Chapter 169 : Chapter 169
Chapter 169. If You Cannot Break the Defense, Then with Infinite Stamina, I’ll Wear You Down to Death
“You lowly humans dare make enemies of the gods?”
Cerberus let out a heaven-shaking roar at Tang Wuji and the other two. Before the middle head, crimson fire energy gathered and formed an enormous fireball.
“Hellfire!”
Cerberus reared up, then slammed its forelegs forward. The fireball, packed with terrifying power, exploded apart and turned into three blazing beams that shot toward the three men.
Tang Wuji narrowed his eyes and used his telekinesis to split his twenty-four flying knives into three groups, intercepting the flaming beams.
Chu Ningfeng wielded his sword with the speed of a gale. In the span of a few breaths, wave after wave of sword qi struck Cerberus, but all they produced were a few sparks, with no real damage to show for it.
“Old Chu, stop testing it. Use your trump card right away!” Tang Wuji warned.
Chu Ningfeng snapped back irritably, “A divine beast is not that easy to fight. If I use my ultimate move right at the start, the drain on me will be too great.”
This was not their first encounter with a divine beast. Back at the Kunlun Ruins, they had once run into Lu Wu, a divine beast of Huaxia.
Fortunately, Lu Wu had not yet reached its peak. Otherwise, none of them would have made it out of those ruins alive.
“Old Chu, ordinary attacks are useless. Stop holding back,” Tang Wuji said sternly.
Cerberus’s physical body had already reached the level of a divine body. Ordinary attacks could not even break its defenses.
Fortunately, divine beasts generally did not possess the Power of Laws, which meant the three of them still had the ability to fight it.
Hearing that, Chu Ningfeng stared at Cerberus for a moment, then nodded slightly. The Dustcrossing Sword stood before him as sword qi and raging wind howled around it.
Wherever the storm passed, sword marks were left behind.
“Sword Like the Wind!”
Without his fingertips even touching the hilt, an unstoppable torrent of air exploded outward.
Clang—
The crisp cry of the sword pierced through the storm. Under the dim sky, the blade flashed with a silvery arc like a streak of light slicing open the darkened heavens.
In that instant, the wind wrapped around the sword swelled violently, transforming into a blue-white wind dragon over a thousand meters long. Its scales were formed from countless tiny blades of wind.
Chu Ningfeng’s eyes sharpened. He spun and slashed, and the wind dragon surged forth with the movement of his blade. Everywhere it passed, space itself was torn into visible ripples.
Gale and sword qi intertwined as they swept forward to the accompaniment of a chorus of sword cries.
Cerberus’s six eyes widened slightly, as though it were surprised by the power this human possessed.
Its three heads gathered flaming energy and spat out three blazing beams at the same time.
Boom—
The wind dragon and the three flaming beams collided, and the layered shockwaves of energy caused the golden palace below to crumble apart inch by inch.
Even a ninth-rank talisman could not withstand the collision of those two forces?!
“Wow... even a ninth-rank talisman cannot block the aftershock of their clash. Just how strong are Martial Gods?”
“The cultivation records say that upon reaching the Martial God Realm, the body becomes indestructible through countless tribulations, immune to all techniques, and infinitely close to the body of a true god. Even their movements and attacks can trigger heavenly phenomena. Their power is terrifying beyond imagination.”
“We are still so far away from that!”
Inside the golden palace, everyone looked up at the battlefield in the sky and could not help marveling.
From atop the watchtower, Jiang Yichen also acknowledged the overwhelming strength of Martial Gods.
He could not help looking forward to what it would feel like when he broke through to the Martial God Realm himself in one month.
As for whether Tang Wuji and the other two could defeat Cerberus, he was not worried in the slightest.
Once his Infinite Stamina Array was activated, they could simply unleash ultimate moves endlessly. Who cared whether it was a divine beast? Even a true god could be worn down to death.
All one could say was that the system’s rewards were utterly heaven-defying.
Clang!
The sword qi wind dragon forced its way through Cerberus’s flaming breath and gradually pushed closer.
“You lowly humans have actually cultivated yourselves to this level. What a delightful surprise!”
Cerberus spoke in human language. A crimson flaming barrier rose around its body. “Unfortunately, with your strength, that is the only attack of yours worthy of my notice.”
The sword qi wind dragon slammed into the crimson flaming barrier.
Crack!
Under the continuous onslaught of sword qi, cracks began to spread across the barrier.
Crash!
The barrier shattered, and the wind dragon swept Cerberus’s body straight down into the Great Rift Valley below.
Boom!
A world-shaking collision rang out, and even the earth trembled for a moment.
Tang Wuji did not dare relax. Chu Ningfeng had used up everything in that single sword strike to open an opportunity, and they had to seize it.
“Old Su!”
Su Zhan gave a slight nod. The hands on the enormous clock face beneath his feet came to a halt.
“At this moment, time shall stop for one minute!”
Buzz!
A strange energy swept across space, and every Demonic Beast froze in place.
That included Cerberus, which had been dragged into the Great Rift Valley by the wind dragon. Even the ripples from the impact were frozen in place.
Tang Wuji combined his twenty-four flying knives into one. The muscles in his arm bulged, displaying a physical body on par with a divine body.
He clenched both fists, and sonic booms erupted. His figure plummeted toward Cerberus like a meteor.
Cerberus’s entire body was covered in fine sword wounds. Feeling itself bound by an invisible force, it could not help showing shock.
“A human awakened with a time talent—if you can enter the ruins of Chronos, the Time God King, perhaps you could help him revive!”
“Olympus shall be great again!”
Cerberus let out a strange laugh.
Tang Wuji gave a cold snort. His figure flashed, and he threw out a furious punch.
Trapped by frozen time, Cerberus was completely unable to dodge. The middle head took the blow head-on.
The force of the punch blasted it straight into the sky. Then the twenty-four flying knives shot out together, spinning at high speed like a giant drill and sending Cerberus flying more than a thousand meters away.
Crimson magma slowly seeped from its abdomen, but under the restraint of frozen time, it could not even cry out in pain.
One minute was exceedingly short, and it passed in the blink of an eye.
Cerberus, embedded in the ground, slowly raised its deformed head. Looking down at the wound in its abdomen, it let crimson flames surge from its body.
“Lowly humans, now it is my turn.”
It is still alive?!
Tang Wuji and the other two focused their eyes sharply, not expecting Cerberus’s vitality to be this tenacious.
Below, the border-defense soldiers, the Divine Battle Department, and the others also showed worried expressions.
If even three Martial Gods could not deal with a single divine beast, then it was far too powerful.
“What do we do? It feels like the three Martial Gods cannot beat Cerberus.”
“Do not talk nonsense. We have to believe in them. They can definitely do it.”
“That is right! I refuse to believe that anything related to ‘gods’ is truly unbeatable.”
“...”
Under everyone’s hopeful gaze, all eyes were fixed on Tang Wuji and the other two in the sky.
At that moment, Cerberus slowly rose from the ground and let out a bone-chilling screech.
“I admit that you are quite strong, but now you no longer have the strength to unleash another ultimate move—”
“Sword Like the Wind!”
Before it could finish mocking them, Chu Ningfeng swung his sword again, and another thousand-meter sword qi wind dragon came roaring forward.
Tang Wuji and Su Zhan were both dumbfounded.
Wait, were you not only able to use that once?
Cerberus: (☉_☉)