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A swell of power suddenly flowed into Wang Jian’s chest, as if a burst of willpower itself wanted to enter her mind and meld into it. Wang Jian immediately understood what this was. She gave up resisting and allowed this force to occupy her entire body.
Qi Lin lingered on her red lips, locked in fiery passion, exchanging saliva with her. Wang Jue, who had been in despair, practically offered no resistance. This warmth was like a light of hope that warmed her frozen organs. Then, an odd sensation slowly spread across them, and their souls tightly wound together.
Information about each other appeared.
Invested Deity Contract!
Star Name: Wang Jian
Nickname: Vermilion Bird Divine General
Rank: Undefined
True Name: Wang Jue
Innate Skill: Jian Annihilation
Attribute: Fire
Contractor: Qi Lin
Divine Rank: True Ancient Realm
Divine Weapon: Ling Guang
Divine Powers: Omitted
Karma: None
Kill Tribulations: 4
Destiny: Hundred Thousand
When a contract was signed with a Divine Name Star General, the cultivator themselves would powerful Divine Energy. The power obtained during this contract was unstoppable in Primordial World, and even the Taowu was helpless against it. Qi Lin felt this power fill his body like an ocean. He moved his Divine Intent, and this surging Divine Energy immediately rushed into the twelve chains inside the coffin.
The twelve chains were shrouded in golden Divine Energy. Qi Lin instantly sensed that these chains were unfathomable.
Although he had temporarily gained control over the Earthly Branch Chains, opening the coffin still required an understanding of their mystery.
Qi Lin sensed these Earthly Branch Chains. With his quick thinking, he immediately understood how to open the coffin. The Twelve Earthly Branches represented time, and each rattle of the chain was related to time. As an analogy, this was like the second hand of a clock, but the difference was that it calculated based on Primordial Time.
Yin Time!!
The Twelve Earthly Branches’ Chou, Mao, Si, Wei, You, and Hai1 were all categorized as Yin. If examined from an inauspicious fengshui’s perspective, then they would inevitably be full of Yin. Qi Lin found the six chains that represented Yin Time, and with a tug, the chains rattled, opening the coffin lid.
What???
The crimson Taowu eyes on the coffin lid suddenly glowed. It did not expect that these two would actually still be able to sign an Invested Deity Contract. Impossible, this couple from the very start actually was not an Invested Deity and her Emissary. Black smoke billowed out from the coffin and took shape, but it was too late to stop.
The Invested Deity Contract’s focused and powerful Divine Energy breached through the forbiddance.
Crimson light illuminated the burial hall and shone over the ground.
A crimson light rushed out from the coffin.
That crimson soared high into the air and landed on the ground.
Qi Lin carried a completely naked woman and coldly glared at the Taowu.
“Invested Deity Contract. You two were unexpectedly still unbound.” The Taowu growled. Its black smoke congealed into a body. “Even if you escaped the Taowu Coffin, this entire mausoleum is a tool in my home, where can you escape to?”
The Taowu’s black smoke covered the sky. The creature brandished its fangs and claws, conjuring an enormous black curtain.
The Earthly Branch Chains could unlock the Taowu Coffin, but they were not enough to suppress the Taowu.
“I am fine now.” Wang Jue opened her eyes. Her skin was scalding, unclear whether it was because of the contract or some other reason.
Qi Lin put her down.
Wang Jue looked at the few scraps of tattered cloth covering her and was endlessly embarrassed.
“The Twelve Earthly Branches only use Yin Time to open the coffin. There are still the six Yang Time chains that haven’t been used. They’ll be related to Yang and the hundred beasts in the burial hall. If I can also activate them, then I can trap you.”
“Then try it if you can!!” The Taowu was calm. It did not believe Qi Lin could solve the mystery of the Heavenly Stems at all.
Qi Lin looked at the guardian beasts of the tomb, which included every kind.
