Chapter 3020: Fold

Those six words had frightened the nine-headed bird into instantly fleeing. It had seen the desire and greed in the human’s eyes—that human had truly wanted to eat it. What a monster.

Extremes Must Be Reversed was exactly what that human had called the technique, and that technique or ability was too terrifying to even describe. Someone else had actually mastered that same ability, which was the bane of the bird’s existence.

Lu Yin was using Extremes Must Be Reversed on his entire body, and that rendered all of the nine-headed bird’s curses completely ineffective, as long as the attack did not exceed the limits of what Lu Yin could withstand.

Were Lu Yin’s defenses sufficient to protect him from the nine-headed bird’s curse if the bird went all out? Perhaps not, but Progenitor Ku had absolutely been able to endure anything the bird could throw at him. Just what had happened between the bird and Progenitor Ku that had frightened the nine-headed bird so badly?

Still, the nine-headed bird might want to escape, but that was impossible.

It was a unique opportunity to see three outsider powerhouses in one place. On top of that, all three of these enemies had appeared to help Aeternus when the Great Sovereign had appeared in the Scourge. Eliminating these three would deal a heavy blow to the Aeternals.

Lu Yin summoned the Seven-Star Mantis and Kong Ji, and the Seven-Star Mantis moved at the speed of time to chase after the nine-headed bird.

As this was taking place, the being of pure energy was also attempting to escape. It had seen that the plan to ambush and kill Sovereign Dou Sheng was impossible with the opponents that had appeared, and thus, it had decided to flee.

Sovereign Lotus did not let up on her a.s.sault on the pure energy being, but since she had never focused on developing her physical strength, she was only able to fight a battle of attrition.

The Purple Emperor looked up, which caused Sovereign Dou Sheng to pause for a moment. While the man was able to quickly break free, that moment was enough for the Purple Emperor to dodge.

“Dou Sheng, if this continues, you’ll bleed dry.”

Sovereign Dou Sheng cackled. “I’ve been waiting a long time to die, so why should I fear a good fight?”

The Purple Emperor gritted his teeth. He also wanted to escape, but the Sovereign’s Progenitor’s world covered a large area, which made escape far more difficult.

The Purple Emperor glanced around and saw that the nine-headed bird was being stopped by the Seven-Star Mantis, while the being of pure energy was in a stalemate against Sovereign Lotus. The battle was not looking good for Aeternus’s allies.

Suddenly, two more people arrived: Food Sage and Arrow Sage. They had been in the nearby Three Purgatories, and since Sovereign Lotus had spread news of the battle to the Sixverse a.s.sociation, the two Sages were the first to arrive.

The moment Arrow Sage arrived, he aimed an arrow at the Purple Emperor.

Further away, Food Sage revealed his true form, and the taotie roared loud enough to send ripples through the air.

The Purple Emperor swatted the arrow away as he stretched out a hand towards Food Sage, his fingers touching. The two Sages were peak powerhouses, but not sequence powerhouses, and neither was capable of enduring the Purple Emperor’s attacks.

However, as the Purple Emperor attacked, the golden cudgel fell from behind him.

The outsider powerhouse felt a chill, and he quickly dodged. Unfortunately, he did not move fast enough and was caught up in the attack and sent flying.

Sovereign Dou Sheng pressed his attack, and the Purple Emperor struggled to get back up. He propped himself up on an elbow as he stared at the golden light that covered everything. The Purple Emperor felt a terrible sense of danger, and he let out a breath as he prepared to unleash his full power.

As the cudgel struck, the ground trembled and s.p.a.ce quivered.

Food Sage and Arrow Sage looked at where the Purple Emperor had fallen. Was he dead?

A m.u.f.fled groan caused them to turn back, where they saw both Sovereign Dou Sheng and the Purple Emperor, whose hand was inside Sovereign Dou Sheng’s body.

“Sovereign!” both of the Sages exclaimed in shock.

Lu Yin looked over, wondering what had just happened.

Sovereign Lotus turned pale. Did the Purple Emperor actually possess such an ability?

