The Old Gods

Chapter 981 King?
Lu Ran clearly remembered that at the end of October, he saw a scene shrouded in mist at the First Heaven, Bee Elephant Divine Mountain.

At that time, it was not long after the fall of Greedy Wolf-Evil Dog, and the God and Demon faction had just launched the bait plan.

Lord Immortal Sheep also specifically told Lu Ran that he could go to the Demon Cave where the Evil God Ghost Moon Fox was located to see what kind of monsters and demons were lurking there.

Lu Ran didn't dare to go.

He didn't even dare to approach the sacred mountain.

After all, once the pollen from the merged God-Demon Poisonous Flower Bee lands on Lu Ran, it will allow him to share his vision.

Fearing he would be discovered, he gazed at the sacred mountain shrouded in thick fog before turning away.

Now that only the spirit elephant remains on the mountain, the number of other divine and demonic minions is small and rapidly decreasing, so Lu Ran naturally dares to investigate carefully.

"Xiang Wang, could you have brought about the fog at the end of October?"

Lu Ran murmured to himself as he and Yan Shuangzi, who was also invisible, began their meticulous search from the sacred mountain of the third heaven down to the first heaven.

No!

There was absolutely no trace of any human!
Only gigantic spirit elephant minions, frantically charging and trampling the faceless jade deity, were continuously turned to jade by the jade deity's minions, and were eventually shattered and turned into powder.

Master, I've found it!

[Huh?] Lu Ran was taken aback at first, then overjoyed. [You found Xiang Wang?]

【two!】

[Two? Where?] Lu Ran suddenly began to doubt his own abilities.

From the first heaven to the third heaven, Lu Ran searched the sacred mountain frantically, but he couldn't find a single human disciple. However, Yan Shuangzi found two.

[Right atop the mountain in the third heaven, at the foot of the divine elephant statue, the divine soldier told me that two people were standing beneath its two front legs.]

Lu Ran: !!!
"Don't make any rash moves, I'm coming right now!" He transmitted the command in his mind and hurriedly flew upwards along the sacred mountain.

"Woo~~~"

"Whoosh!!" Suddenly, a group of spirit elephant minions crashed down.

Lu Ran's reaction was noticeably slower, and his teleportation dodge was extremely close, leaving him in a rather disheveled state.

His health condition is very poor.

A powerful being of the Heavenly Realm should have ample physical strength and energy.

However, within half a day, Lu Ran had traveled to three sacred mountains to carry out missions, pushing his body to its limits.

Or rather, he had already exceeded his limits and was severely exhausted, both physically and mentally.

It was only because the Blazing Phoenix Pattern Gourd was powerful enough and Xiao Yuanxi's healing techniques were of a high enough grade that Lu Ran was able to continue to persevere through sheer willpower.

Putting aside his battle from north to south today, let's talk about the last time he fought, which was at Thunder God Mountain!

Lu Ran led his team in a battle against Dong Ting, Zi Ting Mo Peng, Wu Sheng, and Yu Mian She.

How long has it been?

In just two or three days!
Before that, he went to Yanzhi Divine Mountain to persuade them to surrender, during which he also fought with gods and demons. Earlier that same day, Lu Ran had just engaged in a life-or-death battle with many gods and demons from Huaqing Divine Mountain.

What level of task intensity is this?
In order to speed things up, and to prevent fewer tragedies from happening on the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month.
Lu Ran is really about to burn out.

The masses are still in despair, still collapsing, still grieving and mourning the fall of the gods.

Unbeknownst to the world, the long-lost number one genius of the Great Xia Dynasty, was risking his life for them in a place unknown to them.
It's a pity that Lu Ran's physical body still limited his performance. Only when the warriors of the Ran Sect turned into stone statues could they follow their sect leader and tear apart gods and demons like mad dogs.

In his plan, Lu Ran really wanted to take down Bee Elephant Mountain in one fell swoop.

However, the reality is cruel.

