All of a sudden, Xuan Yuan didn’t stop the arrow anymore, instead, the Xuan Yuan Divine Sword was slashed toward Zhu Jiumu!
“What an intelligent child.” Zhu Jiumu praised, the nine arrows turned around and clashed with the divine sword, changing its course. Then, Xuan Yuan’s eyes brightened up, he had given up on defense and instead, controlled the Xuan Yuan Sword to slash at Zhu Jiumu incessantly.
The Xuan Yuan Sword was overly powerful, even the gods like Zhu Jiumu didn’t dare to let it slash on him. Thus, Xuan Yuan could attack in defence, keeping Zhu Jiumu busy and stop him from attacking Zhong Yue and Shi Buyi!
“Lord Kun, you can sense the Divine Wing Saber, can you?” Zhu Jiumu controlled the divine arrows and pummeled on the Xuan Yuan Sword, keeping the divine sword from coming close as he asked.
In stark contrast, he was much more easy than Xuan Yuan. After all, the young boy was just at the Awakening level, he hadn’t even open all the five Yuan Shen secret realms yet; there was a limit on his visualization speed to move the Heavenly Sovereign’s divine sword, he was no serious threat to Zhu Jiumu yet.
In fact, it was much more beneficial to the gods if the Xuan Yuan Sword could only be wielded by him. Xuan Yuan wasn’t at the stage where he could make a real impact on the battle, and neither did he dare to unleash the divine sword’s full power as it’s overbearing force might actually affect or even break the ritual!
Thus, it wasn’t his hands that were tied, but Xuan Yuan’s!
Lord Kun nodded with a smile, “Yes, I can now.”
Then, he yelled sternly, and the Divine Wing Saber in Zhong Yue’s Yuan Shen secret realms started to quiver.
Ching—
The divine saber cleaved a huge rift through Zhong Yue’s Yuan Shen secret realms and freed itself into the world. It quivered violently, and its power was fully unleashed, covering the whole Black Mountain underneath its gigantic saber body!
Lord Kun laughed loudly, “Good, good! Witness the mighty power of my saber!”
With a thought, the Divine Wing Saber shrunk from a thousand miles to only a few ten thousand feet long. Although it turned smaller, its power has increased exponentially as it plummeted down at Zhong Yue!
Although the Great Ritual of Sealing Abdication posed a great suppression on the divine saber, it was still incredibly powerful, more than when Zhong Yue wielded it and killed the godly spirits in the West Barren Divine Battlefield!
Zhong Yue’s expression was placid as usual, he abruptly asked, “Lord Dragon, are you here?”
At that instant, the Divine Wing Saber was only a few feet away from his head. Suddenly, a golden light flashed to the top of his head and intercepted the Divine Wing Saber.
Ding—
A loud din reverberated the air as the Coiling Dragon Sword flashed out from a space rift and parried the Divine Wing Saber. Lord Dragon then walked out, he clenched on his sword and said while smiling, “I’ve been here for quite some time already!”
Zhong Yue nodded, “I need to focus, may Lord Dragon take care of the rest for me.”
Lord Dragon laughed loudly, he flicked the Coiling Dragon Sword, and the divine saber abruptly turned into a huge dragon. It soared highly and curled around the Divine Wing Saber, it slithered through the saber body, and gnawed on Lord Kun’s hand, “Lord Kun, you and I are old archrivals. Today, I shall have the honor of ending our long-standing conflict, and send you back to the heaven and earth!”
Lord Kun was already wounded during the battle in the Divine Battlefield, he wasn’t in his peak state anymore, and as soon as he saw Lord Dragon, his face was drastically changed. Immediately, he surged out his arcane energy and enlarged the Divine Wing Saber to a point where even the huge dragon couldn’t coil around it anymore. The Coiling Divine Sword was forced to leave the saber body.
“Lord Dragon, no wonder the dragon race suddenly migrated to Kun Lun, you have fraternized with the Zhong Shan Clan member!” Lord Kun spread his wings, and its feathers were shot out like swords while he sneered coldly, “The dragon race has betrayed the celestial race, you dragons will bear an eternal shame with you for the rest of your lives!”
Lord Dragon’s dragon scales hovered above his body like shields and blocked the incoming feather swords, he shook his head and said, “No. From today onward, the celestial race will be no more! Lord Kun, a few thousand years later, you will realize how wise I was to make this decision!”
They both knew each other too well, sometimes even better than themselves. Although Lord Dragon could defeat Lord Kun, it was still difficult to actually kill him.
Krong—
A loud blunt sound resounded thorugh the sky as the Black Mountain quaked violently. Xiao Mang grand ancestor was offered to the ritual while a terrifying city flew out from the copper lamp!
The city shaped like a giant god and was incomparably larger than the Xian Kong Saint City, harboring an aura beyond their reach!
Zhong Yue was worshipping with all his might, there were esoteric totem patterns all over the City of Nature which were many times deeper than the Deity Overlord totem patterns. They were difficult to understand and were exactly what protected and maintained the city. It was stopping him from sacrificing the city in anytime soon!
"The power is not enough now. I need more sacrifices to raise the power of the Great Ritual of Sealing Abdication to a higher level before I can sacrifice Patriarch Nature. Lord Kun was injured before, can he be sacrificed to fuel the ritual? But it’d be hard to do that…”
Just as he was thinking about, waves of strong auras rushed to the scene. Zhong Yue looked into the darkness and saw figures of gods in his vicinity, among which, Feng Wuji and Huang She God were on the front!
Feng Wuji? What nice timing! Zhong Yue praised in his heart.
