Their reactions couldn’t be considered slow, and the Void Movement Technique was also a powerful technique that made one invisible to the naked eye. But in front of Su Zhengchen, they were still nothing but ants, and all resistance was futile.
Swooshswooshswoosh!
Swords and sabers shot down into seemingly vacant air, but a moment later, wretched screams resounded through the air. Those men in black who had disappeared now staggered out of the void and dropped into the dirt, blood-covered blades protruding from their bodies.
The swords and sabers had all struck fatal points, slaying them in a single blow.
Even with their tenacious vitality, they had still been instantly slain.
“Bastard!”
In the air, the Tianfu Divine Lord and Tianshu Divine Lord were doing all they could to fend off the barrage of swords. Upon seeing what was happening, they immediately exploded in rage.
“Old scoundrel, gifts are reciprocated! You dare to kill my people, so I’ll kill all of yours!”
The Tianfu Divine Lord raged, his anger stimulating his daring. Although he didn’t know who this man was, there was no question that he had come to save those Great Tang soldiers. Since that was the case, he had no need to be polite.
“I’ll make you the first sacrifice!”
The Tianshu Divine Lord’s eyes chilled as he locked onto Li Siye.
This giant soldier, by relying on some mysterious armor, had been able to charge in again and again. Even though the attacks continued to batter him, they were only able to wound him. If not for this man, everyone else present would have already been dead.
Buzz!
The Tianshu Divine Lord blinked away, vanishing by using the Starlight Step.
“Careful!”
Just when it seemed like Li Siye was going to die to the Tianshu Divine Lord, the Tianfu Divine Lord called out, his pupils constricting. He thrust out his palm, sending several Southern Dipper Star Awls howling toward Li Siye.
As those Star Awls flew forward, the Tianfu Divine Lord himself used the Starlight Step to join the Tianshu Divine Lord’s assault.
Boom!
But just when their blows were about to strike, a slender figure manifested in front of Li Siye, and peerless Stellar Energy exploded outward. There was a tremendous explosion and a storm of dust. Su Zhengchen’s figure stood tall in the dust, completely unmoved, but the two Divine Lords swayed as they staggered back several steps in the air.
Their eyebrows rose in unison, and they grimly stared at this silver-haired elder.
It was true that because they had been floating in the air while this elder had been on the ground, they had been at a disadvantage, but the fact that this elder had managed to appear so quickly and even block their attacks meant that he was no ordinary man.
Strong!
Very strong!
The Tianfu Divine Lord’s pupils constricted, his expression turning serious. At their level of strength, they could compare to the gods and Buddhas of legend. They were aloof figures that not even the restraints of mortality could threaten.
Each Divine Lord had an essentially limitless lifespan.
This was why they regarded themselves as gods and immortals, and regarded the experts of the mortal world as ants.
But this elder on the ground, this master of the sword, seemed to them like an unprecedented threat.
“Human, just where did you come from? It shouldn’t be possible to reach your level,” the Tianfu Divine Lord suddenly said.
“This war is a god’s war! Don’t interfere! If you submit, I can even make an exception and let you join us!”
Almost everyone at the Tianfu Divine Lord and Tianshu Divine Lord’s level of power had an extremely high view of themselves. In the Tianfu Divine Lord’s long life, he had never liked humans. Even those pious humans who joined their organization could only be slaves. He would never personally invite one.
But for this human, the Tianfu Divine Lord could make an exception.
The Starlight Step was a secret art of their Celestial God Organization, far above the movement techniques of the mortal world. Even the Greater Void Step that Wang Chong had stolen could not compare. But this human, without using any secret art and purely relying on sword arts, had attained a speed similar to the Starlight Step.
In the Tianfu Divine Lord’s long life, this was the first time he had ever run into such a thing.
This alone made this human worth recruiting.
“Gods don’t exist in this old man’s eyes!” Su Zhengchen coldly spat, his words instantly making the Tianshu Divine Lord and Tianfu Divine Lord scowl.
