Chapter 465 Annihilation
Chapter 465 Annihilation
Bang!
Fairy Emperor of Light zoomed out from the pile of rocks, his hair billowing wildly. His aura was violent, and his body was surrounded by a vortex of energy visible to the naked eye. Out of wrath, he roared, "What power is that? You…"
But before his voice died away—
Li Mu darted forward and reappeared in front of him in a flash. Next, he punched again, which directly slammed into Fairy Emperor of Light’s face and deformed, sending him flying again. Then, Fairy Emperor of Light crashed to the ground, creating a bottomless pothole.
"Hahaha, this feeling is really cool!"
Floating in the air, Li Mu looked down at his fingers and gently flexed them like a child playing with his newest toy. At the moment, he looked as much intoxicated as one could be.
"Pity that this is not my own strength," sighed Li Mu after a while.
Rumble!
The earth quaked.
Fairy Emperor of Light heaved a large rock out of his way and flew up from the ground, shouting furiously, "This is not your strength! Who is attacking through your body…?"
"You just can’t wait to come out and be beaten again!"
When his exploration and intoxication in the perfect power were interrupted, Li Mu seemed very angry. He whacked at the face of his opponent backhandedly. With a clear slap, that whack shoved Fairy Emperor of Light, who just fought his way out of the pothole, back to bottom again.
Such scenes rendered the extraterrestrial practitioners dumbfounded.
Fairy Emperor of Light was neatly vanquished!
Thoroughly flattened.
A guttural sound was heard.
It turned out that an extraterrestrial expert who had volunteered to kill Li Mu lost control of his body parts in horror, and swallowed subconsciously. He felt freezing cold as if he had fallen into a cellar full of ice.
Seeing the situation was not going as they expected, some people began to furtively back away.
"Want to hit the road just after boasting your strength?"
Li Mu had long noticed their shady movements. With a casual point of his finger, that extraterrestrial expert imploded, being reduced into a haze of blood and leaving no pieces of his body to bury.
The rest of the extraterrestrial practitioners instantly froze on their spot as if they were bewitched by the Fixing Spell, not daring to move even an inch.
Li Mu looked at his fingers and smirked.
"It feels really awesome to be able to do whatever I want."
At that moment, the earth started to shake violently.
The giant fleshless palm pinning the old man surnamed Ma to the ground rose back to the air, rumbling. It again summoned the cloud and wind in the sky. In an instant, countless Spiritual Qi within several hundred miles was sucked away. The white bones of the fleshless palm began to shine as if carved out of divine jade. Circles upon circles of Taoist figures swirled in midair, blocking out the sky and the sun. With a force beyond measure, the palm bore down upon Li Mu from high above the ground.
The eyes of Zhangsun Changkong and the other extraterrestrial practitioners who had been trembling with fear and grief-stricken as if bereaved of parents suddenly lit up.
"Yes!"
"Fairy Emperor of Light still got his trump card!"
Moments ago, the old man surnamed Ma also rained blows on Fairy Emperor of Light after he resumed his true form as the giant golden ape, but in the end, he was directly whacked into the ground by that palm, wasn’t he?
That huge fleshless palm was a heaven-defying level killing move!
Seeing the palm slowly bear down on him as if the sky was falling, Li Mu looked mildly solemn.
He did some stretching just like he did when performing gymnastics, as though he was adapting to something. Then, he abruptly stuck a middle finger and poked towards the huge fleshless palm.
Kaboom!
The giant fleshless palm quaked and eventually pressed upon that finger. However, like a large ship stranded after crashing into a rock, the finger could not push an inch forward.
At that scene, the expressions of all the spectators were dull.
"One finger?"
"A single finger prevented the terrifying giant fleshless palm from moving?"
"Who are you kidding?"
"How did he bring his strength to that extent all of a sudden?"
Zhangsun Changkong, the Demon Broadsword, and the young man of the witch tribe watched it with rounded eyes. Their hearts thumped rampantly. An indescribable panic spread all over them.
"You do… have… irritated… me."
The growl of Fairy Emperor of Light echoed between heaven and earth.
He shot out from under the earth almost at the speed of light and immediately fell on the back of the giant fleshless palm.
His face was all messed up— his eyes blackened, his nose broken, his mouth crooked. He looked extremely miserable. Obviously, he was beaten hard by Li Mu’s two previous punches and failed to recover even with his cultivation.
The eyes of Fairy Emperor of Light were erupting flames of rage. He did not speak but urged his qi, driving the dense Taoist figures to shine like a sea of stars, dazzling the others. Meanwhile, the most terrifying aura stirred layers of airflow like hurricane waves and radiated in all directions.
"Bright Light Demon-subduing Seal… Suppress!"
The voice void of human emotions reverberated in the sky. It was plain that Fairy Emperor of Light was incandescent with fury.
The power of the giant fleshless palm had more than doubled. Wisps of sinister black mist that could devastate everything overflowed from the white bones, which slithered its way towards Li Mu like black serpents.
