Chapter 827 - 826: Looking Down on Chu Sheng? You Can’t Even Find His True Body!

Elder Jiang couldn’t understand what sort of chaotic tune Chu Sheng was humming. He could only hear the absolute mockery and disdain in the other’s tone. Clearly, Chu Sheng didn’t take him seriously at all.

"Damn it!" he roared in anger, hesitating no longer. Gripping the Seven-Star Soul-Slaying Rake with both hands, he raised it high toward Chu Sheng, pouring his Divine Power into it without reservation.

"Nine-Teeth Creation! Activate!"

With that explosive shout, the Seven-Star Soul-Slaying Rake formed a phantom projection in the air. Carrying the force of a thunderbolt, it slashed viciously toward Chu Sheng. The sky was torn apart by the rake’s shadow, revealing a massive rift. Deep ravines cracked open across the earth below. Fierce winds swept across the surroundings, sending sand and stones flying. Its ferocious might seemed as though it wanted to plow through the entire heaven and earth.

Far beyond the battlefield, a Ye Family Elder stroked his beard and sighed emotionally. "Old Jiang’s strength has advanced again. The power of this Nine-Teeth Creation is more than just a level higher than it was ten years ago."

The Loose Cultivators were extremely puzzled as to why the Jiang Family Grand Elder had brought out the Seven-Star Soul-Slaying Rake. They were even more baffled about how he had managed to refine away its hostile aura. However, the Elders of the Eight Great Clans were not surprised in the slightest to see the Seven-Star Soul-Slaying Rake appear.

They had known all along that the Jiang Family Grand Elder had acquired this Divine Level Upper-Grade Magical Treasure. He had then spent a whole century before finally refining it. His method of refinement had been exceptionally sinister—he had secretly conducted a blood sacrifice using eighteen thousand Loose Cultivators.

Such a ruthless method could only be conceived and executed by the Eight Great Clans. Only the Eight Great Clans had the ability to silently murder eighteen thousand Loose Cultivators without anyone noticing. Other than the Jiang Family, the reason the Elders of the other Seven Great Clans knew the details so clearly was because they had helped out quite a bit. Otherwise, it would have been very difficult for the Jiang Family alone to blood sacrifice eighteen thousand Loose Cultivators without drawing attention. In order to maintain Luoping City’s stability, such a dark and shameful scandal naturally couldn’t be brought out into the light.

"Ever since he acquired the Seven-Star Soul-Slaying Rake, his strength has multiplied," the Ye Family Elder remarked.

The other Elders nodded in agreement one after another, their tones relaxed.

"In the Half-Step True God Realm, I’m afraid no one is his match anymore."

"Indeed, calling him invincible among his peers wouldn’t be an exaggeration."

"Perhaps it won’t be long before he touches the threshold of the True God Realm and smoothly breaks through."

"When the day comes for him to advance to the True God Realm, let’s all go over to congratulate him together."

"Oh, by the way, what gifts are you all planning to bring?"

"Right, let’s discuss it in advance. It wouldn’t look good if our gifts vary too much in value."

"Not too long ago, I picked up an Ice Crystal Glazed Cup from a Sea Race merchant caravan. It’s quite valuable and looks very imposing."

"That doesn’t have much practical value. It would be more practical to gift a Divine Artifact or a Top Level Cultivation Technique."

The group of Elders stood on the sidelines, chattering lively in a relaxed and cheerful atmosphere. It was as if they hadn’t come for a battle, but to attend a tea party. Not a single person discussed just how strong the power of the Nine-Teeth Creation Skill was, nor did anyone care what kind of damage this Skill would inflict upon Chu Sheng.

The reason was simple. A dead man... No! A Mosquito that was about to die was hardly worth discussing.

Just earlier, Chu Sheng’s Talent of absorbing Thunder Fire had indeed shocked them a bit. But that was only for a very brief moment before they tossed it to the back of their minds. After all, it was a Demon Beast. Having some strange Talent was normal; it was nothing to make a fuss about. As long as one clearly understood the nature of its ability, dealing with it would be a breeze. In the end, this kind of Talent was unpresentable.

