Forty Millenniums of Cultivation, page 39
Li Yao raised his head and glanced above. Small Ji’s pair of eyes lacked consciousness. It spiraled chaotically in the air. Everytime thunder rang out, Small Ji would violently shake and emit “Tszz Tszz” sounds.
Small Ji clearly lost control of its body.
“Damn it! Let alone the cultivators, even the protective gel won’t be spat out. And even if Small Ji could spit out the protective gel, it may not be enough to resist such a ferocious mutant Fiend Beast!”
Li Yao’s expression changed incomparably ugly in an instant.
“*ROAR!”
At this moment, the large-eyed ape howled towards the sky and tore a translucent arcane glyph with its claws!
A clear crack appeared in the electric net and the ape took the opportunity to take a large step through.
“Not good. The Defensive Glyph Array can’t hold it back completely. It can come slaughtering through at any moment!”
Zheng Dongming tottered as he stood up. He glared unwaveringly at the large-eyed ape. He spoke tensely, “Li Yao, I know that you’ve risen like a meteor. You must have had some sort of lucky encounter, so if you have any sort of hidden cards in the depths of your drawer, or if you have a god-like skill that you can use to transform yourself in a flash to increase your combat strength by ten fold and so on… Hurry up and use it! This is a critical moment, Fellow Student Li Yao! This is not the time for you to play as a pig to eat a tiger!”
Li Yao was dumbstruck and was silent for a moment before he coldly said, “I’m terribly sorry. This is already my most powerful state.”
“What? You can’t even transform?”
Zheng Dongming looked at Li Yao with utter disdain. He spoke through gritted teeth, “Fine. Then, only I’ll pull out my finisher!”
Li Yao barely held back from ferociously hitting this fellow in the head. “Since you have a finishing move, why don’t you use it earlier? What are you speaking so much rubbish for!”
Zheng Dongming’s expression turned utterly pained in an instant. His expression was utterly depressed. Through gritted teeth, he spoke, “What do you know? This is my ultimate killing move. It uses the spiritual energy of my lifeblood. It consumes the maximum out of my body when I use it. I would need three months to recover! To endure three months without debauchery!”
“Three months! A whole three months without touching a girl! Damned Demon Beast! I’ll dismember you to ten-thousand pieces and smash you to paste!”
Zheng Dongming’s expression turned incomparably malevolent in an instant. The fiery aura around his body expanded crazed, turning even more wild than that of the large-eyed ape.
He opened his arms and countless blood-red energies fiercely shot out of his pores. They formed over his head into a threatening blood mist.
Zheng Dongming muttered under his breath. He casted seals with his hands at lightning speed. In a flash, he casted over a hundred different hand-seals.
Where the seals were changing continuously, the blood mist above his head also underwent a bizarre transformation. From a chaotic blood mist, it gradually turned into a dragon, a tiger, a panther, a bear, an eagle, and etc. It changed between different forms of beasts of prey. Soon, it turned into a battle-armored warrior wielding a sharp blade. Finally, it became a three-headed-and-six-armed blood deity, breathing mist and blowing clouds!
Zheng Dongming was connected to this blood deity by countless blood strands. The blood mist endlessly absorbed his blood essence from his inner body. His originally rich figure was sucked into a figure as thin as a rake in a short moment. His prized dimbles faded and disappeared, and even his eye sockets became deeply caved. He looked just like a human skeleton.
At this time, the large-eyed ape tore through the final Defensive Arcane Glyph!
A “Bang!” rang in the air. The invisible wall shook and shattered, and the last bolt of electric current faded away without a trace.
The large-eyed ape howled and beat its sternum twice fiercely. It took one large step and faced directly in front of the two people!
Zheng Dongming took a deep deep, deep deep, deep deep deep deep breath.
As he breathed in, the blood deity was breathed into his body. His limbs and skull remained emaciated as before, though his skin inflated greatly like a ball inflated with air. His skin was stretched to transparency. A blood glow surged faintly underneath.
“DEMONIC BLOOD CANNON… AGHHHH!”
