Sage Monarch - Chapter 645

Chapter 645: 645

“I see,” Yang Qi said, picking up the embroidered robe . It was clearly a magical treasure, although it had been drained of any residual spirit energy and the formations inside it were broken . Being corroded by devil energy for so long had completely ruined it .

Next, he looked over at the crushed skeleton and waved his hand, causing it to rise into the air and return to a whole state . Then his vital energy washed over the skull, causing flesh and blood to wriggle out until the corpse’s original facial features were made clear .

“Is that… it is! It really is one of my Sect Grandaunts!” Sword Matriarch Ice Spirit was visibly shocked . “I've seen her portrait in our sect headquarters . You see, my sect is unique in that we’re led exclusively by sword matriarchs . Not all of the sects in the Sage Sword Heaven are like that . Can you resurrect her?”

“Resurrect her?” Yang Qi smiled . “No, I used a powerful energy art to get a glimpse at her face, but I can’t restore her body . Perhaps one day, when my cultivation has reached an extremely high level, I could do something like that, but not now . ”

Sword Matriarch Ice Spirit let out a long sigh . “At the least, I need to take her remains back to be properly buried . She was a second division Tempered God, yet she perished in the depths of this castle . What a pity . Her death is one of the reasons why our Ice Spirit Sword Sect is in its current weakened state . ”

“The fact that a Tempered God died here is a good reminder for us to be very careful,” Yang Qi said . “If my speculations are correct, the devil sealed in that altar over there is the very same one who cost your Sect Grandaunt her life . ”

His eyes were locked onto an altar just off to the side . It was covered with a host of glittering magical symbols and layers of dried blood . It was also decorated with carvings of devil-ghosts, and sitting atop it was a bottle gourd . Considering the deathless godliness that it radiated, it was clearly a god item .

Truth be told, just about all of the altars in the second level had god items like this .

Although they were quite a temptation, Yang Qi knew that he couldn’t take them . If he did, the fiend-devils sealed within the altars would be freed, and that would be a huge disaster .

After all, if one fiend-devil got out, and he wasn’t able to kill it, it would start freeing other fiend-devils .

“That devil energy is so powerful!” Yang Qi murmured, looking closer at the altar . He even sent some divine will inside and saw a vast sea of blood, with some enormous entity lurking in its depths . Clearly, whatever devil was sealed here was something mysterious and unpredictable .

“Tempered Gods are so much more powerful than Seer Gods that it's hard to quantify,” Sword Matriarch Ice Spirit said . “Seer Gods have just begun to see the profound mysteries of their virtual godhood, but Tempered Gods are different . Their virtual godhood has reached the consummate level, allowing them to unleash power reminiscent of the legion of gods . ”

Yang Qi definitely wouldn’t take Tempered Gods lightly . However, that didn’t mean that his hands were tied here . After all, he was dying to use a Tempered God to further his cultivation base . And given the level of his cultivation base, plus the synergy between the Eight Tribes Godfist and the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth, he suspected that he might actually be strong enough to take out a Tempered God .

The main problem was that, if it turned out he wasn't strong enough to actually kill such a monster, letting it escape wasn’t an option .

“Let me think for a moment,” he said, dropping down cross-legged . After a bit of time passed, he said, “Okay, I'm going to try to kill this fiend-devil . First, I’ll set up a composite spell formation . And I’ll need your help . Use whatever sword formations you can think of to bolster the formation . Then we’ll strike simultaneously . If we can take out a Tempered God fiend-devil, it will be a big accomplishment!”

“Alright!” she replied, mustering her courage . “I know just the sword formation to use, and I’ll power it with my animadestiny quintessence-blood . It might be strong enough to take down a Tempered God . ”

“Perfect!” Yang Qi said, sending out his primal-chaos elder-snake to coil around the base of the enormous altar . The altar was fully five thousand kilometers from end to end, but truth be told, that wasn't very large . Yang Qi’s primal-chaos elder-snake could consume entire planets, and even third ranked immortal worlds . So an altar like this was actually tiny .

Next, Yang Qi sent out true energy to form a banner that was fully thirty-thousand meters long, embroidered with true dragons . It emanated a majestic, holy aura that immediately began suppressing the devil energy in the area .

Then he created another banner, then another, and another . The devil energy in the area was being purified as hundreds of thousands of banners were laid out in a complex pattern around the altar . The area was soon filled with divine dragons, flying about as they prepared to crush the altar to bits .

