Chapter 35
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Chapter 35: Father and Son Showdown (Part Two)
“Make your move.”
Ning Wudao’s voice was emotionless. At this moment, he had severed his final flicker of hesitation. Since the Golden Toad Demon God intended to devour him, he had only one path left.
Patricide and usurpation!
“Hahaha! Truly worthy of the one I chose.” The Golden Toad Demon God felt not a shred of anger at Ning Wudao’s choice, only boundless excitement.
“This is good. It will allow me to savor your flesh and blood, piece by piece.”
Boom!
Ning Wudao channeled his magic power. The aura of the Divine God realm erupted, slamming into the entire Celestial Demon Hall. The dome instantly crumbled, reduced to fine powder.
The Golden Toad Demon God stood upon his throne, gazing down at Ning Wudao with utter disdain.
Every aspect of Ning Wudao was within his grasp. Ning Wudao could not escape his palm.
“What’s happening?”
The Celestial Demon Hall collapsed. The Divine God aura shattered the surrounding void. Countless demon clan cultivators turned their horrified gazes towards the hall.
Their first thought was that the Celestial Demon Hall had been invaded by external foes.
Yet, a single glance revealed Ning Wudao and the Golden Toad Demon God.
Ning Wudao hovered mid-air, his gaze icy. He gripped a damaged divine dagger. Killing intent surged towards the heavens, coalescing into streams of sword energy that ripped through the sky.
The Golden Toad Demon God stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes fixed on the divine dagger. He chuckled, “So you indeed encountered fortunate opportunities, enabling your breakthrough to the Divine God realm.”
“Come. Let your father witness your skills.”
The many demons were stunned. Were the hall master and Saint Son truly about to clash?
The few Celestial Demon Hall elders privy to the truth shivered with excitement. They knew this was the hall master preparing to devour Ning Wudao. Success would bestow upon the Celestial Demon Hall a God King.
“The Saint Son is too insolent! The hall master is his adoptive father and the ruler of the Celestial Demon Hall. By law, this is insubordination. By kinship, this is the foulest treachery!”
“May the hall master teach him a harsh lesson!”
Those unaware of the truth clamored incessantly for Ning Wudao to be punished.
Boom!
Ning Wudao activated the Celestial Demon Extermination Technique. Countless divine patterns flowed into the divine dagger. Driven by the Laws of Killing, Ning Wudao moved like a God of Slaughter. He swept the divine dagger down towards the Golden Toad Demon God.
Crack!
The void split cleanly into two halves. Horrifying killing intent transformed into countless streams of sword energy, fusing perfectly with the divine dagger.
“Dear son, your divine abilities and techniques were all taught to you by your father. How do you intend to defy me?” The Golden Toad Demon God sneered. With a single, casual grab, he seized the void within a ten-mile radius.
The compressed void formed an immense shield, meeting Ning Wudao’s descending blade.
Bang!
The divine dagger cleaved downward. The void shield shattered under the blow. Rampant killing intent instantly tore through the protective magic enveloping the Golden Toad Demon God. Ning Wudao swung the divine dagger directly at his opponent’s neck.
The Golden Toad Demon God’s expression shifted. “This is not the Seven Killing Divine Technique!”
“Traitorous son! You have cultivated another technique?”
Golden Toad Demon God was furious. Ning Wudao switching to different techniques meant that he was beyond Golden Toad Demon God’s control. Golden Toad Demon God could not target Ning Wudao using techniques and divine powers.
"Dark Nether Evil Palm!"
Golden Toad Demon God’s right palm turned blue-black. He held the divine dagger in his hand. Black evil energy, like chains, wrapped around the divine dagger and spread toward Ning Wudao.
Ning Wudao shook his arm, and the divine dagger vibrated. With a slash, it cut Golden Toad Demon God’s palm, and black blood gushed out.
Golden Toad Demon God had no choice but to let go.
"The hall master is injured!"
Numerous elders’ pupils shrank. The hall master of the Celestial Demon Hall was at the Complete Divine God realm and was about to advance to the God King. How could he be injured by the newly promoted divine god Ning Wudao?
How could that be?
Ning Wudao said, "I forgot to tell you. I’m not at the early stage of the Divine God realm but the late stage." Ning Wudao stood holding the divine dagger horizontally, with divine patterns of slaughter swirling around him.
"Impossible!"
Golden Toad Demon God roared furiously, "How could you possibly cultivate to the late stage of the Divine God realm in just a few days?"
"I won’t believe it!"
Golden Toad Demon God willed, and divine swords flew out from his Purple Palace. Astonishingly, they were the Seven Killing Divine Swords.
