Long Zhanguo exploded with a loud report.
No one—aside from Gu Hai—expected such a reversal at the moment of imminent victory.
Now, the Six Paths Veritable Lord was in an extremely sorry state. His chest had already broken open, and his internal organs had ruptured. His ribs jutted out, and a hole made by the two Immortal Executioner Swords and Sect Master Supreme Ascendant’s palm strike gaped in his back.
Any other person would have been dead long ago. However, the Six Paths Veritable Lord was different. He did not die. His face grew even more ferocious as his rage escalated.
“Hah!”
The Six Paths Veritable Lord let out a roar and unleashed a powerful shock wave from his body.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The shock wave knocked Sect Master Supreme Ascendant and the two Heavenly Accesses back.
After all, Long Zhanguo had occupied the Six Paths Veritable Lord’s attention earlier. With him gone, nothing held the Six Paths Veritable Lord back anymore.
Far away, Kong Xuan’s expression changed.
“Veritable Lord!” The Supreme Singularity and the others turned joyful.
Gu Hai’s eyelids twitched wildly as he stared at the Six Paths Veritable Lord’s Eyes of Life and Death.
“Deity King Body, many thanks for your Eyes of Life and Death. That is enough,” the Six Paths Veritable Lord suddenly said.
Buzz!
The Eyes of Life and Death vanished, and the Six Paths Veritable Lord’s eyes returned to normal.
The Six Paths Veritable Lord did not look at the confused Sect Master Supreme Ascendant or the two Heavenly Accesses but at Long Zhanguo’s shattered body.
Long Zhanguo’s body had completely ripped apart, with only a head floating in the air left. Moreover, his head was severely damaged and riddled with holes. That head glared at the Six Paths Veritable Lord.
“Long Zhanguo, it looks like you are not capable enough. Hahaha! I am the world’s strongest!” The Six Paths Veritable Lord wanted to smash Long Zhanguo’s head.
“Attack!” Sect Master Supreme Ascendant shouted.
As Sect Master Supreme Ascendant shouted, he suddenly took off his outer robes, which sported a Taiji diagram.
Boom!
When the outer robes flew off, they suddenly turned into a large Taiji diagram. The Yin and Yang halves separated and trapped the Six Paths Veritable Lord in the middle. A twisting force tried to suck him in.
“Supreme Ascendant, you are seeking death!” The Six Paths Veritable Lord ferociously threw a palm strike.
Boom!
The palm strike heavily struck the Taiji diagram, causing the Taiji diagram to pause. Then, the two Heavenly Accesses reactivated their Immortal Executioner Sword Ritual Arrays, trapping the Six Paths Veritable Lord and the Taiji diagram in the middle.
Shing! Shing!
The two Immortal Executioner Sword Ritual Arrays seemed like heavenly executions as they rushed at the Six Paths Veritable Lord.
“Don’t hold back! Kill!” Sect Master Supreme Ascendant roared.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Loud reports rang out as another super large black hole ripped open.
Without Long Zhanguo, Sect Master Supreme Ascendant and the two Heavenly Accesses found fighting the Six Paths Veritable Lord challenging. However, Long Zhanguo had severely injured the Six Paths Veritable Lord earlier, so the two sides ended up in a stalemate.
The shock waves from the battle knocked Long Zhanguo’s head away.
Gu Hai waved, and Long Zhanguo’s head flew toward him.
Coo! Kong Xuan started attacking more frantically, putting in more effort. This greatly increased the pressure on the group of experts.
Whoosh!
Long Zhanguo’s head arrived before Gu Hai.
“What incredible eyes! To think he could see the weaknesses that even I did not know about with one glance!” Long Zhanguo said in shock as he stared at the distant battle.
“Those are the Eyes of Life and Death. They can clearly see the structure of all things and all the weaknesses,” Gu Hai said.
“Eyes of Life and Death?” Surprise flashed in Long Zhanguo’s eyes.
“You were already very incredible to injure the Six Paths Veritable Lord to that degree,” Gu Hai said.
“So what? He is not dead!” Long Zhanguo showed a sullen expression.
“It was close. Sect Master Heavenly Access and the others are fighting him now. Perhaps…” Gu Hai frowned.
“It’s useless. The Heavenly Accesses and that Supreme Ascendant? They still fall slightly short. They have yet to reach the peak of the Upper Heavenly Palace Realm. Even if the Six Paths Veritable Lord is severely injured, they can only delay him for a while,” Long Zhanguo said with a sullen expression.
