Chapter 2779: The True Strategy
The situation reversed rapidly. The Guardian God who’d originally held the upper hand was now completely forced into a disadvantage.
The strength of those four Guardian Gods actually wasn’t weak at all; compared to the Supreme Dragon Emperor and the other three, they were only slightly inferior. If they clashed at full strength, it was hard to say how long it would take to decide the winner.
The reason these four fell behind so quickly now was, first, that the current situation had them upset and flustered, panicked to the extreme, unable to focus on the fight. Second, Su Yang kept passing by them from time to time. With the previous lesson still fresh, they had no choice but to guard against Su Yang at the same time, which made their position even more difficult.
So the result of this battle was that these four Guardian Gods, under Su Yang’s interference, suffered several losses in succession, each taking quite serious injuries.
As for the Heavenly Sect, he was furious at this situation as well. But his strength was not on Su Yang’s level, so he simply couldn’t change what was happening. He could only watch helplessly as the four on his side were severely injured one after another, their situation growing more and more unfavorable.
With the fight reaching this stage, the Heavenly Sect also started calculating in his heart. If they kept fighting like this, they’d probably end up finished here. So the best option was to quickly stop this battle and find a way to escape; that way they could at least preserve their lives.
Even if he fell in battle here, the First God could still resurrect him. But resurrection was not without a price; the Guardian God had to pay a huge amount of resources to bring them back. And every time they died and were revived, their strength would be diminished somewhat, and they’d have to spend time and effort in cultivation to make up the loss. That was what gave him the biggest headache.
So the Heavenly Sect truly didn’t want to die here. If it really wouldn’t work out, then he’d have to think about breaking out and escaping.
Only, the Heavenly Sect also understood that once he broke out and ran this time, the Guardian God would be completely defeated. Ye Wantong had taken the Chaos Flower; she might very well become another Strongest. Add Su Yang to that, and then the Human Clan would have two Strongests. For the Guardian God, that would be a catastrophe of the highest order.
Moreover, if he failed this time, then his status among the Guardian Gods would surely plummet again.
Back when he fought Su Yang, he sacrificed himself in the Dao, finally managing to rebuild the prestige he’d completely lost before.
And now, in this battle concerning the fate of the Guardian God, he had brought in so many powerful experts with him, and originally held a sure-win advantage. If he still lost, what would those Guardian Gods think of him?
Even if he later recovered his strength as a Strongest, he’d probably still have to carry an eternal infamy on his back!
Therefore, even with the situation having reached this point, the Heavenly Sect was still extremely hesitant inside, not knowing whether he should break out and escape or not.
On the other side, those four Guardian Gods were already unable to hold on. The Guardian God who was fighting the Eye of Chaos finally couldn’t withstand the Eye of Chaos’s fierce offensive, suffered heavy injuries, and his combat power dropped rapidly.
The Eye of Chaos erupted with divine might, going all out in a killing assault, ready to seize this chance to cut down that Guardian God.
Right at this moment, Su Yang, who’d been chasing down the Heavenly Sect all along, suddenly came to a stop.
Everyone turned their gaze to Su Yang. Now, every move Su Yang made tugged on all their hearts. With him suddenly stopping like this, what was he going to do?
Only to see the glow around Su Yang’s body growing more and more intense. His body was also slowly swelling larger, as if something inside him was propping his body up from within.
Everyone stared in astonishment at this. The Heavenly Sect widened his eyes even more. Could it be that the Guardian God Su Yang had swallowed was struggling inside? But what was the point of that kind of struggle?
As everyone was still puzzled, Su Yang’s body expanded to dozens of meters tall. At the same time, he opened his mouth, and a person directly shot out. It was precisely the Guardian God that Su Yang had swallowed earlier.
Seeing that Guardian God rush out, everyone was stunned. What was going on? Especially the four on the Human Clan’s side—just when the battle had finally stabilized, Su Yang let this Guardian God out; wasn’t that going to increase the pressure on their side again?
"Su Alliance Leader, you... what are you doing?" the Supreme Dragon Emperor asked blankly.
"I really couldn’t keep him locked down anymore!" Su Yang said helplessly.
"Huh?" The Supreme Dragon Emperor was dumbfounded. "Don’t you have the Undying Golden Body and Undying Bone? Can he even harm your Undying Golden Body and Undying Bone?"
Su Yang said, "I wasn’t using the Undying Golden Body to seal him. I was using power to temporarily trap him inside my body. So once he broke through that sealing power, of course he could rush out!"
Everyone: "..."
The Heavenly Sect nearly spat blood. So, in other words, he’d been tricked by Su Yang yet again?
After that Guardian God came out, he was just as confused. The situation on the field was completely different from what it had been before he was swallowed.
The Eye of Chaos was the sharpest one and immediately saw what the situation truly was. It rushed forward at once, launching an attack on that Guardian God.
This Guardian God’s strength was still relatively intact. Even though the Eye of Chaos was powerful, he was not afraid in the slightest and directly engaged the Eye of Chaos in battle.
Seeing this, the Supreme Dragon Emperor and the other two also made their move at once, intercepting the other four Guardian Gods.
Those four Guardian Gods had all suffered fairly serious injuries; one of them had even taken a fatal blow and his combat power had dropped drastically. In such circumstances, with the Supreme Dragon Emperor and the other two fighting their four, the three actually held the upper hand. The four Guardian Gods had no spare strength to come help the Heavenly Sect.
Su Yang restored his body, then looked at the Heavenly Sect in front of him with his angry face, and laughed, "Alright, I finally spat out this dead weight. Heavenly Sect Lord, the matter between us really ought to be settled properly now, don’t you think?"
The Heavenly Sect’s face was dark as iron. If he’d known this was the situation, he should’ve gone all out and clashed with Su Yang back then. That way he could have drastically consumed Su Yang’s power, and Su Yang wouldn’t have been able to keep that Guardian God sealed in his body for so long. Things wouldn’t have developed to this point.
But he’d believed Su Yang’s words at the time, really thinking that Guardian God couldn’t get out. He didn’t dare to cross swords with Su Yang at full strength, and kept retreating under Su Yang’s intimidation.
In fact, if he looked back carefully at what had just happened, there had been clues. Although Su Yang had been chasing him, Su Yang’s attacks had never been particularly ferocious.
Back then, he thought Su Yang was preparing to sneak attack the other Guardian Gods. Only now did he realize Su Yang hadn’t been planning to ambush the other Guardian Gods at all, but was holding back some power to maintain the seal on the Guardian God inside his body.
In other words, that Guardian God inside Su Yang’s body was actually restraining a portion of Su Yang’s power. It was no different from being outside; they were still two people jointly besieging Su Yang, only their positions were different, that’s all.