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It had turned her into a statue.

It was impossible for her to activate the Great Dao within her body. Everything she had done was merely an attempt to intimidate Hu Qi.

Of course, Altdina hadn’t been lying about one thing.

This world was indeed bizarre.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t have reduced a True God to such a state.

That was true even considering he had severely wounded her.

But a True God was a True God.

Their Immortal essence and status were immutable.

If one wanted to fight with their life on the line, no world’s rules could possibly hold them back completely.

Yet, the rules of this world had managed to do just that.

This alone was enough to prove how bizarre this world was.

Regardless, Altdina had to die.

He could never cooperate with her, only to wait for her to stab him in the back.

If he hadn’t been so cautious this time, having his Clone redeem an item called the [Waistcoat Pass Scroll] from the Reincarnation Bookstore in advance, his fate would have been no better than Altdina’s.

[Waistcoat Pass Scroll]

[Effect: A single-use consumable. Upon use, the bearer becomes immune to the suppression of the current world’s rules, allowing them to exert their full strength.]

Immunity to world rules was, in fact, one of the primary abilities offered by the Reincarnation Bookstore.

For example, in the world where the sun had been extinguished, even with Hu Qi’s power, he had needed to spend time inside the Copper Cross Medal to adapt to that world’s rules.

If he hadn’t later obtained the Sunstone, he might not have been able to descend so soon.

And yet, the readers from the Reincarnation Bookstore were completely unrestrained the moment they descended.

However, even though the item prevented his own strength from being restricted by this world’s rules, he himself was still inevitably affected by them.

For example, he was forced to assume his true form as the Taiyu Serpent.

He had to appear in this world in that form.

Because this, too, was part of this world’s rules.

As for why those people dropped dead on the spot after seeing him, it was because the body of a True God contained an overwhelming amount of information that ordinary people simply couldn’t process.

For instance, back on Earth Star, when Hu Qi killed Mother Earth and manifested his true form, any ordinary human who saw him would instantly go mad, their heads exploding.

And at that time, his strength was, in truth, only at the Apostle Level.

Now, with his True God body, the impact of his Taiyu Serpent form was undoubtedly far more terrifying.

If he hadn’t used the Twisted Light to conceal most of his power, the destruction would have been far greater.

The instant he appeared, almost everyone in this world who saw him would have died.

But even so, in that single instant, nearly ten thousand people across the world had died.

It couldn’t be helped.

As the Taiyu Serpent, his sheer size was too immense.

This outcome was already the result of him restraining himself to the best of his ability under this world’s peculiar rules.

Beyond that, his own strength remained unrestricted.

Altdina, on the other hand, had been severely wounded beforehand.

Compounded by the rules of this world,

she was turned into a stone statue.

She didn’t even have the ability to self-destruct.

Altdina had originally entered this world intending to use its rules to restrain Hu Qi.

She never expected that she would be the one served up on a platter.

If she were given another chance,

she probably would have chosen to self-destruct rather than enter this place.

At this moment, a faint struggling could be felt from his abdomen, which bulged out slightly in a small, black-and-white lump.

It was Altdina, whom he had swallowed, struggling within him.

After all, Altdina’s fundamental essence was still that of a True God.

If any other True God had tried to devour another, such an act would have been tantamount to suicide.

But Hu Qi was different.

The Divine Limit Heart Technique circulated within his body, complemented by his Spirit Devouring Talent.

Under his Introspection, Altdina, the Dao Seed Level White King who was both severely wounded and bound by the world’s rules, was now enveloped in a layer of digestive fluid.

Her entire stone body was melting continuously, like a burning candle.

Large amounts of Golden Divine Blood seeped out.

Altdina even let out a pained, miserable shriek.

Her soul, her flesh, and even the very essence of her being as a True God were constantly dissolving.

The process was pure, unabated torture.

Before long, accompanied by a final, unwilling, tragic roar, Altdina’s form vanished completely.

She had been absorbed and utterly devoured by Hu Qi.

Modification Points +196587 (31%)

A line of Crimson numbers flashed before his eyes.

Seeing this, Hu Qi was somewhat surprised.

’It just goes to show, Altdina was worthy of her reputation as an existence nearing the peak of the True God realm.’

’She alone provided me with nearly two hundred thousand Modification Points.’

’That’s almost three times what I got from Black Erosion.’

’Absolutely terrifying.’

However, although Altdina was dead, the Great Dao she left behind would still take some time to be broken down.

Hu Qi performed an Introspection on himself.

A mass of black-and-white light rested within his abdomen.

Only now, after absorbing Altdina’s memories, did Hu Qi finally learn what Great Dao she had mastered.

Altdina herself had pursued the Light Dao.

The other Great Dao, to be precise, wasn’t her own at all.

It was the Destruction Dao, obtained from the Three-Eyed Primordial Serpent, a True God she had slain.

The reason Altdina could simultaneously integrate two completely opposing Great Daos into her being was due to a special Dharma Gate she had obtained from an incredibly terrifying world.

It was called the Yin Yang Heaven-Stealing Strategy.

It was based on Yin Yang Energy, requiring the Cultivator to condense a Yin Yang Dao Seed within their body and form a circulating Yin Yang Fish.