The Human Emperor c1-2382

by Huangfu Qi (皇甫奇)

  What could Wang Chong do now?

  Make them pay a price? One last struggle?

  Was this a cornered beast driven to desperation? Or was he going to take them all down with him?

  As he was saying this, it seemed like Wang Chong was truly at the end of his rope.

  Genesis Supreme slightly frowned, but he was not too surprised.

  “Even so, I will cast you into the depths of despair!”

  Genesis Supreme’s expression was cold and aloof as he thrust out a palm. A golden-white ball of light shot out, radiating intense ripples of spacetime energy, but it was not aimed at Wang Chong. Instead, it shot toward the Tang soldiers that had retreated out of the walls and were now battling with the alliance army.

  Wang Chong scowled at the sight, not expecting this move from Genesis Supreme. Given Genesis Supreme’s power, this attack could utterly annihilate the Tang soldiers, together with the alliance soldiers they were fighting.

  The aloof Genesis Supreme did not care about the lives of the alliance soldiers, but Wang Chong could not say the same.

  Bang!

  Wang Chong lunged forward to try and stop that golden-white ball.

  A dark golden Halo of Spacetime appeared in front of the golden-white sphere, opening up a spacetime passage that swallowed up the sphere.

  “It’s useless!”

  Genesis Supreme’s cold and emotionless voice rang out.

  Boom!

  With a thunderous boom, another golden-white sphere shot toward a group of Tang soldiers in a completely different direction.

  Genesis Supreme didn’t even try to fight with Wang Chong. Since Wang Chong cared so much about the lives of these lowly soldiers, he was perfectly happy to keep Wang Chong running around trying to save them.

  Buzz!

  Wang Chong’s heart trembled, but he had no choice. Lunging forward, he used the power of spacetime to instantly appear in front of the golden-white sphere.

  But when Wang Chong appeared in front of the sphere, his heart instantly sank.

  It appeared that Genesis Supreme had taken note of how Wang Chong had dealt with the first one and had mixed chaotic spacetime energy into this golden-white sphere, preventing Wang Chong from using a spacetime passage to get rid of the sphere.

  Different kinds of spacetime energy would reject each other.

  He’s using this method to expend my power!

  Wang Chong immediately understood what Genesis Supreme was trying to do.

  He was using the lives of the Tang soldiers to threaten Wang Chong. In one aspect, this gave Genesis Supreme all of the initiative, and in another aspect, he could constantly exhaust Wang Chong’s strength, and once Wang Chong had lost enough strength, he would no longer be able to escape, even with his Grotto Heaven realm cultivation.

  Wang Chong’s expression chilled as these thoughts ran through his mind, and the fingers of his right hand reached for the golden short halberd.

  Sitting around to wait for death had never been his style!

  Bang!

  Wang Chong threw out the golden short halberd, which shot toward Genesis Supreme like a furious dragon.

  This halberd moved with incredible speed, starting from several hundred feet away and reaching Genesis Supreme’s face in the blink of an eye.

  “Even if you know, what does it matter?”

  Genesis Supreme was unmoved as he gathered his Grotto Heaven realm Stellar Energy. Spacetime ripples radiated outward from his body and formed a formidable spacetime barrier in front of him.

  The golden short halberd struck the barrier and was stopped by layer after layer of spacetime energy. The destructive torrent of energy it had carried with it was also dispersed through a honeycombed dimension that Genesis Supreme had created.

  As he blocked the halberd, Genesis Supreme opened his right hand, and he manifested another golden-white sphere.

  “What can you change? Can you stop every one of the spheres?”

  Boom! The golden-white sphere shot toward a group of Tang cavalry like a lightning bolt.

  As he watched those several thousand Tang cavalry near destruction, Wang Chong mentally sighed and lunged forward, savagely punching at the golden-white sphere.

  One, two, three…

  Genesis Supreme threw out golden-white sphere after sphere, constantly grinding away at Wang Chong’s Stellar Energy.

  “Divine Embryo 1 and Divine Embryo 3, come to me!”

  Forced into an extremely passive stance, Wang Chong called out, summoning his two clones that were holding off the alliance army at other gaps.

