The Era of Gods

Chapter 592: 592

Lin Xiao looked up, a trace of ruthlessness on his face. As he raised his hand, golden dragon scales swiftly emerged along his arm. His massive dragon claw made a grasping motion in the air, and the Bloodflesh Knight was bound by an invisible force in mid-air. As Lin Xiao’s ferocious dragon claw clenched, the knight’s body, several meters tall, was deformed by the unseen power, and the sound of breaking bones crackled continuously.

The Bloodflesh Knight roared as his body rapidly inflated, but his waist, gripped by the hold, remained tightly clamped, contrasting starkly with his swelling torso.

“Boom!”

The now nearly ten-meter-tall giant-like Bloodflesh Knight was abruptly severed at the waist. His lower half smashed heavily onto the ground, while at the severed upper half, flesh sprouts danced wildly as blood and tissue grew back rapidly before being crumbled by an invisible force each time it made progress, and viscous blood was spattered everywhere.

At Sequence 2 level, every move he made was imbued with the Power of Laws. Just like how Li Ying and his companions could resist the pervasive warping power inside the temple by borrowing only a fraction of the strength from a Sequence 2 mighty being, he, as a true Sequence 2 entity, could suppress the entire corrupted Sun Temple by force. How could a mere Sequence 5 corrupted creature be his match?

Lin Xiao couldn’t be bothered to watch them enter at a snail’s pace. If they couldn’t handle the situation later, they would still have to ask for his help, so it might as well be him taking direct action.

He also wanted to see just how powerful he was as a Lord of Chaos of Sequence 2 and whether the Fragment of the sealed artifact of Sequence Zero in the Sun Temple could pose any threat to him.

He kicked open the main door, and two mutated, corrupt Divine Office Staff rushed towards him. One swiftly swelled into a monster, while the other flipped open a large book that had already turned fleshy, murmured a few words, and grabbed a round, tentacle-covered orb from it, tossing it into the air. The meat orb swiftly flew up high and bloomed with a dull yellow light.

“Bang!”

A punch that shattered the vacuum smashed the inflating monster to bits. He turned his head to look at the meat orb that had become like a dull yellow sun. Mysterious fluctuations stirred in his pupils. The dull sun quickly shrank back into a tentacled meat orb, which wobbled as it floated down to land on his shoulder, wrapping its tentacles around him and rubbing against him like a pet.

Chaotic Sequence 6: An Instigator of Chaos, influencing the hearts and wills of all living beings with the power of chaos.

Advancing to Sequence 5 Harbinger of Calamity could directly warp the minds and wills of living beings. These twisted monsters, being among the living, could naturally be twisted by him.

He stretched out his hand to stroke the tentacled meat orb on his shoulder, and as everyone watched in horror, Lin Xiao moved forward with a step. A ring of warped aura spread out from under his feet. Many of the warped followers of the Sun Church within the temple were touched by the aura and had their minds, wills, and flesh forcedly twisted—turning into his servants and following behind him.

“Holy moly, that move is awesome!”

He charged straight into the inner parts of the temple in one breath. Even the high-ranking officials had no power to resist and were controlled. All the Sons of the Divine Realm regarded this big shot as really formidable.

With all these minions, Lin Xiao didn’t even need to take action himself. He controlled these controlled monsters and ran rampant inside the Sun Temple.

Li Mei’s eyes were filled with allure, and she was practically pressing her body against him.

Offering herself so openly required no courtesy. His large hand wrapped around her slender waist and on her impressively curved and perky buttocks, the feeling was incredibly good.

Everyone envied him, but no one dared to speak nonsense. Along the way, he had proved himself to be a true powerhouse, and they were all smart enough not to do anything silly to offend this big shot.

After he partially cleared the central area in front of the temple, he amassing a few hundred controlled subordinates. But unexpectedly, he did not encounter any of the high-ranking members of the Church. He didn’t know if they were dead or had fled.

At this moment, Li Mei whispered to him,

“There’s nothing good on the periphery. Let’s leave the rest to everyone to divide. The best stuff is in the basement—that’s where the Fragment of the sealed Sequence Zero is, in the Underground Devil-subduing Chamber. I’ll show you the way.”

Lin Xiao nodded in agreement. Although he was the most powerful person present, hogging everything for himself wasn’t a good habit.

Turning back to the main hall of the temple, as directed by Li Mei, he moved the halved statue of the Sun God to reveal an entrance to the basement.

Speaking of which, the current situation of the Sun God might be pretty bad. Even the consciousness tied to the major temples across the Earth had all been taken away. Normally, temples where prayers for faith were conducted would have a hint of consciousness, and a temporary Incarnation could be formed with a descent of power at critical times to fend off enemies.

When he arrived earlier, this statue was just a sculpted object with some divine peculiarities. After being distorted and corrupted, it had turned into a monster similar to a Golem, which he had split in two.

As the basement entrance opened, the temperature inside the entire temple plummeted. In Lin Xiao’s eyes, an unknown Law fluctuation, invisible to professionals above Sequence 3, snaked out from the underground entrance, almost as if it had a consciousness of its own, watching him.

“Get out of here!”

He gently pushed on Li Mei’s slender waist with his hand, and an invisible force sent her flying a dozen meters away.

