Ch 55: As if Taizu, Yongle Reappears
“…Yongle.” The Black Emperor’s eyes turned icy for a moment, and he immediately launched an attack.
Black Fire burst out from between his eyebrows, growing in the wind, transforming into a Black Fire Dragon that stretched across most of the sky. The dragon roared, erupting with terrifying divine might.
On the battlefield, anyone whose strength was below the Fifth Level of the Acquired Realm felt a tremor in their bodies, their minds stiffened, and they found it difficult to move. The battle situation instantly became chaotic!
Even Innate and Grandmaster experts felt a palpitation in their hearts and a sense of suffocation at this moment.
The Black Fire Dragon, wrapped in violent power, crashed into the Yongle army. A terrifying shockwave swept across, as if a tornado had been created out of thin air. The clouds in the sky were torn apart, and a large number of demon soldiers and human soldiers, whose bodies had been stiffened earlier, were blown away.
“Not good! Re-form the grand formation!” Dorgon and the demon generals joined forces to send Sun Chuanting flying, but instead of pressing the attack, they landed with horrified expressions and issued orders.
While battling Hooge and enduring sneak attacks from several demon princes, Zu DaShou also issued commands with a grim expression.
Both sides engaged in battle were the most elite soldiers of this era! Even in the midst of the chaotic battle, after receiving the order, they were still able to complete their superiors’ instructions to the letter, quickly separating and reassembling the grand formation to resist the violent power in the sky.
“This is impossible!” Sun Chuanting landed among the Qin army, personally taking charge of the formation’s core, controlling the vast war momentum. He stared at the sky in bewildered horror.
Celestial Phenomenon, and two Celestial Phenomenon at that?! He couldn’t understand!
Ever since Liu Bowen, upon the Taizu Emperor’s order, severed the dragon veins of heaven and earth, severing the descent of gods to interfere with the human world at the cost of the decline of spiritual power between heaven and earth, almost no Celestial Phenomenon Realm experts had appeared in the human world again.
The reason it was said to be “almost” was because Emperor Yongle nine hundred years ago, Emperor Ming Wuzong six hundred years ago, Wang Yangming five hundred years ago, and Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang two hundred years ago, all seemed to have broken through the limits of heaven and earth and crossed into that realm.
However, not long after their breakthroughs, they all died. And some of them died inexplicably, practically dying of old age… Not even the lifespan limit of the Celestial Phenomenon Realm, they didn’t even live to the lifespan limit of the Heaven and Earth Realm.
Moreover, Yongle died of illness during the Northern Expedition, Wuzong died without an heir, Zhang Juzheng’s family was confiscated, Qi Jiguang implicated his family, and Wang Yangming died of illness while wandering around ━ none of them died peacefully in their beds, and some even brought disaster to their families ━ therefore, this was also called a cursed realm!
To this day, the Great Ming has generals as numerous as clouds and famous ministers as plentiful as rain. Although there are not many experts at the peak of the Heaven and Earth Realm, they are definitely not few. However, let alone the appearance of the Celestial Phenomenon Realm, there is practically no one who has even touched the edge of that realm.
It’s not just that they don’t have the aptitude, it’s also that no one dares to!
How could it be now…
Moreover…
Zu DaShou, barely returning to the Guan Ning cavalry, looked dazed, “Butcher, is he really a member of Zhang Juzheng’s clan?”
Martial Ancestor True Form, Yongle Divine Art… these are all secret imperial family arts!
Although Zu DaShou had also heard that those who made great contributions could have them passed down by the imperial family, at most only a portion would be passed down.
Not to mention, that person seemed to have cultivated these two divine arts to an unimaginable extreme. These two profound truths… only the creators of these two arts, those two famous emperors, had crossed that step!
This, this, this, it’s fine if you cultivate two arts at the same time, but you’ve also cultivated them all to the realm that only those creators could reach!
Anyone who cultivates one of them to that supreme realm, being in the imperial family, would dare to call themselves the reincarnation of a Divine Emperor, but you have two… Zu DaShou said that he really couldn’t imagine it!
On the other side, Sun Chuanting was already thinking whether someone in Zhang Juzheng’s collateral clan had married the daughter of an emperor ━ this Butcher has the blood of those Great Ming Divine Emperors flowing through him.
