The Human Emperor

Clangclangclang! In a flash, several waves of Sword Qi descended from the sky.

The earth trembled as those mysterious sea creatures collapsed to the ground in chunks.

“There’s something weird about this place. Everyone, seek out the source of the cold wave as quickly as possible so we can take care of it and leave,” the Demonic Emperor Old Man said after taking care of those mysterious creatures.

Everyone solemnly nodded. But just when everyone was about to leave…

Boom!

Those sea creatures that had been sliced into countless pieces by the Demonic Emperor Old Man’s Myriad Spirit Sea Art suddenly began to vibrate on the icy ground.

An enormous torrent of energy surged into these dismantled corpses, and in the blink of an eye, they began to grow and swell.

Roooar!

With frightening roars, new sea creatures grew from the numerous chunks.

In a flash, the number of sea creatures in this icy space had increased tenfold to more than seventy of these beasts.

Moments after appearing, these sea creatures ruthlessly glared at the group.

Roooar!

Before the group could respond, the sea creatures erupted with cold waves of energy and lunged at them.

As these sea creatures lunged, rumble! The passage behind them suddenly closed, an invisible spacetime wall appearing around the entrance.

If one looked carefully, one could see that it was covered in mysterious formations of various sizes, the characters upon them wriggling like tadpoles.

And from the other end of that icy space, there was an enormous boom. At that moment, the intense spacetime pulses seemed to run into some barrier and began to rapidly weaken.

The Wushang Village Chief paled as he shouted, “Not good! The passage entrance is closing!”

They had been able to sense the energy pulses from the cold wave’s origin this entire time, but now, the cold wave’s energy signal was weakening. This meant that the entrance to the cold wave’s energy source was being cut off.

This was definitely not good news for them.

“There’s no time. Leave this place to us and head to the cold wave’s energy source!” Yeon Gaesomun called out as he lunged at one of the sea creatures.

He had never had a very harmonious relationship with Wang Chong, and Goguryeo and the Great Tang were old foes. Since the time of the Sui Dynasty, the two sides had fought several large-scale wars, but at this moment, Yeon Gaesomun made a decision without hesitation.

“Everyone, pay attention. Our goal is to delay these sea creatures as much as possible. You absolutely cannot cut them apart!”

Yeon Gaesomun pulled out two sabers and wrangled with several sea monsters as he urgently called out, “We have to buy as much time for the King of Foreign Lands as we can!”

They did not have the strength to overcome these sea creatures, but they were more than capable of delaying them.

After all, their goal was not to defeat the sea creatures or kill them, but to get rid of the cold wave.

If they could reach this goal, nothing else was important.

“That’s right!” Ozmish Khagan and the Xi Queen voiced their agreement. “King of Foreign Lands, you, the Demonic Emperor Old Man, and the Wushang Village Chief should leave first and leave this place to us!”

Zhangchou Jianqiong also spoke up at this time. “Wang Chong, leave with Senior Demonic Emperor! With me, Yeon Gaesomun, and the others here, there won’t be a problem.”

Though they had regarded each other as enemies, Zhangchou Jianqiong and company couldn’t help but feel some admiration for the sovereigns. Regardless of what else they had done, at this moment, their actions were worthy of admiration.

“Okay!”

Wang Chong mentally weighed the pros and cons before nodding and beginning to swiftly make his way toward the cold wave’s source.

Crack!

As Wang Chong lunged forward, he heard a strange crunching from behind him.

The sea creature statues that Wang Chong had obliterated were coming to life, turning into wriggling piles of flesh that were rapidly expanding.

These sea creatures were far more dangerous than had been imagined. If this were allowed to continue, the number of sea creatures in this icy space would continue to grow.

But Wang Chong didn’t turn around. His current mission was not to kill these sea creatures, but to destroy the source of the cold wave.

Moreover, with the cultivation of Zhangchou Jianqiong and the others, though they couldn’t win, they had more than enough strength to protect themselves.

“Village Chief, follow Chong-er! Let’s go!” the Demonic Emperor Old Man solemnly said, shooting into the air like an eagle as he followed Wang Chong into the ice and snow.

“Okay!”

