Invincible Dad-Chapter 784

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Taotie had arrived!

Inside the Phoenix Nest, Bai He was caught off guard. This was a slight deviation from what she had anticipated; she had assumed Great Emperor Qingfeng would not bother with this brief skirmish. Yet, to her surprise, First Divine General Taotie—who could represent both the Heavenly Court and the stance of Great Emperor Qingfeng—had appeared outside the Phoenix Nest. What did this signify? It signified that the Phoenix Nest had inadvertently exposed its foundation.

"Senior Sister, what should we do?" Bai Fu grew anxious. Although she had lived on the Moon for a long time, she had heard whispers of the infamy of the Heavenly Court’s Taotie in the Immortal Domain. The mere mention of his name could silence crying children, and his crimes were too numerous to count.

"It’s of no concern." Bai He remained composed. It was her Master who, via Divine Sense, had instructed her to assist the Saintess, so she suspected he also harbored intentions of testing the waters. They were both in the Emperor Realm. Without a true battle, who would yield to whom? It was just a pity that her Master could not leave seclusion yet. Otherwise, what would the Heavenly Court matter? He could directly lead the experts of the Nine Phoenix Clan to flatten it!

"Saintess, you should return first." After Bai He spoke, her figure appeared over the forbidden grounds of the Sea of the Moon.

Her Boundary was one level below Taotie’s, yet her aura did not falter in the slightest. Her Spiritual Energy spread out, stabilizing the nearby stars that were on the verge of collapsing. She spoke indifferently, "Divine General Taotie, for what reason do you visit our Phoenix Clan today?"

"Have the one in charge of your Nine Phoenix Clan come out," Taotie said, his mouth cracking into a frigid smile.

Bai He’s gaze was like lightning. "I am the foremost disciple of Great Emperor Jiu Feng and an elder of the Nine Phoenix Clan. I have the full authority to represent the clan."

"That makes things simple," Taotie nodded. With a violent motion, he tore a rift in the space before him. From the crack, he pulled out a giant axe glowing with a bloody sheen and smashed it toward the Sea of the Moon.

"How dare you!" Bai He’s eyes blazed with fury.

The Moon had countless such seas, each connected to one of the Phoenix Nest’s many transportation channels. They were of the utmost importance. Furthermore, her Master was still in secluded cultivation within the Phoenix Nest; no outsider could be allowed to wreak havoc here.

Spiritual Energy surged within her instantly. Clad in a green dress and wielding a green sword, Bai He unleashed a slash of Spiritual Energy that transformed into a green phoenix, colliding with the massive axe.

BOOM!

Spiritual Energy exploded, causing the Moon to tremble violently.

Whether it was the Moon Clan cultivators or the inhabitants of Chang’an City, all were plunged into extreme panic as they sensed the two astonishing pressures colliding. Under this pressure, a fear stemming from the depths of their souls made them shiver and tremble, their legs uncontrollably giving way as they knelt.

THUMP. THUMP. THUMP.

Whether they were of the Moon Clan or the experts of the Human Race, droves of them fell to their knees in that instant.

In Chang’an City, only Xu Yiyi and Ruan Lan remained standing. It was not that their Boundary was high enough to withstand two Quasi-Emperors, but rather that Taotie had specifically extended his Divine Sense to protect them.

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THUD—

As the Spiritual Energy Phoenix disintegrated, Bai He’s expression grew icy. She had just been forced back half a step. It meant that in their brief exchange, she had lost to Taotie.

In the Nine Heavens of the Quasi-Emperor, each level was a world of its own. It was only natural that she, at the Fourth Heaven, was no match for Taotie at the Fifth Heaven. But who was she? She was Bai He! She was the foremost disciple of Great Emperor Jiu Feng, and his only living one. She represented her Master’s honor. How could she possibly lose to Taotie?

Bai He gripped the green sword in her palm, and an aura that seemed capable of ending the world burst forth, intertwined with the high, resonant cry of a phoenix.

This was a Quasi-Emperor Artifact. Moreover, it was forged from a single, complete piece of Divine Metal!

"This sword is called Greenwater," Bai He declared, her eyes flashing with a cold light. "Since my Master forged it for me, it has never been unsheathed. Today, I shall consecrate it with the blood of a Quasi-Emperor."

