Chapter 774: Nüwa: How could I not know I could be this powerful?!

Heaven-opening Divine Axe!

Oh no.

Mountain-opening Divine Axe! Its appearance can simply be said to have shattered all predetermined fate trajectories, overturning the board where all players placed their pieces!

Perhaps someone still felt pleased with themselves, sighing that the situation was already settled.

In the next moment, facing an axe that was brutish to the extreme and utterly unprincipled, all grand ambitions turned into fleeting illusions!

"How…… possible?"

Locked onto by the divine axe, Chonghua wore a look of shock and bewilderment, murmuring softly.

He couldn't understand.

You say you pulled out a Slay-Immortal Sword Formation, at least it still observes some principle!

Pulling out an axe……

Even though the axe bears the large characters "Mountain-opening"!

But!

That power!

That mighty power that shatters ancient and modern! Who are you trying to fool?!

Opening a mountain? You're trying to open "Mount Buzhou"?! That's utterly preposterous! It's like saying— the river god, the Milky Way is also a river! The Mountain-opening Divine Axe, opening Mount Buzhou is also opening a mountain! — Pah! Whoever believes that is stupid! Chonghua's heart sank completely.

Wenming's body remained frail.

His magical power remained ordinary.

But when he raised the divine axe, the light of the whole world was seized for him! Even the three supremely powerful Taiyi who have fought since the dawn of ages were drawn to look…… especially the Eastern Emperor.

He stared blankly at the Chaos Bell in his hand, then glanced at his opponent's Taiji Diagram and Pangu Banner, for a moment doubting life, wondering if what he held was a fake.

Then, in the next moment he lunged out, wanting to break free from the battle group and return to rescue.

But this time, the Yan and Huang Two Emperors were unwilling! They shouldered up, practiced a restraining encirclement… Facing tens of thousands of troops, they advanced together; facing a single person, they still advanced together!

"Scram!"

The Eastern Emperor roared in anger, but Xuanyuan retorted back.

"If you tell us to scram we'll scram, but do we still have any face?"

"You, just stay here with us properly!"

"Just as you said!"

"Warfare is deception!"

"If our plans are inferior, we must accept it!"

"Lady Nüwa, whose wisdom fixes the ages, is not something you lot of mediocres can fathom!"

Xuanyuan's face didn't redden, nor did he pant, spontaneously cooperating with some behind-the-scenes big black hand, firmly pinning a pot onto Nüwa.

"Don't ask!"

"Ask and it's Nüwa who masterminded it!"

Anyway, the night before last, it was the Wa Emperor manifesting numinous power, personally unsealing Wenming's axe power taken by Gong from the Wa Emperor's palace! Whether you believe it or not, we believe it!

As for whether that "Wa Emperor" is real or fake…

Heaven knows! Oh no!

Heaven doesn't know either!...

Wenming's ability wasn't particularly outstanding.

Ordinary, possibly even struggling against a single powerful divine ability wielder.

But.

At this moment the weapon he pulled out was too powerful! As the divine axe appeared, heaven and earth collapsed, mountains and rivers perished! Chonghua originally wielded the Slay-Witch Sword, possessing unmatched ferocity, but facing the so-called "Mountain-opening Divine Axe"? He had no way to heaven, no door to earth, was firmly locked on; no matter where he fled, even if he could traverse infinite spacetime, he would still suffer this blow! "How many tribes' downfall!"

"Countless clans' lament!"

"Mountains and rivers overturned, you pay no heed…… yet you revel in stirring up trouble therein!"

"The Dragon Master fled in disgrace, his reputation ruined!"

"The Gong clan was exiled by you!"

"Gong also died in a foreign land!"

"Behind all this lies your shadow!"

"You're absent when saving the myriad beings, yet you care when claiming kingship and emperorship!"

"Today, let us settle our affairs once and for all!"

Wenming bellowed, his voice shaking the ten directions.

