The Human Emperor c1-2382

by Huangfu Qi (皇甫奇)

  “!!!”

  Ji Andu was a paranoid person who had even managed to bring down the infamous Demonic Emperor Zhang Wenfu, but even he was left confused by this inexplicable sight. Even someone as shrewd as him could not understand what was going on.

  But Ji Andu’s confusion did not last for long. A moment later, he understood what had happened.

  “Over there!”

  “Kill him!” a deep voice called out, and then ten-some men in black appeared nearby, bestial roars coming from their mouths.

  Bang!

  Before Ji Andu could react, a pitch-black flame suffused with frightening energy rumbled toward him.

  Ji Andu lunged to the side, barely avoiding the black flame. As he felt that dreadful energy brushing past him, he felt his hair stand on end, and deep fear appeared in his eyes.

  This was the most dangerous flame Ji Andu had encountered in his entire life.

  “Kill him!” that deep and raspy voice once more called out.

  Ten-some dreadful energies locked onto Ji Andu. Ji Andu paled and he almost stopped breathing. He had faced many dangerous situations before, but none had ever struck so much fear into his heart.

  “Go!”

  Without hesitation, Ji Andu stomped down his right foot and flung himself backward, hastily retreating to the rear.

  These men in black were simply too powerful. Ji Andu sensed that if he had not escaped then, he would have been killed.

  However, Ji Andu had underestimated the reaction speed of these men. Boom! Countless bolts of energy slammed into the area Ji Andu had been standing mere moments ago, unleashing a cloud of dust.

  Soon after, a powerful half–Lu Wu man in black hurtled forward, getting behind Ji Andu and sending out a thick arm to block his retreat. With a single strike, he shattered Ji Andu’s Stellar Energy barrier and threw a palm against his chest.

  Chapter 1355 - Song Yuanyi Strikes!

  Chapter 1355: Song Yuanyi Strikes!

  Translated by: Hypersheep325

  Edited by: Michyrr

  “Waaaa!”

  Ji Andu vomited blood as his chest caved in. He felt as if all the blood in his chest was being propelled into his limbs and head, like all his blood and organs were being squeezed out.

  Ji Andu couldn’t even tell how many of his ribs had been broken.

  Even worse was that a black flame also penetrated into his body, boring into his limbs and bones. Plip plip. Black blood began to trickle from his nose. An intense dread took hold of Ji Andu’s mind.

  This was the first time he had ever felt so close to death.

  It was that bastard! It has to be him!

  Ji Andu clenched his teeth and mentally cursed. He knew that he had fallen into someone’s scheme, and there was only one person who had the means and desire to scheme against him… only one!

  “Everyone, hear my order! Kill them!” Ji Andu’s shrill cry cut through the heavens.

  Bang! A moment later, a bloody mist exploded outward. This was the first time since Ji Andu had entered the Righteous Alliance that he had used the Blood Escape Art of the evil path. His speed soared, and he fled into the distance as a black and blood-spattered streak. His speed was several times faster than before, and the half–Lu Wu man in black was too surprised to catch him.

  “Attack! Kill them all!”

  Battle cries came from all around as the Righteous Alliance experts converged, assuming sword formations and heedlessly attacking the men in black.

  Though these men in black were powerful, the Righteous Alliance was the number one faction of the martial arts world and had its own dignity to preserve. No matter what sort of opponent it faced, it would never shrink back.

  Clangclangclang!

  Weapons clashed and energy shockwaves rumbled. It took only a moment for the Righteous Alliance experts to arrive, robbing the men in black of their best chance to chase down Ji Andu.

  “Wait! It seems like it’s not him!”

  The leader of this group of men in black seemed to sense something, his eyes flashing. For a moment, he truly had sensed the target’s aura on that fellow’s body, almost taking him for the real target, but when that person used that secret art to flee for his life, the aura of the target utterly vanished.

  There was now no question that this was not their real target.

