Chapter 369: “Gods Brawling, the Third Apostle’s Resurrection”
The Leader exhaled with relief.
Although he did not know exactly what had happened, in the future that the Child of Prophecy had seen, the Supreme God’s disciples’ path to godhood had already been severed.
With that, in the short term, no matter how the Supreme God’s disciples struggled, they could not break that balance line — which meant the Reaper would have to come down and reap.
“Help me lock onto the Supreme God’s disciples’ Life Star. This time he must die!” the Leader ordered.
“And have the Fate-Weaver keep an eye on Bai Fu’s side. After the Supreme God’s disciples is removed, Bai Fu will be next. Only when all these unstable elements are eliminated can this world stabilize.”
The Child of Prophecy hurriedly agreed.
After finishing the call, the Leader led his people and continued flying toward the area near the Pilgrimage Star.
At the same time, Aetheron was white-hot with rage.
Even an outsider like the Child of Prophecy could see that his path to godhood had been cut off — how could he, the person at the center of it, not understand what was happening?
If there had been no hope from the start, he might at most have grumbled a few times.
But he had seen hope, and when he was about to stand at the summit, the gate had been shut in his face…
He could no longer contain his fury.
Countless energies that had been trapped within Aetheron’s body in the Initial Furnace erupted outward.
Under the impact of those energies, the particle flames in the Initial Furnace struggled for a long time, but were finally extinguished. The void Nether Prison outside the furnace did not fare any better: after three consecutive shocks it shattered into innumerable pieces.
The void fragments tore the surrounding space apart. Enraged, Aetheron floated in a wasteland of nothingness — vines whipping through the air, swirling particle beams coalescing into tangible fires of wrath. All of it braided together to frame him like a world-ending overlord.
“Bai Fu, what did you do?” Aetheron fixed his gaze on Bai Fu.
The pressure radiating from the Super BOSS level 274 made the entire world tremble in awe.
Hiye, Jin Lu, Angus, and the others trembled uncontrollably.
“What’s going on?” they exchanged uneasy looks, utterly at a loss about everything that had transpired in the meantime.
Why could Bai Fu use the Supreme God’s disciples’ ultimate move? Why had the Supreme God’s disciples been fine a moment ago but suddenly gone berserk? Why had they completely lost contact with the outside world?
They felt unbearably anxious.
When the future was uncertain and the situation unreadable, how could they not be?
Only Bai Fu stood opposite Aetheron and remained unmoved.
Part of it was because she was no longer the Afu of old — her current strength was enough to let her resist Aetheron’s oppression. Part of it was because she actually could not hear what Aetheron was saying; at that moment she was checking her mission rewards.
“Don’t argue, I’m thinking!” she snapped.
After helping Élisée return to the Ethereal Realm’s divine plane, Bai Fu had received a game prompt.
The fusion progress between the Supreme God’s disciples and the Double Helix Tree had stalled at 49.23%.
Then —
【You completed the main quest ［Tree of the Rebels］, and received rewards: 350,000,000,000 XP; Holy Tree Remnant Heart; Old Gene Repository *1】
The reward for that quest was lavish.
The instant she claimed the experience, Bai Fu poured it all into the skills that had been strengthened by Ethereal Realm Particles, maxing the new skill levels and raising her strength by several tens of percent before she even noticed.
Compared with XP, the Holy Tree Remnant Heart — which could create a special body — and the Old Gene Repository — which could raise racial potential — were actually more valuable.
But with the situation pressing, Bai Fu had no time to craft special bodies or to prepare medicines that would boost racial potential.
“If I can win this fight… I’ll fight. If I can’t, there’s no need to keep tangling with the Supreme God’s disciples. I can just leave, develop for a while, and come back to finish him,” she thought.
She closed the mission panel and sneered at Aetheron.
“Do you still have the luxury to worry about that? In a while, when the people of the Original Pact arrive, you’re dead. Even with the Double Helix Tree’s protection, you’ll have nowhere to run.”
“Bullshit!” Aetheron roared back.
Aetheron naturally could not have been scared off by Bai Fu’s words.
Furious beyond reason, he no longer bothered to ask anything. With a roar, he lunged straight at Bai Fu.
Right now, he only wanted to kill her—
as fast as possible.
Thus, he abandoned all formalities, all pretense—
what he unleashed was the purest, most primal violence, an assault aimed to erase Bai Fu from the very root.
It was a slaughter targeting the “core.” No matter how many avatars Bai Fu possessed, none could escape annihilation.
“Holy crap, he’s that wild?”
Bai Fu was startled.
So this was the confidence that the Double Helix Tree gave Aetheron?
Honestly, she thought that if he didn’t have the Double Helix Tree’s blessing, the current Supreme God’s disciple would probably already have lost to her.
It wasn’t like she’d opened all those cheats for nothing.
