193: Chapter 193 Annihilation Slash!

Lu Yin slowly raised his long sword. The movement seemed slow, yet it caused the laws of the entire temple to tremble.

"Mortal, you dare raise a blade against a God."

The Athena Projection finally spoke, her voice no longer echoing directly within the depths of his soul.

Instead, it was like thousands of overlapping echoes, surging from all directions simultaneously.

Every syllable carried the weight of divine punishment, causing the divine runes on the temple pillars to flicker intermittently.

Lu Yin did not respond.

He simply held the blade of eternal silence horizontally before him, the tip of the sword pointing distantly at the divine throne.

In the next instant, he moved.

There were no afterimages, no sonic booms, and not even a trace of movement.

Converting his attributes to Agility allowed him to appear three feet in front of the Athena Projection as if teleporting!

"Attribute Conversion, Strength!"

"Ephemeral Splendor!"

The blade of eternal silence slashed down silently. This strike seemed simple, yet it contained a power that defied common logic.

Wherever the blade passed, the River of Time flowing solemnly within the temple was forcibly torn asunder, creating a rift.

Fragments of time peeled away and scattered like glazed glass.

Deep within the indifferent pupils of the Athena Projection, a hint of something unusual appeared for the first time.

But she did not retreat; she merely raised the divine spear in her hand with extreme naturalness.

The movement was perfectly seamless, without a trace of artificiality, as if the river of fate was meant to have such a bend at this point.

Ding!

A chime that was both extremely crisp and extremely strange rang out.

The edge of the blade of eternal silence lightly met the point of pure white flame at the tip of Athena's spear.

The moment the spear and sword met, time within the temple seemed to freeze.

There was no sound, no vibration; even the dust motes dancing in the air froze in mid-air.

Centering on the point where spear and sword met, an invisible ripple spread silently.

Wherever the ripple passed, space exhibited a bizarre fading phenomenon.

Within the eternally indifferent eyes of the Athena Projection, a subtle change actually flickered.

It was not surprise, nor shock, but more like...

Some ancient existence that had been silent for billions of years had been lightly touched by a creature it had never imagined.

The silence of the spear and sword meeting lasted for only a billionth of an instant.

In the next moment.

The entire space shattered like it was struck by a heavy hammer, revealing countless fine, pitch-black cracks.

The eternally motionless body of the Athena Projection shifted for the first time.

She took half a step back.

Only half a step.

The moment she retreated, the stairs beneath her feet, carved from divine jade...

Silently turned to powder, as if having endured billions of years of weathering.

And in the next instant, they were completely erased by that power of death, leaving not even a speck of dust behind.

The pure white flame manifested by 'Victory' in her hand actually swayed slightly at this moment, as if blown by an invisible chill.

"Death..."

The Athena Projection's voice still echoed with overlapping layers, but the absolute indifference within it was replaced by a faint trace of scrutiny.

She did not wait for Lu Yin's answer; or rather, she did not need one.

"Light of Judgment."

In the next moment, the spear of victory in the Athena Projection's hand tilted slightly, and the pure white flame dancing on the tip blazed fiercely once more.

It transformed into a roaring torrent of light, like a celestial river bursting its banks, surging toward Lu Yin.

Facing the rushing Light of Judgment, Lu Yin actually did not dodge or avoid it.

He gripped the blade of eternal silence with both hands. Upon the blade, countless twisting and wailing silent souls gathered and compressed like a vortex, finally condensing at a single point on the tip.

"Death Soul Break!"

Lu Yin's voice was low and raspy as the blade of eternal silence slashed out ferociously, as if ten thousand souls were crying out in silence.

Boom!

Pure white and deep darkness collided violently in the center of the temple.

The Light of Judgment carried the divine will to purify all things, while the Death Soul Break condensed the silent laws that eroded existence.

This was a direct collision between divine punishment and death.

The moment the two powers touched, no world-shaking explosion occurred; instead, it manifested as a silent annihilation.

Wherever the light reached, space was purified layer by layer, turning into a domain of the purest light.

Wherever the darkness reached, all things decayed and withered, falling into eternal silence.

The two powers eroded and canceled each other out, forming a constantly shifting dividing line in the center of the temple.

The dividing line vibrated violently amidst the annihilation, slowly pushing toward Lu Yin's direction.

The power of purification and order contained within the Light of Judgment clearly suppressed the newly condensed laws of death in terms of magnitude.

Beneath Lu Yin's feet, the temple floor tainted by the light peeled away inch by inch, rose, and vanished into nothingness.

He was like a solitary boat sailing against a pure white raging tide, being irresistibly pushed toward the shore of destruction.

"Annihilation Slash!"

Buzz!

Just as Lu Yin was about to be swallowed by the golden torrent, he activated the exclusive skill of the blade of annihilation.

Instantly, an innumerable amount of souls of death were injected, causing the blade of annihilation to emit an incredibly terrifying aura of death.

Those twisted ghosts roamed frantically on the blade, finally converging into a condensed black sword light of the highest degree.

In the next second, the black line extended silently, slashing upward against the torrent of Light of Judgment that had already mostly swallowed him!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no roar of energy collision.

The roaring Light of Judgment, which seemed capable of purifying the universe, met with a bizarre scene the moment it touched this black line.

It was like a hot knife cutting through solidified butter, or like molten lava meeting the absolute zero of extreme cold.

This trajectory flowed upstream at an unimaginably fast speed, pointing directly at the source of the Light of Judgment—

The tip of the spear of victory in Athena's hand!

Boom!

The moment the black void trajectory was about to touch the pure white flame of the spear tip...

Her fingers gripping the spear shaft tightened imperceptibly.

In the next instant.

A terrifying energy erupted, and both sides were forced back violently.

And while retreating, damage characters appeared above Athena's head for the first time.

-12,798,965!

Ten million damage would normally be a terrifying figure.

But considering Lu Yin had concentrated his Attribute Conversion into Strength and consumed tens of thousands of souls of death, this damage could be said to have disappointed him quite a bit.

Yet along with the disappointment, he also understood that the strength of this God projection before him was clearly not something the Dream God could compare to.

No wonder no student had been able to live on the third floor of the Gods Dormitory to this day.

"So Gods... can also be injured?"

A cold arc curled at the corner of Lu Yin's mouth, and the ghostly light in his eyes flared: "It seems this so-called God projection is not invincible after all!"

The Athena Projection looked down at her chest. Though there were no wounds there, the lingering holy light seemed to have dimmed by an imperceptible amount.

She slowly raised her head, and for the first time, genuine emotion was revealed in her indifferent eyes.

"Is it you who has returned..."

The divine projection spoke a seemingly irrelevant sentence, faintly revealing a hint of excitement.

It wasn't a question, but rather a form of confirmation.

The ten-thousand-year-old frozen indifference in her eyes completely thawed at this moment, replaced by a near-burning heat.

It was the excitement of finally finding an opponent after endless ages, the complete awakening of the essence of the Goddess of War and Wisdom.