331: exchange

The Goddess frowned.

For some reason, the moment she saw Chen Tianming's confident, mischievous smile, a wave of irritation washed over her. Coupled with the fact that the man in front of her dared to insult a Goddess, her anger reached its peak.

"You... seek death!"

The Goddess instantly unleashed her divine power, but this time she wasn't clashing with Chen Tianming. Instead, she surged all her strength, expanding her aura to its absolute limit.

Rumble!

A seven-colored heavenly light shot straight into the sky, causing all things to prostrate. The pillar of light tore through the golden clouds as easily as tofu, and in what seemed like the blink of an eye, the towering light pillar reached an unknown place in the cosmos.

The Goddess let out a wild battle cry.

Yet, within the light pillar, new battle armor gradually emerged on the surface of her body.

But the Goddess, instead, felt uneasy due to the appearance of the armor, frowning with deep confusion in her eyes.

Chen Tianming casually observed the pillar of light until it extinguished, then he spoke with a sneer.

"Your Celestial Realm's living standards aren't very high, are they? Communication relies on shouting, basically?"

The Goddess's anger shot straight to her head. Her face flushed crimson as she flew forward, embracing Chen Tianming and slamming him into a large mountain behind Cage City.

The mountain collapsed, burying Chen Tianming and the Goddess deep within.

Although a good man doesn't fight with women, his own wife shouldn't be allowed to get too carried away.

Chen Tianming gently kissed the Goddess on the shoulder, but she delivered a fierce headbutt, dragging them both into a magma abyss.

Chen Tianming shook off the magma and slapped the Goddess across the face.

Whoosh!

Rushes of air breaking sounds rang out as the two simultaneously flew into the sky. Chen Tianming's palm once again gathered the Grand Dao of Heaven and Earth. With one punch, all the Grand Dao of Heaven and Earth struck out simultaneously, which was equivalent to striking tens of thousands of times at once in an instant.

The Goddess's body was repeatedly ravaged by Chen Tianming, unable to exert her strength.

She only felt a tremor in her body, and a subtle cut appeared on her thigh. Golden-yellow blood seeped from the wound.

Chen Tianming's attack also stopped at this moment, as he stared meaningfully at the Goddess's thigh.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, the Goddess is bleeding?"

She seemed to be mortified and enraged. Taking advantage of the lull in Chen Tianming's attack, she suddenly launched a counterattack. As she charged over, her armor changed again.

Two ancient metal bracers were precisely embedded on her wrists, and battle boots appeared on her bare feet.

The crown of thorns on her head scattered, and a dazzling round shield appeared on her bracers.

Boom!!

With another loud bang, the golden planet suffered an unprecedented blow.

Chen Tianming was pinned down in the river beneath the mountain, with the debris of a bridge crashing down on him.

At this moment, the Goddess raised the sharp sword in her hand high.

"This time! You're dead for sure!"

Chen Tianming suddenly felt a hint of threat. His thoughts raced, constantly pondering how to dodge.

The next second.

Black ripples suddenly surged in the golden clouds.

A dark halo rapidly converged, and a black pillar of light plunged straight down, piercing through the Goddess's body.

She was covered in black energy, suffering immensely.

Fortunately, Chen Tianming reacted quickly enough. He reached out and grabbed the Goddess's jade arm. At that moment, Chen Tianming felt a certain change in his arm.

The black light seemed to possess a strange power of displacement. Chen Tianming felt distortion and change, and he didn't dare to delay, quickly pulling the Goddess out.

The Goddess softly collapsed into Chen Tianming's arms, her eyes tightly closed, her eyelashes trembling slightly.

After being pierced by that light pillar, she had become disoriented.

Chen Tianming temporarily brought her back to Cage City, providing strict protection, and at the same time, greatly distributed finances to regulate resource shortages among the major cities.

Just as Chen Tianming was about to begin searching for the source of that black pillar of light, his vision suddenly went dark, and Chen Tianming actually fainted.

Chen Tianming only felt like he had blacked out, his eyes plunged into darkness. He didn't know if he was unconscious or simply had his eyes closed, which made Chen Tianming gradually anxious.

But soon, a woman's voice appeared in his mind.

"Where is this?"

Click, as if a slide had changed.

Chen Tianming appeared in an unknown scene.

A massive classical warship flew from the ocean and crashed onto a windmill.

Flames burned fiercely.

Whoosh!

A meteor streaked across the night sky, crashing into the ground with a rumble.

The Goddess gradually rose from the mud.

The surrounding crowd loudly shouted her name.

Diana.

The Goddess supported the collapsed warship with both hands. In the flames, a young girl cried and screamed, her face streaked with tears amidst the smoke and fire.

The Goddess saved the girl, jumped into the sea, and engaged in close combat with a giant sea monster. Tentacles filled the sky, and blood stained the ocean red.

The Goddess won, and her people cheered continuously.

But in a flash, other scenes appeared in Chen Tianming's eyes again.

The girl became a young woman, her light armor tightly stretched over her blossoming body, her golden hair coiled. She tightly wrapped her wrists with a leather strap, and a beheading saber was held before another woman.

Diana, she had grown old.

Perhaps she wasn't a Goddess after all. An aging warrior couldn't bear the worship of her people. It was time to discard the old and bring in the new.

The fiery passion of the young challenged the seasoned experience of the old. This unnecessary battle finally began, instigated and manipulated by fools.

Divine powers collided, the ocean churned, and the island collapsed with a roar. Who knew how many people would be displaced once more.

Chen Tianming's body had somehow merged with the young woman.

Blood-stained barbarian citizens were cheering with raised arms.

"Kill! Saria! Kill!"

The new generation of Goddess, filled with rage, cut off the head of her teacher and savior.

She enjoyed centuries of offerings, sitting on the high throne at the apex of the pyramid.

She saved her people, and finally, she rescued a little girl.

She cultivated the girl's fighting will, taught her right from wrong, and recounted the story of beheading her teacher as a heroic myth.

She finally understood why her teacher had gradually fallen into depravity, even being abandoned by faith, and ultimately killed by her own student.

This was a cycle, never-ending.

It was a curse, impossible to break.

She became more depraved, more tyrannical, isolating herself from the human world.

Until one day, ancient sorcerers from afar found a way to open the gate to the Celestial Realm.

Saria found herself with only two choices.

Either kill the student she had personally saved, kill everyone, and sacrifice the souls of these barbaric believers to the sorcerer to open the gate to ascend to the Celestial Realm.

Or abide by the cycle, live a carefree life for half a lifetime, and wait for her head to be taken off, to be used as a trash can filled with filth.

Saria unhesitatingly chose slaughter.

By the time the blood of living beings on the island stained the sea red, she finally realized that everything she had inherited was nothing but slaughter and battle.

But the gate to the Celestial Realm had already opened. Saria had no choice; she could only watch as the soul-absorbing sorcerer grew stronger, while she herself was helplessly drawn and ascended to the Celestial Realm.

At this point, Chen Tianming finally woke up, but the next second, he let out a... joyful cry.

"Holy crap! Where did these two big oxen come from..."

Chen Tianming looked up. In the unique, fantastical cyber Hospital of Cage City, which combined spiritual and electrical power, Saria's face appeared in the mirror on the ceiling.