Chapter 725: Bathing the Sky with Golden Flames
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The Golden Dragon Sect and the other four factions bore the ire of the others because they had enjoyed this treatment before so many other warriors. However, since this was something Mo Wen had decided, and he was obviously on their side, no one else dared say anything at this time.
Wang Changhan was resentful deep down inside, but he could only grit his teeth and lower his head. He immediately injected inner Qi into the Four Guardians Stratagem after he healed his injuries using the Healing light.
“We must not wait. Let’s work together to kill the Peacock Beast King.” Mo Wen waved his hand and the Sacred Fire Sword turned into rows of flames that flew back to him. Then, there was a flash, and he disappeared from where he had been standing.
Far away, there was another battleground. A group of human warriors were surrounding the Peacock Beast King and attacking it.
Crash! There were various explosions from the aftershock of the battle both in the sky and on the ground. It was chaotic. Even the fish deep in the sea were affected by the shock and many died.
The Peacock Beast King’s power was much stronger than the Dragon Beast King’s. Chu Yuan and Tan Qiyue surrounded the beast and attacked it. It was highly dangerous. Furthermore, they were only holding the beast back: they had not actively attacked it. Otherwise, the situation would be much worse. Even so, one of the twenty-odd warriors who had come forth to attack the Dragon Beast King had already died in the short time the battle had been raging.
There was a flash of light. Mo Wen appeared beside Tan Qiyue who had just barely dodged an attack. Tan Qiyue was soaked in blood and one of his arms was broken. He had only engaged the beast briefly but had suffered those injuries despite his cultivation. If they did not have the Healing light, the human warriors would all have been killed already.
“You guys finally came.” Tan Qiyue’s eyes shone with delight when he saw Mo Wen, and he gave a sigh of relief. The Peacock Beast King was formidable. If the battle continued, Tan Qiyue was not sure if he would survive. There was a flash of red light as Tan Qiyue broke a top-grade Healing light. He was enveloped in the red light and his injuries were completely healed in an instant.
Up in the sky, an enormous image of a peacock appeared. It released rays of multicolored light which shot incessantly at the human warriors. Tan Qiyue had been hit by three rays of the multicolored light earlier and had been seriously injured.
Additionally, the Peacock Beast King’s seven Demonic Spiritual Treasures had turned into seven divine dragons which flew around in the air.
Chu Yuan had been a powerful force in the battle so far. He had blocked the Peacock Beast King’s five Demonic Spiritual Treasures alone. Without him, the human warriors would probably not have been able to hold the terrifying peacock back.
“You killed the Dragon Beast King.” The Peacock Beast King was shocked as it looked at Mo Wen and the others who had appeared suddenly. She had not expected the human warriors to kill the powerful Dragon Beast King in such a short space of time. How was it possible for human warriors to do it with their strength?
The Peacock Beast King had not seen how Mo Wen killed the Dragon Beast King. He had created an invisible protective screen through the Four Guardians Stratagem. It had blocked the Peacock Beast King’s perception and it had not been able to sense what was happening.
If the Peacock Beast King had known that the Dragon Beast King was about to die, it would have attempted to save the Dragon Beast King no matter what. It would be hard to say whether Chu Yuan and the others would have been able to block the furious Peacock Beast King under such circumstances.
“You all…how did you all do it?” The Peacock Beast King smiled bitterly. Its heart was filled with bitterness. It had not expected that the Dragon Beast King would die so quickly at the hands of humans and it was flustered. The humans had also expected that the Peacock Beast King would be enraged and would try to save him no matter what. The humans had killed the Dragon Beast King right in front of the Peacock Beast King. It was an embarrassment, and it was also a crisis.
Lord Horse Dragon was now trapped in the strange stratagem and the Dragon Beast King had been killed by them. It was hard to say whether the Peacock Beast King could block these humans. After all, the Dragon Beast King had died at their hands. Even though the Peacock Beast King was stronger than the Dragon Beast King, it was not by much. The crisis was palpable.
Furthermore, after killing the Dragon Beast King, the humans’ powers had increased to the next level, especially that youth holding the long spear. The cultivation that radiated from him shocked even the Peacock Beast King.
“Winner takes all. Everything is only for survival. Since the Dragon Beast King is dead, then you should go with him.” Mo Wen sighed softly. He did not have any enmity with the Beast Kings of the Fire Domain. He would not have killed them if it hadn’t been necessary for his survival. They were all doing things in spite of themselves because of the rules of this game of death. They all wanted their opponents to die.
“Hurmph. Do you think you have won? You think too highly of yourselves.” The Peacock Beast King looked at Mo Wen coldly.
“I do not know the end result. But at the very least, I can defeat you,” Mo Wen replied lightly.
“Dream on! Go on then; show me what you can do.” The Peacock Beast King shone with red light, and the illusionary peacock in the air grew more and more solid. It was an Ancestral Demon Sacred Spirit and was the supreme ancestor of the Peacock Beast King’s bloodline. In terms of combat abilities, it was definitely stronger than the Dragon Beast King because the power of the Ancient Colored Peacock Divine Beast ran through its veins.
If this had been any other time, I would want to have a fair match with you. But now…” Mo Wen shook his head. Through the Four Guardians Stratagem, he could sense that the Horse Dragon was continuing to grow in strength. It was almost about to break through the limits of the stratagem. He did not have time to fight normally with the Peacock Beast King. He had not expected the Horse Dragon to be so strong. No matter how conservative his estimates were, he had still underestimated him. He feared that he would not be able to keep him trapped for even half a minute, much less one.
