You want me to take out a loan to practice cultivation? I'll just pay off the debt physically.

Are you going to torture me?

Aglios was taken aback, then burst into loud laughter.

"Hahahaha!"

"OK--!!!"

"Of course it doesn't matter!"

"As long as it can help you fulfill your wish and make up for the regret that transcends time and space in your heart, what is this little thing?"

"Come on!"

"You can torture them however you want!"

“If I, Aglus, even frown, I don’t deserve to be your brother!”

But as soon as he finished speaking, a cunning glint flashed across Aglutus's rugged face, and he clenched his lava fist lightly, producing a muffled boom.

"But, brother, don't forget."

"I, Aglios, will also ascend the throne of God once again in the near future!"

“You are now abusing me in the guise of a true god.”

"No matter how badly you abuse me now, once I reach the pinnacle of my power, I will take it all back with interest."

"Don't cry out in pain when the time comes!"

Upon hearing this, Yu Xiao showed no fear on his face, but instead revealed an extremely carefree smile, as if he had seen through the essence of time and space.

His aura was like the stillness of the deep sky, carrying a sense of transcendence and clarity.

"We'll talk about the future when it comes."

"Furthermore, what does it have to do with the me who gets beaten up in the future, and the me who is standing in front of you now, eager to resolve my inner conflict?"

"This moment is this moment, and that moment is that moment."

"The cause of this moment will have the effect of that moment; let each accept its own fate."

Agris: "."

Dude, you're really carefree!
Or rather, the other party's "live for the moment" attitude is truly stable.

Hmm. It seems I can't escape a beating soon.

But then again, wasn't it me who frequently gave Yu Xiao pointers on combat techniques in the previous timeline?

Perhaps the process of giving guidance was a little bit rough.

But surely the first thing you think of after crossing time and space wouldn't be to compete with yourself?
That's so petty!

While Agris marveled at Yu Xiao's extraordinary mindset, Yu Xiao had already composed himself and sat cross-legged.

He mobilized the dormant power within his body and began to fully restore his cultivation.

He abandoned the long process of re-understanding and instead directly relied on his own soul's already perfected and detailed understanding and control of the rules of the night.

They attempted to communicate directly, lock in, and reclaim the dark rules that rightfully belonged to them in a manner that was almost a declaration of ownership.

However, just as Yu Xiao's divine sense touched the core of the rules that symbolized the dark authority of the spirit world, attempting to forcibly establish a connection and draw power, an unusual phenomenon suddenly occurred.

“Rumble——!!!”

Above the eternally changing, divinely radiant sky of the Spirit Realm, in the deep star field where the Dark Night Divine Kingdom resides, thunderous roars that shook the entire universe erupted without warning.

But this was no ordinary thunder; it was thick, blood-red lightning, exuding an ominous and destructive aura, like billions of wildly dancing demonic serpents, rampaging and roaring madly across the sky of the Dark Night Kingdom.

Immediately afterwards, an invisible force whose origin was indescribable and whose magnitude was immeasurable ignored the barriers of the divine kingdom and the divine defenses of the goddess of the night, and ruthlessly descended upon the most core area of ​​the divine kingdom!
The next moment, a scene unfolded that utterly annihilated the Goddess of the Night.

His unique authority over the dark night of the spirit realm, which had been his own for countless years and had long been integrated with his divinity, began to leak away uncontrollably in the face of this unreasonable and invisible power, like scales being peeled off.

The feeling was as if an invisible, irresistible thief was brazenly stealing His most fundamental power from the core of His divinity!
"Do not--!!!"

"What's going on?!"

The goddess of the night, who was deep in thought on her throne, trying to find the source of the crisis that had alerted her to her divine status, was suddenly struck as if by a heavy blow.

His flawless divine body trembled violently, and the eternal shadow surrounding him surged wildly.

When the brain sensed the crystal-clear separation from the source of authority, it immediately entered an unprecedented state of malfunction.

Previously, He had been anxious, fearful, and worried about the unknown and deadly crisis.

That tremor originating from the depths of divinity, that unease that made the divine fire flicker, was not unfounded, but rather the highest level of warning.

However, the sources of the crisis are too numerous and varied to be estimated.

abyss?

hell?

Competitors within the spirit world?
Or even the will of the spirit world itself?
While His strength was not at the bottom among the true gods, it was certainly not at the top either. Faced with those true giants, He had no power to resist.

Therefore, even in a state of absolute rationality and divinity, He cannot escape falling into deep anxiety and mental exhaustion.

But now, there's no need for internal strife!

No more suspicion or guessing where the crisis is coming from!

His divine heart, which had been hanging in suspense for so long, was completely dead!
It's completely cold!

