Chapter 669: Take Your Place, Tenth Envoy of Samsara (1/2)
The demon god expanded to more than three thousand meters tall, his aura tremendously imposing as he fought the stone spirit in close quarters combat.
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“Go, hurry!” Seeing that another monster had shown up to contend with the terrifying demon, the Exalted celestial emperor drew upon the power of his heavenly mandate and sent all immortals out of the tomb, Qi Hai and Lu Yun’s nine followers included.
However, he himself stayed behind. The moment the demon god was born, he became a true celestial emperor in both thought and deed. No longer a ruler who cared only about consolidating his own authority and power, he was one who held all lives in his heart, be they of Exalted Major or the other facets. Anyone could run from this danger, but not the celestial emperor. He had to stay to deal with the demon, even at the cost of his life.
“You have become a true celestial emperor.” Liu Chen calmly showed himself beside the ruler of Exalted Major.
The Exalted heavenly mandate shook as the ninth dao fruit took shape in the celestial emperor’s body. Within the heavenly mandate was the heritage of a celestial emperor, which took shape as his ninth origin dao fruit!
Only by bearing the true heart of a celestial emperor and fulfilling the role of a leader who tended to the fate of the entire world could he gain his ninth origin dao fruit!
This dao fruit was extremely powerful, several times more so than the ones the Exalted celestial emperor had plucked himself. It was a dao fruit from the Primordial Era!
During his time in Exalted Major, or under Mount Exalted, to be more precise, Liu Chen had witnessed many imperial epiphanies and acquisitions of the ninth origin dao fruit. He’d lost himself when the last Exalted celestial emperor acquired his ninth fruit, but had regained his clarity in time to see the current celestial emperor truly take on the mantle. What a shame it was that Princess Zhao Qing couldn’t see it for herself as well.
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Within the palace coffin, Lu Yun let out a deep breath.
“Fortunately, that fellow doesn’t have much of a brain. It’s simply under the influence of Donglin Taihuang’s obsession!”
The stone spirit was too ponderous. Even the spirit newly born within could only control its body. It would take some time for it to develop intelligence, a luxury that the spirit didn’t have.
The palace coffin was wrecked and the throne destroyed by the demon. The three coffins before the throne, however, remained intact.
“Shards of the Gates of the Abyss!” Excitement lit up Lu Yun’s eyes and he inhaled deeply. “I have the demon god to thank for destroying the fragment of hell created by the shard. I wouldn’t have been able to collect them otherwise.”
He couldn’t tap into the power of hell at the moment, which would be what he needed to tame a fragment of hell. Fortunately, the demon god had saved him quite a lot of trouble.
“Collect!” With a wave of his hand, the three pitch black coffins flew into a projection of a giant gate behind his back.
Rumble!
Trembling, the outline of the Gates of the Abyss solidified a little more once it took in the three coffins. Also constantly shaking, hell stabilized somewhat with the new additions.
“That does it...” Ge Long cut down an akasha ghost with one stroke and looked over his shoulder at the looming gates, his lips curled into a smile.
Swoosh!
Waving a hand, he summoned starlight from the Cosmic Sea that’d become one with the sky in hell, radiance that took shape as bolts of sword energy furiously striking down akasha ghosts. However, there seemed to be an endless supply of these ghosts; they were impossible to completely eliminate.
The three coffins had only just entered the Gates of the Abyss, and the fragment of hell associated with them was still contained within the coffins. It would take the gates a very long time to fully incorporate the coffins.