Chapter 1559: The Human Emperor's Schemes

Li Zhangsheng folded his arms, quietly watching this battle.

This time, he did not bolster Ancestral Phoenix or Candle Dragon with Secret Technique or Heaven and Earth Great Power; they could only rely on their own combat strength.

In terms of tacit understanding, the Kewoer brothers, who had been together for who knows how many tens of thousands of years, were better, but their functions and combat styles overlapped severely, making them less effective than the coordination between Ancestral Phoenix and Candle Dragon.

In the sky, Ancestral Phoenix transformed into a giant fire bird, launching a charge toward Xiao Kewoer.

One should pick the softest persimmon to squeeze; one could tell from their physiques that Xiao Kewoer's combat strength was inferior to Da Kewoer's.

Under these circumstances, the Kewoer brothers simultaneously launched long-range attacks.

The Hundred-Armed Giant was strong in both melee and ranged combat; being called a War Fortress showed its power, with its only flaws being speed and agility.

Da Kewoer let out a roar, and a rich, earthy-yellow radiance emerged; one hundred arms simultaneously condensed boulders resembling small hills, throwing them frantically toward the direction of Ancestral Phoenix and Candle Dragon.

At the same time, the eyes of Xiao Kewoer's fifty heads shimmered with strange colors, instantly firing one hundred beams of light, doing their best to cover the gaps created by Da Kewoer's thrown boulders.

Just as the boulders were about to collide with Ancestral Phoenix, Candle Dragon's massive Longyan flickered with radiance, and the speed of the boulders and light beams in front of Ancestral Phoenix dropped sharply.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ancestral Phoenix nimbly dodged the boulders and successfully charged in front of Xiao Kewoer.

Xiao Kewoer hurriedly stopped firing light beams, and dozens of Outer Arms flailed frantically, smashing toward Ancestral Phoenix from three directions.

On the other side, Candle Dragon used the same method to easily dodge the attacks of boulders and light beams, successfully closing in on Da Kewoer and beginning to entangle him.

For a time, the Kewoer brothers seemed to have fallen into a state of fighting on their own.

Boom—

A violent roaring sound resounded through the clouds as Ancestral Phoenix, transformed into a fire bird, collided with dozens of Outer Arms.

Crackle, pop—

The flames clinging to Ancestral Phoenix erupted frantically, venting wildly toward the surroundings; the sound of flames bursting rang out incessantly, like a bone-deep gangrene, climbing onto Xiao Kewoer's dozens of Outer Arms and burning them until they were torn and mangled.

Xiao Kewoer's Outer Arms hurriedly released a rich, earthy-yellow radiance, barely managing to disperse the flames on them.

But it was in this tiny gap that the five tail feathers at the rear of Ancestral Phoenix emitted a strong Five-Colored Light, seemingly transforming into five thousand-meter-long light swords, slashing diagonally toward Xiao Kewoer.

Sizzle—

The sound of space shattering rang out; countless tiny spatial rifts appeared along the trajectory of the five light swords, and the strength of their power could be imagined.

Xiao Kewoer hurriedly turned from offense to defense, and layers of extremely thick Earth Wall instantly blocked the space between him and Ancestral Phoenix.

Bang bang bang bang— Clatter—

The moment they made contact with the Earth Walls, the five light swords pierced through the walls like a hot knife through butter, their speed not even hindered in the slightest.

Xiao Kewoer had no choice but to bite the bullet and wave his dozens of Outer Arms, trying to block Ancestral Phoenix's lethal move.

Crack— Crack—

In an instant, the sound of bones breaking rang out, and Xiao Kewoer's Outer Arms snapped one after another, scattering into the void.

Fortunately, the power of the five light swords was also exhausted.

Ancestral Phoenix nimbly performed a half-turn, opened its Bird Beak to spew flames, and engulfed Xiao Kewoer, further establishing its advantage.

