Crushing a God

Boom!

Red aura shot into the sky. The thunderclouds that had gathered overhead not only failed to disperse under the influence of this overwhelming aura, but grew even denser.

That was the power of the Kaio-ken: an utterly unreasonable, all-around enhancement.

Combined with Bai Cangshu’s previously comprehensive and solid four-dimensional stats, and with Silver Wolf Under the Moon now operating at peak efficiency, Bai Cangshu no longer had any weaknesses.

In an instant, he shattered through his former limits and descended upon this place stronger than he had ever been.

Bai Cangshu rolled his neck, and the sound of his bones cracking resembled thunder.

Looking at the others, he recalled the stance he had taken when he first entered the Infinite Dimensional World and faced Mercenary Tao. Then he raised his right hand, slightly curled his index finger, and formed a crane shape.

He did not make any exaggerated drawing-back motion. He merely pulled it back an inch.

The next moment, his muscles trembled violently. With a bang, Blazing White Ripples spread outward in rings before his right hand.

Dozens of ripples appeared in the air, their endpoint being Kei Kurono.

Bang!

Kei Kurono’s pupils trembled several times before they refocused. His head spun through the air, and he saw the body below that belonged to him had exploded into a heap of mangled flesh.

Ice-blue blood sprayed hundreds of meters away.

Boom!

A dozen meters-high white spray erupted from the sea a thousand meters away, as though a cannonball had been driven into the ocean and detonated.

Whoosh!

Dozens of tentacles shot up and seized Kei Kurono’s head before it could hit the ground, immediately drawing it back into their embrace.

The woman who had turned into a special White Walker had ice-blue light gleaming in her eyes. She could not feel fear, yet she was still intimidated by this power.

Kei Kurono’s head was placed beside the head of another human corpse. He immediately opened his mouth and sank his fangs into the corpse.

The man connected by intestine-like tendrils suddenly let out a pained howl the next moment.

It was as if he had only just awakened.

"Ah, it hurts!"

"What is this? Save me! Someone save me!"

The man’s wailing did not even last a second before it fell silent. Kei Kurono was resurrected once more atop another body.

He felt relieved that Mercenary Tao had not taken this chance to kill him.

When he turned around, however, he met the gaze of the man several hundred meters away, whose hair continuously drifted upward toward the sky. The boredom and impatience in the other man’s eyes were plainly visible.

"My apologies, Ancient Alien God. It’s my first time using power at this level, so I didn’t control the direction properly. I had only intended to shatter your arm."

Bai Cangshu’s tone had already calmed, signifying that he had adapted to his current strength of over 200 points.

Tap tap tap tap…

A mass of footsteps came with the strange snarls of White Walkers and Wights. Those monsters emerged from the forest behind Bai Cangshu and charged toward him without pause.

But Bai Cangshu paid them no mind. He merely turned his head, his eyes narrowing.

Boom!

An invisible impact descended like an unseen giant hammer falling from the heavens.

Splat!

Amid flying flesh and blood, the densely packed Wights and the White Walkers mixed among them were instantly pulverized.

Gaze of Arrogance, an ability originally meant to suppress the weak, had become a terrifying killing machine now that Bai Cangshu’s strength exceeded 200 points.

A single glance was enough. Ordinary lifeforms could not endure it and were crushed outright.

Bai Cangshu turned back to Kei Kurono.

"I’ll give you one final chance, Ancient Alien God. Gather your divine power. Call upon your followers. Otherwise… die."

Bai Cangshu touched the ground with the tips of his toes. His entire body seemed light enough to float away at any moment. The mass and density of this body were now utterly beyond anything flesh and blood could compare to.

Yet Bai Cangshu felt lighter than ever.

Every second he maintained this state, countless capillaries ruptured, vast amounts of muscle tissue died, and even his organs began to necrotize.

But using the visceral control that came with Perfect Body, along with the Life Return he had learned in the One Piece World, Bai Cangshu rapidly and meticulously maintained his physical condition.

