Chapter 116: Ancient Emperor's Offspring and the Eight Gods of Heavenly Desolation

In the starry sky outside the Fifty Cities of the Emperor Pass.

The Ancient Emperor's son, his body covered in golden scales, unleashed all his killing moves, showing not the slightest mercy, intent on placing Wu Shi in a dead land.

He originated from the Divine Ruins Forbidden Zone, the youngest son of a certain Supreme, extremely doted upon.

In his youth, he followed his Imperial Father to be sealed within a Divine Source, only emerging in this lifetime to venture out and gain experience.

This was also his own wish; sealed away for too long, he had long wanted to come out and see this bustling Red Dust world.

And he wished to cultivate to a higher realm; when the Immortal Path opens in the future, he might not necessarily be unable to follow in his Imperial Father's footsteps and become an immortal.

Because at that time, it would inevitably be a Great Strife Era unprecedented through the ages; even his Imperial Father might not be able to spare the attention to protect him completely.

If he himself could achieve an Alternative Path to Enlightenment, or even truly Prove the Dao and Become Emperor in this lifetime, his chances of becoming an immortal would be even greater.

The Emperor Road Contention has always been strewn with dry bones.

And this Ancient Emperor's son was by nature also cruel; therefore his attacks were ruthless.

Since he stepped onto the Star Sky Ancient Road, countless Foreign Domain Heaven's Prides have had their dreams shattered at his hands, leaving only a trace of desolate blood.

If Wu Shi were not strong enough, he would only become one among them.

Clang clang clang!

The Ancient Emperor's son sacrificed a small sword, blood-red in color; after it flew out from his crown, it vanished into the cold, dark, boundless starry sky.

This is a terrifying Quasi-Emperor Weapon; its Qi mechanism is awe-inspiring, sharp and terrifying, yet also extremely adept at concealment, killing invisibly.

How can one defend against such a weapon?

Even if one possesses combat power capable of matching it, one must still divert more attention to guard against it; otherwise one will suffer a great loss.

In the outer starry sky.

Some cultivators with stronger strength, emboldening themselves, observed from an endless distance, wishing to capture the details of this great battle and comprehend this Dao Rhyme, which is also a beneficial reference.

Even more people still remained silently in the Fifty Cities of the Emperor Pass, watching this battle through the powerful Source Heaven Array Formation within the Emperor Pass.

Their strength differed too greatly from the two people on the battlefield; if they got too close, a single strand of aftermath might shock them to death, the gain not worth the loss.

Is this a dragon-tiger struggle?

The Holy Body from the Burial Emperor Star, facing off against the suspected offspring of a Supreme from a Life Forbidden Zone.

Obviously.

The latter is more aggressive; right from the start, killing moves came frequently, very proactive.

The next moment.

That small sword he had sacrificed finally revealed its form in the pitch-black, gloomy Universe Xing Kong, yet transformed into countless blood rays.

Those were tens of thousands of Blood Needles!

Up, down, left, right, all eight directions, every direction locked onto Wu Shi, unavoidable!

And each one was almost imperceptible, yet sharp to the extreme, absolutely capable of piercing a Quasi-Emperor Level physical body!

If the skull were hit, it would also inevitably heavily damage the Immortal Platform!

This is the Ancient Emperor's son's Quasi-Emperor strongest strike; in the past, he had used this move many times on the Star Sky Ancient Road to kill opponents!

The outside.

All onlookers sucked in a breath of cold air, feeling the terror of being surrounded by Ten Thousand Daos Quasi-Emperor Level Blood Needles!

Not a single person failed to be horrified, involuntarily imagining if they were in Wu Shi's position, how desperate it would be.

Could it be that the White-Clothed Holy Body from the Burial Emperor Star would fall today at the Fifty Cities of the Emperor Pass?

However.

The outcome of the battle exceeded everyone's imagination.

That Holy Body in the arena lit up with brilliant radiance all over, like a Supreme God, protected by Infinite Divine Principles.

Ding ding ding ding!

All Blood Needles were as if they had hit a Copper Wall Iron Wall; not a single one could break open Wu Shi's defense.

This scene caused the Ancient Emperor's son Quasi-Emperor to suffer backlash; blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth, and his heart was also shocked beyond measure!

