noffsinger Chapter 366: Truth Revealed
Chapter 366: Truth Revealed
Emperor Blesswood's body plummeted to the ground like a puppet with its strings cut. However, the white-robed immortal empress's actions didn't stop as she swung her brush in a wide arc. White ink splashed out, painting the sky and land.
"Stop, Voidink!" Emperor Infinity shouted as twin lights, one of dark and one of light, shot toward the empress of the Buzhou Immortal Sect.
Zhang Cuiying, one of the three grand elders of the Buzhou Immortal Sect, flicked her brush, and two blots of ink shot forth. They clashed against the twin lights but only caused them to dim. After flicking two more times, she finally dissolved the twin lights.
However, at this point, Emperor Infinity had already neared her. He slapped toward her with his left hand, his palm shrouded in dark light.
Zhang Cuiying retreated and took out a scroll. She unfurled it to reveal a painting of heavenly soldiers. Just as she formed a hand seal, Emperor Infinity's figure blurred and suddenly appeared in front of her, slamming his palm forward. She didn't have time to dodge, so she used the unfurled scroll to block.
Once the dark palm slammed into the scroll, it didn't tear and held strong, but Zhang Cuiying was sent flying back, forced by the attack and using the force to distance herself. She resumed forming her hand seals.
After finishing the final hand seal, the scroll in her hand released an intense silver light. The painted heavenly soldiers started leaping out of the paper, each one wearing silver armor and exuding the aura of a true immortal.
Voidink Scroll - Immortal Soldiers Descent
Halfway through, Zhang Cuiying discovered something wrong. For every four immortal soldiers, a fifth should have come out of the scroll, yet she could still sense a qi drop as if they had come out.
At this time, Emperor Infinity raised his right palm, which shone a bright white. An alternately colored version of the Voidink Scroll appeared in front of him, and from it flew black-armored soldiers. They numbered only a quarter of Zhang Cuiying's, but she finally knew where the excess energy went.
Her eyes narrowed, but she didn't stop the technique. Of the original one thousand soldiers, only eight hundred came out. But, the eight hundredth soldier still exuded the aura of an immortal monarch, the commanding general of the Voidink Scroll soldiers. In contrast, Emperor Infinity's two hundredth soldier still only exuded the aura of a true immortal.
The army of eight hundred strong immediately formed a gigantic war formation without notice or any need of preparation. It formed a ten thousand meters tall emperor war formation, the Voidink Emperor War Formation. The land trembled as its foot sunk into the ground.
The Voidink Emperor War Formation took a step forward and stopped, not because it wanted to, but because something snagged its leg. Out of nowhere, a tree branch had enraptured the Voidink Emperor War Formation. The tree branch grew into a gigantic tree with golden bark and silver leaves of three thousand meters in a few breaths.
Zhang Cuiying moved to cut down the tree, but Emperor Infinity stopped her. While he entangled her, the golden tree continued to grow until it surpassed the Voidink War Formation and completely encapsulated it within its branches.
A moment later, there was a giant explosion of qi that blew harmlessly in the wind. Emperor Infinity no longer entangled her and allowed her to retreat into the distance.
Zhang Cuiying furrowed her brows but otherwise showed no reaction. She raised the Voidink Scroll and collected the remnant qi from the destroyed Voidink Emperor War Formation. It wouldn't restore all the qi lost, but it would salvage some, not that she could reuse it immediately.
She stared as the golden tree started to shrink until it formed a man in the prime of his life wearing black and white robes. Although he appeared young and full of vitality, he exuded a greater aura of death.
He was Emperor Blesswood. Zhang Cuiying had thought she sealed him, but Emperor Blesswood broke out using a forbidden technique that boosted his strength and restored his youth, but as a price, he would undoubtedly die.
