Chapter 373: Chapter 198: Tai Chi Eternal Heaven, the 9 Provinces Quake as Wind and Thunder Rage
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Siming Jue was practically invincible. He single-handedly fought five Human Race Celestial Venerables without being at the slightest disadvantage.
If not for the support of the Protective Array,
several of them would have likely been slain on the spot by Siming Jue!
BOOM!
Just then,
under the combined assault of the Six-winged Demon Race, Demon Race Celestial Venerables, and the Celestial Venerables from the Demon-slaying and Demon Extermination Bureaus, a massive tear was ripped into the entire Protective Array!
Rampant energy flooded in, causing the Human Ancestral Land to tremble violently.
The very ground for ten thousand miles around collapsed.
The common people inside shrieked in terror, scattering and fleeing for their lives!
Just as the members of the Demon-slaying Bureau and Demon Extermination Bureau were about to charge into the Human Ancestral Land,
RUMBLE!
a boundless echo suddenly resounded across the heavens.
In that instant,
figures appeared one after another—more than fifty of them, all Human Race Celestial Venerables!
These Celestial Venerables hailed from other states.
Now,
at this moment of life and death for the Human Ancestral Land, they had all rushed over.
"To throw an egg against a rock is better than to live a dishonorable life!"
"Zuo Chongxiao, and the rest of you, stop trying to glorify yourselves! You’re just afraid of death, so don’t make your cowardice sound so noble!"
"Heaven’s movement is ever vigorous, and so must a gentleman constantly strive to strengthen himself! Even in death, we must protect the final hope of our Human Race!"
"We will slaughter gods and exterminate demons today!"
RUMBLE!
An expanse of void ten thousand miles wide was instantly sealed!
The battered Protective Array was repaired by the combined efforts of the many Celestial Venerables!
Immediately after,
these Celestial Venerables unleashed their Grotto Heaven Power, casting Divine Techniques as they ferociously engaged the Six-winged Demon Race and the humans from the Demon-slaying and Demon Extermination Bureaus.
For a time,
the Human Race Celestial Venerables actually held a slight advantage in numbers.
They forced the Six-winged Divine Race and Six-winged Demon Race into a steady retreat.
In what felt like an instant,
members of the Six-winged Divine Race and Six-winged Demon Race fell, their blood splattering across the sky.
Likewise,
some of the Human Race Celestial Venerables had their bodies blown apart.
Before they died, they all, without exception, burned their Grotto Heavens and charged toward the Six-winged Divine Race and Six-winged Demon Race, using every last ounce of their strength to grievously wound the Divine-Demon Races!
The sky and the earth for tens of thousands of miles were dyed red with blood!
Other than the Human Ancestral Land, which was shielded by its Array,
everything else was utterly annihilated!
Not since Emperor Yu, the first leader of the Human Race, led his people against the Divine-Demon Races hundreds of thousands of years ago, had there been a battle so tragic.
The very heavens seemed to wail, on the verge of annihilation!
The earth itself seemed about to sink and crumble.
In almost every moment, Celestial Venerables from the Divine, Demon, and Human Races fell!
In just a short time,
more Celestial Venerables had died than in the past several hundred thousand years combined!
The boundless sky was filled with all kinds of Divine Techniques.
Their brilliant colors were not dazzling, but instead conveyed a sense of brutal tragedy!
"Human Race, you’re courting death!"
Watching these Human Race Celestial Venerables fearlessly charge his Divine Race descendants, Siming Jue burned with fury!
In just a short time, four or five members of the Six-winged Divine Race had been slain.
This made Siming Jue’s killing intent boil!
After all, in ages past,
these Human Race Celestial Venerables had, without exception, been slaves to his Divine Race.
Dominated by the Divine Race at will!
And yet,
now, these slaves actually dared to band together and resist them.
They were tired of living!
RUMBLE!
Boundless, seething Divine Power suddenly erupted from his body and poured into the Star Sword.
CLANG!
The clang of the sword, like a dragon’s cry, rang out.
Siming Jue’s Grotto Heaven Power surged, his Divine Will immense, his vital energy boundless, as he unleashed a devastating sweep.
The Star Sword bloomed with divine light, myriads of Divine Techniques flowing within it. It was as if they transformed into a shower of meteors, suddenly blasting toward the surrounding Human Race Celestial Venerables!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
In an instant,
seven or eight Human Race Celestial Venerables were struck by the meteors formed from Divine Techniques, sending them flying backward as they spat up blood.
Their bodies began to crumble, their Divine Souls burning away.
That single sword strike had nearly cost these Human Race Celestial Venerables their lives!
At that same moment,
BOOM!
