Chapter 1130: Turning the Tables from Desperation

When Wu Tie revealed their status after the Merit Golden Wheel appeared, on the ground, Martial Capital.

Pei Feng, Bai Ying, Zhu Zi, plus Wu Dashan, Wu Dahai, Wu Dahe and other children and grandchildren of Wu Tie, moreover Wu Tie's parents and brothers, all the relatives of the Wu tribe, as well as the top civil and military officials of Wuguo, all stood neatly on the roof of the highest hall of the imperial city.

"Dashan, you all remember, remember earnestly, remember with your lives."

Pei Feng's voice, carrying a hint of coldness like a blade honed from icy frost: "Remember their appearance, remember their aura, remember everything about them."

"Remember them, remember them with your lives…… then, slaughter them all."

Pei Feng clenched their fists, staring fixedly at the gods hovering in the void above the firmament.

Wu Dashan, Wu Dahai, Wu Dahe and other descendants of Wu Tie with sufficient cultivation, capable of seeing through the firmament and spotting the invading alien gods in the void, all narrowed their eyes, gazes like blades, sweeping over each of the topmost primeval sacred gods, ancient gods, god emperors, god kings, and so on.

As for the Three Supreme Ancestral Gods, they were cautious and did not dare to peek at them.

This is something Wu Tie has repeatedly emphasized: the power of immortals is far beyond what the current Wuguo can peek at.

Nor do they need to peek at anything now…… what Wu Tie is doing is to eliminate the greatest risk for them.

Deal with the strongest enemy first, then leave everything to those who come after.

Wu Tie slowly raised the holy sword in their hand.

Four strands of chaos sword light roared as they expanded to a length of ten trillion li, like four giant pillars reaching from heaven to earth, enveloping Wu Tie and the Flow Water God Ancestor within.

The Merit Golden Wheel behind Wu Tie trembled violently, a mass of purple and gold mixed flames wrapping the golden wheel, merit power burning madly, streams of strange power continually flowing into Wu Tie's body.

"Exchange merit for heavenly blessings!" the Flow Water God Ancestor pursed their lips, as if the one who just lost face and shouted insults wasn't them.

Lifting their head, the Flow Water God Ancestor waved their right hand; a crystal-clear sword, trembling slightly like ice, as if a fragile transparent water sword slowly grew from their palm.

"But, after all, this isn't your proper personal cultivation…… using immeasurable merit to borrow heavenly might? What a pity." the Flow Water God Ancestor smiled and shook their head: "Such a vast amount of merit, if placed in our ancestral land of old…… could almost forcibly elevate one to a half-step immortal."

Achieving immortality has various methods.

Among them, the hardest to say is also the hardest, the easiest to say is also the easiest: nothing more than directly praying to heaven and earth with immeasurable merit, exchanging merit with heaven and earth, receiving heavenly support, and directly exchanging for an immortal position.

Among the invading gods' allied army of old, about one tenth of the immortals were, in their respective god clan ancestral lands, gathering immeasurable merit, aided by the heavenly-earth origin power of each ancestral land, and exchanging merit for immortal cultivation.

The Three God Ancestors, too, were quite experienced in this; at a glance they saw that although Wu Tie's accumulated merit power was indeed vast, using merit to exchange for the immortal realm likely still fell short by about half.

Half-step immortal, right?

This is the peak!

Moreover…… the three god ancestors glanced at Mu Dalu and simultaneously sneered.

Having experienced the previous extinction war, especially before that war, Mu Dalu had fallen even deeper into the degenerate era; before that degenerate era, Mu Dalu had repeatedly suffered severe damage from internal human wars, even being shattered and split apart.

Mu Dalu's origin suffered grave damage.

Present-day Mu Dalu fundamentally lacks sufficient foundation to nurture a native human immortal.

If immortals are immense-bodied, limitless-powered dragons, then present-day Mu Dalu is merely a vast, misty lake; its volume, water volume, and energy level are utterly incapable of nurturing or containing an immortal.

Wu Tie is burning merit power.

Their aura is gradually rising.

The Three God Ancestors carefully surveyed Mu Dalu, then smiled firmly.

To kill, one must strike at the heart!

They are quite willing to let Wu Tie burn merit power, so that they can unleash their strongest possible strike!

Before countless humans and countless god slaves, letting all beings see how they overwhelmingly crush and subdue Wu Tie.

They want one battle, to completely erase the human resistance mentality.

They want one battle, to completely erase the resentment and agitation in the hearts of the gods whom they have forcibly reduced to slaves.

