Chapter 295
Chapter 295
At the words “all living beings,” the hesitation in Chuunibyou’s eyes sharpened into resolve.
Never underestimate him. Back in Insect Academy, he had influenced the entire battle while playing an ordinary person.
Why had Meng Chuan passed over celebrities and insisted on recruiting their lucky star and this delusional young hero?
This was why. With those two around, even the most ordinary scenario could become extraordinary.
And this one also included several people devoted to causing trouble.
The monkey’s arrival instantly broke the balance of the battle beyond the thirty-three heavens.
He hadn’t become a Sage, but his combat strength was no less formidable.
The Demon Progenitor Luo Hou truly didn’t fear the five Sages. With the monkey joining them, however, he began to lose ground steadily.
On the main battlefield, Monk Sha was struggling to withstand the Scorpion Demon’s attacks.
“Hey, hey! Go easy!”
“I’m a villain. Why would I go easy?”
As You Bai spoke, she lashed her whip straight at the English teacher’s head.
The teacher blocked it with the Demon-Subduing Staff and took the opportunity to retreat a step.
“Look, fighting to the death won’t accomplish anything. Why not wait until they settle things up there?”
You Bai hesitated, then nodded. “All right!”
The two supposed mortal enemies obediently stood aside to wait for the battle to end.
By now, everyone understood the final conditions for victory.
Either the Demon Progenitor won and they were killed, or the monkey won and wiped out the fiends.
But neither outcome would affect the two enjoying the show elsewhere.
Su Daji let Qingqing stroke her tails while casting a spell to watch the battle beyond the thirty-three heavens.
Qingqing hugged several tails, her eyes on the monkey in the image. “Has the Demon Progenitor lost?”
“Yes. Unless he has a countermeasure, defeat is certain.”
But as one of the original three thousand gods and fiends, how could he have no tricks left?
The monkey’s staff shattered the Twelfth-Rank Black Lotus and drove straight toward Luo Hou’s face.
The God-Slaying Spear blocked the blow for its master and retreated with him.
“This was meant for Hongjun. I didn’t expect you to disrupt my plans after all.”
A foreboding struck those surrounding him. They all prepared to defend themselves.
Luo Hou could no longer afford to care about anything else.
This era was different from theirs.
Death now meant no hidden means of resurrection.
He had only just awakened. He couldn’t die!
Blackness spread between heaven and earth. A pressure no weaker than Luo Hou’s suddenly descended.
“Destruction of Chaos, my strength has not yet returned to its peak. Why do you summon me?”
“Hongjun cannot emerge. You and I can divide the world between us.”
“Truly?”
“Truly!”
“Then, excellent!”
As the voice faded, time seemed to twist. A figure appeared in an illusory river.
Even Nüwa’s voice trembled slightly. “The River of Time?”
Sect Master Tongtian, controlling the Immortal-Execution Sword Formation, was briefly stunned too.
“Shichen?”
One of the three thousand Chaos Fiends: Shichen, the Fiend of Time!
One Luo Hou was already deadly enough. Now another?
If the Three Realms hadn’t lain behind them, they would have fled long ago.
One Fiend of Strength had split open an entire world. With two fiends here now, how could they win?
Standing off to one side, Chuunibyou grew excited within moments.
This one looked as though he could fight!
“You take that one. This one’s mine!”
Shichen was stunned. Completely stunned.
He, a Chaos Fiend!
He, the embodiment of the Great Dao of Time, had barely appeared before someone hit him with a staff?
More importantly, a fucking monkey had hit him?
Rage flared instantly. Time became a weapon as he attacked Chuunibyou.
For a bunch of veteran schemers, however, combat was only a last resort. Hidden cards were the true means of victory.
After becoming a Sage, Tang Sanzang had stepped off the board and become another schemer, keeping his head down.
He was now hiding in the thirty-three heavens, watching the battle overhead.
Unlike Qingqing, however, he was trying to work out how to solve the problem.
After fighting this long, surely they couldn’t simply concede?
Besides, their lucky star couldn’t shake the feeling that they had overlooked something.
There was no point considering the two in the mortal realm. They weren’t going to fight.
That left only one possibility: Hongjun!
If Luo Hou could discover them, there was no reason Hongjun couldn’t.
Besides, he controlled the current Heavenly Dao!
Their lucky star’s gaze fixed almost instantly on the distant chaos.
With his luck, surely he could stumble onto Purple Firmament Palace by pure chance?
After a brief hesitation, he plunged into the chaos.
There was no light there. He really did simply wander around at random.
The five Sages opposed the Demon Progenitor, while the monkey fought Shichen alone.
Had this kid been born in a cultivation world, he would surely have declared that thirty years east of the river could become thirty years west, and fortunes would turn.
Unfortunately, modern society offered no chance for one man to become that sort of hero.
Still, Chuunibyou had genuinely stunned everyone.
The five Sages had to work together to contend with one fiend.
He, one monkey with one staff, had battered Shichen into bewilderment.
Fighting required talent. Even with his tremendous power, their lucky star couldn’t have beaten any of the Sages.
Much less a fiend who had survived since antiquity.
Shichen controlled time. He could restore himself to his state a few minutes earlier.
