Chapter 162: The Sealing

When the attacks of the towering figure and the small figure crossed paths, the tide of battle instantly reversed.

The flaming sword blade struck the massive crescent scepter, chipping a piece right off the crescent moon.

The soaring phoenix, burning with the fires of combat, almost set Khonshu's cloak ablaze.

Casting a pained glance at the chipped scepter, Khonshu felt a mix of heartache and deep apprehension.

Weapons and armaments were both physical manifestations of a deity's power. However, while the former was actively condensed, the latter was a passive overflow. Therefore, a weapon not only represented the strength of a deity's power but was also intimately tied to their divine status and domain.

Though the sliver of the scepter that Gu Chongyan shaved off with a single sword stroke was minuscule, it directly affected Khonshu's foundations.

To put it in the terms of martial arts and celestial cultivation novels, that single strike probably wiped away years of his bitter toil.

"Unforgivable!"

Khonshu roared angrily, the scepter in his hand bursting with dazzling light.

"All Things Tremble at the Heavens!"

Driven by divine power, the entire starry sky shuddered. The crescent moon in the sky seemed to experience the passage of dozens of days, rapidly traversing the firmament until it transformed into a full moon hanging high above the dome of heaven.

The massive, super-sized moon emitted a brilliant, silvery radiance that completely enveloped this patch of the sky.

Beneath the moonlight, Khonshu's stature continuously shrank while his aura steadily climbed, and the ragged, near-tattered cloak on his body took on a brand-new appearance in the moonlight.

In a short span of time, Khonshu's divine power elevated to a planetary scale, and his form grew incomparably sacred.

"Beneath the moonlight, all sins shall be judged, and your soul shall belong to the eternal night!"

Khonshu stamped his scepter hard against the ground. The crystal-clear moonlight, tangible as reality, suddenly converged into three divine artifacts.

The scarab, the Ankh, and the staff of time—the three divine artifacts symbolizing time echoed with the moonlight, and Gu Chongyan felt a torrent of spacetime energy descend from the heavens, attempting to sweep him into the turbulent currents of time.

Gu Chongyan felt a jolt in his heart.

True to being one of the Egyptian deities, a starved camel is still bigger than a horse. Even in such a desperate plight, he still possessed such a formidable trump card.

Though surprised, Gu Chongyan's reaction was not slow in the slightest. The Darkhold in his hand flipped rapidly, and he swiftly chanted a spell.

"As Impregnable as a Fortress!"

Invisible magic power diffused outward, casting Hogwarts's strongest defensive magic right out of the gate.

The turbulent currents of time intertwined against the invisible barrier, striking colorful sparks. If not for the fact that these sparks could drag a person into the sea of spacetime, the spectacle would have looked rather gorgeous.

With a cold sneer, Khonshu, operating at full firepower, swung his scepter forcefully.

A crescent moon-like beam of light, radiating an incomparably sharp and icy aura, slashed through spacetime and, ignoring the protection of the barrier, chopped toward him.

Gu Chongyan hastily retreated, his waist arching back swiftly as if devoid of bones. The chilling moonlight grazed past the tip of his nose, and a lock of hair across his forehead was directly severed.

Drawing in a sharp breath, Gu Chongyan forcefully straightened his sturdy torso, smoothly executing a backflip. Gripping the Sword of Gryffindor tightly in both hands, he whirled around and delivered a fierce chop.

Drawing a blade to cut water only makes it flow faster, but when the will to fight reaches a certain level, even time itself can be severed.

Amidst dazzling red light, the phoenix bathed in fire, traversing spacetime with a thunderous roar that severed the turbulent currents of time.

Seeing this, Khonshu waved his scepter, and the full moon behind him bloomed with light, preparing to repeat his previous trick.

Before he could strike, a dazzling silver radiance burst before his eyes, and a familiar psychic power instantly crushed down upon him.

Beneath the full moon, Khonshu's strength had indeed increased significantly; within merely half a breath, he broke free from the spell's influence.

However, the very moment he broke free from the psychic suppression, a bald woman clad in yellow mage robes appeared right before him.

"Ancient One?!!!"

Khonshu's psyche instantly shattered, his entire being reacting like a cat whose tail had been stepped on—especially when he saw the Ancient One strike the ground, causing the earth to ripple like water and roll forward rapidly. The sight frightened him so much that even the full moon behind his back trembled.

Yet, Khonshu quickly regained his composure. How could the Ancient One possibly appear here? This was an illusion!

He swiftly steadied his mind. As the cold moonlight showered down, the Ancient One before him shattered into fragments and vanished instantly.

However, while the Ancient One was fake, the Mirror Dimension was not.

The Darkhold flipped rapidly, and the sky began to lower. The space enveloped by the full moon began to shrink smaller and smaller. Within the field of vision, everything was a domain controlled by Gu Chongyan.

The constantly contracting space twisted like a cruller under the flipping pages of the Darkhold, tumbling backward to engulf Khonshu.

His power came from the full moon in the sky. As space distorted, the heavens and the earth began to lose their distinct separation, and the moonlight was likewise kneaded into the cruller, sliced into scattered fragments.

Though the segmented full moon remained a full moon, only a tiny fraction of it could shroud Khonshu.

Losing the blessing of the moonlight, his divine power began to rapidly wither away, and that imposing cloak once again reverted to its former tattered and wretched state.

Nor was it just the cloak; Khonshu's divine power had long since grown incomparably weak through the passage of ages.

His sudden burst of power this time had clearly relied on some kind of forbidden art. This technique could restore him to his prime in a short period, but once it faded, it would trigger a massive backlash.

Under the withering of his divine power, Khonshu's divine armament became utterly battered, and his stature shrank down to the size of a small child.

His tiny body topped with an oversized falcon skull looked utterly absurd no matter how one looked at it.

Facing Khonshu, who had been reduced to the appearance of a mere child, Gu Chongyan showed not the slightest bit of mercy.

"Snares of Bone Blades!"

"Spacetime Sealing!"

Two spells were cast in succession, and chains after chains wrapped around Khonshu's body, stripping away his remaining divine power.

A red magic circle unfolded beneath his feet, and the sealing power climbed upward continuously along his legs.

His body could be seen petrifying bit by bit, ultimately transforming into a palm-sized stone figurine that fell into Gu Chongyan's hand.

In the end, Gu Chongyan did not kill Khonshu. It was not out of soft-heartedness, but rather out of wariness toward the Egyptian pantheon.

Khonshu was, after all, the son of the Egyptian King of Gods. Although he had had no contact with Heliopolis for so many years, the mere fact that his paltry divine power could still manipulate the starry sky showed that the Egyptian deities had given him plenty of backing behind the scenes.

To truly kill him would likely provoke the entire Egyptian divine system into an uproar.

Although he wasn't afraid of any single Egyptian deity, if the whole family came at once, even the Ancient One would have to exert some effort.

Anyway, since Khonshu was already sealed and unable to stir up any major trouble, rather than killing him and provoking the frantic pursuit of the Egyptian pantheon, it was better to keep him as leverage. There was still room for maneuver, and who knew, he might prove useful in the future and be traded for some benefits.