Book 6: Chapter 089: World’s Strongest vs. World’s Strongest
As the Six Paths Veritable Lord approached Gu Hai, his aura alone shattered the various Go Dao ritual arrays.
“Gu Hai, surely this is not all your Go Dao is capable of? I recall that you used the Go Dao ritual array to manifest that Sect Master Heavenly Access. What’s wrong? Can you not do that now?” the Six Paths Veritable Lord sneered.?r???e???v?l.??m
Gu Hai watched the Six Paths Veritable Lord fly over. Although there were layers of crystal walls between them, he still felt tremendous pressure. However, it was merely pressure. He did not show any fear in his eyes.
“You want a cloud beast? That’s fine. Just wait!” Gu Hai showed a cold smile.
Gu Hai extended his hand, holding out the Life Trapper Saber. Then, he gently turned it.
Boom!
Suddenly, a thousand stars above spun, forming a Thirty-Three Line-Pair World Ritual Array.
When the ritual array formed, a powerful aura manifested in front of Gu Hai.
Buzz!
Boundless Spiritual Energy quickly gathered in the surroundings, slowly coalescing into a human figure. The Spiritual Energy formed a vague translucent figure out of dense mist.
“Oh? Who is this?” The Six Paths Veritable Lord frowned at this translucent figure.
“Long Zhanguo?” The distant Kong Xuan’s pupils constricted.
The face of the translucent figure was Long Zhanguo’s.
“Long Zhanguo?” The Six Paths Veritable Lord’s pupils constricted.
The Six Paths Veritable Lord immediately sneered, “Long Zhanguo? Do you think your ritual array can truly manifest Long Zhanguo? Long Zhanguo is indeed strong, but he is already dead. All your ritual array is manifesting is your ideal Long Zhanguo. Do you think it would be the same as the real Long Zhanguo? How funny!”
“I know that Long Zhanguo’s strength comes from his strong will. My ritual array might not be able to replicate his will, but that does not matter!” Gu Hai revealed a cold smile.
Then, Gu Hai took out a pen—no, half a pen.
“Huh?” The Six Paths Veritable Lord appeared slightly confused.
This brush is bizarre. Its tip is not made of fur but is hard?
It was indeed hard. When Gu Hai returned to Earth, he obtained it from Leo, one of Sa’s lackeys. This pen could seal a person’s memories, and it contained some time laws.
Gu Hai had yet to grasp the time laws. However, he had learned something during his two hundred million-odd years in the eighteenth layer of h.e.l.l.
The pen had been broken in half—one half was with Gu Hai, and the other half he had hidden in the eighteenth layer of h.e.l.l of eight hundred thousand years later. At the same time, he had used the surrounding stars to lay a ritual array.
When Gu Hai activated this half of the pen, the other half started trembling in the eighteenth layer of h.e.l.l of eight hundred thousand years later.
That eighteenth layer of h.e.l.l was empty except for countless stars and planets. That half pen activated the ritual array that Gu Hai had left behind, an identical Thirty-Three Line-Pair World Ritual Array to the one of eight hundred thousand years ago.
Rumble…!
The ritual array spun, and the two ritual arrays synchronized.
Gu Hai could not use the time laws to send items over. However, there was a thread-like time law connection between the two halves of the pen.
This thread was already sufficient for Gu Hai’s purposes. He did not want to send an item back, just a consciousness from Sa’s Immortal Firmament.
When Gu Hai previously summoned Sun Wukong to fight the Azure Emperor, he also summoned Nezha’s consciousness. Back then, Nezha had a dream on Earth. That was Nezha’s consciousness entering the Six Paths Immortal Firmament. The ritual array manifested Nezha’s body in the Six Paths Immortal Firmament.
Now, Gu Hai was going to do the same thing. While he could summon only one person at a time from Sa’s Immortal Firmament, he could also summon a consciousness.
Just like now. Gu Hai had summoned Sect Master Heavenly Access, but he could also summon Long Zhanguo’s consciousness.