“I will give you a chance. Let me see how capable you are, then I will savor your despair once more.” The Taowu mocked him.
Qi Lin’s gaze swept over the hundred beasts, and he sunk into contemplation.
Wang Jian wrinkled her brow. She did not understand geomancy very much. The Shaman Clan’s Green Satchel Classic was extremely mysterious in Primordial World. Legend said this type of magic could grasp mysteries known only to Heaven, calculate everything. In Primordial World, only a small number of the best Shaman clansmen had such profound skill.
But at this moment, Qi Lin was already her only hope of escape.
“Finished thinking?” The Taowu rubbed its claws and fangs. Its opponent was too weak. It needed only a claw to easily catch him.
The Twelve Earthly Branch Chains used Yin Time. Then there were still Zi, Yin, Chen, Wu, Shen, and Qu2 for Yang Time. These chracters represented rat, tiger, dragon, horse, monkey, and dog.
Among the animals in the burial palace, Qi Lin very quickly found the other guardian beasts aside from the dragon. The Marquis Of Ten Thousand Beasts was able to subdue countless Fierce Beasts, but the only animal she was unable to subdue was the dragon because she herself was of the Immemorial Royal Family.
Shit.
If this forbiddance used Gun herself as the dragon to command all creatures, used her blood to activate the forbiddance, then he was completely unable to activate the forbiddance to handle the Taowu.
“So you noticed there is no dragon. But of course that is the case because you are not of the Immemorial Royal Family.” The Taowu laughed. Black smoke suddenly rose. “A mere cultivator thought himself able to solve the ‘stems and branches,’ what a fool you were.”
Hearing the Taowu’s words, Wang Jian bit her lip. She gripped her sword’s hil and prepared to fight to the death.
Stems and branches?
“Taowu, I really do have to thank you for the reminder.” Qi Lin’s eyes brightened. Right, he should have thought of this earlier.
“What are you saying?” The Taowu suddenly smelled a strange ease from this young man.
“In geomancy, the complete Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches represent primordial chaos, and not a single one can be missing. Since this is a forbiddance to trap the Four Perils, it cannot be missing any of them. Thus, the hundred beasts in this palace must be related to the Heavenly Stems.”
“Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, this is the forbiddance that Gun use to trap you.”
What formidable insight!
If it was not for the fact they could not see its face, the Taowu’s expression absolutely would be filled with shock. It had never heard that a barbarian cultivator would actually have such a firm understanding of geomancy. “Even if you have heard of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, do you believe you can actually control it?” The Taowu’s voice sunk like mercury, flowing in the burial palace, and the air froze in chunks.
“Heaven, Earth, Dark, and Yellow. Universe, Eternity, Primeval, and Chaos. The rules of these Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches must match Yang Stem to Yang Branch,3 so I just need to find the ones that represent Yi, Ding, Ji, Xin, and Gui.
“Die!!!”
The Taowu’s resentment turned to rage. Its immense inauspicious qi poured forth with the power to topple mountains.
“Jue!!” Qi Lin stepped back.
The two exchanged knowing glances; their minds were in perfect synchronization.
“Weight Of MOunt Tai!!”
“Jian Destroys Six Kingdoms!!”
The Weight Of Mount Tai suddenly pinned the Taowu’s attack. In a second, Wang Jian’s sword-light also was unleashed, and six rays of kingdom-destroying sword-light flew out.
“An insignificant Ten Thousand-level Destiny cannot even bother This Taowu.” The Taowu jeered.
“Who says I was using it on you?” Qi Lin smiled.
Wang Jue moved her hand. Five of the six sword-lights changed trajectories and fell towards five of the tomb guardian beasts on the ground.
“Yi wood as wind, wind takes southwest…” Qi Lin chanted. The tomb guardian beast in the southwest was a wolf.
“Ding fire as star, star takes east…” The tomb guardian beast in the east was a rhinoceros.
“Ji earth as cloud, like a marsh, it takes southeast…” In the southeast was a python.
