Divine God Against The Heavens

And then, a thick red beam of light was shot out, travelling for who knows how far in the World of Void. There was nothing in the World of Void so it was impossible to tell how destructive this beam of red light was. But one thing was sure that its strength was much more powerful than the beam of destructive light shot by the Eye of Heavenly Dao which was able to destroy the Secret Realm instantly.

Ye Xiao had no idea what happened just now. It is because the moment he opened his eyes and shot out the destructive beam of red light, he had fallen unconscious. He could not bear the power of destruction with his current strength and lost his consciousness.

At some unknown time, Ye Xiao finally woke up and found himself floating in space. There was nothing here but darkness. A look of confusion appeared in his eyes as he tried to use his Divine Sense to sense his surroundings.

Surprisingly, he could only sense his body, and other than that, he could not sense anything.

"Where am I?" Ye Xiao thought in his heart. But before he could again observe where exactly was he, he felt the space around him distorting and in the next moment, he found himself standing in the white space which was also the Divine Domain of Yuan Shi De.

In front of him, the white figure whose face could not be seen was still standing, maybe, it was waiting for something.

Realizing this, Ye Xiao calmed his breaths and said, "I'm ready, please start the trial."

The moment Ye Xiao said this, the white figure spoke, "The first riddle for you: You saw me where I could not be. Yet, often you see me. Tell me, what am I?"ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ ꜰire

Ye Xiao was confused when he heard this riddle. He muttered, "You saw me where I could not be, what could it be?"

"Yet, often you see me? What am I?"

Ye Xiao could not guess the answer to this question.

However, the moment the first riddle was asked, Ye Xiao immediately felt the pain in his body, it was as if some parts of his body were burning. Ye Xiao looked down and saw smoke rising from his feet. He immediately understood that his feet has started corroding. If he wanted it to stop, he need to answer all three questions.

But, what made Ye Xiao heave a sigh of relief was, while his feet were corroding, the Wood Blossom Bloodline has also taken effect and was constantly trying to heal his feet. This caused the battle between two opposite energies to start.

But, the Wood Blossom Bloodline was not that powerful, so, it was still taking some time to heal while his feet were constantly being corroded by the other kind of energy.

Ye Xiao started running his mind but could not think of any answer.

When he was still in dilemma about what the answer could be, his gaze suddenly fell down on the ground below his feet.

Although the entire space was white, the floor where he was standing was like a mirror filled with dust. Though extremely blurry, he could still see his reflection.

Suddenly, as if he was struck with lightning, he muttered, "Could it be?"

Raising his head, he looked at the white figure and replied, "It's reflection. Only one's reflection could be seen where it could not be. Yet, we often see our reflection in many places."

"The answer is right!" The white figure replied emotionlessly and then again spoke, "The second riddle: I'm always near, but never far. I'm always around but never seen. I'm often avoided, but I always catch up. I will come when you are old and grey, or maybe even the very next day. I will come with the cold embrace and give you rest with a chill kiss on your face. I come in many forms whether it's irony, love, laughter, or hate. I'm everyone's final fate."

Ye Xiao frowned. He deeply concentrated on this riddle. He was confused at first before his face revealed a complicated expression, and then the expression of understanding, and finally, his face again filled with confusion.

Repeating the riddle, Ye Xiao tried to understand what it wants to say. After all, every riddle has answers hidden in its questions.

Ye Xiao kept thinking while enduring the pain. Maybe, it was because of the Wood Blossom Bloodline, Ye Xiao was corroded only to his knee from his feet. The corrosion had yet to take effect on his thigh and upper body parts.

But still, looking at his own bones without a single trace of fleshes and nerves caused Ye Xiao to have an extremely strange feeling.

"I have already answered the first riddle, leaving me with two other riddles. I have a feeling that if I did not answer all three riddles, I might really die. My final outcome might really be death!"

Suddenly, Ye Xiao frowned his brows before revealing an excited expression as he muttered, "Wait a moment, final outcome... final fate. I'm everyone's final fate. Doesn't it mean..."

Ye Xiao immediately answered, "The answer is death. Death is always around, but it could not be seen. People often avoid the truth of death, but Death is something that'll eventually come to everyone. Everyone's final fate is also death. No matter who it is, the final fate could only be death!"

This time, the air around the white figure fluctuated before it nodded its head as if it was extremely satisfied with Ye Xiao's answer. Then it said, "Correct. Now, the time for the final riddle of the first stage of the first trial!"

"I can bring tears to your eyes; resurrect the dead, make you smile, and reverse time. I form in an instant but I last a lifetime. What am I?"

Ye Xiao started thinking about the answer to this riddle. But again, he could not find the answer. He repeated the riddle in his heart many times but he could not think of any answer.

The corrosion had also sped up. There was not much time left. Now, more than half of Ye Xiao's body was already turned into a skeleton. It was surprising that he could still breathe and his leftover body's parts seemed to be working well even without another half of the body parts.

But of course, Ye Xiao was experiencing so much pain that he could not describe. It was fortunate that he had gone through the pain that was even more torturous than what he was experiencing right now.

He had gone through a terrifying pain when he received the memories of three ancient gods. He had suffered torturous pain while becoming one with the Ancestral Dragons. He had endured the pain that made him feel as if he was dying when he was sliced by the spatial blade so many times when he fell in the black hole that there was no place in his body left that didn't have any cut mark. It was as if he was chopped by thousands of sharp blades many times.

Such pains were something that no ordinary person could endure and even if given, they would want to die more than to endure the pain.

Thinking of the past when he went through so much suffering, his mind diverted and he started thinking of the people he met, his master, Tong Nian and her grandfather, Xue Xiaofei, Su Xue Er, his friends from the Azure Sky Continent, and some of those people whom he came in contact with. He started thinking of many events such as his encounter with the Heavenly Pearl. If not for the Heavenly Pearl, he would still have been a crippled person without a single trace of spirit energy flowing within his body. He started to think of his journey after the Heavenly Pearl entered his heart, the destruction of the secret realm, the destruction of his Small World as well the creation of the Solar System, and other events.

Suddenly, at this moment, sparks of enlightenment flashed in Ye Xiao's eyes.

Ye Xiao opened his eyes wide, nodded his head in satisfaction, and answered, "It's memories! The answer is memories. Only memories can bring tears to our eyes, can resurrect the dead in our minds, can make us smile, and can reverse time and make us immerse in our past. Only memories can form in an instant but last a lifetime!"

"So, the answer to the third riddle is memories!"

"Correct answer."

The white figure nodded his head and waved his hand. Immediately, the corrosive power that was constantly corroding Ye Xiao's body stopped. At the same time, very comfortable energy started running into his body, causing his healing power to increase tenfold as all those parts of his body that were corroded started healing at the speed naked to the eye. Fleshes started regenerating on his naked bones that were making him look like half-skeleton and half-human, which in reality, looked too evil and terrifying!