He practiced the Seven Killing Divine Technique, but it was more comprehensive.
Having become a divine god for several hundred years, Golden Toad Demon God had long refined seven divine swords that formed the Seven Killing Divine Sword Formation. When the seven divine weapons combined into the formation, its power was incredibly terrifying.
Ning Wudao sneered inwardly.
He had figured out Golden Toad Demon God’s secrets completely. In front of Ning Wudao, Golden Toad Demon God was like a naked person without any secrets.
Boom!
The seven divine swords flew out, and seven sky-piercing sword pillars descended. Sword patterns intertwined, sealing off heaven and earth completely.
"Seven Killing Dao Palace!"
Golden Toad Demon God roared, and seven Dao Palaces emerged behind him. To align with the Seven Killing Divine Technique, Golden Toad Demon God had cultivated seven Dao Palaces.
The seven Dao Palaces contained all the magical power of his lifetime.
Bang!
Seven vast streams of magical power, like rivers, poured into the Seven Killing Divine Sword Formation. Seven sword pillars crossed as they struck down. Sword light filled heaven and earth, chopping everything into fragments.
"The hall master will surely win!"
Numerous disciples of the Celestial Demon Hall shouted.
From beginning to end, no one thought to stop the fight. It all seemed like watching a spectacle.
Ning Wudao smiled coldly and said, "In my eyes, your entire body is full of flaws."
Swish!
Ning Wudao activated the Celestial Demon Extermination Technique. Strands of divine patterns intertwined on the divine dagger. He closed his eyes, but on the divine dagger, a divine eye slowly opened.
The divine eye blinked lightly, and a beam of divine light burst forth. It broke through the blockade of sword energy and crashed into the third sword pillar.
Thud!
That sword pillar collapsed with a crash, instantly shattering the Seven Killing Divine Sword Formation.
Ning Wudao suddenly opened his eyes, his divine light blazing brilliantly.
He swung his divine dagger, transforming it into a length of hundreds of zhang, resembling a mountain of blades, as it crashed towards the six sword pillars.
A thunderous boom!
The divine dagger shattered the six sword pillars; the six flying swords were grievously injured; the Golden Toad Demon God, who was spiritually linked to them, also suffered heavy damage, spurting out a mouthful of black blood with a "pfft."
The Golden Toad Demon God had no time for fear; he transformed into a golden toad over a hundred zhang tall, covered in bloated warts, and leaped fiercely to collide with the divine dagger.
Streaks of divine light shimmered over the Golden Toad Demon God, colored like translucent glass.
It was the Glazed Golden Body.
He had cultivated this divine ability to the Great Perfection stage; even a God King could withstand it for one blow.
"The hall master has shown his true form…"
Many disciples of the Celestial Demon Hall showed strange expressions; it was well known that when a member of the demon clan revealed their original form in battle, it signaled they were nearing a hopeless end.
In other words, the Golden Toad Demon God was going all-out.
This scene was utterly shocking.
How could a newly promoted Divine God force the hall master to this point?
Was the Celestial Demon bloodline truly so powerful?
Boom!
Ning Wudao showed no mercy, striking his divine dagger hundreds of zhang long onto the Golden Toad Demon God’s body; the glazed divine light gleamed brightly, barely enduring the hit.
But before the Golden Toad Demon God could catch his breath, Ning Wudao swung his dagger again, fast and fierce and precise, slashing straight to nine cun of his back.
"No!"
The Golden Toad Demon God roared in shock and anger and despair.
Thud!
The divine dagger came down, breaking the Glazed Golden Body; the Golden Toad Demon God’s back bore a slash dozens of zhang long, almost piercing through his entire body, leaving a puddle of black blood on the ground.
The Golden Toad Demon God’s massive body lay like a small hill on the earth, and human words emerged from his mouth, "You… how could you know the vulnerabilities of the Glazed Golden Body?"
"How could you know the flaws in the Seven Killing Divine Sword Formation?"
"How do you know so much?"
Throughout the battle, Ning Wudao acted fast and fierce and precise, nearly always targeting his vulnerabilities, rendering the Golden Toad Demon God unable to unleash his full power.
Otherwise, with his Complete Divine God realm cultivation, he would never have been defeated so miserably.
Against Ning Wudao, he almost couldn’t lift a hand to fight back.
The Golden Toad Demon God asked himself: when he taught those divine abilities to Ning Wudao, he had deliberately left behind vulnerabilities; Ning Wudao’s practiced abilities had vulnerabilities in multiple places.
He did this to counter Ning Wudao.
