parentshiftbook Chapter 685: He’s Coming Out
Chapter 685: He’s Coming Out
Chapter 685: He’s Coming Out
The pontiff acted, using the techniques of moving heaven, shifting earth, harnessing the wind, and clutching at shadows! Majestic energy surged as the abilities of a Smoldering God were made manifest.
The Captain struck back with his past-life organs and body parts. He acted in a very gruish style, but his past-life might was enough to astonish ghosts and gods.
When it came to the forces of the Red Moon Cathedral, virtually everyone had seen some of those terrifying body parts and organs, as they flew around with the church temples, and could be used as weapons. Every single one of them contained dreadful power. One of them was the very same heart that Xu Qing had seen at the Heavenfire Sea. Over the countless years that had passed, there had been all sorts of speculations in the Moonrite Region about those organs and body parts. Therefore, it was literally impossible that anyone could have predicted that they were actually the past life body of someone who appeared to only be in the Nascent Soul level! After all, this particular past life of the Captain had occurred multiple epochs ago. A lot of time had passed since then, and people who were still alive now that had witnessed that time period were as rare as phoenix feathers or qilin horns.
As all of these developments unfolded, cultivators on both sides of the conflict looked on with shock and bewilderment.
That was especially the case as the Captain looked on with a crazy look as the huge mouth opened wide and closed in on the pontiff. Massive amounts of saliva poured out of the mouth, almost like rain that fell to the ground below. The saliva was thick and sticky, and stood straight up when it hit the ground. There, it exuded a will of rot and sealing that locked down the surroundings.
The pontiff’s expression flickered dramatically as a sense of profound unease rose in him. He was about to fight back when, all of a sudden, searing pain filled his eyes. The pain was so intense it interrupted his magic. His view of the world blurred, and he suddenly saw a host of blurry figures snapping at him.
Those blurry figures were all the Captain.
The pontiff’s expression turned grim. “These eyes might have belonged to someone else before. But as of now, they’re mine!”Nnêw n0vel chapters are published at novelhall.com
The pontiff snorted coldly. Ignoring the pain in his eyes, he backed up and circulated his cultivation base, causing a field of golden light to spring up around him. As it spread, it turned into innumerable sealing marks that began to converge on each other.
As that process continued, blood oozed out of his eyes. Then, shockingly, faces appeared in each of his pupils. Those faces belonged to none other than the Captain. The faces were smiling gruishly. In the pupils of those face’s eyes were more faces, all the same, and that pattern continued. It was impossible to say how many faces there were, but all of them had that same gruish smile.
When the faces appeared, rumbling sounds filled the pontiff, and his divine ability was interrupted. In fact, his entire person locked in place. But he was the pontiff, after all. No one knew where he came from. What was more, his cultivation base and body were all patched together. At the moment, that wasn’t relevant, as he began to utter an enchantment.
“Activate the life talisman; punishment from the deepest caverns; demons, devils, and evil ghosts; bound and delivered to the impoverished spring!”
As the words left his mouth, his entire body erupted with blinding golden light. The sealing marks around him clumped together to form the projection of a gigantic, golden rhinoceros. It threw its head back and roared, causing everything to shake violently. Then the golden rhino charged toward the enormous mouth.
A boom rang out as the mouth chomped down onto the rhino. Crunching sounds rang out, but the rhino held strong, and the Captain’s past life mouth was unable to chew it up in a short time.
Taking advantage of the moment, the pontiff flared with golden light that converged on his eyes, causing the faces there to ripple and distort. The faces seemed no match for the golden light. As the light faded, the faces were slowly wiped away, and the pontiff’s aura grew stronger. It seemed that the situation with the eyes was about to be reversed.
The Captain laughed coldly.
Xu Qing nodded, a strange expression on his face. Then he looked at the unmoving pontiff.
“Is he—”
“Don’t worry about it,” the Captain said, clasping his hands behind his back proudly. “The Eye Thief’s soul is complicated, but he’s dreaming if he thinks he can escape the restraints placed by my past-life body. Once my body finishes assimilating him, then I’ll be in complete control!”
The situation on the battlefield had been completely reversed. With the defeat of the pontiff, the cathedral cultivators’ morale collapsed. Many of them just turned around and ran. In contrast, the Moonrebel forces went on the offensive, going all-out to fight for their hope, their freedom, and their future. Everything seemed to be going well. But then, something dramatic unfolded.
A boom like heavenly thunder erupted from Crimson Mother’s mortal husk, sending a frantic sound wave rolling out in all directions. Wherever it passed, the Moonrebel cultivators coughed up blood. Some were ripped to shreds. The same thing happened to the cultivators of the Red Moon Cathedral, with many of them being destroyed in body and soul. Everyone on the field of battle backed away from the mortal husk.
Xu Qing’s expression flickered as he turned to look in that direction. The Captain did the same.
Cracks were spreading out on the surface of the mortal husk, from within which beams of blood-colored light emerged.
The mortal husk exploded with a boom, and five figures tumbled out of it. They were none other than the Heir Apparent and his siblings. They had serious expressions on their faces, and all of them were injured. That was especially true of Fifth Sister and Eighth Sib; their faces were splattered with blood, but their eyes shone with killing intent. The Heir Apparent’s chest had caved in, and in the spot where his heart should have been was a gaping hole. His heart... was missing.
A very unsightly expression could be seen on Princess Brightblossom’s face. She was also seriously injured. Only Ninth Sib seemed to be relatively unharmed. The battle spirit in his eyes burned brightly as he offered protective cover to his siblings.
“Back up, hē’s coming out!” Ninth Sib barked.
All of a sudden, massive amounts of blood shot out from the mortal husk. It was like a sea of blood had been tapped into, as it flowed down the statue of the Imperial Sovereign and spread out on the ground below.
A terrifying aura began to spread. It wasn’t the aura of a cultivator. Rather, it contained the fluctuations of a god. Once again, the canopy of heaven turned crimson, as did the lands below.
Next, countless gazes converged on a figure casually stepping out from Crimson Mother’s mortal husk. Mountain-toppling, sea-draining pressure crushed down on everything, and as mutagen flourished, the surroundings blurred.
This was the arrival of a god!
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