Eternal Night

Chapter 648 Each on Their Own Battlefield
Wu Pifu cleaved the sky with a single stroke, but part of his mind was still at the camp at the foot of Mount Tai.

At first, he felt nothing, but when the monks and Taoists woke Jia Baoyu, a feeling immediately arose in his heart. The long-lost feeling of "the cicada senses the autumn wind before it moves" finally appeared, which made Wu Pifu wary.

When the sword struck the sky, the sensation became even stronger. Sure enough, in the blink of an eye, a red-tasseled spear thrust straight at him. Wu Pifu spun his broadsword and slashed at the tip of the spear.

Originally, Wu Pifu estimated that he could cut the giant to pieces with one strike when he saw its size. But who knew that when he slashed and the spear clashed, his hand suddenly felt heavy. Although the spear snapped and the giant was sent flying at least a hundred miles away, his title of Lord Kratos was not activated in this clash.
On the other end, the nine-foot-tall celestial being was extremely shocked. With a flick of his wrist, another red-tasseled spear appeared. However, both of his arms were torn apart inch by inch, and golden blood kept seeping from his body. Once it left his body, it turned into golden mist, and his torn wounds were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Wu Pifu ignored this, turned his broadsword, and instead of pursuing, he grinned ferociously at the red azure dragon in the sky and continued to slash at it.

Jia Baoyu stood at a distance, his mind heavy. The sudden, terrifying weight of that clash, coupled with its inexplicable sharpness, both startled him. The sharpness alone was one thing, but the weight was off. This strike reminded him of another weapon with an equally strange weight…

"Impossible! His soul was clearly destroyed, I saw it with my own eyes, I saw it with my own eyes!!"

Jia Baoyu roared again and charged forward once more, still incredibly fast, covering a hundred miles in the blink of an eye. His spear once more thrust at Wu Pifu, but this time the thrust was aimed at the broadsword in Wu Pifu's hand.

Wu Pifu noticed the trajectory of the shot, so he simply didn't change his stance and continued to slash at the sky with his broadsword.

The swords and spears clashed again, this time both sides used their full strength, and the force of the clash was more than ten times greater than before. The strike produced a deafening roar, the sound of which shook the heavens like thunder. With one strike, Wu Pifu was forced back dozens of feet, while Jia Baoyu, who had transformed into a nine-foot-tall celestial being, was cleaved hundreds of miles away.

"...It really is this, it really is this..."

Jia Baoyu cried out in a daze, then gradually gritted his teeth, and a ferocious expression appeared on his face, which resembled that of a nine-foot-tall celestial being.

"Why did you come back?! You damned monkey! You were clearly dead, why did you come back?!"

"What are you saying, 'I'm not convinced, I'm not convinced, I'm not convinced...'"

"When the will of Heaven prevails, no matter if you are a peerless hero or a peerless genius, what is there to submit to? You will all become ants!"

"If you have the guts, then storm the Heavenly Palace again!"

Amidst Jia Baoyu's roar, his nine-zhang-tall celestial being charged forward once more. This time, however, his nine-zhang-tall celestial being underwent a tremendous transformation. Numerous heads emerged from the sides and front and back of his head, and numerous arms also sprouted from the sides and back of his arms. His image instantly changed from a celestial soldier and general with an air of otherworldly grace to a demon descending to earth.

In another instant, the nine-zhang-tall celestial demonic body pounced on Wu Pifu again, as if the hundreds of miles between them did not exist. Then, dozens of spears on its arms swarmed out, each spear radiating terrifying and extraordinary light.

Wu Pifu dared not be negligent and raised his sword to meet the attack. With a series of cracking sounds, dozens of red-tasseled spears were shattered, and the nine-zhang-tall celestial body was also full of cracks. However, this time the nine-zhang-tall celestial body remained steadfast and did not retreat an inch. Wu Pifu himself was also hit by two spears, which pierced his shoulder and arm respectively, but he also remained steadfast and confronted the nine-zhang-tall celestial body.

"No, you are not Him, you are not, you are not, you ant..." Jia Baoyu suddenly realized and immediately roared in fury.

Unexpectedly, Wu Pifu's eyes widened, and an unimaginable, overwhelming pressure appeared, causing the heavens and earth to change color. A faint lightning bolt appeared around him, and at the same time, his arms and fists turned into a jet-black metallic color.

Before Jia Baoyu could even utter a sound, he flashed forward and unleashed a jet-black punch, imbued with lightning, that struck the belly of the nine-zhang-tall celestial being's body, denting and folding its entire form. At the same time, the invisible force of the lightning surged from behind the nine-zhang-tall celestial being's body, blasting a huge hole in the dark clouds that filled the sky.

"You weak, inhuman creature, how dare you call a pure-blooded human an ant?!"

Wu Pifu was equally enraged. Others might not know, but he had already figured out what this nine-zhang-tall divine body really was... It was not a real physical body, nor even the extraordinary energy aggregation of the First Company Chairman's celestial body.

This nine-zhang-tall divine body was composed of countless pure and flawless souls. Each human soul could only take the purest bit of it. In Wu Pifu's eyes, this nine-zhang-tall body was simply like a mountain of corpses piled up.

"Mortals, ants!" Jia Baoyu was somewhat stunned by this attack. With a flick of his arm, swords, spears, and clubs materialized, and he swung them at Wu Pifu with all his might.

Wu Pifu didn't retreat either, wielding a knife in one hand to clash forward, while his other hand, palm and fingers, continuously unleashed dragon-shaped bursts of energy and air-piercing cannons. Jia Baoyu, controlling a nine-zhang-tall celestial body, also refused to retreat, wielding swords, spears, and clubs, and even sprouting more arms to exchange blows with Wu Pifu's bare hands. In an instant, the sky was filled with streaks of light, from heaven to earth, causing the surrounding mountains of Mount Tai to crumble piece by piece, as if the heavens and earth were collapsing and splitting apart. Mortals had never seen such a battle before; it seemed to have come from a mythical wilderness, and everyone was completely stunned.

