In the brightly lit basement.

The blood pool surged, gradually boiling.

As Jiang Ning spoke, Bai Luoyu immediately retreated backward.

The next moment.

The blood pool rose, slowly condensing into shape in mid-air.

"Brother Jiang, be careful! I can feel a strong Evil Qi in this blood, it must contain powerful corrosiveness!" Bai Luoyu reminded from behind.

Jiang Ning nodded slightly without looking back.

Facing such an unknown and strange method, he did not dare to be careless.

Obviously, this was a method of the Blood Flesh God, the deity worshipped by the Worship God Sect.

Soon.

The blood condensed into shape in mid-air.

It was a six-armed, three-headed, four-legged monster.

The blood on its body surface was constantly changing, its face blurry and indistinct.

In an instant.

The six-armed, three-headed monster suddenly opened its eyes, which were hollow, as if a vortex was constantly devouring the blood on its face.

"Ignorant Mortal, how dare you kill my believers!!!"

The voice was grand and mighty, echoing in the sealed basement, full of Divine Might.

It really was him!!

Looking at the monster completely condensed from blood in front of him, Jiang Ning's gaze was solemn.

He never dared to underestimate the so-called gods.

Because gods were still full of unknowns to him now.

Unknown, not understood, that was the most dangerous.

At the same time.

The Blood Flesh God, whose consciousness had descended here through a medium, instantly focused his attention on Jiang Ning.

He sensed a similar aura on Jiang Ning's body.

Was he also an existence wielding Authority?

He was a little confused.

Because he still couldn't truly descend into the world.

But the Jiang Ning in front of him was clearly walking in the human world.

No!!!

He sensed the aura on Jiang Ning's body again.

His expression changed drastically, and his anger instantly erupted like a volcano.

Because he sensed the same kind of Authority on Jiang Ning's body.

He instantly understood that this was a battle for Authority, and also a battle for godhood.

The man in front of him had stolen the Authority that should have belonged to him.

Because their Authorities were the same, they would become true Mortal enemies, never resting until one was dead.

If he lost, everything would be over.

If he won, he could seize fragments of the opponent's Authority, allowing him to completely condense his Authority and return to his godhood sooner.

For an existence like him, who had obtained godhood in ancient times.

As long as this world did not move towards destruction, he was equivalent to being immortal and undying.

No matter how many times he died, or how long he slept.

As long as the Authority existed, there would always be a day when it would re-condense and return to godhood.

But now, the Authority was fragmented.

This meant he had lost the chance to completely condense his Authority and return to his godhood.

This was also equivalent to stripping him of his immortal and undying characteristic.

All sorts of thoughts flashed through his mind instantly.

His anger instantly erupted like a volcano, his fury rising like a blazing fire.

"You—deserve—to—die!"

The three words fell, like Heavenly Might rolling, transforming into sound waves spreading in all directions.

The blood pool instantly exploded, and the ground cracked.

In an instant, the originally brightly lit basement turned completely dark again.

In a flash, Bai Luoyu felt the terrifying Divine Might coming from the front.

His heart was filled with horror, which then turned into deep despair.

Just the pressure of the aura alone made him feel a sense of powerlessness, like a mayfly looking up at the sky.

At this moment.

He suddenly saw the entrance to the passage ahead.

A golden light suddenly appeared.

The golden light emerged, dispelling the darkness and blocking the sound waves that were like a tangible attack.

"It's Brother Jiang!!!"

Looking at the figure shrouded in golden light, standing in front of him, Bai Luoyu's heart trembled violently.

Vajra Undying Body!

The Perfection level of Vajra Undying Body!!

Bai Luoyu looked at Jiang Ning's back and instantly understood.

He had previously learned from Zhao Yulong that the Buddhist Son Jin Chan from Vajra Temple had given the Perfection method of Vajra Undying Body to Jiang Ning.

"But, how long has it been?"

A thought flashed through his mind.

Ahead.

Jiang Ning circulated his Qi and blood, fully activating the Vajra Undying Body.

Shrouded by two layers of golden light, the terrifying sound waves and the foul blood rushing towards him were blocked by the golden light.

Looking at the enraged Blood Flesh God above the blood pool.

Jiang Ning's gaze was also somewhat solemn.

From the Blood Flesh God that suddenly descended into the blood pool, he also sensed that familiar aura.

He also roughly understood why the Blood Flesh God that suddenly descended was so enraged.

Authority conflict.

This was a divine war.

It would only end in death.

His eyes flickered a few times, and then he made a decision.

Since they were enemies, he had to try to glimpse the so-called gods.

Not knowing their true nature, having no understanding, would make him incredibly passive.

After making the decision.

Jiang Ning no longer had any hesitation or wavering.

He brought his right index and middle fingers together, instantly placing them between his eyebrows.

He gently wiped downwards with his two fingers between his eyebrows.

In an instant.

A white vertical line appeared on his forehead.

Within the vertical line, brilliant light continuously emanated, like smoke and clouds.

It was like a door that was about to open at any moment.

"That is!!!"

Seeing the figure shrouded in golden light.

The Blood Flesh God's entire body trembled.

