Chapter 1052

Ji Bai Jie really intends to finish things off completely!

Above the floating clouds and inside the warships, vast divine light blazed up, and countless Heavenly Court soldiers rushed over via the transfer formation at extreme speed.

Strands of great dao patterns rose from the bodies of those Heavenly Court soldiers, inhaling and exhaling heaven and earth primal energy, transforming into dark-gold chains densely inscribed with countless runes, Clang—, like a tangible existence forged from metal, rolling across the sky and completely sealing off the void within a radius of a million li.

Heaven and earth primal energy is cut off; only the Heavenly Court's great power can inhale and exhale the external heaven and earth primal energy.

An overwhelming pressure fell like a mountain crashing down from above; Wu Tie's body sank slightly, Gong Sun Yao let out a low growl, and Qing Ning's body twisted minutely, already emitting clear sounds of bones shattering.

"Ya~~~Hai!" Qing Ning let out a long whistle, she again stirred her essence blood, about to activate that treasure mirror of immense power but also enormous energy consumption, when Wu Tie already placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Lady Qing Ning, let me handle this." Wu Tie gently pushed Qing Ning outward, and she involuntarily flew toward Gong Sun Yao.

"Don't blame this king for taking advantage of the chaos; I like this treasure… together with your son's holy sword in his hand, and I have quite a affinity with it." Wu Tie said in a deep voice: "Hand over this mirror and this sword to me, and today I will save you and get you out."

Qing Ning's eyes flickered, she said in a deep voice: "This sword, this mirror, are merely temporarily lent to Yao'er; ownership…… belongs to the human holy land, the Xi Valley controlled by the Fu Xi Clan. If you take it, there will be trouble."

Wu Tie shrugged his shoulders: "Many debts, no worry; many lice, no itch; trouble, I'm not afraid."

Qing Ning let out a long whistle, drawing deeply at that treasure mirror, a speck of spiritual light flew out from the mirror, and she severed all connection with it herself.

Wu Tie burst into loud laughter, his right hand pressed on the treasure mirror, and a grand, vast flow of chaotic magical power poured into it. The treasure mirror emitted a low, rumbling sound, and instantly images of the heavenly realms, billions of stars, countless humans, gods, immortals, ghosts, flowers, birds, insects, and fish appeared on its surface.

Qing Ning flew to Gong Sun Yao's side, she grabbed his arm with one hand, and shouted sternly: "Yao'er, hand over the holy sword to the Martial King."

Gong Sun Yao gave Wu Tie a deep look, then shook his hand and threw the gleaming golden holy sword over. The holy sword turned into a wheel of golden light flying toward Wu Tie, and Gong Sun Yao shouted sternly: "Martial King… I remember you! I still do not approve of your conduct!"

Gong Sun Yao shouted hoarsely: "Even if you have boundless merit, even if you saved countless human beings, you sacrifice to extraterrestrial demons to exchange for a breakthrough in realm…… I, disdain to be with you! In the future, we will ultimately still have to divide victory and defeat!"

Wu Tie grabbed the flying holy sword in one grasp.

"Bang," the sword hilt landed in Wu Tie's palm, stirring up a gust of hurricane-like air wave.

Gong Sun Yao's pupils suddenly shrank to the size of a pinprick——just now the treasure mirror had restored him to peak condition, when he threw the holy sword he ruthlessly exerted all his strength, and furthermore secretly employed techniques such as Dragon Elephant Mighty Strength, Move Mountains and Seize Oceans, Pluck the Moon and Pick Stars, and over a dozen other immensely amplifying divine abilities.

The terrifying force carried on the thrown holy sword was at least a hundred times Gong Sun Yao's peak strength!

After all, it was bolstered by over a dozen divine abilities!

Yet Wu Tie so lightly grabbed the holy sword in one hand, his body didn't even sway a bit.

Gong Sun Yao cursed furiously in his heart, such conduct was simply like the legendary primordial beast, utterly inhuman!

With his left hand lightly turning the holy sword, great swaths of sword light swept aside; Wu Tie casually pointed, his 'Sword Dao' had already condensed a Dao seal, and in swordsmanship he could be called the pinnacle among humanity.

With a casual point, the holy sword emitted a piercing tearing sound; tens of millions of golden sword lights shot up into the air, instantly sweeping over the Heavenly Court army before Wu Tie. Each sword light was like a living thing, twisting and maneuvering in the air, pursuing and stabbing on its own.

With one sword, the Heavenly Court soldiers on the tens of thousands of Heavenly Court warships before Wu Tie were instantly cleared.

Heavenly Court warships exploded and caught fire, then split into two halves in the air, spewing smoke and fire as they fell to the ground.

Countless Heavenly Court soldiers were instantly reborn, rushing out from palace after palace floating on clouds. But the sudden loss of so many soldiers tore open a huge gap several thousand li in diameter in the Heavenly Net and Earthly Trap grand formation they had just formed.

Qing Ning fiercely pinched Gong Sun Yao's arm: 'Yao'er, go… Ji Baijie has betrayed humanity; this news must be spread quickly… otherwise, he will become a great calamity for humanity!'

