Gods Vanish on a Cloudy Day
Chapter 41 Five Elements... Combine!
What exactly should Immortals and Gods be?
Since the dawn of Tianyuan Realm's ignorant humanity, receiving the inheritance of 'Cultivation Methods' from the innate spirits born at the beginning of creation, and revering these powerful lives, the name of Immortals and Gods has been defined.
Immortals and Gods are beings more powerful, more sublime, worthy of reverence and fear than humans.
They are living flames and streams of water, moving mountains and hills. They are the thunder and clouds in the sky, the rushing rivers and the sea.
They are divine birds, spirits, and all power that transcends humanity.
And among all these innate spirits, there was one most powerful being.
Formed from the purest qi in the sky, the divine bird called 'Xuan Niao', after being worshiped, knelt before, and sacrificed as an Immortal God for a long time in a daze, finally found the answer to this question.
——Immortals and Gods are the existence that determines 'rules'.
Therefore, the first life in this Tianyuan Realm, the Immortal God who named himself 'Taichu', after suddenly realizing this, began his journey to determine the rules and command all the innate spirits and divine birds in the world.
Taichu flew over the entire Tianyuan world. He spread writing, calendars, unified weights and measures, and quelled all chaos and disputes.
The divine bird named the nameless myriad things and illuminated all dark areas with its light.
As time passed, after a long time, He created the Heavenly Court and transformed himself into the bright moon, illuminating the dark night.
Then, He conferred titles on three thousand gods, raising star after star, adorning the world.
From then on, Tianyuan was unified, all the gods returned to their positions, the darkness was illuminated, and the light of civilization shone brightly in the world.
'Taichu Heavenly Emperor' hung in the sky, watching everything gently.
Humans crave such power and sublime posture.
So, they imitated and cultivated.
Long and arduous, painful and difficult times passed, and generation after generation of humans, in order to pursue the figure that led all living beings, continued to move forward, constantly advancing, even if the thorns in front of them were sharp.
And in the end, finally, some humans relied on cultivation to reach the realm of Immortals and Gods.
At this point, they could also ascend to the high heavens like the divine bird and the innate spirits, becoming brand new Immortals and Gods.
——So, what exactly should Immortals and Gods do?
Simply lead all living beings and guide all things?
At that time, under Taichu's command, there was an Immortal God named Haotian Divine Lord who believed that Immortals and Gods should act as rules, as masters of destiny, governing everything and controlling everything. He believed that the operation of all things in the world should conform to a matter-of-course rule and order, and that Immortals and Gods were the existence that mastered such rules and order.
At that time, under Taichu's command, there was also an Immortal God named Tianluo Heavenly Lord who believed that Immortals and Gods should be free and unrestrained, moving according to their own hearts and desires, and that they could do whatever they wanted without being restrained. Because Immortals and Gods can advance as they please, as such free beings, they can command all living beings.
He said that this was the most stable and could last the longest.
He said that this was the most free and could obtain the most possibilities.
They all seemed correct.
But Taichu did not agree.
As the first life, the most powerful Immortal God, and also the most powerful creature in the entire world.
He believed that——Immortals and Gods should not only formulate rules, but also be the existence that leads all living beings!
Since humans followed in the footsteps of Immortals and Gods and became brand new Immortals and Gods.
Then, Immortals and Gods should step towards higher places, become more powerful and sublime beings, and continue to lead all living beings forward!
So, Taichu went to try.
Not because of arrogance, not because of ambition.
Simply because Immortals and Gods should be more powerful than humans and guide humans to move forward.
Therefore, they must become stronger.
After all, as the first and strongest life, if even He cannot lead the direction forward for all living beings, how can Immortals and Gods be called Immortals and Gods?
Let everyone follow, let everyone watch, let everyone crave, worship, yearn for——this is establishing virtue, the five virtues of Taichu's heart.
For his own 'virtue', for his own correctness.
Taichu tried his best, with all his might.
To pursue the light of [Pishi] (Beginning).
This is the beginning and cause of everything.
At least, Taichu, in the beginning, thought so.
——Eighty-three hundred thousand years after the bright moon rose from the earth and illuminated the world.
——Forty-five hundred thousand years after the bright moon fell from the sky and the sky darkened.