"Say, after that Mosquito dies, will Gu Yuexi beg for mercy on the spot?" the youngest Elder asked, staring greedily at Gu Yuexi with narrowed eyes. Clearly, he still harbored a certain fantasy.

But the other Elders were older and had long passed the age of such fantasies. Too lazy to pay him any mind, they continued their discussion about what gifts to bring when the Jiang Family Grand Elder advanced to the True God Realm. They simply didn’t take Chu Sheng on the battlefield seriously.

Feeling the overwhelming confidence and composure of the Elders, Chu Nianci, who was standing nearby, suddenly had an epiphany.

She thought to herself, "Is this the gap between me and the Elders? Even though I know this battle has no suspense, I still watch the whole process with anticipation and can’t help feeling nervous. The Elders, on the other hand, have no desire to watch the battle unfold at all. They only wait for the final result to come out so they can settle the post-battle distribution of interests.

"From now on, I need to learn to emulate the Elders. I must not invest any unnecessary energy into a battle that has zero suspense. I should focus my energy on more meaningful things, such as... giving gifts."

Chu Nianci nodded secretly to herself. Taking a deep breath, she prepared to copy the Elders—chatting and laughing cheerfully, no longer paying attention to the situation on the battlefield.

However, just as she was about to look away, she caught a glimpse of something amiss out of the corner of her eye. The Mosquitos... seemed to have multiplied?!!

Chu Nianci was stunned for a moment. Then she realized that it wasn’t that the Mosquitos had multiplied. Rather, it was because Chu Sheng had used a cloning Skill.

On the battlefield at this moment, a full fifty Chu Shengs were hovering in a scattered formation. Every single Chu Sheng looked identical. Even the frequency of their flapping wings was exactly the same. These fifty Chu Shengs were precisely the result of his Skill, Outer Body Avatar.

A Level 50 Outer Body Avatar could summon fifty clones. Chu Sheng had summoned all of them at once, not feeling the slightest heartache over the consumption of his Divine Power. With the Ziwei Palace constantly replenishing his Divine Power, he didn’t have to worry about running out at all!

Under the cover of using his Outer Body Avatars, Chu Sheng’s true body had long since unleashed Formless Myriad Phenomena, completely concealing his form and aura. He hid in midair not far from the battlefield. Pulling out a lounge chair from who knew where, he crossed his two pairs of legs and lay down leisurely.

He mused to himself, "This old fool in the Half-Step True God Realm actually has some strength. He’s much stronger than that kid Jiang Xinglan. If I hadn’t advanced to the Void Refinement Realm, my Outer Body Avatars might not have been able to deceive his Divine Thought. I’m afraid I’d have had to summon the Twelve Ancestral Witches just to put up a fight against him. Fortunately, I just advanced to the Void Refinement Realm, and my Bloodline received a definite boost. Although my strength is only at the Void Refining Realm First Layer, I can already make use of most of my Skills."

Chu Sheng took a bite of a Spirit Fruit he had pulled out from thin air. Seeing that Elder Jiang was just about finished gathering his momentum, he immediately split off a wisp of his Divine Thought and sent it into one of his Outer Body Avatars.

The compound eyes of that Outer Body Avatar instantly became a bit more spirited. With a slight shift of its Divine Thought, it directly activated Form Transformation. Its body rapidly expanded, turning into a giant hundred-meter-long Mosquito.

[Silent Extinction Flame Feather!]

Following the urging of his Divine Thought, tens of thousands of pitch-black Flame Feather Blades materialized in the air out of nowhere, arranging themselves in a dense, orderly formation. Then, they began to merge in pairs. The merging speed was incredibly fast; the naked eye could only catch flashes of black shadows.

In the blink of an eye, the tens of thousands of feather blades had compressed and condensed into a massive, thousand-meter-long feather blade. Wreathed in black flames, its aura was terrifying. The colossal feather blade shot into the sky, meeting the phantom projection of the Seven-Star Soul-Slaying Rake that was viciously descending from above.

BOOM!!!

Fierce winds swept out and thunder rumbled as a massive explosion deafened everyone. Following the violent collision, the power of the Nine-Teeth Creation was reduced by half, its momentum drastically weakened. Meanwhile, the thousand-meter-long flame feather was entirely consumed, dissipating into the air.