Saint Seiya, but Athena who disobeys?

"Oh, what a sensible Japanese woman. But you are the concubine of my compatriot, aren't you? Aren't you afraid of his wrath by simply handing over the sacred body he entrusted to you to me?" Luo Hao raised her delicate eyebrows.

“Because this is exactly what my lord requires.” Kiyoshuin Ena looked frankly at Luo Hao, who had an exquisitely beautiful face, and even though she was a woman, she couldn’t help but feel a little dazed.

"My master wants me to tell His Majesty that if you wish to come, you only need to inform him; there's no need to be so secretive. And this Dragon-Slaying Blade is a gift from him to wish the Great Sage Equaling Heaven a safe escape."

"It seems I'm the one being petty." Luo Hao smiled, but Lu Yinghua couldn't help but tremble slightly upon seeing her smile. Only he knew that his master was both beautiful and narrow-minded, and at this moment she was clearly quite bothered.

"Master, unsealing the Great Sage is of utmost importance," Lu Yinghua hurriedly said.

"Lead the way," Luo Hao instructed, then looked at Qingqiuyuan Ena standing beside her, "As for you, come along too."

Lu Yinghua took out a talisman and easily passed through the barrier set up in the Western Heavenly Palace to dispel the evil spirits. They arrived at the Divine Stable, but did not stop, but continued to walk forward.

Lu Yinghua, carrying the talisman, entered the vast forest behind the shrine's stables, with Luo Hao and Qingqiuyuan Ena following behind. This was the intermediate zone leading to Futarasan Shrine and the territory of Toshogu Shrine. Clearly, the path Lu Yinghua, disguised as Kufuzuka Mikihiko, had led them on yesterday was wrong.

Until they vaguely felt as if they were passing through a waterfall, the three arrived at an ancient ancestral hall, neither very large nor particularly ornate. It was like the kind of simple and unadorned ancestral halls often seen by the roadside in the countryside.

Low-lying peach trees grew all around. Around the shrine and the peach trees, shimenawa ropes stretched out on all four sides, releasing strong magical power; these ropes were the protective barrier.

Upon arriving here, Kiyoshuin Megumi proactively offered to take the Dragon Slayer Sword, as the Priestess needed to perform a purification ritual. Simply put, this ritual could dispel curses and magic, eliminating supernatural forces that didn't exist. And with a top-tier Priestess like herself wielding the Dragon Slayer Sword, the core of the Western Heaven Palace's barrier, she could even dispel the curse on the Horse Keeper.

However, this arrogant Holy Lord took the initiative to draw his Dragon-Slaying Blade and then swung it downwards.

In an instant, the barrier and the Bi Ma Wen spell shattered, and the suppressed Steel God was now practically free.

Ena Kiyoshuu almost forgot that as the most talented cultivator in history, Luo Hao had reached the pinnacle in every field, including her talent. She naturally possessed the talent of a priestess, and even surpassed that of Yuri Mariya.

The power of the East was broken by Seiya, who was the manifestation of the power of the Sun in the present day. Now, the curse of the Horse Keeper has been broken by Luo Hao. Only the last crucial step remains to awaken the Great Sage Equal to Heaven.

That is the blood of the dragon and snake.

Moreover, ordinary ley line dragons capable of summoning disobedient gods are not qualified; only more sacred beings can do so.

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At this moment, off the coast of California, a luxury cruise ship is entwined by a giant silver serpent. Compared to the colossal ship, which weighs over 150,000 tons, is 300 meters long, and 60 meters high, even the serpent seems less imposing, though its majestic aura remains intact.

However, the beautiful snake's body was already covered in wounds and stained red with a lot of blood.

At this moment, the night sky was covered by thunderclouds, and lightning struck the ground. The thunder hammer did not strike the silver serpent, but the giant ship it had coiled around.

Thunder and roar, flashes and flames. The luxury passenger ship struck by lightning transformed into a peculiar bonfire. Within the flames stood a figure.

"How is this possible?!" Angela, the Queen of Flies, stared at the Saint Seiya before her in disbelief. "I clearly sensed that your body was riddled with holes, how could I be completely powerless to fight back!"

Although he was inferior to the God-Slayer and the God of Disobedience, his opponent was also weakened, so they should have been equals.

But his magic was completely ineffective, and even the summoned divine beasts were easily slaughtered. He hadn't even donned the legendary armor of power; how could he be so easily ravaged?

"Stop talking nonsense. I remember your God Ancestor had a trump card. Use it, or you'll have a hard time even surviving." Seiya stared coldly at the battered Fly King before him.

Angela, the Queen of Flies, gritted her teeth and forced out a ferocious smile.

"What a greedy brat! Is my mere presence not enough? You want to usurp our power? Well then, I'll grant your wish!"

"My head is Enlil, my face is the midday sun!"

