Chapter 1283: Mind Calling Divine Sovereign

“Haha! It is well known that the Night Celestial is an expert in hunting Strangers, not dueling. I do not believe that you are as strong as you pretend to be, Mad Lord.”

The crowd was still astonished by the Night Celestial’s admission of defeat when a voice flew in through the wind.

“Is that so? What should I do to convince you of my strength then?” Ye Qing asked while lifting his head.

Ye Qing discovered that he was unable to locate the speaker immediately, though he was sure that the speaker wasn’t on the Unbounded Platform. In fact, he wasn’t even in the East Radiance Mountain.

Once again, the gentle voice came from the wind. “Oh, that’s easy. You simply need to answer me when I call your name. Dare you do it?”

Ye Qing scoffed, “Why wouldn’t I dare?”

“You are bold if nothing else, Mad Lord,” said the voice before calling out, “Ye Qing!”

“I am!” Ye Qing responded.

“Ye Qing!”

“Ye Qing!”

“Ye Qing!”

The voice began resonating throughout the area. At first, it was soft and mellow like a good friend calling out Ye Qing’s name. It came and went with the wind. Later, the voice became one with the wind and carried it everywhere.

The wind blew through the mountain forests, rippling through the trees like waves. Because of this, the voice also blended into the forests, echoing between heaven and earth.

The wind blew across the mountains, blowing off countless leaves and kicking up many puffs of dust. The voice blended into the mountains, valleys and creeks, echoing seemingly forever more.

The wind blew past a peaceful lake, causing many ripples and creating many waves. The voice then blended into the waters, making the ripples, the waves, and the echoes ceaseless and unending.

The wind blew across a town, plucking the noises, the smoke, and the red dust from it. The voice then blended into the noises, and the smoke and red dust entered the people’s hearts.

......

In one moment, the voice had blended into the wind, the mountains, the rivers, and the red dust. Therefore, it wasn’t just one person who was calling out to Ye Qing anymore. It was the heavens, the earth, and even humanity.

Anything and everything was calling out to Ye Qing.

At first, Ye Qing did not feel anything. As time passed, his mind slowly trembled, his heart began to waver, and his emotions turned to irritation. He felt his mind trying to leave his body and becoming one with the voices calling out his name.

“Mountains and rivers tremble, red dust resonates, heaven and earth share a heart. This is... the Mind Calling Divine Voice!”

“Then... it must be the Mind Calling Divine Sovereign!”

“Oh no! The Mad Lord has fallen prey to his own arrogance!”

Ye Qing was the only one who felt discomfited by the voice, but the crowd could still hear the endless voices calling out his name and feel the immense power that was infused. That was why they were able to guess the voice’s identity immediately.

The man calling out to Ye Qing was the twenty-eighth warrior on the Earth Champions Ranking, the Mind Calling Divine Sovereign.

The Mind Calling Divine Sovereign practiced a martial art called the “Great Art of Mind Calling”. It was an extremely anomalous and scary art that allowed the practitioner to steal one’s mind from thousands and thousands of kilometers away with only one prerequisite: their name.

If the victim’s power was relatively ordinary, then no response from them was necessary. Merely hearing the Mind Calling Divine Sovereign’s voice was enough to lose them their mind.

If the victim was relatively strong, they would suffer minor to moderate damage when refusing to answer the Mind Calling Divine Sovereign’s call. Still, it was a far better alternative than answering his call and risking grievous injuries or death.

A long time ago, when the Mind Calling Divine Sovereign had just become a Half-Sage, he used the “Great Art of Mind Calling” to heavily injure the twenty-third warrior on the Earth Champions Ranking, Four Symbols Inferior, from thousands and thousands of kilometers away. Although he didn’t manage to kill the man, Four Symbols Inferior became so weak that he eventually disappeared from the Earth Champions Ranking. This was how deadly the Mind Calling Divine Sovereign was.

Therefore, despite being ranked below the Night Celestial, the man could definitely rival the top twenty given enough time and preparation.