Tianyuan Realm, Central Continent, Baishan Prefecture, Northern Border Taibai Pass.
In Su Zhou's personal space.
The soul of the demon Tengshe, which was casually thrown by the youth into his personal space and sealed, was now holding his breath with the Extinction Blade Spirit, the World Tree Spear, the Wisdom Tree, and Sarah, staring at the light curtain above the sky.
Ever since being captured by Su Zhou and questioned about the demon, Tengshe, who had been squeezed out of all information, had been living in his personal space recently.
Because he was respectful, cautious in dealing with things as a snake, and also because his strength was indeed weak and posed no threat, even Su Zhou did not pay too much attention to his actions, allowing him to walk around in the personal space.
Therefore, now, when the Wisdom Tree transformed the vision it shared through its mental link with Su Zhou into a light curtain and projected it into the sky, this demon soul, as a prisoner, was also fortunate enough to see the youth's battle from the first-person perspective in this personal space's special seat.
"The fertilizer guy is awesome!" "Your Majesty is so strong!"
"Clang, clang!"
"..."
Although there were many comments from other personal space residents, it was difficult to describe Tengshe's feelings at this moment in words.
In his eyes, Su Zhou's fighting method was so novel, completely different from all Immortals and Gods, demons, or even demons. Whether it was the divine wing cannon that made the snake clap its tail in admiration, or the feather floating cannons that could fly all over the sky, they were all novel tactics that a normal divine bird would never think of, and even if they did, they would never use.
Faced with such a fighting method that did not pay attention to any common sense, but was exceptionally refreshing for demons, the three demons naturally retreated step by step, completely suppressed. They roared, shouted, and yelled, but still could not reverse the decline, and could only be pressured into a corner by Zhuzhou.
Zhuzhou advanced in thunder and dark clouds. The black mist that had previously hindered his advance now surrounded him, as if it had become his strength and foil, making the divine bird more demonic than the demon.
Brilliant light rose from the ground, and after that scorching brilliance flickered, accompanied by a thunderous sound, the three demons' scarred bodies flew out in response, unable to move.
And in the end, Tengshe saw the whole process of Zhuzhou spewing karmic fire and devouring the souls of the demons.
——Too powerful! As expected of a true dragon!
The demon's heart was filled with such emotions.
In his opinion, Su Zhou's eating method, that action of spewing out the three demons' demonic thoughts, crushing them, and converting them into spirituality, was very similar to the legendary true dragon spewing out dragon balls, bringing new spiritual opportunities to the world while gathering power.
Such a powerful true dragon was now only in the True Person Realm. Tengshe was 100% certain that if Zhuzhou advanced to the demon in the future, his power would definitely be unmatched by him, and the same would be true for the dragon descendants such as Taotie, Yazi, and Baxia.
"He will definitely become the true leader of the demons, leading us back to the Tianyuan Land and awakening the Primordial True Dragon!"
"As for these dirty demons, they are destined to be our demons' food!"
Muttering to himself in a low voice, Tengshe, who was twisting his body in ecstasy, had even begun to think about how he should return to the Void Sea and inform the other demon clansmen of this good news.
His thoughts had even diverged to the scene of how the demons would destroy the Nine Serenities in the future, treating the demons as snacks, eating one and playing with one.
This was also the habit of the demons. Back then, they had already begun to imagine how the demons should humiliate the immortals and gods after breaking through the Celestial Central Divine Pass, and even fought internally because of this, eventually being defeated.
But, suddenly.
Tengshe, who was almost completely immersed in a divergent state, was awakened by the sudden increase in the monstrous aura at the light curtain in the sky.
He raised his head, and then, he opened his mouth in shock, stunned in place.
"Demons?"
"Twenty-three demons?!"
Above the dark sky, first a dim star lit up.
Then, it was one, one, and another one!
In an instant, dozens of stars fell together. They dragged trails of light of various colors, dividing the sky into pieces. The complex light spots transformed from the dim divine and demonic soul light fell crisscrossing, and finally fell into the world from the distant end of the sky.
Rumbling——A thunderous sound of falling sounded, accompanied by soul light transformation, lodging into the body, and the monstrous spiritual energy condensed, finally transforming into extremely tyrannical divine and demonic phantoms on the earth.