But the Double Helix Tree—this monstrous plug-in—had boosted the Supreme God’s disciple’s regenerative power to a level far beyond what any normal lifeform should have.
Trading injury for injury—
Ordinarily, that was Bai Fu’s trump card. But now, that very tactic had been taken and used against her.
Bai Fu glanced at her nearly 18 million HP bar and the additional 20% second HP bar, then at the Supreme God’s disciple’s 14 million HP bar, not knowing how many hidden reserve HP layers he still had, and felt a headache coming on.
Whatever. Fight first!
After upgrading her skills, all cooldowns reset—without hesitation, she activated Majestic Divine Body.
A colossal divine form descended from the heavens, clashing violently with the massive tree-like Aetheron.
The Giant God’s enormous fist struck Aetheron’s head with overwhelming might, instantly shattering it into a cloud of gray mist.
The next second, Aetheron’s head regrew from another section of the Double Helix Tree. His fists—woven from countless branches—swung forth, the force punching through the star river, dragging the corpses of dozens of galaxies across the fractured dimensional space—magnificent and terrifying.
That punch was aimed directly at the divine body.
“Nothing more than that.”
No matter how fierce his blow, it couldn’t destroy a unit that didn’t have an HP bar!
The Giant God’s body continued to expand as it roared, its terrifying power distorting the gravity of an entire supergalaxy cluster below into a vortex of inward collapse.
It was pure brawling—
nothing more.
Bai Fu and Aetheron’s fists held no technique, no arc—just straight strikes cast along the axis of time.
Each swing unleashed energy explosions that spilled into nearby shattered space, compressing one galaxy after another into two dimensions.
At one point, Aetheron’s punch pierced straight through the Giant God’s abdomen—but the Giant God reversed its palm, grabbing his shoulder, and from the gaps between its fingers exploded a Rainbow Bridge.
This raw, primitive brawl left all the onlookers utterly dumbfounded.
It was the first time they’d truly felt how terrifying those close to the Fifth Divine Metamorphosis were.
They were all Transcendents, yet the difference between these two was greater than the gap between an ordinary Transcendent and a Sovereign.
“This fight’s completely beyond us! Good thing the Supreme God’s disciple didn’t go berserk on us at the start—or we’d already be dead!”
Angus’s scalp went numb.
The Fourth Apostle’s body trembled uncontrollably.
There was no staying here—it had to flee, while everyone’s attention was elsewhere!
The Fourth Apostle quietly retreated, shielding everyone behind it.
It waited… and finally—
“Now!”
When everyone’s attention was fully locked onto the frenzied clash between the Divine Body and Aetheron, the space around the Fourth Apostle suddenly turned Ethereal.
“It’s trying to escape!”
Lufas’s eyes widened.
But it was already too late.
Even if the Fourth Apostle had been ambushed by Aetheron, it was still an Apostle—
and one of the Apostles’ innate abilities was to instantly enter the Ethereal Realm.
Previously, Aetheron had used his power to seal the surroundings, preventing its escape. But now, as Aetheron and Bai Fu fought with heaven-shattering fury, reversing the star rivers themselves, he had no time to maintain any spatial blockade.
The Fourth Apostle seized that chance to flee.
While everyone ignored it—whoosh—it vanished instantly.
Bai Fu: “!”
Aetheron: “!”
Both stopped their brawl abruptly.
“Bai Fu, do we chase?”
Yulia, Hiye, and the others sent urgent transmissions.
“Don’t bother,” Bai Fu replied coldly. “The Supreme God’s disciple’s path to godhood is broken—now it’s useless. Even if he absorbs the Fourth Apostle, his strength will only rise a little, not enough to cause any qualitative change.”
Yulia trusted Bai Fu completely and nodded. “Then what do we do now?”
Bai Fu’s mind raced.
She felt there was no need to keep fighting.
After all, she couldn’t kill the Supreme God’s disciple right now anyway.
She could keep dragging it out until the Leader of the Original Pact arrived—but what if the Leader decided to take both her and Aetheron down at once?
Caution was never wasted.
Her cooperation with the Original Pact was purely circumstantial; she knew full well that the Leader’s killing intent toward her wouldn’t diminish just because of that.
Better to retreat first, grow stronger, and come back later to send the Supreme God’s disciple to his grave.
“We’re leaving too,” Bai Fu ordered. “I’ll hold off the Supreme God’s disciple—get out of here fast. Once you’re gone, I’ll find you.”
“Understood.”
Hiye, Jin Lu, and Shadow Foxtail immediately began constructing a Void Channel.
Aetheron instantly noticed the disturbance and charged forward to stop them—
but the Giant God’s arm swept horizontally, blocking his path.
“You’ll have to get through me first!”
It seemed there was no keeping those people here now.
Aetheron did not brood over it — instead, he laughed.