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Earth’s immortal realm:
Long Zhanguo had just dealt with some matters when he got a headache. He felt somewhat drowsy and had an urgent need to sleep.
Sleep?
Long Zhanguo instantly thought of what Gu Hai had said.
“Hah! Gu Hai, you truly attract trouble. Even after summoning Sect Master Heavenly Access, it is not resolved yet?” Long Zhanguo felt slightly confused, but he did not resist.
“I’m going to rest for some time. No one is to disturb me!” Long Zhanguo said to the secretary across from him.
“Yes, boss!” That female secretary left respectfully.
Long Zhanguo lay back in the chair, taking a comfortable position before falling asleep.
Buzz!
Long Zhanguo’s consciousness immediately went to the Six Paths Immortal Firmament’s eighteenth layer of h.e.l.l of the future. Then, the half pen there sent his consciousness to the eighteenth layer of h.e.l.l of the past.
Long Zhanguo’s consciousness immediately entered the translucent body manifested by the ritual array.
Boom!
The surrounding Spiritual Energy scattered. The translucent Long Zhanguo’s pupils constricted.
Buzz!
A powerful aura suddenly burst out.
“What?” The Six Paths Veritable Lord’s face sank.
This aura is too similar to Long Zhanguo’s. How can this be?
“This is a soul body?” The translucent Long Zhanguo looked at Gu Hai, feeling slightly startled.
“Greetings, Boss Long!” Gu Hai nodded.
“Hahaha! You used the Thirty-Three Line-Pair World Ritual Array to manifest a soul body for me? Why? Where is this?” Long Zhanguo appeared confused.
Suddenly, Long Zhanguo’s soul body looked at the nearby Six Paths Veritable Lord. His eyes narrowed, and his aura turned dangerous.
“The Thirty-Three Line-Pair World Ritual Array is probably far from sufficient to manifest a physical body for you, so I used its limited power to manifest the strongest soul body possible for you to control,” Gu Hai said seriously.
“What about the physical body?” Long Zhanguo asked seriously.
Gu Hai extended his hand, and a crucifix appeared before him.
“The Cross Annihilation?” Long Zhanguo’s expression changed.
“Yes! The Cross Annihilation can change shape. You can try using it as a physical body,” Gu Hai said seriously.
Long Zhanguo nodded.
Buzz!
Long Zhanguo’s soul body immediately entered the Cross Annihilation. The Supreme Genesis’s death had left the Cross Annihilation an ownerless item, so one only needed a little time to refine it. Long Zhanguo refined it in the blink of an eye and slowly transformed it into his previous body.
Boom! Boom!
Long Zhanguo stomped twice. A powerful impact struck the planet, causing the entire planet to tremble.
“Take it easy!” Gu Hai said with a bitter smile.
“Not bad! Although this body is not as durable as my previous body, it is even tougher. I can barely use it!” Long Zhanguo said while taking a deep breath.
“Who is he?” Long Zhanguo glanced at the Six Paths Veritable Lord on the other side of the crystal walls.
The Six Paths Veritable Lord’s pupils constricted.
Cloud beast? Is this a cloud beast? The aura seems exactly the same. More importantly, there’s Long Zhanguo’s will, the overbearing nature that looked down on all experts of the world, seeing them as nothing.
How can a Go Dao ritual array be this powerful?
“The person you had wanted to kill the most,” Gu Hai said seriously.
“The Six Paths Immortal?” Long Zhanguo’s expression turned serious, appearing shocked.
“No. He is not yet the immortal. We are currently eight hundred thousand years back in the Divine Continent’s past. Old Master Guan Qi revived and sent us all here to kill the Six Paths Veritable Lord. This is the Six Paths Veritable Lord before he killed Heaven, one of ten Six Paths Veritable Lords!” Gu Hai said seriously.
“Eight hundred thousand years ago? Hah! Hahahaha! Old Mister Guan Qi? He is truly going big! Snuffing out the Six Paths Veritable Lord at the root? Excellent! Excellent! Excellent!” Long Zhanguo revealed a murderous intent on his face.
