Chapter 1121 Strange Change

"I said, we would meet again sooner or later… I just didn't expect that day to come so quickly."

The Otherworldly God spoke with a playful smile.

Han Xiao's pupils constricted slightly.

This body wasn't just an empty shell?!

His first reaction was that he had guessed Gao De's identity wrong and instead released the Otherworldly God.

But upon hearing the Otherworldly God's words, Han Xiao's eyes flashed, and he retorted, "Are you so sure I would release you?"

"Oh? You released me to seek my help?" The Otherworldly God raised an eyebrow. "You wouldn't have gone to all this trouble just to open the amber and see if I was dead, would you?"

Seek help? That's right, this bastard Otherworldly God knew about the World Tree Civilization, leaving behind the wormhole data. He probably thought that when advanced civilizations discovered the World Tree, they would likely release him to ask about the situation, which is why he said they would meet again sooner or later?

The Temporal Amber isolated everything. Although the soul wasn't frozen, it was trapped within the body. The Otherworldly God was completely unaware of the outside world for decades, and his impression of the cosmic landscape was still from when he was captured.

The mental exchange occurred in a flash, and their actions were just as swift.

Whoosh!

The Otherworldly God retreated with a whoosh, about to teleport without a word, only to immediately realize he was in a temporal lockdown area, rendering teleportation ineffective. He quickly analyzed the strength of the encirclement, determined he couldn't break through using conventional methods, and immediately changed his approach, starting to use the dimensional rift ability to permeate the area… As long as he created a gap, he could teleport away.

Even though he didn't know what the empire released him for, breaking free and escaping was his top priority.

On the other side, Han Xiao also acted immediately, leading dozens of Apostle Weapons and numerous mechanical units to encircle and kill. Regardless of what was going on with the Otherworldly God, since the other party wasn't an empty shell, he had to be sealed again.

The surrounding imperial fleet began to attack, and various control-type weapons were launched one after another, the dark red energy beams instantly covering the starry sky.

War erupted fiercely!

The Otherworldly God's figure was instantly submerged under endless concentrated fire, rising and falling within it.

"Eleven Beyond Grade As besieged me back then before they finally succeeded. Black Star, you're alone now, can you capture me?"

In the mental link, the Otherworldly God's tone was playful. Surrounded by layers, he wasn't flustered.

After evolving, his gene chain load was greatly reduced, and his personal strength was undoubtedly in the first echelon of the universe. Although he had just come out of the Temporal Amber and his soul was in a weakened state, and he didn't have time to prepare dozens of Beyond Grade A-level clones, the Otherworldly God also possessed the ability to convert blood and energy.

Relying on [Ability - Black Hole] to convert enemy attacks to replenish his own energy, and then using the regeneration ability to maintain high-speed health regeneration. Back then, Han Xiao was able to enhance his own blood and energy conversion ability by extracting it from the Otherworldly God.

If the Otherworldly God had time to prepare dozens of clones in advance, he could probably solo the Star Cluster Alliance worlds he had experienced. Most of the current peak Beyond Grade As were no match for the Otherworldly God. Coupled with his slippery spatial abilities, he was basically invincible.

If it hadn't been for Han Xiao hitting him with a Super-Godly Sanctuary back then, stopping all his abilities from functioning and instantly wiping out all his clones, eleven Beyond Grade As wouldn't have been able to catch him.

Fortunately, Han Xiao and the empire had prepared the battlefield in advance, negating the Otherworldly God's ability to escape. With his most troublesome ability frozen, his threat was greatly reduced. Otherwise, he could have broken through as soon as he escaped.

But this wasn't foolproof. Although the empire used various advanced temporal lockdown devices, if it dragged on for too long, the Otherworldly God would still have a chance to "drill" and escape.

"We'll see. I'm not the same as I used to be. I don't need any help to deal with you."

Han Xiao selected a portion of his war soldiers to combine, and amidst the lightning flashes, the Mechanical Deity descended with a bang, immediately chasing after the Otherworldly God with a frenzied slash, sparks and lightning flying all the way.

The Otherworldly God had many abilities, but he couldn't use too many at the same time, so he solved this problem by using clones, granting some abilities to the clones. The more clones existed, the more abilities could be used simultaneously.

And clones required a lot of energy, which he could absorb, so as the battle progressed, the number of clones would gradually increase, and the Otherworldly God was an existence that grew stronger the more he fought.

But now, with calculation against the unprepared, the Otherworldly God didn't have any clones prepared in advance and could only slowly create them during the battle. However, Han Xiao's dozens of Apostle Weapons weren't just for show. As soon as the Otherworldly God created a clone, it would immediately be besieged and killed by the Apostle Weapons, and the numbers simply couldn't accumulate.

So, the situation was clear at a glance. All the factors were unfavorable to the Otherworldly God, and he could only passively take a beating.

