The ancient god looked at Jacaerys and Womax, who were filled with surging blood energy and astonishing presence before him, and for the first time, emotion flickered across His face.
He had existed in this world for hundreds of thousands of years, so He was very clear about the difference in strength between the enemy and Himself.
Before, no matter how strong Jacaerys and Womax were, in His eyes, they were like ants.
Nothing else, because the nature of the power they possessed had a world of difference.
It was like a two-dimensional creature trying to kill a three-dimensional creature with its strongest power.
The dimensions were different, there was no comparability at all.
But now it was different; this alien power covering Jacaerys and Womax could already pose a fatal threat to Him.
Yes, alien power!
In His long years, the ancient god had never seen such power.
It seemed to be based on absorbing and devouring the blood of all creatures, but it was completely different from the blood magic of this world.
Blood magic was dark, strange, and often killed invisibly, belonging fundamentally to the nature of magic.
But the vaporized blood surging around the human and the dragon opposite was violent and dangerous, not belonging to magic at all.
Yet, it could instantly pierce through the thick gray clouds in the sky and destroy the ice domain He had secretly set up.
His current temporary body was a forced divine descent using a special divine grace ritual, and it was impossible to bear too much divine power.
And with His current divine power, He had no confidence in killing the evil god's minion before Him who possessed this alien power.
The ancient god suddenly put away His previous condescending attitude of viewing everyone as ants.
He spoke to Jacaerys in a gentle tone: "Human, perhaps we can now discuss the suggestion you just made.
You establish a church in My name, erect statues, and let the humans of this continent believe in Me.
I will bestow upon you the authority of ice and death, making you a god among men walking in this world.
If you can serve Me with sincere heart, I can even allow you to enter My divine kingdom and enjoy eternal peace!"
"Hahaha, don't you think your appearance, first arrogant and then humble, is extremely ridiculous?
If this is what a so-called deity is like, then I have no interest in becoming a god at all."
Hearing the ancient god's words, Jacaerys laughed up at the sky and mocked Him.
Since coming to this world and merging with the original owner's soul, he had been working hard to gain more freedom.
Now, he had nothing to fear.
Because at this moment, the blood energy constantly circulating and surging from Womax's dragon body to his own body.
Gave him the confidence to utter such god-slaying words just now.
However, his mockery did not achieve the desired effect; the ancient god first shook His head with a face full of confusion.
Then He answered seriously and earnestly: "What is ridiculous about what I said? You were ants before you proved yourselves.
You also have a dragon; does it listen to the words of insects, or care how many insects it has stepped on?
Therefore, only parties with equal strength are qualified for peaceful talks."
"Equal strength?
But this power I have now, which qualifies me to talk with you, is drawn from those ants you look down upon!
So, from this point, it can also be seen that we don't seem to have anything good to talk about, do we?"
"When you say that, you are no different from R'hllor, which makes Me feel uncomfortable!"
Listening to Jacaerys's reply, the ancient god stroked His forehead and responded to him.
Then He turned His head to look towards the East where Essos was located and continued to speak,
"We were all ancient gods nurtured by this world; at that time, let alone humans, even Children of the Forest, dragons, and other creatures did not exist!
In the long years, the ancient gods began to create everything using their authority.
At that time, we were so happy and joyful, doing whatever we wanted.
But after humans were created, everything began to change.
Until one day, R'hllor, this betrayer, actually declared that our way of raising Children of the Forest and humans was wrong!"
Seeing the ancient god's exasperated expression as He spoke, Jacaerys temporarily suppressed the urge to immediately kill Him using the newly acquired blood energy.
After all, such secrets between ancient deities were not something everyone could hear.
"Everything in this world was created by us ancient gods; all creatures were originally toys for our amusement, or food we could eat whenever we craved.
Dragons, krakens, unicorns, griffins, these are edible, so why can't Children of the Forest and humans be eaten?
R'hllor's words naturally aroused the anger of the ancient gods, but since He dared to say these words at this time, He must have been prepared long ago!
R'hllor combined His ancient god power with the fervent worship of humans for Him, gaining a new kind of power, which He called faith!
