Chapter 0186

Chapter 186: Tang Qi: Nine Eggs Detonate Together, Death Return Gu!

Zhou Tong was cold like a machine, shaping sword forms into sharp blades that stabbed into Tang Qi’s hearts. He had seven hearts in total. If all of them were burst, Tang Qi would turn to ash, so fear gripped him.

Tang Qi tried to talk his way out, saying with a shaky smile: “Wait, senior brother, I was only joking.”

Zhou Tong answered without emotion: “Who is your senior brother?” Then he thrust the fourth sword, and Tang Qi let out a wild roar.

Tang Qi howled inside his mind, reaching for help from his adoptive father: [Save me, adoptive father, give me power now!]

The Devil King’s soul trembled and replied in his mind: [No… I cannot act here.] He could feel the fierce spiritual power pouring off Zhou Tong, a power that restrained soul bodies like him. [If I show even a bit of myself, I die in an instant. This is not a joke!]

Tang Qi’s eyes went red as he screamed inside: [Why?!]

The soul stammered, then forced himself to sound steady: [I… I must save my strength. It will be important later.] He truly knew this secret realm well and could lead Tang Qi to great fortune.

Tang Qi snapped back in his mind: [I am about to die. What good is saving strength then!]

The soul urged him: [You will not die. Use the last move I taught you. It is not hard to break free!]

Hearing that, Tang Qi felt as if struck by lightning and raged inside: [You want me to use that move!] Shame and anger burned his face.

The Devil King’s soul pressed on: [A real man can bend and stretch. What is a little shame? Grow strong first, then come back and make him pay!]

Tang Qi gritted his teeth and gave in, thinking: [Fine, I’ll listen to you!] His gaze hardened.

He shouted his art as his aura surged: “Great Transformations Method!” Even so, he still could not break Zhou Tong’s grip. What came next was the big play.

Tang Qi roared the sequence of detonations: “Twin Hearts Detonate!” From the last three hearts, two burst at once and turned into pure force. “Twin Brains Detonate!” “Sixteen Arms Detonate!” “Eight Legs Detonate!” He blew up almost every spare part he had taken from others and gathered a vast, rolling power. At last he had enough to push back.

He bellowed as he shattered the sword holding him and shot into the air, shouting: “Get away from me!”

Rage twisted his face as he glared down at Zhou Tong and raised his hand to strike again: “I will tear you into pieces.”

The Devil King’s voice rang in his head: [Do not clash head-on. Run now while you can!]

Tang Qi snapped back in his mind: [Why run? I clearly have the advantage now!] His pride swelled. [My realm is far ahead of his. I can kill him this time!]

The soul warned him: [Wake up. Do not let him trick you. That brat is a monster. Do not measure him by normal realms. He is either born abnormal or blessed by special means. This is not the time to fight him head-on!]

Tang Qi gritted his teeth in denial, thinking: [He must be boosted. Despicable thing!] He simply refused to admit Zhou Tong’s strength came from himself. Then he insisted: [I still want to try again!]

He struck, crying out: “Heavenly Devil Grand Transformation!” In an instant, black rain poured down as if to corrode everything.

Zhou Tong met him with a cold chant: “Talisman Ninety-One: Thousand-Hand Clear-Sky Purging Cannon!” With a thunderous boom, the two forces crashed. They were not in the same league. Tang Qi’s body burst open, his face twisting with fury.

Zhou Tong followed without pause, saying: “Talisman Ninety: Black Coffin!” The blow crushed Tang Qi’s bones and nearly cut him in half. If his body had not been strengthened, this strike would have erased him.

At last Tang Qi’s eyes cleared, and the will to escape was born in him, so he thought: [Adoptive father, you are right. I should retreat first.]

Zhou Tong sensed it and moved to end things, calling: “Heaven and Earth Cage!” He sealed every path. Tang Qi’s face turned the color of old liver.

The Devil King’s soul shouted in his mind: [Brat, stop hiding. Use your last resort, or today you are truly done!]

Tang Qi hesitated in agony, thinking: [Do I really have to?] He had finally become a man among men. To run away, did he have to become a eunuch again? The struggle did not last long. Life mattered most.

He steeled himself, thinking: [I was born for a reason; even if a thousand eggs scatter, they can come back!] Then he roared: “Nine Eggs Detonate Together!”

Bang! Bang! Bang! Explosions thudded from his crotch. That power turned into the purest energy and his aura blew up once more.

Seeing it, even Zhou Tong froze in shock and forgot to strike for a heartbeat.

Bent over and sucking in cold air, Tang Qi still found time to spit threats as he limped away: “Ahhh… just wait, I will be back… sss… ahhh!” The gathered energy rushed to his chest, and from there came a chorus of insect cries.

Zhou Tong’s eyes narrowed as he muttered: “There is a Gu insect.” He had thought of a small, secretive clan: the Heaven Gu Clan. They once served the human race, later broke away, and made a living raising insects. Their methods were strange, and the Gu they refined had remarkable effects. The Joyous Union Sect’s famous Love Gu had first come from them.

To avoid any delay and trouble, he used his most unbeatable art and said: “Time Stop!”

“Die,” he said in the frozen world as he took one step to stand before Tang Qi. He reached out to crush Tang Qi’s heart and brain. But in the next second, his palm passed through Tang Qi’s body without touching anything solid.

Zhou Tong paused and looked through the phantom to Tang Qi’s chest. There he saw a grotesque insect, the same as the drawings in old books. He frowned and spoke under his breath: “Death Return Gu. He even has this. Is he tied to the Heaven Gu Clan?” This Gu was extremely hard to refine, and its trigger had harsh terms: the user had to sacrifice all their power. Its effect was to escape one impossible death with absolute certainty. Even in a frozen world, Tang Qi had slipped away.

Zhou Tong’s thought surfaced, dry and sharp: [I remember the success rate is only twenty percent. Looks like his fate is not used up yet.]

“Time starts to flow,” he said as everything returned to normal. Tang Qi’s phantom turned into butterflies and faded into the air.

Zhou Tong watched it scatter and spoke to himself: “It is fine. He is still in the secret realm. We will meet again soon.” No matter how many times they met, he would grind down Tang Qi’s luck until he reached true death.

Chen Ling’er trotted up with bright eyes and said with joy: “Junior brother, I knew you would win!”

Zhou Tong’s anger flared at the sight of her. Before he could speak, Xuan Shu Yu rushed up from behind and knocked Chen Ling’er aside, saying in a sweet voice as she spun to show her curves: “Junior brother, ignore her. Look at me…” A holy golden light burst over her skin.

Zhou Tong saw it at once and said flatly: “Holy Body.”

Xuan Shu Yu lifted her chin with pride and said: “Yes. I like the strong. You did well today, and that pleased me. If you bow your head and apologize, I will let the past go. You know that if I agree to dual cultivate with you, you can get the Holy Source…”

Zhou Tong cut her off with cold scorn, saying: “Shut up. Who forgot to put on their pants and let you out!”