The Wushang Village Chief swiftly followed, the three of them crossing the space.

The Wushang Village Chief’s judgment had been correct. The moment those sea creature statues had come to life, the powerful formations and seals the Celestial God Organization had placed in this space had all activated.

The three of them quickly reached the other end of the space.

From high in the air, the three could see a massive vortex on the icy ground that was rapidly shrinking.

This was a spatial passage. Once it was closed, no one could enter it unless the Celestial God Organization opened it again.

Moreover, once it closed, the group would be left to face an endless number of unkillable sea monsters.

“Hurry and go in!”

Wang Chong, the Demonic Emperor Old Man, and the Wushang Village Chief instantly plunged into the vortex before it disappeared.

Once Wang Chong and the other two had gone through, they saw that the other end of the passage was packed with men in black. Waiting here were many Divine Lords and Immortals.

The eyes of these men in black glinted with cruelty and savagery. It appeared that they had been waiting here for some time.

The ground was covered in many complicated formations that resonated with the Stellar Energies of these men in black.

When Wang Chong entered, he could clearly feel his Stellar Energy slowing down as it froze.

A half-step Grotto Heaven realm man in black stepped forward and sinisterly chuckled.

“Hmph, finally here! We’ve been waiting for some time.”

As he spoke, the men in black instantly attacked.

Boomboomboom!

All of the men in black unleashed their Stellar Energy, heedlessly barraging Wang Chong’s group with attacks and giving them no space to dodge.

With a massive boom, a spacetime barrier appeared.

The barrage of attacks from the men in black seemed to run into an impregnable wall, and all of them were stopped cold.

As the men in black unleashed their attacks, the Demonic Emperor Old Man and Wushang Village Chief also took action.

“Myriad Spirit Sea Art!”

“Rampant White Dragon!”

Now that the Demonic Emperor Old Man and Wushang Village Chief were half a step from the Grotto Heaven realm, their White Dragon Divine Art and Myriad Spirit Sea Art were on an entirely different level.

Rumble!

Tens of thousands of energy arrows blasted down from the heavens, and in a series of explosions, countless men in black were thrown into the air.

But though their attacks had struck true, the Wushang Village Chief and the Demonic Emperor Old Man frowned.

This attack was far weaker than they had expected.

“It’s the formation’s power! Here, they have the home court advantage.” Wang Chong’s voice rang out in the ears of the Demonic Emperor Old Man and the Wushang Village Chief.

“Haha, a mere three people wishing to intrude on the forbidden ground of gods and devils? Seeking death!”

The men in black who had been just knocked away sinisterly chuckled.

Wang Chong was correct. This truly was their home court, and in the short time it had taken to speak these words, a powerful energy had surged into their bodies.

As Wang Chong, the Demonic Emperor Old Man, and the Wushang Village Chief coldly looked on, the wounds on the men in black rapidly healed.

Both the Wushang Village Chief and the Demonic Emperor Old Man grimaced.

If this continued, then just like in the previous chamber, they would be held down here.

“This isn’t good. They want to delay us and exhaust us here,” the Demonic Emperor Old Man gravely said.

Though there were many men in black here, none of them had reached the Grotto Heaven realm, so they naturally couldn’t threaten them. But these men in black didn’t need to win, only exhaust their strength. Once they went to the next checkpoint where they would face the Supremes, their previous exertions would mean that they would inevitably lose.

So long as they were defeated, everyone else that had come in here with them would die, and buried with them would be the entirety of the human world on the surface.

“Kill them! Anyone who enters this place must die!”

The leading man in black savagely smiled and instantly attacked Wang Chong’s group.

The countless men in black behind him also took on aggressive postures and lunged at the trio.

The Demonic Emperor Old Man and the Wushang Village Chief focused, the Stellar Energy in their body trembling as they prepared to attack. But at this moment, Wang Chong spoke.

“Let me do it!”

His eyes glinting with cold light, he stomped out from behind the Demonic Emperor Old Man and Wushang Village Chief.

A moment later, he reached out with his right hand, and a storm of Psychic Energy erupted from his palm.

Psychic Storm!

This immense Psychic Energy, so concentrated as to be tangible, engulfed the entire area.