Stealing The Heavens

When he saw Ao Buzun and the others coming at him, Celestial Lord Seven Killing said proudly, “A bunch of wild chickens and stray dogs! You can’t even withstand a single blow from me!”

As he said that, he threw out punches at Ao Buzun, Lord Xiansheng, Yuan Qing, Xiang Yu, and Huhai, knocking them backward. The three with the best weapons, Ao Buzun, Lord Xiansheng, and Xiang Yu, were struck twice—first on their bodies and the second on their weapons. A terrible force exploded like a torrential flood, causing the three to scream. Even the weapons in their hands were squeaking.

What had happened to Yuan Qing and Huhai’s weapons was even scarier. Yuan Qing’s reactions were fast; as soon as the punch came, he raised his staff to block it. But, it pierced the staff and struck him, sending him flying backward and breaking the staff in two.

Huhai’s maces were broken into four parts as well, and he was struck in the chest. Blood-red sparks darted out from all over him as the punch hit him, and he was forced to turn into a clump of blood mist and fly backward before transforming back to his fleshly body. With the Blood Sea Fiend Technique as the foundation, his injury, like Xiang Yu’s, was the least serious among others.

Seven Killing looked in astonishment at Xiang Yu and Huhai, who had turned into mists of blood and flown back. While frowning, he asked, “King of Dong Hai, why are there immortals from the Fiend League serving under you?”

Wu Qi exercised his body as the Pangu Sacred Energy rapidly healed the injury on his arms. With a cold grin, he said, “What’s so strange about it? Even your Heaven is raising the forbidden clans, so why is it a surprise to you that Dong Hai is on good terms with a few immortals from the Fiend League?” His eyes darted from side to side as he went on, “I’ve promised them that all the blood essences of the soldiers killed by Dong Hai Army would be theirs…”

He deliberately left his words unfinished. And just as he expected, Seven Killing’s eyes were flickering as he squinted at Xiang Yu and Huhai for a while. If Wu Qi could buy the service of these two fiend immortals with blood essences and souls, why couldn’t the Heaven? It would be a meritorious service if he could make two primordial-level fiend immortals to submit to Heaven with merely the lives of some mortals.

With the thought in his mind, Seven Killing’s intent to kill Xiang Yu and Huhai suddenly waned by more than seventy percent.

Wu Qi let out a long roar, and a spear and a staff flew out from under his sleeve toward Yuan Qing and Huhai. They were the backup weapons he had crafted. The quality of the staff was exactly the same as Yuan Qing’s staff; but, as Huhai’s maces were strangely shaped, Wu Qi did not have the same one, so he gave the man a spear for now.

After throwing the weapons to Yuan Qing and Huhai, Wu Qi’s body swayed as he turned into a plume of black smoke and leaped toward Seven Killing. Countless bone arrows, each as thick as a bean and about ten feet long, shot out of the smoke. Their surfaces were densely carved with numerous ghost heads who were constantly letting out vicious curses and shrill howls while fingers of black smoke spewed out of their seven orifices, turning into countless runes that wheeled restlessly around the arrows.

Celestial Lord Seven Killing snorted coldly. He raised his left arm, and a small round shield strapped to his arm unleashed a beam of light to envelop him. Loud, muffled rumbles like the tolls of a copper bell echoed out as the arrows struck the light. The arrows’ force was extremely strong; Seven Killing could barely stand still in the void as they kept pushing him backward while the light on the shield was weakened continuously. But, the seemingly endless power in his body kept pouring into the shield, rapidly strengthening the weakened light.

“Be quick about it!” As Wu Qi was holding Seven Killing off with a magic attack, Celestial Lord Greed suddenly gave a cold snort from aside. Out of nowhere, he pulled out a seven-feet-long feather fan that gave off a metallic luster and swung it at Wu Qi. Ao Buzun and others, who had just regulated their breath and were about to launch another round of attack against Seven Killing, let out cries of alarm as a dark storm turned into countless wolves and swooped down on them. In the blink of an eye, they were surrounded by the massive pack of wolves and brought far away.

The wolf-shaped airflow condensed from the Greed Star’s power frantically tore and ripped at the bodies of Ao Buzun and the others like living things, causing their flesh and bones to produce crackling noises. As Xiang Yu and Huhai were cultivating the Blood Sea Fiend Technique, their flesh was not as dense as Ao Buzun and the others’. So, the wolves were taking large chunks of flesh off them with every bite, and their blood gathered like a pool in midair.

The storm made up of these wolves was very sticky, and once trapped inside, it was extremely difficult to break free. On top of that, not only were the wolves ripping at their flesh, but even the storm itself possessed an incredibly powerful corrosive force that was constantly extracting their blood essence and energy essence. They were struggling hard like some unlucky fellows who were sunk into quicksand but just could not free themselves.

With just a swing of his fan, Greed had trapped Ao Buzun and the others. Upon seeing that, Vanquisher laughed as six metallic wings suddenly spread out from the back of his silver-purple armor. Measuring over a hundred feet long, the strange-looking wings rolled up a gust of strong wind and catapulted Vanquisher toward the dark cloud that was Wu Qi like a shooting star. The three Celestial Lords had finally recalled the Great Celestial Emperor’s order—kill King of Dong Hai and bring his soul back to Heaven as soon as possible. They were not meant to waste time here.

