The Human Emperor

How could this be? Am I really going to die here?

Wang Chong raised his head, his face deathly pale.

Not since he had stepped into the Subtle realm had he encountered an opponent like this. He had done all he could, but this Tianfu Divine Lord was far stronger than he had imagined. That palm was getting closer and closer, and Wang Chong was bereft of any method to resist.

At this moment…

Buzz!

With no warning at all, a voice boomed in Wang Chong’s mind.

“Special Event! A unique law energy has been discovered in user’s body!”

Before Wang Chong could react, his mind rumbled, and the long-dormant Stone of Destiny erupted with an unprecedented pull that instantly engulfed Wang Chong’s body. It began to devour the Tianfu Divine Lord’s Southern Dipper energy, inexorably pulling all of it into the Stone of Destiny.

“Congratulations to user! ‘Seed’ unlocking 1%, 2%…”

How could this be?!

Wang Chong was stunned, his eyes flying open. The analysis on the ‘Seed’ had been finished long ago, but actually unlocking the seed required an astronomical one million points of Destiny Energy. For Wang Chong, this would normally take ages to accumulate. After all, the two major wars, the war of the southwest and the Battle of Talas, were both over.

Wang Chong had never imagined that while he had previously been worried about how to obtain this immense amount of Destiny Energy, he would make this sort of unexpected discovery.

This Tianfu Divine Lord’s power can be a substitute for Destiny Energy?!

Wang Chong’s mind was seething in shock.

With no time to think, whoosh! Wang Chong lunged away, as light as a leaf and as quick as a ghost, appearing several hundred feet away. At the same time, boom! The palm slammed down into Wang Chong’s former position, sending dust soaring into the air and leaving a pit four hundred feet deep.

Next to the pit stood a flabbergasted figure.

“He actually dodged my strike! How?”

The Tianfu Divine Lord stared at the empty pit and then the distant Wang Chong, shock in his eyes for the first time.

The eleven Southern Dipper Star Awls and his three palm strikes infused with Southern Dipper energy had all struck true. Logically speaking, the Child of Destruction’s dantian and Zifu point, the two largest sources of energy, should have been sealed, and he shouldn’t have even been able to move. How could he have dodged under these circumstances?

But Wang Chong had dodged.

Impossible! A puny human emerged from my three palms unharmed?!

The Tianfu Divine Lord’s mind was raging.

It wasn’t merely the Tianfu Divine Lord. The other men in black were astonished as well.

“The Divine Lord’s attack missed!”

Shock was written all across their faces, and the black-robed monk was also stricken with disbelief. He had followed the Divine Lord for an extremely long time and knew that his power was more than mortals could imagine. His existence itself was a myth.

Over the thousands of years, many individuals had appeared, some of them even stronger than the Child of Destruction, even traitors of the organization, but none of them had been able to move after being struck by the eleven Southern Dipper Star Awls and the Three God-Shattering Palms.

And certainly no one had been able to dodge one of the Divine Lord’s attacks in this situation!

Once the Divine Lord had a target, he would never let them escape. There were no exceptions.

Bang!

The Tianfu Divine Lord disappeared in a flash of light.

“There is no mortal in this world that I cannot kill!”

The Tianfu Divine Lord’s expression was ice-cold.

“Not good!”

As the Tianfu Divine Lord began to move, Wang Chong grimaced. Given how long this battle had gone on, Wang Chong would have been able to determine the fighting style and weakness of any other opponent.

But no matter how Wang Chong calculated and experimented, even when he pushed his Psychic Energy and Stellar Energy to their limits, he couldn’t avoid the attacks, let alone determine the fighting style.

Bang!

Wang Chong used the Greater Void Step to fade into the void while also trying his best to move to the right, but he still failed to dodge. Boom! The sky seemed to tear apart as Wang Chong suddenly emerged from the void seven meters from his original position. The Tianfu Divine Lord’s palm slammed into his chest, causing him to vomit blood as he hurtled through the air.

“Too powerful!”

