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The primordial qi flooded the Fuzhu’s surroundings. The Ten Thousand Beasts Unbounded Banner was classified as an Approaching Heaven magic treasure; not even Emperor Yao herself could escape from one unscathed, let alone that the Ten Thousand Beasts Unbounded Banner had undergone Qi Lin’s continual refinement. As it had absorbed the souls of demons like the Zhuyan, its might was even more outstanding.
The Fuzhu stood in the array. The twelve banners were like gates, with all kinds of beasts and bugs pouring out.
The Fuzhu’s horns glowed. Emperor Yao’s protection stopped the incursion of all of the primordial beasts. “Lowly mortal, why do you have such a magic treasure.” The Fuzhu’s pentatonic voice showed a change. It twisted its horns, intensifying the spiritual light protecting it.
Back when King Zhou used the Ten Thousand Beasts Unbounded Banner, she required twelve disciples to activate the banners just to trap the Holy Beast Qilin. Qi Lin on his own could only barely control the Approaching Heaven magic treasure, and each use of it was a last resort. He could not keep it active for too long, but Emperor Yao’s protection for the Fuzhu was far more formidable than he had imagined. Instantly, the banners were surprisingly unable to attack further.
“You have infuriated This One.” The Fuzhu could not bear the Ten Thousand Beasts Unbounded Banners and loosed an angry roar.
All of a sudden, droplets of water rose and descended as a downpour. Everything in a range of one thousand meters seemed to slow down, and all the raindrops sparkled like swords. That instantaneous rain shot towards the duo, converging as an unstoppable attack.
Qi Qi wielded the golden staff, and its wind enveloped all of the rain. The Great Sage Equal Of Heaven shouted, repelling the storm.
The staff-light glinted, slamming towards the Fuzhu with earth-shattering power.
The radiance covering the Fuzhu’s whole body surprisingly surged out of the Ten Thousand Beasts Unbounded Banners Formation. The Fuzhu tread upon clouds, summoning wind and rain, its divine might menacing.
“Eat Old Sun’s staff.” Qi Qi immediately lunged.
The Ruyi Jingu Bang clanged about loudly. The protective halo around the Fuzhu was already vanishing under the Ten Thousand Beasts Unbounded Banners, but the Fuzhu defended with its antlers, catching the Great Sage Equal Of Heaven’s attack.
Qi Qi showed an astonished expression. Ever since she obtained her Divine Weapon and completed her Destiny, she had been arrogant and fearless, not expecting at all that a Demon Beast could stop her attack.
“Kill!” The Fuzhu’s eyes surged with killing intent like a tide, and it suddenly slammed into Qi Qi. The girl stumbled backwards, resisting the Fuzhu’s charge with all her might.
Roar.
The fury of wind and rain.
Rain over a thousand li and wind from ten thousand li gathered on the Fuzhu and swung down upon Qi Qi like a giant sword that cleaved apart Heaven and Earth. The Jingu Bang resisted with all its might, unleashing Ten Million Destinies
“Qi Qi.” Qi Lin flew forth, drawing the Blood Transformation Divine Blade. The chilling bloody blade-light cut through confines of the law and the shackles of immortality.
The Fuzhu was worthy of being called the Northern Primordial’s Divine Beast. It made even the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou very apprehensive of itself, and it faced the Blood Transformation Divine Blade with no fear at all, meeting the blade head-on.
The sword of wind and rain wrapped around the Blood Transformation Divine Blade. The thoroughly chilling blood-qi actually slowly dissolved away under the storm.
“How is this Demon Beast so powerful?” Qi Lin was shocked. When it had already sustained the Ten Thousand Beasts Unbounded Banners’ attack, it actually handled the Blood Transformation Divine Blade so easily.
How could Qi Lin’s magical energy be able to contend against a High Ancient Divine Realm Demon Beast. With just one exchange, he already felt immense pressure. Qi Lin promptly used the Dual Modes Seal’s strength and softness, lightness and heaviness, bluntness and sharpness, and other mysteries.
