Chapter 225 : Chapter 225
Chapter 225. Deification! Slaying Hypnos, the God of Sleep
“Heavenly Venerable, the human realm has sent a request for aid! Hypnos, the Olympian God of Sleep, has revived within Huaxia’s borders.”
Above the Nine Heavens, inside a palace suspended amid hundreds of millions of purple-gold auspicious clouds in the Heavenly Court.
A white-haired old man holding a whisk walked through the magnificent palace gate and spoke in an incomparably grave tone.
Above the palace hall, the three Heavenly Venerables seated on prayer mats opened their eyes at the same time.
Yuanshi Heavenly Venerable, who wore a plain Daoist robe, frowned slightly. He looked toward Taibai Jinxing and made a divination with his fingers.
“On the day of Yang Jian’s Divine Contract, Olympus sent a god to interfere. Something is wrong!”
On both sides, Daode Heavenly Venerable and Lingbao Heavenly Venerable also nodded slightly.
The opening of a Divine Contract for only one Huaxia god would absolutely not make Olympus take the risk of reviving within Huaxia at the cost of sacrificing one god.
“Yuanshi, we are stationed here to oversee Huaxia’s great array. We cannot free ourselves.”
A troubled look appeared on Daode Heavenly Venerable’s face. All the revived Huaxia gods were maintaining the operation of the great array, buying more time for the gods to return.
Yuanshi Heavenly Venerable pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said, “Laojun, we Huaxia gods receive the incense offerings of hundreds of millions in the human realm. When the human realm is in danger, we cannot shirk our duty.”
“Star Lord.” He looked toward Taibai Jinxing and sighed. “Guankou is Yang Jian’s Daoist temple. Let Yuding, his master, go.”
Taibai Jinxing bowed slightly. “Yes, Heavenly Venerable.”
After he walked out of the palace, Lingbao Heavenly Venerable sighed and said, “More than a century of planning may be affected.”
Daode Heavenly Venerable revealed a helpless expression. “Once Yuding leaves his position in the great array, he cannot enter the great array again. The amount of time the great array can be maintained will inevitably decrease. We must make plans early.”
Yuanshi Heavenly Venerable nodded slightly. “Ragnarok is not far away. We must protect Huaxia and ensure its survival in this conflict.”
…
At the Guankou Divine Ruins.
“Who exactly are you?! How could a mortal possibly possess Divine Power!?”
Hypnos’s star-like eyes were fixed on Jiang Yichen, who had completed Deification.
He was incomparably shocked inside. Jiang Yichen had clearly been only a mortal moments ago. How could he suddenly control Divine Power?
A mortal becoming a god! In his eyes, that was almost impossible.
Even if a mortal became a god, a body of flesh and blood could not endure the powerful Power of Laws.
At this moment, Jiang Yichen felt comfortable all over. Divine Power flowed through the meridians throughout his body, and he felt as if the level of his life had leapt upward.
He raised his hand. His eyes flickered with pale golden Divine Power, gilded patterns gleamed beneath the skin of his arm, and Divine Power circulated through his meridians.
“So this is the level of a god?”
Jiang Yichen clenched his fist slightly, and the powerful force stirred ripples in the air.
“Hypnos, I’m sorry, but you are going to die right after reviving.” Pale golden light flowed through his eyes.
Hypnos sneered. “Do not think you can defeat me just because you possess Divine Power. Without Laws, you…”
“Are you talking about this?” Jiang Yichen opened his palm, and white, threadlike spatial Laws coiled around his fingertips.
Hypnos’s pupils suddenly contracted. “You! The Law of Space, second only to time, and it is a complete Law. Who exactly are you!?”
Jiang Yichen’s Laws were powerful and complete. They were unlike the incomplete Laws of Divine Contract Holders.
The current him could be called a “god”!
Hypnos’s expression grew increasingly ugly. A mere Huaxia human was already so heaven-defying.
In the century after the Divine War, what exactly had happened in Huaxia? How could it allow a mortal to possess power comparable to Divine Power?
“Who am I?” Jiang Yichen smiled faintly. “I am the Huaxia mortal you spoke of.”
“Sigh! Do all you Foreign Gods have so little experience? I, a mere mortal, casually show a little skill, and your face already darkens like this.”
The corner of Hypnos’s mouth twitched slightly. This was called casually showing a little skill?
He clenched his fists slightly. A hundred years ago, he had been flayed and had his tendons torn out by Huaxia gods. Now, he was being offended like this by a mortal. The anger in his heart grew even stronger.
“Hmph! Ignorant mortal, do not think that just because you can resist one ability of my Laws, you can act recklessly in front of me.”
Hypnos slowly closed his eyes, and silver-white Divine Power gathered around him, forming five purple, dreamlike vortices.