At this moment, Tengshe was filled with incredulity in addition to shock.
The demon soul even couldn't help but roar in a low voice: "What the hell are those immortals and gods doing?!"
"How could they possibly allow so many demons to descend into the mortal world?!"
Staring at the countless demon phantoms standing between heaven and earth, Tengshe's movements and thoughts were almost frozen, and it took a long time before he began to think again.
As a theoretical half-ally of the demons, the demon naturally knew the situation of the confrontation between the immortals and gods and the demons in great detail.
Although he couldn't figure out why the immortals and gods, who had always been deadlocked and entangled with the demons, would suddenly deflate today, allowing the demons to pour their power into the mortal world, he was not a fool after all, and naturally could see that these demons' target was Zhuzhou.
His most perfect demon leader!
"No——these demons must not be allowed to descend into the world at will!"
We must cause them some trouble!
With this, he made up his mind.
Then, Sarah and the Wisdom Tree, who were also watching the light curtain but did not realize what was happening, saw a scarlet light rising from their side.
They turned their heads in surprise to look to the side, and found that Tengshe's soul was changing from scarlet to golden-red, just like the nascent dawn gradually transforming into the midday sun.
At this moment, the demon was burning his own soul. He burned most of his power in an instant, crossing space, sensing his bloodline located at the distant end of the void.
Thus, on the outer side of the Tianyuan Realm.
Deep in the Void Sea.
Around the slumbering demon Tengshe's body, which was surrounded by huge meteorites.
In the Scale Clan, Tengshe Tribe, a small winged snake coiled on the black ice suddenly woke up from its slumber, its eyes burning with scorching red light.
【I have returned——】
Divine thoughts vibrated the void, causing all the demons to look sideways.
Soon, with wisps of deep or evil gazes lighting up from the darkness, many powerful demons guarding around the Tengshe Tribe emerged in the void.
That was a huge beast with the body of a leopard and the head of a dragon; a monster with the body of a sheep and the face of a human as towering as a mountain range; a huge dragon turtle carrying towering mountains on its back... All the huge demons gathered at once, surrounding the small snake.
Since the demons invaded the Celestial Heaven and the mortal world three thousand years ago and were defeated, many demons have been killed or sealed, and there are not many demons left today.
But even so, as an existence that can make the immortals and gods and demons wary, the power of the demons is far from being weak.
At least, as a bargaining chip to change the situation, it is completely sufficient.
And now, this power is gathered here, listening to and sensing the red light flickering in the small snake's eyes, and the endless information transmitted by the flashing divine thoughts.
【I see——】
【Whether it's true or not, such a special situation is always worth a look.】
【There is excitement, there is fun, I can't be missing.】
【Making trouble! Making trouble! I like it the most!】
Thus, in the darkness, spiritual energy stirred up waves.
Countless solidified black ice trembled and shattered, and thousands of dark gazes lit up from the shattered ice shells.
Thousands of demons are now awakening in the depths of the Void Sea.
——Not just for the true dragon in Tengshe's mouth.
It was also for the changes in the demons and immortals and gods.
The demons, who are most sensitive to changes, keenly sensed the timing of the changes between heaven and earth.
They sensed from the unusual actions of the immortals and gods and demons that a new chaotic change was about to come.
So... Since their side is so lively, then they will join in and make the whole world more lively and chaotic!
Between heaven and earth, outside heaven and earth.
All forces and existences are acting because of Zhuzhou's actions.
And at this very moment.
Before Taibai Pass, facing the many demons who were casting their gazes and exerting pressure on him, accompanied by Zhuzhou's loud and fearless phoenix cry, five feathers shone in mid-air, and finally converged into five major Five Elements incarnations.
——Lanzhong, Divine Thunder, Zhenyuan, Undying, and Devouring Evil.
Then, there was the main body fused with the Extinction Blade.
Six huge divine birds that were completely identical except for the color and the characteristics of the spiritual energy surrounding them, spread their wings in the sky, like floating mountains.
The five major incarnations, as well as the main body, were now all under Su Zhou's will, suddenly rising with blazing flames.
【This, this incarnation... could it be?】
For a time, even the extremely confident demons began to worry a little.
After all, just now, Su Zhou had shown the terrifying strength to suppress the three demon incarnations with his own strength.