The Purple Emperor stood in front of Sovereign Dou Sheng, his single white eye glaring at the man. “Dou Sheng, you’ve forced my hand! Who doesn’t want to keep a trump card hidden? This was intended for Aeternus, and yet you’ve forced me to use it on you.”

Sovereign Dou Sheng looked down at the arm that had pierced his chest, and at the golden blood that trickled down the arm and onto the Purple Emperor.

“What did you just do?”

The Purple Emperor answered in a low voice, “You’ll have plenty of time to think about it after you’re dead.”

He pulled his hand back and raised it high. After that, no one could see any movement, and yet his arm suddenly stabbed into Sovereign Dou Sheng’s body again. The Sovereign spat his blood at the Purple Emperor’s face, and the Purple Emperor quickly withdrew his hand to strike again…

Holes riddles Sovereign Dou Sheng’s body, and yet the man smiled, blood spilling from his lips. “Folding. You’ve mastered the Law of Folding, and you just folded time.”

The Purple Emperor’s pupils shrank. He felt a terrible sense of impending danger. He tried to attack again, but found that he could not pull his arm back.

“Your attacks are nothing more than annoying tickles to me!” Sovereign Dou Sheng roared as he released a punch that shattered half of the Purple Emperor’s body, including the arm that had been thrust into the Sovereign.

The Purple Emperor coughed up blood, horrified at the sudden reversal. This man was an absolute monster. Despite his terrible injuries, he still was not dead. Just how was that possible? Even the Great Sovereign would have most likely died from such wounds.

Sovereign Dou Sheng swayed on his feet, his vision blurred. He looked to be on the brink of death, and yet he did not die. It seemed as though death was impossible for him.

Lu Yin watched, his eyes twitching. When he had Possessed the nine-headed bird, Sovereign Dou Sheng had already been engaged in a vicious fight with the Purple Emperor, and by the time Lu Yin arrived, the situation had seemed even more desperate for the Sovereign. The man had looked ready to collapse at any moment, but he never had. Despite enduring several seemingly fatal wounds from the Purple Emperor, Sovereign Dou Sheng remained on his feet. Just how much more could the man endure?

It seemed that he never ran out of blood, as he was constantly bleeding from all of his wounds. After so long, even a giant would have been drained.

Everyone was stunned by Sovereign Dou Sheng. He was not a giant, but he was even more formidable than one. He stood tall, magnificent in his golden splendor.

In particular, Heaven’s Sight allowed Lu Yin to see the sequence particles that filled the entire sky. They felt unstoppable and utterly terrifying.

The Purple Emperor ground his teeth. He was unwilling to fight to the death against this monstrous opponent. There was no telling how much longer the man could keep going.

Thinking quickly, the Purple Emperor tried to escape, and his body vanished as he folded time.

Sovereign Dou Sheng had been absolutely right; the Purple Emperor had mastered the Law of Folding. He had fought against the Sovereign by folding his own physical strength, again and again. Even a single piece of paper could become incredibly tough after it was folded enough times, let alone something like the Purple Emperor’s strength.

In addition to folding his body, he was also capable of folding time, which was his trump card against Aeternus, though he had been forced to reveal it against Sovereign Dou Sheng.

Even after all that, the Purple Emperor’s first priority was to escape.

The Purple Emperor wanted to leave, and Sovereign Dou Sheng could not stop him. He was unable to even find the Purple Emperor, and he had only succeeded in delivering such a dreadful wound by physically trapping the Purple Emperor’s arm.

However, even if Sovereign Dou Sheng could not find the Purple Emperor, that did not mean that no one else could.

Lu Yin moved quickly, having already seen the direction the Purple Emperor had escaped in after folding time, and a punch shot out, intercepting the creature fleeing through the void.

The Purple Emperor was startled. Was this human actually capable of seeing him?

Lu Yin let out a breath. His presence could only be considered bad luck for the Purple Emperor. In some ways, folding time was similar to skipping time, and being able to peer back through time could counter both abilities.

Even if the Purple Emperor had folded time, the original moment of his actions had not disappeared, and Lu Yin only needed to look back through time.

