Reigning Supreme in countless worlds With Beast taming
Chapter 682 - 676: The Broken Divine Status, Human Head with Bird Body

"Sigh..."

After witnessing the silent, complete death of Amalthea, Qin Feng couldn't help but let out a long breath.

With a thought, the nine-headed Ghost Fire Flame Dragon, which had covered the sky with its massive body, quickly shrank and disappeared into his body.

Looking at Amalthea's decapitated corpse, Qin Feng shook his head.

In fact, this Sea Goddess was quite formidable. Both her water control ability and the Water Element Principle were at the peak of Lower God Spirits. Plus, with her strong innate divine bloodline, ordinary immortals at the same rank would find it difficult to kill her.

But Qin Feng was an exception. Not to mention his extensive and much superior power accumulation compared to ordinary people, his multitude of principles and divine skills predestined him to far surpass those at his level in war power.

Moreover, before advancing to Immortality, he had swallowed several golden apples, enhancing all his principles to an extremely powerful extent. The Origin Power from the golden apples that he hadn't refined also accumulated within his body as potential, which would be unearthed as his cultivation and realm progressed.

His principles had made leaps and bounds after becoming an Immortal, which dramatically increased his war power, and in the Tribulation Cloud with Li Miao Zhen, forcibly absorbing the Power of Laws left by the World Will's Heavenly Punishment further boosted their cultivation.

Although Qin Feng had to distribute these Power of Laws across his multitude of principles, as opposed to the rapid progress of Li Miaozhen, his accumulation at the same realm was much stronger than hers. If both their Power of Laws were at the same level, Li Miaozhen would be no match for him six or seven times out of ten.

The reason why he didn't say eight or nine times was that Li Miaozhen's combat intuition was too sharp. Often, she could win against the odds, which made fighting her always filled with uncertainty—one careless move, and he could lose!

However, cultivators like Li Miaozhen were rare sights. At the same level, neither in accumulation nor in war power could ordinary immortals be compared with Qin Feng.

Therefore, the Sea Goddess Amalthea died by his hands!

Glancing at the mutilated corpse, Qin Feng reached out, and with a gesture, a flash of Spirit Light wrapped around a fragmented Divine Status and Amalthea's scepter, landing them in his hand.

The scepter, forged of extremely rare Divine Gold and gemstones, was exquisitely luxurious and awe-inspiring. A slight wave would cause ripples in the water below, evidently a Divine Artifact capable of manipulating water.

However, compared to the Divine Artifact, he was more interested in the Divine Status.

After all, Divine Artifacts were external objects, whereas Divine Status was a treasure condensed from principles, which could be refined and absorbed through special methods.

But, inspecting it more carefully, he couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, "Such a pity!"

The Divine Status was seriously damaged, retaining at most thirty percent. Even if he refined such a tiny portion of the Water Element Principle, given his level of Dao Cultivation, he wouldn't gain much benefit.

Although his war power was strong and killing Amalthea didn't expend too much of his strength, being powerful didn't equate to having a high realm. Facing the Sea Goddess, he didn't have an overwhelming advantage, so he didn't acquire a complete Divine Status. As Amalthea died, her Divine Status also began to dissipate.

After all, the Divine Status of a divine being is condensed from their own principles. Once the divine being dies, the intimately linked Divine Status naturally dissipates. In fact, many divines, just before death, would trigger their Divine Status to deliver a desperate last strike rather than let it fall into their enemy's hands and benefit them.

"Indeed, such a pity!"

Li Miao Zhen nodded, holding in her hand a similarly broken Divine Status.

Unlike the blue, water-mist-covered Divine Status in Qin Feng's hand, which faintly seemed to carry the sound of ocean waves, the Divine Status in Li Miao Zhen's hand was green, as vibrant as jade, brimming with vitality—the Divine Status of a Wood Attribute Principle.

Though Li Miaozhen was predominantly overpowering in her battle with Adonis, she still didn't obtain a complete Divine Status in the end.

This was the norm. In fact, unless an Immortal Great Power acted, even individuals at the Profound Immortal Realm might not necessarily obtain a complete Divine Status when facing a Lower God Spirit. If it were so easy, the Cultivation World would have long since launched a major offensive against various Divine Realms, using the power of Divine Status to aid the Elders in the Primordial Spirit Realm of various Sects to enhance their strength and cross the Tribulation to Immortality.

If that were the case, who knows how many Immortals would spring up in the Cultivation World?

Regrettably, unless necessary, Immortal Realm Great Powers generally either respect their own status or mutually wary of Great Powers from the opposing factions and rarely act personally against Middle and Lower God Spirits. Their opponents are generally those who are top-tier divine beings at the same Immortal Realm!

Just as Immortals wouldn't carelessly act against a regular army, Immortal Realm Great Powers wouldn't trivially act against ordinary divines.

Before a decisive victory is concluded in battle, whichever side acts out of turn will certainly bring significant losses to both parties.

Qin Feng glanced at the jade-like broken Divine Status in Li Miao Zhen's hand and then at Adonis, who was not far away, split in two by her Sword Energy. He gestured and pulled over the nearly bare Ancient Tree that Li Miao Zhen had also nearly stripped of its branches and leaves, examining it before saying, "Senior sister, let me have this Ancient Tree. I want to use it to cultivate a Life Tree."

Although Adonis's strength wasn't that impressive, it had nothing to do with the Ancient Tree itself.

The fact that the Ancient Tree could nurture a divine being was a testament to its power.

It was only because Adonis was overly perfect in appearance that he attracted too much adoration. As he often mingled with many Goddesses, and with powerful Goddesses covering for him whenever something happened, he had never encountered any real danger. As a result, not only was his war power unimpressive, but he had also never seriously worked on enhancing his power.

