Chapter 60: Qingqiu Nine-tailed Spirit Fox
“Such terrifying lightning-type laws!!”
Outside the mirror, everyone involuntarily drew a cold breath.
They could clearly sense that the divine might displayed by Gu Changqing was not just a little stronger than before!
“But it seems he is once again gambling with his own body. This lightning-type law exacts an even greater backlash on the Heavenly Emperor!!”
Indeed it was so.
In that instant they saw Gu Changqing spit several mouthfuls of blood.
His face went ghastly pale, almost devoid of color.
On his skin, flesh began to rot at a speed visible to the naked eye.
“This crocodile ancestor has thick skin and tough flesh. The Heavenly Emperor will likely not be able to continue.”
“Has he decided he might as well die?!” someone muttered under their breath. Many cultivators’ eyes showed some emotion.
They had witnessed this utterly reckless style of Gu Changqing before—whether it was when he killed a Saint King despite being only at Great Power, betting his spiritual veins and dao foundation.
Or like now, forcibly squeezing his own body to mobilize even stronger laws.
This life-disregarding method seemed always visible in this Heavenly Emperor—things ordinary people clung to dearly could be casually abandoned by him!
“Perhaps it is precisely this overwhelmingly domineering personality that allowed him to become the Heavenly Emperor,” a cultivator sighed.
There was truth to it: when someone staked even their life whenever facing trouble, they were destined to go farther than others!
Of course, that path was bound to be an extremely perilous and extreme one!
…
“Bleagh!“
He spat another mouthful of blood and Gu Changqing felt he had completely lost connection with the Heavenly Dao.
Thoughts rose in his mind, but he no longer had the strength to mobilize even a fragment of Dao law.
His body plummeted rapidly, falling into that great pool.
“Roar!”
Gu Changqing heard the crocodile ancestor’s deafening bellow.
This thick-skinned, thick-fleshed fellow, even after fighting him to this point, still possessed great strength.
If this creature took a bite out of him, Gu Changqing felt he would be utterly finished.
He strained to control the connection with the Heavenly Dao, but it seemed the entire world had lost its laws. Across this vast heaven and earth there was not a trace of a power he could draw upon.
“Roar!”
In a blur, Gu Changqing saw the crocodile ancestor rushing toward him.
This beast was enormous. Although grievously wounded and its fierce aura greatly diminished, when it sprinted it still moved like a mountain, dust billowing as if the world would collapse beneath its feet!
“Roar!!”
Another ear-splitting roar.
However, it did not come from the crocodile ancestor. The sound was noticeably clearer.
Gu Changqing soon had the answer.
It was a demon fox.
The demon fox was extremely large, easily hundreds of meters tall. In terms of sheer bulk it was in no way inferior to the crocodile ancestor.
Its tails numbered nine, each a different color.
It was incredibly agile, running at breakneck speed; its tails radiated dazzling divine light, tearing through the void at speeds hard to track with the naked eye, and it lunged at the crocodile ancestor.
“Roar!”
The two tore into each other.
The earth shook and mountains quaked. The entire valley was rent apart by their battle.
Gu Changqing was submerged underwater, his consciousness hazy. He wanted to swim up but his body could not move at all.
After a long while.
The fight seemed to have reached a conclusion..
Boom boom boom…
Urgent, muffled footsteps came from the surface. In the next moment, that white demon fox dove into the water and headed toward Gu Changqing.
Gu Changqing had never seen this fox before, but when he saw its eyes he was suddenly stunned.
The fox’s eyes were crawling with black veins!!
“Xiao Wu?”
Gu Changqing murmured in surprise.
…
Outside the mirror.
The cultivators’ pupils suddenly contracted.
“A Qingqiu nine-tailed spirit fox!!”
Indeed, the fox that appeared on the mirror was the same true fox form as the current Qingqiu Empress’s original body!
At this moment, everyone’s gaze turned in unison toward the Qingqiu Empress.
After all, the Qingqiu Empress Bai Su was the only Qingqiu nine-tailed spirit fox in this world!!
However, Bai Su herself was also utterly stunned at this moment.
She practically questioned her own existence!
“Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!!”
“There cannot be a second Qingqiu spirit fox in the world!”
She muttered like a madwoman, staring in disbelief at the nine-tailed celestial fox on the screen.
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In the mirror.
That demon fox held Gu Changqing in its mouth.
In the next moment, it leaped straight out of the water.
Gu Changqing saw the pieces of the crocodile ancestor’s body that had been ripped apart in the distance.
He saw the horrifying wounds on the fox where the crocodile ancestor’s gaping mouth had bitten.
Strangely, no blood flowed from those wounds.
The divine radiance coursing over the fox began to rapidly dim, and its massive body started to shrink.
The next moment.
It actually transformed into a human.
And this person was extremely familiar to both the cultivators outside the mirror and Gu Changqing!
It was the little fox who had accompanied Gu Changqing into the Forbidden Zone!
…
“That little fox is actually a Qingqiu nine-tailed spirit fox???”
At that moment, all the cultivators stood there dumbfounded.
This sentence popped into every cultivator’s mind!