Zhang Cuiying raised her brush and started writing numerous words in the air in quick succession. Both Emperor Infinity and Emperor Blesswood started taking action. Emperor Blesswood pointed his finger at Zhang Cuiying, launching several seeds at her, while Emperor Infinity unleashed nine rays of light.
When the spells reached her, Zhang Cuiying had finished writing. Her words spurted ink and transformed into eight Ink Incarnations. Three of them were struck by the seeds, causing trees to sprout and crush them in their roots during their growth. The rays of light destroyed two Ink Incarnations and injured a third.
The two gave chase, removing any of the war formations that blocked them on Emperor Infinity's orders. Whatever Emperor Infinity planned, the two would stop him.
"Die!" Tai Wuling shouted. After he regained his bearings, he attacked Monarch Nine Heavens after the Buzhou Immortal Sect's immortal empress drew Emperor Infinity and Emperor Blesswood's attention.
Fire, water, earth, wood, and metal qi merged in Tai Wuling's fist as he charged at the masked monarch. His eyes widened when he saw Monarch Nine Heavens open his palm, and each finger burst out with immortal qi of the five elements.
Monarch Nine Heavens clasped his fingers into a fist, merging the five different qi harmoniously, and punched forward. When the two fists clashed, it created a zone of destruction around the two, injuring any true immortals unlucky enough to be near them.
The two seemed evenly matched for the moment, but a few seconds later, it was Tai Wuling that was sent flying back. He stared at his foe in disbelief. "How can you merge the five elements?!"
Monarch Nine Heaven placed a hand over his mask, unintentionally causing the onlookers' breath to hitch. When he removed the mask, his hair turned black, and the Buzhou Immortal Sect immortals all gasped in surprise.
"Why? It's because I used the Law of Five Phases to step into the Seamless Immortal Realm," the unmasked monarch said.
Tai Wuling stared. Monarch Nine Heaven's features were exceptionally charming, like something out of a painting, and even more handsome than Xi Tianyi's. Had Xi Tianyi not possessed those pair of bedeviling eyes, Monarch Nine Heaven's features would have won hands down.
"Hmpf," Tai Wuling increased the intensity of his glare. "It doesn't matter. After today, the name of Monarch Nine Heavens will no longer exist."
The unmasked immortal smiled, almost mockingly. "You're wrong about that. Even if by some miraculous chance you kill me, the name of Monarch Nine Heavens won't disappear. Because I'm not Monarch Nine Heavens, I'm Ba Shifang."
Tai Wuling heard the shock reverberate across the Buzhou Immortal Sect immortals, but he didn't understand the big deal.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Tai Wuling asked as he felt Yang Linyin fly next to him.
Ba Shifang smiled, enjoying Tai Wuling's confusion, irritating the latter even further. "I'm a clone, and my main body is Xi Tianyi."
"Impossible!" A tremor appeared in Tai Wuling's heart. Clones were known to be weaker than the original. In his clash against Ba Shifang, he was clearly slightly inferior, and according to Ba Shifang's words, didn't that mean Xi Tianyi was at least a whole level stronger than him?
He glared. "So what? The name of Nine Heavens will still die with you!"
Ba Shifang's expression of anticipation and enjoyment faltered. He sighed in disappointment. "I thought with your character setting, you'd connect the dots by now. I'm not Monarch Nine Heavens, he should be razing the Eight Pillar Sect to the ground right now."
He saw anger in Tai Wuling's eyes, but the confusion remained. Ba Shifang sighed even more. "Have you not connected the dots? My main body is still present in the Eight Pillar Sect, and so is Monarch Nine Heavens."
A possibility that Tai Wuling didn't want to be true appeared in his mind. Ba Shifang clapped his hands. "Finally, you get it."
"You're lying!"
"Fine, let me spell it out for you. Monarch Nine Heavens never existed," Ba Shifang proclaimed with arms out extended as if he were presenting before a crowd.. "No, to be more accurate, Monarch Nine Heavens has always been my main body, Xi Tianyi's true title."