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Dragon Bone Mine. Top of Mount Juye.
Blood-light lingered.
The Li Tribe’s army stood watch all around Mount Juye while Elder Miao and the other elders were also vigilant. At this moment, the chief of the Li Tribe, Chiyou, was currently at summit, at the most critical juncture in forging the cauldron. Using her own body to forge the Earlier Heaven magic treasure was consuming enormous amounts of Chiyou’s essence-blood. Right now, she was extremely weak, and the Li Tribe did not dare be careless.
“Any activity from the Hong Tribe?” Elder Miao asked.
“The Yellow Emperor has assembled a large army. Feng Bo and Yu Shiqie1 are handling the frontlines, and with the Chiyou Banner’s ‘Blood Mist Formation,’ they should be able to resist until the Great King refines the treasure.” A warrior answered.
Elder Miao nodded, slightly relieved.
“This ‘Divine Cauldron’ concerns the fortune of our tribe. If the Great King succeeds, the Li Tribe’s ambitions to rule the Northern Primordial are about to be realized.” Elder Miao was a bit excited. The Northern Primordial had existed for millennia, and if the Li could achieve this, it would be a feat for the ages. Perhaps they could even become invested deities by the heavenly way because of this.
“Xuanyuanshi arrogantly invested herself as emperor, but the Great King will forge the treasure that will invest her as ruler of the Great Primordial. The differences in their status are clear.”
“Ha, ha, indeed, indeed.”
Everyone laughed, as if they had already seen Chiyou unify the Northern Primordial.
All of a sudden, a gust came from the south, and evil qi rolled in.
The Li Tribe, which had just been joking, suddenly changed expressions. A tyrannical Divine Energy that could topple mountains directly assailed them.
“Is Xuanyuan’s army not being held at Zhuolu by Feng Bo and Yu Shiqie?” Elder Miao was frightened.
Very quickly, several figures advanced on Mount Juye.
Each person exuded awe-inspiring divine might. They were none other than Qi Lin, Yu The Great, Qi Qi, and Lü Dongbin.
“Yu The Great, are you working with the Hong Tribe to attack the Great King?” Elder Miao asked in astonishment.
“Yu has come to ask Chiyou to return the Eight Cauldrons.” Yu The Great calmly answered: “Emperor Yao’s Divine Cauldrons are to be used to control the Northern Primordial’s floods. Yu wishes to ask your Divine King Chiyou to reconsider.”
“You make stealing the cauldrons sound so dignified. You are nothing special, Yu The Great.” Elder Miao sneered.
Yu The Great looked at the blood-light surging into the sky at the top of Mount Juye, at the blood clouds covering it, and knew they could not delay longer.
“I’ll go find Chiyou and demand the cauldrons.” Qi Lin did not want to waste time. After saying this, he soared towards the top of the mountain.
Chiyou was forging the treasure right now, when she was at her weakest. No matter what, Elder Miao could not let him go. The old man hastily flew forth to stop Qi Lin, using his powers and magic treasures in unison.
“Don’t get in Big Brother’s way.” Qi Qi brandished the golden cudgel and swung.
“Elder Brother, please, go.” Yu The Great used her Divine Energy against Elder Miao and the rest.
The only people capable of facing a Divine Name were other Divine Names or an extremely powerful cultivator, but it was very obvious that Elder Miao and the others had not yet reached the level to be able to be mentioned in the same sentence as a “Divine King.” Furthermore, the tribe’s Divine Names had been drawn to Zhuolu by the Yellow Emperor’s army.
The group was very quickly unable to hold out.
Qi Lin reached the summit of Mount Juye. With the many layers of blood miasma, he was basically unable to approach.
“Chiyou, I know you are determined to obtain the Earlier Heaven magic treasure in order to defeat the Yellow Emperor, but does the mighty Chiyou need to rely on such tricks to be able to defeat the Yellow Emperor?” Qi Lin called out into the mist of blood. “Emperor Yao’s Divine Cauldrons are meant to fix the Northern Primordial’s fortune. With the floods plaguing the Northern Primordial now, with millions of people left displaced, there is already nowhere left to settle in the Great Primordial. The only solution is to use the Nine Cauldrons to suppress the Flood Formation in order to make the floods subside.”
“Chiyou!”
“Do you want to obtain a Great Primordial filled with millions of corpses, or do you want to decisively and honestly defeat the Yellow Emperor at Zhuolu and become queen?”
Qi Lin’s voice was so resounding, it echoed throughout the mountain. Many of the Li Tribe’s warriors and civilians heard this, and they all raised their heads at the same time. People in the tribe stationed on Mount Juye began to discuss.
“Huh, did you hear that? We can make the floods recede?”
