Chapter 600

Chapter 222 The Divine War Part 9

The bony palm pressed down on me, leaving me completely immobile. My armor shattered, my body numb, and darkness enveloped my vision. My consciousness was blurred, but the sound that came from beneath me was as clear as if I had been doused with a bucket of cold water, jolting me back to alertness!

It’s wonderful…

My heart raced, and my spirit instantly revived.

It’s wonderful!!!

I began to exhaust all my strength, summoning the chaotic power within me.

In the next moment, thick dead smoke abruptly rose from under the bony palm, spreading in all directions along the light shield. The “sizzling” sounds of erosion filled my ears, and the corpse felt pain again, quickly removing its massive palm.

The immense pressure disappeared like a mountain, and I could see the light again. I struggled to prop myself up on my elbows, causing my injuries to ache, and I coughed out more black mist.

It’s fine, I’m fine…

I didn’t have time to check how much damage this body had sustained under that palm strike. As long as I could still see and hear, as long as I was alive and could move, that was enough.

Amid the howling wind, I quickly lowered my head to look at the sin below. Golden radiance scattered and then reassembled in my sight, revealing cracks slowly spreading outward with a continuous, crisp sound.

It worked…

The light shield finally cracked!

“Roar——”

The excitement in my heart was indescribable. I couldn’t help but raise my head and scream, expelling the last of my strength. I raised my twisted right arm, swinging it like a whip, and slammed my elbow into the densest part of the cracks!

Bang!

The dull thud and tremor, accompanied by excruciating pain, echoed in my head. My breathing almost stopped. The pain from the broken bone in my right arm spread through my body like a terrible electric current, causing my body to shake uncontrollably.

It’s fine…

This pain is nothing!

I held my breath, forcing myself to ignore the unbearable pain. At that moment, it felt as though all the blood rushed to my brain, adrenaline surged, and I ignored everything else. I swung my broken arm wildly, smashing it against the cracking light shield.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom——

The deafening thuds continued, and the fierce impact spread from the rock pinnacle. Under my relentless assault, the light shield became weaker and weaker. In the next second, amidst the final crackling sound, the thin golden light shattered, and I punched a hole through it.

It worked!!!

Golden fragments exploded and scattered before my eyes. I was ecstatic, but the next moment, a strong sense of exhaustion hit me. My body softened, my head spun, and the black mist almost turned into viscous sludge, dripping from my mouth. Dazed for a moment, I shook my head forcefully.

I can’t fall…

The pain kept coming, and my vision blurred again. Faintly, I noticed that the crack I had made hadn’t spread as I expected. Instead, it slowly but steadily began to heal.

This is bad…

My heart sank, and I grew extremely anxious. Using my twisted green arm, I tried to wedge into the crack to get my head in, but it was too small. Even sticking my head in was the limit; my shoulders would be stuck.

This is really bad…

Panicked, I saw the crack healing faster, closing in front of me. I trembled all over, trying to pull my green arm out and smash the edges again, but my arm was shaking so badly that I couldn’t exert any force.

Huff huff huff huff——

A dark shadow loomed overhead, and the scorching wind blew fiercely. Without needing confirmation, I knew that in another second, the corpse’s bony palm would shatter me completely.

I can’t move, I can’t dodge…

But if I take another hit, I really will die…

Frustration, fear, anger—complex emotions surged in my chest. In a moment of desperation, I closed my eyes suddenly.

In the next instant, the shattered armor began to peel off and decompose. My enormous black body was enveloped in thick smoke, gradually dissipating. The bony palm, carrying the stench of fire and blood, struck down, scattering and crushing the swirling dead smoke and the body inside it. The cracks on the light shield emitted a sickening “crack” sound, expanding outward by several meters!

Amidst the burst of light, a small figure tumbled out from the crack under the bony palm, hair flying wildly, falling toward the divine body.

Escaping death…

I made it inside!!!

Boom——

Before the shock, terror, and joy of breaking through the sin could settle, the thunderous thud from above the light shield shook me. The fierce wind howled, and the terrifying impact from the crack hit the small body of the girl mid-air, accelerating her descent.来不及展开火焰翅膀，她重重地摔在了令人惊悚的巨大脊椎骨上。

“呃——”

鲜血四溅，脑袋嗡嗡作响，仿佛五脏六腑都被搅在一起。这一摔直接让我岔了气，腰部高高拱起，咬牙切齿，试图缓解这绝望的疼痛和窒息。

完了…腰断了，我腰…断了…

不对，好像没断…

下半身并没有失去知觉，虽然剧痛，但手脚还能动。察觉到这一点后，我狂跳的心逐渐平静下来，仰躺在血流成河的脊椎骨上，艰难地平顺呼吸，大口喘气。

“啊啊啊啊！！！”

I couldn’t hold back a loud cry, venting the intense emotions welling up inside me.