If each of his incarnations was as strong as the main body, possessing the strength to fight three enemies with one, then Zhuzhou alone could resist eighteen demon incarnations with just these five major incarnations and the main body.
Although they had descended with twenty-three this time, was it a bit too unsafe?
Everything was just speculation——even thinking with one's toes could understand that if Zhuzhou's incarnations were really as strong as the main body, then why didn't he use them from the beginning and directly crush War, Decay, and Darkness?
But at this time, those worried demons suddenly realized that they, who always brought fear and awe to all living beings, were now also beginning to fear.
Fearing Zhuzhou's every move, worrying about the deep meaning behind the other party's every action.
【Attack!】
In an instant, as if to cover up this moment of fear, a demon roared and condensed spiritual energy, stepping forward, using divine powers, and creating large swaths of poisonous fog, pressing towards Zhuzhou.
【Capture or kill this Zhuzhou, and then contaminate the ley lines! The mortal pass is not to be feared!】
However, whether it was the 'Corrosion Demon' who launched the first attack, or the other demons who followed and prepared to jointly suppress Zhuzhou, they all saw a rather strange scene for the demons.
That was, when the six Zhuzhous of various colors were attacked by the demons, they did not fight back, nor did they defend, and even less did they actively rush towards them as before.
Instead, they leaned together strangely.
He did not know about the demons' movements in the void, nor did he know why the immortals and gods would suddenly change their minds, and he was even less aware that the demons, who rarely descended into the world, were now appearing like dumplings.
Su Zhou was indeed unaware of all this.
But it did not affect his reaction to everything that had happened.
"Months of cultivation, rebirth in the ley lines."
"How could you demons imagine the power of the transformed me?"
Declaring so in mid-air, with Su Zhou's main body as the core, all the Zhuzhous were burning with light, and five-colored rainbow light was burning fiercely, releasing dazzling light.
His image at this moment was like a line flashing in the flames, and his voice became ethereal and majestic because of this, like the raging wind blowing in the sky.
"Let me show you the power of Zhuzhou Divine Bird Version 2.0."
"Five Elements——Combination!!!!!!!"
Immediately, it could be seen that between the intense flashes of spiritual light, the six burning divine birds all began to undergo a violent and brilliant 'transformation' in the sun-like divine light!
The blue Imperial Five Extremes Divine Thunder Incarnation transformed into the giant god's right arm, thunder spiraling, like chains entwined.
The cyan Great Zhoutian Lanzhong Incarnation transformed into the giant god's left arm, with the gale breathing and tornadoes deriving in the sky.
The gray Shifting World Undying Body Incarnation transformed into the giant god's torso, with earth qi condensing and the engine connecting the power of the earth veins beginning to roar.
The blue-brown Rotating Undying Dharma Incarnation transformed into the giant god's left leg, with wood qi intertwined and the power of immortality spreading.
The black and white Devouring Evil Demon Lord Incarnation transformed into the giant god's right leg, with karmic fire burning and the immortal karmic fire burning fiercely.
And finally, the blue-golden main body fused with the Extinction Blade condensed, transforming into the giant god's head, and the endless golden qi of the Dao weapon solidified, finally condensing into a single horn at the top of the head, guiding the qi that slays immortality and destroys gods and demons.
Rumble!
A deafening thunder sounded, and above the sky, centered on the giant god transformed from the six Zhuzhou combination incarnations, countless leaping arcs erupted from the dark clouds gathered from endless spiritual energy, and the thunder light, like snowflakes, flashed rapidly between heaven and earth, densely packed.
His chest had a huge Five Elements Crystal shining brightly, the humanoid giant god was burning with flames all over his body, and behind him, metal wings like a cosmic fighter unfolded, and the power of the Five Elements rotated immortally behind him, converging into a light wheel.
——Zhuzhou's arm is thunder, Zhuzhou's hand is a storm, Zhuzhou's body is immortal, Zhuzhou's legs are destruction and resurrection!
——Hundred martial arts, this is the Five Elements Combination, Zhuzhou True Body!
In the cloud of spiritual energy nearly a hundred kilometers high, terrifying lightning was spreading between the clouds as if it had life.
"Boom!"