A distant memory surfaced in his mind.

It was a figure residing high above the Nine Heavens.

That figure had a Heavenly Eye on its forehead, representing the Heavenly Dao, wielding heavenly punishment.

It possessed the power to destroy any god.

In that era, there were many titles for that figure residing high above the Nine Heavens.

And in his circle, that figure was referred to as Divine Venerable.

"No!! No!!! No!!!"

At this moment, the Blood Flesh God seemed to have suddenly lost his mind again, falling into madness.

He roared again and again.

Making the foul blood in the blood pool churn and splash everywhere.

Terrifying Divine Might spread out again and again as if tangible.

The dim basement began to shake, the surrounding pillars began to break, and gravel and sand continuously fell from the ceiling.

Jiang Ning activated his Heavenly Eye.

And instantly saw through the Blood Flesh God's body, revealing a palm-sized stone idol quietly suspended in the center of the three-headed, six-armed figure condensed from foul blood.

"This should be the medium and core for the Blood Flesh God's descent!"

He muttered to himself.

Then, he fully activated his Heavenly Eye again.

In an instant.

From the vertical line on his forehead, which resembled a door, the emanating misty, luminous light became even more intense, existing as if tangible.

And at this moment.

Jiang Ning felt his vision instantly pierce through the exterior of the stone idol.

Then, as if following that invisible medium, he saw an unknown place.

It was a world of deathly silence and Void Realm.

In that world.

Besides boundless darkness, there was only the Void Realm, both above and below.

In the darkness, a six-armed idol sat on a lotus platform.

At this moment.

He suddenly looked up.

On his four hideous heads, endless fear simultaneously appeared.

In his line of sight.

In the Void Realm above his head.

An eye suddenly appeared.

An eye that continuously emanated white light.

He's here!

He's really here!!!

The Blood Flesh God was instantly filled with immense fear.

He then realized.

The arrival of this eye was precisely because of his Incarnation that had descended through the medium.

The next moment.

The six-armed, four-headed Incarnation suspended above the sea of blood instantly disintegrated with a roar.

The suspended blood also fell towards the blood pool below, having lost its power support.

And at this moment.

Jiang Ning also found his vision being ejected from the anomalous space he had just entered.

Before he could think too much, his gaze was drawn to the idol in the foul blood.

Taking a step forward.

He crossed layers of space, instantly appearing above the blood pool.

He raised his hand.

Under the shroud of the protective golden light, he easily broke through the foul blood.

Chii chii chii—

The protective golden light, stained with foul blood, emitted strange sounds, accompanied by slight tremors.

"This foul blood, how strong its corrosiveness!"

As Jiang Ning was secretly startled.

His five fingers firmly grasped the palm-sized stone idol.

【Detected seventeen points of divinity and fragments of Authority. Absorb them?】

Seeing the prompt in front of him.

Jiang Ning's eyes immediately lit up with joy.

The long-awaited harvest prompt reappeared before him.

Yes!

A thought flashed through his mind.

In an instant.

He noticed that his panel had changed.

【Divinity】: 20 points (3 → 20)

【Authority】: Flesh Regeneration (Slightly Incomplete 2.5%) (0.42% → 2.5%)

Seeing the changes on the panel, he immediately nodded slightly.

Divinity points increased by thirty-seven points.

The percentage progress of Flesh Regeneration also increased by more than two percentage points.

The improvement was extremely significant.

Especially for the Authority of Flesh Regeneration.

After reaching such a level of completeness in the Authority he now controlled, let alone two percent, any one percent of progress became incredibly difficult.

He had also experimented before.

Flesh Regeneration had reached the completeness of the Authority he currently wielded.

One point of divinity could only increase the progress by 0.3 percent.

In other words, ten points of divinity could only increase the progress by three percent.

This 2.8 percent increase was also equivalent to a gain of eight points of divinity.

"Other places might also have similar idols!"

Jiang Ning looked at the idol in his hand, stained with foul blood, and muttered to himself.

Then.

He shook his arm.

Foul blood splashed, and there was no longer any foul blood attached to the idol.

He flickered, returning to the shore.

At this moment.

The constantly shaking basement also completely returned to calm.

He scanned his surroundings, then spread his Divine Sense, secretly exerting his power.

He once again supported the crumbling basement.

Then, the scattered torches on the ground were reinserted into the surrounding walls, and flames condensed in the Void Realm, reigniting the recently extinguished torches.

In the passage.

Bai Luoyu looked at the basement, which had returned to calm, and couldn't help but be stunned.

The vast Divine Might pressure just now had filled his heart with complete despair.

Then, before he could figure out what was happening, everything returned to calm.

If it weren't for the few lit torches, illuminating the messy basement.

Bai Luoyu would have even suspected that he had just had an illusion.

"Brother Jiang, what just happened?" Bai Luoyu asked.

Bai Luoyu walked out of the passage and reappeared in the basement.

He scanned his surroundings, only to see traces of foul blood corrosion everywhere.

The amount of foul blood in the blood pool was also noticeably much less.

"I don't know!" Jiang Ning shook his head.

