Deep within the Space Interlayer of the Nebula World's secret realm, the battle had reached its final, most dangerous phase.
Cornered with no path of retreat, Arceus finally revealed the true depth of his desperation.
Under Bai Yue's relentless pursuit and absolute spatial suppression, Arceus activated his Innate Secret Technique of Clones to its limit—splitting off two additional independent god-power bodies in a single instant.
To maximize his chances of escape, Arceus made a ruthless and calculated decision.
He forcibly shaped the two newly created bodies to be identical in size and appearance to his original body.
At that moment, his original god body had only slightly more than 90% of its full god power remaining. By splitting off 60% of that god power to create the two clones, his true body was instantly reduced to around 30% of its former strength.
Yet from the outside—
All three bodies radiated nearly identical auras.
Their sizes were indistinguishable.
Their divine fluctuations were nearly the same.
Even their spiritual pressure overlapped perfectly.
For an instant, it became almost impossible to tell which one was real.
In the next heartbeat, Arceus controlled all three bodies to flee in three different directions, tearing through the turbulent Space Interlayer in an attempt to scatter Bai Yue's pursuit.
"Trying to escape?" Bai Yue's voice echoed coldly through the void.
"It's already too late."
With a single thought, Bai Yue ignited his god power.
The gray currents of the Chaos Domain surged violently, swelling far beyond their previous intensity. The domain no longer spread outward—it collapsed inward, converging on Arceus's three fleeing bodies.
In an instant, the space around each body solidified.
The chaotic gray energy twisted, compressed, and wrapped around them, forming three massive gray eggs, each over a million kilometers in diameter, sealing Arceus completely within.
An immeasurable pressure descended.
Space folded.
Time stagnated.
Even divine consciousness struggled to flow freely.
The Chaos Domain's suppressive force locked all three bodies in place.
Bai Yue did not hesitate.
While maintaining the Chaos Domain at maximum output, he unleashed his full speed. His figure blurred, transforming into a phantom streaking through the Space Interlayer at sub-light velocity.
Earlier, while collecting the treasures scattered by Arceus's self-destruction, Bai Yue had already closed the distance between them to less than a few million kilometers.
With teleportation sealed and spatial currents violently interfering with movement, Arceus had gained almost no additional distance.
In just over ten seconds, Bai Yue arrived.
Before him floated the three colossal gray eggs, suspended in the void like sealed stars.
Compared to them, Bai Yue's god body—though nearly one hundred thousand kilometers tall due to his perfect gene level—appeared almost insignificant.
The Chaos Domain contracted further.
As its range shrank to only a few million kilometers, the gray currents became denser, heavier, and vastly more oppressive. The pressure inside the three gray eggs doubled, then doubled again.
Inside the confinement, Arceus finally felt true panic.
No matter how he struggled, he could not break through the gray currents. His god power surged violently, colliding again and again with the prison walls, yet every attempt was crushed and dispersed.
Arceus roared.
He cursed Bai Yue.
He cursed the Human Race.
He cursed the Primordial Universe itself.
His dignity as a Universe Lord shattered completely as he struggled like a trapped beast.
Bai Yue observed calmly, his expression indifferent.
"Give up," he said coldly. "Arceus, you no longer have any chance of escape."
The gray eggs began to shrink.
Space within them was compressed relentlessly, as if an invisible giant hand were crushing them into nothingness.
Cracks spread across Arceus's god body.
Each time they appeared, his innate recovery ability repaired them—but the pressure never stopped. With every passing second, movement became more difficult, until even shifting a fraction of his body required immense effort.
"My original body has just finished gestating!" Arceus roared in despair.
"If you had given me more time, I could have obtained stronger armor! Refined superior materials! Enhanced my life genes! Even the Human Race couldn't have harmed me!"
Bai Yue listened—and nodded slightly.
Arceus wasn't wrong.
With his terrifying recovery ability, his innate connection to the Universe Origin Law Ocean, and the restrictions imposed by the Primordial Universe on maximum attack power, a fully equipped Arceus would have been nearly impossible to kill.