Facing the sky-covering dark green poisonous clouds pressed down by the Corrosion Demon, the 2,400-meter-high giant god opened his eyes angrily.
Then, he opened his mouth, and a roar ten times louder than thunder erupted from his mouth. The visible shockwave, accompanied by storm shock waves, swept across the earth and the sky, directly blowing all the poisonous mist that was enough to corrode a mountain range into ashes to the sky, dissipating into nothing.
Raising his head, the molten lava-like rotating and burning pupils of Zhuzhou True Body reflected the astonished and shocked faces of many demons. The demons who had originally begun to charge towards the divine bird and launch attacks all stopped their steps at the same time, and then began to fall into deep confusion.
——What is that?
——Isn't Zhuzhou a divine bird? Why did it suddenly combine and turn into a human?
——And what's going on, clearly just dividing into incarnations and then recombining and combining, why did the power suddenly skyrocket?!
Inconceivable, incomprehensible, and completely unable to understand what the principle was.
The demons were thus plunged into confusion.
But, for Su Zhou, all of this was normal.
If his original main body was essentially a compressed package that integrated all inheritance, then now, the Zhuzhou True Body, which disassembled all inheritance and recombined it, was the complete state after decompression and reorganization!
The same file, the same inheritance, before and after decompression, are naturally not the same!
"Everyone at Tianguan, cooperate with me to attack!"
After completing the combination, without any hesitation, Su Zhou, transformed into Zhuzhou True Body, shouted, awakening the many New Dynasty soldiers in Taibai Pass who were still in shock.
Immediately afterwards, he started the wings amid everyone's joyful shouts and praises of God. The young man stepped out, and the Lanzhong rocket exploded, causing the giant god to start in a huge storm. Then, together with the attack of the Taibai Pass fortress, which had started attacking again and exploded with endless firepower, it roared towards the many demons.
——At this moment, no one would fear the demons.
If the strong are the banner, leading people forward.
Then the brave are the symbol, as long as he exists, he can inspire courage!
As the giant god rapidly approached the Demonic Realm, his chest was also condensing monstrous spiritual power. Light spots as brilliant as the sun were condensing deep in the crystal.
Then, it erupted.
【This, what is this?】
The Corrosion Demon, who was in the lead, had just recovered from the surprise that his attack had been blown away by the giant god, but in the next instant, he saw a light as brilliant as a star lit up from afar.
Like the horizon appearing in the morning light, then illuminating all things, a point of light spread from the end of the field of vision, and then transformed into a pillar of light that penetrated the sky and the earth, completely swallowing the demon.
Then, the confused demon was directly melted and evaporated by the great power of the Five Elements rotation.
Corrosion Demon, defeated!
【This is... what power?!】
【It's the Five Virtues Divine Light!】
Because the torrent of spells erupted by the Gengjin ley line power of Taibai Pass, some of the demons slowed down and did not have time to keep up with the assistance. Now, they all looked sideways in shock, looking at the place where the Corrosion Demon's body was devoid of bones.
They did sense the familiar power, which should belong to Ming Zhengde's Five Virtues Divine Light, from Su Zhou's previous 'Five Virtues Rotating Divine Light Cannon'——how could they not know about such great supernatural power?
However, compared to the endless cycle of the Five Elements, which is more about the endless cycle of suppression than destruction, and the power of creation that creates all things, Su Zhou's pure destructive power completely deviated from the original meaning of the Five Virtues Divine Light!
It's better to say, how can the endless Five Virtues power be used to create such terrible destructive power?! This alone is enough to make the demons rack their brains!
【No, never mind——it should be that Zhuzhou's innate Five Virtues supernatural powers have some deviation!】
Even though they frequently saw novel things that surprised the demons, the demons are, after all, demons, members of the gods and demons. Their daily routine is to confront and fight against the immortals and gods of the Celestial Heaven. Although Zhuzhou is powerful, it will not really cause them to lose their ability to cope.
In an instant, a cold light traversed the sky, reflecting the heavens and earth near Taibai Pass in a piece of snow-white, and the almost absolute zero breath spread, intending to freeze Zhuzhou. However, the giant god did not even raise his hand to face this attack. He directly moved his divine thoughts, and the Lanzhong shield surrounding him tore the gray-white cold light to pieces.
Frost fell all over the sky.
