The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 278 - 263: The Hunt for the God of War!_1

Chapter 278: Chapter 263: The Hunt for the God of War!_1

"Crack! Crack!"

The spider-bodied Alien God from the Outer Realm, clawing the hard rock ground with its spider legs, tried to return to the vast cloudy sky.

Suddenly, an overpowering gravitational field dominated it.

Each of its spider legs was shackled by a natural law known as the Spirit of the Earth, weighed down by heavy chains.

Its repeated attempts to leap into the air all ended in vain, as it was firmly restricted within the Panshi Fragment Land.

Only then did its eyes, which were spreading strange alien powers, fall upon the Mysterious Turtle.

"Boom!"

The Mysterious Turtle lifted one of its towering legs and then stomped heavily, causing the ground to shake like a carpet.

In this way, it responded to the gaze of the Alien God from the Outer Realm.

It also made it clear that it was the one exerting force in secret, twisting the natural force field of the earth, forcing it to stay within the Panshi Fragment Land.

"Fragment Land, colossal turtle, Different Kinds ..."

The figure of the spider-bodied Alien God from the Outer Realm trembled.

"It can no longer run away."

Pang Jian, controlling Black Iron Mountain, flew towards the grounded Alien God, and said gravely, "Together, we rule over Panshi Fragment Land. Incomplete Alien Gods from the Outer Realm like this one will fall one after another."

"Whoosh! Whoosh!"

The enormous Star-shattering Umbrella and the flaming Nine Suns Tripod flew together towards the spider-bodied Alien God.

The three-thousand-zhang-long Mysterious Turtle remained in place without moving, watching Pang Jian with a curious gaze.

It had not anticipated that upon Pang Jian’s return to Panshi Fragment Land, he would be able to unleash such formidable strength that even an Alien God from the Outer Realm would struggle to cope.

After hesitating for a moment, it sent another message.

The gist was... there was another Alien God wandering in the Meteorite Sea above, also searching for something.

— It was preparing to lure another one down to kill.

"Another one?"

Pang Jian pondered for a while and asked, "How sure are you that you can take on one alone? Without me, just you against two Alien Gods from the Outer Realm, can you prevail?"

The Mysterious Turtle immediately responded, informing him it had no assurance against two Alien Gods but could assuredly kill one.

"Then let’s lure another one!"

Pang Jian brimmed with fighting spirit.

He, sparing no expense and using a vast amount of Spirit Jade to build Panshi Fragment Land, was pleasantly surprised by this return trip, which gave him strong confidence.

From their brief encounter, he had not felt a suffocating terror emitting from the spider-bodied Alien God.

He believed that he and the Mysterious Turtle could speedily slaughter the Alien God before them!

"Crack! Crack!"

The Alien God’s spider legs continued to prod the ground, chiseling numerous caves into the cold, hard rock below.

It did seem to be struggling somewhat.

In contrast to Pang Jian...

"Whoosh!"

Standing on Black Iron Mountain, wielding a glittering long spear, he charged towards it.

At that moment.

It abruptly ceased its leg movements, and with cold, indifferent eyes, stared silently at Pang Jian.

Its pupils slowly rippled with mysterious waves, emanating a strange Divine Power that could behold living beings.

That spider web, spun from its silvery-white hair and still appearing in Pang Jian’s Sea of Consciousness, was controlled by it like catching fish in a net, ensnaring Pang Jian’s Divine Sense.

"Swoosh!"

The spider web, becoming like one of its eyes, also rippled with mysterious patterns, forming an even stronger and more terrifying suction force!

Strands of Divine Sense, which Pang Jian had firmly controlled and concentrated in one place, became chaotic and uncontrollable under the Alien God’s renewed exertion.

A hundred and thirty strands of Divine Sense suddenly flowed towards that silvery-white spider web.

The spider web, emanating strange alien energy, seemed like an Alien God’s gaping maw, intending to consume Pang Jian’s Divine Sense as its meal.

