Trials of the Abyss-Chapter 946: Fu Yas Dao
The Hall of Gods shook endlessly in the starry skies.
Fu Ya had effortlessly dissolved Pang Jian's first assault into nothingness using her Blade of Wisdom and the Hall of Gods.
Calm and composed, Fu Ya shot Pang Jian a faint, knowing smile.
"You had a good father. It's a pity..." Her lips curled, her eyes piercingly sharp, as if seeing through the essence of Pang Jian's Immortal Divine Soul. "Before you were even born, he instilled a chosen Dao within you and imprinted traces of this starry region into your being so that you could seamlessly align with it the moment you left the Abyss.
"He's done a great deal for you, but it's still not enough.
"Pang Jian, you overestimate yourself by appearing in this starry region with your cultivation realm.
"Harmonizing with it has only granted you the qualification to stand against me. But this qualification doesn't mean you can defeat me. You can't change anything."
Colossal projections of the fallen Outer Gods took form, manifesting at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if being resurrected from the river of time itself. Their number exceeded a thousand, perhaps even tens of thousands!
Every Outer God ever enshrined in the Hall of Gods had left behind an imprint. Outer Gods of both past and present had branded their lifelong insights into their Heavenly Daos onto the palace.
The Hall of Gods could be regarded as the source of the Outer Gods' Daos—a kind of Dao Source in its own right!
"Pang Jian," Fu Ya said, a serene smile playing at the corner of her lips. "Do you know why I'm so fixated on that Soulstream in the Nether Abyss?"
Her Blade of Wisdom radiated a light that snuffed out the flames and golden crows that remained between her and Pang Jian.
Ancient Gods with affinity to cold emerged from that radiance. These refined manifestations of the Dao of Cold acted through Fu Ya's Blade of Wisdom to freeze the searing flames.
Each of these Outer Gods was a high-ranking God with a glorious history.
Fu Ya had summoned a hundred cold-affinity Outer Gods and merged their Dao into one. Then, with the empowerment of the Hall of Gods, she froze the catastrophe wrought by the nine suns.
The flames that Pang Jian had gathered for a second wave of attack were swiftly extinguished, bringing his overwhelming momentum to a halt.
Pang Jian's Immortal Divine Soul frowned. "That, I do not know."
The stars and the nine blazing suns behind him paused their advance, holding back his next offensive.
At that moment, Pang Jian felt an endless surge of various energies pouring into the Hall of Gods, from the very stones that formed its foundations. The Hall of Gods did not emit any blinding radiance, but it felt as though it was connected with countless starry regions in the starry skies, continuously drawing strength from them.
I didn't know the Hall of Gods could do that, Pang Jian thought gravely.
"The divine techniques that the Sovereigns have imprinted onto the Hall of Gods are still too complex for me to fully decipher with my cultivation." Fu Ya sighed, a hint of helplessness in her voice. "I can only comprehend the techniques of those beneath the Sovereigns.
"The mysteries left behind by the Sovereigns and the God Kings are simply far beyond what I can grasp in this short time.
"It's not that I can't understand them, only that the time required would be far more than I'm willing to wait for."
Fu Ya shook her head.
"Once I refine that Soulstream, I'll be able to advance my Dao of Wisdom. Only then will I be able to unravel the secrets left behind by the Sovereigns in the Hall of Gods.
"If I can go one step further and become a God King, then even the divine techniques of God Kings will become accessible to me.
"When that time comes..." Fu Ya's eyes shimmered with longing.
Pang Jian's expression changed dramatically. Only now did he fully grasp the sheer magnitude of Fu Ya's ambition!
Fu Ya intended to comprehend all the divine techniques left behind in the Hall of Gods through her astounding wisdom. As a Sovereign, she had likely already awakened to the profound truths behind most of the Heavenly Daos of the Outer Gods.
If she were to enter the Nether Abyss and merge with the Soulstream, she could easily unravel the legacies of beings like Tian Yu, Luo Hongyan, and countless other Sovereigns!
That would surely allow Fu Ya to become a God King!
And if, after becoming a God King, she continued to immerse herself in the Hall of Gods, pursuing the legacies of the fallen God Kings...
Could she eventually even challenge the supreme will of the starry skies?
There's no doubt. It's possible!
Like the Black Empyrean Phoenix, this Sovereign of Wisdom had long resolved to break free from the shackles of fate. She, too, sought to seize control of her own life and future.