  Bang!

  As Genesis Supreme threw out two more spheres, Wang Chong’s two divine embryo clones appeared, gathered their Stellar Energy, and punched.

  “Great Yin Yang Art!”

  The images of the sun and moon appeared, energy gushing out of the two divine embryos to stop the destructive spheres of energy.

  In all of Wang Chong’s techniques, only the techniques developed by the Great Yinyang Heaven Creation Art could produce an energy close to that of Grotto Heaven laws.

  “It’s useless! Martial artists beneath the Grotto Heaven realm have no way of stopping it. By forcing the issue, you will pay an enormous price. I’d like to see how long these clones of yours can last!” Genesis Supreme coldly said.

  There was a qualitative difference between those above and below the Grotto Heaven realm. The most important factor was that non–Grotto Heaven martial artists that tried to forcefully receive a Grotto Heaven attack would suffer from intense ripples of spacetime energy that would severely damage their organs.

  To put it simply, the bodies of non–Grotto Heaven martial artists couldn’t take the attack.

  Rumble!

  However, with a massive boom, those two golden-white spheres exploded, their destructive energy sweeping out and creating an intense storm. But when Genesis Supreme looked at Wang Chong’s two clones, his eyes went slack. Though they had received his attacks, Wang Chong’s two clones were fine, not injured in the slightest.

  These two clones were surprisingly sturdy.

  With his cultivation, Genesis Supreme could see the truth at a glance, and he couldn’t help but be shocked.

  But before he had time to think, boom! Wang Chong lunged at Genesis Supreme from above.

  “Thunder Strike!”

  With a boom of thunder and a flash of light, Wang Chong pulled out the Origin Immortal Sword and slashed at Genesis Supreme.

  A resplendent and blazing bolt of lightning rendered everything else in the world dim and lightless. Even Genesis Supreme couldn’t help but turn grave.

  The Xuanyuan Sword!

  Genesis Supreme instantly recognized Wang Chong’s sword, and he felt compelled to use his full strength to deal with this attack.

  Bang!

  There was a flash of light behind Genesis Supreme’s head, and a halo appeared. Genesis Supreme’s Stellar Energy instantly became extremely concentrated, and Genesis Supreme punched. The enormous lightning bolt was instantly blocked by the energy unleashed by that halo.

  This wasn’t their first time fighting, and a major reason Wang Chong had failed to deal with Genesis Supreme was the halo behind his head.

  And even more troubles were on their way. As Wang Chong fiercely battled with Genesis Supreme, lightning flashed above the fortress, and a familiar pressure descended. A split-second later, a coarse lightning bolt crashed down.

  This lightning bolt was as thick as the gnarled roots of an old tree. Most importantly, it was infused with the World Consciousness.

  Wang Chong blinked away, avoiding the lightning bolt. Turning his head, Wang Chong spotted the sneering face of An Lushan.

  Wang Chong had advanced far too quickly on the martial path, reaching the Grotto Heaven realm in such a short amount of time. Even when An Lushan was wearing the World Armor, and had the aid of the World Consciousness and the power of the Black Dragon, though he was much stronger than when he had faced Wang
Chong in the capital, half a step from the Grotto Heaven realm, there was still a significant gap between him and Wang Chong.

  An Lushan didn’t dare to get too close, but by using the World Consciousness, he could attack Wang Chong from a distance with lightning.

  Ever since he had obtained the World Armor, An Lushan was able to control even more of the world’s power, allowing him to pose a major threat to Wang Chong.

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  Translated by: Hypersheep325

  Edited by: Michyrr

  “Wang Chong, you don’t think I’m the same ignorant person from before, do you? I wonder, how will you hold off the attacks from both me and Venerable Genesis Supreme?”

  An Lushan coldly laughed.

  The earth rumbled as sharp spikes made from stone shot out of the ground toward Wang Chong.

  Now that the three formations beneath the steel fortress had been broken, An Lushan’s Power of the World was no longer restrained and could permeate the area. Using the World Consciousness, he could do even more things.

  But at this moment…

  Bang!

