Chapter 1631: The Struggle of a Cornered Animal

“Puny ants! You know not what you’re dealing with!”

Enraged, King Taishan caused the Bronze Like Tree on the mountaintop to shake slightly. Its melodious sounds immediately grew much louder, stirring up the profound threads of the Heavenly Way and conjuring divine lightning of supreme yin. At the same time, its dark yet clear light became much stronger and created an image of the Nether. It manifested the eighteen hells and the Six Paths as well.

As angry and shocked as King Taishan was, he knew full well that his true body was still asleep, and he had exhausted most of its strength. He was absolutely no match for the Chief Libationist and his allies right now.

Therefore, his only course of action right now was to mount a retreat.

Run away, to put it bluntly.

There would be wood to burn so long as the green hills last, right[1]?

Besides that, this was the Yellow Spring and his domain. He did not think his enemies would be able to find him if he managed to escape to the Yellow Spring.

He had the advantage here.

The next moment, King Taishan and the mountain both suddenly turned into mustard seeds and disappeared just like that.

Buzz...

Unfortunately for King Taishan, a sudden, loud rumble later, he was kicked out of the void by a blast of golden light, purple qi, and dark yellow. It almost looked like he ran head first into a wall of steel and was bounced back as a result.

“Dammit!” King Taishan cursed darkly. He already noticed that this area was sealed, but he thought that his escape art was sublime enough to ignore all arts and the laws of spacetime. Too bad for him, reality was ever the cruel mistress.

The next moment, King Taishan pressed his fingers together and thrust out like he was wielding a sword. It was a sword that split Primal Chaos and created the Nether. Hence, it was named the Nether Creation Art.

If finesse couldn’t work, then he would use brute force. He would slice the restriction open.

Thang!

However, a bell rang, and a bronze bell manifested. Thick and meandering rivers, mountains and lands blocked all of King Taishan’s sword qi like a reef that broke the waves with ease.

So what if you were a flood? Could you overcome my thick, dark yellow earth?

“Earthly Sovereign Bell...!” King Taishan was so furious his eyes nearly fell out of his eyesockets. Still, he did not try to attack the restriction again. He had fought against the Earthly Sovereign many times in the past, so he was extremely familiar with its potency. In terms of offensive prowess, the Earthly Sovereign Bell was no match for the Clear Sky Mirror and the Xuanyuan Sword as a matter of course. But in terms of defensive prowess, the Earthly Sovereign Bell was easily the greatest of them all. Therefore, he knew that it was unrealistic to think that he could immediately breach the restriction it created at his current strength.

Knowing this, he knew that there was no point in wasting his energy.

Next, King Taishan’s silhouette slowly turned into nothing. He was returning to supreme yin and hiding himself in the Nether. This was the Supreme Yin Concealment Art. It allowed him to hide in the nine heavens or the Nether and become nigh undetectable.

If running away was temporarily impossible, then he should hide first and seek out an opportunity later.

The next moment, a sun appeared in the sky and illuminated it all. King Taishan was no exception. Despite his art, the golden light had exposed him completely and left him with no place to hide.

“The Clear Sky Mirror?!”

King Taishan’s pupils contracted into pins as he stared at the sun in the sky. In his eyes, it wasn’t a sun that was shining down on him. It was a mirror emitting what felt like boundless divine light. It was none other than the Clear sky Mirror.

Besides supreme offensive prowess, the Clear Sky Mirror could also illuminate the nine firmaments and expose the Nether in its entirety. Anyone who was locked on by the Clear Sky Mirror could not hide no matter where they went. Not in the Three Realms, the Five Phases, the heavens, or even the Yellow Spring.

“The Xuanyuan Sword...” If the Earthly Sovereign Bell and the Clear Sky Mirror were here, could the Xuanyuan Sword be far behind? Alarm bells suddenly blared in King Taishan’s head.

Shiing!

The thought hadn’t even fully passed through his mind when he heard the ringing of a sword.

It was loud and powerful like a dragon’s roar. The next moment, a sea of purple qi came from the east and poured on top of him like a river of stars.

“Hmph!”

A muffled grunt escaped King Taishan’s throat as he was thrown back. The sea of purple qi was also sword intent and the fate of the Human Way. Naturally, it did much damage to him.

Rumble!

It was at this moment the eighteen hells and Six Paths created by the Bronze Like Tree had finally been ripped apart by the human Sages.

Now, there was nothing left standing between King Taishan and them.

