NOVGO.NET Ch. 251 - War God
The rain poured harder and faster, within moments, it became a torrential downpour.
All remaining members of the Chili Tribe were slain under Xu Zimo’s blade.
“Let’s hope you become better people in hell,” Xu Zimo muttered as he killed the last tribesman and slowly approached the barrier.
At this point, the barrier had lost all power and no longer had any defensive strength.
Xu Zimo slashed through it with a single stroke and stepped into the forest.
Everywhere he looked, corpses of humans and beasts were piled like mountains, not a single living being remained.
“I’ve avenged you all. What a good man I am,” Xu Zimo sighed and shook his head.
“Good people are rewarded. And your blood essence will help me cultivate.”
Even after losing all four limbs, a person doesn’t die instantly.
They die slowly, painfully, bled out or overwhelmed by agony.
But Chi Yi was an Empyrean Meridian Realm cultivator. As long as his soul remained intact, even such injuries could be slowly recovered from.
Now, with no arms or legs, Chi Yi could only lie helplessly on the ground, his face washed clean by the pounding rain.
Suddenly, a shadow stood over him, shielding him from the downpour.
“Don’t kill me! I can give you the War God’s Nine Transformations!” Chi Yi begged desperately.
“Oh? Where is it?” Xu Zimo asked calmly.
He was genuinely curious about this divine technique. He hadn’t given Chi Yi the chance to use the later transformations, but even just the fourth transformation had been hard to handle.
If Chi Yi had used all eight transformations, Xu Zimo doubted he’d have walked away easily.
And if the ninth transformation, long spoken of in myth, were real, its power would be terrifying.
“I’ll give it to you!” Chi Yi cried. “But you must let me go.”
“You’re not in a position to negotiate,” Xu Zimo replied flatly.
“If you don’t agree, then let this divine skill die with me,” Chi Yi countered.
“Are you threatening me?” Xu Zimo scoffed.
“Let me guess… If you’re hoping to use the final transformation someday, the inheritance stone must be on you right now.”
Chi Yi’s face froze.
“Let me live, and I’ll give it to you. I swear! You can have the whole Nine Li Confederacy under your command.”
“So I was right,” Xu Zimo smiled and began searching Chi Yi’s body.
When he forced open Chi Yi’s storage ring, the elder’s face twisted in despair.
Xu Zimo retrieved a jet-black stone, smooth to the touch, glowing with a faint dark light.
At its center was a thumb-sized imprint.
Just as Xu Zimo was about to press his thumb into it,
“NO!” Chi Yi shouted.
BOOM!
A violent shockwave burst forth. Dark light surged skyward from the stone, piercing the heavens and splitting the clouds.
In that moment, Xu Zimo felt his consciousness drawn into a mysterious realm.
Gods were the most powerful beings of this era.
They transcended all limits, possessed eternal lifespans, and wielded unimaginable strength.
In the early Legendary Era, there were no mortals or monsters, only gods.
They were the original natives of this world.
But the world is always changing.
Thousands of years after the gods emerged, heaven and earth began to birth new life, monsters, spirit beasts, and later, humans, evolved from those beasts.
As these new races began to emerge, the gods conspired in secret.
They plotted to rule the entire continent, enslaving all life beneath them.
But their plan violated the principles of the Heavenly Dao.
If they succeeded, this epoch would never grow or flourish, it would decay.
And so, with Heaven’s help…
A giant sleeping deep beneath the earth awoke.
He held a colossal axe and proclaimed himself the War God.
That day, he walked out of War God Valley and stormed the gods’ stronghold alone.
No one knows what happened in that battle.
All we know is that after the fighting ended, the War God and all the gods vanished.
No one ever saw them again, alive or dead.
That battle became known as the Godsfall.
Since then, the age of gods has passed. All living beings embarked on a long journey of seeking the Dao.
The War God’s Nine Transformations was the divine art left behind by the War God.
It was discovered by the Nine Li Confederacy in War God Valley.
Its nine transformations are:
- Heaven Break Transformation
- Profound Soul Transformation
- True Spirit Transformation
- Supreme Spirit Transformation
- Primordial Spirit Transformation
- Sky Serpent Transformation
- Azure Dragon Transformation
- Blue Cloud Transformation
- War God Transformation
As these memories and techniques flooded into Xu Zimo’s mind, he instinctively began circulating the technique’s patterns.
His blood surged like a mighty river, violent and boundless.
The essence inside him reversed flow, yin became yang.
In just a moment, he had mastered the first transformation.
But as he advanced further, his body trembled violently. His veins felt like they were about to burst.
The War God’s Nine Transformations wasn’t a single martial technique.
It was an amplification divine art, a complete enhancement of every part of the body.
Each transformation multiplied power exponentially.
By the seventh transformation, Xu Zimo’s body couldn’t handle the strain. His skin dried out, his face turned pale, like he’d been completely drained.
But despite that, his inner vitality grew several times stronger.
Looking around at the fields soaked in blood, tens of thousands of humans and countless beasts lay dead.
Xu Zimo raised his hand.
The essence and blood of the dead rose into the air and poured into his body.
BOOM.
Something inside him erupted.
His complexion regained its color.
His aura soared.
His mastery of the Nine Transformations surged to the eighth stage, Blue Cloud Transformation.
Then the rapid progress slowed.
Eyes closed, Xu Zimo entered a trance. In his mind appeared a scene:
“WAR! WAR! WAR!”
A lone warrior fought heaven and earth, slaying gods and demons alike.
One man versus the entire pantheon, his heroic spirit unmatched.
As if nothing in this world mattered but one word:
War.
A heart with depth sees distant mountains. All things in the world, dust and illusion.
The sea of blood wrapped around Xu Zimo, sealing him in a cocoon for half a month.
Finally, as dawn broke and the blood cocoon shattered,
Before Xu Zimo could even sense his new power,
The sky suddenly shook, and the river of time swept him away.