grew stronger with each victory, and so too did the Gods from the starry skies. Thus, Yi Hao had always regarded those of the starry skies, such as Fu Ya, Tian Yu, Luo Hongyan, and the infamous Black Empyrean Phoenix, as his true opponents.

Pang Jian, a mere human of the Abyss, was not something worthy of his attention. He could not possibly shatter God King Yi Hao's divine technique.

At least, that was what Yi Hao thought.

In the end, it was Pang Jian, the very person that Yi Hao had dismissed, who shattered the stillness.

The suns, moons, and stars shone bright as the starry region blazed back to life.

The temporal seal had cracked like ice on a frozen lake!

Yi Hao could no longer ignore Pang Jian.

Both his eyes and the silver eye of the supreme will above him narrowed.

A probing divine consciousness swept over Pang Jian. Invisible strands, like ghostly glimmers, surged toward Pang Jian's Immortal Divine Soul, seeking to unravel the hidden mysteries within him.

Yi Hao was convinced that something extraordinary had occurred with Pang Jian. There was no other way Pang Jian could have broken through his divine technique.

Luo Hongyan watched on with a strange gleam in her eyes.

"So it was you," she murmured, taking a single step that carried her across the boundless starry region to arrive at Pang Jian's side.

Her wings, split between light and darkness, unfurled like expanding worlds. The tide of her divine aura solidified into barriers, halting the intrusion of Yi Hao's divine consciousness.

It was too late.

Yi Hao's divine consciousness had already seeped into Pang Jian's Immortal Divine Soul and wandered freely within him. Pang Jian appeared unaware, standing there with the calm bearing of one lost in deep thought.

"Strange," Luo Hongyan mumbled, eyes darting between Pang Jian's multicolored figure and Pang Lin on his left shoulder. "You said you won your gamble. What did you mean by that?"

"I gambled that my brother could break through any seal and restriction," Pang Lin answered with a smile.

After Pang Jian shattered the temporal seal, it was as though all worries had lifted from her shoulders. She had the demeanor of a mastermind conducting everything from the shadows, at ease as she watched from a position of overwhelming advantage.

"Brother, I knew you could do it."

Her eyes were warm with affection as she gazed at the colossal Pang Jian.

Intertwining motes of light shimmered across Pang Jian's Immortal Divine Soul, and after a long silence, he abruptly raised his hand.

A dazzling golden brilliance burst forth from his palm.

The twelve divine artifacts stirred, shifting into a dazzling formation before gradually merging into a massive bronze pendant mottled with rust.

A majestic, razor-sharp aura emanated from the pendant, seemingly capable of tearing apart all barriers and restrictions.

The twelve World God Pendants had merged into one!

This unified World God Pendant was a peerless divine artifact forged from the Dao Source of Metal. The patterns etched into its surface bore the imprints of the Heavenly Daos. It was like the manifestation of the Heavenly Daos itself, capable of overturning laws and order with ease.

The happenings of the eight surviving abysses flashed into Pang Jian's mind.

He could also see the continents and fragmented lands of every abyss, along with the members of the myriad races dwelling on them!

Even the wondrous realms independent of the abysses, scattered throughout the bizarre mist, appeared in his mind's eye.

After ascending to the Exalted God Realm, Pang Jian felt that his command was no longer limited to the beings tied to him alone. All the inhabitants of the bizarre mist, as well as the independent realms, fragmented lands, and abysses, were under his control!

The gray bizarre mist continued to rise upward.

"I don't quite understand it myself, but your temporal seal doesn't fully restrain me," Pang Jian said, slightly perplexed. "Your temporal seal didn't freeze the many divine beings within my Immortal Divine Soul. They all retained themselves. Only my physical body was affected."

As he spoke, a torrent of inexhaustible energies poured through the World God Pendant into his Immortal Divine Soul. Those energies came from the eight abysses, the mysterious restricted areas within the bizarre mist, and even from the bizarre mist itself!

The bizarre mist's vast emptiness and silence seemed to be a strange form of energy in and of itself. And Pang Jian could now wield it!

Wisps of eerie gray mist appeared in his Immortal Divine Soul, filling every inch of space within. The stars, suns, moons, lightning, blizzards, and his five elemental viscera were drowned in that gray mist.

Despite this, he felt not the slightest discomfort.

Yi Hao's probing divine consciousness entered, only to lose itself within the gray mist, swiftly swallowed and extinguished.

"Can an Exalted God truly withstand the descent of the will of the bizarre mist?" Yi Hao's voice trembled in horror. "Its presence and descent were why you could break free of my temporal seal! If my theory is true, then yes, such a thing would be possible, but-but—"

Yi Hao looked at Pang Jian as though facing a monstrous beast.

Only a God King can bear the descent of the supreme wills. Pang Jian has only just ascended to the Exalted God Realm, which supposedly corresponds to Sovereignhood. How could he possibly contain its descent?

Yi Hao's mind was in chaos.

There was a long silence.

Then, Luo Hongyan exclaimed in alarm, "Pang Jian, the will of the bizarre mist is corrupting you!"

She, too, believed that the will of the bizarre mist had quietly descended, borrowing Pang Jian's Immortal Divine Soul to break the temporal seal.

Suddenly, the seven towering Heaven Ascension Tribulation Pillars—with the altar built from the ruined Hall of Gods, the beehive, and the Bee Sovereign at their center—flew out from the Ruin Realm.

The Bee Sovereign, his features eerily similar to Pang Jian's, stood calmly atop the lofty altar and stared silently at Pang Jian.

"Perhaps..."

The deep blue sea within the Bee Sovereign's compound eyes grew ever more profound.

His gaze held the power of the Dao Source of Soul, granting him the ability to pierce through any illusion. Despite this, he could not see through Pang Jian.

At that moment, the bronze World God Pendant came alive, its etched patterns stirring as the strange aura of a sentient will spilled outward.

The Bee Sovereign stiffened, his gaze fixed upon the pendant.

"Your evolution was too swift. Your strength is being transmitted through this World God Pendant. Or, rather, you are the World God Pendant!"