Gong Sun Yao originally still wanted to stay here to see how Wu Tie and Ji Baijie would settle their scores.

After hearing Qing Ning's words and seeing the countless corpses of human high-ranking officials strewn across the ground, Gong Sun Yao let out a hoarse, exhausted roar, taking Qing Ning with him as they turned into a fleeting illusion and vanished.

After all, he was one who had entered the Dao through the Three Thousand Great Daos, with formidable cultivation, deep foundations, and endless divine abilities and secret arts. Gong Sun Yao took Qing Ning and left, appearing somewhat like a combination of the Buddhist 'Mind Thought Escape Light' and the Daoist 'Vertical Earth Golden Light Method'.

He left without a trace, with incredible speed; even with Wu Tie's current eyesight, he could barely catch a faint afterimage that flickered and vanished.

'Excellent means!' Wu Tie laughed loudly; a golden sword identical to the holy sword in his hand, but with a slightly weaker aura, flew out from his sleeve. The two longswords lightly touched, and instantly both let out a high-pitched sword cry.

'Don't worry, don't worry, I'll have you recombine into one right away… Hmm, according to that old coot Gong Sun San Yang, the human holy sword has three fragments forged into three holy swords? Then you still have a companion, right?'

'Don't worry, I'll quickly return you to your original form.' Wu Tie smiled: 'The human holy weapons were not born of heaven and earth, but were forged by the ancient human emperor, then empowered with human merit and the faith of humanity.'

'I lack neither human merit nor human faith… Don't worry, I will do my best to return you to your original strongest form.'

In Wu Tie's hand, streams of merit light like molten gold flowed, quickly pouring into the newly acquired human holy sword. The two holy swords began to vibrate violently, melt, and then quickly merge into one.

They were originally one, but after being broken in the ancient mythic era, the fragments were reforged by later human descendants.

Since the ancient mythic era, no one among the human high-ranking has possessed sufficient human merit, so they could not restore the holy sword to its original form—but Wu Tie lacks no human merit; he just hasn't found a way to use it.

'You're the same!' Wu Tie patted the giant treasure mirror a thousand zhang in diameter in his hand: 'Although you are a mirror forged from a fragment born of heaven and earth, having some human merit is better than none, right?'

On the mirror's surface, vast divine light flashed like fireworks bursting open; Wu Tie likewise poured a grand and vast stream of merit power into the mirror. Mist rose from the mirror's surface, rosy light shimmered, and countless tiny runes slowly flowed out from deep within the mirror.

Faintly visible, within the mirror's depths a lively clump of divine light throbbed violently, only the size of a human head, its surface covered with countless cracks. But as merit power was poured in, innumerable Dao patterns naturally arose; the cracks in that clump of divine light quickly vanished, and its volume rapidly increased.

'Martial King Wu Tie!' Ji Baijie let out a hysterical roar.

Everything happened so quickly—from Wu Tie's sudden appearance, to Wu Tie 'extorting' a sword and a mirror, to Gong Sun Yao and Qing Ning fleeing—it all took only the snap of a finger.

Wu Tie acted too fast, Gong Sun Yao left too decisively; even though Ji Baijie commanded such a massive host of Heavenly Court soldiers and possessed power exceeding that of a venerable, his actual cultivation level placed here left him unable to react at all.

Now Ji Baijie is like a giant tens of thousands of li tall, possessing boundless strength.

But his brain core is only the size of a mung bean, and his nervous system can cover only a small half of his body.

He can use this body, but he cannot flexibly and freely drive it, nor can he make this body exert its full power.

After all, he himself also relies on the 'Investiture of the Gods' list, completely depending on it to obtain enormous power. Yet his own realm is extremely limited; in terms of true cultivation level, Ji Baijie has merely entered the Dao via a few hundred great Dao laws and heterodox side paths.

Placed in the ancient Sui dynasty, Ji Baijie could be considered a top-tier 'King God', a top-tier monstrous talent.

But placed among all of humanity, Ji Baijie can only be considered mediocre.

Not to mention compared with Wu Tie and Gong Sun Yao, even the elite warriors cultivated by the common people are not inferior to Ji Baijie.

His realm insufficient, when faced with sudden changes, Ji Baijie's reaction was undoubtedly much slower.

Thus the formation was broken, thus Gong Sun Yao took Qing Ning and fled, thus Wu Tie had enough time to fuse the two holy swords into one, and even leisurely, amid the encircling troops, he used merit power to sacrifice and refine the mirror, also helping it recover most of its original power.

'Cast from a fragment of the Heavenly Mirror?' Wu Tie chuckled, looking at the treasure mirror in his hand whose volume was gradually shrinking: 'A legendary treasure… tsk, it was smashed, and no other fragments could be found; you are merely the core part of a fragment, preserved by our human ancestors and forged together with countless rare materials.'

'Well, I'll help you find where your other fragments are—how about that?'

The mirror trembled slightly.