And although he also had blood and energy conversion, the losses were far greater than Han Xiao's. The [Ability - Black Hole] had a limit to its tolerance and couldn't withstand all damage, and the upper limit of the regeneration ability's speed was also limited. Han Xiao's killing power was different from before, and there was also the imperial army group providing fire support, so the Otherworldly God's blood loss was faster than his regeneration.

Decades had passed, and the level gap between Han Xiao and the Otherworldly God had narrowed considerably. He opened the interface and looked at the battle information, and more information about the Otherworldly God surfaced.

He quickly glanced at it and didn't see [Ability - Rebirth] in the Otherworldly God's skill bar. He didn't know if it was in the few remaining "question marks."

But in the status bar, Han Xiao noticed something unusual.

[You are in the [Moderate Soul Weakness] state. Your mental resistance is reduced by 30%, and your Intelligence and Mystery attributes are reduced by 15%. Duration: Unknown]

[You are in the [Soul Tear] state. You have lost a large amount of Intelligence and Mystery attributes, and your base mental resistance is -60%. Duration: Permanent]

"This…" Han Xiao narrowed his eyes instantly.

The soul weakness should be a sequelae of being imprisoned by the Temporal Amber and there was still a chance to recover, but this [Soul Tear] state was obviously unrelated to the Temporal Amber. The effect corresponded exactly to Gao De's excessively high attributes.

So, I wasn't wrong, the Otherworldly God and Gao De were indeed connected?

It could be ruled out that Gao De was a clone created by the Otherworldly God using his abilities because, under the effect of Super-Godly Sanctuary, all abilities were terminated, and Gao De's nature could only continue to be preserved if it was unrelated to the Otherworldly God's abilities. In the situation of being captured at that time, the Otherworldly God didn't have the opportunity to create clones. In a short period, the only thing he could do was operate on the soul.

So, the Otherworldly God wasn't a simple soul transfer, but instead hardened his heart and used some kind of ability to tear apart his own soul, cutting off his tail to survive and integrating it into Gao De's body. The remaining soul remained in the original body…

The Temporal Amber isolated everything, so it couldn't be a remote control like the Lord's descent, and Gao De had existed outside for so many years, so the main consciousness in his body should be the Otherworldly God's.

And at this time, the imperial fleet's various detection devices didn't detect any abnormal soul fluctuations, indicating that this "Otherworldly God's" body wasn't being remotely controlled.

So, these two souls were now completely separated and had become two independent individuals?!

In other words, this "Otherworldly God" who was active might not be the Otherworldly God he knew, but a new personality and consciousness based on the remaining soul and brain memory, like a clone. And the Otherworldly God's true main consciousness was actually in Gao De's body… Or was the situation exactly the opposite?

If so, then the Otherworldly God was the Otherworldly God, and Gao De was Gao De. Even if the two had similar personalities and memories, they were still different people… Could this be what [Ability - Rebirth] meant?!

"The original body was a Beyond Grade A, and Gao De also trained to become a Beyond Grade A. This bastard's operation turned into two different Beyond Grade A individuals… If the main consciousness is really in Gao De's body, then he's really ruthless."

Han Xiao turned over various thoughts in his mind.

If the two souls maintained a connection, sharing perspectives and memories, this would become an obvious flaw. With the Otherworldly God's nature, if he was determined to clear his name, he shouldn't leave such a loophole, so it was possible that he completely severed the connection between the two souls.

Not only did he abandon his old body, but he also didn't mind having another "himself" in the universe, handing over all the strength he had accumulated in the past to "someone else." His courage was amazing.

If that was the case, then all the memories of Gao De in this "Otherworldly God" were probably deleted by the Otherworldly God's main consciousness during the "separation," in order to prevent the empire from digging out relevant information from the brain's memory neurons when dissecting the "Otherworldly God" one day.

As expected of the "God of Abilities" with a bunch of strange and bizarre abilities, his methods were truly wild.

While Han Xiao was mentally deducing various possibilities, he was also going all out to control his troops to besiege the Otherworldly God, and the fierce battle continued.

At this time, the situation was completely one-sided. The Otherworldly God was bathing in psionic energy, his flesh and blood dissolving again and again, and regenerating again and again. Under the large-scale fire coverage, he was struggling and completely adopted a defensive posture, not daring to stop regenerating for even a moment, enduring huge amounts of damage every second.

And his regeneration was constantly catalyzing cell division. Every time he repaired his body, it consumed cell activity and burned his lifespan. If it wasn't for the Evolutionary Cube replenishing him earlier, he would have had difficulty bearing this intensity of combat.

Feeling Han Xiao's terrifying army, the Otherworldly God was also shocked.

He remembered that when he was frozen, Black Star wasn't even a peak Beyond Grade A, but the strength Han Xiao was showing at this time was such that even the Otherworldly God wouldn't dare to say how much of a chance he had of winning. Even if he was in his prime, a fair one-on-one would probably end in a draw.

How many years had it been? Black Star had caught up to my level, and even faintly showed a tendency to surpass me?!

"Your growth is truly incredible! I've never seen such a gifted guy like you!" The Otherworldly God exclaimed from the bottom of his heart.

