Chapter 141: Absolute Crushing
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 141: Absolute Crushing
A deluge of damage numbers cascaded down. Under the sharp edge of Funeral Rites, Sacred Light’s massive health bar—totaling five quadrillion—was hollowed out at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The golden radiance that had shrouded heaven and earth dissipated in an instant.
But Xie Bai did not relax.
Gliese, the will of the Supreme Court's strongest entity, could not possibly vanish so easily.
Furthermore, the devouring notification from Gluttony's Blessing had yet to appear.
This meant that even this physical vessel of Sacred Light was not truly dead.
Xie Bai lowered her gaze.
Sacred Light’s hand, condensed from pure radiance, still tightly gripped the Innate Light that had been stripped from Elania’s body.
Xie Bai raised her hand, attempting to retrieve the strange orb of light.
But the moment her fingertips brushed against it, the Innate Light seemed to possess a will of its own, suddenly burrowing into Sacred Light’s body!
In the next second, the golden information in Xie Bai’s vision shifted abruptly.
【Sacred Light - Gliese Lv.245】
【HP: 130 Quintillion / 130 Quintillion】
The aura of a True God.
To be precise, it was the aura of the Lord of the Supreme Court, the Lord of Holiness and Light—Gliese.
The Innate Light had originally housed a portion of Gliese’s source power. Now that it had returned to Sacred Light’s body, it further liberated Gliese’s newly awakened will.
Sacred Light slowly raised his head. Within those eyes of pure gold, a deeper, more profound divine radiance emanated.
"I... seem to remember some things."
His voice was thunderous, yet it did not reach the ears of anyone else.
"The Supreme Court once excitedly informed me that a powerhouse who inherited the power of the Void was harvesting other redundant timelines..."
Xie Bai listened quietly, her crimson eyes devoid of any ripple of emotion.
She understood what Gliese was saying better than anyone.
Before this, she had already harvested twenty-six timelines.
The power of the True Gods within each of those timelines had converged into the corresponding True God of this main timeline.
This was the direct cause of why this version of Sacred Light, once possessed by Gliese’s will, possessed a terrifying health pool of 130 quintillion.
That was a magnitude twenty-six times higher than the standard for his current level.
"A pity... currently, this is only a premature awakening of my will. My true body still slumbers in the depths of the Supreme Court. However..."
He slightly raised his hand, and the light in his palm began to condense once more.
"With just this meager vessel, I should still have the ability to contend with you..."
"Are you finished?"
Xie Bai interrupted him.
Her voice was soft and indifferent, a trace of coldness flickering in her crimson eyes.
"If all of this is a plan you’ve concocted to set the stage in advance, then I likely don't have the patience to listen to you any longer."
As her words fell, her figure faded from where she stood.
In the next instant, the blade of Funeral Rites arrived.
-365.2 Quadrillion
-131.6 Quadrillion
-496.8 Quadrillion
Three rows of damage numbers exploded once again.
【HP: 129,003.4 Quadrillion / 130,000 Quadrillion】
One strike, shaving off nearly a quintillion.
An extreme health pool of 130 quintillion was, before this blade, merely a number that needed to be repeated a hundred or so times.
And that was without even accounting for the execution mechanic of the Judgment Affix.
For Xie Bai, whose agility had reached 333.6 trillion, a hundred-odd strikes were a matter of a few breaths.
Sacred Light’s pupils constricted slightly.
He did not hesitate. Behind him, a light that covered the sky and earth suddenly surged.
【Light of Undying Lv.1】
【Restores HP equal to 500% of Maximum HP. Excess healing will be used to permanently increase the Maximum HP by an equivalent amount.】
This was an ultimate recovery skill capable of reversing any battle. As long as it was successfully cast, he could not only instantly refill his health but also permanently quintuple his maximum HP.
Then, that light froze.
【Suppression】
A cold power, like chains, death-gripped that light of life that should have been surging incessantly.
【Units attacked by you cannot recover HP or Mana until they leave combat with you.】
It wasn't just his health.
Even the mana he had just consumed to release the skill was stuck, showing no sign of recovery.
Upon Sacred Light’s eternally unchanging face, a crack finally appeared.
He now felt a sense of being at the end of his rope.
But he had not given up yet.
Sacred Light raised his hand, and a strand of even purer divine light erupted from his palm, transforming into an overwhelming torrent that swept toward Xie Bai.
【Unjustified Holy Light Lv.1】
An attack sufficient to annihilate a Demigod or even heavily wound an ordinary True God.
And then—
-0!
Ineffective.
Xie Bai didn't even bother to dodge.
The moment that divine light touched the space around her, it vanished without a sound.
【Uncrowned King: Holy Immunity】
Gliese’s pupils snapped shut.
In the next second, taking advantage of his brief moment of shock—
Xie Bai moved.
In a fraction of an instant, she swung her blade dozens of times.
【HP: 93.23 Quintillion / 130 Quintillion】
The blade-light was like a waterfall.
The damage was like rain.
Thirty percent of his health evaporated just like that.
Seeing this, Sacred Light finally realized a fact.
Holy power was useless against this petite, white-haired girl.
Without any hesitation, all the Holy aura was actively stripped away.
In its place came a more pure Light.
As Sacred Light possessed Gliese’s will, his stats had already reached the quintillion level, and his agility far surpassed Xie Bai’s.
This meant that in the interval it took Xie Bai to swing once, Gliese was capable of responding with dozens of attacks.
In the next instant, a light purer than anything before erupted from within Gliese.
It wasn't a single attack.
It was an entire world.
【Radiant World Lv.1】
A magnificent light capable of shrouding the entire heaven and earth contracted, condensed, and focused in an instant—
All of it fell upon Xie Bai alone.
-234.6 Quintillion!
-351.9 Quintillion!
-527.8 Quintillion!
-791.7 Quintillion!
-1,187.6 Quintillion!
...
Every beam of light that fell was a hit capable of annihilating a Demigod, or even killing an unprepared True God in one shot.
The light dissipated.
Xie Bai’s figure reappeared in everyone’s sight.
Her health bar was a crimson sliver, like a candle flickering in the wind.
【HP: 1 / 203.9 Quadrillion】
Health Lock.
Facing a destructive attack that far exceeded her own health, Xie Bai chose the most direct method.
She tanked it.
Even though that attack had just been amplified tenfold by the Wrath's Curse.
Under the effect of Void Link, Xie Bai was currently enveloped by Void power and was treated as being within the Void.
And one of her Divine Artifacts, the Poem of the Void, possessed an entry that could be called invincible.
【Return: When you are located within the Void, ignore the influence of the Void and obtain the Void’s blessing, increasing all attributes by 100 times. You cannot die while in the Void.】
As long as Void Link remained active, it was impossible for Sacred Light to kill Xie Bai.
If he wanted to force a kill, he would have to face the entire Void itself.
If he possessed that kind of strength, then the Void wouldn't be a place that, to this day, no True God dared to peer into.
Only five seconds had passed since Void Link was activated.
A large portion of that time had been wasted on the conversation between Xie Bai and Sacred Light.
And the remaining time was enough for Xie Bai to do anything she pleased.
Within Sacred Light’s eternally unchanging eyes, a trace of genuine shakenness finally surfaced.