Chapter 1783 - The Tianshu Divine Lord, Dead!
Chapter 1783: The Tianshu Divine Lord, Dead!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
“You have no idea what you’re refusing!”
The Tianshu Divine Lord’s face turned into a sheet of ice.
“Ants are simply ants. Since that’s the case, I’ll send you on your way!”
Buzz!
As the Tianshu Divine Lord spoke, the skies suddenly darkened, and six stars suddenly appeared overhead. These six stars instantly summoned even more, all of them bright and shining as if they represented all the myriad forms of nature. If one looked carefully, one would realize that they had actually assembled into a formation.
“Seal of Myriad Forms!”
Unlike the Tianfu Divine Lord, the Tianshu Divine Lord did not specialize in frontal assault, but in sealing and severing. By borrowing the power of starlight, he could establish the Heavenly Pivot Formation. As long as he was at the central pivot of this formation, he could place a massive seal on his foe, severing their connection with the world.
This was a supreme skill that the Tianshu Divine Lord used only against the best human experts. Even Subtle real experts would find their strength massively reduced within the seal, even dropping down to the Great General level. But this formation was extremely taxing on his mental energy, so the Tianshu Divine Lord rarely used it.
“Punishment of the Heavenly Pivot!”
(TN: Tianshu means ‘Heavenly Pivot’.)
As he spoke, the Tianshu Divine Lord thrust out his palm. The one hundred and twenty-eight stars above him each shot out a ray of light onto Su Zhengchen. At the same time, massive projections of the six stars of the Southern Dipper took formation and surrounded Su Zhengchen. Their binding was so tight that even space froze as it closed around Su Zhengchen.
Once all this was done, a massive pitch-black hand descended like a lightning bolt and slammed down into Su Zhengchen. Once this palm struck, even if Su Zhengchen had a body of steel, he would still be obliterated.
Mortals were mortals!
Ants were ants!
Anyone who dared to act arrogantly in front of the gods only brought disaster upon themselves! It was now time to pay the price of offending a god.
“Die!”
The Tianshu Divine Lord’s face twisted into a savage visage.
“Too weak!” an elderly voice softly said, but it exploded in the Tianshu Divine Lord’s mind like a ringing bell.
He looked down in alarm in time to see that human shake his hand twice.
Bang!
The fabric of space that had been sealed by the Tianshu Divine Lord was suddenly struck by some massive drill, and the seal instantly splintered like glass.
“How could this be?!”
The Tianshu Divine Lord’s pupils constricted as if he had been sharply jabbed.
His Seal of Myriad Forms could even seal Subtle realm experts, but this human had instantly destroyed it.
And to the Tianshu Divine Lord’s even greater shock, his foe had done this without releasing any powerful ripples of energy. In other words, he had not used his full strength.
“How could a tiny dynasty possess such a powerful warrior?”
The Tianshu Divine Lord was flabbergasted. This man was far more powerful than he had imagined.
“Careful!”
The Tianfu Divine Lord cried out in alarm, and the Tianshu Divine Lord speedily reacted, using the Starlight Step almost the moment the Tianfu Divine Lord warned him and vanishing from his original position.
Bang!
The Tianshu Divine Lord appeared several dozen feet away, but a moment later, time stopped. A vast beam of Sword Qi cleaved through space as it howled toward him.
This one strike blasted through the Tianshu Divine Lord’s body. It had been so fast that not even the Starlight Step could avoid it.
Everything went still. The Tianshu Divine Lord was frozen in the air, staring at the distant Su Zhengchen as strange sounds came out of his mouth.
“Who is he? How is he even more powerful than the gods? No! I can’t die to a mortal ant like this!”
The Tianshu Divine Lord’s body trembled, but before he could say any more, that horrifying Sword Qi exploded in his body.
“Aaaah!” The Tianshu Divine Lord could only scream as Sword Qi erupted from his shoulders, chest, head, ears, and back.
