Chapter 99: Inevitable
Wang Wei looked at the approaching old man with a calm face. He did not care for the fact that this person was in the Divine Altar. He could see at a single glance that this person had only about 100 Divine Veins engraved on his altar. Meanwhile, he had 360 Divine Veins.
In the Divine Altar Realm, a cultivator can have a maximum of 365 Divine Veins. More than 90 veins were considered the middle of the realm, more than 180 veins were considered the high of the realm, while more than 270 were considered the peak of the realm.
In the last 7 years he spent waiting for the trial to begin, he had already entered the high Divine Altar realm, meanwhile, in the past five years in this plane, he managed to reach the peak using a lot of the origin sources he brought back from the sect.
Wang Wei also knew that he was not the only one who had reached such a cultivation level. Both Li Jun and Yan Liling had reached the peak of the Divine Altar Realm, with only a few Divine Veins behind him.
Thinking about this, Wang Wei realized that he has been cultivating for almost 50 years now, making him technically in his 60s. If you add the near thirty years from his past life, he is an old man in his 90s.
At this age, he should have grandkids and maybe even great grandkids. Yet, in the world of cultivation, he is still nothing but a toddler.
While Wang Wei’s mind was drifting faster than a whipped horse, the cultivator of the royal family soon arrived.
It was an old man with a long face, squinty eyes and white beard. However, he was very skinny, almost to the point of his bones appearing under his black robe.
Wang Wei knew that this was a result of him sealing himself to continue his almost finished lifespans.
When Dong Si arrived, he saw a young and handsome boy with grey eyes and hair waiting for him. He frowned because he could not tell the cultivation level of this person.
However, with the obvious physical features, he realized that this person was the Wise Sage that incited the rebellion and his target this time, however, things seemed to be more tricky than he previously imagined.
And things got worse for Dong Si. Soon, he saw another young boy coming out to meet. This person had a terrible fighting intent deep in his eyes. What’s worse was the fact he could feel the aura on this boy and it was similar to him--the Divine Altar Realm. To be specific, the aura was even more powerful than him.
However, Dong Si did not back down despite the odds being against him.
"Wise Sage Wang Wei, God of War, Li Jun, I assumed," said Dong Si with a hoarse and powerful voice.
"Are you one of the ancestors of the Dong royal family?" asked Wang Wei.
"That is correct. You can address me as Dong Si."
"Old Man Dong Si. Can I call you that? I’ll just call you that. Old Man Dong Si, I can honestly see that it is quite difficult for a person like you to reach such a realm in a low plane like this one. Wouldn’t it be a shame to just die like this, for no reason?"
"How about this, I’ll provide you with a pill that will extend your life for five to ten years, then you work for me? And if you do not wish to betray the royal family, that’s fine too. I can still give you the pill, as long as you can convince the other ancestors and the king to stop resisting and peacefully hand over the kingdom."
"I can promise to provide the same pills to the dying ancestors, and I can promise to provide a place for the royal family in my new dynasty. Of course that is if they follow the laws that I made. Otherwise..."
Old man Dong Si was not surprised by the way Wang Wei talked about their world. Throughout the years, many kingdoms of this world have gotten the news of a bunch of Extraterrestrial Demons that have invaded their world.
Each of them seemed very young and powerful. And they all have the same objectives: establishing their own dynasty.
Many kingdoms have chosen to bow and swear their allegiances to these Extraterrestrial Demons, while others decided to fight them and capture them to extract information about their world from them.
Unfortunately for Dong Si, the Eastern Rain Kingdom has decided to fight--no matter the outcome. As such, despite the fact that he was tempted by the offer, he still refused.
He was born and trained by the royal family. Even when his lifespan reached its end, it was the family that used the precious sealing array and Blood stones to allow him to enter deep sleep and prevent him from dying. As such, he will use his last remaining breath to do something meaningful for the kingdom before his death.
Dong Si sighed and began to mobilize his origin qi, he then bit the tip of his tongue and forced out a drop of deep red blood: It was his blood essence or source blood. At the very least the tiny last bit he had left.
The next moment, his body became even more thin; his ribs could be easily seen and he looked like even the wind could easily break him. However, Dong Si did not care about this. When he came here, he was prepared not to return.
After which, he took out the gourd that was hanging from his side and dropped the blood essence into the gourd, which immediately started to shine.
The aura on the gourd increased from a top tier Profound grade magical weapon to a low tier Earth grade one.
After seeing this, Wang Wei also sighed and waved his head to the side. Then, Li Jun also took an Earth grade weapon, but his was a spear.
Li Jun then walked toward Dong Si and waited for him to finish preparing. He has this level of confidence in himself.
