Those time travelers that year

384. A fight breaks out at the drop of a hat (Part 1)

"Especially one, either a reincarnated immortal or a god-demon destined for tribulation..." Chi You's words echoed within the Xuanwang, his words like piercing ice sending a chill down everyone's spine. The reincarnated immortal, the god-demon destined for tribulation—even those not particularly enthusiastic about religion like Wentian, Tiexin, and the leader of the Heaven and Earth Alliance—all stared wide-eyed in disbelief at Xia Er, who was facing Chi You's questioning.

"You've already made your choice. Do you think I, the Goddess, would leave you, a threat to the Flower Goddess, unchecked?" Chi You's tone was icy. The Tiger Soul Blade, reflecting its master's emotions, emitted an increasingly deep red light, and the surrounding killing intent pressed in as if it were tangible.

At this moment, Xia Er was utterly speechless at the sight of a muscle-bound brute like Chi You, who had reached his peak. His anger wasn't because he had secretly intercepted a portion of the Phoenix Fire, thus hindering Chi You's resurrection plan. On the contrary, he was worried that Xia Er's presence would threaten the still-unrecovered Flower Goddess. If he had to express his current feelings, Xia Er could only chuckle.

What a disaster...

"Um... Can we talk this over?" Shal asked, pressing his hat with a helpless tone, "...I won't stop you from resurrecting the Flower Goddess, but how about letting me and all these people leave the Mystic Net together?"

"Boy, are you going to tell me that your arrival in Xuanwang was just an accident?" Chi You sneered.

“Even if I say it was an accident, we still have to fight first, right?” Charles sighed. “Without sufficient power, none of this is an accident…”

"The strong only negotiate with the strong!" Chi You raised the Tiger Soul Blade once more, its red light shooting out. "And the weak, either live humbly or die..." Amidst the red light, Chi You roared, the Tiger Soul Blade slashing down, the Sea-Breaking Blade momentum rising again, evolving into a vast ocean with towering waves, its momentum overwhelming, sweeping in like tearing the sky and splitting the earth.

It was the same sea-breaking attack, but this time, instead of sweeping across the area, Chi You condensed it into a dazzling blade of energy, slashing towards Xia Er. In an instant, the vast ocean was overturned, and towering waves surged for thousands of miles, a spectacle displayed within the Xuanwang (mystical network). This was an illusion, but if Chi You wanted to—no, or rather, if the person facing this attack believed it to be real, even if only subconsciously—this scene of tsunami-like natural disaster would transform from illusion into reality.

Seeing Chi You's magnificent strike, Wen Tian and the others felt as if they had been choked, the overwhelming aura of death making it hard for them to breathe. This was the true power of Chi You, the ancient demon and god, even though he had only recently been resurrected. It was something these mortals could not possibly contend with. Even if one or two of them wielded divine weapons, even if some of them were inheritors of divine and demonic martial arts, they were still just mortals.

Before they can unleash the power to slay gods and demons, they are not even qualified to participate in this kind of battle.

Even the strongest among them, the leader of the Heaven and Earth Alliance, Prince Yan, is no exception. The Earthly Tyrant Qi Technique can indeed make him a dominant force in the current martial arts world, but relying solely on it to participate in this true battle between gods and demons is far too difficult. He would only have a chance to fight if he reached the level of the Heavenly Gang Qi Technique.

Chi You didn't care about the thoughts of mortals; he didn't even bother with the guy who often spied on the Flower Goddess. The reason was simple: the person before him, whom he saw as a tribulation-ordained god and demon, a reincarnated immortal, posed a significant danger. Chi You didn't know this guy's origins, but without a doubt, the countless battles and clashes with gods and demons, the experience gained from the most glorious years of his era, all told him without a doubt that this seemingly refined individual was, inside, an incomparably cold 'monster' just like him!

The only difference is that the current Chi You holds the place of the Flower Goddess in his heart, while the person before him probably does not. He is just like the original Chi You—an extremely self-centered and selfish individual.

When faced with such a creature, Chi You always used only one approach: to blast it down with all his might.

Just as there can only be one human emperor in any era, Chi You would not allow a Xuanyuan to contend with him for supremacy in this world. Nor would he allow someone nearly identical to him to live in this world.

