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Chapter 325 It's my turn to wield "Invincible Under Heaven" and you're not running away?
The jet-black divine bird silently gazed upon the demon god Minghai, whose great primordial spirit had achieved eternity within the boundless expanse of time.

[Limitless magical power is a level even the Demon God of the Void Sea cannot fathom.]

"You think you can use our power against us? How utterly ridiculous," Donghuang Taiyi said calmly.

"Disappear."

The blazing red sun collapsed in response, condensing into a single, blinding point of starlight.

【"What?!"】

The demon god's bone armor had begun to carbonize. He swung his halberd wildly, yet couldn't even cleave through the last rays of the setting sun.

At this moment, He finally understood what true—

[Heavenly might!]

The so-called invincibility of the Demon God Minghai—is nothing but a frog in a well.

The sunlight burst forth, and all was silent.

【"boom--!!!"】

The radiance of the rising sun engulfed the heavens and earth, forcing the True Martial Lords of the five hegemonic kingdoms, who were rapidly retreating, to shield their eyes with their arms.

"What is that?! The Demon God's Corpse..."

[A True Martial Lord vaguely saw a jet-black divine bird slowly flapping its wings at the core of the red sun. At that moment, his pupils reflected a wondrous sight he had never seen before: the Demon God's remains had turned to ashes in an instant.]

Only that halberd gleamed brightly under the blazing sun.

[The True Martial Lord and the leader of the Martial Arts Hall discovered that the blazing red sunlight emanating from the jet-black divine bird posed no threat to humanity. This seemingly arbitrary power was even more terrifying!]

Donghuang Taiyi lowered his head slightly and looked at Xiang Ji, "My time is running out. Remember, after unifying the seven human states, we will attack Guixu Heaven once more!"

"Do you know me?"

Xiang Ji met the gaze of the jet-black divine bird. He saw the reflection of the seven provinces' landscape in the bird's eyes, and his own figure stood beside the Nine Provinces Cauldron, holding a spear. It seemed to be his future.

The divine bird suddenly flapped its wings, and the blazing light in the sky converged into a single line. In the instant it transformed into a phantom, a jet-black feather fluttered down. Xiang Ji reached out to catch it, but the feather suddenly ignited with ghostly flames, solidifying in his palm into a small, colorful bird with its eyes closed.

[—In the autumn of the 100,000th year of the Great Xia calendar, the Demon God Minghai had slaughtered for 30,000 years, causing the Void Sea to unleash a great fog that eroded heaven and earth. The Nine Armies of the Martial Arts Hall launched a campaign against him. Minghai, wielding the "Invincible Under Heaven," was beyond redemption. As the Azure King Xiang Ji lay dying—suddenly, a crimson wheel fell to earth, and a divine bird descended. Its wings covered the sky and blotted out the sun; its eyes pierced the nine netherworlds. The Demon God instantly vaporized.]

This divine bird, capable of scorching the heavens and boiling the seas, is named—Golden Crow!

……

"A Chaos God has descended upon the world?! Quickly report this to the Holy Land!"

The demon god Minghai's subordinates, their faces filled with terror, scattered and fled.

"Stop them! Don't let any of them escape!"

[The True Martial Lord regained his senses and immediately led his army to intercept and kill the alien demon.]

However, the alien monsters were determined to escape, and seven or eight dark figures slipped into the gaps in the mist, fleeing into the depths of the Void Sea.

The True Martial Soldiers trampled the demon bones scattered on the ground, yet they all stopped before the wall of mist. From the depths of the Void Sea came the cheers of countless demons; the fleeing shadows were merging into the thick fog, gradually revealing the outlines of ancient ferocious beasts.

There, a pair of vertical pupils, a hundred times more terrifying than the demon god Minghai, were slowly opening...

【The Void Sea.】

[Seated upon the throne was a figure clad in a robe of countless demonic scales. His face shifted constantly in the mist, sometimes resembling a nine-headed willow branch, sometimes an eight-winged serpent, finally settling into an incomparably handsome human form.]

Only those vertical pupils remained, coldly surveying all living beings.

[—The Demon Emperor Jiuying, who attained the title of "God of Destiny" in the Void Sea.]

"Nine-Headed Underworld Emperor?!"

[Tai Shi Bo, the chief historian of the Martial Arts Hall, residing in the Misty Land, immediately recognized this ancient enemy of the human race.]

Tai Shibo approached Xiang Ji and explained the origins of the Demon Emperor.

[The myriad races that have fallen into the Void all worship the "Void Heaven" and the "God of Destiny," but the most outstanding among them have forged a different path—to attain the God of Destiny!]