R'hllor was extremely familiar with our power, but we knew nothing about His new power.
When this war of the gods began, we were completely defeated; one ancient god after another fell because of this betrayer.
However, when I used the creatures I created to try this new power, we became familiar with it, and then fell into a stalemate with r'h'llor's side.
But the ancient gods who fell in the war of the gods, their power returned to this world.
And among the weak but rapidly reproducing and very cunning humans, some actually began to steal these powers.
A small number of humans even combined this power with faith and actually became vile false gods who blasphemed the ancient gods!"
As the ancient god said this, the gray clouds in His direction instantly turned pitch black, and a blizzard arose out of nowhere, raging on the battlefield behind Him.
When these blizzards blew into the area covered by Jacaerys's blood energy light pillar, the snowflakes instantly melted, and the strong winds immediately dissipated into the air.
The ancient god, noticing His slight loss of composure, calmed the strong winds and blizzards behind Him with a thought, and then continued to speak to Jacaerys,
"Sorry, I get a little emotional whenever I mention those despicable fellows!
Later, the number of false gods on R'hllor's side increased, and more and more humans knew how to cast magic.
The remaining ancient gods were successively besieged and killed by R'hllor's side. After a long battle, only I and another severely wounded ancient god remained!
I live in My ice divine kingdom relying on the authority of ice, and the coldness leaking from the ice divine kingdom formed what you humans call the Eternal Winter Land.
That fellow is sleeping in the depths of the Sunset Sea; some humans among you still believe in Him and call Him the Drowned God!
Hmph, how ironic!
To accumulate enough power to recover, the great ancient god actually degenerated into disguising Himself as a despicable false god!"
"Although R'hllor won this war of the gods, He also lost.
After repeated divine wars, His power is weaker than Mine, and He has fallen into a state of semi-sleep.
The baseness of lower creatures is ingrained in their bones!
The Children of the Forest and humans protected by R'hllor, after losing His control, began to fight among themselves and kill each other!
The Children of the Forest, whose reproductive capacity was completely inferior to humans, also failed repeatedly, and finally, those who fled outside the Eternal Winter Land actually thought of finding the ancient god's array to create new species to fight for them.
How could I give up such an opportunity?
With My secret help, they successfully found the ancient god's array and created new species using humans as prototypes and adding dragon glass.
When I secretly infused the authority of ice and death, the new species was born.
Yes, it is the species you call the others!
This is simply My perfect believer, with an incredibly beautiful physique, carrying the dual power of ice and death!
When they first launched an attack from the Eternal Winter Land, they were blocked by the human believers chosen and granted power by the forcibly resurrected R'hllor.
But this time, R'hllor, let alone descending like Me, cannot even grant powerful strength to His believers.
However, the believer who carried the authority I granted was killed by you.
As a result, I wasted the only opportunity for a divine descent, which I had accumulated My power for nearly a hundred years, here.
Shouldn't I have vented just now?"
"The only opportunity for a divine descent?"
Seeing the ancient god ask Him, Jacaerys did not directly answer His question but muttered to himself in a low voice.
Then he asked in return. "Hey, do you have any other stories?"
"Hey? Hmph, just as you said before, I can see from your attitude that we cannot continue talking.
The alien power on you does indeed make Me feel a fatal sense of danger, but powerful strength also needs the correct way to use it!
With your mere dozen years as a human, can you use this power well?
Come on! Ant!"
Looking at Jacaerys's attitude, the ancient god knew that they could not continue talking, so He simply tore off the pretense and mocked him directly.
Since he couldn't extract any other secrets, why would Jacaerys continue to talk nonsense with Him? He directly used practical actions to slap Him in the face for the last sentence He just said.
The blood energy light pillar erupted, and Jacaerys, suspended in the air, rushed towards the ancient god, who was also suspended in the air standing on the ice stairs, like a jet plane with a blood-colored flame tail.
And Womax stood in place, but a stream of blood energy was continuously surging from its body, as if providing power for Jacaerys.
Indeed, its body was too large.
In a normal battle, this would be an advantage, using the huge dragon body to crush the opponent.