Zheng Dongming opened his mouth to the max. It seemed he even dislocated his lower jaw. A blood red mist shot violently from the depths of his throat and transformed into an incomparably ferocious blood pillar, smashing straight into the large-eyed ape’s sternum!
Boom!
Heaven and earth trembled! Li Yao could hear what seemed to be countless vicious beasts howling and spirits shrieking! A transparent hole had actually appeared running through the large-eyed ape’s sternum!
The blood mist possessed extremely powerful corrosive properties. It endlessly corroded the internal organs of the large-eyed ape with strange “Tszzz Tszzz” sounds, emitting an utterly putrid smell.
“Zhii! Zhii!” The large-eyed ape shrieked. It’s cherub face displayed an incomparably painful expression.
“Thump!”
With one attack of the Blood Cannon, Zheng Dongming looked to have spat out half his life force. He fell to the ground, decrepit. He lacked the strength to even get up.
And this doped up large-eyed ape with its strong vitality at the extreme peak, with a chainsword stuck in its ass, with a hole running through its sternum, and with its internal organs corroded by the blood mist, still actually staggered forward. Its long arms flailed wildly, trying to tear Zheng Dongming to shreds in vain!
Li Yao smacked his tongue inwardly. He pointed towards Zheng Dongming and shouted, “Big Bro Ape! We’ve never had grievances nor hatred with each other. The one who stabbed your asshole is him! You guys can slowly resolve things with each other. This brother will go ahead and leave first!”
He actually decided to slip away! To beat it!
“It can’t be! He can’t be this disloyal?”
Zheng Dongming was dumbstruck. He stared helplessly at Li Yao fade away into the forest with his tail between his legs. Zheng Dongming practically spat out another mouthful of blood in madness.
Out of the countless swine companions he made, Li Yao was absolutely the lowest of the bunch! Lower than a dog!
The large-eyed ape cackled with a devilish laughter. It seemed that it had long predicted Li Yao’s desperate escape. It looked down, towering over its prey, and raised its arm that was thicker than Zheng Dongming’s waist high in the air.
“Big Bro, I was wrong. Can you give me another chance?”
Zheng Dongming had a sincere expression all over his face when he saw the large-eyed ape’s cauldron-large fists. He spoke an apology out of the bottom of his heart.
The large-eyed ape sneered. Right when it wished to smash Zheng Dongming’s brain into paste with a fist, its body suddenly went rigid. An orange colored line appeared on his neck.
A flesh burning smell permeated through the air.
The orange line grew longer and longer, thicker and thicker. It crossed the entire neck of the large-eyed ape in a flash.
The large-eyed ape opened its mouth to howl, but it could not make a single sound. It’s body trembled and its huge skull fell to the ground and rolled around randomly. The strong carcass fell kneeling forward, collapsing to the ground!
Zheng Dongming gazed doubtfully behind the large-eyed ape.
Li Yao grasped a Burning Sky Battleaxe in his hands. He was still maintaining his beheading. The palms of his hands were bleeding because he used too much strength. He was drenched all over his body, as if he had just been fished out of a boiling pot of water. It was unknown if this was from rain or from sweat.
“Whew…”
Zheng Dongming let out a sigh of relief. His head was heavily smashed into the muck. He couldn’t even lift his pinky.
“Many thanks! My beloved swine friend!” the emaciated fatso had spoken sincerely.
“I did what I must. Swine friends are still friends.” Li Yao smiled bitterly. He walked slowly towards Zheng Dongming, dragging the Burning Sky Battleaxe.
“So next, you’re going to kill me right?” Zheng Dongming forced a laugh and asked calmly.
“Yep.” Li Yao sighed.
Chapter 67: The Armageddon Rebellion |
“This was precisely the reason why I didn’t want to use my transformation. As soon as I transform, everyone will take me for a Demonic Cultivator. They will absolutely want to behead and exterminate me!” Zheng Dongming let out a sigh helplessly.
“Demonic Cultivator” These two words were like traceless and invisible spirits orbiting between these two. The surrounding temperature decreased to zero in an instant!
The smiling expressions on Li Yao’s and Zheng Dongming’s face were completely frozen. A hard-like killing intent surged from the depths of their eyes.
