Swallowing the Starry Sky for Billions of Years

Chapter 767 Rust Star
The water surged, drowning out the rosy glow; all the beasts roared, their voices shaking the heavens.

Two overlord-level figures simultaneously ignited their divine power. The two domains, which were initially at a disadvantage with a three-way split, instantly launched a counterattack, creating a situation that squeezed the Myriad Rainbow Lake. One by one, the high-level Venerables surrounding it also burned their divine power and entered the domain's range. The demon race's divine archer Venerable drew his bow again, and the terrifying flames directly caused space to slightly distort. This time, he burned his divine power—

"call out"

A flaming arrow struck Guen squarely, leaving him no chance to dodge. His Wolf-Patterned Armor emitted the howling of a wolf, yet it still cost Guen one ten-thousandth of his divine body. Clearly, the attack was serious. But Guen dared not pay attention to this demon lord, for behind him, the Foolish Feather Lord's four pairs of wings flapped several times in succession, arriving directly behind Guen. He seemed to disregard the Myriad Rainbow Lake. The moment Guen turned around, the four pairs of wings, like an invisible gale, unleashed hundreds upon hundreds of strikes as they swept past him.

Tianyu's Six Strategies: Dance.

"ding-ding-ding-ding-ding"

The howls of the Extreme Wolf Armor continued incessantly, and the wolf beasts on it seemed to come alive, their cold and savage eyes fixed on Venerable Yuyu. Gu En was already able to activate the second level of the Extreme Wolf Armor. As an armor-type treasure, within its tolerance range, the first level can usually reduce physical attacks to one percent; the second level to one-thousandth; and the third level to one ten-thousandth.

However, firstly, it must be within the tolerance range. Although some treasure sets can also achieve three transformations, the third transformation is only enough to withstand the attacks of ordinary Universe Venerables. When encountering high-level Venerables who are extremely skilled in attack, the effect of the third transformation weakening by one ten-thousandth will be reduced. If it is an attack from the Lord of the Universe, it would be a blessing if it could be weakened by half.

The same reduction of one ten-thousandth applies; the higher the level of the treasure, the higher the upper limit it can withstand. A high-level treasure is enough for even the Lord of the Universe to use.

As a high-grade treasure, the Extreme Wolf Armor can reduce soul attacks to one-tenth when its second form is activated, an effect that no other treasured armor can possess.

Secondly, it needs to be stimulated.

Most of the armor treasures are activated through the understanding of the fundamental laws, but some are unique and require certain conditions to be met before they can be activated.

Although the Extreme Wolf Armor has a third form, it suffered damage to its origin during the Great Destruction and has been continuously losing its power. Now, although it has the third form, it cannot be activated.

Although the second-stage Extreme Wolf Armor can withstand the attacks of the Foolish Feather Venerable, the damage after each slash penetrates the armor is negligible. However, the accumulation of hundreds of attacks in an instant has caused Gunn's divine body to lose 1.8%.

Even without activating the Soul Treasure of Venerable Yuyu, its inherent power was still extraordinary.

After hundreds of strikes, Venerable Yuyu's speed finally slowed down, and he was finally suppressed by the domain again. However, his eight wings moved in unison, like a knife that could dissipate space and time, and landed on Guen. The space and time of the Primordial Star trembled.

The Six Strategies of Heaven: Slaughter.

Despite his continued defense, Gunn still suffered 3.1% of his divine body destroyed by this attack. Gunn tried to use his domain to create distance, but he couldn't shake off the Foolish Feather Venerable at all. The Foolish Feather Venerable's seemingly simple flight was actually incredibly powerful with every flap of his wings...

Lord Lixiu was stunned for a moment, feeling a strong sense of vigilance and a touch of respect for this being who led a race proudly across the universe. Even the movement technique of Venerable Yuyu was an ultimate skill. What seemed like a simple surprise attack was actually the best demonstration of Venerable Yuyu's strength. His treasures were not suitable for him, but the strength he displayed was inferior to that of Lord Lixiu. He had combined the treasures in his hands with his own conditions too well.

"I'm here to help you."

