Chapter 15: Divine Might Like a Prison

While speaking, he circulated his demon power, and demon clouds churned above the temple, demon winds raging wildly, wailing as they blew.

Su Yuanshan's pupils contracted, and he said in a cold voice,

"How dare you blaspheme the gods?"

"Don't tell me you think that just because you defeated the White Ape you can do as you please? Heh heh, what a pity, what a pity — you're still far from it!"

As he spoke, Su Yuanshan gave a casual sweep of his long sleeve.

Seeing this, Baie Hou unhurriedly circulated his demon power, because in his view, Su Yuanshan's careless, offhand sleeve-flick seemed to carry little force, so he paid it no heed.

He never expected a square-shaped seal to suddenly fly out from Su Yuanshan's sleeve, instantly transforming into a city and a mountain — the city a colossal fortress, the mountain a towering great peak.

In an instant, divine might like a prison bore down; the immense pressure made it seem even breathing had become extremely difficult for Baie Hou. In that moment, he gazed up at the massive object thundering down upon his head, and his expression finally changed — and drastically so.

The enormous shadow nearly covered an area several li across, and whether the white-bearded spirit or the other demons, all felt that terrifying oppressive force, and none could keep their color.

In that moment, Baie Hou could not help but sigh with emotion — is this divine might, a hellish divine might?

I was reckless! I was truly reckless, to underestimate this City God!

Taking it head-on would absolutely be a foolish act courting death! Better to flee! There's no shame in that!

Baie Hou comforted himself thus in his heart, yet felt so aggrieved he nearly spat blood.

He only wanted to curse: Damn it, which bastard said 'the Town City God is actually very weak, nothing to fear'? I really want to bite him to death!

The white-bearded spirit beside him, for some unknown reason, could not help but shiver.

The shadow overhead arrived in an instant. Just as Baie Hou was about to施展 his demon arts and flee, he discovered in horror that he seemed to be trapped by the seven-colored radiance blooming from the ever-enlarging city-mountain, unable to escape at all.

The towering city-mountain formed by the Town City God Mountain-River Seal crashed down abruptly, accompanied by a burst of—

"Boom—boom—boom!"

This newly-promoted Demon King Baie Hou, together with his demon horde, was suppressed in an instant; the earth shook and mountains trembled, dust filling the sky!

This scene left Liu Yiyi dumbstruck, and left little white fox Xiaobai staring in stunned amazement.

This... this... is this the method of the City God? To actually be able to move mountains... and tread the seas!

In that moment, the way she looked at Su Yuanshan had completely changed — no longer indifferent, but filled with reverence and admiration!

At this moment, she seemed to no longer doubt Su Yuanshan's connection with the divine!

Otherwise, how could he possess such heaven-reaching methods?

Gods above, this is the City God worshipped in every household, praised through every generation?

Liu Yiyi could not conceal her激动 mood.

But to all of this, Su Yuanshan turned a blind eye, calm and at ease.

He thought to himself, one seal to fix the mountains and rivers! The authority of the Town City God is indeed terrifyingly powerful.

He sensed very clearly that Baie Hou and all his demon horde had been instantly suppressed and torn apart, utterly annihilated in a flash!

Over a thousand demons, wiped out — in less than a snap of the fingers.

Although he had destroyed the demons with just one move, Su Yuanshan did not show the slightest hint of pride, because he knew very well this was not his true strength; he had merely taken a shortcut, 动用 the divine authority, borrowing the power of the Town City God Mountain-River Seal. In truth, his heart was clenched in cold sweat, but fortunately, he had still succeeded.

At least he could give an account to Guangwang Shenjun above.

Yet a sudden premonition of danger arose in Su Yuanshan's heart; his face filled with astonishment, and his brow furrowed involuntarily.

No, no — how could a Great Demon who had cultivated for hundreds of years be so weak?

Moreover, when the City God Seal struck Baie Hou, there seemed to be no sense of solid impact at all, although he appeared no different from the real person!

Wait!

What is that?

