Old Friend, Come Then！
Old Friend, Come Then！
The blood washed the earth and the heaven cried.
Everything was washed with the blood rain and the no one could see clearly in this dark weather.
An invisible power descended in the entire Ancestral Star and Zhu Jiumu had no idea what could this power do but he knew that this power came from the East Barren's Black Mountain!
Now, the heaven cried for the celestial race, sang a sad song for them through the thunder.
"I will go."
Zhu Jiumu said firmly; his old face looked determined, his figure became taller, blood dripped from his head down to his face, "I may be friends with Zhong Yue but when it comes to our own races, this friendship means nothing at all! I will go with you!"
Feng Wuji immediately said happily, "I will inform Huang She God right now, he is currently gathering people in Kun Lun Secret Realm, preparing to descend in Ancestral Star to slay the demon king Zhong Yue! You guys go ahead first, I will stay here to welcome Huang She God and I will be with you in no time!"
"Let's go!"
Lord Kun, Lord Demon, Zhu Jiumu, Tuz Bawk and Wen Changgong nodded and they all immediately headed towards the Black Mountain.
Right now, at the centre of the altar in Black Mountain, the bronze lamp floated in the air as the godly spirits in it got offered as sacrificial for the ceremony. As the power of the ceremony became stronger, the speed of the godly spirits being turned into pure energy became even faster!
Zhong Yue kept a close eye in controlling the amount of godly spirit in the lamp in order to prevent gods like Wei Xue God from escaping and among them, the most terrifying one was the head of Feng Wuji.
He did not know that if the Xiao Mang Grand Ancestor in Feng Wuji's head was disintegrated already or not but if he is still there, as soon as Feng Wuji's head was sacrificed, Xiao Mang Grand Ancestor would escape immediately!
Afterall, as a Deity Overlord, he probably still possess the capability of doing this.
The ceremony continued and suddenly, Shi Buyi's pupil shrunk; he looked at the West, his expression turned serious and shouted, "Master, someone's coming!"
Zhong Yue looked towards the West, only to see demonic tree, gigantic fish, and weird looking celestial beings come charging at him in lightning speed.
"Lord Demon, Lord Kun, Zhu Jiumu and the other remaining gods are all here!"
Zhong Yue took a deep breath and his vision shifted from one after another incoming foes; the ceremony has come to the most crucial period where he needs to keep a close eye on controlling the surging power of the ceremony! With such strong enemies, whatever he did will be in vain if he was not careful enough!
And the appearance of Zhu Jiumu was also out of his expectation.
As such, it was obvious that the Great Ritual of Sealing Abdication has garnered the attention of the remaining gods and they did not come here to investigate but to kill him!
"But it's too late now…." murmured Zhong Yue.
Outside of the Black Mountain, Zhu Jiumu and the others approached quickly and among them, Lord Kun and Lord Demon were the fastest.
Shua—!
The huge eyes of Lord Kun looked just like two huge shining ball that lit up the night.
When he moved his eyes and looked at the Black Mountain, Lord Kun's heart thumped as he saw a celestial being with snake's body winded around the mountain with his thousand metres long body and eyes that contained the raging sun and the beautiful moon.
"Zhong Yue!"
Lord Kun's gave Zhong Yue a cold glance, stopped moving along with Lord Demon as both of them examined the altar on Black Mountain which had turned into a forbidden land filled with countless esoteric totem carvings.
These totem carvings were planted down by Shi Buyi who was already a monster god; with that powerful strength of his, it was not an easy thing to do to break his totem carvings.
Besides, after the ceremony started, Zhong Yue merged the power of the godly spirits sacrificed into the ceremony, these totem carvings had become almost impossible to be destroyed!
Behind the two lords, Zhu Jiumu and the other two finally arrived and they stood outside of the Black Mountain. Tuz Bawk who was the Asura Saint Clan's demon god let out a shout, punched towards the Black Mountain with ruthless power that shattered the dimension. However, when his fist landed on the moving totem carvings around the mountain, not only did the altar remained standing firmly, the totem carvings were also intact perfectly.
"This ceremony has cut off my connection with my sword, I can't sense my Divine Wing Saber right now!"
Lord Kun said seriously, "I was injured by Lord Dragon and I'm not at my peak state! We have to fight our way into the mountain and with that only I can sense my saber! Lord Demon, Tuz Bawk! one goal, to destroy the totem carvings formation! Jiumu, Changgong, I have no proper body, you two escort me into the mountain!"
Lord Demon nodded but Zhu Jiumu suddenly said, "Gentlemen, can I have a moment with Zhong Yue to see if we could negotiate?"
Wen Changgong who held his pike smirked and said, "What is there to talk? Everything will not be undone ever since he did this!"
Lord Kun also said, "You are just wasting time, helping him to delay the time! If he completed the ceremony, all celestial races will be destroyed!"
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing and this will not take a long time."
Zhu Jiumu shook his head and shouted, "My little friend Zhong Yue, could you please listen to me?"
On the Black Mountain, the celestial being turned around, looked at Zhu Jiumu and said, "Senior, do you still remember that time when I visited you?"
"I do" replied Zhu Jiumu.