“Xin metal as frost, it takes the west…” The west was a bear.
Lastly, a Gui water acted as spring rain. Where there was thunder, there would definitely be dragons. Watching over the Gui water and its spring rains, that which took the northeast was the storm dragon.4
The five sword-lights fell on the wolf, rhinoceros, python, bear, and storm dragon. At the same time, this activated five Heavenly Stems, causing the twelve chains to all jolt simultaneously. The Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches combined, and an immense power covered the Taowu Coffin’s surroundings, forming a cage that trapped the Taowu.5
“Ah, impossible, impossible, why can you control the Heavenly Stems Earthly Branches Yin Ending Array!!!” The Taowu howled and slammed its body against the cage. Twelve chains flew out from midair and pierced its body.
“Let’s go!”
Qi Lin yelled. Without another thought, he and Wang Jian burst through the gate and escaped towards the outside of the mausoleum. This Peril was honestly too powerful, and he did not dare ascertain how long his control could last. Like the beast said, only when he left the mausoleum’s structure could they be considered safe.
“Hm?” Qi Lin noticed Shang Yangjun collapsed unconscious to the side of a passage.
The girl’s cultivation was too weak, so she was knocked out by the Taowu’s evil qi. The Taowu was completely uninterested in this type of Qi Refinement cultivator and was so disinclined to even kill her. Qi Lin placed Shang Yangjun over his shoulders, and he used all his strength to run outside.
“You have infuriated me, you have enraged me, I will not let you escape. You will stay in this place with me forever!! I will torment you day and night, up until you thoroughly despair.” The Taowu released a heaven-shaking roar.
The mausoleum quaked.
Qi Lin clearly sensed that the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches could not trap the Taowu.6
“This is bad!!”
Qi Lin looked over his shoulder. Evil qi flooded the heavens and barreled towards them like a tidal wave.
The Taowu unexpectedly debilitated its ten thousand years of cultivation to forcibly break free of the Heavenly Stems Earthly Branches Yin Ending Array’s forbiddance. Having charged out, the rancor in its heart could not be resolved even if it flooded the entire country. Its determination to seize Qi Lin caused the entire mausoleum to shudder.
“It’s really gone mad, am I that captivating?” Qi Lin cursed under his breath.
The Taowu was instantly almost in front of the duo. It needed only to get a little closer, and no one should even think of escape.
“Even when Qi Lin has reached this far, are we still unable to escape this calamity? Is this my, Wang Jian’s, kill tribulation???”7 Wang Jue was unresigned.
Qi Lin circulated his Divine Intent and controlled his Dark Heaven magic treasure to make a last strike.
All of a sudden, a shadow leapt past the two and into the Taowu’s evil qi.
An evil qi far more wicked than the Four Perils made even the Taowu frightened. This enormous evil qi let out an even more ruthless, an even crueler voice.
“Is my big brother something a bastard like you can have!!!!”
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- 醜、卯、巳、未、酉、亥 ↩
- 子、寅、辰、午、申、戌 ↩
- In the raws. I’m not sure if this is supposed to be Yang Stem to Yin Branch. ↩
- 蛟, distinct from the actual “dragon” to be used in the forbiddance. ↩
- Not completely sure as to what’s going, but my best guess is that Qi Lin observed that the forbiddance is clearly working even without a “dragon” present, meaning that it was possible for something to function as a substitute. Qi Lin inferred that the relationship between the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, represented here by their animal counterparts, could serve this purpose. ↩
- So even with his little trick, the forbiddance was not strong enough. ↩
- 殺劫, really not sure what this is supposed to represent. Will update TL once author explains. ↩
Qi Lin shares Su Xing’s knack for puzzles.
Damn. Yangjun got gn9cked the hell out… Explaining Wang Jue is gonna be fun.
ENTER BEST LITTLE SISTER QI QI!!!! ABOUT TIME!!!!