Chapter 712 - 708: The Devil Emperor Strikes
"Your gods are too weak."
"I will send you into Reincarnation."
Lin Hao’s voice was exceptionally soft, yet it carried an aura that could crush the eternal heavens, sweeping across the entire firmament.
Upon hearing his words and feeling his aura, the pupils of the three men constricted sharply. Their expressions turned incredibly grim.
The fact that their three gods had been refined by the Six Paths of Reincarnation was an immense shock to them.
Their gods were formed from but a wisp of a Saint’s will. While this was indeed weak compared to the chosen of the Divine Demon Destruction Domain, for Lin Hao, a Martial Artist from a lower realm with a weaker cultivation base, to have refined them was a heaven-defying feat.
With such a heaven-defying accomplishment under his belt, Lin Hao’s threat to send them into Reincarnation was definitely not an empty boast.
The three men still stood in their giant forms. The moment Lin Hao finished speaking, they had already begun to gestate new gods.
’As long as our True Essence is endless, our gods are indestructible!’
Although gestating gods required an enormous amount of True Essence, they still had power to spare.
While gestating the gods, each of the three men consumed a medicinal pill.
Needless to say, this was to accelerate the circulation of their True Essence and make the gods manifest faster.
BOOM!
The trio felt an unprecedented pressure. This time, the speed at which they gestated the gods surpassed all previous attempts, forming them in an instant.
Three gods charged out once more.
This time, the gods they had gestated were holding Hao Mo’s Haotian Mace and Si Haoming’s Divine Painting Brush in their hands.
As for the god gestated by Bifang, it had transformed into a ferocious beast—a pure-blooded ancient Bifang, its overwhelming might shaking the heavens.
Even though the gods were manifestations of a Saint’s will, they did not dare underestimate Lin Hao’s current aura. They had to use Spirit Treasures to fight him.
Although the Haotian Mace and the Divine Painting Brush were both replicas, in the hands of the gods, they erupted with a heaven-shaking might.
They attacked. The Haotian Mace and Divine Painting Brush were swung, and their brilliant divine light transformed directly into divine chains of order.
Ancient runes flowed along the divine chains of order, suffused with a Primordial Aura.
The ancient Bifang, meanwhile, opened its mouth and spewed forth an endless stream of Innate Essence Flame.
The Innate Essence Flame it spewed was a deep azure, forming a massive sphere interwoven with runes, inside which a strange energy roiled.
The three gods attacked again, unleashing their ultimate techniques in an attempt to shake the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
But this time, Lin Hao gave them no chance. The moment they made their move, the Six Paths of Reincarnation moved as well.
Within it, the Chaos Qi of the Reincarnation Dao surged, swallowing the divine chains of order and the Innate Essence Flame whole.
Then, three of the six miniature worlds shot out simultaneously, suppressing the three gods once again.
Even with their full arsenal of techniques and a sky full of runes, they could not escape.
At the same time, the other three miniature worlds also shot out, sucking Bifang and the two men directly inside.
Despite their towering, giant-like statures, it was useless before the three miniature worlds.
"Lin Hao, how dare you! Let me out!"
Si Haoming roared from within one of the miniature worlds.
At this moment of life and death, he frantically burned his Lifebound True Blood and Divine Soul just to stabilize his body.
"Lin Hao, let me go. The Haotian Sect will never be your enemy again. I can swear a Blood Oath."
Hao Mo was also burning his Lifebound True Blood and Divine Soul, but he was begging Lin Hao for mercy.
He hadn’t understood the terror of the miniature worlds until he was inside one. Now that he was, he felt his very soul trembling in fear.
The miniature world seemed to connect to another realm, and a powerful suction force was trying to tear his soul into it.
"I am from the Endless Forest, and I serve the Devil Emperor. Lin Hao, if you dare send me into Reincarnation, the Devil Emperor will never forgive you!"