“There is a way to solve the flood!!”
“God has not abandoned us.”
“But we have to use the Great King’s treasure?”
In those discussions, there was astonishment and skepticism, but mostly there was gratitude. Ten years of rain had already left the Northern Primordial’s people exhausted in mind and body. The floods had submerged most of the Eight Desolates, and everyone could only subsist on mountains, to watch helplessly as death loomed ever closer. To all of a sudden hear that the floods could be resolved, everyone in the Li Tribe wavered in their determination.
“Do not deceive us.” Elder Miao shouted.
“You really are noisy.” Qi Qi beat back Elder Miao with her staff, and the girl stared coldly at him.
The blood mist was motionless, and there was no sign of any change from Qi Lin’s entreaties. Qi Lin hovered in the sky and activated the twelve banners. The Ten Thousand Beasts Unbounded Banners covered Mount Juye and unleashed the rolling qi of primordial chaos. The True Spirits of the Zhuyan, Yayu, Kui, Fuzhu and ten thousand other beasts appeared in the primordial chaos.
The malevolent visages of demons appeared in the rolling blood mist, and they clashed with the Ten Thousand Beasts Unbounded Banner.
Only four banners of Qi Lin’s magic treasure were left unrefined, and it had reached the peak of Approaching Heaven magic treasures. After mixing in the Kui’s True Spirit, the Ten Thousand Beasts Unbounded became even more domineering with the addition of its ten thousand year thunder Divine Energy. Under the encirclement of the Ten Thousand Beasts Unbounded Banners, Chiyou’s blood mist could not resist. At last, the blood mist parted, and Qi Lin caught sight of the summit, where a tiny girl sat upright. The Eight Cauldrons were arranged all around her, fused with her body. Her blood and meridians were integrated with them, making them practically one.
Chiyou was clearly weak and powerless. This extremely young girl was completely immersed in the Eight Cauldrons.
She was forging the treasure by using her own body, slowly fusing her essence-blood and Destiny with the Eight Cauldrons. The eight originally bright and shining Divine Cauldrons had become incomparably corrupted and malevolent.
Qi Lin landed on the summit. He was surprised to see several tall and fierce women collapsed around the peak. These women were at death’s door, and they were all Chiyou doppelgangers. Each was at least High Ancient Divine Realm, but Chiyou had thoroughly underestimated severity of forging the Earlier Heaven Fortune magic treasure. Even if she was of a high Realm, Chiyou had thoroughly underestimated the might of the Earlier Heaven Fortune magic treasure. Even though she possessed talent for Divine Weapons, and forged the treasure with her own body, to cast the Ninth Cauldron still required enormous Divine Energy support.
Thus, Chiyou had no choice but to consume the Destiny of her doppelgangers, but even so, the process was still exceptionally arduous.
“Chiyou.”
Qi Lin stood in front of her. Seeing the girl’s strained expression, he felt a bit of pity.
Chiyou opened her eyes; her crimson pupils were bloodshot and cold.
“Give up. Using the Nine Cauldrons to save the common people has far more significance than you defeating the Yellow Emperor, right?”
“Save the common people?” Chiyou felt displeasure from the bottom of her heart when she heard this.
“The fucntion of the common people is merely to look up to the gods. If This King defeats the Yellow Emperor, all of the Northern Primordial will look up to me.”
“If you use the Divine Cauldrons to suppress the floods, you can still make them look up to you.” Qi Lin urged.
“This King is unable to use the Earlier Heaven Fortune magic treasure to control the floods.” Chiyou’s tone was cold. Several figures launched an attack on Qi Lin. They were a dozen of Chiyou’s doppelgangers, and they swung their earth-shattering fists, rocking Mount Juye.
But these doppelgangers were immediately slain by pure Yang sword-light. Lü Qingxuan appeared, using the Pure Yang Sword. Her supreme Realm allowed her to stop these doppelgangers as easily as blowing dust away.
Little Chiyou was taken aback to see Lü Dongbin.
“Qingxuan promised Master that I would not kill arbitrarily. This time, I can only help you up to here as repayment for saving my life. Heh, heh, do not expect Qingxuan to repay you with my body.” Lü Qingxuan chuckled. The Pure Yang Sword glowed incomparably bright, making Chiyou unable to help but close her eyes.
Qi Lin nodded and quietly chanted.
A square zun appeared out of thin air. When this Four Symbols Square Zun manifested, the eight Divine Cauldrons arranged around Chiyou all shuddered and let out a clear sound, almost like a musical instrument. Qi Lin had obtained the pure, unadulterated thought of Emperor Yao. After casting the Ninth Cauldron, controlling the Eight Cauldrons was but trivial.
