The Human Emperor c1-2382

by Huangfu Qi (皇甫奇)

  But unlike the Ifrit, Khatabah simply paled. While his aura was wounded, his injuries were far less severe than the Ifrit’s.

  After all, the Ifrit had no physical body. Its strongest trait was also its greatest weakness.

  But Khatabah was different. He had a hardy soul, and his pious belief made for a firm resolve. The fusion of soul and body additionally formed the strongest defense against purely mental attacks.

  Buzz!

  The mental attack crumbled. The Nightmare Beast’s attack on Khatabah was not even seventy percent as effective as it was on the Ifrit.

  At this moment, even the Nightmare Beast developed an immense fear of Khatabah.

  But Wang Chong could not concern himself with such things. As the Nightmare Beast was holding back Khatabah, Wang Chong clenched the Origin Immortal Sword with his right hand—though perhaps it now needed to be called the Xuanyuan Sword.

  He then made a small cut on his finger, drew out a trickle of heart blood, and inserted it into the Origin Immortal Sword.

  The fingers were connected to the heart, making this the best and fastest method to obtain heart blood.

  Once this was done, Wang Chong activated a hidden ability of the Xuanyuan Sword.

  Buzz!

  The Xuanyuan Sword’s surface flashed with a bloody light, and then a powerful pull erupted from the blade.

  Wang Chong’s boundless Psychic Energy and a part of his soul were immediately pulled into the sword.

  Rumble!

  The Xuanyuan Sword fiercely shuddered, and as owner fused with sword, their energies soared. Dark clouds began to roll in, and a dark figure began to manifest behind Wang Chong.

  This figure was one thousand feet tall and wore a high crown and wide belt. Although it was merely a thin shadow, one could feel an aura of majesty and solemnity from its crown, an aura of a sovereign who received the reverence of all of humanity.

  At this moment, all beings in the world bowed to ‘him’!

  The Origin Immortal Sword, the Xuanyuan Sword, finally revealed a hint of the power of humanity that it contained.

  At this moment, Wang Chong felt like his soul had gone several thousand years back in time, fusing together with that ‘first ancestor of humanity’.

  Human Emperor Xuanyuan!

  The progenitor of the culture of the Central Plains and the ancestor of all sovereigns!

  The dark figure created by the Xuanyuan Sword was none other than the Nightmare Beast’s previous master, Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan!

  Buzz!

  Upon sensing this energy, the World-Destroying Ifrit grimaced.

  “What is that?!”

  The Ifrit anxiously cried out, sensing intense danger from that figure behind Wang Chong. Rumble! Not even waiting for Wang Chong to attack, it sundered open the earth, sending countless gouts of blazing hot lava gushing out and shooting toward Wang Chong in the sky like sharp swords.

  At the same time, the Ifrit opened its mouth and roared. A pillar of lava wreathed in flames exceeding two hundred thousand degrees shot out of its mouth toward Wang Chong.

  And in order to prevent Wang Chong from escaping, it created numerous whips that moved at speeds that the eye could not catch. They sliced through the air and surrounded Wang Chong.

  The Ifrit had forgotten about all of its injuries. It was obvious that Wang Chong’s sacred sword had made it feel an unprecedented danger.

  “Khatabah, help me kill him!” the Ifrit cried out.

  “Too late!”

  Wang Chong’s fingers clenched around the sword, his face ice-cold. With his heart blood and a part of his soul as the payment, Wang Chong had finally activated the sealed strength of the Xuanyuan Sword. As he grasped the sword, he felt an unprecedented power.

  This power transcended space and time, gathering together all the power of the Central Plains, and the power of the righteous path that had been accumulating for hundreds, thousands of years!

  This was the power of humanity! The power of emperors!

  Boom!

  Just as the Ifrit began to attack, Wang Chong poured his Psychic Energy and the Nightmare Beast’s power into the Xuanyuan Sword. Rumble! A bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, and time and space seemed to freeze.

  The world suddenly darkened, and then the image of a sword, as massive as a pillar of heaven, erupted from Wang Chong’s hand. It crossed a distance of more than seven thousand feet in an instant and pierced through the Ifrit’s body.