How is this possible?

This Quasi-Emperor Weapon was refined for him by his Imperial Father; within it lies the supreme essence blood of an Ancient Emperor.

And over endless years, it has also been nourished by him personally, integrating the Ancient Imperial Dao Laws of his lineage; compared to other Quasi-Emperor Weapons, it is a qualitative crushing superiority.

Over the years, aside from the Ancient Demon True Body and those few Divine Race Quasi-Emperors, he has had almost no equal on the Star Sky Ancient Road.

No one could withstand such sharp killing; most were pierced by Blood Needles and then killed after just a few moves.

Yet today, he finally kicked an iron plate.

The next instant, Wu Shi was like a True Dragon Leaping to Heaven.

A single step across, and he arrived before the Ancient Emperor's son Quasi-Emperor; a fist struck out, upright and aboveboard, Divine Aura surpassing all heroes.

This punch was unavoidable, pressing down like the Heavens.

Obviously, Wu Shi also held nothing back.

The Emperor Road contention has always been thus; showing mercy to enemies is cruelty to oneself, and the many Heaven's Prides the Ancient Emperor's son killed before were not few in number.

Crack!

In the Ancient Emperor's son's incomparably horrified gaze, bones broke and tendons snapped, even his physical body was pulverized.

Even though a Supreme Forbidden Weapon rushed out from within his body, it still could not block Wu Shi's Divine Might.

This moment.

The Ancient Emperor's son was afraid; he never imagined his opponent would actually be powerful to this degree!

Even the life-saving Forbidden Weapon his Imperial Father refined for him could not protect him completely; it merely held on for a moment before exploding under the fist's might.

Is this the Hugu Holy Body?

No!

The Ancient Imperial Prince was by no means shallow-minded; he instinctively perceived that Wu Shi was no ordinary Hugu Holy Body, but must possess something even more special!

However.

All of this happened in one-billionth of a moment; he had no room for regret at all.

At the critical moment.

A supreme Dao Wave surged from the direction of the Beidou Star, its impact terrifying; wherever it passed, all stars dimmed, opening a Vacuum Channel straight to the battlefield.

This was because the Forbidden Artifact exploded, awakening the Supreme in the Forbidden Zone, who acted remotely to save his own child.

Amidst the surging and violent energy storm, all things returned to dust.

The Ancient Imperial Prince's Quasi-Emperor fleshly body had already crumbled under Wu Shi's fist might, and his Primordial Spirit was also severely wounded.

But he ultimately escaped with his life, shifting hundreds of thousands of zhang sideways under his father emperor's rescue.

Then, following that supreme Dao Wave of his father emperor, he instantly returned to the Forbidden Zone.

At the center of the battlefield.

Wu Shi also staggered back, coughing blood from the corner of his mouth; obviously he was also injured.

After all, he was still only a Quasi-Emperor; facing a strike from the Supreme of the Forbidden Zone, self-preservation was naturally no problem, but he paid a certain price.

However, such battle results were already enough to make him proud!

He had not proven the Dao, nor even reached Quasi-Emperor Nine Heavens, yet he could hard-shake a strike from the Supreme of the Forbidden Zone.

And under such dangerous circumstances, he even severely wounded its child in one go, causing its cultivation to greatly decrease and its realm to fall; whether it could return to its peak in this life was hard to say.

"Just now... was that an existence from the Life Forbidden Zone..."

Among the crowd, amidst people falling over in chaos, someone's voice trembled, terrified beyond measure.

Many others had broken bones and severed tendons, struck by that aftermath, suffering not light injuries.

But more people were shocked into momentary speechlessness.

That Ancient Imperial Prince Quasi-Emperor possessed strength unrivaled for a time, and his background was unfathomably deep.

All the way along, wherever he passed, nothing was not sweeping all; he was arrogant beyond measure, and even his slaves regarded other cultivators as clay chickens and tile dogs.

Even other supreme Quasi-Emperors, such as Gu Mo True Body and the Eight Gods of Heavenly Desolation, had temporarily not fought him, perhaps because they truly feared the existence behind him.

Everyone thought.

The White-Clothed Holy Body from the Burial Emperor Star, though powerful, would face a hard battle.