Then he continued, "The deity worshipped by the Worship God Sect suddenly descended through some medium, but it suddenly disintegrated and collapsed right after unleashing its Divine Might, which is puzzling!"

At this moment.

Jiang Ning was also a little confused.

Originally, he thought there would be a big battle.

The descent of the Blood Flesh God just now was astonishing in its momentum.

Even he himself didn't have full confidence that he could defeat that god.

The sudden disintegration and collapse of the Blood Flesh God also caught him off guard, leaving him somewhat puzzled.

"I do have some speculation!" Bai Luoyu said.

Seeing Jiang Ning's gaze.

He spoke again, "Normally, those deceased gods are not allowed by Heaven and Earth; they cannot be tolerated!"

"The god worshipped by the Worship God Sect just descended, perhaps it was suppressed by Heaven and Earth, causing it to disintegrate and collapse."

Jiang Ning also nodded thoughtfully.

"Brother Bai's words make some sense."

He also recalled his previous conversation with Black Lotus Old Mother.

From that conversation, it was also very clear that even with Black Lotus Old Mother's ability, she couldn't descend into the world.

"It should be for this reason!"

Jiang Ning nodded slightly, expressing agreement.

At the same time, the scene he had just glimpsed came to his mind again.

In an anomalous space, where everything was Void Realm, the Blood Flesh God was glimpsed by him.

Then, eyes met.

He saw the Blood Flesh God's true body reveal intense fear.

Then, the Incarnation disintegrated, and he could no longer continue to glimpse.

Perhaps, this also had something to do with it!

Jiang Ning muttered to himself.

Beside him.

Bai Luoyu, hearing the words of agreement, also let out a long sigh of relief.

"Brother Jiang, it seems we are both incredibly fortunate!"

"If that god had truly descended completely, our prime years would have been buried here."

Jiang Ning smiled noncommittally.

Bai Luoyu couldn't help but look at Jiang Ning more closely at this moment.

After the lingering fear.

He couldn't help but recall Jiang Ning's performance just now, and his emotions were suddenly indescribable.

If Jiang Ning hadn't blocked him just now, he knew that he would have perished under its Divine Might in an instant.

Especially those splashing foul blood.

His gaze involuntarily fell on the surrounding ground.

The ground was now already corroded by the foul blood, pitted and uneven.

Then his gaze was drawn to Jiang Ning again.

Because Jiang Ning had come to the edge of the blood pool.

"Brother Jiang, what's wrong?" Bai Luoyu asked.

Jiang Ning said, "Beneath the blood pool, there are countless white bones."

Hearing this, Bai Luoyu also moved a few steps closer to the blood pool.

But all he could see was the blood pool, which had returned to calm, completely unable to see the white bones below.

Just as he was about to speak.

Jiang Ning's voice rang out in his ears again.

"Brother Bai, please step back first!"

Upon hearing this.

Bai Luoyu's eyes showed confusion, but his actions followed Jiang Ning's intent, retreating backward.

Suddenly.

Roar—

A tiger's roar sounded.

Bai Luoyu instantly saw a fierce tiger bathed in flames materialize above the blood pool, then pounce into the blood pool.

"This is…"

Bai Luoyu's face showed surprise.

Then he saw the blood Qi beginning to evaporate.

He immediately understood.

"Brother Jiang is going to dry up this blood pool?!"

At the same time.

Jiang Ning's attention fell on his chest.

A human body has two hundred and six bones.

But he had two hundred and seven bones.

The extra bone was the Saber Bone.

The Saber Bone that was born after the Firewood Chopping Blade Technique broke its limits.

This Saber Bone, shaped like a saber, nurtured a precious technique.

This was also once his trump card.

A trump card against Xiao Qiushui.

It's just that he never had a chance to use it.

And now, he was preparing to use this Saber Bone again, unleashing its power.

The next moment.

He violently activated the Saber Bone in his chest.

A terrifying Saber Intent instantly erupted, pointing directly to the Nine Heavens.

The Saber Intent gushed forth, and the thick soil above his head was split open like tofu.

In just an instant.

The upward-gushing Saber Intent broke through the thick layer of soil, and light poured into the basement from above, providing more illumination.

At the same time, the blood Qi evaporated by the fire tiger also shot straight into the clouds along the opening pierced by the Saber Intent.

Bai Luoyu retreated repeatedly at this moment.

He felt that every wisp of circulating Qi in the basement at this moment seemed to have transformed into sharp Saber Intent.

He reached out and touched his cheek.

Then his heart was filled with horror.

Because he saw his own bloodstains on the finger he extended to his cheek.

Then.

He saw a few strands of his fringe slowly floating down from his line of sight, and his heart was even more horrified.

He retreated again and again.

Only when he retreated to the edge did he feel safe again.

But two new bloodstains appeared on his face, and some scattered broken hair lay on the ground.

"What level has Brother Jiang's strength reached?!"

Looking at Jiang Ning's back, Bai Luoyu was lost in thought.

At this moment.

Jiang Ning continued to condense the trapped fire tiger, drying up the blood in the blood pool.

And the evaporated blood Qi, following the opening he had pierced above, shot straight into the Nine Heavens and the clear sky. (End of this chapter)