So, let Wu Tie jump around a bit!

The Flow Water God Ancestor has enough power to suppress Wu Tie…… even though the Flow Water God Ancestor has suffered heavy injuries and their vital energy has not yet recovered, but even if they suffered even greater harm, the Flow Water God Ancestor awakened from slumber is, after all, an immortal.

Whether half-step immortal or primeval sacred god peak…… they, if they haven't reached the immortal realm, absolutely cannot be a match for an immortal.

The Flow Water God Ancestor even laughed and said: "Lowly slave, don't rush, we are especially gracious, permitting you to continue gathering strength…… bring forth whatever means you have! Hehe!"

The Earth God Ancestor laughed "crack crack", then backhandedly seized a lava giant god, rubbed it with both hands, directly kneading the lava giant god into a large lava ball, then tossed it into their mouth to chew "crunch crunch".

While chewing with gusto, the Earth God Ancestor mumbled a laugh: "Exactly, we're not in a hurry, you can go all out."

The Death God Ancestor smiled slightly, backhandedly hooked, a dark spirit god clan god emperor let out a sharp, terrified wail, seized in their hand. Likewise, rubbing both hands lightly, that dark spirit god clan god emperor turned into a mass of pure death-origin power.

The Death God Ancestor pointed a finger, and that mass of death power condensed into a large, wholly black apple.

She bit the apple "crack", slowly saying: "Exactly, we have endless lifespan, endless time, we naturally have endless patience…… slave, fully display your power to please us!"

The Death God Ancestor narrowed their eyes, gleefully smiling: "I love watching you struggle desperately, only to end up kneeling at our feet, weeping bitterly…… later, you must cry, you must cry!"

Wu Tie smiled slightly, the merit power behind them burning rapidly; with each breath, hundreds of li, even thousands of li in diameter of merit power flowed into their body.

Their mass of innate spiritual light swelled, undergoing violent tremors.

They could sense Mu Dalu, clearly sensing Mu Dalu: mountain ranges, waterways, mountain peaks and hills, seas and deserts.

They could sense Mu Dalu's pulse, sense Mu Dalu's vitality throbbing and trembling.

They could even sense Mu Dalu's vague, naive heavenly-earth will.

It is very weak, very unstable.

But it is a heavenly-earth will that truly exists.

Suffering severe damage, now it can barely maintain the operation of heaven and earth, and can no longer support the heavenly-earth will that would rapidly expand Mu Dalu's volume.

Wu Tie closed their eyes, raised the human race holy sword high, then opened their whole heart and mind, issuing a call to Mu Dalu: "Come, come, come, as you demand, come…… I will unconditionally cooperate with you, cooperate with you…… I will give my all, you also give your all!"

"Let us, for all humanity, blaze a heavenly passage for survival!"

"Let us, for our human race, open a world where everyone lives in peace."

Above Mu Dalu, three thousand strands of purple qi and eighty-four thousand strands of golden light condensed into a massive, dragon-like great dao chain, crisscrossing, covering all of Mu Dalu, entwining all of Mu Dalu.

The primordial chaos churned violently, Mu Dalu turned into a gigantic black hole, frantically devouring the surrounding primordial chaos torrent.

The Three God Ancestors smiled, gently shaking their heads.

Trivial skills, not worth mentioning……Even if the entirety of Mu Dalu were to collide with them now, it could not harm their foundation. In truth, Mu Dalu today is far smaller in volume than during the ancient extinction war……What do they have to fear?

Moreover, Wu Tie's true form is merely a measly Ancient God–level strength; with such 'feeble' power, even if he borrows the force of heaven and earth, how much could he actually borrow?

"Strive, do your best……I look forward to your performance." The Flowing Water God Ancestor smiled, even taking interest in glancing back at the other two God Ancestors.

Seeing the two of them happily stuffing snacks, the Flowing Water God Ancestor's gaze swiftly swept over the countless divine clans behind, landing on the spirits of the Ice Spirit Divine Clan.

The faces of the myriad Ice Spirit Divine Clan's divinities, Ancient Gods, and Divine Emperors turned ashen; they hastily lowered their heads, dreading to catch the Flowing Water God Ancestor's eye and become her 'little snack' for passing time and replenishing energy.

Wu Tie's aura surged.

Boundless heaven-and-earth power poured into his body, his cultivation skyrocketing.