Even if he could win, he could not do anything to the opponent.

This was a very normal thing.

In an era when Great Emperors did not appear, the Supreme of the Forbidden Zone was the supreme god of the world, high above, looking down on the Outside World.

Who dares to harm their offspring, does he not want his life?

But people never expected.

The White-Clothed Holy Body from the Burial Emperor Star was powerful and domineering to such an extent!

Using only two or three moves, even under the attack of his father's generation, he still severely wounded the opponent and killed him in a few steps.

"Junior!"

From the direction of the Beidou Star, a voice cold as ten thousand ages was transmitted.

However.

Perhaps relying on his status, or perhaps fearing something in the dark, that Supreme ultimately did not act again.

In fact.

If it were someone else who committed such a thing, this ancient existence would not hesitate to strike and suppress, both erasing a potential little dragon and avenging the grudge of his child's ruined cultivation.

But the Holy Body lineage from the Burial Emperor Star was somewhat special.

Now, even the several great Life Forbidden Zones were somewhat unsure whether the former Holy Emperors had become immortals or turned into Forbidden Zones.

This person had set up schemes several times in the past, killing several of their Dao Friends.

This matter had always been a thorn in the hearts of the Supremes of the Forbidden Zones.

If not for the fact that the opening of the Immortal Path was only a few hundred thousand years away, in earlier years, they truly had the mind to launch an ambush kill during Gu Xuan's old age.

However, the several great Forbidden Zones ultimately failed to reach an agreement; no one was willing to appear, missing that unique-in-ten-thousand-ages Immortal Opportunity!

Things having come to this, that Supreme could only suppress the anger in his heart, draw his child back into the Forbidden Zone, seal him with Divine Source, and let him slowly recover.

Although the great battle at the Fifty Cities of the Imperial Pass was not long, merely a few moves, it shook the entire Emperor Pass Ancient Road.

In this life, the Ancient Imperial Prince heir finally has a rival!

People marveled at Wu Shi's dominance and divine might!

Even when facing the Ancient Imperial Prince heir with a terrifying background, he did not retreat by a hair, but instead acted dominantly, suppressing with one hand.

Such courage and spirit crowned the Yu Nei.

Even surveying the past and present, it is not often seen.

Some say, even among those few who now have hope of proving the Dao, such as Gu Mo True Body and the Eight Gods of Heavenly Desolation, before truly becoming emperors, they seem to avoid him.

Because that is the descendant of a Supreme of the Forbidden Zone; they fear being exterminated.

Of course.

There are also not a few admirers and followers of these people, arguing that it was only because they had not met him; otherwise they would surely act.

However, these are all just words.

And with the Ancient Imperial Prince Quasi-Emperor returning to the Forbidden Zone, these cannot be verified anymore.

As they gradually approached the ultimate city of the Imperial Pass, the various Heaven's Prides in the Universe gathered more and more.

Several months later.

Another piece of news arrived: in the Twenty-First City of the Imperial Pass, a great battle erupted once again.

The mysterious Quasi-Emperor known as an Immortal Realm Descendant revealed his True Body — a golden Kunpeng — and was called the Kunpeng Quasi-Emperor.

Yet he was obviously not a true Immortal Domain Kunpeng, merely one who had awakened a portion of the ancient ancestors' bloodline.

He was the most stunningly gifted first person of their lineage in hundreds of thousands of years.

And the one he faced was the Eight Gods of Heavenly Desolation.

By now in the Ground Realm, they had long since moved together, advancing and retreating as one, intending to suppress all Emperor Road Contenders on the entire Emperor Pass Ancient Road.

The benefits of doing so were absolutely incalculable!

If they succeeded, they could strip this generation's many Heaven's Prides of their various Forbidden Secret Techniques, Divine Source Supreme Treasures, even Rare Treasure Blood, and the like — perhaps enough to establish the lifetime Dao-proving opportunity for one among them.

This battle was truly fierce and anxious.

The Kunpeng Quasi-Emperor lived up to his illustrious fame; at the start he actually fought one against eight, intercepting the Eight Gods of Heavenly Desolation's siege.

He not only possessed Kunpeng Extreme Speed, but could also freely switch between Kun and Peng Forms, and his Kunpeng Contending with Heaven Art was sharp and peerless.