“Zhong Yue, today is the day you die!”
Outside of the Black Mountain altar, the gods glanced around, the altar was brimmed with incredible power, a mysterious force that connects directly to the heaven and earth with unknown uses.
The power coming from the altar was strong that even the gods were terrified.
The totem patterns on the Black Mountain altar were still operational, even Lord Demon and Tuz Bawk couldn’t stop them. The demonic tree was contorted, and the thousand blades were distorted out of shape and. Even the coffin was full of cracks.
Even more, Lord Demon and Tuz Bawk were slowly dragged by the totem patterns, and tardily moved along with the altar.
Huang She God was the first to rush into the altar, he stepped on the demonic tree and bolted into the Black Mountain.
Other than himself, there were six other Kun Lun gods, including Kua Fu and Shang Qing. These Kun Lun gods were here to avenge their disciples that Zhong Yue had killed.
Shang Qing God followed Huang She God into the altar and sneered coldly, “Zhong Yue, you have killed my son, Shang Qing, and robbed my Lunar Mirror, I will never forgive you! Where is my Lunar Mirror?”
“Zhong Yue, do you know who I am?” A celestial god with lamb horns also asked frigidly, “Are you the one who killed my disciple in the Returning Ruins?”
Feng Wuji hesitated, but he didn’t follow. He stopped the other gods and said, “Senior martial brothers, please wait for a few more moments!”
He looked around and assessed the situation. Shi Buyi was entangled by Wen Changgong, Xuan Yuan and the divine sword were kept busy by Zhu Jiumu, and Lord Kun was battling with Lord Dragon; Zhong Yue was left alone hosting the ritual.
Lord Dragon is here already, that means the only helper left is that strange tree-like god. Is he Zhong Yue’s last trump card against us?
Feng Wuji mulled, Where can he be? If he is here, Huang She and Shang Zhen will be enough to lure him out!
He led two gods and waited patiently; while the others that rushed into the Black Mountain abruptly picked up an odd air in the altar, they quickly shrunk their body smaller and dashed toward Zhong Yue.
It’s about time to show yourself!
A total of five gods rushed up to the Black Mountain, they completely ignored Shi Buyi and Xuan Yuan and went directly toward Zhong Yue. It was at this moment, that a huge scale mirror emerged from Zhong Yue’s Yuan Shen secret realms in front of him, and it shone right at Lord Kun.
“Lord Dragon, one inch left of his forehead!” Zhong Yue glanced at the mirror and said.
Lord Dragon immediately lunged the Coiling Dragon Sword one inch left of Lord Kun’s forehead without hesitation. Lord Kun was choked, one inch left of his forehead was exactly where his blood essence converged at, if he was struck at that point, he would be killed in just a single strike!
He quickly evaded the incoming attack, and Zhong Yue’s voice could be heard again, “Lord Kun, the ritual now has enough energy to seal the Kun Peng Celestial Race in the Celestial Wood Star!”
A blood red light beam was shot out from the altar, it was tens of miles wide and pierced through the firmament toward the Celestial Wood Star.
“In an hour’s time, all the Kun Pengs in the Celestial Wood Star will have the power of their bloodline sealed!” Zhong Yue said placidly, “But don’t you worry, the Kun Peng Celestial Race will still be able to last for a few more generations before they turn into the likes of those who you’ve looked down on since time immemorial — the humans. Oh, and I forgot to tell you this—there are no Kun Pengs in Kun Lun.”
“Argh—!!” Lord Kun bellowed in extreme anger, he raised his head and looked as the blood beam shot through the clouds. In the moment of Lord Kun’s rage, Zhong Yue took this opportunity to reseize control over the Divine Wing Saber while Lord Dragon struck the Coiling Dragon Sword one inch left of his forehead.
Lord Kun roared, but his voice sounded as though he was crying. His body suddenly inflated like a balloon and exploded!
Countless spiritual lights dispersed in all directions, but none could fly out of the Black Mountain before the ritual sucked it away.
These spiritual lights contained parts of Lord Kun’s scattered soul that were trying to escape.
Zhong Yue gave a cold snort, and the spiritual lights faded away at a greater speed than Xiao Mang grand ancestor’s.
After all, Xiao Mang grand ancestor’s spirit was not shattered, but Lord Kun’s was, surely it was faster for Lord Kun to be sacrificed!
“Zhong Yue, let my scattered soul leave!” One of the spiritual light shouted, “Let me leave, I want to notify my people to leave the Ancestral Star. Just one, just one will be enough! At least, let the Kun Peng Celestial Race continue to live on in this world!”
Zhong Yue’s heart suddenly throbbed, he sighed and one of the many spiritual lights were left to escape freely. It flashed toward the territory of the Kun Peng Celestial Race.
I need to go back, to return and tell my descendants to leave the Ancestral Star, they must go to Kun Lun…
Lord Kun’s scattered soul dashed out as fast as it could toward the Kun Peng altar. However, as his spirit was now shattered apart, this scattered soul of his was disintegrating at a great speed, he could die anytime now.
I must persist, I cannot die yet, I have to return and tell them to leave… my dear people, wait for me to return…
Faraway above the ocean, the Kun Peng altar was in sight, the Kun Peng experts were worshipping in the midst of the blood rain, it was the only thing that kept him alive now.
Finally, Lord Kun’s scattered soul managed to alight down on the altar, he shouted immediately, “My people, leave to the Kun Lun Realm, go now! Go to Kun Lun!!”
With that, his scattered soul disintegrated into the purest form of energy before disappearing to the wind.