The Human Emperor

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

“You have no idea what you’re refusing!”

The Tianshu Divine Lord’s face turned into a sheet of ice.

“Ants are simply ants. Since that’s the case, I’ll send you on your way!”

Buzz!

As the Tianshu Divine Lord spoke, the skies suddenly darkened, and six stars suddenly appeared overhead. These six stars instantly summoned even more, all of them bright and shining as if they represented all the myriad forms of nature. If one looked carefully, one would realize that they had actually assembled into a formation.

“Seal of Myriad Forms!”

Unlike the Tianfu Divine Lord, the Tianshu Divine Lord did not specialize in frontal assault, but in sealing and severing. By borrowing the power of starlight, he could establish the Heavenly Pivot Formation. As long as he was at the central pivot of this formation, he could place a massive seal on his foe, severing their connection with the world.

This was a supreme skill that the Tianshu Divine Lord used only against the best human experts. Even Subtle real experts would find their strength massively reduced within the seal, even dropping down to the Great General level. But this formation was extremely taxing on his mental energy, so the Tianshu Divine Lord rarely used it.

“Punishment of the Heavenly Pivot!”

(TN: Tianshu means ‘Heavenly Pivot’.)

As he spoke, the Tianshu Divine Lord thrust out his palm. The one hundred and twenty-eight stars above him each shot out a ray of light onto Su Zhengchen. At the same time, massive projections of the six stars of the Southern Dipper took formation and surrounded Su Zhengchen. Their binding was so tight that even space froze as it closed around Su Zhengchen.

Once all this was done, a massive pitch-black hand descended like a lightning bolt and slammed down into Su Zhengchen. Once this palm struck, even if Su Zhengchen had a body of steel, he would still be obliterated.

Mortals were mortals!

Ants were ants!

Anyone who dared to act arrogantly in front of the gods only brought disaster upon themselves! It was now time to pay the price of offending a god.

“Die!”

The Tianshu Divine Lord’s face twisted into a savage visage.

“Too weak!” an elderly voice softly said, but it exploded in the Tianshu Divine Lord’s mind like a ringing bell.

He looked down in alarm in time to see that human shake his hand twice.

Bang!

The fabric of space that had been sealed by the Tianshu Divine Lord was suddenly struck by some massive drill, and the seal instantly splintered like glass.

“How could this be?!”

The Tianshu Divine Lord’s pupils constricted as if he had been sharply jabbed.

His Seal of Myriad Forms could even seal Subtle realm experts, but this human had instantly destroyed it.

And to the Tianshu Divine Lord’s even greater shock, his foe had done this without releasing any powerful ripples of energy. In other words, he had not used his full strength.

“How could a tiny dynasty possess such a powerful warrior?”

The Tianshu Divine Lord was flabbergasted. This man was far more powerful than he had imagined.

“Careful!”

The Tianfu Divine Lord cried out in alarm, and the Tianshu Divine Lord speedily reacted, using the Starlight Step almost the moment the Tianfu Divine Lord warned him and vanishing from his original position.

Bang!

The Tianshu Divine Lord appeared several dozen feet away, but a moment later, time stopped. A vast beam of Sword Qi cleaved through space as it howled toward him.

This one strike blasted through the Tianshu Divine Lord’s body. It had been so fast that not even the Starlight Step could avoid it.

Everything went still. The Tianshu Divine Lord was frozen in the air, staring at the distant Su Zhengchen as strange sounds came out of his mouth.

“Who is he? How is he even more powerful than the gods? No! I can’t die to a mortal ant like this!”

The Tianshu Divine Lord’s body trembled, but before he could say any more, that horrifying Sword Qi exploded in his body.

“Aaaah!” The Tianshu Divine Lord could only scream as Sword Qi erupted from his shoulders, chest, head, ears, and back.

In a terrifying explosion, the Tianshu Divine Lord’s body was instantly rendered into countless thin slivers of flesh, and then it was further sliced until only tiny grains remained to be swept away by the wind.

Shock!

All the soldiers, whether friend or foe, were stunned speechless by this sight.