Unlike Saiyans such as Kakarot from the Dragon Ball World, Bai Cangshu did not possess the physical talent to squander his body without restraint. At the same time, however, he possessed a precise talent they lacked—Limit Break Spiral!

That invisible spiral turned slightly, allowing Bai Cangshu to perfectly control every part of his body, and this self-control did not consume much energy.

It allowed Bai Cangshu to sustain the effects of the twofold Kaio-ken for as long as possible.

Moreover, before his body completely collapsed, Bai Cangshu could maintain this form.

At that moment, the great existence controlling Kei Kurono’s body felt, for the first time, that the situation had completely slipped out of control.

The former God’s Favored, whom it had never regarded highly, possessed strength beyond imagination.

This had completely surpassed the power limit of this world. It was power that should never have appeared here.

As a deity possessing formidable divine power, it could bestow divine power and grant divine favor. But the natives of this world—or rather, the God’s Favored it had selected—were simply too weak.

So weak that they were utterly incapable of contending with him now.

It began gathering its divine power. A powerful black radiance continuously condensed around Kei Kurono’s body. With one hand lowered, a long sword of ice gradually formed within his palm.

Ice armor etched with mysterious patterns also gradually appeared over his body.

The next moment, the flesh and blood of the Wights and White Walkers Bai Cangshu had shattered trembled as they rapidly converged upon Kei Kurono. His fleshly body was completely wrapped in all manner of blood and meat.

A massive creature over seven or eight meters tall then rose from the beach.

A gigantic ice-blue greatsword was held in its right hand. Armor overflowing with chill fully encased its body, while ice-blue radiance continuously spread from beneath its feet.

It raised its sword of ice high. The sky immediately became bitterly cold once more, snow began to fall, and the sea began to freeze.

The Twin Ghouls formed by the hand-holding boy and girl also appeared before it, drawing a new contract upon the ground.

"Endless darkness, piercing cold. My lord, will you enter into this contract?"

The enormous ice sword fell from the sky and pierced the contract. The next moment, Bai Cangshu sensed an intense threat from that sword.

He stared intently at it as countless pieces of information flooded his mind. It was likely a specialized power. That sword now possessed a powerful restraining effect against Human Race creatures like himself.

It was similar to a combination of Curse Kill and a Binding Vow. Under the effect of potent divine power, it could grant its attacks additional effects against creatures possessing certain traits.

At the same time, it could also provide additional resistance against attacks from creatures with those traits.

It was targeting him in a manner that was practically cheating.

Bai Cangshu’s lips curled upward. He once again curled his finger into a crane shape, then thrust forward.

Pfft!

The instant a Blazing White trail appeared, Kei Kurono felt his body sink under the incoming massive force. His gigantic form slid backward.

As he smashed through the ice on the sea and barely managed to stop himself, Kei Kurono had no time to think before hearing a crack.

Cracks had already appeared across that millennium-old ice armor.

Damn it. It clearly had additional immunity against attacks from Human Race creatures, so how had it still been shattered in one strike?

Boom!

The air struck Kei Kurono’s face like a wall. Before he could open his eyes, a figure had already torn through the air and appeared before him.

Only afterward did dozens of Blazing White sonic-boom clouds explode through the air in succession.

Bai Cangshu placed his left hand against the other’s chest and twisted his right hand back. The next moment, a Rakshasa Palm empowered by 200 points of strength erupted forth.

Crack, boom!

Ice-blue blood and chunks of flesh burst over the ocean like fireworks.

Bai Cangshu withdrew his stance, turned around, and stepped through the air toward the two White Walkers on the ground.

The woman wanted to use her tentacles to save her god again, but the moment the tentacles flew out, they were shattered by an invisible force.

Bai Cangshu advanced step by unstoppable step toward the Twin Ghouls capable of wielding strange contracts. That ability was probably still of some value.

Ding.

Before the Twin Ghouls could make any move, they merely blinked, and a finger had already touched their foreheads.