Stealing The Heavens

Chapter 826: A Desperate Strike

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The blood-colored arrows ignored the void thousands of miles in circumference created by the Natural Phenomena Medallion, teleported in front of Wu Qi and others.

At this moment, you could see the different reactions of Wu Qi and others. Ji Ao, whose cultivation base was the weakest, leaped forward and lay flat on his stomach. A thick shield crafted of green turtle shell suddenly appeared over his body and covered him. King Yang Shan let out a loud cry as he threw his fists glowing brightly with blood-red light toward the incoming arrow.

Meanwhile, Princess Zhang Le’s body swayed, and in the next instant she vanished in the midst of her five-colored divine ray. She did not make any contact with the arrow. Wu Qi, on the other side, jumped up and kicked King Yang Shan with one foot, and then put the other foot under Ji Ao’s waist and pushed him away. Even then, he exercised the Dragon Kill, causing his body to swell to a thousand feet high, with countless thick, purple-and-gold dragon scales flipped out all over his skin.

While lying face down on the deck, the shield crafted with the turtle shell over Ji Ao’s back was silently pierced by the arrow. The arrow trembled slightly as it adjusted its direction, shooting toward his heart at an almost ninety-degree angle. Ji Ao could feel a scorching hot killing intent was coming toward his back. He gave a despairing roar, mustered all his strength and pushed both palms against the deck, trying to move his body so that he could avoid from being hit in the vital spots.

That was when Wu Qi’s foot went under him and pushed him several feet away. The arrow came whistling over, piercing Wu Qi’s leg.

At the same time, Wu Qi kicked King Yang Shan, who was trying to fight the arrow head-on, in the waist, and sent him nearly a hundred feet away. The arrow which supposed to pierce King Yang Shan’s body went into Wu Qi’s thigh, melted into a stream of blood and fused with his body.

Princess Zhang Le screamed furiously. Her avatar of the God of Thunder revealed itself in the divine ray, waved its hand casually and unleashed a thousand bolts of lightning, each as thick as a water bucket. In the blink of an eye, all of them smashed down and smote King Wei Shan, who was gasping for breath. The attack caught him by surprise, and as his energy was almost depleted, he was instantly charred by the lightning, his clothes were torn to pieces, and chunks of flesh were ripped away from his body, exposing his slightly golden-and-purple bones.

As Wu Qi was busy rescuing King Yang Shan and Ji Ao, both his legs were hit by the arrows, and naturally he did not have the time to dodge the arrow that was coming at his heart. Luckily, he had transformed into his form of dragonman. With his body swelled to nearly a thousand feet high, the arrow shooting toward his heart had only hit him in his abdomen, opened a see-through hole about the size of a bowl. The arrow with extremely strong piercing force went through his body and came out from his back.

In the thick of things, Wu Qi could still control his muscles and bones and moved his internal organs from their original positions. As a result, apart from two layers of muscles and six layers of dragon scales, all the important organs in his abdomen had avoided the arrow. Although the bowl-sized hole looked rather nasty, it did not cause too serious of an injury to him.

Instead, as the arrow shot toward Princess Zhang Le had lost her aura, it turned around and went for Wu Qi, pierced him through his left ribs and came out from his right. Even though he was quick to react, the arrow still brushed his lungs and liver, nearly pierce both of his vital organs together.

Wu Qi coughed and spat out a mouthful of blood, staggered back a step and barely managed to stabilize his body. Standing a thousand feet tall, both his legs, his abdomen, and his chest were pierced, leaving four bloody holes on his body. He had taken all four deadly arrows alone, and that gave him a clear understanding of the dreadful power of the Skyblast Bow. The dragon scales covering his body could withstand dozens of full-force blows from himself without even damaging, but in front of the blood-colored arrows unleashed by the Skyblast Bow, they were pierced as easily as if they were merely some wooden planks. How could this Skyblast Bow had such a terrible power?

