Chapter 786 - Unrestrained Heaven (1/2)
The sudden appearance of a devil empress from the Unrestrained Heaven had really thrown the old-timers for a loop, and a lot of discussions were underway.
“She’s a devil empress from the Unrestrained Heaven!?”
“The Unrestrained Heaven is going to join the Dao Defense League?”
“Aren’t they all monsters? Vicious monsters from hell?”
“No, the Unrestrained Heaven is half hell and half immortal world. And they’re not pure monsters. However, when we cultivators achieve breakthroughs, it spawns monsters in the Unrestrained Heaven who take part in our tribulations and try to devilize us. They’re truly terrifying.”
“It looks to me like Devil Empress Wave Charm and Grand Emperor Ragefire Broilheaven already came to some sort of agreement ahead of time. From what I've heard, the lord of the Unrestrained Heaven has a cultivation base no inferior to Grand Emperor Ragefire Broilheaven himself. I wonder why he wants to join our Dao Defense League.”
“They represent the forces of hell, not the forces of immortals.”
“I'm not sure what’s going on, but Grand Emperor Ragefire Broilheaven has his reasons for doing things this way. If the Unrestrained Heaven is in the Dao Defense League, maybe we won’t get attacked by heaven-devils in future breakthroughs. That alone will be a blessing.”
From the look of things, the mysterious Grand Emperor Ragefire Broilheaven had a master plan at work, and the people who had previously been thinking of stepping forward to challenge the devil empress were now having second thoughts.
That said, there were still those who were curious to see exactly how strong she was.
Suddenly, the weeping of ghosts and wailing of gods rose up, along with a powerful aura. An old man appeared, holding a string of prayer beads that appeared to be made from tiny skulls with sharp fangs. It was a terrifying sight. There were a hundred skulls in total, and each of them seemed to contain an entire world of bleached bones.
When this newcomer spoke, it was in the most sinister of voices. “Wave Charm, do you really think a young woman like you should be an emissary of the Dao Defense League, with only one superior and countless subordinates? I think I'm a lot more qualified.”
“Well, if it isn’t Patriarch Hundred-Bones,” Wave Charm replied with a smile. “You, a wretch-devil of a cultivator, want to be the Emissary of Darkness and Gloom? Well, the rules do say that anyone can challenge anyone here, and the winner becomes the emissary. So let’s cut the jibber-jabber and just start fighting.”
Chuckling, she vanished, leaving nothing behind but a rain of black lotus leaves falling down onto the stage.
Patriarch Hundred-Bones hissed and swept his prayer beads out in front of him. The hundred skulls immediately transformed, growing to a huge size. They opened their mouths and unleashed intense, burning flames that contained deathless godliness, instantly melting all of the black lotuses.
Yet Wave Charm was nowhere to be seen.
“Up to some tricks, are we?” he said. Flicking his finger, he unleashed a stream of green flame. “Godly Phosphorescence Pierces the Universe!”
The phosphorescent flame that shot out was something he’d harvested from the corpses of countless devil-gods that were slain by him. Each stream contained the will of such a being that could easily pierce through multiple parallel universes and was virtually impossible to evade. Whether the target was a god or a devil, it would be impossible to flee from such a flame.
As the godly phosphorescent flame shot out, soft laughter rang out and a fair, slender hand appeared, as delicate as a butterfly’s wing. The hand grabbed the flame and crushed it down into an emerald-color ball of fire.
Wave Charm appeared again, the aura of an ancient devil-god erupting from her as a host of heaven-devils appeared behind her, seemingly prepared to exterminate the world of men.