These four Infinite Source Gods bore striking similarities in appearance. Although subtle differences distinguished them from one another, they all possessed humanoid forms.
One of them, the only woman among the four, immediately rushed toward Elishen, intending to free him from the time stagnation imprisoning him.
However, the closer she approached, the more shocked she became.
"What kind of technique is this?" she wondered.
As she neared Elishen, she discovered that the space-time within a hundred thousand kilometers of him had been completely frozen. Worse still, the closer she advanced, the more her own speed slowed, as though time itself was refusing to let her move forward.
Realizing something was wrong, she stopped.
Her eyes fell upon the icy-blue flames burning around Solanky's fist.
After observing them carefully, she concluded that the flames were somehow responsible for Elishen's imprisonment.
She immediately retreated several kilometers before turning to the two Infinite Source Gods who had accompanied her.
"Keep him occupied while I find a way to free Elishen."
The two nodded.
As outsiders within this Infinite Source World, they could not freely exercise the full extent of their laws without Elishen's approval. As long as he remained trapped, their strength would remain restricted.
The two Infinite Source Gods shot toward Solanky at terrifying speed.
Within half a second, they had crossed hundreds of light-years and appeared before him, raising their enormous sledgehammers.
The moment Solanky saw them, he rapidly retreated while forming a series of hand seals.
With every seal he completed, an enormous energy barrier materialized before him.
Each barrier possessed durability comparable to the wall separating the Infinite Source World from the endless void.
Unfortunately, before the overwhelming power of two Infinite Source Gods, the barriers were shattered one after another beneath the crushing force of their hammers.
Just before the final barrier collapsed, Solanky disappeared.
He instantly reappeared directly behind Elishen.
Stretching out a finger, he lightly touched Elishen's back.
An invisible seal silently embedded itself into his body.
The frozen space surrounding Elishen immediately returned to its normal flow.
Without waiting another moment, Solanky teleported away, reappearing nearly two hundred light-years from the group.
The four Infinite Source Gods immediately gathered around Elishen.
One of them asked,
"How were you frozen inside your own world? If he can do this to you, then he could just as easily do the same to any of us."
Elishen's voice trembled as he replied,
"The moment those icy-blue flames touched me, my consciousness was thrown one hundred years into the past and one hundred years into the future."
His expression grew increasingly grim.
"Both timelines unfolded simultaneously. My consciousness became trapped inside an endless time loop that I simply couldn't escape."
He paused before adding,
"It felt... as though I had been imprisoned by the Calamitous Entities beyond the Infinite Source Worlds."
The other Infinite Source Gods were deeply shaken.
Outside their respective Infinite Source Worlds, being caught in time loops or time stagnation techniques was not unusual, since they lacked the empowerment of their Source Cores.
But within one's own Infinite Source World?
Such a thing had never happened before.
In all the trillions of years they had lived, they had never heard of an Infinite Source God being trapped by another Infinite Source God inside their own domain.
All four instinctively turned to Solanky's fist.
They noticed that the icy-blue flames had become significantly dimmer, as though they were on the verge of burning out.
The female Infinite Source God spoke thoughtfully.
"I believe it's a one-time technique. It will probably take him some time before those flames can be reignited."
The other three nodded.
The four Infinite Source Gods immediately decided to attack together.
Each of them charged from a different direction with their divine weapons in hand.
Among them, the most eye-catching weapon was a long whip forged from the Source Cores of a thousand Source Worlds.
Seeing the four of them converge upon him, Solanky deliberately pretended to flee.
He accelerated and flew toward the region where the Devil Realm had once existed.
Elishen smiled.
Within the territory that had belonged to the Devil Realm, his authority was significantly greater.
He raised one hand.
Instantly, countless Source Worlds and universes emerged throughout that region of space.
As he clenched his fist, the surrounding space compressed.
The region through which Solanky was flying suddenly became far denser, reducing his speed by five percent.
To ordinary beings, such a reduction would have meant very little.
But to existences at their level, even the slightest loss of speed could determine victory or defeat.
The female Infinite Source God seized the opportunity.
She lashed her whip forward.
Powered by a thousand Source Cores, the whip tore through space itself before mercilessly striking Solanky's back.
The tremendous impact hurled him into a floating space rock nearly seven hundred million light-years across.
The gigantic rock exploded into countless fragments.
Before Solanky could stabilize himself, the other two Infinite Source Gods descended from above.
Boom!
They slammed their colossal sledgehammers directly onto his body.
If the whip excelled in tearing and slashing, the sledgehammers embodied absolute crushing force.
Solanky was blasted deep into space once more.
Before he could recover, the whip appeared again.
Crack!
Another devastating strike landed across his body.
The three visiting Infinite Source Gods tossed Solanky back and forth like nothing more than a sandbag, seemingly enjoying themselves.
Yet everything was proceeding exactly as Solanky intended.
He intentionally allowed himself to be battered.
He wanted to carefully evaluate their strengths, weaknesses, and combat styles.
His Source-Defying Body was several times sturdier than that of ordinary Infinite Source Gods.
Without activating the Full-Body Armor Style, it would still require the combined attacks of more than fifty Infinite Source Gods merely to injure him.
These four alone posed no real threat.
While enduring their attacks, Solanky quietly activated his Eye Observation Technique, carefully analyzing every movement while maintaining the appearance of someone desperately struggling to survive.
Elishen no longer joined the assault.
Instead, he focused entirely on manipulating the Source Core of the Infinite Source World, gradually lifting the restrictions imposed upon the other three Infinite Source Gods.
Eventually, the three attackers began sensing that something was wrong.
Despite the relentless beating, Solanky's aura had barely weakened.
Exchanging glances, they silently reached the same conclusion.
They had to combine their attacks.
The three unleashed a perfectly coordinated strike.
The overwhelming force sent Solanky tumbling across space.
He crossed the entirety of the Devil Realm before crashing violently into the wall of the Infinite Source World itself.
A thunderous explosion erupted.
A massive dent spread across the world barrier, with enormous cracks radiating from the point of impact.
The four Infinite Source Gods instantly appeared nearby.
Leaning against the damaged world barrier, Solanky slowly looked up.
Then he smiled.
The moment he did...
A cold shiver ran down the spines of all four Infinite Source Gods.
It was not Solanky who frightened them.
It was the four different flames that had silently appeared before him.
Each flame radiated an indescribable sense of danger.
Solanky slowly extended both hands.
The four flames merged together, forming a magnificent flaming broadsword.
The instant the sword was completed, the terrifying aura emitted by the flames vanished entirely.
The four Infinite Source Gods involuntarily sighed in relief.
At least they no longer had to endure that terrifying pressure.
Without hesitation, one of the Infinite Source Gods rushed forward.
He swung his massive sledgehammer at Solanky with overwhelming force.
Seeing the attack, Solanky smiled.
He casually swung the flaming broadsword.
The attacking Infinite Source God sneered.
"How foolish. Do you really think your sword can contend against a hammer forged from the Source Cores of ten Infinite Source Worlds—"
He never finished his sentence.
His eyes widened in disbelief.
His mighty hammer was cleanly sliced in half, as effortlessly as paper.
The remaining Infinite Source Gods simultaneously exclaimed,
"Impossible! How could he...?"
Solanky smiled coldly.
His figure vanished.
He instantly appeared before the stunned Infinite Source God at terrifying speed.
Only then did the shocked Infinite Source God react, immediately retreating with all his might.