"Don't think that by praising me, I'll cut you less."

Han Xiao maintained his output expressionlessly. The thing he feared the least now was ability users. Fighting ability users gave him extra attribute and damage bonuses.

There was also the [Old Man Killer] ability, which was quite effective for beating old men like the Otherworldly God…

The evolved version of the Otherworldly God was strong, but the current self was not to be outdone!

Round after round of artillery fire landed on the Otherworldly God, the scene was extremely tragic. The route the Otherworldly God passed through left behind explosive light clusters, like a string of long snakes.

After continuing to output for a while, Han Xiao estimated that the various specialty bonuses were stacked to the top, and his eyes suddenly flashed, and mechanical force shot out.

Clatter!

The armor on the forehead of the Mechanical Deity suddenly slid open, and a pile of mechanical structures poured out, transforming into a delicate mechanical crown embedded on its head.

In the next moment, with the crown as the center, an invisible wave that seemed to be able to penetrate the soul erupted, condensing into a beam of ripples that struck the Otherworldly God in an instant.

The Otherworldly God shook all over, as if struck by a heavy blow, as if a sledgehammer had slammed hard into his consciousness.

This was a cosmic treasure-level equipment that Han Xiao had learned from Jace's technological treasure, an exclusive equipment for the Mechanical Deity - [Soul Piercing Crown]!

It sounded like a magical item, but it was actually a mechanical creation. The principle was to reverse decompose psionic energy and extract mental energy from it. In the Mechanical Deity state, the Soul Piercing Crown could provide the Mechanic with extremely high mental resistance, and it could also emit mental attacks.

The weakness of ordinary Mechanics was their body and spirit, and their means of mental attacks were extremely scarce, and the effect of this golden equipment could make up for this shortcoming to a certain extent… Although Han Xiao wasn't a proper Mechanic, the Soul Piercing Crown was also helpful to him.

The negative state on the Otherworldly God made his spirit his biggest weakness, and Han Xiao was used to attacking the enemy's vitals, so naturally he wouldn't let go of such an opportunity.

Before the Otherworldly God could recover, Han Xiao immediately activated Virtual Soul, easily passed the judgment, and dragged the Otherworldly God's soul into the virtual world for a beating.

His vitals were hit by a series of critical strikes, and the Otherworldly God instantly suffered tons of damage.

Taking advantage of the Otherworldly God's dizziness, Han Xiao's body separated from the Mechanical Deity, grabbed the Otherworldly God's neck, activated the Temporal Amber, and immediately began to create a prison.

The Otherworldly God quickly regained his senses and wanted to struggle. Seeing this, Han Xiao directly locked the Otherworldly God in a strong embrace, pressing the other party into his broad chest, and said in a deep voice.

"Don't move, do you remember how you were caught by me back then? If it happens again, your end will not just be imprisonment, but death!"

Hearing this, the Otherworldly God's counterattack movement stopped for a moment, and he immediately remembered the psychological shadow of being hit by a Super-Godly Sanctuary back then.

He didn't know the situation of the character card and didn't know why Black Star would use this move, so he couldn't help but think that Black Star still had this ability.

"Compared to an endless prison sentence, why don't I fight to the death?" The Otherworldly God narrowed his eyes.

The timing, location, and circumstances were not on his side, and it was already a desperate situation that could threaten his life. After experiencing the battle just now, the Otherworldly God was clear in his heart that there was no possibility of breaking through. If Black Star used the Super-Godly Sanctuary, he might really die here today.

"Are you sure you want to actively seek death?" At this time, Han Xiao's eyes turned, and he whispered, "Don't you want to see the day the World Tree descends?"

"!!!"

The Otherworldly God's body suddenly stiffened, and a look of shock finally appeared on his face.

He always thought that he was the only one in the universe who knew about this, but he didn't expect to hear it from Han Xiao's mouth.

When did Black Star find out?!

"Could it be that the set of data… you've already researched it?!"

The Otherworldly God's eyes flashed with a bright light.

Han Xiao didn't answer, but pretended to be meaningful and said, "Obediently surrender, and there is still a chance to be released to witness everything. If you die here, then there is no hope."

"…"

The Otherworldly God's face was cloudy and uncertain, as if he was fighting a battle between heaven and man.

But after only a few seconds, he recognized his situation, his body relaxed, and he stopped struggling.

He raised his head, looked directly into Han Xiao's eyes, and said slowly:

"I don't believe you will release me… But, I'm willing to go to the gambling table, after all, I have nothing to lose.

I've fallen into your hands for the second time. Maybe you can really set foot in the level I yearn for and take a look at the scenery there…"

At this moment, Han Xiao retreated silently and completed the creation.

In the next moment, the Otherworldly God's body froze and was once again locked into the Temporal Amber.

The only difference was that he had changed his posture…

Seeing this, Han Xiao finally breathed a sigh of relief and shook his head.

"If you struggled, I wouldn't necessarily be able to fix you… Sorry, all's fair in war."