Chapter 1058: Human Race Rebels (2)

"According to the charges you've given me, I should have died a hundred million times, let alone ten thousand deaths?"

Hearing that familiar tone, hearing that familiar charge, Wu Tie 'hehe' laughed.

Canghai Daoist, Five Elements Daoist, Yin-Yang Daoist turned around, smiling as they looked at the large crowd surging in through the main hall gate.

Over a hundred old men with human bodies and serpent tails led the way, over a thousand sturdy men either swaying serpent tails or walking on foot followed closely, and then hundreds of thousands of armored soldiers holding ancient spears formed neat ranks and charged in.

Wu Tie glanced at the youth who had just leapt out of the Heavenly Dao Grotto, gave him a slight smile, then stepped into the earth cavern entrance.

The youth stared for a moment, then shouted loudly: "You, how dare you act like this!"

On the youth's head, a Dao seal flashed, transforming into a blazing sun that illuminated all directions.

Yin and Yang, the two extreme primordial forces, swept through the void, turning into countless yin-soft, drifting sword glints and countless yang-hard, violent spear glints that fiercely stabbed at Wu Tie.

Wu Tie swept his wide sleeve, shattering the sky-full of sword and spear glints; a gust of wind rose from the ground, the black gale slammed hard into the youth's body, with continuous cracking sounds, the youth was flung far away like a bundle of straw.

A lightness rose beneath his feet, the rich Dao rhythm transformed into rosy auspicious vapors that rose up, and Wu Tie's body slowly sank into the earth cavern.

"Kill!" an old man with silver-white hair and beard, his left eye holding a blazing sun, his right eye a bright moon, a wisp of purple aura rising from his head, forming auspicious clouds the size of a mu floating tens of zhang high, on the clouds flickering phantom images of layered palaces, with a huge bell hanging at the top, he waved his cane and shouted hoarsely.

Over a hundred old men with human bodies and serpent tails simultaneously waved their hands, and violent thunderbolts like a surging tide howled as they swept toward the three Canghai Daoists.

Canghai Daoist "haha" laughed, the 108 Canghai Divine Pearls leapt up, swiftly encircling the three to form an azure divine formation, while tightly sealing the entrance of the Heavenly Dao Grotto.

The newly obtained Grand Dao ability "One Qi Transforms into Three Purities", containing boundless heavenly dao mysteries, the Canghai Daoist is absorbing the essence of this inheritance, refining the flaws in his past cultivation.

The same amount of mana became ever more refined, ever more pure, ever closer to the primordial source of heaven and earth.

Likewise, the power that a single thread of mana could unleash was rapidly increasing.

Specifically, the divine formation set up by the Canghai Daoist emitted a blue water-light, far more intense and clear than before; this water-light inexplicably gave a sense of the source of the Great Dao, the essence of life.

Clearly a water-attribute divine formation, yet it seemed to encompass all things of heaven and earth.

Within the azure water-light, faintly visible were graceful fish and dragons, with countless illusions of aquatic beings appearing and disappearing.

A mysterious, unfathomable primordial creative aura emanated from within the Canghai Divine Pearls; inside these 108 Canghai Divine Pearls, strange changes were occurring, evolving from an originally pure, extreme water world toward a truly complete world.

The Canghai Daoist's "Dao" was rapidly increasing.

The Five Elements Daoist and Yin-Yang Daoist were the same.

The three were all incarnations severed by Wu Tie, sharing the same origin and pulse, their spirits interconnected, and they jointly contemplated the Great Dao's laws; strands of powerful, pure power, pointing directly to the primordial source of Mu Dalu, flowed between them.

Behind the Five Elements Daoist, five beams of divine light shot up into the sky and directly slammed into the Canghai Divine Pearl.

Thus, the originally extreme water power within the Canghai Divine Pearl began to merge with the profound mystery of the five elements' cyclical rebirth.

The Yin-Yang Daoist did the same: innate and acquired yin-yang power slammed into the Canghai Divine Pearl, making the five-element transformation ever more mysterious. The yin-yang and five-element powers merged together; inside the clear, pure Canghai Divine Pearl, a layer of hazy chaos appeared, like the primordial primordial chaos before heaven and earth were opened.

A thunderstorm like a surging tide swept in.

Over a hundred elders of the Fuxi Lineage joined forces to attack; they used the fastest, most potent pure yang thunder, yet the power each elder exerted was vastly different.

Some thunder was like a blade, some like a sword, some was fierce and domineering, some was swift and agile.

Among these thunderbolts, even more strange energies were mixed in—solar power, fire element, metal element, earth element, purifying power, and so on—and even appeared the Buddhist-exclusive pure yang, utmost strong demon-subduing force.

Likewise pure yang thunder, yet its power attributes changed in an instant.

The thunder flood submerged the divine formation, and the azure water-light tinged with a hint of chaotic murkiness violently trembled.