They had all experienced the power of the Tianshu Divine Lord. Even though he had been struck from behind by Bai Hanzhou, he had remained strong, each palm strike able to wound hundreds of people. No one had been able to stop him.

Even the Lone Silence Ancestor working together with Li Siye was no match for him. But Su Zhengchen, without even moving or using all of his strength, had easily slain the Tianshu Divine Lord and turned his body into dust.

“To think that there would be such a powerful man in the Great Tang…!”

The Lone Silence Ancestor didn’t recognize Su Zhengchen, but this only made him even more shocked.

“This is impossible!”

No one was more shocked than the Tianfu Divine Lord.

The Tianshu Divine Lord was already heavily injured and was ranked at almost the bottom of the Six Stars of the Southern Dipper, specializing more in formations and seals than in combat. But he was still a Divine Lord of the Subtle realm.

The Tianfu Divine Lord had never imagined that the Tianshu Divine Lord would be killed in a single blow! Killed by a mortal!

“Bastard!

“Unforgivable!”

The Tianfu Divine Lord soon regained his senses, his hands clenching and veins bulging from the back of his hand.

No matter where this human had come from or how strong he was, for what he had done to the Tianshu Divine Lord, he could only look forward to death.

This was the first occasion in a very long time that a Divine Lord of the Celestial God Organization had been killed.

“Die!”

The Tianfu Divine Lord extended a palm. Five fingers of black energy that seemed to be made of glass reached out to Su Zhengchen and then began to spin.

Bzzzz! The area within several thousand feet of Chongsheng Gate suddenly became pitch-black. All the burning torches on the wall disappeared into the darkness. They were still burning, but they didn’t release even the smallest ray of light. This place had been turned into a world of absolute darkness.

“What’s going on?”

In the chaos and darkness, everyone panicked and began to back away.

Thud! Thud! Unable to see, they ran into each other. But even though they were so close to each other, they couldn’t see a thing. This was an absolute darkness.

The Power of Darkness!

This was a power that only those few ranked at the very top of the Six Stars of the Southern Dipper could use!

The Southern Dipper only shone at night, and the Power of Darkness was refined with this concept in mind.

In this domain, the senses of martial artists would be greatly weakened, and some weaker martial artists would find their minds affected, grow insane, and die.

But the Power of Darkness was primarily focused on peak martial artists. Once they were immersed in its domain, they would find their senses and Psychic Energy suppressed, thus affecting their judgment.

This was a very high-level energy that not even the Tianfu Divine Lord had completely mastered. But now that the Tianshu Divine Lord was dead, he had no time for such concerns. He had to kill this human no matter what.

Boom!

Once the Power of Darkness had completely engulfed the area, the Tianfu Divine Lord used the Starlight Step to appear behind Su Zhengchen.

While this was the same Starlight Step, the Tianfu Divine Lord was much more skilled in it than the Tianshu Divine Lord. He didn’t release a single ripple of energy in the process, keeping the air as calm and still as a placid lake.

Boom! The Tianfu Divine Lord opened his fingers, releasing dark and destructive energy from his palm.

The moment this black energy appeared, the fabric of space began to shatter like glass, countless cracks appearing upon it. If struck by this energy, even Subtle realm experts would be heavily injured.

Boom!

But just when it seemed like Su Zhengchen was going to die to the Tianfu Divine Lord’s palm…

Su Zhengchen slightly opened his eyes, and without even turning his head, he placed his right hand behind his back and moved his middle and index fingers to block the attack.

Kaboom! The Tianfu Divine Lord’s monstrous energy was like a wave slamming into the cliff. It was blocked completely and unable to advance even a single step.

“!!!”

The Tianfu Divine Lord’s pupils constricted in shock. Compared to his grandiose and boundless attack, Su Zhengchen’s response was relaxed and calm, showing no signs of energy or power. It seemed like a stark contrast, but in reality, no matter how much power the Tianfu Divine Lord poured out, he couldn’t move Su Zhengchen a single inch.

“This is impossible!”

The Tianfu Divine Lord’s expression turned cold, and a moment later, he vanished and appeared elsewhere.

Boom!

A moment later, the Tianfu Divine Lord appeared in front of Su Zhengchen and released a torrent of pitch-black Subtle realm energy.