“Good. That means now it’s just the two of us. You destroyed my future, so I’ll strangle yours here and now!”
Bai Fu shot back without hesitation. “You can try.”
“You really think you can escape from my hands?” Aetheron’s expression grew increasingly twisted. “I still have one last trump card. That card was originally meant for the Fourth Apostle. But now that my path to godhood has been severed, and the True Spirit Essence of the Ethereal Realm God from the Fourth Apostle has been taken by you — I can only use this card against you!”
A hidden card?
Bai Fu’s eyes widened, an uneasy feeling rising in her chest.
For Aetheron to speak with such conviction, that trump card must be terrifying — something far more dangerous than the 【Initial Furnace】 she had replicated earlier.
But she hadn’t seen any burst-type skill from Aetheron.
Could it be… that he still had an equipment or artifact similar to the Double Helix Tree?
Just as she froze in thought, Aetheron played his card.
“You have one minute left!”
A countdown made of Ethereal Realm Particles appeared above Aetheron’s head — flashy to the extreme.
Bai Fu curled her lips. “Who are you trying to scare?”
Though she said that aloud, she had already begun secretly trying to flee.
However, the bindings from the Double Helix Tree prevented her from entering the Void or Ethereal Realm for now. If she relied solely on running, outrunning Aetheron would be nearly impossible.
“You have no choice,” Aetheron declared. “You can only fight me. If you win, you leave. If you lose, you stay!”
Bai Fu frowned. “So you really think you’ve got me cornered?”
Aetheron gave a cold, ambiguous smile. “Do you still remember someone?”
“Who?”
“Someone who probably means nothing to you now. You met her in the Sea Lion System — she betrayed you once, and later followed the Saint to the Apostolic Holy City.”
Hmm.
Bai Fu’s pupils contracted sharply.
The Supreme God’s disciple couldn’t be referring to—
“Sui Xi?!”
Aetheron laughed. “That’s right — her. I didn’t expect you to remember her. Bai Fu, you’d never guess how special she really is. Her constitution looks ordinary at first glance, but she’s actually the Key of Destiny, a rarity in the entire universe! Hahaha, I bet you’ve never even heard that name — that’s normal. Only those who have touched the Double Helix Tree know how powerful the Key of Destiny is. Through her, I was able to truly merge with the Double Helix Tree.
“Though you’ve cut off my path to godhood, making it impossible to completely fuse with it, through Sui Xi and the Third Apostle’s True Spirit Shedding Fragment, I can still unleash power far beyond what I have now — and that power will end your life!”
As he spoke, Aetheron suddenly sighed.
“Bai Fu, that’s life — always full of the unexpected. From the day you ignored Sui Xi, your death was already sealed.”
Bai Fu’s face tensed as she nodded to herself.
So it really was Sui Xi!
She had just opened her mouth to speak when Aetheron abruptly turned his head.
“Enough — she’s here.”
Following Aetheron’s gaze, Bai Fu indeed saw Sui Xi flying toward them, holding the final True Spirit Shedding Fragment of the Third Apostle in her hands.
Sui Xi was incredibly fast.
“Hahaha, Sui Xi, come here! Today your teacher will show you my true power!”
Aetheron was giddy with pride, nearly pointing one hand to heaven and one to earth like a self-proclaimed demigod.
He was fully prepared — ready to devour both Sui Xi and the True Spirit Shedding Fragment in one gulp.
“Teacher, thank you,” Sui Xi said suddenly.
“If not for you, I wouldn’t have found this fragment’s location. And without it, how could I possibly have the face to see Apostle Bai Fu again?”
Before Aetheron could react, Sui Xi, blushing, threw herself into Bai Fu’s arms right in front of him.
“Apostle Bai Fu, mission accomplished.”
She offered up the fragment.
Bai Fu, not one to hesitate, swallowed it in one go — then transferred the energy to Yulia, while giving the excited Sui Xi a quick embrace.
“Supreme God’s disciple, thank you for the delivery,” Bai Fu said with a smirk. “I was just wondering how to get that last fragment.”
“???”
Aetheron turned to stone on the spot.
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Wait—what… I… you…
Damn it! You—those two! Since when did you hook up?! Damn it, why are all the good women stolen by Bai Fu?! Damn it, am I just the cosmic bull here?! Damn it, damn it, damn it—!
“AAAAAAH!”
Aetheron exploded in fury.
But his rage was quickly drowned out.
A terrifying aura surged from Bai Fu’s body.
As the three fragments merged within Yulia, the lost power of the Third Apostle returned.
The Third Apostle’s trait was to communicate with the Ethereal Realm, possessing infinite mana.
Yulia was linked with Bai Fu — if Yulia had infinite mana, so did Bai Fu.
“Wanna see what it’s like to fight a mage with infinite mana?” Bai Fu asked coldly.