<h4>Book 7, Chapter 49: Mobilizing Reinforcements (1)</h4>
Even though saying that Su Chen had defeated a Deste Beast by himself would be omitting a few details, it was an undeniable truth that Su Chen had challenged a Deste Beast entirely on his own.
But like he had said, this was only the beginning. Soon, they would be fighting against even more powerful opponents.
Ten years was just too short of a timeframe. Su Chen had no choice but to force himself to speed up his development.
Thankfully, his lifetime of research was beginning to bear fruit, and his foundation was stable enough for him to reap the rewards.
As he watched the imposing, majestic White Lion and the immovable Towering m fight off in the distance, Su Chen said, “I’ll take care of Towering m.”
Towering m’s powerful control skills allowed it to control any living organism that entered its radius of effect. Numbers were totally useless against it, which was why only a powerful individual like Su Chen could fight against it.
Su Chen’s figure flickered as he instantly reappeared above Towering m.
Even though he was just floating above Towering m, Su Chen could sense a powerful will constantly attempting to invade his consciousness. It was as if there was a voice strongly urging him to worship and obey the invading will’smands.
What a terrifying Deste Beast. Even someone with a consciousness as powerful as Su Chen’s would have a hard time resisting.
Thankfully, Su Chen was not relying on just his consciousness power.
Immortal energy swelled within him once again, this time protecting his consciousness from the invading will.
His state of mind once again became calm.
Then, Su Chen shed his sword right at Towering m.
By now, this giant Deste Beast had already suffered countless attacks from the Titan-ss puppets, and as a result, its shell was covered in dents and, in some weaker locations, holes. Towering m had not managed topletely brush off the attacks of the Titan-ss puppets — after all, in terms of pure strength, the Titan-ss puppets were a higher level than Ultimate Emperor Realm cultivators.
Su Chen’s sword pierced one of Towering m’s damaged points, easily slicing through the tender flesh like a hot knife through butter. There seemed to be no resistance whatsoever.
The immortal energy surrounding the de suddenly shed a searing white color. When Su Chen burned his immortal energy, his sword was able to easily pierce through Towering m’s shell and strike at its body.
Towering m’s body was not as tough as its shell, so Su Chen’s sword strike wounded it quite seriously. Since it had no mouth, Towering m was incapable of expressing its anger through a roar, but it could still do so by increasing the intensity of its attacks. The light in the sky intensified until it became a white-hot sun, and everyone nearby immediately fell under Towering m’s control.
However, Towering m did not immediately send them into battle against the rest of the human forces; instead, they all rushed back towards Towering m to support it.
Su Chen ignored this. He pulled the Lightless de out of Towering m’s shell with a vicious twist, attempting to bore arger hole in its shell.
Towering m became extremely agitated. It could clearly sense the threat that Su Chen posed, and it quickly diverted all of its rays of light towards Su Chen.
Su Chen activated his immortal energy, which shed with Towering m’s light. The resulting light show was extremely dazzling, but Su Chen paid it no attention and continued to widen the hole in front of him — Towering m’s shell was extremely tough, and it might even be tougher than Sky City’s walls. However, its shell had no other redeeming qualities other than its extreme toughness. As soon as it was broken, it would be extremely difficult to repair the hole.
Su Chen gritted his teeth fiercely and continued slowly grinding away at the mshell. The de grated sharply against the m’s hard shell as if he were sawing at a rock.
When the unstoppable spear met the immovable shield, there was no other option but for them to sh repeatedly until one was ground into dust.
Towering m was obviously at a disadvantage in this conflict.
Because Su Chen was not alone.
The Titan-ss puppets had charged over to support Su Chen.
Their arrival was extremely timely. In an orderly fashion, they leapt into the air one by one, smashed their heavy fists onto the area that Su Chen was cutting at, and then backed off to make room for the next Titan-ss puppet.
They repeatedly struck at the same point again and again.
