127: Chapter 127 The peak of the middle stage of becoming a god
To the far south of Zhongzhou, on the outskirts of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
"You want me to revert to my original form... to pull a ship for an ant like you?!"
The Ancient Demon Emperor Ancient Demon Emperor Di Qing laughed out of extreme anger. His face, covered in weathered, dark-gold dragon scales, was contorted to a terrifying degree due to extreme humiliation and rage.
He had slept for five thousand years. Back then, even the founding emperor of the Great Qian Dynasty had to politely address him as "Demon Emperor."
Now, just after waking up, he was being pointed at and called a "beast for pulling a carriage" by a human who lacked even a hint of Immortal Qi and relied solely on brute force?
"Utterly arrogant!! Today, this Emperor shall extract your Divine Soul and refine it in Nine Nether Hellfire for ten thousand years!!"
Rumble—!!!
Along with Ancient Demon Emperor Di Qing's wild roar, his terrifying cultivation at the peak of the Soul Transformation Middle Stage erupted without reservation!
The sky over the entire outskirts of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains instantly turned from day into a dark-red polar night!
This was no illusion, but rather his extreme Demonic Qi, refined over five thousand years, forcibly obscuring the sun, moon, and stars of this world!
Crack, crack, crack...
Centered on Ancient Demon Emperor Di Qing, the space within a hundred-mile radius shattered inch by inch like fragile ice.
He suddenly raised his right hand, fingers forming a claw, and slammed it down toward the top of Lin Que's head with a piercing sonic boom that tore through the firmament!
Demon Art—[Heaven-Rending Blood Dragon Claw]!
As the claw struck, a dark-red dragon claw a thousand feet long, woven entirely from materialized blood-qi and Laws, suddenly coalesced in the sky!
Revolting Laws of decay coiled around the dragon claw, and even the Void Realm was gouged with five black fissures that refused to heal!
"What terrifying pressure! Is this the true power of the Ancient Demon Emperor?!"
On the warships below, the thirty-six Old Ancestors turned pale with fright. They could clearly feel that if this claw landed on the fleet, forget the warships' defensive formations; even their army of a hundred thousand would be crushed into meat paste in an instant!
"Good timing!"
Facing this world-destroying blow, Lin Que didn't retreat a single step. Instead, an unprecedentedly violent Battle Intent ignited in his heterochromatic eyes!
He had just achieved a Breakthrough to the inner heaven and earth Soul Transformation Early Stage and was frustrated that there was no one to help him thoroughly test his true combat power!
"Today, I'm going to snap your dragon claw with my bare hands!"
Lin Que did not draw his blade.
The Blood Scripture within him surged wildly like a river at the dawn of creation!
The Demon God Body at Major Achievement was fully unleashed, and a layer of purple-gold demonic runes instantly covered his entire body.
His terrifying, pure physical strength—approaching twenty million catties—was entirely concentrated in his right fist!
There were no fancy Spells, no defensive light screens.
Lin Que bent his knees slightly. Beneath him, the Nine Nether Demonic Python let out a shrill scream as its massive head was stomped dozens of feet into the ground!
As for Lin Que himself, he transformed into a purple-gold meteor rising Heaven-Defyingly, meeting the thousand-foot blood dragon claw with a single punch!
"Break for me!!!"
Thud—!!!!!
Two forces, one massive and one tiny, collided in mid-air with a crash!
The sound produced was not an earth-shattering explosion, but a dull, terrifying thud, as if two stars had collided!
A visible ring of white shockwaves, mixed with the black turbulence of spatial fragments, swept out wildly in all directions from the center of their collision!
Several thousand-foot peaks of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains below were instantly leveled at their midsections upon contact with the shockwave!
"What?!"
In mid-air, Demon Emperor Ancient Demon Emperor Di Qing's vertical pupils, burning with rage, suddenly shrank to the size of pinpricks.
His pride and joy, the [Heaven-Rending Blood Dragon Claw] capable of instakilling a Soul Transformation Early Stage expert, felt like it had struck indestructible divine iron the moment it touched Lin Que's tiny fist!
Immediately following that.
Crack... Bang!!!
Countless cracks spread across the thousand-foot blood dragon claw, which then exploded into a sky full of blood mist under Lin Que's utterly tyrannical physical strength!
"Old man, you haven't been maintaining these claws well. Osteoporosis?"
Lin Que didn't just shatter the dragon claw with a punch; he even used the recoil to achieve a secondary acceleration that defied the Laws of physics, instantly closing the distance to Ancient Demon Emperor Di Qing!
"Seeking death!!"
Ancient Demon Emperor Di Qing had lived for five thousand years; his combat experience was incredibly rich.
Suppressing his shock, his Ancient Dragon Armor glowed brilliantly as he unleashed a heavy whip kick, sweeping toward Lin Que's waist with power enough to shatter mountains.
"Comparing melee? I started as a Body Cultivator!"