Therefore, even though he had just been resurrected, he needed to both relinquish some of his divine power to revive the Flower Goddess and blast away this dangerous individual before him. Even if the other party was in a similar situation, it wouldn't be an easy process, and he might even lose the opportunity he had waited so long for. Faced with this situation, Chi You's statement was simple and clear: "Die, you god!"

The sea swept across everything around it, descending with naked killing intent.

Immediately afterward, Xia Er also unleashed his power. His magnetic field expanded, and chains of energy formed an impenetrable net across the sky, intercepting the tsunami that was breaking through the sea. Then, the two sides engaged in a close-quarters exchange of fire!

This time, it wasn't a true clash between consciousness and the spiritual realm, but a contest in reality. It was a contest of strength, a contest of will, a contest of who would expose a weakness, be seized upon, and be crushed to dust.

With a thought, the magnetic field shifted and its power began to accumulate. Xia Er unleashed a perfectly controlled punch towards Chi You. A deafening roar erupted as the magnetic field net shattered, along with the sea-breaking blade's momentum. Without any effort or variation, it was simply the most direct and brutal force. Relying on his pirated mind, Xia Er conjured the Whale-Slaying Fist, which transformed into an ancient, colossal killer whale that crashed through the tsunami, cleaving through the waves.

"Mountain Collapse! Storm! Smash this damned bastard to pieces!" Facing the killer whale that had broken through the Sea-Shattering Blade Technique with even greater force, Chi You roared and unleashed two more sword techniques in quick succession. A raging storm erupted, causing Mount Buzhou to collapse. The Storm Technique evolved into a super hurricane connecting heaven and earth, slashing and slashing relentlessly until the enemy's bones were torn to shreds. Meanwhile, the Mountain Collapse Blade Technique transformed into collapsing mountains, boulders flying, and the mountain itself shattering. The tilting and collapsing Mount Buzhou crushed everything in its path.

The rapid storm combined with the immense weight of the landslide, the combined force of speed and power, resulting in a devastating blow. In an instant, the killer whale, which had been cutting through the waves, couldn't even let out a mournful cry, as it was utterly suppressed and shattered amidst countless storm fragments.

But after the storm and landslide annihilated the killer whale, golden ripples spread out in their wake.

A tremor erupted, golden ripples spreading outwards towards the landslide, the force of atomic pulverization relentlessly shattering it. The Limitless Zen of Tremor clashed head-on with the landslide and the storm, shattering rocks and battling the tempest...

At that moment, the crisscrossing chains of primordial energy rose into the air, then shattered and transformed into the most primordial primordial energy. And this energy was then reassembled in a fraction of a second.

385. A fight breaks out at the drop of a hat (Part 2)

The disintegrating and recombining primordial energy instantly transformed into countless translucent blades, shooting towards Chi You from all directions. Hundreds? Thousands? No, tens of thousands…

In an instant, tens of thousands of longswords, gleaming with incomparably sharp cold light, appeared within the Xuan Net, filling every inch of space in all directions. Wentian and the others, who had been forced to move further away due to the aftershocks of the battle between Chi You and Xia Er, were horrified to discover that the battlefield was now a vast sea of ​​swords.

Tens of thousands of translucent swords, emitting clear chimes, surged towards Chi You like birds returning to their nests. The mere thought of a thousand swords converging into one was a spectacle far beyond the comprehension of Wen Tian and the others. Whether it was Chi You's previous gesture of conjuring natural disasters with a wave of his hand, using swordsmanship to defy fate and transforming himself into a calamity—a terrifying divine power—or now, Xia Er's disintegration of the primordial energy chains, manifesting the convergence of ten thousand swords, all far exceeded the scope of so-called 'martial arts'.

Is this within the reach of humankind? Clearly not, in Wentian and the others' view. On the contrary, the two fighting before them were Chi You, a newly resurrected ancient god, a fierce demon known as the Lord of War and God of War. The other was the reincarnated immortal, the tribulation-stricken god-demon, as Chi You had described. How could mortals like themselves possibly interfere in a battle between two gods and demons?

Even the strongest leader of the Heaven and Earth Alliance, who only possessed the Earthly Overlord Technique, was unable to participate in this battle of gods. He could only be relegated to being one of the spectators, and no matter how unwilling he was, there was nothing he could do. He could only secretly circulate his energy, healing his injuries while waiting for an opportunity to strike when the two fought to the death and revealed a weakness.