In the subsequent process, Xiao Kewoer was completely suppressed; no matter how he counterattacked, it was difficult to pose much of a threat to Ancestral Phoenix due to the breakage of his dozens of Outer Arms.

Compared to Xiao Kewoer, Da Kewoer was not much better off; he was also suppressed by Candle Dragon, and what he couldn't stand most was that he hadn't even touched Candle Dragon's Dragon Scale—it was a completely one-sided beating.

Candle Dragon constantly switched between Time Acceleration and Time Deceleration, essentially toying with Da Kewoer.

If given some time, Candle Dragon might even be able to finish off Da Kewoer without taking any damage.

The battle did not last long before Li Zhangsheng recalled Ancestral Phoenix and Candle Dragon; the Kewoer brothers still had value to be utilized, so there was no need to kill them—giving them a display of deterrence was enough.

The Kewoer brothers reunited, watching Li Zhangsheng with wary and angry gazes; even though their brain capacity was not large, they were not dominated by Anger, and crucially, Li Zhangsheng was not the deity they hated most, so they didn't reach the point of being overly hot-headed.

After the Kewoer brothers calmed down, Li Zhangsheng began to communicate with them on a conscious level.

The Kewoer brothers pondered for a moment, and in the end, both sides hit it off and agreed to cooperate.

The Kewoer brothers would no longer invade the Fairy World, Dawn World, Origin World, and Qiongye World, and they would take action when Li Zhangsheng needed to confront deities.

As a price, Li Zhangsheng needed to provide them with a list of information regarding deities and also provide the Kewoer brothers with a certain degree of protection.

Of course, this was merely a verbal agreement; at their level, it was hard to have any further constraints, mainly because both sides came from different worlds and were not deities, demons, or the like, so even if one wanted to constrain the other, it was impossible.

After reaching the agreement, the Kewoer brothers left with their Giant subordinates, continuing to roam the starry sky in search of their next target.

At this moment, the Original Light appeared in Li Zhangsheng's right hand and spat out a ball of light; this was a memory fragment extracted from the Human Emperor's soul.

Li Zhangsheng began to quickly browse through these disorganized memory fragments; the Human Emperor was nearly ten thousand years old, and his memories could be described as vast as the sea—even though the memories extracted this time were less than ten percent, he still gained something.

Among them were a certain number of memories regarding the Human Emperor's schemes.

The Human Emperor had begun planning as early as three thousand years ago, mainly in the face of the increasingly terrifying Five Decays of Heaven and Man; at that time, the Human Emperor already felt a sense of powerlessness, and coupled with the special ability of the Dao-Achieving Item, the Order Balance, he began to conduct experiments.

At first, the Human Emperor wanted to prepare a way out, so that if one day he could not resist the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, he could be reborn with his memories intact via the Cicada Sheds Its Skin method, or have his soul travel to another world and be resurrected with the help of a suitable vessel.

Unfortunately, during the experiments, the Human Emperor discovered that his soul carried a world mark; as soon as his experimental subject completed a Possession in another world, the World Consciousness of that world would descend with Heavenly Punishment until the subject was killed.

The Human Emperor had also thought about completing this process in the Astral Realm; logically speaking, the World Consciousness shouldn't be able to reach the Astral Realm, but for some reason, he simply could not be resurrected with the help of a vessel.

According to the Human Emperor's estimation, this was a restriction of the Astral Realm's rules.

Thus, the plan for transmigration and possession died in the cradle once again.

As for being reborn through Possession in the Fairy World, that was feasible, but the Five Decays of Heaven and Man would still continue to descend; this was the experience passed down from his predecessors.

If he were to be reincarnated with his memories, the Human Emperor's experiments were likewise unsuccessful, which likely had to do with the rules of the Heavenly Dao.

After countless experiments failed, the Human Emperor had no choice but to put aside these opportunistic methods and choose to walk the most orthodox path of transcendence.

(End of chapter)