All the people present had rich experiences with strange phenomena. They had already begun to react when the temperature inside the temple dropped abruptly. Upon hearing Lin Xiao’s words, they ran faster than anyone, swarming to the entrance of the Sun Temple.

Once everyone was out, the aura beneath Lin Xiao’s feet suddenly changed; the chaotic warping aura transformed into a grey Chaotic aura. The boiling grey Chaotic Power surged like a sea surface, occasionally showing huge bulges as if something massive was about to break through the Chaos.

The twisted monsters under his control within the Chaotic aura had grey mist ascending slowly from their feet, covering them and slowly transforming them into Chaos Creatures.

After being transformed into Chaos Creatures, they would gain different levels of enhancement and would be wholly under his dominion.

Control and dominion are not the same; control requires his power to maintain it, and they would be free once the power dissipated, but dominion does not require maintenance.

The will that protruded out of the basement was merely observing him with curiosity and showed no signs of hostility. It seemed there was no intention to be a foe.

But Lin Xiao dared not take the entity lightly; such an existence could no longer be sensed for malice through perception. Moreover, the being within this underground chamber was not affected by the distortion and corruption that enveloped the entire Sun Temple, just as Lin Xiao was unaffected.

However, this did not mean it was safe. When the Church of the Sun God initially categorized it as a sealed entity, it signified that its strength was incredibly powerful and its danger extremely high.

An uncontrollable object was called a sealed entity, while a controllable one was named a holy relic or a Divine Artifact.

The double-serpent entwined Gold Scepter in Li Ying’s hand was precisely a holy relic, a type of sealed entity itself.

But this did not mean that dealing with sealed entities necessitated combat. Some higher-level sealed entities possessed greater Wisdom than humans and could be communicated with, especially when the entity for negotiation was so powerful.

If it were someone else who came here, this unknown sealed entity would definitely attack and kill them instantly, but Lin Xiao, being another entity that mastered the Rules, had room to negotiate.

After a stand-off, a series of words that could drive mid to low-level Professionals mad appeared in Lin Xiao’s ears:

“I can feel the breath of an otherworldly presence on you; perhaps we can make a trade.”

Lin Xiao remained silent, and the voice continued:

“Take me out of this world, and in return, I will allow you to borrow my Strength.”

Lin Xiao still did not speak but instead gazed strangely around the underground chamber.

His fee unrestrained gaze eventually angered the unknown will:

“Perhaps you think you can challenge me. You may try. I will permit you this impudence once!”

Lin Xiao twisted his neck and said discourteously:

“Then I shall give it a try!”

His right hand reached down into the void, and a tide arose from the domain formed by the Chaos Qi beneath his feet, quickly solidifying into a massive claw similar to his ferocious Dragon Scales, pressing down towards the underground chamber.

“Boom!”

The Earth trembled violently, and the less than two-meter-diameter entrance of the underground chamber was forcibly expanded to over five meters, with a crack large enough to fit a leg extending all the way to the church doorway.

“The fight has begun!”

The people at the entrance of the Temple felt the tremendous power and expressed their surprise, their envy mingled with longing.

Inside the Temple, the booming was unceasing. Two forces far beyond their level continuously collided, causing violent vibrations in the Temple. Even the distorted space housing the Temple shook.

Within the Temple, the entrance to the underground chamber had collapsed under Lin Xiao’s triple punches. He leaped into the vast chamber and saw the true form of this force: a red doll… amid a pile of corpses twisted beyond human recognition.

To be precise, the contorted and unrecognizable corpses were the upper echelons of the Sun Temple and the Divine Office Staff from the underground research institute, as well as other sealed entities buried underneath.

Before, they were thought to have escaped, but it turned out they died here, and it appeared their deaths were related to the Fragment of Sequence Zero’s sealed entity.

“If the entire entity of Sequence Zero was here, I’d turn around and leave, but for a mere insignificant Fragment to talk big, dare it!”

Lin Xiao’s will swiftly transcended infinite distances to communicate with the vast Chaotic Void Sea. The void above collapsed, and infinite Chaotic Power poured down like seawater, quickly beginning to assimilate this space. His Strength surged, and his body rapidly expanded towards his True Body.

“Chaos Creature!”

A slightly surprised voice emanated from the doll, and then it flew into the air. A formless Power of Laws radiated from the doll’s body. Layers of space solidified, then twisted, arresting the downpour of Chaotic Power and reversing its flow back into chaos.

“???”

Surprise and confusion filled Lin Xiao’s mind.

This use of Rules was very similar to time reversal, but he was certain it was not the Time Law. If this entity could master the Time Law, it would have easily crushed him to death by now.

As one of the most powerful Rules in the myriad worlds of Chaotic Void Sea, the Time Law wielded the power to crush everything.

To date, he had neither seen nor heard of any entity that could master the Time Law, not even with Lin Xiao holding the Crystal Wall System’s Core. At most, he obtained the Fundamental Laws of energy and the Creator; time and space remained beyond reach.

Perhaps the great divine power could achieve effects similar to time reversal through overwhelming divine Strength, but that was not mastering the Time Law; it was merely surface level.

And yet, this unknown sealed entity, possessing neither endless divine Strength comparable to the great divine power nor mastery over the Time Law, was capable of achieving a feat akin to time reversal, which immediately piqued Lin Xiao’s interest.