Even though the process had been complicated, only about 20 seconds had passed since Mo Wen had killed the Dragon Beast King. This was why the Peacock Beast King had not expected the Dragon Beast King to die at the human warriors’ hands in such a short period of time.
There was a flash of purple light and the Cries of Hades Bell appeared in Mo Wen’s hands Then, with his Deified Soul Power as a basis, he released a mercury-like ripple through the bell. The ripple seemed slow, but it crossed through the air immediately and trapped the Peacock Beast King within.
“What power is this!” The Peacock Beast King was instinctively frightened and felt terrified for some reason. Before it could react, a wave of dizziness hit the creature and its consciousness grew hazy, like a half-asleep baby.
A multicolored flash of light glimmered in Mo Wen’s eyes. He formed a ritualistic gesture with his hands. The next moment, the four stratagem flags of the Four Guardians Stratagem shook. Then, four balls of light flew into the air and gathered to form an enormous palm. The palm appeared above the Peacock Beast King with a flash.
There was basically nothing that could block this palm. The Ancestral Demonic Sacred Spirit of the Peacock Beast King dispelled and disappeared when it encountered the palm.
The palm stretched downwards and caught the Peacock Beast King. The Peacock Beast King’s body broke down gradually the next moment. And then, like an illusion, it crumbled bit by bit.
Nangong Mingzhu and the other warriors breathed in deeply. They had not expected that Mo Wen had such a hidden skill. He had killed a terrifying mythical beast in just mere moments. Even immortal cultivators of the Primordial Soul Realm would find it hard to do this. Even though immortal cultivators in the Primordial Soul Realm had cultivation levels much higher than the Peacock Beast King, their pure power might not be much higher.
At the same time, the Four Guardians Divine Light surrounding the Horse Dragon extinguished itself and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
A wave of golden light swept across the sky and the space twisted. Heaven and earth were covered by flames. The seawater in a ten-thousand-meter radius evaporated instantly, revealing the thousand-meter deep seabed. An odd chasm appeared, causing the seawater on both sides to rise, attempting to fill up the gap. However, the water was evaporated instantly by the golden flames. The amazing sight of a ten-thousand-meter-deep gap appeared in the middle of the sea.
Mo Wen held the illusionary mountain treasure in his hand. A large illusionary mountain surrounded all the human warriors. The wave of golden flames was terrifying, and it was clearly sufficient to kill some warriors.
“How terrifying.”
Nobody had expected the Dragon Horse to be so terrifying. The Heavenly and Earth Four Spirits could not even seal it, and it had escaped in less than half a minute.
Mo Wen sighed. He finally understood why the Tower Spirit had given them so many superb-grade Healing lights. The Dragon Horse Beast King was almost invincible here. It was even more powerful than ordinary immortal cultivators in the Primordial Soul Realm. It was powerful in terms of pure strength.
Mo Wen had already known that they would not be able to trap the Dragon Horse. As such, he had withdrawn all the energy he had put into trapping it and killed the Peacock Beast King in just one move. The Peacock Beast King would never have imagined that Mo Wen was able to withdraw the power he used to trap the Dragon Horse and turn it into a deadly attack. The Dragon Horse was freed, but the Peacock Beast King died.
The Dragon Horse stood above the waves of golden flames, emanating a pure aura as it stared at the destruction across the sky and on earth. There was a trace of sadness in its eyes. Upon escaping, it had immediately sensed that its two partners were dead. It was now the only beast king left of the seven beast kings in the Fire domain.
“Perhaps I should have given up the spiritual fire,” the Dragon Horse sighed. If it had chosen to give up the spiritual fire, they would not have been trapped inside the Fighting Spirit Tower and all those things would not have happened. It had also underestimated their enemies. If the Dragon Horse had not been so indecisive and had fought with all its might to begin with, then perhaps the Dragon Beast King and Peacock Beast King would not have died. It had not wanted to cause too many deaths, and so the Dragon Horse had not put in its full effort earlier. It had hoped that the Peacock Beast King and the Dragon Beast King would be able to deal with these annoyances. However, the Dragon Horse had not expected that the human warriors could kill them in such a short amount of time. They had even managed to trap it.
The Dragon Horse knew it had underestimated these humans. Or perhaps, it could say that the arrangements made by the Tower Spirit had been underestimated. The Tower Spirit, that high and mighty existence, was not biased. The Dragon Horse only now understood that even the act of walking out of the Fighting Spirit Temple alive was not as simple as might have been imagined.
Mo Wen held the illusionary mountains. He pulled everyone back when he saw that the Dragon Horse had not attacked them immediately. A few of them headed back within the Four Guardians Light Shroud.
The terrifying capabilities of the Dragon Horse were beyond his expectations. He had to make plans, or they might all end up dying at the Dragon Horse’s hands after killing the other six beast kings.
The Dragon Horse Beast King did not stop them and only stood above them silently. It was enshrouded in circles of sacred golden flames as it thought deeply about something.
“What should we do?” Gao Hanshan’s looked at Mo Wen with a grave expression. He could see that the situation was dire.
Nangong Mingzhu lowered her head slightly and did not speak. She knew that it was almost impossible for them to defeat the Horse Dragon Beast King under such circumstances.