Chapter 1069

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

Wood-element Deity, Creation.

Human face, bird body, bearing Four Seasons Flower Tree Wings on his back.

The left wing is spring blossoms, the right wing is summer dense leaves.

When the twin wings spread, countless fine petals and leaf fragments fall in the void, each piece containing the purest Creation Vitality.

Feet treading an Azure Dragon's phantom shadow, hand holding a brush made with a wooden branch for the shaft and beast hair for the bristles.

Twenty-four light wheels encircle his body, corresponding respectively to the Twenty-Four Solar Terms.

Start of Spring, Rain Water, Awakening of Insects, Spring Equinox, Pure Brightness, Grain Rain — within each light wheel a Solar Term power flows ceaselessly.

Then the Water-element Deity, Gui Xu.

Human face, snake body, draped in Xuan Water Dragon Scale Armor, wearing a Black Jade Heaven-Piercing Crown.

Left hand, supporting a constantly rotating Gui Xu Sea Eye.

The Sea Eye is only fist-sized, yet emits a terrifying suction capable of devouring an entire ocean.

The space around the Sea Eye has been twisted by the gravitational pull into spiral ripples.

Beneath his feet coils a pitch-black Black Water Xuan Snake; behind him looms a vast North Sea phantom, within which waters rise and fall, and a gigantic fish shadow can be faintly seen swimming silently.

Next is the Fire-element Deity, Transformation.

Beast body, human face, clad in a Li Fire Robe.

Both ears hang with two earrings thin as fire snakes.

Riding two fire dragons, the twin dragons coiling around the deity's sides.

Cupped in both hands is a strange candle; the flame is only the size of a bean, weak as if it might extinguish at any moment, yet it has never gone out.

Each time the candle flame jumps, the phantom of the Civilization Long River behind the deity lights up a ring of lamps; the river's lamps are dense, each lamp representing a node of a civilization's rise and fall.

Last is the Earth-element Deity, Cheng Tian.

Human body, snake tail, seven hands each holding a different divine artifact phantom.

Seal, Tripod, Ruler, Jade Tablet, Drum, Plow, City — seven divine artifacts in seven hands each emitting a heavy-as-mountains Earth Law pressure.

Above his head the nine-layered Sky, beneath his feet the eighteen-layer Spiritual Vein.

Mountains and rivers manifest in his chest and abdomen; mountains like spines, rivers like veins.

One hand grips a Xuanhuang Great Seal heavy as a mountain; its face engraved with two ancient characters: Hou Tu.

Five Deities, five Origin Powers, lined up in a row in the void.

They are not independent entities, but extensions of Xu Zhangqing's Five Elements Origin Power.

His Law is their will, his intent is their action.

"What is this?"

"Five Deities?"

"My heavens!"

Long Yuan and Mu Yunni stopped at the safest distance from the battlefield.

Behind them, Qin Baili, Li Lingbi, Mu Qingshuang, and Fenglong also arrived one after another.

Further back were the Spirit Transformation Venerables of Longhu Immortal Sect and Yao Yue Immortal Sect, as well as several Peak Masters and Elders of Qingmu Sect.

Everyone, in that same instant, saw those five Deities spanning the void.

Long Yuan was silent for a long time, so long that Mu Qingshuang almost couldn't help but speak to ask, before he finally said in a low voice: "One Deity is the entirety of a Spirit Transformation cultivator's accumulation.

He alone, five Deities."

No matter how many Spiritual Roots others have, they only have one Deity.

Like Long Yuan's Nine Heavens Thunder Deity, Mu Yunni's Moonlight Deity.

Yet Xu Zhangqing alone actually summoned five Deities.

This has completely, thoroughly surpassed everyone's understanding.

Mu Yunni, unlike Long Yuan, wasn't so reserved; she stared straight at the five Deities, her gaze sweeping from Metal to Wood to Water to Fire to Earth one by one, finally landing on the Five Colors emanating from Xu Zhangqing, and concluded in an extremely certain tone: "Sect Master Xu, absolutely possesses Five Elements Spiritual Roots, and every single one has reached Origin-level."