But this attack was just the beginning. Su Zhou, who was flying and had just shattered the cold light, noticed something was wrong. He sensed that the surrounding atmosphere was rapidly cooling down, and the scattered snowflakes mixed with a force that could even imprison space, sealing him in a square prison. The translucent barrier blocked the giant god's charge, sealing him in it.
The Bitter Cold Demon and the Imprisonment Demon shot at the same time. The almost absolute zero frost and cold intent and the imprisonment space were launched at the same time, directly locking Su Zhou in place, and the joints of his body solidified, making him unable to move at all.
Although the youth was young, how rich was his combat experience? How could he not understand the other party's intentions? He immediately erupted with power, and the light of the Extinction Blade bloomed at the single horn on his head, and the red-golden hot flames erupted, tearing apart the frost and the cage.
But at the same time, an extremely sharp blade of light and a roaring flame appeared on both sides of Su Zhou. The Blade Demon and the Incineration Demon burst out at the same time, and the supernatural powers, which were enough to easily kill ordinary peak True Men, burst out in a torrent, bringing up sparks of atomic fission and cyan-red ionized clouds all over the sky.
Even Su Zhou was very clear that these two attacks were not easy to deal with, and were basically unavoidable. Without thinking, he directly opened his mouth and spewed out a tornado-like storm.
The cyan-gray storm erupted from the giant god's mouth. It looked like Lanzhong, but its essence was the true essence of the Imperial Five Extremes Divine Thunder True Method. The invisible magnetic field stirred the movement of particles, and thunder intertwined in it, transforming into a condensed magnetic field, and forcibly blocked the high temperature enough to vaporize divine gold, and the invisible sharp blade that was enough to shatter all things.
But this was not the end. The wings behind Zhuzhou True Body rotated, and the vector nozzles that originally propelled the true body forward transformed into gun barrels. It fine-tuned the aiming, and then the cyan storm swept towards the two demons who were rapidly approaching, like a raging wave.
The Violence Demon and the Destruction Demon were both True Men who were truly enlightened in martial arts before becoming demons. Their descending bodies flashed with immortal glazed colors, and ripple-like spiritual power fluctuations spread in all directions with their bodies as the center. As the fluctuations swept over, the rock shell under their feet cracked and shattered, blooming with cracks.
However, the storm stirred up by Su Zhou could not be ignored even by them, because black and white karmic fire was burning in the cyan gale like fluorescence. This karmic fire of destruction that destroyed all souls, causing the demons to fear, rotated into a cyclone in it, and rushed towards the demons, seeming to swallow them.
However, the激蕩狂風 did not take effect. The Violence Demon stepped on the ground, and the huge rock shell heaved up as if it had life, transforming into a solid wall——although the karmic fire burns everything, it is, after all, the fire of the heart, and has no effect on sand and stone. Although the impact of the gale instantly stirred up layers of dense cracks on the rock wall, the most dangerous element in Su Zhou's counterattack was indeed blocked.
But before the Violence Demon and the Destruction Demon could continue their attacks, an accident happened. Behind the rock wall that was already full of cracks, two huge fists appeared with incredible impact——one hand was parasitic with thunder, and the other hand was wrapped with a whirlwind——this was obviously Zhuzhou's fist.
【How is it possible?!】
【How can his speed be so fast?!】
Of course it can be so fast, because Zhuzhou's fist does not need the body to keep up at all!
At this moment, the muscles of Su Zhou's shoulders and back bulged, and his arms came off the shoulders on the spot. Zhuzhou True Body exploded with all its strength, and rocket nozzles appeared at the elbows——the violent propulsion that was enough to accelerate a spacecraft to more than 200 kilometers per second at the same time as the storm and electromagnetic propulsion only needed to push two fists at this time, and the terrifying impact force erupted immediately.
There was no time to react, and the two demons were severely bombarded on the top of their heads by Su Zhou's rocket double fists in this way.
The feeling was like an ordinary person heavily punching a tomato. Accompanied by the sound of bones shattering and juice splashing, the descending bodies of the two demons died directly in this way.
Six-God Combination Thunder King (not really)
The first update, I am writing the second update. I originally wanted to finish writing and then post it, but it seems that there will be no time to ask for monthly tickets!