The three Canghai Daoists, after all, were not Wu Tie's true self; their methods still fell short of his.

Over a hundred elders of the Fuxi Lineage each had profound cultivation and abundant mana; their foundation upon entering the Dao far surpassed that of ordinary people, they had cultivated for countless years, and all had reached cultivation above the Venerable Sevenfold Heaven.

Thunder surged like a tide, and the bodies of the three Canghai Daoists also trembled slightly, their mana rapidly depleting.

Moreover, over a thousand experts who closely followed these elders surged in and all attacked; they did not merely employ thunder techniques, but each used their own most skilled divine arts.

Meteorites, blazing gold sabers, poisonous miasma, and even various witchcraft curses, poisonous insects, etc. —all kinds of strange and wondrous divine secret techniques surged in like a flood.

The Canghai Daoist, Five Elements Daoist, and Yin-Yang Daoist sat cross-legged, jointly maintaining the operation of the divine formation.

The Canghai Divine Pearl possessed immense power; as the three comprehended the pure dao rhythm within "One Qi Transforms into Three Purities", the power it emitted grew stronger, each pearl faintly trembling, and strands of primordial qi continually emanated.

Inside the Heavenly Dao Grotto, as Wu Tie's body descended, he gave a soft shout, and a golden light shot out from his forehead.

The thirty-three-layered Sarira Pagoda emitted boundless golden light, silently appearing behind the Canghai Daoists.

Strands of golden light connected with the Canghai Divine Pearl; at once the divine formation, which had been violently shaken by bombardment, seemed to have received a Divine Needle of Stabilizing the Sea, the great formation instantly stabilized, and its power began to increase continually.

"Impossible!" the white-haired elder who had struck first, his eyes containing sun and moon, roared hoarsely: "How could the primordial supreme treasure we used to suppress the Heavenly Dao Grotto possibly be at the mercy of these human race rebels? Impossible, impossible..."

The white-haired elder shouted hoarsely: "We are the human race orthodoxy, we represent the highest will of the human race……The human race is the lord of this heaven and earth; the will of the human race is the will of this heaven and earth; our will represents the will of this heaven and earth!"

"This heaven and earth has already been corrupted by demons, the heart of heaven and earth is dust-covered and lightless; only we, only we, our will is the purest, the most original, the most pristine; our every word and deed are the laws of heaven and earth!"

"You……what demonic means did you use to seize our human race supreme treasure?"

The Five Elements Daoist slightly opened his eyes, shook his head: "You, represent this heaven and earth? You, represent the human race orthodoxy?"

The Yin-Yang Daoist gave a faint smile, not even bothering to move his eyelids, he sighed softly: "A bunch of old fogies whose minds have been muddled by power and glory, spouting nonsense here……Ha, the human race orthodoxy that sits idly by while the human race is slaughtered by demons!"

The Canghai Daoist said faintly: "A human race orthodoxy completely devoid of any human merit!"

This sentence of the Canghai Daoist was like a red-hot pig-killing knife deeply thrust into the chests of all those old men; they shouted hoarsely in anger and defeat, while auspicious clouds burst from their heads, and an immensely tall Fuxi Holy Statue silently appeared above their heads through their joint effort.

The Fuxi Holy Statue, tens of thousands of zhang tall, held a sun-and-moon banner in its left hand and gripped a straight ruler in its right, its face expressionless, gaze chaotic, looking down upon the divine formation presided over by the three Canghai Daoists.

"Please, ancestral sages, subdue demons and eliminate evil!" Over a hundred old men, over a thousand human race experts, and hundreds of thousands of elite armored soldiers simultaneously knelt on the ground.

Semi-transparent, emitting strands of terrifying aura, the Fuxi Holy Statue's pupils faintly rippled with sun and moon light.

An immensely terrifying pressure descended from the heavens, crushing upon the bodies of the Canghai Daoist, Five Elements Daoist, and Yin-Yang Daoist.

The three shouted in unison, a wheel of radiant merit-gold light shot up from behind their heads. They are Wu Tie's three-corpse incarnations; they have followed Wu Tie in slaying an unknown number of demonic heretics and saving an unknown number of common folk.

Ninety-nine percent of the merit they accumulated resides in Wu Tie's body, but as three-corpse incarnations, their bodies are also stained with an extremely thick merit-gold light.

Compared to Wu Tie's merit-gold cake thirty thousand li in diameter, there is no comparison; yet the merit-gold light behind the Canghai Daoists' heads is a thousand zhang in size, the thick merit power turning into molten gold-like viscous fluid, boiling and rolling within the golden light, emitting a warmth that makes one feel cozy all over.

The Fuxi Holy Statue simply vanished completely, as if nothing had happened.

Over a hundred elders simultaneously spat out blood.

They jointly employed the secret art of the Xi Emperor's lineage, summoning a wisp of remnant soul of the ancient Fuxi clan from between heaven and earth, then poured their own life essence into it, thereby condensing this Fuxi holy statue.