“I do not have the Heaven Splitting Ax. You will just have to make do,” Gu Hai said.
“Alright!” Long Zhanguo nodded.
The crystal walls were one-way. The Six Paths Veritable Lord needed to use his aura to smash the crystal walls, but Long Zhanguo could simply fly through them like they were nothing.
Rumble…!
Long Zhanguo’s aura slowly spread out, intensely shaking the eighteenth layer of h.e.l.l’s s.p.a.ce. The surrounding stars shuddered as well.
“A Go Dao ritual array? That’s impossible!” The distant Supreme Singularity showed a horrified expression.
The Supreme Singularity had learned from the Six Paths Veritable Lord that the Severed Sect’s Heavenly Access was a cloud beast manifested by a Go Dao ritual array. That revelation had shocked the Supreme Singularity back then. However, when he saw the Severed Sect’s Heavenly Access’s strength, he dismissed the idea, as the Severed Sect’s Heavenly Access was simply too strong.
Now, the Supreme Singularity had no choice but to believe. Gu Hai used the Go Dao ritual array to manifest another expert out of nowhere in a short time. Furthermore, that person’s aura was no weaker than the Severed Sect’s Heavenly Access’s.
A cloud beast against the Six Paths Veritable Lord? This would have sounded preposterous previously. However, it truly happened before their eyes now.
“Six Paths Veritable Lord, you are currently the strongest in the world. Long Zhanguo is the strongest eight hundred thousand years later. I wonder who is the true strongest in the world?” Gu Hai said with a cold expression.
Long Zhanguo had already flown over to the Six Paths Veritable Lord.
The strongest of two different eras faced each other. Fierce battle hunger blazed in their eyes.
“Long Zhanguo? Hah! I do not believe that you can manifest an identical Long Zhanguo with a Go Dao ritual array!” the Six Paths Veritable Lord said with an icy expression.
The Six Paths Veritable Lord extended a finger on his right hand and gently tapped.
Whoos.h.!.+
A crimson light shot at Long Zhanguo’s forehead, just like the one that recently killed the Metal Buddha.
“The Soul Destroying Finger? I know that as well.” Long Zhanguo revealed a faint, cold smile.
At the same time, Long Zhanguo also extended his right index finger and tapped. A beam of crimson light likewise shot over.
Whoos.h.!.+
Boom!
The two beams clashed in midair. s.p.a.ce trembled at the point of collision, a large spatial tear ripping open.
Long Zhanguo did not stop moving. He appeared before the Six Paths Veritable Lord in an instant and threw a punch.
“Humph! Bring it on! Explode!” The Six Paths Veritable Lord counterpunched ferociously.
Boom!
A loud report rang out. Another large black hole ripped open in s.p.a.ce, one even larger than when the two Sect Master Heavenly Accesses’ Immortal Executioner Sword Ritual Arrays clashed.
Long Zhanguo and the Six Paths Veritable Lord showed ferocious expressions within the black hole. Their fists met and maintained a stalemate; no victor emerged.
However, this stalemate caused everyone’s expression to change.
“This is impossible! How could someone block the Six Paths Veritable Lord’s punch?” the Supreme Singularity exclaimed in shock.
Not just the Supreme Singularity felt shocked. The expressions of the other twenty experts with the Supreme Singularity also changed.
“Roar!”
Kong Xuan took advantage of their distraction to flap its wings and swallow a monk.
“What?”
“You b.a.s.t.a.r.d!”
“Don’t get distracted! Deal with this peac.o.c.k first!”
The experts roared as their expressions changed.
On the other side, Sect Master Supreme Ascendant narrowed his eyes at the black hole. Clearly, Long Zhanguo’s strength shocked him. After the shock, he turned his narrowed eyes towards the distant Gu Hai.
Gu Hai sensed this. When he turned his head to look, Sect Master Supreme Ascendant’s gaze met his.