The young girl recited sacred verses in a clear and melodious voice.

The sound, as light and alluring as a bell, gave everyone who heard it a chilling, unpleasant feeling.

"The incomparable goddess Ulashu is my guardian! I wear the necklace of the goddess Neliel around my neck!"

The embodiment of youthful beauty, yet her eyes began to turn fierce.

It could be described as a fierce look; her gaze and expression seemed to tear apart everything she saw.

"My hands are the sharp scythes of the shining moon in the west! My ten fingers are willow branches formed from the bones of the revered gods."

The girl took off the red robe she was wearing.

Her bare skin was exposed, her slender body without an ounce of excess fat, and her curves not particularly shapely. But this only enhanced her beauty—like an unripe fruit, a youthful beauty that mature women would never possess.

However, what captured Seiya's attention were the scars etched on the girl's body.

His white skin was covered in burn-like marks on his back, chest, abdomen, waist, legs, and neck, as if it had been stretched by an external force. The red and black marks were all over his body.

However, the sorcerers who had taken up residence in Los Angeles were blown into fireworks one by one, and their life essence was plundered by the sorcerer's mastermind. Then her body underwent a drastic change; the slender, beautiful girl's body disappeared, and she expanded and changed shape.

Her arms contracted, her legs merged into one, her body stretched out, and her neck lengthened as well. Her smooth skin was covered with scales, and her beautiful face transformed into that of a reptile.

Only a few dozen seconds later, Angela transformed into a gigantic snake-like monster.

The rebellious serpent, which swept across the near sea and was over fifty meters long, was roughly the size of a twenty-story building if it stretched out from head to tail. Its scales were a shimmering silver-white, so beautiful that they could only be described as noble and extraordinary.

The rebellious god Angela, who briefly returned, appeared before Seiya.

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P.S.: This idiotic cloud locker sent me that sow's delivery pickup code again. I'm furious.

Chapter 148: The Birth of the Stone Monkey!

Angela, the rebellious serpent, is the mythical counterpart of Leviathan, a sea monster that has appeared in myths around the world since the Old Testament. It also refers to the deity that was transformed by the Mesopotamian goddess Ashera, who regarded it as a beast.

At this moment, Angela broke free from the shackles of the God Ancestor at the cost of giving up her eternal life, returning to her most ancient form as the "Rebellious Serpent." A vast, wild power, filled with the aura of primordial chaos, surged within her, and the authority of the ancient gods roared beneath her scales.

"I am the heavens! Tremble before me! I am the earth! Curse me! My head is Enlil, my face is the midday sun!" Angela—no, the serpent god who should now be called Leviathan—sang the ancient divine words that shook the void.

A very familiar scene appeared before Seiya's eyes, as if history were being reenacted. The serpent god before him was fighting in the same style as the god-king Megal, whom he had once fought, manipulating the light of the heavens and summoning a scimitar shaped like a woman's private parts, drawing an arc of light across the sky.

The scimitar sliced ​​through the god-slaying beast with the smoothness of cutting through the air... no, it did slice through the air, leaving only an afterimage in place. At this moment, that young face was already within reach.

The Pegasus Cloth instantly materialized, and at the same time, an incredibly familiar solar radiance was released from his palm—Pegasus Corona Fist!

Under this radiance of the sun, the serpent god couldn't help but reach out his hand to meet the corona halo that would only bring him destruction.

"The sun... my symbol, the sun! Usurper...!" With a roar, the chest of the Rebellious Serpent was completely pierced by the torrent of the corona! The temperature of tens of millions of degrees exploded from the inside out, and its huge body was like a giant porcelain that was lit from the inside and covered with spider web-like cracks, on the verge of breaking, but still trying in vain to imprison and devour the light.

“I am the heavens. Tremble before me! I am the earth…” On the verge of death, Ashera still struggled to chant the divine words.

After a brief moment of surprise, Seiya showed a look of pity.

"Another crazy earth goddess."

In the earliest Mesopotamian mythology, Ashera was an independent sun goddess, closely associated with the rising sun and dawn. In Akkadian, "Aya" means "dawn," symbolizing new life and hope. She also presided over sorrow and youth, often appearing as the "giver of light," representing the power of the rising sun each day.

As the mythological system evolved, she suffered the same fate as all earth goddesses. In the wave of pantheon standardization and male-dominated pantheons, she was forcibly subjugated, becoming the consort (Kallatu) of the chief sun god (Utu/Shamash). The degradation of her divine status never ceased, until she was ultimately stigmatized as an evil serpent.

If He could devour the sun's radiance, perhaps He could truly reclaim a portion of the ancient sun goddess's authority... but that is an unattainable dream. He will never live to see that day.

--Snapped!

Seiya snapped his fingers.