Aside from that, Wentian, the protagonist of the Divine Weapon series, didn't think too much about it; he was simply worried about the battle. They had all witnessed Chi You's divine power. If Xia Er were to be defeated, how could they, mere mortals, possibly fight against Chi You? Just as he thought of this, the Heavenly Crystal power in his left arm surged forth, originating from Nuwa's divine power, instantly calming Wentian's anxious heart. Sensing the expansion of Chi You's divine power, Nuwa's primordial spirit also secretly continued to activate the power of the Heavenly Crystal Green Pearl, opening a back door for her heir.

As for the rest, Hideki Nishijo was severely injured by a casual strike from Chi You. Although the Xuanyuan Taixu Great Consumption Energy negated most of the power, he was still in considerable pain. Lewa, who had lost her Divine Dance, helped Hideki Nishijo stay far away from the battlefield and seized the opportunity to help him heal.

Tie Xin stayed close to Wen Tian, ​​while Shen Suanzi and Huo Fenghuang, relying on the divine power of the Phoenix Axe, managed to withstand the aftershocks, but were helpless against the changing battle. However, at this moment, Shen Suanzi, this charlatan, after hearing Chi You's address to Xia Er, sincerely hoped that Xia Er could defeat Chi You.

The last of the Cowherd watched with envy and jealousy as the two sides unleashed their power, which far surpassed his own. Now, the Cowherd yearned for this divine and demonic power like never before.

Neither side in the conflict had a chance to pay attention to the thoughts of the mortals outside.

The "Ten Thousand Swords Return to One" attack, a devastating strike, would be virtually unstoppable in the current martial arts world. However, for Chi You, such an attack could only distract him. It could indeed harm him, but the attacks had to land accurately.

Faced with the overwhelming force of countless swords, Chi You roared and swung his Tiger Soul Blade. His swordplay changed once more, a chilling aura sweeping in all directions, spreading deathly frost and freezing everything in its path. In an instant, a scene of a thousand miles of ice and ten thousand miles of snow unfolded before everyone's eyes. Snowflakes fell, and countless hailstones, carried by the cold wind, densely packed together, met the tens of thousands of sword blades. A single hailstone could not withstand even one of the swords, but the sheer number of hailstones far exceeded the number of swords.

Every second, blades were destroyed by the hail, dissipating into pure primordial energy; every second, countless hailstones were shredded into snowflakes by the blades. For a moment, the two forces clashed, evenly matched.

But soon, a force that changed the situation appeared. The energy that the sword had been destroyed mixed with the hail, and even Chi You could not have imagined that even after it was destroyed, Xia Er still firmly held control of that energy.

Soon, Xia Er reassembled the primordial energy, transforming it once more into interconnected chains of primordial energy, forming a network shimmering with lightning. But once the lightning network was complete, Chi You's expression changed drastically. Immediately, the flashing lightning easily shattered and destroyed the Hailstorm Blade Technique. The extraordinary phenomenon of thousands of miles of ice and snow vanished instantly. Chi You's Hailstorm Blade Technique had indeed broken Xia Er's Ten Thousand Swords Returning to One formation; however, those tens of thousands of swords were merely a decoy. It was as if Chi You had foolishly placed himself into a trap set by Xia Er.

The Thunder Net swept across, tearing apart the hailstones and capturing the storm. Combined with the tremors of the Limitless Zen, it annihilated the mountain collapse. Following the Sea Breaker, Xia Er directly broke through the three sword techniques of Mountain Collapse, Storm, and Hailstones. Then, the Thunder Net gathered and transformed into a lightning spear in Xia Er's hand, which he hurled towards Chi You.

The spear transformed into a torrent of lightning, striking Chi You with a deafening roar. At this moment, Chi You could only raise his Tiger Soul Blade to fight back, but his expression ultimately underwent a drastic change.

He could withstand the lightning, but that would consume a large portion of his power. He had just been resurrected, and his divine power had not fully recovered; he needed to reserve some of it for later use. However, Charles seemed to have seen through this. The lightning wasn't aiming for a decisive blow, but rather focused on depleting his divine power.

