jdhmnovel Chapter 411 Even Gods Die! (Page 12)
Chapter 411 Even Gods Die! (Page 12)
The moment the last three words fell, Zhao Kongcheng finally threw a punch.
There was no earth-shattering roar, no dazzling light.
That fist, like the hoe wielded by the most ordinary farmer, or the hammer dropped by the most unassuming craftsman, carried the most simple yet resilient power of humanity, and gently imprinted itself on Garuda's brow.
Time seemed to stand still at that moment. The howling wind stopped, the clouds ceased to churn, and even the falling feathers hovered in mid-air.
On Garuda's enormous head, a tiny white dot first appeared between its eyebrows. Then, the white dot rapidly expanded, spreading out countless cracks, just like a fine piece of porcelain being shattered.
The next instant, a deafening roar resounded through the heavens.
With a muffled roar, Garuda's divine body exploded, its massive form disintegrating into countless streams of crimson-gold light, falling to earth like a magnificent rain of fire from the heavens.
Golden and red feathers mingled with shattered divine bones amidst the rain of fire, tracing countless graceful arcs in the air, like a final elegy offered by the gods to the old era.
Zhao Kongcheng stood suspended amidst the rain of fire, his robes stained red with splattered divine blood, yet his posture remained upright.
As he watched the falling flames, the indifference in his eyes gradually faded, revealing a complex emotion that was difficult to describe.
The fiery rain pierced through the clouds and fell upon the earth.
Subsequently.
Zhao Kongcheng slowly descended from the sky, his bare feet touching the sea.
His body had returned to normal size, and the runes of civilization on his body were gradually fading, but his eyes still burned with an inextinguishable flame.
Lin Qiye and the others stood on the shore, silently watching this scene.
After a long while, Baili Pangpang swallowed hard.
"Old Zhao... killed the god?"
Cao Yuan's black king armor trembled slightly: "Hmm."
An Qingyu pushed up her broken glasses: "To be precise, it is to completely annihilate divinity using the laws of humanity."
Garan suddenly laughed: "So..."
"we won?"
No one answered.
But on the sea, the rising sun pierced through the clouds, shining on Zhao Kongcheng's tired yet upright back.
That figure was more majestic than any god.
...
Mist.
The sky deep in the East China Sea seemed to be torn apart by some invisible giant hand, and dark clouds rolled and spread like ink, obscuring the last ray of sunlight.
The seawater was a sickly dark green, as if it had been tainted by resentment accumulated over millions of years, and it emitted a suffocating stench.
In this cursed sea, even the roar of the waves sounds oppressive and distorted, as if in fear of the terrifying presence that is about to arrive.
"Rumble--"
A rumbling, thunderous tremor came from the seabed, and a huge water bubble suddenly rose up on the surface of the sea within a radius of a hundred miles, before bursting open.
The seawater poured down like a torrential rain, revealing the enormous body comparable to a mountain range—the Chimera, a nightmare from ancient mythology, a monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a scorpion's tail, fully awakened from the abyss.
Its three heads rose simultaneously, and its six eyes emitted a blindingly fierce light, like six blood moons rising at the same time.
The lion's mane is like a burning flame, and every hair flows with a molten lava-like luster; the ram's horns meander like the roots of an ancient tree, and their surfaces are covered with unknown runes.
The scorpion's tail is segmented, and its stinger gleams with a cold, eerie purple light. With just a slight sway, it leaves corrosive marks on the sea surface.
"Human, do you think you can be so arrogant?"
The sound of the Chimera was like three volcanoes erupting simultaneously, with three waves of sound echoing between the sea and the sky.
The lion's roar shook the sea, sending up waves hundreds of meters high, and water droplets condensed into countless sharp ice crystals in the air.
The ram's shriek carried high-frequency vibrations, and fish within a ten-mile radius instantly exploded and died, their flesh and blood falling into the sea like raindrops.