  “Aaaaaah!”

  This massive sword formed purely of shadows, giving off no ripples of energy, pierced through the Ifrit, and the Ifrit seemed to suffer the world’s most terrifying attack, letting out a shriek of pure misery.

  This one attack had left an indelible wound on the Ifrit.

  Boomboomboom!

  Those gouts of lava, whips, and flames headed toward Wang Chong all collapsed, and even the high-temperature flames on the Ifrit’s body explosively dispersed. Even the waves of heat that had covered the battlefield were halved.

  The world instantly became comparatively cool and refreshing.

  Everyone instantly knew that the Ifrit had truly been severely wounded!

  “Noooo!”

  Khatabah’s eyes went wide, and he gnashed his teeth and roared in extreme fury. He had the Ifrit Core in his hand, so he understood its condition more than anyone else.

  The moment Wang Chong’s gigantic shadow sword pierced through the Ifrit, he sensed the spherical mental barrier around the Ifrit’s mind completely collapsing. The Ifrit’s origin had been badly damaged and disordered, causing it to fall from its peak level.

  The Ifrit was a legendary being said to be unkillable, a monster out of the myths of Arabia. No one was able to kill it!

  By controlling it, one could control the world!

  Why was it that there was something like this in the eastern world?

  Why was there something that could counter the Ifrit?

  There was nothing about this in the records of the Arabian Empire, not even in the records of that ancient civilization found in the well in Hamuhad!

  Khatabah felt an unprecedented shock and an irrepressible anger and killing intent!

  No one was allowed to treat his Ifrit like this!

  In this world, no one except him was permitted to possess the means to counter and deal with the Ifrit! One Ifrit Core was more than enough!

  All of the east, and all of the Great Tang, needed to be totally destroyed!

  Nobody could stop him from unifying the entire world!

  Clang!

  His face pale, Khatabah suddenly waved his hand, upon which the Moon God Tree broke free of Lucis’s grip, rose out of the earth, and shot forward in a dark streak across the sky into Khatabah’s hand.

  “Tang, you will pay a price for your deeds! When Arabia wins this battle, I will turn all of the Central Plains into a scorched husk! This is the price for opposing me!”

  Khatabah’s face became blurry and indistinct, but his cruel voice rang out as clearly as a bell.

  The Ifrit could not lose! Nor could it die!

  In order to counteract his enemy’s powers, there was only one method left!

  “Ifrit, get close to me so that we can fuse! Once we fuse together, we’ll destroy the eastern world!”

  The cold voice resounded through the world.

  A hazy white light began to radiate from Khatabah’s body, while the Moon God Tree and Moon God’s Forbidden Ring began to exude black energy. This darkness began to resonate with Khatabah’s white light and the Ifrit Core.

  “Not good! Master, stop it!” the Nightmare Beast yelled into Wang Chong’s mind. Even the Nightmare Beast felt an enormous danger at this time. Khatabah, the Ifrit Core, the ancient moon god, the Ifrit… not even the Nightmare Beast knew what would happen when all these things began to resonate with each other.

  But there was no doubt that it was bad for the Great Tang!

  The situation was dire!

  Ban
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  Space shuddered as Wang Chong gripped the sword, the massive dark figure behind him mimicking his actions. A moment later, a massive shadow sword slashed once more at the Ifrit.

  The Xuanyuan Sword could attack one’s origin, and it was extremely effective against creatures like the Ifrit that were born from the world’s laws. Just a few slashes paired with the Nightmare Beast’s abilities would be enough to kill the Ifrit.

  But Wang Chong’s reaction, while fast, was a step too slow!

  Roooar!

  With a thunderous roar, the Ifrit gave up on Wang Chong and lunged in Khatabah’s direction.

  The Ifrit was arrogant!

  As a creature that had lived since ancient times, the Ifrit had power beyond the mortal ken. Humans in its eyes were nothing but ants, so even though it was intelligent, it did not speak.

  Not out of inability, but disdain!

  But at this moment, this ancient creature also felt a deep fear and unease.

  Before Wang Chong, it experienced an intense and long-lost fear!

