Destiny is ashes

Chapter 1000 Kunyu Godly Deer
【Kunyu Divine Deer】

The deer has no horns, but the divine deer has two protrusions on its head that resemble cliffs, which are the outlines of mountains. Its jewel-like eyes are like turning wheels, and its ancient and simple body, like that of an ancient giant god, is covered with rock armor. The ground it treads on rises into stone forests.

Tranquil in the boundless, bursting forth within a short distance, the earth and stones may be silent, but if they are the pulse deep within the earth, they are as heavy as a heartbeat.

There was no prelude, nor any unnecessary action.

The moment the divine deer's gaze locked onto An Jing and the others, it raised its hand, and a giant rod rose from the earth, formed from the condensed soil and divine metal, stabilizing the sea and supporting the sky, just like the manifestation of Mount Buzhou.

The world was thus drastically changed, and endless sandstorms rose up across the entire wasteland, turning everything into a hazy gray haze.

"This is the constellation divine beast 'Willow Earth Deer,' which gathers the power of the giants who moved mountains and filled seas from the many primordial ancient gods devoured by the ancient ancestral dragon, and incorporates the meaning of 'suppression' and 'weight' represented by the star Zhenxing, and finally merges into the ancestral spirit of the Earth element!"

Su Xinbai quickly revealed the information: "It is formed from the essence of many earth-attribute divine beasts at the beginning of heaven and earth! The Seven Luminaries Ancestral Spirits at each of the Scale-Illuminating Banquets are different. Last time, it was a giant god that carried the sky and moved mountains, possessing incredible power, comparable to the peak of the Divine Treasury who has mastered the 'Way of Destiny'!"

"Those who were able to defeat the Seven Luminaries Ancestral Spirits in the past were able to use this to quickly perfect their own corresponding laws and the true meaning of heaven and earth, and the future manifestation of the Great Heaven will be a smooth road!"

"Peak of Divine Treasure? It doesn't seem like it."

An Jing laughed, his gaze remaining fixed on the enormous divine beast without wavering, and casually said, "With this guy's strength, if we could really defeat it, we would probably have already manifested our divine power."

In his eyes, this Earth Ancestral Spirit was ridiculously powerful. The entire earth's veins of the Radiant Scale Realm seemed to be connected to it, its energy inexhaustible, its body incredibly strong, practically immortal…

Is the Divine Treasure of the Immortal Realm truly divine?
This feeling is quite different from the information Su Xinbai provided.

At that moment, the nearly 100-foot-tall Kunyu Divine Deer stomped its front hooves on the ground, accelerated, and smashed through layers of air. The giant rock club in its hand was also swung forward with a bang!
The power of this strike was completely contained, with all the spiritual energy directed towards the body's flesh, bones, skin, tendons, and the giant club itself, accelerating and reinforcing it to the extreme.

The metal and the Breath of Earth staff were surrounded by a thick, earthy yellow divine light. The Dao patterns flickered, and the wind pressure it generated was enough to pierce through mountains and shatter fortified cities. The air in front of the giant staff was compressed to the point of being tangible, forming a white shockwave several times larger than the staff itself, intending to engulf An Jing and his group in the air!

At such absolute speed, the air, which should have been completely invisible, suddenly exploded and burned, as if the strongest steel walls were being shattered, pierced, and ignited by a tremendous force, releasing incredible light and heat.

The dark golden sun shone on the earth.

The earth within a radius of nearly a thousand miles trembled and cracked!
"wrong!"

Jin Yanhua also realized that this attack was no small matter, so he shouted and flew out.

She transformed into a dragon, her long and sharp steel dragon tail resembling a divine spear, crackling with raging purple lightning. Jin Yanhua used the power of thunder and magnetism to fix the divine steel armor at the tail and her own body to the limit, strengthening it to almost the limit of heaven and earth, and bravely met this earth-shattering blow!
boom! ! !
Under the terrifying pressure of the stick and the dragon's tail, the spiritual energy that had been compressed to the point of near solidification instantly shattered into countless irregular, blurry semi-crystals, shooting out in all directions.

When these fragments hit the ground, they rapidly expanded and turned back into a gaseous state. The lightning and earth spirit contained within them erupted, instantly exploding and collapsing into huge craters of varying sizes. Even a fragment the size of a grain of rice could easily blast a hole as big as a house.

Jin Yanhua was sent flying backward, and the giant stick itself shattered in the collision, bursting into numerous fragments that flew like meteorites.

As he flew backward, Jin Yanhua clasped his hands together, and an invisible magnetic field of lightning rotated and spread, transforming into a field to resist the flying fragments.

However, the magnetic field trembled violently as soon as it was formed, emitting a hum that seemed unable to bear the strain!
"What is this weight?!"