The scorpion's tail whips through the air with a piercing bang, and tiny black cracks appear in the space where its stinger leaves its mark.
Its divine might was like a prison! The entire sea trembled under its rage, and the sea beasts that managed to survive fled frantically, only to be corroded into bare white bones by the pervasive poisonous mist in an instant.
The seawater boiled and churned, and the sound of countless bubbles bursting was like the wails of thousands of dead souls.
High in the sky, a black figure stood suspended in mid-air, his robes fluttering in the wind, yet he remained completely unaffected by divine power.
Zhang Yun held a gun in one hand, the other casually in his pocket, a signature lazy smile on his lips, as if the creature before him was not a world-destroying mythical beast, but a domesticated kitten.
The God-Slaying Spear was entirely black, except for a single, cold glint at its tip. The light was eerie and profound, as if it could even devour light itself.
The gun was covered with fine dark patterns, like remnants of some ancient seal. As Zhang Yun slightly turned his wrist, those dark patterns wriggled like living things.
“Hey big cat—” Zhang Yun picked at his ear, his voice trailing off lazily, “Your voice is louder than the old ladies dancing in the square downstairs from my house.”
A single, casual remark froze all three heads of the Chimera.
The pupils in all six eyes shrank to the size of pinpoints, sulfurous white vapor spewed from the nostrils of the ram's head, and the fangs of the lion's head rattled in fury.
For so many years, how dare mere humans so desecrate its majesty?
"court death!!!"
The scorpion's tail struck first, its hundred-meter-long tail hook shooting out like lightning, so fast that it left a trail of afterimages in the air.
The tip of the poison needle emitted a dark purple divine light; it was a "god-slaying poison" that could even corrode gods. Wherever it passed, the air hissed and corroded, and even the space itself showed signs of dissolving.
Zhang Yun didn't even lift his eyelids; he simply flipped his wrist slightly.
"Shh!"
The God-Slaying Spear drew a graceful black arc, and wherever the spear tip passed, a thin black line, as fine as a hair, appeared out of thin air.
The black line may seem insignificant, but it contains the power of laws that can sever all things.
"Pfft!"
The scorpion's tail was severed at the root!
Purple divine blood sprayed out like a waterfall, and each drop of blood that landed on the sea surface corroded a huge whirlpool.
The Chimera roared in agony three times, the sound waves shaking the seawater for miles around into mist.
"Roar--"
The lion's head suddenly spewed out a raging inferno. It was no ordinary fire, but karmic fire from the depths of hell. The flames were an eerie blue-black color, and wherever they passed, even the seawater was directly evaporated into nothingness.
At the same time, the ram's head emitted a dazzling golden beam of light, which contained a terrifying power that could corrode divinity and disintegrate the basic structure of any matter.
"Boom boom boom!"
The sea surface was instantly evaporated, creating a giant crater a kilometer in diameter. The sky was dyed red and gold, and the clouds were torn to shreds by the shockwave.
Zhang Yun's figure was instantly engulfed in this cataclysmic divine punishment. The mushroom cloud generated by the explosion shot straight into the sky at a height of ten thousand meters, and the shock wave stirred up a hundred-meter-high circular wave on the sea surface, spreading wildly in all directions.
The three heads of the chimera revealed a ferocious grin, and its six eyes were fixed on the center of the explosion, eagerly anticipating the scene of that arrogant human being reduced to ashes.
however--
"The temperature is okay, but there's too much smoke."
A flippant voice came from the smoke, and Zhang Yun's figure slowly emerged.
He was surrounded by a thin black aura, with the God-Slaying Spear held horizontally in front of his chest, its tip dripping with a few drops of purple divine blood.
His black clothes were scorched in several places, but he still had that smug smile on his face.
"Impossible!" the ram-headed chimera screamed in disbelief. "That's a flame that can burn everything!"
Zhang Yun swung the God-Slaying Spear, his smile widening: "Looks like your flames need an upgrade. The firepower at the barbecue stand downstairs is much stronger than yours."
