Chapter 1375: The Wise Man Appears as the Fool? (III)

The longsword flashed through the air and time stuttered, suppressing the Red Moon exalted emperor’s second replica.

“How dare you!!” howled the second replica. “You court death! How dare ants kill an exalted emperor’s replica?!”

KABOOM!

The massive scarlet shadow exploded and a vast quantity of Red Moon power streamed in all directions.

“Since you dare kill an exalted emperor’s replica, then this emperor will transform this world into Red Moon territory!” snarled the Red Moon exalted emperor. Infinite energy churned through the world, seeking to envelop it and turn it into a land shrouded by Red Moon influence.

Li Hao frowned, preparing to make another move. Instead, a river of chaos appeared and surrounded the world. Endless Red Moon power was devoured and innumerable thunder tribulations boomed in the air!

Each tendril of Red Moon power was promptly obliterated by bolt after thunderbolt!

Li Hao himself vanished after a quirk of his eyebrows; he reappeared in the river. The Moon God didn’t involve herself. Instead, she glowered at the queen and sent the massive moon into free fall, bearing down on the queen!

The woman wasn’t useful anymore! All she did was wreck their plans again and again! The Moon God wouldn’t be in these straits otherwise if it wasn’t for this dolt running amok through everything.

𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Her half of the moon’s primary body wouldn’t be wasted on the Red Moon exalted emperor’s second replica, it would be used to deal significant damage to Li Hao instead!

And from Li Hao’s perspective, if it wasn’t for the queen’s meddling that resulted in a second exalted emperor’s replica, he might’ve been able to trace that half of the moon back to the Moon God’s primary body and kill her!

Now everyone had gone out on a limb and gained nothing for their trouble.

The queen suddenly perceived unheralded danger and general disdain from all directions. She flew into a rage as well!

You guys are the ones who view me as a pawn! Are you really going to treat me as a pawn for the rest of my life?! Assholes!

Seeing as the moon was about to crush her, it was clear that the Moon God also felt that her use had expired. In fact, permitting the queen to live would be fostering more trouble.

“Do you guys... really think I don’t understand anything?!” shouted the queen. She howled with a tragic air, “All faith in the world is to congregate upon me! Disciples of Divine Nation, immolate yourselves and offer up your lives!”

Innumerable people suddenly took to the air in the west, heads bowed and hands raised in reverent prayer. Flames spontaneously ignited over their bodies as they murmured, “The Sky God descends upon the world. I offer up my body to illuminate the world. I burn my body to bring the god to the world!”

An enormous amount of faith exploded from Divine Nation and was set on fire. Domineering force surged into the queen’s body.

“This queen has ruled over Divine Nation until present day,” sniffed the woman. “Do you guys really think it’s yours?”

She’d been grievously injured moments before, but now spontaneously recovered. Her presence also increased commandingly.

Close by, Li Hao looked at her with surprise and puzzlement.

How... interesting!

The queen had kept an ace up her sleeve all this time. His head started aching again.

“What do we do now?” Hong Yitang’s voice rang in his ear. “She’s suddenly set all of Divine Nation’s faith on fire. If Hongxiu really is the Moon God’s replica... won’t that leave her with no power of faith?”

“......” Li Hao found himself speechless at the question.

How am I supposed to know??

My plan was perfect, but out hops the queen and the trouble that comes with her. She wants to jump off the chessboard as well. She played her hand and put down a spread that neither I nor Li Daoheng anticipated.

Who would’ve thought that the commonly regarded foolish queen would keep something in her back pocket, that she could continue to command Divine Nation’s faith?

Everyone had thought that Divine Nation’s faith had long collapsed after multiple defeats in battle and being conquered by Li Hao. Yet somehow, there were troops of deathsworn left who were still willing to follow the woman. How could anyone have believed that?

The queen’s presence built dramatically and her scepter manifested. A large sun materialized over her head!

“Hmph!” she snorted. “I am the Sky God! What is a moon worth when the sun is here??”

Bam!

An insurmountable presence blasted out of the queen and ripped through the world. When the giant moon was sent flying, the scepter slammed right into it!

Li Hao didn’t say a word, yet the river of chaos encircled the world all the same. It suppressed the endless Red Moon power and devoured it all.

The Moon God was caught off guard by the counterattack and could only watch as her primary body was smashed into pieces. The queen had fatally connected with one hit, pulverizing half of the moon.

Just as Li Hao wondered how he might respond to the situation, the queen suddenly dispersed as a ray of sunlight.

“Li Hao, this queen will execute those traitors! I leave this one to you!” She’d learn to run away!

