He had never had a very harmonious relationship with Wang Chong, and Goguryeo and the Great Tang were old foes. Since the time of the Sui Dynasty, the two sides had fought several large-scale wars, but at this moment, Yeon Gaesomun made a decision without hesitation.
“Everyone, pay attention. Our goal is to delay these sea creatures as much as possible. You absolutely cannot cut them apart!”
Yeon Gaesomun pulled out two sabers and wrangled with several sea monsters as he urgently called out, “We have to buy as much time for the King of Foreign Lands as we can!”
They did not have the strength to overcome these sea creatures, but they were more than capable of delaying them.
After all, their goal was not to defeat the sea creatures or kill them, but to get rid of the cold wave.
If they could reach this goal, nothing else was important.
“That’s right!” Ozmish Khagan and the Xi Queen voiced their agreement. “King of Foreign Lands, you, the Demonic Emperor Old Man, and the Wushang Village Chief should leave first and leave this place to us!”
Zhangchou Jianqiong also spoke up at this time. “Wang Chong, leave with Senior Demonic Emperor! With me, Yeon Gaesomun, and the others here, there won’t be a problem.”
Though they had regarded each other as enemies, Zhangchou Jianqiong and company couldn’t help but feel some admiration for the sovereigns. Regardless of what else they had done, at this moment, their actions were worthy of admiration.
“Okay!”
Wang Chong mentally weighed the pros and cons before nodding and beginning to swiftly make his way toward the cold wave’s source.
Crack!
As Wang Chong lunged forward, he heard a strange crunching from behind him.
The sea creature statues that Wang Chong had obliterated were coming to life, turning into wriggling piles of flesh that were rapidly expanding.
These sea creatures were far more dangerous than had been imagined. If this were allowed to continue, the number of sea creatures in this icy space would continue to grow.
But Wang Chong didn’t turn around. His current mission was not to kill these sea creatures, but to destroy the source of the cold wave.
Moreover, with the cultivation of Zhangchou Jianqiong and the others, though they couldn’t win, they had more than enough strength to protect themselves.
“Village Chief, follow Chong-er! Let’s go!” the Demonic Emperor Old Man solemnly said, shooting into the air like an eagle as he followed Wang Chong into the ice and snow.
“Okay!”
The Wushang Village Chief swiftly followed, the three of them crossing the space.
The Wushang Village Chief’s judgment had been correct. The moment those sea creature statues had come to life, the powerful formations and seals the Celestial God Organization had placed in this space had all activated.
The three of them quickly reached the other end of the space.
From high in the air, the three could see a massive vortex on the icy ground that was rapidly shrinking.
This was a spatial passage. Once it was closed, no one could enter it unless the Celestial God Organization opened it again.
Moreover, once it closed, the group would be left to face an endless number of unkillable sea monsters.
“Hurry and go in!”
Wang Chong, the Demonic Emperor Old Man, and the Wushang Village Chief instantly plunged into the vortex before it disappeared.
Once Wang Chong and the other two had gone through, they saw that the other end of the passage was packed with men in black. Waiting here were many Divine Lords and Immortals.
The eyes of these men in black glinted with cruelty and savagery. It appeared that they had been waiting here for some time.
The ground was covered in many complicated formations that resonated with the Stellar Energies of these men in black.
When Wang Chong entered, he could clearly feel his Stellar Energy slowing down as it froze.
A half-step Grotto Heaven realm man in black stepped forward and sinisterly chuckled.
“Hmph, finally here! We’ve been waiting for some time.”
As he spoke, the men in black instantly attacked.
Boomboomboom!
All of the men in black unleashed their Stellar Energy, heedlessly barraging Wang Chong’s group with attacks and giving them no space to dodge.
With a massive boom, a spacetime barrier appeared.
The barrage of attacks from the men in black seemed to run into an impregnable wall, and all of them were stopped cold.
As the men in black unleashed their attacks, the Demonic Emperor Old Man and Wushang Village Chief also took action.
“Myriad Spirit Sea Art!”
“Rampant White Dragon!”
Now that the Demonic Emperor Old Man and Wushang Village Chief were half a step from the Grotto Heaven realm, their White Dragon Divine Art and Myriad Spirit Sea Art were on an entirely different level.
Rumble!
Tens of thousands of energy arrows blasted down from the heavens, and in a series of explosions, countless men in black were thrown into the air.
But though their attacks had struck true, the Wushang Village Chief and the Demonic Emperor Old Man frowned.
This attack was far weaker than they had expected.
“It’s the formation’s power! Here, they have the home court advantage.” Wang Chong’s voice rang out in the ears of the Demonic Emperor Old Man and the Wushang Village Chief.
“Haha, a mere three people wishing to intrude on the forbidden ground of gods and devils? Seeking death!”
The men in black who had been just knocked away sinisterly chuckled.
Wang Chong was correct. This truly was their home court, and in the short time it had taken to speak these words, a powerful energy had surged into their bodies.