The Fuzhu slammed its head forward, continuously striking the Blood Transformation Divine Blade. QI Lin only felt that his internal organs were about to be tossed about from this bludgeoning. The force of the wind and rain could not be stopped, and the downpour fell over his whole body.
“Big Brother, I’ll help you.” A brilliant golden ray of light tore through the wind and rain. Qi Qi used Parishuddhi Universe, knocking the Fuzhu back, but it reared up its iron hooves and unleashed a blue light.
“Billion Destinies.” Qi Qi’s eyes glowed. She donned golden armor and crown, raised her cloak, and ignited Divine Energy, rolling towards the storm like a searing flame. Under the Great Sage Equal Under Heaven’s power, even the Fuzhu’s wind and rain was beginning to evaporate.
“Qi Qi, push it back into the formation.” Qi Lin saw that the Fuzhu was clearly afraid of the Ten Thousand Beasts Unbounded Banner. So long as they forced it back into the array, this Fuzhu would not recover from this calamity.
Qi Qi grunted.
“With only you two alone.” The Fuzhu was pushed backwards by the combined might of brother and sister. Its four hooves tread upon mist, and it controlled the wind and rain. Knowing that Qi Lin was the weak link, it launched an attack on him.
All of a sudden, the storm roared and stirred the mountain mist.
…
Mount Shan.
The High Ancient Demonkin Heyu charged around wildly in the net, its gnashing teeth unleashing countless rays of light, knocking the Ji Tribe’s warriors into disarray.
“Assiduous Avoidance Formation.” Xian Zhen ordered.
All of the warriors simultaneously stepped back three chi, their halberds like a forest as they unleashed another formation. The Assiduous Avoidance Formation was one of Xian Zhen’s famous warrior formations. It avoided the enemy’s edge, retreated to advance, and struck the enemy after they had attacked, often fatally and for an absolute route of the enemy.
The Heyu fiercely pounced and missed, but it was not resigned to defeat. It cried hoarsely like an infant and rolled to bowl over the formation.
The Ji Tribe’s warriors joined together in opposition, their magical energy pooling together as a profound whole in the formation, retreating as they attacked. It was basically impossible for a mere formation to handle the High Ancient Demonkin, but Xian Zhen was only suppressing it. The true killing blow came afterwards.
Yu The Great descended from the sky and swung her staff downwards. The Water-controlling Iron unleashed a wild storm that ripped apart the heavens with more ferocity than a Nine Firmaments Thunderclap. This resounding strike left the Heyu howling in grief as it was sent tumbling endlessly.
“You moronic Great Shaman Divine Names, why do you obstruct the great plan of our Demonic Emperor. Stupid, foolish.” Blood trickled down the Heyu’s head as it flailed its tusks.
“Demonic Emperor? What Demonic Emperor? Speak, now. Just who was it that ordered you to bring harm to the Northern Primordial.” Yu The Great shouted. She attacked again with the Water-controlling Divine Iron, sending the Heyu flying.
The Heyu whimpered, but it said no more. With thoroughly red eyes, it lunged ferociously forward.
Yu The Great, Xian Zhen, and the Ji Tribe’s warriors were in perfect coordination, beating the Heyu back repeatedly, up until it was at the end of its rope.
“Still refuse to speak?” Yu The Great struck it head-on once again, snapping one of the Heyu’s tusks.
The Heyu resisted fiercely, pushing its Divine Energy to the limit. The Demon Beast’s body was like an enormous mountain tyrannically bearing down upon them; the Assiduous Avoidance Formation was immediately splintered. “King Yu, careful.” Xian Zhen’s Divine Weapon, the “Bright Moon Balustrade Spear,” attacked. Multiple spear-shadows descended like a torrential downpour, but the Heyu’s body was incomparably sturdy. No matter how the spears attacked, it did not budge at all.
