Chapter 919

Li Jinzha, the Pagoda-bearing Heavenly King Li Jing's eldest son, the elder brother of Nezha.

Tang Luo and he last met in a mission world.

That mission world is rather special; it cannot be considered a real world, but is formed by the obsession of Li Jing and a large number of heavenly soldiers.

In that world, besides Li Jing, the ruler, there was also the "rebellious son" obsession Li Muzha and the sole survivor, Li Jinzha.

After death, obsession does not perish, so there is naturally no chance of survival.

Li Jinzha is different, his true spirit still remains, and there is still a glimmer of hope. Therefore, Li Jing's obsession, without regard for anything, wants to rescue Li Jinzha, constantly devouring all life that inadvertently fell into this world.

The oblivious Muzha's obsession, unaware of the truth, was the final madness opposing his father's dying flare; he wished to die quietly together, growing distant from Li Jing, and ultimately became a rebellious son comparable to Nezha.

Obsession not perishing is inherently extreme.

The two extreme father and son simply struggled in this illusory world.

Then Tang Luo and company arrived, being regarded as enemies by Li Jing's obsession.

In the end of the story, the obsession world collapsed, Li Jinzha was sent away by Li Jing, and his whereabouts are unknown.

It seems he fell into the hands of the Heavenly Court, then emerged to take revenge on Tang Luo.

Frankly speaking, Tang Luo has no anger from being misunderstood or anything; he merely suspects this guy was deceived by the Jade Emperor, and is a bit annoyed.

Li Jinzha is also Nezha's older brother, so Tang Luo gave him a chance, throwing out "Nezha".

The person who was cut in half, bones crushed and ashes scattered, leaving nothing, is Nezha.

It is not Nezha's true body, but the skin he shed while healing his wounds.

Although he is a vegetative person, during wound healing he displays the snake-like trait of shedding skin.

One also does not know exactly how he healed his wounds.

The skin Nezha shed is not useless like a snake's shed skin; rather, it can be used as a combat‑powerless clone, indistinguishable from a real person.

For example, just now Tang Luo threw it out to let Nezha and Jinzha explain the situation.

If they listen, the matter can just be settled like that, I guess.

The Li family now has hardly any members left.

Unexpectedly, Jinzha, without a word, sliced Nezha with a sword, clean and decisive, just like Tang Luo tearing apart his body.

If you want to fight, then you die.

However, Nezha did not die, and Jinzha did not die either.

Among those dead heavenly soldiers, one quickly took on Jinzha's appearance, stabbed into his own chest, and drew out a golden flame sword.

The surrounding hundred thousand dead heavenly soldiers are likewise part of Jinzha.

To truly kill Jinzha, all of them must be slain.

Tang Luo flicked his finger, and Jinzha together with the several dozen heavenly soldiers beside him instantly shattered.

In the next breath, another heavenly soldier in the distance turned into Jinzha's likeness.

Tang Luo stood still, merely repeatedly flicking his bone fingers, killing Jinzha's incarnations a hundred times in succession, and also eliminating the surrounding heavenly soldiers together.

Adding the initial ones, the number of heavenly soldiers soon exceeded ten thousand casualties.

"Clang!"

A heavy sound rang out, and a golden light appeared on the newly emerged Jinzha's body, blocking Tang Luo's attack.

At the same time, the surrounding heavenly soldiers unleashed a combined strike that struck Tang Luo's body, unable to raise even a ripple.

"He's gotten a bit stronger." Tang Luo made that judgment.

A hundred thousand heavenly soldiers made it not so easy to kill Jinzha, while also dispersing his power.

As the heavenly soldiers dwindled, Jinzha's power also began to gather.

Jinzha did not launch an attack right away; he merely stared at Tang Luo.

To him, Tang Luo was a completely unfamiliar, powerful and dangerous opponent.

Here, "unfamiliar" means Jinzha does not know Tang Luo's fighting style, or rather, where his weaknesses lie.