“The three of them together are not sufficient? But you can? You only had your consciousness sent here. How about I use a Go Dao ritual array to reconstruct a physical body?” Gu Hai looked at Long Zhanguo.
“Can you create a physical body as strong as the Cross Annihilation?” Long Zhanguo looked back at Gu Hai.
“Of the same level as the Cross Annihilation?” Gu Hai frowned slightly as he shook his head.
Gu Hai had Mending Heaven Energy. However, the higher the grade of an enchanted treasure, the more Mending Heaven Energy would be needed. While he had plenty of Mending Heaven Energy from massacring two path of reincarnation secret realms, he felt sure it would not be enough to mend the Cross Annihilation.
Long Zhanguo frowned. “I have no way to fight him without a strong physical body. You had better flee quickly. The Six Paths Veritable Lord will win soon.”
Indeed, despite having his chest exploded, the Six Paths Veritable Lord seemed strangely ferocious. Even two Heavenly Accesses and Sect Master Supreme Ascendant working together could not suppress the Six Paths Veritable Lord.
“Flee? I can’t flee. This is a trap laid by Old Mister Guan Qi. No matter where I go, the Six Paths Veritable Lord can sense me,” Gu Hai said with a bitter smile.
“Oh?” Long Zhanguo looked at Gu Hai.
Gu Hai nodded with certainty. Then, he raised his head and looked at the sky. The Thirty-Three Line-Pair World Ritual Array was there.
The Thirty-Three Line-Pair World Ritual Array was useless against the Six Paths Veritable Lord.
“Perhaps I can use the Thirty-Four Line-Pair World Ritual Array? However, I cannot control the Thirty-Four Line-Pair World Ritual Array. What if…” Gu Hai entered deep thought.
“However, I just remembered. Perhaps you still can fight him,” Long Zhanguo said seriously.
“Oh?” Gu Hai felt slightly startled.
“Your mortal soul has reached consummation, right?” Long Zhanguo looked at Gu Hai.
“One hundred sixty-three meters tall, accumulated with divine nature. Consummation!” Gu Hai nodded.
“Then, separate your souls,” Long Zhanguo said seriously.
“Separate my souls?” Gu Hai said in confusion.
“The Six Paths Veritable Lord has ten bodies? Do you know where they came from?”
“Each of the three spiritual souls and seven physical souls occupy one body?”
“That’s right. Each of the three spiritual souls and seven physical souls occupy a body. Furthermore, all his spiritual souls and physical souls should have reached consummation. That’s why he can do this. I did not take this path back then, but I know how,” Long Zhanguo said.
“What do you mean?”
“Actually, your mortal soul reaching consummation is your greatest strength. Furthermore, you are different from me. You reached consummation in your mortal soul during the Lower Heavenly Palace Realm, accumulated by pure divine nature. This proves that your foundations are better than mine. If your separation succeeds, you will be very powerful,” Long Zhanguo said with certainty.
“How do I do it?”
“Actually, there is no need for you to separate your souls. You just need to stimulate your mortal soul to take control of the body. You need a kind of peak energy to bring out the potential strength of the three spiritual souls and seven physical souls. Only peak Upper Heavenly Palace Realm cultivators have this kind of energy; I happen to have it. I can help you stimulate your souls,” Long Zhanguo said.
“Peak energy? Letting the mortal soul monopolize the body?” Gu Hai’s expression changed.
“My consciousness contains this energy. Once I pass it to you, my consciousness will slowly erode, so after I help you stimulate your mortal soul, you have to send me back immediately,” Long Zhanguo said.
“Alright!” Gu Hai nodded.
Boom!
Long Zhanguo’s head suddenly landed on Gu Hai’s shoulder. Then, countless tentacles grew out from the neck and stabbed into Gu Hai’s shoulder.
“Argh!”
Gu Hai cried out in pain.
It hurt terribly. It was not as simple as just the tentacles piercing his skin; they pierced into his nerves, connecting to all his pain receptors.
Boom!
Gu Hai felt a powerful aura rushing towards his lower heavenly palace, towards his mortal soul.
Stimulated by this peak energy, his mortal soul trembled, then enlarged rapidly.
Rumble…!
