Chapter 574: Chaos Tribulation (1/2)
The woman’s body trembled when her hand of immortal crystal was shattered by the bony arm from the Enneawyrm Coffinbearers. Then, the dragon, phoenix, and qilin coffins soared into the air, hurling themselves at her translucent form.
“Hmph!” Snorting, she erupted with cerulean light and expanded her body at an alarming rate. What was once an ordinary-sized figure became thirty kilometers tall in the blink of an eye.
When the light dissipated, a set of extremely luxurious armor had materialized upon her body as well. She lunged toward the three coffins with an outstretched fist.
Then, something very odd indeed happened: her single punch simultaneously collided with all three coffins, sending the vessels flying three different ways.
Crisscrossing her steps, the woman vanished and reappeared in front of the Nine-Phoenix Casket.
“The nineheaded phoenix refined into a casket? Tsk tsk tsk…” She hammered another blow home with a mocking tut.
Crack!
Groaning under the burden of the strike, frightening fissures ran across the evil coffin’s surface and bloody light seeped out from its interior.
“I’d quite like to see what warranted the nineheaded phoenix as its coffin! Break!” Roaring, the woman thrust her fist forward once more. This punch was still just one single move, but even more mysterious than the last. It attacked the coffin simultaneously from every conceivable direction.
Boom!
A deafening crash shook the firmament as blinding scarlet filled the air.
“The Blood Sea!” the woman and Lu Yun exclaimed in unison.
The Blood Sea was a classical fixture in hell, a body of liquid that carried corpses of all beings. Why was it inside the Nine-Phoenix Casket?!
Sploosh.
Something fell out of the Blood Sea and smashed into the ground: a giant skull that measured a hundred kilometers across.
Fragments of the Nine-Phoenix Casket were scattered about as well; the woman had destroyed the evil coffin in a single strike.
“The Blood Sea… that skull…” The woman’s crystalline eyes were transfixed by the skeletal head. A remnant of bloody light still remained within the latter’s eye sockets.
“You want to refine the Blood Sea… such ambition!” the woman sneered. “Hell was created by humanity, but the Blood Sea is a part of nature. Humans may be able to rule over hell and reincarnation, but they have no dominion over the sea!
“And now, this Blood Sea is mine!” She opened her arms, lighting herself up with the same cerulean light as before. “Once my Vastspace Mountain subsumes the Blood Sea and gains the power of reincarnation, sovereignty over the multiverse will finally be within my grasp!”
The space inside Vastspace Mountain flared with the same shade of blue that she wore, achieving some sort of resonance between the two. The blue light began siphoning away at the floating sea hovering in midair.
Lu Yun’s attention remained firmly upon the Enneawyrm Coffinbearers. The lid of the draconic coffin was opening with painful slowness and a pair of humongous skeletal arms reached out. Rather than interfere with the woman’s actions, they scratched insistently against the cover of the Enneaqilin Coffinbiers.
Creak...
The lid of the third coffin flipped open, allowing the arms to pull out a similarly large carcass from within.
No, ‘carcass’ was a stretch—it was a skeletal frame that dripped with blood. No head or limbs were attached, only something that could barely be called a body. Under Lu Yun’s incredulous gaze, the arms inside the Enneawyrm Coffinbearers and the skull from the Nine-Phoenix Casket attached themselves to the body.
“Who are you?!” The woman paused from manipulating her treasure to cast a wary glance at the legless skeleton.
Rumble...
Turbulence shook the air and the cerulean light from Vastspace Mountain began to dissipate.
An enormous void appeared in the fabric of space and the woman’s face paled, or at least as much as it was possible for a crystal visage to do so. Her translucent pallor turned positively transparent in an expression of shock.
A colossal turtle crawled in from the hole in space, its body a deep midnight. Its eyes were closed, and it walked on nine feet. It, too, had been refined into a vessel of burial!
“Ninefooted Turtle! You were turned into a coffin as well!” the woman murmured.
Rumble...
The lid over the Ninefooted Turtle Cist slowly opened as well, allowing a pair of bony legs to swing out.
……
Witherdew Major, Star Demon Sect headquarters.
Statues of the Enneawyrm Coffinbearers, Nine-Phoenix Casket, Enneaqilin Coffinbiers, and a shadowy something else were laid upon a giant altar.
In this moment, the hazy ball exploded to reveal the form of the Ninefooted Turtle Cist, upon which four pillars of black flames shot into the sky and gathered into a black cloud.
……
Witherdew Major, celestial court.
Her current emperor, Tuoba Jie, had successfully attained origin dao realm while enduring no injuries whatsoever.
The power of a single origin dao fruit flowed into the Blithe Entrapment Formation’s diagram. The treasure’s true potential was finally being deployed, and it would be nigh impossible for Lu Yun to break the formation now. It had become a part of Emperor Witherdew’s very existence.
“Hahahahaha!” Tuoba Jie threw his head back with laughter. “Would you look at that! I am the first of the nine celestial emperors to reach the origin dao realm!”
Satisfaction was written all over his face.
“Congratulations, Your Majesty! Felicitations, Your Majesty! Now that you are in the origin dao realm, your life and reign are sure to be eternal and everlasting!” Millions of officials knelt at his feet in worship.
“Now that you’re in the origin dao realm, Your Majesty, when will you deign to uproot the Star Demon Sect?” A younger-looking arcane dao immortal stepped forward with a bow.
“The Star Demon Sect?” Tuoba Jie grinned broadly. “There is no hurry to deal with them now, the heaven and earth formation diagram comes first. Clangbeard!”
“Here, Your Majesty!” The named peerless immortal stepped forward.
“Gather five hundred million Bifang soldiers. We march on Nephrite Major!” Tuoba Jie clasped both hands behind his back. “The Art and Zither Saints? What can two cripples do against Our might, the might of a full-fledged origin dao immortal?” [1]
Boom!
He’d just delivered those words when all of Witherdew Major shuddered. Huge billows of black clouds covered the sky over the entire facet.
“What in the heavens is going on?” Tuoba Jie and his officials took to the skies and gawked at the thick layer of heavenly gloom. “Appear, wretched monster!”