Chapter 1822: Earthen Chickens and Clay Dogs

While Ye Qing and his group were examining the World Ender Jiuying, the World Ender Jiuying also awakened either because it sensed the presence of multiple living beings or heard the resounding bell chime. The next moment, the eighteen tightly shut eyes all opened at the same time!

Eighteen cold and cruel beams lit up at the bottom of the blue hole. They had vertical pupils that resembled icy crevices. They reflected the twisted shadows of the blue hole, but colder and utterly devoid of the temperature any living being should possess. There was only pure and ancient cruelty and malice that permeated the ages.

At the same time, a terrible pressure hit the group like an actual tidal wave. It was overflowing with poisonous wind, soul-freezing chill, corrosive acid, and life-ending deathly qi.

The lower level Sages such as Xiahou Zun and Princess Furi felt their soul freezing, their vigor coagulating, and their breathing stifling under the gaze. They felt as if they would be crushed under the gaze at any moment.

“You are not the Earthly Sovereign!”

“Why isn’t the Earthly Sovereign here?”

“Who are you?”

“What is your relation to the Earthly Sovereign?”

The nine heads spoke up at nearly the same time, and none of them shared the same voice. One voice was as low as rumbling thunder, another was as sharp as the sound of scraping bones, a third was as cold as the winds of the Nine Nethers, the fourth was seductive like a woman’s... in any case, the nine voices blended together into a chaotic yet terrible soundwave that crashed hard against their mental defenses. It felt as if the voices would rip apart and contaminate their consciousness.

Wind, hail, rain, snow, miasma... As the nine heads asked their questions, all sorts of destructive power too blended into a deadly domain of chaos and pressured the group.

Ye Qing did not move. Instead, the Earthly Sovereign Bell unleashed another clear and sonorous chime.

Thang—!

Dark yellow light abruptly blazed like a proud sun, and the destructive energies were wiped clean in an instant.

“Say... why do you Four Evils always ask the same thing? Just because you’re a group doesn’t mean you need to use the same stale opening dialogues, you know?”

Ye Qing looked at the nine ugly heads and joked with a tinge of exasperation, “Seriously. Every time, it’s variations of ‘You are not the Earthly Sovereign’ or ‘You’re not the Earthly Sovereign’ or ‘Why isn’t the Earthly Sovereign here’. I don’t know about you lot, but it gets old really quick for me, you know?”

“What do you mean?”

“Could it be... you’ve met the other Three Evils besides me?”

“The Undying Nether Phoenix?”

“The Endless Lord of Plagues?”

“Or perhaps... that old turtle?”

“What did you do... to them?”

The nine voices overlapped once more. This time though, there was obvious shock and a hint of disbelieving bloodthirst in their voices.

Ye Qing rubbed his brow. “One more thing. Can you lot speak one by one? How do you expect me to answer all of your questions at the same time ? Also you’re noisy like the uncles and aunties in the market.”

The biggest, centermost, and pitch black head of the World Ender Jiuying abruptly reached forward and declared in a low, dignified voice that overwhelmed the others’ volume, “Answer me! What have you done to the Undying Nether Phoenix, Endless Lord of Plagues, and Earthbearing Dragon Turtle?”

“We’re standing here and having a chat with you.” Ye Qing shrugged. “What do you think happened to them?”

“You... killed them?!” The nine heads shook at the same time. Even its humongous body was stirring a little and unintentionally kicking up a vicious undercurrent.

“Isn’t it obvious?” Ye Qing countered.

“Impossible!”

The nine heads roared at the same time in disbelief and rage, “Even the Earthly Sovereign, that old bastard, was unable to wipe us out completely despite all of his power! Even he could only suppress us! You, a mere ant, dares to speak of slaying the Four Evils?”

“Earthen chickens and clay dogs. You are but mere weaklings that crumble at the slightest opposition.”

Ye Qing said indifferently yet unquestionably, “They have fallen to us, and you will too.”

“The arrogance—!”

“The audacity!”

“You overestimate yourself!”

“Ants who try to topple a tree!”

“Mantises who thinks they can block a cart!”

......

The nine voices erupted in nine different tones of anger, but all of them were as explosive as thunder and infused with destructive power that shook the entire Blue Hole of Primal Chaos.

“Oh? You’re surprisingly literate!” Ye Qing actually burst out laughing at their enraged expressions. He said tauntingly, “Are you planning to compete in a palace examination?”

“You—are—courting—death!!!”

Utterly enraged, all nine heads roared like they would shatter the cosmos via volume alone and kicked up a terrible storm.

At that moment, nine different powers of destruction burst out of the nine mouths and washed toward the Sages!

The first head spat out black green wind with disgusting, smelly sweetness mixed within. It transformed into countless tiny wind blades that howled like ghosts and ripped all space to shreds!

The second head threw up a sticky, murky gray river at the group, but it was no mere water. It was unbelievably corrosive acid. Even light seemed to be melted into nothing as everything in its path sizzled ominously!

The third head spat out a dark purple poisonous flame. The fire flickered erratically but was infused with a yin poison that could burn a mind into ash. The air was filled with the suffocating stench of burning as well!

𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

The fourth head cast down a gray snowstorm with snow the size of goose feathers. Each snowflake was infused with a deathly, chilly intent that could freeze even time, much less life!

The fifth head summoned a deathly white hailstorm that could freeze space itself. Wherever the cold air blew, space rippled, cracked, and groaned as if collapsing under overwhelming pressure!

The sixth head unleashed a thick, grayish miasma that blotted out all light. The fog moved soundlessly and without leaving a trace, but it contained a destructive power that could annihilate the soul and drag everything into eternal nothingness!

The seventh head unleashed soundless, dark thunder. The thunder were as black as ink, but they contained enough power to shatter one’s consciousness to itsy bitsy pieces!

The eighth head fired black yin lightning that slithered across the air like vicious vipers. Anything they touched instantly lost all of their vitality and became lifeless!

And finally, the ninth head shot out a beam of pure black light. Not only was the light black, it consumed all light and plunged everything in its path into absolute nothingness and distortion.

As if that wasn’t enough, the nine types of powers fueled each other’s strength. The water fueled the fire, the water strengthened the cold, the miasma concealed the lightning and thunder, and the hail gave darkness a solid form.

In this hellhole where the natural laws and principles were twisted, the power of its attacks was dramatically increased. It rapidly transformed into an all-encompassing, colorful yet absolutely deadly storm of destruction that threatened to shred, melt, burn, freeze, and annihilate the group of Sages in one strike!

“You dare show off your petty tricks before us, worm?”

Despite the attack that looked like it could end the world itself, Ye Qing did not panic in the slightest. He was even wearing a faint look of scorn.

Then, Ye Qing stepped forward and held up his right hand. A light abruptly lit up at the center of his palm.

The light was only fist-sized at first, but it instantly swelled into an exquisite and complicated-looking wheel of divine fire.

The divine wheel was crimson gold in color, and the fire wreathing it was no mundane fire either. It was a pure, clean flame that seemed capable of burning all filth into nothing. It was none other than the Nan Ming Li Fire!