  On the southern face of the steel fortress, a firework shot into the air. Even though the raging cold wave extinguished the firework before it could rise more than a hundred feet into the air, it was still dazzling for those few moments.

  “Go!

  “Zhangchou Jianqiong, Lord Junior Guardian, lead everyone in a retreat!”

  Everyone was flabbergasted as Wang Chong’s voice rang out in their ears.

  An Lushan was taken aback, but he swiftly understood that Wang Chong had given the signal for his entire army to retreat.

  “Go? Where are you going? Cui Qianyou, Tian Qianzhen, Tian Chengsi, hold them down!” An Lushan fiercely ordered.

  “Yes!”

  In a flash, the Youzhou and alliance commanders mobilized, their faces savage as they pursued the Divine Martial Army, Xuanwu Army, and the other elite armies covering the retreat.

  Now that he had finally gained the advantage, he would not let Wang Chong leave so easily.

  But An Lushan had underestimated the Tang elite armies. The Divine Martial Army, Xuanwu Army, Azure Martial Army, Mo Saber Unit, and Wushang Cavalry had not yet arrived when the first battle had started. With the Tongluo Cavalry, Aswaran Cataphracts, Wang Zhongsi, Zhang Shougui, Abusi, and an army of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, Wang Chong had been able to fight equally with the alliance army. Now that all the elite armies had gathered, their power was even greater than before.

  While the soldiers of these armies might not have been able to contend against ten thousand enemies each and defeat the entire alliance army, if they just wanted to retreat, not even Cui Qianyou and Tian Chengsi exerting their full might would be able to stop them.

  “His Highness has given the order! Go!”

  Once his Xuanwu Army had thrown the opposing alliance army into disarray, Zhao Fengchen mounted his horse and ordered his army to retreat.

  Soon afterward, the Divine Martial Army, Azure Martial Army, Mo Saber Unit, and Wushang Cavalry turned around and began to ride southward.

  None of them tarried, not even taking a glance back. Once Wang Chong gave his order, everyone strictly carried it out.

  Following orders was a soldier’s duty, and any extraneous actions might ruin the entire plan. As elite soldiers of the Great Tang, they keenly understood this principle.

  Neigh!

  Horses loudly neighed, and in just a few moments, all of the elite soldiers had vanished into the inner fortress.

  And this was only the beginning…

  Roooar!

  With a furious roar, a giant silhouette passed overhead, leaping in the direction of Wang Chong. Before its feet had even touched the ground, a giant cudgel swung at An Lushan.

  “The King Ape!”

  That mountainous silhouette made An Lushan grimace and hastily back away.

  This King Ape didn’t have any sort of cultivation level, but its flesh was tough and it was brimming with brute strength. Fighting this beast in a melee would definitely result in a loss.

  After pushing back An Lushan, the King Ape swung its cudgel upward, joining Wang Chong in attacking Genesis Supreme in the sky.

  “Beast!”

  Genesis Supreme slightly frowned. He didn’t fear the King Ape, but being attacked from both sides made one rather passive, and he couldn’t help but back up a little to avoid the cudgel.

  Though the swing had missed, the King Ape continued with its frenzied assault.

  Bang!

  The King Ape swung its cudgel, instantly turning numerous alliance soldiers that had climbed onto the walls into pulped flesh.

  The King Ape stomped, pulverizing a large number of alliance soldiers that had charged in through the gap.

  An Lushan and the Youzhou commanders grimaced. Though the King Ape didn’t represent a lethal threat to An Lushan and Genesis Supreme, if they just let it be, it had more than enough strength to inflict devastating losses on the alliance army.

  And while Genesis Supreme hadn’t cared about it at first, when he saw the King Ape’s terrifying power, his expression sank.

  The Celestial God Organization had always regarded itself as a heavenly court, and as one of the supreme leaders of this organization, he could not allow the King Ape to further flaunt its strength, as it would damage his dignity.

  “Impudent!”

  A dangerous light flashed in Genesis Supreme’s eyes. He brought his hands together, upon which a Halo of Spacetime covered in inscriptions appeared in his hand, rippling with power as he aimed it at the King Ape below.

