Chapter 1073: Visiting the Divine Nation Again (II)

“Yeah yeah, I desecrate the gods,” Li Hao replied flippantly. “Oh yeah, is the fire god that I hacked to pieces alive again? Get him out here for a look if he is. And how about that god of misfortune? We killed him too. Is he up and about again? Don’t divine spirits have better tricks up their sleeves?”

The queen’s presence exploded once more and the scepter reappeared in her hand.

“Oi, didn’t I break that thing yesterday?” Li Hao exclaimed with surprise. “So you can rebuild it? How nice. I need a backscratcher. How about you give it to me?”

“You court death! Don’t think you can do whatever you wish just because you’ve recovered...”

“Look at you, you’re panicking! Hehe, you’re panicking!” Li Hao chortled and turned to his people behind him. “Everyone, the Moon God is panicking! She doesn’t dare set a foot outside her city! Their god of prophecy is heavily injured and on the verge of death, their goddess of life is tending to his wounds...

“Don’t worry, you’re the Moon God, an invincible entity! I’m just here to visit you and also take back what’s mine. I’m here for the corpse of the earth god that I obtained earlier. I’ll be on my merry way after you give that back to me. Gift me a few other treasures as well, I’ll show you mercy then!”

“You bastard!” raged the Moon God.

Countless people shuddered in Skystar Dynasty. Li Hao was... so bold! At the same time, they were confused. Had they fought the gods before?

Perhaps!

There’d been a disturbance in the world yesterday, but they didn’t know the particulars. Only now did they learn that two divine spirits had died and even the Moon God met her match...

The Moon God was well known through the land—even more people on the western continent were aware of this deity. This was the fabled god that’d created the world. Was it this particular one? But Li Hao was... committing sacrilege!

He’d touched her body and felt her all over!

There were even some people who were outraged by this display and wanted to kill Li Hao for it. But their emotions quickly morphed to resignation and sorrow. Their reverence for the gods shook in this moment.

Was Li Hao really that strong? He could even blaspheme against the gods!

“Warriors, the Moon God isn’t willing to give up my war spoils,” Li Hao’s voice echoed from the sky canopy. “In that case... blast her to high heaven!”

Countless cannons bristled from the warship and took aim at the magnificent city. Rumbles ensued as an endless barrage commenced!

Numerous divine spirits made their move to punch the city annihilation missiles out of order. Despite their demonstration of might to a stunned audience via the canopy screens, there were too many missiles to deal with!

Thousands of them soared past the divine spirits and landed in the city!

RUMBLE!! KABOOM!

The world shook and threatened to break asunder!

Quiet reigned beneath the heavens; life itself was shocked into incomprehension. Divine spirits were sent flying, bleeding profusely from their injuries. People saw Divine Nation’s city wobble from the explosions and threaten to plummet out of the sky!

They also saw the wrathful Moon God focus on destroying the missiles, as opposed to attacking Li Hao.

“Anyone who doesn’t obey instructions must be punished!” came the young man’s voice. “Hand over my loot, Moon God, or a handful more divine spirits will die today and the war will continue until Divine Nation is no more!”

“You are beyond conceited and ignorant!” The queen could no longer endure the humiliation.

Li Hao did not make a move. The ‘dao’ character was still inside Zhang An—he manifested an illusory blade that swung down!

The world split open and the moon shattered.

A massive wheel of lunar radiance appeared within the divine temple; another divine spirit awoke. The firmament crumbled and the earth fissured. A grunt sounded in the hall as the void cut into the newcomer.

A divine spirit hovered beneath the sky like a sun, but it was much worse for the wear given how much the void had attacked it. It set its jaw and punched out!

Boom!

The blade and fist shadow were obliterated by the same time.

“The sun god?” Zhang An identified coldly. “You’ve forced your revitalization ahead of time. Do you wish to accompany the god of prophecy in his state? The heavens place a restriction against Saints emerging in the world at present. You simply need to hand over the divine spirit corpse to prevent all of this suffering. Must you perpetuate the abuse simply for the sake of your dignity?”

“And how much longer can you hold on?” The sun god’s voice reverberated through the world.

“I think... I can outlast all of you!” Zhang An chuckled, summoning the book of dao. “You can try me if you don’t believe me. This is but a portion of my mental strength. I will not die even if this body is annihilated.

“But you guys... how many can you force awake? Apart from you and the god of prophecy, how many are at the Saint level? Each divine spirit that you compel to revive comes with a great price!”

The sun god was silent; the void cut even more fiercely into him. It was a native inhabitant of the world, but it’d brought too much strength to bear and was restricted all the same.

Much of the energy in the surroundings had been extracted. Divine Nation’s strength would not last for long. However, Zhang An was the same. There was a limit to Li Hao’s ‘dao’ character. Once the character shattered as the situation dragged on, he would be done for as well.

To be more exact, he would be reduced to an inert state after he consumed all of the energy within his body. There was no core origin energy to be found in the world of this age.

“I don’t ask for much,” Li Hao chuckled. “We’ll continue bombing you if you don’t agree!”

Rumble!