But Chiyou was not willing to let Qi Lin seize the Divine Cauldrons. She was also astonished to see the Ninth Cauldron: “When did you…No…” She had not finished her sentence when she suddenly noticed she had lost control over the Divine Cauldrons. Chiyou bit her lip; fresh blood poured into the meridian-like markings of the formation, and the blood’s light once again suppressed the shuddering Divine Cauldrons.
Chiyou exhausted the power of her Destiny to make her essence-blood fuse with the Eight Cauldrons.
“Chiyou, don’t force it.” Qi Lin pursed his lips tightly, showing no mercy.
The Four Symbols Square Zun spun in the sky and emitted seven-colored divine light.
These seven colors fell into the blood formation, which manifested countless hands of blood to tear the divine lights apart. Qi Lin’s thoughts were already mixed into the Square Zun, and he could sense Chiyou’s thoughts inside the cauldrons.
Chiyou’s thoughts were filled with an indescribable desolation and loneliness.
In this boundless world, she was alone, as if there was no one in Heaven and Earth able to keep her company.
The girl’s expression was still cold as steel, showing no feeling whatsoever. Her eyes were already leaking blood, and all of her blood and qi endlessly filled the Eight Cauldrons. But ever since Qi Lin had completed the Ninth Cauldron, all of Chiyou’s efforts were already doomed to fail.
No matter how she urged her Destiny on, the Eight Cauldrons still rejected her.
The Four Symbols Square Zun was the treasure to control the Eight. Back when Emperor Yao originally forged the Divine Cauldrons, this treasure was the most important, the crux. Although Chiyou’s Realm was practically unparalleled in the Northern Primordial, in the end, she did not rise to the same level of Emperor Yao. Besides, Emperor Yao had poured in her “benevolence” when she casted the Divine Cauldrons, and it was this benevolence that made her known to all in the Northern Primordial. Chiyou’s thoughts fundamentally could not withstand it.
Qi Lin’s determination to stop the floods matched perfectly together with the Divine Cauldrons, making control even easier.
Slowly, the blood markings on the Eight Cauldrons receded and vanished like a tide, and Chiyou’s Destiny slowly returned to her own body.
Chiyou struggled still, the malevolent faces in the blood mist mounting an all-or-nothing defense against the incursion of the Ninth Cauldron’s Divine Intent, but in the end, she grew weaker by the second.
Even someone as powerful as Chiyou could hardly thwart an Earlier Heaven magic treasure.
“Incredible, incredible. So this is an Earlier Heaven magic treasure. It is on the level of the Twelve-petaled Lotus Platform, the Pratyudyana Banner, or the Yellow River Map and Luoshu Square. The Immemorial Royal Family indeed is beloved by the heavenly way, to surprisingly forge Earlier Heaven magic treasures through Later Heaven powers.” Lü Dongbin was inwardly awe-struck as she watched everything. Perhaps she had listened too much to Laozi, but the Pure Yang Sword Immortal’s heart was as calm as a lake. She surprisingly did not have the slightest urge to seize this.
“But this Earlier Heaven magic treasure is nothing ordinary. Even a Truth Return Four Symbols cultivator is incapable of controlling it. Qi Lin, oh, Qi Lin, you are but a cultivator. No matter how abnormal you are, you will pay the price for controlling an Earlier Heaven magic treasure.
Lü Dongbin muttered.
“Even if you have obtained the Earlier Heaven Divine Cauldrons, you are unable to handle the power of the magic treasure with your body.” Chiyou said, each word very heavy.
Only with her Chiyou Eternity Demonic Body could one control the might and pressure of the Nine Divine Cauldrons.
“Give them to This King. This King will control the floods for you.” Chiyou turned to the next best thing.
At this time, Qi Lin was already unable to hand over the Divine Cauldrons.
His thoughts were crystal clear, flawless, and reaching near perfection.
At last, Chiyou powerlessly sighed.
The essence-blood meridians on the ground all vanished, and the Destiny on the Divine Cauldrons all returned to Chiyou. The girl was downcast, yet she lifted her head to watch Qi Lin, her gaze cold and firm.
“Many thanks for obliging me.”
The eight Divine Cauldrons flew around QI Lin, and under the Ninth’s divine light, they were made whole.
Qi Lin retracted the Ten Thousand Beasts Unbounded Banners, and he called for Qi Qi and Yu The Great. Then, they left the Li Tribe.
The blood-clouds covering the sky scattered.
Leaving only one lonesome figure on the mountaintop.
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- IDK if this is a typo. ↩
Gotta love both the guy’s single mindedness and the slight time skip. Worriwd about the Yellow loq Emperor’s side tho…