  “Forget about that guy who ran off! We need to find the actual target. As for these fools, kill them all!”

  The black-clothed captain’s eyes flashed. Bang! Raising his right hand, he unleashed a viscous black flame that struck a Righteous Alliance expert, instantly wreathing him in flames.

  “Aah!”

  A wretched scream tore through the air, as the Righteous Alliance disciple’s Stellar Energy burned. A few moments later, a blackened corpse fell to the ground.

  More explosions rang out through the air. Other groups of men in black had also detected Wang Chong’s energy, but in the chorus of explosions, those energy signals had disappeared. It was exactly the same as the situation they had encountered in the southeast. In a few moments, rather than finding their target, the men in black had intensified their conflict with the Righteous Alliance.

  It’s about time…

  At a distant part of the battlefield, a figure rose from a pile of Righteous Alliance disciples who had collapsed from poison. As Wang Chong scanned the countless people battling it out in the fiery light, his lips curled into a smile.

  The men in black were inexorable, while Song Yuanyi was constantly pursuing his master. The Formation Elder’s leaky mouth had also caused suspicion to be cast on his identity, leading five powerful elders of the Righteous Alliance to be positioned at five different points to prevent Wang Chong from quietly leaving. Besides that, Wang Chong also sensed that there were three even more formidable scoundrels keeping watch at the base of the mountain.

  In these current circumstances, Wang Chong could neither advance nor withdraw, and he also could not personally intervene. He could only think strategically. The organization of men in black were able to lock onto his energy, but Wang Chong had succeeded in using his Stellar Energy to make clones that were able to easily resolve this problem.

  Although the clones couldn’t last for very long and couldn’t fight, they were more than enough to mislead the men in black.

  “But these people from the Righteous Alliance aren’t enough!”

  Wang Chong scanned the battlefield and frowned. The men in black had mysterious origins and inconceivable strength. Although experts of the Righteous Alliance like Ouyang Changheng could stand against them, the Righteous Alliance was still reeling from the surprise attack.

  Wang Chong subconsciously turned his eyes to the summit, where a white tent had been set up. This was where the Lord of the Righteous Alliance, Song Yuanyi, resided. If there was one person that could alter the course of this battle, it was the Righteous Alliance Lord. But for some reason, the tent had remained utterly silent.

  Suddenly, Wang Chong had a thought. Smiling, he began to make his way toward the summit.

  ……

  Although fierce fighting was taking place on the mountain, outside the mountain, all was quiet. If one looked carefully, one might notice that all the leaves of a grove of trees two-hundred-some paces from the mountain were swaying in the wind. Above these trees, three men in bamboo hats stood in a row, hovering motionlessly in the air.

  The battle had been going on for some time, but these three men seemed to have no intention of intervening. It was as if the battle had nothing to do with them.

  The leftmost man looked up at the mountain and suddenly said, “It seems like there’s been a small problem on the mountain.”

  “Haha, that little mouse has started with his schemes again.”

  The rightmost man wickedly chuckled, his voice cold and murderous.

  “Leader, should we intervene?”

  A moment later, the two of them turned to the man in the center, who was the largest of the trio. A
lthough this man was also wearing a bamboo hat, he had a much heavier aura of energy about him and was significantly stronger than the other two. He was clearly the true leader of this operation.

  The man in the center said nothing and did nothing. His two subordinates found it impossible to tell what he was thinking.

  After a long while, the man in the center said, “There’s no need!

  “That one has still not moved.”

  As he spoke, he slowly raised his eyes to that white tent on the summit.

  Amidst the chaos of battle and the loss of numerous lives, that white tent seemed to exist in another world and remained utterly unaffected. Although very few people took note of it in the heat of battle, the man in the bamboo hat sensed that there was an extremely powerful storm within that tent.

  ……

  On the mountain, the battle was intensifying. As the number one faction of the martial arts world, the Righteous Alliance had gathered together many top-class experts, and these experts managed to inflict significant losses on the men in black.