Yu The Great knew she could not hold back. The woman’s Water-controlling Divine Iron burned with Chaos Rank Destiny as she stuck the staff into the ground.
When the divine iron dug into the ground, an immense power unfolded in every direction. It was like an enormous spiderweb being woven with the staff as its center. This giant web immediately and firmly restrained the Heyu. Although the Heyu struggled with all its might, it was already showing signs of exhaustion. Yu The Great gripped the staff with both hands and completely buried the staff into the ground. The staff emerged from under the Heyu, sharper than any weapon, penetrating through the Heyu’s body, and dangling this Demon Beast upon it.
Chaos Rank “World Flood.”
“The Demonic Emperor1 is boundless…” The Heyu was impaled on the iron staff. It struggled before heaving its last cry.
It stared fixedly at King Yu. In the end, Xian Zhen’s staff gouged out both its eyes and retrieved the Demon Core.
“King Yu.” Xian Zhen immediately ran before Yu The Great.
Yu The Great was completely spent. She panted hard, her expression grim. “Demonic Emperor? This King has a bad feeling about this, General Xian.”
“Who cares about who that Demonic Emperor is. So long as we end the floods, that Demonic Emperor’s schemes will also crumble.” Xian Zhen consoled her.
Yu The Great said: “This King worries about Brother Qi Lin.”
Saying this, Xian Zhen was also very serious.
Fuzhu.
That was no ordinary Demon Beast. It was a Divine Beast favored by Emperor Yao. Although it was High Ancient Demonkin, it was much too strong compared to ordinary Demonkin. If it truly was the same Fuzhu as from Emperor Yao’s time, then it was an existence that even Xuanyuanshi would be afraid of. The Great Shaman Divine Names of the Northern Primordial could not possibly dare to go kill it.
Now, they could only rely on Qi Lin.
He was an outsider to the Northern Primordial, and he had the Great Sage Equal of Heaven. Perhaps he could slay the Fuzhu.
“Relay this order. Erect a prayer altar at the tribe…” Yu The Great suddenly said.
“King Yu?”
“This King shall bless Elder Brother!” Yu The Great resolutely said.
“King Yu, you will pray for a man?” Xian Zhen was shocked, “You must not. There is no precedent for the ‘Northern Primordial Blessing’ ever having been performed for an ordinary cultivator.”
For the Northern Primordial tribes, prayers for blessings were a sacred ritual. This kind of ritual could transmit power, and the person being blessed often possessed a sublime position, a king or higher, for example. In other words, if Yu The Great conducted the ritual in such a manner, henceforth, Qi Lin’s status in the Northern Primordial would forever be higher than Yu The Great’s. To a Divine Name, this was not a glorious situation, let alone that Qi Lin’s status was too special. He was a cultivator, a Divine Emissary at that.
“The Fuzhu has Emperor Yao’s protection. Elder Brother has gone to slay the Fuzhu for the sake of This King and the Northern Primordial’s people. Can it be that This King must sit and do nothing?” Yu The Great softly said. Her every word was very gentle, yet also filled with a will that could not be refused.
“But the tribe’s elders and priests…” Xian Zhen was still very hesitant.
“Go, inform them. If something should happen to Elder Brother and This King was unable to pray, then I have no wish to be king of the Ji.” King Yu closed her eyes. Her heart was very uneasy.
“As you command!”
Xian Zhen lowered her head.
“Right, King Yu, this is the magic treasure that the Heyu was using.” Xian Zhen handed over the page to King Yu.
Unable to make sense of its nature, King Yu stowed the page away for the moment.
She looked into the distance.
Far away was an endless marsh, a faintly visible mountain range.
The was the first time that Xian Zhen ever saw King Yu’s beautiful face show faintest hints of worry.
Thinking of the blessing ceremony, Xian Zhen wanted to say something but stopped.
Xian Zhen hoped she was overthinking.2
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I like Yu the Great! Good ruler, sister, and wife!