Dominating Martial King

When Si Huangquan cast out the Yin Vein Wings, all the Gods inside and outside the Stone Hall turned their eyes toward them.

Si Wutian, who was currently standing in for Lu Luanti and strenuously suppressing the Snake Bone Witch, could not help his pupils contracting.

"Huang Quan!"

In the distance, the Black Water Sovereign Shen Douming let out a soft laugh.

He abandoned Si Huangquan without the slightest hesitation and instead drove the Evil Swallowing Battle Puppet, reaching directly toward those Yin Vein Wings.

The Black Water Sovereign himself coldly fixed his gaze on the several opponents present.

Near this palace platform of the Yellow Father Swallowing Evil God, the power of the Evil Swallowing Battle Puppet, under the aid of the Ancient Divine Formation, would climb to the Extreme.

Speaking purely in terms of combat strength, unless their true bodies descended, none of these few could be his match.

He was determined to take this pair of Yin Vein Wings!

As for the Divine Artifact Ten Thousand Bone Soul Devouring Banner in Si Huangquan’s hand, the Black Water Sovereign was likewise bent on obtaining it.

Yet that implement was relatively less important; once he seized these powers left behind by Tian Nai Luo and let his Divine Power Divine Body step into the Emperor realm, it would not be too late to turn back and reclaim the Ten Thousand Bone Soul Devouring Banner.

The lips of the Youdu Sovereign Shen Qingxuan also curved slightly upward.

He gazed upon that pair of wings in midair, where crimson and luminous green intermingled into an incomparably gorgeous sheen, and admiration filled his eyes.

What stirred his longing and greed even more was the mighty Heavenly Rules contained within those wings.

In their complete status, the Yin Vein Wings resonated with the Death dharma between Heaven and Earth like echoing mountains and valleys, responding in sound and in breath.

"Truly exquisite—exquisite to the Extreme!"

Boom!

Just as the Youdu Sovereign Shen Qingxuan’s words fell, beyond the palace platform, a gigantic black tree suddenly tore out of the ground, and in an instant grew to a height of seven thousand five hundred zhang.

This colossal tree resembled a willow, yet its entire body was wreathed in black-grey deathly qi. When its crown unfurled, it unexpectedly spread over more than three hundred li, covering the sky and blocking out the sun, almost shrouding the entire palace platform beneath.

Its many branches lashed like whips, emitting thunderous booms, and they actually smashed aside by force the Evil Swallowing Battle Puppet’s hand that was reaching for the Yin Vein Wings.

"Xuan Liu God!" The face of the Black Water Sovereign Shen Douming changed drastically. "Shen Qingxuan, you actually dare harbor designs on Him!"

The Southern Pole Star Lord likewise changed expression, his gaze dark and chilling as he fixed on the Youdu Sovereign: "Corpse Puppets? Very good. It seems Youdu has set your mind, and would sever yourself from our Wood God lineage."

The Xuan Liu God was the offspring of the Wood God’s Spiritual Might, one of the Eternal Gods born after Pangu’s Heaven Creation.

Among the wood element Divine Beings, His status was exceedingly noble, and ten million years ago He stood second only to the Wood God’s Spiritual Might.

For it was He who opened a path for the Wood Element Gods—fusing flesh and Divine Soul with various Divine Trees on the verge of death, reawakening their Life, thereby gaining a longer-lasting lifespan and mightier power.

Yet this incomparably powerful wood element Divine Being fell in that ancient war between Human Gods and the Gods.

That the Youdu Sovereign refined the Xuan Liu God’s corpse into a War Puppet was without doubt a violation of the Wood Element Gods’ taboo.

The Youdu Sovereign Shen Qingxuan, however, burst into unrestrained laughter, utterly unconcerned: "A hundred thousand years ago, Brother Douming was already studying the Corpse Refining and puppet-refining dharma gates of the Human Clan sorcerers—how could I dare lag behind you? Within my Youdu, the only one who can suppress this Yellow Father Swallowing Evil God of yours is precisely this Xuan Liu God."

He and the Black Water Sovereign had contested one another for over a hundred thousand years, waging no fewer than a hundred great wars over authority within the Netherworld Nine Netherworlds; how could he dare fall behind his rival?

Whatever the Black Water Sovereign was plotting, he had no choice but to follow suit. Even if in the end he gained nothing, he could not allow the other side to succeed.

Shen Qingxuan was also a wood element Divine Being; he understood the mysteries of the Wood Element Gods and could more easily refine the Xuan Liu God’s corpse into a Corpse Puppet.

As for the Enemy Intent and backlash of the Wood Element Gods, Shen Qingxuan cared not at all. The Gold Element Gods and the Western White Emperor he relied upon were the most powerful God System in today’s Heaven and Earth, enough to help him withstand the pressure from the Wood Element Gods.

The willow branches he controlled had already tightly entwined that pair of Yin Vein Wings, dragging them toward the direction of the tree trunk.

The Evil Swallowing Battle Puppet, however, fought back with all its might. It let out bestial roars of fury, tearing those black willow branches apart one by one by force, pounding them into pulp.

Yet the number of those black willow branches was endless. Blocked by them, the Evil Swallowing Battle Puppet grew farther and farther from the Yin Vein Wings.

The face of the Black Water Sovereign Shen Douming grew ever more unsightly.

He turned his head and glared furiously at the Southern Pole Star Lord and Ghost Star.

Even at a time like this, were these two still going to sit by and watch?

He did not expect this Avatar of the Southern Pole Star Lord to be able to stop the Youdu Sovereign, but it should at least be able to delay him somewhat.

And there was the Ghost Star Lord!

Though this man was the weakest among them, he was the only one among all the Gods present who had come in his true body.

Behind him stood the Vermilion Bird Emperor, who was one of the most powerful among all the Emperors in the world today!

In the distant Time of old, she had almost single-handedly borne the brunt of the Fire Element Gods at their peak, wielding mighty authority over flame and burning.

Yet to his disappointment, Ghost Star still stood unmoving in place.

Though the gaze he turned toward the Yin Vein Wings was filled with longing and greed, he could suppress his own instinctive desire and respond coolly.

It was instead the Southern Pole Star Lord who let out a sigh: "Uncle Xuan Liu’s Returning Origin soul, please forgive this junior’s crime of disrespect."

The Hundred Clans of the Giant Spirit believed that those Innate Divine Beings who had died had their Primordial Spirit and soul-essence all return to the world’s Origin, where within that Origin they slumbered in repose.

Next, the Southern Pole Star Lord joined his hands to form a Dharma Seal.