newbobooks Chapter 426 - 426: The Power of Human Wisdom and Enemy's Entrance!
Chapter 426 - 426: The Power of Human Wisdom and Enemy's Entrance!
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--- Chapter 426 ---
"The Divine Key of Providence! Open the Treasure of Mankind to protect Glory City once more!"
The City Lord's roaring voice reverberated throughout Glory City, causing all the Divine Warriors and remaining surviving residents to gaze in awe at the sky.
Like a ray of hope, the City Lord shone the brightest in the darkness. An icy blue light illuminated the entire city, accompanied by the loud sound of moving gears and the ticking of a clock.
Everyone watched in amazement as Glory City itself transformed before their eyes. The building at the center of the city shifted, and the four-way main street rotated like a pinwheel.
"This is... Such an intricate and marvelous tool!" The White-Eyed Phoenix Lord couldn't help but remark, narrowing her eyes slightly.
"Ah, I see! That divine-level amplification of mental power is powering this ancient Spirit Guidance Tool!"
"No wonder," she continued. "This city itself is a Spirit Guidance Tool!"
Even the White-Eyed Phoenix Lord struggled to comprehend this kind of technology at first glance.
After all, everyone in the group, except for Han Yuan, wasn't very familiar with Spirit Guidance Tools.
While modern and ancient Spirit Guidance Tools were likely separated by ten, if not twenty, millennia, the core technological tree's arrays had been simplified over many generations to create a better-ordered system, but at its core, the formula remained the same.
Han Yuan was quite adept at mastering Spirit Guidance Tools, capable of creating a 9th Rank Spirit Guidance Tool with a power rivaling that of a Title Douluo.
If he were to combine the Spirit Guidance Tool with artifact creation, he could even craft a 10th Rank or even a 12th Rank Spirit Guidance Tool capable of slaying gods.
What does a 12th Rank Spirit Guidance Tool represent?
In the Threequel of the Douluo Dalu series, yes, the Legend of the Dragon King," the 11th to 12th Rank Spirit Guidance Ammunition are akin to a much more dangerous and potent version of a nuclear bomb!
They are called God-Slaying Bombs!
One of those God-Slaying Bombs had been dropped on Shrek Academy, annihilating the legendary academy, known for its twenty thousand years of history, into smithereens.
If not for the intervention of a Quasi-God Powerhouse, such as Sea God Pavilion Master Yun Ming and the protection of the Ancient Golden Tree, Shrek Academy would be little more than pages in a history book.
Unfortunately, Tang Wulin is Tang San's own son and the protagonist of the third book. With his identity as the Child of Nature, Shrek Academy recovered in no time. Even so, that moment marked the closest Shrek Academy ever came to true destruction.
That is why the wisdom of humanity must not be underestimated!
Han Yuan deeply acknowledged this truth.
He gazed down and sighed helplessly, "The star shines brightest just before it dies."
At this very moment, City Lord Ye Zong was about to unleash a 12th Rank Spirit Guidance Tool—no, a Half-step 12th Rank Spirit Guidance Tool that could affect space and time themselves!
Cough!
Cough!
"Hahaha!" The City Lord coughed up a mouthful of blood but still grinned widely at the sky, watching as the wormhole flickered, signaling that the Demon Sage Emperor was about to descend completely this time.
"Angry, aren't you?" He chuckled. "Got you, annoying bastard! Take the anger of my Glory City and be gone from this earth!"
After uttering that final word, the City Lord placed his finger on his temple and slowly pointed at the wormhole.
"Star of Glory! True-Seeking Annihilation Beam!"
Click!
Click!
Click!
Everyone couldn't react quickly enough to get what was about to happen because it occurred far too quickly. However, those whose spiritual realm had reached the Divine Domain realm witnessed a tear-shaped disk burst from the very center of Glory City, shooting a brilliant platinum light that bent the fabric of space-time around it.