Roar! !

Chi You roared to the sky and made an astonishing decision. He actually moved the Tiger Soul Blade aside, allowing the lightning to pierce through him directly. Even Xia Er hadn't anticipated this. In that moment of surprise, although his body had been pierced, Chi You, having used his divine power to suppress the wound, moved swiftly and instantly appeared before Xia Er. His Fiery Blade Technique crashed down, manifesting as a volcanic eruption of lava and fire, crushing towards Xia Er.

Boom!!!

The Tiger Soul Blade slashed a gash right in front of Xia Er. Although Xia Er managed to create a defensive barrier in the nick of time by manipulating the Heavenly Net formed from chains of Yuan Qi, it was not enough to completely withstand Chi You's determined strike. Then, Xia Er was blasted away by the heavy blow, crashing into the bottom of the Xuan Net and disappearing into it.

The battle ended swiftly, leaving everyone stunned. However, Chi You had no time to concern himself with these mortals. The Fiery Blade had indeed dealt a sharp blow to Xia Er, but Chi You knew it wasn't enough to kill him; at most, it would only severely injure him. He didn't have much time to deal with it; his full-force Fiery Blade had already severely wounded Xia Er, and he needed to conserve most of his divine power for other matters.

"Kill these mortals for me!" Chi You immediately gave the order. The remaining bodies of gods and demons who had submitted to him rushed towards Wen Tian and the others. Chi You himself drew his sword and flashed out, opening a gap in the Xuanwang and rushing out.

386. This is the author's resentment at not being able to summon a phoenix.

Chi You's all-out attack, the Fiery Blade Technique, did indeed inflict a severe blow on Xia Er, just as he had anticipated. Xia Er was even knocked into the Thunder Pool and fell out of the Xuan Net. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chi You had the remnants of gods and demons block Wen Tian and his group while he rushed to the place where the Flower Goddess slept. After expending most of his divine power and blood essence, Chi You finally succeeded in reviving the Flower Goddess.

Of course, we won't mention how happy Chi You was after reviving the Flower Goddess, or how he fought to the death with Wen Tian and others, and finally fell for the Flower Goddess's seductive charm, thus laying down his sword and reforming.

Let's turn our attention to the Charles.

The fiery strike was truly unexpected for Xia Er. Because Xia Er had always assumed Chi You would reserve a portion of his power to resurrect the Flower Goddess, he was unprepared and thus caught off guard by Chi You's powerful blow, even though the lightning Xia Er threw also pierced Chi You. In short, it was a lose-lose situation. Chi You, resurrected by the Phoenix Fire, still possessed the resurrection power of the Phoenix Fire within his blood, forcibly suppressing his wounds. He then suffered significant blood loss to resurrect the Flower Goddess, resulting in a much greater debuff than in the original story.

However, Chi You may have miscalculated that Xia Er wouldn't be seriously injured by the Fiery Blade. On the contrary, the Fiery Blade, unleashed by Chi You with all his power, did indeed strike Xia Er hard, but Xia Er seized the opportunity to slip away. It's worth noting that if Chi You hadn't insisted on fighting him without warning, Xia Er wouldn't have bothered fighting someone who would inevitably be killed off by the plot. Throughout the Divine Weapon series, any character destined to become a boss almost always ends up being killed off by the plot—either redeemed or eliminated.

Chi You was killed off in a plot, and he and the Flower Goddess went into seclusion, eventually leaving for the Heavenly Realm.

The Evil Emperor's plot-driven death directly whitewashed him, regardless of how many people he had killed before; he was simply exonerated.

The Primordial Demon's death was a plot device. In the original story, the battle with the Primordial Demon ended entirely without any connection to the protagonist's group. Instead, the participating celestial soldiers activated their divine power on their own. There was definitely the involvement of those gods and demons who didn't intend to confront the Primordial Demon. In short, the Primordial Demon was killed off in such a frustrating way by the plot.

With this in mind, Xia Er didn't intend to fight Chi You, but since he had already made a move, Xia Er would feel bad if he didn't give Chi You a debuff. Anyway, Xia Er could guess without even thinking that this time, fighting against mortals like Wen Tian would be even more frustrating for Chi You than in the original story.