Thousands of missiles landed again. Divine spirits took action to stop the projectiles, but Li Hao grinned radiantly. He casually swung his sword around; another stroke explosively slashed through the moon in the void!

“You...” The queen took a step back and looked at Li Hao, shocked. The young man was stronger than before!

“I came yesterday just to say hello,” Li Hao sniffed. “I wanted you to withdraw of your own accord, but you insisted on harming my master. So today, I’ll topple your nation unless you can somehow revive all of your divine spirits!”

“Your arrogance knows no bounds! Do you have the ability to do so??” The queen was completely infuriated beyond speaking to Li Hao! She spat out a mouthful of blood that glistened faintly of starlight. Even more power exploded from her body, propelling her to the peak that she’d reached in yesterday’s battle!

With this level of strength, not even the current Li Hao might be able to withstand her.

But how would he go toe-to-toe against her? He just needed to maintain his confident manner! A bloody battle wasn’t his purpose today.

Seeing that the queen was in the full throes of anger and unsealed her ultimate level of strength, Li Hao sneered. “It looks like you’re as stubborn as a donkey... then don’t mind me! Where is the Battle Heaven Army?”

“Here!”

“Demonstrate the strength you had in New Martial... Self detonate and blow them to pieces!”

Everyone paused; the queen blinked with astonishment.

A few troop leaders soon appeared. Dressed in silver armor, they charged Divine Nation. The city’s defensive shield was still in place and the divine spirits were blocking the missiles from landing. The five troop leaders suddenly rushed at one of the divine spirits and exploded with a bang!

The tremendous detonation blew the divine spirit into pieces!

All parties were dumbfounded! Even the black robe shrieked, “You have betrayed New Martial as well! How is Battle Heaven willing to self-detonate for an outsider...”

This was the reason why New Martial had stood undefeated through the ages—its people weren’t afraid of death! All of them were like crazed fiends. Even regular soldiers would choose to self-detonate if they couldn’t overcome their enemies.

But that was not the case today. The commander-in-chief was Li Hao, not a New Martial powerhouse. The battle had not devolved to that state yet.

The young man laughed and reached out, retrieving a few strands of mental strength.

“I was only joking,” he said emotionally. “But I do have a lot of loyal soldiers like these. Do you want to try me, Moon God? If you want, I’ll play a game of self detonation with you. I’ve got some Immortals and even a Saint to spare!”

“This is impossible!” The queen ground her teeth. “These New Martial people didn’t have the will to fight to the death yesterday! You must be using some sort of coercion technique...”

“Have you forgotten about me?” Zhang An suddenly said. “What need is there for coercion? We are willing to fight for the Skystar Commander Office, so what of self detonation?”

The queen’s expression shifted drastically, as did the sun god’s! Even the gods were afraid once New Martial soldiers threw caution out the window and feared nothing! How could they not be?

These divine spirits had almost all died to New Martial powerhouses back in the day. Once Li Hao truly grasped the Battle Heaven Army and the city’s heavyweights were willing to fight for him... then the vanished New Martial would truly return.

The horrifying New Martial civilization!

“Three dead divine spirits is only the beginning,” Li Hao stated calmly. “There will be more if you drag this out! It might be all of you in the end!”

The queen wanted to say something, but the sun god suddenly asked in a low voice, “Will you withdraw if we give you what you want?”

“Wise are those who suit their actions to the times!” Li Hao chuckled. “The sun god is a titan of the divine spirits, alright! A woman like the Moon God... is a bit lacking in brains. Many of your powerhouses haven’t awakened yet, so I don’t really want to fight to the death with you either.

“Even if I do end up killing all of you, I would lose a lot in the process. It’s not worth the price! In my eyes, any member of my Skystar Commander Office is more valuable than you lot! But you guys think I’m weak and treat me as such!

“I wanted to persuade you to withdraw yesterday, but you ended up attacking me. How despicable!” snorted the young man. “Now I want three divine corpses. For every minute that you stall, I’ll add another!”

Li Hao looked at Zhang An. “Senior... will Divine Nation be obliterated... if a Saint self-detonates?”

Even Zhang An didn’t know if the young man was bluffing or not anymore. But since the act had gotten thus far, he said lightly, “There might be a few survivors in this place if I go that route, but they’ll all be crippled.”

“Then please give it a try, senior!”

“......”

The fuck?

Even someone as composed as Zhang An wanted to break out in curses.

Do you mean that? Is... is this a good idea? But everyone’s looking at me now, what am I supposed to say?

He believed that Li Hao didn’t truly want to cause his death. In that case... the dean’s thoughts traveled back to what he’d said to the students. A ruthless look entered his eyes!

An immense presence began to build and a broad avenue of core origin dao appeared in the void. It hurtled toward Divine Nation, the presence growing stronger as it did so!

“Give him what he wants!” the sun god quickly transmitted to the queen.

“He’s just bluffing!” she transmitted back, then angrily said aloud, “He doesn’t dare do so and wouldn’t do so! Zhang An won’t really follow through either! His grandfather is Supreme Zhang of New Martial! How would he easily go to his death?!”

She was absolutely convinced that Li Hao just wanted to scare them!

However, Zhang An’s presence was growing stronger and more unstable.