Chapter 177: Chapter 163: [Let’s Play a Game]
Longmu and the other two Supreme Elders were filled with anxiety. Faced with such a massive gap in power, they had no confidence at all.
...
Just moments before the Hundred Victories King Banner flared to life, trapping Longmu and the other two Supreme Elders.
The three suns had yet to appear in the sky.
Above the sea of clouds that was crumbling into oblivion.
Wu Dao had already clashed with the Celestial King!
The moment the words, "The Celestial Empress is so... supple," left his lips,
the sea of rage in the Celestial King’s heart was completely ignited. It filled his chest, flooded his soul, and erupted forth to burn down the very heavens!
BOOM!
Fueled by endless, murderous rage,
the Celestial King’s Essence, Qi, and Spirit instantly surged to their peak. His black robes exploded, revealing a perfect physique like that of a War God.
Endless black qi and blood erupted from his pores, forming two massive black suns that blazed across the sky. The aura they released shattered the very world for dozens of miles around!
What was even more terrifying,
was that he seemed like a Purgatory Yama descending upon the world.
The instant the Celestial King unleashed his Power,
his golden-jade physique instantly turned pitch-black and lusterless, as if he had opened the Eighteen Layers of Hell Abyss and unleashed a Fierce Demon to devour the world of men.
Clearly visible,
beneath the light of the two black suns, a giant black Kunpeng of immense demonic nature appeared behind the Celestial King. It opened its maw, unleashing a Terror Level of Devouring Power that tore the void asunder, looking as if it would swallow the entire world!
Yama Devouring Heaven Skill!
During seven hundred years of torment to both spirit and flesh,
the Celestial King had broken down and been reborn. He shattered the shackles of the Kunpeng Body Casting Technique and created this new Horizontal Refining Skill, a technique that reached the level of the Eighth Daoist Sect. At the same time, he achieved the battle power of the Celestial Human Twelfth Floor!
Below the level of a Dao Embryo,
he feared no one!
Let alone Wu Dao, who was merely at the Celestial Human Fifth Floor!
"Die!!"
The instant he unleashed his Yama Devouring Heaven Body,
the Celestial King’s murderous roar shook the heavens! Before the sound waves of his shout could even travel through the air, he shattered them with his own brutish momentum!
His Purgatory Yama-like physique plowed through the void at a speed more terrifying than a Fierce Monster’s teleportation. In the span of a single thought, he appeared before Wu Dao, who perpetually wore a devilish smile.
THUD—
He threw a punch!
BOOM!!
It was like a God and Demon striking the heavens!
As the overwhelming, cataclysmic Power struck, the sky itself shook violently, letting out a sound like a massive thunderstorm.
An endless, incandescent black light erupted from the Celestial King’s fist. With utmost ferocity, it blazed forth, devouring the World in every direction.
RUMBLE—
An unparalleled shockwave of Power spread out in a cone, violently compressing the atmosphere. It formed a white sonic boom that plowed through dozens of miles of the black sky, splitting it in two!
But...
the punch had missed!
That’s right, it missed!
A speed that transcended thought!
A punch powerful enough to blast dozens of miles of land into an abyss!
The Celestial King had been certain it would be a one-hit kill, but in reality, aside from plowing the sky in two, he felt no solid impact whatsoever!
The very instant his fist was about to strike Wu Dao,
Wu Dao had simply vanished!
’An Illusion Technique?’
’Impossible!’
’The difference in our strengths is like that between heaven and earth.’
’My spiritual power is immense. I would know instantly if it were an Illusion Technique or his real body.’
SWOOSH!
The Celestial King abruptly snapped his head up. His pupils, roiling with black flames, stared higher into the heavens, where he could see a dazzling golden sun.
Beneath the light of that great sun,
a golden Primordial Fierce Beast, nearly two hundred feet long and resembling a whale, a dragon, and a roc, emerged like a God and Demon stepping out from the sun itself. It gazed down at him with sacred eyes, utterly devoid of emotion.
But its demonic grin, which stretched from ear to ear, was slowly moving as it spoke, its voice laced with a hint of someone savoring a memory:
"So big, so fragrant, so beautiful. And when she was crying out your name... that was the most exquisite delicacy of all."
"SHUT YOUR MOUTH!!!"
BOOM—
It was as if a thousand Eternal Volcanoes had erupted at once. The black flames they spewed forth engulfed a vast swathe of the sky, dyeing it into a Yan Earth Purgatory!
An endless sense of humiliation flooded his soul.
The Celestial King completely forgot to be shocked by the strength of Wu Dao’s Transverse Cultivation, which had reached the Seventh Daoist Sect. His eyes burning with fury, his heart twisting in agony, he charged toward Wu Dao like a rampaging Purgatory Demon God, his roar shaking the heavens:
"I’ll blast you to pieces! I’m going to blast you to smithereens!!"
THOOM!!
The heavens shook and trembled once more.
A punch born of absolute fury!
The Mighty Power it unleashed was terrifying beyond measure!
The black light of death was like the wrath of a Yama from Hell itself. Its killing intent pierced the heavens, completely shredding and annihilating the astral winds and thunderbolts in its path, punching a vertical vacuum shaft dozens of miles wide straight through the sky!
But...
it missed again!!
"Golden Light Escape Talisman... how many times can you dodge with that?!"
The Celestial King looked up again, watching as Wu Dao vanished only to reappear even higher in the sky. An even more terrifying black, purgatorial flame erupted from his eyes.
He had thrown two punches, and both had failed!
Each time, just as his fist was about to land, Wu Dao had transformed into a streak of golden light and teleported away.
It wasn’t an Illusion Technique, nor was it some kind of Cultivation Technique.
With the Celestial King’s vast experience, how could he not recognize that Wu Dao possessed a Golden Light Escape Talisman, one refined by a Taoist Divine Ability User?
He knew of such Talismans.
When fully activated, it could instantly transport a person a hundred miles away.
But it could only be used once.
After that, the Talisman was useless!
Even for short-range teleports like the ones Wu Dao was using, it could be used three times at most before the Golden Light Escape Talisman’s Mighty Power was completely depleted.
Therefore,
Wu Dao only had one chance left!
The Celestial King’s heart, though churning with rage, felt no joy at this realization. Instead, a nagging doubt began to form.
’Since Wu Dao has a Golden Light Escape Talisman,’
’there was absolutely no need for him to risk his life dancing on a razor’s edge.’
’A hundred-mile teleport,’
’even with my Twelfth Floor cultivation, I’d never be able to catch him.’
’But Wu Dao had deliberately chosen to court death!’
’This isn’t normal at all!’
But before the Celestial King’s suspicions could fully take root, Wu Dao’s next words drove his fury to an entirely new level.
"How many times?"
Seeing the Celestial King’s hesitation, Wu Dao’s eyes narrowed. He licked his lips and said in an impossibly smug tone, "A hundred times? A thousand? I’ve lost count."