But in this kind of high-end divine battle, apart from wasting the blood energy drawn from all the creatures in Winterfell, it had little effect.
Boom!
Jacaerys rushed to the ancient god's face in the blink of an eye; only then did the sonic boom behind him sound, as if a beat slow.
Fast, extremely fast!
This speed was so fast that the ancient god had no time to react at all; in the war of the gods, the ancient gods all used their authority to attack each other with incomparably magnificent ultimate moves.
Even the attack methods used by the false gods on R'hllor's side were largely similar.
There was no one like Jacaerys who rushed forward directly and simply for close-quarters combat.
Crack!
Jacaerys swung his fist at the ancient god with a speed that He couldn't react to at all; this straight punch wrapped in blood energy hit His face like a cannonball.
With a loud sound of ice cracking, the ancient god's head was instantly blasted into countless ice particles of varying sizes, scattering in all directions.
Whoosh!
The ancient god, without a head, stretched His hands forward and sideways, and a darkness as thick as ink spread outwards from His hands.
Seeing the ancient god use a new ability He had never seen before, Jacaerys retreated slightly, instantly withdrawing more than ten meters away.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
The scattered ice particles suddenly returned along the same path, re-condensing into the ancient god's head.
"Hmph, I control the three authorities of ice, darkness, and death.
Do you think such an attack can kill Me?
It seems I was indeed bluffed by your alien power before; now it seems it's nothing special!
Then, it's My turn!"
Seeing that Jacaerys's attack seemed to be purely physical, mainly relying on his body, the ancient god couldn't help but be stunned again and said.
Only, He did not notice that although His head had returned to normal, the originally ice-blue skin on His face was now stained with a layer of blood-red color.
Crackle, crackle, crackle!
As soon as the ancient god finished speaking, four giant ice pillars, about three meters in diameter, suddenly rose rapidly from the ground, surrounding Him and Jacaerys in a cubic shape.
Creak, creak!
When the four giant ice pillars were fully formed, lines of light appeared on the ground of this cubic space, which was like a domain, and then a huge spiral array appeared.
Subsequently, countless ice formed out of thin air within the cubic space, and they almost simultaneously filled the entire space within the cube.
Freezing both the ancient god and Jacaerys within, finally forming a single giant cubic glacier.
Immediately after, the ancient god, frozen in the glacier, actually moved; He could actually move through the glacier as if walking on flat ground.
Walking to Jacaerys's front, the ancient god smiled slightly at the frozen Jacaerys, and the darkness surrounding His body turned into a dark snake that shot towards Jacaerys.
Boom!!!
Just as the dark snake was about to hit Jacaerys, a blood energy light pillar, more powerful than ever before, exploded centered on Jacaerys.
The giant cubic glacier suddenly shattered, Jacaerys's figure flickered, and the dark snake immediately missed.
The ancient god, who was originally confident of victory, saw His vision blur, and Jacaerys had already appeared before Him.
Bang, bang, bang...
Without giving Him another chance to react, Jacaerys's fists and feet, containing rich blood energy, continuously attacked Him.
This time, Jacaerys controlled his strength very well; even though he was constantly punching and kicking the ancient god, His body remained in its original state.
Only, the blood-red color slowly spread throughout the ancient god's entire body with Jacaerys's storm-like attack!
Finally, Jacaerys stopped his attack and took a slight step back.
The ancient god, who had recovered, was about to use other ultimate moves to counterattack, but saw Jacaerys raise the middle finger of his right hand towards Him.
"You..."
Looking at this gesture, which clearly had a bad meaning, the ancient god was about to say something.
But His entire body suddenly erupted with an incomparably brilliant blood-colored light, and then, His whole person was like a human-shaped candle approaching high-temperature lava.
In the blink of an eye, He melted into a pool of red liquid that spilled onto the ground, and then continued to evaporate and dissipate into the sky.
Looking at the dissipating red liquid, Jacaerys first let out a cold snort.
"Hmph, if I just wanted to get rid of your divine descent body, it wouldn't be this troublesome.
First, let you pay a little price with this blood energy, and then I will find your ice divine kingdom and slaughter the god to prove the Dao!" (End of this chapter)