The rapid enlargement seemed to tear through Gu Hai’s upper dantian and fill his body.
[TL Note: The upper dantian, or the mud palace when translated literally, is located in the head, where the forehead space where the Go soul clones and the Heavenly Go Stone are. It’s possible that the forehead space the novel keeps referring to is in the upper dantian or near it. The upper dantian contains the three heavenly palaces in this novel. This term has popped up in this novel before, but as the past few instances did not have any relevance to the story, I opted to just translate it straight to the relevant heavenly palace to keep things simple.]
Gu Hai suddenly felt like a vacuum had formed. His body instantly became like a black hole frantically sucking up boundless Spiritual Energy.
At this moment, Long Zhanguo’s head started withering, turning into a fragment of a shattered cross. Then, a clump of green light appeared.
“My peak energy has already stimulated your mortal soul. You will gain strength soon. Quickly, send me back!” the green light said.
Amid his pain, Gu Hai waved his hand.
Whoosh!
Long Zhanguo’s consciousness immediately followed the thread-like connection of the half pen and headed for the other half that was eight hundred thousand years in the future. Then, it entered the ritual array in the future and vanished.
——
Long Zhanguo’s office, Earth’s immortal realm:
Rumble…!
The sleeping Long Zhanguo suddenly woke up with a shudder.
“Ah!” Long Zhanguo roared as he broke out in a cold sweat. His body trembled as if reacting to a nightmare.
Creak!
The door opened, and the beautiful secretary who had walked out earlier came back in. “Boss, what’s wrong? Are you alright?”
“Get out!” Long Zhanguo said.
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“Oh! Alright.” The secretary walked out.
Long Zhanguo inhaled deeply a few times before his breathing calmed.
“Hah! Gu Hai, I wonder what your mortal soul body will be like? Haha!” Anticipation flashed in Long Zhanguo’s eyes.
After the anticipation, Long Zhanguo’s expression suddenly changed. “Oh no! I forgot to tell him that the stimulation from my peak energy can only allow his mortal soul to monopolize his body for two hours.”
——
Gu Hai’s body became like a vacuum. Then, it started tearing, causing him acute pain.
The black-hole-like vacuum in Gu Hai’s body pulled in boundless Spiritual Energy to replenish his physical body, continuously strengthening it.
“Argh!” Gu Hai roared in agony.
He felt like his body was being continuously ripped apart and fixed back together.
If Long Zhanguo were here, he would probably scold Gu Hai with a smile, “It serves you right for having such a strong mortal soul.”
While in pain, Gu Hai tossed out millions of spirit stones. However, the moment the spirit stones appeared, his body promptly drained the Spiritual Energy in them.
The mortal soul forcibly monopolized his body, but his body was not strong enough yet. It needed to grow stronger.
Rumble…!
Gu Hai tossed out countless spirit stones, but they were insufficient.
“Your Reverence, are you alright?” Kong Xuan appeared slightly shocked.
“Spirit stones!” Gu Hai roared in pain. 21895
Boom!
During this distraction, the Supreme Singularity tore one of Kong Xuan’s wings.
“Your Reverence, this subject has received the peacock race’s accumulated spirit stones. Take it!” Kong Xuan flapped one wing and shot a five-colored divine light at Gu Hai, sending over one hundred storage bracelets.
Boom!
Gu Hai shattered the storage bracelets in one punch.
Whoosh!
Countless spirit stones appeared, filling the sky.
The Go Dao ritual array above immediately brought the spirit stones to Gu Hai.
Rumble…!
Gu Hai’s body tore and reformed seven times before finally adjusting to the mortal soul monopolizing it.
A consummation mortal soul.
Gu Hai felt replete with boundless strength—a fullness he had never felt before. He felt invincible. Yes, invincible. At this moment, the great strength boosted his confidence. Even when looking at the Six Paths Veritable Lord, he thought the Six Paths Veritable Lord was just average.
Gu Hai did not try to suppress this invincible feeling. Instead, he had to maintain it.
Then, he stomped.
Boom!
The large planet underfoot exploded.
Power. Extremely horrifying power. Even his accumulations from killing all the asuras in the Asura Path Secret Realm and killing all the animal spirit deities in the Beast Path Secret Realm were just adequate. This was peak energy.
Shing!
Gu Hai drew the Life Executioner Saber. With a ferocious expression, he rushed towards the Six Paths Veritable Lord.