The queen rushed the god of prophecy and others in the distance. This was who she meant by traitors. In reality, these divine spirits were with the Moon God, so they weren’t truly traitors.

Li Hao smiled as he hovered in the sky. Although the plan had changed somewhat, the Moon God’s primary body had been heavily damaged by the queen. She was stuck here for the moment, which meant that the young man could do as he wished.

Emotion finally marked the Moon God’s remote expression as she muttered with fury and irritation, “You bitch!”

She could no longer contain herself. She had bequeathed everything that the second generation possessed. But today, the second generation bit the hand that fed it. She’d consumed all of Divine Nation’s faith in the blink of an eye! Had the Moon God known that this would happen, she would’ve killed her a long time ago!

Up ahead, the queen first set course for the god of prophecy.

“Did you foresee this, Prophet?!” she sneered. The scepter swung down, delivering annihilation!

The god of prophecy smiled wryly. The queen was synonymous with failure in everyone’s eyes. She was the emblem of stupidity. Who would’ve thought that she’d been setting up arrangements in the shadows?

She spoke of Hongxiu manipulating Divine Nation, but she herself had been quite busy as well. Where else would all of these believers come from after Divine Nation had been conquered and the people’s faith collapsed? She’d certainly employed a great number of tactics to ensure this outcome.

That was how several hundred thousand followers had sacrificed themselves without a single thought to benefit her.

This was yet another ruthless character!

Unbounded power roiled when the scepter descended; the other divine spirits paled with horror. They quickly convened together for defense, but this was when the heavenly will churned through the sky!

It flooded the sun over the queen’s head, enhancing her once more. The scepter seemed able to demolish all things in the world!

The god of prophecy jerked with alarm when the queen completed her swing. He had a bad premonition of what was to come.

BAM!

The scepter obliterated him. Heaven and earth shifted around the remaining divine spirits, depositing them right in front of the queen so that her scepter could eradicate them as well!

Li Hao happened to be completing his slash, drawing a pained grunt from the Moon God. He paused with surprise when he tilted his head. “The heavenly will... is on

you?”

You hid that well!

When had the queen claimed the heavenly will?

Far away, the queen completed her execution of the divine spirits with several swings of her scepter. She growled when she saw that Li Hao was looking at her. “Are you going to let that bitch go? Kill her!”

As for the heavenly will being on her... wasn’t that perfectly logical?

Li Hao did not want this era, the Great Li king had an exalted emperor’s replica by his side, and while the entire world thought she was stupid... she had been born from the heavenly will.

The queen had become the best tool to capture the heavenly will with after Ying Hongyue’s death—she was most attuned to it to begin with. Therefore, what was so astonishing about the heavenly will coming to her?

The queen was similar to Li Hao in that both were born from the needs of the world. Li Hao had seized heavenly favor from her after multiple victories, but then drawn heaven’s wrath when he relinquished the world. Who in the land now was more suited for the heavenly will other than the queen?

Her presence continued to climb, rivaling any peak she’d ever reached. What she chose to do with her newfound strength, however, was to detonate the moon, immolate faith, and break free of everyone’s control!

Li Hao was yet to set up his arrangements, whereas the queen was one step ahead and made use of this opportunity to execute her plan!

The divine spirits were dead after a few swings from the scepter. The queen looked up at the void, at the man with a sword on his back. “You’re utterly delusional if you desire to control this queen! After all your schemes and plotting against each other, I broke free instead!”

Those in the immaterial dao universe looked at each other and started laughing.

“Now this is interesting,” sighed Zheng Yu. “Li Daoheng, it looks like our plans have not withstood the test of reality!”

Li Hao hadn’t made a move yet, but the queen was done with everything she wanted to do. She was free of the moon’s control and had destroyed its replica. A crucial point was that she’d borrowed Red Moon power to do so.

It would appear... that the queen wasn’t actually dumb. Her buffoonery was just an act.

She knew that everyone else on the scene wouldn’t let the two replicas come together, so made use of the opportunity to assure mutual destruction for the moon’s primary body and Red Moon exalted emperor replica instead.

And she’d succeeded! Otherwise, it wouldn’t be so easy to win her freedom.

It was clear to see that the queen had also captured the heavenly will early on. Perhaps it’d always been with her. The ninth prince was just its puppet.

She was the only one that the heavenly will had chosen.

......

Li Hao started laughing, not angry at the situation, but felt that he’d suddenly been pecked blind by the goose that he’d always been hunting.

I’ve seriously made a severe oversight!