Demonic cultivators were those who were corrupted by beyonder demons. They relinquished cultivating in spiritual energy and instead cultivated in the dark side of spiritual energy… They cultivate in “Tenebrum Energy”. They were the archnemesis of human civilization and were a hundred-fold more fearsome than the Demon Race!
Legend has it that when the Big Bang of the Universe first began, from the very initial “starting point”, endless spiritual and Tenebrum energy surged forth. Spiritual energy gradually transformed into matter, constituting the vast and boundless sea of the stars and producing the first generation of life forms — the “Pangu Race”.
The Pangu Race had an obsession to create. They split Heaven from Earth and molded three thousand Greater Thousand Worlds. They took countless scorching interstellar matter to meld planets after planets capable of housing life.
And so, human civilization has recorded the Pangu Race to be known as the “Holy Ancients”!
And on the dark side of spiritual energy was Tenebrum. Tenebrum didn’t form into matter. Large masses and masses of Tenebrum solidified into a mysterious world known as the Demonic Realm. It was a plane beyond our known universe, an alternate dimension made of pure Tenebrum.
Within the Demonic Realm, Tenebrum endlessly tore, collided, pressed, and condensed to gradually possess intelligence and evolve into Beyonder Demons!
The Beyonder Demons were a type of life-form made out of pure energy. They did not know how to create; they only knew destruction!
Their strongest obsession was to tear through the obstructing wall between the human cosmos and the Demonic Realm. To descend upon the three thousand Greater Thousand Worlds where humanity multiplied. To invade into the minds of human civilization. To corrupt the consciousness of humanity. To corrode humanity’s determination. And to cause the human race to be lost in mindless slaughter, craziness, deception, and defilement of Tenebrum. To be reduced to dreadful Demonic Cultivators!
Early on in the Ancient Cultivation Age of 40,000 years ago, before the Demon Race had even appeared, Cultivators and Demonic Cultivators were natural enemies until death.
There were even rumors that the cultivator who initially synthesized the Demon God Virus, creating the Demon Race, had actually been corrupted by Beyonder Demons long ago and had turned into a Demonic Cultivator!
And 30,000 years later when the Great Dark Age ended, when the Supreme Emperor emerged, when humanity was revived, when the Demon Race was on the verge of extinction, when the human race was about to proclaim themselves to be the rulers of the sea of the stars, it were the Beyonder Demons who engineered the “Armageddon Rebellion”, causing the world of cultivators to enter into a second civil war!
During the Armageddon Rebellion, the Star Ocean Imperium established by the Supreme Emperor collapsed in a great explosion. The links between each Greater Thousand World were severed. The raging flames of war engulfed the boundless sea of the stars once again!
Li Yao stood calmly five meters away from Zheng Dongming. His expression was as sharp as a blade. He sized up Zheng Dongming’s neck with eyes of a vulture.
Even though this fatso was weak and powerless like a sacrificial lamb to an altar, Li Yao did not dare to be the least bit careless.
His opponent was an extremely fearsome Demonic Cultivator. Who knows what sort of violent trump card he may still hold?
Zheng Dongming spoke with a bitter laugh, “So you’ve decided to take me for a Demonic Cultivator, an evil you must purge. Then why the hell did you save me just now? Wouldn’t it have been enough for the large-eyed ape to beat me to death?”
Li Yao shook his head and spoke, “You’ve misunderstood. I wasn’t saving you… I’ve heard that Demonic Cultivators are experts in close combat and quite a few of them know the demonic skill of consuming flesh and blood to restore their vitality! What if when the large-eyed ape approached you, you killed it and consumed its flesh and blood to transform further! Then I’d be screwed! I killed the ape to make sure it didn’t get close to you. I hoped to keep you in your weak and fragile state. That’s all.”
Pausing for a moment, he used his toe to draw a line in the ground and said, “Look here. I’ve maintained standing a distance of 5 meters away from you. I don’t dare to even get closer by even an inch! It’s because I fear that you might violently attack!”
As Li Yao spoke, a paragraph of information regarding the Armageddon Rebellion that he had once learned in a history course emerged from the depths of his mind.