Even the emperor on the Fengchan Platform was dizzy, but he stood alone on the platform with great courage. From the Imperial Seal in his hand, from the endless phantoms around him, from the sounds of reading, the marketplace, farming, and shouting, all of these things gave him immense courage. For a moment, it was as if countless figures were supporting him on his back, allowing him to straighten his chest and spine to face the azure dragon in the sky.

The crimson dragon atop the sky merely looked down upon the world, its mouth spewing forth bolts of lightning. With each bolt, a humanoid phantom rose against the heavens, clashing and annihilating with the lightning. After hundreds of bolts of lightning struck, the emperor looked around and saw that the number of humanoid phantoms around him had not decreased but increased. There were scholars, farmers, merchants, and soldiers, each with a pitiful appearance, yet they surrounded him, facing the heavens without retreating an inch!

The old eunuch and Lin Daiyu below the Fengchan Terrace were already stunned by what they saw.

Although they couldn't see the true appearance of these phantoms, they could vaguely discern their origins. They also knew that the emperor couldn't back down at this moment. He was the core of humanity's questioning of Heaven. If he retreated, the Azure Dragon in the sky could once again corrupt the earth and people's hearts, and then everything would be over.

Just then, Lin Daiyu suddenly turned her head to look at the entrance at the outer end of the Fengchan Terrace on Mount Tai. She saw a monk and a Taoist priest stepping out from the entrance. At this moment, the old eunuch also looked over. Then he and Lin Daiyu looked at each other and the old eunuch bowed his head deeply and said, "Miss Lin, the world has undergone a great change. His Majesty bears a heavy responsibility. The fate of the world and the country depend on you and me. The lives and deaths of all people and the future of the people all depend on this moment. We must not hold back."

It turned out that the old eunuch was afraid that Lin Daiyu was a girl. The intelligence also described Lin Daiyu as easily moved to tears and secretly grieving, and unlike her brother, she was not decisive in her actions. If she hesitated at this time, and these two oddballs hurt the emperor, then everything would be over.

Lin Daiyu remained unmoved, looking at the monk and the Taoist priest with an extremely calm expression, as if they were inanimate stones at her feet, and said: "They are just two non-human beings. Just watch me kill them, and the eunuch can protect His Majesty."

Then, to the old eunuch's astonishment, she went to greet the monk and the Taoist priest.

As soon as the monk and the Taoist priest stepped onto the platform, they saw the emperor surrounded by thousands of phantoms. Both of them had fierce expressions on their faces, but before they could make a move, they saw Lin Daiyu walking towards them. Their expressions were strange, and they looked at each other. Then, at the same time, they pointed, and a white light and a golden light enveloped Lin Daiyu.

The two lights came suddenly, and Lin Daiyu didn't even have time to react before they entered her sea of ​​consciousness. In an instant, Lin Daiyu's eyes became confused, but as Lin Daiyu's blood and qi exploded at the same time, a thought that was almost like a martial arts will burst forth. In Lin Daiyu's sea of ​​consciousness, a seed sprouted and grew, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a dazzling flower.

The monk and the Taoist priest groaned simultaneously, blood seeping from their five orifices. In their eyes, they saw a dazzling flower sprouting above Lin Daiyu's head, swaying in the wind and emitting a brilliant light that blocked all their attacks.

"Crimson Pearl Fairy Herb..."

"But then, his true nature was awakened?"

The monks and Taoists looked distressed, but at this point they could not retreat and could only grit their teeth and go to greet Lin Daiyu.

Lin Daiyu's eyes were slightly glazed, but she quickly regained her composure. She snorted coldly and said, "You two inhuman demons and monks, it's you who are manipulating the common people behind the scenes, isn't it?"

The monk said with a mocking expression, "A heretical Taoist priest and a demonic monk? Heh heh, do you know what you're talking about?"

The Taoist priest also said, "You, the Crimson Pearl Immortal Herb, are actually a monstrous creature from the primordial era, devouring souls and killing countless beings. This time, we are guiding you to human form, hoping to give you a good outcome, yet you dare to curse us, the demonic Taoists and monks?"

Lin Daiyu, however, did not change her expression at all. She simply raised her hand into a palm and assumed a fighting stance, while shouting, "Non-humans, stop spouting lies! I am human, a pure-blooded human! You are nothing but monsters in human skin. Your words and actions are nothing but imitations and mimicry of us humans. You think you can use these lies to sway my mind? Today, I will skin you alive!"

As she spoke, Lin Daiyu covered ten meters in a single step, rushing into the space between the monks and the Taoists, and tearing at them with a palm and a claw.

The monks and Taoists looked even more distressed.

They had countless methods at their disposal, but once Lin Daiyu's true nature was awakened, none of their methods could break through that dazzling light. The only way to do so was to use their physical strength to suppress and break it. However, their heavenly soldier bodies were nurtured in the Heavenly Court, while their two bodies here were just mortals. How could they possibly withstand Lin Daiyu's Transformation Realm and the flesh-refining power of the Immortal Martial Arts?

For a time, both of them were being overwhelmed and beaten by Lin Daiyu, and they couldn't spare any strength to target the emperor on the Fengchan Platform.

In the distance, the mountains were still cracking, and on the Fengchan Platform, thunder and shadow flew together, while below, Lin Daiyu was chasing and beating a monk and a Taoist priest.

The three-way battle has reached its most intense moment!
(End of this chapter)