That was how he had withstood the surge of energy when Pangu split heaven and earth.
But as far as Chuunibyou was concerned, so long as he wasn’t killed instantly, he still had the strength to fight back.
Shichen could indeed return to his earlier state, but repeated use carried a backlash.
In plain terms, it had a cooldown!
Chuunibyou saw through it within moments. So he could return to a few minutes earlier.
But was his condition then necessarily better than it was now?
The battle seemed to have reached a stalemate. Seemed was the key word.
They had played all their hidden cards. Luo Hou still had more!
“Yangmei, if you have time to watch, why not help me?”
Hongjun came before Heaven; I came a thousand years before Hongjun.
The Fiend of Space: Yangmei!
“It’s rare to see Shichen beaten by a monkey. I wanted to watch a little longer!”
Another fiend!
The five Sages sank into utter despair. They could almost see the Three Realms’ destruction.
Shichen seemed deeply offended by the subject of being beaten by a monkey.
“Stop fucking talking and help me!”
With time and space united, Chuunibyou’s expression finally changed.
But miracles were usually things one created.
Besides, this wasn’t his first attempt at mutual destruction.
Before the five Sages could choose a dignified way to die, the monkey’s body suddenly swelled.
Shichen went silent.
So did Yangmei.
And Luo Hou.
And all five Sages.
“Don’t! I’m leaving! Stop!”
Yangmei spoke at lightning speed, but nothing could stop the monkey now.
Yes. Chuunibyou was going to self-destruct!
He had made the decision almost the instant he saw Yangmei.
Violent energy enveloped both fiends.
“A hero always pays a price!”
His words faded into an earth-shaking explosion that swept across almost everything beyond the thirty-three heavens.
Even in the chaos, their lucky star felt it.
Holy shit. Had the kid pulled another mutual-destruction stunt?
The earlier scene was still fresh in his mind. Nothing the kid did could surprise him.
Silence fell. Everyone powerful enough to see turned toward the space beyond the thirty-three heavens.
The battle had to have an outcome now.
Shichen’s voice was the first to sound.
He had used his temporal power repeatedly and suffered the backlash.
But he had survived.
As for Yangmei?
Even his ashes had been scattered!
Nüwa sighed and gave up resisting.
One and a half fiends. Even at their peak, they couldn’t beat that.
Better to surrender early and live.
Meanwhile, in Purple Firmament Palace, their lucky star studied the old man before him curiously.
“Are you really not going to help them?”
“I will. But first, I need to know why you have come here.”
After a moment’s silence, he answered, “We belong to different factions. It only ends when one side is completely dead.”
“I see.”
Hongjun waved one hand, and the two appeared beyond the thirty-three heavens in an instant.
“Teacher!”
“Teacher!”
“Dao Progenitor!”
Cries of surprise rang around them. Hongjun merely nodded.
“Withdraw. Return to your chaos.”
The pressure of heaven and earth bore down on Shichen and Luo Hou. They exchanged a look, then quietly retreated into the chaos.
They couldn’t win. There was no fighting him.
But as long as they stopped acting, the old bastard couldn’t do anything to them either.
All were among the three thousand fiends. They knew each other well.
With the Dao Progenitor’s appearance, the great calamity subsided.
After casually crushing a few troublesome ants, his voice rang in Qingqing’s and Su Daji’s ears.
“Little fox. Visitor from another world. Shouldn’t you inform the host before running wild in his domain?”
Su Daji trembled all over.
This was the Dao Progenitor!
If he held them responsible now, they were finished!
Still smiling, Qingqing took her hand.
“Come on. I’ll keep you safe.”
“Hm?”
“Don’t worry. It’ll be fine!”
Qingqing’s confident expression eased Su Daji’s fears a little.
The view blurred. Su Daji used her magic to bring Qingqing beyond the thirty-three heavens.
Apart from the monkey who had blown himself up, everyone was gathered there.
Even the Dao Progenitor, whose emotions scarcely stirred anymore, felt his teeth ache at the sight of Qingqing and Li Yang.
Li Yang needed no explanation. Every disturbance had started with him.
Without his meddling, the calamity would never have become so severe.
As for Qingqing, the Dao Progenitor studied her closely.
Yes. An ordinary mortal, yet she had stirred up the Three Realms and nearly destroyed the world.
“How should I punish you?”
Qingqing hugged Su Daji’s tails, smiling broadly.
“You won’t. You can’t. You don’t dare.”
The Dao Progenitor frowned. He wanted to know why this mortal was so certain he wouldn’t act.
Then Qingqing took out a crystal-clear pearl.
“So the Dao Progenitor will definitely help me kill everyone and recognize Little Su’s status as a Sage while he’s at it, right?”
At the sight of the pearl, he turned his head.
“As you say.”
He backed down. He had to.
That pearl was the core controlling the array. One move would make it explode.
The array had absorbed the powers of demons, fiends, and Buddhists. Not even he could stop it.
When the Dao Progenitor acted, no one could resist. They all became wisps of smoke.
Qingqing smiled at the word that appeared before her: Victory.
“Little Su, take good care of your tails. Let me pet them again next time I come!”
As she spoke, she placed the pearl in Su Daji’s hand. Then Qingqing vanished.