  Chapter 1895 - Fusion! The Black Flame Ifrit!

  Chapter 1895: Fusion! The Black Flame Ifrit!

  Translated by: Hypersheep325

  Edited by: Michyrr

  Wang Chong’s sword had slashed away the Ifrit’s pride and obliterated its confidence! Even an Ifrit would fear death!

  “Khatabah, let’s fuse! Destroy the Nightmare Beast and this human, and I will agree to help you crush the east and forever regard you as king!”

  The Ifrit’s panicked bellow echoed across the skies.

  The Ifrit Core was an object it had agreed to create as part of the terms of its agreement with those powerful Psychic Energy practitioners of the ancient era, and it had also been the one to create the fusion method, but the Ifrit was also unimaginably proud.

  Deep within its heart, it would never be willing to fuse with a creature it regarded as an ant.

  But it no longer had a choice!

  Fear!

  That young man floating in the air was reflected in its golden eyes… It had never imagined that it would be afraid of a human.

  That human… that terrifying human! As long as he was killed and that sacred sword destroyed, it did not care what price it had to pay, what dignity it had to sacrifice.

  Boom!

  As Wang Chong unleashed the power of the sacred sword, the Ifrit’s massive body shot toward Khatabah in a streak of flame. At the same time, Khatabah exploded with light and flew with the Moon God Tree, Ifrit Core, and Moon God Ring into the Ifrit’s body.

  “Ah!”

  Time seemed to stop, and a moment later, Khatabah and the Ifrit raised their heads to the sky and gave inhuman howls of pain. In a flash, Khatabah’s energy vanished, and the Ifrit’s aura also substantially changed.

  Rumble!

  Dark clouds converged on all sides, and in the air, a massive black tree manifested. At the top of this black tree floated a dark crescent moon.

  And between the crescent moon and the divine tree…

  Buzz!

  A pair of narrow, dark, and callous eyes opened, like a sleeping god beginning to awaken.

  “The evil moon god!”

  The Great Tang side didn’t know the story behind those massive eyes, but Adnan and Lucis, Khatabah’s subordinates, instantly paled. The Arabian Empire venerated only the True God. As for the ancient moon god, it had been declared as heresy long ago.

  All of this was described in great detail in their historical records.

  No one had expected Khatabah to borrow the power of the Moon God’s tree and ring to summon the remnant will of the moon god.

  “Your Holiness!”

  All of Khatabah’s generals on the battlefield became uneasy, but none of them dared to say anything.

  Raaaa! Under the gaze of the moon god and the black crescent moon, the Ifrit howled. As if enormous amounts of energy were being poured into it, the Ifrit’s body began to enlarge at terrifying speeds.

  Its already immense body soon exceeded a height of two hundred meters, and it seemed to break through some natural threshold and rise to an even higher realm. Fwoosh!

  The flames on the Ifrit’s body danced and swelled, and their color turned from bright yellow to a tyrannical black tinged with a dark red. These flames seemed even more dangerous than before.

  And the Ifrit’s golden vertical eyes also changed shape after fusing with Khatabah, becoming a pair of human eyes!

  Khatabah’s eyes!

  Wang Chong, upon seeing those eyes, was deeply stunned.

  Wang Chong had never encountered a monster like this before. Not even the Behemoths could compare to it. And in those eyes, Wang Chong sensed unimaginable pressure and danger!

  This was a creature of unprecedented terror!

  Bang!

  At this moment, the massive shadow sword unleashed by the Xuanyuan Sword struck the Ifrit, but the results this time were completely different. Kaboom! A majestic explosion of Psychic Energy that far transcended the Subtle realm was unleashed, but this new Ifrit merely trembled, its flames rippling for a moment. Although it had been stunned and weakened, it did not leave an indelible wound like the last attack.

  Wang Chong and the Nightmare Beast both grimaced.

  When the legend of Arabia and the world-destroying monster from ancient times fused, an entirely new creature was born, possessing the inextinguishable body of the Ifrit, its control over flames, and also Khatabah’s supreme strength and formidable mental defenses, thus filling in the Ifrit’s last weakness!

