Do Gods Also Bleed

【Dalabeng ordered the knight legions of the Winged God Church to attack.】

【But the generals of the Ultimate Realm and marshals of the Heaven-Connecting Realm in those legions were already gone. The remaining cultivators of the Core Formation Realm and Qi Transformation Realm, and even the Innate and Postnatal martial artists, were no match for you.】

【You even felt that fighting them was a waste of time.】

【Objectively speaking, it truly was a waste of time. You could be using that time to clear out the remaining high-level cultivators on Spiritveil Star.】

【“Winged God! Every day, you shamelessly claim to be a god and make these people worship you! As a god, is this how you let your followers throw their lives away for nothing? Do you even deserve to call yourself a god?”】

【You amplified your voice so that everyone could hear you.】

【“You’re a Heaven-Connecting Realm cultivator, for crying out loud! I’m only in the Ultimate Realm! And you still don’t dare accept my challenge?! What a coward! You’re not fit to be a god!”】

【Your taunts came one after another without end.】

【By the time you finished, even some of the knights in the legion were casting strange looks at their Winged God, Dalabeng.】

【Everyone could see that ordinary soldiers were no match for you. To them, you were nothing more than a meat grinder.】

【Yet the Winged God still hid inside his castle, protected by layer upon layer of defensive formations and surrounded by groups of guardian divine beasts, refusing to come out.】

【Wasn’t that a little inappropriate?】

【In the end, Dalabeng could take it no longer.】

【If this continued, he was afraid he would completely lose the support of his people.】

【“Fine! I, the divine one, accept your challenge! This is a battle between you and me. Stop involving my loyal followers!”】

【You looked at the corpses covering the ground and smiled.】

【“You can’t blame me for this, can you? When I arrived, I said I was challenging you. I never intended to fight your legion. You were the one who sent them charging at me. Your soldiers have it pretty miserable, serving under you.”】

【Compared to you, Dalabeng truly was an unqualified leader.】

【When you went to war, you charged at the front and took on the toughest opponents, leaving only battles of ordinary intensity to your soldiers.】

【Dalabeng, on the other hand, sent his soldiers forward to die first while he hid behind layer upon layer of protection.】

【This wasn’t Dalabeng’s fault.】

【He already knew what had happened in Spearhead Valley.】

【As long as his mind was still functioning, there was no way he should have had even the slightest desire to fight you now.】

【But he had been pushed into a corner. He had no choice.】

【Dalabeng emerged from the resplendent Winged God Castle. With every step he took, white clouds appeared beneath his feet. Twelve naked infant Winged Kin followed beside him, carrying flower baskets and scattering petals nonstop.】

【Dalabeng had twelve wings behind him, making him the Winged Kin with the most wings you had ever seen.】

【He held a golden scepter, wore a divine crown and a white divine robe, and had a halo circling behind his head.】

【“Followers! Do not fear! Do not grieve! Any heretic will be—oh, f—!”】

【You ignored his rambling and punched straight at him, startling him into blurting out a curse.】

【That said, anyone who dared call himself a god clearly had something to back it up.】

【Unless someone predicted it in advance, your Lightspeed Punch was nearly impossible to dodge after seeing you make the first move.】

【Yet Dalabeng’s body actually turned intangible!】

【The beam of light from your Lightspeed Punch passed straight through him without causing the slightest injury.】

【“A spirit treasure?”】

【He must have been carrying some kind of treasure that automatically made his body intangible whenever he was attacked.】

【But the intangible state did not last long. He returned to normal in the blink of an eye.】

【It seemed that as long as you kept attacking, his intangibility treasure would not be able to protect him completely.】

【Dalabeng clearly knew that as well, so he stopped standing around and putting on a divine act. He immediately began maneuvering around the battlefield.】

【Dalabeng’s combat strength was considerable.】

【After all, he was not only in the late Heaven-Connecting Realm, but also the supreme ruler of the Winged God Church. He possessed the richest and highest-quality resources in the entire star system.】

【However, despite claiming that this would be a one-on-one fight, he still had his legions constantly interfering and assisting him.】

【In a fit of rage, you activated the Star River Divine Art, sending the Winged God Church’s ancient castle soaring into the air before slamming it heavily back down and reducing it to a heap of ruins.】

【“Aah! My Winged God Castle! It was an antique passed down for over ten thousand years!”】

【Dalabeng flew into a rage as well. He unleashed his full power and clashed with you head-on.】

【The mighty powers of your various Traits left Dalabeng completely helpless.】

【Even when he battered you until you were covered in wounds, you recovered completely after a short while, making him feel as though ten thousand curse beasts were stampeding through his heart.】

【Dalabeng had not been hit by the negative Trait effects fired from your “Trait Slingshot”—with his guard up, you simply could not land a shot on him.】

【On top of that, with all his treasures reinforcing him, his practical combat strength was far greater than that of the Heaven-Connecting Realm cultivators you had faced in Spearhead Valley.】

【“I know who you are now! You’re Chen Dong!”】

【During the fierce battle, Dalabeng identified you as Chen Dong, the leader of the rebel army that had conquered Fortune Star, based on the techniques you used.】

【You let out a cold snort and immediately restored your appearance as Chen Dong.】

【“So what if I am? I am the end of your Winged God Church!”】

【“Hahaha! What an arrogant claim! You certainly have some ability, but your rebel army is worthless! A bunch of trash humans from a third-rate planet actually wants to launch an expedition against my church on a second-rate planet? What a colossal joke! Chen Dong, you can’t defeat me! Once I find your rebel army, I’ll tie every one of you despicable humans—no better than cockroaches and rats—to my statue and burn you alive! Burn you! Burn you! Burn you!”】

【Your expression darkened.】

【The red hair on your head began flashing as it gradually transitioned to gold.】

【Dalabeng sensed something strange.】

【You let out a furious roar, startling him.】

【“You! Are! Asking! To! Die!”】

【You had not entered Super One in a long time. Today, at last, you had been truly provoked.】

【The aura of your displayed cultivation surged, rising straight toward the Heaven-Connecting Realm!】

【But that was not all.】

【You activated the second effect of the Mythic Trait “Jiahao Behavior,” spending 3,500 points to lower Dalabeng’s cultivation from the late Heaven-Connecting Realm to the early Heaven-Connecting Realm!】

【The arrogant look on Dalabeng’s face instantly turned into stunned disbelief.】

【“My cultivation…”】

【Your golden hair stood on end as waves of divine power rippled around you. Standing in midair with the Wind-Control Divine Art beneath your feet, you fixed Dalabeng with an intimidating stare.】

【“Now, let’s see who can’t defeat whom!”】

【With a thunderous boom of displaced air, you shot forward like a missile, an arc of sonic boom trailing behind you. Your qilin arm burned with Samadhi True Fire as your body charged straight ahead—“Serious Punch!”】

【Dalabeng had not yet recovered from the shock of his cultivation regressing. He could only rely on his intangibility treasure to evade the punch.】

【“Ghost Step!”】

【What left him speechless was that even after you had passed straight through him, your astonishing speed allowed you to turn around on the spot behind him without losing any momentum, driving your fist into his back!】

【“Pfft!”】

[Dalabeng spat blood on the spot, his entire body sent flying and crashing through seven or eight mountain peaks.]

“Gods bleed too? What kind of god are you?!”