Faced with such a powerful opponent, Jinzha cannot rely on sheer strength to crush him, nor can he defeat him in an open, fair fight.

Gathering information thus became the key to victory.

Although he has been consumed by anger and hatred, he has not lost his reason, at least not his combat wisdom.

By contrast, Tang Luo's fighting shows no wisdom at all.

It is simply relying on his own "great strength" to overwhelm the opponent, "one force breaks myriad methods"!

Jinzha does not move; he does not need to ponder what divine abilities, techniques, or trump cards Tang Luo has, and continues to act.

This time it is not just a simple finger flick, but a thousand hands that cannot be defended against.

Endless bone claws surged forth, instantly covering more than twenty thousand heavenly soldiers in the vicinity.

The heavenly soldiers' armor and bodies shattered together.

Next, Jinzha swung his sword, successfully blocking more bone claws and further expanding his offensive.

Tang Luo withdrew his hand, took a step forward to face Jinzha, and struck with a palm; the Great Palm Seal was not released, but condensed in his hand.

The golden flame sword that blocked the Great Palm Seal turned into specks of fire, while Jinzha himself directly formed a cluster of "Ice Blazing Flame" that spread along Tang Luo's bone claws upward.

Before Tang Luo could dispel these extremely cold flames, the Ice Blazing Flame instantly condensed—at the position of Tang Luo's right eye.

An icy‑blue ice shell spread around the vicinity of his right eye socket.

The fire in his eye seemed stimulated, erupting violently, expanding from a spark to fill Tang Luo's empty eye socket.

In the next breath, the flames pressed down again, and the ice shell shattered and fell.

Tang Luo's bone claw covered his right eye, barely shielding the black hollow socket.

"Ha."

A heavenly soldier sneered, taking on Jinzha's appearance.

Weak point, found!

The injury left by Guanyin is the weak point of Tang Xuanzang before us.

Since that's the case, the remaining heavenly soldiers of the dead around have all vanished; the death aura on Jinzha grows ever stronger, and he has already prepared to fight to the death.

He raised his hand and lightly gestured; a cylindrical pillar appeared, one end aimed at Tang Luo.

On the pillar are three protrusions, each encircling a golden ring; at the tip faintly appears a lotus phantom, which manifests an ice‑blue burning posture.

As the pillar aimed at Tang Luo, the lotus erupted violently, carrying the power to overturn heaven and earth, sweeping toward Tang Luo.

The distance between Tang Luo and the pillar seemed nonexistent.

As he extended his left hand forward, the pillar appeared and slammed hard onto it; the spreading force directly turned the continuous mountain range beneath Tang Luo's feet into a vast basin.

This strike, Tang Luo blocked it; not only did he block it, but even his glazed bone showed no damage.

It merely produced some bone‑grinding sounds.

At the moment Tang Luo blocked the pillar, the three golden rings on it flew out, following his arm forward—two downward, one upward.

They respectively locked Tang Luo's neck, waist, and both feet.

A terrifying binding force came; Tang Luo's body stood rigid, his feet forcibly pressed together.

His hands also seemed to be pressed against his sides, making his whole body resemble a 'rod'.

He lowered the hand covering his right eye, and Tang Luo punched the pillar.

The pillar instantly shattered, yet the binding force did not wane but grew; Tang Luo's hands sank a little toward his sides.

The pillar was actually Jinzha's former treasure—the Escape‑Dragon Pillar.

With the golden rings binding, the enemy cannot move; the more they struggle, the tighter it grows; the trapped cannot escape, allowing the wielder to slaughter them at will.

The Escape‑Dragon Pillar had also trapped Nezha.

What is being used now is naturally not the original treasure, but Jinzha recreating its power through divine ability.

To trap Tang Luo is still far from enough; even producing the true treasure would not suffice.

But Jinzha's aim is not to completely imprison Tang Luo; he only needs the Escape‑Dragon Pillar to bind Tang Luo for a moment.

In that moment he can accomplish his revenge.

