Star Odyssey

Chapter 3183: The Megalith’s Strength

This was the first time that Lu Yin had heard of such a thing. While fishing in the River of Time, he had speculated that, since time was passing for him in the Mirari Realm, there had to be some sort of time flow present in the Mirari Realm. From what Blackless God was saying, there was no way to truly break free from time. It was just that the connection would shift to a higher level.

Lu Yin noted Blackless God’s warning. "One more question. When you were in the Mirari Realm, was Feng Bo there?"

"The Mirari Realm isn’t small, and as long as you have the capability, you can explore the entire place. If you don’t, you’ll be limited to wandering nothing more than a small portion of it near the river and its two banks. When I was there, I didn’t see Feng Bo," the man replied.

Lu Yin understood. This explained why Aeternus had not helped Feng Bo deal with Hongyan Mavis. If another one of Aeternus’s experts at the level of the Seven Skygods had gone to help, how could Hongyan Mavis have survived her time in the Mirari Realm?

"We’re out of time. I must go. We’ll speak again if an opportunity arises," Blackless God said as he prepared to leave.

Lu Yin grew worried. "If we bring Great Elder Shan Gu here, won’t the Aeternals realize that you showed us this universe?"

Blackless God continued to tear through the void and entered the tear. "I’m not the only one who knows about this place."

With that, he vanished.

Lu Yin and Lu Yuan stared at the empty space before them before exchanging glances.

"Do you trust him?" Lu Yuan asked.

Lu Yin considered the matter. "There’s no reason not to. So far, everything he’s said matches what I know. He’s spared my life several times, and he was the one who said that he would give me 100,000 years before I would be forced to make a final decision about joining Aeternus. He also shared the Aeternals’ plans with us, as well as the details about the Mirari Realm. Even if he wanted to put on an act to get close to us, there wouldn’t be any reason to share that kind of information."

Lu Yuan sighed. "I always suspected that one of the Seven Skygods was on our side, but I never considered him."

"It’s time to give Shan Gu a bit of peace," Lu Yin commented softly as he stared at the colossal creature off in the distance.

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A cosmic door hung in outer space as Shan Gu rushed out of it. He threw a glance at the distant form of the massive Megalith, and the man instantly felt a chill cover his body. Lu Yin had warned him about the Megalith beforehand, so Shan Gu knew that the creature could crush space and expose the Hollow just by rolling over.

The warning had not only startled the Great Elder, but also Lu Yuan and Hongyan Mavis.

Both of them were famous for their physical strength, and they knew perfectly well just how much power was needed to tear open the Hollow.

Not even all Progenitors were able to tear open the Hollow, and yet the Megalith was able to do so by simply rolling over. This suggested that the creature possessed unfathomable power. What would happen if the beast ever attacked?

Lu Yuan speculated that, if the Megalith was a normal creature, its physical strength would be comparable to the power of an Ortuser’s attacks.

Shan Gu remembered Lu Yin's warning, and he therefore did not dare to approach the Megalith. Not only could it crush the void and reveal the Hollow by merely rolling over, but it was also capable of absorbing energy, which was how the Megalith produced its poison. Any creature that got too close to the beast would lose its energy. For the time being, the Great Elder preferred to keep his distance.

Several days quickly passed, and Tian Fa caught up to Shan Gu. The creature did not enter the universe through the cosmic door. After all, that was impossible, as the cosmic door was with Lu Yin.

Tian Fa was able to track Shan Gu’s location through some unknown method, and it had directly entered the Megalith’s universe.

This was the same as in the past. They were able to easily track Shan Gu across parallel universes and constantly drew closer and closer. However, after fighting Lu Yuan in the Origin Universe, Shan Gu had managed to gain a great deal of distance. At the moment, Tian Fa was closing in yet again.

As soon as Tian Fa appeared, Shan Gu immediately rushed closer to the Megalith, though not by himself. The man was piloting a mecha.

It was one of the Infinity Empire’s mechas, though it was one of the very few that was not powered by ring energy. It was an experimental machine that the Imperial Academy had designed, and it was intended to be disassembled by students.

At this moment, the mecha was coming in handy.

The mecha could move quickly, and it was at least as fast as a Semi-Progenitor. Before its deployment, the Infinity Empire had modified it to no longer relied on ring energy. Without that change, Shan Gu would not have been able to use it.

Tian Fa watched as the mecha rushed towards the Megalith. It noticed the massive creature, and the blood-colored liquid that was Tian Fa roiled in place. "A creature from another megaverse?"

It had already noticed that the Megalith was also an outsider.