Otherwise, with even a bit more effort, he wouldn't have been so easily defeated by Li Miao Zhen!

"If you want to keep it, go ahead. It's not of much use to me!" Li Miao Zhen shrugged her shoulders and tossed the broken Divine Status she held into his hands as well. "This is also for you. This Divine Status is linked to the Ancient Tree's essence and should help the Spiritual Tree refine it!"

"Thank you, senior sister." Qin Feng caught it and sensed the Power of Laws within this broken Divine Status, finding it much stronger than the broken Water Element Divine Status in his possession. His heart filled with even greater joy as he habitually thanked her.

"Oh? And how do you plan to thank me?"

Li Miao Zhen looked at him with a smile, waiting for his response.

"Ah, of course, I'll thank you in my unique way."

"Unique way, how unique?"

"Hehe... Both unique and special!"

Qin Feng, with a playful smile on his face, took hold of her slender and fair jade hand, "It's still early, so it's not appropriate to say too much now. I'll tell senior sister tonight!"

"..."

Li Miao Zhen glanced at him lightly, then couldn't help but let out a laugh.

She was naturally frank, cheerful, and broad-minded, truly not knowing what it felt like to be shy. So, she didn't mind Qin Feng's flirtation; instead, she teased him with interest. As a result, Qin Feng became tempted, his heart heating up and his eyes shining as he stared at her, seemingly ready to act.

"Alright, let's get out of here quickly!"

Li Miao Zhen didn't seem to notice his thoughts, and just as Qin Feng was about to make a clumsy move, she waved her hand and released a Spiritual Bird, stepping onto its back, "Let's go. With such a commotion here and the World Will summoning such a powerful Heavenly Punishment, we won't be able to hide it from others for long. Soon enough, divine beings will come to investigate."

Qin Feng nodded, suppressing the impulsive thoughts in his heart, and flashed to Li Miao Zhen's side, ready to embrace her and create a scene of lovebirds and dependence.

However, before he could make a move, Li Miao Zhen stretched out her arm and wrapped it around his shoulders in a brotherly fashion, gazing out as though they were sworn siblings admiring the landscape together, which left Qin Feng speechless.

If it wasn't for Li Miao Zhen's beauty, for her curvaceous figure, her skin whiter than snow, her entire being exuding the aura of a fairy, it would really be difficult to perceive her as a woman based solely on her personality.

Qin Feng felt that if he were a little shorter, perhaps Li Miao Zhen would have taken him into her arms and portrayed a scene of delicate reliance!

"Sss..."

Thinking of that scene, Qin Feng couldn't help but shiver, shaking his head and not daring to continue the thought.

...

Not long after the two had left, the Tribulation Clouds in the distance had not yet completely dissipated when several figures, fast as lightning, arrived at the scene.

There were four people: a woman with the body of a bird, Medusa with tiny Spiritual Snakes crowning her head, a One-Eyed Giant with a tall, imposing figure, and a Sea Goddess with long blue hair.

The speed of these individuals was very fast, and upon arrival, they first glanced at each other, each seeing the dissatisfaction in the others' eyes. Clearly, they were divine beings not of the same faction.

The One-Eyed Giant, with the strongest aura, snorted coldly but did not pick a quarrel.

After all, the various alliances were currently uniting against the invading army of Cultivators from the Otherworld, and these divine beings remaining behind did not wish to cause conflicts.

Moreover, though the One-Eyed Giants were individually strong, their numbers had always been few, so among the many powerful races, they did not appear overly dominant.

After the gods exchanged glances, they stopped paying attention to each other and turned their sights to the battlefield.

Then, they saw the corpses of Amalthea and Adonis lying between the Cold Ice and seawater below, their expressions changing suddenly.

"Amalthea?"

The Sea Goddess, upon seeing the body of Amalthea, was immediately shocked.

She, along with Amalthea, was one of the 3,000 Sea Goddesses and was certainly familiar with her appearance. Furthermore, since this was Amalthea's territory, the only goddess who could die here was her.

This revelation shocked the newly arrived Sea Goddess, for in terms of strength, she was still inferior to the other. And yet, there was Amalthea's body lying in the seawater—if not for the Cold Ice that hadn't melted, her body would have surely sunk to the seabed!

Compared to the Sea Goddess's exclamation, another bird-bodied goddess wept tragically, "Who is it, who killed my Adonis!"

She transformed into her human form, flew down to embrace the bisected body of Adonis, and cried inconsolably. She then swore, "Whoever it is, I will kill them for your revenge!"

Without a question, this was also one of Adonis's numerous lovers!

On the other side, Medusa and the One-Eyed Giant were also shocked by the deaths of the two gods.

However, they ultimately were not familiar with the deceased deities, so they quickly turned their gaze to the sky.

For the remnants of the World Will in the sky were too potent.

The One-Eyed Giant, after all, was more powerful, at the peak of Middle-Rank Gods, a figure comparable to a Heavenly Immortal, not only having lived longer but also having broader knowledge and insight than the other gods present.

Thus, he was the first to sense something was wrong, "What's this, it seems... Heavenly Punishment has descended here?!"

"What? Heavenly Punishment?"

Medusa, who had not paid attention to the dead deities either, turned pale upon hearing this and looked toward the One-Eyed Giant. All the tiny snakes atop her head straightened their bodies and turned their cold, vertical pupils in his direction.

The One-Eyed Giant paid no attention to Medusa's gaze, even though it was said that gazing into her eyes would turn one to stone; petrification also required the expenditure of Divine Power, and they wouldn't frivolously use their power to petrify things without reason.