Chapter 383: Utterly Stunning (1/2)

The human demon was the physical body of the province restriction, brought here a thousand years ago by Chen Xiao. Qing Buyi and Mo Yi had captured the celestial emperors of Exalted Major and Nephrite Major so they could sacrifice the heavenly mandates of two majors to the human demon and help him recover his strength.

The human demon’s power, as well as the power of the restriction, had grown dramatically with each heavenly mandate sacrificed.

A heavenly mandate wasn’t a tangible item. It was something of the will, a conceptual energy born from the immortal world and its many facets. Although the previous Exalted and Nephrite Emperors hadn’t truly reached the celestial emperor realm, they’d still been strengthened by the mandates’ protection.

Once dead, the power of their individual protections would also dissipate. As long as the immortal world and its facets lived on, the heavenly mandate would be born anew for the next celestial emperor.

In short, sacrificing two celestial emperors to the human demon was also sacrificing two heavenly mandates.

After obtaining the power of the second mandate, the human demon’s strength had risen to an entirely new level. Even so, Scarlet Ape didn’t cede an inch, so much so the restriction couldn’t spare the energy needed to control Dusk Province and eradicate all of the invaders surpassing golden immortal realm.

“Yo, big monkey!” On the Divine Glory, Lu Yun walked to the bow and shouted, “I freed you from the dragon phoenix seal. Is this how you show your gratitude?”

“Die, humans!” The ape’s eyes burned at the sight of Lu Yun. It’d noticed the heavy black cannon at the bow of the ship at first glance. It was refined with a severed section of his companion weapon, the Divine Seaquell Staff!

As it happened, the principal reason why he’d led an invasion into Dusk Province was to take the staff! So he immediately cast all thought of the human demon out of his mind and brought his staff down on Lu Yun’s ship.

Black Emperor was very important to Scarlet Ape. After the month-long fighting in the North Sea, it’d barely arranged for any reconstruction before leading the monster spirits to Dusk Province.

Seaquell wasn’t only its lifelong companion treasure, but also the item through which it’d realized the dao. As long as the staff remained incomplete, the ape wouldn’t be able to recover its cultivation, so retrieving the severed section was a necessity.

The previously mountain-sized Seaquell was now a towering pillar that held up the dome of the sky. When it swung down at the Divine Glory, the specter of death once again loomed over Lu Yun’s heart and mind. This creature was truly too terrifying!

“Fire!!”

A white beam exploded from Black Emperor, origin-level firepower howling through the air toward the pillar of a staff.

“Aughhhhhh!!!” The ape lost its mind when it saw Lu Yun use its own weapon against itself. Its golden fur rippled scarlet and its frame swelled to ten times its original size, becoming an ape thirty thousand meters tall that roughly matched the human demon’s height.

Both arms wrapped around the immense staff, the ape resisted Black Emperor’s pillar of light inch by crushing inch, slowly advancing on the Divine Glory.

But then the human demon’s colossal frame charged forth and sent a massive kick at the giant ape.

“Shove off!!” the ape thundered. Its build now a full match for the human demon’s own, it turned around with a jab at its opponent’s leg.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Another eighteen beams shot from the Divine Glory.

Eighteen auxiliary cannons thundered in concert in a continuous, no holds barred barrage. Merging with Black Emperor’s light pillar, they worked to push back the giant Seaquell. Newly reforged, the cannons all exploded at the same time after the devastating strike, leaving nothing but fragments behind. As for Black Emperor, the mouth of the cannon had also begun to melt.

Even so, the pincer attack was still too much for the giant ape to face head-on, so its giant figure shot in another direction.

“Kill!!!” the human demon growled. A pair of silver eyes slowly opened in the sky—the dragon empress’ Cosmic Eyes.

After returning to Dusk Province, Lu Yun had gifted the treasure to the province restriction. After all, the restriction was his greatest leverage in making sure that Dusk Province could stand on its own two feet in the world. The stronger the restriction’s power grew, the safer Lu Yun would be.

As soon as the Cosmic Eyes opened, a million rays of piercing starlight descended from the heavens and churned toward Scarlet Ape’s giant figure. Sharp as swords, the rays of celestial radiance brought with them a prehistoric atmosphere similar to the Cosmic Skycarver.

“Aaaahhh—” Scarlet Ape’s staff had been knocked away, but the fiery cape remained draped over its shoulders. It ignited and blanketed the ape’s scarlet fur in a layer of flames that deflected the keen rays of starlight.

The Cosmic Eyes was a peerless connate treasure of resounding fame in the ancient times, but it’d also been stymied by the fiery cape’s protection.

Rising back to its feet, Scarlet Ape summoned Seaquell back into its hand, metamorphosed into its three-headed six-armed form, and rushed wildly at the human demon. Caught off guard, the human demon was knocked to the ground by an even more frenzied opponent.