Chapter 677 — The Underworld's Register of Life and Death

it is hard to explain in a word. Sect Master Shen seems to have cultivated some remarkable technique, transforming into a form with three heads and six arms, and his strength has grown even greater than before.

He unleashed three moves of Kaijie. " Zhe Huali's tiger eyes went wide, and he said solemnly: "Three heads and six arms?

It seems his strength has risen another level. I too must cultivate diligently; I will definitely make him taste bitter defeat beneath my demon blade!

" Lou Yunqu frowned slightly, gazing at the Primordial Ancestor Human Emperor ahead.

He had wanted to act to rescue Lou Qianzhong earlier, but had been overawed by the aura this powerhouse had erupted with in an instant, and did not dare act directly.

"Shen Wu Huangzi's combat power is extremely high. .

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" He thought to himself: "However, with him alone, it is simply impossible to block the surging tide of destiny.

He will inevitably be crushed to dust by that tide! " Kui Qingpei said in a low voice: "Senior Brother Lou, Junior Brother, he. .

. " Lou Yunqu said quietly: "Shen Wu held the three of us in check, leaving us no leisure to rescue him.

Junior Brother can only die once. But this Son of God of Youdu is different from what I imagined.

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. Are you confident you can capture him?

" Fu Yanqi's gaze flickered as he said: "Senior Brother can rest assured.

Junior Brother Qi blundered; he failed to capture him and instead lost Master's treasure. But for us to capture him will be easy.

" Lou Yunqu smiled: "Then let our visit to observe the martial arts and divine abilities of Taihuang Heaven end here. Honored King Vajra, Commissioner Lu, we may return.

" Vajra said in surprise: "The three of you are returning already? Lou Qianzhong is dead; will you not avenge him?

You three senior brothers are truly magnanimous. " Lou Yunqu said: "Lou Qianzhong's soul will return to Youdu and be reborn in a new incarnation; Master will not let him die just like that.

We are only returning to the demon race's territory, not to Youdu. When the remaining scoundrels of Chiming arrive at Jingping, that will be the day Taihuang Heaven falls. " Vajra was stunned.

This time there had been only four visitors from Youdu, one of whom had been killed by Shen Mu; why was Lou Yunqu so certain that with the strength of just the three of them, they could unify Taihuang Heaven under the demon race? After all, Vajra, bound by the Earth Lord's Pact he had made with the Woodcutter Sage, could not mobilize the demon race's great army to assist.

And Lu Li, as Youdu's Commissioner, answered only to the Heavenly Court's commands, not to Youdu's; Lou Yunqu could not mobilize her either. Therefore the power Lou Yunqu could bring to bear was merely the three of them, fellow disciples. Seeing Lou Yunqu and the others depart, Qi Jiuyi's heart tightened.

He said in a low voice: "Zhe Huali, if you trust me, then come with me at once through the Bridge of Spiritual Energy Transmigration into Huangxu!

" Zhe Huali was startled and was about to ask, but Qi Jiuyi had already gone ahead of him, heading straight for the Bridge. Beside the Bridge of Spiritual Energy Transmigration, Shen Mu, Long Qilin and Xu Shenghua were flying in circles around an enormous altar, constantly reinforcing it, repairing the cracked runes, attempting to sustain the Bridge.

In the sky, that strange star had already faded by nearly half, yet the Bridge of Spiritual Energy Transmigration was struggling to hold; the ground for hundreds of li around was shaken into countless ravines and gullies, the earth like a spider's web.

The altar was crumbling; the mountain stones upon it could disintegrate into powder at any moment. Shen Mu frowned deeply.

Daoist Master Lin Xuan and the others arrived and hurriedly reinforced the altar as well. Everyone worked without pause, yet the altar continued to tremble.

The energy surging from Jingping grew ever more vast, spilling across the sky.

At this moment the sun went dark; Taihuang Heaven had reached night, yet the sky was brighter than ever before, lit by the radiance of the spiritual energy transmigrating from Jingping! That strange star faded bit by bit.

Suddenly the Primordial Ancestor soared into the air, flying up to the strange star, and only then did its movement slow slightly. Shen Mu breathed a sigh of relief and redoubled his efforts to reinforce the altar.

Luofu Heaven. Majestic altars stood in this already ruined world.

Upon the altars, Huangxu god-men stood guard, protecting them.

For the past two years they had been stationed here, repelling countless waves of attacks from the demon race. On this day, before one of the altars, space suddenly split open, and three demon-gods stepped out; they were none other than Lou Yunqu, Fu Yanqi and Kui Qingpei. "On the demon race's land, how many heroes and champions were born, and how many were buried upon this soil?

" Lou Yunqu was filled with emotion. He took out the Book of Life and Death and gently unrolled it, saying leisurely: "The long years have sent away too many figures worthy of song and tears.

Are you still there?

" His voice suddenly rang out loud and clear: "By the command of the Black Emperor of Youdu, I bid you wake, and fight for me! " The Book of Life and Death floated in the air, blazing with light, like a mirror casting incomparably brilliant radiance from its pages, shining downward.

Whoosh — the Book of Life and Death flew through the skies of Luofu Heaven.

Wherever its light shone, names immediately surfaced on its pages, countless names leaping and shifting upon the Book's pages! The book flew back and forth across Luofu Heaven at a speed invisible to the naked eye, illuminating every inch of Luofu Heaven!

The Huangxu god-man on that altar felt a chill in his heart.

His gaze turned toward Lou Yunqu and the other two, and he said in a deep voice: "Who are you, stirring up trouble here? " Lou Yunqu and the other two stood quietly with their hands tucked into their sleeves, paying him no heed.

Suddenly the ground split open.

A white-boned skeleton clad in scrap metal and rusted iron burrowed out from underground and stood up, ghostly fire burning in its eye sockets, standing motionless. Clatter, clatter, the sound of bones knocking together spread.

Every inch of Luofu Heaven's soil churned, and countless dry bones burrowed out of the earth and rose to their feet.

A demon-god still in the process of rotting crawled out from underground. It suddenly opened its massive mouth and spewed thick demonic qi, as if roaring soundlessly at Lou Yunqu and the others.

The violent demonic qi struck so hard that the three men's faces creased, their hair and robes streaming backward, their faces smeared with foul saliva, painted in livid greens and purples. Before long, tens of millions of corpse bones formed an army whose end could not be seen at a glance.

The demonic qi seemed to press down and collapse the cracked firmament, dreadfully gloomy. The Huangxu god-man on that altar turned pale with fright and gripped his divine weapon tightly. Lou Yunqu raised his hand, and the Book of Life and Death came whistling back. He smiled and said: "Junior Brothers, guess how long it will take to capture these altars and eliminate the remaining scoundrels of Kaihuang upon them?

" Boom — countless corpse bones surged like a tide toward the altars. In just a few breaths, the sky-covering mass of corpses submerged the altars!

Kui Qingpei laughed: "Shorter than I imagined.

" One altar after another fell. The Huangxu god-men guarding them could hardly resist such attacks, torn to shreds by the surging demon-god corpses!

In the end, the altars that the Woodcutter Sage and the Twenty-Four God-Men had built to coerce Vajra into submission all fell, and the time Lou Yunqu used was no more than the burning of a single stick of incense!