Lord Lixiu arrived just then. The plant life form with eight hooves and a human body flipped over and immediately transformed into a dragon beast with an energy body 600 kilometers tall. With a simple roll, the surrounding space trembled and shook, directly breaking through the domain's blockade and arriving in front of Guen. This was Lord Lixiu's ultimate technique, "Hell Twist." As he rotated, the entire space shook. Because spacetime could not be easily shaken on the Primordial Star, this move was greatly reduced, but the impact force was still terrifying. It was just right for closing the distance.

Guen had the same problem. His most proficient movement technique, the Space-Time Corridor, also required him to integrate into space-time. However, it was highly repelled on the Primordial Star, and its effectiveness was mediocre. This is why he was entangled by Venerable Yuyu. In other words, both Lord Lixiu's and Guen's secret techniques had obvious flaws. In more complex and harsh environments, their performance would clearly decline, and their levels would be significantly different from Venerable Yuyu's.

Lord Lixiu poses a significant threat. Firstly, his divine body is larger, and his fundamental power is higher. Secondly, he is renowned throughout the universe for a primordial treasure. While gods can freely change their appearance, they are merely possessing the form. Lord Lixiu is different; because of this primordial treasure, each of his transformations is endowed with different abilities: transforming into a rock-like life form enhances his strength and defense; becoming a flesh-and-blood life form amplifies his regenerative abilities and combat skills; and in his energy life form, he gains enhanced control over the surrounding space…

Lord Lixiu's unique skill is characterized by its diverse and distinctive forms.

But what's even more terrifying is the other side. The Foolish Feather Venerable flew and swam, and under the pressure of the Myriad Rainbow Lake, he still kept a tight grip on Gu En. His eight wings flew in a rotating pattern, striking lightly and alternately. He was not as fast as dancing, nor as heavy as slaughtering, but his rhythm was excellent. No matter how Gu En changed his response, the Foolish Feather Venerable could keep up with his own rhythm and firmly suppress Gu En. Sometimes, he would even deliberately force Gu En into the attack paths of those alien venerables.

Even Lord Lixiu only needs to attack on his own, and Venerable Yuyu can make Guen "cooperate" with their attacks.

The Foolish Feather Venerable is excessively strong, and the difference lies entirely in his skill and application, not in brute force. In comparison, even Lord Lixiu pales in comparison.

All living beings can't help but feel fortunate that their opponents are teammates, not adversaries!
Don't look at me, don't look at me.

Venerable Fanhui's initial schadenfreude turned to trepidation. They were targeting humanity now, but if they turned around to fight for this treasure, would he be a match for Venerable Yuyu? And then there was Lord Lixiu. Venerable Fanhui even restrained the radiance of his innate talent, afraid to overdo it for fear of attracting attention. Looking at the treasure, its mirror surface mostly exposed, he roared inwardly—

Hurry up, hurry up, faster!
...The commotion of the birth of a supreme treasure and the fluctuations from the battle among the Venerables attracted more and more life forms.

There was a colossal cosmic beast named Zheng, who recognized the human who had ambushed him the first time he entered the Primordial Star, only to belatedly realize that the other party had been hiding his abilities; there was also a human venerable one who, realizing that the situation was not good, called on his friends in the virtual universe to offer some help.

But there are many more venerable beings from other races!
In the core area, humans only occupy a quarter of the territory. In the universe, even the Hong Alliance is insufficient compared to the number of powerful beings in the entire universe. One after another, alien venerables are coming. There are hundreds of them who dare to step into the three domains. Some are close to Venerable Fan Hui, and some are wandering around Gu En.

“Guen, can you hold on? I’m on the original star number 10049, and I’ll be there soon.” Venerable Blood Abandon contacted Guen through the virtual universe. “Venerable Xuanyi and I are together. You can hand over some of the treasures to us.”

Venerable Xuanyi, a renowned flying master in the universe, comes from the Giant Axe Arena. Although he is only an ordinary high-level Venerable, he has easily escaped from the hands of three cosmic overlords since the opening of the Primordial Star. During the great battle in the core area, he escaped from encirclement several times. His disciple, King Nine Deaths, also inherited his skills and has provoked the Venerable many times, yet still managed to escape with his life.

Venerable Xuanyi was very confident that he would only take some of the treasures.

