Book 08 Chapter 065: Someone Else Reaping the Benefits
Book 08 Chapter 065: Someone Else Reaping the Benefits
Ji Dihong drove his heavenly gift cultivation technique, forming a golden heavenly eye with limitless might. A beam of Divinity Destroying Light shot towards Ba.
Everyone witnessing this scene was startled, as Ba seemed to be in grave danger.
However, Cangjie and Jiangchen held the opposite view, believing that Ji Dihong was the one in trouble.
Ba did not panic; instead, she seemed eager, as if she had been waiting for this moment after fighting for so long.
Suddenly, Ba opened her mouth and slowly released a red sphere of light.
“Ba’s enchanted treasure, the red sun?” Gu Han, in the distance, was taken aback.
Years ago, when Ba had just broken free from her seal, there had been a red sun shining brightly in the sky, illuminating the heavens and the earth. It was rumored to be Ba’s mainstay enchanted treasure, one that could rival the top sixteen ancient treasures.
When the red sun appeared, Sect Master Heavenly Access, the Eastern Monarch Supreme Singularity, and Imperial Emperor Xi Yu had fought over it. In the end, Ba pushed them back in one move and gulped down the red sun.
Now, the red sun was again unleashed, heading towards the Divinity Destroying Light from the heavenly eye.
“Humph! Not even the top sixteen ancient treasures can withstand our Divinity Destroying Light. Jiang Lianshan didn’t know any better and gave us this heavenly gift cultivation technique. Hahahaha! A heavenly gift cultivation technique is the most powerful cultivation technique in the world, and it will be the key to our victory! Break!” Ji Dihong shouted furiously.
Boom!
A massive explosion occurred as the Divinity Destroying Light struck the red sun.
Instead of shattering, the red sun absorbed the Divinity Destroying Light, seeming to receive nourishment from it.
The red sun emitted a brilliant radiance, bathing the entire eastern section of the Divine Continent red. The leaders of numerous factions looked on in astonishment.
“What’s going on?” Ji Dihong’s expression changed.
The red sun and the heavenly eye were connected by the Divinity Destroying Light. The red sun endlessly drew out the Divinity Destroying Light from the heavenly eye.
Rumble…!
The heavenly eye shuddered as the red sun pulled it down, using the Divinity Destroying Light like a rope while continuing to extract Divinity Destroying Light from it.
By leaps and bounds, the red sun dragged the heavenly eye closer.
“What? We cannot control our heavenly gift cultivation technique? That’s impossible! That’s impossible!” Ji Dihong exclaimed in incredible shock and rage.
Unfortunately, the pull of the red sun was horrific. In mere moments, it had dragged the heavenly eye over.
At this moment, Ji Dihong realized, to his dismay, that the black-hole-like pupil of his golden heavenly eye was an exact fit for the red sun.
This red sun looked like it was originally a part of his heavenly eye.
The initial heavenly eye was deficient. It would be perfect with the addition of the red sun; they were originally one.
Boom!
After a loud report, the red sun entered the heavenly eye’s pupil, making up for that deficiency.
Perfect and flawless, merging as one.
When the red sun entered, it gave off red rays of light that filled the heavenly eye’s surroundings, like countless veins, looking even more harmonious.
Ji Dihong was horrified, as he sensed his heavenly gift cultivation technique being withdrawn. His connection to the heavenly eye faded into nothing.
The heavenly eye drifted to Ba, apparently establishing a connection and slowly becoming a part of her.
“You-you are snatching our heavenly eye?” Ji Dihong stammered, aghast.
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Deity Seizing Hall:
“What a way to reap someone else’s benefit! Jiang Lianshan split the original heavenly gift and gave the tedious part to Ji Dihong to cultivate. Then he gave Ba the crucial parts of the inner working. Thus, two people cultivated it separately. However, when Ba needed it, she could take away the part Ji Dihong cultivated. Ji Dihong put in a lot of effort to cultivate his half of the cultivation technique, but in the end, Ba reaped the benefits. Jiang Lianshan, what a great scheme!” Jiangchen said in awe.