At this moment he became the supreme judge, wielding the divine axe that adjudicates the mortal world.

Then a burst of light appeared! That light was so dazzling it split the firmament; whether in the southern skies or the northern seas, it could be seen!

"Crack!"

The rules of Honghuang, the laws of the universe, at this moment seemed to be forcibly split in half! And at the tip, the axe's light pointed to Chonghua, forced to become the most handsome lad in the mortal world! "Rebellion! Cease your nonsense!"

Chonghua let out a long whistle, he sensed the aura of death and had nowhere to flee; at this moment his ferocity was also aroused, with a casual slash he sent Chiyou's form tumbling down to the human realm, and then he grasped his sword, boldly confronting the axe-light that was like heaven-splitting and earth-opening.

He sought to live by confronting death, carving a path of survival!

"You are the rebel!"

Wenming's stature at this moment was towering, majestic, divine…… wielding the most terrifying great killer of Honghuang heaven and earth, even an ordinary mortal is destined to shine through the ages.

However, beneath the splendor, his body bore faint bloodstains, as if unable to bear the weight, having endured pressure beyond mortal imagination.

This seems only natural…… this "Mountain-opening Divine Axe", so domineering, how could an "ordinary" human king wield it at will?

To display its power, one must necessarily pay a huge price! That makes perfect sense, no problem.

Chonghua also precisely perceived the subtlety within, which gave him such decisive resolve for a counter‑kill.

As the sovereign of the Bird Master, king of the Dongyi lands, and further blessed with the authority of the Heavenly Court…… Heaven and man arise together, gathering into supreme power, condensed upon the Slayer‑Witch Sword, transformed into an edge that seems able to cleave all things!

The divine sword, peerless, stirred the vast heavens and earth, even the power of the human Dao! It slew all phenomena of the Myriad Heavens, shattered the myriad ages, it is mighty, it is transcendent!

Above the firmament, stars glitter, shedding light.

Beneath the earth, dragons and serpents arise, standing guard afar.

Within the human Dao, the myriad beings kowtow, offering their faith.

The universe dimmed then brightened again; Chonghua stood firm at the pinnacle of the present age, like a supreme sovereign who leads an era.

Unfortunately.

When that divine axe, wielding the light of heaven‑splitting, came down……

Everything shattered! The stars were destroyed!

The earth collapsed!

Even the faith of the human Dao was reset!

The clash at the peak, supreme power…… a single blow is enough to decide victory! Determine superiority!

The Opening‑Mountain Axe and the Slayer‑Witch Sword broke through the tangible limits of the world, destroying and reopening it; finally, before everyone's eyes, the divine axe bent the keen divine sword, pressing it upon Chonghua's body! "Puchi!"

Chonghua stared, stunned, as blood poured relentlessly from the wound.

His essence, his qi, his spirit suffered a devastation‑like blow! This made him realize something…… this axe is surely not merely a superficial likeness!

This power…… is the genuine article! "Chonghua, your era is over!"

Wenming held the axe, half pressing it against Chonghua's body, charging forward.

Their figures shattered everything; the power of the human Dao swept across, the residual waves of the Slayer‑Witch Sword and the Opening‑Mountain Axe swept sideways—like Wuzhiqi, merely because they were shaken by the world's impermanence and could not believe the Heavenly Emperor's defeat, reacting a beat too slow, they were struck by the divine axe's aftershock, half their bodies destroyed, they fell among mountains and rivers, half‑dead, half‑alive.

"End?!" Chonghua coughed blood, then gave a grim smile, "Indeed, I misjudged…… your trump card is not the Immortal‑Slaughter Sword Formation!"

"This is my inadequacy……"

"But I haven't lost yet!"

"I am still the king of the Bird Master, the emperor of the Heavenly Court…… what does a temporary defeat matter?"

"I can still make a comeback!"

Chonghua stared intently at Wenming, as if trying to engrave his figure into the deepest part of memory.

