Sage Monarch - Chapter 1032

Chapter 1032

Chapter 1032: Eradicating an Inheritor

‘Time to go for broke!’ thought Shi Yuan . Howling, he yet again attacked with his God Tombstone Palms, sending an enormous tombstone of true energy rumbling toward Yang Qi .

Yang Qi hardly paid it any attention and destroyed the entire tombstone with a casual swipe of his fist .

Shocked, Shi Yuan waved his arms again, this time sending out streams of stone-colored true energy as he called on a different martial discipline from the Great Necropolis . It was the Tusita God Energy . The streams of energy shot out to form something like a web, then he leaped onto it, making him look like some sort of spider . Each step he took was in accord with some unique and strange rhythm, and it enabled him to evade all of the incoming attacks from Yang Qi . As he circled Yang Qi, he slowly surrounded him with the web .

In her heart, Zi Qiong chuckled coldly . ‘The Tusita God Energy? That’s used to avoid and defeat a more powerful enemy . I'm curious to see how Yang Qi defeats this tactic!’

She was still feeling a bit irritated at having been scolded by Yang Qi moments ago, and was hoping this would cause some trouble for him .

However, Yang Qi simply waved his hand, causing the dome of heaven to crumble and sending blade light shining in all directions . Instantly, the web collapsed and Yang Qi took a step forward, easily catching up with Shi Yuan . Then he thrust his hands out, and flickering characters began to flow out from them .

“Flame tribulation!”

RIP!

The character for “flame” exploded, and intense fire shot out . At the same time, Yang Qi threw a curse character of fire into the mix .

The two characters were perfect complements to each other . When the tribulation of fire from the True-Devil Unspoiled-by-Myriad-Kalpas-and-Tribulations Body was mixed with the curse of flame from the Sovereign Lord’s Holy and Far-Reaching Consummate Omnicurse, they caused the entire area to ignite . A sea of flames swept forth, reminiscent of the parable of the burning house from buddhism, in which those caught in the house would be incapable of escaping on their own .  [1]

“Aaaiiiieee!”

Shi Yuan burst into flames, and even the godpower of the Great Necropolis was afire . He was simply incapable of dealing with an energy art like this that contained two complementary aspects, one righteous and one evil .

As Shi Yuan’s access to the godpower of the Great Necropolis faded more and more rapidly, he realized that if things kept going this way, he really would perish . Faced with that prospect, a wretched thought suddenly formed in his head and he suddenly changed directions, evading Yang Qi and heading toward Zi Qiong .

“Die, you bitch! If I'm going out, I'm taking you with me!”

As he closed in, he summoned an enormous vortex, filled with seemingly endless power . Of course, the truth was that he didn’t actually want to die along with Zi Qiong; he was actually hoping to kill her and take her godpower seeds . That was his only hope, if he wanted to kill Yang Qi and destroy the Will Manifestation Heaven Sect .

Zi Qiong had been prepared for something like this all along, and immediately prepared to meet his attack .

However, before Shi Yuan could even reach her, he suddenly lurched to a halt in midair .

RUUUUUUUUMBLE!

A beam of incomparably fast sword light streaked forth, wrapped around him, and cut him in half!

Then, Yang Qi appeared .

“That speed!” blurted Zi Qiong . “You’re too fast! Too powerful! How are you capable of such things?”

“Aaaiiiieee!” Shi Yuan screamed . His two halves immediately tried to stitch back together, but Yang Qi simply waved his hand, keeping them separate . Then, he stabbed his hand into Shi Yuan’s head, grabbed the wriggling godpower seed there, and wrenched it out into the open .

“Be sealed!” he said, sending a host of sealing marks onto it . Then a vortex appeared, into which he tossed the seed .

Next, he waved his hand again, causing Shi Yuan’s mangled head and body to wriggle and squirm as they formed back into a whole person . However, he was completely bereft of any power . He was back to having Destabilizing will, lacking any fluctuations of the Terrifying level .

Having lost his godpower seed, his cultivation base had reverted to its previous state, making him little more than an ordinary disciple .

Zi Qiong burst out laughing . “I thought you were a hero of the age, Shi Yuan! But now you look the same as you did before . Hero? I think not . Back before you got that godpower seed, you were trash . Scum . A petty and spineless coward . And even after you got the godpower seed, you were still no hero, just an arrogant psycho . So how does it feel to be back to normal? Have any clever things to say? You piece of shit!”

“Sectlord, should I kill him?” Yang Qi said .

“Don’t bother,” the sectlord said coolly . “Killing him won’t do anything . His current cultivation base makes him useless . Just seal him and turn him into a thrall . He can help some of the other disciples improve their vital energy and cultivation base . Maybe later, we can even let him be a normal disciple again . ”

“Sectlord, you can’t let him live!” Zi Qiong said . “As long as he’s alive, he’ll harbor hope . Besides, that godpower seed belongs to him . He's still an Inheritor, even if the seed is sealed . What would happen if he somehow got the seed back? Then he would be impossible to stop!”

