Gods Vanish on a Cloudy Day

Chapter 44 The Consequences of Activating the Second Form at Full Health (5600, 10,000 words today, requesting monthly tickets~)

Chapter 205 The Consequences of a Full Health Second Form (5600 words, today's 10k update, requesting monthly tickets~)

In the first instant that the sense of danger spread, the Peacock Divine Bird knew something was wrong.

Years of experience fighting in the Beast God Realm told it that in any situation, it was better to retreat when sensing danger than to stubbornly resist—because even a divine bird, once dead, was dead. A peacock wasn't a phoenix, not an immortal bird. It didn't have the capital to make mistakes.

So without any hesitation, it, which had previously spread its tail feathers, looking imposing and full of momentum, immediately retracted its tail feathers, preparing to retreat and defend.

But it was fast, and Su Zhou was even faster.

After that sigh, specks of azure-purple demonic fire appeared around Su Zhou, like starlight surrounding his body, emitting a cold light.

That was a heatless spiritual flame, the state in which Su Zhou's true spiritual power manifested in reality. The Evil-Devouring Demon Lord's divine ability gave this demonic fire the power to judge the good and evil in people's hearts, allowing Su Zhou to clearly sense that at this very moment, right in front of him, where the giant divine bird was, there was an 'utterly evil being.'

Where exactly was it evil? He wasn't familiar with the peacock, nor did he know how it usually behaved as a bird. Perhaps it was the conflict between the Beast God Realm and humanity, perhaps it held murderous intent toward him, or perhaps it wasn't a good bird even in the Beast God Realm… But whatever.

Su Zhou simply gripped the Dragon Horn Spear in his hand, and then gathered all the spiritual power in his body, infused it into the spear with a magnificent spiritual light that was so bright that it illuminated the surrounding foothills, causing the erected rocks around to cast long shadows, and strengthened it.

*Boom*. Azure-purple demonic fire ignited out of thin air, transforming into dragons and snakes, coiling around the tip of the Demon Emperor Dragon Horn Spear, while the evil souls originating from the Shepherd gathered within, transforming into the spirit attachment of 'Nightmare Suppression of the Shepherd.'

Immediately afterward, Su Zhou silently took a step forward, his knees slightly bent, storing power.

Then.

He used all the strength in his body to hurl the eight-foot-long spear that was burning!

The Demon Emperor Dragon Horn Spear was originally forged by the Grand Craftsman of the Divine Wood World, a master craftsman capable of creating extraordinary high-level divine weapons. Even though they couldn't create another divine weapon in such a short time, the material of the Demon Emperor's Kinsman King was more than enough for Su Zhou to use now.

And as Su Zhou's true spiritual power, which he hadn't used for a long time, was transformed into pure strengthening and accelerating power, the hurled spear broke the sound barrier in an instant.

*Boom——————*

A piercing sonic boom rang out, like a heavy artillery bombardment. The tip of the spear even rubbed against the atmosphere, igniting the air, and accompanied by a sharp whistling sound, layers of azure spiritual fire spread out, eventually forming smooth rings of fire in its wake.

"What is this?!"

As an extraordinary individual, the Peacock's thought speed was extremely fast. It immediately understood that Su Zhou, in addition to the power of wind and thunder that he had revealed on the surface, actually possessed a third type of power. It had seen this kind of thing many times in its long life, but Su Zhou's case itself made it difficult to understand: "Even if he has a third attribute, wind and thunder should be his main cultivation, right? He can defeat Garuda with the power of wind and thunder, how could he still hide another main…"

No matter how fast its thinking was, it had to face reality. Before it could understand, the rapidly approaching spear had already arrived before its eyes. And the Peacock Divine Bird was, after all, the king of the avian species in the current Beast God Realm, with a lifetime of battles under its belt. At this critical moment, it immediately let out a roar—and then, the spiritual power all over its body surged, transforming into clusters of Five Elements vortexes in front of it!

Active wood, restless fire, gentle water, sharp metal, and solid earth. The five distinct spiritual powers transformed into five colorful phenomena such as tree flames, rain of gold, and rock. In the end, they converged into a pure white shield. The five spiritual powers rotated, and under the control of the Peacock Divine Bird, they even transformed into the most resilient life spiritual power shield!

This was the Peacock Divine Bird's talent, a race born with the power of the Five Elements, able to naturally control all Five Elements transformations, and even transform into various strange and complex composite spiritual power attributes, able to cope with almost any situation.

But this situation didn't include dealing with pure, overwhelming brute force.