If she truly ascended, she would likely be the most powerful God King in all of history. Sweeping away the bizarre mist and destroying the abysses would be trivial for her at that point. Even the two supreme wills that ruled within and beyond the bizarre mist may no longer be able to suppress her!
Fu Ya let out a soft, restrained laugh. "The Hall of Gods was designed to connect to the various starry regions in the starry skies."
As she spoke, vast energies, ignoring distance, rushed into every brick and tile of the Hall of Gods, merging with the Dao-infused lightning crackling over the palace.
The fabric of space around the Hall of Gods shook violently from the overwhelming might!
Its immeasurable aura pierced straight through the bizarre mist and the boundary walls of the abysses, leaving those in the bizarre mist feeling suffocated and oppressed.
"The Hall of Gods!"
"Even in its incomplete state, it's still so powerful!"
"Heavens! What kind of monster is Fu Ya?"
"No wonder she dared to drag the Hall of Gods here and launch an assault on the bizarre mist without even becoming a God King!"
Fear gripped the denizens of the abysses.
The trembling Hall of Gods emanated a divine radiance that defied words. This radiance tore through the darkness encroaching from the Black Empyrean Phoenix, filling the dim starry region with light once more.
The divine radiance, infused with the combined energies from countless starry regions, came crashing down like a waterfall upon the God King's skull, which had been rising upward from the bizarre mist, intending to strike the Hall of Gods from below.
When the skull was caught in that divine radiance, it froze mid-air, unable to rise another inch!
The divine radiance ate away at the boundary wall of the skull. Cracking sounds echoed, as if the Ruin Realm was teetering on the brink of collapse.
Even the skull of a God King could not withstand this assault!
Suddenly, the crisp cry of a phoenix rang out.
The divine radiance had driven back the tide of darkness, but within it, dense arcs of lightning still intertwined, though they resembled shredded nets instead of a complete chain of order.
In the depths of that darkness, the elegant Black Empyrean Phoenix unfurled its wings and released streams of black flame.
However, even these black flames could not withstand the divine radiance from the Hall of Gods and were quickly consumed.
Fu Ya was buying Luo Hongyan precious time to further unify her bodies.
This divine radiance was not the same as the one that emanated from Luo Hongyan. It came from the various starry regions in the starry skies, from the Outer Gods and the profound truths they had comprehended, and was unleashed through the Hall of Gods.
This technique surpassed that of most Sovereigns and approached the domain of the God Kings.
"Pang Jian, you cannot even begin to fathom the true power of the Hall of Gods." The faint smile on Fu Ya's lips bloomed into a radiant grin.
In her eyes, the deaths of a few subordinates meant little if she could grasp the limitless future of her dreams.
Her goal was not to be the mightiest Sovereign, nor merely to become a God King.
She sought the realm beyond the God Kings!
Even her closest allies had no idea how vast her ambition truly was, or that she was already capable of unleashing the Hall of Gods' strongest ability.
Luo Hongyan, still fusing her six bodies, turned her head within the sphere of light, astonishment flashing in her eyes. Only now did she realize the depth of Fu Ya's Dao.
"Nine Suns Strike the Heavens?" Fu Ya let out a scornful laugh. "So what if you've grasped Yan Hao's divine technique? Pang Jian, you're not even a Sovereign or an Exalted God. What gives you the right to wield that technique?"
She cast a disdainful look at the nine blazing suns.
"Freeze!"
The Hall of Gods conjured four frozen worlds of ice and snow.
In each of these worlds stood a God with an affinity for cold. Their towering bodies were like colossal Heaven Ascension Tribulation Pillars that upheld the icy worlds.
The four worlds swept toward the nine blazing suns orbiting Pang Jian, snuffing out the flames as they advanced.
An intense wave of cold pierced through the flames in the form of divine consciousness, reaching Pang Jian's Immortal Divine Soul and launching an assault within.
The fine arcs of Dao-infused lightning on the surface of Pang Jian's Immortal Divine Soul, like protruding meridians, were frozen solid. Even the flames and insights into the Daos of Sun and Fire within the nine suns were extinguished one after another.
Fu Ya had invoked the full might of every God with a cold affinity—past and present, fallen and living—imbuing her attack with their Daos and techniques. The comprehensions and legacies of these Gods, who had spent tens of thousands of years pursuing the Dao of Cold, formed the foundation of the four frozen worlds.
It was a technique designed to suppress Nine Suns Strike the Heavens!