In a terrifying explosion, the Tianshu Divine Lord’s body was instantly rendered into countless thin slivers of flesh, and then it was further sliced until only tiny grains remained to be swept away by the wind.
Shock!
All the soldiers, whether friend or foe, were stunned speechless by this sight.
They had all experienced the power of the Tianshu Divine Lord. Even though he had been struck from behind by Bai Hanzhou, he had remained strong, each palm strike able to wound hundreds of people. No one had been able to stop him.
Even the Lone Silence Ancestor working together with Li Siye was no match for him. But Su Zhengchen, without even moving or using all of his strength, had easily slain the Tianshu Divine Lord and turned his body into dust.
“To think that there would be such a powerful man in the Great Tang…!”
The Lone Silence Ancestor didn’t recognize Su Zhengchen, but this only made him even more shocked.
“This is impossible!”
No one was more shocked than the Tianfu Divine Lord.
The Tianshu Divine Lord was already heavily injured and was ranked at almost the bottom of the Six Stars of the Southern Dipper, specializing more in formations and seals than in combat. But he was still a Divine Lord of the Subtle realm.
The Tianfu Divine Lord had never imagined that the Tianshu Divine Lord would be killed in a single blow! Killed by a mortal!
“Bastard!
“Unforgivable!”
The Tianfu Divine Lord soon regained his senses, his hands clenching and veins bulging from the back of his hand.
No matter where this human had come from or how strong he was, for what he had done to the Tianshu Divine Lord, he could only look forward to death.
This was the first occasion in a very long time that a Divine Lord of the Celestial God Organization had been killed.
“Die!”
The Tianfu Divine Lord extended a palm. Five fingers of black energy that seemed to be made of glass reached out to Su Zhengchen and then began to spin.
Bzzzz! The area within several thousand feet of Chongsheng Gate suddenly became pitch-black. All the burning torches on the wall disappeared into the darkness. They were still burning, but they didn’t release even the smallest ray of light. This place had been turned into a world of absolute darkness.
“What’s going on?”
In the chaos and darkness, everyone panicked and began to back away.
Thud! Thud! Unable to see, they ran into each other. But even though they were so close to each other, they couldn’t see a thing. This was an absolute darkness.
The Power of Darkness!
This was a power that only those few ranked at the very top of the Six Stars of the Southern Dipper could use!
The Southern Dipper only shone at night, and the Power of Darkness was refined with this concept in mind.
In this domain, the senses of martial artists would be greatly weakened, and some weaker martial artists would find their minds affected, grow insane, and die.
But the Power of Darkness was primarily focused on peak martial artists. Once they were immersed in its domain, they would find their senses and Psychic Energy suppressed, thus affecting their judgment.
This was a very high-level energy that not even the Tianfu Divine Lord had completely mastered. But now that the Tianshu Divine Lord was dead, he had no time for such concerns. He had to kill this human no matter what.
Boom!
Once the Power of Darkness had completely engulfed the area, the Tianfu Divine Lord used the Starlight Step to appear behind Su Zhengchen.
While this was the same Starlight Step, the Tianfu Divine Lord was much more skilled in it than the Tianshu Divine Lord. He didn’t release a single ripple of energy in the process, keeping the air as calm and still as a placid lake.
Boom! The Tianfu Divine Lord opened his fingers, releasing dark and destructive energy from his palm.
The moment this black energy appeared, the fabric of space began to shatter like glass, countless cracks appearing upon it. If struck by this energy, even Subtle realm experts would be heavily injured.
Boom!
But just when it seemed like Su Zhengchen was going to die to the Tianfu Divine Lord’s palm…
Su Zhengchen slightly opened his eyes, and without even turning his head, he placed his right hand behind his back and moved his middle and index fingers to block the attack.
Kaboom! The Tianfu Divine Lord’s monstrous energy was like a wave slamming into the cliff. It was blocked completely and unable to advance even a single step.
“!!!”