She turned her head to look at Long Yuan; in those usually cold eyes, a rare trace of faint amusement actually appeared.

Not mockery, but that kind of helplessness and relief after being kept in the dark for a long time and finally learning the truth.

Long Yuan could not answer, only silently watching the two figures in that void who were about to begin combat.

The one who moved first was not Kong Fang, but Xu Zhangqing.

He pointed his right hand forward; the Gold System Deity's left hand's seven rotating Kill Stars simultaneously shot out violently, then swelled against the wind, transforming in the void into seven sword-lights like bolts of silk.

Each sword-light is formed from the purest Geng Metal power, sharp enough to sever a Spirit Transformation cultivator together with his Magic Treasure.

Seeing this, Kong Fang also raised his right hand.

One saw his five fingers slightly spread; behind him the Seven-Colored Tail Screen likewise lit up with a piercing Golden Light.

The same pure Metal Law, the difference being that the Golden Light's outer perimeter was also entwined with Time's purple resonance and Space's blue light.

Then, bolstered by the dual Laws, it collided with Xu Zhangqing's Geng Metal sword-lights.

No loud boom — only the void exploding, golden sword-lights scattering in all directions.

Each fragment plowed dense Space Rifts in the surrounding void, and the Energy Shockwave spread outward frantically.

Only those scattered sword-light fragments, drawn by spatial displacement toward different directions, never managed to harm Kong Fang's true body.

Ke Shi did not wait for the sword light to fully descend before the Wood-element deity struck.

The Twenty-Four Solar Terms light wheels lit up simultaneously; Start of Spring's Wood Sprout, Awakening of Insects' Spring Thunder, Pure Brightness' Fine Rain, and Grain Rain's Sweet Dew transformed in the same instant into four distinctly different Wood-element offensive strikes.

The Wood Sprout stabbed toward Kong Fang like a spear; Spring Thunder exploded in the Void, attempting to deter His Divine Soul.

Fine Rain transformed into a net that closed in from all directions to trap and lock; Sweet Dew then elevated the power of all Wood-element attacks to the utmost peak in this instant.

With the Four Seasons' power stacked, it was enough to instantly transform a Mountain Range into fertile soil brimming with vitality.

In response, Kong Fang answered with flame.

Red Divine Ring Fire-element Regular poured forth from His Fingertip.

This was not ordinary fire, but the Source Fire Kong Fang had condensed with ten thousand years of Dao Xing.

Fire Controls Wood, the most basic Five Elements Regular.

Yet in the Demon God's hands, it became world-destroying flames capable of burning everything to ash.

The flames transformed into the form of a giant bird; its wings spread to Cover Sky, swallowing the Wood Sprout, Spring Thunder, Fine Rain, and Sweet Dew whole into its belly and incinerating them utterly, not leaving a single thread of residual vitality.

But just as the Fire Bird finished incinerating the Wood-element attacks, the Water-element deity's attack suddenly descended.

The Gui Xu Sea Eye suddenly Swollen, expanding from Fist Size into a Black Color vortex dozens of Zhang Wide; its immense suction pulled and deformed the surrounding Void.

The Black Water Xuan Snake beneath the Sea Eye opened its maw full of Tusks, and together with the Gui Xu Sea Eye it surged toward Kong Fang to devour.

Primordial Heavy Water Condense on the snake's teeth; every Drop weighed more than a Thousand jun — if bitten, even a Xiuxian Zhe of the Spirit Transformation stage would disperse on the spot.

As long as one was drawn into the Gui Xu Sea Eye's suction Spiritual Range, they would be dragged inside and never escape for all eternity.

"Interesting!"

Kong Fang revealed a hint of Surprised, then the Time Domain around His body rippled slightly.

The Gui Xu Sea Eye's suction Solidification the moment it neared within Ten Zhang of His Shen Qian; even the Black Water Xuan Snake's open Tusks froze in place.

Immediately the Space Law activated; the Water-element deity's location was shifted thousands of Zhang away out of thin air, causing the Gui Xu Sea Eye and the Black Water Xuan Snake's attack to both miss entirely.

The Primordial Heavy Water Directly transformed into Vast Sky fine water droplets!