Chapter 1757: What is Dignity?

"Chen Yu, you forced my hand; you are courting death." Jiutun was nearly mad, his voice hoarse: "Since you want to play a game of mutual destruction with me, then I will grant your wish and let you see clearly what my true power is."

As Jiutun spoke, his body turned, and he actually dove headfirst into the statue of Baqi.

In this instant, the massive statue seemed to come alive; nine terrifying snake heads turned in unison to look at Chen Yu.

"Not bad, you're quite willing to go all out." Chen Yu gave a thumbs up: "Unable to drive your own power, you have to borrow the entirety of Baqi; is your so-called bullshit dignity worth nothing now?"

"If I kill you, I can still become the god who rules over everything, and no one will know what happened here." Jiutun's hoarse voice came from the snake heads: "Chen Yu, wait for your death."

"Then come, let me see just how strong your Origin power, combined with the power of Baqi, really is." Chen Yu smiled slightly, took a step, and his person floated in mid-air.

He looked down from above at the nine hideously cruel heads on the Altar, his expression solemn.

"Heh, you don't know what's good for you." Jiutun chuckled, the nine snake heads let out a roar, and then rapidly ascended.

Although the power of Baqi was strong, it was, after all, residual power, so this nine-headed snake body could not leave the Altar and could only continuously raise its body to attack Chen Yu.

In an instant, the snake body was already a hundred feet high; with a *whoosh*, a massive snake head opened its blood-red maw toward Chen Yu.

After the body expanded, this snake head was at least the size of a small truck; one bite, and it was an existence that almost blotted out the sky and sun.

Chen Yu grabbed into the void with his right hand, and Lichen appeared.

A crimson radiance suddenly lit up; at this moment, Lichen erupted with three zhang of Sword Light. A beam of radiance shot into the sky, followed immediately by a mournful cry, and one incomparably massive head suddenly fell.

It was Chen Yu who had swung his sword and severed one of this giant snake's heads.

Watching the head fall, the remaining eight heads let out hysterical roars.

Sixteen massive eyes spun in unison, staring at Chen Yu.

A trace of faint red radiance enveloped the air, and at the same time, a soul-shaking Mind Power locked Chen Yu's figure firmly in place.

Chen Yu's heart jolted; at this moment, his body felt as if it had fallen into an ice cellar. This incomparably powerful Mind Power from Baqi affected him, making him feel unsettled.

In an instant, countless thoughts surged into his mind, and scene after scene appeared before his eyes.

The injustice of fate, the suffering endured in his youth, the experience of being plotted against by his closest kin—it brought him to the verge of collapse.

Chen Yu stared fixedly at the Baqi before him; this thing might not be the strongest in terms of raw power, but its ability to manipulate the human heart was absolutely top-tier.

Even though Chen Yu's Divine Sense was incomparably strong, he was still affected for a moment. The sword in his hand felt as if it weighed a thousand catties, and his eyelids were forced open, but then a wave of darkness assaulted his consciousness.

This darkness was like a black hole, wanting to swallow him, and within this black hole, it seemed as if countless hands were reaching out to grab him.

Illusions—Chen Yu was far too familiar with this sort of thing, but the illusion created by Jiutun using the body of Baqi was truly too strong; it was almost like a black hole, wanting to swallow both of them whole.

Suddenly, one of the snake heads opened its blood-red maw and lunged fiercely at Chen Yu. In an instant, it closed in on Chen Yu, and it looked as if Chen Yu was about to be swallowed into that blood-red maw.

Just at this moment, Chen Yu suddenly opened his eyes, and he smiled.

The instant he opened his eyes, the body of the Baqi serpent suddenly froze on the spot. It stared blankly at Chen Yu, frozen on the spot for a moment, not moving at all.

Chen Yu broke free from Baqi's Mind Power, his figure slowly floating upward until he was level with Baqi.

"An illusion? I have seen far too many of these. I cannot deny that you caused me a certain amount of influence, but wanting to completely subdue me is likely a bit difficult," Chen Yu said leisurely.

"You..." Jiutun's hoarse voice sounded. He looked at Chen Yu in disbelief, attempting to manipulate Baqi's body to move.

But he felt his whole body was incomparably stiff; Baqi's body seemed as if it had been nailed to the spot. No matter how hard he tried, it remained motionless.

"Quite surprised, right? Heh, your strength is nothing more than this." Chen Yu pointed his right hand into the void, and the Sword Light of Lichen continuously expanded, a hundred-foot-long Sword Light appearing in mid-air.

"If your ability only goes this far, then please stop your performance; next, watch me." Chen Yu sneered, and with a sharp shout, that full hundred-foot-long Sword Light swept across.

*Puff, puff, puff*... The remaining eight heads of Baqi were severed by the sword. A rain of blood fell from the sky, and the eight massive snake heads landed heavily on the ground.

Immediately after, the massive snake body also collapsed with a boom, turning into stones that fell all over the ground.

Chen Yu slowly let out a breath; this sword strike just now had consumed quite a bit of Primordial Qi. He landed slowly on the ground, raised his head, and looked coldly at Jiutun.

A figure appeared from the dust; it was indeed Jiutun. Now, his head of red hair had turned white, and his originally eerie face was now incomparably aged.

Chen Yu's sword had already severed seven or eight-tenths of his original power; even if he were let go now, he would not be able to stir up any major trouble.

"Do you have anything else to say?" Chen Yu stared at Jiutun and said indifferently.

"Heh, Chen Yu..." Jiutun raised his head, the expression on his face a mix of anger and hatred: "I didn't expect that I would end up being defeated by the hands of a mortal."

"No, you didn't lose to my hands; you lost to arrogance." Chen Yu shook his head: "From the very beginning, you felt that I was merely a mortal. In your eyes, my status was no different from a crawling insect."

"But you didn't expect, did you, that this crawling insect of mine would actually contain such massive energy? This was something you never anticipated," Chen Yu said.

"Yes, who could have imagined that a mortal would possess such powerful energy?" Jiutun said through gritted teeth. He raised his head to look at Chen Yu: "If you gave me another chance, I would absolutely not do this."

"Even if I gave you a hundred chances, the result would be the same." Chen Yu shook his head: "The Spiritual Energy in this world today is indeed recovering, but the recovering Spiritual Energy is not meant for you ancient fellows to make a comeback, but to forge a powerhouse."

"The era that belonged to you has long since ceased to exist, so no matter how many times you try again, it has no meaning. Even without me, someone else would come to deal with you; this is the Heavenly Dao."