Pang Jian hastily reconcentrated his mental strength, stopped Black Iron Mountain, and exerted all his effort to regain control over his Divine Sense.

On the other hand, he cast out his Astonishing Spear, aiming for the enchanting human face of the Alien God.

A silver rainbow streaked across the sky, and one after another, the spider legs emerged.

"Clang!"

"Clang! Clang!"

The stabs of the Astonishing Spear were intercepted by the Alien God’s frosty white spider legs, unable to get close to its beautiful human face.

It was still exerting its strength covertly, pulling at Pang Jian’s Divine Sense with the web in his Sea of Consciousness.

"Go!"

Pang Jian once again manipulated the Star-shattering Umbrella.

The spinning umbrella in the void expelled one spoke after another, transforming into streaks of star and moon lightning, crackling as they struck the Alien God’s spider body.

The Alien God, using two of its legs to protect its enchanting human face, had its spider body pierced by the dagger-like umbrella spokes until it was full of holes.

Under those holes, the original gray-white stone was forced to be exposed.

At this moment.

The Mysterious Turtle, which had been silent, suddenly unleashed its innate Divine Skills that shook the earth with thunderous force from its stationary limbs.

Its toes plunged into the earth, making the entire Panshi Fragment Land respond to its power!

It began to exercise its authority as the Spirit of the Earth!

A ring of greenish-blue light emanated from the ground beneath its feet, spreading instantly to the equally grounded Alien God.

"Crack! Crack! Crack!"

The Alien God, its gray-white stone material exposed under the punctures of Pang Jian’s umbrella spokes, was dismembered on the spot by the Mysterious Turtle!

With a piercing scream, its Divine Consciousness shifted, its energy pouring into Pang Jian’s Sea of Consciousness.

The silver-white spider web became increasingly vast, as if to fill Pang Jian’s Sea of Consciousness, leaving no space for his Divine Sense to escape.

After his physical body shattered, the Alien God, knowing that reconstitution was too difficult, finally sensed the peculiarities of this world and planned to complete his descent through Pang Jian’s body!

He intended to use the silver-white spider web, crafted by His Divine Consciousness, to devour all of Pang Jian’s Divine Sense and gain control of this Sea of Consciousness.

"Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh!"

Pang Jian anxiously tugged at his Divine Sense, moving away from the increasingly vast silver-white spider web, desperately resisting the Alien God’s possession.

A wave of pain from the soul caused blood to seep from the corner of Pang Jian’s eyes.

Two strands of his carefully condensed Divine Sense fell into the vast silver-white spider web and were instantly obliterated into nothingness.

As the spider web digested his Divine Sense, Pang Jian felt an overwhelming sense of weakness, as if his vitality was greatly damaged.

"Hiss! Hiss hiss!"

The strands of the silver-white spider web, under the Alien God’s exquisite control, began to shoot out and entangle Pang Jian’s Divine Sense.

Two more strands of Divine Sense were captured by the spider silk and pulled back to the web, only to disappear in an instant.

Four strands of hard-cultivated Divine Sense, caught and devoured by the web, left Pang Jian with a sense of helplessness, as if the foundation of the Great Tao itself was being eroded away by the Alien God.

The battle in his Sea of Consciousness was clearly beyond the Mysterious Turtle’s ability to assist.

At the Hollow Profound Realm stage, he seemed to have no good way to deal with an Outer Realm Alien God proficient in soul sorcery.

His so-called strenuous resistance was merely struggling to manipulate his Divine Sense, trying to stay as far from the silver-white spider web as possible.

Yet the spider web continued to expand.

The Alien God, with the face of a human and the body of a spider, completely abandoned its rocky and heavily damaged puppet shell, intent on possessing him.

"The Sea of Consciousness is of utmost importance, losing it means certain death!"

