Chapter 287 – Seeing a ghost (1/2)
Chapter 287 - Seeing a ghost
Once Emperor Shun had pulled his sword out, even the clouds and the wind of the entire Midland had changed. Ji Hao, who was down at the Chi Ban Mountain area, which was located millions of miles away from Emperor Shun, suddenly raised his head and seemed to have felt something. He felt a mysterious type of surging stream of hot power deep inside his body that had been hidden inside of him, but was now gushing wildly within his body, making Ji Hao feel as of this power would burst out his body and rise towards the heavens at anytime.
Not only Ji Hao, all the other human warriors on the scene raised their heads as well and all turned their heads towards the same point that was located deeply in the void, beyond those clouds, even beyond the sky. But soon, they turned their eyes back down, growled out and continued to fight.
Each of these human warriors somehow became three time more agile and powerful than they had been earlier. They could now wave their weapons faster and punch harder on the faces of their enemies. The blood vessels of each of them were standing out from under their skins, making them feel as if their blood was boiling and that their power was increasing naturally within their bodies. None of these warriors could feel even the slightest bit of fear remaining in their hearts.
“What happened?” Ji Hao couldn’t help but be shocked deeply.
Inside his spiritual space, the mysterious man appeared, with dim blue light spots sparkling inside his eyes while murmuring in a low voice, “The sword, was it left here?”
Up in the air, Dishi Yanluo narrowed his eyes, while he stared at the long sword held in Emperor Shun’s hand. That sword was wrapped in a bright sphere of golden light. With Dishi Yanluo’s power, he could only hazily see that the sword was embossed with large amounts of complicated patterns and characters.
“You’re not Emperor Xuan Yuan!” Dishi Yanluo grinned teasingly, stood up from the throne while pulling out his own sword with his right hand. A beam of sword light, which combined the streams of red and black lights, darted suddenly out. At the same time, half of the sky was shrouded by dark clouds, out of which countless blood-red light streams poured down like a waterfall.
“Therefore, this sword can never release its true power in your hands!”
Dishi Yanluo laughed out loud, took three big and heavy steps forward while at the same moment hacking thrice towards Emperor Shun with his sword.
The first of the three launched attacks emitted a great stream of blood-red light, which instantly crushed the tens of thousands of dragon silhouettes that were released by Emperor Shun.
The second of those hacks released a enormously great cloud of black mist, which made the brightly shining golden sword, held in Emperor Shun’s hand dim suddenly down.
The third one completely darkened the sky and seemed to have shaken the entire universe. Emperor Shun gave a slight, muffled moan, after which he staggered tens of steps - each of them being nearly a hundred miles - backward. Even though all this transpired in a single moment, Emperor Shun had still moved thousands of miles away from where Dishi Yanluo was standing.
“Look, look at yourself!” Dish Yanluo gripped his sword while letting out a series of high-pitched laughter, which sounded more as if he was screaming.
“Back then, you were still a minister of Emperor Yao and I was only a commander of the Blood Moon army. At that time you were able to chase me for a whole three months without even resting once. You were able to kill a whole twelve hundred of my personal guards, while gravely injuring five of mine blood brothers, who almost died because of those wounds.”
“But, look at yourself now, Shun. This is the difference between us, the Yu Dynasty and your human race!” Dishi Yanluo shouted while raising his sword high in the void and released hundreds of miles long beams of black light from all of his three eyes. Everywhere those beams of black light passed through, the space - even the void - would twist slightly and show signs of rippling.
“How many years have you been sitting on that chair of the human emperor? Three-hundred years? Five hundred years? A thousand years? And how much have you improved during all this time?” growled Dishi Yanluo. “I have been the Emperor for only a year and eight months but the great Blood Moon has granted me inexhaustible power. Now, I am far more powerful than you!”
Emperor Shun gasped slightly for air, while the longsword held in his hand emitted a buzzing noise and released again a bright golden light. He looked at Dishi Yanluo and responded blandly.
“Although I am unwilling, I have to admit that monsters like you are indeed hundreds of times more powerful than our human race, but, so what?”
Raising his long sword slowly again, Emperor Shun continued in a low yet reverberating voice. “Back then you failed to keep us enslaved, and even now, after so many generations, you won’t be able to achieve it again this time. Although those three legendary ancient emperors have passed on, we won’t be defeated easily!”
Dish Yanluo let out a heavy breath, while a dim yet fierce light flashed across his eyeballs, then he said, “The thing I hate most is your so-called pride and dignity! Why wouldn’t you just lower your head and be our slaves nicely? Isn’t that something great? Look at those creatures who are enslaved by us now, aren’t they all living happily right now? You’re just like them, weak, stupid and ignorant. Those things were enslaved by us more than willingly, why can’t you do the same?”
Emperor Shun smiled shook his head slightly. Suddenly, another tens of thousands of flying dragon silhouettes swooshed out from his sword. At the same time, four human silhouettes standing right behind him simultaneously took a step forward.