Chapter 507: Stepping Up
King Ghidorah, baring a mouth full of fangs, sprayed heavy breathing onto Selene, which was dispersed by the silver starlight hanging from her robe!
"Get out of the way! Don't block the path!" Selene didn't wait for King Ghidorah to use his Peering Divine Ability to carefully discern her identity. She shouted sharply, lifted her foot, and fiercely kicked King Ghidorah's middle head.
"Wuwu!" That ferocious head was kicked for no reason. Under the mocking gaze of the two heads on either side, the fierce head squeezed out a wronged expression.
Confirming the force, it was indeed one of those grandmothers! The three heads moved aside, clearing the path for Selene.
Amidst the sounds of mocking and wronged dragon roars, Selene passed King Ghidorah and boarded the Canopy Cloud Fragrance Chariot. On the vehicle, she first glanced at Zhao Li and Wang Xiaoya standing by the door, then directly lifted aside the colorful gauze curtains and beaded netting and walked straight inside.
Wang Xiaoya watched her retreating figure, revealing a hateful gaze. She had seen it clearly just now; it was this wicked woman who had severed Dong Qing's arm with a sword.
"See no evil! Be careful not to cause trouble!" Zhao Li gently shook his head at Wang Xiaoya.
Inside the colorful gauze curtains, a man and a woman were seated cross-legged on a cloud bed, playing chess. The incense burning beside them inside the vehicle transformed into wondrous visions of immortal cranes carrying ganoderma, white apes presenting peaches, and birds fluttering.
Seeing Selene's gloomy expression as she entered, Tang Song's hand, which was picking up a white jade chess piece, paused. He beckoned towards her.
Selene looked at the Queen Mother of the West in surprise. She hadn't expected the woman inside the vehicle to be one of the Olympic Bitches she had anticipated. Moreover, judging by their appearance together, their relationship didn't seem to be the kind she had imagined! Selene walked towards Tang Song with a wronged expression, and he pulled her into his embrace.
"What's wrong? Unhappy!" Tang Song pulled Selene closer and placed the white piece in his hand on a corner of the chessboard!
"Hmph! I don't believe you didn't see it, I was bullied!" Selene's hair tips hung down, the dark tips brushing against that cold and stunning face, stirring a wave of protective desire from the bottom of one's heart!
"Of course I saw it. You're always messing around with your subordinates. Now you know there's always someone better out there! I told you long ago to cultivate properly. Hand these matters over to your subordinates later, and you go back to Great Luo Heaven for a period of secluded cultivation to improve your cultivation base! Otherwise, when Skye and the others emerge from seclusion and achieve the True Immortal Dao Fruit, your strength will be the lowest among them!"
Tang Song bent his arm, embracing the Moonlight Goddess, while simultaneously dividing his attention to play chess with the Queen Mother of the West opposite him.
The Queen Mother of the West held a black piece, looking at the moves on the chessboard. The moment Selene entered inside the vehicle, she saw through her identity as one of the Others. Her gaze swept over Selene's graceful figure. After placing a piece, her gaze towards Tang Song was full of teasing.
Facing the Queen Mother of the West's teasing gaze, Tang Song's expression remained unchanged as he picked up a white jade chess piece and placed it on a corner of the chessboard.
Selene noticed the gaze cast by the woman in front of her. She bit her lip, revealing two sharp canine teeth, and nestled her head into Tang Song's embrace, feeling wronged. "I'll go back to Great Luo Heaven for secluded cultivation right away, but now you have to help me vent this anger! My sword was almost broken by that person!"
Saying this, feeling wronged, she conjured her treasured sword, which was of Magic Treasure grade, for Tang Song to see. On the treasured sword body, a blue dragon shadow faintly swam, but the frost dragon's bruised and swollen appearance was truly not very presentable.
"Sacrificing half his soul in exchange for an increase in strength! Fellow Daoist, do you know which of the gods Chi You worships? Could it be that Taishan Fujun!"
Tang Song ran his fingers over the longsword. A golden light spread from his fingertip. The fine cracks on the longsword quickly healed in the golden light! Even the frost dragon, which served as the Magic Treasure True Spirit, had its damaged dragon soul recovered. The bruises and contusions around its nose and eye sockets disappeared, and its True Spirit even solidified further.
"That's right, he sacrifices to none other than Taishan Fujun!"
Tang Song noticed that the Queen Mother of the West's expression turned somewhat unpleasant when she mentioned Taishan Fujun again! Thinking of Chi You's sacrifice, Acha becoming the Lord of the Underworld, and how Taishan Fujun's shadow was behind all these matters—and how these matters all pointed directly at the Queen Mother of the West—there must be some very interesting things going on.
Tang Song casually picked up a piece, intending to gossip a bit, but Selene kept wriggling around in his embrace.
