Chapter 605 — To Whom the New Source of Transcendence Shall Go

Gazing at the great battle in the distant river of stars, Shi Jin and the others watched closely. At this moment, time seemed to lose all meaning. Can Bao and the others could clearly sense that the flow of time in the Assassination Star Domain had undergone some change.

As for the changes in the flow of time over on Emperor Shi's side, those were even more chaotic—there was simply no way to tell how long they had been fighting.

The battle of Transcendents, however, was undoubtedly the longest. By now, Assassination Star had even been thoroughly plundered, and the Jewel Cat, the Owl, Emperor Kong, Lin Feng, and Blue Star's five great Transcendents had all returned to the starry sky.

Everyone watched together this battle that shook the river of stars. The five great Transcendents swallowed in unison, feeling that when Emperor Shi had fought them, he had not used his full strength at all—it had seemed more like a warm-up.

And now, in this great battle against Xifaen, he seemed to be testing just how far he could suppress the universe's number one assassin with his combat power fully unleashed.

Some of the onlookers had already seen the result: the "universe's number one assassin" could only keep fleeing, stalling, avoiding the fight—head-on, he was utterly unable to contend.

"I hate this!!!" The maddened Xifaen's thick purple hair had turned white, and countless white wrinkles had appeared across his black skin. The two withered horns that connected him to the dimensional space had also been broken off.

This was the most wretched Xifaen had ever been. As a mighty Shadow Race being, he had never imagined he would meet his end in such a sorry state.

With a wail that shook past and present, the Transcendent assassin—drenched in blood, his life-source power steadily withering—seemed at last unable to hold on.

"I want you dead!!!" The frenzied Xifaen, who seemed to have been scheming something the entire time, finally broke free of Emperor Shi's bonds at the moment he was at his weakest. He had no thought of leaving, for beyond the Assassination Star Domain lay even greater restraints.

At this moment, he wanted only to kill the source of all this, the chief culprit—Shi Jin.

True, Blue Star's five great Transcendents were all at Shi Jin's side, and Emperor Kong and Lin Feng were there too—but Xifaen was now burning his own origin in an outburst, confident he could take at least one god-level being with him.

Night drew near, the river of stars reversed, and a dark curtain descended over Qi and the others. Shi Jin sighed and said, "Looks like it's over."

This fellow really thought he had broken free of the space-time bonds himself?

As the Transcendent assassin came charging, Blue Star's five great Transcendents wore mocking expressions, while Emperor Kong and Lin Feng looked on with anticipation.

This part had been arranged beforehand with Emperor Shi—the buff-stacking phase!

Deliberately leave an opening, lure the cornered Transcendent in, and stack the buffs!

"Come!" Shi Jin extended his right arm, and a black codex appeared in his palm as he activated the Origin Plunder ability.

"Rin, Wind of Blessing!" At Shi Ying's command, a gentle wind of fortune rose from the cosmic warship, sweeping over Shi Jin, the Jewel Cat, and the Owl.

"I make a wish—drop the Source of Transcendence!" Gazing at the oncoming assassin, Baoshi Xu was afraid, but still activated her Wish Star Race ability.

"Foresight: Destiny Foreordained!" The Owl Girl did the same, once again reinforcing the destiny she had foreseen—the dropping of the Source of Transcendence.

Under the stacking of multiple buffs, the Transcendent assassin Xifaen, seeing Shi Jin and the others eyeing him like vicious beasts, was momentarily stunned.

The next instant, a Sword of Time crossed the void and pierced precisely through Xifaen's heart, nailing him, frozen in shock, in the starry sky.

Immediately after, Xifaen's body began to collapse like a star, forming a vortex of divine power that burst with a thunderous roar, a vast aura of laws pouring forth...

"I will not accept this!!!" Beneath its final wail, the body burst apart with a thunderous crash—though all of it was contained within another space-time. As the body exploded, vast power streamed away from him, and of the three Sources of Transcendence that appeared, two also began to dissipate; in the end, however, they did not vanish entirely—the radiance of the sun was wholly absorbed by the most fundamental Source of Transcendence, which hung suspended in the starry sky.

"It dropped! It dropped!!!" As Xifaen's figure turned to cosmic dust, the Source of Transcendence that marked his Transcendent status remained forever, radiating astonishing divine power like a miniature sun and illuminating the entire star domain.

Seeing this Source of Transcendence, Shi Jin and the others could not say how excited they were—they felt the greatest prize of this battle was now in hand.

The five great Transcendents all wore expressions of longing. Though each life could absorb a true Source of Transcendence only once, and a second would be useless, whether kept for one's descendants or traded away, this treasure of the universe—the Source of Transcendence—was undoubtedly the most precious thing in all the cosmos.

"It really dropped." Emperor Kong and Lin Feng were also elated. Who could know the despair they had felt back then, when after enormous effort they had finally succeeded in assassinating a Transcendent, only for no Source of Transcendence to drop?

But this time... fate had finally stopped toying with them.

Generally speaking, the probability of a Source of Transcendence dropping from killing a Transcendent life was very low.

Of course, that was relative to weaker Transcendents.

With the death of the original body, their Source of Transcendence power had a very high probability of dissipating.

But for a powerful Transcendent who had transcended several times and whose Source of Transcendence had self-replicated several times over, the probability of the Source of Transcendence dissipating was undoubtedly greatly reduced.

If the chance of a Source of Transcendence dropping from killing a Transcendent of the first transcendence was one in ten, then now, hunting a Transcendent of the third transcendence, the chance of a Source of Transcendence dropping should be as high as three in ten!

Add to that Shi Jin, Rin, the Wish Star, and the Divination Star—four great support abilities—and in the end they had not let this great battle miss out on its greatest prize.

"Not bad luck!" At this moment, Emperor Shi also crossed through space-time and came over, cradling the Source of Transcendence in his hand.

He looked at Emperor Kong, Lin Feng, and Shi Li: "This Source of Transcendence—which of you three wants it?"

Emperor Shi's words drew bitter smiles from Emperor Kong and Lin Feng. "Senior Emperor Shi, I barely helped at all in this operation," Emperor Kong said. "There's no way the Source of Transcendence should go to me."

"Same here, Senior Emperor Shi. I have no right to take this Source of Transcendence."

Though Emperor Kong and Lin Feng both longed for the Source of Transcendence, they understood full well that it had nothing to do with them.

"Damn it." Blue Star's five great Transcendents burned with envy, feeling that the Eastern Radiance crowd was utterly absurd. To think they could actually push away something like the Source of Transcendence??

Nobody was offering any to them, all right.

"Meow!!!" The Foresight Owl was green with envy too. Hey, hey, hey, Emperor Shi, right? You used the five Sources of Transcendence I foresaw, and now new ones have dropped—how come you don't ask me!!

Even if you don't want to give any, a little courtesy would be nice!!