Chapter 651: Chapter 651
Four colossal titans stood, each like a mountain forged entirely of gold.0
Among them, one had a stern, resolute face, and a third eye upon his brow. Clad in golden armor, it was wielding a golden mace, and carrying a divine spear on his back. It was unmistakably a god. Compared to him, the other three were of similar height and even bulkier in build, yet their hands had no fingers, their faces no features, and their eyes burned like molten earth. They were clearly far more rudimentary.0
On the dark earth, beneath a sky of glowing twilight and blazing stars, both sides clashed violently.0
When the god’s golden mace struck, sparks exploded in every direction. When the titans hurled their massive fists, divine light burst forth.0
The ground shook in an unending tremor, and thunderous booms rolled through the air like summer storms. In the depths of the desert, animals either burrowed underground or fled in terror.0
Some demons and monsters scattered across the Western Regions watched from afar, completely unaware of what exactly was happening. All they saw beneath the distant twilight was a massive silhouette moving like a shadow cut from the sky, clashing with a towering figure bathed in divine light and clad in golden armor. As divine radiance and firelight erupted, they outlined both figures in flickering brilliance, and the rumbling echoes sounded like the end of the world.0
The oppressive divine power made the monsters tremble instinctively. The stars above blazed even brighter; they were brighter than they had ever seen.0
For the first time, these beings of the far west felt the overwhelming pressure of a Central Plains deity.0
Gold Spirit Official truly lived up to his name as Heaven’s Strongest Battle Warrior and a renowned god of war from ancient times. Even against three geomantic titans reinforced by golden light, he still held the upper hand.0 Fresh chapters posted on N0veI.Fiɾe.net
“Let the starlight descend!”0
The stars of the heavens instantly blazed with radiance. Their colors now vivid enough to be seen with the naked eye, they lit up the desert like broad daylight.0
“Boom!” A massive pillar of star-forged light descended.0
One of the geomantic titans was locked onto by the starfire. Even as it tried to move quickly to avoid the full brunt of it, most of its body was still engulfed.0
In an instant, though the giant’s form was incomparably tough and protected by golden light, its body began to melt under the force of the starlight.0
Not only its body, even the spiritual energy sustaining it was being dissolved by divine might.0
Bathed in the light of the stars, Gold Spirit Official’s divine glow surged. The details of his colossal divine form sharpened with exquisite clarity. His golden mace gleamed fiercely, and with a pivot of his body, it carved an arc through the night sky like a crescent moon and smashed down on the head of another giant.0
Under that divine strike, even the golden head was shattered to pieces.0
Only then did the first giant, struck by starlight and already dissolving, finally fall. With barely half its body remaining, the molten, shattered remains of its frame crashed heavily to the ground, erupting in an earth-shaking roar.0
The third geomantic titan strode forward, spinning as it hurled a punch toward Gold Spirit Official.0
Bathed in divine radiance, Gold Spirit Official neither dodged nor retreated, but instead took the blow head-on. Without pause, he raised the golden mace high with both hands and brought it crashing down once more.0
Another thunderous boom echoed, and it sounded like a mountain being split apart.0
The giant, whose head had already been shattered earlier, now faced a second strike. This time, the golden mace cleaved from its neck straight downward, splitting its golden body open. Divine light, spiritual glow, and flying sparks burst forth together. Though a blunt weapon, the mace now seemed sharp as a blade, smashing its way deep into the giant’s chest.0
The third giant’s next strike was already upon him.0
Only then did Gold Spirit Official abandon the second giant, letting go of the mace embedded in its body. Without resorting to any fancy techniques or divine arts, he simply retreated to gain some distance. As he raised a hand, the divine spear on his back appeared in his grasp. With a horizontal sweep like a crescent moon cutting the sky, he lashed out at the final giant with a move so powerful it seemed as if he could knock stars from the heavens.0
Starlight descended once again. Though not as overwhelming as before and more akin to his first strike against Song You, it was still enough to halt the geomantic titan's movements. Its golden skin began to crack, splitting bit by bit under the impact.0
Gold Spirit Official’s spear pierced straight through the giant’s chest. Surging divine force and starlight flooded in, dissolving the giant’s spiritual resonance.0
By now, the second giant, with its head and chest shattered, finally toppled over. It fell backward and slammed into the earth with a massive impact that left a deep humanoid crater. The golden light on its body slowly faded.0
The third giant followed soon after, collapsing forward. Due to its massive size, it seemed to fall in slow motion.0
Gold Spirit Official’s spear dissolved into specks of light and returned to his back. The golden mace lodged in the second giant's chest also turned to light and reappeared in his hand. Only now did he turn around, his expression stern and his eyes glowing with golden light as he began to carefully scan for Song You’s whereabouts.0
“Your tricks are broken, show yourself already!”0
Golden light swept from his eyes, illuminating all things in heaven and earth and leaving no place to hide.0
However, a voice rang out from a distance. It sounded aged, yet fiery with rage. “Gold Spirit Official! Do you still recognize me?”0
Gold Spirit Official’s head snapped up, his gaze fixed on the horizon. A streak of flame flew through the night sky, like a falling star.0
But as the chief of the War Division, Gold Spirit Official knew immediately that this was no meteor.0
“Flaming Sun True Lord?”0
His expression darkened as he recognized the voice. In a low voice he replied, “When you fled from Shenzhou to the Western Regions, no one came after you, and we let you be. And now you dare interfere in this matter?”0
“I neither know nor care what the current generation of Hidden Dragon Temple is doing. But now that you’ve come to the Western Regions, it’s a fine time to settle our old debts with Heaven Palace!”0
“Very well… Very well… Very well...” Gold Spirit Official repeated the word three times, his tone bold and fearless. But his eyes were wary, constantly glancing around in vigilance.0