Breathing deeply, Wu Qi frantically absorbed the surrounding Pangu Sacred Energy to heal his wounds. Off to a side, Princess Zhang Le was attacking King Wei Shan with bolts of lightning, while sending the green life force constantly seeping out from the dense forest beneath into Wu Qi’s body. With the help of both energies, the wounds on Wu Qi’s body were healing rapidly, and the flesh was regenerating at an amazing rate.

Hit by four blood-colored arrows, Wu Qi’s only surprise was that after he had absorbed the remains of the ancient Immortal, the toughness of his bones had gone beyond his expectation. His legs were hit by two arrows, but they had only ripped through his muscles, and were then exploded as soon as they struck his bones. They did not cause any actual harm to his bones. Evidently, even with the Skyblast Bow half drawn, King Wei Shan could not hurt Wu Qi’s bones. Their strength had gone far beyond his present realm.

King Wei Shan, who had almost depleted his energy, was nearly killed by the lightning. The strong backlash when he drew the Skyblast Bow had cracked his skins and left internal injuries across his muscles, and yet the powerful lightning unleashed by Princess Zhang Le came smashing down at him without end, tearing and ripping away his flesh and making him suffered greatly. At this moment, he did not even have the strength to defend against the princess’s attack. In a desperate attempt, he chanted a spell, then cried out at the top of his lungs, “Blood Curse, activate!”

With the spell, the blood left behind in Wu Qi’s body by the arrows suddenly exploded. An evil power of curse transformed into countless ferocious beasts and weaved wildly through his blood vessels and meridians, wantonly devouring his blood essence.

Wu Qi could not help but feel hilarious. If it were others, having a vicious curse of devouring sort like this running wildly in the body would be a huge trouble, and if not handled with care, a sinister technique like this was deadly. But when it was used on someone like Wu Qi, who had mastered the Myriad Harmonization Grand Magic and possessed a thread of innate thievery energy in his body, was King Wei Shan trying to devour his blood essence or give him a present?

Wu Qi silently exercised the magic. A stream of chaotic energy mixed with the thievery energy rotated nine times through his body, and just like that all the blood essence invaded his body was digested by him. These were the blood arrows King Wei Shan had unleashed with half of his own blood essence, and at least sixty percent of them had fused with Wu Qi’s body. With King Wei Shan’s strong cultivation base that was one level higher than King Yang Shan, the blood essence was considered a real great tonic for Wu Qi.

His wounds were healing rapidly, and even the shattered dragon scales were regenerating quickly. Face beaming with energy from the nourishment of the enormous amount of blood essence, Wu Qi smiled and crooked his finger at King Wei Shan, and said, “What other tricks do you have? Show them all to me now! Aye, this Skyblast Bow is not bad, I can’t believe that even the Natural Phenomena Medallion cannot stop it. Could it be that Emperor Ku’s cultivation base was stronger than Emperor Zhuanxu?”

King Yang Shan, who was kicked away by Wu Qi just now, took a step and came standing next to him. “It’s not that Emperor Ku’s cultivation is stronger than Emperor Zhuanxu,” he said in a deep voice, “but Skyblast Bow is an artifact specially crafted for killing. All the five Ancient Emperors of the human race, including the Yellow Emperor, Xuanyuan, had each left behind a restrictive rune in it. That’s why it can ignore the Natural Phenomena Medallion and attacks us directly!”

Wu Qi’s eyes lit up. A treasure crafted by Emperor Ku, with all five Ancient Emperors each left behind a restrictive rune in it? He squinted at the Skyblast Bow in King Wei Shan’s hand as the man struggled and wailed, and took a sudden step forward.

The little black skull had spotted Wu Qi’s movement, and it moved a few feet abruptly to hover before King Wei Shan. Laughing sinisterly, he said, “Are you trying to seize the Skyblast Bow? You do have a keen eye, I grant you, but how can I allow it to fall into your hands?”

