Chapter 1168, Is the Slaughter Ancient God Truly Invincible?

Translator: Silavin

 

This could be considered a severe blow against the Slaughter Ancient God.

 

The Slaughter Ancient God screamed and shrieked without cease, and a towering, Heaven-shaking pressure erupted outward from his body.

 

Wave after wave of force blasted outward in all directions, the sheer power behind each burst causing Lu Fan and his companions to feel a tremor run through them.

 

The reason was simple: the aura the Slaughter Ancient God was unleashing at this moment was simply too terrifying.

 

It seemed that having his head severed by Lu Fan and the others had not weakened the Slaughter Ancient God in the slightest. On the contrary, it had triggered some kind of power within his body, making him grow even stronger.

 

This sudden change shook Lu Fan’s composure.

 

The Slaughter Ancient God screamed and shrieked without ceasing, and a towering, Heaven-shaking pressure erupted outward from his body.

 

Wave after wave of force blasted outward in all directions, the sheer power behind each burst causing Lu Fan and the others to feel a tremor run through them.

 

The reason was simple: the aura the Slaughter Ancient God was unleashing at this moment was simply too terrifying.

 

This sudden change set Lu Fan’s heart lurching, unable to fathom why the Slaughter Ancient God was growing stronger the more he fought.

 

At this moment, Ouyang Bai Ge called out loudly from one side. “The Slaughter Ancient God was born for Slaughter. His abilities are extraordinarily ferocious. When fighting him, one cannot afford to lower one’s guard. The more wounds he sustains, the more he strengthens, until he elevates his own power to reach the level required to hunt down his enemy. In short, the stronger the enemy, and the greater the injury they deal him, the stronger he becomes!”

 

Lu Fan’s brow furrowed as he said, “Does that not mean we cannot touch him at all? He is already this powerful as things stand. If his strength increases without limit from here, who in the world could be a match for him?”

 

Ouyang Bai Ge gave a wry smile. “This is precisely what makes the Slaughter Ancient God so troublesome. In past eras, he was not as though there were no Ancient Gods stronger than him. Yet, in the course of battling him, the Slaughter Ancient God’s power broke through without any ceiling whatsoever, leaving certain Ancient Gods who had originally been above him in strength utterly outpaced.”

 

“In the end, some were even slain by him and sank into eternal slumber.”

 

“The battles he fought when he became the God King back in the day were exactly the same. By rights, with his original strength, it would have been very difficult for him to kill the other Ancient Gods and claim the position of God King. But in the end, it was precisely through this capacity to grow stronger with every battle that he finally defeated all his rivals and became the God King.”

 

Ye Wuxian was at this moment being pushed back repeatedly by the Slaughter Ancient God’s aura, and she happened to catch Ouyang Bai Ge’s words. Her shock was immense. “The Slaughter Ancient God can grow stronger without limit?”

 

“Does that not make him Invincible?” Ye Wuxian’s words were not without basis. After all, the Slaughter Ancient God was already this formidable to begin with. His Self-Healing was outrageously powerful, and on top of that he grew stronger the more he was wounded, with no ceiling in sight. Who, then, could ever be his match?

 

At this moment, though the Slaughter Ancient God had lost one head, his power had risen by a few degrees, and the pain drove him into an even greater fury as he attacked those around him with savage, frenzied strikes.

 

Lu Fan took in the situation and immediately recognised that this was absolutely not the time for conversation. He moved at once to press forward, to help the others share the pressure lest the Slaughter Ancient God’s Damage Output overflowed and dealt severe harm to those around him.

 

Jian Ying and the others had the Golden Asura King, so they could still hold their ground to some degree.

 

Ye Wuxian could rely on her Elemental Form to dodge the Slaughter Ancient God’s attacks.

 

But Han Ke and Ouyang Bai Ge, as Backliners, would have little chance of surviving if the Slaughter Ancient God turned his focus on them, even with Ancient God Power as protection.

 

Whether Ouyang Bai Ge had any Survival Skills in reserve remained to be seen, but Han Ke certainly did not.

 

As it happened, before Lu Fan needed to push forward, Ouyang Bai Ge had already made the necessary preparations.

 

Among the Void Insects she had summoned, there were a few that were like tall buildings in stature, clad in dense, heavy armour. Their movement was slow, but their mass and Defence were staggering.

 

These Void Insects had been cultivated by her specifically to restrain the Slaughter Ancient God.

 

Now, at a single command from Ouyang Bai Ge, these Void Insects surged forward as one, pressing into the frontline and planting themselves squarely in the way.

 

The Slaughter Ancient God struck at them in repeated succession, driving them backwards with every blow.

 

Unlike before, these Void Insects could no longer simply rely on their defensive capability to hold the Slaughter Ancient God at bay.

 

Now, even with a dozen or more Void Insects charging forward together, there were signs they could barely contain the Slaughter Ancient God, giving a clear measure of just how significantly the latter’s strength had grown.

 

Ouyang Bai Ge’s expression tightened, and then she swept her hand once more, summoning a swarm of violet Void Insects.

 

The moment these Void Insects were called forth, they flew out immediately, landing upon the bodies of the defensive Void Insects.

 

The steel-hard armoured shells that had, until moments ago, been impenetrable even to the Slaughter Ancient God’s blows, were useless in the face of these Void Insects. It was as if such Defences did not exist at all. The new Void Insects directly pass through their companions’ armoured shells and into their bodies.

 

Streaks of violet light ignited across these defensive Void Insects’ frames, branching out like veins of lightning, tracing through every part of their bodies.

 

In an instant, the Attributes of these defensive Void Insects surged dramatically, and as though they had ceased to feel pain altogether, they locked themselves around the Slaughter Ancient God with rock-solid resolve and launched a concerted assault upon him.

 

These Void Insects’ Attack was limited, and they could not deal anything close to Fatal Damage against the Slaughter Ancient God. One might even say their attacks could barely scratch him.

 

However, through sheer physical resilience, they managed to restrain the Slaughter Ancient God enough to prevent him from breaking through and threatening the others.

 

Ouyang Bai Ge released a slight breath and continued. “My Void Insects will not be able to restrain him for too long. Besides, we came here to seize his Divine Seat, not merely to keep him pinned down. To actually kill him, our current Damage Output is nowhere near enough.”

 

“Lu Fan, did you not ask before how the Slaughter Ancient God, powerful as he is, managed to lose during the Ancient Gods Struggle For Supremacy?”

 

“I do actually know something about that. For instance, in the previous era, the Ancient God who sent the Slaughter Ancient God into his long slumber was the Fallen Corpse Ancient God, the one who ultimately became the God King.”

 

“The method the Fallen Corpse Ancient God used to kill the Slaughter Ancient God was actually quite simple. It was absolute dominance through overwhelming power, annihilating him completely before his strength could surge to surpass his own. In other words, what we need is an enormous burst of Damage Output, enough to exceed the upper limit of what he can endure in a single instant. Because if we allow his Ancient God Power to activate and let his strength climb a little further, killing him after that will become exponentially more difficult.”