Chapter 1854: Pitched Battle on All Sides (III)
“Milord... help...” Gan Wuliang was the only one who would be wailing like a headless chicken at this moment. He was a master of dao. The other exalted emperors merely overlooked branches of great dao in the dao universe. They were safe enough, but he was the target of the chaos tribulations!
Hong Yitang was skilled at defense, yet Gan Wuliang was just adept at the dao of emotions. What could he do against a tribulation giant?!
I’m gonna die! I’m gonna die!
Countless exalted emperors had already perished near him. Almost all one hundred of Phoenix’s foreign exalted emperors were dead. It was utterly horrifying! A portion of Phoenix’s local exalted emperors had escaped to their dao universe and yet another portion was also dead.
Gan Wuliang was on the verge of a mental breakdown. I’m gonna be fried by a thunderbolt!
The chaos beasts were also finding it difficult to protect themselves, but they were in much better condition. Only Li Hao and Void were doing well on the human side. Gan Wuliang and Hong Yitang were in a sorry state.
We’re gonna be the ones to die first at this rate, aren’t we??
Li Hao didn’t say a word. He was waiting and watching.
Watching who?
Number Two!
That was his ultimate trump card. Once the cat fully descended unto reality, it would be at least a seventh rank, if not infinitely close to eighth rank like the Ash Emperor!
The cat could also devour everything!
So long as Number Two succeeded and swallowed their tribulation giants, Li Hao and the rest would be free to pursue their enemies!
There was an astounding amount of tribulation thunderbolts near the cat. Endless power of time stretched onward. Number Two’s body seemed to be changing. It’d eaten a lot of world origin, all of which represented life, but it’d never produced real life.
The cat seemed to digest everything as time stretched onward. It was just...
The cat was quite dejected. It looked at Li Hao, the rest of the people, and the endless thunder and lightning...
“Meow!” A loud cry of resignation and grief rang through the void.
Didn’t you say this was a chance for Void to enter seventh rank? You lied to this cat! Void didn’t have a chance at all, it was mine all along!
It was being struck by both lightning and time at the moment. And once it truly manifested in the chaos universe, it might be attacked by everyone!
The cat grew more sorrow-stricken.
You always say that this is the last time, that I just need to help you one last time. You always pin your hopes on me. Do you expect a cat to turn the tables??
Below Number Two, Li Hao smiled radiantly. The Ash Emperor should be off on a grand enterprise with the Human King. Since Number Two is with me, I’ll make sure you do something even greater!
You need your own ambitions! It’s all up to you now! We’ll win if you can descend upon reality and help us impede the chaos tribulation. We’ll win big!
The other seventh ranks won’t dare mount a rescue then. Who would dare enter the area?
Li Hao never left opportunities available to anyone else. Relying solely on brute force wasn’t variable either. He only undertook chances with a certain degree of success!
“Meow!!” The cry heightened in clarity; it wasn’t as ethereal as before. There seemed to be only this one cat beneath the heavens. It drew the concerted efforts of multiple tribulation giants!
But Number Two... was yet to fully take shape and become part of existence. Hence, the giants found it difficult to strike their target.
“Meow!!” came the cat’s cry again. It seemed to be accompanied by the beating of a heart. It was about to become a real chaos being!
Number Two had been born many, many years ago in an illusory world. It’d also died in that world, then revitalized in Silver Moon. And now, it seemed ready to descend upon the world
It would no longer be the big cat’s shadow and past. It was Number Two!
I’m about to fully enter the chaos, one who teaches! I’m walking out of the past and no longer the illusory cat that kept you company.
The cat looked a bit blankly at the star of time. Although it’d long made up its mind, unease set in when the day truly arrived and it was ready to walk into reality.
Also... I’m no longer your past and shadow, Big Cat! I will be a true living being and a full member of the chaos!
“Meow!!” The cry shook existence itself. A cat seemed to cross space and time, emerging with a shake of its tail and a sway in its body. Its four stubby legs truly set foot into the chaos for the first time.
Number Two was a real living being!
Seventh rank strength appeared in the vicinity. It wasn’t that noticeable in a place with endless seventh rank tribulations, but it drew everyone’s gazes all the same.
Even the Phoenix master was stunned. What was this?
The Ash Emperor?
But how could there be two Ash Emperors?
The Ash Emperor had entered the Skyward dao universe. It didn’t make sense that it would leave the dao universe. So... what did that make this cat?
Seventh rank!
It was bathed in thunder, lightning, and time. The cat was alive in the true sense of the world.
Three tribulation giants waiting nearby had been biding their time. They charged Number Two as soon as it became real!