But for the divine abilities he himself practiced, only he knew their vulnerabilities.
Yet now Ning Wudao found his vulnerability perfectly with one strike to subdue the enemy—how was that possible?
Could Ning Wudao deduce all his vulnerabilities from the divine art itself?
Impossible!
"The Hall Master… is defeated…"
The many members of the demon clan fell utterly silent, their spirit gone.
Yet there were those who rejoiced—they were all Ning Wudao’s supporters.
Ning Wudao approached Golden Toad Demon God, looking down upon him. "Did you think I didn’t know the vulnerabilities you left in the divine art?"
"Ever since eighty years ago, I’ve known all your schemes."
"Therefore, I endured for eighty years, never advancing to the Divine God realm. I was constantly seeking a way to deal with you."
"The heavens do not disappoint those who are determined. I’ve finally found it."
Ning Wudao’s voice transmitted secretly, entering the Purple Palace of Golden Toad Demon God.
"I suppose I should thank you."
Ning Wudao laughed coldly. "If not for you sending me to probe the secrets of Kunlun Valley, I wouldn’t have deduced the existence of Heaven’s Secret Pavilion from it."
"Heaven’s Secret Pavilion?"
Golden Toad Demon God had never heard that name. Still unwilling to accept defeat, he asked, "Were all my secrets told to you by Heaven’s Secret Pavilion?"
"That’s right."
Swoosh!
Abruptly.
Golden Toad Demon God’s golden eyes erupted with purple divine light. Two streaks of godly radiance converged and slashed outwards, merging into one. Instantly, the world grew deathly cold, freezing over.
As that streak of divine light swept by, the void froze. It shot like a purple sword aura straight into Ning Wudao’s Purple Palace.
This divine art was called the Taiyin God-Extinguishing Technique.
As the name suggests, it targeted the primordial spirit—a vicious, ruthless art.
"Since I am aware of all your divine arts, how could I not be prepared?"
Ning Wudao sneered. "The Taiyin God-Extinguishing Technique specializes in destroying the primordial spirit."
"This divine art was not passed on to me by you, nor have you ever told me about it. It bears no record within the Celestial Demon Hall’s scripture repository. You obtained it within a Secret Realm."
"Someone as shrewd as you, why are you so foolish now?"
Ning Wudao had been prepared long ago.
The moment the Taiyin God-Extinguishing Technique manifested, he suppressed it using the Celestial Demon Star Devouring Technique and refined it.
He stared at Golden Toad Demon God, murderous intent gathering.
"Wudao, have you forgotten? Who was it that rescued you from the gladiator pit over two hundred years ago?"
"It was me!"
Golden Toad Demon God roared near-hysterically. "For over two hundred years, I raised you, I nurtured you. Only because of me do you possess the achievements you hold today."
"I am your adoptive father!"
"If you slay me now, what will all under heaven think of you?"
"To come this far and still resort to such hypocrisy?"
Ning Wudao regarded Golden Toad Demon God with contempt, utterly dismissive. "As for all under heaven?"
"I never cared for their opinions before. It’s even less possible I care for them now."
"Isn’t it just slaying one’s master to seize power?"
"Adoptive father, I can bear that stain."
"Besides, isn’t this precisely the tradition of the Celestial Demon Hall?"
Ning Wudao laughed, fierce as an Asura.
"No!"
Golden Toad Demon God cried out in despair.
"Celestial Demon Star Devouring Technique!"
Ning Wudao activated his profound art. The Celestial Demon Star Devouring Technique manifested. He opened his mouth to inhale as if forming a black hole, Symbols enveloping the body of Golden Toad Demon God.
Golden Toad Demon God’s body shrank smaller and smaller, eventually flying straight into Ning Wudao’s mouth.
Ning Wudao withdrew his aura and turned his gaze towards the surrounding disciples of the Celestial Demon Hall.
They all fell silent.
No one dared utter a single word.
Not even a Divine God.
"Slaying his master to seize power! Truly the outstanding Saint Son!"
Right at that moment, a cold snort echoed from the void.
A foot stepped out from a void rift, followed by a black-robed elder with a youthful face and crane-like white hair. His pair of triangular eyes were particularly striking. His aura was bone-chillingly cold and sinister, his eyes crafty and venomous like poisonous snakes locked onto Ning Wudao.
"Hail to the Supreme Elder."
The disciples of the Celestial Demon Hall kowtowed in reverence.
"Saint Son Ning Wudao greets the Supreme Elder."
Seeing this person, Ning Wudao straightened his robes, unhurried, and offered a slow, measured bow.
