novelraw Chapter 281 274: Seven Desires Appears
Chapter 281 274: Seven Desires Appears
A voice, cold and detached yet heavy with suppressed fury, thundered in Wei He's ears. The sharp, contemptuous gaze, like a farmer eyeing livestock, stabbed deep into his soul.
But that wasn't even the worst of it. The worst part was that he couldn't even block his opponent's fist—an unchanging, straightforward, almost mocking punch. All he could do was retreat in disgrace, like a farm animal being driven off by its master.
Once, thousands of years ago, as a direct subordinate of Rainbow and a general commanding the Celestial Army, he had been a Divine Spirit-like figure in his domain. In his eyes, ordinary humans were mere livestock, raised to provide him and his army with the power of their emotions and will through special means.
And now, he was being backed into a corner by one of these lowly creatures. The immense fall from grace was something he, having just broken free from his Seal, simply couldn't accept.
'What in the world has happened to this era? Why does an ordinary human possess this level of power?'
This was the power of Liehong Mountain, the Southern Vermilion Bird, one of Donghua's strongest Martial Artists, Guardians of the Four Directions.
What Wei He didn't know was that this was no longer his era. Everything had changed.
WHOOSH!
But he was given no time to think. With a gust of violent wind, a massive fist wreathed in the red glow of a dual magnetic field shot straight for his face.
His back was against the wall of a corner building; there was nowhere left to run.
"Don't get cocky!"
Driven by immense humiliation, he let out a furious roar. Black flames erupted from his body as he threw another punch, forming a giant black dragon's head. The effort was so great that his own skin began to burn and break down.
The next instant, however, Liehong Mountain's Blast Fist detonated. The air, compressed at the tip of his fist by the dual magnetic field, exploded from a sudden burst of extreme heat, unleashing tremendous Energy.
The black flames erupting from Wei He held their ground against the red light for less than half a second before being completely overwhelmed. The entire area was instantly engulfed in a crimson blaze.
BOOM!
A deafening explosion ripped through the air. The solid ground-floor wall of the towering, dozen-story building was blown open by Liehong Mountain's Blast Fist, leaving a gaping, three-meter-wide hole. It revealed the gray concrete structure within, along with countless bent and broken steel rebar, looking for all the world as if it had been struck by a tank shell.
Wei He took the blow head-on. He was blasted clean through the wall, crashing into the building's lobby amidst a shower of debris and dust. His body was covered in severe burns and lacerations from the explosive Power, and blood trickled from the corner of his mouth. He hadn't lost the will to fight, but his body was severely damaged from his own desperate counterattack.
Just as Liehong Mountain prepared to step through the hole in the wall and deliver the finishing blow, his brow suddenly tightened. A menacing feeling, like the stare of a venomous snake, washed over him.
Instead of pressing his attack, he tapped his foot and retreated ten paces with incredible speed, his gaze fixed on a room on the building's third floor.
"Tsk. Such sharp instincts. A pity."
A somewhat hoarse voice suddenly drifted out from the very room Liehong Mountain was watching.
CRASH!
The next moment, a dark figure shattered the window of that room, landing lightly on the ground from a height of more than ten meters.
It was a person in a black bodysuit with the stature of a dwarf. He wore a pure white mask that, aside from two holes for the eyes, was completely devoid of any facial features, giving him an incredibly eerie appearance.
THUD! THUD! THUD!
The dwarf in black stepped forward slowly. With each step, accompanied by the scalp-tingling CRACK of popping bones and the sound of muscles swelling like a bowstring drawn taut, his body underwent a heaven-and-earth-shattering transformation.
One and a half meters.
Two meters.
Two and a half meters.
Three meters!
In just four steps, the man transformed from a dwarf barely a meter tall into a massive, three-meter-tall behemoth.
He now had broad shoulders, long, thick arms, and seven abnormal protrusions faintly visible, bulging beneath his black bodysuit.
The terrifying extent of this physical transformation was comparable to that of Feng Xun, the White Tiger of the North.
As his body changed and his physical functions massively increased, the Life Magnetic Field within him skyrocketed. A magnetic field like endless black smoke poured from his body, coalescing into a massive Celestial Demon True Form.
It was a tall figure seemingly formed from roiling black mist. The figure had unnaturally long arms and hands, with no discernible gender characteristics. Its head was perfectly smooth, without any hint of hair, and even its face was a completely flat, featureless plane.
It was a colossal, shadowy, faceless being.
But the truly bizarre part was the faceless being's torso. From its roiling, smoke-like body, seven expressionless heads of varying colors had sprouted.
The appearance of each head perfectly matched the uncanny valley effect, inspiring a spine-chilling horror.
This was the newly arrived Seven Desires. He hadn't attacked the moment he arrived, but had instead hidden in a room on the third floor, waiting for an opportunity to land a fatal blow on Liehong Mountain. Unfortunately for him, Liehong Mountain had been too vigilant and hadn't fallen for the trap.
'The other one... the mastermind behind the Songyang University incident. So he's finally shown himself.'
Liehong Mountain's expression turned grim. If Wei He, fresh from his Seal, was merely an incomplete First Generation, then the person before him was something else entirely. He had lurked in Donghua for years; he was a genuine First Generation Level entity, capable of wielding his full, peak power. He and Wei He were simply incomparable.
Dealing with this man was the true main event of the operation.
At that moment, Wei He stumbled out of the hole in the wall. He kept his eyes locked on Liehong Mountain as he spoke to Seven Desires, his face grim. "You're here. Do you have a suitable body I can borrow?"
"If I act recklessly, I risk exposing my identity. You really are a pathetic sight," Seven Desires said, glancing at Wei He with a hint of dissatisfaction.
"It's only because I lack a suitable vessel," Wei He growled. "Otherwise, how could I possibly lose to these pathetic insects?"
"Alright, we can discuss this later. I don't have a suitable body for you right now, so you'll have to endure," Seven Desires said dismissively. "Let's just hurry and finish this guy off. The Southern Guardian, one of Donghua's peak individual powers. Eliminating one of them would be a considerable gain."
"Eliminate me? With just the two of you?" Liehong Mountain asked, his face impassive.
"Who said it's just the two of us?" Seven Desires said with a laugh.
TAP! TAP! TAP!
A series of footsteps echoed as four figures in black bodysuits and assorted masks leaped out from the surrounding street corners.
VMMMM!
The instant these figures appeared, light sparked by their magnetic fields radiated from their bodies, faintly coalescing behind them into the images of Demon Generals.