They captured it in their minds as if it were part of a rapid animation, too fast for ordinary sight to see clearly.
The moments themselves are like photo frames.
At the same time, the Demon Sage Emperor also did not expect the City Lord to possess such a card.
Faced with such horror, the Demon Sage Emperor couldn't do anything but watch.
"No!" The Demon Sage Emperor cried as his true body entered the Douluo Plane, just as the platinum light obliterated him.
He was caught completely off guard by the might of a genuine god-killing tool.
When everyone came back to their senses, they realized the sky was a clear azure, and the wormhole was gone.
There was no fancy explosion.
There was no blinding light.
The Demon Sage Emperor just ceased to exist.
The Demon Sage Emperor had fallen, or so everyone thought.
"Curse of Death! So what if you killed my body? My last 'will' will bring you down to hell with me!" The Demon Sage Emperor's desperate words, filled with anguish, echoed through the air, followed by a raging green flame that engulfed Glory City.
The City Lord had long since crumbled to dust, a faint smile plastered on his remaining face, and the key fell from the sky, landing in someone's hand.
That someone was Ye Ziyun, the 'past' Snow Empress.
"Snow!" The Ice Empress's voice hitched in the void.
"S-Something is wrong..." As Snow Empress's pale complexion grew even paler.
She added, "I... I don't remember ever holding the Key of Providence."
"The past has changed, somehow."
Amidst the desperate last attack of the Demon Sage Emperor, the Divine Warrior Ye Ziyun held the Key of Providence after the fall of the City Lord, becoming the rightful next City Lord of Glory City.
While Ye Ziyun's inheritance was unexpected because she wasn't on the direct line of candidates, the Key of Providence, or rather the Ice God's Heart, had chosen her.
Ye Ziyun held the Key of Providence tightly and murmured, "Ice God, if you truly exist in this reality... please answer my call."
"I am nothing but human."
"I have nothing worth exchanging with you."
"Yet, here, I swear with my very flesh and soul, with the price of saving Glory City and preserving it in time, I am willing to be yours."
The Key of Providence cracked, and an ice-blue light burst forth from the Ice God's Heart.
Kacha!
The sound of ice breaking and forming echoed throughout the city. All the Divine Warriors and the remaining residents watched as the green flame gradually vanished, sealed and frozen in frost.
"No, no, no! It can't be! Human trash! Aaaarrggghhh!!" The Demon Sage Emperor screamed in fury, unable to take a city full of ants to hell with him.
"Slaughter God... you bastard..."
"Uugh..." Ye Ziyun's lithe frame trembled, her breath ragged. She gazed at the ice-blue crystal that seemed to merge with her palm, accelerating her transformation into something beyond human.
"T-The Divine Artifact is accepting me?"
"But my body is too weak to merge with it."
"I am evolving to keep up with it."
"However, if this continues, I will no longer be myself."
"This..." The Snow Empress covered her mouth, watching her past self struggle with 'her' existence.
Suddenly, a piercing red light tore through the sky.
A black-armored man exuding extreme malice and bloodstained slaughter emerged above Glory City and snorted disdainfully, "A mere pawn dares to covet a Divine Artifact."
"Hmph, that Demon Sage Emperor really dares to dream."
The black-armored man gazed down at Ye Ziyun. "Mortal, hand over the Ice God's Heart. That is not something a weak human—especially a mere woman—should possess."
"I shall present it to the high and mighty Godking Asura."
"Don't worry; the city will also be under my protection afterward."
"You will share the same 'glory' as me!"
Ye Ziyun froze and then slowly looked up, her beautiful face colder than a thousand-year-old ice. "I refuse."
"My Glory City survives upheaval without you."
"Yet you, out of nowhere, appeared and demanded a Divine Artifact."
"Do you think everyone here is a fool? Dream on!"
"My Glory City shall stand proud! We will not be ruled by a scheming and villainous figure like you!"