“Exile to the Other Realm!”
Making people die in their sleep was only his weakest ability. His truly powerful ability was that he could turn imaginary space into reality.
“Come out, my darlings.”
As his words fell, five pairs of crimson eyes opened inside the dreamlike vortices.
Monsters with discordant forms slowly walked out from within. One had the upper body of a man and the lower body of a horse. It held a divine bow and looked imposing.
There was also a white divine steed with wings, a lion carrying a goat’s head on its back, a nine-headed serpent…
Jiang Yichen looked at the lion with a goat’s head on its back. It was a ferocious divine beast from ancient Greek mythology, named Chimera.
The Complete Knowledge Points that the system had rewarded him with during the martial exam allowed him to recognize these divine beasts at a glance.
You want to use divine beasts against me? How naive.
“Go. Tear him apart!” Hypnos ordered.
The five divine beasts let out deafening roars, and flames, arrow rain, poisonous mist, and other attacks came rushing over.
Jiang Yichen’s figure flickered freely through every position in space. His posture remained calm and composed, and the five divine beasts could not even touch the hem of his clothes.
“Let me test how powerful I am after Deification.”
He suddenly flickered and appeared behind the minotaur. He clenched his right palm into a fist, and golden light bloomed across the surface of his skin.
BOOM—!
He threw a punch, and the hurricane it raised pinned the divine steed in the air firmly to the ground.
The minotaur had no room to react at all. It was dispersed into dreamlike fragments by a single punch, while the remaining force of the punch smashed a large hole into the stone wall.
That was a stone wall engraved with runes by a god. Ordinary power could not damage it in the slightest.
“This power is truly shocking!” Jiang Yichen marveled inwardly.
Compared to before, his strength after Deification could be said to have undergone a qualitative leap. It could no longer be compared by simple multiples.
“You are celebrating too soon. If five are not enough, then what about tens of thousands?”
At this moment, Hypnos spread both hands. His black velvet robe moved without wind, and silver-white Divine Power condensed into countless dreamlike vortices that densely covered the entire cave dwelling.
Inside the vortices, pairs of crimson eyes stared at Jiang Yichen as if they had seen prey.
Jiang Yichen’s expression remained calm. Pale golden Divine Power coiled around him, and his spatial Laws caused the surrounding space to distort.
“Forbidden Secret Art · Void Severance of Two Realms!”
Purple-gold spatial patterns appeared between Jiang Yichen’s brows, and his right arm transformed into countless billions of light-flame fissures.
This was precisely the forbidden art of the Void Scripture, “Void Severance of Two Realms.”
“Sever!”
With his thunderous shout, space shook. The light-flame fissures slashed horizontally toward Hypnos like a colossal blade that could split heaven and earth.
The surrounding dreamlike vortices had not yet taken shape before they turned into specks of light that scattered across the sky.
Hypnos’s eyes reflected the light-flame fissures that were surging toward him like a heavenly chasm. For the first time, he felt fear from a mortal!
The light-flame fissures swept across his body, forcibly stripping the god’s will out of the Sleep God’s body.
That strand of divine will let out a shrill wail amid the spatial turbulence. Every thread of karma connecting him to the Sleep God snapped apart, as if they were separated by an entire world.
As the light-flames flashed by, the Sleep God returned to his original appearance and fell from midair with his eyes closed.
Jiang Yichen’s figure flashed. He caught the falling Sleep God and placed him somewhere safe.
Afterward, he gazed at the sky above the ruins. His figure vanished and appeared in the heavens outside the ruins.
On the star-filled, radiant sky, a towering figure flickered in and out of sight.
Sigh!
That figure let out a heavy sigh. “You win. Let me leave, and I can allow them to wake up.”
“If you insist on fighting me to the death, then even if I self-destruct my Divine Spark, I will make countless Huaxia people die with me!”
Jiang Yichen narrowed his eyes slightly. “Are you begging for mercy? A god begging me, a mortal, for mercy. Interesting.”
With a wave of Hypnos’s right hand, the stars dispersed, and his towering figure hovered above the sky.
Anger flickered in his eyes, but he suppressed it with all his might and did not show it.
Jiang Yichen’s previous move had left him, a dignified god, without any power to resist. Could this really be called a mortal?
Since he could not kill him, the best choice now was to leave this damned place called Huaxia as quickly as possible.
Keeping his life was the most important thing. He did not want to experience the pain of resurrection again.
“You may think of it that way. Open the spatial barrier, and I can make these Huaxia mortals wake up.” Hypnos’s tone remained arrogant.
Jiang Yichen smiled. “Is this the attitude of someone begging for mercy?”
“Then what do you want?”