  And at the same time, it was absorbing power from the ancient moon god!

  The Ifrit reached a level of power far above its peak.

  “It’s useless! Starting now, all your attacks against me will be futile! All of you will burn to ash under my flames!”

  Khatabah and the Ifrit spoke in unison, their voices suffused with extreme cruelty and danger.

  And the black flames around it rapidly churned, casting a bizarre blackness over the battlefield.

  “Adnan, Lucis, Abu Muslim, I leave the Tang Great Generals to you. Lead our soldiers and wipe the Tang army out!”

  Khatabah’s cold and booming voice rumbled over the battlefield.

  All the Tang soldiers paled, and on the other side, Adnan and the others were invigorated. Arabia was a militaristic country that thrived on war and conquest. Even if Khatabah was borrowing the strength of the ancient moon god, as long as they could crush the east and unify the world, they did not care.

  “Kill!”

  Adnan roared, raising the Blade of Mukala and ordering his men to charge. Nearby, Abu Muslim was also ecstatic.

  “Everyone, follow me! Kill!”

  Abu Muslim’s body seethed with killing intent, and as he charged forward, he actually rode past Adnan and led his men in a torrent of steel.

  “Today, I will personally wash away my humiliation!”

  Abu Muslim’s eyes shone red. He had waited far too long for this day.

  The shame and contempt that had burdened him since Talas could finally be washed away!

  ……

  “Kill!”

  “For the Caliphate!”

  Upon hearing the voice of Khatabah and that massive Ifrit, all the Arab soldiers rallied and charged with renewed vigor at the Tang soldiers.

  “Careful!”

  “All soldiers, stand ready!”

  The hearts of the Tang soldiers, however, sank. Khatabah and the Ifrit had fused together, creating an even stronger existence, and now they had to face this vast sea of Arab cavalry with the defense line in complete disarray. Without the steel defense line, they were powerless to resist.

  “Wang Chong, the formation is ready!” As everyone paled, the Formation Elder’s familiar voice traveling on a mental wave came from the north.

  “What?!”

  Wang Chong was elated to hear this.

  “Prepare to activate it! Leave the rest to me!”

  “Okay!”
the Formation Elder replied, and then his voice vanished.

  The mental wave returned, far to the north, where a lonely figure stood in the Moheyan Desert.

  The Formation Elder’s brows were locked together in worry. He had no idea what was happening over there, but from the shockwaves of energy and the war cries of the Arabs, he could tell that the Great Tang was not faring well.

  I’ve done all I can. I hope that this helps you!

  A hint of worry in his eyes, the Formation Elder turned to the force of seven-thousand-some cavalry Wang Chong had placed under his command.

  “Begin!”

  “Yes!”

  The cavalry immediately split up into several dozen groups and vanished into the distance.

  As Wang Chong had instructed, the Formation Elder had laid down seventy percent of the Nine Heavens Phenomena Formation, and with this order, these cavalry were setting off to finish the last thirty percent.

  Bang!

  In the center of the Moheyan Desert, the Formation Elder placed the last formation banner into the sand. At that moment, the formation was complete, and the restless lands of the northwest began to shift.

  Kacrack!

  A massive bolt of lightning cleaved through the sky like a gigantic dragon, parting the skies. Endless dark clouds seethed and churned, converging as if pulled upon by some mysterious force.

  Silver snakes flashed in the low clouds, and everyone who saw them felt an immense pressure.

  “What’s going on?!”

  Everyone noticed this strange weather, and even the giant Ifrit paused, startled.

  Just when he was preparing to attack, he saw the phenomena in the sky and instinctively felt uneasy.

  The unprecedented war between east and west had caused dark clouds to cover the lands of the northwest, and it was very normal for dark clouds to gather in these circumstances. But what made Khatabah uneasy was that these dark clouds had gathered too quickly.

  Moreover, the area covered by the phenomena was too vast, with a radius of several thousand li. This was clearly abnormal, and this didn’t even consider the silver snakes of lightning dancing in the clouds.

  Chapter 1896 - The Nine Heavens Phenomena Formation!

  Chapter 1896: The Nine Heavens Phenomena Formation!