Keyboard Immortal - Chapter 2870

Chapter 1383: Threatening the True God

At this moment, Hermes’ chanting rose in pitch. As his incantation resounded, the withered branches of the trees around the altar revive, sprouting green leaves at a visible speed. Flower buds began to spring forth wildly on the branches, then quickly bloomed, as if only in their most beautiful form could they be worthy of welcoming that great being.

Yu Yanluo slowly rose into the sky, her beautiful eyes closed without her noticing. The rough rocks beneath her feet transformed into lustrous white jade, and the air rippled like water, each ripple carrying visible pale golden dust.

An otherworldly fragrance permeated the air, not the scent of any flower, but rather like “moonlight” and “first snow” come to life.

Simultaneously, invisible music arose, the rhythm of the stars’ movement and the changing seasons directly perceived, even surpassing the celestial music she had heard in the heavens.

The graceful, luminous figure appeared on Yu Yanluo almost instantly, her appearance shifting between constant and ever-changing. You could clearly see her face, yet in an instant, you couldn’t quite capture its essence in your memory, leaving only the imprint of “perfection.”

It was a dynamic adjustment based on the deepest aesthetic ideals of the viewer; warriors saw unwavering strength within gentleness, poets glimpsed a surging power beneath tranquility…

The entire city of Kunming felt that ultimate beauty, even the warriors of the Annihilation faction, who knew only destruction, were captivated and knelt down, and the ferocious beasts fighting in the mountains huddled together.

Hermes was incredibly excited, walking towards her step by step with outstretched arms, incoherently expressing his love: “Great Goddess of Love and Beauty, I have finally seen you again, your most devout believer, your most adoring lover…”

A trace of self-consciousness flashed across the heavily wounded Lilith’s face. She had always loved Hermes, but He had always treated her as if she didn’t exist, his mind filled only with the legendary goddess.

She was filled with jealousy and resentment. She herself was a renowned beauty throughout the myriad realms; could she truly be inferior to even a fraction of that goddess of beauty?

Now, she finally had the answer: yes, she truly was inferior to even a fraction of her.

In that instant, her Dao heart shattered. Even seeing Hermes, once surrounded by beauties yet utterly aloof, reduced to the most humble sycophant, didn’t stir any emotion within her. She only felt a sense of pathos and absurdity for the things she had persisted in all these years.

“My lover?” The goddess of love and beauty in the sky chuckled softly, a voice truly the most beautiful in the world, extending her perfectly slender hand to point at Zu’an. “That is my lover.”

The fervor on Hermes’ face instantly froze; now it was his turn to have his Dao heart crumble.

“No, he is merely the lover of the woman who is your vessel, not yours,” Hermes hurriedly explained, fearing that “Chen Yuanyuan’s” own thoughts would taint the perfect goddess.

Hermes’s rage increased by 444+444+444…

Zaun, however, paid no heed, his eyes fixed on the perfect figure radiating divine light in the sky: “Whoever you are, get out of Yanluo’s body!”

Before the goddess of love and beauty could react, Hermes shrieked: “How dare you be disrespectful to the goddess of love and beauty!”

Hermes’s rage increased by 666+666+666…

He had always disliked Zaun. At first, seeing Yu Yanluo and Zaun so affectionate, he could console himself that this woman was just a shell, not the goddess of love and beauty.

He never expected that now, after the goddess of love and beauty descended, she would actually admit that the other was her lover.

In that instant, he felt as if the sky had fallen.

All his years of planning, all his perseverance, all his sacrifices, had suddenly become a joke.

No, it wasn’t him who was wrong!

He quickly found a logically consistent solution: as long as he killed this annoying guy, everything would return to normal.

The goddess of love and beauty belonged to him!

His once handsome and refined face became distorted, and suddenly two pairs of small wings sprouted from his shoes, while a snake staff appeared in his hand. Almost instantly, he pierced through Zuan’s body with a speed that transcended mere speed, becoming an ability to traverse space and dimensions.

However, there was no smile on his face. Zuan’s body had gradually dissipated, and the pierced chest was merely a phantom.

Zuan reappeared on the other side, and he secretly wiped away a cold sweat. The opponent’s speed even surpassed his teleportation. If he hadn’t already used the “Traces of History,” he would have been severely injured.

“As expected of the Messenger of Memory, even the river of history can’t stop my speed!” Hermes gritted his teeth and moved again.

Zuan didn’t use teleportation to clash with him head-on, but instead raised his hand to block in front of him.

Hermes was now trapped in the space before him.

“How is this possible!” His face was filled with shock. He knew his speed could traverse space and dimensions, so how could he be stopped?

No, the rules of the surrounding space seemed to have changed.

Zaun’s expression turned solemn. Having fought and killed many powerful figures in recent days, especially the recent slaying of the Lawless String and the Conqueror King, his strength had increased by leaps and bounds.

Coupled with his understanding of the “Secrets of Spatial Transformation,” he directly manipulated space, fundamentally crippling Hermes’ speed ability.

At this moment, Hermes flashed a sinister smile: “You think you can’t do anything just because you’ve trapped me?”

As he spoke, he raised his serpent staff, its two-headed snake eyes gleaming with a dreamlike light. His ability could pull people into dreams, and in those dreams, he was a god!

Just then, a shrill bird cry rang out, and a giant bird with a hundred cries swooped down on him. For a moment, he was momentarily stunned, but quickly recovered and tried to control the dream.

Unfortunately, it was too late. A seven-colored divine light enveloped him.

The seven-colored divine light that Zaun had forged after surviving the Seven-Colored Divine Tribulation was virtually indestructible, but its weakness was also obvious: while light was fast, there were many beings in this world faster than light.

For example, Hermes’ speed, as he had just displayed, was something the Seven-Colored Divine Light couldn’t have touched.

But Zaun first used the mystery of spatial transformation to briefly imprison him, allowing the Seven-Colored Divine Light to come in handy.

Hermes was trapped in that seven-colored space, and when he was thrown out, he was completely exhausted, as if all his strength had been drained, leaving him with no strength left to fight.

Zaun secretly rejoiced; Hermes truly lived up to his reputation as the second-in-command of the Universal Merchant Guild, his true combat strength might not be inferior to the Unruly String and the Conqueror King.

Previously, dealing with the Unruly String and the Conqueror King was a matter of strategy against their unpreparedness, but now facing Hermes was a direct confrontation, and he almost suffered a defeat.

However, he had no time to care about the crippled Hermes now, and instead quickly looked at the woman on the other side, radiating divine light: “In the name of the Lord of the Underworld, I order you to leave her body immediately, or I will not care what true god you were once, or what other being you were, I will make sure your soul is annihilated!”