Jiang Yichen took out the Supreme-grade · Void Mirror. Killing intent surged in his eyes as he said, word by word,
“Those who violate Huaxia shall be killed without mercy!”
Although he liked slacking off, he still had a sense of national honor and disgrace.
The enemy had already come to their doorstep. If he sought peace and let the enemy leave, that would be far too cowardly.
“You!” When Hypnos heard this, he pointed at the humans sleeping on the ground. “Do you want to see these people never wake up again?”
“Then I only have to kill you, don’t I?”
“Naive. Even if you kill me, they will not wake up.” His tone was anxious.
Jiang Yichen looked thoughtful. Seeing him hesitate, Hypnos immediately said, “As long as you let me leave, I can make them all wake up and live well.”
Jiang Yichen ignored him. Instead, he summoned Medusa and asked, “Is it as he says?”
Medusa bowed respectfully to him and shook her head. “When a god dies, his Laws will flow to the human who signed a contract with him, giving birth to a new god!”
“The new god can also control the complete Laws and awaken them.”
When Jiang Yichen heard this, he turned his head and looked at Hypnos. “You are not honest at all. You were lying to me, weren’t you?”
Seeing that he could not deceive him, Hypnos could not help gritting his teeth and saying angrily, “Medusa, how bold of you. You became the servant of a Huaxia mortal. When the God King revives, you will die without a burial place!”
Medusa looked at Hypnos disdainfully. “Zeus? A God King who joined forces with the Four Great Divine Kingdoms and still could not defeat Huaxia? What can he do even if he revives?”
“You orthodox gods who stand high above everyone else regard me as evil and want to take my head as a weapon. Why should I be loyal to Olympus?!”
Hypnos clenched his fists tightly, his expression incomparably ugly.
“Go back,” Jiang Yichen said with a wave of his hand.
“Yes, Master.” Medusa transformed into a small snake and disappeared.
The importance of having a servant who knew information about gods was fully displayed at a time like this.
Jiang Yichen smiled. The Void Mirror hovered between his hands, and its ancient mirror surface bloomed with light.
“Now, you can die.”
Pale golden Divine Power poured into the Void Mirror. The circular ancient mirror rotated between his palms for a moment, then aimed its surface at Hypnos.
Dark-purple void divine patterns flowed across the mirror surface, and the origin power of space coiled around the mirror like silver snakes. A pressure that shook the universe made space tremble violently.
Hypnos felt his entire body stiffen. Under that terrifying pressure, he could not move even the slightest bit!
Terror appeared on his face. A hundred years ago, the God King had joined forces with the four top Divine Kingdoms, yet they had failed to make Huaxia disappear, and he himself had been buried in Huaxia.
Now, after finally reviving with great difficulty, was he going to die at the hands of a Huaxia mortal?
They were both gods, so why could Jiang Yichen be so powerful?
Hypnos stared at the circular ancient mirror, and even his divine soul could not help trembling.
The pressure it released alone was enough to make his entire body stiff. If it released an attack, there would probably be no possibility of survival.
“Good, very good! Since you insist on fighting to the death, then let these lowly mortals die with me!”
The silver-white radiance between Hypnos’s brows surged wildly, and the Divine Spark suspended within his Sea of Consciousness flew out from between his brows.
“Stop. If I self-destruct my Divine Spark, one-third of Huaxia’s east will be reduced to ruins. Do you want to see countless people lose their lives because of your decision?”
Before his death, he still refused to give up.
Jiang Yichen did not pay him any attention at all. The “mirror light” of the Void Mirror could tear through the void and destroy all things. Every attack from Hypnos was futile.
As the pale golden Divine Power poured into it until it reached the critical point, the mirror surface suddenly erupted with ten thousand zhang of cold radiance. A mirror light condensed to the extreme tore through the void and shot straight into the clouds!
Hypnos hardened his heart. With a crack, the crystalline Divine Spark shattered into countless tiny fragments.
Terrifying Divine Power was released, like the aftershock of a nuclear explosion rippling through the void. Space twisted and collapsed.
“Then let us die together!” he roared.
However, the Divine Power explosion from the self-destruction of the Divine Spark seemed to have its stop button pressed the instant it touched the mirror light.
The aftershock of Divine Power was instantly devoured by the mirror light. Wherever it passed, the void was forcibly split open into a pitch-black fault, and spatial turbulence surged out like a tide.
Hypnos’s eyes went wide, and his face turned blank.
“How is this possible!”
His expression was full of disbelief. This mirror light had actually annihilated even the destructive power of a self-destructing Divine Spark.
That was a power that, if used properly, could severely wound even a God King!
In his dazed disbelief, Hypnos was swallowed by the mirror light and completely vanished from heaven and earth, leaving no trace behind.
The ancient Greek God of Sleep had fallen once again upon the land of Huaxia!