Amid the violent trembling of countless heaven-and-earth Dao chains, Wu Tie's aura broke through the Saint Realm and swiftly entered the Primordial Unity Realm. The Merit Golden Wheel burned furiously, just as the Three God Ancestors had judged; Wu Tie sacrificed his accumulated boundless merit, and his realm instantly broke through to the Half-step Immortal Realm!

It had reached its utmost.

It could not be increased any further!

The Three God Ancestors simultaneously gave a faint smile. This is Wu Tie's utmost, and also the utmost of the entire Mu Dalu today!

The Flowing Water God Ancestor lightly swayed her Flowing Water Long Sword; a Half-step Immortal who borrows tremendous heavenly power and possesses several supreme treasures of the highest grade still poses only a slight threat.

After all, she is still in a heavily injured state, not yet recovered to her peak.

However, it is merely a bit of slight pressure; with a little care, she could suppress it with a flip of her palm.

"Slave, are you ready? I await your sword!" The Flowing Water God Ancestor gazed at Wu Tie with a flower-like smile, then cheerfully said: "If your sword is splendid enough, I can even grant you a bit of honor……for instance, letting you marry into the first batch of newborn descendants I have created? That would be a great honor for you!"

Wu Tie smiled at the Flowing Water God Ancestor, nodding with a smile.

Then Wu Tie let out a loud roar, sacrificing merit power to raise his cultivation; the Half-step Immortal Wu Tie exerted all his strength and slashed a sword at the Flowing Water God Ancestor.

A golden sword gleam, protected by four chaotic sword gleams, tore through the void and thrust straight at the Flowing Water God Ancestor's brow vital point.

The Flowing Water God Ancestor smiled faintly, lightly shaking her Flowing Water Long Sword; a ripple of water spread out, Wu Tie's sword gleam struck the ripples, then the gleam gradually wore away, melted, and was absorbed bit by bit by the water.

The Flowing Water God Ancestor laughed, sighed, and shook her head: "A bit short on timing……Half-step Immortal, after all, still falls far short, far too short."

The Death God Ancestor laughed.

The Earth God Ancestor laughed.

The Flowing Water God Ancestor laughed.

The Three God Ancestors all laughed easily, their vigilance toward Wu Tie having relaxed to the utmost.

Because they could see that Wu Tie held nothing back, unleashing this strike with no reservation—this is the peak attack he can currently muster, yet it inflicted no harm on the Flowing Water God Ancestor.

Wu Tie exhausted all his inner strength; this sword nearly flung his entire essence, energy, and spirit outward.

Even the Golden Relic Pagoda atop his head grew dim and lusterless after that strike; the golden relic light shielding Wu Tie became as thin as a cicada's wing, appearing as if it could be shattered by a breath.

The Death God Ancestor drawled: "Give him a little lesson, let him know why a vile slave is vile……and why we, exalted above all, are the masters of everything."

The Flowing Water God Ancestor smiled, approaching Wu Tie like drifting clouds and flowing water, and lightly patted his chest with a palm.

"Bang!"

The relic light emanating from the Golden Relic Pagoda shattered; Wu Tie's chest exploded, half of it blasted to fragments, and a huge hole was torn open in his upper body.

The Flowing Water God Ancestor smiled at Wu Tie: "A little lesson—let your soul remember your present pain, remember this near‑death state……From now on, behave as our slave, and don't step out of line!"

Wu Tie grimaced, blood continually flowing from his mouth.

The Flowing Water, Death, and Earth God Ancestors moved simultaneously. They teleported to above Wu Tie's head, their feet resting on his crown, forming a triangular arrangement of three squares around the dim‑glowing Golden Relic Pagoda, and all six hands grabbed its base.

"Talk doesn't count; only what's in hand does." The Three God Ancestors intoned in unison, low and stern.

How could they possibly let go of this supreme treasure that stores boundless merit and possesses unimaginable defensive power?

Everything had already settled; the second fall of humanity was now a fact, and they must exert their full strength to seize ownership of the Golden Relic Pagoda.

Compared to this boundlessly defensive supreme treasure, they had little interest in Wu Tie's four slaughter‑oriented fierce weapons……In this world, few can survive a single strike from them; they care only for their own safety!

One could even say that with the Golden Relic Pagoda, each of them could, by sheer individual power, oppose the other two combined!

All of this occurred at the instant the Flowing Water God Ancestor's palm heavily wounded Wu Tie, leaving him gravely injured and near death, precisely when the Three God Ancestors completely lowered their guard against Wu Tie and began to contend for the Golden Relic Pagoda.