[—A self-aware "God of Destiny" capable of limitless progress!]

There are only ten such beings in the Void Heaven.

[Among them is a demon god from human mythology who fought against the "Flame Ancestor".]

After their failure to block the path, they received the Mandate of Heaven and established ten holy dynasties in the Void Sea to suppress the emperors and sages who had left their ancestral homeland, "Yanzhou Tian".

The ancestors of the Great Xia Emperor came to this place by large ship, and died in the imperial dynasty of the Nine-Headed Underworld Emperor. The two had an irreconcilable blood feud.

"Azure King!" Tai Shibo exclaimed, "The Nine-Headed Netherworld Emperor's strength is comparable to that of the ancient Human Emperor, and that Sun Bird..."

"Donghuang Taiyi only had a wisp of thought left, and he has already departed." Xiang Ji shook his head.

"This..." Tai Shibo looked up at the still-churning, thick fog, his expression serious.

[“Xia Zhou Tian is protected by the Heavenly Fortune of the Human Race. The Nine-Headed Underworld Emperor once perished at the hands of the Flame Ancestor and dared not enter. However, a gap appeared in the sky of Xia Zhou Tian, ​​exposing it to the Gui Xu Tian. Since then, the fog has never stopped, and the alien races have never ceased their presence…”]

"Why the hell are you asking me what I want?! I'm not..."

[Xiang Ji blurted out, then paused, looking around. Unbeknownst to him, thousands upon thousands of people had gathered around him, and the retreating warlords of the overlord state came to his side one by one.]

"King Qing, what should we do?"

"The only course of action now is to first repel the alien imperial army, and then find a way to repair the heavens!"

"Ji Yao, take the Azure King to retrieve the Xia Cauldron. Leave this place to us!"

[The True Martial Arts Master and the leaders of the Martial Arts Hall spoke up.]

These military leaders who were able to ignite their inner fire, successfully raise armies, and break through to the True Martial Realm must have a strong sense of righteousness towards humanity. Those who can cultivate superior inherited true skills do not rely on bloodline, spiritual seed, comprehension, or talent.

[It was the flame left in the will of the Human Ancestor.]

They knew that humanity's hope now rested on King Xiang Ji, and at this moment, everyone set aside their three-thousand-year-old feuds to help King Xiang Ji and jointly confront the Nine-Headed Underworld Emperor.

All eyes turned to Xiang Ji with anticipation.

【"summer!"】

【"summer!"】

"Great Xia!"

The soldiers roared, each battle cry shaking the fog wall, and five thousand-foot-tall battle spirits suddenly materialized!

[Form ranks!]

[The True Martial Soldier Master, wielding his spiritual weapon, resolutely turned and walked towards the wall of mist!]

【"kill!!"】

Behind them, the human alliance surged towards the fog wall like a raging tide.

Ji Yao, a prominent clan in the Martial Arts Hall, was one of the thirteen Martial Ancestors from the barbaric era of the human race. She said softly, “King Qing, we cannot hold out much longer under the Nine Infant Emperor’s rule. Please follow me.”

Xiang Ji remained silent. He had learned from the conversation among the leaders of the various factions in the Martial Arts Hall that even obtaining the supreme divine weapon, the Xia Cauldron, might not be enough to repair the heavens.

[Because "Repairing the Heavens" requires venturing beyond the Spirit Realm, and the Nine-Headed Underworld Emperor, the God of Destiny, will not show mercy.]

"Little fellow, I am the son of the Eastern Emperor, a primordial deity who has cultivated for countless eons. This Nine-Headed Netherworld Emperor's aura is merely that of a subject of the Eastern Emperor. Leave this trivial matter to me." The colorful bird stood proudly, its voice clear and melodious.

Xiang Ji looked down at the colorful little bird in his hand, his face full of anticipation. "Do you have any ideas?"

"The son of the Heavenly Emperor?" Ji Yao stared wide-eyed at the colorful little bird.

[Among the ten holy lands and dynasties of the Void Sea, the first is the "Ancient Heavenly Court," followed by the gods of the Pantheon, and then the Yaochi Holy Land established by the Four Fiends of the Mountains and Seas and the Zombie Saint.]

The Nine Infant Dynasty ranked only eighth among them.

The Heavenly Emperor was the ruler of the ancient Heavenly Court, a terrifying force that had existed since the birth of the Void Sea.

[The Heavenly Emperor, Dao Ancestor, Buddha Ancestor, God King, Chaotic Ancient Heavenly King, and Zombie Saint—a total of six Heavenly Emperor-level figures—are at the pinnacle of the alien races. Each of them alone is enough to suppress all the alien races of the Void Sea below the top 100.]

