Chapter 76: Opening A Heavenly Eye |
“Why did you have to kill Bai Su?”
Gu Changqing fixed his gaze on the Golden Crow Great Emperor before him.
This was the big question in his heart.
The little fox’s fate was already tragic enough and it had been so difficult for her to break that bloodline curse. Why couldn’t he just let her live on?
Just because the Qingqiu line used to be the imperial family of the Demon Race, he had to kill her?
The Golden Crow Great Emperor stood with his hands folded behind his back as he smiled faintly. He did not answer the question and asked a question instead, “Do you know the secret of the Qingqiu spirit foxes?”
He didn’t wait for an answer and went on, “The world only knows that the Qingqiu Nine-tailed Spirit Fox is born to be a king. They aren’t just born powerful creatures, but they’re extremely talented in cultivation. They are able to gather the essence of the world’s qi together and possess looks that can make the entire universe fall in love with them.”
“But the world doesn’t know that the blood of the Qingqiu Nine-tailed Spirit Fox is a shortcut to becoming Great Emperor and attaining immortality.”
“I didn’t want to kill them all either. But that old Emperor Bai would rather self-detonate than to let me have his blood.”
“But I’m still kind enough to leave her skeleton in one good piece.”
Gu Changqing’s gaze turned extremely icy. “So, that’s why you refused to let her off?”
The Golden Crow Great Emperor smiled faintly and shrugged as he asked, “That’s not good enough a reason?”
Gu Changqing was silent.
His heart felt like it had been torn to shreds. “Today, I shall wipe out the existence of all three-legged golden crows in this world.”
“You think you can?” The Golden Crow Great Emperor chuckled. “You’re not good enough.”
Suddenly, thousands of purple lightning appeared around Gu Changqing with a loud howl. They immediately flew toward the Golden Crow Great Emperor as a purple lightning dragon.
The lightning dragon amassed terrifying might and unparalleled momentum. It was as if the will of the Heavenly Dao had appeared and was able to smite everything in its way!
A slight look of surprise flashed in the Golden Crow Great Emperor’s eyes.
“Your methods are rather special…” he murmured to himself as he raised his palm. A fire dragon measuring 10,000 meters wide leaped out of it.
These were not ordinary flames, but true flames from the sun that could turn anything it touched to ashes. It was blazing, strong and had a ferocity beyond compare.
…
“That’s really powerful!”
Outside the mirror, the cultivators were taken aback.
Even the many Great Emperors that had gathered couldn’t help but raise their eyebrows a little.
They were surprised by how terrifying Gu Changqing was, but they were also shocked at how terrifying the Golden Crow Great Emperor was.
That purple lightning dragon was something they had seen Gu Changqing conjure up before, but after reaching Quasi-Emperor, this move of his had clearly leveled up too.
But the flames that the Golden Crow Great Emperor had summoned made several cultivators very excited.
“Legend has it that the true flames of the sun is a secret technique of the Golden Crows. After they were annihilated, nobody has ever seen this technique being used again.”
“I didn’t expect to be able to see it today,” commented some of the cultivators present.
But none of the Great Emperors present said a single word.
Because regardless of whether it was Gu Changqing or the Golden Crow Great Emperor, the might they displayed during this battle was something that flabbergasted them.
“A Quasi-Emperor could actually be this terrifying?”
“That’s how powerful an ancient Great Emperor used to be?”
Even though the Great Emperors did not utter a word, thoughts like that echoed repeatedly in their minds.
…
Kaboom!
Crack after crack appeared in spacetime from the impact of the two men’s attacks, then shattered completely.
This patch of spacetime turned into hell in mere seconds. The fight between lightning and divine fire caused deafening explosions to ring non-stop.
It was as though volcanoes were erupting simultaneously. The sheer power displayed was incomparable.
The vast imperial might that covered the sky rushed toward the human world. In that moment, unknown numbers of space and time were turned into nothing but powder.
Everything, both those with form and those without, were burned up.
The river of time in some spaces were destroyed in an instant.
The universe was like an obedient little kitten as it sat unmoving while the destructive chaos created by the battle between these two reduced it to nothing.
Several minutes later, everything was destroyed.
The two men stood proudly in the midst of the destructive chaos, their expressions different as they examined their opponent.
Gu Changqing was expressionless.
But the Golden Crow Great Emperor looked a little shocked.
That’s right. Shocked.
He clearly had not expected that someone whom he should have been able to quash like an ant would be able to deflect his divine flames.
“This is bloody ridiculous,” cursed the Golden Crow Great Emperor under his breath before summoning yet another long flag filled with demonic qi.
It was a move from nowhere.
The innumerable demonic qi turned into countless demons brimming with murderous qi. They let out ear-piercing screeches and howls as they rushed at Gu Changqing.
Ring!
Gu Changqing shook the Heaven Burying Bell, creating soundwaves that filled the sky.
It was as though he was the creator of the universe who only needed one hand to suppress all of these murderous demons!
“Time to die!”
Despite his attempts at attacking this mere Quasi-Emperor, Gu Changqing had blocked them again and again. This made the Golden Crow Great Emperor start to get really angry.
He let out a mighty roar and rushed at Gu Changqing suddenly.
Gu Changqing tore open the wall of spacetime with his bare hands. He did not try to dodge the attack by a Great Emperor and met it head on.
The battle between the two made Dao laws move like gigantic waves, collapsing the long river of time. The terrifying might unleashed destroyed everything and leveled everything.
One was a demon king that was surrounded by divine flames, one who had worked hard to become a Great Emperor, to become someone unstoppable for millennia.
The other one was an undefeated Quasi-Emperor attacking another who was a whole realm above himself. He was surrounded by Dao laws and was like the will of heaven itself.
As the battle wore on, the will to fight only grew stronger within Gu Changqing. He displayed secret technique after secret technique of Heavenly Dao and all of them were very different from each other.
But on the other side, the longer the Golden Crow Great Emperor fought, the more terrified he became.
He was initially disdainful of this young man, but now, he realized that this supposedly ant at Quasi-Emperor seemed to be just as powerful as himself.
He even sensed that he was slowly but surely losing. He was finding it hard to hold up.
What a terrible disgrace that would be!!
ROAR!
The Golden Crow Great Emperor let out a long howl as he burned up the void.
In that instant, his body expanded to become a terrifyingly gigantic golden crow.
This golden crow had three legs and was covered in flames. These true flames of the sun burned up space and time, turning paths into ashes.
The world knew that the true flames of the sun were terrifying, but few knew that this creature had been able to become the demon king because of his golden crow body, and not the true flames of the sun.
A Nine-tailed Spirit Fox might have been very powerful already.
But even when the late Emperor Bai was still alive, he had no choice but to run away helplessly when faced with this golden crow.
Squawk!
The three-legged golden crow let out a nasty howl as it spread its wings that were wide enough to blot out the sun.
In that moment, divine flames flowed from those wings, burning mountains and evaporating seas. Every hill and rive within ten thousand miles were burned.
The three long, sharp claws of its legs stretched toward Gu Changqing, as though ready to tear Gu Changqing apart just like that.
But to the Golden Crow Great Emperor’s surprise, despite his attack, this seemingly small human did not dodge or hide from him.
The next moment.
A heavenly eye with unparalleled will actually appeared on Gu Changqing’s forehead.