Selene wasn't actually angry because she was defeated by Chi You. Back then, she had confidently taken on the task of managing the Dark Council in front of Tang Song. Today, she originally wanted to show off her achievements to Tang Song. She hadn't expected that the Dark Council, which she thought was strong and powerful, would be successively beaten through by the Underworld King and Chi You.
This was like trying to show off but failing and instead exposing her rear. Feeling she had lost a lot of face in front of Tang Song, Selene was determined to regain face.
"Alright, be good! Take these Yin-Yang Mother-Child Divine Thunder! Find the right moment later and hit him hard with one!"
Selene clung to Tang Song in his embrace for a while. Tang Song, worn down, had no choice but to hand her a handful of black and white thunder orbs the size of longans.
The surface of these longan-sized thunder orbs emitted two streams of qi flow, one black and one white. The two swirling streams of qi flow rose, and in their fusion, transformed into streaks of tiny lightning, crackling.
These black and white pellets are called Yin-Yang Mother-Child Divine Thunder. They are byproducts of Tang Song's refining of Yin Yang Qi. Nine hundred and ninety-nine Yang Thunder and nine hundred and ninety-nine Yin Thunder are combined and refined for forty-nine days to form them. These Yin-Yang Mother-Child Divine Thunder possess immense force. The force of each one is no less than that of a miniature nuclear bomb's explosion.
At the same time, this Divine Thunder contains a portion of the Yin Yang Qi's power of annihilation. Even some high-grade Immortal Family protective magic treasures refined by True Immortals cannot withstand a single bombing! Selene took the handful of thunder orbs, kissed Tang Song fiercely on the face, and happily lifted the beaded curtain of the Canopy Cloud Fragrance Chariot and walked out!
"Fellow Daoist, with such a cultivation base, you still possess the desires of a Mortal from the Mortal World!" The Queen Mother of the West watched Selene's retreating figure and turned back to tease Tang Song.
Facing the Queen Mother of the West's jest, Tang Song smiled, "Unlike Fellow Daoists who are Innate Deities, I am an Acquired Cultivator. I truly haven't reached the point of abandoning the seven emotions and six desires!"
This Ancient God before him, although not the Golden Mother from the Jambudvīpa World, was also an Innate Deity of This World.
The Innate foundation, philosophy, and perspective with which Innate Deities and Acquired Beings view things are vastly different.
After all, even among Ordinary People, they will attack each other over different skin colors, different ethnicities, and different faiths, fighting like cats and dogs, let alone the difference between Innate and Acquired.
In the eyes of an Innate Ancient God like the Queen Mother of the West, who was born a Deity, it's like an Ordinary Person looking at ants. From that perspective, it's difficult to have any empathy for ordinary humans.
The earliest batch of humanity in This World was created by Deities. At that time, the Queen Mother of the West worried that that batch of Original Humans wouldn't survive, so she sent Heavenly Maidens down to the Mortal Realm. She had the Heavenly Maidens teach humanity how to farm and how to live. However, as time passed, some Heavenly Maidens and humanity developed feelings for each other.
As an Innate Deity, the Queen Mother of the West didn't understand their behavior. In her view, her Attendants descending to the Mortal Realm were supposed to take care of those "pets!"
Those Attendants actually said they wanted to live with the pets and not return to K'un-Lun. In the Queen Mother of the West's eyes, how absurd! What humanity called love, in her view, was just an illness. To prevent this illness from spreading, she wanted to get rid of those Original Humans who were afflicted.
And Chi You was the Leader of the Original Humans back then. Naturally, he wasn't willing to see humanity face destruction. Thus, Chi You led the Original Humans to resist those high and mighty Gods.
The outcome goes without saying. The Queen Mother of the West used Heavenly Maiden Ya to trick Chi You, that lovesick fool. The earliest batch of humanity was thus annihilated. Chi You was torn apart by five horses, his soul was saved by Acha and is being nourished in the Underworld.
The Queen Mother of the West sized up Tang Song, lowered her gaze, looked at the chessboard in front of her, and closed her eyes. She didn't understand the love spoken of by Mortals, just as she didn't understand why this "Fellow Daoist" before her would be infatuated with such vulgar desires!
Tang Song put his hand into the white jade chess box holding the pieces, and picked up a piece. What he coveted wasn't the pleasure brought by the physical body, but merely cherishing this period of time as a human.
For an Ordinary Mortal, living past seventy is rare since ancient times. However, the lifespan of a Golden Immortal is measured in Yuanhui. One Yuanhui is 129,600 years! Some ancient Golden Immortals have lived for countless Yuanhui, even enduring several Era-End Calamities, living even longer than some universes. They are truly living fossils.
If an Ordinary Person lives long enough, sees enough, and experiences everything there is to experience, without a pursuit, they will become empty.
Just like Xu Fu in Fengyun, over a thousand years of time, he was gradually cut by the blade of time, forgetting his original intention and becoming a Madman who played in the Mortal World, calling himself a Deity.
Immortals with a strong state of mind and mastery over extraordinary great power naturally wouldn't allow themselves to fall into such a state.
