Chapter 1568 - 588: Dragon Suppressing Stone (Part 3)
"That’s only natural. The Headquarters of the Jinglong Association is right over there..."
As he spoke to this point, he suddenly raised his head and looked behind Su Mo: "Shi Cheng!"
Hearing this, Su Mo turned his head to look.
Yet behind him there was nothing but emptiness.
And right at this moment, Sixth Jing clenched his fist, killing intent soaring to the heavens in an instant!
One punch drove straight toward Su Mo’s back heart.
BANG!!!
The sound of a great bronze bell and mighty drum suddenly rang out.
The Imperial Killing Fist crashed head‑on into that golden giant bell.
Su Mo turned his head, not at all surprised, merely smiling:
"Sixth Jing, what is the meaning of this? Didn’t we already agree that, as of now, we’re one big loving family?
"Since when is it reasonable to stab your own family in the back?"
Sixth Jing laughed loudly:
"Family is family... but Su, the Chief of the Escort agreed far too quickly; it really puts one ill at ease.
"However, Su, the Chief of the Escort need not worry overmuch. I’ve no intention of taking your life.
"I only want to knock you out and take you back to the Jinglong Association Headquarters!
"So I must ask Su, the Chief of the Escort not to resist...
"After all, here and now, destiny is on my side!!!"
As he spoke to this point, from within that section of the Bei Forest whose array eye had yet to be overturned came a low humming.
It was as if strands and threads of formless things were quietly condensing.
A vast imperial phantom appeared behind Sixth Jing.
In the phantom’s eyes was contained a world‑shaking killing intent!
The power of the Imperial Killing Fist boiled ever more violently!
The phantom clenched its fist and struck out savagely.
For an instant it was as if the four wild fields of heaven and earth were strewn with a million corpses.
This was not Sixth Jing’s own power, but rather Qiyun drawn from the Heaven and Earth Four Extremes Thousand Stele Array, condensed into form.
He cultivated here, thinking he would swiftly break through his cultivation.
To cultivate the Emperor’s Shocking World Book to its highest realm.
Yet things turned out contrary to his wishes.
First there were Shi Cheng and Kong Yan making trouble for him, then Xu Huai Valley came over demanding that Nine Revolutions Divine Dragon Technique.
Su Mo arrived even faster than he had imagined.
As of now, his Emperor’s Shocking World Book had only just barely reached the Sixth Layer.
He had not even reached the level of the first generation’s First Shock back in the day.
This was still only because, taking advantage of this place, he had stripped Xu Huai Valley of a lifetime’s cultivation and vitality, allowing him to barely surge up to this realm.
Yet relying on the Emperor’s Shocking World Book at the Sixth Layer alone might not be enough to defeat Su Mo.
To truly decide victory in one fell swoop, he needed precisely to borrow the Qiyun suppressed within this Heaven and Earth Four Extremes Thousand Stele Array to unleash this utterly pure Imperial Killing Fist!
And he had to catch Su Mo off guard to have a chance of making great merit in a single stroke!
The reason he had been saying so much to Su Mo here was precisely to create this opening to strike.
Now, at this very moment, the perfect opportunity had arrived.
An emperor’s wrath, a million corpses!
Billowing murderous aura gathered into a dragon and lunged straight for Su Mo.
Su Mo merely shook his head slightly; the Heavenly Tablet in his hand turned once, then suddenly swept out.
With a crashing sound!
It was as if something in the void had been shattered to pieces.
Sixth Jing only felt that the Qiyun he had ’borrowed’ from the Heaven and Earth Four Extremes Thousand Stele Array suddenly dispersed without a trace.
The True Qi within his body stalled; right on its heels came the toll of a bell, and with a thunderous boom his whole person was blasted flying backward.
He crashed down hard upon that circular stone platform.
This single blow all but completely knocked Sixth Jing senseless.
He looked around in a daze, looking at Su Mo, then down at his own feet.
His face was full of disbelief.
He almost suspected he was in a dream!
If not, how could there be such bizarre things?
If one were to say that Su Mo’s Divine Skill was too strong, and had rebounded his blow with that Body Protection Divine Skill, sending him flying backward—
Sixth Jing could still make sense of that.
If one were to say that Su Mo’s martial arts were too high and he himself could not withstand them, thus being defeated—
Sixth Jing could also accept that.
But what was this now...
He swept once with that Stele in his hand, and then my side just lost all strength?
How the hell was this fight supposed to go on?
Only at this point did Sixth Jing carefully fix his gaze on the Heavenly Tablet in Su Mo’s hand:
"What is that thing?"
Su Mo merely glanced at the Heavenly Tablet in his hand.
He smiled faintly:
"The Nanhai Martial God called it the Dragon Suppressing Stone.
"But as for its true name, I’d wager the Nanhai Martial God himself doesn’t know.
"However, when he set up this Heaven and Earth Four Extremes Thousand Stele Array, this was the main object he used to suppress it."
At these words, Sixth Jing abruptly turned his head to look at the base of that fragment of broken Stele atop the circular platform.
Only then did he suddenly see the light:
"So back then, what the Da Xuan Dynasty took from the Martial God Temple was actually this...
"No wonder, even after so long, I’ve never been able to make use of the Qiyun here to cultivate the Emperor’s Shocking World Book to its highest level.
"This wasn’t just because there wasn’t enough time, and because of Shi Cheng and that old Monk making trouble nearby.
"Most importantly... the Qiyun of this place had long since become insufficient to support such a thing!
"The Da Xuan Dynasty took away the Dragon Suppressing Stone; though the Bei Forest still remained, the Qiyun of this place, over these past several hundred years, has likely already drained away to nothing...
"You knew this long ago? So you simply let me leave and ignored it... because you knew that everything I did would be futile??
"How could this be?
"How is this possible..."
For a moment he muttered to himself. In his panic he suddenly turned his head to look at Su Mo:
"But how did this thing end up in your hand?"
Back then the Da Xuan Dynasty had taken away this Dragon Suppressing Stone.
They named it the Heavenly Tablet.
Relying on its inherent power, they vainly dreamed of refining an Immortal longevity Elixir.
In the end, however, the ancestors of Longmu Island stole the Heavenly Tablet and finally settled on Longmu Island.
Later, a generation of Longmu Island Master, relying on the Heavenly Tablet’s strange ability,
stole over two hundred years of life, and finally died at Su Mo’s hand.
And this Heavenly Tablet then naturally fell into Su Mo’s palm.
As for the details in between, Su Mo kept them closely guarded; even with all his vast Divine Skills, Sixth Jing could find no trace.
Moreover, Sixth Jing was not wrong in what he’d said: Su Mo had indeed known long ago that he was toiling in vain.
Back in that Stone Forest Illusion Array, Su Mo had already understood the situation here inside and out.
He had even learned of the origin of this Heavenly Tablet.
No matter what martial arts Sixth Jing was cultivating, as long as he needed to borrow the power of this place, he was destined to find his wishes unfulfilled.
Only, Su Mo had always been prudent in his actions and didn’t mind adding one more safety valve to the matter.
So he allowed Xu Huai Valley to come here and cause Sixth Jing a bit of trouble.
At this moment Su Mo looked at Longmen’s Sixth Jing, and a faint light flickered in his eyes:
"How did Sixth Jing come to know that this place could allow your Divine Skill to reach Great Success?"