*Boom!*

The pure white shield was shattered and exploded by Su Zhou's thrown spear in an instant, scattering a sky full of fire waves. But before the Peacock Divine Bird could be shocked that its shield would be shattered, an even more shocking thing had already happened—because a figure burst out, broke through the majestic spiritual flames it had created, grabbed its spear, and then tore through the fire waves and the atmosphere with a punch, causing the right fist burning with raging purple-azure demonic fire to surge from below, instantly crossing a hundred meters and striking the divine bird's beak!

*Bang—Crack!!* Under the enhancement of spiritual power, hundreds of tons of pure physical impact transformed into a violent impact comparable to a high-speed train collision. In the teeth-aching cracking sound, the Peacock Divine Bird's entire huge demonic body was sent flying by the uppercut!

Birds' beaks are their feeding organs. The beak of the Divine Bird Peacock was very similar to that of the Chongming Bird, both being conical. It was rumored that the two might have some blood relation, and this part was also one of their most resilient extraordinary organs.

However, the Peacock wasn't a woodpecker after all. Its beak and neck didn't have shock-absorbing capabilities.

Therefore, when Su Zhou's sky-piercing hundred-ton uppercut struck below its beak, the violent force directly passed through the solid keratin structure, causing it to deform and shatter, and then following the spine and bones, directly penetrated into the brain, intending to turn it into a pile of mush!

"Gah ah ah!!"

As it flew into the sky, the Peacock immediately let out a scream. If this blow had struck an ordinary spiritual beast, it would probably have been killed directly with one punch. But it was, after all, a divine bird, a king of birds, and it wasn't as if it hadn't fought other transcendent-level beings before. It had long known what to do if it was severely injured.

So, even though its brain had already turned into a paste, its soul, as a second thinking organ, still forcibly controlled its body, preparing to descend and then launch a counterattack.

At the instant Su Zhou poured all his power into the Peacock's beak, several iridescent feathers lit up on the divine bird's body. Those were the magical artifacts the Peacock had personally refined. Under the control of spiritual power, they directly detached from its body and flew up, and then, the Five Elements spiritual power vibrated!

In an instant, the various mutually generating and restraining Five Elements spiritual powers immediately stimulated and propelled each other, and a series of substantive, violent shock waves centered on the Peacock, carrying screams and impacts like exploding bombs, assaulted Su Zhou like a tide!

This was a pure impact created with the power of the gold, fire, and wood spiritual powers, a type of layered composite Dao technique. Its power was much greater than bombarding with pure attribute spiritual power. It was a cultivation method that the Peacock and its ancestors had improved in recent years.

For a time, Su Zhou's body, which was too light compared to a giant beast, was immediately pushed away by these shock waves. And the surrounding dire beasts, trembling because of the Second King's bloodline struggle, all had their eardrums burst under the frenzied sonic wave impact, and blood flowed freely—Su Zhou was naturally no exception. He, who directly faced the strongest wave of impact, was even shaken until blood flowed from his ears and eyes, and even his eyeballs shattered, flowing with blood tears.

But the most dangerous thing wasn't this—after blowing Su Zhou away, the Peacock, having created distance, let out another angry cry. Five clusters of substantive spiritual power light immediately appeared around its body. These clusters rotated around the Peacock, fusing and splitting each other, and then spraying out streams of either pure attribute or composite attribute spiritual energy cannons from the fusion and splitting points—in an instant, the entire bird transformed into a large artillery platform, and began to bombard the area where Su Zhou was located!

But Su Zhou stood in place, his left hand wiping away the blood flowing from his ears and eyes, while his right hand stretched out. His body, which had been heavily strengthened by 'Sacred Geometry, Equilateral Triangle' and 'Gathering Qi into the Body,' shattered, slapped away, and diverted the incoming streams of spiritual energy light, like swatting flies.

In the end, he even gave up on defending, and instead stood in place, allowing the Peacock to bombard him like this.

"Is that all?"

Opening his eyes, which had already regenerated, Su Zhou laughed coldly. A high-temperature water-fire fusion blade, enough to cut several meters deep lines in the rock, struck his chest. The triangular spiritual power patterns manifested in defense, preventing the water from penetrating at all. Like a tide crashing against solid rock, it shattered itself, transforming into specks of spiritual power foam in the air.

His clothes were burned away, but his perfect body emerged, like smooth muscles and pectoral muscles forged from jade, blocking all the spiritual power bombardment like an indestructible shield!

"What?"

For a time, even the furious Peacock couldn't believe that its attack had been ineffective. And after hearing Su Zhou's words, it was even more stunned for a moment, causing the continuous firepower suppression to pause for an instant.

In the next instant, with a spiritual power surge twice as violent as before, a blazing white light of fury flashed in the divine bird's eyes.

A voice gritting its teeth came from the Peacock's mouth, word by word: "No!"

"I'll let you see my power!"

Of course, Su Zhou, who couldn't understand bird calls and had closed all communication channels, actually didn't know what the Peacock was saying. He was just habitually talking trash to mock it, and by the way, luring the Peacock to reveal its true trump card while he still had the strength to defend.

