Star Gate

The familiar voice and face momentarily jerked Li Hao out of his murderous rage. A tremendous explosion sounded like a clap of thunder, prompting a mouthful of blood from the young man! It was like his mind intent had detonated!

A large mallet had appeared in Orange Moon’s hands—the mallet of the Hongs!

A surge of mental killing intent flared from the weapon. It only needed to swing through the air to destroy Li Hao’s mental strength!

“Ah Hao,” ’Zhang Yuan’ smiled. “The eight families should be one. Only when we are one are we the true eight families. Come join me!”

Li Hao opened his eyes and looked straight ahead of him.

“You… are not Little Yuan!” He smiled and shook his head with some regret and pity. “But thank you for letting me see you again.”

It was a contradictory statement. A longsword smashed through the void and stabbed forward. Supernatural abilities blazed as characters vanished, then reappeared.

KABOOM!

An explosion rang through heaven and earth as Stellaris and the mallet of the Hongs collided. Strong aftershocks rippled in all directions and shook even the plant spirits battling in the air! Li Hao vanished like a gust of wind—the Windchaser Boots!

“Ying Hongyue, you used the lingering mental strength of my friend to create a scarlet shadow puppet! I’ll kill you, I will! Just you wait!” Li Hao howled at the skies. He could tell what this was—a scarlet shadow!

It was a scarlet shadow so strong that it possessed its own consciousness. Who knew how many people it’d devoured? Ying Hongyue must have retrieved all of the scarlet shadows that he’d deployed. He’d killed all of his people who carried a scarlet shadow on them!

The scarlet shadow that Li Hao faced was exceedingly strong and knew the secret arts of martial dao since it possessed Orange Moon. When Li Hao approached it with his sword, it brought down the mallet like it was separating the earth from the sky!

This was Ying Hongyue’s trump card for this expedition and why everyone thought that Orange Moon was dangerous. All of his scarlet shadows were concentrated on her and she wielded one of the weapons of the eight families. Her battle strength was almost a six element Arcanus!

Not even the little tree would be able to easily defeat a foe of this level. After all, it was just a replica and core origin was an exhaustible resource. So long as the scarlet shadow could sustain itself longer than the little tree, that would make it difficult for the little tree to triumph. Not to mention, that would create an opening for the remaining four plant spirits to strike back.

Hong Yitang and the rest chose this moment to strike!

BOOM!

Hong Yitang’s sword swept through the void, spinning the world in the eyes of Qian Wanhao and his people. When they shook their heads clear, they were surrounded by Li Hao’s three companions!

Hou Xiaochen flared his presence and even showed signs of briefly eclipsing Sky Sword. Supernatural energy undulated around him as he threatened to rip through the void with a spear jab!

It was like they’d returned to the battle of the North Sea. Earthturner Sword drew a circle with his sword and focused on defense.

“Earth aura!” Another stroke turned the ground into a wall that surrounded everyone. The Broken Will Spear and Sky Sword erupted against their foes!

KABOOM!

Heaven and earth split apart!

“Kill!!” Qian Wanhao howled with disbelief. A four element Arcanus such as he would be nearly invincible on the ground, but here, even plant spirits were stronger than him.

Li Hao was stronger than him, Orange Moon was stronger, and even Earthturner Sword was stronger. Hou Xiaochen seemed to have also thrown all caution to the wind as his Broken Will Spear contained massive traces of mysterious power. He seemed to be taking a page from the books of Li Hao and the rest and unsealing himself with careless abandon.

Qian Wanhao was a four element Arcanus! But he was completely hemmed in! Next to him, golden light sparkled over the lord of Buddha Mountain as he shouted angrily and blocked Sky Sword with a punch.

The Fortune King was as if an envoy from hell. He seemed to summon countless ghosts into the world with a wave of his hand. All of them charged the three, but Hong Yitang swept them aside with a single sword stroke and evaporated them all!

They were only three, but they fought as if an army of thousands!

Sky Sword’s broadsword swung ponderously through the air, blazing with resplendent radiance and following each stroke with another stroke. But just as he found Li Hao lacking back in the day, it was Hong Yitang who dismissed him today.

“Brother Sky Sword, you… lack battle strength!”

Sky Sword’s expression was remote as he remained expressionless. Hong Yitang leveraged his immense battle strength to imprison and be on guard against their opponents. Sky Sword and Hou Xiaochen were in charge of offense. Hou Xiaochen was engaged with Qian Wanhao, Sky Sword focused on the rest. But at the moment, just the lord of Buddha Mountain was sufficient to block his sword!

This was unacceptable to the proud Sky Sword. While Li Hao had said to stop the rest, his comrades intended to kill them! Not only were they going to eliminate the attackers, but they were going to help the little tree and Li Hao. That was why they fought, not merely to just impede strong foes. That did not fit who they were!