The Blood Abandoned Venerable spoke quickly: "The first person to discover that you were being besieged should have been the White Protector Venerable, but he delayed in telling me about it at Thunder Mountain for a while, and you didn't ask for help, so I only just found out myself."

"Don't worry about me, just wait and see the show." Gunn was still grateful to the Blood Abandoned Venerable and planned to help him, even though the risk was extremely high. "However, I have something that needs to be transmitted through the Divine Kingdom. Could you help me with that?"

"Alright." Seeing his expression, Blood Abandoned Venerable understood.

'However, it's reached its limit.'

While consuming primordial resources to restore his divine body, Gunn had already lost 15% of his divine body and was completely suppressed by Venerable Yuyu. More and more Venerables were getting closer, and some of their attacks, weakened by one ten-thousandth, could only annihilate a negligible portion of his divine body. However, their sheer number was overwhelming, especially with two overlords present. Every second, Gunn was losing more and more of his divine body.

"Human, give me a treasure, and I may stop," Lord Lixiu transmitted his voice.

The nearby Guen suddenly vanished, replaced by a magnificent temple. It had a silver-gray structure and eight equal faces, each inscribed with strange, simple yet mysterious runes. The moment it appeared, the suppressive power of the Myriad Rainbow Lake surged. Apart from the Myriad Rainbow Lake, the other two domains were being rapidly compressed and shrunk. The temple crashed directly into Lord Lixiu. Lord Lixiu couldn't dodge and could only take the hit head-on. He was sent flying by the suddenly appearing temple. Although he wasn't injured, he was quite disheveled. When Lord Lixiu finally stood up, an unbelievable scene unfolded before his eyes.

The primordial star seemed to have been corroded by something, and the entire spacetime was covered in rust. Celestial bodies outside could be seen through the primordial star, but those celestial bodies were all like iron blocks exposed to a gale, covered in rust and dust, their light was dimming, and spacetime was stagnating.

'Impossible, how could the original star be corroded?'

Lord Lixiu realized this and immediately felt that everything in front of him had a slightly illusory feel to it, but no matter what he did, he could not see through it.

One by one, the Venerable Ones also noticed something was wrong. They stopped in place, feeling the ever-increasing weight of the Myriad Rainbow Lake. They wanted to escape, but they all felt that time and space were incredibly heavy.

"Gentlemen, please experience this move of mine."

Gu En's voice echoed from within the temple. The Foolish Feather Venerable, with a gloomy face, unleashed the Six Strategies of Heaven and attacked. In the blink of an eye, hundreds of attacks were completed, but all of them were absorbed and digested by the temple. Even with deliberate attempts to penetrate and pierce through, not a single ounce of power entered the temple. Immediately, a bad premonition arose in his heart.

"It's a flying palace!"

But with Venerable Yuyu's furious roar, the terrible rust had already spread to his body—

Time passes, everything is covered in dust, and even an eternal lifespan will decay at this moment.

One after another, the Venerables stood frozen in place, their flawless divine bodies now showing signs of rust, aging and decay. They stood motionless, as if their lives had been ripped away, their aura rapidly diminishing at an eerie pace.

Only a few Venerables, after showing expressions of terror and struggling, shook off the rust from their bodies. Those without souls were alright, but those with souls and divine bodies were inexplicably damaged and partially annihilated. Only Venerable Yuyu and Lord Lixiu recovered after a brief stiffness. However, within the hundreds of millions of diameter area of ​​the Myriad Rainbow Lake, most of the dozens of Universe Venerables remained motionless, clearly trapped in an illusion.

An extremely terrifying illusion, which can not only be released in a wide area, but also cannot be awakened by Venerable Yuyu's attempts to transmit his voice or use his soul treasure to influence it once he enters it.

Humans dote on him so much?!

The Foolish Feather Venerable sensed something was wrong. Having a domain treasure and a high-grade armor treasure was already enough to prove how much he was favored, and now there was a flying palace?
There was simply no way to attack; the armor could only weaken the attack, but the flying palace did not exceed its threshold and could not harm the life inside at all.

The Foolish Feather Venerable glanced at Lord Li Xiu with displeasure.