Chapter 1859: Exalted Emperors Fall Like Rain (I) |
An explosion rang out in the distance. Unlimited yang qi erupted when the Human King executed the Blazing Sun master with one stroke. His presence flourished as he swallowed the drifting energy at a mad pace. He looked over at the Dragon master while he consolidated his gains.
This dragon is damned vicious! I only killed one eighth rank, but he offed two in the blink of an eye and is working on his third. Who would’ve thought that we’d have such a ruthless guy in the four regions?
The Light master was likewise shocked!
Three eighth ranks were abruptly dead. Some of Blazing Sun’s consciousness lingered next to him. It pulsed, wanting to say something, but the Light master scattered it with a punch. The dead should be quiet. Don’t say anything that might affect my mental state. I’m terrified right now!
The Human King tilted his head at the Light master’s actions; even the Dragon master couldn’t help but take a look back.
That’s… weird. He’s already dead. Won’t you let him have his last words? You’re so black-hearted! How are you the master of Light?
The Light master blinked when he realized that everyone was looking at him. He stared speechlessly back at them. I just randomly swung my first around, alright? I didn’t mean anything by it. You guys are the ones murdering everyone in this dao universe, how am I the one you guys are staring at??
As for Blazing Sun, dead is dead. Why should he say anything? There’s no point to it! I’m just sending him on his way!
“Human King, do we escue Red Moon…”
“……”
Run?
The Light master continued cursing to himself. We can fight! What are you running for??
The Dragon master looked at the Human King with a glint in his eyes. Run? Or are you trying to trick the other human seventh ranks? If that’s the case, you’re as low as they come!
“I am willing to sign a dao treaty and pledge my allegiance to the Dragon master!” shrieked the desperate Red Moon master. “Please spare me!
“If the Human King, Light, and Ash Emperor are all eighth ranks, that will raise New Martial as a whole to eighth rank. They will be enormously strengthened, whereas the Dragon master fights alone. You will need others to do your bidding. I am willing to bend the knee!” Red Moon sweated profusely.
The Dragon master took a deep look at him and chuckled softly after a while. “The dao of desire… is quite interesting. Is being afraid of death a kind of dao too?” He nodded after a moment. “You’re smart enough, so I’ll take you.
“You were the first to lose your world after offending New Martial, yet you have survived to present day. Not bad. But… why is a peak eighth rank like you so weak?”
He’d saved Red Moon for last because he’d thought the man was a peak eighth rank. But why… was he such a weak one?
Red Moon looked blankly at the chaos beast. Since when did I… become a peak eighth rank?
The Dragon master sighed. Looks like I misunderstood. What an odious human. In that case, why did you misdirect me last time?
I would’ve attacked the Human King if I’d known you weren’t a peak eighth rank. What a pity.
He’d been delayed by Red Moon!
It was annoying, but the Dragon master quickly regained his calm. In that case, Red Moon could be his cannon fodder against New Martial!
“Follow them out,” the Dragon master said to the rest of his people. “Something might have happened in Dragon Region.”
The look in his eyes chilled. Who was attempting to get up to no good in his territory?
I will reign supreme in the four regions after today! So what if the Human King ascends to eighth rank?
Red Moon was grappling with the vestiges of fear and felt quite relieved at the moment. There was nothing else he could pay attention to.
I’m… still alive. Blazing Sun is dead. Skycloud is dead. The eighth rank from the outer regions is dead. But I am alive.
Fortune smiles upon me.
Everything had changed within the four regions! The status quo that’d stood for one million years was suddenly no longer.
……
As eighth rank worlds were destroyed in quick succession.
At the same time, outside Thunder World.
The Giant Elephant master roared when Li Hao struck with the sword of a thousand worlds!
The elephant was as massive as a star at the moment. The young man was a speck of dust compared to it, but it was this speck of dust that left a bloody hole running through the ponderous body!
Blood gushed out like a fountain, a river.
The elephant struggled to regain its footing. Enormous strength flared from its head to shatter the tribulation giant targeting it. Scorch marks could be seen all over the chaos. It’d finally broken free from the chaos tribulation.
These tribulation giants were based off the number of participants in the battlefield. One was assigned to each exalted emperor. It was a very fair division.
Killing one meant that the others wouldn’t come for that exalted emperor in the short term. This was only the first round, after all.
There might be more than one.
Once a large sum of cultivators and exalted emperors were dead, that might start the second round.
Li Hao didn’t pay attention to that detail. His opponent could finally redirect its strength to Li Hao after killing the tribulation giant. It lowered its head to ram the human, threatening to spear anything in its way with its giant tusks!
