"Oh my God! What is that thing?"

"A longsword? Such a heavy blood aura! What is it trying to do?"

Beneath the platform, the onlookers crouching on the ground immediately let out a cry of astonishment...

"Godfather! What is this sword trying to do? It’s actually trying to slash open the confinement of the Nine-Layer Thunderous Light Fire?"

"Insanity! This must be insanity!"

"Heavenly Father! It’s really slicing it open! And so effortlessly! What in the world is happening?"

"..."

Exclamations of surprise rose one after another.

Meanwhile, on the platform, the people of the Hidden World Clan looked at the sudden appearance of the longsword with eyes about to burst from their sockets!

No more changes can occur!

The appearance of the Insect God Manman had already unsettled them, but fortunately, the Nine-Layer Heavens Thunder Punishment was difficult to resist, even for the Divine Breath of the Insect God Manman, allowing them to finally relax!

But wasn’t Manman supposed to be trapped under the Nine-Layer Heavens Thunder Punishment and unable to escape?

How in the world is there something that can disregard the shackles of the Nine-Layer Heavens Thunder Punishment and rush through so recklessly?

What has happened to this world?

Has it gone mad?

A longsword, blood-red in color, with a Small Compass hanging from its hilt, landed remarkably in the claws of the Manman Bug...

In the instant the longsword was grasped, the blood-red aura seemed to possess a spirit of its own, swiftly flowing towards Manman’s body...

In just a moment...

The two small antennae on Manman’s little bug head turned entirely red as if soaked in blood...

An inexplicable force began to condense its vague phantom...

The red scorched by the Thunderous Light Fire no longer existed...

Gradually transforming to Holy Golden...

Purer than its previous Holy Golden phantom!

It was the tangible Color of Holy Gold...

Slowly, it twisted its bug body, Manman’s face was filled with an expression of disbelief...

Awaken your Divine Body temporarily, grant you the Ability of Void Breaking...

Awaken your Divine Body temporarily...

Heavens know, since the Ancient Wilderness Battle, when all Deities withered and vanished, how long it has been since Manman Bug felt the sensation of true existence...

A truly tangible sense of existence!

A tangible one!

Its Divine Body, can actually temporarily awaken!

Indeed, since surviving with just a strand of Divine Breath after that battle, Manman Bug knew that restoring its Divine Body was nearly impossible!

Yet, meeting Little Monk Bu Jie and knowing that Human God’s bloodline flowed within him, how desperately Manman wanted a drop of Divine Blood from Little Monk Bu Jie!

However, Manman Bug also understood clearly that even with a drop of Divine Blood from Little Monk Bu Jie, it would still be immensely difficult to reshape the Divine Body...

For reshaping the Divine Body was a thousand times, no, a million times harder than bringing someone back to life!

It was almost an impossible existence!

Insect eyes filled with disbelief looked at its claw, Manman Bug was shocked watching the blood-red longsword slowly shrink and penetrate into its little bug claw...

Awaken your Divine Body temporarily...

Gu Taitian, what you said, you’ve indeed done it!

Although, until now, Manman still didn’t understand how Gu Taitian managed to do something it couldn’t fathom!

So, what does this sword signify?

Granting the Ability of Void Breaking?

Void Breaking? How to break?

A rift in space?

Do you think everyone can wander through spatial rifts like you, Gu Taitian, for centuries without their soul dispersing or vanishing?

Spatial rifts are whirlpools between spaces, and heavens know the immense effort it took Manman Bug to angrily leave this world back then, lest it wouldn’t have slept for a millennium in Another World and been forcibly restrained by Gu Taitian...

But just now, Gu Taitian said he would grant it the Ability of Void Breaking?

Ridiculous!

It’s simply a joke!

This father and daughter are indeed more capable than anyone, do you think the Creator God is a mere passerby? Creating this vast world with seamless spaces, already infused with His power, leaves no gap to find!

You say Void Breaking and it can be broken?

Do you think this space is a bubble or a balloon?

Why don’t you walk alongside the sun?

Manman Bug’s mind retorted, yet still couldn’t help but feel its little bug claw...

The longsword had entirely merged within its bug claw, vanishing from sight...

Crimson threads wound and coiled on its Holy Golden divine claws...

Emanating an unstoppable, ominous glow...

This...

In an instant, a flicker of hesitant disbelief appeared in Manman Bug’s insect eyes...

Could it really be possible?

Could it really break the void?

Could it actually channel this Nine-Layer Heavens Thunder Punishment into the spatial rift, letting it dissipate in the whirlpool of space?

Manman Bug hesitated...

"Ah!"

At this moment, Gu Changsheng, who had been lying in Zhou Mu’s arms with eyes clouded, suddenly clutched his chest and shouted as if greatly agitated.

"Changsheng!"

