Dominator Emperor

Chapter 124: Chapter 123: Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape (Part 1)

At that moment, the giant ape unleashed an aura like a stormy sea. Under its surging pressure, half of the experts present collapsed on the spot.

"Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape—" someone shrieked in horror. "A million-year-old Celestial Beast—"

"Go—" At that moment, everyone was scared out of their wits. Even an arrogant figure like Jiangzuo Iron Armor turned pale with fright. With a loud roar, he turned and fled.

"AH—" However, just as Jiangzuo Iron Armor turned to flee, a bone spike descended from the sky and nailed him to the ground! His bloodcurdling scream was utterly wretched!

"It’s a million-year-old Celestial Beast—" The cultivators who had been chasing from behind were scared witless and immediately turned to flee.

"Flee—" In an instant, all the experts from the Great Sects who had surrounded Li Qiye turned to run. At this moment, they all wished they could grow two more legs, desperate to escape this place immediately.

"ROAR—" The Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape let out a great roar as a bone spike swept out. Instantly, a rain of blood filled the sky as mutilated bodies fell from above.

The Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape took a single step, blocking the escape route for everyone. Bone spikes rained down from the sky, and wherever they swept past, a bloody mist erupted!

"AH— AH— AH—" In an instant, the area turned into a Purgatory. Countless cultivators were slaughtered, their blood dyeing the entire mountain peak red.

At this moment, whether they were Heroic Heroes or Princes, there was only death beneath the bone spikes! Even a True Master would have been killed, completely unable to evade a single strike from the Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape.

"Worthy King Six Vibration Array, kill—" With no escape route left, Marquis Jiangzuo roared. The iron cavalry under his command immediately formed an array, attempting to carve a bloody path to freedom.

CHIII— However, the bone spike swept past, and the array was useless. Amidst a rain of blood and waves of screams, the one thousand iron cavalry of the Jiangzuo Family were annihilated, Marquis Jiangzuo included!

"Run—" Now, it wasn’t just the experts from the Great Sects on the mountain fleeing for their lives; even all the cultivators who had just caught up turned and ran.

"AH—" The bone spikes formed a massive grinding wheel that swept across the area, slaughtering every cultivator present!

WHOOSH! The Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape flapped its massive wings and took to the air, chasing after the cultivators fleeing in the distance.

"AH—" In the blink of an eye, waves of wretched screams echoed from the distance. Bone spikes rained down from the sky, slaughtering any cultivator who tried to escape.

For a time, cries of terror filled the air, and wretched screams rose and fell without end. The cultivators who arrived later desperately wished they could escape this Hell.

But no matter how fast they were, they could not escape the Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape’s massacre.

Yet, from beginning to end, Li Qiye remained motionless on the snail’s back. The Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape, for its part, never once glanced in their direction, as if completely ignoring their existence.

Li Shuangyan’s expression had changed drastically when she first saw the Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape. But when the creature failed to give them so much as a single glance, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"What... what in the world is going on?" The Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape had slaughtered tens of thousands of cultivators, yet it hadn’t spared them a single glance. This left Li Shuangyan deeply shaken.

Looking at Li Qiye, a shaken Li Shuangyan couldn’t help but ask, "Is it because of the juice we’re covered in?"

"You’ve got it," Li Qiye said with a smile. "If a snail were covered in a big pile of shit, would you go out of your way to step on it?"

"What we’re covered in isn’t shit—" Niu Fen couldn’t help but protest.

Li Shuangyan’s skin crawled; after all, girls like to be clean. But Li Qiye just chuckled, "In the eyes of the Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape, an Earth Filth Fruit is no different from a pile of shit. It absolutely detests the stuff."

"How did you know that? And how did you know a Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape was here?" Li Shuangyan was truly stirred.

"Where there are Earth Filth Fruits, there will inevitably be Hundred Fruit Secret Snakes. And where there are Hundred Fruit Secret Snakes, there will inevitably be a Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape, because it loves to eat them..."

Pausing, Li Qiye glanced at Li Shuangyan and continued, "...Although it’s said that the Longevity Celestial Beasts have all fled, a million-year-old one won’t easily abandon its lair unless it’s a matter of life and death. Even if there are some problems in this area now, a million-year-old Longevity Celestial Beast will hide in its lair and refuse to come out. It won’t even bother with you if you step into its territory. But if you march right up to its home? That’s a different story."

"And how do you know all this?" Li Shuangyan couldn’t help but press him.

"It’s common knowledge," Li Qiye said with a laugh. "Anyone who has ever captured a Hundred Fruit Secret Snake would know that where there are Earth Filth Fruits, there are bound to be Hundred Fruit Secret Snakes! This sort of basic information is recorded in any old alchemy text!"

Despite Li Qiye’s words, Li Shuangyan didn’t believe such nonsense for a second. If it were truly recorded in any old alchemy text, countless people would have known about it long ago.

Of course, Li Shuangyan had no idea that Li Qiye had drifted through countless eons of Time and seen more Longevity Celestial Beasts than one could count. In his past as the Yin Ya, he had even raised them himself. A simple trick like this was nothing to him.