And as Su Chen continued to saw at the m’s shell, it eventually couldn’t take it any longer and cracked.
Bang!
Following that burst of sound, arge, gaping hole appeared on Towering m’s chest.
The Towering Eye glowed with intense light once again as it attempted to summon reinforcements to its side.
Su Chen gestured with his hand. “Stop them!”
The fifty Titan-ss puppets surged away from the Deste Beast and back towards the humans controlled by Towering m. They did not attack, and instead used their sturdy bodies to block the controlled humans from advancing while enduring the attacks flying at them.
Su Chen took advantage of this opening to slip through the hole in the shell.
Right after entering, he saw countless floating specters made of light moving towards his direction.
“Astrals?” Su Chen was momentarily taken aback.
But he soon realized that his first guess had been wrong.
These specters were not Astrals, but rather an extremely simr creature. They were likely spirits of some kind.
These spirits were parasites that lived within Towering m’s body. They relied on Towering m for survival, but they also protected it when it was in danger. In some sense, they served as Towering m’s guards.
Since Towering m’s body had been invaded, the spirits were all mobilized, and they began to shriek as they wed at Su Chen.
“These minor demons won’t even be able to withstand a single attack,” Su Chen muttered to himself as he unleashed a ming Dragon Theurgy Art, followed by a Thunder Prison. The violent mes and lightning wreaked havoc within Towering m’s body.
Even though Towering m’s shell was tough, its body was much weaker.
Just these two attacks alone tormented Towering m to no end. The Towering Eye in the sky began to revolve like mad in response, constantly disrupting the human armies. Back in the general battlefield, the human soldiers were losing control of themselves left and right, creating an uncontroble stampede of sorts.
Even so, this was itsst opportunity to wreak such havoc.
Su Chen began to fully reveal his offensive might from within Towering m’s body, going on a rampage with his attacks. The spirits that were supposed to guard Towering m werepletely annihted. Despite the fact that they had been steadily growing for tens of thousands of years, they couldn’t evenst for a minute under Su Chen’s onught.
Towering m’s interior was being devastated by Su Chen.
Shadow Inferno!
Tenth-Degree Hurricane!
Dragon Trial Spear!
Destructive Lightning!
Su Chen unleashed all of the energy in his body as quickly as he could, using all of his high-damaging skills in rapid session. Each skill was also imbued and strengthened with some immortal energy, vastly increasing their destructive capacity.
After just a few minutes, Towering m could take it no more. The Towering Eye’s frantic motions clearly indicated its deteriorating health. As Towering m’s vitality continued to bleed out, the Towering Eye’s twitching began to slow, and the light shooting from it also waned ever so slightly.
White Lion quickly realized what was happening and began to roar in anger as it redoubled its efforts.
Unfortunately, the Towering Eye’s effect only continued to weaken, until it eventually came to a stop.
Suddenly, the Towering Eye disappearedpletely.
The humans that had been under Towering m’s control also came to their senses.
“He seeded!” All of the human army’s eyes were fixed on the grandiose scene unfolding before their very eyes.
They watched as Su Chen valiantly charged out of the hole in Towering m’s body.
He flew to the top of Towering m’s immobile shell, as if climbing a mountain. To the human soldiers, they felt like they had witnessed the incarnation of a god descend from the Heavens and into their mortal ne.
“Towering m is dead!”
“The Sect Master has ughtered Towering m!”
Someone suddenly made this promation.
The human army erupted into a deafening series of jubnt cheers.
They hadn’t realized that Hidden Cloud was also dead, which was why they weren’t celebrating that aplishment just yet.
But they had witnessed Towering m’s death firsthand. In that moment, Su Chen left an impression of invincibility in all of their hearts.
Gu Qingluo and the others also rejoiced when they saw Su Chen’s feat.
White Lion was now fighting on its own.
The human army would be able to kill it even without the aid of Sky City. The oue of this battle had been decided.
