Traveler of the River of Time and Space-Chapter 543 - 27: Star God?

A screech pierced the air.

After receiving substantial damage, the distant ancient abomination suddenly erupted.

A terrifying mind scream swept across the battlefield, visibly striking down thousands of insects, but soon more swarms surged forward.

The ancient abomination seemed to enter a state of rage.

Su Ziyu could see the blood-red glow floating in its eyes. It raised its withered finger and pointed forward, a ray constructed entirely of dark energy tore open a fleshy path. Before the other swarms could encircle it, the ancient abomination suddenly accelerated, leaping hundreds of meters forward, directly piercing the sturdy skull of a giant beast with its bare hands, lifting off the beast’s skull amid the splashing brain matter, only to leap again and appear over a hundred meters away.

Because the spatial nodes around the battlefield were sealed, the ancient abomination could only escape the battle using this method.

"Not good!"

"It’s trying to escape!" Su Ziyu was taken aback.

The enemy’s thinking exceeded his estimation. The chaotic consciousness of the ancient abomination should rarely flee; they inherently crave death and slaughter, yet now it seems it has self-awareness, intending to retreat upon realizing the danger.

It absolutely must not escape.

If it leaves the battlefield area, the ancient abomination before them can teleport and simultaneously recover the spiritual energy it has expended and the injuries it sustained in a very short time.

The regeneration ability of the ancient abomination is terrifyingly swift, as long as given a little time, it can instantly revive to full health.

The insect swarm clearly also realized this.

Just as Su Ziyu was about to strike, a strong spiritual fluctuation suddenly came from afar, revealing a humanoid figure in the sky, its body covered with dark cyan shells, standing atop a giant monster with hundreds of tendrils resembling a blue jellyfish.

The insect mother seemed to have arrived too.

Yet, it did not immediately join the battle. Instead, it connected its consciousness to all brain insects, followed by an almost tangible mental shockwave erupting.

"Alert! Alert!"

"Detected level 10 spiritual fluctuation!... Target is the insect swarm’s ruler!..."

The insect mother connected with all brain-like entities. This time, the spiritual fluctuations it emitted were akin to a swarm-wide consciousness, directly disrupting the ancient abomination on the battlefield, causing its figure to freeze momentarily.

A perfect chance!

Without hesitation, Su Ziyu revealed his figure, wielding the Scepter of the Mind, reaching out toward the sky.

"Activate Divine Format!"

A massive data stream surfaced in Su Ziyu’s mind; his personified thoughts were gradually replaced by those of the divinization form, while divine power began to penetrate the primal essence of this planet. At the moment of connection, extraordinarily terrifying energy surged from within the planet.

"Activating Divine Format!..."

"Initiating demigodification template!... Connecting to the current planet’s source sea!..."

"Plane-wide consciousness is synchronizing!..."

"[Lightning] Domain activated!"

"Body is synchronizing with energy!... Current energyization progress 10%.20%.30%..."

"Energyization of the body complete!..."

"Current energyization progress is 65%!..."

——"Thunder Strike!"

Rumble.

The entire sky transformed in an instant; almost at the moment Su Ziyu’s spiritual energy erupted, a slight abnormality appeared in the atmosphere of this planet, with a visible eye of the storm gradually forming, encompassing an area of tens of thousands of kilometers. Meanwhile, as the central battlefield area, somewhere in the sky unknown to them, had already turned dark. Flashes of lightning sliced across the heavy clouds, and with a grasp from Su Ziyu, a golden lightning bolt fell from the sky.

Electric serpents danced wildly.

The sky was seemingly torn open, with numerous lightning bolts exploding consecutively in the central region of the storm’s eye. As the first golden lightning struck, the second followed, then the third. Under the divine form, Su Ziyu’s energy source connection was tremendously terrifying, transforming the thunder strike from a single attack into a group-wide effect.

The figure of the ancient abomination was instantly engulfed in a sea of golden lightning.

The sudden eruption of the lightning storm not only severely injured the ancient abomination in front but also startled the distant insect mother. It turned to glance in Su Ziyu’s direction, muttering, "Level 10 spiritual fluctuation?"

"No!..."

"This power is... divine?... Does this planet still harbor a Star God? No!... Impossible!... Star Gods cannot be so weak!... Divine power would be stronger, more terrifying!..."

"Is it an Ancient Saint?"

At the moment Su Ziyu struck, the ancient abomination also suddenly turned to look in his direction, surprisingly showing a hint of extreme desire on its face. It murmured with an eerie intellectual whisper, "Star... Star God..."

"Indeed... the Star God has descended..."