Lin Que didn't dodge at all, raising his right leg to collide head-on with Ancient Demon Emperor Di Qing!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
For the next burning of an incense stick, the entire sky became a brawling ground for two humanoid Vicious Beasts!
Fist to flesh! Laws clashing!
Lin Que wrapped the Four-Colored Exotic Fire around his fists, each strike carrying the extreme heat and cold capable of boiling seas and burning heavens; meanwhile, Ancient Demon Emperor Di Qing, relying on his five thousand years of cultivation and his Ancient Dragon Armor, counterattacked frantically.
The two fought from the heavens to the earth, and then from the ground up through the clouds!
Everywhere they went, the Void Realm collapsed and the earth split open.
"Is... is this really a Physical Body a human can possess?"
On the fleet, the Chen Family Old Ancestor and the others watched with their hearts pounding in fear.
That was the Ancient Demon Emperor!
The Yao Race was already famous for their powerful Physical Bodies, but their Lord was actually suppressing that Demon Emperor using nothing but his own body?!
Boom!
Yet another brutal collision.
Lin Que was knocked back over a hundred feet. He shook his numbed hands and took a deep breath.
Ancient Demon Emperor Di Qing, on the other hand, was even more disheveled. His supposedly indestructible Ancient Dragon Armor was covered in pitted fist marks, and several spots were even cracked by the freezing Bone Spirit Cold Fire, revealing bleeding dragon scales beneath.
"Phew... refreshing!"
Lin Que grinned. This exhilaration of fighting with his own hands and feet without relying on the System made every pore in his body cheer.
But Ancient Demon Emperor Di Qing was going mad.
"Human!! You have completely enraged this Emperor!!"
Ancient Demon Emperor Di Qing's hair was disheveled as he spat out a mouthful of golden blood mixed with organ fragments.
A peak Soul Transformation Middle Stage expert like him was being used as a punching bag by a human who had just entered the Soul Transformation Stage?!
"Since you have achieved physical sanctity, this Emperor will show you what true Ancient Laws are!!"
Ancient Demon Emperor Di Qing suddenly bit his tongue and frantically formed hand seals. An ancient aura, permeated with endless desolation and death, erupted from his body!
As soon as this aura appeared, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi within a thousand-mile radius was instantly drained!
Even the newly sprouted plants withered and turned to ash in an instant!
Ultimate Innate Domain—[Ancient Primordial Extinction World]!!!
Buzz!
A gray, terrifying light barrier, carrying the power to "strip all life and suppress all Inner Heavens and Earth," instantly enveloped Lin Que!
Within this silent gray light, Lin Que was shocked to find that his connection with the external Spiritual Qi was completely severed.
Even more terrifyingly, this gray light seeped into his body through every pore, attempting to corrode the inner heaven and earth in his Dantian and wither the world tree sapling that had just grown three leaves!
"Hahahaha!! Lin Que! In my Primordial Extinction World, no matter how strong your Physical Body is, it's useless! This is Ancient Death Qi capable of corroding the world's Origin! Your inner heaven and earth shall collapse today!!"
Ancient Demon Emperor Di Qing stood outside the Domain, laughing maniacally.
"Corrode my inner heaven and earth?"
Lin Que stood in the gray light, feeling the Death Qi that attempted to make "all things wither."
He sighed and shook his head with extreme helplessness.
"I originally wanted to have a fair fight with you, but you just had to send me experience points."
Lin Que closed his eyes, and the familiar, domineering voice in his mind arrived as expected.
"System. This old geezer wants to turn my vegetable garden into a desert. Give him a lesson on what a modern agricultural greenhouse is."
[Warning! High-dimensional Domain-level strike detected (Ancient Primordial Extinction World)!]
[Analysis: This Domain contains extremely high concentrations of 'Ancient Desolate Death Qi' and 'Origin Erosion Law'.]
[Logic reorganization initiated—'Fully Enclosed Constant Temperature Ecological Greenhouse' mode!]
[Operation 1: Intercept underlying 'Extinction and Corrosion' commands! Forcibly tamper them into 'High-Concentration Primordial Foundation Precipitation'!]
[Operation 2: Change energy direction! Reversing the Ancient Death Qi intended to destroy the World Tree into 'Top-Grade Primordial Retro Organic Fertilizer'!]
[Operation 3: Activate 'Greenhouse Effect'! Simulate an ancient environment within the host's inner heaven and earth to maximally catalyze the growth of the world tree sapling and the Demon God Body!]
"Thanks to my bro the Demon Emperor for the ancient greenhouse! Inhale!"
Boom!!!
Under Ancient Demon Emperor Di Qing's expectant gaze from the outside.
Lin Que, at the center of the gray light, did not spit blood or have his Dao foundation collapse as expected.
On the contrary!
A devouring force even more terrifying than his Domain erupted from within Lin Que!
That "Ancient Primordial Death Qi," which could make even Soul Transformation Stage old monsters turn pale, was like entering an automatic fertilizer converter upon entering Lin Que's inner heaven and earth!