She lightly tapped the ground with her toe and charged directly at Taotie. The gap of a single Heaven could be bridged by a Quasi-Emperor Artifact.

However, Taotie merely sneered in contempt. He, too, possessed Quasi-Emperor Artifacts—and more than just one.

Taotie held the blood-colored giant axe in his right hand and a long saber in his left, while a sharp sword floated above his head. Three auras similar to the Greenwater Sword radiated outward, causing Bai He’s face to pale.

Three... three Quasi-Emperor Artifacts? While she sensed trouble, she also felt a tad... envious.

"One was passed down by my clan, one was personally forged for me by The Supreme Emperor, and one was snatched from the hands of an enemy." Taotie’s lips curled up, his smile growing more feral. "You were the one who awakened your Quasi-Emperor Artifact first, so don’t blame this Divine General for being a bully."

BOOM!

The two figures collided.

Soon, however, Bai He and Taotie—one to avoid affecting the Phoenix Nest, the other to avoid harming The Supreme Emperor’s relatives—tacitly began flying toward the depths of the starry sky as they fought.

Taotie was an unadulterated killing machine. The Heavenly Court’s ability to suppress one rebellious territory after another in just one hundred thousand years was largely credited to him. Had Liu Wan not appeared in time, Xu Lai genuinely worried that Taotie, who achieved his Dao through slaughter, would one day succumb to his demonic nature. With his beloved Liu Wan by his side, Xu Lai was confident he could pull Taotie back, even if he did fall to demonic cultivation because of all the killing.

At this moment, Xu Lai, hovering above Haitang Court, withdrew his gaze from the starry expanse. With a one-level advantage in Boundary and three Quasi-Emperor Artifacts, the outcome of the battle had been decided before it even began.

However, Great Emperor Jiu Feng is probably still alive. It’s not because of the five False Death Pills that Cloud Water Rust was missing, but just a hunch. The Nine Phoenix Clan is here, a branch of the Ji Family from the Nine Kings’ Palace is here, and even the Tree of Eternal Life, which entombs the heir of Great Emperor Yin Yang, is sealed on Earth. The Earth’s Heavenly Dao has mutated. Jing Ke has been searching here for years, and his objective is likely more than just the key held by the Faceless Demon. Even I was brought to Earth through a series of coincidences involving my wife and daughter. While they were the reason, perhaps that too was part of a grander calculation.

Xu Lai sighed softly, realizing that Earth was far less simple than he had imagined. It was like a thick fog; peel back one layer, and another, even denser layer of darkness appears.

"Time to go home."

Xu Lai stretched lazily. Just as he was about to head home to continue lunch with his wife, his brow furrowed deeply. His gaze fell upon the vast ocean, dyed red by the deaths of nearly ten million Sea Demons.

The ’Blood Sea’ was gradually fading, not from being diluted by the seawater, but from being absorbed. There was something at the bottom of the ocean.

"Hmph. All smoke and mirrors."

Xu Lai snorted coldly. His Divine Sense instantly pinpointed the location: a deep-sea trench thousands of miles from East Sea City. He took a single step and appeared there.

Large amounts of fresh blood and the life essence of various creatures were converging on this spot. Only then did Xu Lai notice something truly amiss. It wasn’t just the blood of the dead Sea Demons; the vital energy from the corpses of all beings who had ever died on this planet was slowly sinking to this place, to the area beneath the trench!

Xu Lai lightly stamped his foot. Within a hundred-mile radius, the seabed’s silt and the seawater itself rapidly collapsed and evaporated, creating a massive vacuum. In the void, Xu Lai saw a somewhat familiar chain. It was cast from Chaotic Refined Gold, but sadly, the passage of time had corroded it, rendering its divine properties useless.

Xu Lai grabbed the chain and gave it a fierce tug. With a thunderous roar, the seabed cracked apart, and a ’Bronze Giant Mountain’ rose rapidly into the sky, carrying him with it.

It rose higher and higher—ten feet, a hundred feet, a thousand, then ten thousand... until it was a hundred thousand feet tall!

Xu Lai’s gaze drifted downward, his expression unreadable.

The residents on the islands near that trench could only stare, completely and utterly dumbfounded. Before them, a colossal Bronze Giant Gate, one hundred thousand feet tall and inscribed with ancient, bizarre runes, now stood impossibly in the middle of the ocean.