It was this person who gave him an axe unforgettable for myriad ages, shattering his instinctive winning game.

"Do you think you'll have another chance?"

Wenming, however, smiled coldly, "Do you know how my Opening‑Mountain Axe came to be?"

"Everything is under the control of Lady Nüwa!"

"She has long since written the script of your downfall!"

"Long before the ages, she had already placed her piece…… it should be today!"

"In the past, Gong stole the breathing soil, made a trip to Nüwa's palace…… what he brought back was far more than just the Nine Heavens' breathing soil!"

"And there is this ultimate divine weapon!"

This was like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, exploding in the hearts of the myriad ancient god sages, both openly and secretly observing this place; heavenly thunder rolled, leaving them stunned into speechlessness.

"Lady Nüwa's merit rivals creation; even Pangu's true form can be made to bleed‑rebirth and remake its body…… she forged a counterfeit of the true Heaven‑splitting divine axe—what difficulty is there?"

Is there a problem? No problem.

Quite reasonable.

Wenming explained the origins and context to Chonghua and everyone…… anyway, whether you believe it or not, I do!

The truth is just this! "It was originally meant as a killer implement for the Great Array of the Celestial Gods and Fiends…… alas, events came too suddenly, so the Great Array of the Heavenly Stars never got to feel it."

"But, by a twist of fate, we have come to the era of the later witch‑demons……"

"And Gong's actions have brought it back into the light!"

"When Gong's final effort failed and even a glimmer of hope vanished, Lady Nüwa silently plotted everything, lifted the seal on the divine axe, letting me grasp its profundity…… in the end, I walked before you, struck you with one axe, and destroyed all your ambitions!"

"Otherwise, why do you think Feilian could return? And why would he ally with the Nine Li?"

"Simply because everything has long been arranged plainly by Lady Nüwa herself!"

Wenming touted Lady Nüwa's strategic planning and decisive victories across the ages, calling her history's greatest mastermind, turning clouds and rain, just as when she once swapped identities with the true Yandi and in succession entrapped and slew the three great Yao Marshals! Lady Nüwa!

Eternally divine!

Honghuang's divine intellect is the ceiling! "You cannot possibly win!"

"All that you rely on, all that you have stolen…… will today be utterly dismantled and cleansed!"

Wenming stared fixedly at Chonghua, "The Bird Master will be rebuilt! The Dragon Master will rise again!"

"All the gains the Heavenly Court obtained through various conspiracies will be spit out, principal and interest!"

As his words fell, at the same moment the heavenly and earthly qi trembled, and an utterly mournful, painful roar echoed in the ears of all gods and beings.

"This…… is the cry of Kui Niu?!"

The gods were horrified!

What exactly happened? To make a Yao Marshal utter such a painful howl?

It seemed as if they had encountered an unparalleled foe, been surrounded and killed, been kicked in a circle, and even……

Flayed and bone‑stripped!

The next moment, gloomy winds swept, blood rain poured…… this is the finale of a supreme master of great divine abilities!

"Kui Niu…… has met disaster!"

Explosive information spread!

The ancient god sages gazed toward the four seas, looking out upon the vast, boundless battlefield carved out of Honghuang.

There, it was the most tragic battlefield of slaughter, where countless dragon race, demon race, great witches and lesser witches, human war commanders and soldiers have fallen, fighting to their last breath.

But these are just minor figures.

Because a true heavyweight figure has died here, filled with resentment, his corpse lying on the ground——the Kui Ox Great Sage! This newly promoted Yao Marshal had led a tumultuous, glorious divine life, his brows raised in pride, yet it had barely begun when he was forcefully ended! A goddess stood on the battlefield, taking away all glory.

She walked upon the Sea of Blood, one hand holding white bones, the other grasping a scroll of Kui Ox hide, lonely in the world.

Kui Ox's bone!

Kui Ox's hide!

A Yao Marshal, to end so miserably!

His departure was most unsettling.