Sky Sword glowered darkly and flicked a glance at Hong Yitang. “Screw your defense!” He was so incensed that he departed from his usual composed, genteel demeanor. Since when did Silver Moon martial masters focus on defense??

Hong Yitang caught his drift and smiled, swinging his sword through the air. “Earth shakes!”

“Sky turns!” Sky Sword howled with rage.

BOOM!

The heavens and skies truly overturned in this moment. The Broken Will Spear ripped through the firmament, accompanied by coughs. This seemed to be Sickly’s usual condition. He reaped a life every time he took action, but his moves always came with coughing. Hence, he was called Sickly.

The three had almost never fought together before, but the world shook itself upside down and mental strength ruptured on this rare occasion of coordination.

“AHHH!!” Ghastly shrieks resounded as the weaker ones among the attackers felt their minds ripped apart. They didn’t have time to react before two rays of sword intent pierced through everything!

The vice ministers on the expedition stared incredulously at the floor before falling apart as chunks of bloody flesh.

Dead! In the face of a strong combined offensive, all of the vice ministers were obliterated by the sky and earth turning swords!

Bloody marks streaked down Qian Wanhao’s face as he gaped with shock and incomprehension. He spat out a mouthful of blood, summoning a large character.

“Suppress!” A domineering aura manifested with his shout, as if it would suppress everything beneath the heavens. His actions were copied by the other three ministers, but they sent their blood into the massive character already on the scene instead of coalescing their own.

Suppress!

This was an ancient heritage, the strongest of Tranquil Star’s ultimate arts. It could suppress all enemies!

However, they were no longer the powerhouses of yesteryear, and this was no longer an age of core origin. Hong Yitang grunted dismissively when the character appeared and materialized his own ‘sword’ character. It erupted with scintillating radiance, bringing forth the thunder, fire, earth, and metal attributes.

Not only that, but countless drops of Water of Life exploded within Hong Yitang’s body. A new wood intent wafted out.

“Five elements…” Qian Wanhao’s eyes widened with dismay.

Boom!

The sword character ripped through the void, shredding the ‘suppress’ character! Its annihilation inflicted grave wounds on the four ministers. The Broken Will Spear tore through the void as a flaming phoenix emerged. It was so fast that it seemed to spontaneously pulverize something!

The Fortune King was in the middle of summoning and plotting his next moves when the look in his eyes dimmed. He raised his head with effort and looked at the quiet fellow who hadn’t said a single word. His lips parted.

Why me? It’s the four ministers stopping you guys right now and I’m hiding in the back. Why choose me?

Hou Xiaochen coughed, the sound like a peal of death. He smiled faintly and gripped his spear more tightly, the will of the Broken Will Spear burning fiercely on it. Fire and metal energy exploded from his body with an air of cool composure.

“You’ve killed too much and have an atmosphere of death around you. The Broken Will Spear naturally seeks out those who have blood on their hands!” he explained. It’s not that I wanted to kill you, but my spear wanted to kill you!

“Hup!” Qian Wanhao grunted and punched back the ‘sword’ character. Though he was covered in blood, he led the three ministers, those from the City of Supernaturals, and the lord of Buddha Mountain in swift retreat. “Withdraw! We’ll take shelter in the buildings first!”

He whirled around and ran!

Although their side held the overwhelming advantage in numbers, they couldn’t even contend against the three in front of them, much less Li Hao and the little tree! He was a four element Arcanus reinforced by many three elements, but many of them were dead in the blink of an eye!

Too strong!

Sky Sword, Earthturner Sword, and Sickly alone were sufficient to rebuff them. This was unfathomable, yet also so real.

……

At this moment.

A tremendous boom sounded from behind as sword intent billowed down from the skies, accompanied by a surge of killing intent. A muffled grunt sounded—Orange Moon steadily retreated, blood flowing from multiple injuries.

The mallet of the Hongs in her hand glowed faintly, but it seemed to have been damaged. Cracks covered its surface; the scarlet shadow emanated a faint red hue to swiftly repair it. This was the bloodline of the Hongs wielding the mallet of the Hongs!

Li Hao advanced with Stellaris in hand.

“The sword of the Lis… restricts us?” ‘Zhang Yuan’ murmured incredulously. Indeed, the daunting scarlet shadow was repressed again and again when faced with the sword of the Lis. Even the mallet of the Hongs seemed afraid of Stellaris. Its offensive was shattered repeatedly when brought up to attack.

etvolare’s Thoughts

That’s still pretty sick (in the gross sense) that YHY can use everyone he killed before. I wonder if that means they can be revived though?