With a thunderous crash,
Gongsun Yan was sent flying by a blow from Arthas’s rod, spraying blood across the sky. He crashed into the Protective Array, causing it to cave inward dramatically and ripple with boundless energy!
The black Great Cauldron in his hands developed several cracks before shattering completely.
"Human Race, in our eyes, you are no different from ants. And yet you delude yourselves into thinking you can slaughter gods and exterminate demons!"
"Today, we shall kill all you defiant Human Race Celestial Venerables at once, ensuring your Human Race will never rise again!"
Arthas and Siming Jue hovered high in the heavens!
Golden light and black radiance cascaded down between Heaven and Earth like waterfalls.
At this moment,
the strongest descendants of the Divine and Demon Races surged with endless killing intent.
"Cough, cough... Is the Demon Race really this strong? Even with the support of the Protective Array, I’m no match for him."
Gongsun Yan spat out a mouthful of blood, a trace of defeat in his eyes.
Even though they were both Celestial Venerables, the gap between him and Arthas was like a vast chasm.
Without the aid of the Protective Array, he would have been defeated long ago.
Nearly all of the Human Race Celestial Venerables were wounded.
Even with their superior numbers, they were gradually losing ground.
Against these Divine-Demon Races, especially Siming Jue and Arthas, it was likely that even six or seven Celestial Venerables combined would be no match for them!
"To force us to use our Power of Origin, you ants should feel proud!"
Arthas narrowed his eyes.
He hadn’t wanted to expend his own Origin.
After all, Origin was different from Grotto Heaven Power. Once used, it would take at least ten thousand years to fully recover.
This was a considerable price for him to pay.
However,
these Human Race Celestial Venerables were more tenacious than he had imagined.
If he didn’t use his Origin, they might not actually be able to win.
As their killing intent boiled over,
Arthas and Siming Jue prepared to charge the Human Race Celestial Venerables and begin a massacre!
Just then,
RUMBLE!
A muffled boom suddenly erupted from the heavens.
Immediately,
a black and white light pierced through the clouds, blanketing the Space for tens of thousands of miles.
Then,
a Celestial Sound, seeming to echo across infinite Time and Space, resounded in all directions!
"Speaking of ants... who isn’t one?!"
As the Celestial Sound rang out,
a massive Tai Chi Diagram appeared, seemingly replacing the sky and becoming the new Heaven and Earth!
Countless points of light glittered upon it, like a multitude of stars.
The Tai Chi Diagram rotated slowly, exuding a sense of eternal immutability!
But a closer look revealed infinite changes within it, encompassing all things, shifting in myriad ways.
The moment the Tai Chi Diagram appeared,
with Ye State at its center, the entire Nine Provinces seemed to tremble, releasing a boundlessly majestic power!
Wind and thunder raged across the sky as boundless Divine Will churned!
The next moment,
the Tai Chi Diagram pulsed with divine light, and the countless points of light upon it rained down like stars, crashing to the ground.
With almost no ability to resist,
the members of the Six-winged Divine Race and Six-winged Demon Race were struck by the points of light and instantly annihilated!
They couldn’t even put up a fight!
In just an instant,
aside from Arthas and Siming Jue,
nearly all the Six-winged Divine Race and Six-winged Demon Race members had been utterly destroyed!
"Wh-what is this power?!"
The pupils of Arthas and Siming Jue constricted violently.
They felt their physical bodies and Divine Wills being locked in place by an immense force.
It was as if they were trapped in a deep mire, where even the slightest movement was a struggle!
The two roared in unison, erupting with brilliant golden and black light!
They struggled with all their might against this vast power, which was like the might of Heaven itself!
"It’s Wang Xiao! Has he refined the Celestial Observation Cauldron?!"
"Let’s break out of here first! This person’s Divine Techniques are peerless. Staying here won’t do us any good!"
Arthas wielded his Heaven-Reaching Rod, his body surging with vast Magic Power that seemed capable of incinerating everything.
His arm rose like a dragon as he thrust the rod violently toward the Tai Chi Diagram in the sky.
It was as if he intended to poke a hole in the Celestial Capital itself.
At the same time,
Siming Jue slashed out with his Star Sword, a straight beam of sword light shooting upward like a reverse meteor, determined to sunder the heavens!
"The strongest Divine-Demon Descendants, and yet..."
"...you amount to nothing more than this!"
RUMBLE!
The Tai Chi Diagram trembled violently and transformed into a Great Cauldron flowing with nine-colored divine light, which then came crashing down!
RUMBLE!
The Heaven-Reaching Rod was crushed, and the sword light was shattered!
Arthas and Siming Jue, with almost no power to resist, were suppressed on the spot by the Great Cauldron.
For ten thousand miles in every direction, a deathly silence fell in an instant!
Only the chime of a great bell and cauldron echoed between Heaven and Earth!