After all, killing someone is just a matter of making their head hit the ground.

But Xuansu did not give him a peaceful death; instead, he subjected him to torment.

This also serves as proof.

It's a matter of spirit……This is not an all-powerful talisman.

When you truly encounter something that wants your life, no illness is of any use.

The gods all drew a sharp breath, feeling that the world was changing too fast at this moment.

"Kui Ox……How did he just die?"

"Not long ago he was still fine!"

"How did he suddenly end up like this?!"

They were puzzled.

"Speaking of strength, Kui Ox is somewhat inferior to Xuansu……but for Xuansu to want to kill him, it should also be difficult!"

"If Kui Ox can't win, can't he at least flee?"

That is the cause of their confusion.

But soon, someone explained the subtlety behind it.

"Someone intervened……whether a Yao Marshal or a top-tier ancestral witch, they are all stronger than Kui Ox!"

The deity who had been watching the battle immediately said, "Just now……when the light of the heaven‑opening mountain‑splitting axe tore apart heaven and earth, someone suddenly entered the fray!"

"They disrupted time and space, and together with Xuansu they ambushed and killed Kui Ox!"

"Kui Ox fought back desperately, struggled with all his might……but the result was of no use……"

"He died quite simply……"

The deity whispered softly, his eyes still holding a trace of shock and disbelief.

"How could this be? The top experts of the world all check each other; how could there still be a variable to besiege a Yao Marshal?"

"Where would so many nameless experts come from?"

There were skeptics who found it hard to imagine and comprehend.

"Living experts naturally cannot enter the fray……but what about the dead?" The deity who had earlier explained sighed, "I have seen the revival and activity of two Great Daos……those are the former Yao Marshals Bifang and Yingzhao!"

"What? They weren't slain and sealed by Yandi? How could they reappear!" The skeptic changed color, then fell speechless.

"Feilian was also killed by Her Highness Nüwa……yet he still comes out jumping about?"

An ancient god spoke these words in a faint, echoing tone.

One after another, the perceptive great Luo beings felt a chill in their hearts at this moment.

They watched the goddess Xuansu treading upon mountains of corpses and seas of blood, while hidden in a corner were two vague, top‑towering mighty beings guarding her; this blatant attempt to conceal already explained everything.

They also looked at the Wind Earl who had rescued Chiyou, once the Yao Marshal Feilian, now making no effort to conceal himself at all.

Turning their heads, they finally saw Wenming, especially the axe in his hand—said to have been obtained by Gong from the Nüwa Palace—which erupted today, in one strike overturning Chonghua's ultimate killing weapon……

These fragmented pieces, at this moment, were linked together by those with intent, forming a silent, horrifying plan.

Nüwa!

Scheming for a thousand autumns!

Wisdom fixing myriad ages!

"Too terrifying!"

Some deities trembled, terror rising from within.

"If we calculate it this way……"

"The Dragon Master has collapsed; even if reorganized, it is under Yinglong's control, destined to obey Her Highness Nüwa……Yinglong is originally Her Highness Nüwa's charioteer."

"The Bird Master has been overturned, all hidden dangers infiltrated by the Demon Race have been removed……"

"The Heavenly Court's grand strategy has collapsed……Kui Ox is dead, and Wuzhiqi cannot live either!"

"Humans may become the greatest victors!"

"Her Highness Nüwa……what terrifying scheming!"

"She has schemed against everyone!"

The deity spoke, trembling.

"Shut up! Keep quiet! Do you want to die?" His frightened friend gestured wildly at him, "What nonsense are you spouting?!"

"Ah……okay, okay……I didn't say anything, I don't understand anything……"

That deity immediately came to his senses, selectively losing his hearing, sight, and memory.

All the gods were frightened.

And deep within a certain thicket of grass.

On the young girl's pretty face was nothing but bewilderment.

She deeply began to doubt life.

"How could I not know?"

"I'm actually this strong?!"

"(End of chapter)"