It could fight, suppress, defeat, or kill whoever it chose… Those were the four different kinds of battle status it could bring to bear!
Li Hao was no weakling. Having absorbed twin dao universes, he was on par with a world master. However, killing the elephant was proving to be harder to manage than the earth dragon and two draconic powerhouses that he’d already eliminated.
Even with the elephant injured and reeling from multiple thunderbolts, and one of its feet hacked off by his sword…
The elephant could fought on!
Only now did Li Hao understand how difficult it was to kill a seventh rank world master on their own world. At the very least, they were much stronger than him.
The New Martial Human King had once done so with the master of Utmost Dark. Li Hao exhaled softly at seeing how his opponent refused to die. He was using every weapon in his arsenal, but these guys were so tough to take down!
You’re forcing me to use my trump card!
Li Hao rushed forward with his sword again. A moon appeared in the void at the same time. Almost all of the mid and low ranks in the field were dead. The high ranks were hanging on by the tips of their fingers. The moon flared with fourth rank strength!
It was a fourth rank exalted emperor!
But what use was that?
Although the elephant found the moon bizarre, there was no time to consider it further. Li Hao’s sword kept it in check too much. It was gravely wounded, so being able to hold out against the onslaught was itself a victory.
It couldn’t stop to consider the moon that’d appeared and what use it might serve. There was nothing it could do, even when knowing that the Silver Moon king wouldn’t do something for no reason.
The moon transformed into a mirage.
The elephant’s heart shook. Something was wrong. The flow of energy to its chaos dao was obstructed. It even seemed to be cut off from the dao universe!
The connection was interrupted only for a split second!
But that was enough to seal one’s doom in a clash between heavyweights. The situation had been precarious to begin with. This was a change that would completely end it. Last time the tactic was employed, the queen had almost killed an earth dragon. She was only second rank then.
She was fourth rank this time!
The effects were completely different.
And with Li Hao suppressing the giant elephant, the chaos beast could not fight back. It was a different situation from when Li Hao could not break through the earth dragon’s defenses.
The elephant immediately realized the severity of the issue!
“This moon can become part of my chaos dao and sever it!” it roared, shaking the void.
It could sense that the end of the road was nigh. The earth dragon had felt it too, which was why it’d wanted to get a message out. It’d failed to do so due.
This time, however, the other exalted emperors were nearby. They registered the warning with wide eyes!
Become part of chaos dao?
Sever a seventh rank’s dao?!
That… wasn’t possible!
The giant elephant had been able to hold its own for a while, but the next stroke that erupted with the might of a thousand worlds sliced it into two from top to bottom!
How could it stand against Li Hao’s attack when it was cut off from the energy transmission of a seventh rank? Just its physical body was not enough!
It took only a split second for the white elephant to fall!
The queen shook in her form of the moon and fell out of it. Cracks snaked through the moon. It’s been an overreach to force an interruption for a split second, but the queen smiled!
She was quite proud of herself.
Her strength hadn’t been that apparent when they killed the earth dragon, but this time, she’d interrupted a seventh rank’s chaos dao. She’d helped Li Hao kill a seventh rank and turn the tables!
I am the Sky God Ling Yue!
Boom!
The massive elephant toppled over, its dao broken and body shattered. The chaos beasts around it regarded it with horror.
The black tiger fought one against two, but it managed to slay a tribulation giant. There was another one that continued to deal severe wounds to it. It ignored that one and sent a desolate roar through the void, “Treasure Seeker, Phoenix, White Spirit…”
These were the names of the other seventh ranks.
“You guys understand!” snarled the tiger.
CLANG!
A shrill phoenix cry rang out. The Phoenix master erupted with everything she had and swept through the world, forcing the Thunder master away. She waved her wings, crushing her tribulation giant.
Although she bled profusely, she set everything out of mind and dove the queen!
The white tiger permitted itself to be struck by one of Void’s punches and utilized the momentum to set a course for the queen.
The black tiger vomited blood, but also flew in the same direction.
They needed to kill the queen and Li Hao!
That was their only goal now. Otherwise, the power of this moon could sever chaos dao. While their enemy was a very weak fourth rank, she could not be permitted any chances.
The queen was no threat to seventh ranks at the moment, but when someone like this became a seventh rank, that would be a nightmare for the chaos beasts!
It might spell their extinction!
etvolare’s Thoughts
Also started musing about casting SG in various BL or GOT dramas after seeing the results of the crossover contest...