Jinzha, just as before, turned into icy flames; this time only a tiny spark, at the instant Tang Luo was bound, 'pierced' into his empty eye socket.

Unlike before, this strike contains all of Jinzha's anger, hatred, and power.

It is his final blow.

Without Tang Luo needing to break free, the golden rings vanished; he leaned back and flew downward diagonally.

"Boom!"

The terrifying impact formed a pit that almost pierced the whole continent; huge fissures split open on both sides, stretching from one end of the continent to the other.

With just a bit more force, this world would be split in two… even more.

At the bottom of the pit, Tang Luo covered his right eye, stood up, shook his head, muttered a curse, and slowly flew out.

It took a while before he left the pit.

He lowered his bone claw; one could see that, centered on Tang Luo's right eye, a third of the right half of his face was covered with a layer of ice.

At first glance, it looked like he was wearing a broken mask.

This layer of ice constantly cracked and regenerated, making Tang Luo's breath unsteady for a moment.

Adding to that, the golden flames in his eye socket occasionally twitched, even spreading outward; anyone could see that Tang Luo's injury had worsened again.

Standing at the edge of the pit, Tang Luo flung his hands outward, releasing a mighty, terrifying aura.

The whole world trembled, probing at the brink of shattering.

"Jade Emperor Old Geezer! You shrinking‑head turtle, how long will you keep hiding!"

The taunting roar spread; this world belongs to the Heavenly Court, connected to the Heavenly Palace, and Tang Luo's 'voice' can also be transmitted this way to the galaxy.

It was transmitted to the Four Great Heavenly Gates in the southeast, northwest, etc., and even to the Heavenly Palace.

The heavenly soldiers and generals guarding the gate, hearing this, couldn't help but change expression, with anger and also astonishment.

With Tang Luo's words, the Southern Heaven Gate emitted golden light, directly shining onto the galaxy world outside the Heavenly Palace.

One of those worlds was instantly highlighted, sucked up by the golden light, and flew toward the Southern Heaven Gate.

"Hahaha, finally willing to come out and take a beating."

Tang Luo sensed the change, burst into loud laughter, his voice sounding somewhat manic.

The world he was in retained a point‑like form, passing through the Southern Heaven Gate into the Heavenly Palace.

Then, in the battlefield already prepared in the Heavenly Palace, it suddenly shattered.

Tang Luo fell onto a huge square platform beneath his feet; all around, in every direction, were nothing but illusory figures of immortals.

Their gazes toward Tang Luo were full of mockery, as if they were looking at some overconfident clown.

Beyond the illusions, the number of heavenly soldiers and generals was incalculable, like grains of sand in a desert.

"Master, it's been years since we last met; why must you be an enemy of my Heavenly Court?" Taibai Jinxing sighed, and his phantom form appeared before Tang Luo.

Tang Luo simply ignored him, raising his head to look at the sole void in the sky.

There, the Jade Emperor sat enthroned, gazing at Tang Luo as if looking at ants.

This farce ought to end.

"Boom!"

With a tremendous crash, behind Taibai Jinxing a figure plummeted, leaving some cracks on the platform as he stepped down.

The Manifest Sage True Lord Yang Sheng appeared, his forehead heavenly eye gradually opening, his three‑pointed double‑edged blade aimed at Tang Luo, brimming with fighting spirit.

"Then… chop him to death?" Tang Luo raised his hand, about to summon the Four Slaughter Immortal Swords, to make the Jade Emperor feel the fear of being dominated by the Sect Master of the Way of Heaven.

Suddenly, his motion paused; he flicked his right hand, and what flew out was not the Four Slaughter Immortal Swords.

But it is a furnace.

The furnace fell onto the fighting platform, wobbling unstably; the sound of its legs striking the platform was like an invisible hammer that heavily struck the chest of the 'Old Man of the Mountain-Sea Realm'.

It also included the Jade Emperor.

Eight Trigrams Furnace!

The Supreme Old Lord's Eight Trigrams Furnace, at this moment, reappeared in the Heavenly Court!