One more thing. Although the Mind Calling Divine Sovereign had the word “divine” in his moniker, the way he carried himself was anything but divine. He was shameless, treacherous, and despicable.

The Mind Calling Divine Sovereign must have already done everything he needed to do to curse Ye Qing such as preparing the divine altar, sacrificing a divine token and so on, so Ye Qing was already at a severe disadvantage. As if that wasn’t enough, Ye Qing even responded to his call. This meant that Ye Qing’s defeat was cemented from the get go.

Assuming his luck was bad, he could even perish here and now.

Everyone felt sympathy and regret when they realized this.

Slowly, an image took form in the air.

The image wore yin and yang on his head and dark yellow around his body. Infinite profound light shone above his head, and countless heavenly demons swam underneath his feet. He looked both good and evil at the same time.

The image was so big that it filled up the entire sky, enigmatic and grand. The next moment, he opened his eyes—it was like the sun and moon and appeared in the sky—and wore an irritated expression on his face. The next moment, profound light spilled out of his body, and heavenly demons squirmed under his feet as he roared, “Irritating rat! Get

lost

!”

The word “lost” escaped his mouth like the thunderous strike of a divine being; the spring thunder that awakened all insects from hibernation. Everyone on the Unbounded Platform was bowled over by the sudden, impactful sound waves, and some people were even bleeding from all orifices.

The countless voices echoing throughout heaven and earth were scattered instantly. At the same time, the word “lost” rode the winds and waters toward the mountains, the rivers, the red dust, the heavens, and the earth.

At a town fifteen kilometers away from the East Radiance Mountain, a fifty years old man with half-white hair and beard was standing in front of an altar. He was wearing a heaven-bearing crown and a divine robe. Right now, the old man was waving a flag and calling out Ye Qing’s name each time.

Besides the old man, countless blank-faced, dull-eyed civilians were standing in an Eight Trigram formation surrounding the entire altar.

Every time the old man called out Ye Qing’s name, the civilians would also call out Ye Qing’s name in unison. Their voices sounded identical to the old man’s, making it feel like this entire town of people were really the old man’s doppelgangers.

The old man was none other than the Mind Calling Divine Sovereign. In order to steal Ye Qing’s mind and obtain the Earthly Sovereign Bell for himself, he had come to this town three days ago and made all the preparations he needed to set up his spell.

The altar beneath his feet was called the Mind Calling Altar. Ten meters tall and shaped like a square with eight corners, it symbolized the Four Symbols and Eight Trigrams. The altar was his bonded Strange Artifact, and he had meditated before it for three days and nights without eating, drinking, or sleeping.

The flag he was waving was called the Mind Stealing Flag, and he had written Ye Qing’s name and his life’s accomplishments using his heart’s blood. Once done, he kowtowed and sacrificed to it for forty-nine hours straight.

To ensure perfection and increase the mind stealing power of his ritual further, the Mind Calling Divine Sovereign even used a soul splitting art and took control of the twelve hundred townspeople living in this town. They had kowtowed, sacrificed, and chanted with him to the altar and flag without a single break as well.

The last time he set up such an elaborate ritual was when he was attacking Four Symbols Inferior. In fact, his preparations for Four Symbols Inferior paled in comparison to this. Back then, he had only set up a three-meter-tall altar, sacrificed to the flag for a day, and controlled a hundred or so people only.

For every three meters of height the altar, for every day the flag was sacrificed to, and for every civilian he brought into the ritual, the cost he paid increased exponentially. He was losing his true qi, his spirit, his energies, and even his lifespan.

The ritual he had set up to deal with Ye Qing was multiple times more elaborate than the one he prepared for Four Symbols Inferior, so the price he paid was several times, even a dozen times greater. Assuming his plan to kill Ye Qing went perfectly, it would still take him five or six years to recuperate completely.

The Mind Calling Divine Sovereign thought it was worth it. No price was too much when it came to the Earthly Sovereign Bell.