“Looking for something? Are you looking for the divine flame spiritual resonance I’ve nurtured for three thousand years?” Flaming Sun True Lord said, flicking his sleeve. “Then let me deliver it to you!”0
In an instant, flames surged sky-high. The entire desert was instantly transformed into a sea of fire.0
This flame was no ordinary fire. Even seasoned cultivators skilled in fire arts, demons and spirits, or the divine flames, true flames, celestial fires, and karmic fires released by gods and immortals could not compare. This was the divine fire-element spiritual resonance nurtured over thousands of years by one of the two ancient Fire Gods: Flaming Sun True Lord.0
Under the night sky, the dark and heavy land was suddenly bathed in light, revealing the outlines of dunes and hills, only to be rapidly melted under the blaze.0
Even the “corpses“ of the geomantic titans that had just fallen, regardless of whether their golden forms had dissipated or not, were consumed by the flames. Along with the surrounding hills, they melted into a flowing sea of molten lava, which poured into the abyssal gorge where the geomantic titans had been born.0
And within this fiery sea… another divine figure stood tall.0
Gold Spirit Official was at the very heart of the flames, precisely where the divine fire-element spiritual resonance converged most intensely.0
Above, the starlight flared brilliantly, as if competing with the flames of the earth. The starlight fell onto Gold Spirit Official, transforming into protective divine radiance that solidified around his celestial form. Even so, his body gradually began to turn red from the heat.0
The first to redden were his armor and the golden mace in his hand. Then, the crimson hue spread to his fingers and across his body until his entire form glowed scarlet.0
“You think I would fear you?”0
Though his body had turned completely red, and even his face had begun to discolor, Gold Spirit Official gritted his teeth, gripping his golden mace tightly. Clad in divine light, he took a single step and was instantly before the Fire God.0
He swung his mace in a downward arc, drawing a golden crescent through the air.0
The Fire God burst apart in a sudden explosion, dispersing into a cloud of fire that filled the sky.0
The golden mace cleaved through the heart of the fiery cloud without resistance, slicing it effortlessly in two.0
Yet it seemed the blow had done no actual harm to the fire cloud.0
Starlight once again surged downward, crashing into the fire cloud.0
This time, the fiery cloud didn’t dare take the blow head-on. It quickly dispersed even further, descending and merging with the divine fire on the ground, becoming indistinguishable from it.0
More flames surged toward the Gold Spirit Official, gathering upon his body.0
The stars above continued to rain down, either bombarding the chaotic battlefield or striking Gold Spirit Official directly, replenishing his celestial form and divine body.0
By now, Gold Spirit Official's entire form was glowing a blinding red.0
There was no doubt he deserved the title Heaven’s Strongest Battle Warrior. Had it been any other deity, no matter how ancient or powerful, they would likely have faced complete annihilation after being scorched by such divine fire-element spiritual resonance for this long. But Gold Spirit Official not only endured it, he still had strength left to fight back.0
The starlight flared again, so intensely that it even suppressed the flames on the ground.0
“This Gold Spirit Official bore the divine authority and incense blessings of the Heavenly Palace, and his divine power far surpasses the ordinary. Fellow Daoist, you must aid me!” a voice echoed from somewhere within the flames, reverberating endlessly.0
Just as the voice rang out, another pillar of starlight gathered and struck downward, guided by the blazing golden mace in the hand of the crimson-gold Battle Warrior. Then, it smashed directly into the place where the voice had come from.0
No further sound came from that direction, but the sea of flames across the land suddenly stalled in its movement, only to recover shortly after.0
Outside the sea of fire, above the night sky…0
Due to the vast spread of the inferno, the Daoist had no choice but to keep his distance to avoid being scorched. And in order to see what was happening clearly, he had risen above the clouds.0
By now, Song You had also realized that the divine flame, which Flaming Sun True Lord had once boasted could “melt even Gold Spirit Official’s golden form into liquid metal if he dared set foot in it,” could not actually burn him to death in any short amount of time. Upon hearing that echoing voice just now, he didn’t hesitate.0
He reached out, forming a seal with his fingers, as spiritual energy surged.0
Overhead, the starlight grew brighter than ever before. The earth had become a sea of fire, and within it, the golden-bodied deity burning a fierce red still fought on relentlessly, his roars shaking the heavens. And in that moment, tiny flowers began to bloom across the towering, hundred-zhang-tall divine form.0
The flowers were small and varied in shape. They bloomed from the deity’s armored scales, sprouting from his body, even from his golden mace, from his robes and strands of hair. Everywhere, flowers began to blossom.0
Within the fiery glow, the moment these flowers bloomed, they too were scorched crimson and disintegrated into wisps of spiritual light. Yet more and more flowers continued to grow from the deity’s body, covering his massive divine form in dazzling, almost painfully beautiful brilliance.0
But behind that brilliance, Gold Spirit Official’s divine power and vitality were being rapidly consumed.0
Even when starlight rained down to cleanse the blooming flowers from his body, in the blink of an eye, they would sprout anew.0
The divine form began to falter. Burned by divine fire and overwhelmed by the strange blooming spell, Gold Spirit Official’s towering celestial body quickly shrank. Before long, he abandoned his vast divine manifestation, reverting to a human-sized form.0
Yet the divine fire-element spiritual resonance still surged toward him, converging on his now-smaller body, making him glow like a blazing sun suspended in midair.0
One could faintly see the god raising his hand, lifting the golden mace. He intended to reopen the celestial gateway between heaven and earth.0
But the flames on the ground surged upward like dragons, interrupting the process with brute force. The fire grew even brighter, enveloping the miniature sun in midair, and with a thunderous crash, it fell from the sky and burned into molten golden liquid.0