This was why Blackless God had shared the Megalith’s location with Lu Yin, as it could be used to restrain Tian Fa.

Blackless God was confident that this was possible. While the Megalith was not much of a fighter and was not particularly aggressive, it was very resilient and could automatically absorb energy without even being conscious.

As the mecha moved closer to the beast, Shan Gu could feel his energy draining away. However, it was rather easy to avoid this effect, as all that he needed to do was move away from the creature. The Great Elder had not been afflicted by Megalith Poison.

At this moment, everything depended on Tian Fa’s decision.

The creature hesitated for a moment and then attacked the Megalith. Tian Fa had hesitated because it was clear that the Megalith was not a creature to take lightly, but since it was an outsider from another megaverse, Tian Fa was obligated to attack.

“Earth’s Blade.”

Endless blades filled the universe and slashed at the Megalith. Of course, the mecha was also included in its range.

Shan Gu took out his Heavenly King card to stop the blades, as the mecha was incapable of surviving any of Tian Fa’s attacks.

The endless blades struck the bottom of the Megalith, instantly waking the beast.

The Megalith immediately rolled over while letting out a deep growl of pain.

Tian Fa showed no mercy as it declared, "You dare to enter this megaverse without permission? You will be killed without mercy!"

As the Megalith rolled over, its massive body crushed space. After turning over, it lunged at Tian Fa.

Despite its incredible size, the Megalith moved quickly, and it looked as though it was swimming through a sea of stars. The closer it got to Tian Fa, the stronger its energy-absorption ability became. Furious roars rang across the universe as the beast opened its mouth to bite at Tian Fa.

Tian Fa shouted, "The laws cannot touch me! Your laws of the universe are useless against me."

The Megalith had directly been born from a universe, and it innately possessed the ability to absorb energies. This power could be considered a type of a law of a universe. This was not something that the beast had acquired through cultivation, but was rather an innate ability.

However, as long as an action was a law of the universe, it could not touch Tian Fa.

The Megalith’s energy absorption had absolutely no effect on Tian Fa.

A spear started to form in front of Tian Fa, and the Megalith suddenly froze in place. This was exactly what had previously happened to Lu Yuan when he had fought against Tian Fa.

"Heaven’s Spear."

The spear shot forward, and it pierced through the Megalith, piercing into its front and exiting out its back.

The beast let out a heartrending roar as it thrashed about violently, shattering space all around it.

The Great Elder watched from within his mecha and felt his scalp go numb. He knew that not even Lu Yuan, who was an Ortuser, could break free from Tian Fa’s constraints that used the passage of time. Despite that, the Megalith was actually shattering the power of time itself.

Tian Fa was equally shocked. Once strength reached a certain level, it became possible to break all constraints, even those of time.

Despite being an Ortuser, Lu Yuan was unable to do this because he was not as physically strong as the Megalith. In fact, there was no one in the entire megaverse who was physically stronger than the Megalith. It was possible that Hongyan Mavis might surpass the beast when she became an Ortuser, but the chances were incredibly small.

The Megalith was one of the strongest creatures across all the countless parallel universes when it came to brute strength.

Even so, the beast could only writhe about. It was unable to truly break free from the shackles formed from the passing of time.

Heaven’s Spear had not actually caused that much damage to the Megalith. The beast continued to writhe about, and the sound of space shattering continued to echo out in the universe. Tian Fa’s Earth’s Blade also continued to rain down on the Megalith’s body, but the attacks were unable to break through the beast’s defenses. Only Tian Fa’s Heaven’s Spear was strong enough to pierce the Megalith’s hide.

Tian Fa wanted to move around the Megalith so that it could attack Shan Gu and deal with the human first, but the Great Elder stayed close to the Megalith, though he maintained a certain distance from Tian Fa so that he could avoid Heaven’s Spear. The spear needed to be launched from within a certain distance to be effective, and as long as Shan Gu kept his distance, Tian Fa could not attack the man.

It was also difficult for Tian Fa to bind an opponent with the passing of the years. If it were easy, it would have become invincible long ago.

The endless blades were unable to breach Heavenly King’s defenses, and the Megalith continued to shatter the shackles of the passing of time. There was no other option; Tian Fa was forced to retreat for the moment.

Shan Gu watched Tian Fa retreat before finally heaving a sigh of relief.

He quickly moved the mecha away from the Megalith, fearing that the beast would roll over again, and in doing so, open up the Hollow in a large enough region to swallow the mecha and Shan Gu with it.

The Megalith continued to thrash about. It would take a long time for it to calm down from the pain it was suffering from.

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