"Did you really think I'd be seriously injured by a single fiery attack?" Having escaped the Xuanwang (mysterious network), Xia Er regained control of his body and seized the opportunity to leave. He then began tending to his injuries from the fiery attack. Frankly, being struck by a fully recovered Chi You wasn't a good thing. Compared to Chi You, heavily buffed and unable to kill a single person, a strike from a newly resurrected Chi You was truly painful.

The knife wound had slashed across Charles's chest, nearly disemboweling him. Although his own power began to heal the wound, the lingering aura and intent of the blade on his chest were not so easily dispelled.

The Blade of Fiery Blade draws inspiration from the power of a volcanic eruption and a sea of ​​lava. Naturally, the blade energy remaining on Ciel's wounds is incredibly hot, churning and boiling, constantly surging and burning. The scorching blade intent suppresses the power of recovery and even begins to erode Ciel's body, attempting to burn him entirely like firewood.

Ha ha……

"Trying to burn me like firewood!" With a sarcastic smile, Xia Er calmly evaluated Chi You's Fiery Blade Technique. "Ultimately, it's far inferior! This kind of heat and artistic conception... well, if you were the sun, that would be a different story. This clone can't withstand the sun, but a mere planetary volcanic eruption, you think you can use me as firewood? Heh..." What Chi You probably never expected was that his full-force Fiery Blade Technique didn't achieve its goal of severely injuring Xia Er and temporarily crippling his combat power. Instead, at this moment, through direct contact with Chi You's blade technique, Xia Er completely copied and pasted all five forms of the Seven Limits of Devouring Heaven and Earth.

In other words, Xia Er can now unleash the same five sword techniques of the Seven Limits of Heaven and Earth, and they are exactly the same as those used by Chi You.

"Chi You is truly a good man!" Xia Er exclaimed, then reached out and grabbed a ball of flame. It was a strange flame; in Xia Er's hand, it transformed into a small phoenix, attempting to spread its wings and fly away. This was the phoenix fire that had resurrected Chi You, albeit only a small portion, but it was indeed the phoenix fire capable of reviving. Holding the phoenix fire in one hand, Xia Er pressed his other hand against his chest, over the numerous knife wounds. "Hah!!" With a forceful pull, Xia Er plunged his fingers deep into the flesh, then ripped them out. Blood splattered as the raging flames were torn from the wounds.

As the flames were pulled from the wound, the surrounding temperature began to rise rapidly, quickly reaching tens of degrees Celsius and continuing to climb. Furthermore, the air began to conjure images of volcanic eruptions, lava seas burning everything, and a scorching blade intent intent to destroy all things and incinerate everything.

"Powerful!" Such sword energy and intent, if applied to someone else without sufficient internal strength to suppress or dispel it, or with the protection of a divine weapon, could instantly incinerate their flesh and blood into ashes. However, to Xia Er, it was merely a matter of "powerful." After withdrawing the fiery sword energy and intent from his body, his own regenerative abilities began to activate rapidly, and the wound inflicted by the Tiger Soul instantly healed.

In just a few breaths, Xia Er completely healed his injuries. He wondered what Chi You, who had now willingly inflicted a bunch of debuffs on himself and was now fighting a bunch of powerful figures, would think. All his previous efforts had been completely wasted; in fact, it was tantamount to giving Xia Er a huge gift.

Yes, a great gift.

Xia Er casually wiped away the sword intent from the Fiery Blade Qi, leaving only the most primal energy, and then directly pressed the Fiery Blade Qi into the Phoenix Fire.

With a clear phoenix cry, the phoenix fire, infused with fiery sword energy, suddenly flared up and broke free from Xia Er's grasp, truly transforming into a lifelike fiery phoenix that soared into the air.

"From now on, I'm also one of those who have summoned the Phoenix!" With a wave of his hand, the fluttering Phoenix shrank and flew back to Xia Er's arm.

387. A third-rate whitewashing plot

In a certain unlucky world, there was a certain unlucky prince who was friend-zoned by the girl he was pursuing, his country was destroyed by his love rival, and he accidentally boarded the wrong pirate ship. After that, he was basically visited every week by countless people who had not yet obtained the Phoenix mount, causing his car to overturn countless times.

