312: Chapter 312 Escape

Garuda did not retreat but instead advanced; his massive body ballooned against the wind in the vacuum, transforming into a ten-thousand-foot-tall, six-winged seraphic dharma form. With a violent swing of the golden scepter in his hand, the gravity of the entire starry sky instantly increased by a million-fold. Simultaneously, thousands of golden stellar fireballs, like a meteor shower with the terrifying power to tear through space, smashed down fiercely toward Chen Xi and the other four!

Facing this world-destroying strike from a true god, Chen Xi didn't even knit his brows.

“Lin Shan!” Chen Xi barked coldly.

“Leave it to me! Captain!”

Lin Shan let out a wild roar. His physical body, which had already evolved into the [Astral God Immortal Body], boomed and expanded, transforming into a Dark-Gold Demon God several times larger than Garuda! He didn't raise a shield; instead, he spread his arms wide and slammed directly into the sky full of stellar fireballs!

“[Absolute Martyr: Causality Black Hole]!!!”

Rumble—!!!

The thousands of fireballs, each capable of destroying a planet, did not burn Lin Shan to ashes upon contact. Instead, they were forcibly absorbed and compressed by the dark-gold Causality shield on his body! The tenfold damage backlash caused blood to spray from his entire body, but he let out a wild laugh of extreme excitement.

“Old man, haven't you eaten?! This temperature isn't even enough to give me a scrub-down!”

Lin Shan's arms shook violently, turning all the absorbed damage into a reverse dark-red shockwave that slammed hard into Garuda’s divine protection light, making the cardinal archbishop stumble!

“What?! You withstood my divine punishment head-on?!” Garuda’s eyes nearly popped out of his head.

“You're surprised too early! [Time Reversal: Age Deprivation]!”

Li Murou’s crisp yet cold voice rang out behind Garuda. The SS-grade [harp of time reversal] was plucked frantically, and a golden law of time instantly coiled around Garuda’s massive dharma form.

“Hum—!”

Garuda discovered in horror that the sea-like true god origin within his body was actually 'flowing backward' in an extremely bizarre way! The divine power he had just consumed not only failed to recover but returned to the awkward 'charging' state from before he released the skill, and the skill’s cooldown was forcibly locked!

“Damn time rules! Get lost!” Garuda roared, trying to break free from the shackles of time.

But just then, a clear sword cry echoed through the starry sky!

“[Void Thunder Punishment: God-Slaying Realm-Severing Slash]!!!”

Su Xiaoxiao transformed into a streak of ultimate purple-silver lightning, instantly cutting into Garuda’s defensive blind spot. The thunder spear in her hand, fused with the laws of the void and carrying an indomitable resolve, completely ignored the shield on Garuda’s body and pierced fiercely through the left wing of his dharma form!

“Chila—!”

Accompanied by a tragic scream, one of Garuda’s energy light wings was hacked off. Purple-black void lightning followed the wound, frantically eroding his divinity origin!

“All spirits, heed my command! [God-Tier Command: Soul Suppression]!”

Ye Fei was even more merciless. The divine seal on her brow transformed into an ancient creator phantom, which stepped down from a higher dimension directly into Garuda’s mental sea!

“Aaaaaah—!!!”

Under the extreme kiting and gang-beating of the four Nirvana Battle Team members—all of whom were at the peak of the demigod stage and possessed various perverted rule powers—this dignified Lv.160 true god-tier cardinal archbishop was actually beaten until he had no power to fight back, like a giant punching bag being kicked around in space!

“Impossible... This is absolutely impossible! I am a true god! How could I lose to a bunch of low-dimensional monkeys like you!!!”

Garuda’s hair was disheveled, and divine blood gushed from his body. He fell into a complete, desperate madness. He bit the tip of his tongue, wanting to detonate his true god divinity and drag this entire star sector down with him.

“Want to self-destruct? In front of me, you don't even have the right to die.”

A voice as cold as an abyss rang out by Garuda’s ear without warning.

Without anyone noticing, Chen Xi had already appeared above Garuda’s head like a ghost.

In his eyes, there was no mercy, only the red-gold divine light churning with countless lines of the universe's underlying code.

“Your rules are too outdated.”

Chen Xi slowly raised his right hand, fingers splayed, and pressed down gently toward the massive Garuda dharma form below.

“[Creator Sovereign: Administrator Permissions: Rule Overwrite]!”

“For me... turn into a mortal!!!”

Boom—!!!!!

As Chen Xi’s unreasonable creator permissions descended, Garuda discovered to his absolute horror that the indestructible Lv.160 true god divinity within him was rapidly melting under that press, like a snowflake under a scorching sun! His world-destroying astral laws were forcibly 'edited' and 'formatted,' eventually disappearing completely without a trace!

In just one second!

The once insufferably arrogant cardinal archbishop, under Chen Xi’s dimensional reduction strike, was forcibly stripped of all divine power. He turned into a naked, weak, and pathetic old alien who couldn't even survive in a vacuum!

“You... what kind of monster are you... You can actually strip away divinity?!” Garuda slumped in the void. Without the protection of divine power, the surface of his body began to freeze. He looked at Chen Xi as if he were looking at the ultimate demon of the universe.

“Monster? No, I'm just a Card Maker.”

A cruel smile curled on Chen Xi’s lips. He suddenly grabbed with his right hand, and a special card emitting a dark glow was instantly slapped onto Garuda’s forehead!

“[Miracle: Ultimate Soul-Searching Soul-Stealing Card]! Spit out all the secrets in your head for me!”

“Aaaaaahhhhhh————!!!!”

Shrill screams echoed under Chen Xi’s mental shielding. Under the domineering rule-tearing of the [Soul-Searching Card], the most top-secret memories in the depths of Garuda’s soul flashed through Chen Xi’s mind like film reels.

The defense maps of the Star God Race army... the final plan of the Star Council... and...

When Chen Xi flipped to the core area of Garuda’s memory, his originally relaxed expression suddenly turned solemn, and his pupils shrank to the size of pinpricks!

“This... this is?!”

In the depths of Garuda’s memory, Chen Xi saw an extremely hidden and terrifying scene.

It was in the deepest part of the Star God Race's ancestral planet, [Radiant Sun Heaven]. Before the massive true god body of the Astral God Emperor, there was actually... a figure shrouded in a black robe kneeling!

And the reason the Astral God Emperor frantically wanted to seize Earth and obtain the [god-creating cube] was not for some 'universal rule' or 'life ascension'!

It was for—[fleeing for his life]!!!