[But the colorful bird's father, "Donghuang Taiyi," is definitely not one of them.] ["No, where is my sun's true fire?"]

The colorful little bird opened its beak and suddenly exhaled a puff of smoke, coughed, and realizing something was wrong, looked up at Xiang Ji, its tone both unreasonable and defiant, "This world that Father Emperor sent me to is a bit strange, and I haven't been able to contact Mother and my brothers, so I have no choice."

"I..." Xiang Ji was almost furious.

Just then, Zhao Yun looked at the halberd floating in mid-air and said, "King Qing, as long as we gain the approval of this halberd, it will be enough to repel the Nine-Headed Underworld Emperor!"

"Invincible under heaven? Indeed, it's enough to repel the Nine-Headed Nether Emperor!" Ji Yao shook her head slightly, her expression disappointed. "However, the Invincible Under Heaven is a God of Destiny born from the Void Heaven, which the human race cannot control!"

The Great Xia Emperor was the one who pushed the "Art of Warfare" to its limits, commanding an unlimited number of soldiers. In the past, the human race only occupied two continents; if the Great Xia Emperor were to gather the military leaders of the current seven continents...

[Let alone the Nine-Headed Underworld Emperor, even the Heavenly Emperor might not be able to stop him.]

This is also the source of the Great Xia Emperor's confidence to venture deep into the Void Sea. Several holy lands and dynasties were destroyed by the human army, forcing the Nine-Headed Underworld Emperor to decisively abandon his race and wander the Void Sea to avoid the storm.

Zhao Yun's expression was complicated. "That's the power of the Yellow Heaven..."

Zhao Yun desperately wanted to know what had become of his homeland after the death of the god. Gods died, demons vanished, Buddhas were silent, and saints perished, but he absolutely refused to believe that Huang Tian had died in battle.

"Is being invincible the ultimate goal?"

[Xiang Ji heard Zhao Yun recount the story of the Divine Han in the territory of Qing Kingdom and gained some understanding of Huang Tian. He raised his hand, and the gleaming "Invincible Under Heaven" sword indeed fell into his grasp. Just like the Monkey King, Xiang Ji could easily control it.]

An immense power surged through his body.

"So that's how it is..." Xiang Ji murmured, gripping the halberd shaft tighter. He understood the true meaning of "invincible under heaven."

[If the person wielding the halberd believes themselves to be "invincible," then they are invincible!]

In other words, as long as one's belief in being "invincible" is not broken, one will remain "unbeatable" indefinitely. This absolute belief cannot waver in the slightest; once it does, one will be defeated.

When vital energy declines, death ensues.

But knowing is easy; doing is hard.

[The Demon God Minghai, faced with Donghuang Taiyi's overwhelming aura, saw his invincible belief waver and was instantly reduced to ashes.]

Especially when the weak face the strong, daring to wield a spear or halberd is already a sign of heroism, let alone firmly believing that one can defeat that terrifyingly powerful opponent!

"Zilong, how can I avoid defeat?" Xiang Ji asked Zhao Yun.

[Zhao Yun, spear in hand, smiled and instructed Xiang Ji, "There is no one invincible in the world, but we are invincible. Just remember, no matter what enemy we face, every member of Shenhan believes that Huang Tian will not lose! Huang Tian will not lose!"]

"We have reasons why we cannot afford to lose."

"Understood." Xiang Ji held the Invincible Sword, silently reciting various famous sayings to brainwash himself. He didn't want to die, nor did he want humanity to be implicated and perish because of him.

Now, we have no choice but to fight to the death.

"King Qing! What are you doing?" Ji Yao was shocked. Even if she knew the secret of "Invincible Under Heaven," only the calm young man who defeated the Human Emperor could reach that level. King Qing, Xiang Ji, was only sixteen years old, and his only battle record was this campaign against the Demon God Minghai.

[What kind of "invincible" mentality is this? Going up there is just suicide!]

Xiang Ji did not answer, and resolutely turned away.

[Eight hundred long halberds from the Qing Kingdom simultaneously struck the ground, the strips of cloth wrapped around their blades igniting without wind, transforming into eight hundred fiery meteors that shot towards the wall of mist. Amidst the explosions, the Nine-Headed Underworld Emperor could be vaguely seen in the depths of the mist, his mountain-like figure manifesting in his true form.]

Nine ferocious serpent heads churned the sea of ​​clouds.

"Invincible!!"

