Kanzaki Reiâs arrival carried no attempt at concealment whatsoever...
It was an arrival brimming with killing intent.
Boom!
The moment it sensed Kanzaki Reiâs arrival, a sharp icicle burst up from beneath the earth! It shot skyward, piercing into the clouds!
An instant after piercing the clouds,
The entire earth instantly froze solid!
Kurushƫru of Ice.
"Human, what is the meaning of this?"
"There should be no grievances between us. Why do you bear such intense hostility toward me?"
High above, infinite cold had already condensed in the sky, all of it aimed at Kanzaki Rei!
Kanzaki Rei also felt a chill rising within his body.
This cold should have frozen Kanzaki Rei completelyâfrozen solid the moment they laid eyes on each other, sealed for eternity, never to be released. Yet this law was blocked by Kanzaki Reiâs talent.
And the other partyâs freezing had also failed to lock down all the space in the world.
Even a god... could not always achieve perfection.
If she couldnât freeze every possible space, then even without Kanzaki Reiâs ăGod-Tier · Inviolable by All Lawsă talent, it would have been difficult for her to harm him.
As Kanzaki Rei walked forward, the Supreme Luck Scepter in his hand spun like a combat baton.
"You think there arenât any, but there actually are."
KurushĆ«ruâs perception continuously swept across every part of Kanzaki Reiâs body...
The clothes on his bodyâare those a divine artifact?
The scabbard at his backâthe sword inside, is that the legendary Emperorâs Sword?
That scepter...
KurushĆ«ru could sense a faint divine artifact aura from the scepter as well, but she couldnât tell what kind of divine artifact it was.
She would have to be careful.
KurushĆ«ruâs heart was filled with vigilance.
Not every god possessed a divine artifact. In fact, the vast majority of gods in this world did not own their own divine artifacts.
At least, those of them who had failed to obtain a second divine throneâ
They most likely had not acquired divine artifacts.
And in this era, the only one capable of forging divine artifacts was, practically speaking, Yaramochi.
"What grievances? You might as well speak them."
"Perhaps there is a misunderstanding between us."
Kanzaki Rei merely smiled faintly.
Boom!
He was about to strike directlyâ
But suddenly, he saw the frozen space shatter completely. The entire forbidden zone divine kingdom crumbled apart in that instant.
"What... happened?"
KurushĆ«ruâs eyes widened. Her frozen wings and her body of pure ice were now exposed to the outside world.
Kanzaki Rei was also somewhat stunned.
This... wasnât something Kanzaki Rei had done.
But the next second, he immediately realized what had occurred. This was Perfection of Order!
These Old Godsâ divine kingdoms had been lingering here far too long.
They had been hiding in the Boundless Mountains to evade the pursuit of the worldâs rules. In the Boundless Mountains, the worldâs laws were incomplete, so by exploiting these gaps, they could carve out a place to survive.
Yet at the same time, the Boundless Mountains had always remained part of the world.
The Boundless Mountains as a whole simply had incomplete rules. Imagine the outside world as a sackâthe Boundless Mountains were like an extremely fine mesh, always with gaps to slip through.
But in this very momentâ
All the chaotic laws of the Boundless Mountains had coincidentally aligned. By sheer chance, the worldâs laws in this region had become completely perfected.
And perfected lawsâ
Were a fatal blow to these Old Godsâ divine kingdoms!
This wasnât a Truly complete divine kingdom to begin with. Theseæźç Ž divine kingdoms were essentially left exposed...
Kurushƫru had been discovered by the world!
Whoosh!
Kanzaki Rei didnât pause for even an instant. In the blink of an eye, he was already right before KurushĆ«ruâs eyes!
ăSĆdĆ â Path Nine: Time Accelerationă
KurushĆ«ruâs time flow slowed to a crawl, while Kanzaki Rei moved within accelerated time!
Within the acceleration,
All of Kanzaki Reiâs time-based counters also accelerated!
The Ascend to the Heavens Realm continued to layer upon layer!
Originally, the time counter for the Ascend to the Heavens Realm was calculated based on the worldâs standard time. Even if Kanzaki Rei accelerated or decelerated his own time, the stacking power, stacking damage reduction, acquisition of time-stop opportunities, law Reduction and so forthâall of it was calculated according to the normal flow of time.
But now,
Kanzaki Rei had fused Time Forbidden Magic with the Ascend to the Heavens Realm to a certain degree.
This allowed him to higher layers of the Ascend to the Heavens Realm in a shorter amount of time.
In less than half a second, Kanzaki Rei had already gained his first time-stop opportunity!
Click!
Within the stopped time, the duration of the stopped scale was also extended.
Originally, he could only pause time for one second, moving within that single second. But now, Kanzaki Rei could move within it for ten full seconds.
Pfft!
ăSĆdĆ â Path Two: Universal Unravelmentă
Countless unravelings converged upon a single point. The Emperorâs Sword thrust forward in a straight line!
Boom!
The Emperorâs Sword pierced through KurushĆ«ruâs body. The entire blade was already completely coated in ice!
Within the stopped time, the ice even traveled upward, about to freeze Kanzaki Reiâs hand!
But Kanzaki Rei severed his own right hand.
Interrupting the freezing!
Her freezing is incredibly strong...
If he had fought her in normal time flow, he would either have to rely on Inviolable by All Laws to endure, or the moment he made contact, his physical body would have been instantly frozen into pure ice.
But the Emperorâs Sword had pierced through her body.
At the same time, behind Kanzaki Rei, the Porter had already emerged.
ăGod-Tier · Death Spirit Reincarnation â One With Meă
Every death spirit that is revived comes from this talent. This talent is also anæŒć of part of my very self. Therefore, the death spirit and I should be one.
Naturally, it should also enjoy the effects of the Ascend to the Heavens Realm.
Able to act within stopped time.
However...
Kanzaki Rei had not fully perfected this law, so the Porterâs movements within stopped time were still somewhat stilted.
But ten seconds.
Was truly too Ample.
Especially when the enemyâs divine kingdom had been breached.
ăSoul Divine Authority · Shared Soul of This Life: Every living being that comes into contact with oneself will transform into oneâs own soul.ă
Whoosh!
Within KurushĆ«ruâs spiritual sea of consciousness,
An invisible hand reached for the soul formed of infinite ice!
This hand should have been frozen.
The Ice Godâeven her spiritual sea was pure ice. Anything that entered should have been frozen.
Yet...
With time stopped, the state of matter could not change.
KurushĆ«ruâs defense of her spiritual sea, after all, could not match that of a god who truly specialized in spiritual seas.
In an instant, her entire spiritual sea became empty.
The ice receded. Her consciousness began to dissipate!
Meanwhile, Kanzaki Rei, from the outside, rained blow after blow upon Kurushƫru!
Clickâ
At the ninth secondâ
Boom!
Suddenly, the sound of space-time shattering exploded!
Kurushƫru felt her consciousness violently plummet. Her perception crumbled. She could no longer see anything clearly.
And her divine power refused to Cohesion.
She wanted to fight to the deathâ
But couldnât even find the strength for a final desperate struggle.
Her perception could barely see her own body. What she saw was a body like a hedgehog, riddled with weapons of all kinds stuck into her. And at the very center of her chestâ
Was the Emperorâs Sword.