The next moment, the once radiant sun collapsed, and a vast, dark sun appeared inside the snake's body.

The massive, cracked serpentine body completely disintegrated, transforming into a pitch-black singularity that was frantically collapsing inward—the sun of the underworld! An extremely terrifying gravitational force erupted instantly, like the gaping maw of a glutton, greedily devouring all things around it!

The seawater off the coast of California was drained in the blink of an eye, exposing a grotesque seabed. Terrified crowds surged inland like a tidal wave, knowing that a devastating tsunami was imminent!

However, some idlers did not leave, and nearly a hundred people had gathered here at some point.

However, nearly a hundred figures remained on the coastline. They were the unique guardians of this land—North American superheroes. They held their breath, witnessing the man's fierce battle with the goddess Angela, and the final outcome. Just as their tense nerves relaxed, a voice with a peculiar rhythm rang out:

"Bravo! The Saint Seiya of the Far East, absolutely brilliant!"

It was a person dressed in European court style, wearing a helmet and mask; Seiya had sensed her presence long ago. With her arrival, the people of the city spontaneously began to cheer, "It's John Doe!" "It's Lord Hades!" "I knew he wouldn't die!" "He's risen from the dead, that's why he's Hades!"

The fifth god-slayer, John Pluto Smith, the god of the underworld. She appeared almost immediately after the spatial teleportation, but did not interfere with the battle. She clearly understood the consequences of rashly intervening.

"It seems you enjoy the trust of the people here." Seiya looked around; the reverence and joy on the faces of the survivors and superheroes were genuine. This made him narrow his eyes slightly, recalling a similar scene from another world.

"Whether they trust me or not is not important to me. I just want to get rid of those annoying sorcerers, and in the process, I'll just gain their trust." Hades John pursed his lips.

He had a rather favorable impression of this Saint John Seiya; he could sense that his compatibility with her was probably even higher than his compatibility with Tony. "Oh, I'm sorry, it seems I've stolen your rival."

"It's alright. My goal is simply to eliminate this evil sorcerer who has plagued us for hundreds of years. As long as the result is achieved, that's all that matters." Hades also noticed that Seiya didn't possess the peculiar aura one would expect after usurping divine power. "However, it seems you haven't gained any power either."

There are many instances where the opponent is a heretical serpent on par with a disobedient god, yet the opponent has not gained power.

Firstly, it could be because this is a flawed, heretical serpent. Secondly, it could be because her essence is that of a divine ancestor, not a disobedient god. It could also be because she had previously fought a great battle with herself, and for that adoptive mother (Pandora), this was not a fair battle of god-slaying.

"No, that snake was just a sacrifice." Seiya gazed eastward.

"A sacrifice? What exactly needs to be sacrificed that requires a heretical serpent as a sacrifice?!" Hades was somewhat shocked.

A dragon-serpent manifested from a ley line, with the right ritual, could potentially summon a rebellious god. Even Hades himself doubted the existence of such a being, considering it a sacrifice to a serpent of heresy.

Perhaps there is, there really is, Hades suddenly remembered a god who symbolizes the ultimate.

She vaguely sensed something, and just as she was about to ask, she saw Seiya standing in front of her with his arms crossed. "Excuse me, I have something to attend to. Please excuse me."

Having said that, he transformed into a ray of light and disappeared from sight.

—The Radiant East Palace, the Western Heaven Palace, and the Stables of the Netherworld.

"A dignified hero of China, imprisoned by Japanese pirates and treated like a plaything... This is an unforgivable crime! Knowing of the existence of such scoundrels and yet letting them run rampant is a disgrace to my reputation, Luo Hao! Therefore, I have long awaited this moment of reckoning!" Luo Hao stood alone, his peerless face icy, his phoenix eyes filled with murderous intent, coldly staring at the ordinary stable.

Lu Yinghua stopped flattering him. He shrank back and stood obediently to the side without saying a word.

"Begin, Japanese priestess." Luo Hao's voice was devoid of any emotion, like a decree.

"Morning mist shrouds Mingshipu, islands hidden, boats sailing, thoughts turn to old friends..." A cold, clear incantation rang out. Wanli Guguang, wielding the Dragon-Slaying Blade as her divine body, swung it down in the east, south, west, and north. At this moment, what controlled her stiff body was not her own will, but the ancient incantation hidden deep within the Dragon-Slaying Blade—the binding power originating from the core of the Bi Ma Wen Secret Ritual!

"When a man and a woman of opposite sexes unite, a pregnancy is conceived, initially called a 'human pill.' After ten months of pregnancy, a person is born. Although the fetus has not left my body, one should know about the 'human pill.'"

Using clumsy, digging footwork, he circled around the Monkey God, wielding his sword and chanting.

—The entrance to the corridor connecting the mortal world and the underworld, which was originally a four-cornered hole that was just the right size for a person to pass through, has suddenly become much larger, and even the walls of the stables have grown larger all at once.

