Trials of the Abyss-Chapter 940: Successively Elevating High-Ranking Gods

Ying Yue had ascended to high-ranking godhood with Pang Jian's support!

"I did it! Just like that!" Ying Yue twirled atop her divine platform. Elation washed over her like a tide, and for a moment, she was on the verge of crying in triumph.

Once she got over her jubilation, her expression cooled to stony gravity.

"Yan Lie."

Lunar Edges, as sharp and cold as honed daggers, formed within her divine platform and shot straight toward the six-pointed shield.

The Dao of Fire was torn apart like the ripping of fine silk.

Ying Yue snuffed out Yan Lie's divine consciousness in the shield.

"Yan Lie, you'll never imprison me again!" the Moon God declared.

Before, it had been nearly impossible for her to break through Yan Lie's blazing Dao of Fire, but now, it was as easy as breathing.

"You wretched traitor! How dare you betray Sovereign Luo and destroy my Flameglow Shield!" Yan Lie roared from within the bizarre mist.

He had not even gotten the chance to glimpse what was happening beyond with his divine artifact before it was destroyed.

After his outburst, his expression grew grave as he muttered, "High-ranking godhood."

"Who?" The Outer Gods stared at him in confusion.

"Ying Yue advanced to high-ranking godhood after entering the starry skies! She also shattered my divine artifact, leaving me blind to the upheaval above!" Yan Lie's face darkened, his breathing heavy. "All I could sense was a shift in the starry skies—the shifting of the stars and the eruption of blazing solar radiance."

The Outer Gods were visibly shaken. "What?!"

Han Yi froze, thinking she had misheard. "Ying Yue...has broken through to high-ranking godhood?"

Yan Lie ignored her. After mulling it over briefly, he said, "If you fear stepping into the starry skies with your bodies, perhaps try sending your artifacts instead. Use them as your eyes to peer beyond."

Cang Feng and Mu Ya exchanged a glance, preparing to cast their techniques and artifacts as suggested.

At that moment, Ying Yue's radiant divine platform descended from the bizarre mist above, body bathed in rings of lunar radiance.

Unable to contain the joy on her face, she called out loudly, "Han Yi! Pang Jian's Immortal Divine Soul is the one slaughtering the Gods up there!"

The Outer Gods were in disbelief.

"What! It was Pang Jian?!"

"Could—could his Immortal Divine Soul really be capable of slaughtering so many Gods?"

"How is that even possible?!"

Despite wanting to dismiss her words as nonsense, the undeniable truth remained: Ying Yue had ascended to high-ranking godhood after leaving the bizarre mist, placing her on equal footing with the likes of Cang Feng and Mu Ya.

"I don't believe you!" Yan Lie roared.

Han Yi's gaze drifted toward the God King's skull, heart trembling. He didn't abandon us after all.

"I received Pang Jian's help the instant I stepped into the starry skies. His divine power enabled me to ascend straight into high-ranking godhood!" Ying Yue did not care whether the others believed her or not. Her focus was solely on her friend. "Han Yi, we misunderstood him! There had to have been some accident in the Ruin Realm. That's why he didn't come to save us!"

Her words were outright rebellion. Uttering them meant openly acknowledging her ties to Pang Jian, making it clear that she had chosen him over the Outer Gods.

"You wretch! You deserve to die a thousand deaths!" Yan Lie, furious beyond reason, spat out one blazing fireball after another. Each one shot toward the Moon God's divine platform like burning stars.

"Kill Ying Yue and Han Yi!"

Yan Lie no longer had the patience to wait or use them as bait. He was going to eliminate these internal nuisances once and for all.

The Outer Gods loyal to Luo Hongyan did not hesitate after hearing his command, summoning their divine artifacts as they charged toward Ying Yue and Han Yi.

At the same time, the massive God King's skull gently shifted in the bizarre mist.

Beams of blazing light erupted from its eye sockets, giving the once-hollow eyes a spark of divine presence.

Yan Lie's fireballs were drawn into the eye sockets and vanished without so much as a trace.

A howling wind stirred from the skull. Then, from its eye sockets and gaping mouth came a terrifying pull, vast and unstoppable.

Energy rippled from the God King's skull, sweeping across millions of li in the blink of an eye, engulfing all the Outer Gods in the bizarre mist.

The Outer Gods felt as though the already dense and gray bizarre mist had thickened into an impenetrable gloom. They could no longer see one another, nor sense the God King's skull. All that remained was the suffocating illusion of isolation. Each felt adrift alone in the boundless bizarre mist, separated from the outside world.

Time passed, though they could not tell how long. Then, without warning, a world appeared before them—stars, vast continents, the true Sanctum of Godly and Demonic Genesis, and another Pang Jian.

"The Ruin Realm!" 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

"He pulled us into the Ruin Realm!"

"Pang Jian's physical body!"

The Outer Gods exclaimed in despair.

They had done everything possible to avoid setting foot in Pang Jian's domain, knowing that he held absolute control within it. Unfortunately, they still failed to stop it in the end.

"I saw how eager you were to enter, so I decided to invite you all in to witness my ascension into Sovereignhood," Pang Jian said coolly.

Pang Jian hovered in the sky of the Ruin Realm, the Sanctum of Godly and Demonic Genesis below him, and a gruesome crown of severed limbs and shattered divine platforms above.

Divine artifacts drifted around him like wreckage in a silent storm. Below those remnants churned a vast vortex of flame, born from his demonic energy. The manifestation of the Primeval Demon Fusion Art was in full operation.

Arcs of lightning snaked across Pang Jian's body like vines, crackling around him in blinding flurries of light. The sight left a terrifying chill in the souls of the Outer Gods. A growing despair filled them. Fleeing this realm seemed like their only hope of survival.

"Han Yi..." Pang Jian's gaze softened.

On her frigid divine platform, Han Yi stared at Pang Jian in a daze, unsure what to say.

"I..." He hesitated. "Let me help you break through. I'll forge your path to high-ranking godhood."

Divine consciousness and fragments of the Dao of Cold from fallen Outer Gods gathered at Pang Jian's call. Streams of chilling, Dao-infused currents surged from every corner of the Ruin Realm and poured into Han Yi, sinking into her body and Divine Persona.

Like Ying Yue, Han Yi was also ascending in a single explosive leap.