Chapter 1230: Mutagen Infects All; Gods Hate Immortals
Each of the thirty-six higher star rings were like massive, independent star charts. The interior of every star ring was boundless. But viewed as a whole, the higher star rings were actually connected, and they made an even larger, irregularly shaped ring that would astonish anyone who could see it.
In the middle of the gargantuan ring formed by the thirty-six higher star rings, there was a vast, black sea of mutagen! The enormity of it surpassed all other things.
Its name was the Primeval Sea. It was a mysterious, unimaginable place. In the middle of it was a place that only God Paragons could enter, and even then, they would do so with great caution. It had thirty-six main streams which led to the thirty-six star rings. And within each star ring, there were even more tributaries, and they formed that which the cultivators and the gods called... the outer seas!
The war between the Fourth and Fifth Star Rings was being fought on the border between those two locations. It was a place that was part of the Fifth Star Ring, but at the same time, part of the Fourth Star Ring.
Neither the gods nor the immortals were willing to back down, so the war had dragged on for years in a deadlock. Neither side could do much to the other, and for the most part they had held back from taking the fighting to the level of the God Lords.
But then a new God Lord appeared in the Fourth Star Ring! That God Lord was deployed to the front lines, and the tide of battle instantly shifted. Immortal Lord Deepgloom had met his match for the first time in his life!
The fighting reached a point where it surpassed the level of mere daoist magics and god magics. The fight between the God Lord and the Immortal Lord was something that ordinary gods and immortals couldn’t even see clearly.
Even True Gods and Lower Immortals couldn’t fully comprehend a fight between a God Lord and an Immortal Lord. They could only vaguely sense what was happening. That was because the core of a battle on the level of God Lords and Immortal Lords came down to momentum!
To the cultivators in the war, Immortal Lord Deepgloom provided the momentum. He surpassed the heavenly daos, and was part of the determination of the Fifth Star Ring itself. His will was paramount on the battlefield. As he stood there, he represented the unique energy of immortal cultivators, which could drive away mutagen! If all of that mutagen were to be driven away, and replaced by immortal energy, then the situation with the war would completely change.
In fact, if the day came when the mutagen of the Fourth Star Ring were to be driven out, and replaced by immortal energy, then.... Without mutagen, without the aura of the gods, well, the gods... would be like fish out of water. No matter how they struggled, they would basically end up the same as the gods in the Fifth Star Ring. That was the line of research the Fifth Star Ring had been pursuing in their hopes of subduing the gods.