“Hahaha!!! Just be a good dog and die already, King Taishan! Thunder!”

The Old Heavenly Master made a tugging motion, and it was as if he was pulling over a pool of lightning. Thick, golden purple swathes of lightning immediately poured down from above. They seemed violent enough to destroy heaven and earth.

The lightning was no ordinary lightning. It was called the Purple Firmament Divine Lightning. It was one of the most potent and yang lightning in the world, and it was most effective against yin Strangers and evils.

“Do you ants really think I am easy?!”

King Taishan roared and clenched his fingers like he was clutching a seal. He cried, “By order of King Taishan, disperse!”

It was as if his words were law. When King Taishan’s fingers made contact with the air, an invisible power washed out and scattered the waterfall of Purple Firmament Divine Lightning instantly.

“Amitabha. You should lay down the butcher's knife and become dead[2], benefactor!”

However, King Taishan wasn’t fighting the Old Heavenly Master alone. He was fighting everyone.

The Dragon Subjugating Zen Master thrust his palms forward, and Buddha palms surrounded by nine dragons covered the entire sky. It was the Golden Dragon Buddha Hand.

Long-browed Divine Monk’s white eyebrows swam around like dragons and weaved interlocking patterns in an attempt to bind King Taishan. It was the Demon Bind.

Princess Royal Furi was holding a sun while the true fire of the sun burned around her. It was the Sun Carrying Divine Hand.

A kingdom of god appeared out of Divnie Master Cang Xu’s forehead, and countless gods and demons sprung into existence. It was the Kingdom of Gods and Demons.

Xiahou Zun gripped his saber and swung nine times in a row. Sun and moon grew lightless, and heaven and earth fell dim. It was the Nine Blades That Melt The Sun.

Yue Hanhai manifested a true body over hundreds of meters tall and surrounded himself in overwhelming quantities of Profound Yellow Qi. He threw punch after punch that seemed powerful enough to shake the sun and moon. It was the Sun Shaking Fist.

......

Everyone had gone all out and used their ultimate technique or Magia right from the get go.

King Taishan was instantly engulfed by the attacks.

At first, King Taishan could just barely defend himself[3]. However, two fists had trouble fighting four hands, not to mention that he wasn’t fighting four hands. He was fighting so, so, so many pairs of hands.

Even if he wasn’t injured, he would have run as far as his legs could carry upon seeing this group, much less now.

Naturally, King Taishan’s wisp of divine intent[4] only lasted a moment before it was slain by the human Sages.

The mountain tried to run away at the same time King Taishan’s divine intent was slain, but the Chief Libationist had anticipated this. He immediately made a grab for the mountain.

Unless he was sorely mistaken, King Taishan’s true body was hidden in the mountain.

The mountain was the size of a mustard seed when it entered the Chief Libationist’s hand. Then, it suddenly swelled at an unbelievable rate.

Even the Chief Libationist was caught off guard by the sudden change.

“You’re not the only one who can transform!” However, the Chief Libationist reacted immediately by growing bigger himself.

For every inch the mountain grew, the Chief Libationist grew just as much. No matter how big the mountain grew, it could never escape the Chief Libationist’s palm.

“Shatter!” The next moment, the Chief Libationist clenched his fingers at the same time endless rays of divine light shone out of his palm. It looked like he would crush the mountain between his fingers.

Crack crack crack...

As the Chief Libationist clenched his fingers, the mountains began cracking everywhere, and countless rocks and soil tumbled off its surface.

“You have gone too far!” It was at this moment a dignified and indifferent voice boomed from the mountain.

𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

The next moment, the mountain exploded on its own, and a giant wearing dark-colored imperial robe appeared before the group.

The man’s eyes were tightly shut and not breathing. He looked like a corpse. However, the air of Dao of supreme yin surrounded the man, and he was shining so bright he appeared to be divine and inviolable.

Clearly, the giant was King Taishan’s true body.

The next moment, King Taishan’s eyelids swung open.

1. Meaning that there’s life there’s hope. ☜

2. This line is funny because the original line is, “Lay down the butcher’s knife and become a Buddha on the spot. ☜

3. Just to show you how stupidly strong he is, he’s fighting dozens of the strongest Sages of humanity in a domain that debuffs him and buffs his enemies while only having less than 20% MP or something, and still he doesn’t die immediately. He’s an ancient one alright. ☜

4. Omg it’s not even his true body I just remembered LOL. ☜