The Purple Emperor tried to escape by folding time again, but Lu Yin continued his attacks. Each punch struck the path that the Purple Emperor tried to escape through, which stopped him from leaving.

After repeated attempts, the Purple Emperor gritted his teeth, deciding to simply ignore everything. He would accept a punch from Lu Yin in order to escape. However, it was not only Lu Yin who attacked, but also Arrow Sage and Food Sage. They followed Lu Yin’s lead, and the grievously injured Purple Emperor, who was also feeling drained from repeatedly folding time as he tried to escape, found himself trapped by the combined attacks of three peak powerhouses.

It’s all his fault! the Purple Emperor thought angrily. He forced his severely injured body to punch at Lu Yin through the void. Lu Yin moved to dodge, but the punch had already arrived.

The Purple Emperor was not only able to fold time to escape, but also to attack. This was how he had managed to repeatedly injure Sovereign Dou Sheng, and this time, the method was directed at Lu Yin.

Out of pure instinct, Lu Yin threw his own punch, infusing it with the power of Extremes Must Be Reversed and Infinity. The impact forced Lu Yin to retreat further and further back. Each step back he took crushed the void beneath his feet, and his desiccated arm had instantly recovered.

Lu Yin felt a chill as he looked down at his numb arm. Even on the verge of death, the Purple Emperor was capable of unleashing incredibly destructive attacks. This was what a powerhouse capable of fighting against Sovereign Dou Sheng was capable of. Even without the support of the nine-headed bird or the being of pure energy, the Purple Emperor would not have been helpless against Sovereign Dou Sheng.

Lu Yin understood that, despite his various abilities and strengths granting him the combat strength to join a battle with sequence powerhouses, and even the ability to defeat some of those experts, there could be a vast discrepancy in power amongst sequence powerhouses. He was unable to truly grasp the limits of Sovereign Dou Sheng’s power.

Lu Yin was only able to step onto this battlefield, but he was unable to determine the outcome.

Suddenly, a golden cudgel dropped from the sky, slamming into the Purple Emperor and sending him crashing to the ground. No one knew the creature’s fate.

Elsewhere, the nine-headed bird was struggling against both the Seven-Star Mantis and Kong Ji.

The two summoned champions were relentless in battle, and even if the nine-headed bird was capable of destroying their bodies, they were always able to retaliate.

The nine-headed bird successfully sacrificed a head to eliminate the summoned Kong Ji, but it was never able to form a connection with the Seven-Star Mantis. The mantis was simply too fast. Not only did the mantis prevent the nine-headed bird from escaping, but its blades had also managed to sever two of the bird’s heads, which had elicited pitiful screams.

In this manner, the nine-headed bird was slowly being pushed towards death by the Seven-Star Mantis.

There was no choice left, and the bird decided to endure the Seven-Star Mantis’s slashes in order to escape. The nine-headed bird aimed to travel to the inner depths of the Scourge.

None of the outsider powerhouses even considered trying to escape to a parallel universe. Simply fleeing to the Aeternals would be enough.

Beneath the ground, the Purple Emperor also fled towards the Scourge.

The being of pure energy took the exact same action.

Lu Yin raised his arm and aimed a hundred confined punches at the Purple Emperor.

Suddenly, Lu Yin froze when the Purple Emperor’s white eye stared up at him from beneath the ground. Once again, Lu Yin’s confined punch failed.

At the entrance to the Scourge, the Seven-Star Mantis’s arm blade sliced down, decapitating another one of the nine-headed bird’s heads. Right when the mantis was about to release another attack, a white figure appeared, and it slammed into the Seven-Star Mantis, knocking it back.

Skydog?

Lu Yin was not particularly surprised to see that Aeternus had finally decided to get involved in this fight.

Skydog’s appearance indicated that Aeternus had also gotten involved in the battle.

They had not been left with any choice in the matter. If they allowed the Purple Emperor and the other two outsider powerhouses to die, it would ruin Aeternus’s relationships with their allies, and they would lose a great deal of strength that they could call upon. The Aeternals could not accept such a loss.

OMA"s Thoughts

Translated By: OMA

Edited By: Neshi/Nyxnox

TLC"ed By: OMA