"After 1,000 years, all you’ve got is still this? Moo!" Li Mu spoke. But it was not his tone but a very strange man’s. Particularly, that remark was ended in a mooing of a bull, which was extremely bizarre.
The mooing sound carried a mysterious power, which shattered the sinister black mist sneaking toward Li Mu.
At the same time, Li Mu balled his fingers into a fist. Then, he raised his fist high and slammed on the giant fleshless palm, causing the strengthened giant fleshless palm to fly backward.
Fairy Emperor of Light took on a look of unconcealed shock and fear at once.
"It’s you?" He stammered in a broken voice, "You really haven’t left, you, you…" Apparently, Fairy Emperor of Light was intimidated by the owner of that voice. His voice came out trembling, revealing a hint of trepidation.
"Moo— I accidentally fell asleep, and in the meantime, you, the loser, sneaked out to make waves," "Li Mu" began, his voice filled with contempt and sneer, "what? I have sealed you here for a thousand years, and you still don’t have the decency to correct your wrongs? Well, that’s no surprise. Back then, I should have refined you entirely instead of just chopping off your hand."
"Humph!" Fairy Emperor of Light was livid now, his eyes flashing.
Back then, he got a palm cut off, and his opponent bewitched that palm into the Five-finger Mountain and sealed him under it, leaving him no chance to escape. And he had regarded that event as the biggest disgrace in his life.
Nonetheless, the strength of his opponent was too strong. He had no way to confront him head-on.
In the past 1,000 years, he has slowly carried out his plan— to gradually take control of the Five-finger Mountain in secret with his own essence and blood. After all, the mountain was transformed by his own severed palm. He believed that he had turned the five peaks into his most powerful trump card without anyone knowing. He intended to display it as the final blow to turn the tables.
It took 1,000 years for him to achieve that.
It was just that he encountered another difficulty after his plan was fulfilled.
He had no way to deduce or perceive whether that potent enemy of his was still lurking about the Five-finger Mountain.
That enemy was outrageously terror-inspiring. He was so powerful that he nearly shattered Fairy Emperor of Light’s Taoist Heart back then, causing him to have nightmares for numerous nights. Even though a millennium had passed, even though he had made sufficient preparation for that long, Fairy Emperor of Light still felt daunted deep down.
Back then, that enemy of his told him that he would be finished off in 1,000 years.
At the end of the millennium, he waited for months in the torment of constant calculation and anxiety before encountering Li Mu and his companies and then the extraterrestrial practitioners.
The reason why he chose to draw that old opponent out with Li Mu was that Lord Qu, Jiang Qingluan, unveiled Li Mu’s true identity as a sinner. That enemy of his also came from the Star Graveyard, and so was a sinner as well, though his true form was a bull. Anyway, the creatures from the Star Graveyard all had sinners’ blood flowing in their veins, and so they were all sinners.
The sinners were known for their overprotection of their own people.
Although Fairy Emperor of Light had relentlessly tortured Li Mu through the hands of the extraterrestrial practitioners, he failed to force that formidable enemy to show up. Therefore, Fairy Emperor of Light reckoned that the enemy must have left. However… to his utter trepidation, his opponent turned up in that unexpected way.
"No, no, you sure have left!" Fairy Emperor of Light suddenly realized something and yelled, "If you are really here, you can’t have spoken through another man’s throat. What you left here is just a wisp of your power, a thread of your consciousness, haha!"
Having figured it out, he finally regained his composure and involuntarily breathed a sigh of relief.
"Li Mu" again remarked, "Moo— uh, after 1,000 years, you do have a little more brains than before. Of course I have left. Otherwise, I would have shown up long ago and beaten the shit out of you. But, I don’t have time to stay and play with such a small potato like you, do I?"
"You think an avatar formed by a wisp of your consciousness can suppress me?" Fairy Emperor of Light snarled, feeling humiliated and angry because he had been looked down upon.
"Yes, you guessed it right." The voice said indolently, in a matter-of-fact tone.
Then, the voice said, "Moo— kid, my countryman, I will leave the rest to you. No need to be polite with him. Just hammer this old scum to death. I owe you one for using your body this time. But we will soon meet again within the galaxy. And you will be copiously rewarded by then."
That remark was indeed made for Li Mu.
With that, the voice disappeared completely.
The expression on Li Mu’s face was surprised and curious. Clearly, the voice which was likely to be a bull demon’s had been carried to Li Mu’s ears.
That voice was the one that had curiously appeared in Li Mu’s ears without warning.
It was just that Li Mu did not find the owner of that voice very reliable, for that voice told Li Mu that he had mistakenly sealed himself too long, so he could not come out in time. And he required Li Mu to secretly lift the seal and release him. That way, he would be able to help Li Mu defeat Fairy Emperor of Light.
When Li Mu first heard that voice, he thought that he had run into a fraud and assumed that the voice must belong to a devil in the lore. But later, as Fairy Emperor of Light gradually revealed his true color, Li Mu turned to believe in that seemingly unreliable voice.
Only that Li Mu was obviously not in a proper state to undo the seal himself.