If this Fuxi holy statue were to launch an attack, it could basically unleash part of the power of the "Immortal Sage" from ancient mythological legends, enough to annihilate any enemy of the present age!

But the Fuxi holy statue did nothing at all; it didn't even wait for these Elders' "Seeing Off the Ancestors' Primordial Spirit" ceremony before it simply dissipated.

The mana consumption exceeded ninety percent, and its own life essence was also depleted by about half.

Most importantly, despite such a huge cost, it actually had no effect at all.

The several hundred Elders were not only exhausted and depleted, but also furious.

"You… you…" the Elder whose eyes hold the sun and moon trembled with rage all over: "Men! Men! Quickly investigate this bastard's origins, mobilize personnel, exterminate his nine clans, destroy his paternal clan, destroy his maternal clan, destroy his relatives and friends—anyone who knows him, kill them all!"

The Canghai Daoist slightly opened his eyes: "My paternal line is that of the Ancient Witches, even a secret transmission lineage of the Ancient Witches…… My maternal line is of the Nuwa clan, and furthermore the renowned matriarch of Nuwa Island who was granted a tribal title…… If you want to exterminate my nine clans, where do you plan to start?"

All the Elders fell silent, dumbfounded on the spot.

Among humanity, the Ancient Witch lineage is one of the clans with the most ferocious and violent bloodline and the strongest combat power, arguably the top-tier combat group of humanity.

The Ancient Witch lineage has a hot temper and stubborn character, valuing its own inheritance above all; during the ancient calamities, the Ancient Witch lineage split into countless branch bloodlines, specifically to guard the bloodline inheritance and civilization inheritance of the Ancient Witch lineage.

Given the Ancient Witch lineage's savage nature—"touch a finger of mine and I'll exterminate your whole family; strike one of my brothers and I'll mobilize the entire clan"—to wipe out the Wu Tie‑born Witch clan is to launch a war of extermination against the entire Ancient Witch lineage!

Moreover, Wu Tie's mother happens to be the renowned matriarch of Nuwa Island!

The several hundred Elders all cursed in their hearts—"fuck your mother!"

Among humanity, the top combat talents are sent to Xi Valley from childhood to receive combat training, wildly increasing their cultivation, becoming humanity's top combat force.

Among humanity, the finest female bloodline comes from the Nuwa clan; the upper echelons of humanity all take Nuwa women as spouses. Nuwa Island is responsible for safeguarding human traditions, maintaining human rites, transmitting human civilization, and guarding the last glimmer of civilized light.

The major affairs of a state lie in sacrifice and war.

Offer sacrifices to the azure heaven and ancestors, never forgetting one's origins.

Use military force to defend the tribespeople, not allowing outsiders to bully them.

Nuwa Island and Xi Valley are humanity's two foremost powers. Xi Valley can, due to disagreements, ruthlessly annihilate the Dragon‑Raising Clan, but Xi Valley could never possibly lay a hand on Nuwa Island.

The Canghai Daoist calmly said: "A bunch of muddled, arrogant old fogies, how dare you stand here?"

The Five Elements Daoist calmly said: "You spare no secret art to summon the remnants of the human ancestors' souls, yet the human ancestors do not strike against us…… The human ancestors acknowledge us, but not you…… Therefore, we are the orthodox of humanity, while you are all rebels!"

The several hundred Elders of the Xi Huang lineage remained silent.

After a moment, the Elder whose eyes hold the sun and moon lightly waved his staff: "We are the true orthodox of humanity, representing humanity's will, the heart of heaven and earth, and the will of all spirits and things on Mu Dalu."

"Kill them!" this Elder said in a low voice: "Kill these demons, and we shall be the orthodox."

The three Canghai Daoists burst out laughing together: "By choosing to decide orthodoxy and rebellion with the butcher's knife, you have already embarked on the evil path!"

The Elder whose eyes hold the sun and moon bellowed hoarsely; his thick snake tail flicked and turned into two sturdy legs. He strode forward, sprinting to the edge of the divine formation, then brought his staff down with all his might.

Several hundred Elders, over a thousand experts, and hundreds of thousands of armored soldiers surged forward together.

The Canghai Divine Pearl measured out, and twelve small god‑slaying vessels, along with countless divine warriors, simultaneously appeared within the divine formation.

Hundreds of millions of divine warriors hovered densely and neatly in mid‑air; from their scarlet pupils, countless fine beams of light shot out, fiercely striking the brow of the Elder whose eyes hold the sun and moon who stood at the forefront.

With a strange howl, the Elder's brow was burned open into a wound the size of a soybean, several inches deep, directly injuring his brain.

The Elder dropped his staff, covered his brow wound, and turned to leave.

The Five Elements Daoist's voice echoed throughout the hall: "If the butcher's knife can determine orthodoxy, it is obvious that you are the rebels of humanity!"