“Impossible to stop?” the sectlord said . “Didn’t Yang Qi just stop him?”

Yang Qi knew exactly what the sectlord was thinking . Keeping Shi Yuan alive was a way to keep Zi Qiong in check in the future . If Zi Qiong kept getting stronger and stronger, she could eventually cause big problems . That said, Yang Qi wasn’t exactly thrilled about the idea of keeping Shi Yuan alive, either . Yang Qi could sense that he had a simmering true energy inside of him that was constantly trying to reach the godpower seed in the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart . And it took a lot of effort on his part to keep that power in check .

“I don’t think we should spare him,” Yang Qi said . “He’s constantly trying to call out to his Inheritor powers and summon the godpower seed to him . It takes a lot of effort for me to keep that under control . ”

“Oh?” the sectlord said . He thought for a moment . “In that case, you’re right . Kill him . After all, you have the authority to manage daily affairs in the sect . ”

“Yes sir!” Yang Qi strode forward until he was looming over Shi Yuan .

Considering how things were developing, Shi Yuan was overwhelmed with despair and fear . Raising his voice to a near shriek, he said, “I recognize the error of my ways, Junior Sectlord! Forgive me! I was overcome by ambition before, but now I understand how terrifying it is to become powerless . I beg you to return my powers . If you do, I’ll swear an oath to work wholeheartedly for you . Remember, this woman Zi Qiong is full of craft and cunning, and is already plotting against you . If you let her live, she’ll definitely cause problems for you . Keeping me alive to keep her in check is your best option for—”

SNICK!

A beam of sword light stabbed into Shi Yuan’s sea of consciousness, and it didn’t come from Yang Qi .

It was Zi Qiong who directly destroyed his nascent divinity .

Shivering, Shi Yuan looked at her and said, “A woman’s mind is the most ferocious . . . . Zi Qiong, even as a ghost, I’ll never let you off the hook for this . . . . ” [2]

“You think you’re going to become a ghost? I don’t think so . ” Her sword energy slashed back and forth within his sea of consciousness, destroying his soul and will . “You won’t even survive as a speck of dust .  Great Necropolis Energy Disintegration!”

Fire roiled out and enveloped Shi Yuan, transforming him into nothing but steam, which the sword energy then absorbed . Just as she said, not even a speck of dust was left behind .

In this fashion, a mighty Inheritor of the Great Necropolis had died . In the moment of his death, his godpower seed briefly wriggled, then went still . It was now masterless .

Unfortunately, Yang Qi still couldn’t absorb it to become an Inheritor himself . According to common knowledge, only people who were already Inheritors could absorb the godpower seeds . Instead, he would use it to keep Zi Qiong in line . He was already very wary of her, and knew that she was a treacherous, deceitful person, the kind that would break any loyalty if it benefited her .

Yang Qi had learned his lesson with Yun Hailan, and ever since dealing with her, had never trusted women .

If it weren’t for him getting the God Legion Seal and turning the tables, he would never have recovered from that incident .

“Zi Qiong,” he said coolly, “you killed him without getting an order from me . ”

“I deserve the death penalty for that,” she said, bowing her head . The displeasure that had appeared in her eyes earlier was nowhere to be seen . The fact that Yang Qi had been able to kill Shi Yuan indicated that he could do the same to her .

“It’s fine, I was planning to kill him anyway . In this case, your meritorious service will balance out your mistake, so I won’t punish you . Just don’t let it become a habit . Now we need to call the meeting I originally intended . We have a very short time to develop as many elite disciples as possible in preparation for the sect assembly . ”

“Yes, sir,” she said, keeping her head bowed . “I’ll follow every order you give me . ”

“Yang Qi,” the sectlord said . “There will be hundreds of thousands of superpower sects at this meeting . Although our Will Manifestation Heaven Sect is powerful, we aren’t strong enough to vie for the position of league-lord . However, we do need to secure at least some position of power . Some of the sects at the meeting are actually beyond the level of the superpower sects . They’re the paragon sects . One of them is the Woodfern Couple Palace, and another is the Genesis Sanctum . People say that the leaders of those two organizations are all in the mid Terrifying level . I'd say it’s highly likely that one of them will be selected as the league-lord . The leaders of the Woodfern Couple Palace have a daughter, their junior empress, and they’re probably going to try recruiting a son-in-law during this assembly . Why don’t you give it a shot?” [3]

1 . The parable of the burning house is a real thing from Mahayana Buddhism .  More information here .  

2 . Shi Yuan quotes a famous popular proverb/poem here . I found a handful of different variations, but they’re all very similar . It basically goes something like the sting at the tail of the scorpion, the lies in the mouth of a snake, they are not dangerous, but a woman’s mind is the most ferocious .  

3 . The “woodfern” here is a real-life tree, specifically alsophila spinulosa, or the “flying spider-monkey tree fern” . While “Flying Spider-Monkey Tree Fern Couple Palace” might have been an epic name, for a variety of reasons I’m just going to call the tree “woodfern” . In terms of why the sect bears that name, well… you’ll have to wait a few dozen chapters or so… .