“Vanquisher! Behemoth Saber!” Celestial Lord Vanquisher rushed to the dark cloud that Wu Qi had turned into. When the six wings behind him closed inward, the dark cloud was immediately compressed into a mass the size of a human head. After that, he reached both hands into the sky. The power of Vanquisher Star produced a loud rumble like that of a waterfall while quickly condensing into a 36-feet-long saber in his hand.

With both hands grabbing the hilt tightly, he brought the saber down at the mass of dark smoke.

A loud clang rang out. The saber was slightly deflected by a ray of light that shot over from a corner, narrowly missing the dark smoke. When Huang Liang, who was standing on the ship’s bow while watching the battle, saw that Wu Qi was in danger, he immediately launched himself toward the saber, deflecting it like a huge cannonball. The impact gave him an ugly gash on his head while his body was smeared with his own blood.

While yelling, Huang Liang put his arms around the unprepared Vanquisher’s legs, then spun himself and dragged the Celestial Lord toward the ground like two stay dogs fighting on the street.

At that moment, Vanquisher was utterly struck dumb. He had fought numerous almighty experts and slain countless famous Primordial experts, but none of them ever used this kind of a technique to fight him. They were all immortals, mighty figures who stood above the common mortals. How could they fight in close-quarter combat like those gangsters on the street?

Before he could wake up from the shock, Huang Liang had thrown him headfirst into the ground. Huang Liang was very cunning. When both of them were spinning fast in midair and about to hit the ground, he pushed Vanquisher to the bottom and gave the Celestial Lord a heavy kick in the stomach while he jumped back up into the air. With a deafening rumble, the poor guy plunged a dozen miles deep into the ground. The powerful impact crumbled several mountains in the surroundings, sending boulders flying in all directions.

Even as he flew back up in the air, Huang Liang pointed at the place where Vanquisher had plunged into and bellowed, “Dong Hai Army, attack with all your might!”

The flying ships did not move at all, for there were few soldiers in the army who could still move; but, the Oracles struck down. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of Oracles began reciting the incantation to invite the god. Their blood essence and magic power vanished rapidly, and many Oracles’ hair quickly turned gray.

Huge amounts of blood essence and magic power vanished over the army, and soon, a blue thundercloud the size of a water tank appeared in the sky.

While fuming, Celestial Lord Vanquisher roared and shot straight up into the sky from under the ground. He was about to take revenge on Huang Liang when a terrible noise that nearly shattered his eardrums burst out of the small blue thundercloud. In the next instant, a purple thunderbolt the size of a baby’s fist slithered down from the cloud and hit him exactly on the forehead.

At the moment when the thunderbolt that nearly blinded the crowd in the area was three inches from Vanquisher’s forehead, Princess Zhang Le’s curse was firmly attached to his body. As a gut-wrenching howl rose into the sky, the princess’s avatar of God of Scourge nearly disintegrated while all the divine power stored in it condensed into an invisible curse and imprinted on Vanquisher’s chest.

The thunderbolt accurately struck Vanquisher. It was a fearsome attack unleashed by Lei Meng after he had taken the blood essence and magic power of more than a hundred thousand Oracles. The thick starlight that covered Vanquisher’s body was shattered, and his armor condensed from the star power crumbled like bean curd. Deafening thunderclaps rang without an end as bolts of lightning twisted and jumped across his skin.

The curse of the God of Scourge served its purpose at this moment as dozens of black-and-white thunderclouds suddenly appeared over Vanquisher. The terrible thunder tribulations, which only appeared when a first-tier Primordial expert broke through the bottleneck and stepped into the realm of Divine Gold, smashed down together and smote hard on his head.

The dazzling glare of the lightning enveloped the world, and the crowd saw a spectacle in that instant. All of Vanquisher’s flesh had vanished in the black-and-white lightning, leaving only a silver-purple skeleton that glowed with an intense light, twitching and shaking violently in the void.

Standing not far away, Greed cried out in alarm as he raised his fan and waved it in Vanquisher’s direction.

It would be better if Greed did not move, for as soon as he waved the fan, the thunder tribulation immediately spread to him. Amidst the dull thunderclaps, the crowd saw another skeleton dancing and twitching in the sky.

Just then, the dark cloud that Wu Qi had turned into, which had been forcibly compressed into a small mass, burst open. As he laughed, the Heaven-pacifying Sword swept out from a corner, hacking toward Greed and Vanquisher’s necks who were being bombarded by the thunder tribulation and unable to move. If the attack hit its target, both Heaven’s Celestial Lords would surely fall, and then Heaven would have to worry about picking the right candidates to succeed them.

At that moment, Celestial Lord Seven Killing let out an angry howl. His figure flickered, and in the next instant, he was in front of Wu Qi, striking his fists at the Heaven-pacifying Sword like two shooting stars.

A few moments ago when Greed tried to save Vanquisher, the black storm that had trapped Ao Buzun and the others had quietly dissipated, which allowed Ao Buzun to thrust the Soul-splitting Spear toward Seven Killing’s back now. “Taste my spear, bast*rd!”

Lord Xiansheng, on the other hand, stealthily stabbed his halberd at Seven Killing from another angle.

The halberd popped out of thin air behind Seven Killing’s back, ripped through his armor, and plunged into his muscles. With that, a fountain of blood poured forth.