This battle raged from the Twenty-First City of the Imperial Pass all the way to the Nineteenth City.

Countless desolate stars collapsed and perished along the way, and even the altars used for teleportation were heavily damaged.

Were it not for the Supreme Furnace guarding every major city of the Imperial Pass, they might have long since collapsed into dust.

However, two fists are hard-pressed against four hands.

Originally the Eight Gods of Heavenly Desolation's Lao Da was not much weaker than him, and their coordination was seamless, masters of the art of surround-and-kill.

As time dragged on, although the Kunpeng Quasi-Emperor wounded two of the Eight Gods of Heavenly Desolation, he ultimately could not overcome the numbers and was defeated.

His sharp claws shattered, and even his Kun Peng Wings, hard as Divine Gold, were blasted with several large holes; golden blood spilled across the starry sky like a gushing spring.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, he paid the price of being heavily injured and self-destructed his physical body.

Then he forcibly used Kunpeng Extreme Speed to tear the void and fled the battlefield.

The impact of this battle was enormous, thoroughly establishing the Eight Gods of Heavenly Desolation's peerless ferocious might.

In people's eyes, they could now almost run rampant across this generation's Emperor Pass Ancient Road.

Because over these years, the Peerless Quasi-Emperors who had emerged — including the Divine Clan Quasi-Emperor, the Kunpeng Quasi-Emperor, and others — had all been verified as unable to match the eight of them.

And another Ancient Demon True Body with shocking combat power was also not far off from the Divine Clan Quasi-Emperor; naturally he too should be unable to withstand them.

Could it be that a combination like the Luan Tian Seven Heroes of the ancient Hugu Great Emperor's era is about to hold sway again in this era?

People found it very hard not to think so.

Because the Eight Gods of Heavenly Desolation and the Luan Tian Seven Heroes are simply too alike!

Their conduct, methods, and so on — not one differs: seizing by force and cunning, forming vertical alliances...

The scenes unfolding now are also very similar to those years: one Heaven's Pride figure after another beaten into crushing defeat, heavily injured and fleeing.

Back then the Hugu Great Emperor suffered a hundred defeats and achieved the Magic Fetus, ultimately turning defeat into victory.

But who knows whether this era will still produce an existence as rare in all history as the Hugu Great Emperor.

People even speculated that the Lao Da among the Eight Gods of Heavenly Desolation might become this era's Prover of the Dao.

As it stands now, it is only that White-Clothed Holy Body Wu Shi from the Burial Emperor Star who has not yet clashed with the Eight Gods of Heavenly Desolation.

In fact.

Ever since the so-called Immortal Domain bloodline Kunpeng Quasi-Emperor faded into obscurity, the Eight Gods of Heavenly Desolation had long since taken notice of Wu Shi.

Burial Emperor Star, Holy Body, defeated an Ancient Emperor's Son...

All these labels were enough to make any Quasi-Emperor expert with ambitions on the Emperor Road cast a sidelong glance.

They let it be known: one day, they would meet this Wu Shi who boasts of horizontally pushing aside all invincibility!

However.

All signs indicate this Wu Shi is by no means a simple Hugu Holy Body bloodline.

An Ancient Saint once carefully observed the Divine Gold Brands of his battles with others; although only two or three moves, the time extremely short, it still let him vaguely discover something.

Since time immemorial, various supremely powerful Body Constitutions have emerged, including Chaos Body, Divine King Body, Hugu Holy Body, Heavenly Demon Body, Innate Dao Embryo, Soul Body, and so on.

Each is rare and sought but not easily found; once possessed, one can almost all grow into a Quasi-Emperor Realm expert, and innately possess special Secret Techniques.

But someone like Wu Shi seems never to have appeared before.

He not only has an invincible physical body, a typical Hugu Holy Body, but also Body Dao Merge, suspected to possess the Innate Dao Embryo's traits.

Innate Holy Body Dao Embryo?!

That Ancient Saint deduced such a conjecture.

This conclusion made even him feel somewhat shaken; with such a figure, can the Eight Gods of Heavenly Desolation still rely on outnumbering him to defeat him?

(Chapter End)