  “Damn it! Why is there still no sign of that brat? Did he sprout wings and fly off?!”

  Blood Eye gnashed his teeth in rage.

  Creee!

  At this moment, a sharp cry came from the summit. Blood Eye looked up and saw that the soul eagle had once more shot into the sky to search for the target. This time, however, it was indicating that the target was on the summit.

  “Let’s go!”

  Blood Eye’s eyes gleamed with cold light as he shot toward the summit, his mouth making a sharp whistle. At this moment, all the men in black on the mountain cast aside their previous targets and began to make their way toward the white tent on the summit.

  Although numerous Righteous Alliance disciples tried to stop them, they were incapable of doing so. Two hundred feet, one hundred feet, eighty feet… they were getting closer and closer to the summit.

  At a distance of around sixty feet, Blood Eye stopped, suddenly sensing danger. To Blood Eye, that unremarkable white tent oozed danger from its every thread.

  Thwishthwishthwish!

  Although Blood Eye stopped after sensing danger, the men in black around him were completely unaware, charging with ghostly speed toward the tent.

  One man in black in half–Lu Wu form was now less than twenty feet from the tent.

  Boom!

  With a shake of his wrist, he sent a bolt of destructive energy at the white tent, not even intending to see what was inside.

  As that bolt of energy was about to strike the tent, an enraged voice bellowed from within.

  “Impudent!”

  This voice was suffused with a divine majesty, inspiring instinctive dread in all who heard it.

  Buzz!

  Time seemed to stop for a moment as a dreadful wave of energy exploded out of the tent. It swept forward like a hurricane, blasting apart the attack fired off by the man in black and then striking him head-on.

  Fwoosh!

  The half–Lu Wu man in black’s chest immediately caved in and his bones snapped. Vomiting blood, he was thrown into the air.

  That white wave of energy continued unabated, quickly sweeping up the men in black in the back.

  Thudthudthud!

  The seven black-clothed men following behind felt like they had run into a steel wall, and they screamed as that white wave of energy threw them into the air. Some of them had taken the forms of the tenacious half–Lu Wus while others were in the forms of the mighty Black Flame Asuras, and some of them were at the Saint Martial realm… but these people might as well have been made of paper in front of that white wave of energy, and all of them screamed as they were sent flying.

  Chapter 1356 - A Man in a Bamboo Hat Intervenes!

  Chapter 1356: A Man in a Bamboo Hat Intervenes!

  Translated by: Hypersheep325

  Edited by: Michyrr

  “Not good!”

  Blood Eye paled and immediately began to retreat. But even when someone of Blood Eye’s cultivation level used the void movement technique, he still could not outrun the white wave. Bang! In the blink of an eye, the wave of energy had caught up. Blood Eye only had time to put all his strength into sending off a gout of Fire of Mara, and then he was impacted by the wave.

  Rumble!

  The black Fire of Mara that could burn away all was able to blaze on the wave of energy for only a few moments before it was forcefully extinguished by that tyrannical wave of energy. Blood Eye was thrown into the air like a ragdoll, his face paling as he vomited blood.

  With a single strike, Blood Eye, the strongest of the men in black, had been heavily injured, many of his bones broken.

  Hwooo! Thick clouds of dust floated around the summit, while bloodstains and debris littered the ground for a hundred feet around the white tent. There was one corpse of a black-clothed man on the ground, and the other men in black were heavily injured, one hand pressed against their chests as they stared fearfully at that white tent on the summit.

  For a moment, the entire world was devoid of sound.

  Even the architect behind all this, Wang Chong, hidden in the back of the mountain, was shocked.

  Swish! The tent flap was raised, allowing a white-robed figure with a scornful gaze to slowly and confidently walk out. An aura as vast as the mountains and seas erupted from his body, causing the space around him to distort.

