Chapter 482 — Shocking the Martial Emperor for Ten Thousand Years
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And the Iron-Eating Beast Legion would inevitably be plunged into a bitter fight as well.
Under such circumstances, even if he successfully suppressed Yun An and harvested the Yun An fragment, it might not count as a great victory.
And the reality was that the situation had indeed developed in that direction.
Only... the ultimate direction it took was somewhat different from what the Martial Emperor had analyzed in that instant.
This Yun An... had just said that the three totems it sent out had all been killed?
A lifeform wielding a quasi-divine art? A Starry-Sky Faith God?
The Martial Emperor was certain that Donghuang possessed no such lifeform.
So what exactly was the situation now? He could not make sense of it either.
"What on earth has happened out there?"
In that instant, even the Martial Emperor was mired in confusion.
He watched Yun An with a face utterly devoid of expression.
Surely this fellow was not trying to deceive him.
"Give yourself up." The blood from the wounds across the Martial Emperor's body had been dripping moments ago, tainted by darkness; now the wounds had already clotted shut.
Once his condition had steadied, he recalled the beasts he had left outside and, paying no further heed to anything Yun An said, threw a punch through the air.
"Supreme Martial Overlord Fist!" he roared, and drove a fist through the void at the colossal Yun An.
In an instant the surrounding void and the forces of nature seemed to be drawn in by that fist, converging swiftly upon it—a blow to shake heaven and earth, whose wind alone crushed the mountains all around.
"WUUAAAAAAH!!" Yun An flew into a rage.
It had not wanted to fight the Martial Emperor before; now, at this moment, it wanted to fight him even less.
"You are already a dead man walking. There is no meaning left in fighting you." Yun An looked upon the Martial Emperor the way one looks upon a corpse.
"Your people killed three of my subordinates. So it is hardly unreasonable for you to give a little something in return, is it?"
"That star-faith deity—just compensate me with it!!"
In that moment, furious as Yun An was, it had also abruptly grasped the true nature of the skill that had filled the Black Meteor Yak and the Black Goat with terror.
That creature... that creature's skill... to it, was a supreme nourishment!
The Dragon Star Swarm contained both the power of star-fallen meteors and the power of faith, and Yun An, a meteoric lifeform, was a being that fed upon meteorites.
Yun An decided: though this battle had let Donghuang come out ahead, it absolutely could not be the one to lose out!
That lifeform wielding the power of the stars—it wanted it!
"Secret Art: Corpse-Borrowing Reincarnation!"
It would use the corpses of the Black Goat and the Black Meteor Yak to descend directly upon the place where that starry lifeform stood!
"Hm?" The Martial Emperor was startled as his fist went out.
His punch came roaring down—and it did indeed land upon Yun An.
But at this very moment, Yun An's entire body was also wreathed in a startling radiance.
As though self-destructing, and yet as though being devoured, its body was drawn from within outward into a pocket of other-space, while at the same time an astounding wave of darkness bloomed from it.
It ground against the shockwave of the fist, the two crushing into each other.
"Trying to flee?" The Martial Emperor immediately slipped into the void. BOOM!!!
The violent explosion turned a region tens of thousands of meters across into a zone of fallout.
The earth-shaking shockwave shot straight up into the starry sky.
After a moment, the Martial Emperor's figure slowly surfaced. His brows were knit as he searched for any trace of Yun An.
"This skill—first time I've seen it."
From within his body, the voices of his beasts came swiftly.
"Wu Dong, the skill it just used was very strange—it's gone somewhere far away. Chase it, quick! It means to slip past you and attack the others!!"
"Get to Ji Yunzhong and the rest, fast—they may be in danger."
"I know." The Martial Emperor's brows drew tight, and he flew straight off at speed toward the Donghuang border.
Elemental lifeforms—what he detested most was elemental lifeforms.
This Yun An was far too troublesome, far harder to kill than the demigod tiger he had slain before.
Over there—please, let them be safe.
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On the Iron-Eating Beast Legion's side.
With Chongchong's cooperation, Chi Tong delivered the finishing blows directly to the Black Goat and the Black Meteor Yak.
By striking at their souls, it ended their lives.
Their so-called souls were seized by Chi Tong on the spot and imprisoned in the space of the dead.
This time, Chi Tong had reaped a bountiful harvest.
Its Dead Resurrection skill was a taught skill, and had already reached the mastery of perfection—enough to control totem-level undead.
One Black-Sky Divine Dragon, one black goat, one black yak—that makes three already!
Not to fight with them, and not to spirit-resonate with them either—but to use them as death-substitutes.
With these three household beasts, Chi Tong felt that so long as she replenished her energy in time, she could bear the strain of unleashing the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation three times in succession.
For the moment, Shi Jin was still receiving the stunned gazes of the entire legion.
Ji Li, following at Shi Jin's side, now looked like a smitten fangirl.
Too strong.
Shi Ying's strength had once again shattered her understanding.
Truly as strong as the Martial Emperor.
No—stronger than even the Martial Emperor. Back when the totem war ended, the Martial Emperor had been like this too, slaying totems as though swatting ants.
But at that time, the Martial Emperor had already stepped into Legend.
And the Shi Jin before her eyes was clearly still only Legendary rank.
"He can't really be as young as he looks, can he?" Now that they knew Shi Jin had come through the national conscription, one beastmaster after another in the Iron-Eating Myriad Beasts Legion felt their minds explode.
It felt like a dream.
So the national conscription could actually turn up a beastmaster powerful enough to casually annihilate two totems?
And on top of that, Shi Ying's face was simply too young—they were all the more at a loss as to how to take it in.
"No need to thank me."
At this moment, facing Great General Ji Yunzhong's gratitude, Shi Zhuo smiled faintly.
"If thanks are owed, it will be soon enough to give them after we return..."
"Definitely!" Ji Yunzhong looked toward his daughter. He had no idea where Ji Li had found such a beastmaster, but still...
Ji Yunzhong was shaken within, but there was no doubt that with the exaggerated strength this young man had shown, he was certain to receive the highest honors the Martial Emperor could bestow.
A titled Great General alone was not enough to match Shi Jin's present strength.
What feeling would it be, when he met him...
"Not good—the Martial Emperor!" Ji Yunzhong suddenly started, then whipped his gaze toward Cen Yu.
"Lord Shi Jin, I have a request I hesitate to make. As was said over the communications, our movements have already been exposed—which means His Majesty the Martial Emperor's movements must have been exposed as well."
"If even we came under attack by two totems, then His Majesty's situation is surely even more dangerous."
"It is even highly likely that he will face a personal encirclement and suppression by Yun An!!"
"Yun An is the king of the Fallen Clan, his strength worthy of the name demigod—far stronger than the Eclipsing Skyfanged Tiger that once held the ancient capital. We clashed once with Yun An before, and His Majesty the Martial Emperor nearly lost his life."
"This time, the Fallen Clan—"
He did not know what feeling would come over the Martial Emperor upon seeing this young man...
"Not good—the Martial Emperor!" Ji Yunzhong suddenly started, then whipped his gaze toward Cen Yu.