No matter how hard he tried to save time or how hard he tried to stay upright, Fengxiang Shenshan eventually had to leave.

Only one spirit statue remains standing here.

It was clearly not that it was unable to evacuate in time, but rather that it deliberately remained there.

What exactly is the situation with the third-class deity, the spirit image?
Lu Ran forced himself to stay awake, his brain still buzzing, and returned to the summit of the third heaven, gazing at the god's two forelegs.

With such enormous elephant legs, how could one possibly see the human ants being trampled upon?
Lu Ran frowned, slowly flew down the mountain, and then used the Mountain Lord's Divine Art - Earth Escape Technique to silently merge into the mountain.

"Cough cough."

The heavy elephant's foot had already left a deep footprint on the ground, and in the center of the footprint, a tiny human was embedded in the ground.

Humans who are qualified to ascend to the heavens are undoubtedly powerful.

Even when trampled underfoot by gods and demons, those in the Heavenly Realm can still crush rocks and escape from below using only their physical strength.

At the very least, it can create some space for you to breathe and move around.

But the disheveled middle-aged man at his feet did not do so.

He remained prone on the ground, his body perfectly fitted into the sunken mountainside, firmly embedded within it.

He was breathing heavily, his face flushed red, and he was even trying to lift his head.
However, the insignificant human race's best efforts were nothing more than an ant trying to shake a tree.

"Crack!"

Instead of being pushed up by the back of his head, the elephant's foot stomped down three inches further.

The middle-aged man was being crushed downwards.

The water armor provided excellent protection, preventing the humans from being turned into a pile of minced meat.

After all these years, you still haven't learned to surrender.

The deep, resonant voice imprinted itself on his mind, making his brain buzz.

Your companion will bow his head.

"Why make things difficult for others when it's between you and me?" The man gritted his teeth, still trying to straighten his back.

Humans, a despicable species, deserved to die.

"You're getting desperate, hahaha! You're scared! You'll all die, so many of you will die, and you'll die too, hahahaha!"

If I were afraid, I wouldn't be staying here alone.

Lingxiang's voice was deep and resonant, like the heavy tolling of a temple bell, powerful and lingering.

"You have nowhere to go!"

"You want to be king, but you don't have the strength! Poisonous Bee, Black Ape, and Ghost Moon Fox have all betrayed you!"

"You dare not go with them to seek refuge with the Jade-Faced Serpent. Before the Jade-Faced Serpent, you can only kneel!"

"How dare you!" Lingxiang shouted sharply.

"Crack!!"

The elephant's foot stomped down again. The middle-aged man was crushed deep into the ground, spitting out a mouthful of gravel, yet still laughing loudly: "You think you can be king? Your divine and demonic subordinates have abandoned you; they all know you're weak!"

Aside from this small piece of land, you'll have to kneel down wherever you go!

You still want to save face? Hahahaha! Ahh!

The laughter suddenly turned into screams.

With a piercing sound, the middle-aged man's water armor shattered, and his body was brutally crushed, continuously grinding the ground below.

"You can't even make me bow my head!"

The middle-aged man, his face crushed on the ground and his mouth full of dirt and gravel, continued to scream frantically: "Yes, kill me! That's the only thing you can do!"

"You won't die so easily." With a deep, resonant voice, the elephant's feet cruelly ground back and forth. "Before I die, I will grant your wish."

"So be it! Hahahaha, I couldn't be happier!"

The middle-aged man laughed loudly, arrogantly daring to be trampled underfoot: "I was blind before, worshipping your shrine, but you better remember this, spirit image!"

From the day I ascended to the heavens, I have never fucking bowed my head to you! Not even until I die!
"Kill me, please!"

The wild laughter turned into a shrill scream.

"Crack! Click!"

A crisp cracking sound rang out.

The solidity of the rocks was clearly no match for the physical strength of a person in the Heavenly Realm. The man was severely injured, undoubtedly due to the sudden exertion of power by the spirit elephant.