The cat didn’t put up a stalwart defense. Instead, it opened its mouth and swallowed the three!
Tribulation giants weren’t real seventh ranks. They were just a construct of thunder and lightning. And now, those three were completely gone.
Number Two burped and swallowed with difficulty. “So... full!” it mumbled.
“Number Two!” roared Li Hao. The opportunity was at hand! They needed to hurry!
But the cat... did not respond. I don’t want to! I know what you want me to do, but I don’t want to do it! Big Cat lives such a pitiful life. It fights everyday... I don’t want to be like it...
As dejected as it was, it had no choice but to open its mouth and eat the giant attacking Gan Wuliang. It then ate the one targeting Hong Yitang!
“Get them!” shouted Li Hao. He ignored the tribulation giant overhead and rushed the elephant!
The elephant was likewise defending itself from a tribulation giant. It was having a difficult time dispersing its opponent. The chaos beast coldly watched Li Hao charge at it. Its long nose snapped through the void and whipped toward Li Hao!
Silver Moon’s two dao masters arrived at the same time!
“Help me against the chaos tribulation!” roared a frantic elephant.
All three world masters were cursing whatever they could think of! How could they help Giant Elephant?? It was their first time experiencing a chaos tribulation as well. They didn’t have any knowledge to draw from and were scrambling for any solution.
In fact, they were on the verge of breaking down from the chaos tribulation, but they had to save their compatriot. They would be in great trouble if one of them died.
The black tiger snarled and slapped down the tribulation giant over the white tiger’s head. “Go save Giant Elephant!”
One against two!
This chaos beast was putting its life on the line. The elephant could not die! All might be lost if it did. These tribulation giants were decreasing, but the same could not be permitted to happen to the chaos beasts!
Li Hao looked over with his heart skipping a beat. Damn that one’s strong! He’s going one against two and sending the white tiger over to help. Chaos beasts seriously have strong physical bodies. They’re also pretty united under the Dragon master’s rule!
Anyone in the other three regions would’ve long run off. They wouldn’t stay to help!
Li Hao couldn’t help but think of how the other exalted emperors in the three regions hadn’t dared show themselves even when he killed four seventh ranks. None of the ones here had run off, however. That was commendable!
“Number Two!” Li Hao shouted, but the cat really was full. It burped continuously and spat out thunder and lightning. It was so full that it couldn’t really walk anymore.
However, seeing that Void was looking at it expectantly, as if waiting for the cat to eat the tribulation giant he faced...
Number Two wanted to cry!
I can’t eat anymore...
It opened its mouth and deployed the force of devouring with difficulty. The cat forced down the tribulation giant in front of Void. Its fur immediately exploded when it did so!
“Ugh... burp!” A thunderbolt roared when it burped, but Void was delighted. Its opponent was no more!
He rushed the white tiger without further word and punched with the strength of six daos. “Kill them!”
BOOM!
The white tiger snarled at the interruption. The chaos beast side would lose once the elephant died!
The two sides were locked in battle. Void unleashed his punch with everything he had. He punched through the void. I want to become a seventh rank, the white tiger can’t be permitted to rush over!
Li Hao shouted as well, two rivers of dao becoming one with him. He didn’t let the two exalted emperors go on the offensive. Instead, he incorporated their dao strength into his body.
Li Hao’s presence rose once more!
“Time, freeze!” He shouted, using the power of time to petrify the elephant.
The elephant was busy defending itself against the thunder tribulation and battling Li Hao. And now, it came under the influence of time. It roared and struggled mightily, blood bubbling up from every pore. Its dao universe shook wildly!
“Aid me!” it shouted, no longer looking to the exalted emperors nearby. “Qingqiu Fox, Cloudsnake...”
It was calling out to the seventh rank chaos beasts further away. There was no time to focus on the five monster spirit worlds! If they didn’t reinforce the contingent here, then disaster would sweep through Dragon Region when this area fell! The Silver Moon king was absolutely crazy, so crazy that he seemed more of a lunatic than that New Martial Human King bastard!
Who dared manipulate chaos tribulations like this?! Weren’t they afraid of dying??
But Li Hao... did!
“Monster spirits, you will not have a chance to change your lot in life if you do not fight today!” shouted the Thunder master. The other seventh ranks could not be permitted to join the battle. Otherwise, once the tribulation dissipated and more seventh ranks joined the field, they would be in for it.
He really did see some hope now, an enormous ray of hope shone upon them!
We... might win!
He was delighted and shocked. They had a chance of winning!
It was their greatest chance for the first time in three hundred thousand years, and a chance that he’d never dreamed of!