The Death Qi was instantly filtered of its "extinction" toxins by the System, leaving only the purest and most heavy "Ancient Primordial Blood-Qi Origin"!
Buzz, buzz, buzz—!
Inside Lin Que's Dantian, the world tree sapling emitted a joyful vibration under the nourishment of this ancient Origin.
The trunk became thicker, and on the fourth branch, a brownish-yellow phantom leaf began to faintly coalesce!
And Lin Que's Demon God Body underwent its most violent transformation yet!
The physical barrier previously stuck near twenty million catties emitted a crisp sound like cracking porcelain under the frantic washing of this ancient blood-qi!
Crack!
[Ding! Absorption of Ancient Primordial Origin complete!]
[Demon God Body physical limit Breakthrough! Pure physical strength Breakthrough: Twenty million catties (Void-Shattering Realm)!]
[inner heaven and earth foundation thoroughly solidified; Soul Transformation Early Stage Perfect Perfection!]
"Ah... this massage pressure is just right."
Lin Que slowly opened his eyes and stretched comfortably.
"No... impossible... how could you absorb my extinction Death Qi and remain unharmed?!! What kind of monster are you?!!"
Outside the barrier, Ancient Demon Emperor Di Qing's eyes were nearly bulging out of their sockets.
He felt his entire worldview being ground into the dirt by the white-robed youth before him.
"Monster? I'm a good person who believes in returning favors."
A cold smile curled on Lin Que's lips as his right hand slowly gripped the quasi-immortal artifact - starfall on his back, which had been silent for a long time.
At this moment, Lin Que's physical strength had broken through twenty million catties!
What kind of concept was this?
This was a terrifying Realm where one could tear space like paper using pure muscle!
"I've had enough fun. Now, it's time for you to go."
Lin Que gripped the blade with both hands.
The Four-Colored Exotic Fire and the dark-silver Law of Time intertwined frantically on the blade's edge!
Even more terrifyingly, this time the blade was also covered in a layer of gray World Power belonging to Lin Que's inner heaven and earth!
"Break for me!!!"
Swish—!!!!!
There was no earth-shattering blade light, only a simple, unadorned black line that seemed capable of severing eternal Karma, flashing through the air!
"Rip!"
The supposedly absolute suppression of the [Ancient Primordial Extinction World] was like a poked soap bubble before this strike, instantly shattering into a sky full of light specks!
The blade light's momentum didn't diminish, ignoring spatial distance (starfall Blade Passive: Void Slash triggered)!
"No!!!"
Ancient Demon Emperor Di Qing only felt a deathly crisis descend that froze even his Soul.
He desperately sacrificed all his defensive Magic Treasures and even burned his essence blood in an attempt to retreat.
But it was too late.
"Puchi!"
The blade light lightly brushed across Ancient Demon Emperor Di Qing's chest.
That indestructible Ancient Dragon Armor didn't even hold for half a second before being sliced in two!
A terrifying gash deep enough to see the bone, and even the beating heart within, spanned across Ancient Demon Emperor Di Qing's chest! The Law of Time and the Four-Colored Exotic Fire surged frantically into his body through the wound!
"Aaargh!!!"
Ancient Demon Emperor Di Qing spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with internal organs. His Demonic Qi was completely shattered by this single strike, and he fell from the ten-thousand-foot heights like a kite with a broken string, crashing heavily into the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains below!
Boom!!!
A thousand-foot mountain peak was smashed to pieces by Ancient Demon Emperor Di Qing.
Amidst the billowing dust.
A massive Ancient Void Blood Dragon, over five thousand feet long and covered in dark-gold scales but riddled with wounds, was forced to reveal its true form amidst shrill screams!
He lost.
Before this human who wasn't even at the Soul Transformation Middle Stage, this Ancient Demon Emperor who had slept for five thousand years was utterly defeated.
Swish.
A breeze blew past.
Lin Que, holding his long blade, had landed on the dragon head—larger than a palace—at some unknown point.
He didn't immediately swing his blade to decapitate the Demon Emperor.
Instead, he leisurely pulled out several thick chains forged from Ten-Thousand-Year Deep Sea Profound Iron from his storage ring.
Under the stunned and shocked gazes of the hundred-thousand-strong army below and the countless Yao Beasts hiding in the mountains.
Lin Que actually, and very skillfully, looped those profound iron chains around the neck of this Ancient Void Blood Dragon.
Then, he casually tossed the other end of the chains to Su Qingyu on the flagship, who had long since been dumbfounded.
Standing on the dragon's head, Lin Que patted the dragon horns that were trembling with extreme humiliation, turned to the thirty-six Old Ancestors below, and said indifferently:
"What are you standing there for?"
"Go pick your mounts."
"If this army of a hundred thousand hasn't all become Heavy Armored Dragon Cavalry by sunrise tomorrow, you old geezers can pull the ship for me yourselves!"