And once upon a time, Sharl was one of them. Can you imagine the tragic feeling of grinding all the way from the 70s to the 100s for several years without seeing a single bird feather?! Anyway, Sharl harbored deep resentment about this, to the point that he eventually had to admit that he had absolutely no chance with the phoenix mount.

But now things are different. He still hasn't obtained a phoenix, but he can create one himself! In this divine weapon series, Xia Er finally fulfilled his long-cherished wish and finally got his hands on a phoenix.

Centered on the Phoenix Flame, drawing upon the Fiery Blade Qi from the Seven Limits of Devouring Heaven and Earth wielded by the demon god Chi You, and based on the remaining power of the phoenix from the other world in the DOTA universe before its departure, this individual activated the power and reshaped a living phoenix. This phoenix, a fusion of two different systems of power, possesses the magical skills of the DOTA world's phoenix, and can, when necessary, directly unleash a full-fledged Fiery Blade to slay you.

A phoenix that has transcended vulgarity and is miles ahead of that guy named O from Kai.

"I really am a genius!" Reaching out to stroke the phoenix feathers burning with flames strong enough to melt gold and brand iron, Charles said excitedly, "Since no matter how I try to get it, it's all black hands anyway, so why not just make one myself?" With a thought, the phoenix understood and flew directly into the sky, growing to a size large enough to support a person. Then Charles leaped up and landed on the phoenix's back.

As the phoenix carried Xia Er into the clouds, at the same time, a purple light rose from the sky. Xia Er looked down from the phoenix and saw that the sky was changing color, the heavens were shattering, and countless sharp blades shot straight into the sky, shaking the heavens and tearing the clouds. Thousands of rubble were grabbed by an invisible force, the momentum was overwhelming, as if the end of the world had brought chaos to the whole world.

"That's... Devouring Heaven!?" Standing on the phoenix's back, feeling the rules of this world begin to fall into chaos, as if another will had forcibly inserted itself into the will of this world, Xia Er was stunned for a moment, and then quickly contacted the hidden hand buried on the cowherd to see what had happened.

Charles soon learned the truth.

Just like in the original story, Chi You ultimately chose to sacrifice a great deal of blood and divine power to revive the Flower Goddess. However, to his surprise, excessive blood loss and a significant loss of divine power, coupled with a host of debuffs he willingly inflicted, left him vulnerable to being overpowered by the mortals. Most importantly, under the intense debuffs, Chi You's strength, speed, perception, defense, and other attributes all decreased, leading to him sustaining repeated injuries.

Clearly, by this point in the battle, Chi You was extremely enraged.

Getting injured fighting Xia Er is understandable. After all, in Chi You's eyes, Xia Er is a celestial being or god-demon who has transcended life and death and reincarnated, on the same level as him. Being injured by Xia Er is forgivable, and Chi You admits it. However, being in poor condition and unable to defeat even a mortal so far is utterly shameful.

Even when he fought Xia Er, he only got bruised once. But now, how many times has he been injured by accident? Chi You didn't want to count anymore, because the more he did, the more ashamed he felt.

Therefore, Chi You activated his berserk mode.

"If the world does not belong to me, Chi You, then I will destroy the heavens and the earth, and burn everything to ashes!" Chi You's wild shouts could be heard clearly even by Xia Er, who was some distance away.

The power of the Devouring Heaven Blade Technique began to alter the rules of that area, and as a result, the mountain began to collapse, utterly pulverized by terrifying destructive force. Moreover, this destructive force began to spread outwards from the mountain, extending for hundreds of miles in an instant. A magnitude 12 earthquake swept across everything around it, and even the gravity of the planet itself lost its effect at this moment. After half of the mountain was pulverized, the falling rocks did not fall but instead floated up.

Soon, the various natural disasters that evolved from the Seven Limitless Blade Techniques truly appeared in this world.

Even before Chi You unleashed his Devouring Heaven Blade, it already displayed a world-shaking, heaven-destroying power with a mere flick of his wrist. One can only imagine what the world would become once this blade truly landed. Remember, when he fought Xuanyuan, he only managed to unleash the Earth-Destroying Blade; he died inexplicably before even having a chance to use Devouring Heaven.

Now, it can be said to be one of the strongest divine and demonic martial arts in the world, the strongest swordsmanship, finally showing its true power.