Eternal God Emperor: Only I Am Emperor One

Chapter 248 Marionette

Gu Feng and Mo Xiaogu searched through the ruins, while Di Yi stood far behind them.

The number of dilapidated ancient temples far exceeds the number of intact ones, and it is by no means something that can be searched out in a short period of time.

Mo Xiaogu was very proactive and showed no signs of complaint, sparing no effort to break through the spatial barrier.

"Something's not right. What is she planning? If she had any trump cards, she would have used them long ago. She wouldn't be letting me control her like this." Di Yi was on guard, looking for an opportunity to strike, but Luo Sha was clearly also on guard against him and hadn't shown any weakness.

"not good!"

Just then, accompanied by a cry of alarm, a terrifying and chilling pressure emanated from the ruins.

"Boom!"

A massive, ten-zhang-tall evil corpse emerged from the ruins, and with a single blow, sent Mo Xiaogu flying, crashing into the ruins and raising a cloud of dust.

Her breathing became extremely weak, and her fate was unknown.

The Great Sage's evil corpse had already transformed into a ferocious spirit, and it immediately locked onto Di Yi, taking a step forward to pounce on him.

"Is this Luo Sha's plan? To use the Great Sage Evil Corpse to deal with me?"

Emperor Yi felt considerable pressure on the Great Sage Evil Corpse, but he did not panic. He activated the Burning Heaven Bell that had been used earlier, drawing out a wisp of supreme power.

At the same time, he activated his Buddhist divine power, and his entire body radiated brilliant Buddhist light.

The Buddha's light can purify evil energy and has a natural power to suppress evil corpses. Although his Buddhist attainments are not high, he can still play a certain role by converting holy energy into Buddha's light through the original path.

"town!"

The Heaven-Burning Bell flew out, and mental techniques were also unleashed at the same time.

It managed to briefly block the Great Sage's evil corpse by relying on the power of the Supreme Being.

Luo Sha crawled out of the ruins, his aura not much weaker. He looked in the direction of the fight and his face turned gloomy.

"This damned monk is actually so powerful; he could even hold off the Great Sage's evil corpse for a moment."

"It seems that killing him today will not be so easy. Let's leave here first and then think of a way. Gu Feng alone is not enough to help Fairy Tianchu obtain 100,000 drops of divine spring water."

"Let's get rid of that guy named Lin Yue first; his spatial skills are even higher than Gu Feng's."

Luo Sha joined the ancient civilization faction for two reasons: first, to gain access to the Wind Dome; and second, to prevent the Tianchu Civilization from obtaining a sufficient number of divine springs.

The old lord of the Tianchu Civilization was a giant in the divine realm. If he recovered from his injuries, it would not be good news for the Hell Realm.

Of course, this doesn't mean that if Fairy Tianchu couldn't bring back 100,000 drops of divine spring water, the old lord of the Tianchu civilization would necessarily perish.

Throughout the entire Heavenly Court, there are naturally other places where one can find 100,000 drops of divine spring water.

However, the price that the Tianchu Civilization needs to pay to obtain it is not as simple as just marrying off the Heavenly Maiden.

That price was so high that even the gods of the Celestial Civilization could not bear it, otherwise they wouldn't have waited until today.

The existence of a divine spring within the Conferred God Platform may be unknown to cultivators below the Divine Realm, but the gods of the Temple of Truth certainly do.

The news that the Celestial Civilization needed the Divine Spring spread throughout the world, even reaching the sages.

Why didn't the Temple of Truth give 100,000 drops of divine spring water to the Celestial Civilization?

This must be because the Temple of Truth also put forward conditions that the Tianchu Civilization could not accept. If they agreed, the Tianchu Civilization might no longer be an ancient civilization faction, but rather a subordinate of the Heavenly Palace.

In Luo Sha's view, the gods of the Heavenly Court would certainly not sit idly by and watch the old Heavenly Lord of the Tianchu Civilization die under the Yuanhui Tribulation. They just wanted to take advantage of the Divine Spring to plunder a large piece of flesh from the Tianchu Civilization.

The internal power struggles within the Heavenly Court are a good thing for the Underworld, and she is naturally happy to see it happen. She does not want Fairy Tianchu to really bring 100,000 drops of divine spring water back to the Tianchu Civilization.

The Great Sage Evil Corpse possessed immense combat power, which even a Nine-Step Saint King could not contend with. Emperor Yi, with the help of the Supreme Sacred Artifact and Buddhist teachings, could only temporarily restrain him.

"Luo Sha's presence has vanished; she's escaped again."

Di Yi felt a little regretful. He had originally planned to continue to exploit Luo Sha's value, as a space controller played a very important role in this folded space.

"There's no need to waste any more time with the Great Sage Evil Corpse."

He was about to retreat when he felt a spatial fluctuation behind him.

"go to hell!"

Gu Feng had been holding back for a long time, and now that he saw Mo Xiaogu severely injured and that the damned monk was also being held back by the Great Sage Evil Corpse, it was the perfect opportunity to launch a sneak attack.

If he kills the white-robed monk, all the treasures he found will belong to him.

As for the Great Sage Evil Corpse, with his spatial abilities, he is confident he can escape.

"Seek death."

A calm voice rang in Gu Feng's ears, and the spatial power he had originally unleashed was strangely frozen, as if the surrounding void had returned to stillness.

"What kind of technique is this? Are you also a space cultivator?"

Gu Feng looked terrified and turned to run away, but Di Yi would not give him the chance.

He retrieved the Heaven-Burning Bell, mobilized the rules of the Flowing Light Path, and moved at an extreme speed, appearing in front of Gu Feng before Gu Feng could use spatial teleportation.