Li Qiye jumped down from the snail’s back and crouched to look at Jiangzuo Iron Armor on the ground. Jiangzuo Iron Armor was still holding on by a thread. The bone spike had pierced his body and even shattered his True Destiny. All he could do now was lie there and gasp out his last breaths.

"Millions of years have passed, and still, the Jiangzuo Family never learns," Li Qiye said, looking down at the barely breathing Jiangzuo Iron Armor.

"You... you... you little bastard... My... my... my Jiangzuo Family will absolutely... absolutely never let you go." Jiangzuo Iron Armor struggled to speak, but his tone was still vicious.

Li Qiye wasn’t angered. On the contrary, he smiled and said nonchalantly, "Even if your Jiangzuo Family wanted to let me off the hook, I have no intention of letting you go! When the opportunity arises, I will personally pay your Jiangzuo Family a visit and, sooner or later, annihilate you all! Back in the era of the Mingren Immortal Emperor, your family should have been wiped out. If he hadn’t pleaded for you, the Jiangzuo Family wouldn’t even exist today!"

"You... you... you..." Jiangzuo Iron Armor was too enraged to speak.

Li Qiye wasted no more words, directly severing the man’s head. While he was at it, he lopped off Marquis Jiangzuo’s head as well.

"Run for your lives—" Inside the Uninhabited Area, countless cultivators were scared shitless, their screams echoing without end. Everyone fled at their fastest speed, but escaping the Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape’s massacre was far from easy.

"A million-year-old Celestial Beast! The Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape—" When the cultivators who were a step too slow or poorly informed saw the creature from afar just after entering the Uninhabited Area, their legs went soft with fear, and they immediately turned to run.

Even cultivators in the Extremely Dangerous Area turned and fled as far as they could upon hearing news of the Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape. At this time, forget the other Great Teaching Territories; even an existence like Celestial Emperor Qingxuan would turn and leave without a second thought upon hearing the news!

Here, a million-year-old Longevity Celestial Beast was practically invincible. Even if a True Master were to take action, it would be a futile effort; they would still end up devoured and slaughtered.

"AH—" Screams rose and fell without end. The cultivators from the various sects who entered the Uninhabited Area were essentially fated to be slaughtered. No matter how fast they were, their speed was insignificant compared to the Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape.

The Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape pursued them all the way to the border of the Uninhabited Area before finally stopping. As it stood at the edge, its gaze sweeping over the lands beyond, the cultivators fleeing through the Extremely Dangerous and even the Dangerous Areas felt their souls leave their bodies, utterly terrified.

In the end, the Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape turned and departed, returning to its lair. Its chase had resulted in the complete slaughter of every cultivator who had invaded its domain.

With the Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape’s relentless slaughter, exceptionally few cultivators made it out of the Uninhabited Area alive. In their pursuit of Li Qiye and the Emperor Technique, perhaps a hundred Great Teaching Territories and tens of thousands of cultivators had charged into the Uninhabited Area. Yet, in the end, fewer than a thousand escaped, and most of them were cultivators who had entered last!

When the cultivators who had just escaped the Uninhabited Area saw the Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape finally turn and leave, their courage completely shattered, and they could no longer remain standing. They collapsed to the ground, their legs too weak to even get up.

At this moment, the entire Eastern Division of Demon’s Back Ridge fell deathly silent. An overwhelming stench of blood filled the air and refused to dissipate, strong enough to make anyone who smelled it want to vomit.

As for the Great Teaching Territories that had not entered the Uninhabited Area, they were all deeply unsettled. Many had already explored the Extremely Dangerous Area without seeing a single Celestial Beast or Longevity Spirit, leading everyone to speculate that the Uninhabited Area was now empty of them.

However, the emergence of a nigh-invincible Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape had utterly shattered that illusion. Against a million-year-old Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape, even an Ancient Saint would be courting death, to say nothing of a True Master.

Here, a million-year-old Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape was the definition of invincible. No one could hope to contend with it.

Celestial Emperor Qingxuan, having retreated to the Ordinary Area, learned that a Celestial-Destroying Demon Ape was still entrenched in the Uninhabited Area. His expression immediately turned incredibly grim.

"Your Highness, should we summon an Emperor Artifact?" the old man in the felt hat beside Celestial Emperor Qingxuan could not help but ask in a low voice.

Celestial Emperor Qingxuan remained silent, his terrifying eyes fixed on the Uninhabited Area. Without sufficient power, anyone who tried to cross it was just committing suicide.

"Brother Qingxuan, I will return to my sect and petition the Elders to see if we can bring out an Emperor Artifact to lend you a hand," Leng Chengfeng said to Celestial Emperor Qingxuan.

Leng Chengfeng was doing his utmost to curry favor with Celestial Emperor Qingxuan, hoping to attach himself to the behemoth that was the Qingxuan Ancient Country.

"I’ll be troubling you then, Brother Leng." Celestial Emperor Qingxuan nodded slightly and spoke in a slow voice.