“One Qi Transformation!” Chu Mo exhaled lightly. This one breath actually condensed a slender figure out of thin air.
He couldn’t see his face clearly. Also wrapped in abundant luck, his black hair danced wildly. A battle qi that devoured and annihilated everything like a black hole wrapped his body, containing unparalleled power.
The Battle Qi Incarnation soared into the sky, its terrifying aura shooting straight into the clouds, containing awe-inspiring power. In an instant, he touched the extreme of Qi!
And Chu Mo’s hair moved without wind, the wolf smoke of blood qi rose up, and the unimaginable blood qi in his body flowed at an unimaginable speed. The Martial Ancestor True Form was constantly shrinking, and its strength was increasing geometrically as the True Form compressed.
This strongest body, forged from the demon blood and demon blood of thousands of demons, broke through some unimaginable limit at this moment!
Qi Path, Body Path!
One Incarnation, One True Form!
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The two, simultaneously touching the extremes of the two paths of this era, unleashed a double killing blow at this moment.
“Demon Slaying Eight Strikes!”
“Mountain River Sea Domain!”
The Black Fire was torn apart by luck.
Two figures, one in front and one behind, sandwiched the Black Emperor.
Chu Mo clenched his left fist, his blood qi boiling. A plain and simple punch pushed forward, containing the terrifying force of mountains and seas collapsing, flattening and shattering everything. The Incarnation instantly unleashed eight strikes! Eight layers of attacks superimposed.
“Ah?!” The Black Emperor’s face was grim, and he only had time to raise his hand to grasp Chu Mo’s fist. His back was completely pierced and torn apart by the eight strikes! Half of his body turned into a bloody mist.
“Pfft!” Blood spilled from the corner of the Black Emperor’s mouth, but his expression didn’t change at all. But the next moment, Chu Mo’s palm pierced through his abdomen, and he clenched a bead tightly.
“…What?!” The Black Emperor’s pupils contracted, “This is the weak point lock of the Qi Observation Method? How is it possible… are you Zhu Chongba? Impossible… it’s already this era, how could anyone in this world cultivate the Luck Technique to this step!”
“I can’t let you live!” The Black Emperor’s face was ferocious, and the aura on his body actually began to increase again.
Chu Mo could feel that the Black Emperor’s life aura was rapidly declining at this moment. This was obviously a killing move similar to his Luck Technique’s ultimate sublimation. After his Luck Technique, plus his own strength, broke through tenfold, although he would be invincible in the world, he would also inevitably die after the battle!
Chu Mo didn’t have the idea of perishing together with the Black Emperor here for the time being. His expression didn’t change, and he only whispered a sentence in the Black Emperor’s ear.
“Dorgon has your backup plan hidden on him, right? Also, the demon army should be your key chess piece? If the Demonic Khan completely buries your 50,000 demon army here, kills Dorgon, and even all the other demon queen descendants, your plan should completely fall apart, right!”
The Black Emperor’s movements stiffened for a moment, and the aura that burst out of thin air froze slightly.
He roared, and black light swelled, blooming with unparalleled repulsive force, blasting Chu Mo and the Incarnation away. The Incarnation was severely injured, and it turned back into Qi in the void.
The Black Emperor only had half of his body left, panting heavily, coldly staring at Chu Mo, who was playing with a black bead.
After hesitating several times, he turned his head and glanced in the direction of the west. He actually faintly felt the terrifying demonic qi rising hundreds of miles away.
“You actually joined forces with the Demonic Khan?!” The Black Emperor’s voice was a little hoarse. His eyes carried baleful qi, but also a bit of confusion and unwillingness. He knew that this body, after being squeezed by him like this, was already doomed to die!
But even in the case of abandoning this chess piece that had been polished for so long, he still couldn’t take the person in front of him with him… The Black Emperor’s face was gloomy. He had already realized that this person would inevitably become an unimaginable enemy on the road of his plan.
After his face twisted for a moment, the Black Emperor finally decided to retreat, turning into black qi and suddenly rushing away into the distance, letting out some kind of sharp cry. This time, the loss was too great, so great that he was almost driven mad! He lost an important piece, his backup plan was revealed, but he had almost no gains.
The demon soldiers below, hearing the sharp cry, as if receiving some kind of instruction, formed a battle formation and followed the Black Emperor, fleeing in a torrent towards the distance.