Seeing this, Zhou Mu, whose already weakened body, shuddered with tension and looked anxiously at his arms.

"Pain! Such pain..."

A hoarse murmur spilled from Gu Changsheng’s lips, her vacant gaze slowly focusing...

Pain!

Such pain!

More painful than the torture of Heaven’s Punishment Soul Refinement, a hundred times more!

The heart-wrenching agony made Gu Changsheng feel as if something was slowly withdrawing from within her body, her soul, her bloodline...

This feeling of withdrawal was different from a soul departing, it pierced even deeper from within the soul, agonizingly...

What is it?

Is it leaving?

What is it?

What is causing such suffering? So painful that it awakens me from the void of a scattered soul?

The vacant eyes slowly focused...

A drop of blood tear...

Utterly uncontrolled by Gu Changsheng, it slowly gathers and drips down...

"Changsheng!"

Upon seeing this, Zhou Mu’s heart tightened with an overwhelming sense of impending doom! 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

"Dad..."

Her hand slowly lifted, resting upon her chest as Gu Changsheng murmured quietly, until she was sobbing uncontrollably...

"Dad!"

The bloodline connection between father and daughter, Gu Changsheng had sensed it clearly since recognizing Gu Taitian as her parent!

But just now...

In that brief instant, Gu Changsheng felt a familiar and deeply bonded sensation from the depths of her bloodline forcibly being dragged away...

A red attire, blazing like fire...

Even under the ravaging Heavenly Punishment Thunderous Light Fire, this Imperial Robe remained unaffected...

Dragons flying and phoenixes soaring, lively as ever...

Supporting her body, Gu Changsheng stood up feebly from Zhou Mu’s embrace, utterly disregarding the ravaging thunderous light fire around her, she staggered forward a step, her face veil burned away long ago, yet after the Body Refinement trial, her little face remained radiant, except for that trail of blood tears which inexplicably evoked a sense of heartache...

Fixated on the direction of the building outside the City Lord’s Mansion, Gu Changsheng clutched her chest and shouted hoarsely, "Dad!"

The voice echoed through the martial arts training ground...

Lingering endlessly...

But Gu Changsheng seemed crazed, ignoring the thunderous light fire as if it was nothing, disregarding her slowly scattering Divine Soul, clutching her chest, she knelt on the ground, wailing in despair...

"Dad! Dad! What’s wrong with you? What’s wrong with you..."

A vague feeling lingered in her hollow heart, Gu Changsheng felt as if she had lost someone of utmost importance, someone connected to her bloodline...

Of the only two people connected to her by blood in this world, one, the little meat bun, was being protected in Zhuge Qian’s arms, while the other...

The other had remained behind closed doors for some days, Gu Changsheng herself didn’t know, she didn’t know what had happened to him...

But just now, she clearly felt that heart-tearing pain...

Forcedly pulling her back from the brink of a shattered soul, her consciousness about to dissipate...

"Dad! Dad! Is it you, is it you? What’s happened to you... What’s happened to you..."

"Boom!"

"Dad..."

"Boom!"

"..."

Heavenly Punishment’s thunderous light fire continued to ravage, engulfing all living beings within.

Yet Gu Changsheng seemed detached from the chaos, immersed in an uncontrollable sorrow...

The fragmented Divine Soul began to slowly reassemble from scattered pieces...

As if imbued with sadness, it reconvened into a phantom resembling Gu Changsheng in size and appearance, except it was not corporeal, but a blurred shadow...

"Changsheng!" Upon seeing this, Zhou Mu’s deep eyes immediately revealed a burst of joy.

Divine Soul regenerates!

Divine Soul regenerates!

The day Divine Soul regenerates is the day of Spirit Body formation!

His Changsheng...

His Changsheng...

Is she truly about to transcend under the Nine-Layer Thunder Punishment and achieve the Conquest Realm?

Gu Changsheng’s intuition was sharp, drawing attention!

Yet Gu Changsheng firmly believed in her feeling, it couldn’t be wrong...

Her dad!

The father who exhausted everything in this life and the last for her, the father who would defy Heaven bind the Deities to resurrect her...

Something has happened!

She hadn’t even had the chance to say she truly loved him!

How could something happen to him?

When he remained secluded for days, when she hadn’t even seen him one last time, could something have happened?

"Dad!"

Another mournful cry, echoing through the heavens, Gu Changsheng’s arms spread wide, blood tears falling...

"Heavenly Father! Why force me to this? Give me back my dearest!"

Another roar of rage, resounding across the sky!

That soul-trembling sorrow and despair, that unyielding madness from the heart...

Yet Insect God Manman watched intently, uncertainly glancing at its blood-streaked little paws, at the sight of the anguished Gu Changsheng, revealing a stunned expression on its insect face...