"Aaaaaah!" The man's screams grew louder and louder.

He could have escaped from below, but there was no point in doing so.

With the gods personally watching over him, where could he possibly run off to?

From another perspective, if one wants to avoid suffering, bowing down and submitting might still offer room for negotiation.

That's exactly what the spirit wants.

But this is clearly not in line with the man's temperament!

He seemed more like he was seeking death, and he was single-mindedly determined to die at the feet of the spirit elephant, further proving the spirit elephant's incompetence.

"Yes! Kill me, I'll fuck your spirit image!"

The middle-aged man's screams stopped abruptly, and he suddenly opened his eyes wide.

The rocks below suddenly exploded, and a hand abruptly grabbed his wrist, propelling him forward.

"Sizzle~ Sizzle~"

With lightning crackling beneath his feet, Lu Ran moved at an astonishing speed, carving a path through the mountainside.

At the same time, the spirit elephant statue standing atop the mountain suddenly changed its expression!

Suddenly, a surge of energy rose on my back, as if two figures had mounted me.
"Woo~~~"

The elephant's cry was earth-shattering and soul-stirring.

This is no ordinary elephant roar, but a fusion of the Spirit Elephant Divine Art: Heaven-Shaking Roar and the Demon Elephant Evil Art: Soul-Destroying Howl.

Both have similar effects, capable of unleashing terrifying sonic attacks.

The sound waves have a powerful mental shock effect, causing the minds of all living beings to tremble wherever they pass!

Yan Shuangzi, who was sitting on the spirit elephant, was holding the Demon-Binding Lock in one hand. She froze in mid-air, her eyes even looking somewhat dazed.

He Yingcai, on the other hand, was completely unaffected and did not receive any mental output.

With her stone hands she pressed down, ten nearly transparent red threads were directly attached to the back of the spirit elephant.

The moment the mountaintop statues froze in place, Lu Ran had already grabbed the middle-aged man, swept across another elephant's foot from the ground, grabbed another man, and together they rushed out of the mountain.

"Boom!"

A hole had been cut into the cliff, and loose rocks were flying out.

Lu Ran grabbed one of their wrists in each hand and flew backward rapidly, looking up at the mountaintop.

"Who...who?" A middle-aged man with disheveled hair, his back collapsed, his tattered clothes mixed with lime and soil, blended into his bloody and mangled back.

It looks painful.

He opened his eyes in a daze and saw a young man wearing a blood crystal mask.

youth?

Those eyes were unusually cold.

"Woo~~~"

The sound of elephants roared across the sky once more.

Everyone's expression changed, and they turned to look.

On the elephant's back, He Yingcai stared in disbelief! This was the first time she had failed since she began her conquest of the Heavenly Realm.

The combination of tangled threads and tangled lotus root threads will disrupt the divine power within the target's body, thereby preventing the enemy from casting spells.

However, it must be stated that within the Great Xia God and Demon System, all control-type divine and evil spells are soft control.

Without exception!

The likes of the monk and the Jade-Faced Serpent only need to slightly activate the purification method, and release a little golden wind and white mist to quickly break through soft control techniques.

Therefore, when Lu Ran led his team to kill the monks, he always kept the Silence Domain active.

Only the Divine Weapon Domain unleashed by Lu Ran and Ji Ye Dao together is a true form of hard control!

But at this moment, Lu Ran really couldn't afford it anymore.

"Boom!"

The already enormous spirit elephant statue was now surging with divine power, its massive size expanding rapidly with overwhelming force.

The majestic mountains are constantly collapsing beneath the elephant's feet.

"Ah!" He Yingcai exclaimed in surprise, immediately grabbed the stiff Yan Shuangzi, and hurriedly flew her diagonally backward.

"Woo~~~"

The elephant's call was powerful and resonant, shaking heaven and earth!

I've seen some readers want the names of the gods and demons, their ranks, etc. You can open the table of contents and scroll to the top.

There are two chapters listing gods and demons, which Yu has been updating.

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