However, over the long years, these Golden Immortals have experienced all the beauty and suffering in the world, seen many sights, and grown tired of many sights. In the end, these Living Fossils who seek nothing else have only the Dao left in their hearts! Like a real stone! Their situation is an obstacle for many Golden Immortals before crossing into the Great Principle realm. Generally, the People of the World call this Dao Assimilation!
When seeking the Dao goes too deep, one can no longer distinguish whether they are mastering the rules or being mastered by the rules. It's like looking at one's reflection in the water and unconsciously throwing oneself into it.
The demise of many Golden Immortals is not due to nirvana/parinirvana or human calamity, nor is it the exhaustion of lifespan, but rather their own Dao Assimilation, becoming a part of the Dao of Laws.
Although Tang Song's magic power is strong, his state of mind is not as profound as some True Immortals who have lived for thousands or tens of thousands of years. He doesn't want to become the kind of Ancient Immortal who spends the rest of their life solely seeking the Dao, nor does he want to undergo Dao Assimilation.
He also didn't know if, after experiencing long years, he would lose his desire for some things. He needed something to break the calm heart lake. Whether it was female beauty or ambition, they were just stones he cast into the center of the lake.
The ripples stirred up were also a warning to himself!
It was just that he didn't need to tell the Queen Mother of the West before him about these matters! Tang Song didn't say more. Seeing that the Queen Mother of the West had placed a black piece, he picked up a white piece and placed it on the chessboard.
Outside the Garbhadhatu Mandala Formation, a violent figure was like a rampaging wild bull. Chi You's hands were enveloped in flame energy transformed from boundless fierce flames. He smashed his fists, almost madly, onto the white lotus petals formed by the formation in front of him.
Without Selene's interference, Chi You's fists pounded into the white lotus petals in front of him. The fierce and powerful fist wind caused the entire white lotus to tremble continuously.
With every punch Chi You threw, it was like a mountain collapsing, shattering The Void. On the white lotus energy barrier, several extremely fine black space rifts spread.
Inside the Formation Space, three thousand Power Angels bore and shared the attack from Outside. The light feathers behind them scattered, breaking apart into pieces of light and dissipating.
The Garbhadhatu Mandala Formation was indeed full of profound mystery, but the gap in absolute strength could not be erased!
Inside the Formation Space, a half-crippled True Immortal was trapped. Outside, a peak True Immortal was continuously attacking. Both sides struck simultaneously. Finally, after the energy barrier formed by white light endured hundreds of punches under Chi You's nearly frantic attack, the giant white lotus in the Sky directly collapsed and dissipated.
Inside the Formation Space, King of the Underworld Cha Cha seized this opportunity and conjured her sword hairpin. That treasured sword performed Light Splitting Shadow Transformation, turning one into ten, and ten into a hundred. For a moment, the Sky was filled with piercing and flying sword light.
The sky-filling sword light that shot up met the light feathers scattered by the Angels, piercing through the bodies of hundreds of Power Angels, creating transparent Holes the size of bowls in their bodies.
Deathly black energy spread from the wounds of these Power Angels. The smooth wings behind them instantly dimmed and withered. Their bodies paused slightly in the Void Space for a few seconds before immediately disintegrating.
Countless white feathers danced in the air—
Seeing King of the Underworld Cha Cha soaring up, these Dao Soldiers Power Angels didn't know what fear was. They held bright silver two-handed cross swords in their hands and charged towards Acha.
Without the shackle of the formation, facing these birdmen with wings, Acha waved her finger. The sky-filling sword light, crossing left and right with her fingertip, directly shredded hundreds and thousands of Angels into pieces.
In the Void Space, Deckard watched the scene of Angels scattering feathers as they rushed to their deaths. However, he didn't retreat under the cover of the Angel Dao Soldiers. Instead, this scene seemed to ignite the heroic spirit within him, like This Old Man indulging in youthful fervor.
Deckard suddenly raised the silver cross sword in his hand with immense devotion and shouted to the Sky, "Heavenly Emperor, bless us!"
Shouting the slogan, Deckard swung his longsword, leading hundreds of Angels behind him. They transformed into streaking lights and charged towards King of the Underworld Cha Cha. Deckard's gaze was so resolute that even Tang Song on the Canopy Cloud Fragrance Chariot stopped his action.
This faith, these Angels, these Gods, and so on, were just tools he used to harvest the power of faith. The High-level Staff of the Heavenly Court all knew this point.
Although Deckard wasn't High-level Staff of the Tang Group, he had close dealings with Tang Song. Back then, the crowd of the Sacred Shield Brotherhood hid within the Church, merely using the Church's influence to revive the Sacred Shield Brotherhood.
No, why did you get so into character?!
It was because of those Angels. Tang Song's expression was a bit strange. It seemed he hadn't made it clear to Deckard that these Angels were just combat puppets he manufactured using the Dao Soldier System. Even if they were destroyed, it would only consume some materials and power of faith!
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