Wu Tie laughed: 'Because the body is incomplete, the mana consumption is enormous? Well, no fear, no fear—I fear nothing more than mana consumption.'

Wu Tie laughed loudly, pouring his vast, sea-like mana into the mirror; instantly a beam of divine light shot up from the mirror's surface, spreading instantly in all directions, and in a flash the mirror's light swept over a hundred li, a thousand li, ten thousand li, a hundred thousand li…

The mirror's light expanded rapidly, while Wu Tie's mana consumption surged like a volcanic eruption.

But Wu Tie's foundation is too profound; the mana stored in each of his cells equals the total mana cultivation of several cultivators of the same rank.

No matter how great the treasure mirror's consumption, Wu Tie continued to provide a steady, endless torrent of mana.

"Suppress and kill!" Ji Bai Jie roared hoarsely.

Strands of dark-gold chains shook violently, like countless frenzied flood dragons coiling around Wu Tie. These were law chains formed from the condensed mana of countless heavenly court soldiers, encompassing all things, nearly including every Dao that humanity and other intelligent beings could comprehend.

Wu Tie let out a cold snort: "Thank you!"

His body remained in a depleted state, his condition had not yet returned to its peak, and he was still a skin-and-bones thin figure.

Strands of law chains containing immense heavenly-earth elemental energy slammed into Wu Tie's body, as if each were a vein of limitless energy directly striking him.

Wu Tie's body suddenly turned into a black hole; countless thick-as-water-barrel dark-gold chains pierced into his body, then the chains violently trembled, being wildly pulled, devoured, and transformed into pure, vast mana by his body, which was directly poured into the treasure mirror.

The countless heavenly court members present all spat blood.

The heavenly court soldiers present numbered in the hundreds of billions, and the Heavenly Net Earthly Web Grand Formation covered over a hundred million li of void.

Despite such a vast and overbearing formation, Wu Tie alone resisted, devoured, and absorbed it, and his body showed no sign of being unable to withstand it.

Ji Bai Jie's face twisted as he bellowed hoarsely: "You… what monster are you? Your body cannot be that of a human!"

"Don't even mention Venerable rank; even above Venerable, those legendary old monsters' fleshly bodies could not withstand the crushing of the Heavenly Net Earthly Web Grand Formation… you, you, you…"

Wu Tie glanced askance at Ji Bai Jie: "Uncultured… if you had heard enough mythic tales, you would know that among our ancestors, some could shatter chaos, some could smash the firmament… as their descendants, why could we not do what they could?"

Ji Bai Jie roared: "The current heavenly and earthly laws do not allow it; those extraterrestrial demons would never permit humanity to produce a powerhouse like you!"

Wu Tie said calmly: "They don't allow it? Why should we listen to them? If they don't allow it, then we'll fight until they do."

Wu Tie opened his mouth and drew in a deep breath.

A void with a diameter of a million li suddenly collapsed and darkened; except for a faint glimmer of spiritual light flickering in the treasure mirror he held, the million-li void became utterly lightless, pure, and black—despair-inducing darkness like a black hole.

Ji Bai Jie's body was shattered, and the bodies of tens of billions of heavenly court soldiers were shattered.

Their bodies were formed from special-attribute energy condensed by the Ascendant Immortal Pool; upon shattering, they directly turned into the purest energy, which Wu Tie swallowed in one gulp.

"I swallowed a hundred billion soldiers in one gulp!" Wu Tie laughed loudly, and an even greater surge of mana flowed into the treasure mirror in his hand.

The treasure mirror trembled violently; its light had already swept across half of Mu Dalu, covering roughly thirty percent of its territory.

The original form of this treasure mirror was the supreme treasure of the Primordial Mythic Era, used by the Three Realms' Sovereign to monitor heaven and earth; wherever its light passed, every speck of sand and dust, every blade of grass and leaf, could be seen clearly.

Deep within the earth, beneath thick strata, in countless perilous secret realms, fragments ranging from the size of a human head down to no larger than a sesame seed suddenly lit up all at once; in the instant the mirror's light swept over them, these fragments merged into the light.

A constant "ding-ding-dong-dong" sound rang out as countless thin strands of spiritual light flew from all directions, continually streaming into the treasure mirror.

The cluster of divine light at the treasure mirror's core suddenly expanded to several times its size; the mirror's aura grew ever more vast and primordially ancient, as difficult-to-describe spatio-temporal power emanated from within, the powerful Dao resonance nourishing Wu Tie's entire body, causing the dozens of Dao seals he had comprehended—related to space, time, and more—to shine brilliantly, his realm soaring.

Third Heaven of Venerable, Fourth Heaven of Venerable, Fifth Heaven of Venerable…

In just a quarter of an hour, Ji Bai Jie and a group of heavenly court high officials had not yet managed to escape from the Ascendant Immortal Pool, while Wu Tie's two Dao seals of space and time, together with dozens of other Dao seals, had nearly reached the level of Great Perfection of Venerable.

The Dao seals shone; within billions of li, void and time—Wu Tie alone reigned supreme!