These banners were a devil-suppressing art from the Eight Tribes Godfist . They were called the Eight Tribes Devil-Suppressing Dragon Banners, and they could draw on the magical laws and godpower of the Eight Tribes Heaven to powerful effect .

Of course, it involved a huge drain on true energy . Normally speaking, even a powerful Godmyth like August Patriarch Fire Dragon would only have been able to call on about a thousand of the banners .

The banners would disappear after being used, and could easily inflict severe injury to the vital energy of the user .

After setting up hundreds of thousands of them, Yang Qi waved his hand, causing them to fade from view . Then he flicked his finger, sending out pellets of sagelight that turned into numerous angels, who hovered there singing holy hymns to the Sovereign Lord .

WHIZZZ!

Another spell formation took shape .

Yang Qi exhaled and called on his five phases godly-class energy art, with its eighty-one cycles of reincarnation . Yet another spell formation popped into being .

“The Cardinal Grand Brahma Five Phases Energy Arts?!” Sword Matriarch Ice Spirit said as she set up her own formation, complete with thousands of swords flying back and forth . “That's a consummate art from the Brahman Immortal World . People say that it’s actually impossible to cultivate all five phases to the perfect level . How did you possibly do it? It's a miracle!”

Yang Qi smiled . “You’d be surprised how many miracles I can pull off . In fact, if you’re going to work with me, I’d appreciate it if you stop being so surprised all the time . ” Waving his hand, he began to set up another formation, this one featuring countless spears, which of course were manifestations of his Infernal Deity Spear .

Three days and nights passed, during which time Yang Qi and Sword Matriarch Ice Spirit set up a whole host of enormous formations . After the main work was done, they set about adjusting their vital energy and preparing for their deadly strike against the fiend-devil .

Sometimes Yang Qi would jump into a fight without much thought, but not this time . He was being very cautious in all the preparations .

‘This area is great . I took down August Patriarch Fire Dragon, allied with Sword Matriarch Ice Spirit, and finally ended up in Castle Heaven-Devil . I originally thought it would be impossible to use the three years on my hands to reach the Godmyth level . But if I can take down a Tempered God, it might actually happen . ’

Another three days and nights passed, and Yang Qi’s vital energy was back to full level .

Looking over at Sword Matriarch Ice Spirit, he asked, “Are you ready?” 

She nodded . “Ready . ”

“Alright, brace yourself . I'm going to remove the god item sealing the altar . Once the fiend-devil is out in the open, it's going to be a life or death battle . Win or lose, it all ends here!”

RUMBLE!

He sent out a projected hand to grab the god item, which looked like a jade bottle gourd and was filled with ancient devil-subduing godlight . Clearly, the godlight had slowly been drained away over the years and would eventually run out, at which point the fiend-devil would be freed .

Without any hesitation, Yang Qi took the bottle gourd and threw it in with the rest of his belongings .

The altar instantly began to tremble, and an expression of devil will rolled out from it .  

“It’s been so long! So many years! I've been suppressed for so long . But I’ve finally broken through the ancient seals . I'm finally awake! Foolish humans . You released me all for the sake of that god item?! My thanks to you . I’ll now reward you by killing you, taking your souls, and adding them to my Blood Throne . Thus, you will live forever as my slaves . ”

All of a sudden, a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood appeared, which took the shape of an enormous throne . Then a devil-god appeared on the throne . He looked like a middle-aged man clad in a blood red robe . His eyes were green, and glowed with a sorcerous light that seemingly contained the transformations of life and death from countless devil worlds .

He had long, sharp fingernails that were also blood-red, and he tapped them on the throne as he looked at Yang Qi and Sword Matriarch Ice Spirit .

All of a sudden, their vision was overtaken by endless blood and they felt their nascent divinities being overwhelmed by nightmares . It didn’t matter how many spell formations they had set up if they couldn’t activate them, thanks to being trapped in a nightmare .

‘What a powerful fiend-devil!’ Yang Qi thought . This was definitely the strongest opponent he had ever faced, yet he wasn’t about to let himself be suppressed by a nightmare . He waved his hand and a beam of sagelight shot out to activate the spell formations .

“Eight Tribes Devil-Suppressing Dragon Banners! Detonate!”

BOOM!

The hundreds of thousands of banners exploded, turning the sea of blood into a mist and causing the enormous throne to crack and crumble . Then Yang Qi began activating all of the other countless formations, sending a terrifying attack against the fiend-devil . If the fiend-devil didn’t fall, the consequences would be too horrible to contemplate .