Inside the miniature world, Bifang had reverted to its true form. It was now in a boundless sea of souls, using the sea’s power to resist Lin Hao’s miniature world.
BOOM!
At that moment, the divine chains of order in the Reincarnation Dao were ground to dust, and the ancient Bifang’s Innate Essence Flame also vanished.
The three of them felt an even greater power growing within.
They roared as their auras surged violently.
Even Lin Hao raised an eyebrow.
With the three of them inside his Six Paths of Reincarnation, his control over their bodies had reached an unbelievable level.
The moment their auras surged, Lin Hao knew it was a sign that they were about to break through to the Sealed Martial Realm Second Layer.
Deep within Lin Hao’s eyes, six miniature worlds spun, and three of them began to glow.
The next moment, a brilliant divine light flared. The three miniature worlds became incomparably deep, and three passages appeared within them.
"Aaargh!"
Si Haoming and Hao Mo screamed in unison, and then there was silence. Their bodies plunged directly into the passages.
Lin Hao had sent them into Reincarnation!
BOOM!
Amidst the brilliant divine light, the three gods were refined once again.
Within those three miniature worlds, the Haotian Mace, the Divine Painting Brush, and the azure sphere floated, unrefined.
This was a result of Lin Hao’s deliberate intention.
Although the two Spirit Treasures were replicas of ancient artifacts, their power was astounding. He did not want to refine them just yet.
As for the ancient Bifang’s azure sphere, it contained a vast amount of soul power—a power that would be of great use to him.
Just then, a sense of warning arose in Lin Hao’s heart.
Bifang still existed within one of the miniature worlds.
Lin Hao sensed a majestic power emanating from it.
The Reincarnation Dao thundered, and the six miniature worlds trembled in unison. Lin Hao was activating the Six Paths of Reincarnation to send Bifang into Reincarnation.
PFFT!
At that exact moment, Lin Hao coughed up blood, and the Six Paths of Reincarnation began to tremble violently.
Meanwhile, Bifang, who had been trapped inside, broke free from the Six Paths of Reincarnation and reappeared in the void.
"You’re quite good."
After breaking free, Bifang did not attack. Instead, it stared at Lin Hao and uttered three words.
Its voice had changed. Someone else was speaking.
Although the voice was deep and low, it was like a sudden clap of thunder, like lightning splitting the firmament.
Clouds roiled across the entire sky, surging from all directions toward the void where Lin Hao stood, gathering the great momentum of the Martial Dao.
"Endless Forest. Devil Emperor."
Lin Hao looked at Bifang and spoke.
The power Bifang had used to escape the Six Paths of Reincarnation was incomparably immense. Lin Hao knew then that Bifang was no longer just Bifang.
As for who this new being was, Lin Hao did not know.
He only guessed it was the Devil Emperor because Bifang had just mentioned the name.
As Lin Hao spoke, an ethereal aura spread out from him, crashing into the roiling clouds.
It was a massive collision. Within the Nine Yang Void Realm, everything except for the area where the Nine Yang Hall stood ceased to exist.
Fortunately, the seals on the Nine Yang Void Realm were already gone, and the Martial Artists here had long since left. Otherwise, under the force of such a collision, it is likely no one would have survived; all would have been turned to dust.
"The Dragon Transformation Dao Realm... truly extraordinary."
"Bifang" spoke again, tacitly confirming Lin Hao’s guess.
As he spoke, eight divine chains appeared in the void, each one radiating a heaven-shattering divine might.
This mysterious Devil Emperor, speaking through Bifang’s body, had mastered the power of the Great Dao. His words manifested the Dao itself, and the might of the Great Dao permeated the air.
This time, Lin Hao did not answer. He did not speak.
In fact, Lin Hao didn’t even move.
This wasn’t because Lin Hao was being arrogant; it was because his current cultivation base was simply not high enough to counter such a move.
This Devil Emperor’s strength was absolute, far surpassing his own.
However, that did not mean Lin Hao had given up.