Jin Yanhua's expression changed slightly. Each fragment of the giant stick seemed to bear the weight of a mountain range, far exceeding the mass that its size should have!
And the millions of fragments are like millions of mountain ranges. How could she possibly stop them when they rained down like rain?!

Left with no other choice, she stopped her momentum, activated the divine 'True Dragon Spine' within her body, and mobilized the dragon energy stored up for hundreds of years. Her body erupted with boundless lightning, transforming into a magnetic storm inferno that forcefully shattered the gravitational anomaly and barely managed to neutralize the attack.

"careful!"

Forcing himself to catch his breath, Jin Yanhua suppressed the tightness in his chest and immediately reminded everyone: "It can freely manipulate gravity and mass. It seems that this wasteland we are in is its domain!"

"Understood, then don't use physical attacks."

At that very moment, an extremely condensed, silent spear of light shot out from behind her! The spear was pure white, without a trace of smoke or fire. Wherever it passed, even the dust in the air was turned into nothingness, and the fragments that were heavier than mountains also collapsed, turning into large, round clumps of earth and stone spirit mist.

It ignored the spacetime distorted by gravity around the Kunyu Divine Deer, and the spiritual energy so dense it was almost solidified, instantly piercing through its right forearm and part of its chest!

After the massive burst of light, a huge, perfectly smooth hole appeared on the divine deer's body, causing it to lose nearly one-fifth of its body. Its body, which was originally trying to chase Jin Yanhua, was stopped in place and unable to move!
It can be seen that at the wound site, countless tiny, translucent crystals are constantly condensing and spreading, preventing its regeneration.

These crystals appear ordinary, but in reality, they are spacetime flows distorted by Su Xinbai using the Way of Time! The conflict between the slowed and accelerated time flows completely disrupts the divine deer's self-regeneration ability, making its wounds difficult to heal.

In an instant, the divine deer knelt on the ground, listless.

Su Xinbai severely injured the divine deer with a single move!
However, before she could launch a second attack, and before Jin Yanhua could completely dismantle the massive fragments of the club that weighed more than a mountain with his magnetic field, she was left to suffer a devastating blow.

Within the severely injured divine deer, a 'heart' entirely formed from condensed primordial soil throbbed heavily.

Boom!
The entire wasteland began to tremble violently.

The heart of the earth is a constant tremor; only a lifeless earth is completely silent.

Conversely, as long as the heart keeps beating, the earth will never die!

With this violent tremor, the strange spacetime crystals on the wounds were forcibly squeezed out and shattered by the more primal earth-yellow divine light erupting from the divine deer's body!

"what?!"

Even Su Xinbai gasped in shock at that moment, because it meant that the divine deer had used a hundred times more spiritual energy than she had used in her attack, and with a huge disadvantage of one against one, it had shattered her 'confinement' in a very short instant!
There is nothing of noteworthy technical skill involved, but the amount of spiritual energy stored here is beyond reason and unbelievable!
At this moment, the divine deer stood up again, and the earth once more produced breathing soil and divine metal, which together formed a giant mountain staff.

It forcibly stabilized the spacetime flow around it, and then, continuously, like liquid gold, 'breath soil' gushed out from its body, filling the huge hole at a speed visible to the naked eye, and instantly reshaping its destroyed right arm and chest.

The moment the filling is done, it signifies 'repair'—the deer's body is as perfect as ever, showing no signs of injury whatsoever.

Upon seeing this scene, both Jin Yanhua and Su Xinbai's expressions became extremely solemn.

“This is not right!”

Jin Yanhua frowned and said, "With our strength, even if the ancestral spirits of the past could still fight, they should be dying by now!"

"This means that this is not a normal ancestral spirit."

Su Xinbai's dragon horns began to gleam, and golden scales began to appear on her forehead, neck, and wrists. As she prepared to transform into a dragon at any moment, she murmured to herself, "Could it be that because of this anomaly, even the Seven Luminaries Ancestral Spirits have become stronger?"

Jin Yanhua complained, "But it's become too strong! A normal Divine Treasure wouldn't be able to beat it!"

"I think there aren't many 'normal divine treasures' left in the Zhaolin Realm."

Taking a deep breath, Su Xinbai raised her hand again, holy light flowing and gathering in her palm, transforming once more into a spear of light ready to strike.

But this time, the divine deer ignored everything. Its jewel-like eyes suddenly lit up, and it heavily slammed the reborn giant club in its hand onto the spot!
Under its will, the whole world seemed to turn into a lump of clay, and spacetime began to change drastically!
Centered on the divine deer, the earth cracked open, countless chaotic fissures extending haphazardly, each emanating a scorching, magma-like light. In an instant, the earth trembled, and enormous, dark golden pillars of light rose from the ground, like sharp swords, trailing thick black smoke, shooting straight into the sky!

The pure white spear, poised to unleash its power, was silently dismantled and dissolved in the face of this drastically changing world.

"Is it the second phase?"

(End of this chapter)