Su Yuanshan reached out with a beckoning gesture, and a gust of阴风 swept past, flipping up the white robe Baie Hou had been wearing — but where on the ground was any trace of Baie Hou's corpse? There was only this robe.

He grabbed it and sniffed, and immediately narrowed his eyes.

A lackey serving the tiger?

A chang-ghost?

So what came was not Baie Hou himself, but his chang-ghost!

No wonder it seemed so... strange, no wonder!

Suddenly, a furious howl came roaring!

At once, demon energy ten times more intense than before came howling in; violent demon winds gusted one after another, blasting the mountain forest this way and that.

The howl was like rolling thunder, shaking the valleys and intimidating the mountains.

Su Yuanshan gazed toward the distant mountaintop and thought, as expected... as expected, the true body of this Demon King never appeared at all.

And slaying his chang-ghost had thoroughly enraged him.

A great battle was now inevitable — this time... things looked grim!

Su Yuanshan held nothing back. As Baie Hou rode the black clouds rolling toward him, he instantly activated the last wisp of seven-colored Divine Light of Divinity within his body, pouring it completely into the Town City God Mountain-River Seal,

and immediately a 'weng' sound was heard; the Mountain-River Seal blazed with golden light, and mountains, rivers, the land, the sun, moon, and stars, along with rings upon rings of golden inscriptions, began to emerge and spin without cease.

It was seen suddenly transforming into a yellow giant dragon that burst forth through the light — its dragon eyes were stars, its dragon horns were mountains and rivers, its dragon pearl was a lake, its dragon scales were thick rock.

It raised its head and let out a dragon roar, its voice shaking the nine heavens!

The dragon roar pierced through clouds and split stone, directly knocking Liu Yiyi unconscious.

And little white fox Xiaobai fared no better, wilting completely in an instant.

This dragon roar seemed to possess a natural restraining effect against demons, actually diminishing the greater part of the tiger's roar might Baie Hou had unleashed.

But this seemed to be only the beginning, far from over!

This dragon roar seemed to begin awakening the soul of the earth buried deep underground; the entire great mountain began to tremble, then the second, the third... the fourth....

In an instant, the entire land of Nanzhou Zhen became connected as one, as if responding to that summoning.

As if every flower, grass, and tree, every mountain rock were awakening; as if every bird and every beast had no choice but to obey the command of the divine!

Only a deep, commanding snort was heard, carried from afar out of Chenghuang Temple, brimming with authority.

"Baie Hou, are you about to rebel against the heavens?"

"... rebel against the heavens?"

"... rebel against the heavens?"

The mountains surged, the echoes rolling on and on, one after another reverberating through the peaks, like towering waves spreading farther and farther, as if rousing the mountains to answer, ten thousand beasts to roar in unison, a million living souls answering one another across the distance, their might shaking the heavens.

Watching this scene from atop the clouds, Baie Hou's heartstrings quivered violently, and he hesitated, refusing to advance!

The several demon bodyguards behind him were each thrown into panic, their morale plummeting!

Su Yuanshan's deep, supremely authoritative snort seemed to awaken the instinctive awe that the wild mountain spirits deep within Baie Hou's heart held for the divine — he... shrank back. After hesitating again and again, he finally ground his tusks in the dark and let out a great roar.

"Green hills do not change, clear waters flow on. Old man of Chenghuang, the humiliation I, Baie, have suffered today — I will repay it a hundredfold in the days to come. Just you wait!"

"... just wait!"

"... just wait!"

An angry, explosive tiger's roar reverberated through the mountains, brimming with fury and the urge to kill.

The sound was like rolling thunder; demon clouds churned — but not toward Chenghuang Temple. Instead — quite the opposite. For a moment the horde of demons was left leaderless, and the mountain spirits and wild monsters lucky enough to have survived fled in panic, scattering in all directions. In an instant, the Chenghuang Temple that had seemed on the verge of a storm that would shake the whole house was cleansed of its sinister, demonic air, which vanished without a trace.