  But although Genesis Supreme reacted quickly, Wang Chong reacted even faster. Seeing that all his troops had withdrawn and the alliance soldiers were still pouring through the gap, he immediately called over Divine Embryo 3. It began to rapidly form hand seals, and Ice Element energy even more vicious than the energy of the cold wave erupted from its body.

  “Ice-Sealed World!”

  Harnessing his Grotto Heaven realm strength, Wang Chong used Divine Embryo 3’s natural ability.

  Boom!

  The moment Wang Chong took action, the air trembled and all sound vanished, then a light blue energy erupted from Wang Chong’s body.

  Everything in a region for hundreds of thousands of feet around Wang Chong, whether galloping horses, flapping banners, high steel walls, turbulent air currents, and even the snowy mist, was all frozen in ice. The world had truly become a world sealed in ice.

  “Not good!”

  An Lushan was stricken with fear as he saw the blue light erupting from Wang Chong’s body, instinctively sensing an immense danger. With no time to think, An Lushan retreated at full speed, at the same time mustering all his Stellar Energy to protect himself.

  Cui Qianyou, Tian Qianzhen, and the others cried out in alarm as they also fell back.

  They had already passed the walls and were ready to pursue, but upon sensing the powerful ripples of energy from Wang Chong, they backed away in panic while unleashing their Stellar Energy to protect themselves.

  Even the floating Genesis Supreme turned stern. In the face of Wang Chong’s Ice-Sealed World, he had no other choice but to avoid it.

  Though Genesis Supreme had not witnessed the battle at the Caspian Sea for himself, he knew that Firmament Supreme had faced an extremely powerful Ice Element attack.

  And based on what had happened afterward, it was obvious that Firmament Supreme had been attacked by Wang Chong’s Ice-Sealed World. As Firmament Supreme had grown careless and had fallen prey to this technique, Genesis Supreme did not dare to repeat the mistake.

  Buzz!

  A halo appeared under Genesis Supreme’s feet as he used the power of spacetime to escape into the void and avoid Wang Chong’s attack.

  But An Lushan and his men were not so fortunate. As the blue light swept over the
m, even the likes of Ozmish Khagan and Yeon Gaesomun dropped to the ground, their bodies covered in thin layers of ice.

  Even though each of these people was a powerhouse of their region, they were incapable of stopping Wang Chong’s Grotto Heaven realm attack.

  “Let’s go!”

  After freezing all of them, Wang Chong, his face slightly pale, immediately escaped into the distance.

  He had bought his army precious time, but even though he had frozen half of the battlefield with this immensely powerful attack, he knew that it was basically impossible to defeat the alliance army this way. Let alone the fact that this attack hadn’t even completely frozen the likes of Genesis Supreme or An Lushan, spreading the attack over a range of hundreds of thousands of feet had greatly reduced its power.

  As expected, after lunging just a few tens of thousands of feet, he began to hear the sounds of cracking ice behind him. Boom! An Lushan was the first to break out, shooting up from the ground. Soon after that, Cui Qianyou, Ozmish Khagan, Yeon Gaesomun, and the others shattered the layers of ice around them.

  And in the air, Genesis Supreme returned in a flash of light.

  Bangbangbang!

  He reached out with his right hand, his immense energy spreading out together with law energy to engulf the battlefield. Through his prodigious power, Genesis Supreme was able to shatter the layers of ice and free the alliance army from their frozen shackles.

  But in those few moments, Wang Chong had withdrawn with his army.

  “Hmph, can you run?”

  Genesis Supreme stood in the air, watching the Tang army fleeing out of the southern gate with a cold smile.

  For Genesis Supreme, all of Wang Chong’s efforts were pointless.

  Even if he used the Ice-Sealed World to temporarily stop the alliance army, did he really think that he could stop them forever?

  Moreover, the world was blanketed in snow, and there was no shelter to speak of. With just the cotton clothes they had prepared, how far did he think they could run with their army of hundreds of thousands of soldiers?

  “What a fool! It seems that this god overestimated you!”

  As Genesis Supreme spoke, he disappeared in pursuit of Wang Chong.

  As An Lushan watched his army revive and break free from the ice, a smile crept onto his lips.