Kiyoshuin Ena's pupils contracted sharply. She saw a crimson-black serpent shadow coiled in the distant sky, formed from the essence and resentment of the rebellious serpent, solidifying from nothingness! The next moment, a bloody rain and a stench of blood, imbued with divinity and curses, traversed space and crashed down upon the land of the Western Heaven Palace!

Snap—crack—!

The last, no, the last binding force shattered in response!

The prison that the Bi Ma Wen Secret Ritual had built for five hundred years completely collapsed at this moment!

The ferocity that had been suppressed by the secret ritual of the弼马温 (Bima Wen) for five hundred years was fully unleashed at this moment. Accompanied by a surge of spiritual energy, the earth shook and mountains trembled, and a golden light shot into the sky!

"What was that sound?" Inside the Nikko Mountain Scenic Area hotel, the wealthy patrons, indulging in a life of luxury, were terrified by the violent tremors and the beam of light piercing the night sky. They all turned their heads in one direction. They saw a beam of light piercing the heavens and the earth shooting out from the direction of the Western Heavenly Palace, even illuminating the night sky.

At this moment, they recalled how, during the day, the clergy had stopped everyone and urged them to go home as soon as possible. Only they hadn't taken it seriously. Now, they finally felt a chill of fear; could that earth-shaking roar really be about to cause a cataclysmic event?

That laughter that echoed between heaven and earth—if it were truly a human voice, how oppressive and exhilarating it must have been.

The moment Luo Hao witnessed the soaring golden light, a pure and fervent smile finally blossomed on her peerless face. "Come!" Her aura erupted like a volcano, her robes fluttering even without wind! Her slender hand pressed forward seemingly casually—

Boom!

A colossal golden hand, blotting out the sky and containing supreme Buddhist power, materialized out of thin air and slammed down towards the golden light source with the force to crush mountains and rivers!

But before the giant hand could land, a beam of platinum light pierced the sky and crashed into the Western Heaven Palace.

"You dare, King of Japan!" Luo Hao's furious shout was like a thunderclap!

But what responded to her was a warning from her own mind. Instinctively, she raised the golden Buddha's palm, and a violent surge of atomic lightning swept over her vision.

The continuous atomic lightning clashed with the ever-growing golden torrent. Under Luo Hao's complete power, she glimpsed a ray of light from the future, a sword light that could even tear apart the Secret Vajra.

—Born of death, the holy sword is drawn!

The even more sacred gold tore apart the golden Buddha's palm before them, and the light, carrying its inexhaustible power, cleaved the palace complex behind Luo Hao. Amidst this shattered chaos, a figure stood.

The fusion of movement and stillness is declared here. In the raging tide of this spiral vortex, the golden figure shines like a star on the ground. His posture is so light, but behind him comes a deafening roar of thunder.

The Seventh Godslayer, also rumored to have defeated the ancient demon king Voban and qualified to compete for the title of strongest Godslayer. He is also the second person, after himself, to slay a heretical god with his own strength.

"Under normal circumstances, I might treat you, my junior, with hospitality. But you shouldn't have interfered with my battle with that plague-causing monkey, King of Japan, Seiya."

But Seiya's response to her was only a faint, ambiguous laugh.

With a thought, countless brilliant lights, like an endless stream of celestial meteors, hurtled towards Luo Hao, who considered himself the strongest.

This is a Saint Seiya fighting technique, almost flawless from the perspective of striking first. But what if one could anticipate all of the enemy's attacks? Luo Hao did just that; the moment she opened her mouth, a shockwave turned the area in front of her into a wasteland.

The next moment, she vanished before everyone's eyes. Only Seiya could see the phantom that traversed space; Luo Hao's superhuman speed had reached its pinnacle. Her movements on this land were completely unaffected! In the instant he activated it, she could roam freely in all directions.

—Shrinking Earth Technique: Divine Footwork. This is a movement technique that advanced sorcerers of the Western Continent must learn, but ordinary sorcerers need to spend time, prepare money, and consume a lot of supernatural power to use this technique. However, Luo Hao has mastered it to the point that he can travel to and from all over the world simply by will.

The phantom of the Vajra Guardian, which had been torn apart by the Holy Sword, re-formed before Seiya, glaring angrily! Seiya, however, ignored it and raised his leg to strike to his right.

A deafening shockwave swept across the battlefield as palms and legs collided. Luo Hao, who had appeared there, was forced to strike his right leg with both palms. Her expression changed instantly, despite possessing the immense power of the Vajra Warrior. Her mighty Vajra Warrior technique, capable of moving mountains and filling seas, had failed to completely deflect this overwhelming force! A tearing force pierced through her protective aura and golden armor, striking her directly in the abdomen!