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Chapter 128 Five Elements Unite as One
The instant the Flame Emperor self-destructed, Borea smelled danger.
Though her mind was in chaos, her combat instincts remained. She immediately controlled the gale to escape the blast radius.
With the extreme speed of the Sky King, her short-distance sprints were comparable to teleportation.
Just then, unparalleled pressure descended upon her, as if a mountain had been placed on her shoulders. The gravity in this area had been amplified countless times.
Borea failed to escape. She erected wind walls in front of her, manipulating the airflow into a tidal wave to counteract the shockwave caused by the explosion.
She condensed blinding lightning armor, creating a powerful electromagnetic shield, but the expanding flames and terrifying shockwave still engulfed her. The most terrifying power was spiritual power, and self-destruction was the Flame Master's strongest skill.
That's how Flame Masters were. They came at you with their ultimate moves right away, never playing fancy tricks. They just blew you up.
Borea was instantly burned into a red-hot skeleton, which was thrown far away by the shockwave.
"Banish, banish, banish..." Hui Zhang-xiansheng appeared within the area covered by the shockwave, his body illusory, momentarily immune to damage. He snapped his fingers repeatedly, trying to take advantage of Borea's serious injury to teleport her to the Night Watcher's slumbering place.
Each teleportation attempt failed.
The failures were not only due to the immunity brought by the suppression of her position, but also because the boss of the Dionysus Club was distorting his abilities, causing the teleportation to fail.
This demigod of the Drunkard profession seemed to have seen through their plan and was secretly interfering with Hui Zhang-xiansheng's abilities.
Fu Qingxuan and the Fear King were the first to soar into the air, transforming into two streams of light, one red and one white, and swooping toward the red-hot skeleton.
"Wailing Horn!" Amidst a shrill phoenix cry, a rain of wind blades greeted Fu Qingxuan, preventing the marshal, who was skilled in close combat, from approaching.
Fu Qingxuan suddenly stopped in mid-air, without dodging. Her body seemed to transform into a sword furnace, and countless sword energies shot out, each precisely severing a wind blade.
On the other side, the Fear King, manifesting with three heads and eight arms, used a swordsman's insight to avoid the lightning bolts, successfully closing in on the skeleton.
Wielding knives, spears, swords, and clubs, the eight arms simultaneously struck the enemy, leaving no blind spots.
He did not use Charming Eye or Dense Fog, etc., because they would definitely be ineffective. Moreover, wind mages were the natural counter to dense fog, so he simply engaged in close combat.
The skeleton weaved through the flashing blades like a fish, always avoiding being hit as if by a gentle breeze.
The Fear King failed to land a blow in one go. Instead, his chest was struck by the skeleton's palm, emitting a deafening sound.
Like ripples, the impact shattered the Fear King's copper skin and iron bones, and countless cracks appeared on his demonically patterned body.
He flew backward uncontrollably, struck repeatedly by bright blue lightning bolts on his head.
The Fear King, scorched black, streaked across the sky and fell onto the equally scorched earth.
Meanwhile, Fu Qingxuan's sword energies shattered all the wind blades. Sword and man became one, and her body merged into a streak of sword light, like a rainbow, crashing into the skeleton.
At this moment, membranes and flesh began to grow on the surface of the skeleton, and the abdominal cavity was forming, with internal organs regenerating.
She desperately condensed spiritual power to accelerate her regeneration, raised her arm, and fiercely slashed down, forming a wind blade that struck Fu Qingxuan.
Strands of heavy, earth-yellow light rose into the air, attaching to Fu Qingxuan's back, forming a strong, bright yellow cloak.
"Buzz!"
The giant wind blade was blocked by the yellow light of the cloak, causing the cloak's color to fade slightly.
Suddenly, the fresh red flesh on the skeleton's surface was stained with filth, showing signs of decay, and its aura rapidly weakened.
The Gu Dragon's Blessing Reduction and the Water God Palace Master's long-brewing germs finally erupted at this moment, plunging Borea, who was already seriously injured, into an unprecedented state of weakness.
The streak of sword light passed through the skeleton's head, which flew up, and fell together with the body. During this process, the scorched earth cracked, as if a deep abyss's gravity was pulling the skeleton's body and head, wanting to drag her into the abyss.
Whoosh!
The gale flowed wildly, trying to blow up the skeleton's body and head, forming a contest of strength with the earth.
The skeleton's descent was immediately halted.
"Da-da" The sound of dense hooves came, and an azure steed pulled a chariot, charging from afar like a blue and white meteor plummeting from the sky, striking the skeleton's body from above.
Bang!