The three palms pressed firmly against the Golden Relic Pagoda.

They frenziedly poured their own power into the pagoda, forcibly refining the relic tower while simultaneously using the momentum to attack the other two.

They gathered all their strength, wholeheartedly entering the struggle for the Golden Relic Pagoda.

On the ground, countless Wuguo officials, countless Wuguo soldiers, and countless Wuguo commoners fell to their knees in worship.

In unison they chanted Wu Tie's name.

Over these years, the merit power accumulated by Wuguo's civil and military officials and its soldiers, together with the faith power of countless Wuguo civilians, poured into Wu Tie's body like a tide, without any conditions.

Behind Wu Tie, a Merit Golden Wheel with a diameter of a million li appeared once more!

This is the aggregation of the merit power amassed over a thousand-plus years by Wuguo's hundreds of millions of subjects and soldiers; everyone willingly relinquished this merit and offered it to Wu Tie.

The will of heaven and earth of Mu Dalu permitted this transfer of merit, allowing Wuguo from top to bottom to devote its national merit to Wu Tie.

Above Wu Tie's head a Spirit Cloud burst open; the Three Corpses Avatars sat cross‑legged upon it, a beam of light shot straight to the heavens, and the avatars condensed from Wu Tie's comprehended Three Thousand Great Daos and Eighty‑four Thousand Heterodox Paths—each far weaker than Wu Tie—sat quietly in splendid divine shrines.

Wu Tie's true form and the Three Corpses Avatars all reached the Half‑step Immortal Realm.

The Three Thousand Great Dao avatars each possessed the peak cultivation of an Ancient God.

The avatars formed from the Eighty‑four Thousand Heterodox Paths all had the peak strength of a Divine Emperor.

In the skies above Mu Dalu, countless Dao chains trembled and roared violently; at the intersecting nodes of these vertical and horizontal Dao chains, immense divine thrones resembling shrines quietly appeared.

Celestial light fell like rain; Wu Tie's condensed Dao avatars leapt forth, transforming into streams of light that poured into the corresponding Dao thrones.

Merit power burned wildly, and Wu Tie's Dao avatars frenziedly merged with Mu Dalu's Dao laws.

With each Dao avatar fused, Mu Dalu's heaven‑and‑earth consciousness grew a little, its aura strengthened a little, its speed of devouring the primordial chaos tide increased by several percent, and its rate of outward expansion and growth rose by several percent.

"Offer!"

Above the city of Wu, Wa Mu's body flickered, transforming into a holy statue tens of thousands of feet tall with a human torso and serpent tail; her clear voice, filled with boundless sorrow and anger, rang out through the heavens.

All Wuguo cultivators at the Divine level and above simultaneously bit their middle fingers, sprinkling a drop of essence blood toward heaven and earth.

Heaven and earth are incomplete; humans make up for it!

In the primordial era, Mu Dalu was shattered into pieces by the war of the primordial mighty beings; one of the human race's primordial ancestors, Nüwa, refined stones to mend the heavens!

Nowadays, the human race lacks such strength, lacks such divine powers, cannot refine stones to mend the heavens, but can concentrate one's own cultivation, one's own essence blood, one's own sincere faith, and the boundless incense-faith power gathered from the entire human race, all onto Wu Tie alone.

Nüwa refined the five-colored divine stone to mend the heavens.

Wu Tie refined himself, merging into the operation of Mu Dalu's Heaven and Earth Grand Dao, using himself to make up for heaven and earth.

'Dang-lang, clang-clang'!

Three thousand purple qi chains and eighty-four thousand golden light chains swept in from all directions, linking with a 'ding-ding-dang-dang' sound onto Wu Tie's body.

At this moment, Wu Tie became the axis of Mu Dalu's operation!

His aura perfectly merged with Mu Dalu's aura into one.

Then, in an instant, Wu Tie's aura leapt to the Immortal Realm!

Wu Tie's tempered flesh shattered, turning into a pouring blood rain that drenched the entirety of Mu Dalu.

Mu Dalu became Wu Tie's body.

A clump of innate spiritual light condensed by Wu Tie turned into a semi-transparent Wu Tie silhouette; he lowered his head, smiled at Martial Capital, then his body flickered, and the Golden Relic Pagoda atop his head burst forth with inconceivable brilliant light.

The Three Great Divine Ancestors, a hundred holy beings, thousands of ancient gods, and tens of thousands of god emperors and god kings were all enveloped by a golden light and forcibly moved to the skies above the former Xi Valley.

