Chu Sheng lay spread-eagled in the air.

The Life Essence absorbed by the Ancient Sacred Mosquitos he summoned could be synchronized with his own body.

The ten Ancient Sacred Mosquitos within the Celestial Tribulation were equivalent to ten of himself, frantically absorbing the Life Essence that the Sakura Ancient Gods had converted with such difficulty.

[Ding! Life Essence +10,000]

[Ding! Life Essence +10,010]

[Ding! Life Essence +10,086]

...

The system notifications rang out incessantly, like a machine gun.

The absorption speed of the ten Ancient Sacred Mosquito Outer Body Avatars was terrifyingly fast.

In the time it took Chu Sheng to blink, his Life Essence had already increased by over ten million.

[Current Remaining Life Essence: 12,580,000]

At this rate, surpassing a hundred million would be a matter of minutes!

’This feels great! Absolutely amazing!’

’These five Sakura Ancient Gods are practically the best Life Essence refining machines!’

Just then, Chu Sheng suddenly sensed that one of his Outer Body Avatars was under attack.

Although the Outer Body Avatars possessed the ability to defend and attack autonomously, they were ultimately not as agile as when Chu Sheng controlled them himself.

He split off a sliver of his Divine Sense and descended upon the Ancient Sacred Mosquito that was being attacked.

BOOM!!!

The moment he took control of the body, Chu Sheng saw a long Samurai Sword, gleaming with a cold black light and carrying a world-destroying might, viciously chopping down toward his head.

This long Samurai Sword wasn’t even as long as a single hair on Chu Sheng’s body, yet the terrifying power it contained seemed capable of cleaving heaven and earth.

’Trying to kill my avatar?’

’No way!’

’Not even a window!’

’Shrink! Shrink! Shrink!’

A thought flashed through Chu Sheng’s mind.

The instant before the long Samurai Sword could strike him, his massive, five-hundred-meter-long body rapidly shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In the blink of an eye, he had become an ordinary White-striped Aedes Mosquito, smaller than a fingernail.

Susanoo, whose blade had just sliced through empty air, was dumbfounded.

His original plan was to shatter this "great mountain" blocking his path with a single strike.

But when he swung his blade down, the "great mountain" suddenly turned into a "mosquito."

And what happens when you try to shoot a mosquito with an anti-aircraft cannon?

You’re never going to hit it!

Although for Susanoo it was only a moment of stunned hesitation, for the other Sakura Ancient Gods, it meant a bombardment of more than a dozen bolts of heavenly lightning!

PFFT!

The Rain Maiden bore the brunt of it. Struck by a bolt of heavenly lightning, she violently spat out a mouthful of black blood, her aura instantly weakening considerably.

Even the strongest, Amaterasu, was in a sorry state from fending it off, his black and red kimono torn to shreds by the heavenly lightning.

If it weren’t for their Domain Power being suppressed under the Celestial Tribulation, the five of them, Sakura Ancient Gods at the Emperor Realm Middle Stage, could have annihilated all ten Ancient Sacred Mosquitos in minutes.

But because their Domain Power couldn’t be fully deployed, and they also had to constantly resist the frenzied bombardment of the Celestial Tribulation, Amaterasu had ordered Susanoo to kill the Ancient Sacred Mosquitos first.

Meanwhile, he and the other three Sakura Ancient Gods would do their utmost to hold off the Celestial Tribulation, buying Susanoo time to kill the mosquitos.

Amaterasu believed this strategy was flawless.

But they were already on the verge of collapse, and there was still no sign of Susanoo returning to help.

’Aren’t they just ten small mosquitos at the Early Stage of the Emperor Realm?’

’Why is it taking so long to kill them?’

Puzzled, he turned his head and saw Susanoo just standing there in a daze, having failed to kill even a single mosquito. Fury ignited within him, and he roared, "Susanoo! What are you doing?!"