The golden lightning scorched the fleshy body of the ancient abomination before him; in an instant, its body was left with only a hollow skeleton. Yet, this did not seem fatal for it, as a mass of black, seed-like material was still beating slowly and powerfully in the center of its chest. Suddenly, its figure dashed forward, gradually becoming ethereal, only to transform back into the eerie humanoid shadow that initially loomed behind it.

"Alert! Alert!"

"Detection of ethereal lifeform descent!..."

In divine form state, Su Ziyu’s entire being transformed into a mass of golden humanoid radiance, the outcome of his body turning to energy. True Divine Spirits are energy bodies; their flesh-and-blood form is merely a projection on the Material Plane. However, since Su Ziyu is not a Divine Spirit of this world, the divine form he activated was unstable, only maintainable for a short period, resembling more of a demigodified heroic spirit form.

Simultaneously, as the ancient abomination etherealized and manifested a new form, Su Ziyu suddenly sensed someone competing with him for control of the source sea on this planet. The plane’s collective consciousness enveloping the planet was also stirred, and a myriad of consciousnesses resonated at that moment.

A gigantic star gate appeared in Su Ziyu’s consciousness, a swirling mass of nebulous material above and countless kneeling figures below.

A crowned figure was slowly stepping into this star gate.

Behind the star gate lay the void, where a gigantic humanoid spirit body could be vaguely seen walking amidst the void.

Spiritual Ascension.

These were images recorded by the plane’s collective consciousness.

"Damn illusion realm."

Su Ziyu instantly severed his connection with the collective consciousness. Faced with the newly manifested body of the ancient abomination, he raised his hand toward the sky. In the next second, a massive thunder spear, extending over a hundred meters, materialized. The oppressive clouds had descended to about three thousand meters, countless bolts of lightning visible to the naked eye cut across the sky—a terrifying lightning storm had formed, engulfing everyone on the battlefield.

"No!... You are not the Star God!..." The expression of the ancient abomination suddenly grew more frantic as it said something beyond Su Ziyu’s understanding, roaring, "You deceitful fraud!..."

"The void will devour you!..."

Countless arms formed from ethereal spirit bodies reached toward Su Ziyu, as the ancient abomination’s body began to melt, transforming into a writhing shadow. The fierce explosion upon contact with the golden thunder spear directly sent thousands of insects flying. Spiky Flying Dragons plummeted from the sky; in the blink of an eye, the entire sky was empty, with no flying insects in sight.

"Star God? What is that?"

"A Divine Spirit from this Crystal Wall Element?" Su Ziyu wondered, but he did not hesitate at all. He knew clearly his divine form state could not last long.

If he couldn’t take down the opponent in one fell swoop, the likelihood of losing was very high.

Just having recently ascended to demigod status, Su Ziyu was unfamiliar with the powers and authority Divine Spirits hold. Even though the Space-Time Monitor System assisted him, he could not fully mobilize the source sea’s power. Hence, he must resolve conflicts swiftly once engaged.

—"Sunlight Spear!"

Lightning storm in the sky converged toward Su Ziyu’s hand, as he merged completely with the Sunlight Spear, transforming into a tangible golden long spear extending several hundred meters, descending from the sky.

Rumbling!

Amidst the earth-shattering explosion, electric serpents filled the sky, obscuring everything. Once it all subsided, the battlefield was leveled, leaving only two figures at the center.

Holding the Dragon-Hunting Spear, Su Ziyu pierced through the ancient abomination’s chest, shattering the seed-like strange material stirring in its center. As Su Ziyu withdrew his hand, the pale golden Dragon-Hunting Spear gradually transformed into dust.

"Target deceased."

"Received 120 points in Source Power Value."

"Received 3 points in Divinity Value!..."

The prompt from the Space-Time Monitor System let Su Ziyu breathe a little easier, but the next second, a blood-red warning appeared:

"Alert! Alert!"

"You have been marked by the Chaotic Void!... Space-Time Monitor System has been locked onto by an unknown target!..."

"Initiating autonomous response mode!..."

"Permission unlocked."

"Activating Hourglass of Time! Connecting to Space-Time Hub! Synchronizing Crystal Wall Element coordinates!..."

"Calling [Space-Time Guardian]!..."

"Calling [Time Dragon Lair]!..."

In Su Ziyu’s mind, a massive stream of data transformed into a peculiar, unknown wave, transmitting outward. Following that, a conspicuous prompt appeared from the Space-Time Monitor System:

"Star-Annihilating Weapon descending!..."

"Countdown 2 days, 24 hours!..."

.........

An endless Chaotic Void.

Almost at the instant Su Ziyu entered divine form, somewhere in a distant subspace, a gigantic dark red sphere with nearly the Moon’s diameter slowly opened its eyes, pairs of terrifying bluish-gray eyeballs gazing toward the distant void.

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