Chapter 295 VS Ancient Moon God 3
The attack came from behind me?
I immediately turned around and saw that Gu Yue Shen had somehow crept up behind me without my noticing, and was about to launch an attack. Just before he was about to make his move, the enormous energy fluctuations could no longer be concealed and were finally detected by my senses.
But the Ancient Moon God was clearly right in front of me just now—as this thought flashed through my mind, I noticed that the other Ancient Moon God standing in the distance had a slightly unnatural, illusory quality. I realized what had happened; the Ancient Moon God standing in the distance, claiming to kill me, was merely an illusion used to deceive me. Even uttering those harsh words was a way to attract my attention, in order to conceal his ultimate move.
We cannot afford to be careless for even a moment.
However, while the illusion was fake, her threats were real. I could feel her intense killing intent. A deadly light erupted from her hand, and she tried to shove it into my arms.
That was the light of the sun—or more precisely, the light of nuclear fusion.
Just like Silvermoon did last time, this time she unleashed a nuclear explosion.
Oh no.
Nuclear explosions lack lethality for me, and Gu Yue Shen should understand this as well. This move is likely just a prelude, like throwing out a smokescreen before the main attack to cover up their subsequent actions. However, this move will undoubtedly cause devastating damage to the surrounding area.
The good news is that when Gu Yueshen and I unleashed our magical power, Ma Zao, as we had agreed beforehand, quickly teleported outside the mist. I confirmed this through thermal energy signals.
The bad news is that the Winter Chariot is still inside Guyue Village. Even though we are now thousands of meters above the ground, a nuclear explosion at that altitude would inevitably engulf both the Winter Chariot and Guyue Village.
Did Gu Yue Shen do this on purpose? Was it to use the people nearby to hinder my movements? She said before that she didn't want to cause trouble for those phantom villagers, but it turns out that was just a hypocritical act. Perhaps the lewd and immoral behavior of Gu Yue Shen described by the elders of Gu Yue Village isn't some distorted history, but rather the horrific acts she herself committed in Gu Yue Village.
This time, Chenlong wasn't there to set up a teleportation barrier nearby, so I had to stop her myself.
In the instant the nuclear explosion unfolded, I also unleashed my power.
Even in nuclear fusion, the main energy components are light and heat, and as long as it is light and heat, that is my domain.
I can infuse ordinary natural flames with my own spirit, transforming them into my own flames, and the same goes for ordinary light and heat. The nuclear explosion released by the Ancient Moon Goddess was not transformed by her magic; her magic merely played a role in driving microscopic nuclear physics reactions in naturally existing atomic nuclei. Therefore, this light and heat were ownerless.
This is the main reason why the nuclear explosion Silvermoon unleashed last time didn't cause any damage to my soul. If the attack was formed by magic, it would have a soul-attacking effect, while the nuclear explosion she created was just an unusual natural phenomenon.
Since it is ownerless, I can take it.
As the light of nuclear fusion erupted, I infused it with a soul, and immediately commanded it to converge inward. Instantly, a fireball of nuclear explosion spread across the sky, terrifying light and heat raging wildly within a radius of several hundred meters.
Even if I were to infuse my own soul into it, it wouldn't be enough to completely contain the immense energy of a nuclear explosion; at least, I can't do it now. Such a massive amount of energy, once concentrated, wouldn't be able to stop its expansion even if it possessed consciousness. At most, I could only compress its destructive range to a radius of a few hundred meters. Within that range, all matter would be decomposed and evaporated, including my physical body and that of the Ancient Moon God.
In this way, even if Guyue Village is affected to some extent, there should be no deaths.
I was naturally unharmed and immediately reformed my fire elemental body. The Ancient Moon God also reappeared in the distance very soon.
It's really strange that she was able to emerge unscathed from the nuclear explosion.
Even Silver Moon, in the last incident, quickly moved to a safe distance at the moment of the explosion, fearing being caught in the nuclear blast. According to her, anything taken to its extreme will exhibit different properties. Even a nuclear explosion, though merely a physical phenomenon, can develop properties capable of killing souls due to its immense power. My survival is simply due to my perfectly matched superpower.
So why can she do the same thing? I think I can guess a bit. She seems to share some similarities with me. It's not that she's also a fire-based superpowered individual, but rather that she seems to possess the power to intervene in natural phenomena. Simply put, she seems to be able to manipulate the heavens and the earth.
According to Mr. Zhu, certain special natural phenomena can harm the soul, such as lightning, while the souls of those who embody the principles of Heaven and Earth are immune to such harm. Perhaps physical phenomena like nuclear explosions could also be categorized as such—no, I think phenomena like nuclear explosions, which can kill the soul due to their immense power, are quite different, but those who embody the principles of Heaven and Earth at least possess greater resistance.
