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--- Chapter 438 ---
"Are you ready to dance?" asked Beta with a playful smile on his face.
"Dance?" Slaughter God stared at Beta in confusion when a breeze swept his face.
Bang!
Before Slaughter God even realized it, he had already been flung several meters away by Beta. His vision spun as the breeze toyed with his body, making him unable to stabilize in the air.
When the Slaughter God regained his bearings back in the air, his anger reached a whole other level. Yet, Beta was nowhere to be seen.
"Looking for me?" A brazen voice brushed Slaughter God's ear.
Slaughter God's eyes widened as he found Beta somehow appeared out of nowhere and put his arm around his shoulder. "How did you-!"
Bang!
"Hehe, don't worry, it's normal to be dizzy at first." Beta hurled Slaughter God again, playing him around like a fiddle. However, how could a mighty divine being like Slaughter God bear such humiliation?
"ENOUGH!!!"
"Ah, he got angry." Beta casually appeared atop a ruined building while the Slaughter God discharged his divine might, causing the very space surrounding him to distort.
"How dare you humiliate me like this! Boy, prepare to die!" Slaughter God glared at Beta and swept his hand, drawing the bloody greatsword back to his hand.
Beta was uninterested in the Slaughter God's threat, nor would he dodge this attack that the angered divinity was about to unleash.
After all, Beta was a great fancy of mysterious height. He knew he was quite strong in the Dou Qi Continent, capable of making many heaven-defying feats.
However, that makes him curious.
Just how hard can a god hit?
"Let's test this out." Beta chuckled to himself.
Slaughter God held his greatsword firmly and then pointed it at Beta with a ferocious expression on his face. Then, he swung his divine artifact with bloody light that burst in all directions, sweeping not only Beta but also possibly the people in the Glory City.
Beta merely smiled, letting the bloody light strike him. Then, an odd sight unfurled before everyone's eyes. The bloody sword light suspended in the air, as if hitting an invisible wall of air.
Slaughter God has the look of incredulity on his face, "W-What happened? How did my Slaughter Cleave stop midair like that?"
"As expected, my Infinity is still working," Beta's calm voice echoed in the area. He poked the bloody sword light with his finger, watching the law of slaughter carving through his infinity. "But I have to say, you gods, have a very corrosive energy in nature, huh?"
"Or is it just to you?"
"Heh, it must be only you. After all, only a subordinate god of Asura would cultivate such a dirty, mindless path of cultivation." As Beta finished that comment, the bloody sword light exhausted and left him unscathed.
If one looks closely, one would notice that the Slaughter God's attack is actually getting down into microscopic particles of laws and then refined into Beta's own body.
However, Slaughter God was too angry to notice that. Beta's words had triggered something in him.
"Shut up! How dare you desecrate the name of Godking!" Slaughter God was very angry. He could still endure the fact that this insolent boy had been playing him like a fiddle, but insulting Asura Godking is out of his limit.
Beta, however, tilted his head in response. He expected all his teasing to trigger Slaughter God's extreme anger by this time, but it wasn't as effective as it had been when he said something about Asura.
'Damn, did that fellow Asura also use the Dog-Taming Method on this guy as Tang San did to Huo Yuhao?' Beta wondered to himself.
He rubbed his chin and then said, "Hey-!"
However, before Beta could even finish his word, Slaughter God appeared in his sight like a fleeting ghost and swung his greatsword with a madness on his face.
BAAAAAAANG!
Clank!
A metal-clashing sound echoed, but Beta still kept his hand on his chin while Slaughter God was fuming because his greatsword still couldn't reach this annoying, blasphemous boy.
"Just what kind of sorcery is this??!" Slaughter God grumbled angrily.
...
"He's unscathed?" The 'current' Ye Ziyun commented in great shock. After all, she knew just how powerful that slash from Slaughter God was.
"How?!" Ice Empress added a similar expression.
The White-Eyed Phoenix Lord narrowed her eyes slightly, "Rather than unscathed, it never reached Young Lord's avatar in the first place."
"There is a barrier between him and Slaughter God."
"But wouldn't breaking it just be sufficient?" Jade Phoenix Lord said in confusion. "Although that Slaughter God fellow is incomparably weak compared to us, his method should be able to break, if not, ignore the barrier the Young Lord's avatar made."
"If it were just a normal barrier, then that would be the case," The White-Eyed Phoenix Lord shook her head gently. "However, just how abnormal and strong Young Lord was, his avatar is just the same."
"Well, they are technically the same person."
"The avatar is part of the Young Lord."
"Wait, wait, you still haven't explained about the barrier and buttering Han Yuan right away!" The Ice Empress couldn't help but complain. She was dying to know why Han Yuan's avatar could survive against an attack from a divine being.
The White-Eyed Phoenix Lord put on a wry look, "It's too complicated for me to explain briefly."
"Then, make it short, please, Ah Bai! I want to know, too!" Jade Phoenix Lord urged her sister.
"..." The White-Eyed Phoenix Lord glanced at Han Yuan helplessly.
Han Yuan chuckled, "Alright, I will explain. The operation of Beta's secret defensive technique is indeed too complicated."
"Simply put, it wasn't actually a barrier, but more of sophisticated energy manipulation and law mastery."
"However, he did it to the absolute levels."
"You can't see it with your naked eyes, but the wind, lightning, and spatial elements are constantly revolving, expanding, and contracting, adapting to atomic levels."
"These three layers are constantly changing to external threat, dividing the distance between him and his enemy to a theoretical infinite distance."
"So, strictly speaking, Slaughter God's attack didn't merely disappear upon my avatar. It just didn't arrive due to the infinite distance."
"T-That's absurd!" Jade Phoenix Lord shouted in disbelief. "No matter how powerful one's mind could be, to constantly maintain such a 'barrier' is by no means an easy feat. Even divine beings would get their mind fried if they tried using this."
"To adjust to every change that happens in your surroundings, even your eyes might not keep up with a million frames of action around you."
"Moreover, he hasn't accounted for the fact that he filtered all external threats because that means he also blocked oxygen and sunlight from himself."
"But for how long, right?" The White-Eyed Phoenix Lord interjected. "Even though this infinite barrier seems invincible, we also need to think of it from another perspective."
"How long can Young Lord's avatar maintain this 'barrier' of his?"
"On top of that, there is also a glaring weakness in this barrier."
"A very strong space-based attack would just cut through."
"He can handle it..." Han Yuan responded casually.
"Don't worry."
"Because he is... ME!"
...
Slaughter God repeatedly swung his greatsword at Beta, trying to look for a weakness in this 'invisible' barrier. Then, he caught onto something and grinned wildly.
Beta noticed this, "You seem happy."
"Hehe, because I finally understood your weakness, brat!" Slaughter God laughed at Beta's face.
"Oh, really?" Beta responded nonchalantly. "And what would that be?"
Slaughter God didn't respond as he merely gathered something on the tip of his greatsword, condensing the Slaughter God's domain and divine force.
"Die!" Slaughter God thrust his greatsword forward.
Beta watched this and beamed, "Nice one, dude. Then, I hope you don't mind if I show off a little."
"I need to make an impression, after all~!"