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Borderless Heavenly Capital:
Cangjie said bitterly, “Indeed, that is the case. When His Holy Eminence cultivated his half of the heavenly gift, he kept feeling he was missing something. He could not use it as freely as the Six Paths Immortal or Essence Genesis. It turns out it was deficient in the first place, and this Jiang Lianshan had intentionally left this deficiency just so he could collect it today?”
“No wonder the heavenly eye that severely injured us that day could not last long. So, it was just a half? Hah! Hahaha! To think Ji Dihong has this day!” Gu Han guffawed.
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In the distant outer space:
Ji Dihong now understood this was all Jiang Lianshan’s scheme. Jiang Lianshan had expected this to happen and had already schemed against him long ago, from all his techniques to his heavenly gift cultivation technique.
“No! No! The heavenly eye is ours! Ours! Return it to us!” Ji Dihong roared ferociously.
Ji Dihong threw a palm strike at Ba.
“Humph!” Ba snorted coldly as she countered with a punch.
Boom!
A loud report rang out as the palm and the fist met with equal force. However, countless beams of golden light seemed to withdraw from Ji Dihong’s body, flowing into the vast heavenly eye.
The heavenly eye had cut off all connection to Ji Dihong. Then countless golden-red beams rushed into Ba’s body, forming an inseverable connection with her.
“Come in!” Ba opened her mouth and sucked.
Rumble…!
The heavenly eye suddenly closed. Then the roiling banks of golden clouds followed the golden-red light into Ba’s mouth, vanishing.
After that, Ba’s body gave off a bright, golden light that rushed towards the blazing sun in the sky.
The only sun in the sky sent a surging sea of fire towards Ba. The fire poured into her body.
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Deity Seizing Hall’s entrance:
Jiangchen narrowed his eyes. “A baptism by the sun’s core flames? Hah! Jiang Lianshan truly calculated everything meticulously. A baptism? Ba’s heavenly gift is fire-attributed, so Jiang Lianshan had her become the fire-attributed zombie ancestor. Only the fire-attributed zombie ancestor can endure the baptism from the sun’s core flames; not a single factor can be off for this to happen. What a flawless calculation, Jiang Lianshan!”
“Baptism? Veritable Lord, didn’t you say earlier that Ba was just short of a baptism to reach Dijiang’s height? This is the baptism?” Long Aotian asked in shock.
“That’s right. This is the baptism. When the baptism is completed, Ba should be about as strong as Dijiang. Back then, Dijiang’s strength soared wildly after his baptism, giving him the courage to challenge me,” Jiangchen replied seriously.
“I heard Veritable Lord had to put in a lot of effort before finally destroying Dijiang. So, wouldn’t Ba’s strength be close to Veritable Lord’s after her baptism?” Long Aotian said in shock.
Jiangchen looked at the distant Ba with slightly narrowed eyes. He was not angry; instead, some anticipation flashed in his eyes.
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With the baptism of the sun’s core flames, Ba’s body became like the blazing sun. She gave off overwhelming flames, and the surging heat waves shattered the surrounding space.
“Our heavenly gift cultivation technique! You-you-you, return our heavenly gift cultivation technique to us!” Ji Dihong roared in sorrow and rage.
While receiving the baptism of the sun’s core flames, Ba remained conscious. She revealed a cold smile. “If you want it, come and get it.”
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Borderless Heavenly Capital:
“Hah! His Holy Eminence has lost his heavenly gift cultivation technique forever!” Cangjie said bitterly.
“Heavenly gift cultivation technique? Mister Cangjie, Ji Dihong’s cultivation technique can be snatched away? Doesn’t he have half of the cultivation technique? He can just cultivate from scratch again, right?” Gu Han asked in confusion.
