Chapter 662: The Ninth Heavens Demon-Destroying Patriarch (1/2)

Groparable malice, then swelled back into the form of a fur seal and escaped without further ado.

“Has… has the demon fetus arrived in the world?” an immortal asked in a shaking voice.

“No, it’s the zombie inside that hole that’s crawled out… Prepare for battle!” Qing Yu warned after glancing stealthily at Lu Yun and seeing him winking back at her.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Craaaaack!

Cracks snaked through the land, shaking and tearing it apart. A terrible creature more than forty meters tall crawled out from underground. Possessing four heads, eight arms, and oozing corpse water, it wore ragged cloth armor that plainly didn’t belong to the current age. Instead, it was… a divine!

A divine that’d died when they still ruled the world, becoming a zombie after its death!

Roar!!

The divine zombie howled its fury to the skies the moment it showed itself, and the energies of earth, air, fire, and water madly converged upon it to form a giant vortex.

“What? How can a zombie command the power of the elements?!” the Exalted celestial emperor exclaimed in shock. What made zombies so fearsome was their impregnable flesh and irresistible strength. A zombie that could command the elements would be terrifying beyond compare.

Earth, air, water, and fire—those were the elements once grasped by the divine court. Just as the current five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth served as the basis of immortal dao, the four elements constituted the foundation of divine dao.

Hence, when faced with a zombie that wielded the four elements and could gather elemental energy around itself, even the Exalted celestial emperor felt a mounting pressure. They hadn’t seen the demon fetus yet, but the foe in front of them was already fearsome enough. How terrible would the budding demon god itself turn out to be?

Growl!!

Before anyone could react, the zombie launched itself at the crowd and sent blood, limbs, innards, and nascent spirits spraying through the air. A cacophony of pain and fear arose, and a hundred immortals perished in no more than ten breaths.

“Vermin!” the celestial emperor bellowed in anger and hurled the Exalted Chart at the zombie.

For her part, Zhao Wushuan withdrew to the side. Though a void-ascended immortal now, she was still no match for their foe. This undead creature had attained the strength of an origin dao immortal at the very least!

Her retreat was replaced by Lu Yun joining the fray. Though his strength wasn’t much since he’d barely set foot into the realm of a void-ascended true immortal with the Demonic Sovereign Cauldron’s help, still he stepped up to the line.

The Divine Fire Bead flared with searing heat waves that coalesced in the air as energy of pure yang. Encased by the energy, pitch-black smoke steamed from the zombie’s body amid wails of pain and anger.

“Four heads, eight arms, and commanding the four essences… this is the primordial divines’ last divine emperor!” Zhao Wushuang shouted suddenly.

The Exalted Divines had established the divine dynasty in the Primordial Era, but their influence and authority had gradually withered, until one day, even the imperial throne was wrested away from them. As it happened, the zombie in front of them was the last divine emperor of the primordial divine court.

Divine reign was simply one blip of time among many in the endless river of immortal dao. While divine dao had supplanted immortal dao for a while, it was still considered part of the river of immortal dao.

In those days, legends of Emperors Fall had faded into the mists of time, and no one knew that the title of ‘emperor’ represented an omen of misfortune. Whether one ruled over the divine or immortal court, all liked to style themselves ‘emperor’, just like with present practices. Divine emperors of the age were roughly comparable to a human king from the era of human dao.