[A wave of sound surged forth, and Xiang Ji, brimming with boundless power, charged into the army of the Nine Infant Dynasty. His halberd flashed like light, and whoever stood in his way died.]

[Xiang Ji leaped into the air, and at that very moment, the phantom of the crimson steed solidified from the blood mist. This divine steed, which had once followed "Young Huang Tian" in his conquests across the land, reared up high, catching Xiang Ji as he fell.]

A golden figure loomed in and out of sight, as pieces of demonic armor were donned by the young Xiang Ji.

The halberd swept across, its sharp edge slicing through the air with a trembling sound like a dragon's roar. The Nine Infant Dynasty demon generals blocking their path didn't even have time to raise their weapons before blood lines appeared on their necks.

[The instant their heads flew off, their pupils still reflected that golden afterimage—Xiang Ji, along with his horse, had charged forward ten thousand feet, leaving only a bloody path paved with demon corpses behind him.]

[The True Martial Lord, amidst the bloody battle, noticed this scene on the battlefield.]

More and more people are following Xiang Ji, and their target is none other than the Nine-Headed Underworld Emperor!

[Beheading!]

"That figure is... the Chaos God?!"

"Damn it! That guy Minghai didn't hand it over, and he even lost this forbidden item!"

[The Nine-Headed Underworld Emperor's head showed fear for the first time.]

Once the ten holy dynasties reach their zenith and are poised to annihilate the human race in other states, a "Chaos Demon God" who has attained the Great Dao will automatically emerge outside the Void Sea.

[The most recent one was an End Demon God wielding a black sword. The ten holy dynasties suffered heavy losses, and it took the combined efforts of the Dao Ancestor, the God King, and the Chaotic Ancient Heavenly King to finally seal him away.]

After several attempts...

[The Nine-Headed Underworld Emperor and the God of Destiny, whose consciousness had just been born, understood what was going on. Therefore, He didn't actually want to exterminate humanity; maintaining a balance was essential for His continued survival in the Void Sea.]

But this is the price to pay for becoming the "God of Destiny."

His dynasty is the closest to this place; the mandate of heaven cannot be defied, and he has no choice but to come.

Only those at the Heavenly Emperor level dare to defy the will of the Returning Void Heaven.

The poisonous miasma spewed by the Nine-Headed Underworld Emperor was swept back by the figure of the "golden god" with a single halberd strike.

When Xiang Ji's halberd tip was only three zhang away from the Nine-Headed Underworld Emperor, the entire human alliance had swelled to a million strong!

[Under the shadow of the golden divine figure, a torrent of surging will swept through the million-strong allied army.]

[Boom!]

The earth began to pulsate rhythmically. The soil beneath every soldier's feet glowed, and from above, countless golden points of light could be seen converging towards Xiang Ji's palm.

The Nine-Headed Underworld Emperor's serpentine pupils contracted violently; he saw something even more terrifying—

The fallen heroes rose from the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, their translucent bodies transforming into golden particles of light, surging towards the tip of the halberd like rivers flowing into the sea.

"Raise an army!"

Xiang Ji sensed something and suddenly clenched his fingers.

A million golden rays compressed and collapsed in his palm, causing the halberd to melt on its own, golden liquid flowing and reforming between his fists. The last thing the Nine-Headed Underworld Emperor glimpsed was the eight ancient seal characters that appeared in the human's palm—

[By the mandate of Heaven, may your life be long and prosperous!]

[The Supreme Divine Weapon - The Mountain and River Seal!]

【"town."】

Xiang Ji pressed the button casually.

The entire Void Sea suddenly fell silent for a moment.

[The Nine-Headed Underworld Emperor's escape froze. In his consciousness, countless tiny figures wielding weapons roared forth from the river of history, and the Nine-Headed Underworld Emperor's will was instantly crushed by the overwhelming force of the human race.]

"Victory!"

"Victory!"

"A resounding victory!"

The roar of a million people shattered the clouds. Amidst the deafening roar, the Mountain and River Seal slowly rose, its golden light crushing the remnants of the Nine-Headed Underworld Emperor inch by inch.

The disintegrating demonic bodies did not dissipate; instead, they were absorbed into the River Seal, becoming nourishment for the human race's fortune.

【“…”】

The leaders of various factions in the Martial Arts Hall, the True Martial Soldiers, and ordinary human warriors all forgot to wipe the blood from their faces. They stared blankly at the figure holding aloft the supreme divine weapon, the Mountain and River Seal, and suppressing the God of Destiny with a single word.

Everyone will remember this scene forever.

……

(End of this chapter)