It’s not time to rest…

Come on, get up…

Get up…

I kept urging myself to rise, but my body felt like it had sunk into the abyss, heavy and numb, unable to move. With each breath, my lungs burned with pain.

In that fleeting moment, I quickly detached from the massive form, shifting my consciousness back into my original body. Using my small frame, I slipped through the gap in the light shield just as the skeletal hand was about to strike. I narrowly dodged the fatal blow and managed to escape.

But now, lying on the divine body, smelling the pungent blood and breathing the scorching air, the headache that had temporarily subsided surged back with greater intensity. The strange tingling sensation in my back and tailbone had turned into a burning pain, and even my forehead felt odd, as if something was trying to push through the skin.

What’s happening…

This has never happened before… What’s going on…

I couldn’t help but reach out to touch my forehead, feeling a sharp, hard protrusion, like a tiny horn just beginning to emerge.

What is this…

The crimson patterns rapidly spread across my arms and body, flickering with each breath. The power of the业火 quietly activated, swiftly healing my injuries. In less than two seconds, the sensation of shattered bones vanished, and I felt my energy surge again, my mind clearing from its daze.

It seems I’m growing horns…

But there’s no time for that now…

I started struggling to get up. At that moment, a gust of wind whistled by, followed by the sound of something slimy, wet, and familiar writhing from below my right spine.

!

Before I could turn my head, my hair stood on end.

Those vascular tentacles!

How can there still be these things!!!

Almost instinctively, I took off running, my legs pumping as I sprinted along the spine toward the divine body’s head. Behind me, the wind howled, and I leaped forward, creating distance between us. I glanced back in horror to see countless vascular tentacles, like eels, spewing out from the divine body’s spine and flesh membranes, surging towards me.

My heart sank, my lips trembling as I quickly turned back, not uttering a word, and pushed myself to run faster with all my might.

I’m not far from the heart…

I’m about to finish this thing…

But in the next instant, even the long spine was covered in those vascular tentacles. They writhed like snakes, dripping dark red blood, and with a disturbing squirming sound, they released more, finer tentacles.

Those tentacles were less than fifty meters ahead of me, emerging from the cracks in the spine, forming clusters of writhing flesh. The flesh slowly deformed, gradually taking on human shapes.

Damn it…

In front of me, on the divine body’s spine, the tentacles rapidly multiplied, covering nearly every inch of flesh and bone. The bloody, terrifying scene left me frozen with fear, as if I had fallen into an ice-cold abyss.

What are these things…

I hesitated, my steps unconsciously stopping. My face filled with horror, completely unsure how to deal with this. But hearing the wind getting closer behind me, I clenched my teeth, my expression turning fierce.

No matter what you are, I’ve come this far…

How could I let you stop me!

Whoosh—

The dead smoke roared, bursting around me once more. The crimson patterns on my skin glowed brighter, and two green arms emerged from the black mist, accompanied by the sound of bones snapping back into place. I kicked off, sweeping past the bloodied figure in front of me with a powerful wind. My huge arm swung out.

“Ah!!!”

Pumm! Pumm! Pumm! Pumm! Pumm—

The green arms moved fiercely, like grinding wheels, smashing everything in their path. The terrifying force shattered countless bizarre objects, sending blood and gore exploding in all directions, splattering my face and body with a hissing sound.

I ran as fast as I could, almost closing my eyes, stepping through the sticky blood and flesh, moving like a high-speed meat grinder.

Keep going…

After pushing forward for dozens of meters, my swinging arms began to feel heavy. Each step brought sharp claws, dripping with a foul scent, scratching at my body, tearing open my skin and cheeks, leaving trails of blood.

My arms were grabbed, my clothes torn. The incoming figures with bloody hands were instantly shredded in the green arm’s grinder, devoured by the swirling smoke serpents. Yet, the path ahead remained covered in blood shadows, stretching endlessly.

Keep going…

I can make it…

I can—

Clang!

In the next instant, a metallic clash halted the sweeping green arm. The furious attack stopped abruptly. Wiping the blood from my face, I opened my eyes with difficulty and saw the situation ahead clearly. My pupils shrank.

That…

My running stopped.

In my field of vision, blocking my way was a humanoid monster nearly three meters tall, composed of more writhing vascular tissue. It was unlike any of the other creatures I had torn apart, its disgusting flesh burning with业火, standing like a demonic figure at the connection of the divine body’s spine. Its two-meter-long, grotesque claws held a black scythe emitting dark red bloodlight, brimming with killing intent.

It was that scythe that had stopped my green arm.

I froze for a moment.

That’s Captain Gray!