The chimera was utterly enraged, its three heads roaring simultaneously, the ram's horns glowing with blinding runes, and the lion's mane flaring up like flames.
The granulation tissue at the broken scorpion tail wound writhed wildly, and in the blink of an eye, a brand new tail regenerated, thicker than the original, with barbs growing on the tail hook.
"I will extract your soul and roast it in the fires of hell for ten thousand years!"
With that roar, the Chimera's massive body charged towards Zhang Yun at an incredible speed.
Countless golden lightning bolts shot out from the ram's head and two horns, and the flames spewed from the lion's mouth condensed into hundreds of fire griffins, which rushed towards Zhang Yun from all directions.
At the same time, the scorpion's tail lashed out like a whip, each strike carrying the power to tear through space.
A hint of seriousness finally flashed in Zhang Yun's eyes. He took a deep breath, and the dormant power within him began to awaken.
The dark patterns on the God-Slaying Spear lit up, and the black light at the tip of the spear surged, forming a miniature black hole-like vortex.
"Are you serious?" He chuckled, his figure suddenly blurring, turning into dozens of afterimages as he rushed towards the Chimera.
"Bang bang bang!"
A series of dense collision sounds erupted in the air, and each collision between the gun and claw, or the gun and tail, generated a small energy storm.
Zhang Yun's figure was as fast as lightning, moving freely through the Chimera's storm of attacks. Each strike of the God-Slaying Spear left a wound on the divine beast.
But the Chimera is a god after all, and its wounds heal in the blink of an eye. Moreover, as the battle continued, its attacks became increasingly ferocious.
Suddenly, the lion's head pounced, its gaping maw nearly swallowing Zhang Yun whole. At the critical moment, Zhang Yun did a backflip, lightly touching the lion's teeth with his feet, and used the momentum to leap into the air.
"Try this!" Zhang Yun spun in the air, the God-Slaying Spear drawing a perfect circle, black energy surging out like a tide, forming a black crescent moon with a diameter of 100 meters, slashing towards Kamai at the waist.
"A mere trick!" The chimera's horns crossed, and a golden barrier instantly formed.
The black crescent moon collided with the barrier, unleashing a blinding light. The energy impact forced the seawater below into a depression several kilometers in diameter.
The underwater reefs and mountains were exposed to the air, only to be submerged by the influx of seawater in the blink of an eye.
At the moment when the light was at its brightest, the scorpion tail of the Chimera silently passed through the energy turbulence, its poisonous stinger piercing Zhang Yun's back.
At the critical moment,
Zhang Yun seemed to have eyes in the back of his head.
His body twisted at an eerie angle as the poisoned needle grazed the hem of his clothes.
He thrust out with his spear, accurately hitting the scorpion's tail joint.
"Hiss—" Purple divine blood gushed out again, but this time the Chimera was prepared. Its ram head suddenly twisted at an odd angle, and a viscous golden liquid spurted out of its mouth.
Zhang Yun couldn't dodge in time, and his left arm was touched by the liquid, which immediately made a hissing, corrosive sound.
"Haha! Once you've been hit by my divine corrosive liquid, your arm will begin to disintegrate at the atomic level!" Chimera laughed triumphantly.
Zhang Yun frowned, looking at his rapidly decaying left arm, then suddenly grinned:
"Is that so?" He held the gun in his right hand and, without hesitation, severed his left arm at the shoulder!
The severed arm fell into the sea and was instantly corroded into a wisp of smoke.
But what's even more shocking is that the flesh and blood at Zhang Yun's severed arm began to writhe, and in the blink of an eye, a completely new arm grew!
"You... what exactly are you?" The three heads of the chimera simultaneously showed expressions of horror. "Humans couldn't possibly have this kind of regenerative ability!"
Zhang Yun stretched his newly grown arm, a deep black glint flashing in his eyes:
"Who knows? Maybe I'm not even human."