As Wang Chong, the Demonic Emperor Old Man, and the Wushang Village Chief coldly looked on, the wounds on the men in black rapidly healed.
Both the Wushang Village Chief and the Demonic Emperor Old Man grimaced.
If this continued, then just like in the previous chamber, they would be held down here.
“This isn’t good. They want to delay us and exhaust us here,” the Demonic Emperor Old Man gravely said.
Though there were many men in black here, none of them had reached the Grotto Heaven realm, so they naturally couldn’t threaten them. But these men in black didn’t need to win, only exhaust their strength. Once they went to the next checkpoint where they would face the Supremes, their previous exertions would mean that they would inevitably lose.
So long as they were defeated, everyone else that had come in here with them would die, and buried with them would be the entirety of the human world on the surface.
“Kill them! Anyone who enters this place must die!”
The leading man in black savagely smiled and instantly attacked Wang Chong’s group.
The countless men in black behind him also took on aggressive postures and lunged at the trio.
The Demonic Emperor Old Man and the Wushang Village Chief focused, the Stellar Energy in their body trembling as they prepared to attack. But at this moment, Wang Chong spoke.
“Let me do it!”
His eyes glinting with cold light, he stomped out from behind the Demonic Emperor Old Man and Wushang Village Chief.
A moment later, he reached out with his right hand, and a storm of Psychic Energy erupted from his palm.
Psychic Storm!
This immense Psychic Energy, so concentrated as to be tangible, engulfed the entire area.
Chapter 2273 - The Soul's Weakness!
Chapter 2273: The Soul’s Weakness!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Under Wang Chong’s control, this Psychic Energy was aimed in a single direction and slammed into the minds of the men in black.
After battling Genesis Supreme and obtaining that divine halo, Wang Chong had grown even str
onger in Psychic Energy.
Boom! Boom!
A moment later, the Demonic Emperor Old Man and the Wushang Village Chief saw something incredible.
In the end, Psychic Energy was not a physical substance and was completely different from Stellar Energy. Thus, while Psychic Energy could heavily injure an opponent by throwing their mind into disarray, in normal circumstances, it was very difficult to kill someone with Psychic Energy, even for someone like Wang Chong.
But what was happening before them made them question everything they knew. With a boom, the two men in black charging at the front were struck by Wang Chong’s Psychic Storm and froze.
As the Demonic Emperor Old Man and the Wushang Village Chief looked on, the faces of these men in black turned pale white, and their eyes quickly lost their luster.
Without even a groan, the two of them collapsed to the ground.
Behind them, large swaths of men in black began to collapse. Even those half-step Grotto Heaven realm men in black were not spared.
“What’s going on here?”
The Demonic Emperor Old Man and the Wushang Village Chief were flabbergasted.
Wang Chong truly was very strong, but in normal circumstances, he shouldn’t have been this strong. Moreover, the men in black appeared to have suffered a lethal wound.
“There’s something strange about these men in black. Their souls seem incomplete, similar to Genesis Supreme from back then,” Wang Chong slowly said.
Wang Chong had surpassed his master and was far stronger than the Demonic Emperor Old Man and the Wushang Village Chief. As he had stepped out, he had immediately sensed that while these men in black seemed powerful, their souls were like guttering candles and were somewhat damaged.
For Subtle and even half-step Grotto Heaven realm experts to be like this was incredibly abnormal.
Though he didn’t know the exact reason, Wang Chong was experienced in dealing with opponents with damaged souls.
Whoosh!
The winds howled around them as Wang Chong stood tall and slowly withdrew his right hand. For tens of thousands of feet around him, there was nothing but silence. All of the men in black had collapsed, motionless, to the ground.
They had not sustained any fatal wounds, and the formation’s power was still healing them, but their souls had already been scattered to the winds.
“If my guess is correct, these men in black can only survive here. Otherwise, we would have seen more Divine Lords in the war of the northeast,” Wang Chong slowly said, appearing extremely composed.
From what he could see, there had been at least sixty Divine Lord or half-step Grotto Heaven experts guarding this place.
“They feel like failed experiments to me,” Wang Chong sternly added.
The men in black loved to carry out various experiments. Whether it was the Behemoth Army of Arabia or those ancient Hou they had run into on the polar plain, and perhaps even those strange flames the Celestial God Organization used, in Wang Chong’s view, they were all vestiges of experiments that they had carried out.
If there were experiments, there had to be failures, and those people seemed like failures to him.
But in this world, many people didn’t even attach anything special to the word ‘experiment’, let alone could tell what was one.
Voices boomed through the space. “Heh, as expected of the Child of Destruction that only appears once every several thousand years, able to see the truth with a glance. But I fear that you might be thinking about this too simply.”
“It’s not that easy to intrude on the cold wave’s source.”
Those two existences had appeared once in the thundercloud vortex over the polar plain, after which they had fallen silent. But now, they once more began to speak.
Rumble! The earth trembled, and the trio sensed an enormous energy gushing out.