  Song Yuanyi, his expression cold and his body brimming with boundless energy, was like a mountain soaring into the heavens, the undisputed center of the world.

  How could this be? To think that he would be this powerful! Wang Chong muttered to himself. As he looked at the back of that man on the summit, for the first time, he felt a deep dread.

  In Liuyao City, Wang Chong had fought against these half–Lu Wus and Black Flame Asuras, so he knew exactly how strong they were. Wang Chong had believed that even if Song Yuanyi was powerful, it would only be at the peak Saint Martial level, an Imperial Great General.

  But now, Wang Chong realized how mistaken he was. This person was probably not much weaker than his master when it came to fighting power.

  Over the last two years, his master had been resting and recovering, gaining back his old cultivation level and even discovering the existence of the Subtle realm. But the Demonic Emperor Old Man’s foes had also not spent the last two years idling around. These were people who had managed to successfully entrap someone as paranoid as his master, so there was no way any of them could be easy to deal with. And these people had had an extra year and a half to improve their cultivation levels compared to his master.

  When his master was comprehending the Subtle realm, his master’s enemies had probably made their own significant progress in their martial arts.

  This person was extremely dangerous!

  When he thought about how Song Yuanyi was beginning to doubt his identity and had even placed five elders at the base of the mountain to guard against him, Wang Chong felt an intense danger. Song Yuanyi was an extremely shrewd person, and probably not even Song Youran’s help was enough to deceive him.

  I can’t stay here any longer! Wang Chong quietly said to himself.

  But despite the chaos on the mountain, Wang Chong did not immediately leave. He sensed from the very start that the three terrifying energies lurking at the base of the mountain had yet to move. Carelessly moving at a time like this would earn him the attention of both this trio and Song Yuanyi.

  I still have to wait.

  Wang Chong restrained himself and decided to stand back for now.

  “Just who are you all?”

  Song Yuanyi confidently strode toward the men in black.

  Song Yuanyi was one of the strongest men in the world of sects and one of its guiding lights. Thus, he possessed a divine majesty that inspired terror in the hearts of others.

  But when confronted by Song Yuanyi’s domineering aura, not a single man in black replied.

  Bang! With a heavy stomp of his right foot, a ma
n in black lunged forward with murder in his eyes and a sword in his hand. He was soon followed by all the others, none of them speaking as they rushed at Song Yuanyi.

  In this world, there was no faction worthy of their attention. No matter how powerful Song Yuanyi was, he was just an ordinary mortal in their eyes, though perhaps one that was a little stronger than usual.

  “Hmph, seeking death!”

  Song Yuanyi’s gaze chilled. He only stared at these charging men in black, and he did not appear to take any sort of special action.

  He held one hand behind his back while lightly flicking the other. Suddenly, six or seven bolts of energy as dazzling as the sun shot forward and struck those men in black.

  Boom! Boom! Neither the tenacious half–Lu Wus nor powerful Black Flame Asuras were capable of stopping those thunderously exploding bolts of energy.

  Plushplushplush! There was a dazzling flash of light, and then large and bloody holes appeared on the chests of the men in black where their hearts had been. One could see right through these holes to the other side, and even clearly make out the organs in their chests.

  “How could this be?”

  The men in black came to a stop and stared incredulously at the bloody holes in their chests.

  With their strength, not even divine weapons would be able to do much damage to them. But a single human had managed to end their lives with a flick of his finger. They found this impossible to accept.

  Thumpthumpthump! A few thoughts flitted through their minds before all went black and they dropped to the ground.

  Silence, absolute silence!

  Those men in black who had been charging up the mountain immediately stopped, their faces paling in fear.

  After a short period of silence, all the Righteous Alliance disciples began to loudly cheer.

  “Alliance Lord!”

  “Alliance Lord!”

  “Alliance Lord!”

  These men wearing dark clothes and black scarves around their faces had come out of nowhere and were extremely mysterious, and each one of them was inconceivably powerful.