At this moment, Wu Tie burst forth with the mighty power of an immortal, to the point that even the Three Great Divine Ancestors could not resist.

After all, they were wounded divine ancestors, and after all, their current strength is far weaker than at their peak.

A crystal-clear Heavenly Crystal War Star leapt forth from the void and appeared directly above Wu Tie's head.

Above the vast, misty sea, beneath forty-nine towering mountain ranges, a lofty dragon's roar rang out simultaneously, and countless giant dragon phantasms shot up into the sky, crashing into the Heavenly Crystal War Star.

The Heavenly Crystal War Star sprouted countless crystal-barrel cannons all over its body, and a torrent of flowing light shot forth, instantly blasting all the transported god kings into nothingness.

Tens of thousands of god emperors and ancient gods were severely wounded, each blasted to fragments, with only a clump of divine soul left for some.

Those ancient gods and holy beings each screamed shrilly and roared in anger.

Wu Tie twisted his hands, and four strands of chaos sword light burst forth, rapidly tearing through the void.

Only then did the Three Great Divine Ancestors react; they hastily released their hands and each launched a formless, traceless law attack at Wu Tie.

The four strands of chaos sword light violently trembled, then continued to sweep toward those holy beings and ancient gods.

The Three Great Divine Ancestors roared and bellowed, wanting to break free to launch an all-out attack on Wu Tie.

But the Golden Relic Pagoda emitted a tremendous suction, firmly sticking to their palms; despite their frenzied attacks, the golden spiritual light radiating from the pagoda violently trembled, and fine cracks continually appeared on its body, yet the Three Great Divine Ancestors could not break free for the time being.

The sword light loomed in the air; with just a single strike, all the god emperors present vanished into nothingness, and all the god kings were blasted to have their souls scattered. Each ancient god was torn open by the sword light into grotesque wounds, and many of the weaker ancient gods wailed as they turned to ash.

Of the hundred holy beings, more than half were injured; only a minority promptly deployed their supreme divine artifacts to shield themselves. The weakened sword light, reduced by half, struck those artifacts, smashing them to ruin, yet these holy beings fortunately suffered no substantive harm.

Wu Tie drew a deep breath, gritted his teeth, and wanted to unleash another strike.

But his divine soul flickered slightly, and his semi-transparent silhouette nearly shattered.

"... Everything, I leave it to you." Wu Tie murmured in a low voice: "I hope you can awaken me as soon as possible... I hope that one day I can accompany you to behold the endless wonders of heaven and earth."

The enormous Heavenly Crystal War Star descended from above, and countless Grand Dao Chains madly whipped and rolled through the void.

The Grand Dao Furnace, Golden Relic Pagoda, Primordial Crown, Heavenly Crystal War Star, Human Race Holy Sword, Four Great Ferocious Weapons, moreover the Five Direction Great Banner once used by Gongsun Yao, and furthermore, over the years Wuguo has expended all effort to collect fragments, remelt and repair the Ancient Secret Treasures, which now appear one by one.

An immensely vast seal formation, with the Heavenly Crystal War Star as its core, appeared in a snap of the fingers, directly sealing off a vacuum of billions of miles in radius.

The enormous divine formation was entwined by countless Grand Dao Chains, like a multicolored giant ball, heavily striking the ancient continent of Xi Valley, then deeply merging into the earth's depths.

Mu Dalu trembled violently, as boundless Heaven and Earth Dao rhythms surged forth, continually reinforcing this seal formation.

Wu Tie's consciousness was rapidly disintegrating.

He could sense everything of Mu Dalu, every grain of sand and stone, every blade of grass and tree.

He incarnated as Mu Dalu.

Yet he gradually forgot himself.

Between heaven and earth, thunder roared loudly, and Wu Tie's low voice echoed through the void.

"Human race... go kill!"

Countless thunderbolts swept across the void; those who had lost leaders above the god-king level were left with only ordinary divine-rank commanders directing them, and the already chaotic allied army of gods was frenziedly washed by countless rays of light.

The heavens filled with divine spirits instantly became much sparser; worst of all, the massive divine mountains and palaces they brought were destroyed to ninety-nine percent in this thunderous onslaught.

On the ground, countless enormous god-slaying vessels, countless large warships, countless giant god soldiers and barbarian god soldiers, carrying heaven-topping killing intent, surged upward into the void.

"Kill!" The roaring cries of countless Wuguo soldiers, together with the thunderous sound, echoed through the heavens!