Zhong Yue then said again, "I wanted to tell you about what I was going to do today so that you and your people could leave the Ancestral Star and head towards Kun Lun for I will designate a place for your people to stay there. My two visits however, were rejected by you and I will not attempt a third visit, which is why Zhu Jushan and his family were brought to Kun Lun by me. This is so that your bloodline will not end here."
Zhu Jiumu's mind went empty and after a moment, he asked seriously, "So you are trying to annihilate all celestial races in this world now?"
Zhong Yue however, shook his head and replied, "I am not annihilating all of you. I'm only trying to seal your blood. An unknown power has descended upon this planet, stopping all cultivations. I had no choice but to do this for the sake of my people."
Zhu Jiumu understood his motive right away; his face turned serious and he suddenly knelt before Zhong Yue!
Wen Changong, Tuz Bawk were shocked while Lord Demon and Lord Kun immediately acted and was about to strike him down.
At this crucial moment, Zhu Jiumu stood up, said with an old yet astonishing voice, "I knelt before you because I want to thank you on behalf of my race that you let Jushan and his family off this disaster event and prevented my people from going extinct.!"
Zhong Yue nodded and said nothing.
Zhu Jiumu's aura surged, killing intent rose and light wheels emerged behind his head. Among the light wheels, a huge bow appeared. The bow then landed in Zhu Jiumu's hand; he drew his bow, aimed at Zhong Yue and said coldly, "I've thanked you for what you did but at the same time, I will have to kill you as well for trying to seal the celestial blood of we Zhu Jian Celestial Race and punished us into oblivion! This is no longer a private affair but a war between two different races! Do you understand this?"
He thanked Zhong Yue for allowing Zhu Jushan and his family to escape so that his race will be preserved but he too, wanted to kill Zhong Yue because Zhong Yue was trying to seal all the celestial bloodline in this world, including the Zhu Jian Celestial Race!
Zhu Jiumu may be old but he could still differentiate what was right and what was wrong for himself!
He didn't ask Zhong Yue to stop the ritual because he knew that Zhong Yue was fighting for his own race and it will be in vain even if he tried to halt him!
Thus, instead of wasting effort and time to talk him out of it, Zhu Jiumu decided that they will decide this through a life and death battle!
Zhong Yue nodded and said seriously, "Old friend, come up the mountain then, please!"
He turned around, looked at the others and his voice echoed loudly in the blood rain, "Gentlemen, shall we?"
Ka cha, ka cha—
Lighting fell frequently, lighting up the skies for a brief second and exposed the gods engulfed by darkness.
"Lord Demon!"
Lord Kun shouted and before his voice fully fade away, Lord Demon and Tuz Bawk activated the demonic tree. This tree was one of the equipment of Lord Demon; it had countless branches and these branches contained different power.
Initially, other than trying to use Lord Demon's power to suppress Shi Tuo, this tree was also one of the reason why Feng Xiaozhong robbed the tomb of Lord Demon.
This demonic tree was something on par with weapons of the likes like Divine Wing Saber but only those with demonic power could control the tree; Lord Demon and Tuz Bawk both came from the demon race and when they channeled their power into the tree, the power of the tree was unleashed and thousands of demonic blades rained towards the Black Mountain!
On the surface of the Black Mountain, the totem carvings of the ritual trembled as the demonic weapons struck into the totem carvings and froze them right away!
Zhong Yue kept a serious expression against this scene. Suddenly, the remaining godly spirits in the bronze lamp surged out, got melted by the ritual and caused the power of the ritual to increase tremendously, breaking the suppression of the countless demonic weapons.
Lord Demon and Tuz Bawk then shouted continuously, channeled even more power into the tree in an attempt to withstand the ritual's power!
This caused Zhong Yue to frowned and there came two corpses from the bronze lamp that flew into the altar. The corpses were the bodies of the two insect race's gods and along with their ravaged corpses, they were all sacrificed and turned into horrendous energy for the ritual!
Lord Demon immediately roared, touched his forehead and a black coffin rammed towards the altar.
On the way flying towards the altar, the black coffin enlarged and turned into a coffin that was at least hundred metres long, rammed into the demonic weapons launched by the demonic tree, knocked and splitted the totem carvings surrounding the Black Mountain apart. The cover of the coffin then slid towards the front with one end still lying on the coffin and another end on the mountain.
This coffin was the coffin Lord Demon was buried with. It was hundred metres long and along with the cover of the coffin, they formed a black bridge that connects into the Black Mountain.
With that, an entrance into the mountain was created and Lord Demon's body shook as he withstood the immense pressure. He then shouted, "Get in there, right now! I can't hold it any longer!"
Lord Kun looked at Zhu Jiumu and Wen Changgong before he shouted, "Jiumu?"
Zhu Jiumu immediately got up to the demonic tree and Lord Kun turned into a celestial being with bird head, human body and Peng's wings that followed right behind Zhu Jiumu while Wen Changgong followed behind them closely, protecting Lord Kun who was in the middle.
The trio got up of the tree, traveled quickly and just when they got up to the coffin, blood ocean flowed out from the lamp as Zhong Yue let Wei Xue God out and started sacrificing him!