The root of the problem is crystal clear.

There are no other fancy reasons, no conspiracies or plots, no harbingers of a divine war; it is simply the very basis of His existence.

His authority over the night!

It is being forcibly taken away in an incomprehensible way by some terrifying being that He cannot understand or resist.

At this very moment, some damned, utterly despicable being is using some means that transcends His understanding and is almost a theft of authority, to gradually seize the foundation of His divine power.

This kind of blow is more despairing to God than any open and direct battle!

"Fate! Goddess of Fate—!!!"

The goddess of the night, her divine sense twisted with terror, instantly traversed endless star fields, surging madly towards the goddess who held the reins of destiny. "Help me!"

"Calculate it for me immediately!"

"at all costs!"

"tell me!"

"Who is it?"

"Which damned thief is plotting to seize my power?"

His voice was filled with hysterical madness and desperate pleading, "Any condition! Just name it, and I'll agree to it!"

"As long as you can find this damn thief!!"

The commotion caused by the Dark Night Kingdom also attracted the attention of the gods of the spirit realm.

The turmoil in the power of the night has drawn even greater attention from the gods.

This concerns the authority of the gods; who wouldn't take it seriously?
Even those who believe in gods are now turning their attention to this place.

A moment later, the goddess of fate transmitted her voice: "I'm sorry, I cannot make any calculations."

"How could it not be calculated?"

The goddess of the night's divine sense nearly exploded, "Use your Eye of Destiny directly!"

"Locate the location where my authority has been lost!"

"I can't see it, can't you see it too?"

"It's so simple and straightforward, why don't you do it?"

Upon hearing this, the goddess of fate fell silent once more.

After a long pause, He spoke in response.

"If it's so simple, why don't you go find other true gods?"

"Because you helped me before."

"I helped you, so I have to get involved in this mess?"

Are you scared?

"No one is afraid of this."

"You hold the power of destiny and understand its secrets, so why should you be afraid?"

"."

This time, the goddess of fate fell completely silent.

The connecting spiritual channel was severed as if by the sharpest blade of fate, and no further response came.

The goddess of fate does indeed hold the power of destiny and can see the threads of fate, but this does not mean that she is fearless, much less that she is willing to touch taboos that could shatter her own divinity for the sake of other true gods.

The things that happened to the Goddess of the Night have gone beyond her understanding of the rules.

Is it possible to forcibly strip away and steal the core authority of a true God without any ceremony, without any medium, and without even any contact with the authority holder?

Such a thing is unprecedented in the rules of the spirit world!
To put it bluntly, even a fool would know that the entities or forces involved behind this are absolutely terrifying beyond imagination.

Does this really require divine intervention to calculate?

Do we even need to guess who's behind this?
In the spirit world, besides the supreme spirit will, who else could so arbitrarily mobilize and deprive the source of authority?
As for whether it's not the will of the spirit world?
That's even scarier, okay?

If this power comes from outside the spirit world, it means that a more terrifying and indescribable entity than the will of the spirit world itself has intervened.

Just imagining that scene is enough to send chills down the spine of the goddess of fate.

She wielded the power of destiny to survive better and to better control her own destiny, not to be a scapegoat for the Goddess of the Night and to spy on things that could bring annihilation with just a glance.

How could she possibly do that?!
On her throne, the goddess of the night's expression completely crumbled.

His flawless face was distorted by extreme fear, anger and despair, and his original noble and mysterious temperament was gone, leaving only hysteria like an ordinary life facing its end.

The goddess of fate did not help, and she tried her best to see, but she could not see anything at all.

Before Him was a thick fog.

The feedback from those vanished powers of the night was as if they had been given away voluntarily.

But how is this possible?

When did you give it away as a reward?

Furthermore, even if they were to bestow rewards themselves, they would never do so on such a large scale as to their own believers!

Most importantly, the authority that can be bestowed upon fanatics can also be taken back.

But what's going on now?

His eternally burning divine fire, at this moment, was like a flickering candle in a storm, swaying and trembling violently, its light shining intermittently, as if it might be completely extinguished at any moment.

He never imagined that he, a true God who had held power for billions of years, would one day encounter such an absurd and despairing plunder.

Although the loss of that authority was not rapid, it was slowly and steadily eroding His divine foundation.

But the key issue isn't speed, but that this loss is unstoppable!

It's irreversible!

Following this trend, we can extend the timeline.

He could almost see the collapse of his divine kingdom and his complete downfall in the near future!

"Buzz!"

Just then, the God of War's divine sense suddenly rippled around them.

The next moment, the divine avatar of the God of War appeared directly within the Dark Night Divine Kingdom. (End of Chapter)