The skull’s mouth opened, and a plume of black smoke came spraying out of it to engulf King Wei Shan, who was so brutally smitten by the lightning that half of his muscles had turned to coke. Baihuang Zongling said coolly, “Golden Boy, if you don’t fight back with all you can, they are going to break out from here and rush to Liangzhu soon. I’ve only placed a wisp of my mind in this skull, so I can’t fight against them. Whether they could be killed or not, it all depends on your own ability!”

The plume of black smoke was extremely powerful. Although Princess Zhang Le had smashed it over a dozen times with lightning, she failed to break it. Shaking her head, she said to Wu Qi in a low voice, “The void here is sealed off, and all the natural energies had been driven away. The power of my lightning is reduced to their bare minimum. I can only hurt him, but not kill him!”

Though she said like that, the avatar of the God of Scourge in her five-colored divine ray secretly reached out a finger and performed a strange incantation gesture. It had cast a curse on the black skull. The divine power of the God of Scourge was the most subtle sort of power, and since Baihuang Zongling was here with only a thread of his mind, he did not detect the princess’s little trick.

A thread of God of Scourge’s curse stealthily seeped into the black skull and fused with Baihuang Zongling’s thread of mind.

King Wei Shan struggled to his feet and cried out in a hoarse voice, “Call them here to assist me!”

The ‘them’ King Wei Shan mentioned were the twelve Supreme Oracles who had sealed off this part of the void in the distant. But King Wei Shan brusquely rejected his request. “The twelve void isolation formations cannot be touched,” he said cruelly, “otherwise, the Human Emperor will be alerted instantly. At the moment, he only suspected that something is amiss here. Before receiving an actual report, in order to calm the minds of others he will not act recklessly. However, once the aura here was leaked, even just a faint hint, he will definitely rush here in person. By that time, both you and I will be in huge trouble!”

Baihuang Zongling paused for a brief moment to catch a breath, then went on to snap fiercely, “What are you waiting for? Do it now!”

King Wei Shan shot a venomous glare at the black skull, gritted his teeth and said, “Fine! Immortal Haoxu, I’ll remember what you have done today!”

Both King Yang Shan and Ji Ao cried out in shock, while Wu Qi scratched his head annoyingly. So, it appeared that not only the eight generations of King Wei Shans were the incarnations of someone from the Buddhism League, even this Baihuang Zongling was the incarnation of some immortal! What exactly had gone wrong to Great Yu? Why it was plagued with so many outsiders?

Wu Qi could tell that now, not to mention the twelve Supreme Oracles could not be moved as they needed to maintain the void isolation formations, even if they could, they would not help King Wei Shan. It seemed that Baihuang Zongling intended to force King Wei Shan into launching a desperate counterattack. Was this some sort of little conflict between the Heaven and the Buddhism League?

But King Wei Shan’s next move left Wu Qi with no time to think further.

King Wei Shan took a deep breath. A beam of auspicious light thrust out from the top of his head, in which an eight-armed golden ape about a thousand feet high silently appeared. It was a Heaven-ripping Divine Ape, a divine beast famous for its incredible strength. Its strength was only slightly weaker than a few rare divine beasts of ancient bloodlines.

The soul of the divine ape slowly shrunk, gradually reduced to only twenty feet tall. With eyes narrowed, the ape grabbed King Wei Shan up with one hand, who had straightened his body like an arrow, and placed him on the string of Skyblast Bow.

Baring its teeth, the divine ape then slowly drew the bowstring to about three-quarter full.

In the meantime, King Wei Shan chanted a spell under his breath. Blood oozed out of him droplet by droplet and slowly formed a thick layer of blood across his skin. Soon he was completely wrapped in blood, and had turned into a sharp arrow.

Wu Qi and others were wordless. Using himself as an arrow, King Wei Shan truly was about to launch a desperate strike this time!

The bowstring twanged; King Wei Shan let out a whine and was shot out by his own beast soul.