Sky City’s countless cannons bombarded White Lion as flying Qi swords criss-crossed through the sky.
Everyone began unleashing attacks as quickly as they could.
No matter how fiercely White Lion retaliated, it waspletely overwhelmed by the deluge of attacks. Slowly but surely, its vitality and energy were being drained away.
When Su Chen saw that the overall situation had been settled, he teleported back to Sky City and then said to Gu Qingluo, Li Chongshan, and the others, “I still have something that I need to take care of, so I’ll take my leave first. I leave the rest of this battle in your hands.”
“Where are you going?” Gu Qingluo hurriedly asked.
“To squash some of the bugs that managed to escape,” Su Chen said as he departed, flying in apletely different direction.
Kucha raced through the air as quickly as he could.
As soon as Hidden Cloud had been in, he knew that the battle was over.
No one could have possibly imagined that Su Chen could kill an Elder all on his own.
With Hidden Cloud’s defeat and Su Chen’s return to the battlefield, the Deste Beasts’ defeat was sealed in stone.
Perhaps only the Arcana Kingdom had ever managed to ughter three Deste Beasts at once.
In other words, it was time to awaken an Ancestor.
Even though the human armies were powerful, an Ancestor would be able to crush them with little to no resistance.
Because they possessed a power even greater than that of the gods!
Kucha was extremely confident in his Ancestor’s power.
Suddenly, as he was flying through the air, a primal, raw aura enveloped him, preventing him from moving even a muscle.
Kucha panicked. Had Su Chen somehow managed to catch up to him?
Just as he was spinning his eyes around in terror, a low voice spoke up. “Who dares disturb my rest?”
Hm?
Kucha was stunned.
The clouds in the sky had gathered to form an ancient face fraught with wrinkles. The face gazed intently at Kucha.
“Who are you?” the low voice uttered once more.
Kucha felt as if the face’s aura alone was more than capable of immobilizing him.
He was a Sovereign. Only Deste Beasts or the rare Origin Beasts could have such a profound effect on him.
However, most Deste Beasts did not know the humannguage. During the era of the Deste Beasts, the Intelligent Races had yet to rise to power. Thus, not many Deste Beasts had learned the Intelligent Races’ tongues. On the other hand, many Origin Beasts, for one reason or another, did know thesenguages.
Was this individual before him an Ancestor?
But why had it awakened on its own?
Kucha’s eyes were filled with shock.
“Hey, I’m asking you a question, you little brat.” The old face formed from the clouds seemed a little dissatisfied by Kucha’sck of response. Behind the face loomed the Ancestor’s gargantuan body, but the clouds obscured it, preventing Kucha from making out an exact shape.
Kucha hurriedly came to his senses and stammered, “This little one, Kucha, greets Ancestor.”
“Oh,” the old face grumbled.
When Kucha heard this response, he finally realized that this old creature was most likely an Origin Beast Ancestor. However, he didn’t know which Ancestor he was talking to. The Origin Beasts had been asleep for far, far too long, so it was impossible for Kucha to know the characteristics of every one of them. There were only a few he was acquainted with, including the Blood Ancestor, the Barbaric Ancestor, and the Tree Ancestor.
Kucha was overjoyed when he realized that he was speaking to an Origin Beast. He had originally intended to find the Barbaric Ancestor and ask it to attack the humans. But now, an already awakened Origin Beast had appeared before his very eyes.
The old face spoke once more. “I am very unhappy. Some bastard suddenly awakened me, dammit! Tell me what exactly has happened, and why I have been awakened so suddenly. And why is this ce so deathly quiet?”
Kucha immediately understood what had happened to this Ancestor. “The Astrals! It must have been one of the remnant Astral forces. They must have awakened you in order to get revenge on the humans.”
“The humans?”
“Yes! The humans have ughtered their way deep into Beast territory. We are currently facing extinction. Please, Ancestor, you must help us!” Kucha immediately cried out as he knelt before the wrinkled, old face.