10,000 years ago during the end of the Great Dark Age, the Demon Race’s rule over human civilization was like a candle flickering in the wind. It was definitely unstable and could go out at any time.
At this time, human civilization was rising like a raging storm with the strong appearing in great numbers.
In the southern region of the boundless sea of the stars, the Demon Race established an underground arena on the Ardent Gale Sector, a Greater Thousand World. A powerful human known as the Heaven Banisher Emperor emerged from here.
He was just a lowly Death Gladiator. He slaughtered those in his path and, in a dozen short years, became the “Battle God”. He called countless Death Gladiators to uprise and resist against the Demon Race.
Countless experts of the Demon Race were turned to pulp and transformed to ash under his giant sword and iron fists.
And in the Chaos Star Sector of the northern region of the boundless sea of the stars emerged another hero of humanity. He was known as the Star Ocean Emperor!
He started by seizing a Demon Race patrol boat and plundered around everywhere as a Star Space Pirate. Several dozen years later, he actually expanded to a human fleet composed of millions of crystal battleships. He changed from initially launching guerrilla attacks to launching grand and disciplined campaigns capable of squaring off against the Demon Race army. He defeated his enemies over and over.
And when the Heaven Banisher Emperor and the Star Ocean Emperor met for the first time, people finally knew…
That they were actually two incarnations of the same person!
Since then, the Heaven Banisher Emperor and the Star Ocean Emperor officially combined to a single entity. This entity possessed super outstanding military strategic capabilities and unparalleled combat strength. All of humanity addressed this entity as the Supreme Emperor!
Using only his own strength, the Supreme Emperor took human civilization out from the darkness and reinstated its glory. He led every powerful person to excavate the remains of countless ancient cultivator guilds. With the Ancient Cultivator Civilization as his foundation, he founded twenty Guilds of Provenance, and he split from his own soul twenty clones to rule these twenty Guilds of Provenance!
The strongest clone inherited the Supreme Emperor’s battle awareness and bloodlust. He was in charge of the guild with the strongest combat strength, the Blood God Guild. He was bestowed with the name Blood God!
And the countless slain Demon Race members preferred to call the Blood God as… Mad Armageddon!
When the Supreme Emperor established the Star Ocean Imperium, when he was busy rebuilding human civilization, the Blood God commanded the twenty guilds and the crystal battleship fleet. He ran wild and free through the boundless sea of the stars, banishing all Demon Race influence within every Greater Thousand World.
Within a dozen years, it seemed that all those of the Demon Race were banished to non-existence on each Greater Thousand World. The only thing that remained of the Demon Race was their old nest, the Myriad Demon Sector.
In order to completely vanquish the Demon Race, the Blood God assembled the cultivators possessing the strongest combat strength from the twenty Guilds of Provenance. He commanded seventy percent of the armed forces of the Star Ocean Imperium to form a matchless tyrannical expeditionary force!
The Supreme Emperor even split his immortal soul into two souls to temporarily be sent into the Blood God’s body, to increase the Blood God’s combat strength to rocketing heights, to be able to contend with the King of the Demon Race!
The epic Hundred-Million Light-year Expedition unfolded and surged forward!
Everyone believed that this would be the final war when the Expeditionary Forces went into battle. Humanity would forever end the suffering caused by the Demon Race. The Star Ocean Imperium would radiate with glory and blossom eternally for the next millions and millions of years!
No one ever foresaw that the Beyonder Demons were watching the Blood God carefully. With slaughter after slaughter, the Beyonder Demons endlessly enticed, corrupted, and corroded this Mad Armageddon!
When the war took a turn for the worst, when the Blood God suffered a serious injury from three Demon Gods, and when the Blood God was criticized from the back lines, the Mad Armageddon finally failed to guard his mind and fell to the Demonic Way. From a clone of the Emperor, the greatest of Cultivators, he fell into becoming the most dreadful Demonic Cultivator!
When the Mad Armageddon sank to become a Demonic Cultivator, he immediately led the Blood God Guild members to launch an attack on the other guilds.