Silvermoon also suspected that I was a Great Impermanence because of the fact that I was unharmed in the nuclear explosion.
The ability to manifest the laws of heaven and earth is a characteristic of those qualified as Great Impermanence. Could it be that the Ancient Moon God is also qualified as Great Impermanence? However, even with the Silver Moon, I have never heard of the other party possessing the qualifications of Great Impermanence, let alone the Ancient Moon God, who is equivalent to the Silver Moon's incarnation.
Perhaps the ancient moon god was merely simulating the laws of heaven and earth.
The "Moon in the Water," with the power of the Silver Moon at its core, is said to be a super magic weapon capable of replicating all supernatural powers. Since even the Moon in the Water can do this, it doesn't seem so hard to accept that the Ancient Moon God can simulate the laws of heaven and earth.
I have a vague feeling that the truth might not be so simple. If simulating the laws of heaven and earth were so easy, why didn't the Silver Moon do it last time? But I don't have time to think about it further right now; it seems the Ancient Moon God has found my weakness.
"It seems you care a lot about the villages down there."
A cruel smile appeared on her beautiful and pure face, and she immediately plummeted downwards.
I gave chase immediately.
However, this ancient moon god seemed to be an illusion. When I focused my attention on that side, the figure on the other side suddenly disappeared, and then a dangerous aura reappeared behind me.
I wouldn't fall for the same trick twice, so I prepared by unleashing flames behind me. But this counterattack felt completely off; my power seemed to pass right through air. Then, the figure that had vanished reappeared and closed in on me.
I suddenly understood the truth. My cleverness had backfired. The Ancient Moon Goddess I had mistaken for an illusion wasn't an illusion at all; she had merely concealed her form and suppressed her aura. Even my thermal senses hadn't detected her invisibility. The aura I had assumed to be the true entity was the illusion. She had cunningly turned the tables on me.
Light burst forth from her hands once more, but this time it was no longer the destructive light of nuclear fusion; instead, it was a dazzling, dreamlike, ethereal light.
This strange light not only entered my vision, but also horrified my mind.
This is her illusion, but also her true killing move.
I suspect she wants to drag me back into the world of possibilities, to make me experience real death there. In fact, this is the only way she could possibly kill me.
Upon contact with my spirit, she inevitably ignited with my flames—the price of direct contact. However, she seemed to have prepared numerous defensive spells beforehand. I saw layers upon layers of illusory armor appear on her body, like countless barriers, rapidly being destroyed while constantly increasing in number, attempting to keep the flames out.
The light used to penetrate my mind was also different from the spells Silver Moon used in the past. I felt it was an illusion spell specifically modified to target my mind. It was probably a power that had evolved after learning from Silver Moon's failures, and it seemed to be able to more effectively prevent me from sensing the flames I left in the real world after falling into the illusion. Moreover, including that protective armor, it was clear that she had been charging up for a period of time.
Where did she find the time to gather her strength? She was probably already secretly preparing her ultimate move while she was feigning weakness and begging for mercy. From the start of the battle until this moment, every step had been within her calculations.
"I won!"
Seeing that her special move had hit its mark, she let out a joyful laugh reminiscent of a wind chime.
However, there was one thing she seemed not to have foreseen.
I quickly reached out and grabbed her cheek.
She stared at me in shock.
"Why...why..."
Incomprehensible sounds squeezed out of her throat.
"Why didn't I fall into an illusion?"—that's probably what she wanted to ask. Actually, there wasn't a complicated reason. Her tactics were ingenious, her skills brilliant. Although it was a sudden attack, she came up with a sufficiently reasonable plan within the limited time, and her ultimate moves all landed squarely on me. It was simply because I was too strong that I withstood all her ultimate attacks.
It's clear that her perception of me is still stuck in the past. She probably knows the details of my battle with Silver Moon and thinks that my awakening of power at the end of that battle was already remarkable enough. Even if I improved a bit afterward, it's only been a few days; how much more powerful could I possibly become?
She didn't know that the release of my power didn't end there; it was merely the beginning. Even in those few short days, my power was automatically increasing. Especially the extremely brief clash with the Great Impermanence of Life and Turbidity, which greatly boosted my power.
I will no longer easily fall into the world of possibilities woven by her and Silver Moon.
At the same time, since it has been confirmed that the true form of Silver Moon will not appear for her sake, then I have no reason to spare her life.
Flames erupted from her palm at close range, shattering her head and burning her entire body to ashes.
Ancient Moon God, Death.
(End of this chapter)
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