Chapter 1168: Flickering Blue Ice Mountain

"There's no such thing as an Inhibition Law," Krune muttered in realization. "This inhibition effect is unleashed by combining all the laws of the God Realm in a certain ratio."

"With that in mind, my Spiritual Incarnation is the only one that can facilitate that as an individual." He grinned as he thought about it. "So, it was naturally attracted towards me and became a part of me."

After all, the Godly Inhibition Tower was on the verge of completion. Once completed, the core would dissipate. But, since Krune arrived, there was a path for it to survive.

It was neither alive nor sentient. But, it was naturally attracted to his Spiritual Incarnation and had now become a part of him. Of course, the Soul Needle was the catalyst to instigate that.

"Even if I become the owner of this tower, I cannot take it with me. It cannot fit in my subspace even if I somehow manage to bring it here." Krune laughed. "In any case, I now have the power of the tower as an ability. That should do."

If he so wished, Krune would be able to condense the Godly Inhibition Tower in reality to trap his opponents within. Even though it wasn't possible for him to condense the entirety of the tower, he was still able to condense the first five floors.

In fact, that was enough. Even for stronger opponents, once placed within the Godly Inhibition Tower, they would need some time to break out of the inhibition effect. Within it, Krune would be able to swarm them to death using his clones.

Now that he had obtained something even better than the tower, Krune condensed the Cloud Whale, causing it to unleash an Air Needle.

And sent flying from it was his Wisp Core, flying rapidly as it reached the entrance to the fifth level. Returning to his human form, he flashed towards the bottom of the stairs.

Upon inspecting to see that the fourth level was bereft of any living beings, the Cloud Whale cautiously moved as he thought for a moment, deciding that it was wiser to remain in his wisp form.

After retracting his ethereal form, the Cloud Whale shrunk while he layered it with Mental Energy, preventing it from being sensed easily.

The Cloud Whale continued to fly as it passed above a pile of corpses. Krune noticed plenty of bags filled with Godly Energy there. He just used them to recover his energy capacity to the limit, not taking anything with him.

He hadn't used his God Stone reserves yet. They were still filled to the brim. Beyond that, simply carrying bags of God Stones would only inconvenience him further. After all, he might very well have to face Brenker.

The Cloud Whale soon reached the third floor as Krune observed the same slaughter. It seemed that in the time he had been meditating, Brenker had already killed all his opponents.

Unwilling to be the only other person left within the tower, the Cloud Whale accelerated, passing through the second level before finally reaching the first level.

The moment he arrived, he was shocked to see Brenker calmly waiting at the entrance, preventing his exit.

And it seemed his sensory means were powerful enough to recognize Krune despite the layer of Mental Energy shielding him. Or rather, he realized that there was someone before him, unable to register Krune's appearance in his mind.

'His investigative means is powerful!' Krune flinched at the Mental Energy expenditure. Within a second, he had expended a tenth of his Mental Energy reserves. This showed that Brenker was exceptionally gifted in this field.

'It seems there's no choice.' Sighing, Krune took on his human form, dissipating the Cloud Whale and the layer of Mental Energy on it.

The moment his figure appeared, Brenker locked onto him, for a moment feeling shocked internally. 'I was only able to get a vague feeling and was unable to spot him. This guy's strong.'

However, Brenker was aware that despite the means to hide, his opponent wasn't strong enough to kill him. With that, he asked in an overbearing tone, "How did you evade my detection skill?"

But right as he began to talk, he was stunned to see Krune bleeding all of a sudden, coughing out a mouthful of blood even.

"Well, I heard about your claims of being able to become the owner of this tower if you climb up high enough." Krune put on an act, sighing as he shook his head. "Unfortunately, the sixth floor was my limit. Once I saw that guy, I admitted defeat."

He continued, his expression dejected, "I couldn't even defend against him once. He's by far the strongest I have ever seen. Even a revived Primal God cannot be this powerful at the Nascent God Realm."

Upon hearing his choice of words, Brenker's eyes fluctuated once as he thought, 'How does he know that I was once a Primal God?'

But upon seeing how Krune stood casually before him, he was angered, saying, "Well, let me see if you're strong enough to warrant that statement."

Whether or not he missed an opponent, slamming an attack at Krune would be enough for him to get a measure of things. If he was able to kill Krune in one hit, then whoever that other guy was wouldn't be his opponent.

Thinking as such, he raised his hand, directing his palm towards Krune, unleashing a powerful energy force that slammed into Krune, blasting him off far away.

The energy had the intention of destroying his Spiritual Incarnation first before killing him.

"Keuk!" Krune grunted at the force of impact when his body ballooned a bit, exerting all the strength his physical body had to offer while the Cloud Whale condensed around him, acting as a layer of defense when the sounds of the ocean wave thumped throughout the level, increasing in intensity.

"Hah!" Krune bellowed as he unleashed countless energy fluctuations, finally negating the force slamming into him as his Mental Energy eradicated whatever means were embedded into the force—with the intention of destroying his Spiritual Incarnation.

"My turn!" His eyes turned cold as the sounds of the ocean waves continued to increase in momentum, as if a celestial body of water had arrived at the place as Krune directed his Cloud Whale at Brenker, unleashing an Air Needle.

But this time, contained within it was the Neon Radiance King fused with Frozen Heart, Moving Ripple, and Sonic Radar. Activating it was the Divine Sense Laws, turning it alive, hiding something like a capsule within it.

The Air Needle formed a straight line and slammed into Brenker, instantly causing a mountain of ice to encase him.

As Brenker looked at the scene, defending against the attack, he was pleasantly surprised by the power behind the attack. In fact, he noticed the interior of the ice walls flicker with lightning. Once he sensed the power in them, his face paled.

Tribulation Lightning!

The entire mountain of ice glowed blue.