“No. A heavenly gift cultivation technique is different. A person can cultivate it only after the previous person who cultivated it dies. Only one person can cultivate each portion of a heavenly gift cultivation technique at any one time. This is because they are cultivating spiritual light. The five heavenly gift cultivation techniques have already used up all the spiritual light. The cultivation technique follows the order of cultivation. So after the first cultivates it, no one else can cultivate it,” Cangjie said bitterly.
“That is to say, Ji Dihong’s half of the heavenly gift cultivation technique is already useless unless Ba dies? There is no way to cultivate it?” Gu Han said in shock.
Cangjie nodded bitterly.
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Far away, Ji Dihong naturally understood this point. As he watched Ba receive the baptism from the sun’s core flames, he sank into utter despair. Even he could not endure the strength of the sun’s core flames, yet she stood within the flames and reveled in the fire.
Our heavenly eye got snatched away, and our heavenly gift cultivation technique was rendered useless.
All this is Jiang Lianshan’s scheme. He had already schemed against us long ago.
If we had not betrayed him, we could still have enjoyed this cultivation technique. However, once we did, Jiang Lianshan’s people could repossess the rewards given back then?
Seeing that he had no way to kill Ba only fanned Ji Dihong’s fury.
“Excellent! Excellent! Jiang Lianshan, what an excellent scheme! However, we still have the divine Dao plundering, one of the shaman race’s five main lines of inheritance. We have plundered Chiyou’s world devouring. Today, we will plunder the complete heavenly eye from Ba! Watch how we take it back! We will make sure your scheme does not come to fruition! You are just a dead man, and you want to scheme against me?” Ji Dihong snarled in a towering rage.
Ji Dihong extended his hand and swiped, appearing to be grabbing at nothing. He seemed to be executing the divine Dao plundering.
On the other side, Ba sneered. “The divine Dao plundering? Hah! That came from Jiang Lianshan, too, right? Try it. We might know something else!”
Buzz!
Ji Dihong’s mind buzzed.
Ba also knows a portion of the divine Dao plundering? Just like a portion of the heavenly eye? It’s just a portion, but it may be critical and can plunder everything we own?
Jiang Lianshan’s scheme? Everything we worked hard for only serves to benefit someone else? We were working to someone else’s benefit?
Ji Dihong’s hand stopped in midair. Fear prevented him from doing anything lest his divine Dao plundering be stolen like the heavenly eye.
Plundered?
If we continue fighting, we may not only fail to hurt Ba but also get everything of ours taken away?
“Let’s go!” Ji Dihong roared in rage as he looked down.
Boom!
Below, Hou Yi’s divine arrow shot out just then and instantly blasted Ji Dihong’s flying ship to pieces. Only Fengbo and Limu escaped.
The two were incredibly horrified. They had not expected their emperor to suffer utter defeat here.
Terror spread across Fengbo’s and Limu’s faces at Houyi’s and Xingtian’s attacks. Although the two were at the consummation of the Upper Heavenly Palace Realm, they used to fight on the same side as Xingtian and Hou Yi. Naturally, they understood they were not as strong as Xingtian and Hou Yi.
When Ji Dihong called out for them to leave, the two did not hesitate to speed towards the horizon.
“Trying to leave? Humph!” Hou Yi fired another arrow as he pursued Limu.
“No!” Limu’s expression changed as he extended his hand to throw a palm strike.
Boom!
A loud report rang out as the divine arrow exploded Limu’s right arm.
Limu did not dare to linger, fleeing into the distance with Fengbo.
Ji Dihong glared furiously at Hou Yi. Now, he no longer dared to linger. He turned around and rushed off.
He could not vent today’s humiliation on Ba, so he could only vent his rage on Gu Hai. Gu Hai, just wait to die. It’s all because of you. Otherwise, we would not have suffered such a great loss!
Ji Dihong shot towards Xuanyuan City.
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Deity Seizing Hall’s entrance:
Jiangchen watched with disappointment as Ji Dihong left. “Actually, Ba cannot be interrupted while receiving the baptism of the sun’s core flames. Unfortunately, he did not know that and even got scared away. How unfortunate! How unfortunate!”