The skeleton's body, bones, and spine cracked, and she was forcibly slammed into the crevice in the ground, leaving only her head struggling to hold on.
Lao Mai, who had been waiting for a long time, seized the opportunity, reversed the rules, turning the upward airflow downward, actively pushing the head into the crevice.
Although there were many demigods, their actions were orderly. There was no crisscrossing barrage of skills, no chaotic succession of attacks. Who assisted and who took the lead were clear, requiring little tacit understanding.
The ground fissure instantly closed and solidified, and the wind and waves calmed.
The demigods present breathed a sigh of relief. The Level 11 Earth Monster had three core abilities: forming a cage, decomposition, and earthquake.
Among them, the cage and decomposition were a set of combined skills, with the cage being a sealing skill second only to "Sleeping Curse."
At the demigod level, it belonged to the category of rules.
Anyone swallowed by the earth would never be able to escape. Decomposition, as the name suggests, meant that yellow earth decomposed everything. Anything trapped underground would turn into a handful of yellow earth. The combination of these two skills could kill a demigod.
The Wind and Thunder Gods possessed unparalleled speed and offensive power, but their defense and vitality were weak points. No set of skills was more suitable for suppressing them than this.
"Although we can no longer banish her to the slumbering place, we now have the initiative." Hui Zhang-xiansheng teleported back, took out a microphone, held it to his mouth, and shouted
"When Borea is exhausted, we will release her and send her to the slumbering place."
As he spoke, the fire spirits in the world rapidly gathered, forming a mass of magma that spewed scorching rays. The magma collapsed inward, transforming into a human form, and finally solidified into a burly man with fiery red hair.
Jiang Bangzhu was reborn in flames. Rebirth in flames was a Ruler-level skill. A Level 7 Ruler could use it once a day, and a Peak Ruler could use it three times a day. At the demigod level, rebirth in flames had no limit on the number of times it could be used, until the spiritual power was exhausted and the user died completely.
Since he had abandoned his brain, he must have received compensation in other areas, otherwise the Flame Master profession would have become extinct long ago.
A delicate, verdant vine broke out of the ground, soared straight up, and wrapped around Jiang Bangzhu's body, its green light like spring.
It nourished the exhausted body like a spring rain, quickly recovering from the weakness after the self-destruction.
The leader of the Hundred Flowers Society liked peace and Buddhism. Even when forced to participate in the battle, she participated as a support, healing and detoxifying.
The demigods of the evil faction hated this contemporary Green Emperor. During the battle for the Radiant Disc, the evil faction followed the principle of focusing fire on the squishiest targets first, and healers were the squishiest targets. They concentrated their attacks on the Green Emperor, but they simply couldn't kill her. Her terrifying vitality and recovery ability made even Shura frown.
"Done?" Jiang Bangzhu looked around, not seeing Borea's body, and was overjoyed. "Did I blow her to bits? Hmm, that's not right. I didn't receive the Spirit Realm reward..."
Fu Qingxuan pointed to the ground expressionlessly. "She was swallowed by the Lord of Midgard."
"Then it should be done." Jiang Bangzhu breathed a sigh of relief. As soon as he finished speaking, a muffled thunderclap came from the ground, the earth shook violently, the clear sky was filled with dark clouds, the wind howled, and tree-like lightning twisted and flared, spreading across the entire sky like a spider web.
Like a scene of doomsday, a vague figure condensed from lightning slowly emerged from the world.
The Lord of Midgard's seal was torn apart by even greater violence. The earth collapsed, and a skeleton slowly rose into the air and merged with the tall, vague figure.
In an instant, the figure became solid and clear. She was hundreds of meters tall, standing between heaven and earth, her body forged from lightning, wearing a robe of gales, and wearing a crown on her head. She held a gale staff in her left hand and a lightning spear in her right hand.
Twisted, thick lightning bolts radiated from her in all directions, and a terrifying aura like a tide, like an abyss, made every god present feel a chill.
This was the suppression of a higher being on a lower being.
Although the fusion caused divine problems that led to mental derangement, the Wind and Thunder Gods had actually succeeded in terms of the improvement of their overall power and position.
Their strength was infinitely close to that of a Spirit Realm Administrator.
In distant Huacheng, a terrifying hurricane had risen, instantly paralyzing the entire city's power system, interfering with the communication system, and causing all electricity-related equipment to fail.
Within a radius of hundreds of miles, hurricanes raged, destroying houses and causing disasters.
The terrifying figure in the world stiffened, the gale scepter twisted, almost collapsing, and the lightning spear simply dissipated. But in the next second, the influence also dissipated, and the spear condensed again.