Deep beneath this area, a massive formation rapidly turned, swiftly reversing the battle that had taken place here.
Kaclack!
Bones clattered as those fallen men in black who had had their souls scattered by Wang Chong began to move their bones and rise from the ground.
Not only that, the several dozen men in black around them appeared even stronger and more threatening than before.
“Child of Destruction, we know that you are strong, but we have tens of thousands of souls like these. No matter how many times you disperse their souls, we can endlessly revive them.”
“I’d like to see how capable you are!”
The two voices coldly laughed before disappearing again.
The revived men in black let out bestial roars as they locked onto the trio.
At the same time, an even denser barrage of attacks swept toward them.
Boom!
Before the attacks could get close, Wang Chong opened his right hand, once more unleashing a wave of Psychic Energy.
A second later, the revived men in black dropped to the ground, but this time, Wang Chong didn’t stop.
Rumble! A dark golden Halo of Spacetime erupted from beneath his feet, and Wang Chong unleashed a powerful Grotto Heaven attack at that mysterious formation deep beneath the earth.
Beneath Wang Chong, past many complicated spatial constructs, an enormous formation rumbled, sending energy to the men in black on the surface.
There was faint soul energy mixed together with this energy.
The two Supremes hidden in the shadows had not lied. The defensive measures the Celestial God Organization had placed here were far more formidable than expected.
Right after Wang Chong had killed the men in black on the surface, the formation had already begun to turn, ready to revive them.
No matter how strong Wang Chong was, constantly consuming Psychic Energy like this was an enormous burden. If this continued, Wang Chong would be completely exhausted before he could even reach the source of the cold wave.
Boom!
Wang Chong’s immense energy paired with spacetime energy slammed into the core of that formation deep within the earth.
At his current level of power, Wang Chong’s full strength could obliterate the earth and tear apart space.
Even though Wang Chong didn’t understand how the formation operated, his understanding of formations in general allowed him to estimate where the core was.
Boom!
With a massive boom, Wang Chong’s destructive Stellar Energy tore apart that enormous formation.
Bangbangbang!
Those men in black that had been standing up, about to revive, collapsed to the ground again.
“Formidable, as expected. You even destroyed the formation. However, there are forty-nine reincarnation formations in all. Destroying one is far from enough.” That familiar voice rang out in the region once more, and an intense trembling came from beneath the feet of the trio.
Deep under the earth, another formation emerged to take the place of the one that Wang Chong had destroyed.
Wang Chong couldn’t help but grimace at this.
The abilities of the men in black were much more frightening than he had imagined.
It was better to consider how one could be defeated first than to consider how one could win. Because numerous experts in era after era had attempted to force their way here, the Celestial God Organization had made many more preparations than anticipated.
“Hmph, it’s not that easy!”
Wang Chong quickly came to his senses.
While the Celestial God Organization truly possessed divine abilities, they were looking down on him too much.
Wang Chong flipped his wrist, and Stellar Energy gathered in his body once more. Soon, the earth began to rumble as Wang Chong divided this energy into six streams, mixing them with his Psychic Energy and spacetime energy before sending them into the earth.
Buzz!
A second formation rapidly took shape beneath the earth. As it was about to take form, Wang Chong released the spacetime energy, and with this additional ingredient, he suc
ceeded in creating a six-pointed spacetime sealing formation.
The fabric of space rumbled as the second formation began to turn, then, as his formation took effect, space froze.
“You!”
The two hidden Supremes paled at this sudden development.
Wang Chong’s strength, daring, and abilities were far more formidable than they had anticipated. He had used Stellar Energy to create a formation that was combatting the influence of the formation underground.
Even more incredibly, Wang Chong’s method was actually working.
Even for Supremes, this was an extremely difficult method that was only possible in theory.
This Child of Destruction was far more difficult to deal with than they had imagined!
Chapter 2274 - Disaster's Source!
Chapter 2274: Disaster’s Source!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
“Come on! I can sense that the dimensional gate isn’t far!”
After successfully disrupting the operation of the reincarnation formation, Wang Chong immediately advanced.
Upon reaching this place, Wang Chong felt his senses clear up.
So long as he could destroy the dimensional teleportation gate, everything here would be destroyed. Wang Chong had no need to fight with the men in black in this place.
Buzz!
But Wang Chong had barely spoken and walked a few steps before several powerful figures appeared ten-some steps away, barring the path forward.
“Child of Destruction, stop! We won’t let you go any farther!”
Six individuals wearing yellow robes, appearing somewhat similar to True Lord Yellow Dragon, but also completely different, stood before him.
As they spoke, the six yellow-robed men each took out two thin black scimitars that appeared like crescent moons.
These black scimitars flashed with a cold and frightening light.
Wang Chong couldn’t help but frown at the sight of these six experts.
Wang Chong could tell that these were different from the other constantly reviving men in black. All of them were only half a step from the Grotto Heaven realm.
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