Countless thoughts ran through his mind in the moment before he rammed into the earth and slid along the ground, leaving a furrow two meters long in his wake. This was terminated by a crash into a scholar tree some twenty meters in height, which caused the tree to explode in a shower of wooden chips.

Dust surged through the King of Foreign Lands Residence while the explosive shockwave tossed roof tiles into the air.

To prevent any mistakes, the Tianfu Divine Lord had put even more power into this attack.

“Die for me!”

The Tianfu Divine Lord reemerged seven meters above the ground, his eyes as sharp as swords as he stared at the place where Wang Chong had fallen. All of Wang Chong’s meridians should have been shattered with this blow, Southern Dipper energy seeping into all his cells and rendering him motionless.

The Southern Dipper Undercurrent!

This was one of the Tianfu Divine Lord’s strongest abilities, and no one in the last one thousand years had been able to resist this blow. The Tianfu Divine Lord would not use this lightly, and in using it on Wang Chong, he had made his rage plain to see.

Hwooo! Winds swept across a silent scene.

The Tianfu Divine Lord stared at the center of the explosion, where dust was still rising into the air. The other men in black were also watching expectantly.

However…

Cough, cough…

A light coughing could be heard, and a figure began to slowly get up from the dust. Although their features were obscured by the dust, one could see from the outlines that this was the ‘Child of Destruction’.

Whoooah!

The men in black cried out in shock and disbelief.

“This is impossible!”

The Tianfu Divine Lord’s body trembled as his eyes widened in disbelief.

A fourth palm!

This had been his fourth palm strike, and it had contained some of his true power, but Wang Chong appeared entirely unharmed. Not even stronger existences than Wang Chong could take a direct strike from his palm and get up so quickly, and he was even coughing.

That he could cough meant that his injuries weren’t serious!

“What is going on here?”

The Tianfu Divine Lord’s mind was shaken. For the first time, he could find no explanation for what was happening

Cough! “Tianfu Divine Lord, although I’ve never liked your Celestial God Organization, I have to admit that its strength can’t be underestimated. But, a Divine Lord like you… doesn’t seem to be that strong!”

Wang Chong’s body swayed as he slowly emerged from the dust.

His clothes were in tatters, revealing the skin beneath, and his body was covered in bloody wounds. But in comparison to his tattered body, Wang Chong’s eyes were shining bright.

To think that his energy can really be absorbed by the ‘Seed’, saving me so much Destiny Energy…!

Wang Chong’s injuries were bad, but he was finding it hard to suppress his excitement. Although he didn’t quite understand what was going on, he was certain that the Tianfu Divine Lord’s power was exactly what the seed required. The mysterious seed that the Origin Immortal Lord had left him was now 10% unlocked after absorbing that additional palm from the Tianfu Divine Lord. Wang Chong had never expected this.

In other words, Wang Chong had saved himself one hundred thousand points of Destiny Energy.

And this had only been from two attacks! Only a few seconds had passed. This method of ‘making money’ seemed a little too fast, and Wang Chong couldn’t help but want to take a few more!

“Seeking death!”

The Tianfu Divine Lord’s thought processes were much simpler. His eyes chilled and his anger exploded. Boom! The Tianfu Divine Lord vanished as he pushed his movement technique to the absolute limit.

Whoosh!

Four Tianfu Divine Lords appeared to his left, right, front, and back, their expressions identically cold and dreadful. Before Wang Chong could react, they all charged forward.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Four fair and slender palms imbued with destructive energy struck four different locations on Wang Chong’s body. A strike from even an ordinary martial artist to one of these points could heavily injure or kill, much less one from a powerhouse like the Tianfu Divine Lord.

But the final result…

Rumble!

The earth trembled, the ground beneath Wang Chong cracking like a roasted turtle shell and sinking eight or nine feet. Wang Chong’s hairband snapped apart, sending his hair into disarray, and his clothes were shredded, but the man himself was completely! Un! Harmed!

“!!!”

“This can’t be!”

The Tianfu Divine Lord’s eyes flew open as he let out a heaven-rending howl!