The demigods present looked in the direction of the sound and saw a deep purple cloud layer surging from the distant horizon. Below the cloud layer was a body also hundreds of feet tall.
Its appearance was extremely terrifying. The overall shape was humanoid, with giant snakes as hair, and its body was covered with wild beast heads, dripping with foul-smelling pus. Beneath the pus were pairs of cold, merciless eyes.
The pus flowed onto the ground, turning the earth into a pitch-black swamp, and the purple cloud layer was the breath exhaled by the giant snakes on its head.
"Smoker!" Hui Zhang-xiansheng muttered to himself, staring at the hundred-foot monster. He suddenly felt an itch on his body, looked down in shock, and saw black scales protruding from his arm, with slippery mucus oozing between the scales.
Hui Zhang-xiansheng's heart trembled. He quickly looked away and looked at the leaders of the Five Elements Alliance, and found that they had all undergone distortion to varying degrees.
Simply by looking at it, they had suffered mild contamination.
This monster's position had already exceeded the demigod level, reaching the same level as Shura and the Wind and Thunder Gods.
But the Biological Alchemy Society could not possibly have such a high-level existence. Hui Zhang-xiansheng thought of the Demon Seed reported by Yuanshi Tianzun in the Spirit Realm, which was the god of the evil faction!
The god who couldn't afford to lose, so he personally entered the game.
For the past century, the gods had never taken action. Hui Zhang-xiansheng originally thought that the Demon Seed was restricted by the Spirit Realm and could not truly come to reality. Now it seemed that he was just enduring it.
Lao Mai narrowed his eyes, looked at the monster slowly approaching, and endured the distortion happening to his body. "We want the Spirit Realm reward. We also want the spiritual essence of Borea and the Thunder God."
"Hehe, you want to send the Wind and Thunder Gods to the slumbering place? With me here, I will never let you succeed." He withdrew his gaze and cast it on the demigods of the Lawful faction.
"You thought you could share the Spirit Realm reward with us? No, you are also in the reward, one of the spoils of this mission. Thank you for helping to weaken the Wind and Thunder God."
The Gu Dragon, the Nanpai Illusion God, and the Fear King tacitly dispersed, blocking the retreat of the Five Elements Alliance's demigods.
A single Wind and Thunder God could not satisfy the appetite of the Free faction. The gods had endured for a hundred years and prepared for this carefully. They had to let the Lawful faction lose some flesh and bone.
Hui Zhang-xiansheng opened a deep space tunnel and urged, "Leave here."
Lao Mai of the Dionysus Club smiled and said, "You can leave, but they can't. The other end of the space tunnel will always be by my side!"
This was the confidence of the God of Wine, distorting the rules, playing with the rules.
The chairman fell silent.
At this moment, the ground cracked open, and an old man wearing a yellow robe, with white hair and a white beard, stepped out from the ground on a rising stone pillar.
He was full of wrinkles and looked like an ordinary old man, but he was also the only demigod who could look directly at the god without any changes to his body.
This Lord of Midgard sighed, "You want to defeat the Lawful faction in one fell swoop, and you've been planning this killing move for a hundred years, which is really caught people off guard. But the Lawful faction has not been content to enjoy itself for the past hundred years, especially in the twenty years since the Five Elements Alliance was established. We have always researching on some things come out."
After speaking, he looked at his four companions, his voice unhurried: "Everyone, the five elements return to their positions!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the ground collapsed suddenly, and strands of earth spiritual power left the surface like silk threads, integrated into the body of the Lord of Midgard, and his body rose steadily.
The earth-yellow spiritual power shaped a spirit warrior with cloud boots, taking the earth as its foundation.
The dark clouds in the sky collapsed and swirled around the giant spirit, forming a black robe with dark patterns.
A strand of green light floated from afar, wrapped around its waist, and turned into a jade-inlaid green belt.
Fu Qingying turned into a sword light around its head and landed on the top of the giant spirit's head, turning into a crown with jade beads hanging down.
Jiang Bangzhu set off a sea of fire, roaring and crashing into the giant spirit. The giant spirit grabbed the sea of fire and, with a whoosh, turned into a robe of flames on its back.
Thus, the appearance of the spiritual god became clearer, with regular features, solemn eyebrows and eyes, and a majestic expression.
At this moment, the five great spiritual powers of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth were boiling, intermingling with each other, and evolving into a hazy, chaotic spiritual light, obscuring the blue sky and white clouds, with faint signs of remaking the world.
The spirit wearing the gale and holding the lightning spear became blurred for a while, almost collapsing, and the Smoker in the distance also stopped.