"I..." Susanoo snapped out of his stupor, his face flushing red then turning pale. He gritted his teeth and said, "I’ll kill it right now!"

With that, he abruptly released his Domain Power, which, like a great invisible net, locked firmly onto Chu Sheng.

’He was an Ancient God at the Emperor Realm Middle Stage, yet he was being toyed with by a tiny mosquito!’

Susanoo roared in anger and unfurled his Emperor Level Domain.

However, with the world-destroying Celestial Tribulation right above his head, he didn’t dare expand his Domain too much.

If the Celestial Tribulation sensed it and directed all the heavenly lightning at him, he would be truly barbecued.

Susanoo cautiously unfurled a Domain just one square kilometer in size, enveloping Chu Sheng within it.

"Let’s see you run now!" Susanoo’s gaze was sinister as he stared fixedly at Chu Sheng.

Did Chu Sheng intend to run?

Of course not.

The Celestial Tribulation’s range was only so large.

If he were to run elsewhere, it would affect the other nine avatars’ absorption of Life Essence. What a terrible deal that would be!

"BZZZ, Lord Mosquito is right here. Come and kill me if you’ve got the guts!" Chu Sheng extended a foreleg, pointing at Susanoo without a shred of fear.

"Hmph! A puny Demon Beast who has just ascended to the Emperor Realm dares to provoke us Sakura Ancient Gods? You truly don’t know the difference between life and death!"

After speaking, Susanoo didn’t make the foolish mistake of a villain who dies from talking too much.

He manipulated his Domain and began to compress it inward, squeezing Chu Sheng’s living space bit by bit.

Seeing the Domain compressed to its absolute limit, Chu Sheng had nowhere left to retreat.

So Chu Sheng simply stretched out his legs, lay down in the Domain, and gave up struggling.

"What? Giving up already?" Susanoo snorted, a cruel smile on his face. "If you kneel and beg for mercy now, this god..."

He adopted a high-and-mighty posture, but halfway through his sentence, his tone suddenly turned vicious, "...this god will absolutely not spare you either!"

With that, he channeled all his power into the long Samurai Sword in his hand and brutally hacked down at the helpless Chu Sheng lying on the ground.

SQUELCH!

The huge mosquito body was sliced in two, green blood splattering everywhere.

Chu Sheng’s avatar was dead as a doornail.

Susanoo carefully scanned the area with his Divine Sense.

Only after confirming that the mosquito was truly and completely dead did he disperse his Domain, lean on his Samurai Sword, and gasp for breath.

He never would have thought that killing a mere Early Stage Emperor Realm mosquito would take so much effort and leave him in such a sorry state.

’Still, at least the mission is complete.’

Uh...

No, wait!

Susanoo’s head snapped up as he looked in the other directions.

’It seems... there are still nine more mosquitos!’

’But that’s fine.’

’If I can kill one, I can kill ten!’

Susanoo took a deep breath, quickly regulated his aura, and charged toward the second mosquito, Samurai Sword in hand.

But before he could even reach the second mosquito, he stopped dead in his tracks, his expression freezing and turning incredibly ugly.

At the edge of the Celestial Tribulation’s range, a flash of golden light appeared.

A brand-new Ancient Sacred Mosquito, with an aura identical to the one he had just killed, swaggered into the area.

The newly arrived Ancient Sacred Mosquito didn’t even glance at the Sakura Ancient Gods present, flying straight toward Amaterasu.

It then raised its massive proboscis, aimed it at the Life Essence the Sakura Ancient Gods had worked so hard to convert, and began to suck greedily.

This new Ancient Sacred Mosquito was, of course, one that Chu Sheng had just resummoned.

His Outer Body Avatar skill was only level ten, meaning he could only summon ten Ancient Sacred Mosquitos.

But this "ten" did not mean he could only ever summon a total of ten.

Rather, it meant the upper limit that could exist at any one time was ten.

If one died, he could just summon another one!