At the same time, the Divine Bird Peacock took a deep breath.

All peacocks were manipulators of the Five Elements spiritual power. They could touch and play with spiritual power from birth. Once they reached adulthood, they were natural masters of spiritual power techniques. And the entire clan were experts in researching spiritual power—the immortals and gods had invaded their world in the past, but they had also taught them, allowing them to understand the meaning of learning and inheritance, and also allowing them to understand the essence of their divine abilities even more.

The so-called Five Colors Divine Light Sealing was actually to determine a spiritual energy characteristic and forcibly seal the birth of all spiritual energy with this characteristic. However, before this divine ability, the Star Great Five Elements Rotation, it couldn't form complete Five Elements phenomenon immunity, and before the sealing, it needed to determine in detail what kind of spiritual energy characteristic it wanted to seal. And that was why the Peacock had been watching Garuda and Su Zhou fight all along—the spiritual energy aura of the two fighting was its grasp to defeat both of them.

But it had miscalculated the source of Su Zhou's essential power—and now it was too late to collect the characteristics of the opponent's fire-element strengthening power.

So, it was better to simply take back this power and use it for a decisive battle!

Accompanied by a chilling cry, the two colorful feathers that had been suppressing the power of wind and thunder no longer twisted in mid-air, but transformed into two majestic rivers of spiritual power, returning behind the Peacock.

At the same time, incomparably powerful fire snakes and wood energy phantoms emerged from behind the Peacock.

The Five Colors Peacock, which hadn't really become an immortal god, didn't have the capital to master all attributes in an era when spiritual energy hadn't recovered. And this Divine Bird Peacock had chosen fire and wood—fire burning wood energy, wood assisting fire power. In an instant, magma appeared beneath its feet, and pure white firebirds emerged from around the Peacock, gathering into an azure-blue, incomparably huge and sacred, scorching Azure Fire Phoenix!

"Azure turning white, how many thousands of degrees Celsius is this fire?!"

Even Su Zhou's expression changed. Even with his spiritual power-enhanced body, a three-thousand-degree Celsius spiritual power flame could scorch his body in seconds, forcing him to regenerate rapidly. He hurriedly moved to dodge, and in the next instant, the location where he had been was struck by a majestic fire serpent, turning the ground into lava!

Without any hesitation, Su Zhou moved rapidly. Even the members of the exploration team who had been observing from behind couldn't capture his figure, but the divine bird could always detect it in the first moment. Continuous, powerful fire streams, like coronal mass ejections from the surface of the sun, bombarded every area he passed through, using magma to depict a golden dodging route on the earth!

But such an attack obviously couldn't last long—accompanied by a roar, Su Zhou's azure-purple dragon eyes flashed with brilliance. He aimed at the instant when the spiritual power around the Peacock slightly stagnated, and then accelerated without hesitation. The rocks beneath his feet immediately exploded with several meters high dust and mist, and Su Zhou himself laughed loudly. He raised his spear and exerted force, the tip shining, drawing a stream of light in mid-air!

A cold light flashed, and then the spear shot out like a dragon!

Although it took a long time to say, this exchange of offense and defense actually only happened in a short ten seconds. It wasn't until this time that the shocked exploration team barely reacted and exclaimed: "Professor Su actually has spiritual power?!"

"He's not just a double attribute classification? That azure-purple spiritual light… it looks like the color of his eyes!"

"It's fire attribute, it's fire attribute spiritual power! The sealing is useless at all. Professor Su's fundamental spiritual power is actually fire attribute!"

"West Mother Celestial Venerable above!" Bai Canglang didn't know how many times he had gasped today. His hair, as stiff as wire, was almost standing on end in shock: "Su Zhou isn't a Thunder Dragon after all?! We were all wrong. He's actually a Fire Dragon?"

"But what Fire Dragon can be so strong? I don't remember any dragons playing with fire so well!"

"It's not the bloodline that's amazing." The aged Professor Xuanlu straightened his black-rimmed glasses, and said in a deep voice: "It's Su Zhou himself—don't you understand yet? Even the thunder techniques he uses to conceal his true spiritual power attribute, techniques that probably don't have any bloodline bonus, can be cultivated to be stronger than a natural Thunder Dragon. Then what level would his innate spiritual power be?"

He turned his head, looked at Bai Canglang, and reprimanded him in the manner of an elder: "I know that Canglang and your Bai family have been working hard to find a complete bloodline in order to revive the Dao of Mimicry, but don't forget that in this world, it's not noble bloodlines that can turn people into strong people, into myths, but strong people who become legends and myths. The bloodlines they leave behind are sung by people and become a symbol of nobility."