After finishing his preparation, Dong Si waved his hand and the gourd spewed out a large amount of water heading straight to Li Jun.
With hesitation, Li Jun mobilized his origin qi and coated his spear with it, which in turn lit up the color red.
He stabbed the oncoming water. With a boom sound, both the attacks clashed, which resulted in powerful winds destroying the surrounding hundred meters.
Meanwhile, Li Jun was quite surprised at this attack. He thought this was just normal water or elemental attack. After fighting in the army the past three years, he realized that the cultivators in this world focused heavily on spells or origin ability instead of martial arts.
Although they cultivate the origin path like the cultivators in the Myriad Emperor World, they seem to have separated the spell and the martial arts of the Origin system.
When they fight, the cultivators of this world usually use all kinds of spells from a far distance and do not really fight head on.
To Li Jun, this approach is very stupid given how much origin qi is drained when using spells in the early stage of the Origin system. Especially when most cultivators in this world are in the Divine Sea Realm and cannot control the spiritual qi of Heaven and Earth.
Without the ability to control spiritual qi in the environment, cultivators have to use their own origin qi to make spells more powerful, thus rapidly draining their qi. Adding the fact that most cultivators in the world only have a Normal Foundation when they break through the Divine Sea Realm, the amount of origin qi in their body is already pitiful.
Yet, they still used it in such a wasteful way. Most of them cannot continue to fight after using a few dozen spells.
This is also one of the reasons that Mortal martial arts has such a high status in this world. As long as the martial artist’s body is strong enough, he could kite a cultivator until their origin qi ran out and fight them head on.
Back to the fight.
After Li Jun clashed head on with the water, he realized that this particular water was actually heavy. The whole thing has a weight of a couple of hundred thousands of kg.
As such, after the initial clash, Li Jun was forced backward by Dong Si. However, he was not really affected. He mobilized the Divine Veins in his altar--which he modeled after the Battle Tower in the sect-- and controlled the spiritual qi in the air.
He stabbed his spear again, this time however, he exploded the spiritual qi at the tip of his spear, effectively scattering the water all over the air. Then he rushed towards Dong Si.
However, Old Man Dong Si had many experiences fighting with martial arts that came close to him. As such, without hesitation, he used his gourd--who suddenly expanded in size--and blocked Li Jun’s attack.
Then he used the shockwave of the weapon clashing to distance himself from Li Jun, while at the same time regathering the scattered water he had previously used.
Dong Si spit a mouthful of blood, but ignored this, then quickly chanted a spell. The water turned into a dragon, and flew towards Li Jun.
Li Jun stabbed his spear again, then a 15 meters long red spear image came out of his weapon and flew towards the dragon.
Boom!
The air trembled and exploiting sound echoed in the plain they were fighting in. Even the citizens and soldiers inside the city a few hundred meters away could hear the sound of the explosion.
The water dragon was once again dispersed, however, before Li Jun could make another move, the scattered water turned into marble like size and started falling downwards.
Li Jun immediately felt something was wrong as the color of the water had turned black. Without hesitation, he covered himself with his origin qi and started blocking the black rain.
Li Jun moved his spear very fast, blocking every single drop of water that came at him, thus creating countless after images of his spear moving.
After the rain stopped falling, Old Man Dong Si was breathing really hard, meanwhile, Li Jun looked terrible.
His clothes had many holes and he looked like a beggar. In fact, he was not even the slightest injured due to his origin qi protecting him, however the same cannot be said for his clothes.
Li Jun looked at the ground around and noticed countless marble-size holes in a diameter of 50 meters around. It looked like a mole digger had done quite the number in the environment.
Li Jun looked at Dong Si and said, "It seems that I have underestimated the cultivators of this world. Alright, let’s end this charade."
After saying that, Li Jun moved and appeared a few meters behind Dong Si. Although he looked like he teleported, this was just due to the fact the moved so rapidly that the normal eyes could not notice.
In fact, even Dong Si did not notice how Li Jun moved instantly behind him, however, his many years of experience could feel the threat from his backs, so he tried to protect himself and move out the way.
Unfortunately for him, it was too late. Li Jun mobilized his killing intent and imbued it into his spear, then threw it at Dong Su.
Old Man Dong Si only heard the sound of the air whistling, then he knew he was in danger. He tried to mobilize his origin qi to protect him and buy him enough time to dodge, but a sudden killing intent entered his divine sea and started to destroy his origin qi.
Without the time to dodge and any protection, the spear effortlessly pierced Dong Si into his heart from the back, making him threw up another mouthful of blood.
However, it did not stop there. The force of Li Jun’ spear carried Dong Si’s body and traveled in the air for more than a hundred meters before hanging his already dead body on the Wall of the City.