With peak-tier armor, every sixth-tier attack would consume only a negligible fraction of his god power—far less than he could recover.
He would have become a walking catastrophe.
An endlessly regenerating Universe Lord.
A mobile sixth-tier artillery platform.
A nightmare for every race.
But—
That future no longer existed.
"You're wrong," Bai Yue said quietly.
"Even with the best armor, you wouldn't escape today."
Arceus didn't understand.
He didn't understand who stood before him.
At the brink of despair, Arceus made his final gamble.
Boom!
Boom!
The two clone bodies detonated simultaneously.
Two god bodies, each over seven hundred thousand kilometers tall, erupted at once.
The energy released was equivalent to countless sixth-tier secret techniques detonating at the same time.
The gray eggs shattered instantly.
The shockwave tore through the Space Interlayer, pulverizing massive spatial fragments into particle streams. Even Bai Yue was pushed back several kilometers by the violent impact.
For a brief moment, chaos reigned.
But when the energy subsided—
Arceus was still alive.
Bai Yue's Chaos Domain detected the truth instantly.
Arceus's original body had survived.
To maintain the illusion earlier, Arceus had deliberately suppressed his recovery ability. This time, to survive the twin self-detonations, he activated it fully.
The result—
He lived.
But barely.
His remaining god power was less than 1%.
His consciousness flickered weakly, on the verge of collapse.
Even as a Universe Lord, he could barely maintain awareness.
Bai Yue did not hesitate.
Opportunity like this would never come again.
His ethereal god power surged forward, bypassing material defenses and directly invading Arceus's god power body.
Despite Arceus's weakness, Bai Yue remained cautious. He unleashed a sixth-tier soul enslavement secret technique, one deduced and perfected by his Original Universe consciousness.
The invasion was silent.
Like an endless, gentle rain, Bai Yue's soul power seeped into every strand of Arceus's god power.
Every memory was accessed.
Every soul fragment was marked.
Every cognition pathway was rewritten.
Resistance was impossible.
By the time the last echoes of the self-destruction faded, Arceus had been completely subdued.
The Chaos Domain unfolded once more, forming a vast gray curtain that shielded Arceus's shattered body.
Bai Yue carried him out of the Space Interlayer.
The original space that had nurtured the Universe Heart no longer existed—it had been obliterated completely.
With no path to return the same way, Bai Yue tore open space at random and emerged back into the Nebula World.
Violent lightning immediately struck.
Bolts capable of annihilating Immortal Gods slammed into the gray curtain, rippling harmlessly across its surface.
Bai Yue barely noticed.
Comparing his surroundings with the uploaded star maps, Bai Yue quickly identified his location.
The Thunderstorm Star Region.
A vast, dangerous territory once ruled by the Thunder Overlord, spanning hundreds of light-years and thousands of galaxies.
Endless lightning filled the void here, growing more terrifying toward the core. Yet precisely because of this environment, the region was rich in lightning-attribute treasures.
Bai Yue did not linger.
He teleported several hundred light-years away, arriving in a relatively stable galaxy.
Only then did Bai Yue fully observe Arceus.
Above Arceus's head, a faint yet persistent law-source channel remained open, continuously drawing power from the Universe Origin Law Ocean.
Bai Yue couldn't help but click his tongue.
"Son of the Source," indeed.
Even he had never enjoyed such treatment.
As Arceus's god power slowly recovered—from 1% to 2%, then accelerating to 4%, 8%—Bai Yue questioned him.
Under soul enslavement, Arceus revealed everything.
Arceus's true original body was the Universe Heart itself.
A source treasure.
Under the supreme laws of the Primordial Universe, all things possessed a chance to awaken intelligence. But the higher the level, the more impossible that chance became.
A source treasure giving birth to consciousness—
It was nearly unheard of.
Yet it happened.
After awakening, Arceus was trapped.
Unable to move.
Unable to act.
Unable to escape.
For countless ages, he endured a solitude worse than imprisonment.
Finally, driven mad by isolation, he forcibly created a clone before gestation completed—damaging himself irreversibly, delaying completion by untold eras.
But he gained freedom.
And that decision led him here.
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