A palm slapped his forehead, nearly shattering his enormous, ugly head.

Almost simultaneously, a soul-capturing seal entered his holy soul.

All of this happened in the blink of an eye, and was completed in the blink of an eye.

Meanwhile, the Great Sage Evil Corpse had already attacked.

Di Yi grabbed Gu Feng, mobilizing the rules of truth and the rules of flowing light, unleashing extreme speed, and quickly fled, escaping the palace complex. They didn't leave the Great Sage Evil Corpse behind them until they reached the foot of the mountain.

Di Yi found a cave and threw Gu Feng on the ground.

He took out a healing elixir and gave it to him. Not long after, he woke up, got up, and bowed to Di Yi.

"Meet the master."

"Get up."

Di Yi looked him over and had to admit that Gu Feng was truly ugly. From the perspective of human cultivators' aesthetics, he was probably the ugliest person in the world, a sight to behold only once in ten thousand years.

It truly takes great courage for Fairy Tianchu to be willing to marry such a person for the sake of the Divine Spring and the Tianchu Civilization.

"It is a bit ugly, but since I can subdue a space cultivator to work for me, I don't care about that."

"Right, let's test the power of the second level of the Mind Realm on him."

Di Yi's mind was filled with various mysteries about the realm of the mind. He separated a strand of his soul from his holy soul and sent it into Gu Feng's body.

In an instant, he was able to observe the whole world from Gu Feng's perspective.

"You use your spatial abilities."

"Yes."

Gu Feng mobilized the spatial rules within his body, stretched out his palm in front of him, and tore a spatial rift in the void.

Although it was Gu Feng who was using spatial techniques, Di Yi, who was possessing Gu Feng, felt as if he was performing them himself.

Although he did not understand the Dao of Space, now, with the help of Gu Feng, a space cultivator, the Dao of Space was no longer as mysterious as before.

"Is this what a marionette is? It can not only control puppets, but also turn the puppets' own abilities into its own."

"If one could control dozens or hundreds of puppets at the same time, forming a battle formation with their minds in sync, and then combine them with various different methods, how powerful would that be?"

Di Yi was astonished by the power of the Mind Realm. No wonder the Path of the Mind was a power that could rival the Nine Eternal Paths. If the second level was already so powerful, what kind of wonders would it bring if one cultivated the third or fourth level?

"Even if one can use Gu Feng's body to perform spatial techniques, there is still a limit, and one cannot use things that he himself has never known. Relying solely on Gu Feng's spatial skills, it will be very difficult to seize the Divine Spring."

"Unless, with the addition of the True Source Demon Eye."

Upon realizing this, the Emperor immediately attempted to transfer the power of the True Source Demon Eye to the soul he had placed within Gu Feng's body.

"It really works!"

The True Source Demon Eye is a mysterious technique that Emperor Yi cannot yet comprehend, and it does not rely entirely on the two eyes.

Even a soul separated from the body can mobilize some of its power.

With the blessing of the True Source Demon Eye, the world became much simpler through Gu Feng's vision, and the originally complex and mysterious folded space lost its previous mystery.

"Spatial teleportation".

"Spatial Capture".

"Space cutting."

……

He unleashed more than a dozen different spatial techniques, each several times more powerful than before.

The difference between a space controller and a space cultivator is largely that a space controller can see through the deeper essence of space and can leverage the spatial power of the same level with less effort.

Simply put, it means that the space controllers have more efficient and advanced methods for manipulating spatial power.

Ordinary space cultivators use extremely clumsy methods to mobilize spatial power.

The True Source Demon Eye's function is to bring advanced methodologies to backward space cultivators, allowing them to analyze space from a completely different perspective.

At this moment, Gu Feng already has the potential to challenge space controllers like Gongzi Yan.

"Relying on Gu Feng alone is not enough; we also need a powerful spatial treasure."

Emperor Yi took out the Yuan Chen Sumeru Stabilizing Banner, a time-space treasure made by the Sumeru Holy Monk. From the perspective of the Dao of Space alone, it is a rare spatial treasure in the world.

Since Di Yi was not a cultivator of the two paths of time and space, he could not unleash its true power and could only use it as a time accelerator. Now, however, it has a new purpose.

With the Yuan Chen Sumeru Stabilizing Banner in hand, Emperor Yi manipulated Gu Feng, invoking the rules of space and unleashing spatial annihilation.

Inside the cave, a spatial vortex several tens of feet in size suddenly formed, swallowing everything around it.

"Is this the true power of the Yuan Chen Sumeru Stabilizing Banner? It's truly terrifying."

"Give me the chance, I still need to try to understand the principles of time and space myself. I don't need to reach a very high level of expertise, but at least I can't be completely ignorant of them."

The cultivation of the Holy Path is not static. For example, most cultivators who enter the Realm of Truth have not cultivated the Path of Truth before reaching the Holy Realm.

The Nine Eternal Paths are quite unique. Even without activating the corresponding Divine Martial Mark or integrating the corresponding rules into one's Martial Soul during the Fish-Dragon Realm, one can still comprehend them after becoming a Saint.

However, their speed of understanding this path is much slower than that of those who control it and those who are cultivators.

The Heavenly Court has so many cultivators who can cultivate the Path of Truth because of the special nature of the Heavenly Domain of Truth and the Temple of Truth. Even so, apart from the disciples of the Temple of Truth, there are very few cultivators who can achieve something in the Path of Truth.

Emperor Yi doesn't have the energy to delve into the Dao of Space and Time right now, and even if he wanted to, he would have to wait until he breaks through to the Great Sage level.

"Everything is ready; it's time to go and collect the divine spring."

(End of this chapter)