The Tianfu Divine Lord’s pupils constricted in shock. Compared to his grandiose and boundless attack, Su Zhengchen’s response was relaxed and calm, showing no signs of energy or power. It seemed like a stark contrast, but in reality, no matter how much power the Tianfu Divine Lord poured out, he couldn’t move Su Zhengchen a single inch.
“This is impossible!”
The Tianfu Divine Lord’s expression turned cold, and a moment later, he vanished and appeared elsewhere.
Boom!
A moment later, the Tianfu Divine Lord appeared in front of Su Zhengchen and released a torrent of pitch-black Subtle realm energy.
Chapter 1784 - Life! Execution!
Chapter 1784: Life! Execution!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Beams of Sword Qi shot out of the ground like a vast forest, serving as a shield to block all of the Tianfu Divine Lord’s attacks.
Once, twice, thrice… the Tianfu Divine Lord was constantly shifting positions, disappearing and reappearing in just a split second, without a noise or ripple of energy. But no matter where the Tianfu Divine Lord moved or how fast his attacks were, Su Zhengchen always seemed to know where he would show up.
“Die! Fated Birth Star!” the Tianfu Divine Lord suddenly bellowed.
Kaboom! With a great clap of thunder, a steely-black star descended out of the darkness, rapidly growing larger as it hurtled toward Su Zhengchen.
Buzz!
As this attack carrying all of the Tianfu Divine Lord’s strength descended, Su Zhengchen’s eyelids trembled. Those closed eyes finally opened, revealing a dazzling light.
“So, this is all your strength?”
Su Zhengchen’s cold and callous voice could be heard all around Chongsheng Gate.
Boom!
Su Zhengchen thrust out his right hand with inconceivable speed, instantly striking that Fated Birth Star that was packed with destructive power.
For a moment, time seemed to stop.
The Tianfu Divine Lord could only watch as that Fated Birth Star, now about the size of a millstone, was suddenly sliced in two, allowing a terrifying Sword Qi to burst through.
As it was cut in two, another wave of Sword Qi sliced the Fated Birth Star in half horizontally, and there was a third wave, a fourth wave�
� A few moments later, the Fated Birth Star that should have exploded had been sliced into countless tiny pieces.
The process had taken place so quickly that the Fated Birth Star hadn’t even had a chance to show the slightest hint of an explosion.
Rumble!
It was only once it was in tiny pieces that the Fated Birth Star finally exploded, but the explosion was much weaker than imagined.
“How could this be? How could a human slice apart my Fated Birth Star?!”
The Tianfu Divine Lord didn’t dare to believe his own eyes.
The Fated Birth Star was packed with extremely dense energy that was even tougher than the energy of the Subtle realm. That his foe could slice the star into pieces without triggering the explosion meant that he possessed an absurd level of cultivation in the path of the sword.
This human has already surpassed me and Tianshu!
A thought suddenly flashed through his mind, and the Tianfu Divine Lord gasped. If he weren’t experiencing it for himself, he would have never believed that there was someone from a mortal dynasty that could somehow manage to cultivate to this transcendent level all on their own.
“Run!”
The Tianfu Divine Lord almost instantly realized that he was no match for this white-haired elder. Boom! Without the slightest hesitation, he unleashed a torrent of higher-dimension energy. In the blink of an eye, the Tianfu Divine Lord appeared one thousand feet away, rapidly fleeing to the west.
This move came without warning, and even Su Zhengchen couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow in surprise. But he quickly regained his composure.
“Since you’re here, why are you in such a hurry to go?”
Su Zhengchen’s voice was so soft that it could barely be heard, but the Tianfu Divine Lord clearly heard each word as if they had been whispered straight into his ear. His courage instantly failed, and he burned all the Stellar Energy in his body and hastened his flight.
Several thousand feet went by in the blink of an eye, and the Tianfu Divine Lord left the Chongsheng Gate far behind him. But just when the Tianfu Divine Lord thought that he had escaped, he once more heard that old, aloof, and majestic voice speaking into his ear.
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