"It's not necessary to pursue what dragon bloodline Professor Su has… because, we may be about to witness the birth of a true immortal god."

At this time, the battle continued.

"This is my full power!"

Su Zhou, who had regained the power of wind and thunder, had finally returned to 100% of his power. A raging wind and storm armor, like ancient armor, appeared around his body again, and dazzling azure-blue electric arcs raged in this raging wind—but at the same time, azure-purple flame patterns spread across every part of this armor, forming complex and magnificent runes, and two points of burning fire lit up in the eyes of the armor.

Thunder, raging wind, and raging fire! In this instant, the warrior who raised his spear and stabbed out was like an immortal god walking on the earth. The huge electromagnetic distortion even caused the electronic instruments carried by the exploration team to fail all at once, and the surrounding dire beasts felt that the microcurrents in their brains were being distorted by a violent force, causing them intense pain… But the most terrifying thing was the short burst of speed brought by the hundred tons of storm armor power, superimposed with the pure fire-element spiritual power enhancement.

In an instant, his speed was equal to the speed of sound—around Su Zhou, the air exploded, transforming into a hazy conical white mist.

"Die!"

Facing Su Zhou, who was charging with his spear, the Peacock, who had lost the initiative due to a moment of recovering his breath, unhesitatingly erupted with most of the remaining spiritual power in his body—the azure-blue Fire Phoenix behind him stirred up a wave of spiritual power, and the air was distorted and torn by the blazing firelight, transforming into a boiling flame flow, and then likewise dived towards Su Zhou!

*Rumble!*

One could hear a shrill cry of pain, and a blast ten times louder than before!

Centered on the two, the earth within a radius of tens of meters exploded at the same time. Countless rocks and sand mixed with spiritual streams rushed into the sky, forming a huge pillar of fire. The surrounding dire beasts were blown away by the shockwave in an instant, and ignited by streams of azure-purple and azure-blue mixed flames and electric currents in mid-air!

One could see that on the already devastated battlefield, the azure-blue Fire Phoenix was scattered by the storm-armored warrior charging at the speed of sound, exploding into clusters of shattered flames. And Su Zhou, whose storm armor was also broken, pierced through the wings that the Peacock Divine Bird had hastily raised and frantically blocked with a single spear!

In an instant, the wings exploded and flames burned.

*Ta ta ta*—Having been stabbed by Su Zhou with all his strength, the Peacock almost rolled back to unload the force. Its right wing was completely scorched, and the power of Nightmare Suppression of the Shepherd had taken effect, causing the Peacock's whole body to stiffen for half a second.

At this moment, it had completely lost its fighting spirit, and only wanted to immediately return to the other end of the teleportation channel to call for reinforcements, to call for the assistance of the other four kings.

As for the dire beasts… those dire beasts couldn't even stop the other side from charging. In a transcendent's battle, the rabble couldn't interfere at all!

But, just before it turned to run away, it noticed that Su Zhou had raised two fingers and made a V sign at it.

"What does this mean?"

Although the Peacock could communicate with eagles, it didn't understand English. Naturally, what Su Zhou wanted to express wasn't this kind of decades-old meme—his meaning wasn't to make a victory gesture.

But to represent that the Peacock had two seconds to live!

After finishing talking trash with body language, Su Zhou, who was a little dizzy from the sonic boom, exhaled a breath. He adjusted his stance, adjusted his spiritual power, and then, Su Zhou bent his knees slightly, gathering all the strength in his body under his feet.

In the next instant, he, like a cannonball, chased after the limping Peacock with exploding thunder and rumble!

*Pa—Crack!*

One could hear the sound of something solid shattering, one could hear the sound of something being turned—in this short moment, Su Zhou punched out again, bringing up circles of annular shock waves. Azure-purple spiritual flames mixed with raging wind and thunder, striking the Peacock's already deformed beak!

"*Pa!*"

The azure-purple spiritual light exploded like heavy artillery bombardment. Before it could say any last words, the Peacock, which was struck again on its beak, lost the power to block Su Zhou. The instant its beak shattered, its entire neck was turned three times by pure brute force, and the surging wind caused by the aftermath scattered all the surrounding dust and mist.

This was the first second, and the Peacock hadn't died yet. The powerful vitality brought by an extraordinary life allowed it to barely survive, but Su Zhou had no mercy. This series of intense offensive and defensive battles allowed no holding back. His figure flashed, and he came to the Peacock's head, and then raised his foot, the surging spiritual fire and roaring thunder and raging wind erupted at the same time, heavily stomping down.

*Pfft—Crack.* This was the second second, and what sounded just now was the sound of the soul and body shattering together.

From the twenty-third second since the Peacock started sealing the wind and thunder with the Five Colors Divine Light.

The Divine Bird Peacock was defeated and died.

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