With rising anxiety, Pang Jian racked his brain for solutions, finding that against the Alien God targeting his Sea of Consciousness, he seemed truly out of options.

Unless, the copper plate named "Purgatory Gate" could help him resist the attacks specifically aimed at his soul.

"Purgatory Gate!"

Pang Jian cried out inwardly.

"Buzz!"

A golden bee insect suddenly materialized in Pang Jian’s Sea of Consciousness.

As Pang Jian focused his energy, pulling his Divine Sense away from the spider web, the bee insect, like a golden lump, landed on the silver-white spider web in an excited and joyful manner, frenziedly gnawing at the spider silk.

The face of the Alien God, with its cold and indifferent eyes, suddenly revealed fear.

It screeched, desperately floating upward, attempting to use its enchanting human face to break free from the pull of gravity.

Its spider body, its spider legs — it had long ceased to care for them.

At this moment, He only wanted to flee this face back to the heavens, never wanting to stay in this cursed place any longer.

In Purgatory, somewhere in a mysterious dimensional space outside, His True Body recognized the origin of that golden bee insect.

He already knew that the silver-white spider web, woven by His Divine Consciousness, would certainly not escape the bee’s relentless biting.

The Fragment Land hidden beneath the clouds, mysterious and queer in every aspect, had instilled fear in Him.

"When did it hatch from its cocoon?"

Pang Jian, too, was taken aback.

He had exclaimed "Purgatory Gate" subconsciously, just feeling it might be effective.

He didn’t expect that he would wake the Bee King!

When the Bee King entered his Sea of Consciousness, he did not feel a thing, the copper plaque neither heated nor cooled, and by the time he realized something was wrong, the Bee King had already started gnawing at the spider web.

It seemed to be enjoying its meal immensely.

Then, again.

Moved by a thought, Pang Jian sensed the bee larvae again, took out the copper plaque and saw a crack had appeared in the Purgatory Gate.

And the golden bee larvae were still motionless inside the hive.

"The Bee King’s soul?"

Pang Jian felt utterly astonished.

The yet-to-hatch Bee King, sensing an alien god invading his Sea of Consciousness and entering with its Bee Soul, was capable of devouring the spider web woven by the alien god in the guise of a man-faced spider.

If the bee king inside the hive were to truly hatch, wouldn’t it be even more terrifying?

"Huff! Huff!"

The golden bee insect, after consuming a third of the spider web and shining a blinding golden light, suddenly divided into two under Pang Jian’s watchful eyes.

Two golden, glistening bee insects with transparent wings, settled on the web, continuing to feast merrily.

A moment passed...

"Huff huff! Huff huff!"

The two bee insects split again, turning into four, devouring the web with even more astonishing efficiency.

And soon, the spider web was completely consumed.

Pang Jian focused his gaze and saw that the four identical golden bee insects, their bellies bloated, appeared to be as satisfied as if they had a feast.

The contented bee insects, with their transparent wings flapping against their plump bodies, fluttered to a cavity beneath Pang Jian’s Sea of Consciousness, resembling a spring eye.

"Puff! Puff puff! Puff!"

The four golden bee insects, facing the cavity beneath Pang Jian’s Sea of Consciousness, vomited four mouthfuls of golden honey.

After all this, their swollen bellies deflated slightly, then they vanished from Pang Jian’s Sea of Consciousness.

Before Pang Jian could react, the copper plaque named "Purgatory Gate" began voraciously harvesting his body’s vitality once again.

The thick, vigorous essence of Qi and Blood surged from Pang Jian’s "Creation Divine Pool," filling into the hive contained within the copper plaque.

Pang Jian looked closely again, only to see four new larvae glowing golden underneath the Bee King’s own cocoon.

Originating from his life force, it seemed to be fueling the new bee larvae with an abundant supply of nutrients.

"Alien God, a single spider web that invades my Sea of Consciousness becomes the power source for the Bee King to breed new larvae!"

Pang Jian had an epiphany.

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